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‘Clearly a negotiator’ There were over 100 students invited to the White House Science Fair to celebrate accomplishments in science, math, engineering and technology on April 13, but just one of them was singled out by President Barack Obama in a nationally streamed speech as being a “clearly good negotiator and businessperson.”

Left, the president shows off a replica of the White House made with a 3D printer by nine-year old Jacob Leggette, left, while touring exhibits at the White House Science Fair on April 13, in Washington.

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Newsome heads to PCPS “There’s not one magic person, no silver bullet, to fix schools. So it’s not just Dr. [Marcus J.] Newsome, but his willingness to come here says volumes about the work the board and the community are already doing,” said Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton following the announcement that Newsome has been tapped as the next Petersburg Public Schools superintendent.

Newsome, who was set to retire as superintendent of Chesterfield County Public Schools at the end of June, has canceled his retirement to help Petersburg’s troubled school system.

“The challenges in Petersburg are great, but so are the opportunities to accomplish something great for the city’s children and the entire community,” Newsome said. “I look

forward to establishing collaborative relationships with the division’s teachers, principals, support staff and other educators — and to building on the foundations already in place and the successes already achieved.”

Newsome replaces Dr. Joseph Melvin, who resigned under pressure last October.

Petersburg, for years, has struggled to prepare its students to be competitive in higher education.

Reading and math scores, at all levels, especially in grades K-8, has been chronically lower than other school systems and leaders have cited a need to better prepare students for the workforce.

Newsome during a conference at J.E.B. Stuart. See more on page 2

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News PCPS welcomes Newsome

The Petersburg School Board selected retiring Chesterfield County Superintendent Marcus J. Newsome as the city’s next superintendent of schools. The appointment was officially ratified by Chairman Kenneth Pritchett during a news conference at J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School.

“Today is a day of celebration and rekindled hope for all of Petersburg,” Pritchett said. “One of the commonwealth’s most successful, nationally recognized and inspiring instructional leaders has agreed to postpone a well-earned retirement in order to lead our school system. My fellow board members and I promise our full support as Dr. Newsome takes the helm and steers our students toward the success we know they can achieve.”

Newsome announced his retirement as Chesterfield County superintendent last October — effective July 1 — after leading the division for 10 years. Prior to serving as superintendent in Chesterfield County, Newsome served for three years as superintendent of Newport News Public Schools.

Under Newsome’s leadership, Chesterfield County implemented the largest Google Chromebook initiative in the nation and became a recognized leader in children’s engineering, career and technical education, blended learning, projectbased learning, service learning and in the use of social media to engage families and the broader community.

In Newport News under Newsome, all of the city’s high schools were recognized by Newsweek as being among the nation’s best.

“Effective and visionary leadership

PCPS School Board members welcome Newsome. is critical for a school division that is working to improve academic outcomes and prepare students for college and career readiness,” said Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staples. “I know that I speak for my colleagues at the Virginia Department of Education when I say that Dr. Newsome will have the full support of the department as he seeks to lead Petersburg students to new and greater academic opportunity and achievement.”

“This is a turning point for Petersburg and for the division’s 4,300 students,” said Secretary of Education Anne Holton.

“Petersburg’s children are the commonwealth’s children, and by supporting the Petersburg board’s effort to recruit such a distinguished leader, Gov. Terry McAuliffe and the General Assembly are sending a message: We believe in you and we believe in your teachers and principals.”

Newsome’s four-year contract with Petersburg — which becomes effective on July 1 — provides for an annual salary of $230,000, with $60,000 of the yearly amount coming

What citizens are saying Let’s just hope he is the Mike Jordan that came out of retirment from baseball, instead of the one that joined the wizards later. There is a difference.

However, the key to success is the board has to stay out of his way and let him do his thing.

As to the system being done, seems like CCPS is in pretty good shape relative to most systems in the Commonwealth. Further, it is in better shape than when this guy was originally hired. That has to be recognized.

As to many teachers leaving because og the guy, maybe it was time for them to go. Also, being a good leader doesnt mean that everyone fits your system or agrees with your vision. Sometimes good and bad folks leave and its best for the system.

Again CCPS is in pretty good shape. That speaks to his leadership abilities.

- James Burgess via social media Yea, this guy created a fiscal monster at CCPS, wasting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars every year on things like the Monacan HS boondoggle where relocating things like the tennis courts cost taxpayers $3.3 million.

So, go right ahead Petersburg, you think you have financial problems now?, when this guy gets through with you, you REALLY will be broke, and your schools will still be some of the worst in the country.

- Fred DeMey

from an incentive fund approved by the 2016 General Assembly to strengthen executive leadership within the system. Payments from the fund are contingent on the division achieving goals established in a memorandum of understanding between the Petersburg School Board and the state Board of Education.

“All of us — School Board members, teachers, parents and members of the business community — must now unite around Dr. Newsome and his vision of a school system whose students can compete with their peers across the state and graduate prepared for the 21st century economy,” said board chairman Pritchett.

In announcing the appointment of Newsome, Pritchett also thanked Acting Superintendent Linda

Shifflette for leading Petersburg’s school system while the school board searched for a new superintendent.

Shifflette — who retired in 2015 after serving for six years as superintendent in Hampton — was selected as acting Petersburg superintendent on Oct. 26, 2015, following the resignation of Joseph C. Melvin.

Newsome, 62, acknowledged some second thoughts about taking the position, but said he felt called to finish his career by helping turn around the struggling school system.

“You are probably aware that I have a degree in ministry, and I said that I wanted this portion of my life to be about ministry. So I, in some ways, see this as part ministry,” Newsome said, adding, “I believe this is God’s work.”

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Report: Pentagon misled lawmakers on military sexual assault cases RICHARD LARDNER

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon misled Congress with inaccurate and vague information about sexual assault cases that portrayed civilian law enforcement officials as less willing than military commanders to punish sex offenders, an AP investigation found.

Local district attorneys and police forces failed to act against U.S. service members who were subsequently prosecuted in military courts for sex crimes, according to internal government records that summarized the outcomes of dozens of cases. But in a number of cases, the steps taken by civilian authorities were described incorrectly or omitted. Other case descriptions were too imprecise to be verified.

There also is nothing in the records that supports the primary reason the Pentagon told Congress about the cases in the first place: To show top military brass as hard-nosed crime fighters who insisted on taking the cases to trial.

The records were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, which provided the documents exclusively to AP. Protect Our Defenders released a report Monday that criticizes the Pentagon’s use of the cases to undermine support for Senate legislation that would mandate a major change in the way the military handles sexual assault allegations.

The bulk of the cases involved soldiers. Army spokeswoman Tatjana Christian said the case descriptions were written by service attorneys who had “personal and direct knowledge of the circumstances.”

She said they contacted the local authorities in each case to ensure the description was accurate, although there is no indication of that in the summaries. The Army declined to make a service official available for an interview.

Previously, the more than 90 cases had been discussed publicly only as statistics that underpinned thePentagon’s objections to the

should be outraged.”

The often unflattering image of civilian law enforcement projected in the records also runs counter to the close working relationships local prosecutors told AP that they’ve forged with the uniformed legal staffs at militaryinstallations in their jurisdictions — far from the contentious political climate in Washington.

Civilian prosecutors said it’s not unusual to transfer a sexual assault case to the military for investigation or prosecution, particularly when the incident occurred off post and involved two or more service members. Yet these referrals are routinely depicted as refusals, 409 E. Main St. #4 (mailing) • 105 1/2 E. Clay St. (office) leaving the impression the charges Richmond, VA 23219 would not have been pursued had In this June 24, 2015, file photo, Adm. James A. “Sandy” Winnefeld, military authorities 804-644-1550 (office) • 1-800-783-8062 (fax)not stepped in.

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(from page 3) convicted for the possession of child pornography but was never discharged from the service. The soldier, whose identity AP could not confirm, also failed to register as a sex offender. After being allowed to stay in uniform, he groped a girl and also sent her sexually explicit messages. He then was courtmartialed and sentenced to five years in prison.

Kristyna Mills, the district attorney in New York’s Jefferson County, where Fort Drum is located, disputed the Army’s conclusion that her office turned the case down. She said the decision to allow the Army to take it was a “collaborative effort” made with the legal staff at Fort Drum.

“It is extremely rare that my office ‘declines to prosecute’ a case unless there are serious evidentiary issues that we feel cannot be overcome,” Mills said.

In another case, the sheriff’s office in Macomb County, Michigan, launched an investigation of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. D.C. Hagler, who was suspected of child pornography and indecent exposure, according to the records. But Hagler was stationed in Iraq. So the sheriff asked the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to take over what had become an international probe. Yet this is among the cases cited by Winnefeld as an instance where the military had to step in after civilian authorities wouldn’t act.

Marine Corps spokesman Maj. Clark Carpenter said the service is “not in a position to characterize” Winnefeld’s testimony. Carpenter said the individuals who prepared the summaries “had personal and direct knowledge of the circumstances” and that the Marine Corps does not provide information to Congress unless it’s first been “reviewed by a higher authority.”

The Senate legislation, which is sponsored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., was first introduced in the spring of 2013 and has won the backing of at least 50 senators. But the legislation has twice failed on the Senate floor to meet a 60-vote filibuster threshold.

The dispute over Gillibrand’s bill centers on the power that senior officers known as convening authorities have to send charges to trial and select jury members.

Gillibrand and the bipartisan group of lawmakers argue that the

Colonel Don M. Christensen system is archaic and ripe for bias, particularly for sex crimes. Victims may be reluctant to step forward, fearing they won’t be believed or that they’ll be retaliated against if they file a complaint.

But the bill’s detractors have said fewer sex offenders will be caught and convicted if Gillibrand’s bill ever becomes law. And that’s where the sexual assault cases factored into the debate.

Winnefeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee in July 2013 that there were 93 sexual assault casesthat military commanders insisted on taking after civilian authorities said no. Of the cases that had gone to trial at the time, more than half ended with a conviction, he said.

“I worry that if we turn this over to somebody else, whether it is a civilian DA or a nonentity in the military, that they are going to make the same kind of decisions that those civilian prosecutors made,” said Winnefeld, who was the nation’s second highest ranking military officer at the time. “I worry that we are going to have fewer prosecutions if we take it outside the chain of command.”

Opponents of Gillibrand’s bill seized on Winnefeld’s remarks. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., has cited the cases several times since the admiral testified, saying each one represents a victim who would never have had their day in court if Congress curbed the authority of commanders.

“The importance of these cases is that they show definitively that commanders don’t sweep sexual

assault cases under the carpet,” said Sarah Feldman, McCaskill’s spokeswoman. “On the contrary, the numbers continue to prove that commanders aggressively pursue courts-martial.”

But there’s no indication in the records of any direct intervention by commanders in the 93 cases or others listed in the documents.

Each appears to have followed the steps mandated by the military’s legal code: Senior officers cannot refer cases to a general courtmartial unless uniformed attorneys known as staff judge advocates have first advised them that the evidence warrants the charges.

So the argument that excluding commanders from the decision to prosecute will mean less justice for victims is a flawed one, according to proponents of Gillibrand’s bill.

“Charges should not be sent to trial to set an example or show a commander is tough,” said Christensen, the president of Protect Our Defenders.

Not all the case descriptions had enough information to independently verify if they were correct. The Army convicted Sgt. Cecil Saddler of raping a 10-year autistic girl in a case Winnefeld singled out as heinous.

Saddler, who was stationed at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, was sentenced to 35 years in prison in August 2011.

The Army’s description said that the commonwealth’s attorney in Virginia declined to prosecute Saddler but provided no additional identification. Virginia has 120 commonwealth’s attorneys — the state’s name for its elected, independent prosecutors — but no central database that keeps track of cases.

The offices of four commonwealth’s attorneys near Fort Eustis, where the crime occurred, were contacted for this story and none of them had any record of Saddler’s case.

Other descriptions omitted key details about the level of involvement by local authorities. A case from San Diego County, California, illustrates that point. The summary said the office of the district attorney in San Diego refused to move forward with sexual assault charges against a soldier because of insufficient evidence. But county court records and interviews provide a much different account.

Army Sgt. Paul Henson was convicted at Fort Knox, Kentucky,

in February 2013 of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Carlsbad, California. He was sentenced to two years confinement and was released after serving 18 months.

The assault occurred in July 2010, but the Carlsbad Police Department didn’t learn of the incident until nearly nine months later when it received a report from a police department in another state. By then, Henson was long gone from California. But the Carlsbad police investigated the allegations and the San Diego County District Attorney’s office issued an arrest warrant for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

After Henson was found guilty in military court, the district attorney’s office consulted with the victim and her family and elected not to proceed.

She had testified at the Army trial in Kentucky and they were concerned about putting her through another one. But the sexual assault charge against Henson in California wasn’t dropped until May 2015.

The imprecision in an Army case description resulted in a serious but untrue accusation against the office of the prosecuting attorney in Pierce County, Washington, where Joint Base Lewis-McChord is located. The summary said the office declined to prosecute a soldier accused of rape and then destroyed forensic evidence that had been collected the day after the assault.

John Sheeran, the office’s assistant chief criminal deputy, said Pierce County elected not to prosecute because of concerns the charges couldn’t be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. But he said his office did not destroy evidence.

That was done by the local police department — which held the evidence — after it was informed no charges were being filed.

That’s a distinction with a difference and one that should have been recognized by the Army attorneys who wrote the summary.

“If the implication is that prosecutors are reckless with evidence, it is problematic,” Sheeran said. The Army also did not inform local law enforcement that it needed evidence preserved for a possible prosecution, he said.

“Let’s not kid ourselves,” Sheeran said. “Anybody can cherry pick cases.”

-AP

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Who’s running for Richmond mayor?

New dynamic emerges as Stoney resigns state job Earlier this month, 12 candidates vying to be the next mayor of Richmond gathered at Virginia Union University to discuss the issues in a forum moderated by former Richmond Mayor and former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder and Dr. Robert Holsworth, former Dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences at VCU. The event did not include Secretary of the Commonwealth Levar Stoney, who has long been expected to throw his hat in the race but on Friday, Stoney seemed to take a step in that direction when he sent Gov. Terry McAuliffe his letter of resignation.

The resignation will remove any appearance of conflicting interests and it is expected that Stoney will join the mayoral race even though he has made no formal bid.

The officially declared candidates for the mayoral race include City Council member Jon Baliles, former Venture Richmond Director Jack Berry, community strategist

Lillie Estes, media company CEO Brad Froman, Open High teacher Chad Ingold, former delegate and commonwealth attorney Joe Morrissey, City Council President Michelle Mosby, activist and carpenter Alan Schintzius, city advocate Rick Tatnall, former Councilman Bruce Tyler, and architect Lawrence Williams.

Stoney, who was sworn in as Secretary of the Commonwealth on Jan. 19, 2014, became the first black to hold the post. He was also the youngest member of McAuliffe’s cabinet.

Stoney was also previously one of the youngest state Democratic party executive directors, in 2008, when he served the Democratic Party of Virginia. From there he parlayed his experience into McAuliffe’s gubernatorial campaign.

Stoney’s resignation letter highlighted the McAuliffe administration’s efforts to grow the economy, prevent discrimination and

Levar Stoney (center) with Gov. Terry McAuliffe and wife Dorothy McAuliffe. The governor tweeted this photo on Friday, writing that Stoney has “served citizens of VA w/integrity|devotion - a driving force of this admin”. help ex-offenders by restoring voting rights and removing barriers to state employment.

“To date, this has been the most rewarding experience of my life,” Stoney wrote. “Together we

demonstrated that we can’t build a new Virginia economy without new Virginia values.

“We have truly made a difference in the lives of others and I shall never forget that.”

Possible RVA school closings raise concerns, Armstrong on the chopping block Things are looking a bit bleak for Richmond Public Schools. On top of deteriorating school buildings and other shortcomings like the lack of school supplies, the school system is now facing the prospect of having to close several schools in order to minimize an $18 million budget gap.

Last month, Mayor Dwight Jones presented a budget that included $5 million of the $18 million requested to fix aging school buildings and address safety and health concerns.

The new budget offered no increase in funding for schools.

Schools listed among the chopping block are Armstrong High School as well as John B. Cary Elementary, Overby-Sheppard Elementary,

Swansboro Elementary and Southampton Elementary Schools.

Officials contend closing these schools will save an estimated $3 million.

Officials further maintain that an additional $3 million could also be saved if a hub transportation system was created to reduce the number of stops each school bus made.

Parents, community leaders and education advocates are challenging the mayor, city council and school board to find money elsewhere in the budget. Opponents to the school closings are promising massive turnouts at all discussions to speak against this in hopes of keeping the schools open and improving school

Left to right, board members : Dawson Boyer – 1st District; Kimberly Gray - 2nd District; Kristen Larson - 4th District; Donald Coleman, Vice Chair - 7th District; Jeffrey Bourne, Chair - 3rd District; Mamie Taylor - 5th District; Shonda Harris-Muhammed - 6th District; Derik Jones - 8th District; and Tichi Pinkney Eppes - 9th District conditions.

“We teach in horrible conditions,” said one teacher who requested anonymity. “We deal with roaches and mice. Yes, mice. We deal with ceilings falling in and water falling on us when it

rains. And we expect these children to learn and be productive in these conditions? We expect them to learn in the cold in the winter and the heat when summer approaches. They

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Voting is key to education reform BRIAN L. PAULING Education is the answer to many of the problems ailing our country is getting the least amount of attention from the candidates on the presidential campaign trail.

According to a November 2015 Gallup poll, only 4 percent of Americans consider education or education policy to be the most important problem facing our nation.

Respondents instead cited the economy, poorly run government, immigration, gun control and health care of most concern. While I agree that these are important issues, we at 100 Black Men of America, Inc. (The 100) believe that without a quality education, many young people, particularly African Americans, will be condemned to lives of poverty, incarceration and despair.

As a nonprofit mentoring organization, the education of our youth is one of our top concerns.

In our advocacy work, The 100 has sought to raise public awareness about the need to reform our nation’s education system, especially in predominately African-American and low-income communities where far too many of the schools are failing our children. We are working to ensure that every child, no matter

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their zip code, has access to highperforming schools. Schools with caring and nurturing environments, high-performing teachers, rigorous curriculum, and the proper materials and technology are some of the key ingredients to preparing our kids to successfully graduate high school, handle college-level coursework without requiring remediation, compete in a global marketplace and become productive members of society.

How we get there is the real

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question. One answer is by voting. When we go to the polls in November, we will not only elect the next president. We will use our voting power to also make important decisions about our children’s education.

In some states, for example, the electorate will be asked to decide whether to turn the operational and decision-making control of failing schools in their communities over to their state governments. Others will be asked whether more charter public schools should be permitted to open in their communities to provide families with an option to traditional public schools. Still others will be asked how money raised through state lotteries, property and sales taxes, and state and federal allocations should be earmarked to support educational initiatives from cradle to college.

As voters, we are facing some tough choices.

Many of our local public schools are struggling and some even failing, but is a state government takeover the answer?

There has been a decades-long imbalance in the distribution of educational quality and opportunity due, in part, to how public schools are funded, but will proposed funding formula changes address those

inequities and produce successful outcomes? If we allow more charter schools, will that irreversibly damage our traditional public schools or will the competition make both stronger?

What happens to the children and schools in our communities will depend largely on the actions we take as voters. Elections at both the federal and local levels, from the school board to the statehouse and from the assembly to the White House, are vitally important.

We need to be talking about education in our households and at PTA meetings, in our barber shops and coffeehouses, and in our workplaces and houses of worship.

But transformation doesn’t come by talk alone. We also must take decisive action. We can start by increasing our knowledge of the issues, committing to exercise our right to vote, encouraging others in our communities to do the same and then casting ballots for candidates for whom education and the academic success of our children are top priorities.

The choice, and the vote, is ours.

Brian L. Pauling is national president and CEO of 100 Black Men of America, Inc. Learn more about the work of The 100 at www.100blackmen.org.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Eating sustainably

With the 47th annual observance of Earth Day just around the corner, this is a great time to explore more effective ways of slowing climate change and conserving Earth’s natural resources for future generations.

A 2010 UN report charged animal agriculture with 19 percent of manmade greenhouse gases - more than all transport - and recommended a global shift to a vegan diet. A subsequent World Watch study placed that contribution closer to 50 percent. Meat and dairy production also dumps more water pollutants than all other human activities combined. It is the driving force in global deforestation and wildlife habitat destruction.

Last fall, England’s prestigious Chatham House declared that reducing meat consumption is critical to achieving global climate goals. A report from Oxford University found that global adoption of a vegan diet would reduce greenhouse emissions by two thirds. The 2015 U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has recommended reduced meat consumption and an environmentally sustainable diet.

Just as we replace fossil fuels by wind, solar, and other sustainable energy sources, we must replace animal foods with the more sustainable vegetables, fruits, and grains. Being mindful of this can help us make better choices at the supermarket.

Vlad Coiner Hampton

The price we pay

“Tax Day,” the deadline for filing individual federal income tax returns, fell on April 18 this year.

Usually it’s April 15, but a federal holiday, Emancipation Day, bought you the weekend if were running late. I feel your pain. Sackcloth and ashes! Wailing and gnashing of teeth!

In addition to the annoyance of filling out a bunch of paperwork and maybe even sending a check to Uncle Sam if he didn’t take as much as he wanted out of your paychecks over the course of 2015, you’re in for the usual series of lectures about how this business or that billionaire didn’t pay “their fair share.” Case in point: Javier E. David’s April 16 column for CNBC, “Corporate tax dodging costing U.S. billions in annual income.”

Let’s try an experiment. I have a dollar in my pocket. OK, I’m taking it out. Now, instead of giving it to you, I’m putting it back in my pocket. Did my actions “cost” you a dollar? No, they didn’t. That dollar was never yours to begin with.

Similarly, when David complains that “Apple, General Electric, Microsoft and Google engage in tax havens that costs [sic] the US $111 billion annually,” he’s getting it backward. That money belongs to Apple, General Electric, Microsoft and Google, not to “the U.S.” (by which David means “the US government”). Wanting it and not getting it is not a “cost.”

Ditto the 1040 you’ve probably filed. In most cases, every dime involved is money you earned that

the government previously embezzled from your paycheck, or demands that you cough up now (I say “most cases” because some lower income filers end up getting back, through “refundable credits,” money than they paid in).

So here comes the libertarian line that induces tantrums and seizures in lovers of big government: Taxation is not, as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. put it, “the price we pay for a civilized society.” Taxation is theft, pure and simple. It’s no different in principle than any other embezzlement scheme or protection racket.

If there’s a difference at all, it’s a difference of manners. Muggers and extortionists are morally superior to government in that at least they don’t pretend they’re doing this stuff to you for your own good.

Next time a politician regales you with tales of all the great things he intends to spend billions on, remember who he’s getting that money from, and how.

Thomas L. Knapp

Age old talking points

America continues to deny God and The Word of God. These haters of God continue to deny the historical fact that America was founded by people who believed in the Living God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The God who said that in the beginning He created the heavens and the earth and later created everything in them and that He did it for his pleasure.

Each colony was founded by a different Christian denomination.

Generally, a whole church congregation left their home country

and shipped to what is now our America, as a church/unit. Each colony established its church denomination as that colony’s church, and taxed the residents to support it. This practice continued even after the colonies became states.

When the U.S. Constitution was approved the colonies believed in the sovereignty of God Almighty over all. Because of that, most colonies specified, in their approval, that all those appointed or voted to serve in America’s three branches of government be professed Christians who knew God, and God’s Word contained in the Holy Bible, both the Old and the New Testament.

Unfortunately, we now send some people to all three branches of our government who have no idea about God or what His commandments to man are. They have twisted God’s word, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, and its subsequent amendments, so that everything goes.

So Yes, history does show that America was founded as a Christian Nation Under God. And Yes, one of the founding fathers was a Deist (one who believes God created Heaven and Earth but then left it entirely up to Man). But Benjamin Franklin’s mistake only shows how smart educated people can be ignorant of God’s biblical history which clearly shows God had an active hand and is still playing a part in this world.

But the important thing to know is that God will punish and destroy the wicked, most of mankind, because they rejected His plan of salvation, which He offered, through the blood of Christ. How soon, only God knows!

Manuel Ybarra, Jr.

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Faith & Religion

Admin: Compromise on contraception acceptable if it ends legal challenges The Obama administration said a compromise floated by the Supreme Court to resolve objections from religious organizations to providing their employees with contraceptives would work only if it was clear that the women would receive the coverage through other means, and if it ended the controversy.

Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. told the court that requiring a modification to the accommodation already offered to the religiously affiliated colleges, charities and hospitals was unnecessary.

He said a modification would be acceptable only if the court ruled that it would satisfy the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and if it halted lawsuits from groups that say providing contraceptive coverage

Solicitor General Don. Verrilli Jr.

Save the Date!

Zion Baptist Church Yard Sale/Fish Fry Tell others, come out and buy or sell Saturday April 23 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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would make them complicit in sin.

Anything less, he wrote, “would lead to years of additional litigation, during which tens of thousands of women would likely continue to be denied the coverage to which they are legally entitled.”

In their brief to the court, lawyers for the groups said they were amenable to a compromise if it truly left the groups out of the process — even having to sign documents that said they objected.

“There are many ways in which the employees . . . could receive cost-free contraceptive coverage through the same insurance company that would not require further involvement by the petitioner, including the way described in the court’s order,” lawyers Paul D. Clement and Noel Francisco wrote.

“And each one of those ways is a less restrictive alternative that dooms the government’s ongoing effort to use the threat of massive penalties to compel petitioners to forsake their sincerely held religious beliefs.”

Clement and Francisco represent, respectively, the Little Sisters of the Poor, a charity run by Catholic nuns, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, two of the challengers.

At oral arguments in the case on March 23, the court’s four liberal justices seemed to agree that the Obama administration had offered an acceptable compromise for religiously affiliated organizations that want to be freed from the obligation to supply their female employees with no-cost contraceptive coverage.

The accommodation requires the groups to tell the government they object, then allows the government to work with the groups’ insurers to provide the coverage without the organizations’ involvement or financial support.

But Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who could provide the fifth vote to uphold such a plan, seemed to agree with the conservative justices that

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the government would be “hijacking” the groups’ insurance plans to provide the coverage, even if the groups were not paying for it.

Less than a week later, the justices issued an unusual order asking both the government and the groups to provide their reactions to a proposed compromise: Employees could receive contraceptive coverage through their employers’ plans, “but in a way that does not require any involvement” from the employers beyond their decision to provide health insurance.

The difference between that and what the government had already offered, Verrilli said in his new brief, seemed to be only that the groups did not have to certify in writing that they objected to providing the coverage.

But “a requirement that an employer state in writing its religious objection and eligibility for an exemption is a minimally intrusive process, and petitioners have never suggested an alternative arrangement like the one posited in the court’s order,” Verrilli wrote.

The court faces some urgency in trying to find a solution. Eight of the nation’s regional appeals courts have upheld the mandate and the Obama administration’s accommodation, while one has struck them down.

Simply reaffirming those decisions would mean that the national health-care law would be enforced differently depending on the location of an organization and its employees.

The court went into unusual specificity in asking the parties to address how that could happen, and it outlined a scenario.

It said an organization could contract to provide health insurance for its employees but inform the insurance company that it did not want the plan to include contraceptive coverage that it found objectionable.

Then the insurer could separately notify employees “that the insurance company will provide cost-free

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(from page 8) contraceptive coverage, and that such coverage is not paid for by petitioners and is not provided through petitioners’ health plan.”

Under such a plan, the court’s order said, an organization would have no involvement beyond contracting with an insurance provider.

“Petitioners would have no legal obligation to provide such contraceptive coverage, would not pay for such coverage and would not be required to submit any separate notice to their insurer, to the federal government or to their employees,” the order said.

“At the same time, petitioners’ insurance company — aware that petitioners are not providing certain contraceptive coverage on religious grounds — would separately notify petitioners’ employees that the insurance company will provide cost-free contraceptive coverage, and that such coverage is not paid for by petitioners and is not provided through petitioners’ health plan.”

The groups in their response

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Supreme Court building said that to be truly independent, they would essentially “not be complying with that mandate at all. They would be exempt from that mandate, and the commercial insurer would be complying with a separate mandate imposed by the federal government.”

Both sides said an additional compromise would be needed for those organizations that self-insure or contract with a church plan that does not provide contraceptives.

Each side is required to file a brief reacting to the other by April 20.

The court will rule before its term -WaPo ends in June.

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deserve better as students and we deserve better as teachers.”

This isn’t the first time the city merged schools and Armstrong was on the list. Twelve years ago Armstrong merged with John F. Kennedy High School. It was a battle between alumni who wanted their respective school’s name to remain.

Ultimately, Armstrong kept its name and Kennedy’s building remained in use.

Now, Armstrong faces another possible closing and the fact that it’s historic notoriety as the first public school in Richmond for black students as the Richmond Colored Normal School may not save it this time.

Students who attend Armstrong would be divided among Thomas Jefferson High School on the city’s west end; John Marshall High School on the Northside and George Wythe High School on the Southside.

Armstrong alumni and parents are speaking out and appearing in the numbers once again. They recently held a meeting at a local church to strategize how to come together to prevent what seems like is becoming the inevitable. They are holding on to hope though.

Community members claim while they may not have a lot of money they hold wealth in the number of people in opposition and they will come ready for battle. They are

community and local business and community leaders.

“We need everyone to get involved,” one parent said.

Under the suggested plan, John B. Cary students would attend George Washington Carver Elementary School. Overby-Sheppard students would attend Clark Springs Elementary School. Swansboro students would attend Blackwell Elementary School. Southhampton students would attend Elizabeth D. Redd Elementary School and J. B. Fisher Elementary School.

According to School Board Chair Jeffrey Bourne, consolidating and closing these schools will be a last resort. Teacher layoffs aren’t anticipated and officials are looking at streamlining bus transportation and combining more administrative staff into the same buildings in hopes of closing the financial gap.

He shares that these measures, in addition to the school closings, will still present an $8 million deficit that would still need to be addressed.

“We need to look at every stream of revenue the city gets, the schools get and look for ways that we can change the way we do business to be more efficient,” Bourne said.

Possible school closings are a proposition at this time. Public hearings are being planned for everyone to voice their stances before the final decision is made.

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Floetry’s “Floacist” talks about reuniting for tour AMEN OYIBOKE It’s been 10 years since the world has felt the poetic vibes of music group Floetry. When members Natalie “Floacist” Stewart and Marsha Ambrosius separated in 2006 it was big news for their fans, but not the music world.

“There were so many rumors about our breaking up,” said Natalie Stewart. “We were young and had different things we wanted to do.”

The singer-songwriters had a major influence on the Neo-Soul that went beyond their split. During their time together, the duo made two critically acclaimed albums – Floetic (2002) and Flo’Ololgy (2005) – and created a Grammy-nominated single “Floetic”.

“Floetry has expanded and it’s a genre,” said Stewart. “It’s a world that I created and brought me into the present moment.”

Now after a decade after the release of their last album, Stewart and Ambrosius join together for U.S. reunion tour, which started in April.

The two initially met during their time at a performing arts high school in London. Both Ambrosius and Stewart combined their talents of music and poetry to develop their “Floetry” sound. By the early 2000s, their music landed them in the U.S. where they became popular figures in the Neo-Soul movement.

“In the beginning of our careers it was extremely difficult for us to break into the industry in the UK because the glass ceilings were so low. So we decided to come to a place where people appreciated raw talent,” she said.

Floetry landed in Philadelphia at the perfect time when the heat of Neo-Soul music was bringing a heat wave to the U.S. So as songwriters, they got opportunities to create songs for artists like Jill Scott, Bilal and Michael Jackson.

“When we wrote ‘Butterflies’ it was so exciting to find out that Michael Jackson wanted to do the song for his album,” she said.

Their hit songs “Say Yes” and “SupaStar” helped land them on the

Ask Alma I’ve moved on, but he won’t Dear Alma,

Natalie “Floacist” Stewart Billboard 200’s top 20. But shortly after the duo went their own ways to create their own music. Once the two got to the states things took a turn for the duration of the duo’s togetherness.

“By the second album we started facing the critiques from people telling us what we needed to do to cross over—like that male patriarchal ownership energy started to float around. So that had absolutely nothing to do with the manifestation of Floetry and kind of created a stronger holds on where we should go,” said Stewart.

She believes it was one of the toughest moments for her, but transcended into becoming a defining moment for her career.

“I didn’t ever have any solo music dreams, so it’s been a really intimate and personal finding of myself,” Stewart said about the duo going their separate ways. “Growing as a group of individuals and dealing with how the industry handles this divide and conquer mentality helped with strengthening me.”

She found herself living more in the present moment and took it to her poetry to be a more authentic to her current creativity. Stewart

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I was with a police officer for 10 years. He did some awful things in our relationship.

Meaning he cheated on me.

A lot of it was through the Internet or through the phone. He was sexting many other women, which he considered not cheating. We were living together and I was battling lupus. He said it was because I was sick often and didn’t like to do the things I used to do.

Long story short, I found a side phone with over 30 different women in the phone.

I was devastated! Here I am battling lupus and he can’t be loyal. I was heartbroken, so I kicked him out and our relationship over. He has tried to be my friend ever since, but I’m so angry that he hurt me.

He’s apologized and begged me to forgive him. He wants to be friends and be a part of my life. What’s your take on this?

Name withheld

I’d have to say I’m glad this relationship is over and no, you don’t need him as a friend. Friends don’t deliver hurt and pain; friends show up with tissue and support.

Nobody wants to admit it, but it’s hard to love yourself more than the one you love when they instantly break your heart. Love’s not like a cell phone, you can’t turn it

on and off ~ or put it on silent when it’s convenient for the situation. Sounds like you still have feelings for him and if you can’t have him as a lover, you’ll consider allowing him to be your friend. Don’t!

You can forgive him, but don’t forget.

My “Ask Alma” super girl powers tell me that you’re beautiful, smart and worthy of someone who will give you his best. You’ve spent enough time allowing Robocop to block your blessings. Unpack your big girl bloomers and let him bounce! Surround yourself with friends and family who love and support you – everybody else has got to go.

You’re living with lupus, God bless you! You ain’t got time for no foolishness.

Lupus didn’t give you a choice, but you can chose to have devoted, faithful, compassionate friends and relationships that’ll bring you joy. Don’t be afraid of not having him in your life. He doesn’t hold your happiness in the palm of his hand. Your light of happiness lives inside of you, under your control, 24/07. ***** Want advice? E-mail questions to alwaysaskalma@ yahoo.com.Follow her on Facebook at “Ask Alma” and twitter @almaaskalma *****

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Fed forgives billions in debt for disabled students The federal Department of Education said last week it would offer to write off $7.7 billion of student debt owed by disabled individuals, taking a big step to streamline a loan forgiveness program long plagued by bureaucratic delay and inefficiency.

Loan forgiveness letters began to go out April 18 to approximately 387,000 borrowers who have been identified as totally and permanently disabled by the Social Security Administration, allowing them to sign and file a simplified application form to have their debt forgiven.

The move was enabled by changes in the department’s regulations governing the loan forgiveness program, which resulted from a 2011 ProPublica investigation published in partnership with Columbia’s Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and the Center for Public Integrity.

Under federal law, borrowers who develop severe and lasting disabilities after taking out federal student loans are entitled to have their debts forgiven. As we noted in our investigation, the purpose of the rule was to spare former students who become disabled from a lifetime of ruined credit, garnished Social Security benefits, and spiraling debt.

But the investigation found that borrowers who become disabled faced

such a high hurdle for proving their disability to the department — and obstacles such as unclear rejection letters and lack of medical standards for proving disability — that many simply gave up.

In one case, a borrower in a vegetative state was placed into default for failing to provide the department with income verification, according to an internal Department of Education Ombudsman Report that outlined problems with the program.

In another case documented in our February 2011 story, Tina Brooks, a former policewoman who had been severely injured during a training accident, could not get her $43,000 of student debt forgiven despite the fact that a Social Security judge had ruled she was fully disabled.

Internal reports showed the ombudsman had twice warned that the loan forgiveness program was flawed and needed to be reformed.

But the Department of Education had ignored calls for reform from within and outside the agency.

That began to change after the story ran. Within a few weeks, the department forgave Brooks’ student debt. The following year it proposed reforms which took effect in 2013 and allowed the department to use the Social Security Administration’s

Gov: Virginia’s unemployment rate is lowest since June 2008 Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced last week that Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined by 0.1 percent in March and is now at 4.0 percent—the lowest rate since the June 2008 rate of 3.9 percent.

Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remains below the national rate, which increased in March to 5.0 percent.

Virginia’s seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment increased by 4,900 jobs in March to a total of 3,921,200, setting a new record for employment in Virginia.

In March, Virginia’s over-the-year employment growth of 2.8 percent surpassed the national growth rate, which was 2.0 percent. Over-the-year growth in the commonwealth has exceeded the national growth rate for six consecutive months and has been 2.0 percent or higher eight of the last nine months.

Virginia had the lowest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate among the Southeast states and had the fourth best rate among the states east of the Mississippi.

“I am proud of the continued

U.S. Education Secretary John B. King disability designation to qualify applicants for loan discharge.

That key reform is now enabling what the department hopes will be a “streamlined and more accurate process” for proactively identifying applicants who are eligible for student loan discharge, according to a statement.

“Too many eligible borrowers were falling through the cracks, unaware they were eligible for relief,” said

Education Undersecretary Ted Mitchell in a statement regarding the decision.

"Under the new process, we will notify potentially eligible borrowers about the benefit and guide them through steps needed to discharge their loans, helping thousands of borrowers. Americans with disabilities have a right to student loan relief,” Mitchell said.

growth of Virginia’s economy and the real impact it has on Virginia families and communities,” said McAuliffe.

“We are working every day to grow and diversify an economy that offers opportunity to people from every walk of life, in every corner of the commonwealth. These new numbers are a clear indication that those efforts are paying off, but we must continue to expand on our historic success and build a new Virginia economy.”

Secretary of Commerce and Trade Maurice Jones said that Virginia’s job growth continues to accelerate at an “impressive pace”.

“The private sector, in particular, is adding jobs in almost every industry.

Now is the time for us to continue to make strategic investments in talent, infrastructure and education that will ensure that this season of robust growth endures,” said Jones From March 2015 to March 2016, Virginia’s seasonally adjusted total nonfarm employment increased by 108,000 jobs. Over-the-year employment growth has been positive for the past 24 months, with the private sector recording an employment gain of 104,600 jobs, and the public sector gaining 3,400 jobs. Compared to a year ago, on a seasonally adjusted basis, eight of the 11 major industry divisions experienced employment gains.

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Dyson to deliver Hampton commencement address Author and political analyst Dr. Michael Eric Dyson will serve as Hampton University’s 146th Commencement speaker on May 8 at Armstrong Stadium.

Named by Essence magazine as one of the 50 most inspiring African Americans in the U.S., Dyson is one of the nation’s most renowned public intellectuals, and he has revitalized the title with the fervor of an ordained Baptist minister.

Called “a street fighter in a suit

and tie,” he takes on the toughest and most controversial issues of the day, including race, politics and pop culture, with his fearless and fiery rhetoric.

An MSNBC political analyst and former host of NPR’s “The Michael Eric Dyson Show,” Dyson is also an best-selling and award-winning author. His speeches and books both provide some of the most significant commentary on modern social and intellectual thought today, Michael Eric Dyson

Marsha Ambrosius (right) and Natalie Stewart

(from page 10) remained active in performing poetry and created her albums “The Floacist Presents Floetry Re:Birth (2012) and “Rise of the Phoenix Mermaid” (2014).

“My time [after Floetry] has been very enlightening and an observation seat for myself. It’s been quite beautiful because [before] I thought I could do certain things and now I know I can do it,” said Stewart.

Having her own solo career also inspired Stewart to create avenues for the Flo & Friends Tour for poetry

artists at SXSW 2017 and the Artist Retreat which will premiere at the end of 2016.

Both Ambrosius and Stewart confirmed join forces for their reunion tour in 2014 when fans created a buzz about bringing the two back together.

“This tour is really for our fans who understand what are energy is,” Stewart said. The show will display both Ambrosius and Stewart’s solo careers and the music they made together. “It’s only right that they get to enjoy the songs we’ve created.”

interwoven with a combination of cultural criticism, race theory, religion, philosophical reflection and gender studies. Works such as “Making Malcolm X;” “I May Not Get There with You;” "Holler if You Hear Me;” and “Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye” deeply probe social themes and cultural politics.

A popular professor of sociology at Georgetown University, Dyson is a speaker that will never bore audiences; his presentations are thought-provoking, unwavering and foster social change. His excitement on the topics he speaks on, which include the sociology of hip hop, and Dr. King for the 21st Century, among others—is contagious.

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11 Zika virus cases now reported in Virginia CDC offers conclusions on Zika The Virginia Department of Health reports there are now 11 cases of the Zika virus reported in Virginia as of April 14. Of those 11 cases, three of them are reported in the northern region of Virginia. The people in Virginia contracted the virus by traveling to regions and certain countries where Zika virus transmission is ongoing, the health department said.

Zika virus is transmitted to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito (A. aegypti and A. albopictus), as well as from mother to unborn child and through sexual contact.

The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reports that nationwide: •There have been 358 travelassociated Zika virus disease cases reported •Locally acquired vector-borne cases reported: 0 Of the total, 358: •31 with the virus are pregnant •7 cases were sexually transmitted •Guillain-Barré syndrome: 1 In Northern Virginia, officials are keeping an eye on the virus.

“Given the increased concerns about this virus, we will look for additional ways to communicate the important prevention steps, particularly wearing insect repellent and getting rid of standing water,” said Shawn Kiernan, communicable disease epidemiologist with the Fairfax County Health Department, in a recent online chat about the Zika virus.

Most people who get the Zika virus don't even show symptoms, but a woman who is pregnant can pass the virus to her unborn baby.

Government scientists reported Wednesday they have determined that the Zika virus causes severe defects in unborn children, including microcephaly, which leaves babies with abnormally small heads and often with brains that do not develop properly.

While researchers learn more about the risk of Zika virus infection during pregnancy, CDC is advising

pregnant women to avoid travel to areas where Zika virus transmission is ongoing. Pregnant women and women who are trying to become pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant should talk to their health care provider before traveling to Zika-affected areas and follow steps to prevent mosquito bites while traveling.

If you feel that you may have Zika virus, you should talk to your health care provider. Your health care provider will contact the local health department to determine if testing is necessary.

“Everything we look at with this virus seems to be a bit scarier than we initially thought,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC deputy director. “And so while we absolutely hope we don't see widespread local transmission in the continental U.S., we need the states to be ready for that.”

Mosquito season in Virginia is defined as May through October. Zika virus is typically spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, but the Aedes albopictus, or Asian Tiger mosquito, which is common in Virginia, can also transmit it.

“Although mosquito testing for Zika virus is not currently in place, we do hope to have that option available during the mosquito season,” said Joshua Smith, Disease Carrying Insects program manager for Fairfax County, in the online chat about Zika. “We do have different types of mosquito traps that we use in our surveillance activities and one of them is an effective surveillance trap for the Asian Tiger mosquito, a potential carrier of the Zika virus.”

Aedes mosquitoes lay their eggs in containers of water. The county and CDC advise that to prevent mosquitoes in your yard, eliminate standing water. Tip and toss standing water from containers like tires, buckets, flower pots, drain pipes, tarps, bird baths, toys, etc.

Discard containers or place indoors.

If you cannot dump water from a container, treat it with a larvicide like Bacillus thuringiensis var.

Asian Tiger mosquito PHOTO: CDC israelensis (follow label instructions).

If mosquitoes are flying and biting, use insecticides in your yard to control them. Treat areas where they hide, like bushy green plants, ivy and bamboo (follow label instructions).

For mosquitoes to cause a Zika outbreak in the United States, the CDC says all of the following must happen: • People infected with a virus (like Zika, dengue, or chikungunya) must enter the United States.

• An Aedes aegypti or Aedes albopictus mosquito in the United States bites an infected person during the first week of infection when the virus can be found in the person’s blood.

•The infected mosquito lives long enough for the virus to multiply and for the mosquito to bite another person.

• The cycle continues multiple times to start an outbreak.

In related news, the CDC last week concluded that Zika causes microcephaly and other birth defects.

Additionally, it notes that sexual transmission through both vaginal and anal sex is an emerging mode of Zika virus infection that might contribute to more illness than was anticipated when the outbreak was first recognized. Cases of sexually transmitted Zika virus infection should be reported to public health agencies and can help inform

recommendations to prevent Zika virus infections.

Zika virus infection has been linked to increased risk for GuillainBarré syndrome and adverse fetal outcomes, including congenital microcephaly. In January 2016, after notification from a local health care provider, an investigation by Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) identified a case of sexual transmission of Zika virus between a man with recent travel to an area of active Zika virus transmission (patient A) and his nontraveling male partner. At this time, there had been one prior case report of sexual transmission of Zika virus. The present case report indicates Zika virus can be transmitted through anal sex, as well as vaginal sex.

Identification and investigation of cases of sexual transmission of Zika virus in nonendemic areas present valuable opportunities to inform recommendations to prevent sexual transmission of Zika virus.

The finding that Zika virus infection can cause microcephaly and other severe fetal brain defects means that a woman who is infected with Zika during pregnancy has an increased risk of having a baby with these health problems. It does not mean, however, that all women who have Zika virus infection during pregnancy will have babies with problems.

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VDH puts spotlight on minority health The Virginia Department of Health Office of Minority Health and Health Equity hosted an event on Friday celebrating April as Minority Health Month in Virginia.

The event took place at the Virginia Commonwealth University Rice Rivers Center and began with a presentation of the signed gubernatorial proclamation by Secretary of Health and Human Resources William A. Hazel, Jr., MD. Hazel also made remarks about the importance of focusing on the health of all minorities in Virginia.

“For the three leading causes of death – heart disease, cancer and stroke – mortality rates in Virginia are 30 percent higher for blacks than they are for whites and 27 percent higher for all causes of death,” said Hazel. “The opportunity to be healthy is not equally available to all people living in all places in Virginia.

It’s time we bring awareness to this injustice.”

The event continued with honoring

two champions of equity in the tribal communities. Elder Sharon Day of Minneapolis, who also conducted a water ceremony at the event, is a nationally recognized health champion whose water walks around the United States highlight the link between health and nature. Narinder S. Arora, MD, is a pulmonologist practicing in Charlottesville, who started the Healing Eagle Clinic on the Mattaponi reservation in King William. He has travelled the 150 miles between his home and the reservation twice a month for the past 20 years in order to provide members of the tribal communities with medical care at no cost.

The event culminated in a listening session (similar to a town hall), which served as an open forum for Virginia’s tribal communities to discuss matters of health with leaders of various state agencies.

“This was a wonderful opportunity for government officials to interact with our state’s native tribes

William A. Hazel, Jr., MD. (right) and hear the concerns they have about the well-being of their communities,” said State Health Commissioner Marissa J. Levine, MD, MPH, FAAFP. “The listening session provided valuable insight on the concerns of Virginia’s tribal communities. Having healthy, connected communities is one aim of Virginia’s state health improvement plan, the Plan for Well-Being.

Having important discussions about health concerns, like the one we had, opens the door for improving overall

health for all Virginians.”

The theme for National Minority Health Month 2016 is “Accelerating Health Equity for the Nation.”

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health leads national minority health month efforts to raise awareness of the health disparities that continue to affect racial and ethnic minorities and how the country is working together to accelerate health equity.

RVA saving the day for congenital heart defects The Richmond Superhero Heart Run has an addition of its Marquee Presenting Sponsor for the April 24 family-friendly event at Bryan Park (4308 Hermitage Rd, Richmond). The superhero-packed 2K and 5K fun run/walk will help bring awareness and funds for congenital heart defects (CHD).

Heart Heroes, Inc. and Mended Little Hearts of Central Virginia are proud to bring this event to the area.

“We are so excited to have Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU support for the 1st Annual Superhero Heart Run in Richmond,” said Margaret Keller, national program director, Superhero Heart Run. “Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU knows the affects CHD can have on a child, a family and a community. Their partnership will help us spread awareness of CHD and provide support for children and families affected by the number one birth defect in our country.

“We can’t thank them enough for their support of this great event.”

One local family knows all too well the impact of CHD. Rachel Johnson gave birth to “Heart Hero”

Henry on March 15, 2013, seven weeks early. Up until that point everything was going normally, the way it should. So when Rachel’s water broke exactly at 33 weeks, they were all in shock. Rachel was admitted to Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, NY, but when the fetal monitor indicated something wasn’t right, Rachel was rushed to Women &

Children’s Hospital of Buffalo for an emergency C-section. Henry was immediately taken to the NICU. After an echocardiogram at about 4-5 days old, they discovered Henry’s congenital heart defect.

Upon moving to Richmond and starting their medical care at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU did it reveal Henry’s condition was a lot more serious than originally thought and open heart surgery was evident.

This year’s event begins at 8:30 a.m. with checkin and walk-up registration and family activities.

The 2K and 5K begin at 10 a.m. Each registrant receives an official Superhero Heart Run Cape with their registration. However, superhero costumes of all varieties are welcome! Teams are encouraged to fundraise, proceeds from the event will go to support local programs, family support, and research.

Participants can register for the event online at superheroheartrun.com by 9 p.m. on April 22.

Walk-up registrations will be accepted at the event but will not be guaranteed a Superhero Heart Run Cape.

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Members and guests of the Richmond Ostomy Association, a support group for individuals who depend on ostomy products, will gather for their monthly meeting at 7:30 PM at Henrico Doctors Hospital, 1602 Skipwith Rd. (corner of Skipwith and Forest), Richmond.

A spokesperson for the American Cancer Society will explain steps to take to prevent colorectal cancer.

Colon cancer can result in surgical removal of the colon, hence the need for wearing an external ostomy pouch.

This month only, enter the Emergency Room entrance and proceed to the Forest Room. Call Mike Rollston at 804-232-1961 for more information.

4.21, 7 p.m.

The Hamilton Nature Programs at Bryan Parks presents: Garden Insects: The Good Guys vs. the Bad Guys and Garden pests got you down? Worried about the negative effects of garden chemicals? There are beneficial bugs who would be happy to help! Learn who our insect heroes are and find out the best ways to manage the bad guys and encourage the good guys.

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8th annual Virginia People’s Assembly for Jobs, Peace & Justice Progressive activists from around Virginia will converge on Richmond April 23 for the 2016 annual Virginia People’s Assembly for Jobs, Peace & Justice.

The gathering will take place from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, 1720 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Richmond. Doors open for registration at 8 a.m.

Now in its eighth year, the Virginia Peoples Assembly is comprised of union members, community activists, prison/prisoner advocates, disability rights activists, women's rights activists, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, students, antiwar organizers, veterans and more.

The VPA is a unique opportunity for those working for justice in Virginia to network, strategize and collaborate in advance of the new year’s legislative session and beyond.

This year’s event features three plenary sessions: “Introductions: Who’s here and who’s doing what” - Organizations endorsing the VPA introduce themselves and explain their work.

“Unified Resistance: Building solidarity among communities under attack” - Representatives of a range of causes and communities under attack discuss ways to build links and solidarity between their struggles.

“Beyond the Horse Race: Building the progressive movement in an election year” - A range of perspectives on how to approach movement-building in a presidential election year.

Between those sessions will be workshops on issues suggested by the endorsing organizations. Workshops will be posted on the VPA website as they are scheduled.

The VPA is open to everyone who supports the demands for “Jobs, Peace & Justice.” The suggested donation is $10 - more if you have it, less if you don’t. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Endorsing individuals and organizations may host workshops, display literature and submit resolutions to be voted on at the end of the third plenary (general) session.

Lunch, dinner and allday coffee and tea will be provided. Childcare will be available. The location is wheelchair-accessible.

For more information, to endorse or to volunteer, email: vapeoplesassembly@ gmail.com or call 804-7280222 or 804-644-5834.

The latest information is posted at www. vapeoplesassembly.org.

5.1, 7 p.m.

Chesterfield County Public Library will host 2015 Newbery Medal award-winner Kwame Alexander.

The New York Times bestselling author, poet and educator has written 21 books, including The Crossover, which received the Newbery—the highest award for children’s literature. The event will take place at the new North Courthouse Road Library, 325 Courthouse Rd., North Chesterfield.

Alexander, who is also known for his award-winning picture book “Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band,” travels the world to inspire and empower children.

He established the Book-in-a-Day literacy program which has helped more than 3,000 student authors develop their writing talents. Copies of Alexander’s books will be available for sale. A book signing will take place after the program.

Registration is required. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. For more info or to register, call 804-751-CCPL.

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Color of Change wants CBC PAC to cut ties with private prisons FREDERICK H. LOWE

NNPA - Color of Change, the nation’s largest online civil rights organization, is in the midst of a national campaign to force the Congressional Black Caucus Political Action Committee to sever corporate ties with a lobbyist for the private prison industry.

Color of Change wants CBC PAC to reorganize its board so new board members won’t accept funds from groups that advocate for private prisons, which Color of Change argues targets African Americans.

There are about 130 private prison companies and they have combined annual revenues of $3.3 billion.

The two largest are Corrections Corporation of America, which is based in Nashville, Tenn., and GEO Group, which is based in Boca Raton, Florida.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) who was seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for president

Vernon Jordan before he dropped out the race, is closely associated with GEO Group, according to The Washington Post.

The CBC PAC said in a statement that it works to increase the number of African Americans in the U.S. Congress, support nonblack candidates that champion our interests, and promote African

American participation in the political process.

Color of Change claims the lobbyists, some of whom are CBC PAC board members, are not working in the best interests of the black community.

“The lobbyists and corporate funders wielding influence over the CBC PAC represent the worst of the worst,” Color of Change wrote in an email to supporters.

“Perhaps the most disturbing corporate funders of the CBC PAC are the lobbyists from the private prison industry. Ironically, both Democratic presidential candidates have shunned contributions from private prison lobbyists but the CBC PAC has taken thousands of dollars from Akin Gump, the lobbying firm that makes millions lobbying to protect their private prison client, Corrections Corporation of America, from increased regulation and transparency.”

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“Private prison companies are responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses, targeting black communities in America…,” according to Color of Change.

Over the past 25 years, CCA and GEO Group, the two largest private prison operators, have given $10 million to candidates and spent $25 million lobbying for laws that put more people in prison.”

In 2015, The Washington Post published an article headlined, “How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about.”

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