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‘ Congratulations to the Cleveland Cavaliers who, on Sunday, won the city’s first major sports championship since 1964. It was a thrilling Game 7 of the NBA finals.

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“There’s lots of research showing that Americans draw assumptions that associate blackness with criminality.”

Study: ‘Ban the Box’ helps excons find work, but may hurt prospects for law-abiding blacks BRANDON ELLINGTON PATTERSON As a bipartisan consensus on the need for criminal justice reform has solidified in recent years, one of the changes advocates have pushed for is “banning the box”—that is, removing from job applications the box people must check if they have had a felony conviction. Ban-the-box laws don’t prevent employers from asking applicants about a criminal record, but rather delay the questioning until later in the process, after an applicant has made it past that first hurdle. The idea is that applicants

with criminal records can then get an honest opportunity for consideration, as opposed to being eliminated from the get-go.

Ban the box has also been touted by civil rights groups as a way to reduce unemployment among young black men (who disproportionately have criminal records) and thereby to lessen the racial employment gap.

Twenty-three states have passed ban-the-box laws that apply to public employers, while nine also apply the policy to private employers. Last November, President Obama directed federal agencies to remove the box from applications for federal gigs.

The study examined callback rates for fictitious applicants for about 15,000 entry-level jobs.

A new study, however, suggests that while banning the box helps applicants with criminal records, it may actually hurt applicants of color who don’t have one. Conducted

by Sonja Starr, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and Amanda Agan, a professor of economics at Princeton, the study examined callback rates for about 15,000 job applications. The fictitious applicants were 21-22 years old, with similar educational backgrounds and employment histories. They sought

employment in actual low-skill, entry-level positions in a variety of industries at 4,300 business locations in New Jersey and New York, both before and after each state adopted its ban-the-box law in 2015.

For the applications, the researchers used real names— selected using New Jersey and New York birth certificate records and data on race and name association— that were suggestive of one race or another. Before the ban-the-box laws were enacted, 39 percent of the employers in question asked about

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Va. pulls 132 confined sex offenders from voters list State officials abruptly removed 132 sex offenders from Virginia’s list of eligible voters last week, reacting to the latest problem emerging from Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s sweeping move to restore voting rights to felons who had served out their sentences.

A spokesman for McAuliffe (D) said that the offenders, who are confined in a treatment facility under a form of civil commitment, had appeared on the list of eligible voters by mistake.

“Those folks should not have been on the list, and they are not there now,” said spokesman Brian Coy. A local prosecutor contends there was no mistake. She said state officials changed the records to try to hide a politically awkward accident

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— that McAuliffe inadvertently restored voting rights to some of Virginia’s worst sexual predators.

“This is a cover-up, plain and simple,” Nottoway County Commonwealth’s said Attorney Terry J. Royall. “They’ve cleaned up the database.”

With an executive order in April, McAuliffe restored voting and other civil rights to more than 200,000 felons who had completed their terms of incarceration or “supervised release, including probation and parole.”

A string of troubles followed the decision, including revelations that McAuliffe had mistakenly restored voting rights to several violent felons still in prison. Republican legislative leaders filed a lawsuit claiming that McAuliffe lacked the legal authority to grant clemency en masse. And 43 Republican, Democratic and independent commonwealth’s attorneys weighed in against the governor with an amicus brief filed Friday.

Royall, an independent, raised yet another issue. She said McAuliffe’s order covered 132 sex offenders who have completed their criminal sentences but remain locked up because they have been deemed too dangerous to release. They have been committed, through civil court proceedings, to the Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation in Nottoway County, about an hour’s drive southwest of Richmond.

McAuliffe spokeswoman Christina Nuckols said last week that the governor’s order does not cover the center’s residents because the “24/7 supervision” they get at the facility amounts to the “supervised release” that the governor’s order says must be completed before voting rights are restored.

Yet two national experts on civil confinement — Charles P. Ewing, author of “Justice Perverted,” and Eric Janus, author of “Failure to Protect: America’s Sexual Predator Laws and the Rise of the Preventive State” — disputed the notion that it can be considered “supervised

release” in the legal meaning of the term. The civil commitment system, they said, is based on the premise that it is not an extension of the sex offenders’ criminal sentences.

“These men are not being held in criminal confinement,” said Ewing, a law professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Janus, a professor at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minn., said considering those in civil commitment to be in supervised release would be “totally inconsistent with what the states have claimed about civil commitment all along.”

Also pushing back against the governor’s stance was Rep. H. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), who as a state delegate in 2003 sponsored a bill that created Virginia’s civil commitment system.

“We made it very clear that this was not a criminal process,” he said.

But the governor’s office reiterated its position Friday, with support from Claire Guthrie Gastanaga, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Virginia affiliate.

She agreed that “supervised release,” as the term is used in the executive order, “should be read to include any supervised release from prison and not just probation or parole.”

Coy, McAuliffe’s spokesman, said the order is the governor’s, and his administration’s understanding of it all boils down to a simple question: “Have you been released or are you being supervised? And in this case, these folks clearly meet that definition of the term.”

But Janus warned that the courts, not the administration, could ultimately decide how to interpret the governor’s order.

“They expose themselves to a lawsuit about taking away the right to vote and maybe even the underlying validity of the civil commitment system,” he said.

The latest twist to the rightsrestoration saga began last Wednesday, when Royall asked the facility’s director if any of the residents’ rights had been restored

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Pay, housing, health care & retirement: Congress faces thorny military decisions LEO SHANE, III

MT - Washington lawmakers will spend the next few months merging the separate House and Senate drafts of the annual defense authorization bill, including a host of thorny issues that could impact military personnel and their families for years to come.

Among them are the size of next year's pay raise and long-term plans for housing stipends, issues that directly affect how much money service members will see in their bank accounts.

And that’s just the start. The two bills contain dozens of pay and bonus re-authorizations, and outlines the Defense Department's overall spending plans for fiscal 2017.

The separate funding plans will likely be the biggest sticking point in negotiations. The House shifted $18 billion in overseas operations money to base budget needs, a plan that senators and the White House have already rejected.

But the personnel issues will be key conflict points as well. Here’s a look at the fights to come: Pay raise The difference between the House and Senate pay plans is just onehalf of a percentage point, but that’s a sizable sum of money for the two chambers to sort out.

The Senate and White House proposed a 1.6 percent pay raise in January, which would be below the expected growth in private sector

wages. But Pentagon officials have argued that a lower raise is needed to preserve training and modernization funds, and still ensures a comfortable salary increase for service members.

Senate drops plan to boost military pay raise, end strength House lawmakers disagree. They want a 2.1 percent pay raise, equal to the projected private sector rise, and say that the money does more for morale and families if it winds up in troops’ pockets versus the military's readiness accounts.

The difference between these plans totals about $11 a month for an Army specialist with three years service.

For a sergeant first class with 10 years, or a first lieutenant with two years, the monthly difference is about $19.

First black woman has taken command of U.S. Navy Forces in Europe, Africa

But in total the higher pay plan costs an extra $330 million, money House lawmakers set aside by shifting the overseas missions budget.

To keep the higher pay raise, senators will have to agree to the House’s funding method or find another area of the budget to carve out tens of millions in savings. So far, they have shown no interest in either approach.

Housing stipends The Senate’s proposed housing stipend overhaul doesn’t carry the same price tag problems as the pay raise, but could represent a much more dramatic change in troops’

(continued on page 15) Admiral Michelle Howard, the first African-American woman to lead the U.S. Navy’s forces in Europe and Africa officially took command in a ceremony this month. According to the Navy Times, she is the highestranking woman in the Navy.

Howard took command of Allied Joint Force Command Naples, a key NATO base, as well as U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa, consisting of the Navy’s assets in both Europe and Africa.

As the leader of the U.S. Navy’s presence in Europe and Africa, Howard’s duty is to “[lead] full spectrum maritime operations in concert with allied, coalition, joint, interagency and other partners to advance U.S. interests while enhancing maritime security and stability in Europe and Africa,” according to a NATO press release.

In addition, her role as commander of Allied Joint Force Command in Naples, Italy places her as one of two subordinates to NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, and charges her with support of NATO operations in that region.

Howard was previously the vice chief of Naval Operations, the second highest ranking commission in the Navy. She was the first woman to achieve the rank of four-star admiral, and was the first African-American woman to command a warship.

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‘Joseph’s Law’ aims to curtail day care tragedies

Chesterfield residents Jaci and Matthew Allen look on as Gov. Terry McAuliffe signs a law named for their 13-month-old son, Joseph, who died in a fire at his day care provider’s home in 2014. PHOTO: CO JIM McCONNELL CO - By channeling their grief and anger into action, and changing Virginia law in the process, a Chesterfield family is trying to protect children and prevent future tragedies at day care facilities across the commonwealth.

“This law isn’t justice for Joseph, but we hope it helps other families,” said Jaci Allen, whose 13-monthold son died in a fire at the home of his unlicensed day care provider in October 2014.

Since then, the Allen family has worked tirelessly to stiffen penalties for day care providers that fail to comply with state licensure regulations.

Del. Daun Sessoms Hester (D-Norfolk) introduced a bill in the House of Delegates earlier this year and shepherded it through the legislative process.

Both chambers of the General Assembly unanimously approved the bill in March.

Jaci and Matthew Allen, and Matthew’s parents Herman and

LuAnn, stood behind Gov. Terry McAuliffe recently as he signed “Joseph’s Law” during a ceremony at a Newport News elementary school.

Under the new law, which takes effect July 1, if a child dies or is seriously injured at an unlicensed day care, the operator can be charged with a Class 4 felony.

“We know this won’t bring Joseph back,” McAuliffe said, “but we also know we can prevent this from happening to other Virginia children.”

Over the past 10 years, more than 50 children have died in Virginia day care facilities that were unregulated by the state.

Joseph Allen was one of eight children – six of whom were 2 years old or younger – in the care of Laurie Underwood when fire broke out at Underwood’s Chesterfield home on the morning of Oct. 21, 2014.

Underwood got seven children out of the house safely, but in the chaos of a rushed evacuation, Joseph was left behind.

Firefighters later discovered Joseph strapped into an overturned infant

carrier on the second floor. Joseph died from acute thermal inhalation.

The Allens were outraged after learning that the lone charge the Chesterfield Commonwealth’s Attorney intended to file against Underwood was a misdemeanor for operating an unlicensed day care facility.

They thought Underwood should have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Duncan Minton, who led the investigation into Joseph’s death, maintained that state law didn’t support more serious charges.

At the time of the fire, Underwood’s home had no working smoke detectors or fire extinguishers. She also failed to prepare an emergency evacuation plan or compile a list of the children in her care.

All of those items would have been required in order for Underwood to obtain a state day care license.

Underwood pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in 2015 and was sentenced to 12 months in jail, with four months suspended.

Had she been convicted under “Joseph’s Law,” Underwood would have faced between two and 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.

Hester thanked the Allens –

particularly Joseph’s grandparents, Herman and LuAnn – for coming to Richmond “day after day” to lobby and fight for “Joseph’s Law.” Many of the Allens’ friends, family members and neighbors sent emails to their representatives in the General Assembly, asking them to pass the bill.

Two statewide advocacy groups – Child Care Aware of Virginia and Voices for Virginia’s Children – also lobbied in support of the legislation.

Jaci Allen acknowledged it was “exhausting” to tell their story to the different groups of lawmakers, “reliving the nightmare over and over.”

The alternative – doing nothing and risking the same thing happening to another child – was simply unacceptable.

Jaci and Matthew Allen’s daughter, Carolyn, is now seven months old.

She has big eyes and chubby cheeks just like the older brother she will never get to meet.

Jaci, who is due with the couple’s third child in November, said that Carolyn “kept us going” and “lifted our heads” whenever she and Matthew were tempted to surrender to their grief.

“She brought us back,” Jaci added, “and gave us hope.”

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She said the matter was of interest in her small, rural community, where the addition of more than 100 new voters could be enough to swing local elections. In the Nottoway district that is home to the center, the winner of the last contested school board race drew just 358 votes, she said.

“We entered resident information into the database,” VCBR director Jason Wilson replied to Royall in an email late Wednesday afternoon. “As far as we can tell, we have approximately 132 residents that come up as having their rights restored.”

After McAuliffe’s office learned about that response, Wilson emailed Royall to take that number back, saying that an “issue with

them came up.” Wilson declined to comment.

“None of them had their rights restored, plain and simple,” Nuckols, McAuliffe’s spokeswoman, said Wednesday.

On Friday, Coy acknowledged that the sex offenders had been listed as eligible voters but said that had been in error — one he attributed to the fact that the offenders are at a facility run by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, not the Department of Corrections.

“There was a data set missing from our data,” he said. “This was a data set that was housed in another agency. . . . As soon as we heard about it, we reacted and fixed the problems.”

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VCU selects ‘Story of Justice and Redemption’ as Common Book BRIAN MCNEIL

As part of a yearlong, universitywide Common Book initiative, thousands of incoming Virginia Commonwealth University students will read “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,” a 2014 book that tells the true account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, provides a window into the lives of those he has defended, and makes an argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.

“Just Mercy” is by Bryan Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children in need facing the criminal justice system. It tells the story of one of Stevenson’s first cases, that of Walter McMillian, a young man who had been convicted and sentenced to death for a murder he insisted he did not commit.

“The selection committee thought the compelling and powerful story that Stevenson tells of his path from an undergraduate student to a Harvard Law School graduate’s dedication to serving marginalized communities would engage first-year students, who are on the front end of their own academic journeys and discoveries,” said initiative director Shelli Fowler, Ph.D., interim dean of University College and associate professor in the Department of English in the College of Humanities and Sciences.

The selection committee was also struck by Stevenson’s ability to invite all readers to explore the complexities of mercy and justice in society, and students and faculty alike felt that the book supported VCU’s ongoing commitment to inclusive excellence and creating a welcoming campus for all, Fowler said.

“I feel like ‘Just Mercy’ was a very genuine and powerful narrative about finding justice in our legal

system for those without a voice,” said Tammie Goode, a member of the selection committee and a junior in the School of Business double majoring in international management and marketing. “Many times, students come to university without understanding the privilege that they have in so many aspects of their life, so I hope that this book will be a great catalyst for conversation and initiatives to work with VCU and Richmond on how we can learn about how to use privilege toward something positive.”

The university will distribute more than 3,500 copies of “Just Mercy” to incoming first-year students while they attend new student orientation, which gets underway this month.

The students will be invited to take part in Welcome Week discussion groups about the book facilitated by faculty, staff, graduate students and administrators, and the discussion groups will be followed by a more in-depth curricular engagement with the book in UNIV 111, as well as additional campus and community events throughout the fall and early spring semesters.

The Common Book is not just for the incoming first-year students, however. The entire VCU community, across both campuses, and the wider community is being encouraged to read it, and then to take part in a variety of public events.

“This year our Common Book provides us a unique opportunity to connect the VCU and Richmond communities.”

“This year our Common Book provides us a unique opportunity to connect the VCU and Richmond communities,” Fowler said. “The Common Book committee and planning team are hoping to generate opportunities for campus and community reading groups and Richmond community events that offer real-world learning experiences for interested students. It is not every year that the Common Book

Bryan Stevenson is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. selection offers so much potential for students to also learn from and with the Richmond community. We hope to leverage that potential throughout this year.”

Copies of “Just Mercy” are available to be checked out from both the James Branch Cabell Library on the Monroe Park campus and the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences on the MCV campus.

Copies also will be available for purchase at the campus Barnes & Noble bookstores and other area book shops.

“Just Mercy” is not only an engaging and eye-opening read, it also deals with topics that are relevant today, said Caitlin Liberatore, a selection committee member and a senior studying health, physical education, and exercise science with a concentration in exercise science in the College of Humanities and Sciences.

“It’s a great book to relate to when talking about the Black Lives Matter movement,” she said. “However, racism isn’t the only issue that is brought to light in the book.

Homelessness and poverty, gender prejudice, health consequences of solitary confinement and child incarceration are also displayed

throughout the book.”

Libertore added that she thinks the book will encourage students to volunteer and give back to the VCU and Richmond communities.

“I think this will spark a lot of discussion and critical thinking among the incoming freshmen and others who read it,” she said. “I am hoping this would be a story they could relate to throughout their entire college experience.”

The Common Book initiative is meant to bring new VCU students together as a cohort by reading and discussing a common text, and also to welcome them into the vibrant intellectual culture of the university.

“Each year, the selection committee works to choose a text that asks students to engage with complex, interdisciplinary topics and social issues as they begin to explore and discover how their academic interests align with their professional goals and aspirations,” Fowler said. “The transition from high school to college necessitates an emphasis on active and engaged learning that will set the stage for success at VCU and beyond. The Common Book is one of many opportunities VCU offers to welcome the newest members into our academic community.” - VCU

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Things the Republican Party gets totally wrong about race RAYNARD JACKSON NNPA - While there is no denying that Donald Trump has had a terrible past few weeks with his dogged focus on some obscure federal judge in San Diego, I think Trump can right the ship, but he has an extremely narrow window to do so.

I will deal with that in a future column.

This controversy with Trump and the judge has revealed yet again how unprepared the Republican Party is, in the 21st century, in dealing with the issue of race, especially, relative to the black community.

I have advised some of the biggest names in politics, business, sports, and entertainment on racial and other career threatening crises.

The first thing I have noticed with Republicans dealing with the issue of race is that they deny that whatever happened was racist. Why does this happen? Well, that’s an easy question to answer. Republicans are surrounded by White staffers, who think they know more about the black community than black people do. And I’m speaking from personal experience, as recently as last month.

Memo to Republicans # 1: Never, I mean never say to the media, “I am not a racist.” That means you are losing the argument. Remember former President Nixon’s famous rejoinder, “I am not a crook?”

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Again, for purposes of this column, I am not specifically talking about Trump and the judge, but rather the Republican Party in general when it comes to issues that have a racial component.

There are absolutely no blacks in positions of power or influence anywhere within the Republican Party. There are none within the Republican National Committee (RNC), National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), nor any of the presidential campaigns.

Republicans have all white advisors and consultants trying to advise them on racial matters impacting the black community, and they can’t understand why things keep blowing up in their faces. Duhhhhh!

Memo to Republicans # 2: Don’t just go out and grab the first black person you see and come back to me and say, “Now we have a black, so please shut up.”

Many black Republicans are whiter than their white counterparts, and this is by design. Many black Republicans have absolutely no connection to the black community; nor any skill set to put them in a position of advising the party on racial matters.

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will speak their mind and who know what the hell they are talking about.

You have black Republicans being pimped by the media to constantly denounce Donald Trump, because they are media whores who are looking for the proverbial pat on the head from “massa,” but these same black Republicans have laryngitis when it comes to the lack of “real” black staffers, consultants, and advisors within the party.

I have no record of these same blacks speaking about how white our upcoming national convention is going to be, how there has been little, if any, opportunities for black Republicans to do business with the upcoming convention. Seems like you have more opportunity to do business with the convention if you are a black Democrat—go figure.

How can you have a white 20-something writing a speech about civil rights or voting rights for a Republican leader to give? I am not exaggerating, this is actually happening.

The party needs a plethora of “real” blacks who have a connection to the black community, who understand messaging in terms of communications, and who have personal relationships with the media, and understand how to connect all of these into a coherent strategy.

The party has virtually no black surrogates who can push back in the media against all the black liberals on MSNBC and CNN, so a lie that is repeated enough, becomes the truth.

So, while many in the party are speaking out against Trump (some of it is well deserved and warranted), I wish these same people would be just as vehement in fighting against the radical liberal agenda that President Obama and Hillary Clinton have been promoting.

And to my black Republican friends, I don’t think all of your denunciations of some of Trump’s comments are not legitimate, but where are your voices on other issues that impact the black community relative to the party?

What have you done to get more black students internships with our congressional members? What have you done to promote legislative solutions to address issues of particular concern to blacks (access to capital for black entrepreneurs, aide to HBCUs, promotion of school choice, etc.)?

And finally, Memo # 3: To my black Republicans, always remember, when all is said and done, there is more said than done.

Jackson is founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), which aims to get more blacks involved in the Republican Party.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Never forget

Let’s never forget how our American community came together to support our brothers and sisters in Charleston. As a nation, we cried for their suffering, honored their lives, and as President Obama noted, challenged ourselves, even in the midst of our sadness, “To see where we’ve been blind.” We came together to make clear how the Confederate flag has been a “reminder of systematic oppression and racial subjugation.”

We were reminded of how gun violence inflicts a “unique mayhem” on our nation. The tragedy spotlighted how past injustices continue to shape our present actions. And the encouraging call of South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to take down the Confederate flag from the state’s capitol was part of an incredible moment of national unity.

Now, a year later, the mass shooting in Orlando last Sunday that was also fueled by hate painfully reminds us that our work is far from done.

As the President noted, Reverend Pinckney understood that “justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other. That my liberty depends on you being free, too.

That history can’t be a sword to justify injustice, or a shield against progress, but must be a manual for how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past -- how to break the cycle.

A roadway toward a better world.

He knew that the path of grace involves an open mind -- but, more

importantly, an open heart.”

Let’s never forget the legacy of those lives lost, those injured, and those affected by this day. Please remember them in our thoughts, our prayers -- but also remember them with our actions. We cannot turn away from the fact that the worst mass shooting in our history took place just five days ago or that approximately 30,000 lives each year are cut short by gun violence in this country, and that countless more lives are forever changed through injuries or the loss of a loved one.

The vast majority of Americans and the majority of gun owners want to do something about this. They too feel the fierce urgency of now -understanding that it is not the time to give up the fight to end senseless gun violence.

I still believe that we as a nation can find that amazing grace President Obama spoke about that day to do what we know to be right.

Valerie Jarrett

Justice bill

I have always been proud to champion Virginia’s DNA testing program, and I am pleased to support the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2016 bipartisan legislation that will reauthorize and update these critical programs.

These funds will help us better support victims of crime, give law enforcement and prosecutors improved tools to put criminals behind bars, and provide additional investment in the long-term modernization of the criminal justice system.

The Justice for All Reauthorization

Act of 2016 focuses on ensuring our criminal justice system is fair and effective. It provides resources for public forensic laboratories, which are critical to ensure the efficient and accurate testing of evidence, and reduces the rape kit backlog.

Sen. Mark Warner

Drafting women

The New York Times recently reported that the Senate has voted to require women to register for the draft, with few Senators in opposition. This bill comes as no surprise given the military has been increasingly opening its doors to women.

This culminated in last December when “…Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said in December that the Pentagon would open all combat jobs to women…” which helped military officials advise Congress to make the draft apply for both women and men.

This bill has such broad and widespread support because of its intuitive appeal: If all combat jobs are open to men and this requires them to register for the draft then why should women be any different?

Taking the institution of the military and its rules at its face, it seems implausible that women should be treated much differently.

Although the opposition was overall insignificant it should be noted that some of the more conservative members of the Senate, such as Ted Cruz, opposed the legislation on the basis that, “The idea that we should forcibly conscript young girls in combat to my mind makes little sense at all…”

The final outcome of this bill is uncertain with the House of Representatives to deliberate on the bill and President Obama promising a veto, should it go through. But as Nora Bensahel, a military policy analyst, says, “It just seems that now that you have women allowed to serve in any position in the military, there is no logical basis to say women should not be drafted.”

I agree with Bensahel with regards to inevitability and if we accept the coercive power of the state, the military as a legitimate institution, the draft as a legitimate law and so on, then we can swiftly move to a “logical basis” that Bensahel mentions.

However, these are presumptions that unsurprisingly seem to be left out of the conversation so far.

The worst part of this bill isn’t the bill itself but that the minimal opposition it has relies on dangerously conservative ideas about women and their fragility. Notice the way that Cruz uses “little girls” instead of “grown women” when he talks about combat. He has to infantilize women in order to justify the government not being able to force them into the military.

But perhaps just as noxious is the “egalitarianism” liberals and “progressive” Republicans alike can appeal to so they can justify this law.

They’re able to distance themselves from using the coercive arm of the state because it’s for “equality”.

But equality under the law doesn’t mean anything when the law itself is unjust.

Nick Ford

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8 • June 22, 2016

Faith & Religion

What religious leaders are saying about Ryan plan (CNA).- After U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan announced a task force on poverty, religious leaders and economists weighed in, saying that it was a good starting point, but that more needed to be done.

Catholix Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami voiced hope that the proposal would be a conversationstarter on poverty, saying it “ought to be a catalyst for strong bi-partisan dialogue about our brothers and sisters in need and our obligations to give them priority in our policymaking.”

Ryan’s 35-page plan, “A Better Way: Our vision for a confidant America”, proposes changes to the welfare system, more cooperation between faith and communitybased initiatives and the federal government, and a more resultsbased critique of federal anti-poverty programs.

“No amount of government intervention can replace the great drivers of American life: our families, friends, neighbors, churches, and charities,” the introduction states.

“And Americans do not need more one-size-fits-all, top-down government programs that limit their ability to get ahead. Instead, they need opportunities to help them escape poverty and earn success.”

Among the plans proposals are work requirements for welfare recipients, letting workers avoid the welfare “cliff” by keeping some benefits as they accept wage increases, giving states and local governments more freedom to tailor welfare benefits and incentives to the needs of specific communities, promoting the use of data and information technology to determine the effectiveness of anti-poverty programs, and working with community programs for at-risk youth, to prevent incarceration.

“All too often, our current system of welfare programs and education programs are too complex, or

Poverty is more prevalent in black communities. don’t provide the assistance that individuals need in their unique circumstances,” the plan stated. “This is the beginning of a conversation.”

Ryan, who ran for U.S. vice president in 2012, has publically described his budget principles as being based on the Catholic pillars of solidarity and subsidiarity.

Prominent Catholics voiced gratitude to the House Speaker for raising the issue and starting a dialogue on the matter, although they added that the conversation is only beginning.

“It is time for a major national discussion on the moral challenge of overcoming poverty in the richest nation on earth,” said John Carr, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University.

“I think Speaker Ryan’s proposal is a contribution to that, and I hope

it will encourage others to offer their own plans and priorities.”

Carr was glad that the plan avoided touching “block grants, Medicaid, and food stamps,” noting that to do so “posed major practical and political problems” and did “not help the poor, in my view.”

Wenski agreed.

“Commendably, the plan does not seek to be a blunt instrument with regard to the social safety net,” he stated.

However, John Médaille, an adjunct professor of theology at the University of Dallas, said many of Ryan’s proposals “turn out to be aspirational at best, and contradictory at worst.”

The document “concentrates on symptoms, not causes” of poverty, he argued. “Poverty is the result of not having a job” or of “not having a job with a sufficient wage,” he said, but Ryan’s plan has “no wage-support

programs” like a minimum wage hike, and has “no jobs program” to create jobs and bring people out of poverty.

Work requirements for welfare can only be a part of policies fighting poverty, Archbishop Wenski said.

Lawmakers should look at other possible causes of poverty and symptoms “like access to nutritious food for people of all ages,” he said.

“While work is crucial for the flourishing of those who are ablebodied – and here St. John Paul II reminded us that work constitutes a foundation for the formation of family life – we need to account for the current state of our job training and the availability of actual, good paying jobs,” the archbishop stated.

And according to a study cited in the poverty report – a 2012 Census Bureau report on Income, Poverty,

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Crowds remember victims of Orlando shooting

Richmond police officers, leaders of non-profit organizations, members of the LGBTQ community, local residents and activists, city council members, church leaders, and even the governor came together last week at Diversity Richmond to remember the 49 people who lost their lives and the many others wounded during the horrific Orlando nightclub shooting.

Diversity Richmond was packed wall to wall with people. Hundreds attended the vigil and even more crowded around speakers stationed outside the community center to pay their respects, and gain some peace. understanding and camaraderie from others as various Richmond community members spoke on the tragedy.

Bill Harrison, president and executive director for Diversity Richmond, delivered opening remarks. Behind him hung the Puerto Rican flag, the LGBTQ Pride flag and the transgender pride flag.

He recalled seeing the events unfold on his television Sunday morning.

“Unfortunately, Americans, we have somehow grown numb to mass murders.” he said to the crowd. “Because they are not that uncommon in this great land that we live in.”

Harrison said that Americans often don’t talk about and forget the horrible mass shootings that the nation faces. He noted that the LGBTQ community faces hate and discrimination too often. During the AIDS crisis, he recalled how much discrimination and fear affected the LGBTQ community, but he also remembered how the community was able to get together and educate

themselves, march on Washington, and most importantly take care of each other.

Harrison also recognized those

heroes who gave their lives to protect others during the shooting in Orlando.

“I stood in front of my television the other night and I watched the reports of the people in that nightclub who put their lives in the face of danger,” said Harrison. “Standing up while the bullets were flying. None of us can even begin to imagine. Holding doors open so total strangers can get out to safety. Placing their lives at risk. Taking off their clothing and using it as tourniquets to stop the bleeding. I stood there and I thought, I am so proud to be a gay man.”

Following Harrison, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe came on stage to say a few words about gun violence.

“There is no reason this individual

should have been able to go out and buy a weapon of mass destruction,” said McAuliffe. “We gotta get rid of these types of weapons from our streets.”

During his time as governor, he said he has been to too many funerals. He noted the recent funerals of two Virginia law enforcement officials who had been shot and killed while on duty. Chad Dermyer, who was killed at the Greyhound bus station on a training mission in March, and Ashley Guindon, who was shot and killed a month prior on her first call as a Prince William Police Officer.

He asked everyone to call the Orlando shootings for what it was, a hate crime. Although they took a few moments of silence for the victims,

McAuliffe asked the crowd not to remain silent against discriminatory acts and gun violence once they left the vigil.

“It is time to stand up and say enough is enough. We are tired of discriminatory acts and we are tired of too many people possessing firearms who should not have them in this country. It is time to say enough.” said McAuliffe.

Towards the end of the vigil, members of Diversity Richmond honored the victims. As the names and ages of all 49 victims were read a prayer candle was lit in memory.

Followed by the lighting of candles of those in the audience. Another moment of silence took place among the ocean of flames.

Zakia McKensey, of Virginia AntiViolence Project and the Nationz Foundation, gave the closing remarks.

“We are praying for those who have been injured or lost due to this horrible crime targeting the LGBTQ community,” she said.

“We are praying for the families affected by this incident and we are praying for the city of Orlando. I will remember, you will remember, we will remember. This day that has made our hearts heavy.”

Dr. Imad Damaj, President and Founder of Virginia Muslim Coalition for Public Affairs, James Milner, President of Virginia Pride, and Rev. Lacette Cross of New Beginnings Church also spoke at the vigil. © GAYRVA

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My unfaithful brother-in-law Dear Alma,

Did you know? Ebony and Jet magazines have been sold Last week marked an end of an era for the historic Chicago-based Johnson Publishing Company.

After a 71-year run as an outlet for the expression of both the highest aspirations and deepest frustrations of African Americans, the familyowned business has sold its iconic lifestyle magazine — Ebony— and the now digital-only Jet magazine.

Johnson Publishing had represented black America since 1945. The publishing empire established by the late John H. Johnson told the story of black culture through the war years, the Civil Rights Movement, and the rise of black athletes and politicians.

The iconic magazines were purchased by a private equity firm in Austin, called the Clear View Group. According to Business Wire, the Clear View Group is “an African American-led investment group that brings to bear over 25 years of experience creating, developing and running successful corporations.”

The magazines will now be run out of a new enterprise called Ebony Media. Michael Gibson, CEO of Clear View Group and the new chairman of Ebony Media has this to say about the acquisition.

“We are excited about the future of Ebony Media and the opportunity to position the enterprise for longterm growth. Our team has a true understanding of the Ebony brand as well as its legacy, and is committed

Linda Johnson Rice to providing its audience with premium content across all media platforms.”

According to Rolling Out, Ebony Media Operations is still going to be headquartered in Chicago. The magazines will keep many of the staff and administration. The New York editorial office will also remain open.

Founder John H. Johnson’s daughter, Linda Johnson Rice, will serve as chairman emeritus of the board of the new company.

“This is the next chapter in retaining the legacy that my father John H. Johnson built to ensure the celebration of African-Americans,” she said.

Johnson Publishing is also looking to sell the rights to Ebony’s photo archives. They are asking “close to $40 million for the iconic images that captured our culture from the Civil Rights Movements to the rise of black entertainment in popular culture.”

My brother-in-law has been unfaithful to his wife for years.

Everybody knows, and I’m sure she did, too but she never said anything to me about it.

I told my brother-in-law that if she ever asked me, I was gonna tell her everything I knew.

Well, she did, and I told her everything. When she confronted him, she told him I told her. That caught me off guard, especially when he called and asked me if I did. I told him no.

Later, I guess he said something to my husband, and my husband confirmed that I did tell his wife.

I was so mad. I didn’t want to be in the middle of this mess.

Now we don’t have the same type of relationship. They don’t come over, and we don’t do things we used to do.

My husband said it’s because I snitched. I say he snitched. He shouldn’t have told his brother anything. He should have been committed to me and had my back. Right?

L.B Philly

L.B. Well, yes and no.

Yes, I think he has your back, and no, he didn’t have to lie for you. Tell the truth and shame the devil, when your sister-inlaw called to find out what was going on with her husband, you

couldn’t wait to carry those tales, could you?

How long had you been holding all that in? I imagine you told her everything you knew (had heard) and everything you didn’t know (didn’t hear). Now you say you were caught off guard when your brother-in-law called and asked if you had delivered that news hot off the presses.

You’ve got to be kidding me?

I think we all can agree that adultery is wrong. But what goes on between a man and his wife is their business. You have to be careful when you nominate yourself to be the bearer of bad news. If you find joy navigating that position, you’re doing it for all the wrong reasons. Step back and stop feeding this weed.

Your husband didn’t take sides.

He simply conveyed the truth.

Slip on your big-girl panties, own what you did and suffer the consequences. Make some apologies and admit you should have handled the situation differently. Start with your husband, and when you’re done, kiss him, sincerely, on the cheek. ***** Want advice? E-mail questions to alwaysaskalma@yahoo.com.Follow her on Facebook at “Ask Alma” and twitter @almaaskalma *****

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Dick Gregory speaks at RVA Juneteenth event

PHOTOS: Elegba Folklore Society

Dick Gregory comedian, civil rights activist and natural health enthusiast whose social satire influences America’s thinking, was the keynote speaker at Elegba Folklore Society’s Juneteenth 2016: A Freedom Celebration’s Symposium held at the Dominion Arts Center.

Elegba also held its Annual Torch Lit Night Walk Along the Trail of Enslaved Africans. The event is meant to allow participants to walk in the footsteps.

Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is a holiday of notable significance for many African-Americans. June 19, 1865, highlights the abolition of slavery in the state of Texas, marking a historic moment in American history and the culmination of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation that was written three years prior. Texas was resistant to the emancipation of slaves, but a military operation led by Union troops caused the end of slavery in the Lone Star state.

Celebrated in more than 40 states as a holiday, the cultural impact of Juneteenth is a resonant reminder of the country’s ugly past regarding the enslavement of blacks. With the roots of the holiday starting in Texas, the coastal city of Galveston, which served as the theater for the Union’s seizure and possession of the state, still remains the central area where Juneteenth celebrations have continued for decades. Similar celebrations have sprouted throughout the state – and across the country – where celebrants use the day as an opportunity to reflect on the rich history and contribution of AfricanAmericans to the fabric of the country.

Prince Be of PM Dawn dies Attrell Cordes, who formed the hiphop duo P.M. Dawn with his brother and was also known by the name Prince Be, has died.

His representative confirmed Cordes’ death on Saturday. He was 46.

“It’s true,” said Jeff Epstein, of Universal Attractions Agency in an email, responding to a query about the death. The performer had been suffering from renal kidney disease, People reported, and died in New

Jersey.

Cordes formed P.M. Dawn in 1988 with his brother, Jarrett Cordes, also known as DJ Minutemix. Their bestknown song was the 1991 “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.” The song, a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, was remade in 1997 by the Backstreet Boys.

Another song, the 1992 “I’d Die Without You,” reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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SACSCOC removes VSU from academic warning The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) voted to removeVirginia State University (VSU) from warning status and reaffirmed the university’s regional accreditation.

At its meeting last week, the SACSCOC board found that VSU has satisfied all the standards that led to the university being placed on warning status in 2015.

“Over the past few months, we have worked diligently to provide documentation that transparently addressed compliance with the relevant SACSCOC standards and committed to devoting the necessary resources to not only meet, but to exceed these accreditation standards,” said VSU President Dr. Makola M. Abdullah. “This process has afforded us the opportunity to be intentional about enhancing policies, programs, services, and operations.

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Rector of the VSU Board of Visitors Harry Black said Abdullah has provided “superb” leadership over the past few months.

“He and his staff worked tirelessly to ensure that VSU met and exceeded the SACSCOC standards.

Congratulations to the academic professionals at VSU for continuing to provide excellent academic opportunities for students,” said Black.

In April, a special committee conducted an on-site evaluation of VSU’s compliance with the accreditation standards of the commission. SACSCOC accreditation includes all components of the institution—all programs, branch campuses, off-campus sites, and distance learning programs as reported to the commission; thus, the removal of the warning status applies to the university in its entirety.

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(from page 8) entrepreneurs.” and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States – “the poverty programs actually do ease poverty” in that “people who didn’t have them would be starving,” Médaille noted.

Many people who are poor and receiving welfare benefits are actually “working very hard,” he said; in many families both parents are working and having to pay high daycare costs which can be second only to rent in monthly budget expenses.

The “effect of wage stagnation on family life” has had a very deleterious effect on families’ livelihoods, Médaille continued.

Young white men earn “about the same” as in the 1970s, he noted, and “household income” has stayed about the same for almost 20 years.

It’s definitely “part of the cause” of poverty, he said, but it receives “not even honorable mention in this document.”

One area Médaille agreed with the plan on was support for the EarnedIncome Tax Credit. It should be “expanded radically” or even replaced with a guaranteed income, he said, noting that experiments in Canada and India show that people with a guaranteed income are “more likely to take a risk” and “become

Meanwhile, Bread for the World expressed hope that Ryan’s poverty plan and the House of Representatives’ Task Force on Poverty, Opportunity, and Upward Mobility will start a bipartisan discussion on how to end hunger and poverty.

“Bread for the World applauds Speaker Ryan for giving poverty the attention it deserves and offering a plan to address it,” said Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World. “We have disagreements with some of the proposals. But we are pleased that the plan doesn’t propose to cut or block-grant antipoverty programs, and we welcome the emphasis on making programs as effective as possible.”

Beckmann and other Christian leaders, who form the core of the Circle of Protection, have repeatedly met with Ryan and his staff.

They recently wrote to members of the task force about what they hoped to see – and not see – in the Republican poverty plan.

Bread notes that the Republican plan stresses work without offering any solution to the fact that many people cannot find jobs. The plan fails to address the disparate impact of poverty on people of color and the racial bias that underlies this reality.

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LeBron James brings NBA championship home to “The Land” LeBron James proves once again he is indeed the king of the basketball court.

It’s a story that any young athlete grows up dreaming about—being able to bring your hometown a championship. James did just that when the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA championship in Game 7 against the Golden State Warriors.

This is Cleveland’s first major pro sports championship since the Cleveland Browns won the Superbowl in 1964.

The Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA exploded right from tip-off. The game was close all the way until the last deciding minute.

James had the block of the series against Andre Iguodala on a Warriors fast break with over a minute and a half remaining on the clock. Steph Curry, known for his three-point shooting, missed a threepoint attempt with a minute to play.

Kyrie Irving put icing on the cake when he hit a three-pointer that gave the Cavs a 92-89 lead. On the

following possession, Curry tried to save the day with another threepoint attempt, but missed and fate was sealed for a Cavs victory when James hit one of two free throws making it a two-possession game with seconds left to play.

Once again, Curry went for a three pointer, missed and the celebration began for the Cavs with LeBron falling to the floor in tears. His tears of joy were unstoppable as he held the championship trophy. James was also unanimously voted Finals MVP. James was primarily instrumental in leading the Cavs back from a 3-1 deficit. It’s the first time in NBA Finals series history that a team, after falling behind 3-1, won the championship title.

In Games 5 and 6 James scored 40-plus points and in the final game scored 27 points, grabbed 11 rebounds, delivered 11 assists, blocked three shots and had two steals.

“I'm true to the game, and I know

what I bring to the table,” James said after the fulfilling his promise to Cleveland fans. “I came back for a reason. I came back to bring a championship to our city.

“I knew what I was capable of doing. I knew what I learned in the last couple years that I was gone, and when I came back, I knew I had the right ingredients and the right blueprint to help this franchise get back to a place that we've never been.

That's what it was all about.

“The game always gives back to people that's true to the game. I've watched it. I know the history of

the game and I was just calm. I was calm. I was focused. I was locked in.

“Our fans, they ride or die. No matter what's been going on, no matter the Browns, the Indians, the Cavs and so on, and all other sports teams.

“They continue to support us. And for us to be able to end this...end this drought, our fans deserve it. They deserve it. And it was for them.”

The championship parade is Wednesday.

“It's going to be the biggest party that Cleveland has ever seen…ever,” James exclaimed.

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“There’s lots of research showing that Americans draw assumptions that associate blackness with criminality.”

The results suggest that, in the absence of the box, employers are simply making racist assumptions, Starr says. “There’s lots of research showing that Americans in general have implicit biases— draw assumptions that associate blackness with criminality,” Starr says. “And we think that assumption is meaning that when a black man with a criminal record isn’t able to tell the employer that he doesn’t have a criminal record, that at least some employers are going to hold that against him.” Likewise, the assumption that white people are less likely to have a criminal record benefits white applicants who have a criminal history, but don’t have to immediately disclose it.

The upshot, the researchers found,

was that removal of the box actually substantially widened the racial gap in callbacks. After the laws took effect, white applicants were 45 percent more likely than their black counterparts to get a callback.

But these findings aren’t necessarily an indictment of banthe-box policies, Starr says: In the real world, the net effect on black employment would vary according to the proportion of black applicants with criminal histories. (In the study context, those with criminal records did, after all, get more callbacks in the box’s absence.) Yet the results “also illustrate a big downside: that the cost of opening the door to people with records may be borne by another disadvantaged group— especially young black men, or people whom employers are going to make these assumptions about.”

Whether you give more weight to the advantages or the disadvantages,

she says, depends on what problem you are trying to solve. “If advocates and policy makers are thinking about ban-the-box as a racial justice measure—as a way to reduce racial disparities in employment—then I think that our study provides pretty good evidence that it’s not a good strategy.” But if it’s intended as a measure to help people with criminal records specifically, then “you might say that it’s worth it.”

It might also be possible to mitigate the downside of ban-the-box, Starr says, while maintaining the positive effects: “Maybe if ban the box were combined with some sort of more effective strategy for enforcing our hiring-discrimination laws—because of course racial discrimination in hiring is illegal—then maybe the downside we’re talking about wouldn’t happen.” One option, she adds: Eliminating the names of job applicants’ from the application.

an applicant’s criminal history, but they could no longer do so because of the law. Those employers called back 10.5 percent of all black applicants and 11.2 percent of all white ones before ban-the-box. But afterwards, overall callback rates dropped for black applicants and rose for whites—widening the racial callback gap from a mere 7 percent to 45 percent. That’s despite the fact that callback rates for both black and white applicants with felony convictions rose between 1 and 2 percent after ban-the-box.

Why, then, did overall black and white callback rates move in opposite directions? Because black applicants with no criminal record got fewer callbacks, while white applicants with no record—like white ones with a rap sheet—got more, the study found.

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CDC: More men using family planning services More men are visiting Title X Family Planning Program sites, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the HHS Office of Population Affairs (OPA) in observance of June’s Men’s Health Month.

From 2003 through 2014, a total of 3.8 million men visited Title X service sites in the 50 states and District of Columbia. The percentage of male clients nearly doubled from 4.5 percent (221,425 males) in 2003 to 8.8 percent (362,531 males) in 2014.

“The growing trend in men’s use of family planning services is very encouraging,” said Wanda Barfield, director of CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health. “Men have family planning needs that not only have implications for their sexual and reproductive health, but also can have an impact on their overall

health.”

Since it was established in 1970, the National Title X Family Planning Program has supported the delivery of cost-effective and confidential family planning and related preventive health care with priority for services to low-income women and men. In 2014, about four million clients, more than 90 percent of whom were female, were served through approximately 4,100 Title X-funded service sites.

“Title X-funded sites provide a broad range of services, patient education, and referrals that are important in meeting the family planning needs of both male and female clients,” said Susan Moskosky, acting director of OPA. “OPA has actively worked to increase the number of males who use Title X services by funding projects and trainings during the past 15 years to improve outreach and appropriate

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In 2014, CDC and OPA released the recommendations, Providing Quality Family Planning Services, which outlined family planning services for men including education and counseling on a range of issues related to preventing or achieving pregnancy, including preconception, infertility, contraception, and sexually transmitted disease (STD) care.

In 2014, male users of Title X family planning services were diverse in age, race/ethnicity, and geography: Approximately one-third (35 percent) were non-Hispanic white, 28 percent were Hispanic or Latino, and

24 percent were black.

Nearly half (49 percent) were age 20-29 years, 20 percent were age 3039, and 14 percent were age 15-19.

The percentage of clients that were male also varied widely from state to state, from 1 percent or less in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama to 27.2 percent in D.C. Although far fewer men than women seek family planning and related services at Title X clinics, the number of men seeking these services is rapidly increasing. Health care settings that include family planning can adapt a client-centered, male-focused approach to better meet the health needs of males

Warner tours non-profit helping those with disabilities U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) was in Hampton Roads to tour the workshop facilities of VersAbility Resources, a local nonprofit that supports and employs people with disabilities, and hold a town hall meeting with the organization’s leadership and employees.

VersAbility Resources, formerly The Arc of the Virginia Peninsula, is a nonprofit organization that serves more than 1,400 people with disabilities and their families each year in the entire Hampton Roads region as well as the ten counties on the Middle Peninsula. VersAbility offers a variety of services ranging from community living, day support, and early childhood programs to employment programs that give hundreds of people with disabilities the opportunity to earn good wages, increase their independence, and contribute to the region’s economy. Last year, individuals with disabilities participating in VersAbility’s employment programs earned more than $5.5 million in wages and benefits.

Warner toured the organization’s Workforce Production Center where its employees generate a wide range of products and services for VersAbility customers, which include major corporations, small businesses, and government agencies. There, he met with VersAbility employees engaged in manufacturing, packaging, digitization, recycling, federal contracting, and more. Following the tour, Warner held a town hall meeting, where he shared a brief update from Washington and took questions from staff and employees.

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Blacks to participate in SCD clinical trials JOAN H. ALLEN NNPA - June 19 marked World Sickle Cell Day. In a desire to help create a greater awareness of sickle cell disease (SCD) and increase their efforts to find a cure, Pfizer invited members of the Black Press to meet and discuss with key members of their rare disease medical and management staff the state of (SCD) and their search for a cure.

It is estimated that sickle cell disease (SCD) affects approximately 100,000 Americans and one out of 365 blacks in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About one in 13 blacks are born with sickle cell

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Senate Armed Services officials included in their authorization draft a plan to tie basic allowance for housing, or BAH, to troops rent and utilities costs, the same as overseas housing allowances. Currently, troops serving in the U.S. receive a flat-rate stipend based on estimated housing costs in their zip code.

The change would offset concerns that military officials have been trimming the housing stipend to generate more savings. Pentagon plans have the projected housing stipend for next year covering 97 percent of estimated local costs, and the new proposal would fully reimburse rent and mortgage payments within a pre-set range.

The controversial plan to slash military housing allowance faces opposition But practically, the change will mean smaller stipends for the many troops who look for apartments with rents below their BAH rates and then pocket the difference. Defense Department officials have argued that this practice is reasonable, defining the housing stipends as not exact reimbursements but part of the broader military compensation package.

House members have not voiced significant support for such a change, and have lamented even the 1-percent annual trims on BAH

Marie Ojiambo growth in recent years.

Senators supporting the move will have to convince the other side that a dramatic change in stipends will not only benefit military families but also won’t create an expensive new bureaucracy to oversee the new payment system, another complaint voiced by Pentagon officials.

Military medicine After a year of study, lawmakers from both chambers want a significant reorganization of troops’ medical coverage and facilities. But the House and Senate plans contain very different approaches to that fix.

The House wants Tricare reorganized under two new plans, while the Senate wants three.

The House would start charging enrollment fees for new active-duty families in 2018, while the Senate would not.

Senate committee proposes Tricare reforms, balks at new fees for activeduty families The House wants all military medical facilities to be consolidated under the Defense Health Agency, while the Senate is looking at a unified medical command. House members want to mandate extended hours for many of those hospitals and clinics. Senate members included new fees for troops who fail to show up for medical appointments.

Senators went along with Pentagon plans to raise pharmacy co-pays next year, but House members did not.

trait (SCT).

Sickle cell disease is one of the most prevalent genetic disorders in the U.S. It is a rare and debilitating chronic disease with lifelong clinical impact and reduced life expectancy; life expectancy is 48 years for females and 42 years for males with sickle cell disease.

There are more than 100,000 people in the U.S. living with sickle cell disease, and many of them experience multiple vaso-occlusive crises each year. These painful crises result in more than 75,000 hospitalizations per year in the U.S., with an average hospital stay of approximately six days.

Niesha Foster, the senior director and corporate affairs lead for Pfizer’s inflammation, immunology and rare disease unit, introduced the participants who shared why they’ve been so devoted to creating greater awareness about (SCD), and the opportunities available to assist those that struggle with this debilitating disease.

Sonja Banks, the CEO of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. (SCDAA) shared how alarmed she was to learn in 2010 that “in a hundred years of discovering the sickle cell disease, only one FDA drug had been approved and it wasn’t even for sickle cell. It was just as heart wrenching then, as it is now, to know that our people are still going to hospitals as their medical home. Why don’t we have a cure?”

Pfizer’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Freda Lewis-Hall recalled the joy she initially felt interning at Howard University Hospital after graduating from medical school, but when she attempted to ease the pain of a toddler living with sickle cell, that joy was replaced with an overwhelming sense of futility.

“I heard an unbelievable piercing sound from a toddler in a sickle cell crisis,” said Lewis-Hall. “I tried to hydrate her and provide some pain relief…It was at that moment that I realized how helpless I was without the tools.”

Thirty years later, Lewis Hall said that physicians still lack the necessary tools to treat the disease.

Although some of the drugs that scientists have discovered have just not been good enough or safe enough, according to Lewis-Hall and Banks, the reason why a cure hasn’t been developed is because African Americans haven’t participated enough in clinical trials.

All of the participants, including Dr. Kevin Williams, the vice president of global medical affairs in Pfizer’s rare disease unit, recognized that African Americans are reluctant and often afraid to participate in clinical trials, because of the lingering distrust of the medical field due to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and often poor treatment received at medical facilities.

Thomas Watkins, the publisher of the Daily Challenge, said “Blacks will participate in clinical trials as long as they’re not the only ones.”

Banks said that the African American community needs to get over the stigma associated with clinical trials.

“The syphilis study wouldn’t happen again,” said Banks. “We are too much of an educated community now … and who’s going to make these drugs come to fruition? If we don’t participate we’ll never find treatment or a cure.”

“A lot of people have no idea about what it means to participate in a clinical trial,” says Dr. Lewis Hall …

Some of it is re-educating about the things that have happened in our collective African American past.

“We need to be educated specifically what it really means to be in a clinical trial,” said Lewis-Hall. “Our absolute best advocates are people who have been in clinical trials.”

Today’s clinical trials are also highly regulated by third party experts and require informed consent.

Marie Ojiambo, who is not only a SCD patient and Pfizer intern, but is also an advocate that works with SCDAA said that it’s easier for her to go to a SCD patient and get them to participate in a clinical trial than it is for a doctor.

There are 37,500 clinical trials currently available, said Dr. LewisHall. Pfizer is currently in Phase 3 of their clinical trial and needs to enroll 350 participants within the next 2 years. Since they’ve already obtained some positive results from their Phase 2 trials, they hope to have a drug available in 3-5 years.

Dr. Lewis-Hall explained that it usually takes 15 years to bring a new drug to trial. “So by the time that you get to Phase 3, it would be an unusual event for a company to walk away…and if this drug doesn’t make it because of a lack of participation, it would be a crying shame.”

Visit www.clinicaltrials.gov for more information on available trials.

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The Congressional Black Caucus ‘vehemently’ opposes Sanders’ call to abolish superdelegates Bernie Sanders is on a crash course with the Congressional Black Caucus.

In a letter sent to both the Sanders and Hillary Clinton campaigns, the CBC is expressing its resolute opposition to two key reforms demanded by Sanders in the runup to the Democratic convention: abolishing the party’s superdelegate system and opening Democratic primaries up to independents and Republicans.

“The Democratic Members of the Congressional Black Caucus recently voted unanimously to oppose any suggestion or idea to eliminate the category of Unpledged Delegate to the Democratic National Convention (aka Super Delegates) and the creation of uniform open primaries in all states,” according to the letter.

“The Democratic Party benefits from the current system of unpledged delegates to the National Convention by virtue of rules that allow members of the House and Senate to be seated as a delegate without the burdensome necessity of competing against constituents for the honor of representing the state during the nominating process.”

The letter — which was also sent to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz — follows a recent CBC meeting where members discussed for over an hour the impact of eliminating superdelegates on the African-American community, according to CBC Chairman Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.).

“We passed a resolution in our caucus that we would vehemently oppose any change in the superdelegate system because members of the CBC might want to participate in the Democratic convention as delegates but if we would have to run for the delegate slot at the county level or state level or district level, we would be running against our constituents

Rep. Jim Clyburn and we’re not going to do that,” said Butterfield. “But we want to participate as delegates and that's why this superdelegates system was created in the beginning, so members would not have to run against their own constituents.”

The opposition to open primaries is based on the fear that allowing independent or Republican voters to participate in Democratic primaries would dilute minority voting strength in many places.

The superdelegate system has been a flashpoint throughout the campaign. Sanders and his supporters have railed against the unelected superdelegates, who have the freedom to back any candidate they choose. This year, the vast majority of them have endorsed Clinton — many of them before the first votes of the primary season were even cast. In states where Sanders has won the popular vote but not the support of the state’s superdelegates, it’s led to deep resentment at the grassroots level and fueled claims that the nominating process was rigged.

In Wyoming, for example, despite defeating Clinton in the state's April 9 Democratic caucuses by 56 percent to 44 percent, Sanders actually

suffered a net delegate loss because the state’s four superdelegates all backed Clinton.

According to published reports, Clinton currently has the support of 587 superdelegates to 48 for Sanders.

Several state Democratic conventions in recent months considered resolutions abolishing the superdelegate system, or changing it so that superdelegates must align themselves in proportion to the outcome.

The pressure to eliminate or modify the superdelegate allocation process has led some senior party leaders to express support for reform.

“I’m very open to a reform that says the superdelegates have to vote with the preferences of their state,” said former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, a former DNC chairman. “That’s not a problem —in the same proportion."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, one of the party’s most influential liberals and a Clinton supporter, criticized superdelegates during the Massachusetts Democratic state convention.

"I’m a superdelegate, and I don’t believe in superdelegates,” Warren told reporters at the June 5 convention.

Many African-American lawmakers, however, are loathe to give up any influence and hardwon gains in the selection of the Democratic nominee. In a letter accompanying the CBC letter to Democratic colleagues, Rep. James Clyburn — a member of House leadership and co-chairman of a 2009 commission that reviewed the Democratic nominating process — strongly pushed back against criticism of the superdelegate process.

“Let me be clear, our delegate selection process is not rigged,” Clyburn wrote in the separate letter, “It is transparent to the public and open for participation for all who wish to declare themselves.”

The Sanders campaign declined to comment on the letters.

Retaining some kind of superdelegate system has been a high priority for CBC members, said Democratic strategist Doug Thornell,

formerly the group’s communications director.

“Sanders did a lot of things right in this campaign, he did a lot better than expected. At the same time he seemed to have a lack of understanding or lack of relationships with black leaders that you saw ultimately hurt him in South Carolina and other states with big black electorates," Thornell said. "And this is something that the CBC is going to be very passionate and push back against. This is a way that African-American officials can represent their district and have a say in the process. They're not going to go along with this at all."

Sanders vows to work with Clinton to transform Democratic Party Sanders vows to work with Clinton to transform Democratic Party Multiple CBC members conceded that the superdelegate system has its flaws, but also argued it's not worth scrapping.

“I’ve been listening to both sides, all sides of the debate and I think both sides have made persuasive arguments,” said one CBC member, who asked to not be named.

“The superdelegate system is not perfect but it has worked for us quite well over the years and frankly the superdelegates have never needed to cast any superdelegate votes to alter what the voters did during the primary elections,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. “Never. That’s not the case this year either. The concern many of us have, of course, is that our numbers would shrink in terms of having influence over and involvement with what happens at the convention.”

Cleaver added that the CBC would not be swayed on the superdelegate issue.

“The black caucus is immovable on this subject because our number one concern is going to be an always be the highest level of minority participation as possible at the convention,” Cleaver said. “You’re going to see the same thing with the Hispanic Congressional Caucus. Mr. Sanders, if he had met with either or what’s called the tri-caucus, he would have found out there is no flexibility.”

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Generic Price for 20mg x 100

PrevacidTM $1131.96 vs Lansoprazole* $105.00

Typical US Brand Price for 30mg x 84

Generic Price for 30mg x 84

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Prescription price comparison above is valid as of November 16, 2015. All trade-mark (TM) rights associated with the brand name products in this ad belong to their respective owners. *Generic drugs are carefully regulated medications that have the same active ingredients as the original brand name drug, but are generally cheaper in price.