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During this election season, black political power still not fully realized Jennifer L. Patin NEWS ANALYSIS

TEWire - Some will reflect on 2015 as a year of renewed civil rights mobilization. Whether catalyzed by the loss of black lives, restrictive state voting laws challenged in court by black voters and their advocates, or the golden anniversaries of Bloody Sunday and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, many of this nation’s black communities demonstrated deep dissatisfaction with how poorly institutions and elected leaders are representing their interests.

This is not new. Black Americans share a history of organizing to advocate for their rights. Yet more than 50 years have passed since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously declared that “we can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote,” and too many African-Americans continue to question whether or not they should vote.

Here is the blunt truth: a voter who sits on the sideline of any election— whether a local school board race or a major presidential race—forfeits their single best opportunity to put a candidate who represents their interests in a position to make key decisions.

Diversity among state-level officials—not just diversity of race, but of experience, background, interests, and priorities—is critically important. A more diverse body of elected officials is likely to expand

the pool of perspectives influencing state-level decisions, even if it does not guarantee immediate societal changes.

Local elected officials directly impact the everyday lives of those in the black communities they serve, yet minorities are underrepresented in state-level offices. For example, the majority of states have an attorney general who influences law enforcement priorities and a secretary of state who is the primary official in charge of elections. Data from the Joint Center for Political

and Economic Studies show there were only three black attorneys general and three black secretaries of state elected between 1995 and 2013.

In states where the elected governor appoints those officials, there were none.

However, the lone black governor elected during the same eight-year period—Massachusetts’ Deval Patrick—appointed more than 200 black officials to various state-level positions, bringing unprecedented diversity to the Massachusetts government, in a state where just

7.8 percent of the population is black according to the 2010 U.S. Census.

Meanwhile, in Florida, a state where 17 percent of the population is black, more than 20 percent of the black voting-age population disenfranchised because of policy changes supported by Attorney General Pam Bondi that make it harder for Floridians with previous felony convictions to restore their voting rights. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted cut the state’s early voting schedule in 2014, even after

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INSIDE: Government awards wrongfully-convicted man

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$13.2 million awarded to man wrongfully convicted based on faulty hair matches

Santae A. Tribble, right, seen with his son Santae Tribble Jr. in 2011, served 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit due to a flawed hair analysis by the FBI. PHOTO: Mark Gail A D.C. Superior Court judge has ordered the District government to pay $13.2 million to Santae A. Tribble, who was jailed for 28 years after being wrongfully convicted of killing a Southeast Washington taxi driver in 1978.

The award Friday brings to $39 million the damages amount the city has been ordered or agreed to pay over the past year to three District men wrongly imprisoned for decades.

They were convicted at trial through exaggerated claims about the reliability of FBI forensic hair matches, a pattern uncovered by the D.C. Public Defender Service and featured in a series of published articles.

Tribble, 55, was exonerated in 2012 after DNA testing revealed that he could not have contributed hairs found in a stocking near the scene of the crime, in which the attacker reportedly wore a stocking mask. At trial, an FBI examiner testified that

the hairs microscopically matched Tribble’s, and prosecutors suggested to the jury that it would be a “1 in 10 million” coincidence if the hairs came from someone else. The jury convicted him in January 1980.

Tribble and his son walk in the block 3100 of Massachusetts Avenue SE, where the elder Tribble was arrested and wrongfully convicted at age 17. (Mark Gail/The Washington Post) Tribble’s case and the others helped trigger a federal review that in April disclosed that FBI examiners systematically overstated testimony in nearly all hair match cases against criminal defendants for two decades before 2000.

Based on that finding, the Justice Department on Wednesday announced that it will look at trial transcripts from cases involving other FBI Laboratory units for similar “testimonial overstatement.”

Tribble’s “journey of injustice

subjected [him] to all the horror, degradation, and threats to personal security and privacy inherent in prison life, each heightened by his youth, actual innocence, and life sentence,” D.C. Superior Court Judge John M. Mott wrote in a 48-page opinion Friday.

“Mr. Tribble’s ordeal did not merely deprive him of his liberty in a constitutional sense — it ruined his life, leaving him broken in body and spirit and, quite literally, dying,” Mott wrote. The judge’s opinion cited Tribble’s imprisonment at age 17 and attributed his severe depression, heroin addiction, HIV and hepatitis to his incarceration.

Mott awarded Tribble compensatory damages of $400,000 for each year jailed; $956,000 in lost wages; $412,000 in medical expenses; and $100,000 for each year since his release and through 2019.

By 2019, medical experts testified, Tribble is expected to die from his advanced diseases.

Tribble, who lives in the Washington area near his son, grandson and brother, was unavailable for comment, his attorneys said. Mott’s opinion stated that Tribble is destitute and suffers from liver failure and cognitive impairment, among other ailments.

Nick Brustin, whose firm represented Tribble, said in a statement Friday that Tribble “continues to suffer after enduring so much and remains angry, but today is an important day for him and his family.”

Sandra K. Levick, chief of the D.C. Public Defender Service’s special litigation division whose work exonerated Tribble, said: “This is bittersweet. As Judge Mott eloquently writes, Mr. Tribble and his loved ones suffered so much. He more than earned this award.”

Robert Marus, a spokesman for D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D), declined to comment, including whether the city would appeal, saying, “We are just beginning to review the decision.”

In court filings, attorneys for the District acknowledged Tribble’s “terrible loss” in a “tragic” case.

Federal prosecutors did not oppose Tribble’s 2012 exoneration.

Racine’s office argued, however, that Tribble’s claims under the D.C. Unjust Imprisonment Act should be disallowed or offset because of nearly $1.4 million in damages that Tribble received from the U.S. government and argued against portions of his claims for wages, medical costs and damages.

Mott wrote that Tribble repeatedly was held in solitary confinement for stretches as long as nine months and described a 1999 prison transfer in which Tribble was “tasered, teargassed, and, at one point, held in four-point restraints and strapped to a concrete bed for four to five days, where he was forced to urinate and defecate on himself, all while in severe physical pain.”

Court-ordered DNA testing obtained by the public defender service confirmed that none of the 13 hairs retrieved from the crime scene stocking shared Tribble’s genetic profile or that of his alleged accomplice. Rather, the DNA testing found, the hairs came from three other human sources, except for one — which came from a dog — facts that FBI-trained examiners disputed or missed.

The daughter of John McCormick, the slain cabdriver, supported an exoneration for Tribble. Tribble’s is the third ­multimillion-dollar payout of its kind facing the District.

The District reached a $16.65

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Panel kills bill which would have hidden cops’ names from public requests RICHMOND (CNS) – After nearly an hour of debate, a legislative panel killed a bill that would have exempted law enforcement officers’ names and training records from the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. A subcommittee of the House General Laws Committee tabled Senate Bill 552 for the General Assembly’s current session. State officials plan to study the issue as part of a review of the state’s FOIA law.

FOIA allows any citizen to gain access to government documents, including names and salaries of public employees. Currently, personal information such as health records, home addresses, Social Security numbers and bank account information is exempt.

SB 552, proposed by Sen. John Cosgrove, R-Chesapeake, would have exempted the names and other information about police officers as well. Cosgrove said his measure sought to protect law enforcement officers.

“Once this information is received by a media outlet, a lawyer or

anybody, there’s no controlling that information anymore,” Cosgrove told the subcommittee. “Anybody can FOIA information. It can even be the council of MS-13,” or Mara Salvatrucha, a notorious criminal gang.

Speaking on the behalf of the Virginia Press Association, attorney Craig T. Merritt stressed the importance of transparency and emphasized the safeguards in existing law to protect police officers.

“The express purpose of this bill is to take away names produced in bulk – to take away the ability for the public to associate with individual officers with the information that you can get everybody else,” Merritt said.

“If you take all of the names out of the database, you can’t tell what a particular officer’s position is or what they’re being paid.”

Current Virginia law already exempts the identities of undercover officers, mobile phone numbers and tactical plans from FOIA. Several high-ranking law enforcement administrators and officers came to speak in support

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heroes who gave their lives to secure the franchise for AfricanAmericans, voters today should take every opportunity to exercise their fundamental right to the ballot.

Just imagine the impact if voters mobilized for every election the way they did in 2008 and 2012, when black voters elected and re-elected their overwhelming candidate of choice to the nation’s highest office.

Through increased turnout, black voters specifically can prove that one’s vote, from a small municipal election to a major presidential race, matters.

Patin is a researcher/writer for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law works to address restrictions on voters’ access to the polls—burdens that have increased since the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v.

Holder.

census data showed black voters in Ohio voted early at significantly higher rates than white voters during the past two presidential elections.

Still blacks overall do not vote at the same rate as the white majority.

Many factors contribute to this disparity: strict photo identification laws, cuts to early voting, and felony disenfranchisement, among others.

These barriers undoubtedly make it harder to vote, but they only tell part of the story.

Census data analyzed by Dr. Megan A. Gall of the Lawyers’ Committee found that in the 2014 election, only 21 percent of the black population reported voting. Of those who did not vote, more than 20 percent said that their vote would not make a difference, and another 37 percent said they were too busy to vote.

To honor the legacy and sacrifices of Dr. King, and of so many other

of the bill. Kevin Carroll, president it could not have been because of a of the Virginia Fraternal Order of FOIA request, because had there Police of Virginia, expressed concerns been a FOIA request, there would about someone using FOIA to get a have been a record,” Merritt said. database of officers’ names digitally “The idea that people would use in bulk and then posting it on the FOIA to accomplish that outcome Internet. and identify themselves doesn’t make “I agree the public has a right a whole lot of sense.” to know who their police officers M. Wayne Huggins of the Virginia are,” Carroll said. “My concern goes State Police Association cited the beyond Chesterfield County. This is need to protect law enforcement 409 E. Main St. #4 (mailing) • 105both 1/2 E. Cla the World Wide Web when this stuff officers from new threats, Richmond, VA 23219 gets posted.” international and domestic. (office)I would • 1-800-783-806 Carroll described several unsolved804-644-1550 “I never thought see the shooting deaths of off-duty police day when a terrorist attack in Paris, ads@legacynewspaper.com officers – all assumed to be in France, would cause police officers in Ad Size: 7.15 inches (1 column(s) X 7.15 inche retaliation for arresting or testifying Virginia to be threatened,” Huggins against gang members. But Merritt said. “I also1never Issue thought - $100.10 I would said FOIA wasn’t involved in such see the day when American citizens Rate: $17 per column inch Discounted rate: $14 per column inch incidents. marched in the street chanting for “One thing we know for sure is, dead cops.”

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Officer killed:U.S. soldier shot wife before shooting officers GREG HAMBRICK WOODBRIDGE - A U.S. solider stationed at the Pentagon is facing murder charges after allegedly killing his wife and then opening fire on police, killing one officer and critically injuring two others, Prince William County Police announced Sunday.

Officers responded Saturday evening to a domestic incident in the 13000 block of Lashmere Court. At a press conference, Chief Steve Hudson told reporters officers responded to a domestic violence call around 5:40 p.m. and as they approached the front door of the home, the accused opened fire, striking three officers.

All three officers were critically injured in the shooting and taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital. Police announced late Saturday that Officer Ashley Guindon, 28, succumbed to her injuries. It was Guindon’s first day back on patrol.

Ronald Williams Hamilton, 32, of 13051 Lashmere Court in Woodbridge, is charged with captial murder of a police officer, first degree murder, two counts of malicious wounding of a police officer and two counts of use of a firearm in

(from page 2) million settlement with Donald E. Gates, 64, after a D.C. federal jury found problems with hair match testimony and also that police had framed him for a 1981 rape and murder of a college student in Rock Creek Park. In the other similar case, a Superior Court judge ordered the city to pay $9.2 million to Kirk L. Odom, 53, wrongfully convicted of raping a woman in her Capitol Hill apartment in 1981. The city is appealing Odom’s award.

The Gates settlement alone exceeds what the city paid for all legal judgments and settlements in 2013, according to records released by the D.C. Office of Risk Management.

From 2010 to 2014, the District settlement fund paid out $15 million to $33 million a year.

Mott noted that although current

From left to right: Officer Ashley Guindon, Officer Jesse Hempen and Officer David McKeown commission of a felony The two other officers are still being treated at Inova Fairfax.

They have been identified as Officer Jesse Hempen, 31, an 8-year veteran of the police department, and Officer David McMeown, 33, a 10-year veteran of the police department.

Both officers are expected to make a full recovery.

After Hamilton was taken into D.C. Council members have proposed capping damages in wrongful imprisonment cases, the law imposes no limits but requires a judge, not a jury, to decide fair compensation. The District in Tribble’s case asked the court to take into account the city’s financial exposure.

Mott wrote that when the D.C. Council passed the Unjust Imprisonment Act, members made clear that they sought to provide for a “narrow class” of claimants — there have been three since it took effect in 1980 — grounded “upon the principle of fundamental fairness . . . [calling] upon the District government to assume responsibility for the unjustified deprivation of a person’s liberty.”

“The court’s sole responsibility in this matter was to determine an amount of damages that will make Mr. Tribble whole,” Mott wrote.

custody, police found the body of his wife, Crystal Hamilton, 29. An 11-year-old escaped the home at some point during the dispute. He will be cared for by family members.

Police said Hamilton’s wife was able to call 911 but was allegedly shot and killed before officers arrived.

At a press conference on Sunday, Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul

Ebert told reporters it is likely that authorities will pursue the death penalty. Ebert also confirmed that Hamilton was stationed at the Pentagon.

Guindon is the fourth Prince William County police officer to be killed in the line of duty and only the second to be feloniously killed.

Tribble and his son walk in the block 3100 of Massachusetts Avenue SE, where the elder Tribble was arrested and wrongfully convicted.

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Every 67 seconds someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The cost of care to a family is high Barbara “B.” Smith has always sought the limelight — leveraging her fame as one of the country’s first high-profile black models to become a cookbook author, restaurateur and lifestyle maven.

Her diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease in 2013 has not driven her into the shadows.

While her syndicated TV show and her three restaurants are gone, you can still find B. Smith linens and dishes at Bed, Bath & Beyond, and B. Smith olive oil at Walmart. And while Smith’s daily life has grown much more private — she walks on the beach with her dogs, cooks simple meals with her husband and watches old sitcoms at her home in Sag Harbor, N.Y. — she still is sharing her life story.

“I’m still myself. I just can’t remember things as well as I once did,” she writes in a new book called Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, And Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer’s, written with husband Dan Gasby and with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson.

While the book is largely a memoir — with Smith and Gasby (mostly Gasby) telling the story of Smith’s diagnosis and gradual decline (she has gone from the mild to the moderate stage since they first went public in mid-2014) — it’s also a call to action, particularly for African Americans.

“The reason we launched this during Martin Luther King weekend is that Alzheimer’s is a 21st-century civil rights issue,” Gasby said in January with Smith, 66, at his side. “Two out of three people with Alzheimer’s disease are women.

Blacks are two to three times more likely to have Alzheimer’s. … And it drives people into poverty, in many cases taking away the gains that a sizable and growing portion of people in the African-American community have made.”

Stephanie Monroe, director of the African Americans Against Alzheimer’s Network, says that’s a vital concern. According to the advocacy group, African Americans who leave the workforce to care for a family member with Alzheimer’s lose, on average, more than $300,000 in earnings and benefits and are

much more likely to live in poverty than whites in the same situation.

“We are only 13 percent of the population, but blacks are bearing 30 percent of the cost of Alzheimer’s,” Monroe says. “It can just have an incredibly devastating effect.”

The reasons that more blacks — and more Hispanics — develop Alzheimer’s disease are not clear, says Goldie Byrd, a professor of biology and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at North Carolina A&T State University. Some genetic differences that might contribute have been found among blacks, she says. Higher rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and other cardiovascular conditions probably contribute, too, she says. Byrd has been among researchers urging more African Americans to join studies so that clearer answers can be found.

“When we have role models like B. Smith who are willing to share their stories, it helps families all over the place,” Byrd says.

Monroe agrees: “She is a household name in the black community. She is a Martha Stewart for us.”

Smith and Gasby have urged more African Americans to get involved in research. And, Gasby says, they want to help more families recognize the early signs of Alzheimer’s and seek care, with less fear of stigma.

Smith, who was diagnosed at age 64, probably was showing signs for years before that, Gasby says in the book. Once punctual and unflappable, she started missing

appointments and flubbing TV tapings. She would ask the same questions over and over. During a Today show cooking segment, she simply froze, unable to think of a thing to say.

In the years since, the couple have faced some dark days. The darkest came just before Thanksgiving 2014, when Smith disappeared for 17 hours: She had gotten off a bus at the wrong stop and spent the night wandering New York City — in heels. She escaped with nothing worse than blisters, but her days of travelling independently were over.

Nothing like that has happened since, but there are difficult moments on many days now, Smith and Gasby agree.

“We have to tell her every day that she can’t drive her car, and that drives her very crazy. She cries and she gets upset with me,” Gasby says.

“I have to remind her that her mother and father are not alive, and she gets sad.”

Even as Gasby finishes that

sentence, Smith tears up. And, then minutes later, Gasby is talking about Smith’s undiminished beauty and sweet disposition — and she breaks into her famous, dazzling smile, the one that once graced the covers of Mademoiselle and Essence.

When asked what’s she’s looking forward to, Smith mentions flower season. And she says, “I’m looking forward to learning more, doing more things. I’ve always done a lot.”

Some facts from the Alzheimer’s Association: •Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia. It affects memory, thinking and behavior and eventually leads to death. About 5.3 million Americans have it.

•It is not a normal part of aging, but about 95 percent of cases develop after age 65.

•People with Alzheimer’s live an average of 8 years after symptoms emerge.

• Current treatments can ease some symptoms but cannot cure or change the course of the disease. - USAT

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Looking at school discipline CHRIS BRAUNLICH & ANGELA CIOLFLI Why does Virginia have the highest rate of referring school children to police?

A report last April by the Center on Public Integrity, using U.S. Department of Education data, demonstrated that Virginia schools referred students to law enforcement at a rate nearly three times higher than the national average.

And the stories attached to the figures are legendary - from the 11-year-old boy with autism charged with disorderly conduct for kicking a trashcan, to the 12-year-old girl charged with four misdemeanors, including “obstruction of justice” for “clenching her fist” at a police officer.

While there may be sides to these stories we’ll never know, the statistics are without doubt: More than any other state, Virginia is quickest in the country to put children at the start of a pipeline that too frequently leads to, accelerates, and reinforces further entanglements with the criminal justice system.

To be clear: Referring such cases to law enforcement is not the same as filing formal charges. But we know that every negative contact with law enforcement - particularly if that child is acaemically marginal to begin with - contributes to poor outcomes for students.

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trained police officers in schools (School Resource Officers, or SROs) can be instrumental in building relationships with teenagers, often anticipating drug or gang activity before it took place and avoiding escalating issues.

But there is no requirement that SROs receive the kind of focused training we demand for other specialized police placements. Nor is there a requirement to utilize a well-researched curriculum like the one provided by the Department of Criminal Justice Services.

Training for school personnel isn’t required either. While the state Department of Education offers training that emphasizes teaching students appropriate behavior, school divisions can’t be required to send personnel or to engage in training at the school level. And that training can have a profound impact on avoiding unnecessary referrals to law enforcement agencies.

In reality, however, Virginia school officials often aren’t given a choice.

Virginia law requires schools to report more than 45 student actions to law enforcement - regardless of the facts and circumstances of the case and including two offenses that are not even a violation of the law! By mandating such referrals, Virginia creates a requirement that is incredibly burdensome, undercuts the exercise of professional judgment in handling minor offenses, and generates paperwork distracting The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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from the real work of maintaining safety and order in schools.

Worse, Virginia blurs the line between a criminal offense and school disciplinary matters, essentially criminalizing normal teen-age behavior. Under Virginia Code, a student commits disorderly conduct by willfully disrupting the operation of a school with the intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm. The result is that “disorderly conduct” has become one of the biggest reasons students are sent to the juvenile justice system, even though it is not a part of the mandatory reporting statute because, in our litigious world, when school officials are in doubt they are now likely to err on the side of caution.

One Virginia city police chief has expressed concern about this statute and fears that officers are charging kids with disorderly conduct for things like refusing to stay in their seats or stop talking.

Finally, School Resource Officers funded under the state's SRO grant program are given additional duties: “to enforce school board rules and student codes of conduct.” Do we really need to call in police for discipline issues that is better handled between school administrators, parents and students?

There are many things that would reduce the criminalization of schoolbased misconduct. Most require

additional resources. But there are some simple things the General Assembly can do that will allow police to repurpose resources effectively.

1.) Remove misdemeanors and non-crimes from the list of offenses that require mandatory reporting to law enforcement. A 2013 bill to do that was watered down to meaninglessness. In light of April's report, it's time to look at it again.

2.) Exempt students from provisions of the disorderly conduct statute, or make the provision apply only to repeated acts of disorderly conduct by students. Bring student discipline back into the domain of school principals, not law enforcement.

3.) Finally, remove language from the SRO fund putting police officers into the middle of school discipline and requiring them to "enforce school board rules."

The two of us disagree on many things, but on this issue there should be a consensus across the political spectrum. Much has been written lately about the "school to prison pipeine." Shutting it down will require much more, but these three common-sense measures will chip away at the most counter-productive features of our current system.

Braunlich is vice president of the Thomas Jefferson Institute and immediate past president of the Virginia State Board of Education.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

‘The Establishment’

The moment Chesapeake City Councilman Robert Ike, my wife Anne and I announced our team candidacy for Republican National Delegate from Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District, the GOP bundler-class power brokers went nuts.

They want us out.

We are running on a team to support Trump for president on any down ballots in the event of an open, brokered convention.

So they’ve launched an aggressive effort to stop us from going to Cleveland as convention delegates.

We’re the last people the GOP elitists want anywhere near their national conventions.

Why? We can’t be bought and we can’t be bullied.

Right now the Washington establishment political cabal is scheming to hatch a plan to deny Donald Trump the GOP nomination on the convention floor.

They can’t beat him at the ballot box. So their last gasp is a nefarious plot to strip the grassroots of their choice and replace it with their Wall St. donor directed open borders candidate.

The ruling class needs establishment delegates at the convention they can count on.

They know the only thing they can count on us for is to expose any back door, back room and strong-arm shenanigans.

I’ve got an open microphone and a link to the world. Robert and Anne will be my eyes and ears on the floor.

They’ll want to silence us in

Cleveland.

I know you won’t let them.

At the 2012 RNC convention in Tampa, while I was doing my radio show from the convention, Anne, Robert and I were not delegates.

Mitt Romney flew in an army of high priced lawyers and well heeled lobbyists to overwhelm the conservative grass roots and manipulate all the 2016 rules to insure Romney couldn’t be challenged from the Right in a primary.

They knew if elected, their candidate planned to govern from the Left, and above all else, do trade deals like TPP and keep the borders porous to guarantee the flow of cheap labor rolling into the U.S. to benefit his rich globalist pals. This at the expense of the middle class American worker.

Our national committeeman from Virginia, Morton Blackwell, one of my political heroes, went ballistic and sounded the alarm bells. But it wasn’t enough. I was getting second and third hand information – and after my show was off the air.

Had any member of our team been a national convention delegate in 2012, we could have stopped Romney’s high priced lawyers in their tracks. We would have told the world what was happening – loud and clear.

Don’t let them silence us again. If they silence us, they silence you.

John Fredericks

Precision matters

At the heart of my story is a single typo in my genome.

We all carry around thousands of typos in our DNA, most of which don’t matter much to our health -- but my

typo is an unusually clear-cut case.

It’s a single change in a particular gene that causes fatal genetic prion disease, where patients can live 50 healthy years, but then suddenly fall into deep dementia and die within a year. And there’s no treatment -- at least, not yet.

In 2010, I watched this disease unfold firsthand. I had just married my husband Eric Minikel, the love of my life. My mom, healthy at 51, had single-handedly organized our beautiful wedding. Then, all of a sudden, we were watching her waste away before our eyes. We had no name for what we were seeing.

It was only from her autopsy that we learned there was a 50 percent chance I’d inherited the genetic mutation that killed her.

We decided right away I’d get tested. We wanted to know what we were up against. After months in agonizing limbo, a geneticist confirmed our greatest fear: “The same change that was found in your mother was found in you.”

Even though we received bad news that day, choosing to get predictive genetic testing was, second to marrying Eric, the best decision I have ever made. It converted a potentially life-shattering trauma into a potentially life-giving tool.

Knowing the hard truth has given us a head start against our formidable medical enemy.

Empowerment means something different for every patient. Taking on the disease in the lab is what it means for us.

Patient empowerment is what the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative is all about: knowing your

own health information so you can make smarter decisions about your own health care.

Eric and I decided that even when there’s nothing you can do, there’s something you can do.

We waged a campaign to educate ourselves -- taking night classes, attending conferences, and eventually taking new jobs in research labs. We retrained as scientists by day and applied what we were learning to understanding my disease by night. Four years later, we’re now Harvard PhD students working side-by-side at the Broad Institute, where under the guidance of a team of amazing colleagues, we are devoting our lives to developing therapeutics for my disease.

I spoke on a panel at the White House about how critical the Precision Medicine Initiative is, joined by President Obama and medical professionals and individuals with stories to share.

You can watch it here.

We know the road ahead is uncertain -- no amount of hard work can guarantee there will be a treatment for me when I need one.

But President Obama’s commitment to the Precision Medicine Initiative gives me hope that we have a fighting chance. Now is the best moment in history to be up against a rare, but genetically well-understood disease.

We are going to do everything we can, hand-in-hand with creative allies from every sector, to build this bridge as we walk across it and develop a treatment that could save my life, and the lives of many others.

Sonia Vallabh

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Faith & Religion

Seminary to host lecture on addressing violence Dr. Peter W. Ochs, University of Virginia’s Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, will address how to reduce religion-related violence at Union Presbyterian Seminary’s Dawe Lecture, March 14, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

“Recent news headlines seem to give secularists more courage to say ‘We told you so!,’” Ochs said. “Is religion itself really dangerous to humankind? Or has it taken western diplomats too long to realize that religious groups do not necessarily

act like other social groups; that there are religious resources for peace as well as conflict, that it takes special knowledge to understand religions, and that new coalitions of government and religious and civil society leaders are needed to engage religious groups in times of peace as well as conflict?”

Ochs’ talk will introduce the work of the “Global Covenant of Religions, Inc.,” a new NGO dedicated to drawing on religious as well as governmental and civil society resources.

He is the co-founder of the Society for Scriptural Reasoning, which promotes interfaith dialog among Christians, Jews, and Muslims through scriptural study groups. He is also a co-founder of the Children of Abraham Institute, which promotes interfaith study and dialog among members of the Abrahamic religions.

The lecture is free and open to the public and will be held in Watts Chapel at 3401 Brook Road, Richmond. The event will also be livestreamed at http://ustre.am/TMgS.

The annual lecture series pays tribute to the late Professor Donald G. Dawe and his wife Nancy Dawe, and promotes ethical and religious understanding. Because of Dawe’s long-standing interest and commitments in the area of multi-religious and multicultural understanding and interfaith dialogue, the lecture series seeks to contribute to deepened awareness and insight in these areas of intellectual and especially practical religious concern.

Southern Baptist foreign missionaries drop by 1,000 Adelle M. Banks (RNS) One out of five Southern Baptist missionaries overseas — or nearly 1,000 total — have volunteered to leave their posts to help the denomination’s mission board deal with its financial straits. That’s in addition to the departure of a third of the staff of the International Mission Board, also mostly through a voluntary program.

“Obviously, this number exceeds what we needed,” said its president, David Platt, at a trustee meeting last week. But he said the departure of 983 missionaries means the mission board will be in improved financial health.

In August, leaders of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination announced that the board would need to cut up to 800 employees, after spending a total of $210 million more than it had received since 2010.

The number of missionaries now stands at about 3,800 and there are about 300 staffers, said IMB spokeswoman Julie McGowan. In August, there were 4,800 missionaries and 450 staff. Officials had said the missionary force needed to be reduced to 4,200 to balance the budget.

Platt said that although “these brothers and sisters will be missed,” it is time to turn to the future and the board’s goal of taking the gospel to those who have not heard it.

In addition to remaining the largest missionary-

David Platt, IMB president, leads 26 new missionaries in a time of prayer during their missionary appointment service on Feb. 23 in Richmond. The service was broadcast via livestream to several thousand viewers. Photo by Warren F. Johnson, courtesy of IMB sending organization of its kind, Platt suggested that the current full-time foreign missionaries can be augmented by Southern Baptists ranging from students to retirees who spend time overseas.

Southern Baptists, along with other Christian denominations, have seen a decline in membership, dropping from 16.3 million in 2003 to

just under 15.5 million in 2016.

Two prominent Baptist state conventions — in Texas and North Carolina — have set aside $1.5 million to help provide jobs to missionaries returning to the U.S. McGowan said the funds would be used specifically to evangelize immigrants in those states.

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Farrakhan presents action points for progress DETROIT— Minister Louis Farrakhan called for urban renewal through an action-oriented strategy and work driven by a spirit of selfdetermination and desire to establish safe, industrious and productive black communities during his annual Saviours’ Day keynote message.

The crowd of over 16,000 at the legendary Joe Louis Arena cheered loudly, greeting Min. Farrakhan with a standing ovation as he returned to the city where the Nation of Islam in North America began.

“Detroit was the mecca of industrialization but it became the Mecca—the place where the knowledge and wisdom of the Original Man first started in this country when the black man and woman of America who was lost, was now found,” he said.

His message, titled “Divine Instructions and Commands For 2016,” wrapped up the yearly Nation of Islam convention held to honor the birth of its founder, the Great Mahdi Master Fard Muhammad who began teaching Islam in the area known as “Black Bottom” on July 4, 1930.

“We (black people) have been made into a great problem that only God can solve,” said Farrakhan. “The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad said our problem is not a problem that can be solved by traditional methods or means, our problem is such that there has to be divine intervention and the offering of a divine solution that will enable us to come up once and for all out of the condition that being under 400 years of tyranny has made us,” he added.

Although he is known as a great orator, the minister said he thought it might not be good to deliver another address, noting he has delivered words of profound guidance throughout the years. Now, he stressed, it is time to do something.

“You’ve got the teaching, what you need are the commands and the spirit to do after the command,” said Min. Farrakhan. “You are by nature soldiers. You just have not had commands to follow that would demonstrate the power that you possess!”

The minister addressed police

Crowd fills Joe Louis Arena in anticipation of Farrakhan’s message. brutality and inordinate use of lethal force and attacks against black women throughout his message.

Farrakhan recalled a time when he was a young minister in Harlem and the mosque was attacked by police. One of the police officers died.

Farrakhan, who was very popular in the city, was very angry at what the police had done. When the police chief came to meet with him, the minister spoke with passion and told the chief, “we would bathe the city in blood.” He ordered all White policemen out of Harlem by sundown, and the chief complied.

While Muslims are commanded never to be the aggressor, he said, they are commanded to fight in Allah’s (God’s) name against those who attack them. If one is attacked and then God gives the person attacked the upper hand, “it is not wrong to take (the aggressor) off the planet,” he said.

There comes a time in life when one is forced into a position where “death is sweeter than to live under oppression,” said Farrakhan. “When your love is deep enough, you will lay down your life for what you love.”

Later that he was summoned to Chicago by his teacher, Elijah Muhammad, who “was not happy” about what he heard his young minister had told the police chief.

He asked his young minister: “How many of them did you kill?”

When the Minister told him only one passed away, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, “Brother, never speak ahead of your actual power to do because if you speak ahead of your power to do and you are called to do and you cannot do, then your folly

is laid bare as a big mouth with no substance,” said the minister.

He also received strategic guidance from the patriarch of the Nation of Islam, who told the Minister that 35 percent of the people in New York supported him, 15 percent are sympathetic and another 50 percent was neutral. The Hon. Elijah Muhammad, who would work for 40 years to establish the Nation, also had an instruction for his devoted helper.

“He said go back to New York and take the 15 percent who are sympathetic and make them like the 35 percent who are with you and then he said reach over into the 50 percent until you make 25 percent of them sympathetic. Then any command that you give will be carried out!” recalled Farrakhan.

The minister has also given commands: During the 10-10-15 Justice Or Else! gathering held in Washington to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March. Economic withdrawal and a boycott of the holiday shopping season beginning with Black Friday was the first phase of the movement.

“Up with Jesus! Down with Santa!” was the cry and many participated, resulting in a precipitous drop in revenue for many corporate giants.

Americans spend $602 billion each year during the holiday shopping season beginning on Black Friday and going to the New Year. Last shopping season, Apple announced a quarterly decline in sales for the first time in 13 years. Best Buy announced holiday sales declined and Macy’s announced plans to lay off 4,350 employees, again, due to

slumping holiday sales, the minister noted.

Many blacks have begun working to find black businesses to support and there is a higher consciousness about the need to support black banks, publications and institutions and this should continue and create wealth in the black community, he said.

“So we’re going to commission a poll because I want to see if I’ve reached the percentages that the Hon. Elijah Muhammad said that if I gave a command it would be carried out.

There is no more time to teach now,” said Farrakhan.

Self-determination vs. colonization Detroit, a town that is 83 percent black, can be an example for urban areas across the U.S. blacks are suffering as a “colonized people” and continue to suffer spiritually, mentally, economically, educationally and politically. Self-determination and unity in areas like Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn and Chicago are needed to solve these problems, he said.

“Money is being extracted from the colonies,” said Farrakhan, and police serve as an “occupying force to keep the colony under control.”

Political power could be used to gain leverage but blacks continue to fall for empty promises given by politicians who court them for votes then forget about voters after they win. This must change, he said.

“You have made no progress under Democrats. I don’t know why you are such a slave! What have they given you with what you have given to the Democratic Party?” he asked.

Instead, black people should form the “Justice Party” and run candidates for offices across the country, Farrakhan declared.

“We’re not Democrats, we’re not Republicans—this is the Justice Party! It will have in it black, brown, red, yellow, poor whites, anybody that wants justice. Come out of those parties that won’t give you justice!” said the Minister. “Set up our own candidates, run them in the cities, take down the weak bloodsuckers of the poor and cast them out and set up people that will fight for justice!”

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VB native ‘No Malice’ previews new film in hometown

Ask Alma

Frustrated by dementia

‘The End of Malice’ Features Former Clipse Member, Brother Pusha T & Pharrell Williams

Dear Alma, I need advice to help my beloved sister who has dementia. I don’t know how to communicate with her anymore. We were once very close.

She was talented and had a lot of friends. She sang in the choir and was active in her church.

Now she has trouble remembering words and speaking in complete sentences. She won’t take a shower or comb her hair. I just don’t know what to do. What would you suggest?

Diane Jackson, Woodbridge Dear Diane, I’m sorry to hear about your sister’s decline. It’s heartbreaking to watch as a loved one slips away.

You’re not only dealing with the horrible disease of dementia, you’re dealing also with the loss of the sister you know her to be.

My sister died many years ago and I still, to this day, have not recovered.

Neither will you. But what you can do is this: Put on your “big sister” T-shirt, even if you are the little sister, like me, and fight this battle to win.

Give your sister what she needs and not what you want her to have.

Don’t determine your decisions around the sister she used to be, but deliver what’s necessary based on the sister she is today. If she loved music, turn on the radio. Read to her, especially the Bible. Sit and watch TV together, cartoons, game shows, PBS specials.

Talk to her, not at her, while you’re watching. When she repeats her sentences, act as if it’s the first time you’ve heard those words.

Don’t rush her when she’s speaking or finish her sentences. Let her be.

When it comes to her hygiene, you can bathe her. Don’t ask her if she wants a bath, run the water and tell her it’s ready. When it comes to her hair, take her to the salon or sit her at the dining room table and go oldskool…you braid her hair (I know you know how.) Ask her to hold the

extra brush while you’re doing it.

That will take her mind off what you’re doing.

The days of your sister making decisions are over. You’ll need to take on that role for her. Of course you’ll encounter some resistance.

Just remind yourself you’re doing what’s best for her. Don’t take it personally. You’ve become her caregiver. She’s counting on you and would do the same if the roles were reversed. I know you want to do all you can to bring your sister back and make it all better, but you can’t. She’ll continue to slip away. This isn’t by her choice, and unfortunately, she can’t help it.

Sometimes as a caregiver, it’s hard to peel back the overwhelming layers of guilt and pain to see the blessing. Your blessing is you still have your sister. Trust me, once she’s gone, you’d give anything to be able to do it again.

Don’t focus on what you see as yours or her shortcomings. Do your best to meet her needs. Your love for each other will never change, but you should readjust your expectations.

As I’m sure you know, it’s important to keep up with doctor appointments, and it wouldn’t be a bad idea for you to find a support group. You and I know I’ve sugar coated this thing, but that’s because you’ve got a tough road ahead. We don’t know what the future holds, so when and if the doctors decide she needs more than you can handle, accept it; don’t debate or challenge it. ***** Want advice? E-mail questions to alwaysaskalma@yahoo.com.Follow her on Facebook at “Ask Alma” and twitter @almaaskalma *****

Virginia Beach native and former Clipse member, Gene “No Malice” Thornton, will preview “The End of Malice,” a new film that shares the untold story of his journey from “Malice” to “No Malice,” at AMC Lynnhaven 18 on March 3.

The screening, which is open to the public, is hosted by AllHipHop, REVOLT TV and Second Films. A Q&A and meet-and-greet session with No Malice will follow.

Featuring insightful commentary from Malice’s brother and fellow Clipse member, Pusha T, as well as his close friend, Pharrell Williams, “The End of Malice” is a Gene “No Malice” Thornton 40-minute intoxicating, first-person narrative of an extraordinary artist confronting the dualities of fame and family, success in the dope game, and the demanding world of mainstream music.

“The End of Malice” addresses the infatuation and obsession with rap and drug culture that is systemic in inner cities and urban communities. The screening will help facilitate conversations around these matters in order to shed light on the mentality of those who are convinced that drugs and hip-hop are the only viable paths to success in life.

In 2002, the brother duo Clipse dropped like a bomb on the music scene, reverberating out of Virginia Beach with an undeniable swagger as they cleverly spit rhymes about the dope game over hard-hitting beats from The Neptunes’ super producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo. The Thorntons quickly rose to prominent fame as a hip-hop subgenre was born — coke-rap — and brothers Malice and Pusha T were the centerpieces in a storm of sudden stardom.

“There’s no college course for dealing with fame and success,” said Pharrell in “The End of Malice.” “But when you’re given a cocktail like that … you’re supposed to sip slow.”

But despite the tremendous success Malice achieved, he was left questioning the significance and value of his pursuits in the music industry. Just as the group reached the pinnacle of success in 2010, a breaking point occurred and Malice chose to leave it all, professionally separating from his brother to begin a new chapter in his music and forever be known as “No Malice.”

“I don’t regret the music or the catalog of my group, but that’s only because it has given me a place to not only tell part of the truth but to tell the entire story,” said No Malice.

The screening, part of a 15-city tour sponsored by Nature Nate’s, will take place March 3 at 7:30 p.m. at AMC Lynnhaven 18, located at 1001 Lynnhaven Mall Loop in Virginia Beach. Limited tickets are available now at http://www. endofmalice.com/screenings.

“The End of Malice” is a collaboration of Second Films and Ditoremayo Entertainment. The film will receive its worldwide television premiere on REVOLT TV on Sunday, March 27 at 10 p.m.

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Will Rock & Roll Hall of Fame officials ever induct Kool & The Gang?

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - More than 4,000 hardcore RnB fans filled the RamsHead Theater at the Maryland Live Casino in suburban Baltimore recently to witness the legendary sounds of Kool & The Gang.

With more than 80-million records sold world-wide, one would casually assume that this successful band that spans six decades would have already been thrust into rock royalty

- as members of the illustrious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

But, that's not to be. And, during a post-concert interview with bassist/ bandleader Robert Earl "Kool" Bell, he confirmed that the 52-yearold band has yet to achieve Rock HOF status. He also seemed a bit disappointed and even shocked as to why his group has yet to achieve

Annual Date with Dad event brings stars to town A national radio personality, an “Empire” star, and “Walking Dead” cast member will all take part in an annual weekend of special events in Central Virginia aimed at fostering father-daughter relationships.

Tom Joyner, host of the nationally syndicated “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” and actor Malik Yoba, who most recently starred on the FOX-TV series “Empire” and is best known for his role in the 90s drama series “New York Undercover,” will join Richmond native Chad L. Coleman, who recently starred on the top-rated cable-TV series “The Walking Dead,” at the 2016 Date With Dad Weekend, presented by Girls For A Change, March 11- 13 in Richmond.

Featured events during the weekend will include its traditional father-daughter dances for the community and in a correctional facility, interactive events, and charity walk, as well as a special event for mothers, and a camp fair with celebrity guests throughout the entire weekend. Date With Dad Spokesperson, Coleman, will attend the entire weekend of events with his daughter and Joyner, a supporter of the event for several years, will be the special guest MC at the Date With Dad Dinner and Dance. Meanwhile, in a separate event, Yoba, who will attend the

weekend with his daughters, will also present a special screening of his documentary “Daddy Don’t Go.” Thankful for the celebrity support, Girls For A Change CEO Angela Patton says she hopes it will further the goal of expanding Date With Dad to more cities. Exposure in national media like the recent feature “Fatherless Towns” on CNN’s “This Life with Lisa Ling,” as well as on “World News with Diane Sawyer,” in The Washington Post, and on “Inside Edition,” has been steady since Patton’s 2012 talk at TEDWomen.

Requests from people wanting to host Date With Dad in their city have also been steady. Now, Patton says “we are inviting relevant national partners to continue this dialogue about dads and daughters and advance the initiative started by the teen girls in a Camp Diva Girl Action Team by joining the movement.”

Those interested in bringing Date With Dad to their cities are being encouraged to go online to www. girlsforachange.org/dwdpartnership.

Proceeds from Date With Dad Weekend will go toward Girls For A Change’s Camp Diva Scholarship fund, allowing teen girls to attend the camp free of charge, and grooming more girls to create change as was done when Date With Dad was created.

Kool & The Gang is one of the most successful Black musical outfits in American music history. Group co-founders (L-R) "Funky" George Brown, Robert "Kool" Bell and Dennis "DT" Thomas, greet an unidentified fan while his wife takes a photo of the group. PHOTO: Timothy Cox such an honor.

The group's original drummer, "Funky" George Brown, who also helped found the group in 1964 in their hometown of Jersey City, N.J., seems equally unclear and desponded as to why the band has yet to be so honored within Rock HOF ranks.

Last October, the band was honored with its very first Hollywood Walk of Fame Star - an achievement that “Kool” Bell says is a very welcomed and ironic honor. "Afterall, we wrote a song called "Hollywood Swingin' - so, it's sort of appropriate that we would achieve this honor," he said.

In 2015, the group was also honored with a Soul Train Legend Award, while being inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

Along with his brother and tenor saxman, Ronald "Kahalis" Bell, a young "Kool" Bell, along with their parents, Bobby and Mabel Bell, moved from their original hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, to Jersey City, N.J. "I was 10 when we moved from Ohio," Kool confirmed after the Maryland show, while reflecting on a popular inner-city, amusement attraction known as Idora Park, during his “Y-town” childhood. In the early 1960s, the James Brown Revue would perform at the Idora Park Ballroom. Incidentally, as native

Ohioans, the Bell brothers are part of an esteemed Ohio RnB fraternity of which several funk bands, musicians and singers have hailed from the Buckeye State --ultimately to become internationally-renown performers some who are even HOF inductees at the Ohio-based Rock museum.

Such groups include The Ohio Players, The Isley Brothers, The O'Jays, Lakeside, Zapp and Roger Troutman, Bootsy Collins, Phelps “Catfish” Collins, Howard Hewitt (Shalamar), Bobby Womack, the Ingram brothers, James (Quincy Jones) and Philip (DeBarge); Ruby and the Romantics, Phillipe' "Soul" Wynne (Spinners), MidnightStar, Heatwave, Faze-O, Dayton, and New Horizons featuring the Thomas brothers.

During their 90-minute Casino performance on Jan. 17, the Kool Gang provided a non-stop, 18-song set-list that featured a diverse selection of the plethora of hits that have made them extra Hall of Fame-worthy. Especially significant was "Ladies Night," "Celebration," "Reggae Dancin," "Jungle Boogie," and the syncopated funk-retro tune from their early years, "N.T." Fortunately, the show was booked

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(from page 9) A cultural revolution Farrakhan encouraged more artists to follow Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé who used huge public platforms—the Grammys and the Super Bowl—to bring attention to the plight of black people.

“I loved Kendrick Lamar’s presentation,” said the minister.

“Kanye West is railing on his new album and my sweet sister Beyoncé, boy, boy did she fix them?” Kendrick Lamar performed in chains and broke his chains at the Grammy’s, dramatizing the plight of black America. Beyoncé served up a huge production in tribute to black victims of police brutality, Hurricane Katrina and other racial injustices faced by blacks. Addressing critical comments from “conservative blowhard Rudolph Giuliani” and police groups who said officers would protest her appearances because they were unhappy with her message and would not provide security for her, the minister had a solution.

“You’re going to picket? You’re not going to offer her police protection?

But the F.O.I. will!” said the minister as the audience leapt to their feet and cheered. The F.O.I., or the Fruit of Islam, is the name given to the military training of the men who belong to Islam in North America and who have legendary reputation for discipline and security.

“We say to the hip hop community and to our cultural giants—say what you feel! Put it out there with strength. They allowed you to call your women ‘bitches’ and ‘whores.’

Now put it out there that you love your lack self and you want to see your people free! Put it out there and we will back you up!”

“Now when the rappers are free to say it like it is,” said the minister, “the cultural revolution is on!”

Segregation vs. separation There is a difference between segregation and separation, Min. Farrakhan noted.

“Segregation is imposed on an inferior by a superior. Separation is voluntary by two equals,” he said.

“We are in a colonial state of being,” repeated the Minister, citing Detroit, Harlem and Bedford Stuyvesant

under the control of a man who is under the control of God,” he said.

Decent, self-respecting security can become the norm in black communities across the country. This can be done, as long as black people are determined to move forward in a strong and collective manner, Farrakhan added.

“The law of cause and effect is very real,” he said. “God is real, you are real, we can change the realities of our lives if we understand that we are the ones to do it.”

Crowd prepares to enter the Joe Louis Arena to hear Min. Farrakhan’s keynote address to commence the Saviours’ Day activities in Detroit. in New York, and the East Side of Cleveland as examples.

“The wealth of the colony is extracted from the colony by those who control the colony through leadership in the colony,” said Min. Farrakhan.

Many pastors and others are used to keep those who are colonized “docile, happy, meek and weak.” As a result, the controlled leaders will get called downtown to meet with high level political officials and will be offered favors. They are beholden to their political patrons, but not to the people they are supposed to represent, which is what makes Min. Farrakhan different. He is supported by those who love him and provide him with what he needs to work for the liberation of oppressed people worldwide.

“I am a free black man! I’m free because they can’t buy me! I’m free because my people support me! I’m free to talk like a man, think like a man, act like a man and die like a man!” the minister said.

Spiritual leaders could be helpful, because change starts on the spiritual level, but prayer without works is not worth anything, he warned. God is not a mystery spook, so work must be done to back up prayer, he said.

Turning his attention again directly to Detroit, Farrakhan said he met with and thanked Detroit Police Chief James Craig, who provided a motorcade to escort him and members of his delegation

throughout the city during his stay.

The Minister, as he has done in many cities across the U.S., offered the Nation of Islam’s help to get rogue cops off the streets. Most rogue officers are found in neighborhoods where there is little economic and political power.

“I told the chief, all the rogue cops are found in the ghetto, so we’re going to help you. We’re going to find them and point them out. We’re not going to kill them, but we’re going to give you a chance to take them off the street, bust them and try them and sentence them,” said Min. Farrakhan.

He also said Muslims, who are in neighborhoods, must also be morally upright in order to straighten out the communities they are being called to serve.

“No cover for a rogue cop, no cover for a rogue Muslim,” said Farrakhan.

“We’re either going to be righteous or were going to have to leave it alone because we’ve got work to do in Detroit, in America among all of the colonies.”

The minister said the educational system of the colonial masters cannot be used. The communities cannot be improved using the current educational reality with White supremacy at the root, and protection of black women and girls must become a priority for the men who are to be the protectors and maintainers of the communities.

“If we are under the control of God, then our families should have peace

Reactions to message Abdul Arif Muhammad, general counsel for the Nation of Islam, said Farrakhan’s message encouraged blacks to take responsibility for community improvement.

“I think it was spiritually profound yet at the same time tremendously practical in the reality of actions that we must take or commands that we must obey to make our communities clean, safe and decent places in which to live and better the conditions of our communities,” said Muhammad. “We have to accept the responsibility and be accountable to fulfill what God has given and promised to us.”

Imam Abdul Malik agreed, saying the minister’s message is consistent.

“The message we got today was trust in Allah and take full responsibility and control of our own destiny and don’t wait for anyone to do for us what we as a people must do for ourselves,” he said.

Carmen Perez of the Justice League of New York said she enjoys hearing from the elders like Farrakhan and Harry Belafonte who not only put their lives on the line, but also reinvest in their communities. She also was inspired by his talk about formation of a political party.

“I’m really excited about the fact that he talked about a Justice Party because that’s something that we’ve been talking about in the Justice League,” said Perez. “We need our own political party because not only do we need to invest back into our communities, we need to put a different type of political pressure on this country,” she said. © Final Call

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NN seeks youth for summer work program Program available to youth and young adults living in the southeast community; businesses sought to provide work sites for program Newport News is gearing up for the third year of the Youth and Gang Violence Prevention Initiative’s Summer Training and Enrichment Program (STEP) and is looking for eligible young people and businesses to participate. The program begins mid-June and will serve approximately 600 out-of-school and in-school young people, ages 16 to 24, who live south of Mercury Boulevard or within the designated service area of the north (area generally along Warwick Boulevard between Menchville Road and Ft. Eustis Boulevard).

Applications are now being accepted for eligible youth and young adults to participate in STEP, a 10 week summer work readiness

program that provides paid work experience, field trips, workshops, financial literacy training and GED preparation classes. Participants work at job sites three or four days per week, participate in Enrichment Days one or two days per week and are paid a weekly stipend. Program costs are paid for by the city’s Youth and Gang Violence Prevention Initiative. Participants are paid $7.25 per hour and those who have a high school diploma or GED will receive $8 per hour. Applications are accepted online at ygvpinn.nnva.gov and the deadline for participants to apply is Friday, March 11.

“We are looking forward to the continued growth in opportunities for our youth through the Summer Training and Enrichment Program,” said Mayor McKinley Price. “Because of our commitment to reducing and

Holder: Time to talk about decriminalizing marijuana In a newly published PBS “Frontline” interview, former Attorney General Eric Holder comes out in support of reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule I substance — a classification reserved for dangerous drugs that have no medical use — into a less restrictive category.

“I certainly think it ought to be rescheduled,” Holder says. “You know, we treat marijuana in the same way that we treat heroin now, and that clearly is not appropriate.”

That statement goes a bit further than Holder’s comments on marijuana when he was attorney general. In September 2014, he said rescheduling the drug is “something that I think we need to ask ourselves, and use science as the basis for making that determination.”

But the current scheduling scheme as specified by the Controlled Substances Act is far from scientific.

Marijuana falls under Schedule I,

Former AG Eric Holder while highly addictive and potent drugs such as cocaine, opium poppy, morphine, and codeine are listed as

eliminating youth and gang violence, we are working tirelessly to help our young people connect to valuable resources and provide them with much needed training to make sure they are armed with tools that will help them to lead productive lives.”

The city needs businesses and organizations that would like to provide summer opportunities to STEP participants at no cost to the business. Last year, 64 Newport News-based businesses and organizations participated in the program. In an effort to attract more business participants, the city has opened up the partnership to businesses located throughout the Hampton Roads area. All funding for the STEP program is provided by the Newport News Youth & Gang Violence Prevention Initiative, including the stipend the

participants receive.

“We are excited to again provide employment opportunities for our youth,” said City Manager Jim Bourey. “This year, we are growing in scope and size to prepare more of our young people for the world of work. We encourage businesses and organizations to partner with us to provide worksites for our STEP participants.”

In its third year, STEP has expanded in scope to include a larger target area of the city and larger number of participants (both young people and businesses). Last summer the program served 316 youth and young adults who worked a total of 72,758 hours and earned $594,721.

At the end of last year’s program, 21 participants were offered employment because of the skills they learned through STEP.

less-restricted Schedule II controlled substances. Meanwhile, the synthetic version of THC, known as dronabinol, is listed as Schedule III, even though THC is the ingredient in cannabis that causes psychoactive effects.

In the “Frontline” interview, which was filmed last September but just released on Tuesday, Holder says Congress should act to reschedule marijuana. But as ThinkProgress has previously reported, the executive branch and Drug Enforcement Agency both have the capability to unilaterally reschedule controlled substances without congressional input.

Holder’s views are more friendly toward marijuana than his successor, Loretta Lynch, who said during her January 2015 confirmation hearing, “I can tell you that not only do I not support legalization of marijuana, it is not the position of the Department of Justice currently to support the legalization nor would it be the position should I become confirmed as attorney general.”

Holder, for his part, now says it’s time for federal lawmakers to at least consider decriminalizing marijuana altogether.

It would have been a lot better

if he’d exercised the power to get marijuana rescheduling done while he was still in office.

“I think that certainly that ought to be a part of the conversation,” he said in the PBS interview. “You know, where do we want to be as a nation?

Now, there’s certain drugs I just can’t see. It’s hard for me to imagine ever decriminalizing crack cocaine, drugs like that. But the whole question of should marijuana be decriminalized, I mean, that’s a conversation I think that we should engage in.”

In a statement sent to ThinkProgress, Tom Angell, chairman of the advocacy group Marijuana Majority, says he wishes Holder would’ve worked harder toward reforming marijuana laws when he was attorney general.

“It’s nice to have Holder’s support for this sensible policy change, but it would have been a lot better if he’d exercised the power to get marijuana rescheduling done while he was still in office,” he says. “We know that Holder and President Obama are good friends, so I hope the former attorney general encourages his former boss and his successor Loretta Lynch to follow through during these final months of the administration and get the job done.”

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Analysis finds differences in pain coping between blacks and whites It’s been said that men are babies when it comes to dealing with pain and women are troopers. While generalization is never a good thing, researchers led by Adam T. Hirsh of the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis report that black and white Americans cope with pain differently and that blacks employ pain coping strategies more frequently than whites.

The IUPUI review and analysis

of 19 studies is the first to examine the entire published literature and quantify the relationship between race and the use of pain-coping strategies.

“Coping” is broadly defined as the use of behavioral and cognitive techniques to manage stress. Pain coping is the specific application of these techniques for pain management.

Hirsh, an assistant professor of psychology, and graduate students

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Adam T. Hirsh Samantha M. Meints and Megan M. Miller conducted the evidence-based review and analysis of clinical and experimental studies that included a total of 2,719 black and 3,770 white adults. “Differences in Pain Coping between Black and White Americans: A Meta-analysis” is published online in advance of print in The Journal of Pain.

Blacks were significantly more likely to use praying and hoping as pain-coping strategies than whites.

Blacks were also more likely than whites to think about their pain in a catastrophic manner.

“Our findings suggest that blacks frequently use coping strategies

that are associated with worse pain and functioning,” said Hirsh, a clinical health psychologist. "They view themselves as helpless in the face of pain. They see the pain as magnified -- the worst pain ever.

They ruminate, think about the pain all the time, and it occupies a lot of their mind space.

“This catastrophic manner of coping is frequently labeled by health providers as a negative or maladaptive approach to pain and has been associated with poor functioning,” said Hirsh. “But it may also be a potent communication strategy -- it tells others in a culture with a strong communal component that the person is really suffering and needs help. Thus, it may be helpful in some ways, such as eliciting support from other people, and unhelpful in other ways. In future studies, we will give this more nuanced investigation.”

Ignoring pain rather than allowing it to interfere with the task at hand, known as task persistence, was the only coping strategy employed by whites more than blacks.

Numerous investigations have found that differences in coping strategies are associated with differences in pain intensity, adjustment to chronic pain, and psychological and physical functioning. For example, several of

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Why are so many black kids dying from suicide?

ALEX ZIELINSKI From police brutality to health care gaps, there are countless forms of systemic violence that impact black communities. But there’s one quieter, overlooked threat that’s begun to have a deadly impact on black children: mental health stigma.

The rate of black youth committing suicide has never been higher.

A 2015 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that for the first time, the suicide rate of black children in between the ages of 5 and 11 had doubled between 1993 and 2013 — while the rate among white children had declined. Suicides by hanging nearly tripled among black boys in particular. These findings were so surprising to researchers that they spent an extra year re-analyzing data just to double check themselves, only to find the same results.

We must combat the notion that blackness has to be synonymous with pain.

And while white people still have the highest suicide rates in the country, suicide rates among black youth have increasingly grown over the past decade. The most recent census data found that black youth are killing themselves far more frequently than their elders — and suicide has become the third leading cause of death among black people between the ages of 15 and 24.

These sobering numbers reveal how mental health problems have been quietly chipping away at the young black population over the past decade. However, in many black communities, community health experts say mental health remains a deeply stigmatized “white people problem,” or a personal weakness, rather than an illness. And little is being done at the community health level to shift this perception.

Jessmina “Minaa B.” Archbold, a social worker and mental health resource for New York youth living in poverty, is hoping to change that.

In 2014, Archbold began an

online story-sharing project for people struggling with addiction, inspired by her own work in the field. After hearing so many stories of stigmatized mental issues in the black community, she helped the project morph into a platform for black girls to talk openly about mental health. The project, called Respect Your Struggle, quickly became a place for black girls and women to work toward unapologetic acceptance of their unique battles with mental health issues.

To Archbold, the biggest challenge in getting her audience to embrace their health challenges is shattering the stigmatized labels that surround it. “People hear ‘anxiety’ and ‘depression,’ they are told medical diagnoses, they see white people on the internet sharing their stories of battling mental health — and they think ‘Oh, that’s not me’,” she said. youth suicide So instead of instantly assigning people to a clinical label, Respect Your Struggle shares relateable stories from other black women and offers holistic ways for women to practice self-care — framing it as a strength-building process as opposed to an illness.

This approach is merely a first step in a bigger effort to do more community mental health outreach in black communities, work that Archbold said shouldn’t stop at black girls. In a white-dominated industry, Archbold said it’s vital to also educate professionals on how to relate to black youth battling mental illness.

“People need to be with someone they feel safe around, who have a sense of understanding of the pressures they face,” she said.

Ideally, Archbold said, this would be another black person. Many fellow experts in her field agree that increasing the numbers of black doctors and social workers could help black communities feel more comfortable about accepting health

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(from page 14) racial groups cope with pain may the studies reviewed by the IUPUI researchers found that ignoring strategies are associated with less pain, whereas praying and hoping and catastrophizing are associated with higher pain levels.

Blacks report higher levels of pain than whites for a number of conditions including AIDS, glaucoma, arthritis, post-operative pain and lower-back pain.

Blacks also experience greater pain in both clinical and experimental studies. Blacks report less-effective pain care, are unable to return to work for a longer time and have worse functional outcomes. These race differences may be partly due to differences in pain-related coping, according to Hirsh.

Chronic pain is a leading cause of work disability and costs the United States more than $600 billion annually in medical treatment and lost productivity, according to the Institute of Medicine report “Relieving Pain in America.”

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“Clinicians see patients who are becoming more and more diverse over time,” he said. “It behooves us to ask about these things and to make good use of what the patient tells us. This study speaks to the need to provide such patientcentered and culturally sensitive medical care.”

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Accounting students offer tax assistance

The Chesterfield County Public Library is partnering with local artists to present A Taste of Art, a program that will feature exhibits, showcases, workshops and crafts for children. The event will take place on Saturday, March 5, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Chester Library, 11800 Centre St, Chester, 23831.

A Taste of Art is a celebration of different art forms. Nearly a dozen organizations will be represented.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will offer an activity geared toward students. Local artists and related businesses will help participants explore art related opportunities.

Food vendors will also be on hand for the event.For more information visit library.chesterfield.gov or call 804751-CCPL

Virginia State University (VSU) accounting majors are working in cooperation with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide income tax preparation and filing assistance for 2015 tax returns to individual or joint filers in the Tri-Cities area with income below $54,000.

This is the 28th year VSU accounting majors have provided this service, which is coordinated by Lester Reynolds, assistant professor of accounting at VSU and a former IRS employee; and Dr. John Moore, chairman of the Accounting and Finance Department in the Reginald F. Lewis College of Business. The students’ participation is among the requirements of the federal income tax course.

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) site has been established in Room 333 Singleton Hall, on the VSU campus and is being staffed two days a week; on Fridays from noon to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The VITA site will be open through April 9. The service will be closed during VSU Spring Break, March 6 – 13. For more information, call 804-524-5842.

3.5, 2 p.m.

The Richmond Region's most renowned historic sites offer visitors a “passport” to time-travel during a special admission-free weekend on Saturday and Sunday, March 12 and 13.

Tourists and locals alike are invited to discover the area's treasures, spanning 400 years of fascinating history and including the homes of John Marshall, Jefferson Davis, John Wickham, Major James Dooley and other important Virginians. Fourteen participating sites – Agecroft Hall, The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design, Chesterfield County Museum, Chimborazo Medical Museum, Dabbs House Museum, The John Marshall House, Magnolia Grange House Museum, Maymont, Meadow Farm Museum, Museum & White House of the Confederacy, Poe Museum, The 1812 Wickham House, The Valentine First Freedom Center and Wilton House Museum – will offer complimentary admission to visitors who show a Time Travelers Passport, available via download from any website of participating attractions. Visit www.nps.gov/rich.

The Central Virginia Alumni Chapter (CVAC) of South Carolina State University National Alumni Association (SCSUNAA) is hosting a “Bowling for Members” event on Saturday, March 5 at the AMF Shrader Lanes, 8037 Shrader Rd, Henrico, from 2-4 p.m.

The event is in conjunction with National Recruitment Day being held by SC State University Alumni Chapters nationwide. This area is rallying for SCSU Bulldogs to come have some fun, food and fellowship on the CVAC of SCSUNAA. For more information, contact Pam Thompson at 1978gillthompson@gmail.com.

3.5, 12 p.m.

Neighborhood Housing Services of Richmond, a nonprofit, full service organization dedicated to successful home ownership and community revitalization will host representatives from the Federal Deposit Corporation of America (FDIC), Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Bank of America, Xenith Bank, Premier Bank, J. Sargent Reynolds Community College, and many other partners as they meet with clients of NHS. The event takes place at 2712 Chamberlayne Ave., Richmond. For more information, contact Samuel L Robinson, Jr. at 804-329-2500.

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3.8, 6:30 p.m.

Participants in a free seminar offered by Virginia Credit Union will learn how credit scores are determined and practical steps they can take to build and maintain a good credit score.

The seminar will be held Tuesday, March 8 from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. at Virginia Credit Union, 7500 Boulder View Drive in the Boulders Office Park. To register, call 804-323-6800 or visit vacu.org/Learning_Planning/ Financial_Education/Seminars_ Workshops/Your_Credit_Score.aspx.

3.9, 1 p.m.

Author Ross Howell Jr. will host a free book talk at the Library of Virginia’s Conference Rooms, 800 E. Broad St. Richmond.

The book “Forsaken” tells the story of an uneducated African American servant, Virginia Christian, who was tried for killing her white employer in 1912. She died in the electric chair one day after her 17th birthday, the only female juvenile executed in Virginia history. The author researched the case using a variety of documents and images concerning Christian’s execution found in the Library of Virginia’s collections. A book signing follows the talk.

Ongoing

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

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(from page 15) care.

Trusting health professions has never come easy for black communities. Haunted by destructive clinical experiments by white doctors — like Alabama’s Tuskgeegee study, in which federal researchers misled black men into participating in a study that tracked their untreated syphilis — and findings of presentday unconscious racism within the medical system, it’s not surprising why.

I found my own strength through facing my weaknesses. Without them I would be powerless.

“There’s a history of medical experts violating black people’s trust.

They’re not eager to relive that.

Seeking that care is looked down on in black communities,” said Kimya Dennis, a professor of sociology and criminal studies at Salem College, who has studied the factors contributing to suicide among black youth for several years.

“A lot of families rely more on spirituality to heal. Going to a professional would be a betrayal of faith — regardless of your faith base,” she said.

This deep distrust in medical professionals could leave children, who may be dealing with serious mental health, undiagnosed or untreated — leading to long-term neglect. To combat this, Dennis said some organizations should set up mental health screenings in predominantly black churches to approach people in a comfortable space.

If parents do decide to seek professional help for their child, Dennis said many are quickly deterred by the cost in the current health care landscape. The uninsured rate among black Americans is persistently higher than the rate for white Americans. Plus, more than 50 percent of the county’s black population lives in the South, where few states have expanded their Medicaid programs to reach more people living just above the poverty

line. For many, lacking insurance could be the deciding factor between getting their child on recommended medication or continuing to ignore a serious mental illness.

Dennis agrees that addressing the heavy stigma associated with mental illness in the black community, especially within families with children, is key to moving forward.

“We must combat the notion that blackness has to be synonymous with pain,” said Dennis. “Some people believe that to be black means to be permanently outraged. We want to be the people who can overcome any trauma. But it’s not that simple.”

A lot of families rely more on spirituality to heal.

Which Archbold has struggled with herself. She openly identifies as a strong black woman. But as someone who quietly battled thoughts of suicide in her teens, she’s hesitant to fully embrace this label.

“For black people, ‘strength’ means being too proud to accept help. It means taking on a heavy load of stress and suffering silently. It’s become an unrealistic stereotype among black girls,” she said. “I found my own strength through facing my weaknesses. Without them I would be powerless.”

She’s seen this struggle in the faces of many black girls raised — like her — in a black community where emotional weaknesses were looked down upon, and believes it’s time to shift the long-ignored stigma.

Archbold said this strong pride that black communities have in their ability to endure should actually embolden them to seek care. The strength of her ancestors fighting for equality paved the way for allowing black people to access mental health resources.

“This is 2016. Our ancestors didn’t have the resources we had today, they didn’t have Black Lives Matter, they couldn’t speak out about their health problems,” she said. “We can no longer be blinded by our pride. It’s time we redefine what these terms we want to represent really mean.

Then we can see change.”

Jessmina “Minaa B.” Archbold’s Respect Your Struggle project helps combat the stigma around mental health among black girls and women.

(from page 11) essential qualification of induction. exactly one-week ahead of Jonas: Blizzard of 2016.

In accessing the Rock HOF's website, the following verbiage acknowledges just how its nominating committee justifies how performers can be inducted into the prestigious hall: To be eligible for induction as an artist (as a performer, composer, or musician) into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the artist must have released a record, in the generally accepted sense of that phrase, at least 25 years prior to the year of induction; and have demonstrated unquestionable musical excellence.

We shall consider factors such as an artist's musical influence on other artists, length and depth of career and the body of work, innovation and superiority in style and technique, but musical excellence shall be the

Based on the preceding premise, one would quickly assume that Kool & The Gang easily fits the bill and warrants becoming Rock HOF inductees, considering their existence for six decades - and how much they have influenced several generations of pop, soul, funk and jazz musicians.

Cecil Willingham, a long-time road manager for the band, noted that the group is "the most sampled band in RnB history" - topping even the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, he said. Willingham also said the group is currently "in talks" with HOF authorities, and that an induction could possibly occur within the upcoming year.

In an online video from 2013, group members visited the HOF facility and following the tour, “Kool” Bell called the experience “beautiful” -adding that "we got to get up in here.

They’ve got to show us some love.”

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