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Public housing tenants forced out, then homes are flipped WIRE REPORT

Genrification is happening all accross the country, from Virginia’s capital to the nation’s capital.

In the rapidly gentrifying nation’s capital, real estate investors aren’t the only ones flipping houses for profit. The city’s public housing authority is getting in on the action — moving aging tenants out of homes where they’ve lived for decades, renovating them and selling them to wealthy buyers.

The renovations, at a cost of more than $300,000 per home, are outfitting the houses with luxury amenities, and some of the houses have sold for nearly $900,000.

Others, however, have sat vacant for a year or longer after tenants were forced out.

The housing authority plans to use the profits to renovate existing subsidized rental units and build new ones. But most of that work hasn’t started, and none of the money has gone to new construction yet, according to the agency. Meanwhile, sales have been slow-moving and haphazard.

Some elderly tenants and their children have asked for an opportunity to purchase the homes, only to be rebuffed, even after spending thousands of dollars maintaining the rental properties.

The homes are known in publichousing circles as “scattered sites” — single-family properties around Washington that are rented to public-housing tenants. Many are in desirable neighborhoods, including Capitol Hill and Shaw, where median home prices have more than doubled in the past 15 years to $500,000-plus.

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Levant Graham speaks during an interview in her apartment in Washington. Graham was forced out of her previous home by District of Columbia Housing Authority, and that house now stands vacant. AB Authority once had more than 300 scattered sites and has been slowly selling them off since the 1990s. But in 2010, when the city’s real-estate market began to rebound after the Great Recession, the agency started treating the properties as realestate investors would — gutting, rehabbing and selling them for as much as the market can bear.

Previously, the homes were sold to low- and moderate-income buyers or to nonprofits that maintained them as affordable housing, a practice common to housing authorities nationwide.

One home, on a well-kept block in Capitol Hill, has been vacant since late 2013, when the longtime tenants — Lula Brooks, 81, and her husband, Sonny, 82 — were abruptly moved out. Brooks and her son said

the housing authority threw away many of her belongings — including a washing machine, furniture, clothing and personal documents.

The authority disputes this account, but Brooks’ next-door neighbor, Jon Wadsworth, said he watched as employees threw the belongings away.

The house wasn’t renovated. A year later, it was put on the market for $400,000 — unusually low for the neighborhood. It eventually sold for that price after higher offers fell through, but the housing authority asked its title company not to sign over the deed. The sale is tied up in litigation.

The rest of the houses the authority has sold in recent years have gone for market value. Others sit empty because the authority can’t afford to

renovate them.

A year ago, Levant Graham, 84, was moved out of the five-bedroom home in Shaw where she’d lived since the early 1970s and raised seven children. The housing authority plans to flip the house, but so far it hasn’t been renovated or listed for sale.

“I thought the house was already sold. I thought it was on the market.

So, I don’t know what the big rush was to get me out of the house,” Graham said.

Graham petitioned housing officials to buy the property with her children’s help. Instead, she was moved into a one-bedroom apartment in a new building for low-income seniors. The building is in a gentrifying part of Shaw not far

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intended as an alternative to conventional public housing — from city government in the mid-1990s when the city’s financial struggles prompted a takeover by Congress.

Since then, it has been selling them off gradually with HUD approval.

Sunia Zaterman, executive director of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, said housing authorities nationwide have been “chronically underfunded” by the federal government and use creative financing strategies to maintain their properties — including selling their scattered sties and using private-sector investment to fund renovations and new construction.

But she said she wasn’t aware of another agency that’s flipping homes the way the District is.

The agency applied to HUD in March 2013 to sell Graham’s and Brooks’ houses and 24 other properties. Agency officials said they

from her old house, but she says she doesn’t feel safe because of a shooting nearby and rarely goes outside.

“The money that I paid there for the 42 years I was there, I could have had the house paid for,” Graham said.

“I thought I had a good chance of getting the house, but I guess I didn’t.”

District of Columbia law gives tenants of rent-controlled or marketrate buildings the first crack at buying them if they’re placed on the market. But the law doesn’t apply to the housing authority or its tenants because the agency is independent, leaving residents with no legal recourse to argue against being moved.

The housing authority is an independent agency that gets most of its funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The authority took over management of the scattered sites — originally

can’t afford to maintain single-family homes when larger complexes need upkeep and renovation. Selling the homes is a responsible way for the agency to manage its assets, agency spokesman Richard White said.

Because the authority hasn’t been maintaining the homes, some tenants have picked up the slack.

Brooks and her son said they painted her home, replaced faucets, installed vinyl flooring and fixed the roof. They said they weren’t reimbursed for the thousands of dollars in work because they didn’t save receipts. Housing authority spokesman White said he could not respond to “anecdotes” about tenants doing their own maintenance.

The agency told HUD that selling the 26 homes would generate $8.3 million, with $1 million financing construction of new units. The authority has a funding arrangement with HUD in which it doesn’t have

to stick to its budget proposals line by line — it’s free to spend money where it finds the greatest need. So far, the housing authority has spent $1 million renovating one complex and $500,000 on prep work for redevelopment of another site.

Of the 26 homes, 14 have been sold.

Nine others have never been listed for sale, and three were listed briefly before being taken off the market.

Two rowhouses in Capitol Hill, half a block from the bustling H Street, Northeast, corridor, sold for nearly $900,000 apiece. They were duplexes when controlled by the housing authority, but renovations transformed them into spacious single-family residences. One of the homes has a basement apartment; the married couple who bought the home is renting that to a friend. The rear of the other home is surrounded by an 8-foot privacy fence, with a Porsche in the driveway.

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Va. AG initiative recruits minorities in law enforcement A data-driven initiative recently launched in Danville and Martinsville is expected to help Virginia law enforcement agencies recruit more minority applicants and build police departments that reflect the cultural and racial makeup of the communities they serve. The initiative will also be used to produce a model for other Virginia law enforcement agencies to recreate and implement.

This is the second in a series of initiatives to promote safe, impartial, 21st century policing in Virginia, said Attorney General Mark Herring’s office. The project will be funded by a $50,000 grant from the office.

“In order to be successful, police departments need to be a creation

and a reflection of the communities they serve,” said Herring. “Having a diverse team of officers who understand the culture and experiences of the folks they serve is good for the community, it’s good for the law enforcement agency, and it’s good for young men and women who look to them as role models.

“I’m looking forward to the lessons they’ll share with their colleagues across the commonwealth.”

To ensure law enforcement agencies have the tools necessary to build a police department that reflects the communities they serve, Herring and his team will work with Danville and Martinsville to pilot a recruitment model that can be recreated in other localities in Virginia. The data-driven

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Problems compounding for scandal plagued VA SARAH WESTWOOD Thousands of combat veterans are still waiting to learn if they will receive health care benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs, but the agency is refusing to answer Congress’s questions about the backlog.

The waiting list includes nearly 2,000 applications that are sitting at just one office in Atlanta, but that the VA refuses to acknowledge as actual applications, according to an agency whistleblower.

Scott Davis, a program specialist at the Health Eligibility Center in Atlanta, said the VA is attempting to downplay the number of veterans waiting to be enrolled by ignoring the fact that those 1,833 veterans already applied.

Instead, he said, the agency planned to send out letters asking them to apply again in a poorlytimed outreach campaign last week, the week of Thanksgiving.

“VA should have processed these applications, and this is how the backlog gets started,” said Davis. “These applications sit and sit and sit.

“If you’re not enrolled, you cannot get an appointment. They’re acting as if it’s the veterans’ burden to correct this issue.”

Davis noted the agency has refused to change the

The most common health problems of veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom have been musculoskeletal ailments, principally joint and back disorders, and dental issues.

December will bring legislative, judicial scrutiny of Va.’s health care regulations ERIC BOEHM Two big deadlines are looming in the ongoing effort to fix Virginia’s health care laws.

It’s a fight that Mark Baumel has been engaged in for years.

Baumel is a doctor who runs successful clinics in other states, treating patients and giving potentially life-saving colon cancer screenings. He’s come up with an innovative way to screen for colon cancer that doesn’t involve the usual unpleasantness — using a CT scanner instead of requiring a probe up the tail-pipe.

As many as 90 percent of deaths attributed to colon cancer could be prevented with proper screening, but fewer than half of all men at risk for colon cancer get screened. Baumel

believes that an easier, less invasive screening process will literally save lives.

Before he can offer that service, Baumel has to buy the CT scanners.

Doing that, it turns out, is much easier said than done in Virginia.

Thanks to a little-known provision in 36 states’ health care laws, new hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers and other medical facilities must obtain a certificate of necessity before opening. The procedure for obtaining the permit varies from state-to-state, but in Virginia (which calls its CON license a “certificate of public need) it can only be granted by the state health commissioner.

“Virginia’s CON program is nothing more than the government’s permission slip to compete,

way it handles applications from combat veterans, even after a waiting list of 34,000 applications was exposed in July.

“The significance is that VA still is not paying attention to combat veteran applications for health care from Iraq and Afghanistan,” he said. “You would think that the recent exposure from the media would have made them more aware.”

Rep. Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, asked the VA on Nov. 2 to provide the committee with a list of combat veterans on the health care enrollment waiting list.

Although the VA was supposed to provide the list by Nov. 13, it had not done so a week later, a committee aide confirmed.

The massive backlog of enrollment applications masked the fact that one third of veterans waiting for their benefits died before the VA got around to looking at their information. Lawmakers are also probing those numbers, which were confirmed by an inspector general’s report in September.

An apparent glitch in the VA’s enrollment system continues to keep at least 29,000 combat veterans in an enrollment limbo, the VA said.

While combat veterans are supposed to be

amounting to a certificate of monopoly for favored established businesses,” said Robert McNamara, an attorney with the Institute for Justice, which is representing Baumel in a legal battle aimed at taking down the state’s COPN laws.

“Patients and doctors — not the government — are in the best position to decide what medical services and equipment are needed in Virginia,” said McNamara.

Now, changes could be coming on two fronts: in federal court and in the Virginia Legislature.

The ongoing legal battle between Baumel and Virginia, which has been inching forward since 2012, will go before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals for oral arguments Dec. 10.

Lower courts have so far upheld the state law, but the state Legislature might take a different route.

Lawmakers in Richmond will hit a key deadline in early December that could determine the fate of the state’s COPN laws.

A review group appointed by Virginia Health Secretary William A. Hazel, the target of Baumer’s lawsuit, has until Dec. 1 to make recommendations to the Legislature for changes to the laws. As part of

(continued on page 5) that process, the working group sought input from the federal government, which made its position very clear: Virginia needs to make some changes.

In October, the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice issued a joint statement outlining several problems with CON laws in general and with Virginia’s COPN laws specifically.

The laws were enacted as part of an effort to reduce health care costs and improve access to care, the federal agencies reported.

“However, it is now apparent that CON laws can prevent the efficient functioning of health care markets in several ways that may undermine those goals,” they wrote. “CON laws create barriers to entry and expansion, limit consumer choice and stifle innovation.”

The agencies also highlighted the time-consuming and expensive approval process in Virginia, which they said can often take six to seven months to complete. Aggrieved parties can appeal the Department of Health’s decisions into the court system — as Baumel has done — further driving up costs for health

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(from page 4) automatically eligible for health care benefits and therefore not required to submit information about their income, thousands of applications filed by those veterans have been set aside because they don’t include income information.

Combat veterans’ automatic eligibility expires after five years.

In some cases, veterans applied for health care benefits well within the five-year window, but saw their eligibility for benefits disappear after the VA sat on their applications.

A VA spokesman said the agency doesn’t have the legal authority to enroll veterans in the system automatically. The agency denied the income verification problem was an “error” in its system, claiming the process is “operating as it was designed.”

“We have been working to refine and get better data to help enroll Veterans and to keep their records updated,” said Walinda West, VA spokesperson. “We have publicly acknowledged that our enrollment data integrity and quality is in need of significant improvement; to that end, we have worked hard over the past year to address those issues.”

The VA issued a “change order,” or a request to fix the process so the means test no longer hampered combat veterans’ applications, on July 13.

But Davis said the agency has allowed the change order to languish since then, declining to approve it despite public scrutiny of the backlog.

Miller said the VA’s failure to fix the application process is “either blatant incompetence or coldhearted indifference.”

“The law hasn’t required a means test from recent combat veterans since 2008, yet VA still hasn't come up with an efficient way to enroll these veterans in its health care system without one,” Miller said.

“Clearly it’s past time for some adult leadership at VA’s Health Eligibility Center. In the meantime, VA must be open and honest with the public about the steps it is taking to solve this problem and hold the responsible employees accountable.” © Washington Examiner

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Valassis pays $100,000 penalty, admits postal rate gambit failed WASHINGTON - Valassis, the direct mail company known for its glossy advertising supplements, has paid a $100,000 penalty to the U.S. Postal Service after it failed to meet qualifications for mailings for which it would’ve received postage discounts ranging 22-34 percent.

In a release by Tonda F. Rush, CEO and general counsel for the National Newspaper Association, Valassis “filed a report saying it had carried out no mailings eligible for the special discount.”

A long-time newspaper customer for its supplements, Valassis instead

requested a special contract rate in April 2012, Rush noted. It was designed “to pull advertising inserts out of Sunday newspapers and into a new weekend Valassis direct mail package,” according to Rush.

She added that if the program had been successful by mailing 1 million qualifying pieces, Valassis could have earned the deep discounts.

The newspaper industry fought the proposal unsuccessfully, taking it to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Valassis announced it had launched programs in May 2013 in Atlanta, Phoenix and Washington, and reported mailing two million pieces in 2013. However, none of the mailings qualified under the rules of the contract agreement. No mailings took place in 2014 or 2015.

NNA President Chip Hutcheson, publisher of the Princeton (KY) Times-Leader, called the six-figure

fine "a fitting end to an unfortunate chapter.”

“We want to think of this whole experience as an episode of recession fever at the Postal Service,” said Hutcheson. “They were facing grim markets, as we all were, and USPS was grasping at straws. The fever ignited this idea of picking winners and losers in the advertising marketplace for the sake of maybe getting in some new mail volume. We at NNA didn’t think it would work, and it didn’t.

“There is a moral to this story that every parent knows: Don’t play favorites in the family,” Hutcheson said. “No good comes of it. We are glad this chapter is over and we intend to continue to work with Valassis to develop its markets and with USPS to improve the mail.

Money is tight. We need to plant our seeds where they can grow.” - VPA

Centerville Road Intersection Improvements James City County Design Public Hearing Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Matoaka Elementary School 4001 Brick Bat Road, Williamsburg, VA 23188

Find out about the proposed intersection improvements for Centerville Road and News Road in James City County.

Come and see the proposed project plans to improve safety and capacity by replacing the existing intersection configuration with a roundabout at Centerville Road and News Road.

Review the proposed project plans and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation at the public hearing, at the VDOT Hampton Roads District Office located at 1700 North Main Street, Suffolk, VA 23434, 757-925-2500, 1-800-367-7623, TTY/TDD 711, or at the VDOT Williamsburg Residency Office, 4451 Ironbound Road, Williamsburg, VA 23188, 757-253-5138.

Please call ahead to ensure the availability of appropriate personnel to answer your questions. Property impact information, relocation assistance policies and tentative construction schedules are available for your review at the above address and will be available at the public hearing.

Give your written or oral comments at the hearing or submit them by December 28, 2015, to Mr. Brandon Harrison, P.E., Project Manager, Virginia Department of Transportation, 1700 North Main Street, Suffolk, VA 23434. You may also email your comments to Brandon.Harrison@VDOT.Virginia.gov. Please reference “Centerville Road at News Road Public Hearing Comment” in the subject line.

In compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 106 and 36 CFR Part 800, information concerning the potential effects of the proposed project on properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places is provided in the environmental documentation.

VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact VDOT’s Civil Rights Division at 757-925-2500 or TTY/TDD 711.

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Good news for the prison pipeline DAVID MUHAMMAD The nation recently got a firsthand view of what advocates have dubbed the “school to prison pipeline” when a video went viral of a South Carolina school police officer slamming a teenage girl to ground, then dragging and handcuffing her. Her crime had been chewing gum, texting on her cell phone, and refusing to leave her desk in her classroom. For that she was physically assaulted and arrested.

And so the pipeline begins.

Studies show that the vast majority of youth in the juvenile justice system were suspended from school before winding up incarcerated or on probation. And the majority of adult inmates in state prisons around the country were once in the juvenile system. Hence the pipeline – from school suspension to juvenile hall to the penitentiary.

But, just like school suspensions can lead to youth detention, reducing suspensions can have the opposite effect.

School suspension and expulsion rates have gone down statewide.

Much of this decline is about better decisions being made by systems. In the last two years, the school boards in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland, for example, have all voted to eliminate “willful defiance” as a reason to suspend a student, which used to account for up to half of all suspensions. The broadly interpreted willful defiance policy was often students “talking back” to teachers. Probation Departments are also making better decisions, not admitting into their juvenile detention centers youth charged with low level offenses like shoplifting or school yard scuffles.

But youth are also making better decisions. A recent report by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal

Justice found that juvenile crime is at an all-time low, with less youth crime today since statistics were first collected in the 1950s.

This is all reason to celebrate.

But while we acknowledge the progress that has been made, we must recognize how much further we have to go. There remains just over two million youth arrested each year in America. This would include the South Carolina girl and many like her where no video was taken.

On any given day, there are nearly 70,000 youth incarcerated in the United States – six times the rate of England.

School suspensions still lead to justice involvement and the racial disparities in all of this is astronomical. Noted Harvard criminologist Bruce Western has found that 60 percent of black male high school drop-outs in their early 30s have spent time in prison. Not just on probation or in county jail – in state prison!

Numerous recent studies have shown that youth incarceration is not just ineffective, but incredibly harmful. And it is excessively expensive.

As the number of youth incarcerated throughout the state decline, the massive amount of money being saved should be reinvested into the very communities that have had the high percentage of juvenile delinquency, which of course are the same communities with high rates of poverty and high school drop outs. Reinvesting youth incarceration spending into youth development, family support, and community revitalization will help continue to drive youth delinquency down and graduation rates up.

Muhammad is the National Justice Partner at Impact Justice, headquartered in Oakland.

Non-intervention, not war for terrorism In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut and Kenya, CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta asked Barack Obama, “Why can’t we take out these bastards?” Acosta echoes many Americans who are hungry for revenge, and favor further military intervention in the Middle East.

Ironically, those wishing to exact revenge with an invasion of Iraq and Syria have a few questions to answer themselves: How many American lives are you willing to sacrifice to exact your revenge?

How many foreign civilians are you willing to kill? And how much money forcibly taken from American taxpayers are you willing to put towards this cause? The last American military adventure in The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 1 No. 44 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

Iraq cost $1.7 trillion according to Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University, not counting the future cost associated with veterans’ health care, as well as lost economic opportunity. The true financial cost of the last Iraqi misadventure is closer to $6 trillion.

A larger invasion would involve even more economic cost, not to mention a higher death toll.

Speaking of which, the Obama administration’s drone bombing program is not winning the U.S. friends abroad. Those nostalgic for World War II should remember that the fire bombings of Dresden and Tokyo and the resulting civilian deaths are among the U.S.’s ugliest moments, as are the nuclear attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Let’s not try and relive them. In addition to the civilian deaths, there is the prospect of

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Make them permanent

With only a few weeks left in the year, Congress is debating a series of key issues for working families.

One of the most important is the fate of key parts of two tax credits that help millions of low-income working Americans.

The two credits — the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC) — are powerful tools that reduce poverty and encourage and reward work.

Together, they lift more children out of poverty than any other program, while also promoting greater mobility and opportunity for families. And, with four million African American children living in poverty today, the EITC and CTC make a critical difference in our communities.

In 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law temporary improvements to the credits that dramatically expand access to the CTC to very low income working families and provide additional help for some families receiving the EITC. Although these very important improvements to both tax credits were extended in 2012, they will expire in 2017 unless Congress acts to make them permanent.

This fall may be the best opportunity that Congress has as it debates legislation that could make some business tax breaks permanent.

As the House and Senate consider this legislation, they cannot leave working families behind. They must make the improvements of the EITC and CTC permanent as well.

If they don’t, African Americans would be disproportionately harmed: two million working African American families and four million children would lose an average of

$1,200 per year. A single mother of two working full time at the federal minimum wage would lose every penny of her CTC. In the course of these discussions, Congress also has a chance to address the plight of lower-income workers without kids, many of whom are left out of the EITC. Expanding the EITC to cover these workers has bipartisan support and would help promote work, could reduce incarceration rates, and boost earnings.

The Obama administration is calling for Congress to make the improvements to these working family tax credits permanent.

Now is the time to make your voice heard in the halls of Congress. You can help by contacting your senators and representatives, urging them to make the improvements to the EITC and CTC permanent and reminding them of the importance of fixing the glaring hole in the EITC that leaves out childless workers without kids.

With your help, we can make the key provisions of these credits permanent so that they can keep making a difference in our communities.

Marc H. Morial

However, once she relocated to Hampton Roads, Dr. Johnson began a long and storied career at the NASA Langley Research Center. When hired in 1953, like almost all women at NASA, Dr. Johnson was asked to only perform technical calculations and women of African American heritage were typically assigned to all black ‘computer pools.’ Within weeks of her entry into the ranks of NASA, Dr. Johnson was asked to temporarily assist in the Spacecraft Dynamics Branch in the Flight Dynamics and Control Division. She never returned to her computer pool and went on to work on the Apollo Program, the Space Shuttle Program, and many other projects at NASA. Dr. Johnson has been the recipient of numerous awards. Given the long list of accomplishments during her career, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom is an appropriate and well-earned recognition of her service to the U.S., to science and human space exploration, to her community, and to Virginia. I know I speak for everyone back home in Hampton Roads when I say that we are extremely proud.

Rep. Bobby Scott

Success after adversity

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I am extremely pleased that President Obama has named Dr. Katherine Goble Johnson a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of nation’s highest civilian honors.

It was apparent from early on that Dr. Johnson was driven to succeed and after overcoming adversity and institutional racism to graduate from high school at 14 and from West Virginia University at 18.

maintaining an on-the-ground U.S. troop presence for an indefinite amount of time until the occupied area is secured. The previous U.S. occupation of Iraq lasted a decade and failed to prevent the rise of a new regime worse than the one it overthrew. Government-created power vacuums in volatile regions are likely to be filled with newly radicalized coercive regimes. Of the only to prevent the vacuum is endless

occupation. And as we’ve learned, any prolonged occupation runs the risk of being discontinued when the population and the political class tire of it and install new leadership less dedicated to the cause.

Allowing terrorist attacks to instigate a major war would be giving the terrorists what they want.

The same can be said for refusing to accept those seeking refuge from the very terrorist group claiming credit for the attacks. ISIS would love nothing more than to see their victims unable to find safe-harbor abroad. Sadly, so-called libertarian Rand Paul lost much of his remaining credibility by being on the wrong side of this issue. Closing our borders to those in need and turning the U.S. into a police state only rewards terrorism. One cannot help but be reminded of Jewish refugees fleeing Europe, who the U.S. turned away during the 1930s. If anything we should be giving people victimized by autocratic regimes freedom to vote with their feet by moving away and experiencing a freer society.

Global terrorist networks are not like governments that can be overthrown by killing a head-ofstate or taking a capital city. They lack the finite boundaries of states; thus, the only way to fight them is to undermine the ideology that drives them. The best way to do this is to expose more people to better opportunities and examples, and by no longer creating enemies abroad through violent foreign intervention.

Military intervention only invites and encourages terrorist attacks by making the anger that drives them stronger.

James C. Wilson

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Faith & Religion

Abortion study finds gap between pulpit and pew RNS --Fear of gossip and judgmental reactions routinely prevents churchgoing women who are considering an abortion from first seeking the counsel of pastors or others in their church, according to a new survey by an evangelical polling group.

The survey was conducted by LifeWay Research, associated with the Southern Baptist Convention, and sponsored by the Care Net network of anti-abortion pregnancy centers. California recently passed a law, following a campaign by abortion rights groups, to regulate such centers, which seek to prevent abortions.

The survey of 1,038 women who have had abortions, released earlier this week, asked respondents about their church attendance, who they talked to before they made a decision, and their perceptions about church attitudes concerning abortion.

While other polls have shown a strong correlation between church attendance and anti-abortion views, the LifeWay survey found that 36 percent of the women were attending a Christian church once a month or more at the time of their first abortion.

More than three out of four told LifeWay that their church had no influence at all in their decision to terminate pregnancy, and 65 percent said they felt church members are judgmental about single women who are pregnant.

Catherine Walker, who runs the Chicago-area Life After Decision, a church-based outreach to women after abortion, recognizes such sentiment.

“I have (counseled) over 30 women in my ministry. None of them ever mentioned talking directly to any church staff or minister,” said Walker, who had four abortions herself starting in 1979. “Their shame and guilt is so strong.”

Scott McConnell, vice president at LifeWay Research, conceded that the numbers of church-attending women who have had the procedure is “sobering,” but said there was a

Scott McConnell silver lining for people who want to see fewer women ending their pregnancies.

“The biggest thing is to see the opportunity,” he said, adding that if pastors “can change the culture in the church to make it safe, six times more women will have that conversation at church before they make the call.”

In the U.S., there are about one million elective abortions per year and 85 percent of women who have abortions are unmarried, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Churches are already in a position to make an impact on the numbers of abortions in America,” McConnell said. “I just don’t think pastors and church leaders have really noticed that.”

The survey found that seven in 10 women who had an abortion identified themselves as Christian.

Breaking that down, Catholic women represented 27 percent; Protestant, 26 percent; and nondenominational, 15 percent. Among Protestants, the top three denominations represented among women who had abortions were Baptist (33 percent), Episcopal (6 percent), Church of Christ (4 percent).

McConnell acknowledged that church staff may think they are offering help, but the message is not getting through to women facing

unplanned pregnancies.

“There hasn’t really been a lot of conversation or preaching or anything about Christians having abortions,” said Roland Warren, the new president of Care Net, the national network of crisis pregnancy centers that sponsored the survey.

“We talk about defunding Planned Parenthood and all these other things. We can defund Planned Parenthood if we just stop having abortions ourselves.”

There has been increasing pressure from abortion rights organizations to regulate the pregnancy centers through legislation, such as California’s Reproductive FACT (Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care and Transparency) Act, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law in October.

The centers will be required to notify patients that public assistance is available for reproductive services and unlicensed centers will be required to post a notice that they are not licensed. Failure to comply could result in a fine of $500 for a first offense.

“We wish we could get crisis pregnancy centers to stop spreading scientifically unsound messages,” Amy Everitt, director of NARAL Pro-Choice California, said in an interview with Mother Jones magazine.

There are about 170 crisis pregnancy centers in California and about 40 percent are licensed by California as providers of medical services. The California Catholic Conference is planning to challenge the law.

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hospitals are entitled to protection from competition because there is no such thing as a “free market” for health care.

“The COPN law protects and ensures all Virginians’ access to essential and high-value health care,” he argued. “The core of the law is the recognition that many preconditions for an effective free marketplace just don’t exist for health care.”

But data suggests Virginians do not have the same access to care as residents of states with lessrestrictive regulations.

A study by the Mercatus Center, a free market think tank based in Virginia, found there are 131 fewer hospital beds per 100,000 people in Virginia compared to the rest of United States.

Virginia may also offer fewer advanced health care services, including 41 fewer hospitals offering MRI services, and 58 fewer hospitals offering CT scans.

Baumel has spent three years fighting the COPN laws and trying to bring a few more CT scanners into Virginia. Within this month — in Virginia courtrooms and the state Capitol — that fight will come to a head. © Va. Watchdog

providers and taxpayers.

And it’s impossible to know how many potential health care providers took a look at the complicated application process and decided to not even try to gain approval because “the process itself is too costly,” they concluded.

Leaders in the state’s health care industry — who benefit from the restrictive rules that limit competition — have rallied to defend the COPN laws.

“The precipitous deregulation of the system” is risky, John F. Duval, chief executive officer at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, told the legislative review panel, according to the Washington Post.

Duval worries that loosening the COPN laws will allow newcomers to cherry-pick profitable services while leaving teaching hospitals and others to care for patients who cannot afford to pay In an op-ed published by the Free Lance-Star newspaper in Fredericksburg, Michael McDermott, president and CEO of Mary Washington Healthcare, argued that

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Under tightest security, pope urges peace in central Africa Protected by the heaviest security ever seen on his trips, Pope Francis on Sunday preached reconciliation in the divided Central African Republic, a nation racked by bloodshed between Muslims and Christians.

As the pope’s Alitalia plane touched down from Uganda to start his first visit to a war zone, attack helicopters patrolled the skies and armored personnel carriers from French and U.N. peacekeeping forces waited outside the airport.

Special security forces wearing patches of the yellow and white colors of the Vatican flag were on hand to help his normal security retinue.

In an unprecedented precaution for papal trips, a U.N. soldier armed with a rifle rode in each of the minibuses carrying reporters accompanying the pope.

Bangui, the capital of the former French colony, has seen a surge in clashes that have left at least 100 people dead since late September.

France, which has around 900 soldiers deployed in the country, warned the Vatican last month that the visit could be risky but the pope was determined to go to the majority Christian nation.

“Reconciliation, forgiveness, love, peace,” he said in a dramatic voice in the homily of a Mass at the city’s cathedral in the afternoon, appealing to warring militias to “lay down these instruments of death”.

Francis was driven past tens of thousands of cheering people to and from events in a simple car or an open popemobile.

“Work, pray, do everything for peace. But remember, peace without love, friendship and tolerance is nothing,” he said at one stop, a visit to camp housing some 4,000 people displaced by the violence in Bangui’s neighborhoods.

He was mobbed by the crowd and asked them all to shout out repeatedly in their native Songo language: “We are all brothers”.

The tight security continued in the afternoon when he opened a “holy door" at the city’s cathedral for a symbolic local start of the Roman Catholic Church’s jubilee year on the theme of mercy. The jubilee begins officially at the Vatican on Dec. 8.

“The Holy Year of Mercy is coming early to this land that has been suffering for years from hate, incomprehension and lack of peace,” he said, standing on the cathedral steps.

“For Bangui, for all the people of the Central African Republic and for all the countries in the world suffering from war, we ask for peace,” he said in the unprepared remarks to a crowd outside.

Shortly after his arrival Francis heard interim head of state Catherine Samba-Panza paint a bleak picture of her country.

“We absolutely need forgiveness because our hearts have been hardened by the forces of evil. We have lost the sincere love for others and we are henceforth anchored in intolerance, the loss of our values and the disorder that is the result,” she told him at the official welcoming ceremony.

France sent in soldiers in 2013 in an attempt to stem the violence.

Muslims and Christians have since split into segregated communities.

Tens of thousands of Muslims have fled to the far north, creating a de facto partition.

About 80 percent of the impoverished country’s population is Christian, roughly 15 percent is Muslim and 5 percent animist.

Central African Republic’s government is deploying around 500 police and gendarmes to secure the visit. More than 3,000 peacekeepers from the MINUSCA U.N. mission will also be deployed and French troops will be on alert as well.

The most dangerous segment of the pope's African trip takes place on Monday when he will enter Bangui’s PK5 Muslim enclave and visit its

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Bangui was the final leg of his first African trip that took him to Kenya and Uganda.

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Award-winning author to talk in Newport News Award-winning author Jason Reynolds will present an author talk and book signing at 6:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 11, at Crittenden Middle School in Newport News. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Guests can register online at www.nnpls. libguides.com/JReynolds. The event will last approximately 90 minutes and will feature a talk, question and answer session, and book signing.

Reynolds is the author of critically acclaimed “When I Was the Greatest”, for which he was the recipient of the Coretta Scott King / John Steptoe Award for New Talent.

Reynolds graduated from the University of Maryland with a BA in English, and after graduation he moved to Brooklyn where he currently resides. His other novels include “The Boy in the Black Suit” and, most recently, “All American Boys”. The later book, co-written with Brendan Kiely, describes how a single act of violence impacts a diverse community and calls youth

Arthur Ashe artifacts could fetch up to $120k at auction

Jason Reynolds to action. Reynolds believes in empowering youth by using reading and writing as a creative outlet.

The author event is presented

by Newport News Public Library System in partnership with Crittenden and Passage Middle Schools; Library funding is provided by the Friends of the Newport News Library. In addition to the Library event, Reynolds will be speaking and providing writing workshops for students at Crittenden and Passage Middle Schools.

Items reflecting the public and private life of Arthur Ashe are going on the auction block. They include speech notes on AIDS awareness and the jacket he wore at an anti-apartheid protest — among the causes the tennis great and humanitarian championed during his lifetime.

The 16 manuscripts and personal objects are being offered as one lot on Dec. 8 at Christie’s books and manuscript sale in New York. It’s expected to sell for $80,000 to $120,000.

Ashe was the first black man to win Wimbledon and the U.S. and Australian Opens.

The Richmond native died in 1993 from AIDS-related pneumonia attributed to a blood transfusion following

a heart operation. Christie’s notes that the items are being sold by a private collector.

They include Ashe’s notes for a Nov. 19, 1992, speech before the National Leadership Coalition on AIDS. It says in part: “We must be creative, even dogmatic, in the face of serious but unexaggerated medical evidence of a potential disaster. Let me tell you what my objectives are — to save lives.”

Other highlights include a five-page speech outline on black athletes and his views on school athletic programs.

His 1984 Davis Cup uniform also is included. Ashe founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS and authored “A Hard Road to Glory,” a three-volume history of black athletes.

VSU’s Gospel Chorale to tour Europe in December The Virginia State University Gospel Chorale (VSUGC) will embark on a nearly month-long European tour this month. The VSUGC, the first college gospel choir to appear on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and advancing to the show’s quarterfinal round, has been invited to perform in Italy with Arts Uptown Incorporated of New York and Propaganda Musicale of Rome.

From Dec. 5-31, the VSUGC will perform in the North and South of Italy, Rome to Sicily. The Tour also includes stops in Geneva, Switzerland; Bucharest, Romania; and Budapest, Hungary.

The VSUGC is being considered for the Rai TV Christmas Program and for a New Year’s Eve performance in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo.

Joining the VSUGC on the tour will be gospel recording artist David Bratton, composer of the gospel hit “Every Praise.”

In previous years, the VSUGC has performed at the Pope’s Christmas Concert with such luminaries as B.B. King, Chaka Khan, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Solomon Burke and Michael Bolton, along with an array of international

artists.

The VSUGC is one of Virginia State University’s most requested performing groups. Its primary mission is to provide gospel music for the university and community. The VSUGC performs for a variety of commitments, including public concerts, church revivals, recording sessions and university ceremonies. As part of music education, the VSUGC

performs at music conventions and gospel festivals throughout the country.

The group is getting used to success. Apart from its “America’s Got Talent” showing in 2013, the VSUGC claimed first place in the 2015 Steve Harvey Neighborhood Awards Gospel Choir Competition, held at the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta.

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Ask Alma When is the right time to marry again after divorce?

Hi Alma, I’m divorcing my husband of 24 years. (The ink is just about dry) We have been apart for the last 3 years.

I’m new to dating again. I’ve been with my new guy for 2 years. We met on eHarmony. He’s amazing inside & out and I love him. I’m 47.

My guy is 46. He is divorced. He has been divorced for 2.5 years. He was apart from his ex for 3 years before the divorce was final. So he’s been single for 5.5 years.

I believe in marriage and I do want to get married again. How long should I date him? What’s enough time to give a man to pop the question?

– Elizabeth Hi Elizabeth, You’re not quite free! Until the ink dries you’re still legally married, pretty woman.

To be honest, you have yet to join the squad of single sisterhood and trust me when I say, there are huge differences between each stage of marriage, separation and divorce. All three phases has its own umbrella of uncertainties.

Like me, you married young.

You’ve spent a large part of your life with one fella, exercising the commonality of compromise.

This explains your comfort in cohabitation, longing for togetherness, and an extended view for two. There is nothing wrong with that – but wait, for goodness sake and let’s pull up for a minute to reevaluate.

What if you take more time to

center and focus on you? Figure out your likes and dislikes independently, without the consideration of another. Have you taken a vacation alone? Sign up for a class you’ve always wanted to try or learn a new language. Use this time to be good to yourself.

Your first marriage ended in divorce, that doesn’t mean you’re lacking, unlovable or incomplete.

Okay, you’ve met a new guy, that’s cool. Allow him to come to the conclusion of marriage on his own, not meet a demand or ultimatum.

I understand it’s been two years, but there’s no set limit to how long a great relationship should last before marriage, that’s a personal choice.

You and I both know that marriage doesn’t make a relationship better nor does it complete who you are as a woman.

You’ve had 25 years of practicing to be a good wife, live and love yourself unmarried for a few more years to come. You said dating’s still new to you, and if that’s the case, this isn’t the time to remarry. If and or when that time rolls around, you won’t need to ask Alma, you and he will know, that you know that you know. And oh what a joy it will be!

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RVA teacher up for Grammy Award The American Youth Harp Ensemble is now under consideration for a 2015 Grammy Award under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynnelle Ediger-Kordzaia, a nationally recognized music educator who also directs the locally-based Academy of Music and teaches at Richmond Montessori School.

The group’s album, “Caravan: 10 Harps, 10,000 Miles”, has made it to the long list but must receive enough votes by the Grammy voting membership to receive the award.

The album’s tracks range from classical to jazz including selections from “West Side Story,” Caravan and major orchestral repertoire.

The group includes high school students and ensemble alums including three former Richmond Montessori School students, some of who have been in the group since they were small children.

“This has been a culmination of 15 years of extraordinary music making with young musicians. The Grammy would provide wide-spread awareness of their unique musical artistry, especially as the only harp ensemble on the ballot, says Ediger.”

The American Youth Harp Ensemble is America’s premier youth harp ensemble with 21 national and international tours, hundreds of performances, recordings, television and radio features on features on CNN, NBC, PBS and NPR affiliate stations.

“The recording truly a labor of love. As an ensemble, performing in major venues across the nation and around the world, the relationship we had with the music and with one another as performers made for truly electrifying performances,” she said. “For years, we’ve been developing innovative repertoire and commissioning works from leading composers to fully explore the incredible range and versatility of the harp ensemble.

“We all knew it was important to create a lasting tribute to this artistic achievement.”

Performances have reached an estimated audience of more than 300,000 viewers and listeners through media (television and radio) broadcasts and live performances.

The AYHE has sold out Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and has performed to critical acclaim in many of the most prestigious concert venues around the world.

Locally they have been featured in two television specials: The American Youth Harp Ensemble: Defying the Limits and The Community Idea Stations Present: Christmas with the American Youth Harp Ensemble both providing extraordinary exposure for the harp and for AYHE programs.

The ensemble just released a new CD entitled Caravan: 10 Harps, 10,000 Miles which has been nominated for Grammy consideration.

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Map shows KKK spread across U.S. like ‘a contagion’ Historical spread examined for today’s issues A joint project between a Virginia Commonwealth University history professor and VCU Libraries shows for the first time how the Ku Klux Klan spread across the United States between 1915 and 1940, establishing chapters in all 50 states with an estimated membership of between two million and eight million.

VCU Libraries is hosting an open discussion and presentation about the KKK mapping project on Dec. 3, at noon, in Cabell Library, Room 250.

John Kneebone, Ph.D., chair of the Department of History at VCU, will lead the presentation. All are invited.

The project, “Mapping the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1940,” is an animated, online map that illustrates the rise of the second Klan, which was founded in Atlanta in 1915 and spread rapidly across the country to total more than 2,000 local units, known as Klaverns.

“The project is using technology to demonstrate, and make available for people to contemplate, the nationwide spread of the Ku Klux Klan,” said John Kneebone, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of History in the College of Humanities and Sciences. “This map shows that you can’t just say ‘Oh, it was those crazy people in

the South.’ The [KKK] was in the mainstream.”

The map, he said, invites the viewer to learn about the Klan in their own area, and to reflect on how the Klan’s vile message of racism, anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism appealed to so many millions of Americans.

“Everywhere there was population, there was the Klan,” Kneebone said.

“Think about being a young person — black or Jewish or Catholic — and growing up, knowing that these were everywhere.”

“Everywhere there was population, there was the Klan.”

Kneebone built a list of local KKK chapters by piecing together information culled from the hate group’s official publications, including newspapers and magazines with such names as The Fellowship Forum, Kourier Magazine, Indiana Fiery Cross and Imperial Night Hawk.

He partnered with digital librarians at VCU Libraries to use his data to map out the list of KKK chapters and illustrate their chronological rise across the country.

“This project models innovative collaboration between libraries and scholars,” said Jimmy Ghaphery, head of digital technologies for VCU

“Then/Now/Next: The Ku Klux Klan Data Mapping Project, 1915-1940, and Today’s Dialogue on Race” Libraries. “Building on the extensive research and scholarly context that Dr. Kneebone brought to bear, the VCU Libraries was able to provide support for data normalization, data visualization and a publishing platform. In publishing the raw data set, the door remains open for other researchers to jump in and join us.”

The project is significant for VCU Libraries because it marks the first time the digital librarians have worked directly with a faculty researcher to develop a digital visualization of their work.

“It kind of indicates where libraries are going in general, moving more into the digital humanities realm, where we’re working with scholars to find new ways to disseminate scholarship,” said Erin White, web systems librarian with VCU Libraries, who worked on the project.

“This is really exciting from our perspective because it’s a new thing that we’re exploring that has great potential for us as an organization.”

Wearing white robes and hoods, members of the Ku Klux Klan parade on Grace Street in Richmond circa 1925.

PHOTO: The Valentine.

“In publishing the raw data set, the door remains open for other researchers to jump in and join us.”

The map’s animation shows red

dots, each representing a local Klan, spreading across the country “like a contagion,” said Shariq Torres, a web applications analyst with digital technologies who oversaw creation of the map.

“A lot of times today, talk of racism says this region is bad or that region is bad. No, all of it is bad. And this map shows that,” he said. “[Even after the KKK disbanded], all those people were still in the community.

They became cops, they became judges, they became lawyers, they became teachers. They were all throughout the community. I see it as a very striking example of the sort of institutionalized racism that remains in the country today.”

The map shows that unlike the first KKK of Reconstruction and the third Klan of the civil rights era, both of which were concentrated in the Deep South, the second Klan was far more widespread. It operated not only in all 50 states, but even in spots like Panama, where the Panama Canal was under American control.

“It’s not even the full picture because we don’t have all the data.

But even with the data we have, every state is represented,” Torres said. “This organization’s ideas were so mainstream that people were fine with it. They were fine with excluding black people. That trickles down to everything else – housing

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inspectors, cops, policymakers, everything.”

Kneebone suspects that the second KKK was more widespread than the map conveys because they only included local Klans that were mentioned in the group’s publications.

“You’ve got an organization with thousands of units and millions of members, so there’s [a lot of these organizational records that existed],” he said. “I’m convinced that a lot of folks, years later, came across these [Klan documents] in grandpa’s attic and went ‘Oh, my god. I’ve got to get rid of this.’”

The rise of the second KKK was fueled in large part by the 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation,” which was a fictional and highly racist depiction of Reconstruction that portrays the first KKK, which operated between 1865 and 1871, as the saviors of white America.

“In class, I describe it as pornography for racists,” Kneebone said. “It’s a horrible movie.”

World War I also played a role in spreading the Klan, Kneebone said.

“World War I comes and the nation becomes fixated on the dangers of aliens and hyphenated Americans and disloyal people, which leads to a good deal of extralegal violence against dissenters,” he said. “People were whipped, tar-and-feathered, even hung. People were forced to kneel and kiss the flag. The generic term that the press used for these actions was Ku Klux Klan. So the message was out that the Klan is one, a good thing, thanks to ‘The Birth of a Nation.’ And two, it’s the means by which the community protects itself.”

The second Klan went into decline in 1925 when the man behind the group’s expansion in the Midwest, David Curtiss Stephenson, was arrested and convicted of the seconddegree murder of a woman named Madge Oberholtzer, who had been raped and beaten and who ultimately committed suicide. “That was the final blow that showed just how low and corrupt the Klan is,” Kneebone said.

Most historians, he said, end the story of the second Klan around 1925 when membership begins to drop off.

However, Kneebone’s research shows that local Klan units continued to meet, even outside the South.

The second KKK met its end in the 1940s when the IRS essentially

The 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation" helped fuel the nationwide rise of the Klan. shut it down for its failure to pay taxes. Yet the Klan did not go away entirely, Kneebone said. In Virginia, for example, it simply reincorporated under another name, the American Shore Patrol.

It is important to understand the second KKK, Kneebone said, not only to come to grips with the widespread racism that permeated the country, but also because it tells the story of the Klan’s courageous opponents.

“In the long run, the importance of this project is the opponents,” he said.

“What comes out of the opposition to the Klan is for the first time black Americans, Catholic Americans, Jewish Americans, work together.”

The coalition of Klan opponents formed the basis of the modern Democratic Party.

“It’s important for us in terms of politics,” Kneebone said. “This is when the Democratic Party, which had been the leave-us-alone party of racism, begins turning toward the party of liberalism.”

Notably, opposition to the KKK and “The Birth of a Nation” was also a defining moment in the early days of the NAACP. “From the emergence of ‘Birth of a Nation,’ the NAACP, which had been founded in 1910, had seen the movie as a base libel of black people and an evil film with a terrible, terrible message and fought really hard to have it banned in various cities,” Kneebone said. “In many ways, this is the making of the NAACP.” © VCU

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Black History Matters: After 168 yrs abolitionist pardoned FREDERICK H. LOWE NNPA -- Delaware Gov. Jack Markell recently, pardoned black abolitionist Samuel D. Burris, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, 168 years to the day after he was convicted and sentenced to prison and servitude for helping black men and women escape slavery. His activity was considered both illegal and a form of mental illness by white physicians.

The ceremony, which included unveiling a historical marker honoring Burris, a free black man, took place in the Old State House, where Burris was convicted on Nov. 2, 1847, according to the official state website, Blogging Delaware History.

Correcting a ‘historic wrong’ “This pardon is an extraordinary act in recognition of a historic wrong that cannot be corrected by a single stroke of a pen,” Markell said.

He added, “But while we cannot change what was done more than 150 years ago, we can ensure that Mr. Burris’ legacy is appropriately recognized and celebrated. We affirm today that history will no longer record his actions as criminal, but rather acts of freedom and bravery in the face of injustice.”

The pardon was part of a grassroots effort that gained traction this year.

Among those who lobbied for it were Ocea Thomas, an Atlanta descendent of Burris, and Robert Seeley, who said his ancestor, a white Quaker, helped 2,700 people, including Harriet Tubman, to freedom. Tubman was a leading abolitionist, helping hundreds of slaves escape to freedom.

Burris arrested Burris, who lived in Philadelphia, was arrested in 1847, while helping Maria Matthews, a slave escaping from Delaware Hundred, a plantation near Dover, the state capital, according to published

Delaware Gov. Jack Markell signs a pardon for Samuel Burris, an Underground Railroad conductor. Burris descendants Ocea Thomas and Rev. Ralph Smith attended. Photo: NNPA historical accounts.

Burris was helping Matthews to escape to Philadelphia. He had successfully helped others to escape, but the exact number is not known.

He was imprisoned and forced to wait 14 months before going to trial.

A pro-slavery jury found him guilty.

During his time in prison, he wrote a letter railing against government officials who allowed slave traders to operate in Delaware.

Burris wrote from a Dover jail, "They uphold and applaud those slave traffickers, and those inhuman and unmerciful leeches in their souldamning conduct, by making the colored people legal subjects for their bloody principles to feast on."

The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper, published his letter in its June 1848 edition.

Unlike white abolitionists with whom he worked, Burris could be enslaved for his actions. He was sold into servitude for two periods of seven years each.

Scientific racism Black men and women who either escaped or attempted to escape slavery were considered mentally ill by physicians of the day, according to the book, “The Protest Psychosis:

How Schizophrenia Became A Black Disease”, by Jonathan M. Metzl, associate professor of psychiatry and women’s studies and director of the Culture, Health and Medicine Program at the University of Michigan.

Slaves who escaped bondage were deemed crazy or mad by plantation owners and physicians, Metzl wrote.

His book explains, “It was wellknown, of course, that race and insanity share a long and troubled past. In the 1850s, American psychiatrists believed that AfricanAmerican slaves who ran away from their white masters did so because of a mental illness called draptetomania.

“Draptetomania is now considered the edifice of scientific racism.

Medical journals of the era also described a condition called dysaesthesia aethiopis, a form of madness manifested by ‘rascality’ and ‘disrespect for the master’s property’ that was believed to be ‘cured’ by brutal whippings. Even at the turn of the 20th century, leading academic psychiatrists shamefully claimed that Negroes were psychologically unfit for freedom.”

Although white psychiatrists argued black men and black women

who escaped slavery or attempted to escape slavery were mad, not everyone agreed.

Abolitionists bought his freedom The Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society collected enough money to purchase Burris’ freedom.

Isaac Flint attended the state auction where Burris was to be sold into bondage. Flint was so convincing in his role as a slave trader he and Burris returned to Philadelphia, where Burris’ wife and children lived. Burris knew nothing about the plan.

After escaping nearly being sold at auction, Burris returned to Delaware to work for the Underground Railroad. According to 1840 census, 2,600 slaves lived in that state.

The legislature, however, threatened Burris with 60 lashings, if he were caught. He then gave up his efforts in Delaware.

Later, Burris moved to San Francisco, where he continued to work for the abolitionist cause. He raised funds through black churches to assist blacks affected by the Civil War, according to published historical accounts.

Burris died at 60 in 1869 in San Francisco.

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