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DOJ embraces private prisons A protester displays a placard reading “Stop corporate greed.”

According to published reports, prison stocks surged immediately after Trump won the election in November, adding more than $1 billion in market value—so it’s not surprising that Session’s memo is already impacting the private prison industry.

In one of his first acts as attorney general of the United States, former U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions has reversed an Obama administration policy to reduce the reliance on private prisons.

In August 2016, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates sent a memo to the Federal Bureau of Prisons advising that the use of private prisons would be reduced given the declining prison population. Yates also cited an Inspector General’s report which found that private prisons lack the same level of safety, security and services as government-run facilities.

“Private prisons served an important role during a difficult period, but time has shown that they compare poorly to our own Bureau facilities,” Yates wrote.

The Bureau of Prisons began contracting with private prisons

about a decade ago to accommodate a ballooning prison population. Due to the Obama administration’s efforts to retool federal sentencing policies and other initiatives, the prison population began a steady decline.

Yet, the Trump administration has backtracked on that guidance, referencing the correctional system’s “future needs.”

“The (Obama administration) memorandum changed long-standing policy and practice, and impaired the bureau’s ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system. Therefore, I direct the bureau to return to its previous approach,” Sessions said in a recent letter to Thomas Kane, acting director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Sessions’ move was not unexpected.

Given Trump’s rhetoric about clamping down on criminals and

immigrants, the number of detained persons in the U.S. is likely to spike.

In fact, since Trump’s election, stocks of the two biggest private prison operators — CoreCivic (formerly known as Corrections Corp. of America) and Geo Group – have risen by 140 percent and 98 percent, respectively, according to CNN. Democrats and civil rights groups are decrying the retrenchment on private prisons.

“This is how our corrupt political and campaign finance system works.

Private prison companies invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and today they got their reward,” said former presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in a statement.

“At a time when we already have more people behind bars than any other country, Trump just opened the

floodgates for private prisons to make huge profits by building more prisons and keeping even more Americans in jail. Our job: invest in education and jobs, not jails and incarceration.”

Civil rights groups have long criticized the mix of profit and prisons.

“The reliance on for-profit private prisons by the federal government is an embarrassing and degrading stain on our democracy,” said the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in a statement in response to Sessions’ memo. “Neither private entities nor the state should expect to profit from the individual and societal failures that mass incarceration represents.”

As of December 2015, more than 22,000 federal inmates — or about 12 percent of the total — were in private facilities.The government started to rely on private prisons in the late 1990s due to overcrowding.

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News Primary for Virginia governor tests power of an anti-Trump campaign JONATHAN MARTIN Ask Lt. Gov. Ralph S. Northam, a Democrat, what defines this year’s race for governor in Virginia, and he does not mention President Trump. Ask the same question of former Representative Tom Perriello, Northam’s rival for the Democratic nomination, and he invokes the president in the first sentence.

“I think it’s fierce resistance to the kind of hateful politics Trump has represented and putting forward a better vision of how we’re going to build an inclusive economy,” Perriello said in an interview here last week, speaking after a town hall-style meeting that showed just how immersed he is in the administration’s mounting controversies and the swelling opposition movement.

The campaign for Virginia governor was already expected to offer insights about the political landscape: the first statewide election of the Trump era set in a state that both major parties’ presidential nominees contested last year. But by trying to nationalize the race and make it a referendum on the depth of opposition to Trump, Perriello has transformed the primary race into a test of whether the boiling liberal rage toward the new president can be harnessed to win a state campaign.

And if he is successful in bending an election that usually revolves around taxes, transportation and education toward the divisive occupant of the White House, he will have sketched out a new strategy for Democrats during the Trump administration that is sure to be mimicked in the party’s primary races in next year’s midterm elections.

That there is a competitive Democratic primary race here at all is unexpected. The nomination was thought to be Northam’s for the taking until Perriello made a surprise entry in January, vowing to make Virginia, the only Southern state that supported Hillary Clinton, “a firewall” against Trump.

Northam, the chosen successor of Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who is barred by law from seeking a second consecutive term, had locked up support from every major Democratic official in a state that is trending left.

But then Trump won in November, and Perriello saw his opening.

Addressing college students and local residents at his meeting, Perriello seemed to be just as focused on Washington and the new administration as he was on Richmond, the state capital. Perriello said Trump “ran the most viciously racist campaign of my lifetime,” and cited the president’s “trial balloon” about using the National Guard for deportations.

Perriello lamented that a speech

by Sen. John McCain, Republican of Arizona, warning about Trumpstyle nationalism had not gotten sufficient attention. He namedropped the newest liberal protest group, Indivisible, and won laughs with an in-joke about how the “paid protesters” Trump has talked so much about are “still waiting for their checks.”

Perriello entered the race before millions of protesters had flooded American cities in opposition to Trump, before demonstrations had broken out at airports across the country in response to his travel ban and before Democrats began seeing swelling turnouts at organizing meetings.

Lt. Gov. Ralph S. Northam of Virginia meeting last week with members of the Senate and House page program in Richmond. He maintains that voters in the Democratic primary race for governor care most about state, not national, issues. PHOTO: Chet Strange “A lot of the establishment said that I clearly didn’t get Virginia, that this was not a local issue that people expected from their governors,” Perriello said with evident satisfaction. “This was actually a matter of me having very much a sense of where Virginia voters were in terms of their concerns.”

It remains to be seen whether that claim is correct — the answer will come in the primary election on June 13. But if he is proved right, it will indicate that Trump-bashing is enough to transcend one’s own past apostasies on issues dear to the left in a Democratic primary race. And it will underscore how much this state has changed.

Scheduled in typically lowturnout elections the year after the presidential votes, Virginia’s primaries and conventions in governor’s races have been dominated by those engaged in politics, and particularly local and state government. So the issues discussed have largely been unique to Virginia, a history-drenched state with a healthy self-regard and a bipartisan commitment to business.

In Northam’s view, this year will continue in the same pattern.

“The most important thing for Virginia is our economy,” he said in an interview in his office adjacent to the State Capitol, highlighting the job gains the state has had under him and McAuliffe and outlining a message just as easily offered had Trump never left “The Apprentice.”

“If we’re not helping businesses grow and bringing in new business and new manufacturers to Virginia, then the rest of these things we like to talk about are not that important,” Northam said.

The two Democratic candidates are as stylistically different as their strategic calculations.

Northam, 57, could have been a candidate for governor here decades ago, before Virginia was transformed into a suburb-dominated and culturally diverse dynamo. The easygoing son of a judge who grew up across the Chesapeake Bay on the state’s rural Eastern Shore, Northam bears the state’s distinctive accent; a diploma from one of its venerated institutions, the Virginia Military Institute; and a direct connection to its painful history.

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(from page 2) alumni group visiting the Capitol, he noted that his parents had kept him enrolled in public schools after Virginia’s leaders reluctantly integrated under federal order.

“That’s something I’m very proud of,” he said.

Before being elected lieutenant governor, Northam was a state senator and, after a stint in the Army, had a pediatric neurology practice.

Perriello, 42, reflects a newer Virginia. The grandson of Italian immigrants, he was reared near Charlottesville, went to Yale and became a diplomat and social justice activist.

He speaks from the lexicon of modern-day liberalism — alluding to the “structural privileges” he enjoyed — and is plainly trying to position himself as the preferred candidate of the left.

Yet in the one term he served in the House before being swept out with the Tea Party wave of 2010, he took positions that have raised doubts

Tom Perriello, right, after a recent town hall-style meeting in Alexandria. He is trying to capitalize on Democrats’ anger with Trump in his bid for the nomination for governor.

PHOTO: Eric Thayer about his ideological consistency.

Representing a conservativeleaning district, Perriello received the endorsement of the National

Rifle Association in his re-election bid and supported an amendment to the Affordable Care Act barring insurance companies participating in the law’s exchanges from covering abortion.

He said he regretted accepting the N.R.A. endorsement and argued that the group had become an extremist organization in recent years.

It is not a very persuasive answer for some Virginia gun control advocates.

“That seems a little strange to me, because the N.R.A. now and the N.R.A. in 2007 are not a whole lot different, as far as I can tell,” said Peter Read, a Northam supporter whose daughter was killed in the mass shooting that year at Virginia Tech.

Perriello has also renounced his support for the abortion-related amendment to the health law, but he is far less nuanced now than he was earlier in his career about the issue generally.

When asked about abortion rights at the meeting, he said with no hesitation that he had “always been pro-choice.” But when he was in Congress, he boasted of having “rejected the labels pro-life and prochoice” and “drawing ire from both sides of this debate.”

Sensing a growing threat from Perriello’s effort to tap into the backlash against Trump, Northam is now on the attack.

“You can look at my record, the progressive Democratic values that I have believed in and fought for, versus someone who’s again kind of put his finger up in the air to see which way the wind is blowing,” Northam said, noting his role defending abortion rights in Richmond.

But the lieutenant governor has blemishes of his own in a Democratic primary race. He conceded that he had voted for George W. Bush in each of his presidential campaigns, explaining that he was an apolitical doctor at the time and now viewed his decision as “wrong.”

The race may ultimately be determined by whether Perriello can broaden the universe of voters who participate in the primary election beyond the 319,000 who voted in the last contested Democratic governor’s

race, in 2009.

He could receive a substantial boost were he to obtain the endorsement of former President Barack Obama, whom he developed a friendship with while in the House and whose State Department he served in until the end of last year.

McAuliffe broached the matter of the Virginia primary in a White House meeting with Obama shortly after. Perriello entered the race, and Obama was noncommittal, according to a Democratic strategist briefed on the conversation. Asked if Obama would wade into the race, his spokesman, Eric Schultz, said only that he would not rule it out.

But McAuliffe said there was “zero chance” the former president would intervene, and some of Obama’s advisers said privately that they doubt he would endorse Perriello.

In an interview in his office, now festooned with a “Make Virginia Great Again” cap, McAuliffe rather unconvincingly insisted that he was not irritated by Perriello’s bid. But the insurgent candidacy has upended the governor’s well-laid succession plans, potentially complicating a presidential run he is increasingly thought to be eyeing. (Asked if he wanted to be president, McAuliffe said, “I don’t know, I might.”)

The governor, however, said that because Virginia voters approve of his performance and are happy with the trajectory of the state, they will cast their ballots for continuity and support Northam.

“Yes, there’s this huge angst about Trump, but at the end of the day, Virginia voters care about Virginia,” McAuliffe said, citing education, job creation and “can I get on 66 or 495 or 95 or 64,” the state’s often-choked highways.

But other veteran Democrats here believe that the race, which polls show is fluid because neither candidate is well known, could become competitive.

And they have a theory why.

“I hate to see us just take advantage of the drama of the time and make a choice on that, as opposed to getting a solid governor,” said Ken Plum, a state legislator and former Virginia Democratic chairman who is backing Northam.

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State legislators pass bill to prohibit Virginia ‘sanctuary’ cities for immigrants JAKE WOOD CNS - Republican lawmakers in Virginia have showed their support of President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration agenda by passing related legislation of their own.

House Bill 2000, which prohibits any Virginia locality from adopting sanctuary policies, was initially defeated in the Senate after failing to report out of the Local Governments Committee. The bill was resurrected and reconsidered by the same committee, nearly a week after its initial defeat.

The committee passed HB 2000 in a 7-6 vote with a vote of approval from Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-24th, who did not vote when the bill was initially considered.

On the floor of the Senate, the bill faced yet more challenges.

After a lengthy debate, the initial vote in the Senate came in at a 20-20 tie, with Senate Majority Leader Thomas Norment, R-3rd, siding with Democrats and sending the vote to Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, who sided with his fellow Democrats.

Norment then immediately moved to reconsider the bill. He then voted with his Republican colleagues, and the bill passed along party lines at 21-19.

The bill, which states that “no

locality shall adopt any ordinance, procedure, or policy that restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law,” reinforces Trump’s promises to defund any city that has adopted sanctuary cities.

There are currently no sanctuary cities in Virginia.

Shortly after the vote, Northam was the target of Republican Ed Gillespie’s gubernatorial campaign.

“Lieutenant Governor Northam voted for sanctuary cities in the commonwealth,” Gillespie’s statement said. “Northam is out-ofstep with Virginians who believe that enforcing our nation’s long-standing immigration laws is common sense.”

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Left-lane dawdlers bill moves forward with lower fine NICK VERSAW CNS – Gov. Terry McAuliffe wants the General Assembly to reduce from $250 to $100 the fine in legislation that would punish motorists for driving too slowly in the left lane on Virginia highways.

Under current Virginia law, driving in the left lane at less than the normal speed of traffic is illegal except when passing or when it is deemed “otherwise impractical,” but there is no fine for failing to obey the law.

House Bill 2201, sponsored by a bipartisan team of legislators including Del. Israel O’Quinn, R-Bristol, Del. Kaye Kory, D-Falls Church, and Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, would change that.

O’Quinn said “left-lane bandits” have become a “particularly pervasive and ever-growing problem” on Virginia roadways. Supporters of

the bill say fining drivers for abusing the left lane would help decrease traffic congestion on Virginia’s highways and reduce accidents and road rage incidents.

The bill, which specified a fine of $250, was passed by both chambers of the General Assembly and sent to the governor for approval. Rather than sign or veto the legislation, McAuliffe recommended late last week that lawmakers amend the bill by lowering the fine from the $250 to $100.

On Saturday, the House voted 89-8 to adopt the governor’s recommendation. The Senate is expected to act on the matter when legislators return to the Capitol for a one-day session on April 5.

If the amendment fails to receive a majority vote in the Senate, the bill would return to the governor with the $250 fine, and he could sign or veto it.

Northam, also engaged in a gubernatorial campaign, accused Norment and Republicans of playing games.

“This is the sixth time Republicans pulled off this stunt in this General Assembly session,” Northam said in a statement in response to Gillespie. “Ed Gillespie and Richmond Republicans know there are no sanctuary cities in Virginia.

They want to demonize immigrants for political gain. I will stand up to Donald Trump and Ed Gillespie trying to scapegoat immigrants.”

Gov. Terry McAuliffe has promised to veto any bill that would restrict sanctuary policies

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Immigration enforcement police state is here You’re probably thinking that this is the point where Feb. 7: Muhammad Ali, Jr., I’ll take a break to blame returning to the US from Donald Trump. It isn’t. It’s a speaking engagement in the point where I’ll take a Jamaica, is detained for break to remind Americans two hours at Florida's Fort who’ve been voting for Lauderdale-Hollywood politicians who promise to International Airport and “secure the border” and other questioned about his name such authoritarian nonsense and religious beliefs. that THIS is exactly what they’ve been voting for.

Feb. 22: Passengers When advocating for the disembarking from a domestic libertarian position on (San Francisco to New York) immigration (“open borders,” flight at JFK airport are which also happens to have held up by US Customs and been the position Ronald Border Protection agents Reagan and George H.W. demanding their IDs. Bush both took in the 1980 Republican presidential Feb. 24: Jeffrey Tucker of primary debates) I usually the Foundation for Economic prefer to stick to the moral Education clears the usual argument. That argument, security checks at Hartsfield- put simply, is that where Jackson Atlanta Airport en peaceful people move to, route to Mexico. Then, while settle or work is nobody’s actually boarding the plane, business but theirs. he and the other passengers But there are practical on the flight are stopped by arguments against America’s U.S. Marshals demanding increasingly draconian that they submit to retinal immigration laws too. scans.

Enforcement is expensive but, THOMAS L. KNAPP

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fortunately, almost certain to be ineffectual (if it worked, severe economic downturn would be the result).

The most important of the practical arguments, in my opinion, is that a police state built to persecute immigrants will necessarily persecute everyone else as well.

I’ve spoken with friends who traveled in the old Soviet Union and eastern Europe before the Berlin Wall came down. They see near-complete similarity between those regimes and the operations of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol forces.

The difference between pre-reunification East Germany and the 100-mile wide “constitution-free zone” along the U.S.-Mexico border is the flag the agencies in question salute. Recent administrations have worked to expand that zone to cover the entire country and the Trump administration seems

bent on finishing the job.

The near-total police state blossoming before our eyes is the inevitable result of America’s 70-year romance with the astoundingly stupid idea that it’s the government’s business to monitor and control who travels, lives and works where.

America had legally open borders for its first century as a nation, and nearly so for half a century after that. It wasn’t until after World War II that one even needed a passport to enter or leave the United States.

Open borders worked.

Freedom worked.

The subsequent seven decades of attempts at rigorous immigration control have irrefutably established that our choice is not between open borders and closed borders, but between immigration freedom or totalitarian government. And Americans' time to stop the stampede toward the latter is running short.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

The risk of patient bias

Do blacks have less sensitive nerve endings than whites?

It’s an outrageously racist question.

Yet in a recent survey, 14 percent of white second-year medical students answered yes. In that same survey, about 40 percent of white firstand second-year medical students expressed the belief that black patients have thicker skin than their white counterparts.

These findings point to an awful reality: Racial biases and misconceptions remain rampant in our health care system -- and medical schools aren’t doing enough to address the issue. The prejudice in our health care system is hazardous.

Addressing this hazard needs to start with medical educators.

Implicit bias -- the unconscious negative evaluation of a particular group -- can affect medical judgment.

Consider a 2008 Journal of the American Medical Association study, which found that black and Latino patients admitted to an emergency room with bone fractures or kidney stones are less likely to receive the recommended levels of painkillers relative to the average white patient.

Research from Harvard Medical School professor Joseph Betancourt shows that blacks are less likely than whites to receive kidney transplants.

And compared to the general male population, African American men with prostate cancer are less likely to receive chemotherapy and radiation.

America’s health care system provides a far different standard of care to minority patients, oftentimes for no discernible reason other than skin color. This form of prejudice isn’t just unfair; it’s potentially lifethreatening.

Since many of these attitudes are established long before physicians begin their careers, medical schools have a significant role to play in addressing the problem. The first step is to help students recognize their biases early.

Several medical schools are already making progress.

First-year medical students at University of California, San Francisco, for instance, participate in a workshop that begins with an implicit bias test to gauge attitudes about various identity groups.

Students at my own institution, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, engage in a variety of simulated interactions with patients of different races, socio-economic backgrounds, and sexual orientations. Based on these scenarios, students investigate how their unconscious biases affect their behavior.

Simulations and classwork can only do so much to change attitudes, of course. Medical schools need to provide students with frequent opportunities to engage with patients of different backgrounds.

NYIT’s medical students, for instance, participate in a free, monthly clinic in Central Islip, a lowincome town on Long Island with a large minority population.

Medical educators must also eliminate teaching materials that reinforce implicit biases. Such materials are remarkably common.

In fact, a report published earlier this year in Academic Medicine found that, in many medical school lectures, race is routinely discussed as a straightforward medical risk factor for certain conditions, not as a complex social concept.

Such a biological view of race not only bolsters destructive prejudices; it obscures the many ways in which social forces and biases can dramatically affect the health of minority patients.

What’s most important is that medical schools aggressively pursue new strategies for combatting implicit bias, and share their lessons with the larger healthcare community. Without a substantial effort to produce culturally competent, impartial medical practitioners, the lives of minority Americans will remain at risk.

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Not an option

Charles “Oak Tree” Oakley is my “homeboy” from Cleveland and a fellow VA Unionite. I have been a servant of the people and advocate for human and civil rights most of my adult life. What happened to Charles was unconscionable, unfathomable andunacceptable. He could easily have been another Eric Garner.

It appears to be a case of billionaire Knicks Executive Chairman James L. Dolan ordering Madison Square Garden security to eject the beloved Oak. A billionaire white male, that has animus toward Charles for being critical of Knicks’ decision making through the years, exercised his power as owner of MSG to have Oak, unceremoniously removed.

James Dolan like the 45th U.S. president expects everyone to worship and bow down to him or be crushed. It was worth it to Dolan to lose more fans, respect and money (lawsuit) to use a show of force to “put that n-word (Oakley) in his place.” Charles’ civil and human rights were violated before

20,000-people in MSG and before the world. He could easily have been hurt or killed as was Eric Garner in Staten Island.

What happened to Charles Oakley is a lesson for us all. Whether you are rich or poor, famous or infamous, light or dark skinned, African people have no rights which whites are bound to respect. We are all Michael Brown Jr., Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin & Charles Oakley. Bowing down is not an option!

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Promised accountability The Senate voted by the most narrow margin in its history to confirm a Secretary of Education who does not demonstrate a firm grasp on even the most basic education policy principles.

Since [Betsy] DeVos’ nomination, tens of thousands of my constituents have expressed serious concerns about her focus on charter schools and voucherizing federal education dollars. Educators and parents of students with special needs are rightfully concerned, as am I, about Ms. DeVos’ lack of understanding or even awareness of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. During her confirmation hearing, she demonstrated a similar lack of awareness of federal education policies related to campus sexual assault and school safety.

While I did not support Ms. DeVos’ confirmation, I intend to hold her accountable for serving our students’, teachers’, parents’, and school leaders’ best interests, and I look forward to looking for areas of agreement where possible.

Sen. Mark R. Warner

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Faith & Religion Faith leaders launch “Matthew 25 Pledge” A group of Christian faith leaders from across the country formally launched a new “Matthew 25 Pledge.” The pledge reads simply “I pledge to protect and defend vulnerable people in the name of Jesus” and has grown in response to rising fears among targeted, vulnerable populations including immigrants fearing deportation, people of color facing racial policing, and Muslims confronting rising

Islamophobia.

People who sign the pledge will have access to the website matthew25pledge.com and to resources, including toolkits, around the three initial issues of immigration, policing, and solidarity with Muslims. These issues have become flashpoints in a growing confrontation between church and state.

Recent events serve to make the

Kaine meets Pope Francis in Vatican City U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia), recently attended a general audience with Pope Francis in Vatican City and spoke with the Pope about the Holy See’s work to address the global refugee and migrant crisis.

“As the Pope stated so clearly, it is a ‘moral imperative’ to protect and defend the ‘inalienable rights’ of refugees and respect their dignity, especially by adopting just laws that protect those fleeing dangerous or inhumane situations,” said Kaine, who is a practicing Catholic.

“The bilateral relationship between the U.S. and the Holy See is tremendously important and the work we are doing together to address issues such as refugees, human trafficking, conflict resolution and reconciliation helps us advance peace in the world, as we try to end suffering and cooperate on issues of common good.”

launch of this initiative particularly timely. The Trump administration is rolling out new policies to crack down on immigration. A woman in Colorado, Jeannette Vizguerra, recently entered into sanctuary in a Unitarian Church; a woman in Arizona, Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, was deported unexpectedly; on Feb. 8, ICE agents targeted eight men outside a hypothermia shelter run

by Rising Hope United Methodist Church; and Daniel Ramirez Medina, among the first of the immigrants to obtain Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) from the government, was detained in Seattle.

The administration’s crackdown is causing a church response, the faith leaders said.

Election year racial rhetoric as well as key administration appointments to senior roles in the White House and the Department of Justice have raised serious doubts about the Trump administration’s commitment to eliminating racial bias in policing.

And news reports indicate that the administration will soon be releasing another travel ban that targets Muslim-majority countries as Muslims in America are fearing

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increased Islamophobia.

Leaders in the Matthew 25 Pledge movement held a press conference to highlight the pledge.

“New political policies and practices are creating a direct conflict between church and state. Some of the commands from the White House are directly at odds with the commands of Christ. If the government tells churches that they can’t help, assist, harbor, or welcome immigrants and refugees, they will be putting themselves in direct conflict with Christian ministries and preventing our religious liberty to express obedience to Christ,” Jim Wallis, president and sounder, Sojourners.

“Over the past 30 years, our immigration system has become increasingly ineffective, illogical and inhumane,” said Wallis. “We have brothers and sisters in our churches who are performing needed jobs or running productive small businesses, caring for their citizen children and contributing to our neighborhoods who are now terrified by new immigration policies that detain and deport them with the same energy and focus as ICE would

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Former ‘RPI Queen’ remembers role in integration Beatrice Wynn Bush decided to attend Richmond Professional Institute in 1966 because she was drawn to the theater department.

She liked its assortment of courses and knew the program would offer a strong foundation for her to pursue her already avid interest in acting.

However, she received a major shock when she stepped foot on campus.

The department had not yet been integrated. She would be its first black student.

“When I figured that out, I got a little worried,” she said. “I wasn’t sure how it was going to work out.”

Bush’s experience was not an uncommon one. Integration at RPI and other similar institutions was not an instant or even swift event. Barriers deteriorated over time rather than being demolished all at once. RPI first admitted black students in 1951, as did the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University’s other predecessor, but 15 years later academic pockets throughout the school remained all-white.

Bush, who spent her freshman year at Hampton University, quickly shrugged off her surprise and began to excel in her coursework. She also thrived socially. She became close with her fellow theater students and professors, who she said looked out for her with the protective instincts of parents. It was with the support of her theater peers that Bush would soon stun the campus, bringing national attention to herself and RPI. On a predominantly white Southern campus in the midst of the slow grind of integration, Bush became the first black student ever selected queen of the Harvest Ball, RPI’s annual formal dance. Her crowning would attract news coverage across the United States.

Bush recently remembered her role in VCU’s past with pride and fond memories.

“It’s definitely had a lasting impact on me,” Bush said. “I went to RPI never imagining that I would have that type of attention. It ended up being a remarkable situation. The part that really sticks out to me is the way that the department rallied

Beatrice Wynn Bush stands in front of Shafer Street Playhouse, where she spent much of her time as a drama student. PHOTO: Allen Jones around me. My classmates were overjoyed for me. And I’m still friends with a lot of them today.”

A candidate for queen Mary Anne Moorman was one of Bush’s fellow theater students.

Moorman had attended a private high school in Roanoke that formed when her local public school was integrated, and she had only attended class with other whites before Bush’s arrival at RPI. In fact, she had never been in a peer relationship of any kind with a black person. Her background was not unusual among Bush’s first classmates.

Moorman said Bush, or “Bea” as her friends called her, made it easy for her white classmates to set aside any awkwardness or ingrained prejudices. Bush was quick to smile and had a gentle personality with

a rich sense of humor. Moorman remembers frequently sitting with Bush and other students, drinking coffee and telling “stupid” jokes that would send them all into hysterics.

The group bonded over a shared passion for theater and performance.

“We were a very tight-knit group of people,” Moorman said. “We thought that we had a calling and Bea was right there with us.”

Bush encountered classmates whose generations-old ties to racist beliefs and practices were beginning to loosen, if slowly. The civil rights movement had proved eye-opening for many of them and the social upheaval of the late 1960s was entering its crescendo. “It was a time when it felt like the world was really changing,” said Lynn West, another of Bush’s classmates.

“Some of us were beginning to understand the reality that we had

been entitled to some things that other people hadn’t been,” Moorman said.

In that atmosphere, Bush’s fellow theater students, led by Charles Massey, started a groundswell to elect Bush as the 1966 Harvest Ball queen. First, they voted to make Bush the official nominee of the theater club, an honor that astonished Bush at the time. Bush’s photo was subsequently placed at a central location with the other campus clubs’ nominees.

“When that picture went up, there were people who were shocked to see it there.”

“That was a big deal,” Moorman said. “When that picture went up, there were people who were shocked to see it there.”

Then the campaign began. The

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(from page 10) queen was selected by popular vote.

Classmates canvassed campus to seek support for Bush. “Everybody in the department jumped behind her,” West said. “We thought we had a chance to do something special.”

Moorman was in charge of going door to door in her dorm at Monroe Terrace. Most of the students she encountered were open to Bush’s nomination, but she said a small percentage responded with harsh, racially charged language.

Someone complained about Moorman’s efforts, and she was called into a dean’s office to discuss “disrupting” students in their rooms. Afterward, the dorm’s house manager asked Moorman what the meeting had been about. When she told her, the woman replied, “Keep disrupting.”

Moorman emphasizes that the theater students’ efforts were not driven by a sense of fighting against something but rather fighting for something. It also was not about seeking a symbolic victory. First and foremost, it was about Bea. “She was our friend,” Moorman said.

Bush herself stayed clear of the campaigning, though she knew her classmates were continuing to advocate for her. Because of their work on her behalf, she said, “I felt embraced.” Perhaps her favorite memory from the experience was meeting her classmates in the heady aftermath of learning of her election victory.

“I remember when I came to the theater that night all of the students were on the steps out front shouting and carrying on,” Bush said. “I couldn’t believe it. Everyone was just ecstatic.”

Moorman remembers a scene that was “electric” with students hugging each other and cheering and even crying. “She was our queen, and we were thrilled to be her loyal subjects,” she said.

“It was so joyful. It felt like some kind of turning point to us.”

News spreads of the coronation A story about Beatrice Wynn Bush appeared on the cover of the Prospcript, the RPI student

A story about Beatrice Wynn Bush appeared on the cover of the Prospcript, the RPI student newspaper, after the Harvest Ball. newspaper, after the Harvest Ball.

A story about Beatrice Wynn Bush appeared on the cover of the Prospcript, the RPI student newspaper, after the Harvest Ball.

The Harvest Ball itself was held at the John Marshall Hotel on Nov. 22.

Bush was not allowed to be escorted

by Massey or any of the other white students from the theater program.

Instead, a black student named Jeff Parker was recruited to serve as her escort.

Bush’s mother attended the dance, watching from a balcony, and Bush remembers having a great, glamorous time. West said theater students typically were not the type to go for fancy balls, embracing the role of campus misfits, but they made a point of sending a large group to that year’s event. The theater club’s treasury helped pay for tux rentals.

Bush danced with her fellow students — both white and black — and was very much the center of attention.

It was only the beginning. The Richmond Times-Dispatch ran a photo the next day of Bush and CBS

national TV news came to town to interview her for a segment. She also was featured in Jet magazine dancing with Massey. In addition, a small news item circulated via the wire to outlets around the country and was picked up from coast to coast.

People from around the United States wrote letters to Bush in care of the theater department to congratulate her on the recognition.

Some even sent flowers. Many praised her as a source of inspiration.

Bush and other theater students would gather before class to read through the day’s new mail together.

“The letters were really uplifting and encouraging,” Bush said.

A highlight was a dispatch she received from a former high school classmate serving in the military in the Vietnam War. He’d been feeling especially lonely, he wrote to her, until he read about her honor in the Stars and Stripes newspaper and his mood transformed.

“He couldn’t believe it,” she said. “He was so excited to see my name there.

He said he started yelling, ‘This is my classmate. I know her.’”

Although most of the letters were laudatory, Bush remembers one negative letter — a nasty one from Texas that used a racial epithet — that bothered her. More frighteningly, someone burned a small cross in the grass in front of the theater department. Bush said the culprit was never found, but she remembers the local KKK chapter denying responsibility for it.

“We were all upset about it,” she said. “But it happened. That was the only negative reaction in the city that I was aware of.”

Eventually, the excitement would fade and Bush and her classmates would return to simple student life.

Bush graduated in 1969, part of the inaugural class of VCU graduates (RPI and MCV came together in the summer of 1968 to become VCU).

“I remember all of the theater students saying they weren’t going to go the ceremony,” Bush said with a laugh. “And then everyone was there.”

A teacher and actress Bush’s first job was teaching in the Richmond public school system, but

she would return to VCU in 1972 to serve as director of student activities for four years. She remains proud of the work she did at her alma mater, especially helping to bring in “fabulous entertainment.” She particularly remembers a show she organized at Dogwood Dell featuring Fleetwood Mac and Cannonball Adderley that she was told was the first outdoor concert ever held in a Richmond city park.

Bush later resumed teaching high school theater and spent more than 20 years at Thomas Jefferson High School. In 1999, she was honored as the Richmond Public Schools Teacher of the Year.

“I wouldn’t exchange teaching for anything,” Bush said. “It’s a great feeling to help students realize their talents. And the arts are important in our schools. They do so much good.”

All the while, Bush kept acting, a love that has hooked her since her debut appearance in a third-grade play. She has been a regular on local stages, particularly in works for the Barksdale Theatre, and had her own production company for a while.

She also has appeared in a number of films, including “Ironclads,” “The Vernon Johns Story,” “The Patriot” and “Once Upon a Time … When We Were Colored,” among others.

Bush today works not only in film and TV — she is currently serving as an extra on the AMC series “Turn” — but as an actress and voiceover artist in corporate videos and other productions. Her work in that realm includes playing the part of Rosa Parks for a video about the civil rights giant’s life that airs at the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.

Looking back today, Bush sees her time at RPI as life-changing.

She arrived at the school with the goal of becoming a better actress and earning a college degree. She accomplished both, all while making a little history and becoming a permanent part of VCU lore.

“You just never know,” Bush said. “You set out with goals and aspirations, but a lot of things happen that you don’t expect to happen. Sometimes they can be great.” © VCU NEWS

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Building dedicated in honor of civil rights pioneer The building where Virginia politicians plotted to close public schools rather than integrate was renamed last week in honor of the young black girl who defied and ultimately defeated them.

Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she led a walkout of students at her segregated high school in the town of Farmville in 1951 to protest poor conditions. Black students had to wear coats and build fires in the little tar-paper shacks in which many of their classes were held.

Long before the civil rights movement of the next decade, Johns’s case became a major component of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, a ruling that declared racial segregation in public schools to be illegal.

Johns died in 1991, but on Thursday Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) officially renamed the Ninth Street office building the Barbara Johns Building.

“In seeing an injustice, she decided to do something about it. She stood up for what she believed, and she made a difference,” Johns’s younger sister, Joan Johns Cobbs, said at the dedication ceremony. “She has made us so proud of her. I wish she could’ve been able to experience what is happening to her today.”

Cobbs addressed an audience of about 200 in the building’s lobby, a large portrait of her sister in cap and gown to one side. High above the polished marble floors were stained glass skylights bearing the crest of the old Hotel Richmond, the building’s name in the 1950s and ’60s.

In those days, it was the unofficial headquarters of the Byrd machine, which produced a string of governors who followed Harry F. Byrd Sr. and held court in one of the hotel’s ballrooms. A statue of Byrd stands just across the street on Capitol Square.

When Johns’s case prevailed — championed by lawyers Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson III and Thurgood Marshall — Virginia responded with massive resistance, closing public schools rather than

Roderick Johns, brother of civil rights activist Barbara Johns, holds a photo of his sister during the dedication of the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial at the Capitol in Richmond on July 21, 2008. PHOTO: Steve Helber letting blacks and whites attend together.

Cobbs said she felt fear in those days that the Ku Klux Klan would take her sister away. But Barbara, she said, never backed down. She read a long passage from her sister’s diary, in which Barbara Johns described the confusion and sense of injustice she felt as a young girl in such shabby school facilities.

After a teacher challenged her to do something about it, Johns fantasized about a great storm blowing down her school and a rich man building a new one. Chopping wood, sitting by a stream and in bed at night, Barbara Johns turned the problem over and over in her mind.

One night, after missing her school bus and seeing the white students’ bus whiz by without stopping, Johns had an epiphany: The students would go on strike.

Even then, as she dreamed of

defiance, the young girl had a naive faith that everything would work out fine. “They would sympathize with our plight and would grant us a new school building and it would be grand,” Cobbs read from her sister’s words.

Instead, there were years of struggle. Prince Edward County eventually shut down its public schools for five years, depriving a generation of black students of an education while whites went to a new private academy.

Johns herself faded from view for a time but is enjoying new fame as state officials highlight her as the kind of hero Virginia loves — the first to do something historic.

“And I remind everybody, think of the times,” McAuliffe said at the ceremony. “This was before Little Rock Nine, this was before Rosa Parks, this was before Martin Luther King. This was a 16-year-old girl who

said, ‘We will not tolerate separate and unequal.’ ” Today the Johns building, renovated over the past three years at a cost of $46 million, houses the offices of state Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D). His chief deputy, Cynthia E. Hudson, hosted the dedication ceremony.

Hudson said that as an African American, her own presence was a tribute to Johns, “to whom I am personally indebted for her role in making it possible for me to speak to you today. . . . And quite frankly, to whom we’re all personally indebted for helping to change the course of our state’s and our nation’s history.”

The renovation was aimed at restoring the building’s former grandeur, but there have been changes. Three new words now top the front windows that look out toward the Byrd statue: Equality.

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Norfolk and Portsmouth residents sign up for toll relief More than 2,000 Norfolk and Portsmouth residents have been approved to receive financial assistance for Elizabeth River Tunnels tolls beginning March 1. Toll Relief, the first program of its kind in the nation, offers a 75-cent per

trip refund to qualified Norfolk and Portsmouth residents who frequently travel through the Downtown and Midtown tunnels.

“We’ve put into place a long-term, sustainable Toll Relief program that will offer financial assistance to

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“I know children running from lifethreatening violence in El Salvador that are now priority targets. Jesus is standing by them, grieving with them, seeking justice; we who are His Body must follow. The Matthew 25 pledge is a way to stand up together in His name.”

Rev. Alexia Salvatierra, of Faith Rooted Organizing UnNetwork, said that as Christians, their primary allegiance is not to partisanship or political power but to the Gospel.

“The Gospel calls us to speak up for the vulnerable,” said Salvatierra.

“The Matthew 25 imperative compels me to do so with civility and conviction and I can do no other."

Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero, president, National Latino Evangelical Coalition, is also part of the pledge.

“Now is the time for faith leaders to address the fear of the vulnerable in our nation,” he said. “Regrettably, thousands of men, women and children in our nation are in crisis because of the Administration's travel ban, change in immigration deportation enforcement along with a prevailing sense of despair in many Muslim, Jewish and immigrant communities that do not feel welcomed in our nation. In light of this, it is imperative that Christfollowers stand and defend the rights and well-being of these individuals.

That is why the Matthew 25 Pledge is crucial to embrace. Our faith demands this action!”

Noel Castellanos, president, Christian Community Development Association, said the Matthew 25 Pledge aligns “organically” with the Progressive National Baptist Convention, for it is codified in the convention’s mission statement to be

Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner “a voice for the voiceless.”

For nearly 56 years, the PNBC has made protecting and defending the vulnerable its core raison d’etre, just as Jesus did. There is no gospel where there is no good news to the least, the lost and the left out,” he said.

Dr. Timothy Tee Boddie, general secretary, Progressive National Baptist Convention, said the greatness of America will always be rooted in how the nation cares for the Matthew 25, “least of these” and Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, National African American Clergy Network, said that because their American Muslim neighbors are experiencing “unprecedented amounts of hate right now, in popular and political rhetoric, in legislative moves, and in the rise in hate crimes”, this is a time when American Christians (along with other communities) “need to be standing up and showing what it means to live out the values and message of Jesus in our own contexts.

“We need to do this with our words, as well as with our actions, in conversation and relationship with the American Muslims in our communities,” she said. “The Matthew 25 Pledge helps us to do just that.”

Norfolk and Portsmouth residents who need it the most,” said Gov. Terry McAuliffe. “After the previous administration negotiated the terrible deal that resulted in high tolls for Virginia commuters, this administration has taken every step it can to alleviate that burden. We first lowered tolls on the Downtown and Midtown tunnels. We then eliminated them altogether on the MLK Freeway Extension. And now, our toll relief program will offer much-needed assistance to many Norfolk and Portsmouth residents. ” Elizabeth River Crossings (ERC), operators of the Elizabeth River Tunnels, has agreed to pay the Commonwealth $500,000 a year for 10 years to fund the Toll Relief Program.

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“We’re bringing about real, meaningful relief to those individuals hardest hit by Elizabeth River Tunnels tolls,” said Deputy Secretary of Transportation Grindly Johnson.

“The cost of tolls can be a financial burden, and many people need assistance. I’m pleased we’re now able to offer this program that will ease tolling impacts on Norfolk and Portsmouth residents who travel the Downtown and Midtown tunnels.”

To qualify for Toll Relief, participants must reside in Norfolk or Portsmouth, earn $30,000 or less per year, and have or open a Virginia E-ZPass account.

Once a qualified participant’s Virginia E-ZPass transponder has recorded eight trips or more through the Downtown or Midtown tunnels during a calendar month, a 75-cent per trip refund will be credited to his or her Virginia E-ZPass account.

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ACLU, civil rights groups, speak against Va. GOP-bills against sanctuary city policies AUDREY JORDAN CNS - Just one day after the release of new government documents detailing President Trump’s plan for aggressive new immigration enforcement policies, the Virginia General Assembly adopted a bill banning localities from adopting sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants that restrict the enforcement of federal laws in the floor session Feb. 23, 2017.

The ACLU and other civil rights organizations warned of the detrimental effects of introducing anti-immigration legislation on both the state and federal level in a news conference at the General Assembly building the previous day.

Michelle Larue, Virginia Director of CASA, an advocacy organization for struggling immigrants, urged Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe to veto proposed anti-immigration legislation.

“These bills do nothing but instill fear and anxiety in our community and will effect all Virginians,” Larue said at the news conference.

Larue and the members of other advocacy groups referenced legislation such as Del. Charles Poindexter’s (R-Glade Hill) HB 2000, which passed the Senate, then returned to the House after an amendment and was also passed.

Del. Nicholas Freitas (R-Culpepper) voted in favor of Poindexter’s bill, saying that while the federal government does need to change its immigration laws, the state has a duty to protect its citizens. He urged the need to better enforce current policies to ensure the safety of citizens and legal immigrants.

“If you’re going to to create an environment that is a sanctuary city, regardless of what you call it, well then on some level you need to be responsible for the negative aspects that accompany that kind of policy,”

Freitas said.

In the floor session on Feb. 23, Del. Alfonso Lopez (D-Arlington) argued that federal burden should not be placed on local jurisdictions. He warned that adopting the bill would “send the worst kind of message about Virginia” and urged his fellow delegates to vote against it.

“Let’s be clear. This bill is dogwhistle politics at it’s best, created to stoke fear of the other and the idea that those who are different, immigrants and new Americans, well you’re unwelcome,” Lopez said.

Del. Robert G. Marshall (R-Prince William), who is the Chief Patron of another piece of immigration legislation, spoke on the opposition to bills like HB2000 from McAuliffe and Democrats, like Lopez.

Marshall specifically referred to former President Obama’s 2014 Secure Communities Program that prioritized deporting undocumented immigrants who broke the law over

those who did not.

“The Trump administration has adopted polices of secure communities. I don’t recall the governor objecting to that,” Marshall said. “I don’t recall the gentleman from Arlington getting on the floor and denouncing president Obama for his cruelty, for his xenophobia.”

HB 2000 is just one of several pieces of GOP-backed legislation meant to crack down on illegal immigration that are gaining momentum in the Virginia House and Senate. Marshall’s HB1468 would extend jail and prison sentences for crimes committed by illegal immigrants for up to two days to give federal immigration officials more time to pick them up.

His bill was adopted after passing the House Feb. 17, and currently awaits action by McAuliffe who has vowed to veto any anti-immigration legislation.

D.C. authorizes medical aid in dying; joins 6 other states

The District of Columbia’s medical aid-in-dying bill, the D.C. Death with Dignity Act, took effect recently, because opponents failed to get the support necessary in Congress to stop the bill from becoming law.

The Death with Dignity Act was transmitted by the D.C. Council to the House and Senate on Jan. 6 for a 30-legislative-day review period under the Home Rule Act. H.J. Res 27, which would have overturned the D.C. Death with Dignity Act, stalled without a floor vote in either house.

Though Congress could still vote to overturn the law or try to defund it, overriding D.C.’s laws becomes more difficult after they go into effect.

Jessica Grennan, national director of political affairs and advocacy for Compassion & Choices, the end-oflife choice advocacy organization that helped pass the law, lauded the bill.

“We are celebrating that the District of Columbia has become the 7th jurisdiction to authorize medical

aid in dying for terminally ill people,” said Grennan. “The advocacy of D.C. residents and local officials is what won this victory. Democracy conquered the personal mindsets of paternalistic politicians whose opinions should not get in the way of people getting the medical relief they want and need.

“We will continue to monitor Congress for attacks on D.C. or any of the six other states where medical aid-in-dying is authorized: California, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont.

“And while it is true that opponents want to defund and overturn the law, no funding is required for the law to go into effect. Terminally ill patients can now legally get medical aid in dying in the District of Columbia.

Doctors may now prescribe appropriate medications under the law without fear of prosecution.

We urge anyone who is eligible and considering this option to make the

Jose Garcia Flores, 60, listens to Dr. Carin van Zyl as she explains that chemotherapy might not be an option to treat his colon cancer. request of their doctor right away, since we cannot predict whether or when this right may be stripped away by Congress.”

In California, Dr. Carin van Zyl said she has heard terminally ill patients beg to die. They tell her they can’t handle the pain, that the nausea is unbearable and the anxiety overwhelming.

If she were in the same situation, she too would want life-ending medication, even though she doubts she would ever take it. “I would want an escape hatch,” she said.

In 2015, California law became the fifth — and largest — state to allow physicians to prescribe lethal medications to certain patients who ask for it.

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Leon W. Russell replaces Brock as NAACP chair The NAACP elected Leon W. Russell as chairman of the Board of Directors at its recent annual board meeting in New York. He replaces Roslyn M. Brock, who decided to step down as chairman after seven years of leadership.

“I am honored to have served seven years as chairman of the nation’s most important civil rights group,” said Roslyn M. Brock, NAACP chair of the Board since 2010. “Leon W. Russell is a stalwart NAACP civil and human rights leader who is prepared to lead the NAACP into the future. Mr. Russell has been the chief architect in the development of the NAACP’s strategic plan and champion of its organizational policy and resolutions process. His commitment to the Association’s mission of protecting civil rights for all Americans remains unquestioned.”

Brock who succeeded the late chairman emeritus and civil rights icon H. Julian Bond in 2010 has been an advocate for social justice and the reintegration of young people into key aspects of the organizational planning and policy objectives. She served as the fourth woman and youngest individual elected to the position of chairman in the organization’s history. In honoring According to the NAACP, Brock has leadership and a 32-year volunteer service to the NAACP. She was elected chair emeritus by the Board and presented with an NAACP Image Award. Brock was also re-elected to a three year atlarge term on the Board of Directors and will support the new Board leadership with health care reform, youth leadership recruitment and engagement and external relations.

“Roslyn M. Brock will forever be noted in the legacy of the NAACP as a powerful and forward-thinking leader. We are forever indebted to her contributions and unrelenting commitment,” said NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks.

“I am proud to welcome Leon W. Russell as the new chairman of the NAACP board. His lifelong commitment to civil rights and human rights as a member of the

Leon W. Russell NAACP and leader in the state of Florida, represent a rigorously solid foundation for taking the platform of social justice to greater heights. I cannot think of a better successor to the stewardship of the organization than Mr. Russell.”

Russell most recently served as vice chair of the board and has been a board member for over 27 years.

He served as president of the Florida State Conference of Branches of the NAACP from 1996-2000, after serving for 15 years as the frst vice president. He is also the former assistant secretary of the board and the former director of the Office of Human Rights for Pinellas County Government, Clearwater, Fla. from 1977-2012, where he was responsible for implementation of the county’s human rights and affirmation action ordinances.

“This is a most prestigious, yet humbling honor and one that escalates in importance as we move into a new era of increased challenges against civil and human rights,” said Russell. “I am indebted to the work and leadership of Chairman Emeritus Brock and President Brooks for inheriting a powerful organization that after 108 years, still remains the most relevant and influential civil rights organization in our nation.

“I assure you that I will keep

watered the seeds of activism and social justice that the NAACP’s legacy spouts from,” he said.

The recipient of numerous civic awards and citations, Russell was also elected for two terms as the president of the International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies. The IAOHRA represents civil rights agencies from the U.S. and abroad responsible for enforcing state and local civil rights laws and the promotion of inter-group relations.

He is also a member of the International City Management Association; the National Forum for Black Public Administrators; the Board of Directors of the Children’s Campaign of Florida; past Board Member of the Pinellas Opportunity Council, past President, and Board Member of the National Association of Human Rights Workers; and the Blueprint Commission on Juvenile Justice with responsibility for

recommending reforms to improve the juvenile justice system in Florida.

The 64-member board also elected Mississippi NAACP State President Derrick Johnson as the board’s vicechairman to replace Russell.

“I look forward to working in partnership with Chairman Russell in advancing the agenda of the Association” said Johnson. “It is an honor to serve the hardworking volunteers who sacrifice daily to make Democracy work for all.”

Johnson currently serves as state president of the Mississippi NAACP and as executive director of One Voice Inc. A former Mel King Community Fellow with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Johnson also serves on the Board of Directors of the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, and as an adjunct professor at Tougaloo College.

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