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Program aims to improve PD interactions

“Give It, Get It: Trust and Respect between Teens and Law Enforcement,” is a new program to help ensure safe, mutually respectful interactions between Virginia teens and law enforcement. Attorney General Mark R. Herring launched the program to help educate teens on their rights and responsibilities when interacting with law enforcement and keeping situations from unnecessarily escalating in a way that might result in needless charges or even endanger the safety of an officer or young person.

“Give It, Get It” is the latest initiative in Herring’s ongoing efforts to promote 21st century policing, and to strengthen the trust, communication, and relationships between law enforcement and their communities, noted the attorney general’s office.

“For more than two years I’ve been having conversations with law enforcement, parents, ministers, community leaders and others about how we can meet our dual goals of making sure that police can keep our communities safe while guaranteeing that everyone is treated fairly and equally,” said Herring. “One thing I heard is that many parents, especially African-American and Latino parents, worry about their child reacting to police in a moment of panic and either getting in more trouble or even creating a potentially dangerous situation. If we can help our young people understand their rights and responsibilities, and help them understand what an officer is seeing and thinking during an encounter, we can take some of the fear out of these interactions and make them safer, and more likely to end positively. “‘Give It, Get It’ is going to be a great complement to our ongoing efforts to provide officers with additional training on implicit bias and other 21st century

policing skills, and I think it will be a really powerful tool for strengthening the bonds between our law enforcement community and the next generation.”

The goal of the program is to interactively teach young Virginians about their rights and responsibilities during different dealings with law enforcement, such as a conversation, detention, or even an arrest.

Students will also learn about ways to improve the likelihood of an encounter being resolved safely and positively, as well as their rights to remain silent, consent to or refuse a search in certain situations and access an attorney. Role playing and situational discussions will help young people and officers develop a better understanding of what each sees and experiences during

an interaction.

This interactive program is the latest module in Herring's Virginia Rules program, a lawbased educational program that helps teens learn the law and ways to stay safe and make good decisions as they grow up. More than 1,500 law enforcement officers, school resource officers, commonwealth's attorneys, and community leaders are certified “Virginia Rules” instructors, and this year more than 45,000 Virginia students participated in the program.

The program was developed with input and cooperation from the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE,) which contributed content from the “Interacting with Law Enforcement” section of their

"Law and Your Community" program. NOBLE conducts "Law and Your Community" training and presentations to organizations and community groups across the country. They are committed to "Justice by Action" and are available and willing to provide training to all communities.

“As an organization committed to improving relationships between our law enforcement community and the communities we serve, we welcomed the opportunity to partner with the Office of the Attorney General on this critical program,” said Morris Roberson, Central Virginia Chapter President of NOBLE. The program is available online to Virginia Rules instructors in time for use during the 2016-2017 school year.

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Partnership wants to reduce chronic absenteeism As Virginia students head back to school for the 2016-17 school year, concerned parties are sounding the alarm that while attendance at school is essential to academic success, far too many students are still at risk academically because they are chronically absent.

Chronical absenteesim is described as missing 10 percent of the school year for any reason, excused or unexcused. Local school districts and community partners are thus uniting for National Attendance Awareness Month in September, to reduce chronic absenteeism, especially among low-income families.

More than six million students in K-12 in the U.S. missed 15 or more days of school in 2013-2014, according to the U.S. Education Department, which collected student absenteeism rates for the first time.

In June, the department released its first national data report on chronic absence, calling it a hidden educational crisis. The focus on average daily attendance and excused absences nationally makes it easy to miss students who account for a large number of the absences.

Chronically absent students are missing almost a month of school – enough to put them at severe risk of dropping out or failing to graduate.

Low-income students are four times more likely to be chronically absent than others.

In the Richmond region, more than 10,000 students missed six or more days of school with unexcused absences in the 2014-2015

school year, according to Bridging Richmond, a partnership working with local school districts to improve the Richmond region’s attendance rates.

“Many of these 10,000 students, along with other students, are chronically absent once you include excused absences and suspensions.

Missing just two days each month for any reason adds up to lost learning time. This is a local, alarming problem that we need to address – especially with communities most impacted by poverty,” said Jason Smith, executive director of Bridging Richmond.

Chronic absenteeism is widespread, but it disproportionately affects children from low-income families, creating attendance issues that

exacerbate achievement gaps in local schools. This is not just a matter of truancy. Many children, especially in the early grades, miss too much school because of chronic health problems, unreliable transportation, a lack of safety, or unstable housing — barriers that local community partners can help families address.

To improve attendance in the Richmond region, Bridging Richmond is working with local school districts, VCU, United Way of Greater Richmond and Petersburg, Communities In School (CIS), Peter Paul Development Center and YMCA of Greater Richmond and Petersburg.

Schools, nonprofit organizations and community partners are launching new efforts to educate parents and students about the value

of going to school every day. They are identifying chronically absent students, increasing communication with families, providing community resources, and engaging families and youth in action to improve attendance.

During National Attendance Awareness Month, Bridging Richmond is asking the community – including school leaders, community advocates, employers, parents and students – to work together to stem chronic absenteeism. Teachers can build strong relationships with families. Families and friends can emphasize the value of education and its need for a bright future. Social service providers, community centers

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Clinton, Trump campaigns focus on Virginia voters Virginia grassroots organizers and activists registered voters and signed up campaign volunteers at numerous events across Virginia during what the Hillary Clinton campaign called "Virginia Knock Out" weekend of action. Continuing their grassroots push to register new voters acrossVirginia, Hillary for Virginia volunteers and organizers conducted a "Knock Out," where they will knock on doors and talk to their neighbors about Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine’s vision for the country.

Throughout the weekend, volunteers and supporters spoke with voters about Clinton and Kaine’s plan to support Virginia's more than 680,000 small businesses and 1.5 million employees. The plan, according to the Democrats’ campaign, includes proposals to support small businesses from their creation to their day-to-day operations.

“Small businesses continue to be the primary generator of new jobs in America, and Clinton and Kaine’s plan would support them at every step of their lifecycle - from starting up to getting a loan to having one less form to fill out,” noted the campaign..

Meanwhile, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the Republicans’ nominee for vice president, laced into Clinton and her running mate on Sunday for tying Donald Trump and his supporters to white supremacist groups and brand the Republican presidential nominee as racist.

“Sen. Kaine’s comments [and] Hillary Clinton’s comments on Thursday night sound desperate to me,” Pence, the GOP vice presidential nominee, told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“I don’t talk a lot about the polls … but I know the polls are all closing up and the fact that you see Democrats and Hillary Clinton and her running mate rolling out the same old playbook of racial divisiveness sounds a little bit to me like an act of desperation,” he added.

Kaine and Clinton leveled

separate attacks against Trump last Thursday, claiming that he is the candidate of the “alt-right” and highlighting the support he has received from controversial figures like former Klu Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.

“Ku Klux Klan values, David Duke values, Donald Trump values are not American values, they’re not our values,” Kaine said at a rally Friday night in Tallahassee, Fla. “We’ve got to do all we can to fight to push back and win to say that we’re still about heading toward that North Star that we set out so long ago.”

Pence accused both Clinton and Kaine of putting “some sort of racist intention” on Americans who support him and his running mate, calling such a strategy “deeply offensive.”

“It does really bother me,” the Indiana governor told Tapper.

“Donald Trump made it clear this week that not only does he denounce the support of David Duke, but we don’t want the support of people like David Duke. But you see the choreography … Hillary Clinton has a really tough week — 15,000 emails coming out, you have the Clinton Foundation [and] more and more of the cascade of controversies — so all of a sudden, here it comes, they roll out the politics of divisiveness.”

Pence added that Clinton’s attempt to tie Trump to figures like Duke “is no more relevant than the fact that the father of a man who killed 49 people in Orlando, Fla. was cheering Hillary Clinton at one of her rallies.”

“Donald Trump believes we can make America great again for every American regardless race or creed or color, and the only answer Hillary Clinton and her running mate have is more of the same kind of racial divisiveness and racial attacks and I really think it’s beneath the dignity of the office,” he said.

Virginia’s leaders said that Trump’s “troubling history of hateful rhetoric” and his campaign's embrace of extremism and the disturbing “altright” political philosophy.

Congressman Scott to host 40th annual Labor Day event This year marks the 40th year for Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott’s annual Labor Day picnic. This year, the annual event will be held Sept.

5, from 3 p.m., at his family’s home, at 914 Shore Dr. in Newport News.

The office of the congressman who represents the 3rd District that encopasses Newport News, several counties and parts of Richmond, notes that the free event is expected to draw the usual 1,000 - 1,200 guests. Additionally, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, other elected officials and candidates seeking office at all levels of government in November are also expected.

“Our Commonwealth is fortunate to have Terry and Ralph fighting for jobs, voting rights, affordable health care, and quality education for all Virginians,” said the congressman, who like the governor and lieutenant governor, is a Democrat.

Scott typically usses the Labor Day event to thank the friends and supporters gained over his decadeslong political career. It also serves as the unofficial opening of the 2016 campaign season.

Should it rain on Sept. 5, the event will be held at the W. Henry Maxwell Family Life Center at Ivy Baptist Church, 50 Maple Ave. in Newport News.

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Complaint: RPS disproportionately punishes black students KATIE REILLY Black students and students with disabilities are disciplined more harshly than their classmates in Richmond’s public schools, according to a complaint filed last week with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.

The anti-discrimination complaint, filed against Richmond Public Schools, was brought by two black students with disabilities and the Richmond branch of the NAACP. During the 2014-15 school year, black students received 93 percent of short-term suspensions, 98 percent of long-term suspensions and 97 percent of expulsions, according to the complaint. Black students make up about 76 percent of the total student population in Richmond Public Schools.

Black students with disabilities were also nearly 13 times more likely than white students without

Lynetta Thompson disabilities to receive a short-term suspension, the complaint said, citing data from the Virginia Department of Education. The data includes mental, emotional and physical disabilities.

“These disparities cannot be explained by differences in student behavior,” said Rachael Deane, an attorney with the Legal Aid Justice Center, in a statement. “Rather,

The JustChildren Program of the there is overwhelming evidence Legal Aid Justice Center—which that the school division’s discipline filed the Richmond complaint to policies are excessively punitive and gether with the ACLU—published lack clear standards for application, a report in May, showing that black leading to subjective interpretation students were 3.6 times more likely and selective enforcement.” than white students to be suspended A spokeswoman for Richmond in Virginia during 2014-15 school year.

Public Schools, which serves 24,000 “Overly punitive discipline policies students, said the district will fully damage the learning environment, cooperate with the Office of Civil deny African-American students Rights investigation. and students with disabilities of “It is important to note that their right to an education and push Richmond Public Schools is children into the school-to-prison working diligently to ensure that all disciplinary actions are fair and pipeline,” said ACLU of Virginia consistent,” she said in a statement, Legal Director Leslie Mehta. adding that the school system has The Richmond complaint called for made efforts to clearly define what alternative disciplinary approaches constitutes appropriate disciplinary with clearer standards for application. action and toServing move away from Richmond & Hampton Roads “The school division must conduct zero-tolerance policies. goal is • 105 409 E. Main St. #4“Our (mailing) E. Clay St. (office) of these an1/2 unflinching examination to find disciplinary measures that disparities and adopt strategies to Richmond, VA 23219 balance safety and instruction, so we improve school climate and ensure 804-644-1550 (office) • 800-783-8062 (fax) welcome any dialogue that promotes that discipline policies are fair for all ads@legacynewspaper.com both equity and quality in the students,” said Lynetta Thompson, education of our students.” president of the Richmond NAACP.

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Op/Ed & Letters

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Set Corey Jacobs free BRITTANY K. BARNETT-BYRD As the daughter of a formerly incarcerated mother, I know from personal experience that when one person goes to prison, the whole family goes to prison. Mass incarceration has devastated families and communities across America.

There is a real problem here and a need to help those affected.

The United States makes up nearly 5 percent of the world's population and almost 25 percent of the world's prison population. Today, there are 2.3 million people incarcerated and over 70 million have criminal records in this country. This state of mass incarceration comes with a price tag of nearly $80 billion annually.

While the numbers are astonishing, to truly understand the issue, we must look beyond the numbers and see heartbeats.

17061112. This number was assigned to my client Corey Jacobs 16 years ago when he began serving time in federal prison for nonviolent drug convictions. Corey had no prior felony convictions. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons' website, Corey's release date is not a series of numbers. It is letters. Four of them. LIFE. With no parole in the federal system, Corey has been fundamentally condemned to die in prison.

Corey's case was recently highlighted by former Attorney The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 2 No. 40 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

General Eric Holder in an opinion piece featured in the New York Times about the need for criminal justice reform. Over two decades ago, Corey, now 46, made a bad decision to become a drug dealer with a small group of college friends in Virginia.

Corey was convicted based primarily on the testimony of co-conspirators who testified in exchange for reduced sentences.

Due to federal laws, Corey was held accountable for all "reasonably foreseeable" quantities of drugs attributed to the several people involved in the conspiracy. Corey was by no stretch of the imagination a drug kingpin and absolutely no dimension of his conduct was violent.

Despite facing the grim reality of dying in prison, Corey has worked diligently to prove that he is deserving of a second chance at life. Corey has devoted The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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himself to extensive rehabilitative programming, completed three selfimprovement residential programs, and received over 100 learning certificates that have enhanced his education and personal development.

Extraordinarily, Corey earned over half of these certificates in the past five years.

Corey is the only defendant left on his case still behind bars after a co-defendant, who was also serving life without parole, received an unquestionably deserving grant of clemency from President Obama not long ago.

Notably, Judge Henry Coke Morgan, Jr., who sentenced Corey to life in prison under mandatory sentencing laws, believes that Corey deserves clemency like his co-defendant. In a letter supporting Corey's pending clemency petition, Judge Morgan confirmed that he is "certain" that he "would not have imposed a life sentence on [Corey] had the laws at the time not virtually mandated it."

There is no doubt that a prison sentence was warranted in Corey's case. But he doesn't deserve to come out of prison in a body bag.

Life in prison without the possibility of parole is, short of execution, the harshest punishment available in America. It screams that a person is beyond hope, beyond

redemption. It suffocates mass potential as it buries people alive.

And, in Corey's case, it is grotesquely out of proportion to the conduct it seeks to punish.

Recently, I went to visit Corey in prison to discuss his pending clemency petition. I sat in the bleak, cold concrete interior of the attorneyclient visiting room unsure of what to expect. I was quite impressed with his remorse, acceptance of responsibility, intelligence, and dedication to bettering himself. His optimism epitomizes the resiliency of the human spirit.

I learned Corey is an avid meditator. He mentioned in passing how he once read nature could enhance the meditation experience but he had not seen a tree in years. The prison yard outside is surrounded by daunting, grey brick buildings. The rest of the conversation was a blur because I could not move past the fact that he had not seen a tree. A tree...

I left the prison in awe of Corey's positive energy despite his situation.

But what alternative is there to hope, when your reality is unbearable? If you lose hope, you have lost it all.

Unfortunately, Corey is not alone.

The United States locks up too many people for far too long. Thousands of

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Defining talk Donald Trump is dangerous.

He clearly doesn’t care about the health or lives of women --- and his misogyny, racism, and hateful rhetoric need to be put to an end.

Virginians rejects a candidate who undermines the rights of so many.

He doubled down on his antiwomen’s health agenda by choosing Mike Pence as his running mate – someone who has tried to ban abortion and was willing to shut down the federal government in order to block patients’ access to essential care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

In stark contrast, Hillary Clinton has proven herself to be the champion that Virginians need.

She’s the strongest candidate on reproductive rights, during a time when those rights are under attack.

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia is with Hillary Clinton, because she’s with us.

Cianti Stewart-Reid

Remembrance I was eight years old when the news spread through my community that Dr. King had been assassinated.

When it happened, my grandmother told me and my siblings that when we mourned the deceased, we also had to pray. She told us to pray for him and his family, to pray for the person who did it, and to pray for Dr. King’s enemies. She believed what Dr. King preached – that the most powerful weapon in the universe is

always love, never hate.

It was Dr. King’s leadership and the moral force of love that brought hundreds of thousands of Americans together for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

That same nonviolent force helped us win the greatest victories of the Civil Rights Era, like the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. The power generated by that march opened up the great vaults of opportunity, including economic opportunity, in our nation for little black boys, and for little black girls like me.

As we mark the anniversary of the March on Washington, it’s important to recognize that Dr. King wouldn’t want us to just remember his dream, he would want us to keep living his dream and keep inviting future generations to share in it. He would want us to keep fighting to expand and protect the right to vote for all Americans, keep fighting for better jobs and economic fairness, keep fighting to heal the racial divide in this country, keep fighting for criminal justice and prison reform, and keep fighting to elect leaders who believe in building bridges, not walls.

We have a clear choice as we head into the November elections. In the spirit of Dr. King, we must vote for candidates who understand that love trumps hate, and that we are stronger together. We must elect Hillary Clinton as our next president, and Democrats at every level of government.

Donna Brazile DNC Interim Chair

(from page 6) men and women continue to labor in prison under the dark cloud of a sentence that would be substantially lower if handed down under current laws. No question, drugs harm society. But allowing nonviolent drug offenders to die in prison is not only morally wrong and inhumane it is absolutely offensive to the values of this country.

Our criminal justice system is in dire need of reform. It is tangled in overcrowded prison cells, draconian sentences, shameful sentencing disparities, burdensome incarceration costs, and heartbroken children and families.

For many nonviolent drug offenders their only hope for freedom is for Congress to change the laws or clemency from President Obama.

A rainbow of mercy crossed Capitol Hill last year yielding unprecedented bipartisan agreement in Congress that our criminal justice system is in need of serious reform. The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 (S. 2123) is a crucial bill pending in the Senate that would pull back mass incarceration and save tax payers billions of dollars.

We must urge Congress to pass this over-due, life changing legislation.

President Obama has is committed to reinvigorating the clemency process through his administration's groundbreaking initiative to prioritize clemency applications for individuals like Corey.

Just this month, President Obama granted clemency to 214 people.

The White House reports that this act of mercy brings the President's clemency total to more than the last nine presidents combined. I am in hopes that the president will

continue to show dedication to this critical initiative and regularly grant clemency to large groups of deserving people through the end of his term.

For years while working as a corporate attorney, I devoted hours to pro bono representation for clients in prison under outdated sentencing regimes and have handled several successful clemency petitions. This time last year, my client Sharanda Jones, was serving her 17th year of a life without parole sentence as a first-time nonviolent drug offender.

Clemency from President Obama on Dec. 18, 2015 saved her life.

There is no rational argument for why nonviolent drug offenders should die in prison. It is an utter waste of human life and a true indictment of our ailing criminal justice system. The time is now for the people who hold the levers of power to believe in humanity and simply do the right thing.

I never imagined that visiting a United States Penitentiary would change the trajectory of my life and legal career. The state of consciousness I felt after meeting with Corey empowered me. I no longer wanted to be just a lawyer.

I wanted to use this platform to promote the greater good. Because of thousands of cases like Corey's, two months ago I unhesitatingly resigned from my corporate law job to be an advocate for criminal justice reform.

There is nothing more urgent than freedom.

Barnett-Byrd is the #ClemencyNOW Campaign Manager at #cut50, a national bipartisan initiative to safely and smartly cut America's prison population in half. She is also founder of Girls Embracing Mothers, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering girls with mothers in prison.

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Faith & Religion

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Baptist ‘covenant’ links white, black churches in ministry BOB ALLEN BGN - A Baptist inner-city minister says he sees parallels today to the disappointment with white moderate attitudes expressed 53 years ago in Martin Luther King’s famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”

“I honestly think silence of the church in this era is not dissimilar from the silence of the church in the Civil Rights Movement,” Trey Lyon, pastor of communication and engagement at Park Avenue Baptist Church in Atlanta, said Aug. 20 on State of Belief Radio with former Interfaith Alliance head Welton Gaddy.

Lyon, commissioned as a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel in 2011, recalled King’s lament that “the most appalling thing was the silence of his friends, not the vitriol of his enemies.” Lyon was interviewed about an upcoming New Baptist Covenant gathering in Atlanta.

Lyon, who works at the church thanks to a partnership with the Decatur, Ga.,-based CBF, told Gaddy, an ordained Baptist minister who preaches at Northminster Church in Monroe, La., the New Baptist Covenant movement envisioned by former President Jimmy Carter has enabled the historically white Park Avenue Baptist Church to reconnect historic ties with Ebenezer Baptist Church, the home church of King.

Lyon said Park Avenue Baptist Church was founded shortly after the Civil War in what today is known as the Old Fourth Ward in Atlanta. Around 1900 the church relocated about a mile away, selling the old building and property to an African-American congregation that eventually became Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Lyon described about a year ago digging through some historical records and finding “an eyewitness account” written in the early part of the 20th century reporting that members left the old neighborhood “because apartments were being built and the Negroes were moving in.”

Michael Wortham of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Katrina Moore of the Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church and Trey Lyon of Park Ave Baptist Church display a Covenant of Action linking their congregations in partnership missions.

“It was kind of a pit in my stomach when I read that,” Lyon said. “We had always kind of had a hunch, but this was confirmation. Tragically, Park Avenue wasn’t alone in that.

That was the plight of most white,

certainly Baptist churches, as that’s the history of the [Southern Baptist] Convention.”

Lyon said an ongoing part of his ministerial calling is “how do we recognize that our historical

institutions have this legacy knit into them.”

Michael Wortham of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Katrina Moore of

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(from page 8) the Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church and Trey Lyon of Park Ave Baptist Church display a Covenant of Action linking their congregations in partnership missions.

Michael Wortham of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Katrina Moore of the Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church and Trey Lyon of Park Ave Baptist Church display a Covenant of Action linking their congregations in partnership missions.

He said the New Baptist Covenant provides a framework for moving toward not just reconciliation but also “having difficult conversations about how we go forward and true racial justice.”

“The New Baptist Covenant brought us together,” Lyon described the two congregations now linked by a Covenant of Action. “Though there have been these sort of loose connections throughout the years, it

gave us the opportunity to say, ‘OK, what work can we do now to impact our communities jointly?”

For Ebenezer and Park Avenue it was helping kids to read at grade level, a key predictor of who will eventually graduate from high school and go to college.

“I don’t think anybody’s ever going to be upset when you say we want to work together to help advance our children,” said Michael Wortham, assistant pastor of college and young adult ministries at Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Former President Carter, a lifelong Baptist, brought together leaders from more than 30 Baptist organizations in 2007 to seek common ground in a denomination frequently identified not by what they are for but rather for what they are against.

They settled on a passage in the Gospel of Luke, where Jesus announced: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me

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subsequent gatherings in 2009, 2011 and 2015, the movement turned local, promoting Covenants of Action to link black and white churches in joint hands-on ministry addressing needs in their community.

Concerned about a resurgence of racial tension in the United States over the last couple of years, Carter announced plans in May for another New Baptist Covenant Summit Sept.

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to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

Lyon said those words “sort of become the credo” for churches to ask “how do we go out and accomplish the things Jesus talked about that the spirit enables us to do?”

“How do we preach good news to the poor?” he asked. “What does that actually look like?”

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Artists team up with Virginia’s only blackowned art gallery in new exhibition The Walton Gallery will host “Ronald Walton and Najee Dorsey”, a group exhibition of new works by International contemporary artist Ronald Walton and leading international contemporary American artist Najee Dorsey through Sept. 18. In conjunction with ArtSpace, the show will be on view at he gallery, located at 00 East 4th Street in Old Manchester, south Richmond.

Located in historic Old Towne Petersburg, gallery insiders note that the collaboration brings together two of America’s “top African American” visual artists.

Walton is renowned for his large-scale abstract work and Dorsey is well-known for his signature, nostalgic depictions celebrating southern life. The artists’ work in oil on canvas, paper on canvas, cardboard on canvas and digital collages.

Based in New York and Virginia, Ronald Walton is an international abstract artist who is known for his dynamic and colorful abstract paintings. The Master Artist uses mixed media where he blends an extraordinary mix of vibrant colors. He is acclaimed for his creation of the "Rollcubistic" style of portraying human form. This unique painting technique encompasses the use of round sphere-like balls patterned to form a humanistic figure. His work can be found throughout the world in private collections and public spaces.

Dorsey hails from Columbus, Georgia. His signature works in mixed media and digital media collage feature images of little known and unsung historical figures as well as nostalgic scenes of African American life in the South. He is also a creative innovator having founded Black Art In America™ (BAIA) in 2010 - the leading online portal and resource focused on black art, artists, collectors, industry leaders, and arts enthusiasts. The BAIA™ online network currently has a monthly virtual reach of 750,000 people.

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Meet the actors who portray Barack & Michelle Obama to play such a three-dimensional character with an entire history behind him and a future ahead of him. Also, I needed a break and I was looking forward to a lead role or a strong supporting role in a major film to give me that break. And this came along and I was over the moon to win the role.

On if he’d heard in the past that he resembles President Obama and about his process in portraying the younger Barack Obama.

This image released by Roadside Attractions shows Tika Sumpter (L) and Parker Sawyers in a scene from the movie “Southside With You.” A new romantic comedy hit more than 800 theaters on Friday, the kind of film that Hollywood scarcely makes nowadays. It’s about two interesting people at the start of their adult lives circling each other trying to figure things out. Oh, and chances are you might know the people at the center of the story — Barack and Michelle Obama.

The film is called “Southside With You” and it stars Parker Sawyers as Barack Obama and Tika Sumpter as Michelle Robinson. It's loosely based on the couple’s first date in Chicago in the summer of 1989 when they were just young associates at the same law firm.

Directed by Richard Tanne and executive produced by Grammy Award-winning singer John Legend, “Southside With You” is already getting rave reviews for its smart and nuanced take on life, on love and its dead-on performances.

Michel Martin spoke recently with the film’s stars Sawyers and Sumpter. The latter also helped produce the movie.

Interview highlights: On what about the film’s director and screenplay writer Richard Tanne’s idea hooked Sumpter.

TK: It was the perspective that really intrigued me. I like that Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama were 25 and 28 at the time. And I just thought, “Wow, this would be really interesting to see the origin of.” ... Once he wrote the script, I just thought this was so smart, it was funny, it was everything that a romantic could be and more.

On what made this film a passion project for Tika Sumpter (TS).

TS: One, it was a really big lead role for me, I’ve never played the lead. I've had the girlfriend role, I've had the wife role. I've had those kind of sidekick roles, but it was just so nice, especially being a black woman in Hollywood, having a romantic lead that was very charming, very sweet, very smart.

It was about these two amazing characters, even if you took the Obamas out of it. It was just about these intelligent people unfolding before each other.

On what was it that attracted Parker to the role: Parker: I jumped at the chance

PS: Yes, I’d heard that, probably for five years and then more when I got into acting. If I put on a suit and I’m clean-shaven, we do resemble each other. ... As the older Barack Obama, everything is considered, he joins words with the croak in his throat. ... As the younger Barack Obama, I would just loosen it up a bit. ...

On set, I started off with a strong impersonation and every morning I would recite some of the words that President Obama said in his voice and then when I got to set I would drop it all and try to play the truth of the scene.

every single thing.

On if it was scary taking on the role of Michelle Robinson: TS: At first, I guess it is, if you put on the heaviness of the Obamas and who they are now, but not for Michelle Robinson back then, for me.

Because she's a girl from the south side of Chicago trying to make it like everybody else, super smart, but still dealing with issues that we still deal with today. I think that’s what makes her accessible to millions of women around the world, her very humble beginnings.

On why Parker thinks President Obama is such a polarizing figure: PS: There’s the black factor, I think that has something to do with it. And also, he motivates and inspires a group of people, even abroad. ... And he’s very successful in motivating people to get out — to get out to the polls, and the petitions. And he’s opened up the White House and a lot of people don't like that.

On what they hope the film will do:

On how Sumpter was able to channel Michelle Robinson.

TS: I read a lot of books. I read her thesis, which I'm still trying to understand — the intelligence is at an all-time high. I read her brother's book Game of Character, which really helped me to see how she grew up and who she was during that time. ... She has such a distinctive voice that I got a dialect coach, we wanted to make sure that I was on top of that as well. That and just looking at some videos of some of her mannerisms to put in the character as the young Michelle.

But I got to create who I thought she was during that time from personal accounts of other people because there aren’t any videos of her at 25. ... Her voice for me was the most challenging part because she's very hard on her words, she means

PS: I hope it’s refreshing for audiences and at the end of the summer and we've been inundated with CGI film and all of the action movies so I think this is a nice respite from that. The themes are family, forgiveness, working for something you believe in, ambition.

And it highlights the humble beginnings of the Obamas and so I think people can take from it a reflection of their lives as well.

TS: I totally agree with Parker. I think if he is polarizing or the family is polarizing in any way, people who are Republicans have walked in and walked out different. ... They didn’t want to walk in there and when they walked out they said, “It’s just a love story” with many different themes. I

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Prosecutors want to decide whether to retry McDonnell Federal prosecutors last week asked for three more weeks to decide whether they will pursue the public corruption case against former Virginia governor, Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, saying in a court filing that Justice Department officials are still debating how to proceed.

Last week’s filing asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit to keep both cases on hold until Sept.

19, adding that it will be the last request for any delay. It offers no indication of how prosecutors may be leaning.

This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned the former governor’s corruption conviction and set a higher bar for charging public officials with such corruption crimes, but it did so in a way that left open the possibility that McDonnell could be tried again.

The high court ruled unanimously that the instructions given to jurors in McDonnell’s case about what constituted an “official act” were flawed and said that a lower court should consider whether the former governor’s case could be brought under the new definition it laid out.

Federal prosecutors then asked for time to weigh whether they would continue to press such charges.

As well as considering whether prosecutors could win, Justice Department officials are likely debating whether to bring a case, given the resources another trial would consume.

“There are likely many stakeholders weighing in, such as the U.S. Attornety’s Office and different offices within Main Justice,” said Justin Shur, former deputy chief of the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section.

Supreme Court unanimously voted to overturn the public corruption conviction of former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell.

An attorney for McDonnell declined to comment.

The court’s decision has already begun having an effect on other political corruption cases. A judge ruled last week that ex-New York Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver

Former Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell and wife Maureen McDonell. can remain free on bail while appealing his conviction and 12year prison sentence. U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni said it was a “close question” whether Silver’s conviction would stand in light of the McDonnell ruling.

“This case has already had a number of ramifications with respect to other public-corruption cases,” said Brian Whisler, a former assistant U.S. attorney who represents former McDonnell staffers and cabinet members who were called to testify in the case.

“Perhaps DOJ is reviewing this matter from a broader policy standpoint rather than solely the merits of this isolated case.”

Prosecutors had previously sought — and won — a month to review the Supreme Court’s decision. This new request is also likely to be granted within a few days, given that McDonnell’s defense team has agreed to the motion.

The McDonnells were convicted of taking more than $175,000 in loans and gifts in exchange for helping Richmond business executive Jonnie R. Williams Sr. promote a dietary supplement.

The McDonnells arranged to connect Williams with state officials,

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the Supreme Court ruled that such behavior was merely constituent service.

While all the gift-taking looked “tawdry,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote, “conscientious public officials arrange meetings for constituents, contact other officials on their behalf, and include them in events all the time.”

To bring a new case, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia must convince the federal appeals court that it can prove an illegal quid-pro-quo relationship between the McDonnells and Williams inside the more restrictive definition the court laid out.

Legal experts say Maureen McDonnell’s fate is tied to that of her husband. Although the Supreme Court did not address her conviction, they were tried under the same jury instructions, and her case is currently on hold. If her husband is tried again, she likely will be, as well. If prosecutors drop the case against her husband, they will follow suit with her.

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These represent opportunities for healthcare providers to prevent, recognize, and treat sepsis long before it can cause life-threatening illness or death.

“When sepsis occurs, it should be treated as a medical emergency,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. “Doctors and nurses can prevent sepsis and also the devastating effects of sepsis, and patients and families can watch for

sepsis and ask, ‘could this be sepsis?’"

Certain people with an infection are more likely to get sepsis, including people age 65 years or older, infants less than 1 year old, people who have weakened immune systems, and people who have chronic medical conditions (such as diabetes). While much less common, even healthy children and adults can develop sepsis from an infection, especially when not recognized early. The signs and symptoms of sepsis include: shivering, fever, or feeling very cold; extreme pain or discomfort; clammy or sweaty skin; confusion or disorientation; shortness of breath and a high heart rate.

According to the Vital Signs report, infections of the lung, urinary tract, skin, and gut most often led to sepsis.

In most cases, the germ that caused the infection leading to sepsis was not identified. When identified, the most common germs leading to sepsis were Staphylococcus aureus,

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Virginia virtual school opens for class

Virginia Virtual Academy (VAVA), an accredited, full-time online public school that serves students in grades K - 8, began the 2016-2017 school year on Aug. 22. VAVA officials note that it will educate students through an “engaging” online curriculum that is supplemented with handson materials and the instruction of state-certified teachers. The school is open to official Virginia residents and official note that for the 2017--2018 school year, it will expand to grades K-10.

Families interested in VAVA are invited to attend an online information session or in-person meet-and-greet event to learn more from teachers, students and parents.

Details can be found on the school website, vava.k12.com.

Officials note that the school’s curriculum is designed to adapt to each student’s unique learning style.

This allows the student and the Learning Coach (typically the parent or guardian) to determine the pace of the lessons, giving advanced learners the ability to move ahead more quickly than they might be able to

in a traditional classroom. Students can also opt to progress more slowly through the lessons and concepts that they find more challenging.

This individualization, combined with support from VAVA teachers, encourages a true grasp of the skills and material.

VAVA provides courses in language arts/English, math, science, and history as well as electives in art and music.

“With hundreds of lessons per subject, students can dive deeply into areas of interest,” according to officials.

“At Virginia Virtual Academy, we establish an individualized education for every student,” said Suzanne Sloane, head of school at Virginia Virtual Academy. “Our teachers are available to work closely with families to ensure our students meet their academic goals and develop the learning style that works best for them.”

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•Don’t let your child stay home unless he/she is truly sick. Keep in mind complaints of a stomach ache or headache may be anxiety and not a reason to stay home.

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•Strengthen connections to your child’s school and community so that they can best support you and child’s needs.

and places of worship can help families overcome barriers to positive attendance outcomes.

“This matters to all of us, not just those with school-age children,” Smith said. “Each day employers lose productivity when employees are home with absent students. Our future economic competitiveness as a region depends on our youth developing positive attendance behaviors and gaining the knowledge and skills needed to obtain industry certifications, degrees and be ready for career and civic life.”

Bridging Richmond recommends these tips for parents to help children attend school regularly: •Reach out to professional school counselors, teachers, and social support agencies to help overcome barriers to attendance.

•Schedule medical, dental and other

Virginia Virtual Academy (VAVA) is an accredited, full-time online public school that serves students in grades K through 8. and the award-winning Online School platform. Teachers are also available to students and their learning coaches via email, phone and one-on-one online instruction.

VAVA teachers strive to form a partnership with Learning Coaches so that students’ challenges and achievements can be more closely addressed.

School officials note that VAVA is

an accredited, full-time online public school program. According to school officials, its services are oferred through a partnership between K12 Inc. (LRN), the nation's largest provider of proprietary curriculum and online education programs for grades K-12, King and Queen County Public Schools, Richmond Public Schools and Patrick County Public Schools.

(from page 11) hope it just makes people smile. And I hope they feel refreshed and I hope they feel some sort of connection. I think whatever political stand you take, it’s not a political film. It’s the origins of this amazing couple and I think anybody who has ever fallen in love can understand.

On Tika and other black actors taking on the role of producing films TS: I think a lot of the times roles aren’t created for them and with them in mind and people are tired of feeling dismissed or ignored. ... I think people are just taking it into their own hands and saying, “This is what I want to do,” and having the power to actually make it work and the passion to make it work and stories that really matter to them. I

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The free, 14-session training course will include classes at the Henrico CASA office in suite A of the Hungary Spring Office Park, 3001 Hungary Spring Road. A swearingin ceremony will follow Monday, Oct. 17 at the Henrico Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.

Applicants, who are at least 21, were interviewed, fingerprinted and underwent criminal background and reference checks.

Henrico CASA is a private, nonprofit organization that has worked closely with the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court for more than 20 years to serve children in the community.

Working typically 10 to 15 hours per month, volunteer advocates gather information on a child’s circumstances to supplement information provided to the court.

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“The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History and the Slave Trade” will be held from 1–2:30 p.m. at Library of Virginia Lecture Hall, 800 East Broad St., Richmond.

Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South and slavery, will reflect on his powerful autobiography of life in the Jim Crow South of the 1950s.

He rejected his racist upbringing and became a scholar. His intent with “The Making of a Racist” is to answer the question put to him by Illinois Browning Culver, the black woman who devoted decades to serving his family: “Charles, why do the grownups put so much hate in the children?” Books are available through the Virginia Shop.

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You can reserve space on a 1.5-hour guided walking tour to learn more about VIMS’ research in Chesapeake Bay and around the world. You a can see how scientists use CSI techniques to understand oyster diseases; visit an electron microscopy lab to learn how bacteria affect fish; view larval fishes we swim with in the York River; see equipment used to track sand and silt movement; see research on pollutants and plastics in the environment; tour the oyster hatchery to learn about the breeding and feeding of oyster brood stock; visit the Preserved Fisheries Collection with over 300,000 specimens from Appalachian mountain streams, Chesapeake Bay, and other places around the world.

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