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Rethinking school discipline STAFF & WIRE About 800 educators from around the state recently wrapped up a two-day conference in Richmond tackling discipline and achievement in public schools.

The Virginia Department of Education sponsored the conference “Classrooms Not Courtrooms: School Discipline and the Achievement Gap Institute” at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. It focused on transforming policies and procedures to decrease racial and ethnic disproportionality in school discipline.

School leaders from across the state met on on Monday for the “Classrooms Not Courtrooms: School Discipline and the Achievement Gap Institute.” The event, geared toward school superintendents, principals and other administrators, was a chance for representatives from local school divisions to exchange ideas and talk about best practices.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe spoke at the conference and encouraged school leaders to examine discipline.

“You refer someone to law enforcement at a very young age, you could really affect that individual’s career,” he said. “Far too many of our students are spending time outside the classroom unfortunately because of disciplinary action.”

A 2015 report from the Center for Public Integrity had Virginia leading the nation in the number of students referred to law enforcement.

“It was a wakeup call,” said Kim Adkins, a member of the Virginia Board of Education. “That is not a label that the commonwealth wants to have nationwide.”

In 2016, a report from the Legal Aid Justice Center found that Virginia schools are overissuing suspensions, with black students and students with disabilities being suspended at a disproportionate rate.

“I think for many years we all used the traditional approach of, if a student misbehaved, we put them out of school,” said Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staples. “As we started looking at the data, what we discovered is, once you put them out of school, their behavior didn’t always change.”

In the last six years, short-term suspensions have decreased by 19 percent, long-term suspensions are down 17-percent and expulsions have dropped 62-percent overall, according to the Virginia Department of Education.

“I think people at this conference are embracing the idea of changing practice in a way that doesn’t allow students to misbehave but actually changes their behavior in a positive way,” said Staples.

There has been improvements.

But not all recent data is promising.

Suspensions are beginning to trend up again and disproportionality remains.

The recent data shows that black students make up 24 percent of the population but 54 percent of suspensions. Disabled students account for 12 percent of the school population but total 25 percent of all suspensions.

“These numbers are still entirely too high,” said McAuliffe. “This is unacceptable and will not be tolerated here in the commonwealth of Virginia. There is no room in our commonwealth for excessive or discriminatory discipline for our students.”

In June, McAuliffe signed legislation directing the Board of Education to find alternatives to school suspensions.

Staples said potential alternatives could be a number of things.

“Sometimes it’s finding a way to keep a student in school in a different setting. Sometimes it’s changing the setting they’re in, helping them better understand how to respond to confrontation, to respond to teachers. It could literally be something as simple as having a timeout place

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News Black Wealth 2020

Economic justice movement aims to ‘turbo charge’ black wealth in America HAZEL TRICE EDNEY TEWire - According to the following statistics, the economic condition of America’s black community is in dire straits: •A recent study by Harvard University found that homeownership in the black community stands at only 42.2 percent in the nation’s largest metro areas. That’s below the LatinoAmerican community, which is at 46 percent and well below the whiteAmerican community, which is at 72 percent.

•In addition, the mortgage denial rate for blacks is more than 25 percent, near 20 percent for Latinos but just over 10 percent for white applicants, according to the Center for Enterprise Development.

•Likewise, the U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. notes the lack of access to capital remains the greatest barrier to the establishment, expansion and growth of black-owned businesses.

•Finally, black-owned banks, which grant an overwhelming majority of their loans to black people, continue to climb their way out of the disparate hit they took during the great recession while maintaining their historic role in stabilizing black communities.

These revelations illustrating the economic struggles of black Americans are the driving forces behind the founding of a new group that’s leading a movement for black economic justice across America.

Black Wealth 2020, formally established only two years ago, aims to lock arms with some of the most historic national civic and civil rights organizations with a goal to impact economic outcomes in black America over the next three years.

The group's three-pronged strategy is to increase the number of black homeowners, strengthen black-owned businesses and increase deposits in black banks by the year 2020.

“This is, in my recollection, the

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first time there’s been a systematic effort to draw our community’s attention to these very critical issues related to wealth-building and economi c self-sufficiency. That being the importance of supporting black banks, the importance of homeownership, the importance of growing black businesses those really are the three pillars of economic empowerment,” said Marie Johns, former deputy administrator at the Small Business Administration and retired president of Verizon Washington, who is a member of Black Wealth 2020.

“If you have strong business ownership, strong home ownership and strong financial institutions, that's freedom. It’s the closest proximity that we’ll get,” said Johns, also chair of the Howard University board of visitors and creator of SBA’s Council on Underserved Communities.

In a nutshell, the seeds of Black Wealth 2020 were initially planted during a fight for economic justice.

It started about seven years ago as several like-minded heads of organizations with economic components began regularly discussing the financial plight of black people.

The group gelled after National Bankers Association President Michael Grant, National Association of black-owned Broadcasters President Jim Winston and U.S.

Black Chamber President Ron Busby joined forces with Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) to push for black business inclusion in a proposed merger between Comcast and NBC Universal.

Winston had asked Waters, ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, to take action in the situation. Winston then pulled in Grant who pulled in Busby. The Comcast merger ultimately failed.

But,“we decided to put together some kind of organizational team,” recalled Grant, “so that whenever these issues come up, we’ll have a united front and we’ll have a lot of organizations. That’s how Black Wealth 2020 was formed.

The ultimate goal is to “turbo charge” black wealth, said Grant.

While Black Wealth 2020 is uniquely economic, it aims to work alongside traditional civil rights organizations, including the National Urban League, the NAACP and others, Winston said.

“We have been concerned that for many years the black civil rights movement had been the only national voice of the AfricanAmerican community. Those groups do a great job but there are business and economic battles that the black community has been fighting. And we don’t believe that the black community’s voice has been strong enough and effective enough in that regard,” said Winston. “And so we

are able to strengthen each other in each other’s activities as well as our collective voice for the black community.”

Other leaders in Black Wealth 2020 are HomeFree USA President Marcia Griffin; Zenviba Academy of Arts and Science President John Templeton; Collective Empowerment Group National President Dr. Jonathan Weaver; National Association of Real Estate Brokers President Ron Cooper; Enlightened: Beyond Expectations President Antwanye Ford; and Delta Sigma Theta President Dr. Paulette Walker. At latest count, the group has a total immediate reach of at least three million people.

Members of Black Wealth 2020 are quick to point to the historic roots of its economic goals. When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, he had launched a “Poor People’s Campaign,” an economic justice movement that had begun in Memphis.

John Templeton, founder of the now 14-year-old National Black Business Month in August, sees the work of Black Wealth 2020 as a continuum of Dr. King’s vision. Templeton contends the prophecy spoken by King the night before his death must still come to fruition.

“King said he wasn’t going to get to the promise land with us. But we as a people will get to the promise land.

And people have forgotten that,” Templeton said.

Over the past 49 years since the assassination of Dr. King, other black economic strategies have popped up and fizzled out. For this movement, Black Wealth 2020 members said the strategy for sustainability is built in, including several elements.

Black America’s current state of affairs: “This current administration is going to force us to look internally because we don’t have any help coming from outside our community,” said USBC President Ron Busby. “It’s not about one

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Lambert family rolling in for ‘911 For Justice’ rally Sept.

The family of Linwood Lambert Jr. will be returning to South Boston in September for a “911 For Justice” rally to urge greater accountability in cases of police brutality Gwendolyn Smalls, sister of Lambert and lead plaintiff in a lawsuit that the family filed against the South Boston after Lambert died in police custody in May 2013, said the event, set for Monday, Sept. 11, is “a chance to get closure the right way” for her family.

“We’ve got to keep it” — her brother’s death — “in the forefront so that people will realize it’s not videos that help us out, it’s not dash cams and body cams, it’s the law,” she said.

The Lambert family settled their federal lawsuit against the town and the South Boston Police Department without achieving one of their announced goals — dismissal of the three officers who were involved in the death of Lambert, a Richmond construction worker who was taken to the local hospital emergency room in an agitated state after using cocaine on the night of May 3, 2013.

Lambert was tasered repeatedly outside the hospital ER and died early the next morning after being taken to the Halifax jail for medical treatment.

State medical examiners ruled that cocaine use led to Lambert’s

Gwendolyn Smalls death from heart failure, and local and federal prosecutors ultimately declined to bring charges against the officers involved.

The case gained national prominence with the airing of video on MSNBC that captured the actions by the officers and Lambert, who was handcuffed throughout the incident.

Smalls, a Richmond resident, said laws protecting police officers from potential legal liability shouldn’t allow abusive officers to “be able to walk away without any kind of accountability.” Other instances of unjustified police killings, she said, include the videotaped shooting death of Philando Castile by a suburban Minneapolis police officer in 2016, and Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen who was fatally

shot by police in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014.

“I understand the brotherhood and sisterhood [of law enforcement] because I worked with a police department for 10 years,” she said.

“There should be laws to protect officers. I’ve known some good ones.

But I’ve also known some that should not have been protected from the law because of their behavior.”

The Sept. 11 event will be patterned after other rallies that the family and members of the Virginia NAACP, the Southern Christian

Leadership Conference and other groups held in South Boston while the Lambert lawsuit was ongoing.

Participants will meet at the Riverdale Food Lion at 10:30 a.m. and then march to the South Boston Police Department starting around 11 a.m. The event is open to anyone who wants to join.

The marchers also will stop at Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital and release white balloons and leave behind white carnations, which were her brother’s favorite flower, said Smalls. © SoVaNow

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Habitat provides two Newport News families homes In recent weeks, Habitat for Humanity turned over the keys for new homes to two Newport News families. The Johnson and Robertson families benefited from the support of two corporate sponsors – Huntington Ingalls and Bank of America.

Tanya Johnson, who was born and raised in Hayti, Missouri, relocated to Newport News in 2001. She is the mother of two sons and one daughter, and is also a grandmother.

The Johnson family’s new home on 34th Street is 1,200 square feet with three bedrooms and two bathrooms.

The Habitat home was funded and built by the employees of Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls. This is the 15th home the shipyard has funded and built for a Habitat family on the Peninsula.

“We are truly blessed… There was love behind it, we built this together,” said Johnson after working alongside volunteers for months to

build the home.

Similarly, Gail Robertson and her 18-year-old daughter recently moved into their new home on 28th Street that was funded and constructed

by Bank of America employees. The bank has a longtime partnership with Habitat for Humanity, making the new Robertson home their 11th Habitat home.

Born and raised in the Hampton Roads area, Robertson also helped in the construction.

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that helps families own a home. Working together volunteers, house sponsors and the buyer(s) of the house either rehabilitate or construct the homes.

There are qualifications that must be met before applying for a home. Applicants must be first-time home buyers meaning they cannot have owned a home within the past three years, show a need for new housing and must be income eligible.

Applicants must be willing to partner with Habitat by working 200 to 400 hours on various Habitat projects, including helping other families build their home. Applicants must currently live or work for at least a year in Hampton, James City County, Newport News, Poquoson, Williamsburg, York County, Charles City County, or New Kent County.

NAACP names Derrick Johnson interim president LAUREN VICTORIA BURKE The NAACP has named Derrick Johnson, the vice chairman of their board of directors, the organization’s interim president.

The unanimous decision was made by the executive committee of the board of directors during the Association’s 108th annual convention in Baltimore. The NAACP is the largest and oldest civil rights organization in the U.S. The executive committee of the board is comprised of 14 people.

On May 19, the NAACP board announced that the contract of Cornell William Brooks, the outgoing president, would not be renewed.

Brooks’ contract, which began in May 2014, ended on June 30.

“I am thrilled to announce that my friend and colleague Derrick Johnson has been appointed to interim president and CEO. I could not think of a better, more battle-tested or more qualified individual to guide

the NAACP through this transition period,” said Leon Russell, the chairman of the board of the NAACP. “Derrick’s longtime service with the Association will allow him to take decisive action to deal with daily challenges. He will also serve as the primary spokesman for the NAACP. I have every confidence in Derrick and will support him in this new endeavor every step of the way.”

In a recent statement, Johnson said that it is an honor and a privilege to be named the interim president and CEO of an organization that he’s served for decades.

“There’s a lot of work that needs to be done and we won’t waste any time getting to it. We are facing unprecedented threats to our democracy and we will not be sidelined while our rights are being eroded every day,” said Johnson. “We remain steadfast and immovable, and stand ready on the front lines of the fight for justice.”

The NAACP is about to embark

Derrick Johnson on a nationwide listening tour to hear advice on what their focus should be moving forward. NAACP leadership has acknowledged that younger civil rights organizations are getting more traction and attention in a world of social media and faster communications.

The first stop on the NAACP listening tour is Detroit on Aug. 24.

The second stop will be San Antonio in September. The organization’s

leadership will “visit a total of seven major cities across the country over the next few months,” according to a press release about the tour.

Johnson will serve as interim president and CEO until a new president is named. Johnson formerly served as vice chairman of the NAACP National Board of Directors as well as state president for the Mississippi State Conference NAACP.

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Op/Ed & Letters

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To be young, black and in education NICOLE SAHBAEE Soon, I will be closing my time as a summer intern at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and beginning my final undergraduate year at Howard University. I’ve learned more about public education at the National Alliance in two months than I have in the past year.

However, even though I work for a charter school advocacy organization, I do not consider myself pro-charter.

I am also not pro-district.

Truthfully, I've heard many arguments that support charter public schools and many that support district schools - all with valid points and facts to back them up.

So, when I began to find myself truly confused, I did what I always do. I looked up what black people are saying about this. Black opinion + my own thoughts = a solid case to base my life decisions on. While it may not be the most mathematical equation for success, it works for me. I googled “Black leaders charter schools” and felt a small sense of relief come over me because I was going to get an answer.

I wasn’t going to have to wonder anymore because the black leaders in education would tell me what their point of view is, why they have it, where the research came from, and what they are going to do about it.

Looking back on this now, I’m aware that it sounds like I don’t use my brain to critically think, but we The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 3 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

all do this in some form. In politics, people look up what the standard Democratic or Republican viewpoint is; in media people go to their favorite artist's page to read their view; and in school, students go to their favorite teacher for their opinion.

As I began to read through the articles, I found topics about the NAACP and Black Lives Matter being pitted against black leaders in education. I was pissed! So, two huge organizations that have black prosperity at their core are at odds with black education leaders and parents? I was so irritated that I closed the screen and went to deal with this confusion another day.

Weeks passed and I continued to gain information. I read the letter that had been written and signed by 160 black leaders in support of charters, I watched clips of the NAACP’s special hearings on charter schools, and I researched teachers unions and their disdain for the charter movement. I turned over every rock I could find for some sort of answer.

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Despite all the research and opinions, I still could not figure out who was on the right side of history.

I could not look to black leaders in this situation because they are consumed with the politics of the district vs. charter debate, just like many others in education.

This isn't the first time I found disappointment with black role models - Raven-Symoné was a huge heart breaker - but this is too important to ignore. Every second that is spent focusing on which school is better or what should be the dominant structure is doing a disservice to our children. Our children are the ones suffering without a quality education and are then chastised by society for not meeting “the bar”.

I get that money, politics, and power are important, but we can’t afford to fight this fight with each other. We have no choice but to be unified. According to the Civil Rights Data Collection, black students are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than white students. This is something we should be focusing on. If our children don’t make it, that not only affects us but it is on us. The white school leaders that are trying to make change will be heartbroken if the years of work they put into improving public schools don’t pay off, but we will be crippled.

This is not an attack on black leaders today, this is a cry for help.

I'm a 21-year-old intern, trying to graduate from college. I’m doing everything in my power to change the narrative for our children, but I don't have the power, yet. Black leaders, I’m begging you to use your power to create. Create the schools for our children that also provide jobs for our people. Position it so that black school leaders have the resources to train up our kids. If you are an organization with the words black, African American, Negro, or Colored People in your title then this is your duty, this is your fight.

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel, just take a page from the TV show “Pimp My Ride” and make it better. At the very least, create a space for conversations to flow freely regarding the schools our children go to. We may never reach a consensus and that is okay. There are multiple different ways to learn, to teach, and to lead. If you can’t do it, use your resources to find someone who can.

This isn’t a conversation I wish to pick up in 20 years when I am in your shoes and we don't have twenty more years to wait. I don’t care what structure is used to educate our kids, we just need something that works.

Sahbaee is a rising senior at Howard University and a Walton-UNCF K-12 Education Fellow.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Siding with Wall Street

For over 30 years, the wages of working people have been flat, and pensions continue to be replaced with inadequate 401(k)s.

Economic uncertainty plagues millions of families in their working years and continues into retirement.

And now, Donald Trump and his secretary of labor are making these problems even worse.

Last year, at the end of the Obama presidency, the Department of Labor approved the fiduciary rule, designed to keep workers from having their hard-earned retirement savings pocketed by unscrupulous financial advisers: When fully implemented and enforced, the fiduciary rule would require Wall Street advisers to provide retirement investment advice that is in the best interest of the client, not the adviser.

But now, the Trump administration is trying to weaken, or even roll back this critical rule. They’re siding with Wall Street “advisers” over working people, robbing families of their hard-earned retirement savings.

The Council of Economic Advisers estimates that “conflicted” advice costs retirement savers $17 billion each year. EPI research shows that people saving for retirement in all 50 states would benefit from the fiduciary rule if it was fully enforced.

Sadly, Donald Trump’s secretary of labor, Alexander Acosta, has opened up a “Request for Information” comment period in a blatant attempt to undermine the progress we’ve made on behalf of people saving

for retirement. He’s hoping to receive comments from Wall Street industry groups with a profit stake in weakening the rule. We must ensure he hears from every day people!

It is DOL’s mission to improve Americans’ wages and working conditions and to enforce our labor laws. Yet with this new comment period, the Trump administration has indicated that it wants to weaken or rescind a rule meant to protect our retirement savings.

Together we’re demanding an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few.

Heidi Shierholz, EPI

ACA stands... for now

In a shocking and dramatic vote late night vote, the Senate rejected a health care plan that would have devastated the most vulnerable among us. Health insurance for tens of millions of Americans, which would have been eliminated by “skinny repeal”, has been saved. All because of your dedicated activism.

In these times of too much hopelessness and toxic rhetoric, of politics and policy that threaten the lives and livelihoods of those most in need, you have lifted your voice in support of a better way—a way of hope, peace, and justice.

Whether your activism has been through praying, marching or calling Congress, you have been an inspiration.

Michael Mershon

‘Looming crisis’

While the corporate media and U.S. Congress engage in a sham

witch hunt for evidence of the nonexistent Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election, real concerns and problems go unaddressed. Several years ago I had investigative reporter Patricia Kelly O’Meara of the Washington Times on my Internet radio program. Our topic was psychotropic drug abuses against children. She also shared a story she was working on about the insolvency of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation how the rash of giant bankruptcies of the U.S. steel and airlines industries were further depleting the reserves of this quasi-Public entity designed to be the last resort to protect private pensions in cases of company default and bankruptcy.

Her reports revealed that big companies were deliberately offloading their pension obligations onto the PBGC to be born by the U.S. taxpayers. They were keeping the funds they collected for and from their employees and claiming they didn’t have the money to honor their pension obligations. The BPGC was forced to step in and provide at least some pension benefits to the retirees although in most cases it was not what their Defined Benefit Retirement agreements called for!

As a result of her articles Congress took action to replenish the PBGC fund so it was in better condition than prior to her revelations.

However due to the 2008 crash the fund is now seriously underfunded again. “The government’s pension insurance company, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), is broke. Because its

creditors can’t demand their money immediately, it won’t have spent its last dollar for ‘a significant number of years’ yet (maybe ten) -- but its liabilities of $164 billion are nearly twice its assets of $88 billion: there is no way it can honor all its obligations.”

There is a pension crisis in America that is metastasizing and roiling out to the point hundreds of public and private pensions are at risk for collapse leaving current pensioners in a lurch and future retirees at risk for destitution due to reduced benefits or no benefits at all!

Every once in a while the media reports on a fund that is in fiscal difficulty like the Teamsters Union fund.

What we are not being told is that so many municipalities, counties states and company pensions are in deep trouble due to decisions the CEOs CFOs, mayors, councils, managers, governors made negotiating contracts with unions, and how their funds were managed.

For public pensions mayors and governors opted not to make the needed contributions to the funds.

I do not have the space to provide all the data so go to see just how precarious the U.S. pension system both public and private really are.

What can we do? Ask questions, raise issues with your elected officials, your union reps and employers. Get involved, attend meetings, read the relevant materials your union or pension fund send you, do your own research and become more familiar with the issues.

Junious Ricardo Stanton

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Faith & Religion

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Union of Black Episcopalians look to church’s future MARY FRANCES SCHJONBERG ENN - African-Americans in both the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America were called last week to help build the future of their churches by working hard in the present.

The call to action came during the Union of Black Episcopalians’ 49th annual conference, held in suburban Philadelphia. The UBE met jointly for the first time with the African Descent Lutheran Association.

“Right now, the church is not leading the conversation about justice,” Brittney Cooper, assistant professor of women’s, gender and Africana studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, said during a July 25 presentation.

“We’re not leading the conversation about truth, and we should be.

Instead, we have some perversion – some version – of the church that I don’t recognize, which we call the religious right.”

That version, said Cooper, who was raised Baptist and continues to attend church, has “hijacked the conversation about what truth is and what truth we should be telling.”

Cooper contended that society now has more access to information, both factual and false, than at any point in history “and we still can’t make sense of any of it.”

“We’re in a moment when too many black churches are still obsessed with individual sin,” she said. “We don’t talk about social sin.”

Moreover, too many black churches have “capitulated to the conservative, evangelical party line of assimilation into the American project,” she said. Cooper argued that “racism, sexism, capitalism, homophobia and transphobia are eating up black folks.”

“All we do is tell people that God cares about saving individual souls,” she said. “I wonder if our theology needs a shift and what God is calling us to do is to get our own stuff together so that we can do this work of justice.”

“You don’t really know Jesus if

1792. It was the first black Episcopal church.

The conference honored both Absalom Jones and Jehu Jones Jr., a Lutheran minister who founded one of the first African-American Lutheran congregations in the 1830s, also in Philadelphia. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton presided at the three-hour Eucharist.

Curry reminded the congregation of the Hebrew midwives who organized to defy pharaoh’s order that all Hebrew baby boys were to be killed at birth because he feared the Hebrews’ power. One of the babies they saved was Moses, who grew up to lead his people to freedom.

Then, in Jesus’ time, Herod followed “the pattern that we see of tyrants throughout history and to this very day” who seek to destroy some of society’s children. Today, Curry said, those tyrants would take away their public education opportunities and their health care “Destroy the children and you destroy a nation,” he said.

“Our children, whether they are

The Rt. Rev. Carl Wright, Episcopal Church bishop suffragan for the armed forces and federal ministries, blesses Bert Gibson of New York.

The blessing happened during a Eucharist and healing service that included recognition of Gibson and all UBE members who had served in the military. you don’t think your theology should young people in his sermon at inform your politics,” Cooper said.

African Episcopal Church of St. It is not surprising that young Thomas in Philadelphia during a people, who are rightly skeptical Eucharist commemorating the 225th about all institutions, are not in anniversary of the black presence in church, Cooper said. They are not the Episcopal Church. going to come to church simply Absalom Jones, the church’s first because older people tell them to – black priest, founded St. Thomas in (continued on page 9) older people who have a lot of rules to which they require churchgoers to conform.

Instead, she said, the church must remember that Jesus told his followers that “rules and regulations won’t save you.”

“That is why young people are not hearing us because what we offer to them far too often is more rules and regulations about how they should dress and how they should talk and what it means to be respectable,” she said. “Instead, we’re supposed to be the people who are like Jesus who looked at an empire and said this is evil and there’s another way to live.”

“Maybe millennials’ disinterest in church isn’t a judgment,” Copper Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and Evangelical Lutheran Church in suggested. “Maybe it’s an invitation” America Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton go over the order of service to the church to change its theology and its approach. with the Rev. Deon Johnson before Eucharist at African Episcopal Later that day, Presiding Bishop Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia. The service commemorated the Michael Curry concentrated on 225th anniversary of the black presence in the Episcopal Church. the church’s ministry to and with PHOTOS: Mary Frances Schjonberg/ Episcopal News Service

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(from page 8) black white, red, yellow – no matter who they are – are being left on the garbage heap of America,” Curry said.

“If you want to make America great, Mr. Trump? Save the children,” he said, pacing St. Thomas’ aisle.

The congregation jumped to its feet, roaring approval.

“The child you save today may save you tomorrow,” was Curry’s refrain.

He urged Episcopalians and Lutherans to adopt schools in their neighborhoods, do more for children in the summer, open their buildings to children at times other than Sunday mornings and develop programs for children.

“We need a Sunday school movement that doesn’t just meet on Sunday,” he said. “We need churches filled with children and I don’t care how much noise they make.”

This generation of children needs to hear the real story of Jesus, not what Curry said was the “fake news” about Jesus.

“There’s a lot of fake faith out there that masquerades as Christianity and looks like Christianity but it doesn’t have a thing to do with Jesus,” he said, criticizing preachers of the prosperity gospel.

When the message is about wealth

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Rutgers University Assistant Professor Brittany Cooper says church folks need to shift their theologies to focus on social justice, not rules.

Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg/ Episcopal News Service and not about service and Jesus, it is a “perversion of the gospel and I don’t care how mega the church is, how big it is, that is wrong.”

“It is false, it is fake and our children are falling prey to it,” he said.

Curry warned that prosperity gospel preaching ranges all over Africa and Central and South America, and is spreading elsewhere.

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“And it is making some people rich by preying on the poor and that is not

the gospel,” he said.

He warned against forms of Christianity in the United States that put down immigrants, poor people and “cozy up to power.”

“And, if you listen, they never talk about Jesus,” he said.

The West, Curry proclaimed, needs to be re-evangelized by a Jesus Movement that preaches and lives a Christianity looks and sounds like Jesus.

He warned that such a movement is not always an easy one to follow.

“If you love God, you have to love who and what God loves,” he said, no matter their religious, ethnic, political or ideological affiliations.

“It doesn’t mean you have to let them get away with everything, but you have got to love them,” he said.

“My brothers and sisters, we’ve got work to do. Don’t leave this place just feeling good. Don’t leave this place just shouting,” he said. “You’ve got to leave this place ready to change this world.”

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Producers, HBO defend upcoming series ‘Confederate’ ERIC DEGGANS It may be the most explosive response ever to a TV show that hasn’t shot a frame, doesn’t have a script, or even a plot written yet.

All we know is HBO’s “Confederate” will be a TV show set in a modern America where the Confederacy never lost the Civil War and slavery still exists. After days at the center of the controversy, Executive Producer Nichelle Tramble Spellman says the experience has been like getting “a crash course in crazy.”

That painful education began after HBO issued a press release announcing Confederate as the next series under development

by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the two executive producers of the cable channel’s hit series “Game of Thrones”.

According to the release, Confederate will be set “in an alternate timeline, where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution.” Emailed to journalists just a few days after HBO aired the widely-anticipated first episode from “Game of Thrones” new season, the announcement sparked lots of coverage and bitter criticism.

Writing for the New York Times, Roxane Gay declared “I Don’t Want to Watch Slavery Fan Fiction.”

The Daily Beast called it “white nonsense.” And social media posts by the hundreds snarked at a pair of white, male producers from “Game of Thrones”, a show long criticized for its lack of diversity and depictions of sexualized violence, tackling such an incendiary topic.

All of which made Nichelle Tramble Spellman and her husband, Malcolm Spellman – African American writers who are also executive producers on Confederate – feel marginalized by black journalists and pundits they say should have known better.

“Regardless of how awkwardly that press release was phrased, we are involved as peers, as full executive producers and as partners,” said Malcolm. “If you render us a footnote,

the assumption is that we’re just a prop or a shield...Our own people marginalized us like that.”

But, HBO’s own press release emphasized Benioff and Weiss, who are listed as creators of the series and showrunners; Malcolm now admits “the rollout just wasn’t right.”

Now, as HBO and the Spellmans push back by letting the world know that two socially-conscious black producers are intimately involved in developing the show, a question arises: Is it fair to condemn a TV series before anyone has seen a single episode?

“First thing to tell everybody is what the project is not,” said Malcolm Spellman. “The project is not antebellum imagery, it’s not whips, it's not plantations, it’s not a celebration or pornography for slavery. And, most importantly, it’s not an entire nation of slaves.”

Instead, the couple said, the series will likely feature an America divided, where the South has a system which looks like Apartheidera South Africa. The goal, they say, is to show how today’s problems with racial issues — over-policing of black people, disenfranchisement through voter I.D. laws, lack of representation at the highest level of power — is rooted in the nation's legacy of slavery.

As much as some people may object to seeing a story where black people are once again victims and white supremacy rules the day, Malcolm Spellman says such a story, done well, can speak to the anxieties of our modern political moment.

“I think there is less discomfort is dealing with slavery when it is in the past,” said Malcolm Spellman. “But talking about white supremacy [in today’s times] without trying to...talk about where it comes from, is crazy to us.”

HBO president of programming Casey Bloys faced journalists at a news conference in Los Angeles last week, saying the backlash against Confederate was the result of issuing a press release with no context.

“If you read that press release, a logical conclusion would be that the

Nichelle Tramble Spellman (left) and her husband Malcolm Spellman are African American writers who are also executive producers. guys from Game of Thrones are doing a fantasy show – similar to Game of Thrones—where slavery is legal,” Bloys said to this reporter before the news conference. “If that hit me cold, I would say, ‘What?’ So I understand the reaction.”

Maybe HBO underestimated the contempt among some critics for how “Game of Thrones” has dealt with diversity and sexual violence in the past — and an indication that some people simply don’t trust the same guys who developed that project to handle a series on slavery.

Overcoming that negative reaction, once HBO finally has episodes of Confederate to show the public, may be difficult (just ask the producers of ABC’s “Black-ish” how long it took them to convince some skeptical

viewers that their title wasn’t the insulting creation of a clueless network TV executive).

Sometimes, it seems, TV executives need to be reminded how sensitive these subjects are. And Bloys admitted the backlash could help their awareness.

But Nichelle Tramble Spellman remains unnerved by the way so many people attacked the show despite knowing so little about it.

And the couple is adamant about one thing: They will never create a series that would feel like a fantasy to white supremacists, even by accident.

“We are black and we are not going to create that reality,” said Malcolm Spellman, firmly, “we are not doing that kind of show.”

April Reign, the creator of the Oscars So White hashtag, is encouraging people to tweet #noconfederate in response to the upcoming HBO series. PHOTO: Paras Griffin

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A day later, Trump to end government payments to health insurers if Congress does not pass a new healthcare bill and goaded them to not abandon their seven-year quest to replace the Obamacare law.

What comes next now? Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) said he will continue to reach across the aisle for Republican support for targeted fixes to the ACA. Meanwhile, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) said that Republicans are likely to come back and try to repeal, “so we must remain vigilant.

“But for today, we can breathe a sigh of relief that millions of people have their health care protected.”

Minutes after the Senate voted to proceed to ACA repeal legislation, Sen. Mark Warner joined colleagues at a spontaneous rally on the steps of the Capitol.

RNC: ‘Democrats celebrate suffering’ following vote

The Republican National Committee (RNC) said in a new video that Democrats relieved over the latest failed vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act were “reveling in their obstruction at the expense of Americans suffering from skyrocketing premiums and fewer choices under Obamacare”.

The Senate failed to pass three different repeal bills last week. Early Friday, three Republican senators — Lisa Murkowski (AK), John McCain (AZ), and Susan Collins (ME) — voted against the effort. A day earlier, the Senate rejected a straight ACA repeal bill, and before that, the Senate rejected an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill.

President Donald Trump weighed in on Twitter at 2:25 a.m., about an

Virginians laud local action, condemn federal ‘inaction’ on pollution Virginia environmental leaders, public health experts and concerned citizens condemned Donald Trump and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt Thursday for putting Hampton Roads families at risk with their anticlimate, pro fossil-fuel agenda.

With over 150 residents in attendance, the Sierra Club, Virginia Organizing and Chesapeake Climate Action Network hosted Flood of Voices: A People’s Hearing on Climate Action, where speakers shared updates on local, state, and

federal environmental policies.

Following the updates, people living on the front lines of climate change took to the stage to give public testimony. For over an hour, community leaders, business owners, children, teachers, faith leaders and more shared their stories of being impacted climate change.

“Simply put, the citizens of Hampton Roads want to know that more is being done to address climate issues that directly impact their communities,” Harrison Wallace, Virginia policy coordinator at

Chesapeake Climate Action Network, said. “The reality is that with every storm we see more property damage and kids stranded at school because their parents can’t drive through the flood water. The storms are getting worse and worse and we need policies in place to not only deal with the flooding, but also policies to address the problem at its core by reducing carbon pollution.”

A portion of the event highlighted EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s direct opposition towards climate action and investing in the green energy economy. Even with evidence of the catastrophic impacts on communities across the United States he still proudly proclaims his position as a climate-denier.

“Donald Trump continues to act in the interest of his buddies in big

business, not Americans,” Zachary Jarjoura, a conservation program manager at the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, said. “Trump and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt refuse to acknowledge the widespread scientific consensus that climate change is happening and is caused in part by carbon pollution from humans.

“Pruitt has financial connections to the fossil fuel industry and is furthering the administration’s goal of protecting polluters instead of the people.”

The hearing concluded with attendees taking action in the “#ActOnClimate zone” next door to the hearing room. Activists participated in a photo-petition campaign and sent letters to their elected officials.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER GV, GREENSVILLE COUNTY POWER STATION CASE NO. PUR-2017-00071 • Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) has applied for approval to revise its rate adjustment clause, Rider GV • Dominion requests a total revenue requirement of $104.009 million for its 2018 Rider GV. • A Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hear the case on January 10, 2018, at 10 a.m.

• Further information about this case is available on the SCC website at: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

On June 1, 2017, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia, filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update of the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider GV (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with the Greensville County Power Station, a natural gas-fired combined-cycle electric generating facility in Greensville County, Virginia, and 500 kilovolt transmission lines, a new switching station, and associated transmission interconnection facilities located in Brunswick and Greensville Counties, Virginia (collectively, “Greensville County Project” or “Project”).

In 2016, the Commission approved Dominion’s construction and operation of the Greensville County Project and the Commission also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider GV, for Dominion to recover costs associated with the Project.

In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve Rider GV for the rate year beginning April 1, 2018, and ending March 31, 2019 (“2018 Rate Year”).

The three components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2018 Rate Year are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor, the Allowance for Funds Used During Construction (“AFUDC”), and the Actual Cost True-Up Factor. The Company is requesting a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $99,105,000 and $121,628,000 (on an annualized basis) for the pre- and post-commercial operations date (“COD”) periods respectively, an annualized AFUDC Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $1,663,000, and an Actual Cost True-Up Factor of ($3,712,000). Thus, the Company is requesting a total annualized revenue requirement of $97,056,000 for the eight-month pre-COD period and a total annualized revenue requirement of $117,916,000 for the four-month post-COD period. The Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $104,009,000 for the 2018 Rate Year.

Dominion utilized a rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 10.5% for purposes of calculating the Projected Cost Recovery Factor component of the revenue requirement in this case and an ROE of 9.6% for purposes of calculating the 2016 Actual True-Up Factor in this case.

If the proposed Rider GV for the 2018 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider GV on April 1, 2018, would increase the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.15.

The Company indicates that it has calculated the proposed Rider GV rates in accordance with the same methodology as used for rates approved by the Commission in the most recent Rider GV proceeding, Case No. PUE-2016-00060.

Interested persons are encouraged to review the Application and supporting documents for the details of these and other proposals.

TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Application and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Application and supporting documents.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on January 10, 2018, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

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

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

On or before January 3, 2018, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments on the Application with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before January 3, 2018, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017 00071.

On or before October 6, 2017, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00071. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing.

On or before November 3, 2017, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. Respondents also shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including: 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2017-00071.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address above.

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where a student can get away, think about their behavior, have someone counsel with them a bit and then return with a new frame of mind,” he said.

Staples said it’s a shared responsibility between schools, parents and the community.

“Helping them reshape their behaviors in a positive way means they’re more likely to be productive and will likely do better in school, hopefully becoming productive citizens.”

Meanwhile, last week, more than 60 members of Congress sent a bicameral letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos urging her to take steps toward reducing excessive discipline in schools.

“This concern, the inappropriate punishment of schoolchildren and

steps to eliminate it, is critical and that is why I felt it important to write this letter,” said said Congressman Donald McEachin.

(D-Richmond), who is working with Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), among other Virginia lawmakers. “Fortyeight congressmen and 11 senators, including the entire Virginia Democratic delegation, have signed this, a clear demonstration of the timeliness and importance of this issue.”

“I’m joining Rep. McEachin and my colleagues in asking Secretary DeVos how she will ensure that we don’t backtrack on the progress we’ve made,” said Kaine. “This is an issue Virginia school districts are working on, and under ESSA the federal government is required to work with states to address it.”

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Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is warning Virginia consumers of a tobacco settlement scam that is actually just a marketing pitch to persuade readers to purchase a subscription for investment advice.

“My office is getting dozens of calls from Virginia consumers asking how they can collect from a tobacco settlement, but they can’t,” said Herring. “This is nothing more than a scam hoping to rope consumers into paying for newsletter subscriptions, and I caution all Virginians to pay close attention to what they’re signing up for, and contact my office if you have any questions.”

The advertisements refer to the Master Settlement Agreement, a 1998 settlement between the nation's four largest tobacco companies and attorneys general from 46 states and territories, including Virginia. Under the Master Settlement Agreement, Virginia receives money each year from tobacco sales and puts it towards permissible uses such as health care, discouraging youth from

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organization or about one individual leading the conversation, but once the mission was set and the three goals were established we can now go back to our collective constituencies and say this is what’s important.”

Youth involvement: National Bankers President Grant said the participation of youth is key. Black Wealth 2020 has begun incorporating and mentoring youth economic leaders in their monthly meetings.

“In my study of history, going back to ancient times, I can’t think of any major movement that was a societal changing movement that wasn’t driven by the energy of youth,” said Grant.

Shared Leadership: “In the past, movements have been tied to one individual. And as soon as there is some issue, and perhaps maybe death, often times what happens on the demise of that individual is the organization goes through a down spin and it in many instances ends up being discarded,” said Dr. Dr. Jonathan Weaver, Collective Empowerment Group; pastor, Greater Mount Nebo AME Church Jonathan Weaver. "As a result of this, there is no mindset or mentality among any of us that we want to be the one to be glorified or recognized as the so-called leader. That there is indeed shared leadership within this body and because we are so focused and so intentional about it, we really are just very resolute and determined to make this work.”

Unique structure: The umbrella structure of Black Wealth 2020 also lends to unity, accountability and sustainability. “This is not just one

of organizations that have come under one banner and will be about empowering black people,” said Weaver.

The urgent need for economic growth: “It’s a fact that more than half of all African- Americans in our country rent. It’s a fact that a homeowner's net worth is 36 times that of a renter. And it's a fact that the median income for an AfricanAmerican household is $35,000 compared to the national average of $53,000,” said Marcia Griffin of HomeFree USA. "This is an unacceptable situation for our people, and Black Wealth 2020 initiatives are critical in reversing these statistics and rebuilding wealth in the black community.”

Clear and positive vision: “This is not an anti-white movement, this is not a reactionary movement. This is a very positive affirmation about black love and black support and it’s an acceptance of full responsibility of our economic survival,” said Grant.

Despite the name, representatives of the Black Wealth 2020 movement say they have vision well beyond only three years from now.

“One of our founders thought we should call ourselves Black Wealth 2020 and Beyond. While we were definitely in favor of that concept, we felt the name was a little cumbersome,” Jim Winston chuckles.

“So our goal, of course, is to continue beyond 2020. Building wealth in the African-American community is not an item that has a time line on it or a deadline on it...We just wanted to give ourselves a target where we can see some substantial improvements in that time frame.”

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The 2nd Annual RVA Breastfeeding Symposium will take place at the Virginia Historical Society, 428 N. Boulevard, Richmond. The focus of this year’s symposium is “First Food: The Intersection of Health, Race, Policy and Practice”.

The morning session of this daylong event will bring together citizens, policymakers, health care and social service providers, and community advocates to examine the structural and cultural barriers that undermine women’s ability to reach their breastfeeding goals, and explore the connection between infant feeding and food access issues. The afternoon session is a workgroup reserved for area health and social service providers who come into contact with pregnant and postpartum families.

The keynote speaker will be Kimberly Seals Allers, an awardwinning journalist, author and nationally recognized advocate for breastfeeding and infant health who is the project director for The First Food Friendly Community Initiative (3FCI), a W.K. Kellogg-funded pilot project in Detroit and Philadelphia to create a national accreditation process for breastfeeding-friendly communities. Elizabeth Gray Bayne, who holds a Masters of Public Health from Yale University and an MFA in film from the Art Center College of Design, will present excerpts from Chocolate Milk, her documentary exploring AfricanAmerican women’s experiences with breastfeeding.

This event is free and open to the public; however pre-registration is required and is online registration at http://bit.ly/2sRIFix.

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GRTC is nearing the end of the route refinement process, continuing to make adjustments in response to public input on bus routes and stop locations.

Public information meetings will be held to update the community on new bus routes. Meeting content is identical, so please attend the meeting most convenient for your schedule. · Saturday, Aug. 5: Noon-1:30PM, Richmond Public Library Main, Gellman Room, 101 E Franklin St, Richmond, VA 23219 · Tuesday, Aug. 8: 6:00PM-7:30PM, Powhatan Community Center, 5051 Northampton St, Richmond, VA 23231 · Wednesday, Aug. 9: 6:00PM7:30PM, Southside Community Services Center, 4100 Hull Street Rd, Richmond, VA 23224 · Thursday, Aug. 10: 6:00PM7:30PM, DMV W Broad St., 2300 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23269 · Friday, Aug. 11: 12:30PM-2PM, Sarah Garland Jones Center, 1500 N 28th St, Richmond, VA 23223

8.7, 8:30 a.m.

It is never too late to continue your education. Through its Adult Continuing Education Office, Chesterfield County Public Schools offers many opportunities in workforce training, GED preparation, enrichment and English for Speakers of Other Languages.

The school division’s Adult Continuing Education will soon open registration for the fall semester and Chesterfield County residents and nonresidents are able to register online at ace. mychesterfieldschools.com or in person from 8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m. Monday-Thursday at the Adult Continuing Education Office at the Career and Technical Center @ Courthouse, 10101 Courthouse Road.

Chesterfield County residents who are 60 or older are eligible for discounted fees for some Adult Education classes through the Super Senior Passport program. In addition, various classes will be available to all ages when co-enrolled with an adult.

Class details are available at ace. mychesterfieldschools.com, and class catalogs are available for pickup in Chesterfield County libraries. If you have questions about Adult Continuing Education, call 804-768-6140.

India Parson will be in Richmond Aug. 4 as she hosts one of her interactive image improvement seminars that share her best practices from her handbook for success, “Cry But Don’t Quit , 9 Steps To Living Your BEST Life Now”.

Business professionals can expect to receive career and business enhancement tips and insight on the important role that appearance plays in business and in life. The city to city tour includes a 90 min. business seminar that provides a unique networking experience, Q&A image advice, inspiration and motivation.

Events are for members only. Email info@ wearebest.org for details.

8.9, 10:30 a.m.

Interested in improving your budgeting skills or getting on track to get out of debt? The Newport News Department of Human Services Housing Broker Team and the Virginia Cooperative Extension offer free budget workshops. The workshops are offered Wednesday mornings and evenings. The next series of workshops takes place Aug. 9 and Aug. 23. The morning classes run from 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. and the evening classes from 6:00 p.m.

- 7:15 p.m. Participants can sign up to attend either the morning or the evening classes, whichever best fits their schedule. All classes take place at South Morrison Family Education Center, 746 Adams Drive in Newport News

8.9, 5:30 p.m.

VCU Health will continue its series of educational sessions on current health care topics in August.

“Advances in the Treatment of Lung Cancer” seminar takes place at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s Kelly Education Center, 1800 Lakeside Ave., Richmond.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women in the United States.

Join Sarah Gordon, D.O., from Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center, as she discusses the risk factors, treatment options and clinical trials for patients with early-stage and advanced lung cancer. The seminar is free and open to the public, but registration is recommended.

Register online at vcuhealth.org/ events or call 804- 628-0041 for more information.

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VITA files additional legal motions against Northrop Grumman The Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) has filed two motions in Richmond Circuit Court seeking relief against Northrop Grumman for failure to complete actions required to transition from the company’s information technology (IT) infrastructure contract with the commonwealth to new suppliers.

- VITA filed a motion for emergency relief, asking the court to compel Northrop Grumman to open the door to its facility in Russell County, Virginia -- where the commonwealth’s disaster recovery systems are located -- so that IBM technicians can replace an inoperable mainframe disaster recovery unit.

- VITA’s second motion seeks a court order requiring Northrop Grumman to support the migration of email services, starting with the performance of three simple tasks the company says it is ready to perform so that the transition of the commonwealth’s messaging services can move to the new supplier.

Rather than comply with its disentanglement duties plainly stated in the Comprehensive Infrastructure Agreement (CIA), Northrop Grumman has improperly resisted VITA direction, intentionally delayed the transition, and wrongfully refused to relinquish control of (and monthly billing for) the commonwealth’s

Happier days...VITA, Northrop Grumman conduct IT disaster recovery drill.

IT systems, all the while demanding tens of millions of dollars in additional fees for transition work it is already obliged to provide under the CIA at no additional cost.

Recently, Northrop Grumman refused to open the door to its Russell County facility where the commonwealth’s disaster recovery data systems are located, preventing VITA from replacing a nowinoperable disaster recovery mainframe unit.

It is inoperable because of Northrop Grumman’s failure to maintain the unit.

Although transition work liability is covered in the CIA, VITA provided additional written assurances further shielding Northrop Grumman from potential liability resulting from

allowing the access to the equipment.

Northrop Grumman refused to allow the IBM technicians into its facility unless VITA agreed to accept broad limitation of liability far beyond those in the CIA. After trying to obtain entry for four hours, the IBM technicians left.

Currently, several state agencies that depend on IBM mainframe data for their daily operations would be effectively shut down in the event of a disaster knocking out operations at the commonwealth’s primary data center in Chester. VITA has backups of the mainframe data, but it could take an extended period of time to make the IBM mainframe available.

In the second filing, VITA reports Northrop Grumman has refused to

complete three simple tasks it says it is prepared to complete to transition the commonwealth’s email system to a new contractor with more effective and less expensive technology.

Northrop Grumman continues to bill the commonwealth approximately $900,000 a month for outdated and unreliable service while the new vendor waits to provide a superior cloud-based messaging service for roughly $236,000 per month.

VITA states the requested relief “is narrow and imposes no burden on Northrop Grumman.” Northrop Grumman says it “stands ready, willing and able to immediately implement the three tasks requested,” but refuses to do so unless the commonwealth agrees to release Northrop Grumman from past breaches and future obligations under the CIA, and agrees to pay more money than it is entitled to under the CIA. Northrop Grumman has managed the commonwealth’s IT systems for executive branch agencies since 2006 under the CIA, which expires June 30, 2019. VITA is transitioning those IT systems to new vendors. Throughout the planned transition, Northrop Grumman has used its control of the commonwealth’s IT systems to demand broad concessions and limitations of liability, according to the suit.

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