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Eastern Henrico to build a new Highland Springs High School
Henrico’s East End is finally slated to get a new high school. Henrico County plans to construct a new Highland Springs High School and a new J.R. Tucker High School, replacing two of its oldest public high schools with modern facilities that will serve the community long term. Each new school is expected to cost $80 million and begin construction in fall 2019, with a goal of opening in fall 2021. The schedule will allow students who are currently freshmen to spend their senior years in the new buildings, according to a plan outlined today by county government and school officials. “Public schools are the lifeblood of any community,” Henrico County Manager John A. Vithoulkas said. “Henrico’s high quality of life depends on having schools that are great — from the quality of instruction and programming to the design and physical condition of the buildings. It’s time to bring a modern facility to the Tucker and Highland Springs communities.”
The new Highland Springs is planned on a wooded property along East Beal Street, adjacent to the existing school, and will front South Airport Drive. The existing school building, which opened in 1952 and was renovated in 2008, will be retained. The new J.R. Tucker will be built on the school’s North Parham Road campus, where the existing 1962 building now stands. Funding for the schools’ construction plan is expected to come from several sources. The 2016 bond referendum identified $55 million to renovate J.R. Tucker and $42 million to build an east area technical center, or business innovation center, in the Varina District. Henrico plans to use those funds and cover the remaining $63 million with a combination of other sources, including $26 million in meals tax reserves, $4.8 million in other available funds and up to $32.2
million in Virginia Public School Authority bonds. “There’s tremendous excitement to go around for everybody,” Henrico County Public Schools Superintendent Amy E. Cashwell said. “To think about what our goals are as a school system, which include preparing students to be life ready, and to then design learning programs around those goals, is a wonderful opportunity. This will take our classrooms to the next level, and it brings great value to see new learning centers serve as the centerpieces of their communities.” Cashwell added, “I’m proud to work with a School Board and Board of Supervisors that work together to demonstrate that schools are a priority to meet the needs of 21st century, globally competitive students.” Henrico government and school officials will spend the coming months refining plans for the J.R.
Tucker and Highland Springs projects, including completing designs for the new schools, determining how students will be accommodated during construction and exploring future uses for the existing Highland Springs High School building. One potential use expected to be considered is the east area technical center. “Clearly, we have plenty of work ahead of us, but I’m confident the county administration, working closely with the Board of Supervisors, School Board and school administration, will get the job done,” Vithoulkas said. “It’s a bold move to build two high schools simultaneously — something Henrico hasn’t done in more than 60 years. We have the resources and the need to transform two of our oldest high schools as well as the communities around them. It’s an opportunity we heartily embrace.”
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GRTC Pulse ridership continues to exceed expectations
Data from June 24, 2018 – September 8, 2018 GRTC Pulse opened its doors to the public on June 24, 2018, with an incredible 56,952 riders during the first week of service when rides were also free. Now three months into revenue service, ridership has steadily increased since the week after free rides. There are now about 30,000 – 36,000 riders per week. On an average weekday, GRTC Pulse now carries more than 6,000 riders daily, far exceeding and almost doubling the goal of 3,500 daily riders. Even Sundays are well above expectation. The ridership goal for Sundays (and holidays) is 1,600, but now the Pulse averages between 2,000 – 3,000 riders on Sundays. Excitement about the new rapid service, coupled with free rides for
VCU students, faculty and staff through the VCU-GRTC Pilot Program that began August 1, 2018, continues to support increased ridership on the Pulse. Last week, Pulse weekday daytime frequencies increased to every 10 minutes. Pulse service operates until 1 a.m. every night. The Pulse is GRTC’s busiest route, carrying approximately 20,000 more riders every week than GRTC’s next busiest route the 1A Chamberlayne/ Hull/Midlothian. GRTC's innovative and groundbreaking project was funded and built in partnership with generous support from the USDOT's TIGER grant program, the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, the Virginia Department of Transportation,
the City of Richmond, and Henrico County. GRTC Pulse is a modern, high quality, high capacity rapid transit system that serves a 7.6-mile route along Broad Street and Main Street, from Rocketts Landing in the city of Richmond to Willow Lawn in Henrico County. Bon Secours Richmond Health System and VCU Health System jointly sponsor GRTC Pulse. The Pulse links the public to many exciting destinations, businesses, services and restaurants. The service remains in its integration period. With service now underway, drivers, cyclists and pedestrians are encouraged to pay close attention to traffic signage, lane markings and signalization. For everyone’s safety, please do
not drive, bike, walk, or skateboard in Bus Only lanes. Bicyclists are welcome to use the Downtown Bus Only lanes between 4th and 14th Sts., and drivers are permitted to make right-turns from these Downtown Bus Only lanes. Please yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. Pedestrians are asked not walk down the median and to use sidewalks and marked crosswalks. Remain alert for Pulse buses and bus movements that may be different from neighboring lanes. The fare to ride the Pulse is the same as local routes at $1.50 per ride or $0.75 for reduced fare customers. The Pulse is free to ride for CARE customers. To learn more about the Pulse and explore how to ride this new service visit http://www.ridegrtc.com/brt/.
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Supporting young children at the highest levels of leadership
Richmond City Mayor Levar Stoney (left), Virginia First Lady Pamela Northam and David Young, CEO of FRIENDS Association for Children, enjoyed a special tour of FRIENDS’ John Purnell Center that was coordinated by the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation.
Virginia First Lady Pamela Northam and Richmond city Mayor Levar Stoney toured the FRIENDS Association for Children’s John C. Purnell, Jr. Child Development Center in Gilpin Court in Richmond last week along with board members of the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (VECF). The VECF’s quarterly board meeting focused on “Building Equitable Early Childhood Systems” with an inside view of an early childhood center serving lowincome families in high-risk neighborhoods. “All Virginia children are capable of and deserve to be starting kindergarten ready to succeed,” said First Lady Pamela Northam. “We are dedicated to unifying Virginia’s early childhood programs and providing access to quality care and education for children and families no matter who they are or where in the commonwealth they live. Great things happen when communities come together to collaborate and build partnerships that support quality school readiness initiatives.”
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YADAPP awards grants to support Virginia youth An event for 14- to 16-year-olds in Newport News that included dancing, games, movies and basketball, as well as workshops about the dangers of alcohol and drug use was fun and awardwinning for a hard-working team of four Newport News high school students who organized the event earlier this year. On Jan. 26 about 115 youths accompanied by mentors and community leaders took part in the “Clock In Lock In” event at Brittingham-Midtown Community Center. The event was developed by a team of four high school students representing Heritage, Denbigh and Woodside high schools in Newport News, through the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (ABC) sponsored Youth Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Project (YADAPP). Team members included De’Sean Williams, Ryan Fraizer, Cheron Crew and Lamarr Burnett. The ingenuity and success of their event have been rewarded with a $500 grant from Virginia ABC, which selected the team to receive the agency’s annual Wheeler Award. YADAPP is a year-long peer leadership program that begins each summer when high schools and community groups send teams to participate in a five-day conference. Teams broaden their knowledge of substance abuse prevention and work together to create strategic prevention plans, Strategies to Act Now (STAN) Plans, to be implemented during the following school year. The Newport News team will use the grant money to further its prevention efforts during this school year. “As other recipients of the Wheeler Award before them, the
Newport News team of students is inspiring,” said Virginia Chief Executive Officer Travis Hill. “Peer to peer education and advocacy is extremely powerful for the youth in our communities. By sending a positive and persuasive message about substance abuse prevention, these students are helping to save lives. We value our community partners who work to secure a safe and drug-free environment for Virginia youth. We want all students to achieve personal success and continue to build stronger communities and peer networks.” The Wheeler Award, established in 1986, honors Morris and Billie Wheeler for their dedication to Virginia’s youth. The Wheeler’s daughter Sandy was killed by a drunk driver in 1981. For more than 30 years the Wheelers supported the prevention efforts of Virginia ABC and other organizations to promote youth leadership and prevent drunk driving. Virginia ABC also named 22 YADAPP team winners of minigrants for their STAN Plans. Each team of four students, assisted by an adult sponsor, will receive $250 to support their substance use prevention efforts. Mini-grant recipients include the following: •City of Newport News Team 3 (Newport News) •Surry Youth Council Team 1 (Surry County) •An Achievable Dream High School Team 4 (Newport News) •Phoebus High School Team 2 (Hampton) •Hampton High School (Hampton) •Henrico High School (Henrico County) •New Kent High School (New Kent County)
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Scammers in Hampton Roads are seeking personal information Attorney General Mark R. Herring is warning Virginians, particularly those who live in the Hampton
Roads region, of scammers who are posing as disaster relief officials calling for personal information
Va. AG Mark R. Herring under the guise of reimbursement for evacuation expenses. Virginians are returning to their homes and could be more susceptible to scams like this one. If you receive a call from someone claiming to be a disaster official and they ask for your personal information, it is a scam and you should hang up the phone. “It is a shame that there are people out there who take advantage of a natural disaster and try to scam victims,” said Herring. “Folks have begun to return home now that the Governor has lifted the evacuation order, making them potential targets for scammers offering to reimburse them for evacuation expenses. This is why it is so important that all Virginians know the signs of a scam and never give their personal information to someone they do not know. If something seems fishy that means it probably is.” Phishing scams typically involve scammers posing as legitimate organizations, in this case either the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) or FEMA, demanding that victims turn over their personal information so it can be used to commit fraud and identity theft. Never let a “disaster official” or “disaster worker” into your home without first asking for the person’s identification and checking
it out. Some con artists pose as government officials and claim that a “processing fee” must be paid to secure disaster relief payments or loans. Other con artists pretend to be safety inspectors and require that expensive or unnecessary repairs be done immediately. Herring is urging to keep the following scam guidelines in mind: •Phishing emails typically contain misspellings and poor grammar, and demand that you “act immediately.” •Most legitimate companies do not ask for personal information over email or by unsolicited phone call. Should you have a question about your status or account with an institution, call the company directly from a number off their real website. •Do not click on links in suspected emails or use numbers contained in them. •Never reply to a suspicious email or provide personal information to an unsolicited phone call. •Report the email to the purported institution or appropriate law enforcement agency. •Use strong passwords for your email, computer, and financial accounts, including variations of capital and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols of at least 8 characters. •Install anti-virus programs on your computer and scan files and emails regularly. •Check for regular updates to your operating system. •Install and activate a software and hardware firewall on your computer. •Backup all of your data regularly using an external hard drive. If you feel you have been a victim of one of these phishing scams contact Consumer Protection Section: www.ag.virginia.gov or call 1-800-552-9963 in Virginia or (804) 786-2042 if calling from the Richmond area.
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Digital habits and the impact of black consumers
African American consumers are enjoying a remarkable period of influence, cultural expression and entrepreneurship that is manifesting digitally and trending mainstream, according to global researcher Nielsen. With the highest smartphone ownership and usage of any demographic group and an unyielding desire for self-expression and image control, African Americans are leveraging digital platforms and technology to move from consumers to creators–of platforms, products, content and financial ecosystems. According to “From Consumers to Creators: The Digital Lives of Black Consumers”, the eighth annual report in Nielsen’s Diverse Intelligence Series on African American consumers, black influence on the economy and pop culture has been intensified by participation in the digital universe and adoption of social media and technology platforms. From video streaming and podcasting to gaming and shopping for food online, African Americans are leaning into digital know-how and open-source innovation—with unprecedented impact on brands, elections and what the country watches, buys and listens to. Black consumers are boldly galvanizing in the digi-sphere to critique, connect, collaborate and create. “African Americans are leveraging
innovations in technology and the anonymity of social platforms to level the playing field and get ahead in a marketplace unencumbered by corporate scrutiny,” said Cheryl Grace, senior vice president of U.S. Strategic Community Alliances and Consumer Engagement, Nielsen. “African American influence has long resonated cross-culturally, and now it’s being delivered directly from creator to consumer. Give talented, creative people unobstructed access to the world stage and, inevitably, they will shine.” African Americans, representing 14 percent of the U.S. population (47.4 million), are using unfettered access to technology as a means to broaden their reach and express themselves on their own terms. Streaming is a primary source of entertainment for African Americans. They stream videos more frequently on all devices than the total population, especially on phones. Black consumers’ music streaming habits played a key role in R&B/Hip-Hop unseating Rock as the No. 1 music genre in the U.S. in 2017. African American shopping habits also are shifting in the digital age. According to the report, that is incredibly important to brands because African American buying power is at $1.3 trillion currently and based on gains in population, income and education, it’s estimated to rise to $1.54 trillion by 2022.
all African Americans have lived their entire life in the digital age. These tech-savvy Gen X, Millennial and Gen-Z consumers represent a coveted market segment whose interconnectivity is central to their everyday lives—particularly the product purchase cycle. The report urges smart marketers to recognize this shift from consumer to creator and offers insights on building new inroads to this culturally conscious and digitally native consumer segment. One digital creator highlighted in the report is actor, activist, and digital gaming co-creator Jesse Williams. He shared, “as a company, Visibility knows that our strengths are also the market’s weaknesses: Black ownership of black creativity. Technology is an opportunity to make decisions that no longer divorce people from their power. We set out to empower our culture—to lead and learn without fear.” The report, launched at the Congressional Black Caucus 48th Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., examines how African Americans are leveraging digital to bypass traditional barriers to entry in every arena from finding culturally relevant news, entertainment, products and services to content creation and political engagement. Key findings include: •90 percent of African Americans live in a household that owns a smartphone and have a higher weekly reach for social networking on a smartphone (75 percent), as well as watching video on a smartphone (66 percent) and audio streaming on a smartphone (45 percent). •19 million (28 percent) of Twitter’s 67 million users are African American and 9.3 million (or 20 percent of all African Americans) are on or self-identify using ‘Black Twitter’.
•African Americans 18+ are increasingly tuning into podcasts, with 70 percent growth in engagement from 2014 to 2017 (from 2.12 million to 3.60 million). •African Americans make up a significant portion of U.S. gamers. Seventy-three percent (73 percent) of African Americans 13 and older identify as gamers compared to 66 percent of the total population. •Sixty-one percent of African Americans agree that they enjoy learning about technology or electronics products from others (14 percent higher than for nonHispanic whites), and 54 percent agree they enjoy reading about new technology products (8 percent higher). •One of the critical ways African Americans spend time online is food shopping. African Americans over-index against the total U.S. for dollars per buyer spent online in most grocery categories. •Meal kits are increasingly becoming an option for busy parents. African Americans overindex against non-Hispanic whites by 21 percent for agreeing they would consider buying meal kits to save time on grocery shopping (40 percent vs. 29 percent for nonHispanic whites), on meal prep and cooking (43 percent vs. 34 percent) and on meal planning (42 percent vs. 33 percent). “The breadth of black America’s digital footprint has grown exponentially with the rise of smartphone technology and increased access to new mediums for content exchange,” said Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code and a Nielsen External Advisory Council member. “The access to technology among black consumers is a lightning rod for innovation that’s opening doors of opportunity to creativity, entrepreneurship and financial independence.”
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Who are black women voters? By Dr. J. Ester Davis Fifty-seven percent of black women attended college, but did not attain a four year degree. Black women are particularly active on Twitter especially around political issues. Facebook Business has more black women business-owners in all categories. In 2014, 13.5 percent of black women were union members active in their unions and/or started their own unions, i.e., black women mechanics, black women in construction. We must never forget that black women voters in Birmingham, Alabama, voted and supported Doug Jones for Senate over the forever seated ‘self entitled’ Roy Moore, the Republican rival. It is important that we remember that the voter turnout was 98 percent. An unmistakable message indeed! The overwhelming reason was a simple one: they did not want the clock turned back. The reason explaining the changes in African Americans is apathy. Apathy is endless. Apathy is a strong word, but I am considering the lack of emotion, indifference and interest to name a few for not voting. Some say integration has unraveled a once cohesive black community, The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 4 No. 39 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
thus robbing it of a talented middle class that once supported thriving businesses, churches, schools and neighborhood organizations. Some argue that racism still hinders blacks from economic and educational opportunities needed to support families and communities. Some point to society’s overall emphasis on self and material gain. Now there is the disruptive influence of drugs saturated on certain street corners and the subsequent mass incarceration of black men. And a ‘shrug’ of it all. . . with a simple explanation of changing times. Whatever the causes, my polling agree that the work of restoration must begin at home. Who are black women voters? Black women are the vast majority of the student population at HBCU’s earning more higher degrees. Black women online has surged 30 percdent over the past three years, with 60 percent using the internet. Black women are among the most engaged users of social media. Afterall social media is all about conversation, communication and contact. Which today equals influence. Social media is a powerful tool and the majority of users are using it for its original intent with massive audiences. The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions. Letter writers and columnists opinions are their own and endorsements of their views by The LEGACY should be inferred. The LEGACY assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Annual Subscription Rates Virginia - $50 U.S. states - $75 Outside U.S.- $100 The Virginia Legacy © 2016
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The sister team “Diamond & Silk”, the FOX loyal supporters is a direct testimony of the black woman vote and the recognized influence of numbers. My growing concern is the false narratives that exist on black women’s leadership. Meaning it is time to support the black women running for office. Meaning further, loud and clear, that it is time for black men to support black women. These false narratives do not exist when you example the qualifications of other women or men running for
office. Let me cite one of many articles on black women’s leadership. “Progressives need to pay attention, because these imbalanced judgments are not only unfair, but also defeating in an age when black women are an indispensable and perhaps the most critical factor in Democrats prevailing come November.” Glynda C. Carr and Kimberly Peeler-Allen. Who are black women voters? Highly qualified and beautiful leaders.
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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.
Black women show the way forward in 2018 There is a reckoning afoot in this country. On one side, Trump has emboldened and embodied a virulent and reckless hate that targets women, black people, and immigrants (among many others). Each day brings a new outrage. On the other side, #MeToo has followed #BlackLivesMatter as a hashtagturned-movement, led by courageous truth-tellers who are sick and tired of a violent and largely ignored status quo. The conversation about race and gender in this country has broken open, and now we must all contend with the truth of who we are as a nation. While this may feel like scary and unfamiliar territory to some, in reality, the U.S. is just catching up to an understanding and analysis that Black women in this country have had for a long time. Black women have never had the luxury of ignorance—not to police violence, not to the rampant sexual harassment and assault that women experience at home, school, and work. In 2018, we should look to the work of black women to see the path forward for a troubled and divided nation. In a way, black women scholars and organizers have left breadcrumbs for us to follow to liberation, if we’ll only pay attention.
In 1989, legal scholar, Kimberly Crenshaw, coined the term “intersectionality” in her paper for the University of Chicago Legal Forum to explain how black women’s oppression on the basis of gender combined with oppression on the basis of race to create something altogether new, an experience of discrimination did not match what either white women or black men experience. This concept would lay the groundwork for social justice organizing that now spans the globe, and provided a vocabulary for something black women experience on a daily basis. While intersectionality risks dilution as an increasingly popular buzzword, the analysis it provides is a crucial tool to cut through the noise and understand the Trump administration’s policies and their impact on different communities. Take for instance the recent Jane Doe case, and similar cases, of the Trump administration blocking young immigrant women from getting reproductive healthcare. The mistreatment of the “Janes” (as they’ve come to be called) at the hands of the Trump administration targets them both as women and as immigrants, and the two identities cannot be pulled apart. “Intersectionality” provides an analysis that explains why their
treatment is so much more extreme, and its impact so severe. Just five years after Crenshaw’s groundbreaking work, the reproductive justice movement was founded by black women who, like Crenshaw, saw that their perspectives and experiences were being, once again, left out of the equation. Reproductive justice brought intersectionality and a global human rights framework together with a nuanced understanding of U.S. policies of reproductive coercion. The founding mothers of reproductive justice rejected white feminism’s focus on the birth control and the legality of abortion as too narrow, and described a vision for a world, where we can all prevent pregnancy if we want to, end a pregnancy if we need to, and have and raise children in healthy environments and without fear of violence. Reproductive justice broadened the lens of abortion rights to include low-income women and women of color “and” broadened the entire conversation to recognize the ways in which U.S. policies denied motherhood to some women even while forcing it on others against their will. This framework is crucial to connect the dots among Trump’s reproductive policies. Trump wants
to make birth control unaffordable, push abortion out of reach, and punish women for having children. What seems inconsistent on the surface is, in fact, all part of one agenda to coerce and control a woman’s decisions about pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting. When Trump was first elected, black women were the least surprised. We saw Trump coming from a mile away and we already knew how deep this country’s antiwoman and anti-black sentiment ran. Now, more than a year later, the work of black women will help us understand and combat Trump’s agenda, with black women leading the fight. Let 2018 be the year of the black woman. Let 2018 be the year black women’s brilliance, leadership, and analysis are heeded at last. Let 2018 mark the beginning of a new era of listening to, respecting, and trusting black women. Just stop for a moment and imagine what might happen, if we actually made those words a reality.--Monica Simpson Monica Simpson is the executive director of SisterSong: The National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, based in Atlanta, Ga., and the director of the Trust Black Women Partnership.
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Faith & Religion
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Episcopal Church expands prisoner re-entry ministries By David Paulsen The assignment was to talk about something you do well, and Keith Rhames had a recipe for mac and cheese. That may sound like a strange topic for a motivational speech, but Rhames knew himself, knew his audience and already grasped some of the techniques that make brief TED-style talks so engrossing. Rhames, 52, smiled broadly and made careful eye contact as he shared his story with the 20 or so people who had gathered at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City. What made this mac and cheese special, Rhames said, was the fact that he made it last May. He had wanted to surprise his mother with a meal. It was Mother’s Day. It also was just three months since his release from prison after serving 30 years for second-degree murder, and he would have settled for any meal that didn’t taste like the soybean-based slop that was his involuntary diet behind bars. But how would he learn to cook mac and cheese? “Lo and behold, these days they have something called YouTube,” Rhames said. Rhames is one of a dozen formerly incarcerated New Yorkers who have signed up for Raising My Voice, a free 10-week public speaking and leadership course presented by Circles of Support and hosted by Heavenly Rest.
Formerly incarcerated New Yorkers gather for the 10-week Raising My Voice course on public speaking and leadership. Photo: Angela James
The congregation has placed prisoner re-entry ministries at the core of its outreach efforts at a time when the Episcopal Church, too, is turning much of its criminal justice work toward re-entry ministries. For Raising My Voice, Church of the Heavenly Rest volunteers help provide feedback to budding public speakers like Rhames. Other Episcopal dioceses and congregations are developing their own approaches to helping prisoners re-enter society, such as the Bridge Project in the Diocese of El Camino Real and Bridges Reentry in the Diocese of Arizona, both of which received grants this year through the church’s United Thank Offering, or UTO. The time is ripe for church engagement. American prisons and jails are holding more than 2 million people behind bars, and most of those inmates someday will be released. More than 4.5 million people are serving probation or parole, living with the threat that one slip-up could return them to the “inside.” Mark Cohen is optimistic about his future. “I changed my life around a lot since I came out,” the 54-year-old
Brooklyn resident said. He served a 22-year prison sentence from a drug-dealing case but has been free for three years and is participating in the Raising My Voice classes at Heavenly Rest with the hope that the training will help him find better jobs. The Episcopal Church’s work on criminal justice issues in recent years can be traced to a 2006 resolution passed by General Convention, and subsequent resolutions have expanded the scope of the church’s involvement, including to the problem of mass incarceration. Such commitments overlap with the Episcopal Church’s elevation of racial reconciliation to a top priority, given that black and Hispanic inmates make up a disproportionately large cross-section of the prison population. “There is an increasing awareness throughout the Episcopal Church of the oppressive and dehumanizing impact of mass incarceration on black, Latino and indigenous men, women and children,” said the Rev. Charles A. Wynder Jr., a priest and the Episcopal Church’s staff officer for social justice and
engagement. “Transforming criminal justice ministries from traditional prison ministry models to more holistic work of re-entry and policy advocacy is a holistic and integrated approach to more fully living into our Baptismal Covenant.” In July, the 79th General Convention passed Resolution D004 to endorse specific reforms, such as reduction of mandatory minimum sentences, repeal of laws allowing life sentences for nonviolent offenses, and implementation of measures to reduce discrimination against former offenders. Other resolutions seek to end the death penaltyand to eliminate a clause in the U.S. Constitution that makes an exception for inmates in the prohibition of slavery. The church has been active in supporting congregations and Episcopalians who choose to invest in ministries involving visits to inmates in jails and prisons, taking their cue from the Gospel of Matthew: “I was in prison and you visited me.” Prisoner re-entry ministries are a new churchwide emphasis, and they are gaining momentum.
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VCU’S Center for the Study of Tobacco Products receives nearly $20m The Center for the Study of Tobacco Products at Virginia Commonwealth University has received a $19.78million grant through a partnership between the National Institutes of Health and the FDA Center for Tobacco Products to launch a five-year project focused on predicting the outcomes of government regulations of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. The center, which is part of the Department of Psychology in the College of Humanities and Sciences is one of nine Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science across the country that provide research to the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to ensure U.S. tobacco regulatory actions and activities are based on sound and relevant scientific evidence. The grant builds on a five-year $18.3 million grant awarded to the center in 2013 to study tobacco products, such as e-cigarettes, and to develop evaluation methods to help inform regulatory policy. Alison Breland, co-principal
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investigator on the grant and assistant research professor in the Department of Psychology, said the project is aimed at protecting human health at a time when e-cigarette use — particularly among teenagers — is on the rise. VCU President Michael Rao said the landmark grant will allow the Center for the Study of Tobacco Products to continue and expand its important work. “At Virginia Commonwealth University, we have continually committed ourselves to doing what's difficult and what will advance the public good,” Rao said. “The Center for the Study of Tobacco Products is furthering that mission in myriad ways.” Montserrat “Montse” Fuentes, Ph.D., dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences, said the grant —the third largest NIH award in VCU’s history — demonstrates that the Center for the Study of Tobacco Products is a national model for translating basic science tothe practices, policies and regulatory science of managing tobacco products and their impact
on society. Under the initial 2013 grant, she added, the center provided numerous opportunities to VCU students for engagement in experiential learning while applying their knowledge to significant social problems. That grant, she said, was a catalyst for new interdisciplinary collaboration sat VCU focused on tobacco addiction, including a project on the effect of e-cigarettes on craniofacial development. No taxpayer money will be used to conduct this research, as it is funded under a 2009 law that gave the FDA the power to regulate tobacco, and that requires the tobacco industry to provide money to the FDA to support regulatory action. As part of the grant, the Center for the Study of Tobacco Products will test potential regulations of tobacco products in a series of lab studies, some focused on engineering and the mechanics of the product, some focused on “abuse liability” — or how likely users are to become dependent on a product — and some focused on the effects of tobacco products on people who use them.
Michael Southam-Gerow, associate chair and director of graduate studies in the Department of Psychology, said the grant allows the center to have an “important and profound influence on public health for our region, the country and across the world.” “The Center for the Study of Tobacco Products is already a world leader in helping policy makers and the public understand how emerging tobacco products work on the body and what their longer-term impacts are on physical and behavioral health,” he said. “The new project lets them continue and expand on this work. Additionally, the ream will provide training for graduate and undergraduate VCU students.
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John Legend becomes first black man to earn EGOT status By Derrick Bryson Taylor
John Legend has made history again. The “Ordinary People” singer became the first black man to earn the coveted EGOT — Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony — status at the Creative Arts Emmys. Legend won his Emmy for his role in the NBC musical “Jesus Christ Superstar Live.” He, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Time Rice all became EGOTwinners — making them the 13th, 14th and 15th people in history to earn all major accolades. But the celebration may continue as Legend, 39, who played Jesus in the musical, is also up for another trophy for outstanding actor in a limited series or movie
at the Primetime Emmys. Thus far, Legend has 10 Grammys to his name, an Oscar for Best Original Song for “Glory” (2015) and a co-producing Tony for Best Revival of a Play for the Broadway show “Jitney” (2017). He joins the ranks of Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Brooks and Whoopi Goldberg, who is the first black woman to join the EGOT club. Before ending the night with a round of “EGOT pancakes,” Chrissy Teigen shared a video of her husband finding a place on his trophy shelf for his new hardware — then him looking on with pride at his achievements. “And I say hey, what wonderful kind of day,” she captioned the video.
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Camille Cosby appears at Judicial Conduct Review Board Camille Cosby has filed an official complaint about her husband’s judge to the Judicial Conduct Review Board of Pennsylvania. Prior to iconic comedian Bill Cosby faces sentencing in his assault case and just a week after defense attorneys filed a motion asking for Judge Steven T. O’Neill to recuse himself, Camille Cosby arrived in Harrisburg, Pa., seeking relief. “The public, and Mr. Cosby, were entitled to know about Judge O’Neill’s bias before the judge made these rulings,” Camille Cosby said. “That this judge would hide his bias and decide that his rival, the former D.A., could not be trusted to give truthful testimony, shows that the judge let his own personal feelings override Mr. Cosby’s right to a fair trial. If a judge would do this in a case as high-profile as this one, then he cannot be trusted to be a fair judge for anyone else either.” The former D.A. Bruce Castor told NNPA Newswire that he was “disgusted” by the prosecution of Cosby after himself promising the legend years ago that if he sat for a deposition and waived his right to remain silent, his words could never be used against him by any future D.A. The current D.A., Kevin Steele, ran an election campaign on the grounds that he was going to “get Cosby,” and received the support of Cosby accuser Andrea Constand in his campaign bid. “What is happening to Cosby, as bad a man as he undoubtedly is, should never happen to anyone in America,” Castor said. “I’m 36 years in the justice system, much of it at a pretty high level and I’m disgusted that any citizen entitled to the presumption of innocence has been treated this way,” Castor said. Legal experts also have expressed
concern that O’Neill refused to rule on whether the 12-year statute of limitations in the case expired, thus avoiding any prosecution of Cosby. Instead, he sent the matter to jurors, who didn’t appear to consider it. Cosby’s attorney Joseph Green previously filed a motion aimed at getting O’Neill to recuse himself and appoint another judge to consider the case. Green argued that the case has to go back to when it started in early 2016 when Cosby repeatedly sought to get the charges thrown out and the judge to step down. O’Neill repeatedly denied his motions. Green said recently uncovered facts suggest O’Neill was biased against Cosby from the beginning due to a long-standing political feud with Castor that the judge failed to disclose after he was assigned the case. The feud stems from a late1990s political campaign between Castor and O’Neill in which Castor supposedly engineered a campaign dirty trick that damaged O’Neill’s professional reputation, Cosby’s motion asserts. This colored O’Neill’s rulings against Cosby’s motions, Green argued because Castor was an important witness who testified about why he decided not to prosecute Cosby on the Constand accusations in 2006. “During the hearing, Judge O’Neill actually took over the direct examination of Mr. Castor, questioning him at some length before issuing a ruling that rejected Mr. Castor’s sworn testimony and wrongfully allowed the case to proceed,” the Cosby lawyers said in a statement. “There is no way to view the judge’s conduct in this case as being consistent with the constitutional right to a fair trial,” the statement said.
“Judge O’Neill must fully disclose the facts of that feud now. There is no other way to correct the injustice that has been done.” A number of legal experts from Philadelphia, Delaware, Washington and as far away as Sacramento, San Francisco and Winnipeg, Canada, said O’Neill should recuse himself or at least postpone the Sept. 24 and Sept. 25 sentencing hearings he’s scheduled. Camille Cosby’s appearance at the Judicial Conduct Review Board isn’t insignificant. According to Pennsylvania rules, when the Board receives a complaint, the Board’s staff makes a preliminary inquiry. During this stage, you and other witnesses may be interviewed, and documents other than those provided with your complaint may be reviewed. Once there is sufficient information to conclude the preliminary inquiry, the full Board will review the complaint. At this stage, the Board generally chooses to: • Dismiss the complaint
because it is clear that the allegations do not warrant disciplinary action against the accused judge; or • Authorize a full investigation to determine if there is “clear and convincing evidence” of misconduct that warrants disciplinary action against the accused judge After a full investigation has been conducted, the Board makes another choice: • Dismiss the complaint because there is not “clear and convincing evidence” of judicial misconduct; or if the Board believes that there is “clear and convincing evidence” of judicial misconduct, it may file formal charges against the accused judge with the Court of Judicial Discipline. When asked today why she’s filing the complaint, Cosby said she’s filing it not only on behalf of Bill Cosby, “but for all citizens who may one day find themselves in O’Niell’s corrupt courtroom. This judge must be held accountable for his unethical behavior.”
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Angel Rich to teach at HamptonU & attack financial literacy for youth
Back when she was a young tech entrepreneur in Washington, DC, Angel Rich, already had the hill buzzing with rumors of her becoming the next great something, however even she didn’t imagine it would be the Next Steve Jobs as now slated by Forbes, Nasdaq and many others. “I’ve always been known for solving problems,” Rich said. “No matter how extreme of an issue I seem to be the person people call on to help, believing I can fix the impossible. “Deciding to tackle one of our biggest problems, poverty, I founded WealthyLife to create financial literacy education technology games and multi-media. CreditStacker, our first game on the market, initially made headways in late 2017 upon launching not just for the engagement but also for the algorithm we designed to reduce user acquisition costs from $3 to less than a quarter ($0.24 cents) that permitted us to scale to 200K downloads in our first 10 days.
“When Google called, selected us as one of top 10 apps in the world, and stated that we did such an impressive job that even they wouldn’t be able to get the user acquisition any lower we knew we had something amazing.” Google has called again with another interest – organic growth. Since the first month of launching on Google, Rich has cleverly not spent any more money on user acquisition. Instead she focused on earned media that would help the app grow for free, and it worked. Growing at 10-15,000 per month internationally, Rich now stands as the only black woman entrepreneur in the world with more than 350,000 downloads on her app. Rich, 31, is considered a pioneer in many fields including fintech, edtech, gaming, research and black policy issues. Her rare, unique perceptive is more than a specialty, but rather a gift to see all sides of an issue with clear vision. She decided to leverage that vision
as a solution to her funding problem. Known as “Queen Bootstrapper” the struggles Rich and countless other black women face to receive less than 0.02 percent of overall funding has been well publicized. Instead of crying about it, Rich decided to write about it and use the proceeds to fund her company. Successfully garnering more than $125,000, self-published in the first year, “History of the Black Dollar “ has quickly become a national treasure. Rich’s argument is that most Americans are sympathetic towards the Jewish community because they can relate as a result of “The Diary of Anne Frank” being required reading despite the fact the incident did not occur in our country. Rich asks, “What book do schools require across the country to read about the child of slave… or Jim Crow… or even just a black person?” Then she waits, to hear nothing but silence. Her next question is, “How can we expect to be on the same page as a country, if we are
not reading from the same history book?” More silence follows. Rich dreams of “History of the Black Dollar” becoming required reading across the country in K-12 and college history classes, and in freshman studies for all HBCUs. Dr. Rikesha Fry Brown, Director of Honors College at Hampton University, is ensuring it is not a dream-deferred, inviting Rich to teach a class on it in the Spring. Rich chose Hampton to kickoff her HBCU tour during their homecoming and plans to present to HBCU leaders in November at the National African American Honors Program Conference along the way. Rich is making a bid to be an influential voice in the black community like Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois whose careers are a model for her. To accomplish this, she plans to continue to invent tech, write books, produce films and lend her opinion in policy decisions.
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Inspiring women suffering with alopecia and thinning hair Hair loss can be devastating. Nearly 50 percent of black women suffer some kind of hair loss. Studies suggest a significant portion of middle-aged black women feel their hair is “unhealthy”. Many beauticians agree that most hair loss is from experiences involving hair care and over-styling.
Wild & Worthy Hair Extensions (W&W), a Richmond-based wig and hair extension boutique is celebrating Alopecia Awareness Month by hosting an alopecia beauty event on September 29th 2:00 p.m. in Plant Zero at their studio location at 0 East 4th Street; Suite 14B, in Richmond. Alopecia is the umbrella term for conditions associated with hair loss, which have various causes, including diseases and medical treatments, stress, childbirth and hereditary factors. W&W Hair provides the community with top quality wigs and 100 percent virgin hair extensions. They have designed their hair products knowing that the only thing that matters more than having a top quality product is the woman who wears
them. Their goal is to inspire women to explore their uniqueness and embrace their individuality through a wide variety of hair textures, lengths and color options. Women make up a significant percentage of American hair loss sufferers. In fact, 40 percent of women have visible hair loss by the time they are age 40, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. Hair loss in women can be absolutely devastating for a woman’s selfimage and emotional well-being. “Women who deal with hair loss many times suffer from depression. We want to create a space where women can come to feel beautiful, safe, welcomed and supported,” says Malika Thompson, Account
Management Assistant at W&W Hair. At this alopecia beauty event, attendees will be able to look, feel and learn about the different types of non-surgical wigs and hair extension options available to them. Daviece Clement, owner of W&W Hair and also a Certified Hair Loss Specialist, will educate guests on the various causes of hair loss, the importance of having a strong support system including a hair team, and learning about what they can do to make themselves feel good if suffering from depression associated with hair loss. Guests will have the opportunity to receive complimentary swag bags, while two lucky attendees will have the chance to win some gift certificates and other door
prizes. “We just want women to become educated about hair loss, and to know that natural-looking, specifically-tailored-custom fit-for-them, non-surgical hair solutions are available to help make them feel whole again,” said Daviece Clement. Daviece, a licensed Cosmetologist for more than 10 years, recently received her Hair Loss Certification in nonsurgical hair loss solutions in Kennesaw, GA with the renowned Toni Love Training Center. She is now certified to work with dermatologists and oncologists, and to provide hair loss services for women by learning to measure and fit a client for a hair loss system and/ or custom unit.
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Safety data on breast implants U.S. health regulators say they’ll convene a public meeting of medical advisers next year to discuss new science on breast implant safety, including an independent analysis to be published Saturday that suggests certain rare health problems might be more common with silicone gel implants. The Food and Drug Administration said it would hold the meeting even as its officials and several independent experts disputed the new work. Leaders of the study concede that it has big limitations and cannot prove that implants cause any of these problems. Yet it involves nearly 100,000 women and is the largest longterm safety analysis of silicone implants since 2006, when they were allowed back on the U.S. market after a 14-year gap due to safety concerns. “We completely stand behind this study and we do feel it’s our best data to date,” said lead researcher Dr. Mark Clemens, a plastic surgeon at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Women need as much information as possible to make an informed decision about whether and what kind of implant to get, he said. The journal Annals of Surgery plans to publish the report on Saturday. Study leaders have no current ties to implant makers although Clemens consulted for one in the past. Each year in the U.S., about 400,000 women get an implant and most choose silicone over saline; surgeons say it can give a more natural look. Threefourths are for women who want bigger breasts; the rest are for reconstruction after cancer surgery. “Breast implants are not lifetime devices” and up to 20 percent
of women getting them for enlargement need to have them removed within 8 to 10 years, the FDA’s website warns. Complications can include infections, wrinkling, scarring, pain, swelling and implant rupture. Implant users also may have a very small but increased risk of a rare lymphoma, a type of cancer, the FDA has said. But the agency decided there was not enough evidence to tie silicone implants to other problems such as immune system and connective tissue disorders, so it approved devices from two makers — Allergan and Mentor Corp. — in 2006. FDA required the companies to do more studies on how women fared, and the Texas researchers used these reports in an FDA database for their analysis. Compared to women without implants, those with silicone implants seemed to have greater rates of an immune system disorder called Sjogren syndrome, a connective tissue disorder called scleroderma, and the skin cancer melanoma, although cases of these were rare, the researchers reported. But rates for other problems such as fibromyalgia were lower among implant users. Reproductive problems such as birth defects and stillbirths were mixed and inconsistent. Furthermore, a higher rate of rheumatoid arthritis was tied to one brand but a lower rate for another. The difference gets to what critics called a fundamental flaw in the data used for the analysis: One implant maker required proof of diagnosis by a doctor rather than just a patient reporting a problem to include it in the database; the other did not. Another study weakness is that more than half of women dropped out of touch within two years of their operations.
Because of these and other shortcomings, “we respectfully disagree” with the researchers’ conclusions and urge that they be viewed with caution, Dr. Binita Ashar of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health said in a statement . “This study is messy” and has the potential to create more anxiety than insight, said Dr. Andrea Pusic, plastic surgery chief at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and president-elect of the Plastic Surgery Foundation, which supports research and advocacy by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The group gets industry grants
for some of its work, and Pusic gets royalties from a questionnaire used in many studies including this one. Dr. Charles Thorne, plastic surgery chairman at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York and president elect of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, said the inconsistency in some of the results “is a little hard to explain” since the devices are similar chemically. But the study is a worthy effort, he said. “We have to constantly reevaluate the data and make sure things are safe,” Thorne said. “The best evidence we have now indicates there’s no increased likelihood of these systemic diseases.”
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The 2018 Wilder Symposium at Virginia Commonwealth University will explore the challenges and opportunities facing urban communities as they seek to improve in the areas of housing, education and public policy. The L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs will host the symposium, “By the People: The Role of Urban Communities in Improving Housing, Education and Public Policy,” from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts, 922 Park Ave. The event will be free and open to the public.
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Organization seeks clemency for incarcerated women and families According to a 2017 report, by the Prison Policy Initiative, there are over 219,000 incarcerated women in the United States. 1:5 incarcerated people are locked up are for a drug offense. Sadly, the majority of women arrested are in for lowlevel, non-violent charges. “I know the plight too well as a former convict, college graduate, disabled Veteran, and mom. I am advocating for the abolition of prison for women and girls. My organization knows firsthand that these women in prison are nurturing, loving and caring, despite what you see in the media. We are our sister’s keeper,” says Arlinda ‘Tray’ Johns, co-founder and executive director of FedFam4Life. Johns is a woman with many lives. She spent eight years, seven months and 19 days in federal prison for possession of less than $500 worth of drugs and was arrested five days after her graduation from Southern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Arts. Johns enlisted in The United States Navy and was discharged for being a homosexual and reporting an assault. At the age of 21, she was raising five children, all under eight years old. While incarcerated, she became a skilled “jailhouse lawyer” and since being released, a fearless social justice activist and soughtafter public speaker at venues such as The Women’s Marches in Hawaii and Boston, Vanderbilt University, Simmons College and City University of New York.
Arlinda “Tray” Johns pictured with her wife Foxxy Johns
“My life would be a great book and movie,” she said. “I worked with the Cando Foundation during President Obama Clemency Project in 2014. Life is about second and third chances when you do the work. I am grateful. From being reunited with my son, raising my siblings’ children, to winning a six-figure settlement against a publicly traded company, (where I represented self) for racism and homophobia. My mission is restoration for families upended by mass incarceration,” cries Johns. FedFam4Life is a non-profit Sisterhood co-founded by Johns and her wife Foxxy, who serves as president. The two married in 2017 and started FedFam4Life to address the urgent need for Black female leadership in the social justice movement. “FedFam4Life is not about
raising a million dollars, it’s about freeing a million women from the prison industrial complex and the 1.2 million under the de facto imprisonment of parole or probation,” Johns said. #MySistersKeeper is FedFam4Life primary advocacy initiative, created to provide support for direct court actions brought by jailhouse lawyers and incarcerated women who are eligible for clemency, sentence reduction, compassionate release and other considerations. The critical case response team include law students, paralegals, and attorneys, as well as communications students and professionals to help raise public awareness. #MySistersKeeper is grounded in the principle that incarceration directly impacts women, families, mental health, jobs/careers and neighborhoods at-large. They rally for justice
reform, collectively restoring the lives of our sisters. FedFam4Life also acts as a connector to reentry resources and opportunities provides a lasting circle of support for women survivors of the system. Initial funding provided by the Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation, volunteers, lawyers and advocacy groups for their belief and working to change and restore mind, body, soul, and lives because of incarceration. “The mission at FedFam4Life is to free women from the prison industrial complex while restoring and healing families. Everyone needs support. Thankfully, our relationship with the Harlem Business Alliance, has provided enormous marketing support with their pilot program, The Lillian Project,” states Johns. To learn more about FedFam4Life visit www.FedFam4Life.org.
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