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Difficult history at African American Museum

“I am a 69-year-old African American woman who lived in a segregated America until I was 19 years old. ...The museum brings tears to my eyes. I don’t think I would be able to visit the museum without completely breaking down.

“I believe the museum is an absolutely necessary tool for teaching the travails our race has suffered through. The repercussions of slavery are still echoing far and wide in America in 2016.”

The new National Museum of African American History and Culture is in part a celebration of black heritage, a commemoration of civil rights leaders and a reflection on aspects of the past that still cast a shadow on American society.

There’s a display featuring Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves, a glass case containing Harriet Tubman’s lace shawl and an exhibit honoring Rosa Parks’s historydefining act of civil disobedience.

For schoolchildren, touring the Mall’s newest museum will be an educational journey through the historical lens of black life in America. It also will mean helping students better understand the atrocities committed during the era of slavery and the lynchings in the Jim Crow South.

“How do we help teachers protect this history?” said Mary Elliot, a co-curator of the museum’s history collection. “You can’t deny it or avoid it.”

Elliot said that signs outlined in red will be posted throughout the museum to provide a warning to

A pair of slave shackles on display in the Slavery and Freedom Gallery at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

PHOTO: Chip Somodevilla

adults that certain materials may be inappropriate for children or sensitive visitors. She also noted that the museum’s Smithsonian Institution staff is working with educators to help them discuss such traumatic episodes in U.S. history.

A tour of the museum begins in the dark, narrow corridors of the building’s subterranean floors and opens with the stained wood slats of a slave ship and a pair of shackles.

A quotation from a ship captain inscribed on one wall describes life for slaves crossing the ocean: “We had about 12 negroes did willfully drown themselves and others starv’d themselves to death for ‘tis their belief that when they die they return

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The tree is gone...

Richmond’s plans for a new monument to commemorate Maggie Walker on Broad Street at North Adams Street took a step forward as residents noticed that the tree in that area had been cut down.

Walker is remembered as a revolutionary business leader in in the community. Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones called her “a champion for breaking down barriers between communities [who] showed incredible strength as a person that came out of extraordinarily challenging circumstances to create great things.”

Antonio Tobias “Toby” Mendez is creating the statue. Read more on legacynewspaper.com.

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$56.9 million in funding for crime victims services Virginia has been awarded $56.9 million in federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funds to support and improve services for crime victims.

The funds were awarded by the Justice Department’s Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). This year’s award is $6.6 million more than the state’s award last year, and nearly 5 times the amount the Commonwealth received in 2014.

“These VOCA funds, in tandem with state funds, are essential to our efforts to maintain and expand support and resources for crime victims throughout the state,” said Gov. Terry McAuliffe. “They will enable us to reach more crime victims with critical services to help them cope with the trauma of victimization. We will continue to seek ways to expand our resources to help individuals and families heal and move forward from these difficult situations.”

The 1984 Victims of Crime Act created the Crime Victims Fund, which is one of the major sources

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Further in the museum students will see a stone auction block that once stood in nearby Hagerstown, Md., and a bill of sale for a 16-yearold slave who was bought for $600.

“African Americans endured being sold on the block and being devalued to mere laboring hands, feet, backs and wombs,” an inscription beside the auction block reads.

Students also will encounter a bullwhip used against slaves. Elliot, who is African American, said that she held the whip before its installation in the museum. Grasping the weapon in her hands, she said, left her full of sorrow.

“It’s heavy,” she said, surprised by its weight, noting that whoever held it thought: “ ‘I’m going to

of support for victim services each year in Virginia and throughout the United States. The money in the fund comes from criminal fines and other sources, not from taxpayers.

Beginning in 2000, Congress capped the amount of the fund available for distribution each year.

The annual caps were intended to minimize the possible impact of fluctuations in deposits into the fund

each year and therefore stabilize it as a source of support for services.

Legislation signed by President Barack Obama in 2014 raised the cap from $745 million to over $2.3 billion, resulting in a dramatic increase in the amount of the fund available for distribution to states each year.

“The Department of Criminal Justice Services has worked hard to reach out to advocates and victim services providers so that decisions about the use of these funds will be inclusive of their valued input,” said Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian Moran.

“Strengthening services for crime victims through these VOCA funds will only help continue building trust between community partners.”

The Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) receives and administers VOCA victim assistance funds for Virginia. DCJS uses the money, in combination with state funds, to provide training, technical assistance and grants to support local victim/witness programs, sexual

assault crisis centers, domestic violence programs and child abuse treatment programs throughout Virginia.

To determine the most effective use of last year’s increase in VOCA funds, DCJS surveyed victim advocates throughout the state and conducted four regional “Listening Sessions.” Based on that input, DCJS and its Criminal Justice Services Board awarded over $34 million in June to maintain and expand core victim services programs. DCJS also invited proposals for new initiatives to increase access to appropriate direct victim services for unserved/ underserved victims of crime. Those proposals were considered by the Services Board during their meeting on Sept. 15.

DCJS Director Fran Ecker said the major increases in VOCA funds last year and now this year are giving Virginia an opportunity to “address long standing unmet needs and strengthen core services” for crime victims across Virginia.

beat someone with this.’ It’s mindblowing.”

Many artifacts in the museum represent bleak moments of our times. A scarlet robe worn by a member of the Ku Klux Klan glimmers in a case. A wall describes the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in which black men were unethically mistreated. The cracked, light green leather of a Woolworth’s lunch counter stool remains a humble reminder of a consequential civil rights demonstration.

The museum also will display the casket of Emmett Till, who was 14 years old when he was savagely beaten, shot and killed for allegedly flirting with a young white woman.

Leslie Hinkson, a sociologist at Georgetown University, said that such horrific tales of prejudice and racism must be addressed with children.

“This is a history that in many ways has been sanitized in schools and sanitized in our collective consciousness,” Hinkson said. “I think that we do need to walk a very fine line to make sure our children are aware and educated, but we do it in a way that is age-appropriate.”

Hinkson, who has three children, said that she thinks the warning signs in the museum will help give parents the option to move past disturbing exhibits — but admits that for the most part, they shouldn’t.

Hinkson said that parents should be aware of what is age-appropriate in the museum but that they should not shy away from emotionally raw exhibits. She said that is largely the point of the new museum: visitors’ exposure to the difficult history of blacks in the United States.

Skipping exhibits that describe the rape of young black women or

the lynching of young black men is a disservice, she said.

“It would seem like taking your child to the Holocaust Museum and not expect to deal with the Holocaust,” Hinkson said. The warning signs allow parents “to brace themselves to possibly answer very complex questions from their young children.”

“As a parent, I think that’s a good thing,” she said. “As an educator, I think it could be a good or a bad thing. It could give parents who aren’t comfortable talking about these things, but maybe should, it gives them an out. It gives them an opportunity not to have to grapple with those questions.”

Hinkson said that instead parents should view the signs as an indication that “this is where things get deep and heavy, so are you ready?

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Critics: Trump’s economic plan could cripple VA programs MILITARY TIMES - Critics of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump are saying his promises to reap big savings through small cuts to nondefense federal spending could have a disastrous effect on Veterans Affairs funding over the next decade.

During a speech before the Economic Club of New York last week, Trump outlined plans for a $4.4 trillion tax cut “to stop the outflow of jobs from our country and open a new highway of jobs back into our country.”

To pay for that and increased military spending, Trump promised to save $1 trillion over the next decade through “simple, common sense reforms” amounting to a 1 percent cut in nonmilitary federal programs. Other money would come from money theoretically generated by increased trade and economic success.

While many economists have disputed those latter savings, officials from the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities focused their concerns on the 1 percent cut, saying it will quickly compound into major cuts for government services once inflation is factored in.

“By the tenth year, non-defense appropriations would be about 29 percent below current levels, after accounting for inflation,” the group wrote in a report responding to Trump’s speech.

“The category of funding targeted by the Trump plan covers a wide range of basic services, from veterans’ medical care to scientific and medical research, border enforcement, education, child care … and maintenance of harbors, dams, and waterways.”

In his speech, Trump reiterated his campaign promise that he would “take care of our vets who are treated so badly” but did not specify whether that would include exempting the Department of Veterans Affairs

Trump and supporters last week. from budget cuts. Campaign officials did not respond to requests seeking clarification.

Trump did specify that military spending and entitlement spending would not be cut, and promised that middle-class families would see their tax bills cut by a third under his plan.

Virginia is home to 117,084 military members and military spending accounts for 44 percent of federal spending, accordmning to the most recent federal data.

Officials from the campaign of his Democratic rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, called the potential cut to veterans services another example of Trump being unfit to serve as commander in chief.

“Once again Donald Trump has shown his true colors when it comes to our veterans,” said campaign deputy foreign policy adviser Bishop Garrison, an Army veteran. “His latest revamp of his economic plan is for tax cuts that benefit the wealthy and large corporations while cutting investments in important priorities, veterans in particular.

“Put plainly, when you cut nondefense discretionary spending, you hurt veterans and their families.”

Clinton has promised to prioritize “full-funding and advance appropriations for the entire

Department of Veterans Affairs” if she becomes president.

The White House has requested a VA budget for fiscal 2017 of more than $177 billion, not including advance appropriations for certain health care programs in fiscal 2018.

The agency is the second largest in terms of annual spending, behind the Defense Department.

Department officials have argued that annual increases in their funding are needed to keep pace with inflation and new services required

by Congress. Over the last two years, they’ve fought against congressional

plans to trim the president’s VA budget request by about 1 percent, saying it could seriously hurt their ability to deliver care and assistance to veterans.

But a growing number of Republicans on Capitol Hill have questioned whether officials have done enough to improve efficiency and root out waste in veterans programs. Even with their proposed smaller budget for fiscal 2017, the department would see a boost of more than 3 percent from this fiscal year.

Free admission at PFAC Peninsula Fine Arts Center (PFAC) in Newport News is extending free admission through the closing of its current exhibition, “Game On: Sports in Ancient and Modern Art”.

In coordination with National Arts in Education Week PFAC invites students and art lovers of all ages to tour the galleries, pick up a museum or family gallery guide, become an arts expert through a special scavenger hunt, and enjoy the Hands on For Kids Galleries, free through Oct. 9.

“Together we can transform our community through art. The arts

are an essential part of a complete education, no matter if it happens in your home, school, or PFAC,” said PFAC’s Executive Director Courtney Gardner. “Students of all ages—from kindergarten to college to creative aging programs—benefit from artistic learning, innovative thinking, and creativity. PFAC is proud to celebrate National Arts in Education Week. Please join us in calling for ALL children to have more Arts!”

Gardner notes that PFAC seeks to test and implement new policies and programming through its extensive strategic planning phase.

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First lady Obama campaigns at GMU PATCH — First Lady Michelle Obama spoke at a campaign event in support of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Va. on Friday It was Obama’s first campaign appearance in support of Clinton since she delivered a speech in favor of Clinton’s candidacy at the Democratic National Convention.

Speakers at the event prior to the first lady included Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA 11th District); Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA 3rd District); Dorothy McAuliffe, wife of Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe; and Donna Brazile, Democratic National Committee (DNC) interim chair.

All of the speakers voiced their strong support for the election of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and encouraged the enthusiastic audience to vote.

While not mentioning Donald Trump by name during her speech, Obama referenced the “negativity and name calling” and divisive rhetoric in the current campaign and during the past eight years.

“There were those who questioned and continued to question for the past eight years, up through this very day whether my husband was even born in this country,” said Obama. “Well, during his time in office, I think Barack has answered those questions with the example he’s set, by going high when they go low.”

During the speech, Obama emphasized the importance of

At GMU, Michelle Obama said a future president “can’t just pop off' when making critical decisions. choosing the candidate with the appropriate qualifications and temperament for public service.

“We (also) need someone who is steady and measured, because when you're making life or death, war or peace decisions, a President can’t just pop off,” Obama said.

“The presidency doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are. And the same thing is true

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of a presidential campaign. So if a candidate is erratic and threatening, if a candidate traffics in prejudice, fear and lies on the trail, if a candidate has no clear plans to implement their goals, if they disrespect their fellow citizens, including folks who have made extraordinary sacrifices for our country, let me tell you, that is who they are. That is the kind of president they will be,” said Obama.

“With every word they utter, they can start wars, crash markets, change the course of this planet.”

“We cannot afford to squander this opportunity, particularly given the alternative. Because here is what we know that being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches. It’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country,” she said.

Obama emphasized Clinton’s lifelong dedication to public service, mentioning her professional background as a lawyer, a law professor, first lady of Arkansas, first lady of the United States, a U.S. senator, and U.S. secretary of state.

“We know that Hillary is the right person because we’ve seen

her character and commitment, not just on the trail, but over the course of her entire life. We’ve seen her dedication to public service,” she said.

Obama urged the audience, many who were university students, to register to vote and to encourage others to vote. In 2012, according to Obama, voters under the age of 30 provided the margin of victory for Barrack Obama in four key battleground states: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and Virginia.

“In 2012 Barack won Virginia by about 150,000 votes,” Obama explained. “Now that may sound like a lot but when you break that down the difference between winning and losing the state was only 31 votes per precinct. He won Ohio. The difference there was just 9 votes per precinct.

In Florida the difference was just 6 votes per precinct. Elections, especially the presidential election, are won and loss by a handful of votes.”

“So there are plenty of states where each of you could swing an entire precinct and win this election for Hillary Clinton just by getting yourselves, your friends and your few family members registered and out to vote,” she said.

As a critical swing state, more Virginia campaign events can be expected.

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Op/Ed & Letters

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King siblings deny AA museum father’s artifacts Michael H. Cottman Show us the money.

That could easily become the family mantra for the surviving lawsuitcrazed children of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. While the King siblings — Bernice King, Dexter Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr. III — have reportedly spent millions of dollars suing each other over the years, we now learn that none of Dr. King’s major memorabilia will be on display when the new Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture opens to the public on Sept. 24.

Why? Because the King children didn’t offer to loan any of their father’s artifacts to the museum.

According to published reports, Rex Ellis, the museum’s director of curatorial affairs, met with the King children and reviewed King’s historic Nobel Peace Prize and King’s Bible.

But Ellis left Atlanta emptyhanded.

“It’s outrageous,” said Clarence Jones, King’s former attorney. “This is the Smithsonian. This is not just another party. This is one of the most important institutions now in the 21st century.”

“And this is probably the greatest civil rights leader in the 20th century,” he said. “I find it shameful and I’m sad.”

It is very sad.

Coretta Scott King believed Dr. King’s belongings should be shared with the world through the King Center in Atlanta.

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keepsakes so visitors from across the country — and around the world — can view the historic memorabilia?

This is a travesty. The King children should be role models for young people everywhere but instead they have been reduced to punch lines by folks who have labeled them greedy and dysfunctional.

The King children are no strangers to suing each other. A few years ago, Bernice insisted that King III and Dexter contacted people who wanted to buy Dr. King’s Bible and the Nobel Prize. A judge had to mediate the case and, for now, the items are locked inside a safe deposit box.

“It is, deep in my soul, difficult to place what my father described as precious heirlooms under the custody of the government, even if only for a season,” Bernice King said at the time.

Were Martin III and Dexter so desperate that they needed to cash in on their father’s personal mementos?

Are they driven by greed?

Consider this offering from a report: “For years, the siblings have blocked media outlets from using King’s words or image without paying what some have described as exorbitant licensing fees. The nonprofit foundation that built the monument to King on the Mall, finished in 2011, paid $800,000. The estate also has sued when they think they are not being sufficiently compensated.

That included going after King’s close friend Harry Belafonte when the actor and singer wanted to sell letters and other papers given him

by King for charity….In 2013, the King estate, as part of a lawsuit, demanded that Andrew Young, another King confidant and the The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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former mayor of Atlanta, be removed from the board of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change after his foundation used material featuring King in a documentary.

It’s disheartening to learn that

the King children are intentionally depriving Americans of viewing Dr. King’s artifacts. Bernice, Dexter, and Martin III are making a mockery of their father’s memory. And that’s disgraceful.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Values, etc Hillary, the president, and many others, very often say “our American values.” The fact is that our original American values are not what these folks represent. The original American values, were based on a Judeo-Christian foundation. That foundation recognized God as the ruler of the universe and His Laws Supreme.

Our founding fathers deeply believed in God and wanted to practice their Christian beliefs freely without interference from the newly formed federal government. The “Freedom of Religion” clause did not mean religions who worshipped idols were allowed in their respective states. They knew God called those man-made things “devils”, and that God, except for remnants, had almost destroyed Israel several times because they abandoned him and worshipped idols.

So what are now these things they call “our American values”? They are against God and His Laws.

By many reports, their cohorts are apparently trying to cleanse our military of Christians.

During the eight days that the party conventions took place approximately 24,000 small unborn human beings were deprived of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Those, and limited government, were precious American values.

Now the Democratic Party wants to ban the execution of murderers, but supports the murder of innocent unborn babies. And you vote for them. May God have mercy on your soul and America. This is what happens when the Legislative Branch fails to do their job. When

one branch goes against God’s laws you are to hold them accountable just like you are to hold your own members accountable. When justices go against God’s laws they are not “holding their offices in good behavior.” Impeach those judges who vote against God’s Law. Immediately, because of God’s Law (Thou shall not kill), pass a bill banning the killing of unborn babies.

If the President vetoes the bill, impeach him. Show the guts to stand on God’s Word. Sorry, but it is not enough to say I am pro-life.

Manuel Ybarra, Jr.

Hanging traitors Watching Hillary Clinton finally collapse, in spite of a well orchestrated cover-up of her dire health issues, begs the question, “What do all of her co-conspirators have to gain by dragging her failing corpse across an electoral finish line?” Then again, perhaps the better question is, “What do they have to lose if they don’t?”

Floating like a test balloon is a new theory that Hillary, faced with the overwhelming evidence of the nation’s universal distrust and unmitigated disdain, unwilling to be globally humiliated by a Trump landslide that even the greatest forces of the MSM are unable to hide, has faked this medical melt down as a ‘Plan B’ to throw the 2016 election into a Constitutional crisis. If such a diversion, real or faked, fails, if no matter what Hillary pulls Trump prevails, there will not be enough nooses hanging from enough trees in D.C. to dispatch the traitors among us and ‘they’ know it.

Digressing, what would be an appropriate punishment for people

who have conspired to force the entire world into a One World Totalitarian régime? The death toll of this conspiracy is currently in the millions. Under the Obama – Clinton rogue collaboration, whole nations and regions have been attacked and overthrown under specious excuses and outright propaganda to gain control over resources and geographical advantage, resulting in the accumulation of wealth and power funneled into the hands of an elite cabal.

The death, suffering, impoverishment, displacement and unmitigated despair of millions of people who have been the victims of this conspiracy are inconsequential to these soulless curs. There is simply no price too high for others to pay for their demonic agenda to subjugate the entire world.

There is only one obstacle left in the way, and by no means inconsequential; America. The groundwork for her demise was laid decades ago. In recent years the fraudulently placed Obama, along with other collaborators like the Bush’s and Clinton’s were ‘installed’ on assignment, the overthrow of our nation.

It has been understood that America would never be conquered from without. No, America was a fortress of virtue, patriotism, and nobility that could never be brought low by military might. A people so in love with their God, Country, Liberty and unity are simply undefeatable. But just as in the Garden of Eden only an insidious creature could slither its way in, America has been infiltrated with these traitors like snakes.

The useful idiots of these traitors have infiltrated every government

office and agency, every seminary and college campus, every courtroom, every network, entertainment, and sporting venue.

Like snakes they have poisoned our churches, culture, and civility with lying accusations that have perpetrated distrust and hatred on economic, racial, and social fault lines.

They have captured our free minds and thoughts in prisons of political correctness, guardians of a faux ‘tolerance’. Jesus warned that in the last days there would come such a deception, that if it were possible, even the very elect would be deceived.

We are living in that day, and as such, we are sensing the real and present danger that others have described as “An Extinction Level Event”. We can see the amassing forces of good vs. evil.

By God’s great grace and mercy there has been something of a great awakening. The reckless, clumsy, and unmitigated hubris of George Soros and other globalist traitors, extorting and/or blackmailing every branch of our government, have alarmed even the most unconscious among us, leaving a powdered fuse which an equally reckless exhorter of truth, Donald Trump, has ignited.

When ‘We the People’ heard the unapologetic reality finally spoken out loud with such brazen confidence it was absolutely intoxication and addicting. The genie is out, and there is no way, short of violence and force, to put it back in that bottle. What took decades of mental messaging to disarm a fiercely independent people has been decimated within the last 12 months. This, in small measure, explains the danger we are in.

Catherine Crabill

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Churches face ministry challenge in aging Baby Boomers BRIAN KAYLOR As a large group of Americans, the so-called Baby Boomers, have impacted U.S. society, culture, politics and religion for decades. With the oldest members of that famed generation now turning 70, the Baby Boom generation is poised to leave another mark as they redefine what senior adults look for in life — and from churches.

The rise of Baby Boomers into the ranks of senior adults must dramatically change the way churches connect with older people, said Frank Fain, director of adult ministries and educational services for The Baptist Home in Missouri.

Members of that generation want something different than the traditional senior adult ministry model of monthly meetings in the morning and a few trips, he said.

“The traditional senior adult model has been operating since about 1980,” he said.

Seniors today aren’t satisfied simply being ministered to, he said.

“Rather than having a meal and speaker talk about the ministry, they want to be involved in the ministry.”

Boomers — generally defined as those born between 1946 and 1964 — represent nearly a third of the U.S. population. Fain noted that due to immigration, there are even more Boomers today than were born in the United States. As the eldest members of the generation start retiring, they bring a different mindset to that phase of life.

“Many don’t want to be called senior adults,” Fain explained.

“They want to be called adults. And many in the Baby Boom generation don’t even want to be called Baby Boomers.”

Much of Fain’s work for The Baptist Home involves helping churches strategize and implement more effective senior adult ministries. As he meets with ministers and visits churches, he notices the need for

Baby Boomers want hands-on participation in church ministries, experts say. different ministry approaches that work for the new generation of senior adults.

Fain sees Boomers bringing a unique approach to life.

Rather than large social activities with their peers, they are more likely to seek entertainment experiences individually, with small groups of friends or with children and grandchildren.

This removes the appeal of many church-planned entertainment events for people in their age group.

Even meals may not always draw Baby Boomers like older senior adults since “for them meals are something you do with your family.”

Baby Boomers also bring a different perspective on work and retirement, which can impact church ministries.

He noted many do not plan to retire at traditional ages as they push to work until 70 or older. Those who do retire in their 60s will often shift into different professions.

“They plan to just keep on working so that makes a difference in how we do our ministries,” Fain said.

“That generation is going to be looking for things they can do for the rest of their lives to make an impact in this world,” he added.

“You have to start thinking about a ministry with the younger seniors that are coming along — the Baby Boomers — and that ministry is their ministry. You are trying to help them meet those needs. Give them ownership.”

Boomers enter the senior adult phase of life with many similar financial concerns as earlier generations, but also with some new priorities and challenges.

Research shows Baby Boomers are particularly concerned about the potential of rising health care costs that could prevent them from affording treatments or create a financial burden for their children.

Many in the generation also worry about not having enough saved to last in retirement for as long as they expect to live. Some Baby Boomers particularly worry that another market crash could wipe out their

investments and not leave enough time for the value to build back up to what they need.

Nick Davis, eastern regional vice president for the Missouri Baptist Foundation, said there are many financial issues senior adults need to consider.

These include “estate planning, debt reduction, taking required distributions from IRA at age 70.5, Social Security, feeling obligated to assist adult children, health care costs, staying in and upkeep of home and unexpected bills (most do not have emergency savings).”

Davis also noted an increasing trend of children or caregivers finding themselves picking up the financial cost of senior adults who cannot afford all the expenses.

“Senior poverty rates are climbing,” he said. “Caregivers are bearing the financial burden of parents and grandparents. Do children or caregivers know their parents’ or grandparents’ financial picture before taking over their care?”

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NAACP joins AME to mobilize voters for November NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks last week met with the leadership of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church; Congressional Black Caucus Chair and Congressman G.K. Butterfield; Melanie Campbell, President and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, pastors, millennial activists and leaders of other national African American organizations to launch a mobilization plan for black voter turnout in the November election for the presidential and down-ballot races.

Issues that directly impact blacks are at the center of the 2016 campaign, including criminal justice reform; voting rights; disrupting the broken education system; entrepreneurship; innovation; income inequality; and unemployment. The leaders issued a call to action to the black community to vote at the same levels that elected and re-elected President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, to secure increased influence over policies impacting black lives at the national, state and local levels.

“It is essential for black churches and social justice organizations to work together to maximize voting levels within the black community this Fall,” said Brooks. “The stakes of this election demand the kind of innovation and persistence we can only achieve through collaboration.”

Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, director for the AME church’s Commission on Social Action echoed this call.

“Voter apathy is the greatest threat to democracy,” she said “For that reason, amev-alert.org has joined with the NAACP and other partners to reach out to every eligible voter.

When they speak with their vote,

“I fought for my country.

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on or before Nov. 8, the voice of the people will have resoundingly sent a message that social justice matters.”

This is the next step in the NAACP’s aggressive campaign to protect black Americans’ access to the ballot. Yesterday, the organization announced that its Youth & College Division members and Chance the Rapper will come together this fall to register thousands of concert-goers to vote as part of the #staywokeandvote campaign. NAACP Youth & College volunteers will begin registration drives at the Magnificent Coloring Day Festival on Sept. 24 in Chicago, with registration drives to accompany concerts through Oct. 21 in Fairfax, VA, Raleigh, NC, Atlanta, GA, Miami and Tallahassee, FL, New Orleans, LA, Houston and Dallas, TX and San Francisco, CA. The NAACP and allies have challenged individual state laws in federal court while calling for congressional action to prevent future attempts to restrict the voting process from candidates seeking office. Through volunteer-

driven events across the nation, in communities and on college campuses, NAACP members are aggressively working this fall to help register voters and stand against intimidation and discrimination in the November election.

Recently, Brooks and NAACP Youth & College Division Director Stephen Green were ordered to pay fines and court costs for their refusal to leave Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s Virginia office after they held a sixhour sit-in protest on voting rights.

The NAACP notes that it has repeatedly called on Goodlatte and other congressional leaders to hold a hearing to restore the voting rights protections that were eliminated under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby v. Holder ruling. Since that ruling, more than 17 states have passed restrictive and discriminatory laws that make it more difficult for minority, young, old and poor voters to cast ballots by requiring IDs and cutting back programs that led to record black turnout in recent elections.

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Mae Reeves’ hats hang at National Museum of African American History And Culture HANSI LO WANG Black women have been wearing fancy hats to church for generations.

That tradition is being celebrated at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, which officially opens in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24. Vintage turbans, caps and fascinators that span a half-century are on display — all from the shop of one woman.

Her name is Mae Reeves.

In 1942, a time when few women were becoming entrepreneurs, Reeves opened what would become a Philadelphia institution with a $500 bank loan. Her hat shop, Mae’s Millinery, helped dress some of the most famous black women in the country, including iconic singers Marian Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald and Lena Horne.

Reeves hung her hat above the store, raising her family in the same building — first in downtown Philadelphia and later West Philadelphia.

“You do what you got to do,” she said, reflecting on the early years of running her business in an interview with the Smithsonian recorded after the museum acquired a collection of her hats. “I had to work with my family and make a living too. So I did it, and I'm very proud of it.”

Downstairs, customers ranging from white socialites to black domestic workers kept the cash drawer ringing. Reeves’ daughter Donna Limerick, a former NPR producer, remembers putting on a black dress and pearls as a teenager to help her mother sell hats made of blue tulle, pink organza and purple feathers.

“During Mother’s Day and Easter, when women would just come one after the other, that bell would just ring, ring, ring,” said Limerick.

Reeves’ hat business helps paint an extraordinary portrait of the Great Migration, according to Paul Gardullo, a curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Mae Reeves and husband Joel pose with her hats at Mae’s Millinery in Philadelphia, circa 1953.

“Think about this: You’re talking about amidst of a depression, amidst of Jim Crow, a young woman who has moved from the South to the North, and she made a success of herself really from nothing,” said Gardullo.

And many of the women who wore her hats were trying to make more than just a fashion statement.

“For black women who grew up in the Jim Crow era, as my grandmother and my mother did, hats were a way for them to take ownership over their style, a way for them to assert that they mattered,” said Tiffany Gill, author of “Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry”.

A Philadelphia resident, Gill said she still hears women talking about how they used to save money to buy a hat from Reeves’ shop. It was a center not just for black fashion but also for civic life on election days.

“My mom would allow them to bring these big machines into her tiny little hat shop, so people in the community could vote,” recalled Limerick.

Every city, Gill said, once had at least one popular, black-owned hat shop where black customers could often find better service than at

(Clockwise from top left) Ochre-colored rolled brim suede hat with feathers; purple tulle cap with pink and purple feathers; blue and white hat with blue tulle streamer; red feather lamp shade hat. white-owned stores.

“When I see older women who still wear hats to church on Sunday or bring them out on special occasions, it’s just a reminder to revere that generation and the ways they asserted dignity when to be black and to be a woman was something that brought about ridicule,” said Gill.

They’re a generation that Reeves helped dress with pride.

“I like to make them pretty,” explained Reeves with a chuckle in her interview with the Smithsonian.

Prompting her mother, Limerick asked, “So many women came to your hat shop and when they left, they sure looked beautiful, didn’t they?”

“Oh yeah,” Reeves answered.

The hat shop closed in 1997 and a few years later, Reeves moved into a retirement home.

“When she left, her final words

were: ‘Don’t touch anything in this hat shop! I’m coming back to make more hats,’” said Limerick, who later arranged for the shop’s contents to be donated to the Smithsonian.

Reeves is turning 104 in October and can no longer practice what for her was more than a craft.

“It was a calling for me, something that I loved to do, making them colorful,” she told the Smithsonian.

“That’s why they came from everywhere to get something different.”

The National Museum of African American History and Culture has recreated a portion of Reeves’ shop, complete with its original red-neon sign, sewing machine and antique furniture. And she’s planning to go see her hats again, this time in the nation’s capital.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL AND CERTIFICATION OF THE PROPOSED OCEANA SOLAR FACILITY PURSUANT TO §§ 56-46.1 AND 56-580 D OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA CASE NO. PUE-2016-00079 On August 1, 2016, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an application (“Application”) for approval and a certificate of public convenience and necessity (“CPCN”) to construct and operate an approximately 17.6 megawatt (nominal alternating current (“AC”)) utility scale solar electric generating facility on the Naval Air Station Oceana in the city of Virginia Beach, Virginia (“Oceana Solar Facility”). The Company requests approval and a CPCN for the Oceana Solar Facility pursuant to §§ 56-46.1 and 56-580 D of the Code of Virginia (“Code”) and the Commission’s Filing Requirements in Support of Applications for Authority to Construct and Operate an Electric Generating Facility (“Generation Rules”). Dominion Virginia Power filed a Motion for Entry of a Protective Order and Additional Protective Treatment (“Motion for Protective Order”), as well as a proposed protective order, with its Application.

According to the Application, Dominion Virginia Power proposes to build the Oceana Solar Facility on approximately 93 acres of federal property, which is currently used for farming, on the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia. As proposed, the Oceana Solar Facility would include ground mounted, single axis tracking photovoltaic arrays, and would interconnect using 34.5 kilovolt distribution-level facilities (together with the proposed Oceana Solar Facility, the “Project”). If approved, Dominion Virginia Power expects the proposed Project to begin commercial operation on or about December 2017.

According to the Application, Dominion Virginia Power plans to build and operate the Project, if approved, as part of a “public-private partnership.” The Company states that the electrical output of the Oceana Solar Facility would be dedicated solely to the Commonwealth of Virginia (“Commonwealth”), a non-jurisdictional customer of the Company, and that the Commonwealth has agreed to purchase this electrical output at a negotiated price for a term of 25 years. Additionally, the Company will retire renewable energy credits in an amount equivalent to those generated by the Project on the Commonwealth’s behalf.

Dominion Virginia Power estimates the cost of the proposed Project to be approximately $39.6 million, excluding financing costs, or approximately $2,252/kilowatt at the 17.6 megawatt (nominal AC) rating. Dominion Virginia Power states that it is not seeking to recover the cost of the Project from its Virginia jurisdictional customers through either a rate adjustment clause or base rates. The Company states that there will be no impacts to its Virginia jurisdictional cost of service, base rates, fuel rates, or rate adjustment clauses as a result of the Company’s ownership and operation of the Project during the 25-year term of the agreements described above.

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

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing in this case that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing at 10 a.m. on January 31, 2017, in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive the testimony of public witnesses and the evidence of the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness should appear at the hearing location fifteen (15) minutes before the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

Copies of the public version of all documents filed in this case 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.

Copies of the public version of the Company’s Application and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing also may be inspected during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth. Copies of these documents also may be obtained, at no charge, by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Horace P. Payne, Jr., Esquire, Dominion Resources Services, Inc., Law Department, RS 2, 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

On or before January 24, 2017, any interested person may 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. Interested persons desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before January 24, 2017, by following the instructions found on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact disks or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00079.

Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing a notice of participation on or before October 21, 2016. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be filed with the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth 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. Any organization, corporation, or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by Rule 5 VAC 5 20 30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00079. 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.

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 set forth above.

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‘Angelic’ voiced Bobby Hill to perform in Richmond The 15-year-old Philadelphia boy whose angelic voice stunned the world during a performance for Pope Francis a year ago, will perform at a service for the African American Ministers Leadership Council’s annual convention, Sept. 27-29 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Richmond.

Bobby Hill, who delivered the impromptu, show-stopping a capella rendition of “Pie Jesu” in Philadelphia for the pontiff, will perform Wednesday, Sept. 28 during the convention’s worship service at Broomfield Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, 609 Jefferson Davis Highway in South Richmond.

The Rev. Gregory King, AAMLC member and newly-appointed pastor at Broomfield, said Hill -- a member of the Keystone State Boys Choir -- has performed all over the world.

The soprano-voiced youth, who was featured at the Ebony Power 100 gala late last year in Los Angeles, also brought hundreds of delegates to their feet this summer at the opening of the Democratic Convention with a flawless performance of the National Anthem.

“Bobby’s parents and I have been good friends for many, many years, even before they got married,” said King, former pastor of Russell CME Church in Alexandria. “He’s a very bright boy. He’s got this phenomenal voice and since [his performance for the pope], he’s picked up a number of Italian sponsors and has gone on to do opera in Vienna and Italy.”

The Washington, D.C.-based AAMLC is part of the African American Religious Affairs department of “People for the American Way,” which King describes as “a progressive, nonprofit organization launched more than 30 years ago” by the late Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and TV producer Norman Lear.

“We also have the African American Ministers in Action, which is the political arm of PFAW,” said King.

“Twice a year, we have an institute for African-American ministers of all denominations from across the country. This month’s gathering will be our fall institute., which follows the spring meeting that was held in Jacksonville, Florida,” he said.

“We usually hold our conventions in the capital cities of states because we like to engage state legislators in terms of issues that specifically relate to African Americans, such as

voting rights and the plight of young black males.”

King explained how in April, the convention was steered to Richmond.

At the time, he was still pastoring in

Alexandria.

“Leslie Malachi, the AARA/PFAW executive director, told me that since I was in Alexandria she needed me to help organize the convention.

“Well, [as in CME tradition] I knew that I would be leaving Alexandria and Richmond would be getting a new pastor,” said King,who has also pastored in Philadelphia “I was hopeful of heading north, not knowing I’d be appointed at Broomfield.

“So when I learned of my appointment to Richmond, I called Rev. Malachi. And, she said, ‘you know, the Lord is just putting this all together in the right place for the right reason, and with us coming to a CME church, you’re the right person to help get this underway.’”

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ADA invites local residents to join celebration ‘Fun Ride’ to help stop diabetes The American Diabetes Association is inviting walkers and riders of all levels to join its “celebration of discovery, innovation and progress” and to be part of the Stop Diabetes® movement by taking part in the “Tour Family Fun Ride + Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes”. The event is scheduled for Sept. 24, at the Innsbrook Pavilion, just outside of Richmond, to help raise funds to change the future of diabetes and help stop the disease.

Individuals and teams composed of co-workers, family and friends are helping raise funds for the nearly 30 million Americans with diabetes.

Riders of all levels will gather for a 10 mile and 20 mile route while walkers will enjoy a 5k course around the scenic Innsbrook campus.

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“The ‘Tour Family Fun Ride + Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes’ is a celebration of health and wellness and a chance to raise critical funds to help the Association continue the work it has been doing over 75 years.

Every mile you ride or walk and every dollar you raise brings us that much closer to stopping this disease that affects so many in our own community,” said Laura Haemker, director, Central Virginia ADA. “With diabetes growing at nearepidemic proportions, the need for funds has never been greater.”

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The president will deliver remarks during the ceremony.

The occasion will be marked by readings of African American literature and musical performances, including a performance by jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, who created a special composition for the event. For more information on the National Museum of African American History and Culture, visit nmaahc.si.edu.

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The Antioch Baptist Church in Varina is hosting a Fall Veteran’s and Community Health Fair and Blood Drive. The blood drive is to recognize and support the need for blood donors for African Americans who suffer from Sickle Cell. Veterans will also have the opportunity to learn about their benefits, healthy cooking tips and sample, and dental healrh information.

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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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DOJ grants will support research to improve forensic science practices used in sexual assault and domestic violence cases

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond and George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax will receive a total of $1,125,897 in federal funds through two grants from the Department of Justice National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to support research that will improve the forensic science testing and equipment used in domestic violence and sexual assault cases. VCU will receive $676,460 and GMU will receive $449,437 in funding to conduct studies and trials that seek to improve forensic science gathering methods.

“Law enforcement must have at their disposal the most up-todate technology available to assist victims of violence,” said U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.). “These

Thomas Haynesworth funds will help us modernize our criminal justice system by giving prosecutors improved tools to bring criminals to justice, provide closure to their victims, and exonerate those wrongfully convicted.”

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Housing named 6th largest private sector industry in Va. A new study measuring the economic impact of Virginia’s housing industry has been released. The study found that Virginia’s housing industry generated $47.8 billion in economic activity in 2015, with $21.8 billion in direct output, making it the sixth largest private sector industry in Virginia by direct output.

Some notable statistics from the impact study note that the housing industry in Virginia supported more than 314,000 jobs paying more than $14 billion in annual wages, salaries and benefits in 2015. The housing industry is one the largest contributors to the Virginia economy.

Using only direct output as a measure of industry performance, the housing industry is the sixth largest private sector industry and provides approximately 8 percent of Virginia’s jobs, including agricultural and government employment. The housing industry is a diversified group of economic sectors representing construction,

finance, retail trade, transportation and professional and residential services.

“The economic impact study showcases Virginia’s housing industry as an economic driver that generates thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity, making it a central component of our economic strategy,” said Gov. Terry McAuliffe. “Housing is a key indicator of any community’s vitality, and we will continue to develop strong housing policies as we build a new Virginia economy.”  Created as a result of McAuliffe’s Executive Order 32, “Advancing Virginia’s Housing Policy,” the Housing Policy Advisory Council is chaired by Secretary of Commerce and Trade Maurice Jones and is tasked with developing housing policy initiatives.  The study was commissioned by the Governor’s Housing Policy Advisory Council and is the first component of a larger research effort.

Virginians that he has promoted advances in DNA testing since his time as governor of Virginia.

He was the first governor to order posthumous DNA testing in a capital case.

“The post-conviction DNA testing program spearheaded by Sen. Warner as governor has exonerated 11 individuals and enabled additional testing in hundreds of cases, which have resulted in the match of 10,000 cold case hits since Warner helped modernize the system,” noted his office. Notably, Thomas Haynesworth was exonerated in 2011 after

spending 27 years in prison following a wrongful rape and robbery conviction.

Warner is also a cosponsor of the bipartisan Justice For All Reauthorization Act (S. 2577) that would provide what his office calls “critical” updates and improvements to federal programs at the Department of Justice focused on forensic science and the use of DNA evidence in the U.S. criminal justice system. That bill passed the U.S. Senate two months ago, on June 16, and currently awaits action by the House of Representatives.

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