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He went undercover in the alt-right - 2 Churches must follow students’ lead- 8 Inspired by a show, she made it happen - 10 Black Wealth 2020 celebrates 2nd year - 15 More heartbreak for the Cosby family... 11

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Nooses are for intimidation Va. successfully argues before SCOVA that its statute bans displays of nooses in a public place even on private property

In his appeal, the accused’s lawyer argued that the law only bars displays of nooses on public land, not on private property.

But the state Supreme Court found in a ruling last week that the noose display was considered to be on a public place because it was clearly visible from a public road.

AYA DRIOUCHE CNS – The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the display of a noose on private property violates the state law that bans displaying a noose in a public place with an intent to intimidate.

The high court handed down the decision in upholding the conviction of Jack Eugene Turner, who displayed a noose in a tree, from which he hung a black, lifesize mannequin, in the front yard of his home in Franklin County in southwest Virginia. Turner was convicted of a Class 6 felony under existing law.

“Turner argues the display was not proscribed under the statute because, although visible from a public road, it was located on his own property,” the Supreme Court’s ruling stated.

However, it added, “Concluding that the noose display was on a public place under our construction of the

statute, we affirm the conviction.”

Turner had been convicted of a law that says, “Any person who, with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, displays a noose on a highway or other public place. in a manner having a direct tendency to place another person in reasonable fear or apprehension of death or bodily injury is guilty of a Class 6 felony.”

In its eight-page ruling, the Supreme Court said the law’s intent is “to criminalize and deter what amounts to a true threat communicated by the display of a noose, i.e., the intention to intimidate another by such display and thereby reasonably place another in fear of death or bodily injury.”

In that context, the court said, the term “public place” would include “private property generally visible by the public from some other location, which was undisputedly the case with the site of Turner’s noose

display in his front yard.”

Attorney General Mark Herring, whose office successfully defended Turner’s conviction, hailed the ruling.

Herring said Turner’s display conveyed a racist message and was used “with the intent of intimidating his African-American neighbors.”

“We cannot be complacent about the rise in white supremacist extremism and violence, and we cannot allow hateful displays like this one to go unchallenged,” Herring said.

“The display of a noose is an unmistakable message designed to intimidate and invoke the horrors and disgraceful legacy of lynching.

We must make it clear that all Virginians have the right to live, work, and raise their families free of fear and intimidation.”

Turner lived in a neighborhood with two black families, including one next door. While he was awaiting his sentencing, Turner placed a

handmade cardboard sign against his house that read, “black n***er lives don’t matter, got rope,” Herring said.

Turner was tried and convicted in 2015. Afterward, he challenged the constitutionality of Virginia’s statute and whether the display was in a “public place.” In 2016, the Virginia Court of Appeals upheld his conviction.

In a brief filed with the Supreme Court, Herring’s office said acts like hanging nooses and burning crosses evoke “a long and pernicious history as a signal of impending violence.”

“Lynching had a powerful terroristic effect on the target population, which extended far beyond those who witnessed the violence firsthand,” the brief said.

“The use of violence was aimed not just at the individual victim but at the black community generally … As a result, southern blacks lived with the knowledge that any one of them could be a victim at any time.”

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Patrik Hermansson: ‘I went undercover in the alt-right’ BBC - Patrik Hermansson had thought the day’s drama was over.

He had arrived at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, early in the morning of Aug. 12, 2017.

There he joined a group of far-right and alt-right activists who were protesting against the removal of a statue of a Confederate Civil War leader, Robert E Lee. He found himself at the center of an angry protest when the gathering was declared unlawful and armed alt-righters were marched out of the park by police. He witnessed scuffles and was sprayed with mace by an anti-fascist counter-protester. After a walk to another venue outside the city, it was time for some rest.

“I switched out of my clothes and walked back into town,” he said. “I was just out getting lunch when I saw this big demonstration walk past.”

These protesters were marching in opposition to the white nationalist and alt-right gathering in the park.

Hermansson stopped to watch.

That’s when a car drove straight into the crowd.

“It ploughed through the demo and stopped five or 10 meters away from me,” he said. “And then everything happened after that.”

One woman, Heather Heyer, was killed by the car, and 35 others were injured. A man faces murder and other charges in connection with the attack.

The violence in Charlottesville that day drew new attention to the rising subculture of the alt-right - an amorphous collection of nationalists, traditionalists, race obsessives, hardcore Trump supporters and others who found each other online.

They are a subgroup of the wider far right and often claim to be a new political vanguard, although critics say they are nothing but fascists who have learned how to use social media.

And Hermansson was well-placed to make sense of the events in Charlottesville and their wider impact. By then he had been undercover in the alt-right - in the “It’s a simple process really,” Hermansson said of his mission to infiltrate alt-right groups for the anti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate. “You start by building

a new identity, based on what you think they will like and what they will be interested in having in their organisation. And then you approach them, like any new guy interested in the far right would - via the internet.”

Hope Not Hate recently released a study which found that membership of traditionally-organised far-right groups was at a low point - but that they are being replaced by new networks developing online.

In attempting to infiltrate extreme groups, Hermansson’s back-story was that he was an exchange student, studying in London: “I wanted to appear academic, because I knew they were interested in having people that were academically minded.”

His Swedish background also helped. Among the groups he frequented were many neo-Nazis who like fascists in the 1930s and 40s, lionise Swedes as an original “unspoilt” version of the Aryan race.

“They believed that people from Scandinavia are more racially pure,” he said. “And of course, that was a myth back then, and it’s a myth now… but people said to me in very clear words, ‘Oh, you are the master race.’”

His initial online contacts moved swiftly to face-to-face meetings.

The first came at a small pro-Brexit demonstration in London in the autumn of 2016. Online video and news reports show that the rally was sparsely attended - at most a few hundred people showed up - and most participants were politically mainstream. “It wasn’t a very extreme rally,” recalled Hermansson.

But among the activists at the pro-Brexit demo were more extreme types, including the organizer of a group that Hermansson had been investigating called the London Forum. The Forum has hosted holocaust deniers and conspiracy theorists at its meetings. In a statement, a spokesman for the group said: “The London Forum comprises a range of people who care about their country and its demographic future and who wish to register their disagreement with the nigh ubiquitous enforced agenda of multiracialism and multiculturalism

While undercover, Patrik Hermansson took selfies of himself at rallies. that threatens to destroy our identity irreversibly.” There is no indication that the group has been involved in terrorism.

Hermansson became a Swedish teacher for his contact in the London Forum, and from those initial encounters, he was quickly ushered into the larger world of the far right.

“Some people think it’s the fear that’s the hardest thing, but it’s quite seldom that you are actually afraid,” he said. “It’s the stress you have to live with constantly. You have two phones. You have two lives and you can’t combine them in any way.”

The people in the far-right groups he interacted with ranged in their theories, from those who openly talked about rivers of blood, genocide and glorifying Hitler, to what he called “lighter versions” - “those people that see violence as necessary but not something that they necessarily think is good.

“There are a lot of variations.”

He was invited to meet groups in the U.S. and ended up at a barbecue with far-right extremists. He was even invited to speak at an event.

“I was in that difficult situation of how do I address 100 white supremacists in a way that I can feel OK with?” he recalled.

“I spoke in very general terms of how the left is oppressing the right

and how they are infiltrating the right,” he said. “:It was quite ironic..

I just played on this idea of the right being victims.”

Then came the events in Charlottesville.

“I have never been so angry in my life,” said Hermansson.

“Over the last year I had listened to these violent ideas, violent speeches, calls to action and lots of people, including myself, downplayed that,” he said.

“They say ‘yes, these people speak very violently, and they have violent ideas, but they will not act on them.’

“But you realize after a while that there are so many of them and although most of them are not going to act on these ideas.. There are always going to be a few that are crazy, and the logical end to this way of thinking is exactly what happened in Charlottesville.”

In a recent report, the extremism monitoring group, the Southern Poverty Law Center attributed more than 40 killings and more than 100 injuries to people involved in the alt-right, with most of the violence occurring in 2017.

Hermansson ended his time in the alt-right a little over a month after the violence in Charlottesville. An account of what he had witnessed while undercover, was published by the New York Times. Predictably, the revelations prompted a backlash from the people who once trusted him.

“Since I had been to so many different groups and I had been referred to by lots of different people, people start suspecting each other - rightfully,” he said. “They started writing apology letters and blog posts and saying that I wasn’t really very deep and all these defense mechanisms that anybody would apply in a similar situation.

“To me, [they sent personal] threats.

Because they knew I had been deep inside. I spoke at their forums and I vetted their new members.”

Hermansson still works as a researcher for Hope Not Hate and said its “comforting” to look from a distance at the people he once studied up close and undercover.

“I learned a lot,” he said. “I’m more motivated and my time undercover was useful in what I do now.”

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Researchers named 2018’s Outstanding Scientists LEAH SMALL Two Virginia Commonwealth University researchers were recognized Thursday as Virginia’s Outstanding Scientists for 2018 by Gov. Ralph Northam at the annual Outstanding STEM Awards held at the Science Museum of Virginia.

The awards, which have been presented by Virginia governors for more than 30 years, recognize individuals for their contributions in science, technology, engineering and math. Six were honored at Thursday’s event: three researchers for longtime contributions to their fields and three budding scientists.

“Celebrating the academic excellence and entrepreneurial spirit of these Virginians helps showcase how STEM innovations tie into our everyday lives,” Northam said.

“It also highlights the profound contribution that STEM makes to Virginia families and our economy. I thank these extraordinary awardees and everyone who works hard to make Virginia a leader in these important fields.”

Arun Sanyal, M.D., a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the VCU School of Medicine; and M. Samy El-Shall, Ph.D., commonwealth professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry in the College of Humanities and Sciences, were two of three researchers named Virginia’s Outstanding Scientists for 2018.

Sanyal, the education core director at VCU’s Center for Clinical and Translational Research, is a pioneer in training future medical researchers and in identifying the mechanisms and clinical outcomes and developing effective management for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NASH) and metabolic syndrome.

Incidences of the life-threatening disease are increasing in the U.S. and worldwide. One out of three Americans have excess fat on their livers and of that number, one out of five will eventually develop cirrhosis, Sanyal said.

To address this issue Sanyal has developed training programs in liver disease diagnosis and treatment, and works to incorporate them in primary care settings. He also developed a proprietary mouse strain to test potential therapeutics for the condition. Sanyal is the president, chair and chief medical officer of

M. Samy El-Shall, Ph.D.; and Arun Sanyal, M.D., at the 2018 Outstanding STEM Awards held at the Science Museum of Virginia. PHOTO: Kevin Morley Sanyal Biotechnology, which was established to commercialize the mouse strain and was nationally recognized as one of the “Best University Startups” of 2016.

Sanyal said he will continue his work on NASH and hopes awareness of obesity-related diseases grows.

“We can’t rest now. We have major public health challenges globally and right here in Virginia. Incidences of pediatric obesity, diabetes and fatty liver disease are increasing and are really interconnected,” he said.

“But these challenges shouldn’t be viewed as challenges. They are all opportunities for us to knock it out of the ballpark and we are on the cusp of doing that.”

“I love being a detective; you are figuring out nature’s mysteries.”

Sanyal added that it was a great honor to be recognized and that he “couldn’t imagine” not being a scientist.

“I love the discovery. I love being a detective; you are figuring out nature’s mysteries,” he said. “This award is very special because it is in Virginia. This is home. We hope we can use this as a platform to increase awareness about obesity-related complications.”

El-Shall, the Mary Eugenia Kapp

chair in chemistry, is internationally known for his work in the fields of clusters and nanoscience, which is key in the area of catalysis for the development of clean transportation fuels and the production of new chemicals for pharmaceutical drugs.

El-Shall was selected for the Virginia Outstanding Scientist award because of his work in the area of nanocatalysis, or the use of nanoparticles to enhance reactions in energy and environmental applications. El-Shall is also known for work that helped shape techniques for efficient solar water desalination and removing heavy metals from polluted water. ElShall said his entire research group deserved to be recognized.

“I am really honored that I was chosen as a Virginia Outstanding Scientist for 2018. I feel that the members of my research group are being honored and recognized for their talent and dedication to understanding research,” he said. “I have had the privilege to work with more than 35 graduate students, 75 undergraduates and 25 postdoctoral fellows and visiting researchers in my lab over the past 29 years at VCU. I am grateful to them as

well as to my colleagues at VCU for providing many opportunities for excellent research.”

Puru Jena, Ph.D., distinguished professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Humanities and Sciences, said El-Shall excels at inspiring his students.

“The first thing you teach the students is excitement about research and the joy that you get out of something that nobody has ever done, and to be able to tell the students how to be innovative [and] to chart your own course,” he said.

Another VCU researcher was recognized by Northam earlier on Thursday at the Outstanding Faculty Awards, which honor faculty at Virginia's public and private colleges and universities for contributions to teaching, research and public service.

Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D., a commonwealth professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the School of Engineering, was one of 12 instructors recognized from across Virginia.

Bandyopadhyay has authored and co-authored nearly 400 research publications and received the University Award of Excellence in 2017.

- VCU NEWS

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Senators approve bill requiring social services to report sexual abuse to Va. foster homes SYDNEY LAKE CNS - The Senate Committee on Courts of Justice unanimously approved a bill that would require local boards of social services to report instances of sexual abuse to foster homes before placement.

Del. C. Todd Gilbert, R-Woodstock, introduced the bill in early January that passed the House on a blockvote passage one month later.

Gilbert declined to comment on the bill, but reported to the Virginia House of Delegates in session the day before the block passage vote.

He clarified changes and adoptions

to the bill and asked for the bill to be engrossed by the House.

“This bill provides that social services and other child placement agencies are required to disclose to the adoptive or foster parent that the child being placed with them that there is substantial likelihood or finding that the child has been a sexual predator in some other instance,” Gilbert said in session in February. “We had some other language in here that was a lot stronger and we stripped it out simply to provide that notice to the adoptive or foster parent.”

The bill would amend and reenact

current Virginia law that outlines acceptance of children for placement in homes and other facilities, provides the rights and duties of the local board, as well as outline the right of a child-placing agency to investigate the person seeking the adoption.

Prior to this bill, foster homes were provided all known information available on the foster child, according to Cletisha Lovelace, a public relations and media specialist for the Department of Social Services.

Although foster homes were provided with all known information, not all informational requirements regarding the foster child were outlined in the law.

The original law states that the report shall include a statement by the child-placing agency or local director that all reasonably ascertainable background, medical, and psychological records of the child have been provided to the adoptive parent(s). It does not explicitly state that records of sexual abuse must be

included or reported.

This particular bill does not address requirements or qualifications for the perspective foster or adoptive parent.

However, Gilbert in the past has addressed his feelings on the types of people who should be eligible to become a foster or adoptive parent.

Gilbert, a Republican, has sponsored other legislation pertaining to adoptive and foster care agencies. He previously sponsored a new law to protect faith-based adoption agencies from being forced, by the government, to place children with same sex couples, according to his website.

In 2016, this bill sponsorship resurfaced along with new sponsorship of a bill that would prohibit state agencies from punishing discrimination against people who are transgender or who are in samesex marriages, according to Jenna Portnoy of The Washington Post in her article, “Religious freedom or license to discriminate?”

Solar installation bill sets standards for state LIZA DAVID CNS - Now property owners can do their part in using renewable energy in Virginia with more ease after a bill standardizing the process for installing solar facilities passed the General Assembly.

The bill, SB 429, introduced by Sen. Bill M. Stanley, R-Martinsville, passed the House this week with 97-0. The bill will allow properties owners to install solar devices to power the building it is installed on, as well as groundmounted generators in compliance with height and setback requirements in each zoning district. The bill will become effective on Jan. 1, 2019.

“I think we wanted to, as a state, make a bipartisan statement that we want to encourage these kinds of solar uses of people’s property,” said Sen. Jennifer Wexton, D-Fairfax, the bill’s chief co-patron.

Wexton is interested in expanding people’s access to solar energy and has advocated for similar legislation in the past. She stressed that this bill applies not only to houses and subdivisions, but also to agricultural and commercial properties.

“Senate Bill 429 just gives a lot of guidance to localities about the fact that these kinds of arrays are permissible, because what we were finding is that different counties didn’t really know how to deal with these arrays when people wanted to install them on their property,” Wexton said. “This bill gives them the guidance and says it’s OK, but you can still regulate things like setbacks and location and things like that.”

Tom Weaver is a sales professional with Prospect Solar, a company based in Sterling that designs, builds and installs solar photovoltaic energy systems. Weaver said he has noticed an increase in popularity of solar use in Virginia, and that it’s growing.

“It’s something that a lot of people, or more people, are interested in year after year after year, even with the tariffs we’ve recently seen be implemented,” Weaver said. “The train’s left the station. There’s not going to be something that’s going to stop the industry dead cold in its tracks, but you know, it is proven, we know it works.”

Weaver is referring to the tariff introduced on Jan. 22, 2018, by President Donald Trump on imported solar panels. The tariff will cause trade barriers and slow the technology’s adaptation in the United States.

However, Weaver also explained that different jurisdictions look at solar energy in different ways.

“Some areas, the process of obtaining a permit is only a day, and then we’ve work with other jurisdictions where we’re talking two, three, four weeks,” Weaver said. “There’s not one standard set or rules that we’re playing by, so everybody implements their own set of rules that makes things a little challenging.”

SB 429 will standardize the process for implementing solar on properties, allowing permits to be approved quicker and allowing

renewable energy use to expand. Weaver said this bill will shrink the time Prospect Solar spends educating, thus allowing the company to increase its profitability and ability to better serve clients.

Weaver cited the raw economics behind solar energy use as the main reason he supports it. He explained that a diversified energy profile will be the best prospect for Virginia.

“I believe it’s a combination of everything, it’s like diversifying your stock portfolio, you know, we need to have a good mixture or a good portfolio of energy in order for us to move forward,” Weaver said.

“You can see now that having one way of doing it isn’t good for the environment, so why not introduce new ways of doing things and look at the economics behind it and say, you know, this is just flat-out better.”

“It’s not a solar versus coal thing, it’s way too early in the game to go ‘well we need to switch to all renewables. Solar We have to do it responsibly and say so we need to start finding different ways, and solar is one of those ways, and let the economics speak for themselves.”

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NN marathon weekend takes place despite windy weather Newport News’ fourth annual One City Marathon took place Sunday along with related events that promised fun activities for everyone.

Sunday events included a marathon, marathon relay, 8K and Nautical Mile Fun Run, which saw about 2,300 participants.

Will Christian of Norfolk was named the male winnder with a time of 2:2205, and Alexandra Niles of New Jersey, the female winner with a time of 2:40.43.

By all accounts, it was a successful weekend considering that high winds and the resulting unsafe conditions resulted in the cancelation of

Saturday’s Family Fit & Fun Day. Ultra-marathoner Michael Wardian from Arlington, was touted as one of Sunday’s main draws. As an ultramarathoner Wardian runs races up to 100 miles and longer.

Marathon Weekend began with a free, two-day Health & Wellness Expo presented by Riverside Health System. It provided attendees a variety of fitness and nutrition related vendors, preventative health information, interactive games and training evaluations. The weekend alson included music, food, runner relaxation areas, and games for families.

The marathon course runs the entire 26 mile length of the city, with Newport News Park as the setting for the start of the race and the Victory Arch in downtown serving

as the finish line. Along the way, the certified course takes runners past various cultural amenities, educational institutions, businesses and neighborhoods.

Kaine holds round table on guns

Attendees had a conversation about mental health.

As the debate over gun control rages on, Senator Tim Kaine held a roundtable on gun violence with concerned parents today in downtown Richmond. The roundtable, sponsored by Moms Demand Action, consisted of about 35 people who spoke with Kaine at length about their various concerns over gun violence. While the issues were varied, most of the topics had a consistent theme; they focused on the prospect of teachers being armed, mental health requirements, and the role of law enforcement. Sarah Harper, the president of Moms Demand Action in Richmond, opened the floor by thanking the Senator and asking him a very simple question about whether or not legislators are ready to pass sensible gun legislation.

The senator remarked by stating that his colleagues understand the dimensions of the issue. “My

legislative colleagues, a strong majority of them understand the dimensions of this scenario here, and they feel like it is a shameful thing.” He went on to say, “If I could have a secret ballot on the Senate floor on background record checks or [the] assault weapons ban, we would have a big plus margin. So do they understand it? Yeah. Do they know we need to do something? Yeah.

Are they ready to do something?

That’s the question.” He quickly alluded to the NRA, highlighting their vulnerability. He noted that they know just how unpopular their positions really are, but through obfuscated marketing campaigns, have frightened “enough folks to vote for reasonable rules.”

Once the floor opened up to questions, the conversation quickly turned to arming teachers. One participant, a school teacher of nine years, said, “I am very concerned

about putting guns in the hands of classroom teachers. I can’t imagine the danger that would impose on me and the students.”

Indeed, President Trump, in the days following the mass casualty attack at the school in Parkland, Florida, tweeted that “Armed Educators (and trusted people who work within a school) love our students and will protect them.

Very smart people. Must be firearms adept & have annual training.

Should get yearly bonus. Shootings will not happen again – a big & very inexpensive deterrent. Up to States.” This has set off a debate among legislators and educators about the role of firearms in schools.

While sympathetic to the idea that school security needs to be discussed, Kaine was dismissive of arming teachers, saying that teachers should “not be expected to be security professionals.”

Mental health was another issue that drove the conversation, with one participant stating that there needs to be specialized counselors in schools to deal with these issues.

Rebecca Forman, a mental health professional from Washington State who moved to Virginia, compared the two, saying, “Psychologists do integrated primary care in high schools [in Washington]… and have an increased mental health presence, and work directly with the students,” something that does not happen here.

She went on to say that if there is so much conflict over the role of guns and that politicians are not willing to ban certain kinds of weapons or provide background checks, then teachers need more training in

mental health education, not more “thoughts and prayers.” The senator added on to this, claiming that the Commonwealth was actually quite weak in mental health treatment programs.

Kaine, for his part, has been an advocate for stricter gun control laws, which, according to his website, include, “expanding mental health services, background record checks prior to gun purchases, and responsible limits on combatstyle weapons and high-capacity magazines.” He was also a supporter of the Manchin-Toomey bill, which would require background checks on all commercial sales of firearms, and strengthening the “instant check system” by making all state records available on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

The conversation over gun control has been in a perpetual state of paralysis in recent years, yet the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 has reinvigorated the debate, due in large part to the activism of the shooting survivors. The teenagers leading this activism have been visible nationally, taking their politicians and the NRA to task over gun control in public forums such as a CNN town hall and on the floor of the Florida legislature.

This was something Kaine was keen on bringing up, saying in the press conference after the roundtable, “The activism of the young people in the aftermath of Parkland can be helpful because they have a way of shaking us out

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Op/Ed & Letters

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Here’s to ‘This Flag of Mine’ DR. SUNNI ALI Why should African Americans celebrate allegiance to the U.S. flag?

Many people argue that the long history of slavery, Jim Crow, and racism alone entitles black people’s exemption away from pledging their allegiance to this nation’s flag.

From President Donald Trump’s recent harsh statement toward National Football League players’ refusal to stand during the National Anthem to NFL owners and politicians’ perspectives over this issue, generations of black folk since the time of Frederick Douglass and the black emigrate movements of the1820s questioned their patriotism.

The powerful lesson of Colin Kaepernick is similar to that of a patriot, a person who sacrifices themselves fighting injustice and unfairness to birth change.

Since its conception, America has needed patriots around to demand that equality and equity become common for all people living in this nation.

Kaprenick’s refusal to stand during the National Anthem served as notice to the nation it is not living up to its creed, which struck a chord for people choosing to ignore the current racial issues shaking up the The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 4 No. 10 Mailing Address 409 E. Main Street 4 Office Address 105 1/2 E. Clay St. Richmond, VA 23219 Call 804-644-1550 Online www.legacynewspaper.com

American landscape such as, the unjustifiable police homicides of black civilians.

The history of having patriots, rebels, and intellectuals apply rhetoric, civil protest, and rebellion helped progress America. Yet as perplexed, challenged, and complicated American history has been toward African Americans, their loyalty and honor toward the American flag continues to celebrate an abundant country they helped make possible while arguing for more progressive change to improve a nation.

Hence the title of text, “Here’s to This Flag of Mine” springs forth from Marcus Garvey’s “Black Nationalist Song”, written by his The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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wife, Amy Jacques Garvey, which provides a metanarrative of the African American experience dealing with the challenges paying homage to a nation’s flag.

Such arguments emerged through the 20th century between W.E.B. Dubois and Marcus Garvey as well as Malcolm X and Dr. King Jr. Despite this, majority of African Americans continue to believe in the hopes, dreams, and values America promises.

The significance of African American’s patriotic debate is also rooted to W.E.B. Dubois’

Double Consciousness Theory” that says African Americans harbor a divided soul living in America; they struggle with being African and American while paying homage to both.

Especially considering the magnificent contributions blacks have made to the nation before its conception. Indeed, African people have helped to develop the Americas as far back as 700 A.C.E. Hence, the journey of African Americans goes beyond the pages of any history textbook or lesson that emphasize a narrative of chattel slavery.

African Americans have been the scientists, mathematicians, architects, artisans, domestic engineers, horticulturalists, agrarian specialists, and soldiers for a nation that marginalized their existence. Thereby blacks’ loyalty or patriotism should never be questioned.

The book, “Here’s To A Flag of Mine” celebrates the struggles, successes, and challenges imposed onto African Americans fighting to improve their second-class status. A history that deserves reparations and appreciation as America transitions beyond the 21st century.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Embracing the villain

Erik Killmonger in the movie “Black Panther” represents an uncomfortable truth. He is the Black Panther’s kryptonite. The pain of Killmonger’s conflicted reality disrupts T’Challa’s idealistic, progressive world. The ultimate victory of Black Panther is only secured through a cinematic miracle.

Even then, the Black Panther cannot find it in himself to end the life of Killmonger; it is Killmonger himself who chooses his own end after his final battle with T’Challa.

“Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, because they knew death was better than bondage,” Killmonger said in his final scene as he watched the sunset on Wakanda.

Centuries of resilience isn’t some kind of honor; it is simply survival.

Although we would all like for Wakanda to exist, today, it doesn’t.

The painful truth is that Black people were forcefully dispersed throughout the globe; isolated from our culture, countries and families. The painful truth is that the campaign of carnage that White people have lead across the globe cannot be reconciled through broad aid and well-intentioned community centers.

Partnership and collaboration, two of the many underlying themes of the film, prove elusive for Killmonger.

The love between Okoye and W’Kabi ended civil war. The connection between the spiritual world and

technology is the lifeline of the nation. The cooperation of M’Baku and Ramonda brought hope back to life. And, the love between Nakia and the T’Challa is slated to save the world.

Killmonger was not bestowed the privilege of partnership.

My knowledge of comic book adaptations is limited to Superman and the X-Men; in both movie franchises, characters faced deep moral decisions. These decisions are most often a test of character or weight of priority. These films, set in city centers, often display massive property damaged and presumed loss of innocent life. However, the central internal conflict in Black Panther centered upon killing the radical pursuit of freedom.

Killmonger is a villain of White culture; the worst nightmare of the ruling class. Killmonger is the rage of a millions of people who were displaced, disregarded, and discarded. “The Black Panther” is a fictional depiction of the moral consciousness of Black people; the hope for both the oppressed and the oppressor. He is the grace of God to a people undeserving.

Mainstream dialogue on race relations in the United States naively suggests that White people simply refuse to acknowledge that the crimes of American slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade continue to fuel significant disparities across the planet. I would argue that they are fully aware of their crimes, but interpret them through a filtered lens of conquest. I would argue that White people’s conscious relegation of persons of color is reduced to collateral damage necessary to maintain power, wealth, and leadership.

As Killmonger fell, I longed for a Black Panther/Killmonger

partnership. The partnership of rage and compassion, of power and responsibility, of justice and reconciliation deserves exploration.

Resolving the conflict between the Black Panther and Killmonger is the precarious tight rope that Black folks must walk to freedom.

Killmonger’s death is also a figment of white people’s imagination; his conflicted fight for freedom lives on in the hearts of black people across the globe.

Lynette Monroe Washington, D.C.

No ban needed

As tragic as mass shootings are, sometimes I am confused by the way people react to tragedies. In the aftermath of a mass shooting, many people want the government to immediately pass new gun control laws. The hard truth is that there is absolutely nothing the government can do to protect you from tragedies like the horrific massacre in Parkland.

Tragedy, by definition is, “an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.”

Sometimes good people are beset by tragedies, randomly and without warning.

If you ban guns, do you really think violent tragedies will go away? One need look no further than Japan to find the answer.

In Japan, it is illegal to possess, carry, sell or buy guns. So, it is extremely rare, if ever, for a shooting death to occur in Japan.

For example, in 2014, Japan had six gun related deaths compared to 33,599 in the U.S. In 2016, however, nineteen people were killed and 26 injured in a stabbing massacre in Tokyo, which

was Japan’s deadliest mass killing since World War II. In 2008, a man ran over a group of people with his truck and then stabbed 18, killing seven in Tokyo’s Akihabara gaming district. In 2001, eight children were killed when a former employee, a janitor, entered an elementary school in Osaka and stabbed them to death.

So, the point is that even if guns were outlawed in the U.S., a person determined to commit an act of violence will always find a weapon of choice to unleash their diabolical schemes.

Japan has outlawed guns. Now, killers in that country use knives and cars to inflict massive carnage upon their fellow citizens.

If the U.S. outlawed guns and preemptively banned, let’s say, ice picks and utility knives, then individuals that are committed to killing other people will simply use whatever else they can get their hands on. Cars and trucks might become the weapons of choice; should we ban them, too? If we go down that road, where will it end?

Today, it’s very hard to get teenagers and young adults to think critically about the world they live in. No one wants to accept personal responsibility for anything that happens in their lives; everyone gets a trophy; everything bad that happens to them is always someone else’s fault.

The state of Florida and the F.B.I. are going to spend millions of dollars trying to figure out why this kid killed students and faculty members at that school in Parkland. In reality, there are no simple solutions to most problems that we wrestle with as a society.

Unfortunately, sometimes bad things happen to good people and banning guns won’t change that.

Raynard Jackson

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Churches must follow students’ lead on #ThoughtsPrayersAction Let’s start with a church boycott of the NRA JIM WALLIS COMMENTARY I often send a note offering “thoughts and prayers” to people in the wake of personal loss or tragedies. And I mean it. It was natural and sincere for many to offer their “thoughts and prayers” to the high school students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas after they lost 17 friends, teachers, and coaches in a tragic mass shooting with an AR-15.

And I was immediately struck by the response by many of those students, even those of deep faith, who said thoughts and prayers were no longer enough.

I believe in the power of prayer, but as the apostle James tells us, “Faith without works is dead.”

Therefore, it is time to think about the connections between thoughts, prayers, and actions in relationship to gun violence.

The students who survived the nowdubbed “Valentine’s Day Massacre” were all born after the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, which marked the beginning of the modern era of mass shootings in schools. A recent Washington Post analysis estimates that since then more than 150,000 students attending at least 170 primary or secondary schools in the United States have experienced a school shooting on campus. Therefore, these horrific, heartbreaking, and family-destroying moments have become normal for this generation of young people. Some of their first memories at 4 and 5 years old were participating in active shooter drills, akin to the nuclear drills of my generation. As they got older, at 9, 10, and 11, it was not unusual for many of these students to fearfully ask their parents if they might get shot in school.

But now they are teenagers, watching and listening to the world around them, often online, as many of us started reading newspapers and watching the evening news at the same age.

And they are asking some hard

questions of the rest of society: “Why is this normal? Why is the older generation, including our parents, not protecting us? And why have our elected leaders allowed this to happen and accepted it?”

The students have already moved from questioning to acting, saying: “This can and must be changed, and we are going to do that.”

Pay attention: Social change always comes when the next generation decides to no longer accept what the last generation accepted.

High school students are refusing to accept the distractions, excuses, and inaction that has prevailed for so long. This is a generation that knows how to communicate and connect with each other more than any generation before. They are all getting old enough to vote — some already are — and they are registering.

The big question is what can we do, as older generations? What should the high school students’ parents do? What can our elected officials be forced to do? And yes, what can our churches and those of us who call themselves people of faith do now, to protect our young people?

It’s time for all of us to support the emerging agenda of the high school students who are leading now. It’s time for the rest of us to support

them by doing what they are calling us all to do. The student survivors are turning their grief into action.

They are dealing with their trauma by deciding that the status quo on guns in this country is no longer acceptable.

When I listen to the Parkland students who have formed #NeverAgain and #MarchForOurLives movements, here’s what I hear them saying in

terms of action: - Pass truly universal background checks — no exceptions or loopholes for anybody buying a gun any place or any time.

- Ban assault weapons. One of the most consistent demands of the students is to take weapons of war out of civilian hands. It follows that we should also put common sense limits on rifle magazine size and banning “bump stocks,” which allowed the Las Vegas shooter to fire his semi-automatic rifles as if they were fully automatic - Directly take on the NRA in real ways that will break its hold on the gun debate. The students are clearly saying that politicians who accept NRA contributions should not be reelected. Period. I agree.

As I listen to the students asks, I think of our faith communities. Like every state in the country, Florida is home to many faith traditions.

Parkland is no exception, with a variety of churches, a strong Jewish community, and people of many other faiths. In the aftermath of the shooting, places of worship did what we expect them to do: They

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(from page 8) hosted vigils and funerals for those who were killed and those who are grieving. But churches nationwide can, and need to, do so much more in the days ahead. In addition to offering our thoughts and lifting our prayers, we can follow the Marjory Stoneman Douglas survivors in taking action.

Social change always comes when the next generation decides to no longer accept what the last generation accepted.

So what do we mean when we say we are offering up our prayers — and how can those prayers move us to action?

Here is what I believe to be the best way forward — and I hope that pastors and congregants across the country will join me.

I call on pastors and places of worship to commit to praying for all of their young people. On March 18, schedule a special prayer during the service, inviting your students and teachers to the altar as the congregation prays for their safety and welfare. Many of these students and teachers may have been part of the March 14 walkout, or they may be planning to attend a March for Our Lives in Washington and around the country on March 24. Some of them may not be participating, but they are seeing the movement in

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their schools and they have questions and desire discipleship. Pray over them and offer your students and teachers the space they need to pray, process, plan, and act.

You can also commit to some of the following: Continue to be safe spaces for grief, gathering, and discussion — but also for planning actions and perhaps even host forums in the community on the dangerous and complicated issues of gun violence—and trying to bring a faith perspective.

-Youth pastors could talk specifically to their youth about gun violence and mass shootings, and plan actions like trips to state capitols and Washington, D.C., to advocate for change. Sojourners is releasing toolkits that will help facilitate these conversations.

As faith leaders and parents of faith, we could dedicate ourselves to our children’s safety with a serious commitment to preaching, praying, and acting against the scourge of gun violence that root ourselves in the biblical message of peace, justice, and healing.

And we know that our faith and our prayers move us to action. So we are calling on churches, other houses of worship, and people of faith to join a Church Boycott of the NRA. What might that look like? Here are some ways churches could help break the NRA’s stranglehold on the gun

debate.

Make NRA membership an issue in the church. Ask what making churches gun-free zones might look like, given security concerns.

Most importantly, make gun violence a faith issue in our churches.

Consider breaking off relationships with financial institutions that extend lines of credit to assault weapons manufacturers, and banking instead with institutions that don’t.

Consider taking steps to divest from mutual funds and other investment assets that include gun manufacturers in our church portfolios.

Find out which companies have partnerships with the NRA. Boycott them, and instead, spend your money with companies that have broken off their connections with the NRA like some rental car agencies, airlines, and banks that have already acted. Shop at stores like Dick’s

Sporting Goods and others that have taken strong stands. Pressure other stores in the industry to make changes in their policies on selling assault weapons and conducting comprehensive background checks.

Guide your church members in how to find out if their Congress members get donations from the NRA via this handy link. Call your members at (202) 224-3121. Thank them for not taking NRA money, if they don’t — if they do, ask them to pledge to refuse it in the future. When you call, ask them to support universal background checks and assault weapons bans — and tell them that getting your votes depends on their votes, as our children are now telling them.

Our children are leading us, and our youth groups can help point the way forward. It’s time to listen and follow their lead.

Wallis is president of Sojourners, which seeks to inspire hope and transform.

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A TV show inspired Debra Barksdale to become a nurse JAMES IRWIN Debra Barksdale grew up in rural central Virginia. Her father, George, was a tobacco sharecropper with a third-grade education; her mother, Dorothy, completed high school and worked in a garment factory. Their daughter was 9 years old when she decided she was going to be something different.

Her inspiration: a 1960s TV show called “Julia” starring Diahann Carroll as a nurse.

“I think it was one of the first TV shows where the main star was a woman of color,” said Barksdale, Ph.D., the associate dean of academic affairs in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing and a Nursing Alumni Endowed Professor.

Barksdale, who today has published studies funded by the National Institutes of Health and sits on the board of governors of the PatientCentered Outcomes Research Institute, remembers watching “Julia,” which ran for 86 episodes from 1968 to 1971, on a black-andwhite TV, fiddling with the antenna to get adequate reception.

“We didn’t have books. I didn’t have role models or parents who were college educated,” Barksdale said.

“And I decided I was going to be a nurse. That was pretty much it. I made up my mind.”

‘I was poor, but I never felt poor’ Barksdale, who came to VCU in 2016 after a 14-year career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is sitting in her office, a tidy, light-filled room on the fourth floor of Sadie Heath Cabaniss Hall on the MCV Campus.

Degrees and awards hang neatly along the far wall. Keepsake items rest on shelves in the left corner. In the right corner, atop a tall wooden cabinet, sits a boxed “Julia” doll, created by Mattel Inc. in 2009 as part of Barbie’s 50th anniversary.

Barksdale has pulled the box off the shelf and set it on a small table where she sits.

“Somebody gave me this after I did a TED talk a few years ago and I talked about ‘Julia,’” she said.

“Julia” is only part of Barksdale’s story. She grew up the second of five children in Nathalie, in Halifax County. Her family was always

Debra Barksdale was inspired to go into nursing by a TV show called “Julia”, starring Diahann Carroll. Today, a boxed “Julia” doll — created

by Mattel Inc. in 2009 — sits on a wooden cabinet in her office.

PHOTO: Allen Jones moving, from one old rental house to the next. She was 16 before she lived in a home with running water and plumbing. It was less than 1,000 square feet in size and had one bathroom. It was the first house her parents owned. They still live there.

Most people in Nathalie, Barksdale said, were not highly educated. She wanted to be different. She loved to read. She learned to write by copying the labels on canned foods. When she was in high school, her parents purchased a set of encyclopedias.

Barksdale was in heaven. She read the encyclopedias. She read the dictionary. She read whatever she could get her hands on.

“I remember when I was very young, my other sisters liked to cook and I would be studying or reading something,” Barksdale said. “My father said something like, ‘When you get married, you’re gonna need to know how to cook.’ And I said, ‘Well, we'll eat bologna sandwiches,’ because I had no interest.”

The family was poor, she said, but she didn’t feel poor.

“We always had clothes — my mother was a seamstress — and plenty of food and gardens and pigs and stuff like that,” Barksdale said.

“At that point I didn’t understand what it meant to be poor — I was poor, but I never felt poor. We always had everything I knew of that we needed, like food and clothes and each other.”

Rising from the mud Barksdale has never tried to hide details about how she grew up. Her TED talk, “Rising From the Mud,” focused on finding inspiration from the past.

“Some people don’t want to acknowledge their background, especially when they come from lower socio-economic backgrounds. But Debra is the opposite,” said Coretta Jenerette, Ph.D., an associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jenerette first met Barksdale in 2007. Barksdale, she said, has played a big role in her personal and professional development as a friend, colleague and mentor.

“I’m from rural South Carolina, a little place called Hemingway, in Georgetown County,” Jenerette said.

“My parents didn’t have a high school education. My high school class was 50 people. [Debra] and I share similar backgrounds. And I think it adds to her authenticity [that] she’s not ashamed to say she came from a low socio-economic background in a rural area. It allows her to better serve people that reflect her background.”

Barksdale, who holds nursing degrees from the University of Virginia, Howard University and the University of Michigan, studies stress and cardiovascular disease in black American adults. She chose this field for several reasons, she

said.

“Usually when someone had died, like my grandfather, they had a stroke or something of that nature,” Barksdale said. “I knew high blood pressure was a problem in AfricanAmericans, and I was always interested in the notion of stress.”

Barksdale wrote her master’s thesis on stress. When she started working as a nurse practitioner in Maryland, she would often see young black men with high blood pressure who did not fit the profile of a typical hypertension patient.

“You’re ‘supposed’ to be overweight.

But they weren’t,” Barksdale said.

“My husband was really lean and a runner and he had high blood pressure. I started to try and figure out what was going on.”

She has been working to better understand the connection between stress and blood pressure among black adults. Some of her most notable work has come through studies that monitor blood pressure at night.

Blood pressure is usually lower when you are sleeping, Barksdale said. But there are some people who don’t experience a blood pressure dip overnight. “[They] are physiologically not hypertensive during the daytime but at night their blood pressure doesn't dip appropriately, so they are hypertensive when they sleep,” Barksdale said. “How would anyone know that? You don’t go to the doctor in the middle of the night, and if you did, you’d be awake and your blood pressure is going to come up anyway.

“Most strokes and heart attacks occur in the early morning, so it’s really consequential, whatever is happening.”

Barksdale likes to tell people that she likes whatever she is doing at any given time.

‘I can give back’ Barksdale believes she has a responsibility to help others.

“One of the guiding principles of my life is, ‘To whom much is given, much is required,’” she said.

That is paraphrased from the New Testament — Luke 12:48: For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required. Barksdale lives by this philosophy. She started a mentor leadership program when

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Remembering Ensa Cosby STACY M. BROWN Just before hearings in his criminal retrial are set to begin, comedian Bill Cosby is mourning the loss of his daughter, Ensa Cosby.

Ensa Cosby, 44, died Feb. 23 in Massachusetts.

“The Cosby family thanks many people for their prayers for their beloved and beautiful Ensa, who recently died from renal disease,” Wyatt said.

She was reportedly just weeks away from receiving a kidney and a muchneeded transplant, her husband revealed in a recent interview.

Last year, Ensa spoke to the Black Press, saying that her father had been publicly lynched in the media.

“I strongly believe my father

Cosby Show” in 1989, as a girl at a party. That episode, titled “I’m In with the In Crowd,” featured Ensa with Vanessa and a group of girls playing the Alphabet Game while chugging alcohol.

Cosby and his wife of more than 50 years, Camille Cosby, had five children, Erika, Erinn, Ensa, Evin, and Ennis, their only son.

Ennis Cosby was murdered in 1997 while trying to change a flat

Ask Alma is innocent of the crimes alleged against him and I believe that racism has played a big role in all aspects of this scandal,” Ensa Cosby said.

Ensa once worked alongside her father, appearing on the iconic “The

(from page 10) minutes but she knew I needed a she was president of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. She is a graduate of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows program.

She is at a point in her career, she said, when she can help people — by offering advice, writing recommendation letters, or helping someone who simply needs a role model.

“I can give back and contribute,” Barksdale said. “I’m not worried about what people think. I’m not trying to get promoted. I believe if you treat people right and try to do the best you can — and if you can get out of your own way — you can help other people.”

Jenerette said Barksdale is an example for minority faculty and aspiring health professionals.

“I’ll send her a text message and I’ll say, ‘Do you have five minutes?’

And we’ll be on the phone for a halfhour because I thought I needed five

Barksdale likes to tell people that she likes whatever she is doing at any given time. “I never have allowed myself to be pigeon-holed into one thing,” she said. “I see myself as continuously developing and learning and exploring.”

PHOTO: Allen Jones

half-hour,” Jenerette said. “She has a million things to do but she never makes you feel like you’re not a priority.”

Barksdale’s commitment to others is sincere, Jenerette said. She treats you as though you are the most important person to her in a given moment. She isn’t distracted — no glances at the clock, or the Fitbit wrapped around her left wrist. She is present.

“I like to tell people: I like whatever I’m doing at the time,” Barksdale said. “So if I’m doing research — oh my God that’s the best thing. If I’m teaching — oh I love teaching. If I’m doing something administrative — wow.”

She glances around the room, her boxed “Julia” doll resting next to her right elbow.

“I’m still humbled knowing how I grew up and how I was raised and here I sit in an office like this,” Barksdale said.

“I’m a woman of faith and I consider myself tremendously blessed.” - VCU

Recognition backfires Dear Alma, Last year, our company put on a national contest to honor the best people across the organization. The idea was to recognize people who don't get much recognition and make sure people knew of their accomplishments.

We all think very highly of our co-worker, an older woman (65+) named Laura. I nominated Laura, with her permission, and she won!

I was excited, our co-workers were excited and she even got an article in the local paper.

Laura’s reaction really surprised me. She wrote an email to everyone saying it was embarrassing and that other people deserved it more than she did. Now, she barely speaks to me. And when she does, it’s sometimes snarky or a put down.

I am completely mystified. I truly wanted to honor her. And the reaction to her award has been 100 percent positive. To be honest, I’m kind of hurt.

One of my friends thinks it’s generational: that some older women don’t want a fuss made over them.

Can you think of anything that might explain Laura’s reaction?

Confused co-worker

tire along a darkened off-ramp of the Interstate 405 freeway in Los Angeles.

At press time, Cosby’s hearings were set for March 5 and March 6 in Norristown, Pa. on the criminal charges facing Bill Cosby. The comedian is accused of sexually assaulting a former Temple University employee more than 14 years ago. A jury failed to reach a verdict in the trial last year and a new trial has been scheduled for April 2.

Dear confused co-worker, Pardon me while I recap, just to make sure I understand where you’re coming from. You asked for permission to submit info on someone for a contest and she won.

You’re feeling good about what you did and thought it doubledoggon delightful when the local newspaper decided to cover the good deed. Unfortunately, while all this was happening the person at the center of the hoopla didn’t seem appreciative and alerted everyone of such feelings, and has now distanced herself.

Umhm, I think I got it. So you stopped by to ask me why I think she’s rescinded her cordial communication towards you and others around the office. Umhm, good question.

My advice is simple, ask her. You asked her if you could nominate her, now ask her why she feels troubled by the win. There’s no need to guess.

It’ll give you two a chance to talk it out. Usually when I try to figure out why someone has said or done something, without confronting them, I’m almost always wrong. My thoughts and judgements are often wildly misplaced. Your questions of concern will honor her even more, and allow her to see that you truly respect her as a colleague and her feelings.

While I still have your ear, I’d like to add… When you do something nice for someone, whatever that may be, it’s not your place to determine how they should react. She said thank you, she didn’t deserve it, now that’s her cake to bake. You can’t adjust her appreciation apron.

Don’t allow her attitude starved of gratitude to dictate your feelings.

The part you played in this contest was admirable, you should take pride in that. The fact that she won is just icing with a cherry on top.

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Calls for economic unity as BW 2020 celebrates 2nd year Rep. Gregory Porter tells voters: ‘You can’t be the invisible’ HAZEL TRICE EDNEY TEWIRE - The president of America’s largest organization of black legislators has called for unity behind economic development initiatives prioritized by Black Wealth 2020, a movement launched two years ago to forge progress for black-owned businesses, banks and homeowners.

“Economic development is the cornerstone for everything. It’s kind of interesting to talk to you all because you’re living it every day. You know what it takes,” said Indiana Rep. Gregory W. Porter, president of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL).

He was speaking to Black Wealth 2020 founders, executives and associates at its second anniversary luncheon.

“What it takes is for a community to get along. Also, we don’t spend with our people like we should and we know that. The bottom line is this: We know the whereases.

We know what the problems are.

Therefore, what are we going to do?

Jesse [Jackson] said years ago ‘Can’t nobody save us but us.’... That’s what we’re doing right now, saving us.”

Backing from the NBCSL adds significant momentum to Black Wealth 2020, founded two years ago

by Ron Busby, president/CEO of the U.S. Black Chambers Inc.; Michael Grant, then president of the National Bankers Association; and Jim Winston, president of the National Organization of Black Owned Broadcasters. At least a dozen other major black organizations have either joined or expressed support for its economic initiatives.

“We own too little land. We have too lower median income than other Americans. We have much lower family wealth than our white brothers and sisters and we’ve got to make that change,” Porter said to shouts of “Amen” and applause from the audience.

A strategy to unify with other organizations will be the key to success, said Porter, a Democrat serving his 13th term in the Indiana General Assembly.

“We’re working with the NAACP, Urban League, other groups and

National Organizations because if we do that we’ll be strong together.

We can’t continue to be silos. So, I know as we go forth, we will do it as a community. And so, remember, you have 600 legislators, we represent 60 million people. We’re in 45 states, plus U. S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. We have the means. It's up to all of us to come together and have the will.”

Speaking to the luncheon gathering at HomeFree-USA, Porter listed a number of economic policies currently being pushed by NBCSL, which has a membership that blankets the nation; plus the U.S. Virgin Islands and Washington, D.C. “We represent about 60 million people in rural communities and we come together two or three times a year in an annual conference.”

Pointing to long-held discussions about black wealth, Porter, ranking minority member on Indiana's Ways and Means Committee, stressed that the most important need now is less talk and more strategic action. “The bottom line is that we can talk all we want to, but we’ve got to have our independence in regards to economics,” he said.

As an example of action, he said he and like-minded legislators have had to hold up certain projects in order to assure black participation.

“We’re the super minority, so a lot of us are fighting to stay relevant in this whole process,” he said. “They always go to the big company, but we’ve got to know how we’re going to build our capacity by choosing minority companies...

We've worked very hard in dealing with minority access for sustainable financial institutions through our resolutions. As black caucuses across the country, we’re increasing our fair contracting opportunities and practices for economic parity. These are resolutions that we’ve passed.”

Among key economic issues being dealt with in legislatures daily are homeowner protection, antipredatory lending, home affordability resolutions, anti-discrimination and gentrification issues. Preparation for the 2020 Census and making sure African-Americans are fully counted will also be key, he said. NCBSL’s next legislative conference will be

Indiana Rep. Gregory Porter, calls for unity behind direction of Black Wealth 2020.

PHOTO: Rodney Minor held Nov. 28 at which time they will “look at Black wealth.”

Echoing the importance of unity in order to accomplish economic goals, HomeFree-USA President/CEO Marcia Griffin appealed to those in the room to “be our ambassadors, our messengers, etc. because we need to reach thousands with a sense of understanding and get people to wrap their arms around our goals. ... We’re from all sorts of different segments of the black community, but we've come together to work together to empower ourselves and empower our community and empower our country.”

Grant, now based in Nashville, where he is regional president of United Security Financial, a mortgage banking company, agreed with the appeal for harmony.

“We’re not trying to upstage anybody,” he said at the February event. “We’re not trying to compete with anybody. What we’re trying to do is pull our strength together so that when we speak with one voice, they’re looking at all of these organizations coming together and

it’s hard to say no to that kind of power.”

Porter also underscored the importance of constituents holding lawmakers - including black legislators - accountable and not taking for granted that they will automatically push for economic inclusion. He suggested that constituents: • Have their own kitchen cabinet and invite legislators to neighborhood and community meetings’ •Come to state houses, visit the representatives’ offices; • Attend and speak at public hearings.

“You can’t be the invisible,” he said. “We’ve got to stay woke about economic development and the process that we have. We did build this country. We need to manage this country.”

Expressing the importance of this year being the 50th anniversary of the beginning of Dr. King’s Poor People’s Movement, Porter said, “It does mean a lot to us...You’ve got to know where you came from to know where you’re going.”

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Northam urges Senate members to support Medicaid expansion during demonstration at Capitol Square BRI PARK CNS - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, accompanied by Attorney General Mark Herring, called for General Assembly senators to move forward with Medicaid expansion at a recent demonstration that took place on Capitol Square.

“As you know, we have a budget in the House that includes Medicaid expansion. The Senate’s doesn’t. This is time, it’s a week left,” said Northam.

Northam said he believed expanding Medicaid was a moral decision that legislators should support.

“Morally, the right thing to do is to make sure 400,000 working Virginians have access to affordable and quality care,” Northam said. “We need to make that happen.”

The demonstration, which was titled the Rally for Medicaid Expansion, was coordinated by Healthcare for all Virginians, a coalition comprising more than 110

Gov. Ralph Northam organizations across the state that believe all Virginians should have access to affordable health care, according to the organization’s website.

Representatives from various health-related organizations affiliated with the Healthcare for all Virginians coalition including The New Virginia Majority, an emergency room medical provider from Roanoke and SEIU Virginia 512 also spoke in support of expanding Medicaid.

Karen Legato, who is the Executive

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director of the Fan Free Clinic, a Richmond-based health center that provides free medical services, said that although organizations like the Fan Free Clinic were a resource for many people who would not be able to access affordable healthcare otherwise, they do not have enough resources to support every Richmond resident who does not have health insurance.

“Let me be clear,” Legato said. “All of the charitable clinics put together only have the capacity to serve 152,000 of the 505,000 uninsured eligible for our services. We need Medicaid because we need help taking care of the people in our community.”

According to an analysis by the Commonwealth Institute, more than 834,000 Virginians have healthcare through Medicaid, with half of all low-income children in the state receiving coverage through the program.

However, when compared to other states, Virginia ranks as the 44th most difficult state for residents to meet the qualifications for

Medicaid coverage, according to the Commonwealth Institute. Some restrictions on Medicaid eligibility include prohibiting childless adults from qualifying and having different income caps for eligibility across different localities, meaning that a family that once qualified for the program could potentially lose their benefits if they move to a different part of the state.

Although they did not address the crowd at the rally, several senators, including David D. Marsden, D-Fairfax, Lionell Spruill Sr., D-Chesapeake and Jeremy S. McPike, D-Manassas stood behind Northam as he commended the demonstrators for their on-going activism on Medicaid expansion.

“It’s time for you all to do your work and I know that you all know how to do it because I would not be standing here, Mark Herring would not be standing here and these senators and delegates would not be here if it wasn’t for you,” Northam said. “You are the voices that lift us up every day.”

As a person who is passionate about Alzheimer’s disease, and, as an Alzheimer’s Association volunteer, I have started a campaign for an revenue sharing ALZHEIMER’S LICENSE PLATE through DMV. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, anyone with a brain should be concerned about Alzheimer’s and, the license plate is a great way to raise funding for awareness and support.

Since 2000, deaths from Alzheimer’s disease have increased by 89 percent. Alzheimer’s is the only cause of death in the top 10 that cannot be prevented or treated and has no cure. This must change.

Today, 130,000 Virginians are living with Alzheimer’s, and 400,000 are caregiving for someone who has it. We must effectively prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease soon and support those impacted by it until researchers achieve this goal.

We need your help! Together all Virginians can help us get the required 450 prepaid applications needed to be able to get DMV to produce the ALZHEIMER'S LICENSE PLATE. Amanda Chase, Senator, has agreed to present this license plate bill to General Assembly in January 2018 once 450 applications are collected.

Once 1000 license plates are in circulation in the state of Virginia, $15 of the annual $25 cost for the ALZHEIMER’S LICENSE PLATE will be donated to the Alzheimer's Association. *REGISTER TODAY* Online registration available at www.vaendalz.com!

Email: vaendalz@gmail.com for information about the license plate.

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(from page 5 of complacency, indifference, or hopelessness. I think we owe it to these young people to act.”

In a recent CNN poll, seven in ten Americans responded that they favor stricter gun laws as a result of the most recent mass casualty attack.

This is the highest level of support for regulation since 1993, and is playing out in a variety of ways, with major corporations such as Delta, United, Hertz, MetLife, and others severing ties with the National Rifle Association — which represents a marked shift in the gun control

debate. Nonetheless, the NRA has remained intransigent. Their CEO, Wayne LaPierre, said last week that the reaction to gun violence is “completely ridiculous.”

The roundtable ended with a letter being read from April Bartlett, an elementary school arts teacher in Henrico. Among other things, the letter asked, “How can I carry the weight of protecting the precious lives of my students with my own, and the guilt of expecting my son’s kindergarten teacher to do the same?”

And the debate rages on.

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BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL TO ESTABLISH A VIRGINIA COMMUNITY SOLAR PILOT PROGRAM PURSUANT TO § 56-585.1:3 OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA CASE NO. PUR-2018-00009 On January 19, 2018, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”) filed an application (“Application”) with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) pursuant to § 56-585.1:3 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”) and Rule 80 of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”) for approval to establish a Virginia Community Solar Pilot Program (“Pilot Program”), including a new voluntary companion tariff, designated Rider VCS – Virginia Community Solar Pilot Program (“Rider VCS”). Code § 56-585.1:3 requires, among other things, each investor-owned utility, including Dominion, to design a community solar pilot program, and to make subscriptions for participation in its pilot program available to retail customers on a voluntary basis within six months of receiving Commission approval. The Application states that pursuant to such a community solar pilot program, “participating retail customers may voluntarily elect to purchase the ‘net electrical output’ of new solar generating facilities located in communities throughout the Company’s Virginia service territory…under Rider VCS.” Code § 56-585.1:3 provides, in part, that the Commission shall approve the recovery of the Pilot Program costs that the Commission deems to be reasonable and prudent. This Code section also requires Commission approval of the Pilot Program design, the voluntary companion rate schedule (i.e., Rider VCS), and the portfolio of participating generating facilities (referred to herein as the “Community Solar Portfolio” or “Portfolio”), pursuant to specific requirements in Code § 56-585.1:3 regarding the Request for Proposal (“RFP”) criteria and selection process, the minimum and maximum generating capacities of the Community Solar Portfolio, and the Pilot Program duration.

Dominion states in the Application that, using the RFP process prescribed by Code § 56-585.1:3, “the Company solicited power purchase agreements (‘PPAs’) to be executed with eligible solar generating facilities that provide the Company the exclusive right to 100 percent of the net electrical output that these facilities dedicate to the Pilot Program.” The Company selected five winning proposals and four alternate proposals from facilities that qualify as “eligible generation facilities,” as defined in Code § 56 585.1:3 A, and which total ten megawatts of new solar photovoltaic capacity, consistent with Code § 56 585.1:3. Dominion states that the selected PPA projects, which would constitute the Company’s Community Solar Portfolio, are located within the Company’s service territory and will be interconnected to the Company’s distribution system. Dominion further states that it expects to execute final PPAs with these developers in the near future.

On January 19, 2018, the Company issued a second RFP tailored specifically to seek small projects less than 500 kilowatts in size. The Company states that based on the responses, which are due February 22, 2018, the Company may select one or more projects that qualify as small eligible generating facilities for inclusion in its Community Solar Portfolio, which the Commission is being asked to approve.

According to the Application, the proposed pricing for the three-year subscription-based Pilot Program is designed “to be attractive to qualifying customers looking for voluntary options to promote, support, and purchase community solar.” The Pilot Program would be available to all retail customers, net metering customers, as well as Special Contracts approved by the Commission pursuant to Code § 56-235.2, in two subscription options. Participants may subscribe by purchasing 100 kilowatt-hour (“kWh”) blocks (each constituting one “VCS Block”) of community solar on a monthly (or billing period) basis, for an annually-updated fixed price. Alternatively, participants, with the exception of “Large Non-residential Customers,” may subscribe by purchasing community solar to match 100% of their monthly (or billing period) usage in kWh for an annually-updated fixed price per kWh. The Company proposes, to allow for broader community participation in the Pilot Program, the following maximum subscription allotments for eligible customers who subscribe by purchasing VCS blocks: (1) residential customers would be limited to five whole VCS Blocks per billing cycle, and (2) non-residential customers would be limited to ten whole VCS Blocks per billing cycle. If the 100% match option is not selected, participating customers must subscribe to a minimum of one whole VCS Block per billing cycle. Under the Company’s proposal, customers may change their subscription level once per year, subject to availability. The Company states that it would make every effort to ensure the subscribed amount of community solar does not exceed the projected output of the Portfolio. If the Portfolio’s net electrical output is not sufficient to meet participating customers’ subscriptions on an annual basis, the Company would supplement the Portfolio with solar Renewable Energy Certificates.

There would be no application fee to subscribe to Rider VCS. The Company states that because Rider VCS is designed as a voluntary companion tariff to the participating customer’s Principal Tariff (i.e. the rate schedule on which the customer takes service from the Company), the customer’s billing statement would be largely unchanged, with the exception of a new line item – the “VCS Net Rate.” The proposed VCS Net Rate (in cents per kWh) would be calculated based on the participating customer’s actual billed usage during each billing period, capped at the customer’s subscription level. A participating customer’s energy usage that exceeds the amount subscribed under Rider VCS would be billed under the Principal Tariff for the customer’s account. The Company believes the VCS Net Rate would be approximately 1.55¢ per kWh in the first year of the Pilot Program.

The Company would make Rider VCS subscriptions available within six months of Commission approval of the Pilot Program; however, the Company states that participating customer subscriptions would not become effective until one or more Community Solar Portfolio sites begin to generate renewable energy. Subscribing customers would be subject to a minimum one-year term. After the initial one-year term, Rider VCS customers may terminate service under Rider VCS with 30 days’ notice to the Company.

Dominion asserts that its Community Solar Pilot Program, including Rider VCS, is in the public interest. The Company further asserts that proposed Rider VCS and its cost recovery method are reasonable and prudent.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for further details of the Company’s proposals.

The Company’s Application, as well as the Order for Notice and Comment that the Commission entered in this case, are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa S. Booth, Esquire, Dominion Energy Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Riverside 2, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

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

On or before April 30, 2018, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments on the Application with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before April 30, 2018, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00009.

On or before April 30, 2018, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00009. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Comment.

On or before April 30, 2018, any interested person may file a written request for a hearing. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the hearing request shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above, and the interested person simultaneously shall serve a copy of the hearing request on counsel to the Company at the address set forth above. All requests for a hearing shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00009.

All documents filed with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

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

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The Henrico County School Board will hear citizens’ views on superintendent search at New Bridge Learning Center auditorium, 5915 Nine Mile Rd. The public input session will give citizens another opportunity to make their voices known on what they’d like to see in Henrico Schools’ next superintendent. The session will take place after the board’s regularly scheduled work session. Citizens will have four minutes to address the Board from the podium at the public input session. Citizens can sign up ahead of time by contacting Debbie Ward, clerk of the School Board, at dnward@henrico.k12.va.us or at 804-652-3808. However, signing up in advance is not required.

3.11, 7 p.m.

First Baptist Church of Hampton will install their first female pastor in their 154-year history.

There are many events planned for this historic event. The Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers will hold a concert at the church at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 9, in honor of Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Joan S. Parrott.

This concert is free and open to the public however, you must obtain a ticket from the church for entry.

On Saturday, March 10, the church will hold its Installation Banquet at the Hampton Roads Convention Center. The guest speakers are co-pastors, Dr. Grainger and Dr. Jo Ann Browning, of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church in Fort Washington, Maryland.

The musical guest is Pastor Donnie McClurkin. Tickets for the Banquet are $60.00 per person. Finally, the Installation Worship Service will take place at 10:15 a.m. and will be held here at First Baptist Church of Hampton.

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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/ .

3.21, 7:30 p.m.

The March meeting of the Ostomy Association of Greater Richmond will be an “open mike” night.

This will give members of this patient support group the opportunity to voice any problems with their colostomy, ileostomy or urostomy …or offer product usage tips for the membership. The meeting will be in Williamsburg-A conference room at Henrico Doctor’s Hospital, 1601 Skipwith Rd. See Richmond UOAA #296 online.

For more information, call Mile Rollston at 804-232-1961 or email agriva@comcast.net.

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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