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Student revisits family racial history - 2 Backlash on gun permit changes - 4 Looking back at 2015 - 10, 11, 12 Lowering prescription costs - 14

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Latest presidential commutations hailed ZENITHA PRINCE

NNPA - A great start to 2016 came early to 97 felons who were recently granted commutations and pardons

by President Barack Obama.

Most of the prisoners were behind bars for non-violent drug-related offenses: at least 74 of the 95 commutations involved possession or distribution of either crack or cocaine, nine involved only methamphetamine, five involved only marijuana, and five others involved unspecified drugs.

Another two of the commutations were for non-drug-associated crimes: one involving armed bank robbery and another involving possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

The president also used his constitutional power to grant pardons to an Ohio physician convicted of counterfeiting in 2002 and a New Kent, Va., woman convicted of aiding and abetting bank fraud.

The commutations were the third set Obama has given this year and the most awarded at one time. In all, this administration has granted 184 commutations, which exceeds the total grants by the previous six presidents combined.

The commutations are part of the White House’s clemency initiative – launched in 2014 – which reflects Obama’s commitment to criminal justice reform, including parity in sentencing.

Civil and human rights groups hailed the move.

“American presidents have had the power to show mercy since the founding of our Republic. President

The president signs an order on his decision to commute the prison terms of 95 individuals.

Obama is the first president in decades to use it as the founders intended,” said Julie Stewart, president and founder of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, in a statement. “For that reason, we commend him for showing more mercy than his predecessors. But his work is not done…. Far too many others are still serving excessively long sentences that should be commuted as well.”

Under the clemency initiative, qualified federal prisoners were encouraged to apply to have their

sentences commuted. But of the 36,000 offenders that have applied, fewer than 200 have received clemency in the past two years, according to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which helped coordinate the efforts of attorneys who have been working pro bono to assist those prisoners.

The group is calling on the administration to intensify its efforts and is also charging Congress to play its part in reforming the nation’s racially unjust criminal justice system, including its archaic,

counterproductive sentencing laws.

“Legislation to reform these laws have drawn unprecedented bipartisan support, such as the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, S. 2123, passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee in October,” said Jon Greenbaum, chief counsel for the Lawyers’ Committee, in a statement. “The House Judiciary Committee passed a similar bill reforming federal sentencing laws in November. Both chambers need to bring these bills to the floor as soon as possible in 2016.”

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VCU freshmans book examines his family’s history with facing racial discrimination In 1991, Canaan Kennedy’s father, who is black, was unlawfully beaten and arrested by police in the driveway of his parents’ Northern Virginia home.

“They thought he was robbing his own house, just because he was black.”

“This police officer followed him for a few miles. Four, five, six officers were on the scene. They thought he was robbing his own house, just because he was black. They pulled their guns out at the family,” Kennedy said. “They beat him, they arrested him and charged him with assaulting a police officer. He had done nothing of the sort.”

Kennedy’s father, Adam P. Kennedy, was ultimately acquitted of all charges and won a subsequent civil suit against Arlington County. He later cowrote an autobiographical play about the incident with his mother, award-winning African-American playwright Adrienne Kennedy, called “Sleep Deprivation Chamber,” which won a prestigious Obie Award for Best New American Play in 1996.

Canaan Kennedy, 18, a freshman English and African American studies major at Virginia Commonwealth University, tells his father’s story in a new book, “Struggles to Victory,” which explores racism in the United States through the lens of his family’s experience of overcoming adversity and racial discrimination.

“We all face hardships and difficulties in life because life is not easy. Some people have it harder than others, but there are always ups and downs. So how do we overcome those hardships?” he said. “I think when you read these stories of overcoming racism and overcoming obstacles, then you’ll be inspired and learn a lesson of how to overcome your own struggles and turn them

into a victory.”

The book, which is self-published, is available as an e-book and is slated to be available as a hard copy in a month or two.

Kennedy was inspired to write “Struggles to Victory” after watching events unfold in Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man was shot and killed by a police officer, and in New York City, where an unarmed black man, Eric Garner, died after police put him in a chokehold. Both events,

“They thought he was robbing his own house, just because he was black.” among others, sparked widespread protests and media coverage.

“The news was finally highlighting racism. It’s something I’ve always been interested in because I’m half black, half white, and I’m light skinned so a lot of people think I’m white when they see me,” he said.

In addition to telling his father’s story, Kennedy also interviewed his grandmother, who has been an influential playwright since the early 1960s and is best known for her play, “Funnyhouse of a Negro,” which won an Obie Award for Distinguished Play in 1964.

“I interviewed her about her process for writing her first awardwinning play, ‘Funnyhouse of a Negro,’ about how she traveled through Europe and Africa and it really changed her writing by being in a country where it’s not majority white,” Kennedy said.

He also interviews his grandfather, Joseph Kennedy, Ph.D., who was the second black American to earn a doctorate in social psychology

from Columbia University, and also the co-founder of Africare, a nongovernmental organization that has raised more than $2 billion in aid to 36 countries in Africa to build sustainable, healthy and productive communities.

Priscilla Shilaro, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of History in the College of Humanities and Sciences, taught Kennedy this semester in her Survey of African History course. She recently read “Struggles to Victory,” and found it to be “captivating, revealing and dramatic.”

“I was very impressed with it. I enjoyed every page,” she said. “It gives me hope in VCU students.”

The book arrives as police brutality cases against blacks are gaining national attention, highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement. And universities are also struggling with issues of race and racism.

At VCU, President Michael Rao,

Ph.D., recently hosted a Presidential Forum on Diversity and Inclusion after a group of students rallied at the Compass in support of black students at the University of Missouri protesting discrimination. “[Kennedy’s] book comes at very seminal time,” Shilaro said. “It’s pretty much necessary reading on racial issues.”

Kennedy has always wanted to write, he said, though he is most interested in pursuing writing as a side project to his future career, possibly in academia, diplomacy, journalism or motivational speaking.

“My dad would make us give speeches at the dinner table since I was about 5 years old,” he said. “I’d have to research Gandhi or Malcolm X or Martin Luther King, and give speeches to the family. So I’ve always been a good speaker because of that.”

“Basically,” he added, “I want to influence people, inspire people and change the world.”

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On PATH & its aftermath President Barack Obama last week signed into law the Protecting Americans From Tax Hikes Act of 2015, the first significant legislation since the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, according to supporters. It it came about as a result of bipartisan compromises on the part of the House, the Senate, and the White House in “11th-hour negotiations,” according to Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting.

“This tax extenders bill permanently extends enhancements to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and the American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC), which will help millions of working families stay out of poverty, help them offset the cost of childcare, and help them send their children to college,” said Virginia Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-3rd District).

“While I strongly support these and some of the business provisions, I voted against the bill because it is not paid for at this time but ultimately its cost of approximately $622 billion over the next decade will, of course, have to be paid for.

The House passed PATH by a vote of 318-109; the Senate vote was 6533.

According to a House Ways and Means Committee release, taxpayers might question the title, but the legislation is ‘a step in the right direction, a move that could grow our economy and help American taxpayers keep more of their hardearned dollars”.

The law makes permanent certain tax relief that had been previously extended on a temporary basis. For example, deductions for educator expenses. Since 2002, they have been extended 13 times. Now these deductions are here to stay.

Another example. For charitably inclined clients with IRAs that have had an interest in QCDs, or “qualified charitable distributions" that allows individuals age 70 1/2 and older to make charitable gifts from their IRAs without triggering an income tax on the withdrawals.

The law permitting QCDs was first

NOTICE TO CITY OF RICHMOND RESIDENTS The State Board of Elections has ordered that both a Democratic Party primary and a Republican Party primary will be held on: TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2016

Voters will have to choose in which primary that they wish to participate, as state law only allows them to participate in one of the two primaries. Voters wishing to participate in the Republican Party primary will have to sign a pledge before they may vote in that primary. A copy of the pledge can be found at www.richmondgov.com under the Voter Registration department.

The purpose of these primary elections is to nominate the party candidates that will appear on the ballot in November for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States.

Rep. Bobby Scott enacted in 2006 (Pension Protection Act) and extended yearly, sometimes very late in the calendar year. Now, PATH makes the QCD permanent (retroactive to Jan. 1, 2015), opening the door for planning.

Still, Congressman Scott said that, “unfortunately”, many of the people that will benefit from the provisions in the bill will be the first ones hurt when Congress pays for it.

“We witnessed this scenario soon after we passed the fiscal cliff deal in January 2013, which permanently extended most of the Bush-era tax cuts at a cost of $3.9 trillion,” he said. “Within weeks of that vote, the House voted to increase student loan interest rates and to cut spending to the supplemental nutrition assistance program, seniors programs, education and many other vital functions of government.

Congress even contemplated proposals to cut Social Security and increase the retirement age for Medicare. At the same time, we were unable to rationally deal with sequestration, which further cut spending to programs that help working families and continues to negatively disrupt the federal budget process.”

Scott said that addressing the budget and deficit is a matter of priorities.

“Congress must consider the cost of tax cuts in the context of other budget decisions and priorities,” he said.

Any qualified resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia who will be 18

by November 8, 2016 may register and vote in this primary.

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Register in person in room 105, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday, except holidays.

Applications are also in all city post offices, libraries, and DMV. The Office of the General Registrar will mail applications upon request.

Voter registration applications must either be postmarked or in the Office of the General Registrar by 5 PM on the deadline date.

THE DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR AN ABSENTEE BALLOT THROUGH THE MAIL IS: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 The deadline to apply and vote an absentee ballot in person is 5:00 PM, Saturday, February 27, 2016, except in the case of certain emergencies or military personnel. In addition to its normal business hours, the Office of the General Registrar will also be open from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

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Va. GOP capitalizes on political backlash to handgun permit changes JENNA PORTNOY When Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) incensed the gun rights community last week by announcing that Virginia will no longer recognize out-of-state concealed-handgun permits, the state Republican Party moved fast.

It sent out a fundraising blast, remade the party home page and tagged social media with #HerringHates2A. Nearly 1,200 people signed an online petition declaring, “Tell Democrats like Mark Herring, Terry McAuliffe and Hillary Clinton that we won’t let them take away our constitutional rights!”

AG Mark Herring Republicans aim to capi­tal­ize on the political backlash to what they consider executive overreach at a

time when the stakes are high in Virginia. Presidential contenders are trying to woo the commonwealth’s coveted swing-state voters, and the 2017 races for governor and attorney general are well underway.

Herring’s action and the swift response show that each side thinks gun issues will inspire its base — a reality that played out in this year’s Virginia legislative elections.

Virginia Attorney Gen. Mark R. Herring (D) announced that the commonwealth will no longer recognize concealed-handgun permits issued by 25 other states.

Everytown for Gun Safety, an activist group associated with former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, poured millions of dollars into legislative races that concluded last month. In the end, Democrats claimed that the cash helped Jeremy McPike comfortably defeat Manassas Mayor Hal Parrish for a state Senate seat and narrowed the margin in Republican Glen Sturtevant’s win over Dan Gecker in their state Senate race.

“What I find so fascinating about it is it comes in the wake of the Bloomberg buy during the election,” said Bob Holsworth, a former political science professor and a principal of DecideSmart, a Richmond public-policy consulting firm.

“Democrats believe that ultimately in Virginia they’re going to be helped, not harmed by taking a strong stance on gun regulation,” Holsworth added.

“And the Republicans obviously believe this is something that’s going to be positive for them.”

Gone are the days when Democrats — in Virginia and across the country — felt compelled to tiptoe around gun control for fear of alienating conservative voters, political observers have said. In 2013, McAuliffe won the governorship of the commonwealth with a full-throated call for universal background checks and has not hesitated to repeat the message every time an act of gun violence shatters the calm of a community or college campus.

But there still are many outspoken gun enthusiasts in Virginia who vote.

Republican Del. C. Todd Gilbert said his constituents in the rural Shenandoah Valley are infuriated as he has rarely seen before.

“I live in a part of the world where people are self-reliant,” he said.

“They don’t rely for the most part on the police to keep them safe. That may happen in urban areas where people are willing to live like that.”

He said residents were “deeply offended” by what they see as Herring’s move — with the blessing of the Virginia State Police — to revoke concealed-carry agreements with 25 states, because, Herring said, those states did not have Virginia’s high standards for concealed-carry permits. As a result, six of those states will no longer recognize permits held by Virginians.

Virginia GOP Chairman John Whitbeck said Tennessee’s lieutenant governor and Florida’s agriculture commissioner blasted Herring’s move.

“It’s already backfiring,” he said. “We in Virginia have a very strong tradition of Democrats and Republicans both protecting our Second Amendment rights.”

Then Whitbeck turned his attention to Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, the Democrats’ sole declared candidate for governor, asking why the former state senator from the Eastern Shore had been silent on the issue. In his announcement, Herring said the laws in 25 states are lax compared with Virginia’s.

Asked to comment Wednesday, Northam’s office responded with support for Herring’s move, which Democrats say applies Virginia’s handgun standards to all who step foot in the state, regardless of their jurisdiction of residency.

“I believe there can be common ground that respects the right to bear arms and also protects the safety of our communities,” Northam said in a statement. “We need to enforce existing Virginia law, as well as continue to pursue policy that will keep our citizens safe.”

All eyes have been on Northam since September, when Herring said he would seek a second term as attorney general — not run for governor. Yet on issues such as gun control, same-sex marriage, abortion and illegal immigration, it is Herring who embodies the state Democratic Party’s agenda, said Holsworth, the public-policy consultant.

“The days of this office simply being the state’s law firm are gone,” he said.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF THE APPLICATION OF VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL TO ESTABLISH EXPERIMENTAL COMPANION RATES, PURSUANT TO § 56-234 B OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA CASE NO. PUE-2015-00108 On November 3, 2015, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an application (“Application”) for approval to establish experimental companion rates, designated Rate Schedule MBR - GS-3 (Experimental) and Rate Schedule MBR - GS-4 (Experimental) (collectively, “MBR Rate Schedules”) pursuant to § 56-234 B of the Code of Virginia and Rule 80 of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”).

Specifically, Dominion Virginia Power requests an opportunity to test market-based rates, on an experimental basis, for certain high load-factor customers. The Company states that such an experimental rate could gauge customer interest in a market-based rate and gather necessary information about market-based rate implementation with respect to customers outside of the context of a special rate contract and in furtherance of the public interest.

As proposed, the MBR Rate Schedules contain newly designed and optional market-based rates structured to reflect pricing in the PJM Interconnection, LLC (“PJM”) wholesale market for qualifying customers who would otherwise take service under Rate Schedule GS-3 or Rate Schedule GS-4. The Company represents that the MBR Rate Schedules include a: (1) generation capacity charge; (2) generation energy charge; (3) PJM ancillary service charge; (4) PJM administrative fee charge; and (5) margin charge.

To be eligible for the MBR Rate Schedules, Dominion Virginia Power represents that customers must: (1) be currently taking electric service under Rate Schedule GS-3 or Rate Schedule GS4, subject to certain qualifications and limitations specified in the MBR Rate Schedules; (2) have a measured peak demand of five megawatts (“MW”) or more during at least three billing months in the current and previous eleven billing months; (3) have a billing history with the Company for at least twelve consecutive billing months in the current and previous eleven billing months; and (4) have a qualifying average monthly load factor of at least 85%. As proposed, the MBR Rate Schedules have a total combined participation cap of 200 MW, and a minimum term of three years.

The Company also proposes that the MBR Rate Schedules expire on December 31, 2022.

Dominion Virginia Power does not anticipate any impact on reliability or any change in the Company’s PJM market operations or in the Company’s actual costs to serve its load from the MBR Rate Schedules. For example, Dominion Virginia Power explains that a qualifying customer’s election to move an account from Rate Schedule GS-3 to Rate Schedule MBR - GS-3 (Experimental) would not impact how the Company’s load would be bid or otherwise offered into the PJM market. The only distinction would be that a customer electing Rate Schedule MBR - GS-3 (Experimental) would be charged a rate that reflects PJM wholesale market pricing.

Dominion Virginia Power describes the MBR Rate Schedules as companion tariffs to the applicable Rate Schedule GS-3 or Rate Schedule GS-4. As such, Dominion Virginia Power explains that a participating customer’s billing statement would look much as it does today with the exception of a new line item, which is the computed variance between the market-based rate charges and the applicable Rate Schedule GS-3 or Rate Schedule GS-4 charges for generation. This companion rate design, according to the Company, permits Dominion Virginia Power to continue funding the Commission-approved Virginia jurisdictional fuel clause and rate adjustment clauses for generation, transmission, and demand-side management, to ensure no impacts to other nonparticipating Virginia jurisdictional customers occur during the Transitional Rate Period.

Should the Commission approve the Company’s Application, Dominion Virginia Power requests to implement the MBR Rate Schedules within 60 days of the Commission’s final order in this proceeding. Once the Company implements the MBR Rate Schedules, Dominion Virginia Power represents that it would collect data and information related primarily to customer interest in the market-based rate. The Company also expects to analyze differences in load profiles and peak demands of customers on the MBR Rate Schedules as well as the volatility of a market-based rate and how such rate volatility may impact participating customers’ bills. Dominion Virginia Power further represents that it would collect information on the market-based rate variability and corresponding base rate variance to determine the extent of possible base rate impacts following the expiration of the Transitional Rate Period, and would evaluate the volumes of customers on the MBR Rate Schedules and the volatility of market-based rates to help understand what types of risk management transactions, if any, may be necessary. Collectively, Dominion Virginia Power plans to use this information to determine which classes of customers and customer load profiles may be best suited for any future market-based rate offering, and how to manage any impacts in a way to minimize effects on nonparticipating customers. Finally, if the Commission approves the MBR Rate Schedules, Dominion Virginia Power also proposes to track key metrics, make annual updates to the Commission, and submit a final comprehensive report within 90 days of the conclusion of the MBR Rate Schedules.

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

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on April 12, 2016, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s Second Floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

A copy of the Application may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa S. Booth, Esquire, Dominion Resources Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Riverside 2, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

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

Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing, on or before February 12, 2016, a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2015-00108. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing.

On or before April 5, 2016, any interested person wishing to comment on the Application shall file written comments on the Application with the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before April 5, 2016, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUE-2015-00108.

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

VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY

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Regarding Rosalind Brewer RON BUSBY, SR. Normally at this time of the year, we like to look back and recap some of the highlights of our activities from the preceding twelve months. This year, though, something so bizarre happened recently - something that captures the magnitude of inequity in the marketplace - we couldn't let the opportunity pass to reflect on this very specific, very disheartening episode.

You may have heard the name Rosalind Brewer before. In the odd event you haven't, Brewer was a featured speaker during our previous School of Business and Chamber Management and spoke about how she ascended into the high ranking position as the CEO of Walmart's Sam's Club division. Brewer is the first black American and the first female to lead Sam's Club. It goes without saying that she is "off-thechart" smart, personable, and very, very good at her job...or she wouldn't be there.

During a recent CNN interview, Brewer offered insight into the workplace culture she is responsible for shaping, noting the importance of racial and gender diversity in the ranks of her executive team.

From the firestorm of venom raining

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down on her, you'd think she said something as outlandish as a GOP presidential contender!

For stating clearly that it is important that her workplace look like the people Sam's sells its products to, Brewer has been called racist, dumb, incompetent and a whole lot of other downright nasty things. On top of that, some misguided folk have called for a boycott of Sam's Club, "...because it discriminates against white people..."

Besides being absolutely absurd, the hateful comments heaped on Brewer paint a graphic picture of how far we have to go to create equality of opportunity in the marketplace. (Excuse me while I compare. Brewer's situation to the

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way President Barack Obama has been treated the entire time he's held office!)

But Brewer - after noting how she has shaped her executive leadership team - went on to illustrate how she uses her position to encourage Sam's Club suppliers to adopt diversity strategies. And that's when the "twitterverse" went berserk.

In an American economy with only a handful of black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, where black folks (All 40-plus million of us) have less money than the wealthiest 100 white Americans, where black businesses have virtually no chance of earning federal, state or municipal contracts and even less opportunity in the private sector, how twisted do you have to be to believe that Brewer is proof that white folks are in jeopardy?

Please don't get me wrong: Brewer doesn't need me to defend or explain her position. The thing that has no defense and needs explaining is the hard-edged, racist sentiment that evidently still exists in America.

While Brewer's role as CEO of a giant company shows that we have come a long way, the fact that black folk remain the most likely to go to

jail, the most likely to die a violent death (all too often at the hands of law enforcement), the most likely to go without needed social services and healthcare, the mostly likely to be fired rather than promoted, and the most likely to have their opinions dismissed as "playing the race card" or -- worse, "reverse discrimination" -- is proof of how far we have left to go.

We will continue to point the way to an America that is better when Black businesses grow and thrive; when those businesses are the leaders in reducing Black unemployment; when those businesses are supplying civic leadership and improving the quality of life in communities across the country, and we'll continue to point out that efforts to improve diversity too often end up being diversions from what really matters.

The USBC School of Chamber and Business Management, the Black Male Entrepreneurship Institute, our Solutions Series and the work being done by nearly 130 black chambers of commerce across the country keeps us focused and making a difference... just like Brewer.

Busby is president of the U.S. Black Chambers, Inc.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

RPV to Trump primary voters: Take a hike!

Talk about turning a big tent into a teepee!

Well, there they go again.

The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) is once again concocting exclusionary pledge schemes to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

After losing seven consecutive statewide races in Virginia, you would think the brain trust at RPV would have figured out by now that they need to grow the Party, not dream up Neanderthal parliamentary stunts to further restrict grass roots participation.

The newest RPV scheme to limit participation in their nominating process is a ploy requiring signed pledges from unsuspecting voters at the voting table before they can vote in the GOP primary on Super Tuesday, March 1.

The State Board of Elections sanctioned it, at RPV’s request.

According to RPV, taking advantage of this arcane loophole in state election law somehow legitimizes their ruse.

We see right through it. It’s voter suppression, pure and simple.

If someone shows up to vote on Super Tuesday and asks for a Republican primary ballot, the State Board of Elections representative or poll worker is required by the SBE ruling to tell the voter they have to sign what the RPV calls a “Statement of Affiliation” prior to being issued a ballot.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck: its a duck - or in this case, a pledge. Calling it a fancy name is intellectually disingenuous and insults the intelligence of Virginia voters.

The “Statement of Affiliation” requires any voter who requests a Republican ballot to sign their name to a document stating their allegiance to the Republican Party of Virginia. Prospective voters are also asked to provide intrusive personal information such as cell phone numbers and email addresses.

Many Independent voters are just that...independent. Forcing them to pledge party allegiances is counterproductive to the bigger mission, which is to inspire them to vote Republican in the general election.

What if the voter is new, an Independent, a conservative Democrat or just is not comfortable signing this invasive document at the voting table?

What if the voter is unaffiliated or has not voted in awhile because they are disgusted with the system?

If the person refuses to sign the pledge, what does the election official or poll worker do?

Do they refuse to give the GOP ballot to the voter and tell them to go home?

Do they tell them to just go pound sand?

Or maybe offer up the Democratic ballot as an alternative --that requires no pledge or signed affidavits?

This is a public relations nightmare

at best, or blatant voter suppression at worst.

If the potential GOP primary voter is given the ballot anyway, after refusing to sign their manufactured pledge, then what is the point of the whole exercise?

So what do you think is going to happen if one precinct issues a ballot to someone refusing to sign the pledge and another doesn’t? This spectacle opens up a legal Pandora’s Box nightmare.

It’s a lose-lose.

Unless of course, it’s meant to discourage Independent, unaffiliated or new voters from showing up at the polls in the first place – and these just happen to represent a significant portion of the Trump for President voter base.

One RPV official told me the real objective is to “gather future voter mining data.”

Seriously?

The SBE is under no obligation to give the pledges back to the RPV. So that’s just hogwash.

Other RPV party bosses claim it’s a substitute for Virginia’s open primary system where voters do not have to register by party affiliation.

But that is up to the General Assembly to change -- not the Republican Party of Virginia’s ruling class.

The General Assembly can’t even get that one out of committee. So the RPV attempts to back door it, ignoring the will of our elected representatives in Richmond.

What a great way to encourage Independents to vote in the upcoming

Republican Presidential primary, right?

Perhaps they would just rather lose statewide for the eighth straight time in a row.

Make no mistake: this pledge gimmick is designed to punish one candidate who is bringing in the very new voters the RPV desperately needs to win a statewide election: Donald J. Trump.

What is the RPV afraid of?

It’s outrageous and shameful.

Virginia Republicans have until January 15 to convince the state central RPV committee to abandon this absurd “Statement of Affiliation” and stop harassing unsuspecting voters who want to exercise their right to vote in the primary they choose.

Failure to do so sends a clear signal of intimidation...and exclusion.

John Fredericks

Victimhood?

Almost half of young Americans (18-29) believe the American Dream is “dead,” reports the Harvard Institute for Politics today (12/11).

It is easy to conclude that President Obama's adminustration is one of the primary causes of this, that he planned for this to happen on purpose, because 86 percent of these youngsters want a Democrat president to take care of them.

President Obama has convinced them they can’t make it on their own. Dependent people are people who vote for you. Works like a charm.

Jackie Lee

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‘Christians must model grace and love in time of fear’ The current anti-Muslim mood in much of the nation is mirrored in many of its churches, contributing to an atmosphere of fear, pastors say JEFF BRUMLEY BNG -- Tis the season to be ... fearful?

It’s not what the lyrics actually say but they may as well given the politically induced hysteria surrounding Muslim immigration and Syrian refugees.

A lot of churches and evangelical leaders are pumping panic-stricken messages from their pulpits, too, say a growing list of Christian writers and ministers concerned about the nation’s anti-Muslim mood.

In blogs, columns and interviews with Baptist News Global, they say it appears as though the Advent season has been usurped by presidential election season.

“The essential thing that’s wrong with that is that it’s inconsistent with scripture and with our witness and everything we are about,” said Mark Tidsworth, a Baptist minister who coaches pastors and congregations as president of Pinnacle Leadership Associates in South Carolina.

Six months ago, Tidsworth penned a blog on his ministry website.

Titled, “The Fear Contagion Goes to Church,” the article warned pastors and church leaders that unchecked fear about cultural and political issues can dominate congregations.

Tidsworth said the July 29 piece was motivated by what he had seen, heard and read already from the 2016 presidential season. It was clear even then that many Christians were buying into the scary projections offered by some of the candidates.

“I did not intend to be that prophetic — and I wish I wasn’t,”

Tidsworth said, weeks after Donald Trump promised to ban Muslims from entering the United States and several governors sought to ban Syrian refugees from their states.

Elections are constructed so that candidates must vie for attention, he said. And one of the quickest ways to get that attention is to use fear of something or someone.

“Fear is a great attention grabber,” he said.

Thanks in part to the rise of ISIS and the recent terror attacks in Paris and California, fear has escalated to the point where religious leaders and their followers are being consumed by it. Some, like Jerry Falwell Jr. have encouraged Christians to stock up on weapons.

Tidsworth said such rhetoric occurs when congregations experience emotional contagion.

“Emotional contagion is where emotions and moods tend to spread through communities,” he said.

Sometimes those emotions can be positive, such as joy and compassion.

But fear moves the fastest through groups, he said.

“It can spread … faster than some pleasant emotions because fear is an alert status.”

‘Don’t settle into anger’ Kevin Glenn has seen that himself, and all too clearly.

In early August, Glenn’s Calvary Baptist Church was one of three Las Cruces, N.M. congregations targeted with explosives. The bombs at his and a nearby Catholic parish actually exploded, causing damage but no injuries.

One Baptist minister suggests simply smiling at or greeting Muslims can be enough to show God’s grace.

Fear immediately gripped the community, and even some in state government expressed their fears through vindictive comments about the perpetrators, who remain atlarge.

But Glenn said he did not want that kind of reaction to permeate his congregation.

“Initially, there was a lot of fear around the fact that it was unexpected, that the motive was unknown and the perpetrator was unknown,” he said. “That did have people fearful.”

But Glenn said he coached his clergy and lay leaders always to appear and speak calmly and only to share information about the attack that had been provided by authorities.

“Whatever the anxiety level of the person, we were to be deliberate in having our anxiety level lower,” Glenn said. “That seems to bring their anxiety level down.”

That meant no speculating about what happened — or what might happen.

“The speculation can get out of hand,” he said.

None of this was meant to deny the

gravity of the situation, he added.

Clearly they had been attacked and new security measures had to be taken.

In that way, fear can be a healthy motivator. But Calvary Baptist has avoided taking the unhealthy next step of condemning the attackers or guessing what could happen next.

“Our catch phrase is we want to be vigilant in watchfulness and faithful in our witness,” he said.

Glenn said he understands how congregations can become fearful — like much of the culture does — after terror attacks. It’s even harder to avoid when those events are used by politicians to pander for votes.

“What we went through is a microcosm of the Trump stuff,” Glenn said, referring to the presidential candidate’s call for banning Muslims from entering the United States.

But Christians need not sacrifice compassion for security because they can have both, he added.

“Anger can motivate you to action, but the scripture says don’t settle into anger.”

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The 50th anniversary of ck a the marches b k oo l A from Selma to Montgomery

President Barack Obama signs legislation awarding a Congressional Gold Medal to the people who participated in the “Bloody Sunday” march, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, at his desk aboard Air Force One on Saturday, March 7, 2015.

The president was en route to Selma, Ala., to attend the 50th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” which refers to the day in 1965 when police attacked marchers demonstrating for voting rights.

Back in March, President Barack Obama and the First Family joined thousands of Americans at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to honor the sacrifice and bravery of the men and women who bled there, on that very pavement 50 years ago.

Many of those original “foot

soldiers” joined him, including Congressman John Lewis, who helped to organize the first march over this bridge in 1965, and who endured a tragic beating on that “Bloody Sunday”. In April, he strode arm in arm with the president of the United States.

It was a day filled with electricity,

inspiration, tales of heartache and courage, and the true story of how a handful of ordinary Americans helped to change the course of history with their grace, their peaceful action, and their bold belief in the true spirit of this country.

Still, even with the progress those men and women afforded the nation, great challenges still remain. That’s why the legacy of Selma must not be viewed in the vacuum of history, but rather as an inspiration for the future, said civil rights advocates.

As President Obama put it, the lesson of Selma isn’t an outlier of the American experience: “[Selma] is instead the manifestation of a creed written into our founding documents: ‘We the People…in order to form a more perfect union.’ ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’”

“These are not just words,” he said. “They’re a living thing, a call to action, a roadmap for citizenship and an insistence in the capacity of free men and women to shape our own destiny.”

Thousands marched in March to commemorate the 50th anniversary.

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UVA student Martese Johnson assaulted by ABC enforcement agents

Martese Johnson with his lawyer Daniel Watkins.

Advocacy group launches in the name of educational structure and justice A new non-profit was introduced in May. Its purpose is simple: to dismantle the current social, economic and political systems that seek to maintain a permanent class of poor and sometimes powerless individuals.

I Vote For Me (IVFM) is a movement organized on principals of leadership, empowerment and selfadvocacy. According to its executive director, Lorraine Wright, IVFM will work to educate, inform and ignite social change—a necessity and not an option.

One of the most center-staged issues that IVFM is advocating against is the school-to-prison pipeline. Wright states that various states spend billions of dollars on the juvenile justice system instead of schools.

This pipeline, according to Wright, mostly impacts African American and Hispanic students. She points out that black students are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than their white counterparts.

In April the state began investigating whether excessive force was used during the arrest of 20-year-old University of Virginia student Martese Johnson after he attempted to enter a bar near his college.

Johnson was arrested by Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents after he was rejected entry from a University Avenue bar. The agents approached Johnson and arrested him.

Cell phone video of the incident showed Johnson lying face down on the sidewalk with two agents detaining him as bystanders yelled that his head was bleeding.

Johnson was charged with public intoxication and obstruction of justice.

University Vice President for Diversity and Equity Marcus L. Martin and Dean of AfricanAmerican Affairs Maurice Apprey described the incident as “appalling” and said the student’s head was “slammed into the hard pavement with excessive force.”

Gov. Terry McAuliff asked the state police to conduct an independent investigation into the incident.

Johnson was featured in Vanity Fair. He wrote the following: “I sustained three gashes on my

head (one requiring 10 stitches to close), facial swelling, a busted lip, and cuts and bruises on my body.

The scars on my face and head will likely remain for the rest of my life. The officers’ actions may not have been premeditated that night, but I do believe they were calculated. Thousands of students have been arrested for similar charges throughout the years, 1,670 in Virginia by A.B.C. officers just last year, but it’s hard to imagine that most of them experienced the physical violence I endured in that brief period. Why would I be subjected to such violence when so many other students in similar circumstances—so many other students that same night—were left alone?

“With the untold thousands of college students in Charlottesville that night, it is difficult to believe that my race did not play a factor in the way I was handled by the officers. The United States’ policing issues are incomparable to any country in the rest of the world. The Guardian shares that ‘in the first 24 days of 2015, police in the U.S. fatally shot more people than police did in England and Wales, combined, over the past 24 years.’ The truth of the matter is that police forces in America are over-militarized.”

Leonidas Young attempts political comeback in RVA

Lorraine Wright Wright planned to focus on another area of main concern—Virginia leading the nation in student-based referrals to the criminal justice system.

Wright says it’s time to be solution focused and not problem oriented.

“We’ve got work to do. Don’t talk the talk. It’s about being solution based. Look, don’t allow anyone to put you in a box. You are more than enough and I encourage others to join this movement. We will win,” Wright said.

Former Richmond Mayor Leonidas Young tried to make a political comeback when he placed a bid for the 74th House District in the House of Delegates. He sought the seat that was held by Del. Joe Morrissey.

Leonidas wanted his campaign to serve as an example to former Gov. Bob McDonnell that political rebirth is possible.

Young, who served nearly two years in a federal prison more than a decade ago, wanted to use his own criminal past in a campaign program to reach voters with a message of redemption and forgiveness by championing the cause of rights restoration for felons.

Lamont Bagby eventually won the

Leonidas Young 74th district house seat replacing Morrissey.

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BB King dies at the age of 89 Blues legend B.B. King died of Alzheimer’s disease and various other ailments associated with old age in May. King, a Mount Rushmore figure in American blues music, died May 14 in hospice care in Las Vegas.

He was 89.

The Mississippi native’s reign as "king of the blues" lasted more than six decades and straddled two centuries, influencing a generation of rock and blues musicians, from Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan to Sheryl Crow and John Mayer.

His life was the subject of the documentary “B.B. King: The Life of Riley” and the inspiration for the the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, which opened in Mississippi in 2008.

Even with a long list of honors to his name -- a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, a Presidential Medal of Freedom -he maintained a relentless touring schedule well into his 80s.

Throughout his career, King evolved with the times to incorporate contemporary trends and influences without straying from his Delta blues roots. Whether he was sharing the stage with U2 on “When Loves Comes to Town” -- a scene memorialized in the 1988 concert film “Rattle and Hum” -- or playing

in the East Room of the White House with Buddy Guy, Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck and others, King’s singlestring guitar notes trilled with an unmistakable vibrato from his hollow-bodied Gibson affectionately known as Lucille.

It was during this era that King first named his beloved guitar Lucille. In the mid-1950s, King was performing at a dance in Twist, Arkansas, when a few fans became unruly and started a fire. King ran out, forgetting his guitar, and risked his life to go back and get it.

He later found out that two men fighting over a woman named Lucille knocked over a kerosene heater that started the fire. He named the guitar Lucille, “to remind myself never to do anything that foolish.”

King used various models of Gibson guitars over the years and named them each Lucille. In the 1980s, Gibson officially dropped the model number ES-355 on the guitar King used, and it became a custom-made signature model named Lucille, manufactured exclusively for the “King of the Blues.”

In the ‘50s and ‘60s, King was a peripatetic figure, idolized by musicians and R&B fans, known for putting on some of the best live shows around. By the late ‘50s, he was traveling in a chauffeur-driven

Civil rights activist Bond Julian Bond, a lifelong civil rights leader and former board chairman of the NAACP, died Aug. 15 at age 75 after a brief illness in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Bond was founding president of the Southern Poverty Law Center in the 1970s.

"Not only has the country lost a hero, we've lost a great friend," the legal advocacy group said in a statement.

The Tennessee native was on the forefront of the 1960s civil rights movement, and was among activists who demanded equal rights for blacks.

Bond was part of a group of students taught by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at Morehouse College during the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. “(King) was certainly known, but

he was not nearly as famous then as he became, and he certainly didn’t act like a famous person,” Bond told CNN in 2013. “I knew even at the time that I was privileged to learn from him, but he never made us feel as if he was that important. That’s

Cadillac accompanied by a custom Greyhound bus, called Big Red, which housed his band.

Even after his bluesier R&B became less commercial -- he observed that “they (once) called guys like me rhythm and blues, so somewhere along the line, I guess I lost my rhythm” -- he still maintained a following, this time among white musicians.

Eric Clapton was a fan. Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac modeled his sound on King’s. John Lennon said he “wanted to play guitar like B.B. King.”

In 1967, his changing fan base was enough to get him booked in San

Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium.

“We used to play the Fillmore all the time, but it was then about 90 percent black,” he told PBS. “But this time ... it was long-haired white people, men and women, sitting body to body going up to the door. I told my road manager, ‘I think they booked us in the wrong place.’”

He received a standing ovation.

He returned to the Fillmore several more times.

In 1970, he won his first Grammy for his trademark song, “The Thrill is Gone.” That same year, he debuted an all-blues show at Carnegie Hall and appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

not what it was about.”

Around that time, Bond helped lead one of the first student sit-ins in Atlanta.

The Nashville, Tennessee, native was considered a symbol of the 1960s civil rights movement. As a Morehouse College student, Bond helped found the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee and as its communications director he was on the front lines of protests that led to the nation’s landmark civil rights laws.

Bond later served as board chairman of the 500,000-member NAACP for 10 years but declined to run for another one-year term in 2010.

Bond campaigned for equal rights for minorities beyond the United States.

In 1985, police arrested him outside the South African Embassy in

Washington, where he was protesting against apartheid, the legalized racial segregation enforced by South Africa at the time.

Bond was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965, but his white colleagues in the House refused to let him take his seat because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. A year later, the Supreme Court accused the Legislature of violating his freedom of speech and ordered it to seat him.

In addition to the Georgia House, he served in the state Senate for years.

The former lawmaker also taught at various universities, including Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.

His advocacy for equal rights went beyond race issues.

Bond is survived by his wife, Pamela Horowitz, and five children.

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Va. All Stars: NOVA leads the way in LGBT equality The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, recently released its fourth annual report assessing LGBT equality in 408 cities across the nation, including nine in Virginia.

The 2015 Municipal Equality Index (MEI), the only nationwide rating system of LGBT inclusion in municipal law and policy, shows that cities across the country, including in Virginia, continue to take the lead in supporting LGBT people and workers, even when states and the federal government have not.

For LGBT Americans, legal protections and benefits vary widely from state to state, and city to city.

Astonishingly, in 31 states LGBT people are still at risk of being fired, denied housing or refused service because of who they are, and who they love. That's why HRC is leading the fight to pass the Equality Act, which would extend nationwide nondiscrimination protections to LGBT Americans. The effort to achieve full equality continues, and the MEI remains a crucial tool in evaluating the patchwork of LGBT policies and practices in cities and towns across the nation.

The average score for cities in Virginia is 45 out of 100 points, which falls below the national average of 56. Alexandria: 88, Arlington County: 87, Chesapeake: 18, Fairfax County: 43, Hampton: 14, Newport News: 23, Norfolk: 57, Richmond: 52, Virginia Beach: 31.

“Across our country, cities and towns both big and small aren’t waiting for state or national leaders to move LGBT equality forward,” said HRC President Chad Griffin.

“Instead, these municipalities are taking action now to improve the lives of countless LGBT Americans.

In what has been an historic year for equality, a record-breaking number of municipalities this year have earned top scores in our Municipal Equality Index for their inclusive treatment of their LGBT citizens and workers. They are making a powerful statement that no one should have to wait for full equality the time is now.”

“This year, an unprecedented

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wave of discriminatory legislation attempted to roll-back our efforts for LGBT equality,” said Rebecca Isaacs of the Equality Federation.

“Despite that challenge, over 20 towns and municipalities passed non-discrimination ordinances, some in the most unexpected places. These wins, along with historic LGBT visibility, speak to the tenacity of our advocates all across the country, many of whom donate their time to achieve fairness and equality.

The MEI is an important tool for our movement that illustrates our successes and the work ahead of us.

We will not stop until all Americans have a fair opportunity to provide for themselves and their families, free from the scourge of discrimination."

“Now that Virginia has gained the freedom to marry, we are among a handful of states where LGBT people can marry the person they love, but can still be fired at work based on their sexual orientation or gender identity,” said Equality Virginia Executive Director James Parrish. “While Virginia’s Dillon rule challenges the work we can do at the ground level to protect LGBT employees by keeping the power in the General Assembly, Equality Virginia encourages cities and counties to lead the way and build momentum, for example, by passing enumerated bullying policies, electing pro-equality leaders, and strengthening the relationship with the LGBT community.”

Route 134 Bridge Replacement Project York County Design Public Hearing Thursday, January 21, 2016, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Tabb Library (Across from the YMCA) 100 Long Green Boulevard, Yorktown, VA 23693 Find out about the proposed bridge replacement project for Route 134 over Brick Kiln Creek in York County.

Come and see the proposed project plans to rehabilitate the southbound bridge and replace the existing aging northbound bridge with a new bridge that meets current design standards on Route 134 over Brick Kiln Creek. The proposed bridges will have two 12-foot travel lanes with a 10-foot right shoulder and a 6-foot left shoulder in each direction.

Review the project information 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 addresses and will be available at the public hearing.

Give your written or oral comments at the hearing or submit them by February 1, 2016, to Mr. Samba Secka, P.E., Project Manager, Virginia Department of Transportation, 1700 North Main Street, Suffolk, VA 23434. You may also email your comments to Samba.Secka@VDOT.Virginia.gov. Please reference “Route 134 Bridge Replacement 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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VSU Athletics places seventh nationally in community service

VSU football student-athlete Trevon Byron reads to students in Chesterfield County’s Ettrick Elementary School/SUBMITTED

Virginia State University Athletics placed seventh among NCAA Division II programs in the recently completed NCAA Team Works Competition. The program is a national community service competition for NCAA DI, DII and DIII athletic departments and student-athletes. The competition recognizes schools for their outstanding commitment to volunteerism and community service. Over the course of the competition, which ran from September 1 to December 15, VSU student athletes engaged in 1,183 hours of community service.

“Once again, VSU student athletes served as shining examples of the University’s commitment to service,” said Athletic Director Peggy Davis. “The lessons our athletes learn from giving of their time to the community will last a lifetime.”

During the competition, VSU student-athletes delivered Thanksgiving dinners, collected and distributed canned goods to local food banks and visited local elementary schools, where they read to young students.

This recent honor represents the second time in a month that Virginia State University student-athletes have been recognized for achievements outside of athletic competition. In November, VSU was one of 27 NCAA Division II member schools honored with the Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence.

VSU tied for sixth in the NCAA Division II.

Senators ask how agency intends to make U.S. prescription drug prices lower Several U.S. senators, including both senators from Virginia, wrote a letter to the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to get more information on the agency’s efforts to inform consumers and health care providers about prescription drug costs.

They also want to maximize the agency’s existing authorities to contain that cost “In 2014 alone, spending on prescription drugs rose by 12.2 percent. Inevitably, these rising costs squeeze American household budgets as well as federal and state budgets, Medicare, Medicaid, and other public health care programs that use taxpayer dollars to pay for drugs,” wrote the senators. “There are numerous reasons why patients and health care payers are experiencing rising prescription drug costs and the solutions are not simple.”

The senators are asking for information on how the CMS expects to use its existing authority to improve transparency on drug pricing and bring down drug costs, including halting rising drug prices.

They also want a better understanding of how the agency can leverage information to better assess the effectiveness of treatments and make sure customers have better information on their options.

Per capita, spending of prescriptions increased by more than $100 last year.

Continue reading to see the text of the letter sent to CMS Acting Administrator Andrew Slavitt: “Dear Acting Administrator Slavitt: “We are writing to express our concern regarding rising prescription drug costs. In recent years, U.S. spending on prescription drugs has increased dramatically and is now growing at a rate faster than any other health care item or service. As our country focuses on advancing a health care system that delivers better care at lower costs for all Americans, high drug prices threaten the gains our country has made in this sector.

“Our pharmaceutical system, while not perfect, rewards innovation and incents drug developers to take on scientific uncertainty, enabling us

to cure diseases, improve patient quality of life, and avoid costlier medical treatments. Here in the United States Senate, we have consistently supported efforts to further public sector medical research and have worked to foster pharmaceutical innovation in the private sector. However, the choice between innovation and affordability is a false one. In 2014 alone, spending on prescription drugs rose by 12.2 percent. Inevitably, these rising costs squeeze American household budgets as well as federal and state budgets, Medicare, Medicaid, and other public health care programs that use taxpayer dollars to pay for drugs.

“There are numerous reasons why patients and heath care payers are experiencing rising prescription drug costs, and the solutions are not simple. We commend the Department of Health and Human Services Forum on Pharmaceutical Innovation, Access, Affordability and Better Health, but urge CMS to engage and collaborate with industry, patient groups, providers, and other relevant stakeholders to

chart a path to reducing drug costs moving forward. To that end, we are seeking answers to the following questions: “1 - What statutory authority, if any, does CMS have to limit the impact of rising prescription drug costs on consumers? Under what circumstances has CMS exercised this authority?

“2 - How does CMS plan to leverage the authority of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to examine the potential of alternative payment mechanisms, including examining methods to increase use of and access to competitive generic medications, and alternatives to the current ‘ASP+6%’ model?

“3 - A number of outside, independent organizations and researchers including the Patient‑Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) are assessing the comparative effectiveness of various treatments.

How can CMS use this information to

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(from page 14) improve beneficiary outcomes and lower program spending?

“4 - Current Medicaid drug pricing and policy infrastructure was designed for a fee-forservice environment.

How is CMS working with the states to ensure that coverage and costs remain reasonable for consumers, particularly as Medicaid moves towards a system of managed care?

“5 - How does CMS plan to evaluate new ways to empower consumers and healthcare providers to make informed decisions about the cost of the prescription medications available to them?

“6 - Within the individual private insurance market, an increasing number of consumers are enrolling in high-deductible plans. How does CMS plan to continue to use its regulatory authority to ensure consumer access to prescription drugs on the individual market?

“7 - The federal exchange represents a way for the federal

government to help consumers

compare drug costs, as well as enable them to compare coverage among plans. CMS recently enabled to consumers to access a tool allowing them to compare drug coverage and cost-sharing within individual plans. How does CMS plan to engage stakeholders to ensure that this and other tools reduce out-of-pocket drug costs for plan enrollees?

“As our health care system continues to foster innovation and move towards achieving the aims of better care, better health, and lower costs, we urge CMS to continue to ensure that consumers have access to affordable and consistent drug coverage.”

(from page 8) ‘That message of hope’ Another writer said it’s not enough not to fall into fearful ways of thinking.

In fact, R. Kevin Johnson said, Christians are obligated to be living models of hope and compassion when the rest of society is consumed with fear.

“Christians are called to a better way of living out these days of turmoil, to a better way of service to others,” Johnson, a Baptist minister and chaplain at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, wrote in a Dec. 18 BNG Perspective piece.

Recently, he said that can be done by smiling at and greeting Muslims on the street — because they are definitely feeling the stares and ill-will coming at them from every corner.

“Treat everyone with respect and dignity because most of the time our fears are unfounded,” Johnson said.

“We are not called to a spirit of fear.”

And those Christians who say they are more concerned about winning souls to Christ should see the antiMuslim fervor in the nation as an opportunity to demonstrate what Christ’s love is really like, Johnson said.

“Christians are missing out on a fabulous opportunity to show the grace of God … and the nature of Christ,” he said.

Besides, the Bible is full of passages warning God’s people against being fearful, Tidsworth said.

In Christ’s birth narrative, he said, the angels assure there is no need for fear.

“Paul says God has not given us a spirit of fear,” Tidsworth said.

“God has helped people move through these kinds of things for centuries.”

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The LEGACY office will be closed on Dec. 30 at 1 p.m. through Jan. 1 for the holiday. We will re-open on Monday, Jan. 4 at 8 a.m.

Have a Happy New Year!

Looking Good: Fashion in Virginia, 1930-1970 is open through April 15 at the Virginia Historical Society (VHS). It is the first exhibition to be displayed in the new Susan and David Goode Gallery.

The exhibition explores 40 years of Virginia history through changes in clothing and accessories, the growth of consumer culture around key historical moments, American concepts of beauty, and what it means to be well dressed. Until the late 1950s, nearly all of the clothing worn by Americans was produced in the United States. Between 1949 and 1973, Virginia’s employment in the apparel industry grew by 174 percent. The exhibition explores the transformative decades of the midtwentieth century when Virginia women were both producers and consumers of fashion.

This exhibition is made possible through the generosity of the Lettie Pate Evans Changing Exhibition Fund and the Frances Lewis Women’s History Fellowship Fund.

Admission to the exhibition is free.

Back by popular demand, Edible Education invites you to the ever-creative Cooking Challenge competition at the Bryan Innovation Lab at The Steward School on Gayton Road in Henrico County.

This will be the fourth contest to occur over the last few years and we look forward to inviting some old competitors back, as well as welcome new culinary talents!

Teams will be formed based on number of participants and two of RVA’s top kid chefs, both students of Edible Education, will be among the five judges. The other three will be renowned chefs from the area.

Participant groups will be presented with a mystery basket of ingredients and will be monitored, but not guided, through their preparation and plating. The competition is open to children grades 3 – 8.

Light refreshments will be provided. Invite your family and friends to come watch. Space is limited. All participants and viewers must register at https://www. eventbrite.com/e/rva-kids-cookingchallenge-tickets-19996024648.

After the competition, participants will tune-in to Food Network’s “Chopped Junior” at 8 pm.

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Riverside Center for Excellence in Aging and Lifelong Health is offering the FAMILIES Program, a free, federally grant funded program to provide counseling support to caregivers of persons with dementia.

To determine if you are eligible for this program or to learn more, call Riverside Senior Care Navigation at 757-856-7030. Hours: MondayFriday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

The program is currently available to residents of James City County, York County, Newport News, Hampton, Poquoson, Williamsburg, Gloucester and Mathews.

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GRASP (GReat Aspirations Scholarship Program, Inc.) will provide free, financial aid assistance to include the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) on Mondays from 6-8 p.m. from January through March at the Belmont Library (3100 Ellwood Ave., Richmond.)

Call 804-527-7743 for more information or to schedule your hourlong appointment. More information is available at the GRASP website, www.grasp4va.org or www. richmondpubliclibrary.org.

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156-1223 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.

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A Mandatory Pre-bid Conference is scheduled at 11:00AM on Monday January 11, 2016 at American Theatre, 125 E Mellen St., Phoebus.

Seeking Proposals from Professional Offerors to provide Engineering Services for Citywide Bridge Inspections.

PRINT & DIGITAL AD SALES EXECUTIVE

For additional information, see our web page at http://www.hampton.gov/bids-contracts

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

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

Proven experience with print (newspaper) and/or digital (website) advertising sales Phone and one-on-one sales experience Effective verbal and written communication skills Familiarity with the Richmond and/or Hampton Roads Professional image Compensation depends on experience and includes a base pay as well as commission.

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

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

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A withdrawal of bid due to error shall be in accordance with Section 2.24330 of the Code of Virginia. All forms relating to these solicitations may be obtained from the above listed address or for further information call; (757) 727-2200. The right is reserved to reject any and all responses, to make awards in whole or in part, and to waive any informality in submittals.

Minority and Woman-Owned Businesses are encouraged to participate.

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