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INSIDE A woman’s quest to feed homeless - 2 Va. rallies with nation on gun control - 5 A church campaign to ‘reclaim Jesus’ - 10 P’Burg schools seek books for students - 13

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50 years ago, ‘the colored man’s paradise’ erupted

On June 17, 1963, the body of murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers was borne through the streets of Washington, D.C. bound for a historic black church on 14th Street.

People bared their heads and wept as the hearse passed, followed by hundreds of mourners. Evers had been assassinated in Mississippi five days earlier and was to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Twenty-five thousand people would turn out to view his body at the John Wesley AME Zion Church. “There’ll be no trouble,” an NAACP leader said. “Only . . . troubled consciences.”

Washington was, after all, “the colored man’s paradise,” as some whites called it.

Despite decades of slavery, segregation and discrimination, the District was said to be special.

There was, of course, the huge Ku Klux Klan march in 1925, and the real estate covenants that barred blacks, and the swaths of poverty and want.

But it wasn’t Mississippi. There was a solid black middle class. And there were vibrant selfcontained business districts like the glittering “Black Broadway” of U Street.

To some, it was a pleasant village — a “secret city,” as a noted historian called it, sheltered and walled off from the white world outside.

But to others, it was a prison from which there was no escape, and within which there was misery, anger and frustration that had smoldered for more than 100 years.

On April 4, 1968, the paradise erupted, and on 14th Street outside the church where Evers had rested five years before, the village was burning.

Gas, ruins and rage Next month marks the 50th anniversary of the paroxysm of rioting, destruction and arson that engulfed broad sections of Washington after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis.

In three days of upheaval, 13 people were killed.

Two of them were never identified. The skeleton of a third was found in the rubble and identified three years later, according to news accounts.

Hundreds of blazes left vast avenues of burning wreckage and nightmare scenes of desolation.

The air was filled with smoke and the smell of tear gas, and the streets were littered with broken glass and tumbled-down bricks, as if in the aftermath of an air raid.

Stretches of 14th Street NW, Seventh Street NW and H Street NE, among others, resembled combat zones, and 13,000 members of the Army, Marines and National Guard were brought in to regain control.

Local businesses were devastated. Display windows were smashed and merchandise was carried off in waves of looting. More than 200 liquor stores and taverns were looted, burned or

The scene at 14th and U streets a day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. PHOTO: Washington Star destroyed, according to a post-riot report by the Alcohol Beverage Control Board.

Drugstores, markets, shoe stores, clothing, furniture and appliance stores were hit. Looters seized everything from cough drops to a grand piano.

“It was anger,” said Tony Gittens, then a student activist at Howard University who took to the streets. “Real anger.”

“It was justified,” he said. “That’s what I thought.

It was absolutely justified. It was almost like ‘what they asked for.’ ” “It had to blow,” he said.

Charlene Drew Jarvis, a fourth-generation Washingtonian and former member of the D.C. Council, recalled: “There was a confluence of anger and hurt about the death of Martin Luther King.”

“But there was also a way of breaking out of a cage in which African Americans felt they had been contained,” she said. “A lot of it had to do with, ‘We’ve been contained here. We're angry about this. We owe nothing to people who have confined us.’ ” In the end, 7,600 people were arrested and hundreds were injured.

What had happened to paradise?

Had it ever existed?

If so, could it ever return?

Washington has been transformed in the decades since the riot. The ravaged corridors now sparkle with new prosperity and new residents, many of them white.

Much of the boom has bypassed blacks, edging some out of old neighborhoods, while others remain stuck in impoverished communities plagued by violence, bleak housing and beleaguered schools. Recently, a black cashier at a trendy market on 14th Street remarked to a black customer marveling at the well-heeled clientele: “I grew up here. It’s not my city anymore.”

The remnants of darker times In 1910, a judge in the District of Columbia ruled that a 7-year-old mixed-race child named Isabel I. Wall was “Negro,” and therefore barred from attending a white school in the segregated city.

Isabel looked white, according to news accounts of the time, and her mother was white. But her grandfather, O.S.B. Wall, had been a freed slave, a noted abolitionist and a pioneering black officer in the Union army.

He was the District’s first black justice of the peace, appointed in 1869 by President Ulysses S. Grant. He was an official with the Freedmen’s Bureau — the agency set up to help freed slaves — and a member of the District’s legislature, according to historian Daniel J. Sharfstein.

A lawyer and a champion of Washington’s black community, he became a member of the city’s black elite.

But 19 years after he died in 1891, amid mounting racial oppression, his son, Stephen — Isabel’s father — began what Sharfstein called his “escape from blackness.”

Stephen Wall built a house in the white enclave of Brookland and enrolled his daughter in the local white school. “My child is as white as any,” he said.

But after the school heard about Isabel’s ancestry, she was expelled. Her family sued.

The court ruled, however, that the existence of black ancestors, no matter how distant, was enough. “The child is of Negro blood,” the judge concluded. “Her racial status is that of the Negro.”

Washington was then in the midst of some of the darkest years of racial segregation and discrimination.

As enslaved people on local farms, black people had been in Washington before it was Washington and were present as the city and institution of slavery evolved.

In the late 1700s and early 1800s, slaves hired out by their masters helped build the U.S. Capitol and the White House, and sometimes were allowed to keep a little of the money they earned for their owners.

But the horrors of slavery were there for all to see.

The local jail served as a kind of holding pen for slaves and kidnapped free blacks headed elsewhere, according to historian Constance McLaughlin Green in her 1967 book, “The Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation’s Capital.”

One observer wrote of watching from a door of the Capitol as a slave coffle passed, “men, women and children . . . bound together in pairs, some with ropes, and some with iron chains.”

In 1849, a little-known congressman from Illinois named Abraham Lincoln introduced a bill calling for the abolition of slavery in the District. The bill

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News

One woman’s quest to feed Richmond’s homeless DAVID STREETER RVA MAG - When Rhonda Sneed moved to Richmond from New York City in 2013, she was shocked by the homelessness she saw. “I didn’t expect it,” she said over coffee at Ellwood Thompson’s. “It’s different down here.”

Her shock didn’t come from lack of experience, however. She grew up seeing homelessness in NYC and has even experienced it herself, shortly after leaving the US Air Force. “I was homeless, pregnant, right out of the military. I know what it’s like,” the retired postal worker and veteran said.

Still, the scale of suffering and the lack of resources in the River City shocked her when she arrived, but she quickly fell into a familiar pattern and did what she’s always done: Made food for people. “When I was six, I made pb&j and gave that out,” she said. “People live in cardboard boxes up there. You can see them, the city lets them.”

Each day, she made soup in a crockpot and distributed it by car in styrofoam cups. She enlisted two of her friends, including Cathy Davis, who joined us for coffee, but otherwise just kept working in obscurity.

After three years though, she found that the need was greater than she could meet, especially as she struggled with occasional flareups of fibromyalgia. She finally took up Davis on her suggestion to start a Facebook page, which she titled, Because We Care, We Are Blessing Warriors. Membership grew over the course of a year from a few dozen to over 1,700. Prospective members have to answer one question before she approves them: “Another word for a homeless person is?”

With donations and support from the group, Sneed turned her selffunded effort into a massive project that feeds hundreds of people across Richmond every day. I got to know Sneed over several interactions, but I first met her at the end of 2017 at the city overflow shelter, where Richmond’s homeless were huddled against the wall waiting to get inside, away from a 14-degree evening.

The food being offered included 25-gallons of hot soup, over 100 sandwiches, hot drinks, and prepackaged meals. Warm clothes were distributed among men and women who lacked gloves, blankets, and even socks.

One of the men stopped to hug Sneed and another volunteer, Kim Lumpkin. He introduced himself as Ken Dahl, and said, “I don’t go inside and just forget about y’all.” He also wanted to share an idea for fixing homelessness, which he said would take, “rais[ing] a couple dollars from everybody, we could build a permanent home for everybody. We’d do the work.”

Sneed said his willingness to work was par for the course. “Most of the people I bring food to want to work,” she said, but many suffer from health problems or disabilities. Even with government assistance, she said it’s a struggle, Although many groups come out during the blistering cold we had this winter, Sneed said it’s an everyday vocation. The only difference is “Gatorade in the summer, warm clothes in the winter. People forget how hot it gets in the summer. We do 300 bottles of water a day, half of them frozen, and Gatorade.”

Sneed and her friends set out styrofoam coolers they keep stocked with water, but many of them disappear.

“I think the city takes them,” Sneed said. “Although we try to make them blend in, look pretty. The young people in the group paint them.”

The Cold Weather Overflow Shelter, which opens its doors at 7 PM on nights when the temperature dips below 40 degrees, isn’t the only place that Sneed feeds people. She still keeps up her regular routine, a multi-stop hours-long drive across the city, most days of the week.

Near the end of February, I got the chance to join her, Davis, and Lumpkin over at Lowe’s Home Improvement on West Broad Street for a truncated version of their usual day. As they began inventory of the supplies in Sneed’s Nissan Xterra, a man who has seen them out before drove over and introduced himself as James McEachern.

Davis and Sneed He wanted to donate his lunch, a pasta dish he made himself, and said, “I have food at home, I can wait until work is done to eat.”

Sneed described it as part of a normal day, saying, “People stop, they give us five, ten dollars. They want to help, they just don’t know how.”

The first two people we met on that day were Faith and Greg, a couple who get around on old mountain bikes. Greg told me they had a 2 and 3-year-old living with relatives, and that they currently pay a small amount each month to sleep on a floor in an apartment. The couple does odd-jobs and is looking for stable work so they can live as a family again. When I asked for a photo, Faith said she loved to have her picture taken while Greg tenderly removed her broken sunglasses.

Before we left Lowe’s, the group gave out food and clothing to some 20 people at the Allen and Lombardy Street entrances. One of the men, Craig, came over and gave all the women hugs. “This is the most beautiful woman in the city,” he said about Sneed. “When I see her, it makes me smile every time.” Like most of the men I met, he was sensitive and gentle, and enthusiastic about the women who come out to help him.

“One man said he’d rather just sit and talk with us than have something to eat,” Sneed said as we drove to our next stop, behind the abandoned 6th Street Marketplace.

Davis said that’s because of who Sneed is.

She moved to Richmond from NYC to help with Sneed’s efforts and describes her with the wonderment one usually hears about saints. “She could get a call at 1 AM, she’ll fix them a sandwich and drive over. The other night, she took her shoes off for a woman,” Davis said.

Sneed, who added that she can always go home to get another pair of shoes, said her only wish is for people to call her sooner when they need something.

“When I do get a call, they haven’t eaten in two to three days, and they feel guilty for calling me,” she said.

“They don’t need to go hungry. I’m happy to come out and feed them wherever they are.”

Davis also brought up a young woman who they see around town, prompting Sneed to share her story.

Sneed said she did, but the EMS workers who showed up weren’t properly trained. “They refused to work with me, they just kept saying if she couldn’t describe the problem to them, they were going to leave.”

Eventually, she got the woman to get into the ambulance by promising she’d go with her, but the ambulance crew wouldn’t let her in. She drove to the hospital herself, found the room, and made her way in despite pushback from the hospital staff.

For six months I fed her and she never talked to me, until that day.

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New delegate sees hope for change in Assembly KAY TRULASKE & CAROLINE QUEALLY CNS - For freshman Del. John McGuire, R-Henrico, the biggest surprise during his first session of the Virginia General Assembly was getting things done.

“I got involved in politics because I was sick and tired of all the divide in our country,” McGuire said. “I know that a good leader brings people together, and the goal of any good leader is to bring people to a better place.”

McGuire is a representative for parts of Goochland, Henrico and Spotslyvania coutnties, as well as Louisa County. A former Navy Seal and father of five, McGuire was born and reared in Henrico County, Virginia, and was in foster care as a child.

Assembly-veteran Del. Steve Landes, R-Weyers Cave, served as McGuire’s mentor in the 2018

session.

“Obviously his background in the military and his experience with small businesses contributed to his success this year,” Landes said. “He takes advice well and applies all feedback in a very effective way.”

During his campaign, McGuire said he heard countless people tell him he wasn’t qualified or experienced enough to be a delegate, and that he would never get anything done.

McGuire knocked on the doors of independents, democrats and republicans – with whom he said he laughed and cried as he heard stories from their lives. McGuire sought to embrace people’s different passions and problems.

“I appreciate someone who has a different opinion, because through conversation it might change me or change them, so then we get to a better place.”

Del. David Reid, D-Loudoun, was a neighbor of McGuire in the General

Del. John McGuire Assembly office building this session.

“It was a pleasure getting to know John and his staff,” Reid said. “We both served in the Navy and we were both adopted when we were young, so there’s a common bond in those areas.”

Reid was a co-patron of McGuire’s veteran ID bill, HB 737, and emphasized the broad support the bill received in the House this year.

McGuire was the chief-patron of nine total bills this session, with the veteran ID bill making it all the way to Gov. Ralph Northam. The bill would allow the DMV to issue driver’s licenses with a veteran indicator.

McGuire’s other eight proposed pieces of legislation, such as HB 739 on police animal cruelty and HB 1397 concerning small business’ government compliance, were killed

in session.

“I was elected to solve problems,” McGuire stated. “Not push bills through and overlooking finding the simple solution.”

Landes was impressed with McGuire’s passion to solve issues.

“He was able to find solutions and create legislation on issues people have been trying to solve for years,” Landes said.

McGuire has even killed a number of his own bills because he said he was able to find a solution outside of the General Assembly. Examples include HB 1438 and HB 738, that looked to promote local drive-in movie theaters and lower the cost of milk respectively.

“Our number one goal is to find solutions,” he said. “We want to

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Richmond students, community rally in the thousands for gun control CNS. -- More than 5,000 students and other demonstrators marched through Richmond on Saturday as part of a nationwide protest against mass shootings and gun violence.

Cheering and chanting against the chilly breeze, the Richmond march spanned more than a mile from the lawn of Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School to the stairs of the Virginia Capitol. The event featured several student speakers alongside prominent local and state leaders.

At the start of the rally, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine expressed pride in seeing the action taken by students in his home state.

“Congress and the General Assembly – of not just this state but of other states, too – has a hard time finding a way to do anything because of the power of gun manufacturers and NRA leadership, but they’ve never had to come up against high schoolers before,” Kaine said.

The youth-centric nature of the march was present in the speeches

and chants heard throughout the day. Once the march reached the Capitol, the younger speakers took the lead as state legislators and Richmond School Board members deferred to their voices in respect.

Meanwhile, students repeatedly called on older participants to protect them by doing what they can’t – vote for gun reform.

Maxwell Nardi, a student speaker from Douglas S. Freeman High School in Henrico County, was one of many to call for changes in school safety, universal background checks for firearm purchases and the removal of politicians unwilling to support gun control.

“This isn’t a new issue,” Nardi said.

“It’s been happening for 19 years in school shootings, and gun violence has been plaguing America for a much longer time.”

Speakers also emphasized the greater impact gun violence has on the African-American community, tying it to historical acts of violence

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war on common sense. It shouldn’t be easy to harm children.”

Ron Sims, a veteran and constituent in Louisa County, said McGuire’s success thus far is thanks to his persistence.

“The way he ran for election, he stood on every street corner in this district personally holding a sign,” Sims said. “He’s very tenacious.”

During the months he’s not in session, McGuire travels around the country with his company SEAL Team PT, a physical training boot camp for athletic teams and corporations nationwide.

“We are celebrating 20 years of helping people become stronger, healthier and more confident.”

McGuire said. “We help people believe in themselves.”

McGuire said he hopes to run for re-election for the 2019 General Assembly.

“I would hope that people would think that finding solutions and getting results is the best thing,” he said. “This is why I am really excited.

I put my heart and soul in and am getting things done.”

make Virginia the best place to work, live and raise a family.”

McGuire also discussed the recent Parkland shooting.

“You can imagine that I know a lot about weapons, and I am pro-second amendment,” he said. “However, some people are not. That doesn’t make me any better than them.”

McGuire said at the start of the session he surprised newspapers when he attended and spoke at pro-gun rally, and in the same day, attended a gun safety rally.

“How could you possibly be a good legislator if you don’t go to both and know both sides?” he said.

McGuire said the country needs to make a change about leniency of gun-regulation, especially when it comes to the safety of children. He is in support of stronger background checks.

“If our kids are number one -which they are-- we need to protect our children. Make our schools safer,” he said. “It’s like what I said on the campaign trial. We are in a

Gun reform advocates across the commonwealth, in sync with sister marches across the country, marched from Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School to the Captial today in Richmond in honor of the lives lost and hope for change. PHOTOS: Erin Edgerton against minorities.

“How many more black families will be devastated by gun violence – threatened or killed by the people whose job it is to serve and protect?”

Stephanie Younger, an activist with the Richmond Youth Peace Project, asked the crowd.

“How many more times do my parents have to give me that talk explaining to me that I’m 10 times more likely to become a victim of gun violence because I am black?”

Nardi echoed her words, saying,

“We have to look at this both from the perspective of schools, but also from the perspective of communities that have been disproportionately impacted by this.”

Speakers also drew attention to Virginia’s history with guns – in particular, the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 as well as the National Rifle Association’s presence in the state, politically and geographically (its headquarters are in Fairfax).

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Fair Housing’s unfinished journey CHARLENE CROWELL Although golden anniversaries are often considered milestone moments accompanied by festive celebrations, two such observances in April 2018 are bittersweet memories for much of black America. One took the life of an unparalleled preacher, orator, author, activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The other marks the enactment of what many would argue is the strongest of the civil rights laws enacted during the 1960s: The Fair Housing Act. As observances begin across the country, now is an appropriate time to recall how fair housing was a key issue for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In fact, Chicago became his chosen battleground for fair housing, bringing a national spotlight to the multiple ills of segregated and substandard housing. In early 1966, Dr. King moved his family into one of the city’s ghetto apartments to dramatize how people were forced to live.

On Aug. 5, 1966 during a march through an all-White neighborhood, a riot exploded with racial taunts and hurled bricks. Remarking on the hostility encountered, Dr. King said, "I have seen many demonstrations in the South; but I have never seen anything so hostile and so hateful as I’ve seen here today.”

By the time Dr. King’s life was snuffed out by a sniper’s bullet in Memphis on April 4, 1968, the cause of fair housing was also on the minds of Congress. The same day Dr. King was martyred, the U.S. Senate passed a fair housing bill and sent it to the House of Representatives for further consideration. On April 10,

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the House passed the measure.

With a signing ceremony the following day, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s signature enacted a federal law that banned discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing. Legally, no longer could people be rejected due to their race, religion, or ethnicity.

In his remarks, President Johnson said in part, “With this bill, the voice of justice speaks again. It proclaims that fair housing for all--all human beings who live in this country--is now a part of the American way of life…We all know that the roots of injustice run deep.”

Unfortunately, 50 years of legal roots supporting fair housing has failed to deliver full justice. For many blacks and other people of color, fair housing today remains just as elusive as it was in 1968.

A year-long analysis of 31 million records by the Center for Investigative Reporting found that: The homeownership gap between blacks and whites is now wider than

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it was during the Jim Crow era.

Another independent research report by the Economic Policy Institute found that the difference in black homeownership between 1968 and 2018 is virtually the same – 41.1 percent (1968) compared to 41.2 percent (2018); In 61 metro areas across the country, blacks were 2.7 times more likely than whites to be denied a conventional mortgage loan; As the number of non-bank mortgage lenders rise, these businesses are not required to adhere to the Community Reinvestment Act that requires lending to low-income borrowers and in blighted areas.

Each year, the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) releases an analysis of the annual Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, the most comprehensive mortgage lending report, and the only one that includes data on lending by race and ethnicity. CRL’s most recent analysis found that in 2016, conventional mortgage lenders continue to serve white and wealthier borrowers.

Despite broad support for large banks following the most recent housing crisis, blacks, Latinos, and other borrowers of color are mostly accessing government-insured mortgage programs such as FHA or VA. Even upper income Blacks are overrepresented in FHA. In plain English, that means fewer banks are offer mortgage loans to average Americans and talks about the future of mortgage lending fail to provide for greater access. Once

again, the same communities that suffered the worst losses during the Great Recession remain at a financial disadvantage. Homeownership is still a solid wealth building block.

As home values appreciate, financial gains are achieved. But for those shut out of these opportunities, the chance to safely build family wealth is denied.

Further, a recent report by CRL and the National Urban League analyzing a proposed draft of legislation from senators Bob Corker (TN) and Mark Warner (VA) to reform the nation’s housing finance system found it will harm access to affordable mortgage loans and the overall housing market. The proposal removes key affordability mechanism such as the broad duty to serve, including affordable housing goals. It also weakens fair lending enforcement under the Fair Housing Act by inserting business judgment protection for guarantors’ decisions on access – despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that such claims are permissible under the Fair Housing Act. Just as President Johnson stated 50 years ago, “We have come some of the way, not near all of it. There is much yet to do.”

Despite the passage of a half century, our journey towards fair housing remains unfinished Crowell is the Center for Responsible Lending’s Communications Deputy Director. She can be reached at Charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

McEachin speaks...

On the the fed. budget

I voted in favor of this compromise spending bill because it makes overdue investments in important priorities such as our environment, education, and public health. This bill increases needed funding— along with countless other priorities like infrastructure, workforce development, and a fix to the opioid crisis. I am especially pleased to see more than $700 million in new resources to ensure access to clean water, a $3 billion increase in the National Institute of Health, and as much as $2 billion to help expand broadband Internet access.

This bill makes investments that will benefit every American. I am pleased to see great improvements to President Trump’s initial deeply irresponsible plan. The hardworking American people – especially our brave men and women in uniform – deserve more than what the president offered. In contrast, President Trump has called for massive, devastating cuts to almost every part of government—including a 31 percent cut to the EPA and a $9 billion cut to the Department of Education. I am pleased this legislation takes a different approach.

This is not the bill that I would have written, and it omits critical priorities—including a permanent fix for DREAMers. I will continue to insist on real solutions to those problems, and I will keep working to hold Republicans accountable when they stand in the way of progress.

We are currently a little more than six months away from the beginning of fiscal year 2019. Let us start working now on comprehensive, bipartisan spending bills that uphold American values by adequately funding our government. I call on my Republican colleagues to give the American people and our military what they need and deserve – an adequate, on-time spending bill for FY19. Let today mark the last time that Congress does its job months late. *****

On the transgender ban

The president of the United States continues to be a daily disappointment.

[The recent] decision to double down on bigotry comes from the White House despite federal court rulings that deemed the transgender military ban unconstitutional. I fully expect that the courts will reject this iteration as well.

President Trump’s needless, misguided, divisive choice against transgender individuals shows a shameful disrespect for the brave Americans who already proudly serve our country. Gender identity has nothing to do with one’s ability to serve one’s country. These patriots deserve admiration and respect from their commander-in-chief — not demonization.

Congressman A. Donald McEachin

Keeping male educators Does being me give me an advantage in my inner-city classroom? I often reflect on this question because every school year I learn from a handful of students that I am their very first black male teacher.

If we got 100 teachers in a room, statistically I would be one of just two black males in that room and one of 50 who will leave the profession within

our first five years. I am now in my fifth year of teaching and I want to stay where I am.

I know that it’s not my skin tone but my cultural experiences that give me the advantage. I develop close bonds with my students quicker because I grew up in the same Boston neighborhoods as most of them, and have had close bonds with diverse people of color since my childhood.

For example, Boston Public Schools (BPS) has a diverse student body that goes beyond race. Someone white might be Albanian or Polish, someone black might be Haitian or Nigerian and someone Asian might be Vietnamese or Filipino.

I have known and been close to this diversity since I was a student at BPS. At the same time, I am aware of my limitations. I am not a monolith of the urban experience and a Boston childhood has changed greatly since I was growing up in the city.

More kids come into my classroom having experienced trauma and are labeled with behavioral problems than when I was a student. Many more have parental-like responsibilities.

So while I may be a role model, an exemplar for my black male students, I still have the same challenges as many other teachers in my school building.

Challenges like trying to teach Brianna how to interpret linear graphs when she is constantly responding to Facebook drama on her phone. Like trying to engage Jeffery in a Desmos activity when he is tired, hungry, and did not eat the school lunch.

Or the larger challenge of making algebra meaningful when many of my students are struggling socially and emotionally.

Yes, my ability to bond, to develop relationships with my students is the foundation I need to have to support them effectively, both academically and with their social-emotional needs.

With every interaction, redirection

and teachable moment in the hallways or on the sidewalks, I strengthen my influence.

We all need a coach sometimes.

However, there is a price I pay, an invisible tax, to doing that work, a weight that’s placed on me when I learn about a student’s self-harm, a friend’s murder, immigration status or eviction.

Many of the things I have learned about my students over the years keep me up at night. This is why I and other teachers like me need coaching to continue learning, deepening and reflecting on our own social-emotional competencies so we can understand how to respond and support our students’ social emotional struggles.

Just like my students, I want a coach for my own social-emotional learning (SEL), a professional who would focus on how I am building my own socialemotional competencies, facilitating those of my students and caring for myself. This SEL coach could be a district-level position and could work with my school’s teaching team so we could all reflect on our coaching and our social-emotional needs.

Our district could also create a socialemotional learning mentor-teacher role. This could be an opportunity for a teacher to get trained in supporting other teachers’ SEL practices.

If my own most basic needs are not being met, I will not be able to consistently achieve the goals I have set for my students.

I am reminded of Audre Lorde’s words, “Caring for myself is not selfindulgence, it is self-preservation.” I do not want my self-preservation to come from leaving the profession. I want to be there for my black students, and for all of my students, for as long as I can so that I can continue to bond with them, influence them and carry them forward. For that to happen, I need a coach of my own.

Francis Pina

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Churches begin campaign to ‘reclaim Jesus’ A group of Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders, including Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, have begun what they call a campaign to “reclaim Jesus” from those who they believe are using Christian theology for political gain.

“We are living through perilous and polarizing times as a nation, with a dangerous crisis of moral and political leadership at the highest levels of our government and in our churches,” say the 23 signers of the statement. “We believe the soul of the nation and the integrity of faith are now at stake.”

The group says the church’s role

is to change the world through the life and love of Jesus Christ, while the government should serve the common good by protecting justice and peace, rewarding good behavior while restraining bad behavior.

“When that role is undermined by political leadership, faith leaders must stand up and speak out,” the signers say, citing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who said the church is the conscience of the state, not its master or its servant.

“Reclaiming Jesus: A Confession of Faith in a Time of Crisis” offers six “affirmations” of what the group, currently 23 strong, believes, “and

the resulting rejections of practices and policies by political leaders which dangerously corrode the soul of the nation and deeply threaten the public integrity of our faith.

“We pray that we, as followers of Jesus, will find the depth of faith to match the danger of our political crisis.”

In summary, the signers, in their the affirmations and rejections, said they believe: Each human being is made in God’s image and likeness, and therefore, “we reject the resurgence of white nationalism and racism in our nation on many fronts, including the highest

levels of political leadership.”

We are one body and, therefore, “we reject misogyny, the mistreatment, violent abuse, sexual harassment, and assault of women that has been further revealed in our culture and politics, including our churches, and the oppression of any other child of God.” “How we treat the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, the stranger, the sick, and the prisoner is how we treat Christ himself,” and, therefore, “we reject the language and policies of political leaders who would debase and abandon the most vulnerable children of God.”

Share of married adults varies widely across U.S. religious groups

Members of a wedding party pose after a Mormon ceremony at Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City.

Throughout U.S. history, marriage has been tied to religion and religious institutions. Today, virtually all faith traditions have rules and ceremonies regarding marriage and, in the United States as well as in many other countries, clergy of different religious groups are authorized by the government to perform weddings.

In the U.S., roughly half of all American adults (48%) say they are married, according to the 2014 Religious Landscape Study. Much smaller shares of U.S. adults say they are living with a partner (7%), are divorced or separated (13%), or are widowed (7%). A quarter of

Americans say they’ve never been married.

In certain U.S. religious groups, a higher-than-average share of adults say they are married. For instance, six-in-ten or more Mormons, members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are married. The same holds true for Hindus, Southern Baptists and members of the Episcopal Church.

By contrast, fewer than four-in-ten atheists, agnostics and those who say their religion is “nothing in particular” are married. Similarly,

Buddhists (39%) also are less likely than the general public to be married.

Religious groups whose share of married adults is comparable to shares seen in the general population include Catholics (52%) and Orthodox Christians (48%).

Of course, there are many factors associated with marriage rates.

For instance, Americans who have a college education are more likely than those with less education to be married.

Age also is a big factor in determining which religious groups have a higher or lower share of

married adults. In short, those groups that have more young people tend to have a smaller share of married adults and vice versa. That’s in part because younger Americans are less likely than their older counterparts to be married. In fact, among adults between the ages of 18 and 29, just 16% are married, compared with a majority (57%) of adults over the age of 30.

Atheists and other religiously unaffiliated adults are a case in point. The median age of atheists is 34, much younger than the median age of the population as a whole (46 in the 2014 Landscape Study).

And while only 8% of the youngest atheists (those under age 30) are married, 54% of those 30 and older have a husband or wife. A similar relationship between age and marriage exists among agnostics and those who say their religion is “nothing in particular.” And the same holds true among members of most other religious traditions analyzed in the Landscape Study.

But the survey shows that even after age is taken into account, there are still significant differences in the share of married adults across religious groups. Even when the analysis is restricted to adults over the age of 30, self-identified atheists, agnostics and those whose religion is nothing in particular are still somewhat less likely than Mormons, Jews, evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics to be married.

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EEOD director reflects on changes in diversity during career NATALIE SKELTON After a storied career spanning more than 35 years in civil service, Harold McManus retires at the end of March from his post as director of Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity.

The times, they are always changing, and McManus has ridden on the crest of the wave that swept in changes to the way women, minorities and individuals with disabilities are treated in the workplace.

In that time, McManus has seen changes, subtle and overt, that have come with equal opportunity rulings affecting the workplace. Perhaps the most impactful of these for DLA was the 1977 ruling that resulted from a class action complaint led by Lillie Mae Brown against the Defense General Supply Center.

“I came here in 1982 and we were only five years removed from the consent decree [to Brown’s complaint]. I was not aware of the occurrence until much later in my career,” McManus said. “I can remember restroom doors in the depot where the signs that previously read ‘Colored’ had been painted over.”

McManus recalls staff also never talked about sexual harassment until the [1991] Tailhook scandal – and afterward, everyone received training on sexual harassment awareness and prevention. “I do believe many people didn’t know what sexual harassment was prior to that, but since that time we have made tremendous progress,” he said.

That progress, he said, includes growth in the number of minorities and women in the workforce, particularly senior-level positions.

“While African-Americans have made a great deal of progress, women have been the greatest beneficiaries [of equal opportunity rulings],” he said.

“Culturally, there certainly is more diversity in terms of minorities and individuals with disabilities. The camaraderie and teamwork among the workforce is certainly better, but there is still work to be done. My hope is that we will continue to build on those successes.”

McManus started his civil service career in 1982 as a clerk-typist when the installation was named the Defense Depot in Richmond (then known as the Defense General

Harold McManus Supply Center). Additional positions held included supervisory technical data clerk, supervisory supply technician, management analyst, and – most recently – EEO specialist in 1998, complaints manager in 2001, and EEOD manager in 2005. He cites the experience gained in his early roles as integral to his success in DLA. “I served as a supervisor in Technical Operations and Supply Operations, so I had knowledge of the daily challenges of being a manager,” he said. “As a management analyst in the Management Engineering Branch, I gained a great deal of knowledge about the inner workings of the mission and its operations – which gave me a business perspective to apply when employees raised concerns in EEO. I think these experiences were invaluable, especially in the early stages.”

McManus’ leadership and means of inspiring his staff to excel have earned the office the DLA EEO Activity of the Year Award twice, in 2005 and 2006. Janice Samuel, director of the Equal Employment Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion Office for DLA Headquarters at Fort Belvoir, cut her teeth under McManus and learned a great deal from his “tough, but fair” approach to leadership.

“Mr. McManus truly has a heart for caring for, and about, people,” Samuel said. “He has a strong conviction for treating people fairly and making the workplace a better environment for all. He made me recognize my talents and strengths, and helped me to become confident.

He provided me with opportunities

to reach my potential. He has truly been a great mentor, supervisor and friend.”

McManus’s support staff are equally passionate about the positive impact his leadership has had on the office and on their respective careers.

Laurie Darrisaw, an EEO specialist and training coordinator for DLA Aviation, said McManus allowed her to use the skills she acquired in a previous position to develop creative ways to train the workforce.

In the course of her work, Darrisaw said McManus was a valuable teacher and leader. “I have learned never to allow distractions to overwhelm me to the point of ineffectiveness; to listen without judgment and to know that, when I don’t know how to resolve an issue, I can utilize the expertise of those who have been in the EEO business for years,” said Darrisaw.

Darrisaw revealed that, behind McManus’s tough exterior, he’s a loving family man with a penchant for baking and for giving back to the community. “He is a very compassionate and giving person,” she said.

McManus’s volunteer pursuits throughout the years have included service to Chesterfield County and Petersburg youth athletic groups and advisory boards, board service and volunteer work with Tri-Cities Habitat for Humanity, directorships and chairing duties for numerous athletic organizations, and active membership in Good Shepherd Baptist Church. He and his wife, Kendra, have two sons, one daughter, and five grandchildren.

Deborah Winston, DLA Aviation’s chief of EEOD Complaints and

Training Branch, said she has appreciated McManus’s open-door policy and outgoing personality.

“Harold is a great encourager; his gift is recognizing potential and helping an employee reach his or her potential. He has the uncanny ability to make all people feel welcome,” said Winston.

From his leadership, she said she has learned to reach out and communicate with her staff, and to take the initiative on new projects.

“I personally owe him a debt of gratitude for allowing me to step outside the box to initiate new programs,” Winston said. “Harold always stressed neutrality and credibility. Once you lose your credibility, it cannot be easily regained. This has been a guiding principle in how I manage my staff as well as my daily communications and interactions.”

With retirement on the horizon, McManus offered words of encouragement to his successor and praised his team for their professionalism.

“No organization is perfect, but DLA – and DLA Aviation – from my standpoint is a great organization.

Inherent to this position has been great support from leadership and resources to conduct the EEO mission without unnecessary interference, micromanaging or unwarranted attempts to control outcomes,” he said.

“While we still have work to do, for the most part [the next director] has a great team of EEO professionals, so if you [as director] continue to guide them and coach them when needed, the mission will take care of itself; you only need to guide the ship,” said McManus.

Once he’s fully engaged in life after DLA, McManus said he will continue his work with inner-city youth athletics and would like to do work on behalf of sexual assault and domestic violence victims. “I will still dabble in EEO-related work as time permits, and who knows after that?

God has blessed me with a multitude of talents and gifts, and He did so to serve my fellow man.

“All I know for sure is that I won’t sit for long, because I’m not wired that way,” McManus added. “I have a quote on my wall that says, ‘I shall pass this way but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.’”

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(from page 1) never passed. And it wasn’t until 1862, when Lincoln was president, that Congress enacted a law freeing the 3,100 slaves owned by Washington’s residents.

After the Civil War, there was a temporary flowering of desegregation in Washington as public transportation, among other things, was integrated.

But bitter opposition remained.

In one case, a District streetcar conductor tried to drag the renowned abolitionist Sojourner Truth off his car. She hung on but injured her shoulder, according to Douglas R. Egerton’s book, “The Wars of Reconstruction.”

Truth sued, and the conductor was fired.

But as the progressive era of Reconstruction ended, the city and the country began a long descent into a period of discrimination and resegregation that would last more than a century.

In the District, decent jobs grew more and more scarce. In 1908, the State Department had no black employee above the grade of messenger, according to Green.

Of the fire department’s 498 firefighters, nine were black. Of the city’s 731 policemen, 39 were black.

“The separation of the races is more nearly complete (in Washington) than in any other city of the Union,” wrote one observer quoted by Green.

The situation was made worse when newly elected President Woodrow Wilson cleared many blacks out of government jobs and segregated government lunch rooms and restrooms.

“I have never seen the colored people (of Washington) so discouraged and so bitter,” the prominent black leader Booker T. Washington wrote in 1913.

Six years later, in July 1919, the city exploded into outright race warfare.

Spurred by media hysteria and reports of an alleged black crime surge, gangs of white servicemen attacked a black neighborhood.

The conflict spread, and black residents fought back. More than 30 people were killed before the fighting waned.

The 1920s brought no solutions and no respite.

In 1925, Washington welcomed the Klan. Thirty thousand robed Klan members strode up Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol, then down to the Washington Monument.

Businesses said they were disappointed because they had not ordered enough merchandise to serve so large a crowd.

The Depression brought more misery.

The government set up an “Alley Dwelling Authority” to rid the city of the most squalid homes, almost exclusively occupied by blacks .

In 1937, 9,000 District houses were illuminated only by oil lamps, 11,000

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, a day before he was assassinated at approximately the same place. families lacked indoor toilets, and 7,000 tenements didn’t have indoor water taps, according to Green’s history.

Schools, theaters and the Boy Scouts were segregated. Blacks could not try on clothes at many department stores. When full integration of the fire department was proposed later, the union representing firefighters objected.

“Firemen must of necessity sleep, cook, eat and wash in rooms common to all,” it said in a statement. “To live together in an integrated firehouse is inherently distasteful . . . and integration would be a serious social discrimination.”

By 1941, black leaders were fed up. They called for a massive march for jobs in Washington that July.

Alarmed, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to get it called off.

Black leaders refused, and Roosevelt signed an executive order requiring nondiscrimination at government agencies and plants with defense contracts.

It was the first time since the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, Green noted, that a president had signed an official order protecting the rights of African Americans.

Upheaval in ‘the village’ The scene at 14th and U streets a day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Washington Star) The metal trash can was sitting outside the Peoples Drug at 14th and U streets NW. It was made of corrugated metal, with handles on the sides, and as Stanley Mayes watched, a man picked it up and hurled it through the store’s glass window.

The date was April 4, 1968. Word was on the street that Martin Luther King Jr. had just been assassinated.

And Mayes, 18, was witnessing the opening scenes of unrest that would torment the city for the next 72 hours and leave sections of the capital in ruins for 30 years.

“It made no sense to me,” he recalled. He and his parents lived

around the corner on Wallach Place, and he and his siblings had been reared there.

The neighborhood, which would become a center of the rioting, had been a wonderful spot to grow up.

There were big families like his.

“Everybody knew all the local kids,” Mayes, 68, said in a recent interview.

“You could go block after block after block and call people by name.”

And the streets around the bustling crossroads of 14th and U were alive with celebrities.

One might see entertainers such as Harry Belafonte or Junior Walker, boxers such as Sugar Ray Robinson, and civil rights figures such as King.

Mayes remembers being swept up in a King march for district home rule when he was 12 or 13.

There were three movie theaters, a radio studio where a disc jockey named Lord Fauntleroy Bandy spun records and a joint called Wingsn-Things that was known for the mumbo sauce.

“It was very much ‘the village,’ ” he said. “We didn’t have to leave the community for anything.”

But outside the community, racial unrest had exploded the previous summer across the country, in places such as Newark, where 23 people were killed, and Detroit, where 43 people were killed.

A presidential panel was set up to find out why.

King already knew why.

“Discrimination is the hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment,” he had said later that summer.

The government’s Kerner Commission report was issued six months later.

“Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal,” the report concluded. “Discrimination and segregation . . . now threaten the future of every American.”

Among other things, the report found, life expectancy was almost seven years longer for whites than nonwhites. Maternal mortality for

nonwhite women was four times higher than for white mothers. And infant mortality for babies one month to one year old was almost three times higher for nonwhite infants.

In 1968, Washington’s population of 854,000 was 67 percent black, the highest black percentage of any major American city, according to a Washington Post study of the riots done that year.

The District suffered from all the ills of other big cites. But there had been no riot. Was the city “riot proof,” or filled with tinder that had not yet been ignited?

By then, the civil rights story had faded from the newspaper front pages, replaced by Vietnam War news. King’s 1963 March on Washington was now five years in the past. And there were rumblings of trouble in the District.

In 1966, there had been a running fight between police with dogs and rock-throwing black residents protesting an arrest at an Anacostia precinct house. Demonstrators said they were clubbed. A policeman said he was knocked down and stomped.

By 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 declaration of a “War on Poverty” sounded empty.

And King was planning a big “poor people’s” protest in Washington for late April.

On April 2, outside the Peoples Drug at 14th and U, a tense standoff between police and bystanders developed over a fight between local youths and store security guards.

Objects were thrown at the store and at police cars. The police arrested two men, but left the area quickly, and the tension eased.

Two nights later, at the same intersection, the outcome would be different.

Epilogue After the 1910 court case declared Isabel Wall black, her family left Brookland and eventually settled in Georgetown. The family had changed its name to Gates. And Isabel attended the local white school.

Stanley Mayes eventually left Wallach Place to attend Rutgers Law School and have a career in law, banking and investment. In the early 1980s, he bought a house on Wallach Place across the street from his parents. He lives there still.

The street, exclusively black when he was a youngster, has changed.

Today, he said, of the 60 some houses on the block only four are owned by black people.

This month Tony Gittens, now director of FilmFest DC, officiated at the wedding of some white friends in Washington. But such ties across the races remain uncommon, he said.

Washington is still “a pretty segregated place,” he said. “That’s the way it is. That hasn’t changed since 1968.” -WaPo

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In NN, Fairlead Boatworks announces $5 expansion Fairlead Boatworks recently announced a major and far reaching expansion to its current operations in Newport News’ Seafood Industrial Park (SIP). The investment being made exceeds $5 million and will result in a significant and immediate increase in the size and scope of work that will be done by the Boatworks through both commercial and government contracts. Not only will this investment in facilities complement and enhance the current operations at 99 and 1008 Jefferson Avenue, it will provide an entirely new capability through major facilities improvements to 601 Jefferson Avenue, better known as the “North Yard.”

“We are looking forward to expanding our operations in Newport News. Increasing our heavy lift capacity will allow us to conduct drydock repairs to many additional vessels. And, the completion of a 17,000 sq ft fabrication platen, coupled with a state of the art fabrication and coatings facility will also allow us to better support the large fabrication and integration requirements of our customers,” said Jerry Miller, owner of Fairlead Boatworks, Inc. Fairlead’s investment in the SIP is unmatched by any other company and the growth that will result from this initiative will create new job

(from page 5) The March for Our Lives, with its main rally in Washington, was a student-led call for action with more than 800 sibling marches worldwide.

It was planned in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, when a man with a semi-automatic rifle killed 14 students and three staff members.

Since then, surviving students launched the Never Again movement and urged lawmakers to impose stricter gun laws.

Calling the message from Richmond’s youth “powerful,” Mayor Levar Stoney said, “I am more inspired walking out than ever before. I think there’s a real possibility for change and I leave here today filled with optimism.”

Mayor McKinley Price opportunities across the full range of the ship repair and manufacturing trades. The most significant of the improvements will occur in the North Yard where construction will include the fabrication platen, office spaces and other manufacturing facilities.

The plans also include a near doubling of the boatlift capacity of the Boatworks with the addition of a new 450 metric ton lift and a 250 metric ton transporter, both of which will be delivered to the company later this year.

This is an exciting time for both

Fairlead and the SIP. Plans and permitting are well under way and construction in the North Yard will commence in May of this year.

“We are pleased that Fairlead has chosen to grow and expand its operations in the city’s Seafood Industrial Park,” said Newport News Mayor McKinley Price. “Fairlead continues to be an important business in the Park, providing both government and commercial ship repair services benefitting nearby maritime-related businesses and employment opportunities within the

community. With this investment, Fairlead is further solidifying its presence in the SIP and positioning itself for long-term success in Newport News.”

Florence G. Kingston, the City’s Director of Development, added, “Since its acquisition of Davis Boat Works in 2015, Fairlead Boatworks has been a committed partner to the City and community. This $5 million expansion by Fairlead represents a major commitment to Newport News and we look forward to continuing our collaborative work with the company.”

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Petersburg schools seek used or new books for Little Free Libraries Books for children are needed for the Little Free Libraries located at Walnut Hill Elementary and Westview Early Childhood Education Center. Petersburg residents, community groups and businesses are encouraged to donate gently used or new books.

Little Free Libraries are free and open to anyone who wants to borrow a good book. Since the Little Free Libraries opened in June 2017 at Walnut Hill and Westview, students and families have enjoyed stopping by to select books to read. Hundreds of titles have made their way into Petersburg homes via these two libraries, which were donated to Petersburg City Public Schools by Second Baptist Church. A third Little Free Library will soon be installed at

Robert E. Lee Elementary.

Please consider donating gently used or new books to the Little Free Libraries. If you have a few books, just swing by Walnut Hill (300 W.

South Blvd.; the library is near the entrance to the parking lot) or Westview (1100 Patterson St.; the library is near the front door) and add your books to the Little Free Libraries. If you have so many books

to donate that they will not all fit into a Little Free Library, then please call 804-862-7084 or email IBelieve@petersburg.k12.va.us to make arrangements.

Richmond Mayor sees a city ‘ready to turn the page’ SOPHIA BELLETTI CNS – Behind the name plaque on Mayor Levar Stoney’s desk sits a small ceramic turtle only he can see.

It was a gift from the former acting president of Virginia Union University, Joe Johnson, who told Stoney, “You know the only animal that sticks its neck out? A turtle.”

When the mayor sees the tortoisecolored shell, it reminds him what makes a strong politician. “Good leaders stick their necks out in a time of crisis,” he said.

Stoney has been sticking out his neck for years. The 36-year-old mayor is familiar with overcoming adversity and carrying what often is the burden of being a “first.”

He was the first in his family to attend college. In 2004, he graduated from James Madison University, where he was the first AfricanAmerican man elected president of the student government. He was the youngest member of Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s administration; from 2014 through 2016, Stoney was

secretary of the commonwealth, the first African-American to serve in that role.

On Dec. 31, 2016, at age 35, Stoney became Richmond’s youngest elected mayor.

“It would be shocking if someone from our generation wasn’t at the helm of a city that’s on the rise like Richmond,” Stoney said. “I think in 2016, folks made it very clear they’re ready to turn the page and ready to embrace that we’re a city on the rise.”

During his first six months in office, Stoney joined the national conversation of what to do with Confederate statues. Last June, he formed a commission of 10 academics, historians and community leaders and charged them with “adding context” to the Confederate statues lining Monument Avenue.

Since then, there have been protests in Richmond over the future of Monument Avenue. The city has spent more than $500,000 on security at such demonstrations. On Sunday on the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” Stoney said he wants the

statues taken down.

“It is, for me, the greatest example of nostalgia masquerading as – as history,” Stoney said on the program.

Stoney recently stuck his neck out again by proposing an increase in Richmond’s meals tax to fund improvements to the city’s schools.

A divided City Council approved the idea in February, but some Richmond residents have opposed the issue.

“We knew [the response] was going to be a mixed bag at the end of the day,” Stoney said. “It can also mean strong restaurants and strong schools, too, and there are restaurant owners who agree with us on that, and I told them I’m going to continue to be a champion for our restaurant scene here in the city.”

Jim Nolan, the mayor’s press secretary, said Stoney was motivated by the dilapidated condition of school facilities in Richmond.

“Some of these conditions in these schools are horrible, and the mayor visited every school last year, so he’s seen firsthand the conditions of these schools,” Nolan said.

He said half of the people who would be paying the higher meals tax don’t reside in the city and 30 percent of them live 50 miles away.

Those arguments have not persuaded Jake Crocker, co-owner of city eateries F.W. Sullivan’s, Lady N’awlins and Uptown Market & Deli. In a written interview, he said that because most of the restaurants that drove the city’s resurgence are small, locally owned businesses, the city government should adopt a progressive stance.

“Richmond already had one of the highest tax rates in the country among median to large cities,” Crocker wrote. “At the current 11.3 percent combined state and city sales tax, you’re already taxed more to eat and drink in RVA than you are in New York City and San Francisco.

“The recently passed 1.5 percent increase pushes the tax to 12.8 percent, creating a barrier for people eating out and a competitive disadvantage with the surrounding

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(from page 13 counties, that have lesser or no meals taxes at all, and VCU [Virginia Commonwealth University] campus chain restaurants, which are tax-exempt because they’re on state property.”

Councilman Andreas Addison of the 1st Voter District originally came out against the tax because he felt the School Board’s plan was not complete and that the board would need more money than the tax would provide.

In general, Addison said, he is against tax increases. However, he said Richmond has never taken action on the issue of its public schools. When it came down to the final vote, Addison voted in favor of the tax.

“As I learned more about the situation and process, I realized we have never funded school facility needs, ever, in our budget,” Addison said. “Looking at the historical change, I realized something had to change.”

Overall, Addison said that he enjoys working with the Stoney administration more than with previous mayoral administrations and that the mayor has done well considering the circumstances he inherited.

“He came in with a lot of decisions from previous administrations that never really took care of the issue,” Addison said. “He’s done a good job given what he’s had to tackle.

He’s put together a good approach in terms of putting his priorities out there. I love the fact he’s very present and vocal.”

The mayor learned to set priorities at a young age.

Stoney was born in Nassau County on New York’s Long Island but shortly thereafter moved to Hampton Roads. He described growing up as a situation “where you knew we didn’t have a lot, but you knew everything was always going to be OK.” As a child, he handled his grandmother’s finances. He was the one who would call the bank and check how much money was in the account toward the end of the month.

“When you call on a Monday and you have to get through to a

Mayor Levar Stoney is Richmond’s youngest elected mayor.

Saturday and find out all you have is $60 left in the account, the adults

were very, very creative around me,” Stoney said.

Stoney said one of the most memorable moments during his first year in office was creating a partnership with Richmond Public Schools and a couple of nonprofits to ensure that 20,000 children will have access to vision screenings and receive glasses if needed.

He said a young woman who attended the screening with her 7-year-old son found out her son had been blind in one eye for nearly seven years. That day, the child left with a pair glasses.

“I almost got emotional right there on the spot. That’s why we do what we do here; that’s why I got into public service – to ensure children like that get a fair shot. It was something as small as him not having a pair of glasses that was holding him back,” Stoney said.“The kids can’t wait.”

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Qualified residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia may apply for, or change, their voter registration online at www.elections.virginia.gov, or in person at the Office of the General Registrar, Room 105, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia. Office hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday, except holidays. Applications are also available at all City libraries, post offices and DMVs. The deadline to apply for an absentee ballot through the mail for his election is Tuesday June 5, 2018. The deadline to apply for and vote an absentee ballot in person is 5:00 PM, Saturday, June 9, 2018, except in the case of certain emergencies.

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Calendar 3.31, 10 a.m.

Dominion Energy Family Easter, a favorite Easter event at Maymont will allow guests to celebrate Easter on the Carriage House Lawn with games and activities, food trucks, live entertainment, and more – all while soaking in the sunshine and spring blooms.

The event showcases activities for the whole family, from visits with the Easter Bunny and storytelling under the Bunny Tree, to bonnet parades and an interactive chalk zone. Kids can get crafty making Easter baskets and bonnets, express themselves with face painting and temporary tattoos, grow their green thumbs at a planting station, or partake in life-sized board games and an egg-on-spoon hopstacle course. Guests can also sit back and watch live entertainment

by Jonathan Austin, Maymont environmental educators, local performance troupes, and more!

Food will be available for purchase.

Tickets, $2 each, are required for most activities. For each ticket redeemed, participants will receive an Easter egg filled with a prize. For more information, call 804-358-7166.

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Henrico County’s EngAGE initiative will present its thirdannual Senior & Caregiver Expo on Wednesday, April 4 at Hermitage High School, 8301 Hungary Spring Rd. The free event will include vendors offering services and expertise in a variety of areas, including home health care, Medicare and Medicaid, resources for caregivers and financial planning.

The expo also will feature a “seminar nook,” where speakers will address such topics as decluttering and caring for the caregiver.

Established in 2015, EngAGE offers information, resources and support for older residents of Henrico. For information, call 804-501-5065 or go to henrico.us/ services/seniors or facebook.com/ henricovaaging.

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Virginia set to honor service veterans Virginia will honor and celebrate the service of Virginia’s Vietnam War Veterans on March 29 and 30.

Gov. Ralph Northam has proclaimed March 29 as Vietnam War Veterans Day in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This observance coincides with National Vietnam War Veterans Day, which became a national holiday with the passage of The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017.

Dozens of civic and veterans service organizations, non-profits, and government agencies in Virginia have partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense through The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration’s Commemorative Partner Program. In Virginia, state agency partners include the Virginia Department of Veterans Services, the Virginia Employment Commission, and the Virginia National Guard.

A special Vietnam Veteran Lapel Pin has been created as a lasting memento of the Nation’s thanks. The pins are often presented at public “pinning ceremonies” hosted by partner organizations. Visit the Vietnam War Commemoration’s website at vietnamwar50th.com/events to see a list of upcoming partner events.

Vietnam veterans may also visit the Virginia War Memorial to receive a pin from a Virginia War Memorial employee or volunteer. The Virginia War Memorial is located at 621 S. Belvidere St., Richmond. Visit the Memorial’s website at vawarmemorial.org for hours and directions.

“We cordially invite all Vietnam Veterans to a special Women in Vietnam event at the Virginia War Memorial on Thursday, March 29 at 6 p.m.

Event parking is next door at the Virginia Housing Development Authority Building,” said Clay Mountcastle, director of the Virginia War Memorial.

Workshop for small businesses on capital St. Luke Miracle Tabernacle of Suffolk, VA will host the Small Business Certification & Funding Program (SBCFP) workshop on March 31 to assist local entrepreneurs in starting and growing a business.

In collaboration with the Business Credit Literacy Initiative (BCLI), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, the workshop incorporates award-winning curriculum from the FDIC and SBA-promoted Money Smart for Small Business training. During the one-day in-person class, participants will receive practical information on selecting the right type of business structure, business planning, cash flow planning, financial reporting, and sources of capital. Thereafter, all participants will be assisted in building the business credit under their EIN without the use of personal credit and without personal guarantees. Through the grant-funded program, all participants are guaranteed $100,000 in business credit and funding by completing the curriculum and program.

“One of the top concerns of entrepreneurs is access to capital as many are unable to qualify for traditional forms of financing to start or grow a business due to personal credit challenges or other underwriting deficiencies,” said Joyce White-Tasby, chief apostle of St. Luke Miracle Tabernacle. “We are so pleased to host this workshop and program to assist entrepreneurs in our community. Through this economic development initiative, we anticipate injecting $5,000,000 of capital in our community resulting in several key metrics including new business starts, job creation, and increasing the tax base.”

The SBCFP workshop is well suited for pre-launch, start-up, and existing businesses regardless of industry or location. Both for-profits and non-forprofits can benefit from the knowledge and access to capital through business credit building.

Limited seats are available for the workshop. Register online at: https:// www.businesscreditliteracy.org/registration/ .

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The University of Richmond Downtown is hosting a new exhibition, “RVA Cures: Conquering Childhood Cancer.” The exhibition was part of September’s National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

Organized by Connor’s Heroes Foundation, the exhibition tells the stories of local children, caregivers and researchers who are facing cancer, the number one disease killer of children.

The exhibition features photographs by Richmond artist Kristin Seward and 100 zebrafish painted by children and local artists.

The zebrafish is the symbol of pediatric cancer research conducted in Richmond.

“RVA Cures” is on view at UR Downtown’s Wilton Companies Gallery, 626 E. Broad St., Richmond, through through Jan. 19, 2018.

4.5, end of day

UR School of Law will host a panel discussion on new tax cuts titled “Deciphering the New Tax Law” on April 9 at noon.

The event will feature Bobby Johnson of Crowgey & Associates; M.R. Litman of Williams Mullen; David Sams of Community Tax Law Project; and Kristeen Witt of Carmax, and will take place at the School of Law, Moot Courtroom.

The new tax law, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed in late 2017, is the first major tax overhaul since the 1980s. A panel of experts from the community will discuss the major effects of the law and what those changes mean for all taxpayers as Tax Day approaches. RSVP by April 5 if you plan to attend.

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(from page 2) When I went in that hospital room, she cried. She said, “Thank you for feeding me.” She still doesn’t talk to anyone, but she talks to me.

At the next site, between the Richmond Coliseum and the abandoned downtown mall, I saw more examples of the ways Sneed connects with people who are struggling. Living under a tragic sign that reads “building a better future” were a number of men in their late 60s to 70s, many of them veterans.

They knew Sneed and started gathering around her Xterra as best they could.

Carlton Johnson was one of them, but he couldn’t make the walk over from the bench he sat on.

The 78-year-old man can’t walk on his own and spends his days on a bench without shelter. Sam Sims, a 64-year-old man who works nearby, approached us to ask what could be done for Johnson. “This man is a veteran, he served his country. He needs some help,” he said. “If this is how we treat people, what type of people are we?”

Sneed had been aware of Johnson and worried about him. She’s working on getting his army paperwork so she can get him into the Department of Veteran Affairs for medical attention and a spot in assisted living. “The VA can’t help you until you’re homeless,” she said, reflecting on her personal experience.

She said the VA is a hard institution to work with, but noted that one of her biggest supporters is a doctor at the VA. “He comes out in his wheelchair to help people with me.”

After she sat with Johnson, Sneed rejoined Lumpkin and Davis in feeding the other men at the site.

Sims followed and told the women some good news: It was his 64th birthday. They sang happy birthday to him, give him a little food, and send him on his way. He works and has a room, but like many of the people Sneed helps, he lives just at the poverty line and struggles.

Another man who came by, who went by Kenny, had more good news for the women: He had a room. After an extended time living behind the coliseum, which he said is swarmed by dozens of rats at night, he had finally secured a stable spot to live indoors.

The last visitor was Anthony Kelly, who rode up on a bicycle before he sat down to eat with us at a park table. The former warehouse clerk

Life behind the now closed 6th Sreet Market. and chef suffered a stroke which resulted in memory loss and physical infirmity; he was fired from his job and lost his apartment when he couldn’t balance rent and medical expenses.

He looks for jobs every day, but never gets called back. “I’m almost 60. People look at that first, then once they hear I’m diabetic and had a stroke, they don’t want to hire me,” he said. He’s worked his whole life, starting at 15, first cleaning bathrooms and gutters for a restaurant with a special permit and restricted hours as a minor.

He was quickly promoted to dishwasher, then prep cook, then into the bakery. He moved into his own apartment at 17 and was proud of a stable employment record with future promotions that ended with him moving to another restaurant to be the head chef.

“It was a weight on my shoulders, though, too much stress,” he said about the long hours working without benefits. That led him into warehousing, which he did for 10 years before his stroke.

After he finished sharing his story, Sneed asked him what he needed for supplies or clothes. Davis took down notes and the two scheduled another visit after they finished up their afternoon food runs to bring him dinner, a sleeping bag, and various toiletries. Sneed made sure he had her number, and then we all piled back into the Xterra to head to our last stop at 17th Street in Shockoe Bottom.

On the drive over, they told me they’ve organized the group

into teams that handle cooking, inventory, donations, and more, and explained the work they do beyond this one food run. A seniors team coordinates care for the homebound, older folks who can’t get out or prepare food anymore. Sneed said, “There are food pantries, but what are you going to do with a raw chicken if you can’t drive or cook?”

We also talked about her two granddaughters, Ariana and Xiomara, who live with her and are following in her footsteps. Both donated some of their Christmas gifts to homeless children they met, and they go out with their grandmother whenever they can.

At 17th Street, we saw Bernard, a man the women described as a pillar of the local community. He’s a networker and a people person, and he came over with detailed updates on the local population. “We may be homeless, but we got a lot of love for each other,” he said, explaining why he puts in so much work to help his friends. “I drink. Of course, I do, it gets cold out here at night, but I do my best for everyone.”

Sneed and the other women joined him recently for his baptism, a ceremony he’d invited them to witness after he found a church and joined this winter. Many of the men at 17th Street share Sneed’s devout religious beliefs, which she expresses not with evangelical words but by her actions, doing work she says is rooted in a love of God. Another man there, Brother Robinson, talked about his faith and demonstrated some of the work he

does. He makes small cross necklaces out of paperclips and yarns that he sells. One of his best customers is Sneed, who buys them to resell as fundraisers for the group. After feeding more than a dozen people, I joined the women back in the car for the return trip to Lowe’s, where they’d drop me off before regrouping to head out on their evening route.

When I sat down with Sneed at Ellwood Thompson’s in January, she’d offered a thought that she didn’t finish.

People think it’s the food. It’s more than that,” she said. I meant to ask her to expand on it, but after spending a day with her, I didn’t need to. I saw what she meant by it first-hand.

Whether she’s giving food and clothes, a hug, or just spending time talking, the bigger thing she’s doing is sharing her love. Her fundamental view, that all people have value and deserve love, is demonstrated in every aspect of her work, and it was all the more meaningful as something I witnessed instead of something that was explained.

Update: Sneed reports that Anthony Kelly has gotten into a program, and Bernard has found an apartment in an assisted living community in Church Hill. Carlton Johnson is still looking for assistance.

If you want to get involved, gas cards are needed for the group to keep the cars running that distribute food.

Donations can be made via paypal.

People who want to do more can join the Facebook group or email Sneed.

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