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Editor’s note: The following piece, from Propublica, was first published in Nov. 2015. In light of the renewed gun control debate following the Orlando shootings this month, we thought it was a good time to revisit the timely points raised in the report.

On a drizzly afternoon in January 2013, almost a month after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 first-graders dead, more than a dozen religious leaders assembled in Washington, D.C. They had been invited by the Obama administration to talk about what the country should do to address gun violence. Vice President Joe Biden had been meeting with victims and advocates all day, and he arrived so late that some in the room wondered whether he would come at all. When he finally walked in, the clergy started sharing their advice, full of pain, some of it personal. “The incidents of Newtown are very tragic,” Michael McBride, a 37-year-old pastor from Berkeley, California, recalled telling Biden.

“But any meaningful conversation about addressing gun violence has to include urban gun violence.”

McBride supported universal background checks. He supported an assault weapons ban. But he also wanted something else: a national push to save the lives of black men.

In 2012, 90 people were killed in shootings like the ones in Newtown and Aurora, Colorado. That same year, nearly 6,000 black men were murdered with guns.

Many people viewed inner-city shootings as an intractable problem.

But for two years, McBride had been spreading awareness about Ceasefire, a nearly two-decadesold strategy that had upended how police departments dealt with gang violence. Under Ceasefire, police teamed up with community

How the gun control debate ignores blacks leaders to identify the young men most at risk of shooting someone or being shot, talked to them directly about the risks they faced, offered them support, and promised a tough crackdown on the groups that continued shooting. In Boston, the city that developed Ceasefire, the average monthly number of youth homicides dropped by 63 percent in the two years after it was launched.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s “what works” website for crime policy had a green check mark next to Ceasefire, labeling it “effective” — the highest rating and one few programs received.

McBride wanted President Obama to make Ceasefire and similar

programs part of his post-Newtown push to reduce gun violence. He had brought a short memo to give to White House staffers, outlining a plan to devote $500 million over five years to scaling such programs nationwide. His pitch to Biden that day was even simpler: Don’t ignore that black children are dying too.

In response, the vice president agreed urban violence was very important, McBride said. But it was clear that “there was not a lot of appetite for that conversation by folks in the meeting,” McBride recalled.

Michael McBride, a pastor who has been pushing the president and other politicians to increase support

for programs like Ceasefire. (Deanne Fitzmaurice for ProPublica) Later, other ministers who worked with McBride would get an even blunter assessment from a White House staffer: There was no political will in the country to address innercity violence.

When McBride spoke to administration staffers again about dramatically increasing money for programs like Ceasefire, he said, “People were kind of looking at me like, ‘Are you crazy?’ No, I’m not crazy. This is your own recommendation. You should do it!”

Mass shootings, unsurprisingly,

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Commentary: To help a criminal go straight, help him change how he thinks JACK BUSH Hard-core criminals are trapped in a vicious circle of their own thinking.

Cognitive treatment of offenders can show them a way out of that trap.

With effort and practice, even the most serious offenders can learn to change their thinking about other people and themselves. They can learn to be good citizens, and feel good about it. But in most cases the criminal justice system doesn’t present them that opportunity—not in a form that offenders recognize as genuine.

Since 1973, I’ve been working to develop and deliver cognitive treatment to medium- to high-risk offenders in juvenile and adult detention centers, jails and prisons.

The treatment is rooted in cognitivebehavioral therapy, which has proven effective in treating a wide range of mental disorders.

In the 1950s and 1960s, psychiatrist Aaron Beck discovered that his depressed patients had habits of thinking that kept them depressed. (“I’m no good.”) At about the same time, Albert Ellis found that patients with a wide range of neuroses held what he called “irrational beliefs.” (“Everyone must like me all the time.”) Both based their psychotherapy on leading their patients to change that thinking.

The personality myth: We like to think of our own personalities, and those of our family and friends as predictable, constant over time.

But what if they aren’t? What if nothing stays constant over a lifetime? Explore that enigma in the latest episode of the NPR podcast Invisibilia.

In correctional treatment, cognitive therapy has evolved to include cognitive skills training, like how to solve problems, how to deal with social situations, and how to control your anger.

The idea is to change the thinking that lands offenders in trouble, like

“I’ll never snitch,” “I’ll never back down,” “I’m going to take what I want,” and “If anyone disrespects me, I’m going to attack.” Forms of cognitive treatment have become the predominant treatment for offenders in the U.S. and Europe.

Underlying it is the realization that criminal behavior is the result of criminal ways of thinking, and that for offenders to change their behavior they must change the way they think.

In the 1990s, Canadian researchers discovered that treatment of offenders is effective, but only if it addresses what they called “criminogenic needs.” Chief among these is criminal thinking.

More recently, researchers have established that cognitive treatment programs delivered with professional standards can reduce recidivisim by 25 to 35 percent. That means saving taxpayer money on incarceration, which costs $31,286 per inmate per year on average. It also means safer communities, more intact families, more people back in the workplace.

This doesn’t mean we should replace incarceration with treatment, or let people out of prison early just because they have taken treatment. But adding treatment to incarceration provides hope to offenders now, and benefits to society in the future.

Incarceration is a basic tool of criminal justice, but when the sole purpose is punishment and

confinement, offenders respond, in the privacy of their own minds, with resentment and defiance. The thinking that led them to offend is not extinguished by punishment; it is reinforced.

Criminal justice need not be solely punitive. We can enforce the law without compromise and without triggering offenders” resistance. We can offer genuine opportunities to change. And we can acknowledge offenders' innate freedom to choose the attitudes they live by. My colleagues and I call this strategy “supportive authority.” It consists of conveying three messages at the same time, spoken with one voice.

We are determined to enforce the laws. We offer you a genuine opportunity to change and take part in society. We respect your capacity to make your own choices.

Enforcement of rules and laws is the core, but we don't stop there.

Punishment is tempered with the opportunity to join with us in our common society. That invitation must be real, and each offender must be able to recognize it as such. It includes the opportunity to escape the trap of their habits of thinking.

And finally, we acknowledge that each offender will decide whether to take the opportunity to change or to continue to break the law.

Offenders know they always retain the power to freely think, the human freedom to choose their own path in life, whether the rest of us like

it or not. By acknowledging this freedom, we are giving them nothing they don't already have. We are simply conveying respect for them as human beings. As Viktor Frankl said in “Man’s Search For Meaning”: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Providing offenders an opportunity to change their thinking, their lives and their place in society is in everyone's interest. It does not compromise our enforcement of the law. But it demands changes in our thinking: to see criminals as fellow human beings and to provide genuine opportunities for ex-offenders to take part in society.

Time and again I’ve seen real change happen. Ken had been a criminal all his life. “I wanted to be the baddest criminal anybody had ever seen,” he said. In prison he was a convict leader and a strong upholder of the convict code. In spite of his reputation, the administration of Oregon State Penitentiary recognized his potential to change.

Ken came to understand the pain he had brought to others and that his hurtful actions came not from what others had done to him but from his own ways of thinking. He developed a new goal: “I want to be an honorable man.”

Once he was out of prison, Ken learned and practiced ways to think that allowed him to marry, to hold jobs in drug treatment programs or gas stations or anything he could find to earn an honest living. The 20-plus years since his release from prison have been hard, but he’s a tax-paying citizen — and an honorable man.

I’ve also seen failures. Like many medical treatments, sometimes behavioral treatment works and sometimes it doesn’t. People who take statins to lower cholesterol

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Michael McBride drive the national debate on gun violence. But as horrific as these massacres are, by most counts they represent less than 1 percent of all gun homicides. America’s high rate of gun murders isn’t caused by events like Sandy Hook or the shootings this fall at a community college in Oregon. It’s fueled by a relentless drumbeat of deaths of black men.

Gun control advocates and politicians frequently cite the statistic that more than 30 Americans are murdered with guns every day. What’s rarely mentioned is that roughly 15 of the 30 are black men.

Avoiding that fact has consequences. Twenty years of government-funded research has shown there are several promising strategies to prevent murders of black men, including Ceasefire. They don’t require passing new gun laws, or an epic fight with the National Rifle Association. What they need — and often struggle to get — is political support and a bit of money.

A week after McBride and the other faith leaders met with Biden, Obama announced his national gun violence agenda. He called for universal background checks, which experts say could prevent some shootings.

Other key elements of his plan — a ban on assault weapons and funding to put police officers in schools — were unlikely to save a significant number of lives.

At the press conference where Obama announced the plan, a diverse group of four children sat on the podium with him: two girls and two boys who had written letters begging the president to do something about gun violence.

“Hinna, a third-grader — you can go ahead and wave, Hinna—that’s you — Hinna wrote, I feel terrible for the parents who lost their children. I love my country, and I want everybody to be happy and safe,” the president

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Obama went over the litany of school shootings — Columbine, Virginia Tech, Newtown — and made a brief nod to the deaths of “kids on street corners in Chicago.” But his plan included no money for the urban violence strategies his Justice Department described as effective.

His platform didn’t refer to them at all.

McBride, who was in the audience, said he was not surprised. He supported the president’s other proposals, and, when it came to urban violence, he had “realistic expectations.” In his fight to save the lives of black men, McBride has kept running up against the same assumption: that “urban violence is a problem with black folk. It’s not a problem for this country to solve.”

Gun violence in America is largely a story of race and geography.

Almost two-thirds of America’s more than 30,000 annual gun deaths are suicides, most of them committed by white men. In 2009, the gun homicide rate for white Americans was 2 per 100,000 — about seven times as high as the rate for residents of Denmark, but a fraction of the rate for black Americans. In 2009, black Americans faced a gun homicide rate of nearly 15 per 100,000. That’s higher than the gun homicide rate in Mexico.

To liberals, gun violence among African-Americans is rooted in economic disadvantage and inequality, as well as America’s gun culture and lax gun laws.

Conservatives, meanwhile, often focus on black “culture.” “The problem is not our gun laws,” a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote last year about Chicago’s murder rate. “Nor is it our drug laws, or racist cops, prosecutors and judges. The problem is black criminality, which is a function of black pathology, which ultimately stems from the breakdown of the black family.”

Lost in the debate is that even in high-crime cities, the risk of gun violence is mostly concentrated among a small number of men. In Oakland, for instance, crime experts working with the police department a few years ago found that about 1,000 active members of a few dozen street groups drove most homicides. That’s .3 percent of Oakland’s population.

And even within this subgroup, risk fluctuated according to feuds and other beefs. In practical terms, the experts found that over a given

stretch of several months only about 50 to 100 men are at the highest risk of shooting someone or getting shot.

Black Americans Are Murdered by Guns at a Far Higher Rate Than All Other Races Firearm homicide rates by race, 1993–2010 (Rate per 100,000 people) Most of these men have criminal records. But it’s not drug deals or turf wars that drives most of the shootings.

Instead, the violence often starts with what seems to outsiders like trivial stuff — “a fight over a girlfriend, a couple of words, a dispute over a dice game,” said Vaughn Crandall, a senior strategist at the California Partnership for Safe Communities, which did the homicide analysis for Oakland.

Somebody gets shot. These are men who do not trust the police to keep them safe, so “they take matters into their own hands,” he said. It’s longrunning feuds, Crandall said, that drive most murders in Oakland.

Men involved in these conflicts may want a safer life, but it’s hard for them to put their guns down.

“The challenge is that there is no graceful way to bow out of the game,” said Reygan Harmon, the director of Oakland Police Department’s violence reduction program.

These insights led a group of Boston police, black ministers and academics to try a new approach in 1996. Since group dynamics were driving the violence, they decided to hold the groups accountable. The plan was simple: Identify the small groups of young men most likely to shoot or be shot. Call them in to meet face-to-face with police brass, former gang members, clergy and social workers. Explain to the invitees that they were at high risk of dying.

Promise an immediate crackdown on every member of the next group that put a body on the ground — and immediate assistance for everyone who wanted help turning their lives around. Then follow up on those promises.

The results of Operation Ceasefire were dramatic. Soon after Boston held its first meeting — known as a call-in — on May 15, 1996, homicides of young men plummeted along with reports of shots fired.

The Rev. Jeff Brown, one of the ministers who worked on the project, remembers people were outside more, barbecuing in the park. At Halloween, kids were able to trick-ortreat on the streets again.

The team behind the effort quickly started getting calls from other cities — even other countries — about how to replicate what became known as the Boston Miracle. With the support of the Justice Department under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, many cities tried the strategy and some got dramatic results. Stockton saw a 42 percent reduction in monthly gun homicides over several years. Indianapolis experienced a 34 percent drop in monthly homicides. Lowell, Massachusetts, saw gun assaults fall by 44 percent.

A 2012 review of the existing research evidence found that seven of eight cities that had rigorously implemented Ceasefire and similar strategies had seen reductions in violence.

Other cities have tried Ceasefire, or half-tried it, and then abandoned it. The strategy requires resources, political buy-in, and ongoing trust between unlikely partners. The effort in Boston had “black and Latin and Cape Verdean clergy working with white Irish Catholic cops in a city that had a history of race relations leading up to that point that was abysmal,” Brown said. “It was really a shift in behavior, in the way we did business.”

These partnerships can be fragile.

Boston’s own Ceasefire effort fell apart in 2000, researchers said.

There was infighting and the police official who led it got another assignment. In subsequent years, homicides of young men crept up again.

An endless number of variables can affect crime, making it hard to know how much a particular effort works.

Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, noted that the current research only evaluates the shortterm effects of the program, so it’s still unclear how well it works over the long term.

Still, Webster said, if you’re interested in reducing shootings among young black men, the Boston Ceasefire model is one of the strategies that has shown “the most consistent positive response.”

Jim Bueerman — head of the Police Foundation, which focuses on crime research — said that while the evidence is only “highly suggestive,” Ceasefire is still worth doing.

“It’s going to be a long time before

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New hope for closure with NN Police Cold Case Unit The Criminal Investigations Division of the Newport News Police Department has established a new Cold Case Unit that is assigned to the General Investigations Section.

The Cold Case unit was formed by taking one detective from the Homicide Unit and one detective from the Career Criminal Unit and reassigning them. According to the city, the Cold Case Unit now has the time and resources necessary to focus on cases that have become “cold” over time.

Investigations will primarily focus on unsolved homicides and missing persons’ cases involving unusual circumstances.

Cold Case investigations are not new to the police department, according to the city, as these cases have always remained open; cases assigned to the Major Crimes Division where detectives assigned to the Homicide Unit worked these cases in a traditional manner until running into some type of roadblock.

This approach has proven to be less than ideal, as the detectives’ current caseloads left little time to focus on this important task.

By creating this new Cold Case Unit, the Newport News Police Department hopes to better be able to bring closure to the cases and to the families involved.

(from page 2) pathways leading from solitary sometimes still have heart attacks, and convicts who have been in treatment programs sometimes reoffend. The question is, how can we maximize the positive results and minimize the failures?

I recently visited Red Onion State Prison in Wise County, Va., a “supermax” facility for “the worst of the worst” that had come under Department of Justice scrutiny for excessive use of solitary confinement.

This prison is in the process of changing from what had been a culture of control and punishment into a culture of control and hope.

Prison officers and counselors are trained to treat prisoners with respect. They are also trained to support and deliver an array of cognitive treatment programs.

Offenders are presented with

confinement to lower levels of control and eventually, for most of them, to re-entry and life in the community.

Since 2011, there has been a 68 percent reduction in the number of prisoners at Red Onion confined to solitary; a 78 percent reduction in incident reports; and a 91 percent decrease in inmate grievances, efforts praised in a January report from the Department of Justice.

At Red Onion, cognitive treatment is a key piece of the system, but only a piece. The whole prison is the intervention.

Bush is co-developer of the treatment program Thinking For A Change, published by The National Institute of Corrections, and co-author of Cognitive Self Change: How Offenders Experience the World and What We Can Do About It (Wiley Blackwell, 2016).

SCOTUS rules unanimously in favor of McDonnell Former Gov. Robert F. McDonnell was glued to a computer screen Monday morning in Virginia Beach, watching for news of his fate from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Shortly after 10:30 a.m., the words appeared on his screen: by a unanimous vote, the court ruled in McDonnell’s favor.

Although there is a chance that federal prosecutors could seek to retry McDonnell, Monday’s decision marked an end of a lengthy period of legal limbo for a man who was once a rising star in the Republican party.

For McDonnell’s supporters, the ruling was an affirmation of the truth they knew all along: He may have exercised poor judgment, but did not break the law.

Bill Bolling, who served as lieutenant governor under McDonnell, lamented the years-long ordeal the McDonnell family endured to make it to Monday’s ruling.

“They didn’t deserve this, and thankfully the Supreme Court got it right,” he said. “But where do they go to get their lives back and restore their relationships and reputations?

This is not the way the process is supposed to work.”

A jury in September 2014, found unanimously that McDonnell used the governor’s office to help Jonnie R. Williams Sr., a wealthy dietary supplement company executive, advance his business interests. In exchange, Williams gave McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, $177,000 in loans, luxury vacations and even a

Rolex watch.

Four months later, a federal judge sentenced McDonnell to two years in prison — a precipitous fall for a man once considered a possible contender for president.

Outside the courthouse that day, McDonnell vowed to appeal the case — saying he “never, ever betrayed my sacred oath of office.” A deeply religious Catholic, he said that his “ultimate vindication” would come from Jesus Christ.

McDonnell argued that simply referring a constituent to another state official was not among the “official actions” that are barred by the federal law.

The Supreme Court agreed, ruling that setting up a meeting, talking to another official, or organizing an event, without a more specific action, is not “official action.”

Lawyers for Maureen McDonnell, whose separate appeal of her own conviction had been put on hold as her husband’s case played out, said his victory means she should also be vindicated.

William A. Burck of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, counsel to Maureen McDonnel, made the following statement upon the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision overturning Governor Bob McDonnell’s conviction: “This decision applies no less to our client Maureen McDonnell and requires that her conviction immediately be tossed out as well, which we are confident the

prosecutors must agree with,” her lawyer, William A. Burck, said in a statement. “Mrs. McDonnell, like her husband, was wrongfully convicted.

We thank the Supreme Court for unanimously bringing justice back into the picture for the McDonnells.”

McDonnell has relied on faith and friendships in the year and a half that he has waited for courts to determine his fate.

In that time he has returned to Virginia Beach to live, enjoyed life as a new grandfather four times over and immersed himself in work projects.

McDonnell, who turned 62 this month, started a firm with his sister advising several national clients on attracting sports franchises to cities. He has also worked to help set up international financing for an arena in Virginia Beach and has a contract with Bay Mechanical, a construction and maintenance company owned by a family friend, according to associates familiar with his professional dealings.

They describe a rich life spent visiting with friends and developing the personal relationships that were nearly impossible to sustain during the hubbub of a governorship. And he has forged deep bonds with others going through trying circumstances.

“It’s been amazing to watch,” said Jeffrey L. McWaters, a close friend and former state senator from Virginia Beach. “It’s been a blessing for me to be around him.”

The men are part of a small bible

study group that meets in the early morning — sometimes a bit too early for McDonnell who often stays up late reading and working, McWaters joked.

“I know he’s had some bad days,” he said, “but his overall demeanor has been, ‘Let’s keep going here. I know who I am. I know what kind of person I am, no matter what the U.S. attorney says.’”

McDonnell has frequently stepped out in public, attending an election night event two weeks ago for U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes, who was defeated in a primary battle for the 2nd congressional district.

Redemption has been a theme in McDonnell’s life. As governor, he streamlined the process for felons to regain their voting rights and was constantly confronted by citizens grateful to him for a second chance, said Janet Vestal Kelly, a close friend who served in his cabinet as secretary of the commonwealth.

Kelly said she hopes her children learn from the example McDonnell has set for how to triumph through adversity.

“He could write a book about how to be graceful under pressure and stay strong under pressure when his whole world was falling down all around him,” she said.

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(from page 3) you get the perfect evidence,” said Bueerman, a former police chief of Redlands, California. “When you come across a strategy like Ceasefire that appears to be working, you owe it to people to try it in your local community.”

Part of what seems to make Ceasefire effective is that it treats the men it targets as both dangerous and also in need of help. Such initiatives, however, fit into no political camp and thus have few powerful champions.

“It has no natural constituency,” said Thomas Abt, a Harvard Kennedy School researcher who has worked on crime policy at the Justice Department. “To vastly oversimplify, progressives want more prevention and conservatives want more enforcement. Focused deterrence” — what academics call Ceasefire and similar approaches — “challenges the orthodoxy on both sides. It makes everybody uncomfortable.”

Ceasefire has often been greeted with skepticism in the neighborhoods it’s supposed to help, where residents have reason to distrust the police.

To buy into Ceasefire, McBride had to weigh the data against his own experience. In 1999, as a college student studying theology, McBride was stopped as he drove home by two white San Jose police officers. He said they forced him to get out of his car, groped him, and made him lie on the ground while threatening him.

It didn’t matter that he was a youth pastor, that he was involved in local politics, that he had just helped to get San Jose’s new mayor elected.

That night, he was just another black man lying on the ground. (The police chief at the time said that while the officers and McBride gave conflicting accounts, he decided to launch a study of racial profiling during traffic stops, one of the nation’s first.)

When McBride moved to Berkeley in 2005, fresh out of divinity school at Duke University, he thought he would focus his social justice work on education — mentoring young people struggling to graduate from high school.

Then a few of the young people he was mentoring were murdered. One was Larry Spencer, a charismatic 19 year old — funny, popular, “someone that everyone just really loved,” McBride said. Spencer was shot to death outside a liquor store in nearby Oakland. It was the city’s 39th gun

Ceasefire requires trust between often unlikely partners. The Rev. Jeff Brown, third from right, leads a prayer with fellow clergy and law enforcement officials, including police Commissioner William Evans, second from left, before participating in a peace walk. homicide in a year that left 110 dead.

Hundreds of mourners attended Spencer’s funeral, McBride said.

McBride asked the congregation how many had attended a funeral before. Everyone raised their hands.

How many had been to two funerals?

Three? Four? He continued to count upward. “I got as high as 10,” he recalled. “Half of the young people started to cry and still had their hands in the air.”

Oakland had tried Ceasefire on and off for years but struggled to make it work. “There wasn’t a true commitment to the strategy,” said Lt. LeRonne Armstrong, who managed the city’s program in the mid-2000s while working in the criminal investigations unit. “We did not have the political support.”

McBride and others pushed city leaders and pastors to embrace the strategy.

Many of them were skeptical, but McBride thought working with the police was crucial. “We realized that in order for us to do any of this work, we were going to have to be in some relation with the police department.

We pay taxes. We’re paying for the police department, whether we like it or not,” he said.

In 2012, Oakland recommitted itself to Ceasefire. It hired a fulltime manager for the program, using both city dollars and part of a 2013 Justice Department grant. The city also dedicated funds to work with a team of experts who had helped other cities implement Ceasefire.

The experts helped Oakland do a

detailed data analysis homing in on the men who needed to be called in.

There were only 20 guys at the first relaunched call-in — “but they were 20 of the right guys,” said Armstrong.

Murders dropped from 126 in 2012 to 90 in 2013, according to police department data. Last year, Oakland had 80 murders.

McBride traveled across the country as part of a national campaign to reduce urban violence using Ceasefire. Every city had its own challenges. Money was one of them. Ceasefire was not particularly expensive, but hiring outreach workers and providing social services to the men involved required a little support, as did hiring outside consultants. Outside funding also made it easier for city leaders to move ahead with a different approach to gun violence.

The Obama administration has several grant programs aimed at helping urban neighborhoods reduce violence, but the demand for grants far outstrips funding. For one 2012 grant, the Justice Department received over 140 applications and had money for just 15.

“It is a brutal process to apply for these grants. Most of them don’t get funded, and I think that’s a bit of a tragedy,” said Bueerman, the head of the Police Foundation. “You have agencies that are highly willing to do the work. You don’t have to sell them on the efficacy of the strategy. You just have to empower it through a relatively small amount of money to help them get the program started.”

The Obama administration has consistently asked for more money than Congress has authorized. In 2012, the White House requested $74 million for five grants for Ceasefire and similar programs. It got $30 million.

Advocates of Ceasefire have tried to press Congress for more money.

Some legislators “really like these programs,” one former Hill staffer said, but not enough to take on an uphill battle for additional funding.

“I think the one sort of antidote to that was if you had massive political pressure from some organization or group that felt really strongly about something and could get people riled up about it,” the staffer said.

“Honestly speaking, if we are talking about urban violence, there is less of that.”

The national groups that spend the most money and do the most advocacy related to gun violence have concentrated almost exclusively on passing stricter gun control laws.

Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said he’s “very supportive,” of strategies like Ceasefire, but “it’s not our lane.”

A spokeswoman for Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety said much the same. “We’re focused on what we know, which is how to improve the laws,” said Erika Soto Lamb.

Declines in violent crime over the last two decades have made it harder to galvanize support for gun violence prevention. The number of Americans murdered by guns peaked in 1993, then dropped sharply until 2000 for reasons that are still not fully understood. Since then, the number of Americans killed in gun homicides has remained remarkably consistent, about 11,000 to 12,000 a year.

Another constant: About half of those killed this way are black men, though they make up just 6 percent of the U.S. population. In 2001, when George W. Bush took office, 5,279 black men were murdered with firearms, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2012, it was 5,947.

These deaths are concentrated in poor, segregated neighborhoods that have little political clout.

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The incredible hopelessness of America’s gun “conversation” Dr. R.B.A. Di MUCCIO For millennia, the ability to interpret hieroglyphics had been lost to the ages. So when JeanFrancois Champollion decoded the Rosetta Stone it was a monumental breakthrough. Since then, a “Rosetta Stone” has come to refer to anything that offers a roadmap for understanding the undecipherable.

Today’s political landscape is rife with puzzles and paradoxes in desperate need of Rosetta Stones.

The one that I want to discuss is this: Why are we so profoundly incapable of having a reasonable dialogue about guns? National Review writer David French describes the “conversation” as hopelessly polarized. It’s as if, he laments, we are coming from entirely different worlds when processing events like the massacre that took place in Orlando.

The basic facts of that incident are not in dispute: A self-professed ISIS jihadist indiscriminately slaughtered dozens of innocent people at a gay nightclub, literally pledging his loyalty to ISIS via a phone call to a 9-1-1 dispatcher as he was committing the atrocity. Seeing this, conservatives generally zeroed in on the evil of the perpetrator and addressed the broader war on terror. Viewing the same facts, leftist commentators and pundits invariably settled on a narrative driven by a fixation on “America’s gun The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 2 No. 31 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

culture,” a narrow focus on stricter gun control, and blanket calls for “tolerance” of the “LGBTQ” agenda by conservatives and Christians.

It is no wonder that David French refers to the liberal reaction to this and other similar incidents as a “bizarro morality.” The level of disconnect has been truly mindboggling.

Fortunately, in our quest to comprehend the incomprehensible, we have a Rosetta Stone in the form of Jonathan Haidt’s book, “The Righteous Mind.” Haidt’s moral-foundations theory is an extraordinary body of work that is meticulously empirical and thoroughly cross-cultural (agree or disagree this how Haidt defines his terms). In a nutshell: liberals’ moral reasoning rests almost exclusively on the left-most of six moral pillars.

Liberal moral cognitions are triggered by indications of suffering and injustice. The conservative moral matrix couldn’t be more different.

While it is somewhat biased toward the right-most moral pillars, conservatives clearly demonstrate a relatively balanced concern for all six.

The implications of this difference are far-reaching. Liberals seek to establish “justice” for those they view as harmed, but with essentially no concern for other moral foundations.

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likewise prompted by indications of suffering but also by threats to foundational societal principles and institutions.

Haidt puts this “conservative advantage” to the test—literally. The test (page 287 in the book) involved asking hundreds of subjects to guess how people in the opposite camp would respond to political/moral questions. The result? Conservatives describe the liberal morality far more accurately than liberals describe conservative morality. The most dramatic errors in the entire experiment came when “very liberal” respondents were asked to empathize with conservatives around the care/ harm pillar.

In short, conservatives can relate to liberals but the converse is not true. And there may not be a better example of this than the “gun conversation” going in in America right now. Consider the typical liberal triggers and conclusions in responding to the Orlando massacre: For liberals, the culprit is not radical Islam but the NRA; the victimization and suffering easily justify challenging the Second Amendment, which either doesn’t actually guarantee the individual right to bear arms or was meant only to account for flintlock rifles and the like.

But what about those who believe

that individual liberty and the right to self-defense are foundational?

What about people who accept 200plus years of Supreme Court rulings and several state constitutions and agree that the Second Amendment self-evidently guarantees the individual right to bear arms? What animates them after Orlando is the same grief, shock, and revulsion that liberals experience. They feel a similar desire to find ways to prevent and limit the deadliness of such occurrences. But what’s almost literally a world apart is that they want to accomplish this without undermining the individual’s liberty—the right to self-defense or the right to bear arms.

From a moral-foundations perspective, left and right almost couldn’t be more polarized than they are on this issue. Conservatives can process the liberal concern for gun violence and the suffering it causes. But liberals literally cannot understand how someone could share that value while also having the slightest concern for Second Amendment rights.

Put differently, the conservative worldview is a system of morality that liberals simply can’t compute.

It’s a prism that liberals can’t and won’t accept as even falling into

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Eleven men from all walks of life, prominent men, business men, graduates of then Hampton Institute now Hampton University motivated by the need to provide a place for the negro to relax on the shore in a whole some environment during Jim Crow segregation.

With 15,000 in capital formed the Bayshore Hotel Company in 1897, later in 1940 becoming The New Bayshore Corporation. Learn more about Bayshore At Buckroe Beach VA. Remembering The Vacation Paradise Of The South 1898-1974.

A Evening With Legends! returns to the Hampton History Museum located at 120 Old Hampton lane in downtown Hampton Virginia on July 16, from 5 - 7:15 p.m., doors will open at 4:30 p.m. Admission is free and seating is limited.

There will be numerous exhibits many new additions more vintage photos, music from years gone by, recorded comments from senior Richmonders about their time spent at Bayshore. There will also be souvenirs to commemorate this years event please take the time to stop by the stand and make a purchase, for in doing so you ensure the continued presenting of the Bayshore at Buckroe Beach program.

A new segment to this year’s program will be the introduction of The Bayshore At Buckroe Beach Va Hall of Fame. Charles h. Williams, Susie King and John Riddick and J. Mallory Phillips will be the first to be enshrined. The No. 1 goal of the event is to educate and scheduled

to appear at the 2016 Bayshore at Buckroe Beach event are returning guest Sam Scott, last surviving full time life guard from the Bayshore Resort. Legendary musician and Hall of Fame recipient Chuck Guitar Chavis, who performed at the dance hall pavilion and toured the country.

Chauncey Brown Hampton resident and local historian and Leta J. Watlington.

New to our esteemed panel this year are distinguished attorney Verbena Askew former Circuit Court Judge and Newport News City Attorney The Honorable Judge Wilford Taylor Jr. former deputy city attorney , judge of the General District Court and today Chief Circuit Court Judge. James Poo Johnson assistant C.E.O of the Boys and Girls Clubs of The Virginia Penninsula Hampton Roads. Ves Artist also a music legend of Hampton and owner of Woodwinds Plus. Walter Walker long time Hampton resident formerly from Pittsburgh Penn retired from U.S.A.F. Lemuel Johnson Richmond resident and member of Mocha Temple No. 7 and the Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Virginia and Helen Phillips Pitts granddaughter of John Mallory Phillips one of the founding fathers of Bayshore. All sharing with you their own stories and taking part in the Q and A segment.

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those vintage photos tucked away in the vault of the family archives you know the ones in the shoe box under the bed. Whatever it may be feel free to bring it and share it after all its your history, its our history and we must make every effort to preserve it. This year’s program will open with a musical selection from Cornell M. Burke. So mark it on your calendar, July 16.

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What ever happened to the good old days when our worst worries on the 4th of July were traffic jams and wayward fireworks?

A well-warranted worry, according to the Department of Agriculture’s Meat & Poultry Hotline, is food poisoning by nasty E. coli and Salmonella bugs hiding in hot dogs and hamburgers at millions of backyard barbecues. The Hotline’s advice is to grill them longer and hotter. Of course, they avoid mentioning that the hightemperature grilling that kills the bugs also happens to form cancercausing compounds.

Fortunately, some forward-thinking U.S. food manufacturers have solved these issues by creating an amazing assortment of healthy and delicious veggie burgers and soy dogs. No nasty pathogens or cancer-

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(from page 6) the category of legitimate moral thinking. Thus, conservative beliefs and the people that harbor them can be readily demonized and easily marginalized.

Although we can now read hieroglyphics, we still don’t know why or even how the Egyptians built the pyramids. Similarly, while “The Righteous Mind” elegantly explains why the gun “conversation” in America is so utterly hopeless, it doesn’t offer a solution.

Maybe there isn’t one.

But if it occurs to you that every time you try to have a civil discourse with a liberal about guns, you end up spending the entire time just convincing that person that your mainstream views are not insane, at least now you know why.

Di Muccio is a guest commentator for The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He received his Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Southern California.

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Black pastor urges CBF to partner with the ‘hood’ BNG - An African-American pastor who recently became involved with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship told a dinner gathering for friends of Baptist News Global June 23 his hope is the movement would become less concerned about “just having blacks in white space” for the sake of diversity and more involved in building institutions that empower the masses of African-Americans in predominantly black neighborhoods.

“What happens is the black professional class gets co-opted by white controlled institutions, and whites have the delusion of inclusion.”

Kevin Cosby, pastor of St. Stephen Church in Louisville, Ky., said despite the best intentions of white people of good will, the reality is that racism is permanent and there is always going to be a black community.

“It’s a sad reality, but it is a reality,” Cosby said. “Concentrated poverty is here. The only question is are we going to have institutions in this space that serve these people.”

“If CBF can ever partner with institutions in the ‘hood to create a strong presence in black space, it will be transformational,” he said.

Two Louisville pastors, Kevin Cosby and Chris Caldwell, dialogue during the annual Friends of Baptist News Global Dinner during the recent CBF General Assembly in Greensboro, N.C. Cosby, pastor of the predominantly African-American church started by his grandfather for 37 years, described his philosophy for Empower West Louisville, a

Kevin Cosby, pastor of St. Stephen Church in Louisville said despite the best intentions of white people of good will, the reality is that racism is permanent and there is always going to be a black community. collaborative effort to invest in black lives he expanded in the last year to include white partners including leaders of the Kentucky Baptist Fellowship.

“Part of the problem with the urban community is integration,” Cosby said. “That is one word that I detest. I detest the word integration, because integration has meant the disintegration of black institutions that service the masses.”

“The word for me is reconciliation,” he said. “Integration is a social construct that is built on the premise that there is something defective about blackness and that blackness is something that black people have to overcome. The black classes get absorbed into white-controlled institutions thus leaving the masses of African-Americans leaderless.”

Cosby said it’s no different than the narrative in the Old Testament book of Nehemiah.

“The Jerusamelites lost their leaders,” he said. “Nehemiah was then absorbed into the Persian Empire and had to make a decision

whether or not he was going to be a Jew or a Persian.”

“So Nehemiah said, ‘I am going back to the ‘hood and engage in empowerment,’” Cosby said. “That’s what I have been doing at St. Stephen Church for the 37 years I have been there.”

Cosby said prior to integration, there were five black institutions that formed the backbone of the African-American community – strong black churches, families, media, schools and businesses. All five, he said, have been dismantled due to integration.

“What happens is the black professional class gets co-opted by white controlled institutions, and whites have the delusion of inclusion.”

He said most blacks who are in white institutions are part of the black professional class. “What happens is the black professional class gets co-opted by white controlled institutions, and whites have the delusion of inclusion,” Cosby said. The masses of African-

Americans, meanwhile, are left without institutions to serve their needs.

Chris Caldwell, pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Louisville, said early on in meetings he and the other the white ministers realized if Empower West were to succeed it have to be would be with strong black leadership and white churches coming in to help without trying to control.

Cosby called the “Caucasian invasion” a turning point in his ministry.

“It was like a paradigm shifted in the minds of my colleagues,” he said. “They had been doing justice, and rightly so, trying to make white space more open to blacks, which is applaudable. But notice the blacks who come in white space. It is blacks, in many instances, who are successful, professional and are bicultural in the sense that they’re able function in white space.”

The Empower West partners, he said, came in as allies willing to

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(from page 5) power,” said Timothy Heaphy, a former U.S. attorney who has spent much of his career focused on urban violence. “I think there’s some racism involved. I don’t think we care about African-American lives as much as we care about white lives.”

The few congressional efforts to advance gun legislation in recent years have been prompted by mass shootings, violence that is seemingly random and thus where everyone can feel at risk.

“Congress has only moved in response to galvanizing tragedy, and galvanizing tragedy tends to not involve urban, run-of-the-mill murder,” said Matt Bennett, a gun policy expert at Third Way, a centrist think-tank. “The narrative about the need for gun violence prevention generally is driven by these black swan events, and those often involve white people,” he added. “It is horrific and tragic, but that’s the fact.”

When Adam Lanza shot his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary School with a military-style rifle and handguns in December 2012, it wasn’t clear if any laws would have stopped him. Lanza had taken the guns from his mother, who had purchased them legally.

The package of proposed legislation and policy initiatives recommended by the Obama administration in the aftermath of Sandy Hook centered on closing loopholes in background checks and renewing the federal ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004. The president also called for increased spending on mental health, crackdowns on the trafficking networks that sell illegal guns, and more than $150 million for a new program to put more cops and psychologists in schools.

Obama and gun control advocates made universal background checks the focus of their push. It wasn’t a policy that was relevant to Newtown, but they saw it as the most likely way to reduce everyday gun violence and save lives. Most researchers agree that a better background check system could help curtail both urban gun violence and mass shootings, though there’s no hard data to indicate how much.

There was less evidence proving that the other elements of the president’s plan would reduce gun violence. Though the public quickly focused on one weapon Lanza used, a Bushmaster XM15-E2S, experts

June 29, 2016 • 9 knew the assault weapons ban hadn’t saved many lives. The effects of a renewed ban “are likely be small at best, and perhaps too small for reliable measurement,” a report funded by the Justice Department concluded.

A former senior White House official agreed. While a ban on high capacity magazines could help some, the official said, the assault weapons ban “does nothing.” Though Obama endorsed it as part of the postNewtown package, “we did the bare minimum,” the official said. “We would have pushed a lot harder if we had believed in it.”

Some gun control advocates who worked with the administration on gun legislation said they saw the endorsement of the assault weapons ban as a bargaining chip. “It’s all a dance, it’s a kabuki thing, and right from the beginning the White House understood that they weren’t going to get a ban done,” said Bennett, the gun policy expert. “They had to talk about it. It would have been insane not to. Every news report after Sandy Hook had this horrible looking AR-15, and noted that it had been a banned weapon that now wasn’t.”

Adding police at schools has popular appeal, but classroom homicides are exceedingly rare.

“Any given school can expect to experience a student homicide about once every 6,000 years,” said Dewey Cornell, a University of Virginia professor who studies school safety.

“Children are in far more danger outside of schools than in schools.

If we had to take officers out of the community to put them in schools, then actually children will be less safe rather than more safe.”

Two former administration staffers who worked on the gun violence platform said the $150 million proposal for cops and counselors in schools — which “may have been a bit outsized,” one said — was driven

by Biden’s history of championing federal grants for hiring cops.

It also seemed like “something that people might be willing to, you know, give us money for,” a former senior White House official said.

The staffers said they could not remember why funding to support strategies like Ceasefire was not included in the plan. “Look, if it was some deliberate conversation not to do it, I would remember,” the former senior official said.

Though Justice Department grants for community violence prevention

Pastor Michael McBride leads a vigil outside of the White House. weren’t part of the post-Sandy Hook platform, a staffer said “we were watching the fiscal year 2014 budget process and making sure we were continuing to push for those resources at DOJ.” Bruce Reed, Biden’s chief of staff at the time, said budget concerns likely kept funding for innovative local efforts out of the package.

“We didn’t want to turn this into an appropriations bill, because that would be … ” he said, shrugging.

“That would cost us whatever Republicans we had hoped for.”

“The appropriations climate was, if possible, more divisive than the gun debate,” Reed added later. “We were always between shutdowns.”

Webster, the Johns Hopkins gun violence researcher, said that it would have been “more justifiable” to devote federal dollars to supporting Ceasefire and similar programs than it was to put the money toward school security. “I don’t know of any evidence that putting police in schools makes them safe, and I do know of evidence that having police in schools leads to more kids being arrested,” he said.

Two weeks after Obama unveiled his plan, McBride and dozens of other clergy members, many of them from cities struggling with high rates of gun violence, met again with staffers from Biden’s task force.

The mood at the Jan. 29 meeting was tense. Many of the attendees, including McBride, felt the president’s agenda had left out black Americans.

“The policy people working for Biden worked with the reality of Congress,” said Teny Gross, one of the original Boston Miracle outreach

workers who now leads the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago. “What they were proposing to us was very limited and was not going to help the inner city.”

Gross said he “blew a gasket.” The clergy members in the room were pleading for help. “We bury hundreds of kids every year in the inner city,” Gross recalled them telling the administration representative. “Some of the solutions need to apply to us.”

A staffer said that the political will of the country was not focused on urban violence, several ministers who attended the meeting recalled.

“What was said to us by the White House was, there’s really no support nationally to address the issue of urban violence,” said the Rev. Charles Harrison, a pastor from Indianapolis. “The support was to address the issue of gun violence that affected suburban areas — schools where white kids were killed.”

The Rev. Jeff Brown, from Boston, was angered by the administration’s calculated approach. “When you say something like that and you represent the president of the United States, and the first AfricanAmerican president of the United States, you know, that’s hugely disappointing,” he said.

Former administration officials said they thought it was tragic that the everyday killings of black children did not get more political attention. “I totally agree with their frustrations,” a former official said. “At the same time, when the nation listens, you’ve got to speak, and you don’t get to pick when the nation listens.”

It would turn out there was little political will to realize the administration’s gun-violence proposals either.

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Hampton Jazz Festival 2016 marks end of an era WIRE The 49th annual Hampton Jazz Festival’s last day marked the end of an era for Hampton Coliseum director and primary festival organizer Joe Tsao.

Tsao took over the festival 16 years ago at a time when it was struggling financially and turned it back into a frequently sold-out event. Tsao said his last festival was emotional.

“I’m going down memory lane and I'm also thinking about what to do tomorrow,” Tsao said. "This year has been great — great music, friends, reunions.”

The Hampton Coliseum was awash in color Sunday afternoon before opener Joselyn Best took the stage.

Fans milled about in bold patterns and brightly colored outfits. Many chatted about the previous nights’ acts, particularly Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, who performed Saturday.

Ronda Ellison, of Baltimore, said this was her fifth year coming to the

festival and that while she loved Sunday’s headliner Charlie Wilson, it was really about seeing Babyface.

“I come out to be with the people,” Ellison said. “My favorite? I saw him last night — Babyface.”

This year featured headliners

Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds thrilled the crowd.

Gladys Knight, on Friday, and New Edition, on Saturday, in addition to Wilson, who closed out the show Sunday. This was his seventh time performing at the Hampton Jazz Festival.

Paula and William Lloyd, also from Baltimore, have been coming

to the festival for the last 30 years.

Recounting all of the famous acts they've seen — Frankie Beverly and Maze, Gladys Knight and B.B. King — Paula Lloyd said it was impossible to just pick one favorite, and it is the atmosphere that draws them back year after year.

“Every year it’s nice and relaxing, people just come to have a good time,” Paula Lloyd said. “We’ll definitely be back next year for the 50th.”

Paula said she was excited to see “Uncle Charlie” (Wilson) again, while her husband was looking forward to sax man Boney James. James took the stage second with his soulful tunes and Stephanie Mills followed, rocking out before Wilson came on to close the show.

James and Mills are both familiar faces at the Hampton Coliseum. For James, the Sunday performance was his seventh as part of the Jazz Festival and for Mills, her eighth.

She made her Hampton Jazz Fest debut in 1986.

Barbara Williams has been coming to the festival nearly as long as Mills has been performing there.

For the last 40 years she has been making the trek from Maryland to see some of her favorite musicians.

Williams said she's seen Wilson at least five times now, including at his past Hampton Jazz Festival performances.

“He’s great — he’s got great energy,” Williams said. “It’s good to see that artists are still doing well when they’re older.”

Now that this year’s festival has ended, Tsao is set to retire Thursday.

Looking ahead, he said he’s not sure what’s in store next.

“It was another great year keeping up the tradition of a great jazz festival,” Tsao said.

Attendance numbers for this year’s show are not yet available.

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Eighty-four percent of holiday travelers – more than 36 million people – will drive to their Independence Day destinations, an increase of 1.2 percent over last year. In Virginia, 87 percent of travelers will be heading out by car, which is a 1.4 percent gain from last year. Air travel is expected to increase 2.2 percent over last year, with 3.3 million Americans taking to the skies this Independence Day.

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Kevin Cosby listen and learn.

Kevin Cosby, pastor of St. Stephen Church in Louisville, Ky., said despite the best intentions of white people of good will, the reality is that racism is permanent and there is always going to be a black community.

“The reason we must talk about race is because black people are on the bottom in every measurement in this country,” Cosby said. Inequities such as mass incarceration, life expectancy, high school dropout and college attainment rates, he said, have black people asking the

question “why?”

“There’s only three reasons,” Cosby said. “One, because black people are inferior. Two, because God is a white racist. Three, social engineering.”

“The answer is social engineering, but black kids don’t know that,” he said. “They don’t understand why they’re at the bottom.” The only solution, he contended, is to inform them, “You are the victims of a crime against humanity.”

“What that does is going to bring black people to a period of anger and grief and rage, on their way to healing,” Cosby said. “But there is no convenient way to get to healing and authentic racial reconciliation until we have the courage to have an honest conversation about race.”

Caldwell, a Baptist News Global board member, acknowledged that such straight talk can make white people feel uncomfortable, and building trust levels where people with different experiences can speak honestly takes time.

“Even if you can’t do an Empower West in your community, just show up in black space,” Caldwell suggested.

“Find a way with a Sunday school class or small group – or just take a Sunday off from your church; they can do without you for a Sunday – just show up in black space and know that you are going to be loved and embraced and send a powerful message.”

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Federal funds will help develop more than 1,200 new cremains gravesites for veteran interment in Suffolk Virginia’s U.S. senators, Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, both Democrats, said last week that the Albert G. Horton, Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery in Suffolk will receive $2,025,103 in federal funds to assist in its expansion. This Department of Veterans Affairs (V-A) grant will help develop approximately five acres of the cemetery by funding the construction of 1,260 cremains gravesites, 1920 columbarium niches, landscaping, and supporting infrastructure.

“Those who have served our country deserve to be treated with dignity, respect and honor,” said both Senators. “We welcome these federal dollars coming to Suffolk, which will make it possible for veterans in Hampton Roads to be interred in a cemetery closer to home and their loved ones.”

The closest national veterans cemetery in the region, Hampton

National Cemetery, is currently closed to new interments, and the closest veterans cemetery with available gravesites is Virginia Veterans Cemetery in Amelia, nearly 100 miles away.

These federal funds will help the commonwealth better serve the 187,975 veterans in Virginia and their families.

The Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery is preparing to begin a $3.2 million construction project funded by a federal grant.

A recent published report notes that the project will provide five new columbarium buildings and seven more garden sections for in-ground interment of cremated ashes, said Director of Cemeteries Dan Kemano.

“We’re having to continually expand,” Kemano said of the state veterans cemetery located on Milners Road in Suffolk. The cemetery performed 1,054 burials last fiscal

Va. delegate files lawsuit to avoid voting for Trump at the Republican convention, argues it’s a violation of his constitutional rights One of Virginia’s delegates to the Republican National Convention has filed a federal lawsuit in an effort to avoid voting for Donald Trump at the party convention next month.

The delegate, Carroll Correll Jr. of Winchester, Virginia, argues in the suit that being forced to vote against his conscience is a violation of his constitutional rights.

Correll says he will not vote for Trump, the presumptive nominee, because he believes the billionaire businessman is unfit to serve as president.Correll’s suit maintains that state law imposes criminal penalties on delegates who don’t vote on the first ballot for the winner of the state’s Republican and

Carroll Correll Jr.

Dan Kemano, director of the state veterans cemeteries, shows where new columbarium buildings at the Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery will be constructed. The buildings will be similar to existing buildings on the other side of the cemetery. PHOTO: SNH year and already has surpassed that number this fiscal year, with about a month to go.

The project also will include a road that leads in front of the

columbarium buildings and cremation gardens to a traffic circle with a small committal shelter,

Democratic primaries.

Trump won Virginia’s Republican primary while Hillary Clinton won the Democratic contest.

He seeks a judgment on behalf of all delegates to the Republican and Democratic conventions.

Meanwhile, Trump has conceded that he needs more than the barebones campaign team that led him to primary success in order to compete against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

But he’s finding that many of the GOP’s most experienced political aides just aren’t willing to work for him.

Trump needs a bigger campaign team to compete against Hillary Clinton (above) but many of the GOP's most experienced political aides aren’t willing to work for him Trump needs a bigger campaign team to compete against Hillary Clinton but many of the GOP's most experienced political aides aren’t willing to work for him From Texas to New Hampshire, well-respected members of the Republican Party’s professional class say they can’t look past their

deep personal and professional reservations about the presumptive presidential nominee.

There are exceptions, but many operatives who best understand the mechanics of presidential politics fear that taking a Trump paycheck might stain their resumes, spook other clients and even cause problems at home.

They’re also reluctant to devote months to a divisive candidate whose campaign has been plagued by infighting and disorganization.

“Right now I feel no obligation to lift a finger to help Donald Trump,” said Brent Swander, an Ohio-based operative who has coordinated nationwide logistics for Republican presidential campaigns dating back to George W. Bush.

“Everything that we’re taught as children — not to bully, not to demean, to treat others with respect — everything we’re taught as children is the exact opposite of what the Republican nominee is doing.

How do you work for somebody like that? What would I tell my family?”

Swander said.

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What the congressional slumber party on gun control did -- and didn’t -- accomplish

June 29, 2016 • 15 country reported which members took part so in districts where this matters they will know their member took action. That may not matter in the long run for gun control, but politically, yes, this could have impact.

On the other hand, in conservative districts all over this country, gun control (and caving to Democrats’ demands) is exactly the opposite of what the GOP voting base wants, making this a win-win for House Republicans, too, in a way. By resisting those demands and voting against gun-control measures, GOP lawmakers can stay on the conservative side of a hot-button

House Democrats ended their sitin demanding votes on gun control legislation after almost 26 hours. It was a rare event seeing members of Congress seated on the floor in suits, skirts, and blankets, all trying to force votes on measures after the largest mass shooting in our nation’s recent history.

During the hours of sitting (and talking) on the floor, House Democrats said they wanted votes on two measures that may sound familiar to those following politics this week -- one, to stop people on terrorist watch lists from purchasing guns and two, to expand mandatory In the wake of the Orlando shooting, House Democrats staged a sit-in led by civil rights activist background checks to firearm Congressman John Lewis (at podium), to demand that Congress take action on “commonsense” gun purchases at gun shows and online. safety legislation. It was a 25-hour demonstration that included Virginia Democrats as well.

They may sound familiar because both of these measure failed in the John Lewis’ statement Senate earlier this week and their political fate will likely have no “For over half a century, I’ve been on the front lines of some of our country’s most important civil rights different result in the House. battles.

The Democrats, though, have “And, I’m not backing down now. Together with my Democratic colleagues in Congress, I’m protesting vowed to keep going after they return the shocking Republican inaction when it comes to gun reform. to session in early July, with civil “But if we’re going to win this battle, I’ll need you by my side. rights icon Rep. John Lewis -- who “There’s no question America is facing a brutal epidemic of gun violence. led the charge for the vote—saying, “The fact is that 89 people are killed by gun violence every single day in America -- in their homes, “We must never ever give up, or give places of worship, schools, and nightclubs. in.”

And while we won’t be able to solve this problem in a single day, we can’t allow Republicans to sit idly “We must keep the faith and we by while our children and loved ones are at risk. must come back here on July 5 more “We can -- and we must -- do something to stop gun violence.” determined than ever before,” Lewis said.

Despite the new tactic, it is likely that gun control will stay completely stagnant -- even though voters do want issue while also standing up to Democrats in a well-publicized fight. change. In a recent CBS News poll, 57 percent of Americans believe gun The sit-in also shows an aggressive new tactic by the congressional control laws should be more strict, while 29 percent believe laws should be minority party. On the same day Donald Trump gave a speech blasting kept as they are while 11 percent want them loosened.

Hillary Clinton with a string of inaccurate criticisms, they were able to give The numbers become much more dramatic on the issue of background their nominee some cover, distracting from (or replacing) some of Trump’s checks. A CNN/ORC poll from this month also asked about whether negative headlines and also showing they are willing to confront Democrats Americans want background checks and 92 percent favored them with only 8 head on. percent opposing.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi claimed the actions weren’t political So is nothing accomplished with the congressional slumber party? Not and that’s despite the fundraising appeals from the DCCC, but in a climate exactly: Democratic constituents are able to see their representatives doing as divided as the one we are in now, just about everything seems political in something on an issue in which they want progress. Local news all over the some way, even when the issues are as important an critical as this one.

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Obama names LGBT landmark as national monument President Barack Obama last week designated a new national monument at the historic site of the Stonewall Uprising in New York City to honor the broad LGBT equality movement.

The new ‘Stonewall National Monument’ will protect the area where, on June 28, 1969, a community’s uprising in response to a police raid sparked the modern LGBT rights movement in the United States.

The monument covers nearly eight acres in New York’s Greenwich Village including a landmark gay bar, the Stonewall Inn. In June of 1969, patrons at the bar fought back against police persecution — an event that’s widely seen as a watershed in the campaign for LGBT

Designation of the Stonewall monument comes just days before the first anniversary of the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states. It also follows less than two weeks after 49 patrons at a gay bar in Orlando, Fla., were killed in a mass shooting.

Creation of the national monument, which also includes Christopher Park and the surrounding area, required some complex land swaps. It had the backing of state and local officials in New York.

“Stonewall is finally taking its rightful place in American history,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., who helped lead the effort. “We are faced with painful reminders daily People gather to look at a makeshift memorial for victims of the Orlando nightclub shootings in front of the historic Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the West Village, on June 13, in New York.

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“Raids like these were nothing new, but this time the patrons had had enough,” Obama said in a White House video announcing the new monument. “So they stood up and spoke out. The riots became protests.

The protests became a movement.

The movement ultimately became an integral part of America.”

Obama had previously highlighted the significance of Stonewall in his second inaugural address, weaving the battle for gay rights into a larger tapestry of civil rights for women and blacks.

“That all of us are created equal is the star that guides us still, just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall,” Obama told a cheering crowd on the National Mall in January 2013.

of how much further we must go to achieve true equality and tolerance for the LGBT community, but honoring and preserving the stories of all of the diverse participants in Stonewall in our National Park System is a clear symbol of how far we have come.”

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined gay rights groups in praising the new monument, along with New York lawmakers who had long advocated for a national designation.

Last year, New York City made it a city landmark—the first named primarily because of significance to LGBT history.

“Stonewall is finally taking its rightful place in American history,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., who had advocated for federal recognition for the site

Kemano said. That will give the cemetery two committal shelters to use so it can hold more than one service at a time.

Construction is slated to last about five to six months, Kemano said.

Each columbarium holds 384 niches, Kemano said. The new columbariums and gardens will be placed to the right of the committal shelter to mirror the layout to the left of the shelter.

In about two years, the cemetery will start a new project to preinstall concrete vaults in its gardens reserved for traditional in-casket burials, Kemano said. He aims to apply for a federal grant to cover the cost of that project, as well.

The vaults were installed in some of the cemetery’s gardens about two years ago. They benefit veterans and their families because it means the only thing a veteran’s family has to pay for is a $300 administrative fee when a spouse is buried. Previously, families had to pay for the vault

Eventually, the cemetery will expand into what is now a wooded area behind the columbarium buildings and cover most of the 74 acres on the property, Kemano said.

Despite the rapid pace at which the cemetery is filling, he estimates the cemetery will be able to continue to bury veterans for 60 to 80 more years.

Burial at the cemetery is available to all service members who died on active duty, retired or were honorably discharged, as well as their spouse and unmarried minor children under the age of 21. Some Reserve and National Guard members are also eligible.

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Hampton Sheriff’s Office seeks full-time LPNs w/LPN diploma, For specific responsibilities, required qualifications, and certified in the State of Virginia, & min 1 yr exp. Will assess Ok X_________________________________ application information for both positions, please visit the patients’ health status; assist w/histories & physicals for Inmates; Ad Size: 9 inches (2 columns X 4.50 inches) Hampton University Employment page at http://www. implement & follow up on Physician/Dentist written & verbal orders; hamptonu.edu/about/employment.cfm. administer & document medications; perform venipuncture & Ok with changes X _____________________ I.V. therapy; initiate care for medical emergencies.

1 Issue (June 29) - $99 Rate: $11 per column inch

Must have ability to adhere to safety & security policies, REMINDER: Deadline is Fridays @ 5 Universal Precautions & other appropriate infection control practices. Must be willing to provide medical care & patient Please review the proof, make any needed changes and return by fax or e-mail. health education to Inmates & Correctional Staff. Req’s If your response is not received by deadline, your ad may not be inserted. flexibility to work 8-hr day, evening or night shifts.

Includes Internet placement

REMINDER: Deadline is Fridays @ 5 p.m.

Applicants must attend Applicant Orientation Session.

Visit our website: hampton.gov/sheriff for dates & times.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Karl Daughtrey, Director of Finance

The LEGACY is looking for a reliable, highly-motivated, goal-driven sales professional to join our team selling print and digital advertising in the Richmond and Hampton Roads areas.

Duties include: Building and maintaining relationships with new/existing clients Meeting and exceeding monthly sales goals Cold calling new prospects over the phone to promote print and online advertising space Qualifications:

Reach over 50,000 Legacy readers a week in RVA & HR! Advertise here.

Call 804-644-1550

Proven experience with print (newspaper) and/or digital (website) advertising sales Phone and one-on-one sales experience Effective verbal and written communication skills Familiarity with the Richmond and/or Hampton Roads Professional image Compensation depends on experience and includes a base pay as well as commission.

The LEGACY is an African-American-oriented weekly newspaper, circulation 25,000, with a website featuring local and national news and advertising.

E-mail resume and letter of interest to ads@ legacynewspaper.com detailing your past sales experience. No phone calls please.

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