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McAuliffe restores civil rights to over 200,000

Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia used his executive power on Friday to restore voting rights to more than 200,000 convicted felons, circumventing the Republican-run legislature. The action effectively overturns a Civil War-era provision in the state’s Constitution aimed, he said, at disenfranchising AfricanAmericans.

The sweeping order, in a swing state that could play a role in deciding the November presidential election, will enable all felons who have served their prison time and finished parole or probation to register to vote. Most are AfricanAmericans, a core constituency of Democrats, McAuliffe’s political party.

Amid intensifying national attention over harsh sentencing policies that have disproportionately affected African-Americans, governors and legislatures around the nation have been debating — and often fighting over — moves to restore voting rights for convicted felons. Virginia imposes especially harsh restrictions, barring felons from voting for life.

“There’s no question that we’ve had a horrible history in voting rights as

relates to African-Americans — we should remedy it,” . McAuliffe said in an interview Thursday, previewing the announcement he made on the steps of Virginia’s Capitol, just yards from where President Abraham Lincoln once addressed freed slaves.

“We should do it as soon as we possibly can.”

Republicans in the Virginia Legislature have resisted measures to expand voting rights for convicted felons, and McAuliffe’s action, which he said was justified under an expansive legal interpretation of his executive clemency authority, provoked an immediate backlash.

Virginia Republicans issued a statement Friday accusing the governor of “political opportunism” and “a transparent effort to win votes.”

“Those who have paid their debts to society should be allowed full participation in society,” said the statement from the party chairman, John Whitbeck. “But there are limits.” He said Mr. McAuliffe was

message is going to be that I have now done my part,” McAuliffe said.

Nationally, an estimated 5.85 million Americans are denied the right to vote because of felony convictions, according to The Sentencing Project, a Washington research organizations, which says one in five African-Americans in Virginia cannot vote.

Only two states, Maine and Vermont, have no voting restrictions on felons; Virginia is among four – the others are Kentucky, Florida and Iowa – that have the harshest restrictions.

Friday’s shift in Virginia is part of a national trend toward restoring voter rights to felons, based in part

wrong to issue a blanket restoration of rights, even to those who “committed heinous acts of violence.”

The order includes those convicted of violent crimes, including murder and rape. There is no way to know how many of the newly eligible voters in Virginia will register. “My

on the hope that it will aid former prisoners’ re-entry into society. Over the last two decades about 20 states have acted to ease their restrictions, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.

Marc Mauer, executive director

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(from page 2) of the Sentencing Project, said McAuliffe’s decision would have lasting consequences because it will remain in effect at least until January 2018, when the governor leaves office.

“This will be the single most significant action on disenfranchisement that we’ve ever seen from a governor,” Mauer said, “and it’s noteworthy that it’s coming in the middle of this term, not the day before he leaves office. So there may be some political heat but clearly he’s willing to take that on, which is quite admirable.”

Myrna Pérez, director of a voting rights project at the Brennan Center, said McAuliffe’s move was particularly important because Virginia has had such restrictive laws on voting by felons. Still, she said,“Compared to the rest of the country, this is a very middle of the road policy.’’

Pérez said a number of states already had less restrictive policies than the one announced by McAuliffe. Fourteen states allow felons to vote after their prison terms are completed even while they remain on parole or probation.

Advocates who have been working with the Virginia governor say they are planning to fan out into Richmond communities Friday to start registering people.

Experts say with the stroke of his pen, McAuliffe has allowed convicted felons to begin registering to vote, and that their voting rights cannot be revoked — even if a new governor rescinds the order for future released prisoners.

But the move led to accusations that the governor was playing politics; he is a longtime friend of — and fund-raiser for — Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee for president, and former President Bill Clinton.

In the interview, McAuliffe said that he was not acting for political reasons, and that few people outside his immediate staff knew of his plan. He said he did not consult

with Clinton or her campaign before making the decision.

The executive order builds on steps the governor had already taken to restore voting rights to 18,000 Virginians since the beginning of his term, and he said he believed his authority to issue the decision was “ironclad.”

Prof. A. E. Dick Howard of the University of Virginia School of Law, the principal draftsman of a revised Constitution adopted by Virginia in 1971, agreed, and said the governor had “ample authority.” But Professor Howard, who advised Mr. McAuliffe on the issue, said the move might well be challenged in court. The most likely argument, he said, is that the governor cannot restore voting rights to an entire class of people all at once.

Virginia’s Constitution has prohibited felons from voting since the Civil War; the restrictions were expanded in 1902, as part of a package that included poll taxes and literacy tests.

In researching the provisions, advisers to the governor turned up a 1906 report that quoted Carter Glass, a Virginia state senator, as saying they would “eliminate the darkey as a political factor in this State in less than five years, so that in no single county of the commonwealth will there be the least concern felt for the complete supremacy of the white race in the affairs of government.”

McAuliffe, who took office in 2014 and campaigned to restore voting rights to felons, said that he viewed disenfranchisement as “a remnant of the poll tax” and that he had been “trying to figure out what more I can possibly do.”

The governor’s action Friday will not apply to felons released in the future; his aides say McAuliffe intends to issue similar orders on a monthly basis to cover people as they are released.

“People have served their time and done their probation,” McAuliffe said.

“I want you back in society. I want you feeling good about yourself. I want you voting, getting a job, paying taxes.’’

Minister Hasan Zarif, a certified workforce development professional and re-entry specialist at Goodwill Industries serving Hampton Roads & Central Virginia, is shown here with Richmond Del. Jennifer McClellan. SUBMITTED PHOTO Minister Hasan Zarif, a reentry specialist, among other roles, was present during Friday’s proclamation event. He released the following statement in response to the governor’s action: “The Honorable Governor Terry McAuliffe has brought healing to a people and to a state that has for song long needed to find healing.

“This executive order not only restores civil rights but helps in a great way to put the nail in the coffin of a system that should have been buried long ago.

“I have been in the presence of this governor on a number of occasions and he does his best to make every one in the room feel important. Under a cloudy sky, God and the angels seem to smile down on the governor because it became bright and sunny as he made the announcement. As he greeted the people and shook hands the sun shined so bright. Only when it was all over did a slight sprinkle come

forth.

“It took almost 20 years in modern times meeting with legislators, stakeholders, in which I am one, numerous others leaders, organizations, and citizens did this great day come. I had my rights restored in 2007 and I received a Simple Pardon in 2009.

“However, on April 22, 2016, the tears of joy for others who got their Civil Rights restored began to flow and every time I think about all the petitions we filed, all the meetings on this issue we attended. When I hear 206,000 civil rights restored, tears of joy just flow.

“There is still more work to be done voter registration,education on this matter, voting and the work goes on.

“I thank my fellow stakeholders, leaders and citizens of Virginia, the governor’s staff and most of all Gov. McAuliffe.

“God Bless the Commonwealth of Virginia.”

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Agencies’ reports into inmate’s death scrutinized WIRE Two state agencies’ reports into the death of a mentally ill Virginia inmate have come under scrutiny over whether their investigations were thorough enough.

Neither the report from the inspector general’s office nor one from the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services included interviews with Portsmouth General District Court employees, who were supposed to send a judge’s initial order for the transfer of 24-year-old Jamycheal Mitchell to a state mental hospital in May, according to published reports.

Mitchell was found dead in his Portsmouth jail cell in August after losing so much weight his heart stopped. State investigators said Mitchell’s name wasn’t on a waiting list for a bed at a state mental hospital, even though a judge had ordered him to be sent there.

There is no evidence that the court ever sent the order or that the hospital received it. A second order was sent in July.

Priscilla Smith, who led the inspector general’s office report, said she did not talk to the court because the Hampton Roads Regional Jail told her officials at the court would

Jamycheal Mitchell not talk to her.

The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services said in its report that Portsmouth General District Court Clerk Lenna Jody Davis “informed investigators that she could not meet with them.

Ms. Davis stated that the attorney from the Virginia Office of the Attorney General, who represents the courts, wanted to approve any contact with court officials.”

Davis declined last week to confirm whether the attorney general’s office had advised her not to speak to investigators.

Attorney General’s Office spokesman Michael Kelly said the office acted as an intermediary between the court and investigators

— “standard operating procedure,” he said — and that attorneys provided the information that was requested of the court.

The mentally-ill man was held in jail for four months after stealing $5 worth of snacks. Mitchell was arrested in April after taking a bottle of Mountain Dew, a Snickers bar and a Zebra Cake from a 7-Eleven in Portsmouth.

Mitchell’s family claim he starved to death after refusing meals and medication. His aunt Roxanne Adams, who is a registered nurse, said he had practically no muscle mass left by the time of his death.

‘His body failed. It is extraordinary.

The person I saw deceased was not even the same person.’

Adams said her nephew, who was

six feet three inches tall and weighed 185 pounds appeared, looked like a different person.

“I said, ‘This is not my nephew,’” Roxanne Adams explained as her sister cried. “I asked them, ‘Are you sure you have the right person?’”

She said she at first thought there had been a mistake and thought it was not her nephew’since the body appeared to be that of a 70-year-old weighing in her estimate only 90 pounds.

Adams also revealed her nephew, who was nicknamed Weezy, had suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia for about five years.

“If he would’ve gone to Eastern State we wouldn’t be going through what we’re going through now,” said Adams.

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The themes for the event are bullying, substance use and suicide prevention. Entries must be submitted by Sunday, May 1 to Prevention Specialist Michael Harris at har42@henrico.us. They will be reviewed for language and content and should show “Hip-Hop Poetry Slam” in the email subject line.

Each participant must be a resident of Henrico, Charles City or New Kent counties. Entries will be judged, with prizes awarded to the top three presenters ages 14 to 18. Adult presenters also may participate, although they will be ineligible for prizes.

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What’s the deal with a $15 minimum wage?

DR. TRACY MILLER Arguing that no full-time worker should be paid so little as to live in poverty, Bernie Sanders supports increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2020. This is part of his plan for reducing income inequality in the United States. Unfortunately, raising the minimum wage, especially by such a large amount, will reduce the incomes of many lowwage workers by making fewer jobs available.

To be sure, an increase in the minimum wage does benefit many workers. It benefits not only workers who were paid below the new minimum, but also skilled workers who are already earning wages above the minimum. Proponents concede that some workers may lose their jobs, but argue that their losses will be more than offset by wage gains for most low-wage workers.

That said, there is also no question that many low-wage workers will have a harder time finding jobs if the minimum wage is increased from its current level of $7.25 to $15.00 per hour. The goal of business owners is to make a profit, and to maximize profit they must charge a high enough price to cover the cost of producing each unit of output. If wages increase without a comparable increase in workers’ productivity and firms continue to charge the same price as before, they will find that some of the output they sold The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 2 No. 17 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

when costs were lower is no longer profitable to sell. Thus prices are likely to increase. But if firms increase prices, they can expect to sell less of their product than before.

Proponents of a minimum-wage increase argue that it will lower turnover and motivate workers to be more productive. This may happen in some cases, but if raising wages increases productivity and lowers turnover by enough to enable firms to earn as much or more profit as they did paying lower wages, firms will eventually figure out that it is in their interest to raise wages regardless of whether a minimumwage increase requires them to do so.

For most minimum-wage workers, it is not likely that productivity will double if the minimum wage is doubled. In firms where productivity does not increase as much as the minimum wage increases, fewer workers are likely to be hired or retained. Recent research, published

by American Action Forum, estimates that increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 would lower employment by between 3.3 million and 16.8 million workers.

Some employers, such as Walmart, have politically supported an increase in the minimum wage, arguing that a higher minimum wage, by raising workers’ purchasing power, would increase the demand for their products, thus making it possible for them to employ more workers. Raising workers pay The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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without increasing their productivity, however, will not increase overall purchasing power in the economy.

If workers as a group earn more, then owners of firms will earn less.

This will change the distribution of income and likely change the mix of goods and services demanded. Firms experiencing increased demand will hire additional workers, but those experiencing reduced demand will reduce the number of workers they employ. With no increase in the aggregate demand for labor and higher average labor costs, the total number of workers employed is likely to decrease.

Unions usually provide strong political support for minimumwage increases, in spite of the fact that most unionized workers earn well above the minimum wage.

This is because when faced with a higher minimum wage, firms often will replace unskilled workers earning close to the minimum with some combination of machinery, technology, and skilled workers. If firms switch to more mechanized production methods, they will need more skilled workers, who may be unionized, to operate the machines.

Most workers earning the minimum wage are not living in poverty. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 35 percent of minimum-wage workers are from families earning incomes greater than three times the federal poverty level. Only about 20 percent of workers earning less than $11.50 per

hour are from families with incomes below the poverty level.

The lost income of those who become unemployed due to an increase in the minimum wage may be less than the increased earnings of those who continue to be employed.

Nevertheless, being unemployed can have a much more harmful impact on a person’s wellbeing than earning a low wage. Work experience is critical to the long-term success of workers from disadvantaged backgrounds.

For workers with a high school education or less, one of the best ways to get skills and develop good work habits is through training provided by an employer. Providing training is costly, however, so that the higher the wage, the less likely an employer will risk providing training to an unproven worker. With a lower minimum wage, more firms could afford to incur the cost of onthe-job training, so it would be easier for workers with limited education and experience to find jobs and gain marketable skills that would enable them to move up the ladder to better paying jobs in the future.

While more than doubling the minimum wage makes for a great political stump speech, the realities of such a move could prove to be not so great for the American worker.

Miller is an associate professor of economics at Grove City College and fellow for economic theory and policy with The Center for Vision & Values.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Explaining abuse

I’m so over the “blame the pharmaceutical industry for every problem”. Before the opioid epidemic, there was a meth epidemic. Before that, it was coke and pot. Before that it was heroin, etc.

According to the CDC, 88,000 people a year die from alcoholrelated causes. Yet, alcohol is both legal and socially sanctioned. And no one ever talks about regulating it, because we’ve already been through Prohibition and know how that turned out.

People are abusing alcohol and drugs because they are suffering from mental anguish. And, they’re poor and can’t get a job, and there is no hope. And, no one cares.

I grew up in poverty in the U.S., and as an adult, I spent some 15 years living in the “Third World”.

I’ve observed and thought about how individuals approach “income insecurity” quite a bit. My take on it is this: A white man or woman with that income insecurity or poverty in the U.S. looks at it personally: What is wrong with me? Why can’t I make it? The toll on the ego leads to substance abuse and suicide. For people of color in the same situation, the person isn’t the problem, society and the luck of the draw is the explanation. One can plausibly put the blame on the world at large.

People in the Third World don’t think that they lack sufficient income to live an economically stable life because of their lack of character or whatever; they think it’s just the way things turned out or because of the government or they don’t think about it much at all because everybody that they know is in the same position.

America stands out among developed countries because of our weak social safety net, our tolerance of high income inequality, and our attitude towards financial success.

On the last point, international polls show that Americans are much readier than Europeans to feel that how much you earn is due to your own efforts rather than to circumstances. So if you lose a well paying job or if you never had one, it’s your own fault and you’re a failure. I don’t feel that way, but many people do, and it eats them up inside.

Stan Jacobs

Fighting for schools Editor’s note: The following is in response to a heated exchange between former Richmond City Council Member Marty Jewell and School Board Member Derik Jones (son of Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones) following last week’s School Board meeting.

Marty [Jewell] is fighting for schools as we all should, but we must be sensible about current and future conditions affecting Richmond’s schools.

The school age population is dropping because people simply have not had and are not having a lot of babies, migration out of Richmond is constant, gentrification is not bringing in child bearing couples but privileged party and bar hoppers not so interested in having many children.

Population projection is primary consideration for determining need for closing or opening of schools.

It would be irresponsible to keep schools open if there are not sufficient student numbers to justify it because

operating a school cost lots of money.

Staffing is also a major consideration.

Then there’s always the money issue. The cash spent on military and wars, the fraudulent so-called homeland security and police, job lost, etc., are all because of manipulation by financiers, and this lost money could be spent on citizen community needs. Thus, school operation must look at availability of funds to operate.

While we must be vigilant about this issue, we must be practical after looking at the total picture regarding population figures and the cash available.

I agree that [Mayor Dwight] Jones, in all probability and possibility, is not giving schools what he could and should. He’s a corporate man and a very bad reflection of religious leadership.

The sad and tragic thing is African Americans seem to not plan and pre-plan based on objective facts and certain conditions. African Americans have had opportunity to govern Richmond since becoming majority on city council, and simply have failed to do some things needed for African American success in schools as well as in other areas of need such as business establishment, housing development and ownership, crime stop, etcetera.

Success of African Americans is in best interest of general community and it would surely help the tax base, degree crime rate, make for better schools, and be helpful in civic responsibility for establishing a more welcoming, safe, healthy, peaceful, progressive, just, and wholesome community for all citizens.

I was Curtis Holt’s secretary when he, William Crump, and I

would go to the old city hall for meetings with city officials. That was a beginning of my active participation. Also, I was elected to the Model City Neighborhood Board in the hood, by the hood. I worked very hard as volunteer to get the African American majority on council in 1977. We had an umbrella organization called The Committee, which was formed and joined by Crusade for Voters, Urban League, NAACP, Richmond Ministers Conference, The African American business community, and other groups committed to getting out the vote for securing an African American majority victory on council. We had to fight harder to win Chuck Richardson’s district that was populated by significant numbers of whites.

I will be first to say that Richmond’s African American political leaders dropped the ball in not doing things to better our condition, as a benefit to African Americans and for benefit of larger society and community.

The high crime rate, lack of housing owned by African Americans, homelessness, poor business development, poor school performance, gentrification, and the general poor conditions of inner city community is solid evidence of the failure. The most critical failure has been the religious leaders, the prosperity sellouts, who do near absolutely nothing but keep us on the plantation of dependency.

We are in extremely bad shape and in desperate need for revolution in AA community leadership. Our leaders are a damned disgrace to the memory of what our people have struggled to do in freeing us.

Sababu Sanyika

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Ministry activates ‘God’s Army’ in response to violence Concern over the recent rash of violent shootings in the Richmond area has prompted Temple of Judah Ministries to pray for communities affected by the violence and re-institute its community outreach initiative known as God’s Army.

On Friday, the group oferred prayer and minstery to members of the community who have been affected by gun violence. Group participants went to the East end, South Side and Northside areas of the city on the altruistic mission.

Prayer activities culminate on the steps of City Hall at noon.

Bishop Melvin Williams, Jr., Temple of Judah Ministries pastor noted that participation is not limited to church members and is open to all faiths and any members of the Richmond community who share their concern. The mission of the outreach group is “to address crime and provide solutions for oppression…and to help and empower residents of Metro-Richmond to share and participate in the process of diminishing crime in our communities,” said Williams.

The initiative seeks to bridge the gap between the church and the community at large.

The city of Richmond has recently launched the Gun250 Tip Program, a Metro Richmond Crime Stoppers initiative that allows the police to “use tips provided by the public to intervene before a dangerous offender chooses to use a firearm to rob someone, settle a dispute, or accidentally kill a young child”. The program encourages members of the community to anonymously submit tips related to illegal firearms and provides a reward of up to $250 should the information lead to the recovery of the firearm and/or the arrest.

Bishop Melvin Williams, Jr. (center) leads “God’s Army” members in a closing prayer on the steps of City Hall. SUMBITTED PHOTO

Faith group forges partnership for ‘living wage’ jobs The interfaith group RISC (Representing Richmonders Involved to Strengthen our Communities) is asking hospitals to train and hire residents from distressed neighborhoods around the Richmond area.

RISC notes that it plans to host more than 1,600 people at St. Paul’s Baptist Church (4247 Creighton Rd., Richmond), to ask VCU Health and HCA hospital officials to “begin a hiring initiative and training program in collaboration with J Sargeant Reynolds Community College and local non-profits.” Concerned community members will speak on the issue and proposed solution, which the group notes it has been researching for over two years.

The “Job Training Problem” in Richmond, according to RISC, means that 29,300 people in metro Richmond are unemployed, not including the underemployed and those who have stopped seeking employment.

Additionally, they note that hundreds of entry-

level jobs go unfilled every year in Richmond’s hospital systems and that no low-cost training programs are available in the Richmond region for the most in-demand, living-wage jobs in the hospital systems.

RISC is seeking a commitment from VCU Health and HCA hospital systems to hire employees referred from a local coalition of community partners and provide training for these employees to enter in-demand, living-wage health care jobs.

RISC, also an interracial, multi-issue coalition of 17 member congregations in the greater Richmond area, notes that it’s different from other organizations because participants do not engage in direct service programs, rather they challenge decision makers to implement policies that will ensure all community members are treated with fairness and justice.

“RISC will also ask Henrico County Public Schools’ school board and administrators to implement a proven core curriculum in

kindergarten through second grade for any interested Eastern Henrico elementary schools of the 16 that failed their state reading tests in 2015,” according to leaders.

RISC notes that while Richmond has 33,000 unemployed citizens, more than 33,000 jobs are available and unfilled in the Richmond region.

More than half of those jobs are located in Richmond city, and many are in the health care field. Richmond’s hospitals, in particular, offer jobs with opportunities for advancement within the system, providing a ladder out of poverty for our unemployed neighbors.

The group met with leaders at VCU and HCA Hospitals in February and March.

“We are encouraged by their positive response and interest in hiring people from underserved neighborhoods,” according to a group statement.

We ...expect them to make clear commitments at our Nehemiah Action on May 2.

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Man ends up pals with crooked cop who framed him STEVE HARTMAN BENTON HARBOR, Mich.-- It all went down on a block in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Back in 2005, Jameel McGee says he was minding his own business when a police officer accused him of -- and arrested him for -- dealing drugs.

“It was all made up,” said McGee. Of course, a lot of accused men make that claim, but not many arresting officers agree.

Andrew Collins served time for a number of crimes, including framing McGee for selling drugs “I falsified the report,” admitted former Benton Harbor police officer Andrew Collins. “Basically, at the start of that day, I was going to make sure I had another drug arrest.”

And in the end, he put an innocent guy in jail. “I lost everything,” McGeee said. “My only goal was to seek him when I got home and to hurt him.”

Eventually, the crooked cop was caught, and served a year and a half for falsifying many police reports, planting drugs and stealing. Of course McGee was exonerated, but he still spent four years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

Today both men are back in Benton Harbor, which is a small town.

Maybe a little too small.

Last year, by sheer coincidence, they both ended up at faith-based

After they both served time, Jameel and Andrew now work side by side in a cafe. CBS News employment agency Mosaic, where they now work side by side in the same café. And it was in those cramped quarters that the bad cop and the wrongfully accused had no choice but to have it out. evening-news-1830-air-record"I said, 'Honestly, I have no explanation, all I can do is say I'm sorry,'" Collins explained.

McGee says that was all it took.”That was pretty much what I needed to hear.”

Today they’re not only cordial, they’re friends. Such close friends, not long ago McGee actually told Collins he loved him.

“And I just started weeping because he doesn’t owe me that. I don’t deserve that,” Collins said.

But he didn’t forgive just for his sake, even for Collins’. “For our sake,” McGee said. “Not just us, but for our sake.”

McGee share his Christian faith, and his hope for a kinder mankind.

He wants to be an example -- so now he and Collins give speeches together about the importance of forgiveness and redemption.

“If these two guys from the coffee shop can set aside their bitter grounds, what’s our excuse?”, asked one onlooker at the coffee shop. But

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not all believe in forgiveness.

“I’m not a Black Lives Matter member but I support their movement,” said another onlooker, Rose D. “BLM catches a lot of flack from people who are ignorant to their cause, but this situation is a perfect example of what they are addressing.

Black men and boys being framed and arrested for crimes they did not committ happens and happens often.

Rose D continued: “Black men and women forgive too much. These people love black people that forgive them for the evils they have done on you. I would have been his friend just so that I could hurt him easy and slowly.”

And yet another onlooker: “A friend should be someone that can be trusted with those people and things that are most loved. That crooked ex-cop Collins has no moral fiber, no sense of ethic and should not be trusted. Being cordial is understandable because it is required for a well functioning society.

“Forgiveness is understandable because it frees you of the heavy weight of hate. But calling someone who intentionally harmed you a “friend” is setting yourself up to get hurt again by that same person.”

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The artist forever known as Prince The world has been in mourning since last Thursday when it was made known to all that Prince Rogers Nelson died at the age of 57.

The artist lovingly known as Prince was discovered at his Paisley Park estate in Minnesota.

Various news sources report that Prince had a medical emergency on April 15th that forced his private jet to make an emergency landing in Illinois. He, however, appeared at a concert the next day to assure his fans he was okay even though he was battling the flu.

At press time, results from the autopsy hadn’t been revealed leaving many to speculate on what really happened to the Grammy and Oscar winning sensation.

Prince's self-proclaimed former drug dealer has revealed the [alleged] full extent of Prince’s secret drug addiction. He shared how the superstar was allegedly hooked on powerful opiates for over 25 years.

Allegedly, the singer would spend up to $40,000 a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches—both highly addictive opioid painkillers— according to the drug dealer who requested to be known simply as Doctor D. Doctor D claims Prince bought drugs from between 1984 and 2008 and described him as “majorly addicted.”

According to Doctor D, Prince suffered crippling stage fright and could not get on stage and perform without the drugs. He also alleges Prince had a phobia of doctors so he could not obtain a prescription legally.

Doctor D suggests it could have been a physician that unknowingly contributed to Prince's death - by prescribing strong painkillers to the singer for his hip condition without knowing the extent of his secret opiate addiction.

Cyril Wecht, a forensic pathologist who is not linked to the case, told NBC's TODAY, “I would give overwhelming odds that, tragically, this is a drug death.'

He said: 'When you rule out foul play, when there is no history of any kind of significant disease, when you rule out any kind of intervention, anything of an environmental nature, you come down to an autopsy that is essentially negative and that probably means drugs.”

Wecht also contends that the emergency landing of Prince's private jet lends further merit to the idea that his death was due to drugs.

“I cannot think of any medical or pathological condition that fits that kind of scenario, with incredible ups and downs, other than drugs,” he said.

Prince was said to be in constant agony after spending most of his life performing in high heels. In fact, his former fiancée and collaborator Sheila E. claims that Prince suffered the pain in order to give the best possible performance.

“I mean, you think about all the years he was jumping off those risers.

They were not low - they were very, very high - and to jump off that…

First of all, the Purple Rain tour and the way that they were stacked, he

had those heels on,” Sheila E said.

“We did a year of touring [and] for him to jump off of that - just an entire year would have messed up his knees. He was in pain all the time, but he was a performer.”

And a spectacular performer he will always be remembered as. Prince produced a chain of hits, racked up seven Grammys in the process, and became an Oscar winner for his “Purple Rain” score in 1985. He also performed at the Super Bowl in 2007 in one of the greatest live performances of all time that has since tried to be duplicated by other guest performers.

Prince has sold more than 100 million records during his career and was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

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Prince’s most enduring myths, mysteries & legends

WIRE Prince was one of music’s most colorful personalities, figuratively and literally. He was notoriously open about some things – sex, for example – but also intensely private in some ways. You might say he contained multitudes.

Over the course of his career, Prince was naturally dogged by some truly outrageous rumors and myths.

And because he was, you know, Prince, a lot of the best ones were true. Here are some of those.

1. Prince has enough recorded material to keep putting out albums for decades. Like Tupac, Prince will likely be turning out material (depending on what the dictates of his will were, of course) for quite some time after his death: The singer reportedly had a literal, actual vault in the basement of Paisley Park filled with unreleased recordings in various stages of completion. Sonny Thompson, Prince’s childhood friend and sometimes bass player, told The Guardian that, “I don’t think you’ll ever get to hear everything in the vault because you’d have to sit down for 10 years. There is just too much to go through."”

2. He was a talented roller-skater with an amazing pair of skates.

Per Questlove’s book Mo’ Meta Blues: “Prince had the briefcase out

on the floor. He clicked the lock and opened it, and took out the strangest, most singular pair of roller skates I had ever seen. They were clear skates that lit up, and the wheels sent a multicolored spark trail into your path ... He took them out and did a big lap around the rink. Man. He could skate like he could sing.”

3. He did not believe in time. “I don't believe in time,” Prince told Notorious magazine in 1999. “I don’t count. When you count, it ages you.”

4. His doves were named “Divinity” and “Majesty.” And they are credited with “ambient singing” on his album “One Nite Alone” 5. He had very specific rules for reporters. Despite allowing reporters into Paisley Park on multiple occasions, Prince refused to allow them to record interviews or take notes.

6. He once watched the NBA Finals during a concert.

Prince was an avid NBA fan, and during one of the Chicago Bulls’ many playoff runs during the ‘90s, he had a TV at the side of the stage set up so he could wander over and check the game while he played his guitar solos. He also pressed a wardrobe girl into drawing the current score onto cue cards and flashing them at him so he could keep tabs on the game.

7. One of his favorite meals was spaghetti and orange juice. According to Spin's oral history of Purple Rain,

Prince ordered this odd combination during a meeting with the film’s director at a Minneapolis Denny’s.

8. He had some unusual requirements for his wife.

His ex-wife Mayte Garcia explained that their home came with a hair salon – that she was not allowed to use. “I always went out if I needed my hair done. The salon wasn’t for me,” she told the Daily Mail. In that same interview, she mentioned that she was not allowed to call him on the phone. “I had to wait for him to call me.”

9. He once took out a personal ad to meet women. “Eligible bachelor seeks the most beautiful girl in the world to spend the holidays with,” read an ad placed in several papers in the U.S. (and overseas) in 1993. It directed women to send videos or photos to Paisley Park.

10. He once replaced Questlove on a DJ gig with a “Finding Nemo” DVD. Per Questlove's Twitter: "[Prince] once fired me from a DJ gig in a nightclub and instead blasted the ‘Finding Nemo’ DVD on the screen."

Hey, it’s a really good movie.

11. He had some strange whims.

Kevin Smith once shot some documentary footage of Prince for a film that was never completed. But his time at Paisley Park afforded him a look into Prince’s inner world, including some of his more eccentric

demands. He recalled an employee telling him: “Prince will come to us periodically and say things like, “It’s three in the morning in Minnesota – I really need a camel. Go get it.’ And then we try to explain to Prince ... that is not physically or psychologically possible.

He’s not malicious. He just doesn’t understand why he can’t get exactly what he wants.”

12. He once renovated a house he was renting from an NBA star.

Prince was renting NBA player Carlos Boozer’s Beverly Hills home when he decided to make some modifications, like putting his signature sign on the front gate, changing the master bedroom to a hair salon, knocking out walls and changing ceiling molding.

Boozer wasn’t happy, until Prince supposedly handed him a check for “about a million,” saying “Get it back the way you want it.”

13. He once freaked out Michael Jackson by giving him a ‘voodoo amulet.’ Given that Prince was raised a Seventh-day Adventist before converting to a Jehovah’s Witness, one is not quite sure what the New York Post means when they say that Prince was gave Jackson a “voodoo amulet,” but whatever it was, it freaked him out enough that he told his lawyer, “I never want to talk to that guy again.”

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Freed from death row, Anthony Graves uses compensation to help other inmates — including his best friend HOUSTON – Nanon Williams expected to walk out of prison in 2010, just about the same time as his close friend and former death row mentor Anthony Graves.

For the third time, a court had reversed Williams’ murder conviction, and he was just waiting for the final nod of approval before leaving behind the cell for the first time in his adult life.

A half-decade later, he still waits — wearing the same prison whites that have been his uniform since age 17, still overwhelmed by the pain of the appeals court decision that denied his pleas of innocence.

“I got sent back to prison, and he walked out the door,” said Williams, now 41.

From his cell at the Ramsey Unit, where he is serving a life sentence for the fatal 1992 shooting of 19-year-old Adonius Collier in Houston, Williams has watched with awe and pride as his friend blossomed in freedom.

From the moment Graves was exonerated in 2010, he set out to reform the criminal justice system that stole 18 years of his life. He was determined to help others who have suffered under a regime he believes is fundamentally flawed.

In the last two years, Graves has invested more than $150,000 – part of the money the state paid him to compensate for the years he spent wrongly imprisoned – to launch the Anthony Graves Foundation. The still budding nonprofit is dedicated to freeing other innocent inmates and providing health care to recently released prisoners with medical problems and no means to pay for treatment.

But seeing Williams, the wild, angry young man who arrived on death row the same day he did, walk free is near the top of the 50-yearold’s long to-do list.

“I was on death row with a lot of men that I believe are guilty,” Graves

Exonerated convict Anthony Graves poses for a portrait inside the Graves Community Health Clinic in Houston. PHOTO: Ashley Landis/DMN said. “I learned that this young man was innocent.”

Graves was convicted in 1994 of one of the most heinous crimes the small community of Somerville had ever seen. Bobbie Davis, her daughter and her four grandchildren were stabbed and the house they were in was set aflame. Just days before Robert Carter was executed in 2000 for his role in the crime, Carter admitted he had been the lone killer.

Graves, he said during a deposition, was innocent. Nearly a decade later, Graves was exonerated and released from prison.

In 2011, Texas wrote Graves a check for $1.45 million for the years he spent wrongfully imprisoned. He will receive the same amount in an annuity that is paid out monthly for the rest of his life.

People often ask Graves why he didn’t head for the beach after so many years of undeserved punishment. He said he didn’t lose

nearly two decades to spend the rest of his free years lounging. “No, I wanted to make a difference,” he said.

Long before he was released, Graves began making plans to help from the other side. The first job he got after leaving prison was helping investigate cases for the Texas Defender Service, a nonprofit organization that represents death row inmates.

The case of Alfred Brown, a death row inmate who was exonerated last year, was among the first in which he played a pivotal role, persuading a crucial witness who had lied at trial to recant her testimony.

Two years ago, Graves decided to started his own innocence project.

In many ways, Brown’s case was similar to Graves’. Unlike hundreds of exoneration cases that make headlines, there was no DNA evidence to prove them innocent.

Clearing their names required

relentlessly chasing leads until the truth was revealed.

Most innocence projects won’t take on such a labor-intensive proposition.

Those organizations use strict criteria, often accepting only cases in which forensic testing could lead to new evidence of innocence.

Graves started the Humane Investigation Project within his foundation to clear away that red tape.

“I’d be dead today, because I had no DNA in my case,” he said. “A lot of guys fall through the cracks because of the criteria of these projects.”

Hundreds of requests for help flood into his office each week. Graves said he’s homed in on 10 that he believes have legitimate innocence claims.

“We go talk to the witnesses, we go and really investigate the case, as opposed to sitting behind a computer,” he said.

C.J. Connelly is the director of Graves’ project. For now, he’s a volunteer. Graves can’t afford to pay him a full-time salary. That will come later, he hopes, with grant money and more fundraising efforts.

By day, Connelly is an educator, but he spends dozens of hours each week investigating innocence claims.

Connelly has pored over documents and interviewed scores of witnesses in the case of Pablo Velez, a Houston man serving 30 years for the fatal 2004 shooting of Emerson Bojorquez outside a Houston pool hall.

Police targeted Velez because the killers’ getaway car, a gold Cadillac, was registered under his name. Velez contends he was at his girlfriend’s place at the time of the murder. He said he sold the Cadillac days before but hadn’t yet changed the title.

Connelly said he might have enough evidence to prove Velez is innocent and the man who bought the Cadillac was the actual killer.

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(from page 12) The Houston Police Department has agreed to reopen its investigation of the crime. Graves and Connelly also secured a new lawyer for Velez: Patrick McCann, a lawyer who helped in Graves’ exoneration and now serves on the foundation board.

“Anthony has credibility and reach that I would never have had,” Connelly said.

For years before he met Connelly, Velez said, he wrote to dozens of innocence organizations asking for help.

“If my case didn’t have nothing to do with DNA, they didn’t want to bother with it,” he said.

After a decade in prison, he said, he is allowing himself to hope that he’ll be reunited with his 10-year-old daughter, Iris. She was 27 days old when he was convicted. Her name and birthday are tattooed under his left eye.

“I just want to get home to her,” he said.

The case that is perhaps dearest to Graves, though, is Williams’. The two men spent about a decade together on death row. For three years, they were side-by-side in solitary confinement where the only means of communication was the air vent between their cells. They exercised together, doing push-ups and running in place for an hour inside their cells at 5 a.m.

They edited each other’s letters and poems, planned for their futures and consoled one another when friends left for the death house.

Williams called Graves “Milk Dud” because of his shiny bald head.

Graves called him “Meathead,” a nickname the beefy former football player’s grandpa had given him.

Williams came to death row filled with spit and vinegar, spoiling for a fight, Graves said, and has transformed into an educated writer whose works inspire others.

“I watched him grow up into a man,” Graves said.

After the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 declared it unconstitutional to execute people who were minors at the time of their crimes, Williams’ sentence was commuted to life in prison. Three courts have overturned his conviction and ruled that he deserves a new trial. Each time, a higher court has reversed that decision.

Graves and Williams contend that faulty ballistics evidence led to the

Pablo Velez (left), and Nanon Williams were both convited of murder. conviction and that a new look at the evidence will show that the fatal bullet did not come from Williams’ gun.

After 24 years in prison – his entire adult life – and three heartwrenching brushes with freedom, Williams is hesitant to reignite his legal battle. In recent years, he has focused his efforts on pursuing his education – he’s getting a master’s degree – and helping other young men avoid the pitfalls of drugs and violence that put him at the scene of a crime that ruined his life.

Mostly, though, Williams doesn’t want to see his family crushed again. His mother is 65 and lives in California, where he grew up. He last saw her two years ago.

“It makes me feel like a used car salesman selling them false hope,” Williams said, his eyes welling. “It’s tiresome.”

Graves, though, never seems to tire. After years of waking to prison guards’ 3 a.m. breakfast calls, he said he rarely sleeps more than a few hours each night. He’s too busy sending emails and text messages, preparing speeches and working to build his foundation and a community willing to help inmates that he says society has discarded.

This month, Graves opened a small health clinic to provide low-cost and free care to those leaving prison and their families. On one side of the foundation’s rented office space across the street from a church in a rough Houston neighborhood are antiseptic-smelling exam rooms with equipment that still has the manufacturers’ stickers. On the other side, Graves and his small cadre of interns and volunteers take calls and read piles of letters from aggrieved inmates.

When he left prison, Graves said, doctors told him his arteries were clogged, the result of poor diet and health care. But he had money to

see a doctor. Most recently released inmates don’t. They’re too busy finding a job and housing and reuniting with family to think about their health.

“He needs a fresh start, and that includes his body,” Graves said.

Eventually, he also plans to hire caseworkers to help connect former convicts with resources like housing, drug treatment and mental health services to reduce the likelihood they’ll return to prison.

The clinic is just getting off the ground, but Graves has already hired a doctor. Dr. Lester Minto, who lives in Austin, learned about the foundation through a friend and

agreed to help out for a minimal fee.

“I’ve always liked the thought of helping people who are less privileged,” he said, “people who don’t fit in the system.”

Paul Cates, spokesman for the New York-based Innocence Project, said many exonerees feel like Graves, compelled to fight for change in a criminal justice system that wrecked their lives. Dallas exoneree Christopher Scott, who was freed in 1999, created the House of Renewed Hope to help other wrongly convicted inmates.

“It doesn’t destroy their souls, and almost all of them somehow find a way to get beyond what happened,” Cates said.

Graves is not oblivious, though, to the steep road ahead for both his foundation and the inmates he wants to help.

He knows he’ll need much more funding to keep his clinic and the innocence project up and running.

He knows that in Texas’ conservative court system, his friend Nanon Williams’ chances for success are slim. But he’s never been one to let long odds get him down.

“I always stay positive,” he said.

“That’s how I came home.”

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Immigrants, the poor and minorities gain sharply under Affordable Care Act SABRINA TAVERNISE & ROBERT GEBELOFF The first full year of the Affordable Care Act brought historic increases in coverage for low-wage workers and others who have long been left out of the health care system, a New York Times analysis has found.

Immigrants of all backgrounds — including more than a million legal residents who are not citizens — had the sharpest rise in coverage rates.

Hispanics, a coveted group of voters this election year, accounted for nearly a third of the increase in adults with insurance. That was the single largest share of any racial or ethnic group, far greater than their 17 percent share of the population.

Low-wage workers, who did not have enough clout in the labor market to demand insurance, saw sharp increases. Coverage rates jumped for cooks, dishwashers, waiters, as well as for hairdressers and cashiers.

Minorities, who disproportionately worked in low-wage jobs, had large gains.

The health care law was one of the most bitterly contested pieces of legislation in the country’s history. It remains controversial because of its costs to both taxpayers and insurance customers. The high premiums and high deductibles of many plans still make coverage a crushing financial burden for some families.

And the law is not close to achieving the goal of universal coverage, in part because 19 states have declined to expand their Medicaid programs for the poor, an option the Supreme Court granted them in a landmark 2012 case.

Nevertheless, the Times’s analysis shows that by the end of that first full year, 2014, so many low-income people gained coverage that it halted the decades-long expansion of the gap between the haves and the have-nots

in the American health insurance system, a striking change at a time when disparities between rich and poor are growing in many areas.

“The law has clearly reduced broad measures of inequality,” said David Cutler, an economics professor at Harvard, who served in the Clinton administration and advised the 2008 Obama campaign on health issues.

“These are people who blend into the background of the economy. They are cleaning your hotel room, making your sandwich. The law has helped this population enormously.”

Until now, the impact of the law has been measured mostly in broad numbers of newly insured people — about 20 million by the administration’s most recent account.

But the Times’s analysis of census data from 2014, the first year the heart of the law was in full effect, provides a finely detailed look at who the newly insured actually are — by race, education, occupation, immigration status, and family structure.

The analysis shows how the law lifted some of the most vulnerable citizens. Part-time workers gained insurance at a higher rate than fulltime workers, and people with high school degrees gained it at double the rate of college graduates. Adults living in households headed by relatives, such as siblings or cousins — often a marker of economic distress — gained insurance at double the rate of those in traditional households.

The law’s passage, without a single Republican vote, capped decades of efforts to enact a broader health insurance system. Medicaid and Medicare passed in the 1960s, but did little to help workers who did not receive insurance through their jobs. Presidents Nixon, Carter and Clinton all tried and failed to win approval for expanded coverage, and the number of uninsured Americans

grew to nearly a fifth of adults under the age of 65 by 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act passed.

The findings from the census data could inform the national dialogue, especially in this election year. Hispanics are a powerful voting force and the law is viewed favorably in Hispanic neighborhoods.

But whether the sharp increase in coverage rates for Hispanics will translate into votes for Democrats who supported the law, or whether some Republicans might temper their vows to repeal it, is not clear. And the fact that so many who benefited under the law were not citizens (or voters) — 1.2 million out of the total 8.7 million who got health insurance in 2014 — could set off a new round of debate in a year when immigration has become a deeply polarizing issue.

About 60 percent of those noncitizens were Hispanic, mostly natives of Mexico and Central America who had been living in the United States for decades.

Another third were Asian, mostly newer arrivals living in states like California, New York and Texas.

Illegal immigrants are not eligible for insurance under the law, but legal immigrants can qualify for subsidies in the insurance exchanges and those who have been in the country for more than five years can qualify for Medicaid.

The vast majority of the country’s 11 million illegal immigrants, about 70 percent of whom are Hispanic, still lack coverage, said Mark Hugo Lopez, director of Hispanic research at the Pew Research Center.

Though the law has withstood two Supreme Court rulings that would have undermined its central

elements, it continues to face challenges.

It requires most Americans to have health insurance and gives subsidies to those who cannot afford it. Even so, many still cannot afford policies.

While it expanded Medicaid to cover more of the country’s poor, the Supreme Court allowed states to opt out and 19 have, leaving millions of people still uncovered.

But in low-income neighborhoods like this one in South Los Angeles, a historically poor patch of the city dotted with palm trees, small ranch houses and home to a growing Hispanic population, the law is having a big effect.

“From the vantage point of the poor and working poor, Obamacare has been profound,” said Jim Mangia, president of the St. John’s Well Child and Family Center, a federally funded health clinic in South Los Angeles that has enrolled 18,000 new patients under the law, nearly all of them Hispanic or black and the vast majority in Medicaid. The clinic reported a 44 percent increase in cervical cancer screenings, a 25 percent increase in tobacco cessation therapy, and a 22 percent increase in the share of patients with controlled hypertension since 2014, the result, he said, of more patients having insurance.

One new patient, Angela Cruz, 60, is a typical example of a winner under the law. A legal immigrant who is not a citizen, she came to this country from El Salvador in 1990.

She had never had health insurance in her 25 years of working in the United States, most recently as a nanny. She stitched together medical

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Court favors transgender student in Va. restroom case RICHARD FAUSSET Weeks after a new North Carolina law put transgender bathroom access at the heart of the nation’s culture wars, a federal appeals court in Richmond ruled last week in favor of a transgender student who was born female and wishes to use the boys’ restroom at his rural Virginia high school.

Advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people note that the ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit applies to North Carolina, where the controversial law approved last month limits transgender people to bathrooms in government buildings, including public schools, that correspond with the gender listed on their birth certificates.

As a result of the ruling, those advocates say, that portion of the North Carolina law that applies to public schools now clearly violates Title IX — the federal law that prohibits gender discrimination in schools.

“Our expectation is that the North Carolina schools reverse course immediately, as in tomorrow,” Sarah Warbel, the legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, an L.G.B.T. rights group, said.

The ruling in favor of Gavin Grimm, a junior at Gloucester High School in southeastern Virginia, does not immediately grant him the right to use the boys’ restrooms; rather, it directs a lower court that had ruled against him to re-evaluate Grimm’s request for a preliminary injunction to be able to use those restrooms.

But it is the first time that a federal appellate court has ruled that Title IX protects the rights of such students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.

The ruling also comes as some school districts and state governments around the country are grappling with the question of whether transgender people should be allowed to go to the public facilities that correspond with their gender identity, or whether, as many conservatives believe, such access

would infringe on the privacy rights of others.

Boycotts and protests have followed the passage of the North Carolina law, but Gov. Pat McCrory has essentially stood by it. On Tuesday, Joshua Block, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the case on Grimm’s behalf, argued that such state and local legislation violated federal law.

“With this decision, we hope that schools and legislators will finally get the message that excluding transgender kids from the restrooms is unlawful sex discrimination,” he said in a statement.

The North Carolina law has prompted the Obama administration to consider whether the state would be ineligible for billions of dollars in federal funding for schools, housing and highways.

McCrory, a Republican who is seeking re-election in November, and other supporters of the law have played down suggestions that the Obama administration would rescind those billions. McCrory’s Democratic opponent, Roy Cooper, the state’s attorney general, has said in the past that the law may put the federal funding at risk and has refused to defend the state in a lawsuit challenging it.

In a statement last week, McCrory said he strongly disagreed with President Obama and Cooper’s objective “to force our high schools to allow boys in girls’ restrooms, locker rooms or shower facilities,” but would evaluate the effect of Tuesday’s ruling on North Carolina law and policy.

The A.C.L.U. brought the case on behalf of Grimm, who was born female but identifies as a male, in June, seeking a preliminary injunction so that Grimm could use the boys’ restrooms at his school.

The school administration initially allowed him to do so, but the local school board later approved a policy that barred him from the boys’ restrooms; according to court documents, the policy also “required students with ‘gender identity issues’ to use an alternative private facility” to go to the bathroom.

The court ruling in favor of Gavin Grimm comes amid escalating fights nationwide over transgender people and the bathrooms they should be allowed to use. PHOTO: Damon Winter/NYT Judge Robert G. Doumar of Federal District Court ruled against Grimm in September, dismissing his claim that the school board had violated Title IX, although the judge did allow his case to go forward under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

The ruling by a three-judge panel on Tuesday reversed the lower court’s dismissal of the Title IX claim, stating that the District Court “did not accord appropriate deference” to regulations issued by the Department of Education. The department’s current guidelines dictate that schools “generally must treat transgender students consistent with their gender identity.”

Roger Gannam, a lawyer with the conservative Liberty Counsel, which filed an amicus brief in the case on behalf of the defendant, the Gloucester County School Board, said last week that the court had engaged in “blatant judicial legislation.”

“It’s very disappointing, and it’s frightening, in a sense,” he said.

Block of the A.C.L.U., in a phone interview, said he was confident that the District Court would rule in Grimm’s favor and allow him to use the restroom. And he noted that the five states covered by the Fourth Circuit — Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, West Virginia and South

Carolina — must now follow the federal Department of Education’s interpretation of Title IX on this issue.

The Obama administration has been aggressive in its efforts to ensure that transgender students can use the bathrooms in public schools that correspond with their gender identities. Some federal agencies have threatened to rescind funding to pressure some municipal governments in California and Illinois to change their policies and allow transgender students to do so.

In June, the Justice Department filed a “statement of interest” in Grimm’s case.

“We are pleased with the Fourth Circuit’s decision, which agreed with the position that the United States advocated in its brief,” the Justice Department said in a statement last week.

In an email, a clerk for the Gloucester school system said the superintendent, Walter Clemons, “has no comment at this time.”

In a statement released through the A.C.L.U., Grimm said: “I feel so relieved and vindicated by the court’s ruling. T[his] decision gives me hope that my fight will help other kids avoid discriminatory treatment at school.”

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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.

5.3, 3 p.m.

Birdhouse Farmers Market will open for business only a few blocks from its old location at 1507 Grayland Ave., Richmond. After the closing of William Byrd Community House, the historic Oregon Hill social services agency which hosted “Byrd House Market”, a group of dedicated farmer/vendors and food system and community advocates banded together to make sure the market continued in its 10th year.

In addition to face painting, food demos, and kids’ activities in a park setting, this year will feature a weekly Pop-Up Library by the Richmond Public Library.

Farmer/vendor-led, BFM will continue to be healthy food focused, with a diverse group of vendors such as Amy’s Organic Garden, Sub Rosa Bakery, Faith Farm, Ninja Kombucha, and more.

Market days through Nov. 22 will be on Tuesdays, from 3-6:30 p.m.

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“Through this unique event, we will show approximately 200 students the value of volunteerism and educate them on a wide variety of service areas, with the hope they will find a cause they are passionate about,” said Crystal Waitekus, Community Relations Manager for VOLUNTEER Hampton Roads. “This youth service program is observed in all 50 states and more than 100 countries across six continents.

The event is designed to empower our youth to serve, for the benefit of their communities, as well as for their own personal development.”

The May 7 event, specifically designed for middle and high school students, will feature a service project with Stop Hunger Now, an international organization whose mission is to end hunger in our lifetime. Students will pack over 10,000 meals and earn up to three hours of community service credit. Immediately following the service project, there will be breakout discussion groups, where students can learn about a variety of service areas, including the environment, health, homelessness and animals. Students will also have the opportunity to attend a Teen Volunteer Fair featuring a wide variety of local nonprofits. Students will be able to ask questions about how they can impact these areas of need and take a personal pledge toward service.

Not to be left out, the adults are welcome to attend the “Parent’s Coffee Corner” during the course of the May 7 event. They will be provided information about the value of volunteerism and how to best support and encourage young people in service.

Admission is free and pre-registration is required. This event is organized by the Hampton Roads Corporate VOLUNTEER Council, a program of VOLUNTEER Hampton Roads. To register, go to www.volunteerhr.org/gyvd or contact Crystal Waitekus, community relations manager, with questions at 757-624-2400 or communityoutreach@volunteerhr.org.

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Hedges and ByWays of Life Ministry will host a Pre-Mother’s Day Event with the theme “She Shall Be Lifted Up And Honored” which will be held at the Veritas School, Virginia Hall Building, 3400 Brook Rd., Richmond, The 501(c) 3 non-profit ministry organization plans to provide programs in the future that will consist of: Individual mentoring and family counseling; as well as classes and workshops to promote positive self growth and moral principles.

For tickets and more information, contact Rev. Alan Chris Parker 804762-5885. Ticket donations are $20.

5.5., 7 p.m.

Fairfield District Supervisor Frank J. Thornton will hold a constituent meeting to discuss public-health concerns for Henrico County and opportunities for community engagement.

The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Azalea Room at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, 1800 Lakeside Ave. Guests may arrive as early as 6 p.m. to explore the grounds at no cost.

Thornton will be joined by Dr. Susan Fischer Davis, director of the Henrico Health District; Terri Tatum, of the Lakeside Business Association; and Joseph P. Rapisarda Jr., county attorney for Henrico. A question-and-answer period will follow. For information, call 804-501-4208.

5.7, 9 a.m.

Join The Giving Heart at the first Richmond Holistic Expo at Richmond Raceway Complex. There’ll be a general information booth and offer up several items for purchase including handmade and unique jewelry, featuring natural stones such as agate, opal, aquamarines, garnets, etc.; homemade, natural dog biscuitsand natural goat milk soaps and laundry detergent.

To learn more about the expo, visit richmondholisticexpo.com.

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(from page 14) care through emergency rooms, free clinics and home remedies. When she needed to pay for medicine for a painful bout of kidney stones, she stopped buying meat.

Then she got coverage under the health law’s expansion of Medicaid in California.

Now, she said, “I don’t have the stress of wondering — can I pay this — when sometimes I didn’t have anything to pay it with.”

Hispanics remain the least insured Americans, with only 67 percent having coverage in 2014, in part because so many illegal immigrants are uninsured.

Gains for blacks were muted because they disproportionately live in states that chose not to expand Medicaid. About 60 percent of poor blacks live in states that did not expand Medicaid. While the share of poor blacks covered by Medicaid did rise by two percentage points in those states, the rate rose by six points in states that expanded the program.

In all, minorities gained more than whites, making up twothirds of the increase in insured adults across the country, and 70 percent of the increase in private

insurance. Minority men who work as groundskeepers and janitors saw substantial gains, rising to 59 percent insured, up from 51 percent in 2013. Hispanic male construction workers rose to 43 percent insured, from 36 percent in 2013.

One such worker, Sergio Ortega, 51, a legal immigrant from Mexico who had never been insured before getting covered by Medicaid in 2014, said making a doctor’s appointment seemed unthinkable without insurance, so he often simply ignored his health problems.

Several years ago, he started feeling tired, a condition that eventually drove him to quit his job demolishing buildings and start selling fruit from a street cart. By the time he sought treatment through his new coverage and discovered he had diabetes, his lower leg had to be amputated.

“I realized it was getting really bad because my foot started turning purple,” said Mr. Ortega, who is a patient at St. John’s.

Perhaps the biggest unmet promise of the law is that many it was supposed to help still cannot afford insurance. Alberto Torres, 50, a driver for a garment company in Los Angeles who could not afford insurance before the law, had signed

Sergio Ortega, 51, lives in Los Angeles and received a prosthetic leg after an amputation because of complications related to diabetes. He says he had never been insured before getting covered by Medicaid in 2014. PHOTO: Emily Berl/NYT up for a plan in 2014 for $41 a month. But this year his monthly premium jumped to $106 — too much, he said, for his meager salary.

“I’m feeling not so good,” he said recently, waiting in line for help to look for a less expensive plan.

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Having insurance does not necessarily mean better health, but experts hope it could start to ease some of the worst disparities that have kept the United States close to the bottom of health rankings of rich countries.

Ortega has been fitted for a prosthetic leg. He is still learning how to use it.

“Now I don’t worry,” he said. “It’s a security, a comfort that I feel.”

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