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What is the state of black America? - 2 Virginia’s Confederate antics - 3 Religious liberty order examined - 8 Black death rate reportedly drops - 8

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After soaring under Obama, gun industry now drops NICK VERSAW & TYLER WOODALL

CNS – Earlier this year, gun rights groups and gun control advocates met at Capitol Square to face off in dueling rallies and seek support for their views. Gun rights advocates held blaze orange signs that read “Guns save lives.” Their adversaries preached stricter regulation with a sea of yellow signs that proclaimed the opposite – “Background checks save lives.”

This wouldn’t be the first time, or the last, that the opposite ends of the gun spectrum would meet to express their perspectives on firearms.

The Second Amendment has remained at the forefront of the American consciousness for decades.

According to the Pew Research Center, gun policy was one of the five most important issues for voters during the 2016 presidential campaign.

As the country has become more partisan, opinions on guns have become increasingly polarizing. “The gap in how candidates’ supporters view overall priorities for the nation’s gun policy is much wider today than it has been in any presidential campaign dating to 2000,” noted Pew. This polarization in Americans’ views on guns has created a climate where the firearms industry and the political landscape of the day share a closer relationship than one might think.

During the eight-year term of Democratic and gun-control-minded President Barack Obama, firearm

Have you seen John?

A Chesterfield County family is seeking the public’s help in locating their son, John Mukuria.

The 30-year-old has been missing since May 4 after posting what his mother, Eunice, called a “suicide note” on social media.

The LEGACY will not post the contents of the note, but his mother, an apostle at El-Shaddai Gospel International Ministries Richmond, said they were disturbing, especially since John has a history of selfharming.

He has been staying with friends in recent weeks with no permanent address. This has hindered the filing of an official missing person’s report, although a county police spokesperson has invited a filing.

According to the Chesterfield Police Department spokesperson, officers recently went out on a “check for welfare” call and made attempts to contact John, with no success. The

John Mukuria family’s calls to John’s mobile phone have also gone unanswered.

If you have seen John, or his vehicle, a white 2003 Toyota Camry with license plates VTR-1500, call 804-332-7063.

sales soared.

In 2016, the number of queries to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System required to purchase a gun topped 27 million – a 116 percent increase from 2008, the final year of George W. Bush’s presidency. Moreover, in the first six years of the Obama presidency, the number of guns manufactured in the United States more than doubled.

As much as firearm manufacturers may not like to admit it, the anti-gun ideology of the Obama administration provided a massive boost to business. The stock prices of two of the premier firearm manufacturers – American Outdoor Brands (formerly called Smith & Wesson) and Sturm, Ruger & Co. – experienced tenfold increases during the eight years following Obama’s 2008 election.

However, this close-knit relationship wasn’t always the case. For example, the last time a Democrat was in the White House, this connection was not as apparent.

During President Bill Clinton’s second term in office from 1996-2000, the number of guns manufactured took a slight dip. During Clinton’s

final two years in the Oval Office, sales followed a similar trend.

During George W. Bush’s eight years in office, the industry saw a 48 percent increase as the post9/11 fear of terrorism spread across the country, but the rise paled in comparison to what the industry experienced during Obama’s presidency.

However, the industry began a swift downturn following the election of Republican Donald Trump, a staunch advocate of the Second Amendment, in November.

In the first three months of 2017, coinciding with Trump’s first 100 days in office, gun sale background checks dropped nearly 13 percent compared with the previous year. Taking those figures into consideration, the United States is on pace to sell nearly 1 million fewer guns than in 2016.

Virginia gun dealers have not been immune to these trends. Peyton Galanti, marketing manager for Richmond’s Colonial Shooting Academy, said the Broad Street gun range has witnessed this firsthand.

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News NUL’s ‘State of Black America’ shows educational, economic improvements Fewer black Americans are dropping out of high school and more are earning associate’s degrees, but racial disparities still plague the U.S. education system, according to the National Urban League’s “State of Black America 2017” report.

The organization's annual study bases its conclusions on an equality index in which the quality of life for white Americans in various areas — such as income and social justice — is valued at an even 100 percent. The quality of life for African Americans, and now Hispanic Americans, is measured against that.

The annual report, the 41st completed by the organization, was released last week. Among the findings: • The equality index for black Americans when it comes to education grew from 77.4 percent to 78.2 percent; •The overall equality index for African Americans is 72.3 percent, up from 72.2 percent the year before; •The social justice index for black Americans dipped from 60.9 percent to 57.4 percent; and • The health index for black Americans grew from 79.4 percent in 2016 to 80 percent in the 2017 report.

National Urban League CEO Marc Morial said that it is important to understand that the improvements took place during the Obama administration and not during the Trump administration.

“The data side of the report pretty much covers the Obama years,” said Morial. “Things improved economically and from an educational standpoint and in terms of health disparities, not in the fashion that we would have liked but certainly in a very important way.”

Morial said the organization will “resist any effort to roll back” any of the progress reflected in the report. He said the organization is

paying close attention to how the administration and lawmakers navigate when it comes to policeinvolved shootings, maintaining the federal role in public education and fighting cuts to the federal budget when it comes to “domestic spending or human needs, housing, community development, those things that benefit urban communities.”

The equality index measures quality of life in terms of economics, health, education, social justice and civic engagement, according to the report.

The organization considers the most dramatic change to be that in the area o education. While the social justice index dropped by more percentage points, from 60.9 percent to 57.4 percent, the Urban League warns this change should be interpreted with caution because there was a change in how the data was reported.

The Urban League report credits the educational improvements to a decline in the rate of black American students who have teachers with less than three years of experience, a larger percentage of African Americans between 18 and 24 earning associate’s degrees, a rise in home literacy activities among African-American children and decline in high school dropout rates among all students.

The report also noted an increase in the health index for black Americans and said this was due to improvements in Medicare expenditures, maternal mortality, children’s access to health care and a reduction in the share of overweight children ages six to 11.

The report also noted an improvement when it comes to economics for black Americans, and numbers increased from 56.2 percent in 2016 to 56.5 percent in 2017. This

Marc Morial was credited to a rise in earnings among black women, lowering of the black unemployment rate, rise in the number of African-American-owned businesses and reduction in the number of African-Americans with high-interest loans.

Overall, however, economics was the area where black Americans and Hispanic Americans logged the worst numbers. Black Americans generated 56.5 percent in the 2017 index and Hispanic Americans logged 62.1 percent.

The study began looking at data for Hispanic Americans in 2010.

The organization set the most recent equality index for Hispanic Americans at 78.4 percent.

Among Hispanic Americans, the health index went from good to even better between the 2016 and 2017 reports, from 105.5 percent to 108.8 percent. This is due to lowered death rates, lowered maternal mortality and a increase in the numbers of Hispanic Americans with health insurance, the report noted.

Hispanic Americans logged 75.3 percent for education, 69.7 percent

for social justice and 67.3 percent when it comes to civil engagement.

An unemployment equality index also showed signs of improvement as some of the metropolitan areas that ranked the lowest in 2016 rose to the top of the rankings for the 2017 report.

The metro area with the lowest inequality when it comes to unemployment is the San Antonio, Texas, region, where the black unemployment rate was 6.4 percent compared to 4.5 percent among whites.

The metropolitan area with the greatest gap was Milwaukee, where African Americans had an unemployment rate of 13.8 percent compared to 2.7 percent for whites.

The National Urban League was founded in 1910 New York City to help African Americans moving north to take industrial jobs during the Great Migration. In the years since, it has evolved into a major civil rights organization, often collaborating with the NAACP and other groups and lobbying federal officials.

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Do Corey Stewart’s Confederate antics help Ed Gillespie or hurt the GOP brand?

WP - By embracing Confederate symbols and flirting with the altright, Corey Stewart seems, to many political analysts, to be handing the GOP nomination for Virginia governor to rival Ed Gillespie.

Some also think Stewart is damaging the Republican brand in a way that could hurt Gillespie’s chances in November — in a general election that could reverberate beyond the Old Dominion.

“The rest of the country’s looking at us and saying, ‘Look at these hicks in Virginia!’ ” said Brian W. Schoeneman, a Virginia political analyst and blogger who served in the George W. Bush administration.

“They don’t realize that he’s not representative of the broader GOP and the vast majority of us — including Ed — are looking at him with horror.”

But Stewart says defending Confederate symbols against “political correctness” is not just a cause, it’s a winning strategy in an off-year primary.

“It’s a very small turnout election — we’re talking maybe 4 or 5 percent of the entire voter base,” he said.

“So you’ve got a certain percentage of the electorate who are going to vote on abortion. You’ve got a certain percentage of the electorate who are going to vote on illegal immigration.

And then there’s going to be a percentage who will vote on the historical-monuments issue. Pretty soon, you add them all up and it’s a significant portion of people.”

As for damage to the Republican brand, Stewart contends that Gillespie and other establishment Republicans have hurt the party by cutting deals with Democrats and refusing to stake out bold positions on tough issues.

“It’s the Bush family and other establishment Republicans who hurt the Republican brand so badly that we got Barack Obama,” he said.

Virginia hasn’t had a statewide candidate stand accused of being too cozy with the Confederacy since George Allen’s Senate reelection bid in 2006. The issue resurfaces now in

Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie, right , speaks as he participates in a debate with Corey Stewart, left, and state Sen. Frank Wagner, center, at Goochland High School in Goochland last month.

PHOTO: Steve Helber a particularly high-profile race at a chaotic moment in American politics.

Virginia is one of just two states — the other is New Jersey — with a governor’s race this year. The contest is drawing national attention as an early referendum on President Trump and as an example of the populist/establishment tug of war within both major political parties.

Trump’s surprising path to the presidency could embolden more politicians to seek office as provocateurs, political analysts said.

Yet the lesson here could be that only Trump, by virtue of his celebrity and personality, can get away with it.

“He’s made the mistake of saying, ‘This [monument removal] is what’s going on. I’m going to go big,’” Jennifer Duffy, senior editor for the Cook Political Report, said of Stewart. “But he might have fallen off the cliff. When we’re dealing in an atmosphere of deeply Southern states starting to remove their Confederate monuments, maybe it’s not the issue to go crazy on.”

But Kyle Kondik, who analyzes

elections at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said he thinks the strategy could work for Stewart, whose rallies sometimes draw more counterprotesters than supporters. He noted that polls show many voters have not made up their minds or even tuned into the race.

“If you’re an underdog candidate looking for something to get attention with, Stewart has certainly gotten attention for this,” he said. “Just the name ID can be more than half the battle. . . . Sometimes it matters not so much what your own position is, but who your enemies are. Maybe Stewart’s calculation is if he can fire up these protesters, those are people that conservative Republicans think are riffraff. Therefore, he becomes an enemy of the left, and that generates more support on the right.”

Stewart and Gillespie started the primary race — along with underdog state Sen. Frank W. Wagner (Virginia Beach) — as seemingly perfect symbols of the GOP’s intraparty angst.

Stewart cut a brasher-than-Trump

figure as someone who had led a crackdown on illegal immigration in Prince William County a decade ago.

He was such an over-the-top Virginia chairman for Trump last year that the campaign fired him. Gillespie was the cautious establishment type, a former lobbyist, Republican National Committee chairman and White House counselor to Bush who kept his distance from Trump.

Which one would sell in an offyear contest in Virginia, a state that favored Hillary Clinton by 5 points in November but also gave Trump a narrow primary win? That looked like an open question at first, when Stewart aimed to attract populists energized by Trump’s surprise White House victory.

Then Stewart, chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, took his campaign in an unexpected direction. The impetus was a vote early this year by the Charlottesville City Council to remove a statue of Confederate Gen.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE FAIR RATE OF RETURN ON COMMON EQUITY TO BE APPLIED TO ITS RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSES CASE NO. PUR-2017-00038 On March 31, 2017, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Virginia Power (“Dominion” or “Company”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an application (“Application”) for the determination of the fair rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) to be applied to its rate adjustment clauses pursuant to § 56-585.1:1 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”). Enacted in 2015, this provision of the Code requires that: Commencing in 2017 and concluding in 2019, the State Corporation Commission, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, shall conduct a proceeding every two years to determine the fair rate of return on common equity to be used by a Phase II Utility as the general rate of return applicable to rate adjustment clauses under subdivisions A 5 or A 6 of § 56-585.1. A Phase II Utility’s filing in such proceedings shall be made on or before March 31 of 2017 and 2019.

The Company requests that the Commission approve an ROE of 10.50% for Dominion’s rate adjustment clauses approved under Subdivisions A 5 and A 6 of § 56-585.1 of the Code, to be applied prospectively, effective with the date of the Commission’s final order in this proceeding. Dominion currently has a total of nine such rate adjustment clauses.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on September 6, 2017, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

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

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

Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing, on or before June 30, 2017, a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118.

A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00038. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing.

On or before July 26, 2017, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above.

Respondents also shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including: 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00038.

On or before August 31, 2017, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118, written comments on the Application. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before August 31, 2017, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact disks or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00038.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118.

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(from page 3) Robert E. Lee from a downtown park.

Stewart saw an opening and rallied to oppose the monument’s removal.

The move brought him considerable attention after news videos showed counterprotesters shouting him down.

From there, he made Confederate monuments the centerpiece of his campaign — one that allowed him to skewer “Establishment Ed” for what he deemed a mealy-mouthed stance: While the former RNC chief is also opposed to removal, he said it’s a matter left to local authorities, not the governor.

Stewart held multiple rallies for the monument, unfurled the Confederate flag at other events and attended an Old South ball in an outfit approximating a Civil War dress uniform.

Along the way, he gave an interview to Mike Cernovich, the alt-right Internet figure who helped popularize the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory. The alt-right is a small, farright movement that seeks a whitesonly state. Adherents of the alt-right are known for espousing racist, antiSemitic and sexist points of view.

Stewart also attended a Charlottesville news conference with Jason Kessler and Isaac Smith, founders of Unity and Security for America (USA), a fledgling group that calls for “defending Western Civilization.”

Smith has sometimes introduced Stewart at events and appeared at his side with alt-right symbols, such as placards with Pepe the Frog and a gladiator-style shield. At one raucous rally with Stewart at the University of Virginia, Smith used a shield to push against counterprotesters.

Stewart said he does not condone white supremacy but welcomes support from anyone who wants to upend the GOP establishment.

“There’s a revolution going on here in conservative circles, and these young people are coming up — very social-media savvy — and they are shaking things up, and their views are very disparate,” he said. “I’ll take support where I can get it. But that doesn’t mean I believe in everything they believe in.”

Smith, 20, said he enjoyed needling

liberal activists with Pepe signs and shields at Stewart’s events, although he rejects the alt-right label.

“The term I might use is ‘dissident right.’ It’s the part of the right wing that has fun,” Smith said. “And part of the fun is just getting a rise out of these sensitive — and I’d say sensitive for no good reason — people. . . . It’s a frog. It’s not like I’m sending a picture of a member of the Ku Klux Klan holding a noose. It’s a smiling frog. Why does this upset you so much?”

The provocations have succeeded in some ways. Late last month, as Stewart railed against the removal of a New Orleans monument, he wound up in a Twitter war with musician John Legend and others. But the attention has not translated into support, as measured in recent polls.

Even at the recent Shad Planking, a springtime political confab in the piney woods of Southside Virginia that was open only to white males until the late 1970s, support for Stewart was lukewarm. When a supporter flew overhead in a plane streaming a Confederate flag and a Stewart sign, it drew eyerolls.

“He’s relevant in the sense that we’re all talking about him, but we’re talking about him because he gobsmacked us all at how extreme his campaign has become,” said Quentin Kidd, a Christopher Newport University government professor and pollster.

Stewart’s support slipped further in recent weeks, when “all that Confederate stuff” led Stewart’s local sheriff and longtime ally to yank his endorsement. Four of the five Republican supervisors who serve with Stewart came out for Gillespie, abandoning plans to stay neutral.

Stewart knows people are counting him out — but says they are wrong.

“The last time liberals got mad at someone & said ‘his campaign is imploding’ we took back the White House,” he tweeted.

If he makes it to the general election, Stewart said that he would start emphasizing more kitchen table issues with broader appeal.

“You don’t change your political position, just what you talk about,” he said. “Obviously I’ll be talking more about bringing back jobs and reducing taxes.”

Surrounded by protesters, Corey Stewart records a Facebook Live video defending a Charlottesville Confederate statue with Thaddeus Alexander, whose Facebook video railing against liberal demonstrators went viral.

Most political strategists and observers don’t think Stewart will be in the race after the June 13 primary. They say the leader of Virginia’s second-largest jurisdiction, someone who had managed to win reelection four times in racially diverse Northern Virginia — has turned himself into a fringe candidate.

“This is manna from heaven for Gillespie,” said Bob Holsworth, a former Virginia Commonwealth University political scientist.

“On the one hand, [Stewart] has basically ceded much of his home turf to Gillespie, which is remarkable.

And secondly, the other benefit it provides Gillespie is that the campaign is so outrageous that it captures all of the media attention and ensures that Frank Wagner gets no traction, too.”

Political analysts are more divided on whether even a badly defeated Stewart would give the GOP a black eye that lasts through the general election. Many think that come fall, Gillespie will have to worry more about being tied to Trump than to Stewart. But Democrats would like to yoke him to both. They are already criticizing Gillespie for not condemning Stewart’s far-right appeals, a line of attack that echoes their complaints about Gillespie’s reluctance to speak out against Trump.

“Not even a Confederate apologist

trying to use racism to score political points can draw condemnation from @EdWGillespie. Says it all,” tweeted former congressman Tom Perriello, one of two Democrats vying to succeed term-limited Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D).

Abbi Sigler, a spokeswoman for Gillespie, declined to comment on Stewart’s campaign or Democratic criticism of his silence.

“Candidates speak for themselves,” she said. “Ed is speaking about how we make this a stronger economy for all Virginians, and it’s very clear that his positive message is resonating with voters statewide.”

Some Republicans wish Gillespie would condemn Stewart — among them Schoeneman, editor in chief of the conservative blog Bearing Drift.

“Maybe you lose some generalelection votes, but at least you can look yourself in the mirror in the morning,” he said. “I think it has a negative impact on the party as a whole. . . . This is not something that is even remotely reasonable.”

But Chris LaCivita, a top adviser at the RNC for the Trump campaign, does not think Stewart’s Confederate antics will do any lasting damage.

And he thinks Gillespie is smart to stay mum about him.

“The first rule in politics is not to engage the idiot,” LaCivita said. “Let the idiot be the idiot.”

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Op/Ed & Letters

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Flat funding for HBCUs is a win JOHNNY. C. TAYLOR My job is to promote the interests of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities. So naturally I was concerned when I heard earlier this year that the new Trump administration was planning to propose increasing defense spending by $54 billion and slashing nonmilitary spending by an equal amount.

That’s when the HBCU presidents, chancellors, and I decided to roll up our sleeves and get to work engaging the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled 115th Congress to fight and protect our interests.

It paid off.

In late February, after weeks of meetings and phone calls with administration officials, more than 70 HBCU leaders and I attended a listening session with top administration officials, and a dozen returned the next day for a signing ceremony event at the White House, where President Trump signed an executive order recognizing the importance of our institutions. A few weeks later, the administration released its budget blueprint, which called for maintaining federal HBCU spending at current levels. Let me be clear: flat spending for HBCUs in a president’s budget that calls for a 13 percent funding decrease to the Department of Education is a win!

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It’s clear that this administration understands the value of HBCUs, which educate nearly 300,000 students a year, award threequarters of all doctorates earned by African Americans and provided the undergraduate degrees of 80 percent of black federal judges.

Not everyone is happy though— some are critical of President Trump because they believe he should have significantly increased the budget for HBCUs. Such notions are naïve in

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the current political environment in Washington, now run by Republicans who’ve vowed to reduce the size of government.

There are some other important things to remember as well: First, the president makes a “budget request” while the Congress has to ultimately authorize and appropriate the funding for the actual budget. The HBCU community is working hard to ensure the president’s final budget request scheduled to be released in May protects HBCU funding. At the same time, we are engaging the Congress to not only protect the HBCU funding, but to also increase programs that are critical to our mission. This is the beginning of the process, not the end.

Secondly, the administration has proposed to maintain—not to cut— the Pell Grant program. And while it is true the administration has suggested reallocating $3.9 million in Pell Grant surplus funding, we are busy working with the Congress to use the additional funding to restore year-round Pell that was eliminated under President Obama.

Our recent visits to the White House reinforced my belief that we must seek an open dialogue that transcends partisan lines to ensure access to quality higher education for all our deserving young people.

That’s why we’ve chosen a strategy of

engagement, building relationships in Washington in addition to our traditional allies, such as the Congressional Black Caucus.

We are working hard to reach out to key lawmakers in both parties, such as Republican Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. Mark Walker, who hosted the fly-in for HBCU leaders in February. And we have developed a strong working relationship with the administration, which has been, frankly, more accessible than the Obama White House, which often shortchanged our budget requests and seemed to fail to grasp the complexities of our mission.

I encourage all who support HBCUs to remember this is a marathon not a sprint. In addition to the upcoming fiscal year budget request, TMCF and our HBCU leaders have identified billions of dollars in additional needs over the next four or five years. We will get there through persistence, diplomacy and relationship-building, not by attacking those who are eager to work with us.

Taylor is the president and CEO of Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the largest organization exclusively representing the Black College Community. Prior to joining TMCF, he spent many years as a successful corporate executive and attorney. Follow him on Twitter at @ JohnnyCTaylorJr.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Hooray for taxes?

Americans pay too much in taxes.

President Trump’s idea to eliminate four of the seven tax brackets is an excellent idea. Most Americans are sick and tired of paying everything they make in taxes. If you enjoy paying taxes and disagree with what I am writing simply write the Internal Revenue Service a check every month and mail them more money.

Too many Americans have an attitude that it's okay for the wealthy to pay 39.6 percent and even more but realistically every American gets tax weary. We want a strong military and a strong country along with Medicare and Social Security but more and more tax dollars is not appealing to anyone who has to shell it out.

Trump’s idea will bring some relief to all Americans. Will our country suffer? No. More people will feel like working a little more knowing they can bring more of their paycheck home. His idea of only three tax levels of 10 percent, 25 percent and 35 percent will encourage the current workforce and stimulate the economy with more working people. Less people working cannot carry this country even if they were paying 50 percent in taxes. A smaller percentage of money from millions more of employed people going to work will generate more money for our government and overall economy in the long run.

Trump’s proposed corporate tax

rate of 15 percent will also help us keep some jobs and bring some jobs back home.

Regardless of your tax bracket, let out a big ‘hooray for less taxes!’ We can only hope.

Glenn Mollette

On ‘Trumpcare’ It is unfortunate that the House has passed a measure that does not meet the U.S. Conference of Mayors (UCSM) policy and key components of provisions put forth by our membership earlier this year in a bipartisan letter to Congress.

This bill puts millions of people in our cities in jeopardy and on behalf of the nation’s mayors, we will now work with the Senate to make sure Americans have access to affordable health coverage.

Tom Cochran (USCM) ***** This health care bill blatantly violates President Trump’s campaign promise that under his administration, more Americans would have better healthcare for less money. It should scare every American that Congress doesn’t know how many people this bill will hurt or what it costs.

Unfortunately, estimates are that this bill will be a tragic mistake for tens of millions of families. It eliminates protections for basic health care benefits, resulting in a race to the bottom for health

insurance coverage. This means a return of lifetime limits on coverage and the elimination of out-of-pocket cost cap. The bill also rolls back Medicaid expansion that provides coverage to more than 420,000 Louisianans – nearly 1 out of every 10 people in our state. As we enter into this time of uncertainty, I will continue to stand with my fellow mayors to fight for all Americans.

Mitch Landrieu (New Orleans) ***** I am disappointed that Congress voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. This action will hurt people living with pre-existing conditions, deny access to essential benefits including substance use treatment and recovery services, and trigger large reductions in vital funding to Massachusetts.

I stand with our Congressional delegation in opposing this harmful proposal and vow to continue working to ensure that our residents have access to adequate, affordable health care.

Mayor Martin Walsh (Boston) ***** After seven years of complaining, the president and his friends in the House have made Trumpcare even deadlier by effectively tossing out coverage for pre-existing conditions.

Eliminating health care for 24 million people to make insurance

companies richer and cut taxes for millionaires wasn’t enough: Republicans had to subject the one in two Americans who have pre-existing conditions to losing their healthcare.

We’re not going to stand for it.

Mayors across the country are organizing and we’ll take this fight to the Senate, where we have strong allies in Senators Schumer and Gillibrand. To House members who voted for this monstrosity, we’ll see you in 2018.

Mayor Bill de Blasio (NY) ***** The action by the U.S. House could unnecessarily harm senior citizens and patients with preexisting conditions. The Affordable Care Act needs to be repaired, but this vote was a step backwards.

Increasing consumer competition and choices, while lowering premiums should be the focus of health care reform instead of making it harder for our most vulnerable to receive coverage.

The legislation as passed would leave countless of millions of Americans without health insurance coverage; allow insurers to charge people more for pre-existing conditions; allow insurers to set spending caps on mental health, substance abuse disorder and other needed services; shift a huge financial burden onto our states; and overly burden seniors and the disabled with higher healthcare premiums.

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Religious liberty order slammed as ‘nothing’ DAVID GIBSON RNS - President Trump signed a highly anticipated executive order on religious liberty at a sun-splashed Rose Garden ceremony on the National Day of Prayer last week, basking in the praise of religious leaders who blessed his action as an answer to their prayers.

“It was looking like you’d never get here, folks. But you got here!” a triumphant Trump told the gathering after a series of invocations from Baptist and Catholic leaders, and from Paula White, the prosperity gospel televangelist who is one of Trump’s main religious advisers.

Yet even before the carefully orchestrated event was over, Trump’s grand gesture toward his religious base appeared to falter as a matter of policy, and perhaps as politics: Social conservatives who had been expecting much more, and much sooner, expressed sharp disappointment, and the order itself seems unlikely to have much real impact on current laws and regulations. “[C]onstitutionally dubious, dangerously misleading, and ultimately harmful to the very cause that it purports to protect,” David French wrote in a blistering analysis in National Review. “In fact, he should tear it up, not start over, and do the actual real statutory and regulatory work that truly protects religious liberty.”

“Woefully inadequate,” wrote Ryan Anderson of the conservative Heritage Foundation and a prominent commentator on religious liberty issues. The order, he added in a tweet, shows that Trump “either wasn’t listening or doesn’t care. Or simply caved to Left’s bullying.”

Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and an expert on religious freedom issues who is respected

across the political spectrum, was also unimpressed.

“This is pretty much nothing,” Laycock wrote in an email.

The two-page executive order has three main points, according to a summary that the White House released to reporters: First, it declares that “it is the policy of the administration to protect and vigorously promote religious liberty.”

Second, it “directs the IRS to use maximum enforcement discretion to alleviate the burden of the Johnson Amendment,” which is the 1950s-era law that threatens nonprofits – including clergy and churches — with the loss of their tax-exempt status if they engage in electioneering.

Third, it “provides regulatory relief for religious objectors to Obamacare’s burdensome preventive services mandate” — in other words, the requirement that employers provide free birth control coverage.

Critics said the first point was essentially boilerplate rhetoric extolling religious freedom.

More important, they said, the order has no exemptions for religious groups or businesses that object to LGBT anti-discrimination laws — a priority for Christian conservatives — so it provides no relief to bakers or florists, for example, who refuse to provide services for gay couples.

Trump’s order also does not go nearly as far as a draft executive order that had circulated shortly after Trump was inaugurated in January and that had raised the hopes of religious conservatives growing anxious that Trump would not make good on his promise to address religious liberty.

Moreover, the new order itself is carefully hedged in its language on the two points of policy that it addresses, the contraception mandate and the Johnson Amendment.

Trump signs an Executive Order on Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty during the National Day of Prayer event at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 4.

PHOTO: Carlos Barria For example, it asks the secretary of Health and Human Services “consider” issuing regulations to provide relief from the contraception mandate and says it must be done within the constraints of “applicable law” — that law currently being the health care law passed under President Obama.

So the order itself doesn’t really do anything to the mandate and it appears to mean that much would depend on the outcome of the other major Washington story on Thursday, the House’s close vote to repeal and replace Obamacare – a vote that might not be repeated in the Senate.

The same is true for the language regarding the Johnson Amendment.

“All executive departments and agencies shall, to the greatest extent practicable and to the extent

permitted by law, respect and protect the freedom of persons and organizations to engage in religious and political speech,” according to the executive order.

At the Rose Garden ceremony, Trump painted a picture — as he has in the past — of religious believers facing virtual state-sponsored oppression under his predecessor thanks to the Johnson Amendment and other laws, saying that any pastor who spoke about “issues of public or political importance” was threatened with devastating financial consequences.

“The abuses were widespread. The abuses were all over,” Trump said.

“For too long the federal government has used the power of the state as a weapon against people

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(from page 1) “Sales have been much slower since Election Day,” Galanti said.

“The economy is still slow, especially in retail. Customers are not yet comfortable spending money. Without the panic of losing their (Second Amendment) rights, customers are making more calculated, prudent spending decisions.”

In addition to a drop in sales, overall consumer confidence in the firearms industry has plummeted since the Nov. 8 election. Stock prices of Vista Outdoor Inc. – owner of many of the most popular ammunition companies in addition to gun makers Savage Arms and Stevens – have dropped by nearly 50 percent.

This trend has led to layoffs at major manufacturers of firearms ammunitions and gun-related accessories.

In March, firearms manufacturer Remington – one of the top producers of guns in the country – laid off more than 120 workers in an upstate New York manufacturing plant the company has operated since the 19th century.

That same month, Federal Premium Ammunition cut 110 jobs in Minnesota.

Magpul – a top weapons accessories manufacturer – laid off 85 workers in April from a Wyoming-based plant. The workers were part of a hiring increase to help meet the market demands of the company’s products throughout the Obama presidency. The layoffs came after the company saw a return to normal demand in the first quarter of 2017.

Galanti believes the fear created by the Obama administration’s antigun ideology led to an oversaturation of the firearms market over the course of the past eight years.

“This industry was flooded with people who wanted a piece of the pie, and these fly-by-night

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companies probably will not weather the storm of 2017,” Galanti said. “There have already been many layoffs around the country, and companies are restructuring.

The suppressor business has been especially hurt.” Suppressors, or silencers, can be attached to gun muzzles to reduce the noise of firing.

Galanti blames the Obama administration for uncertain economic conditions that have caused an unwillingness of Americans to spend their hard-earned money on guns.

“People are reluctant to spend because American incomes have been hit so hard over the last eight years,” Galanti said. “Given much change under the current president, the economy will become unchained and roll like a steam engine again in the future. We just don’t know how long it will take.”

Many within the industry believe the economic policies of the pro-gun Trump administration will lead to stability in the gun market after what they saw as eight years of uncertainty under Obama.

“The industry is expecting to normalize over 2017 and get back to steady consistent sales, instead of the yo-yo/panic buying of the past, where supply and demand were so off balance,” Galanti added.

However, it is unknown where that “new normal” will lie or when the market will stabilize after the distinctive surge under Obama. The pro-Second Amendment policies of the current president may stave off the fear of further control and regulation after what Trump called an “eight-year assault” on guns.

At the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting last week, Trump proclaimed that gun-owners now “have a true friend and champion in the White House.” Whether that will lead to a strong market for firearms remains to be seen.

of faith, bullying and even punishing Americans for following their religious beliefs,” Trump declared.

“No one should be censoring sermons or targeting pastors,” he said, adding: “We are giving our churches their voices back.”

In reality, the IRS has only investigated houses of worship for political speech a handful of times.

And in the past 60 years only one church has lost its tax exemption for politicking.

Congregations ranging from liberal black churches to conservative Catholic parishes have routinely spoken out on political issues and pastors have openly endorsed candidates without fear of retribution from the IRS or any other federal agency.

As Laycock noted, the order’s language on the Johnson Amendment “does not say that churches should be allowed to endorse candidates.

It says only that they should not be found guilty of implied endorsements on facts where secular organizations would not be. I have heard no stories of that happening.”

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Also, surveys show that an overwhelming majority of Americans – about eight in 10 – do not want houses of worship engaging in partisan political campaigning and opposition to such electioneering is even higher among clergy themselves.

“For the record, I have no interest in endorsing candidates from the pulpit,” tweeted Denny Burk, a pastor in Louisville, Ky., and a professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. “And I would be wary of any preacher that does.”

In short, few believe the Johnson Amendment is much of a problem and many of those who do don’t think Trump’s executive order is much of a solution.

As Laycock said, this all “may lead to good things for believers down the road, but it does nothing immediately.”

Even the ACLU, which initially vowed to file suit against the order, later reversed course because the order had nothing in it that could be challenged. It was, ACLU executive director Anthony Romero said, “an elaborate photo-op with no discernible policy outcome.”

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Kamau Bell unmasks industry racism in this excerpt from new book Comedian and TV host W. Kamau Bell unpacks his long relationship with race and racial justice, from childhood to fatherhood, in his new memoir. “The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6’ 4”, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian” was released last week.

As the title suggests, the book explores his growth as an antiracist comedian while developing an intersectional perspective, often via uncomfortable moments. Each of its 10 chapters feature two sections: one chronological narration of a stage in his life (“My Awkward Youth,” “My Awkward Blackness”) and a reflective essay on a topic of contemporary or personal relevance (“Awkward Thoughts about Sports, Awkward Thoughts about the Democratic Party”).

The following excerpt comes from his essay “Awkward Thoughts about White Guys.” In it, Bell describes his chaotic start in showbusiness and the nuanced racism he has encountered from some white men.

“I have worked with this white guy three times. Well, I’ve worked with this white guy at least three times in showbiz. I have met with this white guy. I’ve been promised things by this white guy. Now, let me be clear: these are three seemingly separate white guys. They have different lives and different names, which I won’t be using because that would create the impression that these issues are only related to these three white guys. But as you read I hope you understand that this is a part of much bigger issues. This white guy is everywhere.

He is literally unavoidable if you want to succeed in this country. I have worked with him three times in less than four years. And it always begins the same way.

“He always pitches himself as the ‘perfect white guy”... at least the “perfect white guy” for a black guy like you. OK, he doesn’t say the words “perfect white guy" exactly, but the pitch makes that clear. This white guy has told me in detail that he totally gets me and that he gets

what I am doing. And more than that, he gets the elusive “it.” The sacred mix of racism, oppression, racial justice, white privilege, sexism, ableism, ageism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia, phobiaphobia, all the phobias—from arachnophobia to zoophobia—that I am railing against. This white guy tells me that he’s not like the other white guys. He voted for Barack Obama twice. TWICE! And he reads The New York Times...including the articles by Charles Blow. (But not the Roxane Gay ones, because she’s a little extreme.) This white guy bought Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book “Between the World and Me.” And he’s going to read it soon. Very, very soon!

“This white guy has even worked with black comedians before. Famous black comedians. Black comedians who are just like me! Black comedians who are also committed to the cause. In fact, this white guy wrote a lot of those black guys’ “classic” bits. In fact, if only that black guy had listened to this white guy more, he would have been even funnier. This white guy is so glad to be able to work with me because he knows I “get it” even more than the other famous black comedians.

Together, we are going to team up and get rich.... Oops, he meant to say, win lots of awards.... Oops (that ain’t it), he meant to say, CHANGE THE

WORLD! Yeah, that’s it. We’re going to change the world.

“This white guy can relate to me because he's been around black people his whole career, and/or because he's married/dated [insert non-White race here] before, and/ or he's actually a member of an ethnic group that is—according to him—adjacent to black people in the struggle Olympics, and/or this white guy grew up in Nu Yawk Siddy, so there's literally no way he can be racist! This White guy is older than me, so of course that means he knows things about the world. He says he can help me avoid the pitfalls and dumb moves that other people before me have made. He is happy to be my mentor... OK, not my mentor, if that word rubs me the wrong way, but he will be able to mentor me...when I

need it. He’s happy to do it!

He says he's happy to do it, but when I call him to tell him that Chris Rock has contacted me and wants to see a video of a show that I did that I know this white guy has, this white guy stops me from talking and says, “Well, wait... What’s my percentage in this?” I recoil, shocked. We had dealt with money before, but it was money for services rendered. I had paid him for his work before. And I had even set up a deal for him to teach students of mine, which brought him more money, so I wasn’t avoiding the money conversation, but I was feeling weird about it suddenly being all quid pro quo: “You let me know what percentage of your career I own, and I’ll give you the footage of you that I have sitting on a shelf somewhere collecting dust.”

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Film review: ‘Lowriders’ DWIGHT BROWN Rarely do urban tales balance authenticity with solid drama elements and strong emotion. “Boyz n the Hood” and “Straight Outta Compton” are perfect examples.

“Lowriders” is in their league; it checks all the boxes: acting, direction, writing and production elements. This groundbreaking film about the Latino experience in East Los Angeles will become as classic as those aforementioned films.

The production is the brainchild of Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer (“A Beautiful Mind”).

Peruvian director Ricardo de Montrueil (“Mancora”) and writers Cheo Hodari Coker (“Southland”) and Elgin James (“Sons of Anarchy” spinoff “Mayans MC”) are the perceptive artists who brought the film to life. They’ve created a compelling story with deeply drawn characters and heart-felt drama, which is perfectly dispensed and measured throughout the film. Just as you think one familial conflict is over, another emerges. The script is so well written it could become a play.

Danny Alvarez (Gabriel Chavarria), a 20-something Chicano graffiti

artist, leaves his spray painted artwork all over East L.A. In fact, the whole city is his canvass. Many of the likenesses are of a mysterious woman, cloaked, face hidden. That image has been a part of Danny’s artistic DNA every since his mom died.

Now he lives with his dad, Miguel (Demian Bichir, “A Better Life”), a recovering alcoholic who runs a car club that specializes in lowriders— classic cars with 50 coats of paint that hug the ground or can bounce high like a pogo stick. His stepmom Gloria (Eva Longoria) and little sister round out the household.

Miguel, who expresses his art through his cars, especially his prized old Chevy dubbed “Green Poison,” doesn’t approve of Danny’s graffiti, “You scribble like a bitch.”

And he is even less tolerant after he has to bail Danny and his buddy Chuy (Tony Revelori, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”) out of jail after they get busted for writing on walls.

This set up provides enough drama for a TV series, but the writers don’t stop there. Danny gets a Bohemian White girlfriend Lorelai (Melissa Benoist), and their cultural differences complicate their romance.

Danny’s older brother Francisco, aka Ghost (Theo Rossi, “Sons of Anarchy”), gets out of prison with a real grudge against the father, who never visited him and didn’t support his kids during his wife’s death. Ghost’s way of taking revenge is by competing against his dad in a lowrider competition that has a grand prize with enough money to make a difference in both their lives.

Once the storyline is set in motion, it doesn’t stop. Conflict after conflict.

Crisis after crisis. Romances strained by miscommunication and insecurities. Emotions like anger, fear, happiness and sadness ride the surface from beginning to end. It’s the mark of strong writing and the talented cast conveys those feelings perfectly.

Supporting actors like Revolori and Cress Williams (TV series “Code Black”) as a police detective, fill in the cracks. Eva Longoria as the

nurturing stepmom turns on the charm. The very smoldering Rossi, heavily tatted, boils over with anger; the way he plays Ghost, you know violence is around the corner.

Gabriel Chavarria has just the right amount of vulnerability and bravura to make the central character believable and engaging enough to make viewers want to follow him through to the end of his journey. However, Oscar-nominated actor Demian Bichir, as the paternal figure who is fighting back demons, is the glue and mortar. Whenever he is on screen the drama rings true. His pacing, rhythm and cadence take the father figure to a deep place.

The lens of Andrés Sánchez’s camera makes the colors of the retro, lowrider autos saturated and vibrant.

Interior scenes in East LA jump off the screen because of Melanie Jones’ production design and Karuna Karmarkar’s set design. The art direction, by Hunter Brown and Eve McCarney, keeps the pallet in the earth tones or bright primary colors that symbolize the culture and the locale.

Mirren Gordon-Crozier takes great pains to make the clothes look real, like they belong to the characters and not the wardrobe department.

Editors Billy Fox (“Straight Outta Compton”) and Kiran Pallegadda (“American Heist”) put their foot on the gas pedal and don’t let up until the final credits come after 98 judiciously chosen minutes of footage.

Overall, the film’s consistent feel and tone is the product of director Ricardo de Montreuil, who uses his background in film, TV, advertising and print to make each set visually appealing. Every scene is racked with emotion and every performance is as resolved as possible. Montreuil gives audiences an intimate look at a car culture and a Latino/American experience that has become the lifeblood of Southern California.

It’s only springtime, but this is the kind of film that warrants an Oscar nomination campaign in several categories in the fall.

Nicely done. Warm-hearted. The film’s aura sticks with you.

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Black death rate drops CDC reports progress reducing leading causes of death the black population The death rate for overall. However, African-Americans we still have a long (blacks) declined 25 way to go,” said percent from 1999 to Leandris Liburd, 2015, according to a Ph.D., M.P.H., new CDC Vital Signs M.A., associate report released last director, CDC’s week. But disparities Office of Minority still persist between Health and Health blacks and whites.

Equity. “Early Although blacks as a health interventions group are living longer, Timothy Cunningham can lead to longer, their life expectancy healthier lives. In is still four years less particular, diagnosing than that of whites. and treating the leading diseases Disparities in all age groups are that cause death at earlier stages is narrowing because death rates are an important step for saving lives.” declining faster among blacks than Social and economic conditions, among whites. The overall disparity such as poverty, contribute to in death rates between these two races for all causes of death in all age gaps in health differences between blacks and whites, according to groups was 33 percent in 1999 but the report. In all age groups, the fell to 16 percent in 2015. The racial analysis showed that blacks had death rate gap closed completely for lower educational attainment and deaths from heart disease and for all causes of death among those 65 years home ownership and nearly twice the rate of poverty and unemployment and older. as whites. These risk factors may Of concern, the study also found limit blacks’ access to prevention that blacks in their 20s, 30s, and 40s and treatment of disease. Other risk are more likely to live with or die factors that affect health outcomes from conditions that typically occur for blacks include obesity and less at older ages in whites, including physical activity. heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.

CDC researchers analyzed data Risk factors for some diseases, from the U.S. Census Bureau, such as high blood pressure, may National Vital Statistics System, go unnoticed and untreated during and CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor these early years. Notably, the death Surveillance System (BRFSS) to rates for homicide among blacks did examine factors that may influence not change over the 17 years of the disparities across the life span. study.

Among the key findings from the The report, which gleans from data report: collected by the federal government, also describes improvements in other · Blacks ages 18 to 64 are at higher risk of early death than whites. causes of death, such as a dramatic · Disparities in the leading causes decrease of about 80 percent in HIV of death for blacks compared with deaths among 18- to 49-year-olds whites are pronounced by early and from 1999-2015. Dramatic drops in middle adulthood, including homicide HIV deaths were also seen among and chronic diseases such as heart whites. Still, a wide disparity disease and diabetes. remains with blacks seven to nine · Blacks ages 18-34 years and 35-49 times more likely to die from HIV. years are nine times and five times, “We have seen some remarkable respectively, as likely to die from improvements in death rates for the homicide as whites in the same age black population in these past 17 groups. years. Important gaps are narrowing · Blacks ages 35-64 are 50 percent due to improvements in the health of

more likely to have high blood pressure than whites. · Blacks ages 18-49 years, are two times as likely to die from heart disease than whites. · Blacks have the highest death rate for all cancers combined compared with whites.

“It is important that we continue to create opportunities for all Americans to pursue a healthy lifestyle,” said Timothy Cunningham, Sc.D., lead author and epidemiologist with the Division of Population Health, CDC. “Public health professionals must work across all sectors to promote health at early ages.”

CDC notes that public health agencies and community organizations should continue to implement programs proven to reduce health disparities, and partner with other sectors, including education, business, transportation, and housing, to create social and economic conditions that promote health starting in childhood to continue to close the gap in health outcomes.

Proven prevention measures such as healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco cessation, disease screenings, and medication adherence remain important to reduce disease and early death.

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CBC lists 100 Trump actions in 100 days ...To the detriment of black progress TEWIRE – The Congressional Black Caucus has released a list of 100 actions taken by President Donald Trump during his first 100 days that the CBC members have said have been detrimental to the country – especially the black community.

“People of all ages and races, including many young people of color, are standing up and speaking out about this administration’s actions and how they will hurt our communities and the country,” said CBC Chairman Cedric Richmond in a statement. “President Trump says he wants to make America great again but in our view the programs and policies he’s implementing will do the opposite.

“We hope this list will help those who are engaged and those who aren’t stay woke because our democracy is at stake.”

“The list, titled ‘What Did Trump Do?: The First-100-Days, #StayWoke List,’ is a special edition of CBC’s ‘What Did Trump Do?’ rapid response documents and includes actions across issues areas such as education, healthcare, and justice,” says a statement. “The list is part of the CBC’s effort to listen, involve, and mobilize young leaders during the 115th Congress, an effort that began a few weeks ago with the launch of CBC’s tour of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, #CBCOnTheYard.”

The phrase #StayWoke or “stay awake” is often used by AfricanAmericans in the social media arena to “remind themselves and those around them to stay focused on what’s really being said and done to their community. As a result of the election of President Trump, the phrase has taken on new meaning; people of all ages and races are using it to remind themselves and those around them to stay focused on the programs and policies being implemented by this administration.”

The following are among the items on the list: “After meeting with 70 HBCU

presidents and the White House stating the he wanted to give HBCUs “the proper respect,” President Trump has proposed in his budget to give these institutions the same amount of money they received last year even though their operational costs are increasing. President Trump has also proposed to cut programs that support students served by HBCUs including federal work study, Pell, and campus-based aid.”

“President Trump has said many hurtful things about President Obama, including accusing the first black president of a felony. On March 4, President Trump tweeted that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election. President Trump has provided no evidence that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower even though he could easily provide it. In addition, on March 20, FBI Director James Comey told the House Intelligence Committee during a public hearing that the agency has ‘no information’ about the alleged wiretaps.”

“After several sexual assault allegations and related legal settlements came to light about former veteran Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly, President Trump defended the journalist. “I think he’s a person I know well — he is a good person,” said President Trump on April 5 during an interview with the New York Times in the Oval Office. “I think he shouldn’t have settled; personally I think he shouldn’t have settled. Because you should have taken it all the way. I don’t think Bill did anything wrong.” Days later Fox News canceled O’Reilly’s show and announced that he would not be returning to the network.”

“President Trump’s proposed budget would eliminate the Minority Business Development Agency, “which funds a nationwide network of business centers to help minorityowned business stay competitive and create jobs.”

“During a White House press

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus meet with Trump. conference on April 11, Press Secretary Sean Spicer suggested that the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, is guilty of war crimes that are worse than those committed by Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust. Spicer said that Hitler did not use chemical weapons like al-Assad even though gas chambers were regularly used to kill Jews and others at concentration camps during the Holocaust.”

“President Trump appointed Candice E. Jackson as acting assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education. Ms. Jackson once said affirmative action ‘promotes racial discrimination,’ and claimed she was discriminated against for being white.”

“On Feb. 27, after meeting with more than 70 HBCU presidents, Secretary DeVos called Historically Black Colleges and Universities “pioneers” for school choice even though these institutions were founded because white colleges and university refused to admit Black students.”

“President Trump’s proposed budget for the Department of Education hurts low-income students from pre-k through college by undermining public education through the elimination of after school and teacher support programs and diverting federal funds to private school vouchers, eliminating supports for college students, gutting federal-

work study, and slashing critical funding for Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants and Pell Grants. All of these cuts would have severe consequences for our nation’s African-American students.”

“President Trump’s proposed budget would cut Environmental Protection Agency grant programs that help states monitor public water systems, even though Flint, Michigan. is still dealing with a water crisis.”

“President Trump’s proposed budget would eliminate programs that help limit children’s exposure to lead paint. According to the CDC, African-American children are three times more likely to have elevated blood-lead levels.”

“The FBI is investigating whether President Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election.”

“One of President Trump’s first actions was to appoint White House Adviser Steve Bannon to the National Security Council (NSC).

Many politicians and pundits, including the CBC, called for Bannon to be removed not only from the NSC but from the White House entirely because of his white nationalist views. Bannon is the former chairman of the white nationalist news organization Breitbart News.”

“President Trump has said little

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HCPS is seeking full-time and substitute bus drivers plus fulltime and substitute school nutrition services workers. Members of the HCPS Human Resources, School Nutrition Services and Pupil Transportation departments will be at Henrico County Public Library’s Libbie Mill Library, 2100 Libbie Lake East St. on May 11 to talk with interested candidates.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online in advance at henricoschools. us/careers. Questions? 804-652-3664.

5.11, 6 p.m.

The Henrico County School Board will hold a public hearing on at New Bridge auditorium, 5915 Nine Mile Rd., to get feedback on proposed draft options in the redistricting process for HCPS middle schools.

Options under consideration would take effect for the 2018-19 school year.

There are currently three draft redistricting options under consideration, but HCPS staff members and CropperGIS Consulting continue to explore modifications to existing options and possible new options. Details about current draft options are available on Henrico Schools’ website, where members of the public can also share their opinions through a survey form.

Community members are encouraged to sign up in advance to speak at the public hearing. To sign up, call the clerk of the School Board at 804-652-3808. A sign-up sheet will also be available at the meeting, but there may be more speakers than allotted time. Each speaker will have three minutes to make comments.

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Current trends in colorectal surgery will be the focus of this month’s meeting of the Ostomy Association of Greater Richmond at Henrico Doctors Hospital, 1602 Skipwith Rd.. Presenting will be Paul D. Charron, MD, FACS of Colon & Rectal Specialists.

Questions? Contact Mike Rollston at 804-232-1916.

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“More than 20 million people are facing famine in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen and President Trump’s budget proposal would make the situation worse by cutting funding for humanitarian food aid and United Nations peacekeeping.”

“On Jan. 25, the White House announced that it would launch a major investigation into voter fraud event though it is essentially a nonissue. The White House decided to launch the investigation in response to President Trump’s false claims that 3 to 5 million illegal voters cost him the popular vote.”

“On February 27, the Department of Justice, under the leadership of Attorney General Sessions, withdrew its longstanding claim that Texas enacted its 2011 voter ID law with the intent to discriminate. A few months later a federal judge ruled that the law was enacted with the intent to discriminate against black and Latino voters.”

According to a CBC release the following committee and congressional offices led by CBC members contributed to the CBC list: House Committee on the Judiciary (Office of Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr.), House Committee on Financial Services (Office of Ranking Member Maxine Waters), House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (Office of Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson),

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Dollar General’s newest store on Pocahantas Trail in Williamsburg is opening this week.

The store’s official grand opening is on Saturday, May 13 and will feature free prizes and special deals.

Additionally, the first 50 adult shoppers at the store will receive a $10 Dollar General gift card and the first 200 shoppers will receive a Dollar General tote bag with complimentary product samples, among other giveaways.

“Dollar General is committed to delivering a pleasant shopping experience that includes a convenient location, a wide assortment of merchandise and great prices on quality products,” said Dan Nieser, Dollar General’s senior vice president of real estate and store development. “We hope

our area customers will enjoy shopping at Dollar General’s new location.”

Nieser notes that Dollar General stores offer convenience and value to customers by providing a focused selection of national name brands and private brands of food, housewares, seasonal items, cleaning supplies, basic apparel and health/beauty products. The store’s fresh layout is designed to make shopping simple for customers.

Seasonal products are displayed in the center of the store, departments are easily recognizable with visible signage and coolers are conveniently located at the front of the store.

It is unclear how many people the new location will employ but traditionally stores employ six to 10 people, depending on the need.

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Play Day, VisArts’ spring open house, runs from noon to 3 p.m. and takes place at the arts center’s 1812 W. Main Street location. The cyanotype will be created across the street from the Visual Arts Center, in a field owned by the Lee Law Office.

The cyanotype dates back to the 1840s. It’s an alternative, non-silver photography process that calls for white paper or fabric to be coated with light-sensitive chemicals. Film negatives, digital negatives or physical objects can be placed atop the surface, and when exposed to sunlight over a short period of time, the surface darkens to a cyan blue, leaving a positive image in white.

Alternative photography processes, and cyanotypes in particular, have experienced a popular resurgence in recent years. Anna Hepler, who exhibited at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond last year, creates elliptical cyanotypes. Glave Kocen Gallery recently showed an exhibition, “Lustrous Luminaries,”

by Kevin Orlosky, which featured cyanotype portraits of several dozen arts leaders in Richmond.

Candela Books + Gallery recently announced an upcoming exhibition by photographer Alyssa Salomon, whose work makes use of several alternative photography processes, including cyanotypes.

The current record for the World’s Largest Cyanotype is held by Jordan Hastings, who created a 116.75-square-meter cyanotype on Aug. 23, 2015 at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon.

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