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Black gun owners worried by acquittal in Castile shooting

Supporters of Philando Castile hold a portrait of Castile as they march along University Avenue in St. Paul, Minn., leaving a vigil at the state Capitol on Friday, June 16, 2017. The vigil was held after St. Anthony police Officer Jeronimo Yanez was cleared of all charges in the fatal shooting last year of Castile. A. Souffle Gerry Martin isn’t sure he will ever tell a police officer during a traffic stop that he has a concealed-weapon permit — and possibly a weapon — on him.

The acquittal of a Minnesota officer in the death of a licensed gun owner who volunteered that he had a gun seconds before being fatally shot during a traffic stop adds to the worries of African-American gun owners about how they are treated by police and society.

Acknowledging that they have a weapon, they said, can open them up to violence from police, who can then claim they feared for their lives simply because of the presence of a gun, even a legal one.

“As soon as you say, ‘I’m a concealed carry holder. This is my license,’ they automatically are reaching for their gun thinking you’re going to draw your gun on them, once again not realizing you’re a good guy,” said Martin, who lives in Glenside, Pennsylvania.

Philando Castile was fatally shot by the officer last July in a St. Paul suburb seconds after he told the officer he was armed. Officer Jeronimo Yanez, who is Latino, was acquitted Friday of manslaughter and two lesser charges.

During the stop, Castile volunteered, “Sir, I have to tell you, I do have a firearm on me.”

Yanez told Castile, “OK, don’t reach

for it then” and “Don’t pull it out.”

On the squad-car video, Castile can be heard saying, “I’m not pulling it out,” as Yanez opened fire.

Prosecutors said Castile’s last words were, “I wasn’t reaching for it.”

The verdict “tells AfricanAmericans across the country that they can be killed by police officers with impunity, even when they are following the law,” said Rep. Cedric Richmond, a Louisiana Democrat who is chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.

The verdict also tells blacks that “the Second Amendment does not apply to them” because Castile “was honest with the officer about having a weapon in the car, and there is no

evidence that he attempted to or intended to use the weapon against the officer,” the Louisiana Democrat said.

Outside the courthouse, Castile’s mother said Yanez got away with murder. Her son was wearing a seatbelt and in a car with his girlfriend and her then-4-year-old daughter when he was shot.

“I am so very, very, very … disappointed in the system here in the state of Minnesota,” Valerie Castile said.

Licensed gun owner and open-carry advocate Rick Ector of Detroit said stereotypes can cloud the minds of some officers when dealing with black gun owners. Officers may have had previous encounters with people carrying guns illegally — especially young black men. And that experience can carry over, Ector said.

Once they find out that a black American has a gun permit, “they are not necessarily going to relax, but they now have an idea about your character,” Ector said.

Phillip Smith, head of the National African American Gun Association, said police need additional training to remind them that Second Amendment rights apply to black gun owners as much as anyone else.

Like several similar cases, Castile’s death was shared worldwide on social media. His girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, livestreamed the aftermath of the shooting on Facebook because, she said, she wanted to make sure the truth was known.

But videos of black people dying at the hands of police have led to few convictions.

“I’m sure people of color are going to say, and rightfully so, what is the burden of proof for an officer

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News Rejecting trademarks that ‘disparage’ others violates the First Amendment The Supreme Court ruled this week that a law that prohibits the government from registering trademarks that “disparage” others violates the First Amendment, a decision that could impact the

Washington Redskins’ efforts to hang on to its controversial name.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. delivered the opinion for a largely united court. He said the law could not be saved just

because it evenhandedly prohibits disparagement of all groups.

“That is viewpoint discrimination in the sense relevant here: Giving offense is a viewpoint,” Alito wrote.

He added that the disparagement clause in the law “offends a bedrock First Amendment principle: Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend.”

All of the participating justices — Neil M. Gorsuch was not on the court when the case was argued — joined that part of Alito’s opinion. Four justices peeled off from parts of the opinion where they say Alito opined on more than what was needed to decide the case.

The trademark office in 2011 said registering the trademark of the Slants, an Asian American rock group, would violate a part of the 1946 Lanham Trademark Act that prohibits registration of a trademark that “may disparage . . . persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute.”

The office said the name was likely to disparage a significant number of Asian Americans. But founder Simon Tam said the point of the band’s name is just the opposite: an attempt to reclaim a slur and use it as “a badge of pride.”

In a Facebook post after the decision, Tam wrote: “After an excruciating legal battle that has spanned nearly eight years, we’re beyond humbled and thrilled to have won this case at the Supreme Court. This journey has always been much bigger than our band: it’s been about the rights of all marginalized communities to determine what’s best for ourselves.”

Tam lost in the first legal rounds.

But then a majority of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the law violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech. The government may not “penalize private speech merely because it disapproves of the message it conveys,” a majority of that court found.

The outcome is likely to affect the legal case of the Washington Redskins, whose trademark registration was revoked in 2014 under the same disparagement clause.

The Redskins filed an amicus brief supporting the Slants, which was cited in the opinion. The Washington football team’s case, however, is moving on a separate track.

“The team is thrilled with today’s unanimous decision as it resolves the Redskins’ long-standing dispute with the government,” Redskins attorney Lisa Blatt said in a statement.

“The Supreme Court vindicated the team’s position that the First Amendment blocks the government from denying or cancelling a trademark registration based on the government’s opinion.”

Free speech advocates had supported The Slants, and the court’s decision seemed likely from the oral arguments.

But some worried about what kinds of trademarks the government will now be forced to register. “It seems this decision will indeed open the floodgates to applications for all sorts of potentially offensive and hateful marks,” said Lisa Simpson, an intellectual property lawyer in New York. She added: “While this may be the right result under the First Amendment and the principles of free speech that are foundational to our country, it seems the responsibility will now pass to the public.”

The team’s trademark registration was canceled in 2014 after decades of use. The team asked a district judge in Virginia to overturn the cancellation and was refused.

The case is now in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond, pending the Supreme Court’s decision in the Slants case.

Registration of a trademark provides a nationwide defense against others who would try to use it.

The case is Matal v. Tam. - WaPo

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Cosby: I rejected plea before trial STACY M. BROWN Bill Cosby said he channeled Nelson Mandela when prosecutors offered him a deal just before his trial for aggravated indecent assault started nearly two weeks ago, the NNPA Newswire has learned exclusively.

The iconic comedian said he recalled visiting Mandela, years ago, after the late civil rights champion had been released from his Robbins Island cell.

Cosby said he met Mandela at the cell, sat there and thought about what he had went through.

“I’m not guilty,” Cosby said, further explaining why he nixed the offer.

While a prosecution spokesman denied a deal had been offered, Cosby’s spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, confirmed that just before the trial began on June 5, prosecutors approached Cosby with a deal but the “I Spy” legend promptly declined it.

“We still hold to the truth that Mr. Cosby is innocent and this court should declare a mistrial,” Wyatt said Friday, as jurors entered their 49th hour of deliberations.

The panel, which consists of seven men and five women—including one African-American male and one African-American female—told Judge Steven O’Neill that they were deadlocked, but the judge ordered them to continue deliberating.

Cosby’s lead attorney Brian McMonagle has repeatedly asked

O’Neill to declare a mistrial, but the judge has steadfastly refused, even angrily lashing out at the lawyer in front of media members.

A source connected with the defense said that the plea arrangement that the prosecution offered to the superstar included probation, registering as a sex offender and wearing a tracking device on his ankle while being forced on house arrest.

Cosby, 79, has been charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault involving former Temple University employee Andrea Constand. The allegations revolve around an incident that occurred in 2004 at Cosby’s home near Philadelphia.

That a guilty verdict could potentially land Cosby in prison for as much as 30 years may leave many wondering why he didn’t accept the plea deal.

However, Cosby has appeared more upbeat than even his handlers and attorneys.

He has been seen smiling and even playful. “Hey, hey, hey,” Cosby has said several times as he’s left the courthouse in response to a growing number of fans who have been coming out to the Norristown location.

The comedian even expressed appreciation to his fans via Twitter and, in a private moment in a conference room at the courthouse, Cosby also expressed gratitude to the Black Press for being fair in its coverage of the trial.

(from page 1) to be” convicted? asked Dwayne Crawford, the executive director of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.

Eric Garner died in July 2014 in New York City after a White officer placed him in a chokehold during an arrest for selling loose cigarettes. Garner complained that he couldn’t breathe on video captured by onlookers. A grand jury declined to indict that officer or any others involved in the arrest.

Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy with a pellet gun tucked into his waistband, was fatally shot by a White Cleveland police officer in November 2014. But a grand jury declined to indict patrolman Timothy Loehmann, who fired the fatal shot, or training officer Frank Garmback. The city settled Rice’s family’s lawsuit for $6 million.

Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, was fatally shot by a White officer, Darren Wilson, in August 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Their confrontation was not captured on video. A grand jury

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declined to indict Wilson, and the Justice Department opted against civil rights charges. Wilson later resigned.

Only one police officer in recent publicized cases is facing jail time.

South Carolina officer Michael Slager, who is White, shot black motorist Walter Scott in the back as he fled from a traffic stop. Slager pleaded guilty in May to a federal charge of violating Scott’s civil rights, and a judge will determine his sentence, which could range from probation to life in prison without parole.

Scott’s shooting in April 2015 was captured on cellphone video seen worldwide. It contradicted Slager’s original statement that Scott had attempted to grab his Taser.

“This was a clear-cut case of unnecessary, fatal police violence,” said Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color Of Change.

“District attorneys around the country, from Tulsa to Cleveland to now St. Paul, must be held accountable for their failures to secure justice for victims of police violence.”

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Justice advocate Kemba Smith credits prayer, ‘pressure from the black community’ for freedom ALANTE MILLOW TriceEdneyWire - Guests wearing beautiful attire greeted each other warmly as they gathered in the Kristel Room of the Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church. Elegant crystal fixtures hung from the ceiling and the deep purple decor gave an atmosphere of royalty.

The scene at the Saturday morning prayer brunch belied the tremendous hardships that many of the attendants had overcome – including the keynote speaker, Kemba Smith.

“My priority had become this man.

This man that I had put before my family, put before my God, put before loving me and my dreams and goals of what I wanted to become,” Smith said. “So my crime wasn’t that I was criminally-minded, my crime was that I chose the wrong relationship.”

It is a story that is nationally known. While attending college at Hampton University, Smith’s life turned upside down after she got into an abusive relationship with local drug dealer, Peter Hall. His illegal drug activity eventually left Smith in the middle of a federal investigation.

In 1995, after Hall was killed by homicide, she was sentenced to over 24 years in prison for charges that included lying to federal authorities and carrying cash related to Hall’s drug trafficking.

Although federal prosecutors acknowledged that there was no evidence that Smith used or sold cocaine and she had no prior criminal record, she fell victim to harsh drug mandatory minimum sentencing laws. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the federal trafficking penalty for firsttime offenders involving cocaine - five kilograms or more - is a minimum 10year sentence. If the offense involved death or serious injury, the minimum sentence is raised to 20 years.

After Smith’s story was featured on the cover of Emerge magazine in 1996, she and her family were offered free legal aid by the NAACP Legal

Defense and Educational Fund to fight for her release. After several failed attempts, they petitioned former President Bill Clinton for clemency, and in December of 2000, Smith was granted freedom after serving six years. She attributes part of this success to “the pressure from the Black community,” with the streams of letters and petitions supporting her case and the tireless advocacy of her parents, Gus and Odessa Smith.

But, the fight had been tumultuous.

She recalled yearning for freedom while imprisoned and pregnant with Hall’s son.

“I remember when I was in federal prison, seven months pregnant, scared to death, wasn’t sure what the outcome of my situation was going to be… I asked God to please allow me to be a voice so that I can prevent other people from going down the same path,” Smith said. “It’s not about me, it’s about saving lives and doing God’s work.”

Shortly after her release, Smith finished her bachelor’s degree in social work from Virginia Union University and went on to establish the Kemba Smith Foundation.

Through her foundation, she advocates for the reform of mandatory sentencing laws and influences young adults to avoid illegal drugs, abusive relationships and crime.

“There’s some grown women that don’t want to talk about the poor choices they made---being in a relationship with a drug dealer, him beating me, him killing his best friend. This stuff is not pretty stuff,” Smith said. “But God has blessed me and given me the courage to share.”

That sharing has taken her into places far beyond her imagination in prison. Smith traveled with an NAACP delegation to Switzerland to speak with the United Nations about voter suppression laws in the United States, which largely include convicted felons. She was able to cast her vote in the past two elections, and fights for that same right for

Activist Kemba Smith pose for a photo with Elder Cheryl Mercer at Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church. PHOTO: Alanté Millow other formerly incarcerated people.

On March 30, 2016, she met President Barack Obama in a White House meeting during which he greeted formerly incarcerated individuals who had received commutations. At that time, President Obama President Obama had commuted the sentences of 61 drug offenders. And more than one thousand non-violent drug offenders had their sentences reduced.

Smith currently has power and influence of her own. As a member of the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission “I’m sitting in the room with good ‘ol boy, bow tie wearing judges of Virginia and prosecutors and I have a say at the table about certain crime sentences, costs [and] policies,” she said.

With President Donald Trump in office, Smith said things have been “very grim” transitioning into the new administration. In spite of that, she is hopeful.

“It’s our hope to get this administration to continue the commutations and see the importance in that. And one of the things that’s important is sharing the stories,” Smith said. “I, for one,

understand the power of sharing a story…Never in a million years would I have thought that me making the decision to say, ‘yes I’ll do this article’… [would have] launched a movement.”

As Smith closed her speech, she received a standing ovation. The Rev. Cheryl Mercer, an ordained elder of Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church and organizer of the prayer brunch, sponsored by her Women of Worth Fellowship International Ministries, said she is glad attendees were able to enjoy brunch and fill their spirits at the same time. Mercer knows well the hardships of the incarcerated.

Professionally, she is a community advocate of social justice who works through the faith based initiatives of the federal Court Services & Offender Supervision Agency known as CSOSA. “So many of the women I work with have all kinds of situations in life choosing the wrong people in their life, drugs, alcohol,” Mercer said. “[Smith] has such a victorious story that I knew that if I could get her here, so that those women could hear her and see what God has done, that it could transform [their] thinking.”

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Op/Ed & Letters

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We have food deserts because we’ve deserted our own stores JIM CLINGMAN Why do we have food deserts? One reason is that we have deserted our own stores. Instead of taking care of ourselves, we complain about stores owned by someone else. We petition our politicians for a grocery store or seek private companies to open stores where we live, but seldom do we open stores ourselves. Even when blacks do open new supermarkets we do not support them, and they eventually are forced to close. Think I’m wrong?

Keep reading.

At the turn of the last century (1900) black people began to form food co-ops and other collective purchasing programs to feed themselves and to leverage lower prices for black consumers. Two of the first grocery co-ops were started in St. Louis and Chicago

by B. G. Shaw and Robert Jackson, respectively, in 1919.

The most notable co-op was the Colored Merchants’ Association (CMA), founded by A.C. Brown in Montgomery, Alabama in 1923.

With assistance from the National Negro Business League, under the leadership of Albon Holsey, the CMA became a national organization that encouraged Black grocers to unite.

In 1936, Holsey stated, “…the CMA began to lose the confidence of the Black consumer.” Black Economist, Abram Harris, said, “Members always found it difficult to sell The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 3 No. 25 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

CMA brands. The Negro, like the White consumer, is habituated to the popular brands carried by the chains.” Source: Dr. Juliet E.K. Walker.

Desertion of black stores by black consumers led to market opportunities for outsiders to take full advantage of the black food dollar. We became dependent upon others, and now we even request their presence in our neighborhoods.

No better picture of that reality than Singletary’s Supermarket in Columbus, Ohio in the mid1980’s. I wrote many articles about Singletary’s and even spent time there doing a product sampling program. Singletary’s was a brand new business at that time, clean, well-stocked, and more convenient to Blacks in the Mt. Vernon neighborhood than other grocery stores.

Author of “Tribes,” Joel Kotkin, wrote: “In Columbus, Ohio…

Singletary Plaza Mart, the nation's largest Black-owned ‘superstore,’ went out of business…due to a lack of community patronage. Although Blacks in Columbus spend $2.5 million each week on food, they couldn't be convinced to spend less than a tenth of it, or $200,000, to keep Singletary afloat.” The Reluctant Entrepreneurs, INC Magazine, 1986. Desertion.

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ministers took their church members shopping. A two month-old blackowned grocery store was not doing very well in the community, so the ministers got together to help. The ministers took 150 people to the store, called Fresh Supermarket Foods. After two hours, the shoppers had spent $4,000.00, according to the owner, Frank Jackson. Paul Sanders, pastor of Greater St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, said, “At stake is getting more blacks to support [one another]. We talk about power. But if we don't have some businesses or some money, we can talk about power all we want and it won’t come.” Sanders continued, "If the store does not succeed, it will be because of a lack of community support.” Desertion.

Three other recent examples include Fresh Market supermarket in nearly 100 percent black, Southside Chicago. Owner, Karriem Beyah, whose store was included in Maggie and John Anderson’s "Empowerment Experiment," agreed that the awareness and enthusiasm the Andersons created was important, but Beyah added that his business may have suffered from being highlighted as an enterprise owned by an African-American. (He closed the store in August 2009) “If you’re under the radar, then maybe you won’t get that belief from

customers that the other guy’s ice is colder than yours,” he said. But, “I’m not giving up.” (Beyah plans to open a new store this year, 2017.

Second is the 2014 closing on the last Calhoun’s Supermarket in Montgomery, AL., after losing money for “three or four years,” according to owner, Greg Calhoun, who made history as the first African American in the South to own a supermarket.

At one point, Calhoun had seven stores in Montgomery alone, a majority black city. ShaKenya Calhoun cried as she closed the doors one final time. “The market has just been oversaturated with grocery stores...With the lack of sales, there's not an economic impact for us to be in business.”

Third, there’s the much ballyhooed Sterling Farms’ grocery store in New Orleans, co-owned by actor, Wendell Pierce, who wanted to bring healthy food to underserved communities.

That store closed one year after opening. It drew national media attention when it opened, including a visit from Michelle Obama who was touting her Fresh Food Initiative to bring healthy grocery options to socalled “food deserts.”

What will it take for us to feed ourselves? We have the money; we just lack the mindset. History will not treat us kindly if we fail to act appropriately.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

A case for more women leaders

I am really outraged over this.

Talk of passing Trumpcare is back — and this time it's coming from behind closed doors in the Senate where 13 men are writing the bill in secret without a woman even present.

Women should be in that room, fighting for the 23 million people who would lose health insurance under Trumpcare and every single one of us who could pay higher premiums, have our coverage reduced, or be negatively affected in any way by this bill.

We need to make sure women always have a seat when health care’s on the table by voting to send reinforcements.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican colleagues could strip health care from millions of people, scrap the policy that provides coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, and gut coverage for women's health services — including funding for Planned Parenthood.

These are the people who are supposed to be representing our best interests and holding Trump accountable. Instead, they’ve shut out the public and their fellow senators from the process in order to kowtow to Trump.

It’s shameful.

The reason they’re doing it is simple: Republicans are scared.

They know Trumpcare’s going to be unpopular, and our elected women have been the first to say so. Whether

it’s Claire McCaskill demanding a public hearing or Kamala Harris defending why Americans need accessible health care — we can rely on women.

Nine women senators are up for re-election next year. Without them, Mitch McConnell’s voice is a lot louder, and Trump’s influence is a lot stronger.

Leila McDowell

On ‘gainful redeployment’

Liberals are howling that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has pulled back the Obama Administration’s gainful employment and borrower defense rules … But the rules did far more to ensure gainful employment for lawyers and government than they helped students.

After a federal judge in 2012 tossed the … first gainful employment rule, vindictive department officials imposed more draconian regulations that cut off federal aid to vocational programs.

Many public and nonprofit colleges that educate large numbers of lowincome students could have failed under the rule.

Then there’s the borrower defense rule, which would have enabled borrowers to discharge their loans if they claimed that their college had duped them … Colleges could have been hit to pay for discharged loans While the rule technically applied to all colleges, department officials would have had enormous discretion.

While bureaucrats might let, say, NYU off the hook for misrepresenting graduate outcomes, DeVry University

probably wouldn’t be as lucky.

One irony is that many more students might be gainfully employed today if the Obama administration hadn’t spent so much energy pursuing an ideological crusade against for-profits … Once upon a time, liberals believed in equality under the law.

Jenna Gilbert

About the middle class There are some things I know, and some things I don’t. I know the middle class.

And I know this too: The middle class needs a voice in this country again.

There are just too many folks who don’t think their leaders understand them any more. Who don’t think politicians listen to them. Who don’t think anyone -- Democrat or Republican -- even see them.

That’s got to change. I launched American Possibilities to build an organization that elects leaders who understand regular Americans once again. I need your help to build it.

My dad had an expression. He used to say, “Joey, I don’t expect the government to solve my problems.

But I sure expect my government to understand my problems.”

In the months to come, I’ll be fighting for candidates who embody that principle on the campaign trail, providing them with the resources they need to win -- and I’ll be bringing you into the process of selecting who and what we’ll support along the way, because this isn’t just my fight. It’s a fight for all of us.

Let me tell you: When I was in

the White House, I had a lot of economists try to tell me you could define the middle class with a number. They never understood that being middle class isn’t about a number. It’s a value set. A way of life.

It’s about being able to own your home and not just rent it. Being able to send your kid to a local park and know they’ll come home safely.

Making sure college is a possibility for them without going into crippling debt. Having the means to help take care of your parents as they age, and making sure your kids never have to take care of you.

Those are middle-class values.

Those are American values. We can never lose that. Because when the middle class does well, the rich do well, and the poor have a way up.

They have hope.

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That’s why I’ve made a promise to help as many candidates as I can in the next two years all across this country. I want to campaign with them, go door to door with them, help them raise money. I want to do everything I can to elect Democrats at all levels -- from the state legislature to governors to the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.

And it’s why “possibility” is the singular word I will always use to describe America. And it’s what I’m going to be fighting for from now through Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018 and beyond.

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Faith & Religion

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White supremacy is anti-Gospel. I’m glad the Southern Baptist Convention agrees JIM WALLIS COMMENTARY The theology, sociology, and politics of race continue to play themselves out in America in matters of both church and state. That racism is a sin and a gospel issue — and not just a political matter for us as Christians — was asserted once more. The continuing struggle to put our theology over our sociology among white Christians was again on display.

Last Wednesday, the Southern Baptist Convention voted on a resolution condemning “the antigospel of alt-right white supremacy.”

The vote capped a turbulent 48 hours at the SBC’s annual meeting—held this year in Phoenix—that revealed the deep racial tensions that remain in a denomination that was originally founded in 1845 after a split over the issue of slavery.

The predominately white SBC has in recent years aggressively recruited African Americans to join its ranks and sought to distance itself from its legacy of slavery and racism — in 1995, the SBC issued a formal public repentance for its role in perpetuating slavery and racial discrimination. The SBC then changed its doctrinal statement in 2000 to include racism, alongside “greed, selfishness, and vice, and all forms of sexual immorality,” as something Christians should oppose.

And Russell Moore, who has been the head of the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission since 2013, has spoken out forcefully for racial reconciliation and immigration reform — and was an outspoken opponent of then-candidate Donald Trump because of his racially divisive rhetoric.

Of course, many black Southern Baptists felt a sense of alienation and betrayal when 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump anyway.

Southern Baptists of color have encouraged their denomination

to devote more of its energy to advocating for reforms on issues like poverty and mass incarceration where the structural effects of racism play a major role. And a few weeks ago, Rev. Wm. Dwight McKissic, a prominent black Southern Baptist pastor in Texas, submitted for consideration at SBC’s annual meeting a “Resolution On The Condemnation of the ‘Alt-Right’ Movement and the Roots of White Supremacy.” In strong language, McKissic spoke both of the biblical reasons why racism is antithetical to Christianity, and of the toxicity of the current political moment. He called out the alt-right’s so-called “white nationalism” for what it is: another term for white supremacy.

His resolution repudiated “retrograde ideologies, xenophobic biases and racial bigotries of the ‘alt-right’ that seek to subvert our government.”

The decisions we make about which voices we listen to, or not, speak volumes about our priorities.

When pastor McKissic’s resolution was considered on Tuesday by the resolutions committee, (which consisted of nine white members and one black member), members declined to refer it to the full convention, saying that while they liked the resolution, they had problems with the wording. So

instead McKissic brought it directly to the full gathering, moving for additional time for the resolution to be reconsidered by the full body.

The vote failed to secure the needed two-thirds majority, with Emma Green of the Atlantic reporting that it was the end of a long day and the vote occurred amid “a chatting body of tired pastors, many of whom were already checked out for the day and didn’t realize what was happening.”

It’s an understandable enough explanation, especially for those who are familiar with the rote nature of denominational or industry assemblies, especially at a late hour. But it’s important to note that process matters — and the decisions we make about which voices we listen to, or not, speak volumes about our priorities.

The voices of the outraged would soon make themselves heard.

The overwhelming outcry, particularly from Southern Baptists of color but also some white Southern Baptists who stood with them, both in the room and on Twitter, was immediate and fierce. As a result, Moore was brought in to work with the resolutions committee to edit pastor McKissic’s resolution and present a new version to the full body the next day. On a night, the committee released the new version,

and the gathering voted nearly unanimously to consider and vote on it in what would turn out to be a historic vote.

The new version, “On the Anti-Gospel of Alt-Right White Supremacy,” has a very strong title.

Racism, and the white supremacy of the alt-right, are indeed totally opposite to the good news of Jesus Christ. The new statement goes to considerable lengths to root the condemnation of racism even more firmly in scriptural authority, tackles the SBC’s own past and present difficulties with “intentional and unintentional racism” in its midst, details the steps the SBC has taken to publicly denounce racism both inside and outside its ranks in years past — but admits that the denomination still has a long way to go. Finally, it explicitly names that “every form of racial and ethnic hatred” is “of the devil.”

It was very important for the new resolution to be more than generic denunciations of racism. That type of casual distancing is not enough.

The resolution needed to name white supremacy and the specific ways it is rising in our political landscape via movements like the alt-right.

And this is what I would call a 1 Corinthians 12:26 moment: “when one part of the body suffers, all the other parts of the body share its suffering.” When the black body of Christ is suffering so much in this rising tide of racism, the white body of Christ cannot remain silent, but must feel the pain of all Christian bodies of color.

Green, who reported the whole story in the Atlantic, spoke with McKissic after the final vote.

“I certainly understand that hurt and anger, because to most people, this would be a no-brainer,” McKissic said in an interview on Wednesday.

Charles Hedman of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in South Bend, Ind., told the press that other pastors told

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After high drama, Baptists denounce the ‘Alt-Right’ The Southern Baptist Convention moved to denounce the “alt-right” white nationalist movement last wee, a collective decision that occurred only after pastors pushed back against denominational leaders who initially chose not to address the issue.

At their annual meeting, Southern Baptists agreed to a statement decrying “every form of racism, including alt-right white supremacy, as antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Denominational leaders had planned not to vote on a resolution about race relations, but reversed course following an outcry on the floor of the convention the day before.

Leaders worked through the night to craft an updated resolution after the original text failed to gain traction on the first day of the convention.

The debate began when Rev. Dwight McKissic, a black pastor

from Arlington, Texas, called on Southern Baptists to formally condemn the movement’s “retrograde ideologies, xenophobic biases, and racial bigotries” and re-affirm its opposition to racism in the aftermath of a presidential election that saw the rise of a small movement of nationalist and white supremacists that coalesced in support of President Donald Trump.

Members of the Southern Baptist Convention, a coalition of churches that comprise the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, convene just once a year to discuss church business, make budget decisions, commission new missionaries and vote on “resolutions” that affirm their theological, social or political priorities. A Resolutions Committee chooses what topics will be formally voted upon before the meeting. This year's list of approved resolutions, for example, included a call to defund

Planned Parenthood, a rebuke of gambling and an affirmation that morality is important for political leaders.

Race relations are an extremely sensitive issue within the Southern Baptist Convention. The denomination was founded in 1845, when it split from other Baptists who opposed slavery. The denomination did not formally rebuke its past until 1995, when Southern Baptists voted to repent and apologize for their history of racism, support of slavery and failure to stand firmly in opposition to white supremacy.

The body did not elect its first black president of the convention until 2012; the first black president of its annual pastor's conference began his term of service this year. Like the nation's population as a whole, the American Church is becoming less white, a demographic shift that has led many denominations to ensure

they put more emphasis on diversity in leadership and make worshippers of color feel welcome in their sanctuaries.

McKissic’s resolution, however, had been rejected by the convention’s Resolutions Committee before the meeting. It would not receive a vote unless it was forced by the will of the convention attendees -- called “messengers” -- from the floor.

On Tuesday afternoon, McKissic stood to introduce his resolution and ask why it was rejected.

Barrett Duke, chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, said that it had been rejected because it “was not well-written” and included “inappropriate” language.

McKissic called for the body to instruct the committee to reconsider, which would require a two-thirds majority. It failed.

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RVA area resident is recipient of donated car Students at the Chesterfield Career and Technical @ Courthouse and automotive partners from across the region recently presented Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Department of Social Services client Tywanda Auld with a refurbished Pontiac G6 through the National Auto Body Council’s (NABC) Recycled Rides program. NABC nationwide community service program allows the collision-repair business community collaborates with other automotive industry partners, technical schools and vehicle insurers to repair and donate vehicles to families and service organizations in need.

As part of the program, CTC@ Courthouse students provided the workforce. State Farm Insurance Company donated the vehicle Firestone Complete Auto Care on Ironbridge Road donated the tires and vehicle safety inspection. NAPA Auto Parts on Southlake Boulevard donated parts and supplies. 1-800 Charity Cars provided the expertise to coordinate licensing and securing a title for the vehicle on behalf of

the new owner. And FinishMaster Automotive and Industrial Paint on West Broad provided the paint and materials necessary to complete the job.

“Community service continues to be a strong component to a well-rounded education in Chesterfield County Public Schools,” said Superintendent Dr. James Lane. “Through Recycled Rides, our students have participated in and been an active part of providing reliable transportation to a local resident in their own community. What a great example of a true, hands-on learning opportunity!”

Auld is a participant in the Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Department of Social Services’ Virginia Initiative for Employment not Welfare (VIEW) program.

During the last 18 months, she has strived to alleviate the barriers that prevented her from meeting personal and professional goals. Auld has worked diligently to become selfsufficient in supporting herself and her family. One of her biggest challenges has been the inability to secure reliable transportation, which

Tywanda Auld (left) is presented with the donated car. now has been resolved with the donation of this vehicle.

“This vehicle will enable me to go to work and pursue promotional opportunities, not to mention, taking my children to doctor visits and helping them to participate in extra-curricular activities, something I have not been able to do for quite some time,” said Auld.

“I’m so pleased that our students can participate in such a worthy

project, and particularly one that will make such a tremendous impact in the life of a resident who really needed their help,” said County Administrator Dr. Joe Casey.

Since the Recycled Rides program’s inception in 2007, more than 1,000 vehicles have been donated nationwide. NABC members are recognized and acknowledged as responsible businesses that give back to the communities they serve.

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Contemporary art in uptowne Old Towne RACHEL MARSH

Father-son duo brings national and international exhibits to P’burg BOOMER - In recent years, historic Petersburg has started to make a name for itself as a town of culture, dining and leisure. A part of the city’s blossoming art scene in, a five-yearold gallery in Old Towne Petersburg owned and run by a family of four benefiting not merely the family but also the community.

Ronald Walton, father of the family, has been an artist for most of his life. The internationally recognized abstract artist is based in New York and Virginia, and his works convey a conglomeration of colors, designs and textures. In 2016 the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts acquired his “Nightmares,” a 59” x 50” oil and paper on canvas.

In 2004, Eric Walton, son in the aforementioned family, had to go on dialysis for kidney failure. He was forced to give up his job, priorities and life as he knew it. But then an idea developed: open an art gallery.

Growing up around art, Eric Walton already knew the drill. He had also worked in art galleries in New York. And since his dad was already heavily involved in the art

scene, it felt like, well ... a “perfect match,” or so said the father-son duo almost in unison.

So in 2010, when operation-openan-art-gallery was in full swing, the Waltons decided to break ground in the gradually expanding art scene of Petersburg. In 2017, they're still going strong. Eric and Ron Walton continue to work side by side, with co-owner and mom/wife, Sibyil Walton (also an artist), and daughter/ sister, Jeanine Walton, chief financial officer.

Ancestral land donated to Rappahannock Tribe The Chesapeake Conservancy recently joined members of the Rappahannock Tribe, the National Park Service Chesapeake Bay Office, U.S. Sen. John Warner (VA-retired) and his daughter Virginia Warner to celebrate the donation of land to the Rappahannock Tribe.

Working with the Chesapeake Conservancy, Virginia Warner donated to the tribe nearly an acre of land on Carters Wharf Road in

Warsaw, which is located near a public boat landing at Fones Cliffs along the Rappahannock River.

The tribe will use this land as a staging area for their Return to the River program, an effort to engage tribal youth in the traditions of their ancestors that were practiced there for thousands of years and in traditional water-related activities, such as canoeing, fishing, and camping. The Chesapeake

Every exhibit at Walton Gallery is unique, but each complements the next. “Like a CD,” said Eric Walton, director of Walton Gallery, kindly putting it into terms that an art amateur like me can understand, “[exhibits] need to flow from one to the other.”

The gallery is constantly evolving, as the Walton family adds their creative touches to the local art community. The father-son duo agrees, “We are making our footprint in the art scene here [in Petersburg]

and Central Virginia.”

On June 24, Walton Gallery will begin hosting a summer exhibit titled “Conversation Piece.” A collection of abstract artists Bill Fisher, Jacquelyn Flowers and Michael Platt, this exhibit is intended to create a conversation among gallery attendees.

The exhibit will run through Aug. 6, with an opening night reception on June 24 from 5 to 8 p.m. at 17 N. Sycamore St.

Conservancy also donated a canoe to the tribe for this program.

The event included a ceremonial blessing from Rappahannock Tribe Chief G. Anne Richardson, singing and drumming by tribal members, and a formal presentation of the land transfer along with Sen. Warner and Virginia Warner.

“This is a momentous day for the Rappahannock Tribe. We are very grateful to Ms. Virginia Warner and the Chesapeake Conservancy for making this possible. This land donation is deeply meaningful for our Return to the River program and

will have far reaching impacts for our tribe for generations to come,” Chief Richardson said.

“I am delighted that the Chesapeake Conservancy could play a role in this culturally significant land acquisition. It’s a small tract of land with huge symbolism for the Rappahannock Tribe,” said Chesapeake Conservancy President and CEO Joel Dunn. “The tribe once again has a stake in the land where they lived for hundreds of years before Captain John Smith sailed up the river in 1608.”

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Liberty celebration’ drums up patriotic fun and American Revolution Museum Salute the 241st anniversary of the Declaration of Independence during “Liberty Celebration,” July 4 at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.

From 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., visitors can enjoy music, interpretive programs, military drills and artillery demonstrations, and learn about the challenges that faced our nation’s founders, including those who signed the Declaration of Independence.

The Fifes and Drums of York Town will perform on the museum’s event lawn at 11:00 a.m. The Cigar Box String Band will play traditional American tunes as part of a “Great American Sing-along” at 12:00 noon, 1:30 and 3:30 p.m., and visitors are encouraged to join in singing familiar songs.

“Meet John Rollison,” a program at 11:30 a.m. in the Contintental Army encampment’s artillery amphitheater, will feature character interpreter James Cameron as John Rollison, a free black man from York County, Virginia. Rollison (c. 17231780) was a businessman, landowner and slave owner who signed the Oath of Allegiance to the Patriot government in 1777. During the Revolution, he provided supplies to Patriot militia troops and navy.

Visitors can learn how cloth and clothing were dyed during the 18th century in “Dyeing for the Cause,” a program at the Revolution-era farm at 10 a.m. At noon, join in a reading of the Declaration of Independence.

Farm visitors also can take part in an “Effigy Tax Protest” against the British Stamp Tax at 2 p.m.

At the Continental Army encampment, visitors can join an 18th-century artillery crew at 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., followed by historical interpreters firing a salute to our nation’s founders. On the encampment’s drill field, visitors can take part in a wooden-musket drill at 1 p.m. and, at 4 p.m., train as a member of the Virginia militia.

A presentation demonstrating siege works, including fascines and gabions, with a mortar firing, will follow at 5 p.m.

Indoors, visitors can view a broadside of the Declaration of Independence dating to July 1776, enjoy showings of “Liberty Fever,” the award-winning introductory film in the museum theater, and take in a special exhibition, “AfterWARd: The Revolutionary Veterans Who Built America,” that traces the post-war lives of four veterans of the Siege of Yorktown.

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Character actor James Cameron will portray John Rollison, a free black businessman and landowner in 18th-century York County, during an 11:30 a.m. program July 4 during Liberty Celebration at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.

Exhibit recalls the life of Lacks An exhibit honoring the medical science contributions of Henrietta Lacks launched a 13-city tour on June 19 – Juneteenth – at a national summit of more than 200 national and local civic, business, health and community leaders who are setting an action plan to reduce breast cancer mortality in African-American women.

The African-American Health Equity Summit in partnership with Susan G. Komen and Fund II Foundation is the collective force behind “Reclaiming Our Story: An Exhibit & Conversation on Health Equity with the Lacks Family”.

Those in attendance included Jeri Lacks and David Lacks, Jr., grandchildren of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cancer cells were used, without her knowledge or consent, in countless medical and scientific breakthroughs; Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas); Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas); Dr. Eliseo Pérez-Stable, director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities; Bobby Hill, Keystone State Boychoir; and more than 200 community, health and business leaders from cities including Atlanta; Chicago; Dallas; Memphis; Los Angeles; St. Louis; Houston; Virginia Beach.; Philadelphia; and Washington, D.C.

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Librarian of Congress names Smith poet laureate Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has appointed Tracy K. Smith as the library’s 22nd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, for 2017-2018. Smith will take up her duties in the fall, opening the library’s annual literary season in September with a reading of her work at the Coolidge Auditorium.

Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and a professor at Princeton University, succeeds Juan Felipe Herrera as Poet Laureate.

“It gives me great pleasure to appoint Tracy K. Smith, a poet of searching,” Hayden said. “Her work travels the world and takes on its voices; brings history and memory to life; calls on the power of literature as well as science, religion and pop culture. With directness and deftness, she contends with the heavens or plumbs our inner depths—all to better understand what makes us most human.”

“I am profoundly honored,” Smith said. “As someone who has been sustained by poems and poets, I understand the powerful and necessary role poetry can play in sustaining a rich inner life and

fostering a mindful, empathic and resourceful culture. I am eager to share the good news of poetry with readers and future readers across this marvelously diverse country.”

Smith joins a long line of distinguished poets who have served in the position, including Juan Felipe Herrera, Charles Wright, Natasha Trethewey, Philip Levine, W.S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, Charles Simic, Donald Hall, Ted Kooser, Louise Glück, Billy Collins, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass and Rita Dove.

The new Poet Laureate is the author of three books of poetry, including “Life on Mars” (2011), winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; “Duende” (2007), winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award and the 2008 Essence Literary Award; and “The Body’s Question” (2003), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith is also the author of a memoir, “Ordinary Light” (2015), a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in nonfiction and selected as a notable book by the New York Times and the Washington Post.

For her poetry, Smith has received

(from page 8) in Christ … If we’re a Jesus people, him they would have to leave the denomination if the convention failed to denounce white supremacy.

The chair of the resolutions committee Barret Duke, apologized personally to McKissic for how his original proposal was handled.

And while McKissic said he was disappointed certain things — like specifying the ‘curse of Ham’ — were left out, he supported the final version “100 percent.” McKissic said Tuesday’s events “showed a fault line. It showed that maybe, just maybe, you aren’t where you’re supposed to be on this,” but also told reporters after the final vote, “we’re turning a corner, I see the heart of the majority.”

Moore, who helped to resolve the inadequate process, put it clearly and importantly, “We are saying that white supremacy and racist ideologies are dangerous because they oppress our brothers and sisters

let’s stand where Jesus stands.”

He later spelled out the importance of the SBC’s move, writing, “Southern Baptists need to speak [against the alt-right] for several reasons, not the least of which is that too many Southern Baptists were on the wrong side of the fire hoses in Birmingham. They need to get on the correct side, against the rising tide of racism, often associated (rightly or wrongly) with where many Southern Baptists live.”

Ultimately, after a tumultuous process, the Southern Baptists unanimously voted for a resolution to “decry every form of racism, including alt-right white supremacy as antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ” and “denounce and repudiate white supremacy and every form of racial and ethnic hatred as a scheme of the devil.”

And that is good news for all of us.

I invite you to examine the resolution. It is well worth the read.

Tracy K. Smith a Rona Jaffe Writers Award and a Whiting Award. In 2014, the Academy of American Poets awarded her with the Academy Fellowship, given to one poet each year to recognize distinguished poetic achievement. In 2015, she won the 16th annual Robert Creeley Award and in 2016 was awarded Columbia University’s Medal for Excellence.

In the Pulitzer Prize citation for “Life on Mars,” judges lauded its “bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and pain.”

Toi Derricotte, poet and Academy of American Poets chancellor, said “the surfaces of a Tracy K. Smith poem are beautiful and serene, but underneath, there is always a sense of an unknown vastness. Her poems take the risk of inviting us to imagine, as the poet does, what it is to travel in another person’s shoes.”

Born in Falmouth, Massachusetts in 1972, and raised in Fairfield, California, Tracy K. Smith earned a B.A. in English and American literature and Afro-American studies from Harvard University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University. From 1997 to 1999, she was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.

Smith has taught at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New

York, at the University of Pittsburgh and at Columbia University. She is currently the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities and director of the creative writing program at Princeton University.

Background of the Laureateship The Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center is the home of the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, a position that has existed since 1937, when Archer M. Huntington endowed the Chair of Poetry at the Library. Since then, many of the nation’s most eminent poets have served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress and, after the passage of Public Law 99-194 (Dec. 20, 1985), as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry—a position which the law states “is equivalent to that of Poet Laureate of the United States.”

During his or her term, the Poet Laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry. The library keeps to a minimum the specific duties required of the Poet Laureate, who opens the literary season in the fall and closes it in the spring. In recent years, laureates have initiated poetry projects that broaden the audiences for poetry.

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VCU researchers demonstrate effectiveness of fecal transplantation on brain function Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine reports they have successfully demonstrated that transferring stool from a healthy donor to cirrhosis patients who suffer from recurrent hepatic encephalopathy can improve brain functioning, reduce confusion and reduce hospitalization for that patient population. Hepatic encephalopathy is a brain disorder that commonly manifests as a complication of cirrhosis. It can lead to fatigue, inability to concentrate, confusion and, in some cases, death.

Results from the first randomized human trial of the procedure were recently published online in the journal Hepatology.

“Fecal transplantation has been used to treat other conditions, but this is the first randomized trial

of this kind in liver disease and cirrhosis,” said Jasmohan S. Bajaj, M.D., an associate professor in the School of Medicine. Bajaj led the team of researchers who oversaw fecal microbial transplantation in cirrhosis patients at Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center. All of the patients in the study were receiving the maximum treatment possible for HE, but continued to suffer from disease-related symptoms.

Cirrhosis, which is characterized by prominent and irreversible scarring of the liver, is caused by a variety of conditions such as viral hepatitis and chronic alcohol abuse. The disease affected about 2.8 million people and resulted in 1.3 million deaths in 2015, according to an article published last year in the medical journal The Lancet.

Bajaj led a study published last year in the journals Hepatology and Scientific Reports that revealed that the gut bacteria found in the intestinal tract and in stool was associated with hepatic encephalopathy. The most recent finding builds upon that research.

“This initial small study shows that even in very sick patients with liver disease, fecal transplants can be safe and can improve brain functioning,” Bajaj said. “Patients with cirrhosis who are already on maximum treatment could potentially benefit from this research.”

Bajaj, who practices medicine and teaches at VCU School of Medicine’s Department of Internal Medicine and at the McGuire VA Medical Center, is already planning next steps. He plans to build on the most recent scientific findings with a new

National Institutes of Health-funded research trial that uses oral capsules instead of enemas to achieve the same outcome.

“Dr. Bajaj’s latest research embodies VCU School of Medicine and VCU Health’s ongoing commitment to applying novel research in the clinical and basic sciences, and then translating those research discoveries into excellent patient care,” said Peter F. Buckley, M.D., dean of the VCU School of Medicine. “The discoveries would not be possible without the support of our colleagues at McGuire VA Medical Center, where 100 percent of the research was conducted, and we are grateful for that collaboration.”

Donor materials for both studies are provided by nonprofit stool bank OpenBiome, which is also a collaborator in the research project.

Conservancy, National Park Service, and landowners on both sides of the Rappahannock River, whose interest and cooperation made on-site investigations possible,” National Park Service Chesapeake Bay Office Superintendent Chuck Hunt said.

Indigenous Cultural Landscapes are a feature of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail, and are defined by the National Park Service as geographic areas that would have supported the historic lifestyles and settlement patterns of an American Indian group in their totality.

Fones Cliffs, a four-mile stretch of white colored diatomaceous cliffs rising over 100 feet above the Rappahannock River, is currently under threat of development to become a luxury resort and golf course. The cliffs provide important habitat for one of the largest concentration of bald eagles on the East Coast.

Fones Cliffs has a rich cultural history. According to the journals

of Captain John Smith, Fones Cliffs was the home of three Native American towns and bore witness to an encounter between the Rappahannock tribe and the Englishmen aboard Captain Smith’s shallop. This area is a highlight to those exploring history along the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail and to paddlers traversing the Rappahannock.

(from page 10) Dunn also praised the generosity of Virginia Warner. “When this opportunity presented itself, Ms. Warner stepped up to make it happen. The gift of land is an enduring one, and her legacy in supporting the Tribe’s Return to the River initiative is stamped forever.”

Research conducted by St. Mary’s College of Maryland shows that the Tribe was forcibly moved to various locations during the 17th century, with members finally settling in and around Essex and King and Queen Counties. The Rappahannock Tribal Center is now located at Indian Neck in King and Queen County.

“This donation coincides with a recently released report entitled, Defining the Rappahannock Indigenous Cultural Landscape.

St. Mary’s College took the lead in writing the report, with significant input from members of the Rappahannock Tribe.

Many others contributed to the report, including the Chesapeake

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Virginia Premier names new CMO Following a national search, John Alexander Johnson, M.D., has been named chief medical officer of Virginia Premier Health Plan Inc. Johnson will lead medical and behavioral health management and clinical quality-related activities for all product lines. His responsibilities, according to the company, will include utilization management, care coordination, long-term support services, quality improvement, accreditation, credentialing, pharmacy, appeals and grievances, health services, behavioral health services and medical policy.

Since 2014, Johnson had served as the senior medical director for WellCare of Georgia. In that role, he was responsible for overseeing the clinical direction of medical services, quality improvement and performance outcomes for more than

John Alexander Johnson, M.D. 580,000 Managed Medicaid members and 38,000 Medicare Advantage members. He provided medical leadership for effective clinical integration of services, including pharmacy operations, utilization review, care management, behavioral

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Earlier in his career, Johnson

owned and operated an internal medicine practice in Atlanta for more than 14 years. He focused on treating patients with acute and chronic conditions. One of his major clinical interests has been treating patients with diabetes.

Johnson graduated from Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School and completed his internal medicine residency training at Emory University in Atlanta.

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The Men’s Action Fellowship of First Baptist Church of Hampton will host a Breakfast and Education Form during the 2017 Men’s Week Celebration. The event will be held at First Baptist Church of Hampton, 229 North King Street, Hampton.

The following will serve as panelists for the Education Forum: · Deacon Carlton Ashby · Dr. Kipp D. Rogers · Dr. Jeffery Smith · Dr. Wayne K. Smith The purpose of this forum is to provide an opportunity for the community to hear and discuss the state and future of Public Education in the city of Hampton with those who in the trenches with our youth and the education system.

6.29, 6: 30 p.m.

Participants can learn about the process of purchasing a home and obtaining a mortgage at a free seminar offered by Virginia Credit Union.

The First-time Homebuyers Seminar will be held at Virginia Credit Union in the Boulders Office Park, 7500 Boulder View Drive, Richmond. Mortgage experts will be on hand to answer specific questions.

To register to attend, call 804323-6800 or visit www.vacu.org/ Learning_Planning/Financial_ Education/Seminars_Workshops/ Detail/SID/2.aspx

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6.26, 9 a.m.

This summer, hundreds of people in the Hampton Roads area will experience first-hand the power of the movement to end lupus. The Walk to End Lupus Now™ Hampton Roads takes place on at the John B. Todd Stadium.

The walk’s Grand Marshall will be lupus survivor Zenay Burton, co-founder of the We Win Foundation and sister of actress Tichina Arnold (Martin, Everybody Hates Chris).

Register at hamptonroadslupuswalk17.kintera.org/. Additionally, learn more and donate by visiting www.lupus.org/dmv.

WIN A 1965 CORVETTE STING RAY.

Valiant Virginians, a 501(c)3 non profit, is raffling a classic numbers matching 1965 Corvette Sting Ray Coupe. Proceeds from the raffle go to help Virginia families who have lost their means of transportation and need a car or car repairs to get to work.

When merited, Valiant Virginians (www.valiantvirginians.org) “gifts” donated cars to deserving families or helps repair a family car. Ben Jones, aka “Cooter” of Dukes of Hazzard fame, will draw the winning ticket on July 30 at the Cooter’s Last Stand event in beautiful Luray, Virginia (4768 US-211). To view photos and to BUY A TICKET ONLINE, visit www.valiantvirginians. org. Order by phone at 540-746-1962. Tickets $100 each. Hurry! Only 1200 tickets being sold. Winners not required to be present. For more info email, greg@valiantvirginians.org or call 540-746-1962.

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(from page 9) Few messengers had seen the actual resolution and many expressed confusions about what, exactly “the alt-right” was. Still, the rejection set off alarm bells among many pastors at the convention who couldn’t believe their denomination might fail to stand against new manifestations of racism and chose not to act.

After the vote on whether to consider McKissic’s resolution failed, Rev. Garrett Kell, the lead pastor of Del Ray Baptist Church in Virginia, who is white, approached a microphone and addressed SBC president, Rev. Steve Gaines.

“This may show my ignorance, sir, because I don’t know how this works,” Kell said. “But I would hate for us to leave here today with confusion about where the Southern Baptist convention stands on the altright.”

Kell was told that the messengers would need to agree to re-open the Resolutions Committee process, which seemed unlikely.

Meanwhile, McKissic was incensed.

He walked through the crowded convention hall and demanded a meeting with the convention’s Parliamentarian to find a way for the issue to be addressed.

McKissic was told that there was still a way: He could try to bring it up again at another session that night.

He did, but this time he didn’t come alone. A group of mostly young, Gen-X and Millennial pastors had mobilized through social media, and vowed to help him navigate convention rules to force a vote.

“I’m going to make sure that this Southern Baptist Convention is not going to complete with any illusion that this entity supports in any way a racist group, especially in light of the fact that this convention was founded on racist ideologically,” Kell said. “Being unclear on the spirit of this is dumb, foolish and bad stewardship of time.”

Charles Hedman, a pastoral assistant at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., and an attorney versed in the arcane rules of parliamentary procedure, took the lead from the floor.

William Dwight McKissic Sr. He called on the convention to reconsider McKissic’s resolution and “condemn the alt-right from the stage as we speak right now so there is not misunderstanding from the press or this convention.”

Standing at another microphone across the room, Kell pressed further.

“I just want clarity from the president of the Southern Baptist Convention about whether we condemn, as a convention, racism,” he said.

Speaking from the stage, Gaines responded, “I’ll speak for myself.

I don’t know that I can speak for everyone in this room, but I believe God loves everyone. I believe there is only one race and that is the human race.”

Another vote was taken on whether to make more time to reconsider.

They wouldn’t know the results for another three hours.

Danny Akin, a denomination leader and president of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, called Gaines on the phone.

“I think we’re heading toward a trainwreck,”Akin warned him.

As a back-up plan, a group of pastors came together and vowed to work through the night to draft their own resolution condemning racism and release it on their own accord through social media.

But behind the scenes, Southern Baptist leaders were already working fast.

Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and a leading Southern Baptist voice on the issue of racial

reconciliation, took the lead to rewrite the resolution. As an outspoken critic of Trump in 2016, Moore became a polarizing figure last year -- at least temporarily -- within the denomination. Trump went on to win a supermajority of support from evangelical voters, putting Moore largely out of step with his theological brethren.

But that was then. Now, the Southern Baptists needed his voice more than ever.

“It was critically important to get this right” Moore said. “The altright isn't just some sociological movement. The alt-right is contrary to the gospel of Jesus Christ and Satanic to the core. We need to be very clear on that.”

Moore and members of leadership went into overdrive working backstage on a new, air-tight resolution.

After a worship service and a ceremony to commission new missionaries, Gaines and other leaders returned to the stage to announce the results of the vote three hours earlier.

This one, too, he announced, failed to reach the two-thirds needed.

Messengers in the conventional hall gasped.

Gaines, however, was resolute about not leaving until the issue was addressed. Under a cloud of external pressure from media reports saying they had failed to condemn racism and a storm of criticism on social media, Gaines decided to push the boundaries of the rules.

The Resolutions Committee, he

Russell Moore said, recognized that they had made a mistake and unanimously voted to request something of a parliamentary do-ver. Even though they had already formally closed their annual report, they requested permission from the convention to use open time the next day to hold a vote on a newly worded resolution that would condemn the of the philosophy alt-right.

The new resolution, which risked little confusion with the new title, “On the Anti-Gospel of Alt-Right White Supremacy,” could be voted on the following day if two-thirds agreed to an immediate vote. Gaines took time to explain what the alt-right was and why he and other leaders believed it should be condemned. He called the vote.

A sea of hands went up throughout the convention all. Organizers said they saw only one person vote in opposition.

After the dramatic vote, pastors gathered in a nearby room to debrief, where they acknowledged that they narrowly dodged a catastrophe.

“We ended up with a black eye here,” said Al Mohler, president of the Southern Theological Seminary.

“We should never apologize for doing the right thing even if we end up a little bruised in doing it, even if we stumble over each other on the way to doing it. ...Thanks be to God we got a chance to come back tomorrow and say what we want to say.

“That was so close to being a disaster.”

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