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Lawsuit on inaction A Virginia law firm has filed suit against the city of Charlottesville, its Chief of Police, and the superintendent of the Virginia State Police alleging that they failed to protect Robert Turner on Aug. 12, during white supremacist and neo-Nazi demonstrations.

Accortding to the lawsuit, Turner was assaulted while police officers watched but failed to act to keep him safe or arrest those responsible for the attacks.

As reported by Turner and confirmed by footage from dozens of media cameras and hundreds of handheld cameras and phones, police stood down.

“This stand down enabled neo-Nazis to inflict a modern-day race war in the streets of Charlottesville,” noted Nexus Caridades Attorneys, Inc., the lawfirm behind the lawsuit. “The police and the city had a duty to act, and they failed to keep the people safe on August 12.”

Nexus announced the lawsuit Friday at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, at the now covered Lee statue site, the location of the August demonstration.

“Turner has constitutional rights, and the city of Charlottesville and the police leadership failed him and countless others when they stood down and allowed racists and violent extremists to run amok in the city,” noted the lawfirm, which is led by Mike Donovan and assisted by Mario Williams.

From left to right: Evan Ajin, Robert Turner, both of Nexus; Mike Donovan, and Mario Williams

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Pastors who stood by Trump after Charlottesville plead for him to show ‘heart’ for ‘dreamer’ immigrants FRANCES STEAD SELLERS Pastor Jentezen Franklin looked at President Trump across his desk in the Oval Office last week and made an impassioned plea for empathy.

For several minutes, Franklin, leader of a multiethnic megachurch near Atlanta, pressed Trump to understand the plight of the hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who had been brought to the United States illegally by their parents, received legal status under the Obama administration and now feared that Trump would order their

deportation.

“I know these kids,” Franklin recalled telling Trump.

“They are good kids?” Trump asked, according to Franklin.

“Yes, sir,” Franklin said he replied.

“They are.”

Then the pastor, a father of five, noted the president’s love for his own kids. “I want to see that kind of heart toward these children,” Franklin said he urged.

The extraordinary meeting represented an opportunity for Franklin and a handful of black, Hispanic and white evangelical

pastors to describe to the president the racial tensions they know, three weeks after Charlottesville and just days before the president’s anticipated Tuesday announcement of a delayed rollback of the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. It also illustrates why Franklin and other members of an evangelical advisory board formed during last year’s campaign have decided to remain

by Trump’s side despite widespread calls for them to resign after his response to the whitesupremacist demonstrations.

Some corporate leaders took public stands against Trump and resigned from advisory boards, but the evangelicals have been conspicuous in their choice to stay put. One quit.

But, for the most part, the group remains intact — with its members committed to using their direct access to the president to pursue their agendas.

Franklin said he doesn’t think Trump is racist — but he feels that had he resigned in protest over Charlottesville, he would not have been there to make the case for young immigrants.

“If I resign every time [the president] does something I don’t agree with, then I lose the ability to have influence and speak up for the ‘dreamer’ children [and] the minorities that feel offended and hurt by the Charlottesville incident,” he said.

Bishop Harry Jackson, an African American pastor from Beltsville, Md., who has spoken out against abortion and same-sex marriage, said he sees his role on the board partly to influence others on issues such as criminal justice that are important to the black community.

“That is why I am supposed to be there,” said Jackson, who was among the pastors who saw Trump in the Oval Office on Friday. “I believe I am affecting other people on that board.”

Unlike previous presidents’ faith advisers, who often spanned denominations, Trump’s board is

exclusively evangelical. It started out as a mix of 25 pastors that included Southern Baptists, prosperity gospel preachers and lobbyists for social conservative causes with different political priorities, but who share opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion. Among them were two women, three African Americans and one Hispanic. Many of them were known to Trump largely because they were fixtures on television.

The group formed after a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting as Trump was seeking to solidify his hold on the GOP’s core supporters.

A few cracks in the board began to become apparent after Charlottesville.

Some of the group’s staunchest Trump backers, such as Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., stepped forward to defend the president. Many issued statements on social media condemning racism but without mentioning the president.

An African American member quit. A.R. Bernard, who runs a large church in Brooklyn, said that he had been willing, at first, to overlook Trump’s flaws — but that the president failed to grow into his new role.

“I believed he would understand the need to change and to present himself as a leader, to model leadership,” Bernard said of his decision to stay on the board after the release last fall of the tape in which Trump boasted about grabbing women’s genitals. But, if pastors put confidence in politicians that should be placed in God, he said, “we can become guilty of political idolatry.”

In private, some members began to debate how to handle the situation.

The group convened a conference call “to make sure we were on the same page,” recalled South Carolina televangelist Mark Burns in a recent interview, likening his role to that of a modern-day Daniel — “a voice of God in the ear of the king.”

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(from page 2) Some said they felt that remaining on the board was the Christian thing to do — to stick with a man in times of trouble.

“I work with fallen people,” said Jackson, adding that few of his congregants have questioned his decision.

For many, there is a pragmatic reason to stand with Trump. The president won the election with the support of 81 percent of white evangelicals. His victory came during what several board members describe as an “existential crisis” in their communities as social conservatives have seen their influence declining and their values threatened by the public’s embrace of gay rights. Today, they are standing by the man who promised to reverse those trends and took quick steps to do so, first with his pick of religious conservative Mike Pence as vice president, then, after the election, with his nomination of socially conservative Judge Neil M. Gorsuch for the Supreme Court.

Tony Suarez, executive vice president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, called Gorsuch a “home run for evangelicals.”

Richard Land, a longtime Southern Baptist leader who said he has worked with every president since Ronald Reagan, said Trump has granted board members “the most access we’ve had to an administration in our lifetime.”

“We are not lemmings,” warned Robert Jeffress, a TV host and pastor of a 13,000-member Dallas church, confirming the transactional nature of the relationship. He will always count Trump as a friend, Jeffress said, but his public alliance rests on the president’s commitment to key policies: “If he ever renounced or returned on these major positions, I think he would see a lot of support evaporate.”

In forming the board last year, organizers looked for “people [Trump] had a preexisting relationship with, or at least some chemistry,” recalled Johnnie Moore, founder of a faithfocused PR company, who recalled building the panel with Paula White, a Florida-based televangelist, Tim Clinton, president of the nearly 50,000-member American Association of Christian Counselors, and politicians Mike Huckabee and Ben Carson.

President Trump and Vice President Pence pray with faith leaders last week. PHOTO: Andrew Harrer In many cases, the roots of that relationship were on TV. Trump has long been fascinated by the power of Christian television, recalled Burns.

In 2002 — the same year reality TV producer Mark Burnett courted Trump to star in “The Apprentice” — White said Trump called her after watching her sermons and invited her to New York. She remained in close contact and delivered an invocation at his inauguration.

White did not respond to requests for comment.

The group keeps its eye on bigpicture social issues around which members unite, said Moore, rather than everyday policy decisions where their priorities are more split.

Membership has evolved, and people not listed among the 25 often attended, according to Moore, playing down the significance of Bernard’s departure from a group he describes as “unofficial.”

Several members who say they supported Trump reluctantly now say the president has “exceeded expectations.”

They describe him as attentive and responsive, and tell lively tales of intimate White House visits. After a dinner in May, before Trump signed an executive order designed to ease restrictions on churches’ political influence, the president took some pastors upstairs and offered them a photo op on the Truman balcony.

In July, a day-long working session in the Eisenhower Building was broken up by an impromptu invitation to the Oval Office, after which Moore tweeted a photo of pastors praying over the president.

Burns thinks their “biggest focus is covering the president in prayer and being a moral voice to him.”

Not all agree. “We are not spiritual counselors,” said Land. Their role, he said, is to give the president “advice” and “feedback on policies.”

After Charlottesville, some communicated directly with their vast networks, affirming Trump as a president worth fighting for.

White appeared with her husband , former keyboardist for the rock band Journey,on the “Jim Bakker Show,” where she compared the embattled president with the biblical Jewish Queen Esther, whom she described as an unconventional leader who saved her people from persecution.

Like Esther, White suggested, God raised Trump into leadership.

“When you are fighting against the plan of God, you’re fighting against the hand of God,” White said.

Some said they have used their proximity to Trump to try to open his eyes on race.

Last week, the group was at the White House complex discussing Charlottesville and Hurricane Harvey, plus other topics, when an aide arrived to bring a handful of

members to the Oval Office. Franklin said the group included black, Hispanic and white pastors.

In the few minutes that the pastors spent in the Oval Office, they tried to tell Trump what the world is really like for blacks and Hispanics.

“Get in the other man’s shoes a little bit,” Franklin said he told Trump.

A White House official said Trump appreciated the pastors’ comments.

On DACA, which Trump during the campaign promised to end, the official described the pastors meeting as one of many factors influencing Trump’s thinking.

“He takes the conversations seriously and listens to the individuals,” said the official.

As for the immigrant children, Franklin issued a statement Monday saying he was “concerned to see DACA expire” but expressing gratitude that Trump was granting a “generous six-month extension to dreamer kids” that would put the onus on Congress to act. Franklin called for the affected immigrants to receive a path to citizenship, but said in an interview he does not know what Trump would do if such a bill came to his desk.

Although he said he believed that Trump would sign such a bill, he could not be certain.

“He’s a politician,” Franklin said.

“What he does is what he does.”

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Common core vs. state standards: What’s the difference?

STACY M. BROWN Education must be governed by standards to achieve the learning goals that all parents seek for their children, said Dr. Reagan Flowers, a noted trailblazer in the field of STEM and the founder and CEO of Houston, Texas-based C-STEM Teacher and Student Support Services. C-STEM supports the engagement of prekindergarten to 12th grade students in hands-on, project-based learning experiences that expose them to workforce opportunities in related areas of Communication, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

“Through the history of public education, academic standards have evolved and have been governed by many [laws]. In our current reality, there are 44 states that have adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS), 40 states with expressed interest in adopting the New Generation Science Standards, and six states including Texas following

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In comparing “Common Core” to “State Standards,” there are some who might say there is no difference, she continued. Others point out that requirements are similar, but the wording of the guidelines is different.

“I would say that ‘Reading’ is

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‘Reading,’ ‘Math’ is ‘Math,’ and ‘Science’ is ‘Science.’ [Common Core and State Standards] emphasize college and career readiness and there is overlap,” Flowers said.

As states struggle to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), an ongoing and underlining debate pits Common Core standards versus State Standards, particularly as states are given the lion’s share of authority under ESSA. “I see very little difference between

Common Core and State Standards outside of 44 states speaking a common language about learning.

In using Texas as an example, the difference between the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and Common Core Math Standards is that TEKS requires students to learn personal finance,” Flowers said.

Flowers said that ESSA can’t be compared to Common Core standards

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(from page 4) or State Standards.

“ESSA is an act designed to enforce the adopted standards, whether they are ‘Common Core’ or ‘State Standards,’” she said, noting that in practical terms it makes more sense to compare ESSA to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and, “from where I am sitting, there appears to be a big difference,” between ESSA and NCLB. Flowers continued: “I see the biggest difference between ESSA and NCLB resting with the allowances and flexibility provided to states and schools with selecting student learning interventions and not being mandated to implement something that does not work with their student population. There is no one-size-fitall answer to public education and that is what NCLB enforced and we can all see where that has landed us.”

States that have not adopted CCSS include Texas, Missouri, Nebraska, Virginia, Indiana and Kansas.

The Constitution has made it clear that states have control over their school systems, so Common Core standards aren’t federally mandated and each state does enjoy the option to adopt CCSS, standards that are indicators of college and career readiness that provide teachers, curriculum developers, and states significant flexibility.

Further, Common Core standards are research-based and internationally benchmarked, said Michelle Krumholz, the CEO of Evolved Educator, which develops easy-to-use software solutions to help teachers design and implement course instruction; according to Evolved Educator, this specialized course instruction drives sustainable growth in student achievement.

The greatest impact of ESSA concerning Common Core is that the federal government can no longer make a state’s adoption or maintenance of standards a funding incentive as NCLB and Race to the Top mandated, Krumholz said.

Dr. Reagan Flowers “In fact, the new law prohibits the federal government from encouraging the adoption of any particular set of standards—including Common Core,” said Krumholz. “The only requirements regarding standards existing now are that they have to be challenging—which states are left to interpret what is challenging, connected to college and career readiness, and that the assessment tool such as standardized tests, chosen by the state for accountability aligns with the selected state standards.”

In short, states have a lot of flexibility when it comes to implementing education standards, Krumholz said.

The Atlanta-based Skubes spends a lot of time analyzing the state standards for every state and the company has had plenty of experience with Common Core, said Bryan Wetzel, the COO of Skubes, which creates educational videos, quizzes and other resources for K-12 students and teachers.

“One of the little-known facts, and a deceptive fact at that, is that most states didn’t change from Common Core standards, they only erased the name Common Core from the title,” Wetzel said. “In many states, where politicians ran for office on getting rid of Common Core standards, they only changed the name and some of the nomenclature.”

One curriculum supervisor estimated that maybe three percent of the state standards have been rewritten or have been changed from Common Core, he said.

“ESSA is not a curriculum standard as much as it is rule for how federal money is spent and how it can be

used,” said Wetzel. “It places more emphasis on research based solutions and/or tested interventions.”

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Op/Ed & Letters

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Do you know the difference between “real” black Republicans and sellouts?

RAYNARD JACKSON One of my favorite movies of all-time is “Deep Cover,” starring Laurence Fishburne. The movie debuted in 1992. Fishburne plays Russell Stevens Jr., an undercover Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agent. During his initial interview with the DEA, Fishburne’s character was asked: “So, Officer Stevens, tell me, do you know the difference between a black man and a n–ger?”

Fishburne’s reply was epic: “The n– ger’s the one that would even answer that question.”

Likewise, I have a similar question for black Republicans: Do you know the difference between the “real” black Republicans, the ones who rightfully called out President Trump on his statements about Charlottesville, and the sellouts?

The sellouts are the ones who tried to justify Trump’s tepid response.

I am stunned and thoroughly embarrassed by Black Republicans, who have actually tried to justify and explain away Trump’s statements about Charlottesville. It’s hard enough being Black and Republican under the best of circumstances, but when you have fools spewing all manner of ignorance in the media in hope of “massa” patting them on the head and saying “good boy,” it makes

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it much more difficult to get Blacks engaged in our party.

Bill Douglas and Anita Kumar, from the McClatchy news service, wrote an interesting piece on this issue.

I rarely call people out by name, but with the issue of Charlottesville being so serious, I am compelled to do so. I am intentionally not giving background information on these embarrassing characters; you can google them on your own.

Ward Connerly, Paris Dennard, Tracy Winbush, Glen McCall, Mark Burns, Darrell Scott and Bruce LeVell were just a few of the socalled Trump surrogates that made outrageous statements. They should not only have their black cards revoked permanently they should also hand over their Republican cards, as well.

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In the McClatchy article, Connerly said that, “President Trump suffers from a style that many Americans are turned off by. People should give him a chance.”

What the hell does that have to do with what the president said?

Absolutely nothing.

Dennard continues to spew White House talking points like, “The president said very strongly…that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry, and hatred.” Dennard chose to ignore the president’s tone and “violence on many sides, on many sides” rhetoric.

In a statement about the protests and violence in Charlottesville, Winbush, the president of the Ohio Black Republicans Association said that, “If our media had not promoted the scheduled white supremacist rally, it is our belief the violent activities would not have risen to the level it did and we would not be having this discussion.”

Now, juxtapose those buffoonish comments with the statements made by Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Representative Will Hurd (R-Texas), and Representative Mia Love (R-Utah) In an interview with VICE News, Scott said, “I’m not going to defend the indefensible…[Trump’s] comments on Monday were strong.

His comments on Tuesday started

erasing the comments that were strong. What we want to see from our president is clarity and moral authority. And that moral authority is compromised when Tuesday happened. There’s no question about that.”

During an interview on CNN, Congressman Hurd said, “I don’t think anybody should be looking at getting props from a grand dragon of the KKK as any kind of sign of success.”

Congressman Love tweeted, “The violence & hatred in Charlottesville is repulsive. This is not who we are as a nation. We must be united against this bigotry.”

Compare the comments from Connerly, Dennard and Winbush with the statement from my friends in the Jewish community. There is not one Jewish Republican, who has remotely tried to justify the president’s comments about Charlottesville, nor has any Jewish person attempted to blame the liberal media; nor has any Jewish person blamed Trump’s comments on his lack of political experience.

They have all, without exception, been of the same mind: that the president needs to be more clear about his total repudiation of the white nationalists, Neo-Nazis and anti-Semites that rallied in

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Going forward

In the run-up to post-Labor Day campaign season, the Virginia GOP has taken a hard pivot into the sort of divisive fear-mongering that’s defined Donald Trump’s political career. Last week, GOP gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie released a new television spot, misleading voters about immigration enforcement in Virginia and stoking racialized fears of “illegal immigrant criminals.” Similarly, a negative attack mailer in the 31st District targeted Democratic candidate Elizabeth Guzman, portraying “illegal aliens” as “violent felons and child predators.” If elected, Guzman would be the first Latina member of the Virginia General Assembly. The mailer was paid for by Dominion Leadership Trust Political Action Committee, the leadership PAC of GOP House Speaker Bill Howell.

These divisive and fear-mongering attacks on immigrant and Latino communities are simply disgusting.

Unfortunately, we’ve come to expect these sort of hateful attacks on communities of color from Donald Trump. Now Virginia Republicans are spending thousands of dollars

to launch false and divisive attacks that scapegoat immigrant communities.”

Ed Gillespie’s new tv ad is willfully misleading, raising the specter of so-called “sanctuary cities” while failing to note that no city in Virginia has such a designation, an admission Gillespie made on stage this summer in the Virginia Bar Association Debate.

Furthermore, Gillespie and Howell’s stereotyping of immigrants as criminals, “child predators,” and “violent felons” is not only offensive, it’s simply incorrect. Multiple studies have found that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than individuals born in the United States.

Local police should be working hand-in-hand with families to build safer communities. Ed Gillespie is apparently advocating to turn our local police officers into Donald Trump’s deportation squad.

Far from standing up for public safety, the GOP attacks on immigrant communities hurt us all.

When fear-mongering politicians target vulnerable communities, they drive families into the shadows and ensure crimes go unreported.

These nasty attacks are meant to do nothing more than build on Donald Trump’s rhetoric to stoke fear and division in our communities.

Anna Scholl

Who needs to step up?

An interesting thing keeps happening to me. Every few days, someone — an acquaintance, a colleague, even a stranger on the

street — approaches me. They ask some version of the same question: What can we do to pull ourselves out of this dark period?

For the many Americans who respect representative democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law, there’s reason to be concerned.

The President is off to a rocky start: he’s unproductive and undignified at home and derided on the world stage. Congress struggles to get its bearings. In the country at large, forces of intolerance and division are at loose on the streets and on the nightly news.

So are we in a downward spiral as a nation? Not by a long shot. Because here’s the thing to keep in mind: our institutions are far more durable than any single president or any single historical period.

History is certainly on our side.

We’ve survived a civil war, two world wars, Watergate, four presidential assassinations, the packing of the Supreme Court by Franklin Roosevelt, economic depressions and recessions, more nasty power struggles than you can count... and still the country has moved forward. You can look back and gain confidence from our history.

Or you can look around you.

Congress as an institution is being tested as it rarely has in its modern history, and it’s shown a few hopeful glimmers. It did so when it passed by a huge margin its sanctions bill against Russia, rebuking President Trump for his mysterious fascination with Vladimir Putin and his unwillingness to single out Russia for criticism.

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(from page 6) Charlottesville. Period!

The Republican Jewish Coalition is a very influential group and they made a very blunt, powerful statement directed at President Trump. Their statement said in part, “We join with our political and religious brethren in calling upon President Trump to provide greater moral clarity in rejecting racism, bigotry, and antisemitism.”

So, let me get this straight, you have prominent blacks and Jews, with impeccable integrity and unquestioned party credentials, denouncing Trump, a sitting president, but then you have some no-name, black sycophants making excuses for the same commander-in-chief.

You have all four joint chiefs of staffs denouncing the president, but these weak blacks volunteered to go to the media to support this president. They were not asked by the White House to do this.

They have been well trained to do “massa’s” bidding unprompted.

I hope you are beginning to see the picture.

Isn’t it amazing that neither the president nor his staff have reached out to the only three black Republican members of Congress?

In the immortal words of my homeboy from St. Louis, Michael McDonald of the famed Doobie Brothers: “But what a fool believes, he sees/No wise man has the power to reason away/What seems to be/Is always better than nothing.”

Jackson is founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more blacks involved in the Republican Party.

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U.S. Catholics and Protestants agree: 500 years after Reformation, they have more in common associate director of research at Pew Research Center.

“Maybe it’s not a huge surprise in the context of modern-day United States, but if you look back at the longer term — at the 500th anniversary of the Reformation — that would be quite surprising to a Christian of 300, 400, 500 years ago.”

Of course, Smith noted, no survey data exists to measure responses to the same questions in the 1500s.

According to the survey, more Protestants reported they believe salvation comes through a mix of faith and good works (52 percent) — the traditionally Catholic position — than through “faith alone” (46 percent). That belief — “sola fide” in Latin — is one of five “solas” that form the backbone of Protestant Reformers’ beliefs.

The same shares of Protestants also reported they believe Christians should look to the Bible, church teachings and tradition for guidance — the Catholic position — rather than the “Bible alone,” or the Protestant belief in “sola scriptura.”

U.S. Protestants split on sola fide, sola scriptura; in issues connected to Reformation, U.S. Catholics mostly echo traditional church views Only 30 percent of U.S. Protestants affirmed both sola fide and sola scriptura. Belief in both doctrines was higher among white evangelical Protestants (44 percent) than white mainline Protestants (20 percent) or black Protestants (19 percent) and jumped even higher (59 percent) among white evangelicals who reported they attend church at least once a week.

U.S. Catholics, in contrast to Protestants, voiced beliefs more in line with the teachings of their church: 81 percent reported both good deeds and faith were needed to get into heaven, and 75 percent reported Christians should look to the Bible, church teaching and tradition for guidance.

And while differences between Catholics and Protestants once led to wars and persecution, most U.S. Catholics (65 percent) and Protestants (59 percent) now agree they have more in common than not.

The U.S. survey of more than 2,500 adults, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, was conducted online from May 30 to Aug. 9. The margin of error for results based on each sample in that survey is plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.

Where are the condemnations of Harvey as God’s punishment?

Graham shared on Facebook, referring to a band of Louisiana boaters involved in the rescue effort. “Out there with their boats rescuing people stranded by #HurricaneHarvey flood waters. I thank God for people willing to step up and help others — real Good Samaritans!”

And Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, who once blamed the Sandy Hook school shooting on America’s acceptance of gay marriage and abortion, commended “the heroic efforts of emergency personnel and the National Guard as they work to rescue and comfort those stranded and displaced by the flooding.”

Certainly, the vast majority of religious groups and leaders respond to all kinds of natural disasters with concern, prayer and warm outreach — as many are doing now. News stories from the flood zones note churches opening as shelters and pastors and others coming to people’s aid. Christian, Jewish and Muslim groups all have relief efforts aimed at Texas.

But the idea of a vengeful God is nothing new in America. It came here with the Puritans and was

firmly established here with the Rev. Jonathan Edwards’ 1741 sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” which is still studied by seminarians and history and English students alike.

And by no means is the idea limited to Christians. Muslim imams in Egypt blamed Sandy on an antiIslamic film, and at least one Jewish rabbi blamed Katrina on the U.S. support of the Israeli pullout of Gaza.

But where conservative Christian leaders have sometimes apportioned blame for natural disasters, some are now publicly cautioning against it. “(H)ad we been living in biblical times, we would have recognized a hurricane like this as a sign of divine judgment, repenting of our sins and asking for mercy,” Michael Brown, an evangelical Christian broadcaster and a member of President Trump’s evangelical advisory board, wrote two days after Harvey hit the Gulf Coast.

“We must be very careful before we make divine pronouncements about hurricanes and other natural disasters, as if they were specific acts of divine judgment against specific

EMILY McFARLAN MILLER RNS — The theological differences that led to the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago have dwindled since in both the United States and Western Europe.

That’s the finding of a Pew Research Center recent survey released, weeks before late October’s 500th anniversary of the schism in western Christianity.

Among U.S. Protestants, many seem unaware of the differences, voicing beliefs today that are more traditionally Catholic than they are Protestant.

“I think it’s fair to say the differences between the two groups have diminished to a degree that might have shocked Christians of earlier centuries,” said Greg Smith,

KIMBERLY WINSTON Rescue boats fill a flooded street as people are evacuated in floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on Aug. 28, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/ David J. Phillip) (RNS) When Superstorm Sandy hit the New York metropolitan area in 2012, the floodwaters in Lower Manhattan were still rising when some pastors pointed out what, to them, was obvious.

“God is systematically destroying America,” the Rev. John McTernan, a conservative Christian pastor who runs a ministry called USA Prophecy, said in a post-Sandy blog entry that has since been removed. The reason God was so peeved, he claimed, was “the homosexual agenda.”

McTernan belongs to a subset of religious conservatives — including some well-known names — who see

wrath and retribution in natural disasters.

Usually, their logic revolves around LGBT themes — Buster Wilson of the American Family Association claimed God sent Hurricane Isaac to stop an annual LGBT festival; the Rev. Franklin Graham blamed Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans’ “orgies”; and Catholic priest Gerhard Wagner called Katrina “divine retribution” for New Orleans’ tolerance of homosexuality.

Other times, the scapegoat is gay marriage, abortion rights or foreign policies seen as harmful to Israel.

Yet as Harvey, now a tropical storm, continues to turn its Super Soakers on Houston, those quick to see God’s angry handiwork in earlier storms have so far focused their efforts on praising Houston’s first responders and citizen volunteers.

“The ‘Cajun Navy’ is at it again!,”

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Former abortion clinic set to open as free clinic An abortion clinic in Virginia has closed and will soon reopen as a free medical clinic overseen by the Roman Catholic Church.

Amethyst Health Center for Women, an abortion provider located in Manassas that closed its doors in 2015, will reopen this November as a medical clinic run by the Catholic Diocese of Arlington's Catholic Charities chapter.

The new facility will be called the “Mother of Mercy Free Medical Clinic” and will offer basic medical care free of charge, according to the diocese in a recent press release.

“Two years ago, a group of Catholic entrepreneurs in the Manassas area purchased the facility with the

agreement that the abortion clinic would cease operations. Wanting to serve the needy in the community, they turned to Catholic Charities, asking if we could transform the use of the space,” wrote the diocese.

“Seeing that CCDA could serve the needs of the public in this facility and offer a form of redemption to the space that once served such a sad and dark purpose, we are excited to bring new life and a bright future to this location.”

In late September 2015, after 27 years of operation and averaging out 1,300 abortions annually, the Amethyst Health Center for Women permanently closed its doors, being sold following the retirement of its

founder and owner.

“Over the years, 17 area Catholic churches, along with a number of Christian denominations, participated in protests outside Amethyst. Fourteen 40 Days for Life campaigns were held there,” reported the Arlington Catholic Herald.

“Moms carried babies as they prayed, and retirees rose early to post signs that read, ‘God loves you and your child' and 'Adoption is a choice everyone can live with.’”

According to the Catholic News Agency, a major factor in the former owner selling the clinic to the prolife activists was “a friendship with the owner, her son, and one of the contracted abortionists.”

“In their regular clinic visits, they learned that the owner, now a widow, was not opposed to [leave] the practice but felt trapped since operating the clinic had been her livelihood for years. If she left the clinic, her son would need support as well,” reported CNA. “They tried to find a job for her son, while realizing that they would need to raise a significant amount of money within three months to purchase the clinic and buy her out so she could retire ... Members of local parishes began discreetly spreading the word among their church communities. A coalition of local entrepreneurs also banded together and began raising money.”

(from page 8) sets of sinners.”

Stephen T. Davis, a professor of philosophy at Claremont McKenna College who has written about Christian theodicy — the problem of why bad things happen to good people — said the idea of God’s punishment gets “very little traction” outside conservative religious circles.

He said in an email that “the secular world finds explanations like ‘God wanted to punish Houston’ ridiculous.”

But Peter Montgomery, a senior fellow at People for the American Way, which monitors the religious right, said the reaction from the usual finger-waggers “is different this time around.”

“I checked with my colleagues and we have a couple of theories.”

One theory is that Texas, with a few exceptions like the famously liberal Austin, is a religious right stronghold. Gov. Greg Abbott is very popular with conservative Christians, so perhaps they are less willing to suggest God is unhappy with him. Abbott supports tougher abortion access laws and signed the “Pastor Protection Act,” which allows pastors to refuse to marry same-sex couples.

Another theory is that Christian conservatives don’t want to suggest Houston deserves divine retribution.

In 2015, city voters soundly struck down an anti-discrimination bathroom law with support from many conservative Christian groups and leaders.

Ministers march for justice to support racial healing From left-right: Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., president and CEO of the NNPA, Martin Luther King, III, 2017 NNPA Lifetime Legacy Award and civil rights leader, and Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network, pose for a photograph near the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 28. Sharpton organized a Ministers March for Justice to support racial healing in the U.S. Aug. 28 was also the 54th anniversary of the historic March on Washington. PHOTO: Travis Riddick/NNPA

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RVA Ballet season to open with Billie Holiday, Balanchine and more

The Richmond Ballet 2017/18 season kicks off Sept. 19 - 24 with Studio One, featuring Portrait of Billie by John Butler, Tarantella

by George Balanchine, and Winter’s Angels, a world premiere by Ma Cong.

Performed for the first time in Richmond, Portrait of Billie is a powerful and elegant duet that depicts the pathos of famed blues singer Billie Holiday. Iconic American choreographer John Butler, known to Richmond audiences for his works Carmina Burana and After Eden, brings Billie Holiday vividly to life in this portrayal of her public glory along with her private demons. Her haunting voice provides the soundtrack to this captivating ballet. Richmond Ballet was honored to have Carmen de Lavallade, a 2017 Kennedy Center Honoree and the original dancer to portray Billie, set the piece on the Company dancers.

In contrast, Tarantella is a striking example of the way one of the world’s most famous ballet choreographers, George Balanchine, expanded the traditional vocabulary of classical ballet. With the profusion of steps and the quick changes of direction, this brief but explosive pas de deux typifies the signature nimble quickness of Balanchine’s work and provides a virtuosic showcase.

The program is completed by a world premiere from a Richmondaudience favorite, Ma Cong. Having recently been engaged to choreograph M. Butterfly on Broadway, Chinese-born Cong returns to choreograph Winter’s Angels, his fourth Company-commissioned work. This contemporary creation ties together fluid movement with a soulful score and is sure to move any spirit.

Maggie Small and Fernando Sabino of the Richmond Ballet in Luminitza by Ma Cong. PHOTO: Sarah Ferguson

Bill Cosby unveils new team at court hearing for retrial STACY M. BROWN During a recent hearing for the retrial in his infamous sexual assault case in Norristown, Pennsylvania, embattled entertainer Bill Cosby unveiled his new defense team.

The comedian arrived at the Montgomery County courthouse flanked by publicists Andrew Wyatt and Ebonee Benson, but it was the flowing white locks of attorney Tom Mesereau that brought the dramatics to an otherwise procedural and unexciting day.

“I think you can say we went from a Mercedes Benz to a Rolls Royce,” Wyatt said of Mesereau, the star trial attorney who successfully represented “Baretta” star Robert Blake, when the actor stood trial for the murder of his wife; Blake was acquitted after a

three-month long trial.

Mesereau, who arguably does more pro bono work for underserved individuals than any other celebrity lawyer, also represented Suge Knight and Mike Tyson.

But, it was Mesereau’s Perry Mason-like defense of Michael Jackson in 2005 that probably earned him the reputation as maybe the best criminal defense lawyer on the planet.

The King of Pop faced 13 counts of child molestation and other charges involving a young cancer patient whose brother allegedly witnessed the assault.

After the “Thriller” singer fired high-profile attorneys Mark Geragos and Benjamin Brafman during the trial, he hired Mesereau who tore through prosecution witnesses with sharp and cutting cross-examinations.

During the recent Cosby trial hearing, Mesereau was joined by Nevada attorney Kathleen Bliss and Philadelphia lawyer Sam Silver, who represented former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah on corruption charges in 2016.

The new team replaced Brian McMonagle and Angela Agrusa, both of whom represented Cosby during the first trial in June that ended with a hung jury.

Judge Steven O’Neill praised the attorneys, but appeared to be in awe of Mesereau, several times commenting on his stellar reputation.

That reputation appeared to have paid dividends already, as O’Neill granted Mesereau’s request to delay the start of the planned Nov. 6 retrial, postponing it until “sometime between March 15 and April 1 of 2018.”

Cosby, 80, faces three counts of aggravated sexual assault that stemmed from an encounter with former Temple University employee Andrea Constand more than a dozen years ago.

He has maintained his innocence and Wyatt said the comedian “is sleeping pretty good these days,” with the hiring of Mesereau and the new team.

Cosby went to trial in June, but the jury, brought in from Allegheny County, was deadlocked after 52 hours of deliberations, leading to O’Neill declaring a mistrial.

Prosecutor Kevin Steele, immediately, said he would retry the case.

After the nearly two-hour proceeding, Cosby and his attorneys said nothing as they left the courthouse late this morning. Steele, however, made some brief comments, saying it’s unfortunate that the case has been delayed.

“We’re ready to proceed…we are confident in our case and the evidence, and we’ll be ready when we get a trial date from the judge,” Steele told reporters after the hearing. “This is a case that deserves a verdict and we intend to get there.”

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University donates to help students in Texas Although the campus of the University of Richmond is located more than 1,300 miles from Houston, Texas, the university’s leadership said there is a special bond to the Houston community as the area responds to the devastation caused

by Hurricane Harvey. The hurricane forced the postponement of the season opening Richmond football game against Sam Houston State, originally scheduled for Aug. 27. The game later happened on the campus of Baylor University in Waco on Sept.

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The University of Richmond is now making a $25,000 donation to the Texas Association of College Admission Counseling. All funds that TACAC receives through Sept. 30 for its Anne Naman Fund are being donated to colleges and high schools affected by Harvey.

“As educators, we are focused on the start of another academic year, and our hearts are heavy for all

Houston area and the Gulf Coast is indescribable, including families with college-aged students living here,” said Tony Sarda, a delegate to the National Association of College Admission Counselors. “The gracious funds donated by the University of Richmond will be designated to secondary schools impacted by Hurricane Harvey. TACAC will be working with school districts to help identify their greatest needs Ronald A. Crutcher the colleges and high schools in the Houston area that are beginning this school year in the wake of this tragic storm,” said University of Richmond President Ronald A. Crutcher. The additional connection we feel to the area by virtue of our football game with Sam Houston State compels us to take this opportunity to join, in a small way, the recovery efforts for the families in the area.”

“The damage to the greater

ACLU suit challenges military transgender ban The American Civil Liberties Union and Covington & Burling LLP recently filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the president’s directive banning transgender service members from continuing to serve in the military or receiving medically necessary health care, and banning men and women who are transgender from enlisting.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the ACLU of Maryland and six current members of the armed forces who are transgender: Petty Officer First Class Brock Stone, Senior Airman John Doe, Airman First Class Seven Ero George, Petty Officer First Class Teagan Gilbert, Staff Sergeant Kate Cole, and Technical Sergeant Tommie Parker.

In the lawsuit, the ACLU argues that the ban violates the constitutional guarantees of equal protection and substantive due process by singling out transgender individuals for unequal and discriminatory treatment.

The lawsuit aalso argues that the ban discriminates based on sex and transgender status and that the ban is based on uninformed speculation, myths and stereotypes, moral disapproval, and a bare desire to

harm this already vulnerable group.

“Each and every claim made by President Trump to justify this ban can be easily debunked by the conclusions drawn from the Department of Defense’s own review process. Allowing men and women who are transgender to serve openly and providing them with necessary health care does nothing to harm military readiness or unit cohesion,” said Josh Block, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project. “Men and women who are transgender with the courage and capacity to serve deserve more from their commander-in-chief.”

At the culmination of a thorough process, the Department of Defense concluded in 2016 that there was no basis for the military to exclude transgender individuals from openly serving their country, subject to the same fitness requirements as other service members.

This review process carefully considered and rejected the notion that medical costs, military readiness, or other factors presented any reason to discriminate against transgender service members, many of whom had already been serving with honor in silence for years.

to support students and college counseling professionals for the start of the school year. Families and school administrations in the affected areas are grateful to the University of Richmond for these resources that will contribute to the recovery from this devastation.”

Crutcher also expressed his concerns for Richmond students and alumni in the Houston area impacted by the storm.

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Q&A with Democratic candidate for governor, Ralph Northam Hill. We need to do a better job of telling their story. We as society need to look at these statues. And when they are symbols of hatred and bigotry and an excuse for these folks to cause this kind of violence and loss of life, then this is certainly a discussion that needs to take place.

I have recommended that this be dealt with the localities.

LANDON SHRODER 2017 has been a pinnacle year for politics in Virginia. Not only has the Commonwealth entered into the national conversation because of this year’s gubernatorial election, but also because of the tragic events in Charlottesville. How this comes to define the future remains to be seen.

Yet one thing is for certain, Virginia is changing and entering into a new phase of national prominence that is set against a political landscape where uncertainty is the only real certainty.

Because of this, all eyes are now on Dr. Ralph Northam.

Northam, the current lieutenant governor and Democratic candidate for governor, has been a bedrock of Virginia politics since running for Senate in 2007. He has been a solider, doctor, seasoned legislator, and the progressive voice in an election where national politics are connecting locally and challenging the commonwealth’s otherwisegenteel status quo.

Landon Shroder, chatted with Northam to get a feel for how the campaign season was shaping up post-Charlottesville and how his platform of job creation, support for the LGBTQ community, and fighting climate change is resonating with young people in Virginia.

Shroder: Dr. Northam, it is a pleasure to speak with you again. I know you are busy so we’ll just hop right into it. Because of the Unite the Right rally, Virginia is now in the national conversation. How do we move forward after a domestic terrorist attack, like the one which happened in Charlottesville?

Northam: I think your point is well taken. These individuals, these white supremacists, KKK, neoNazis that marched into a beautiful city, Charlottesville, [and] our wonderful University of Virginia.

[They] brought in torches and shields and flags and semi-automatic weapons, spewing hatred, bigotry,

Shroder: The general feeling on the campaign trail, does the incident in Charlottesville now become the central issue in which voters make their decision in the remaining two months of the election?

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, right, and his wife Pam. WIRE PHOTO and violence. You know, I commend Governor McAuliffe’s leadership and also Attorney General Mark Herring’s. And I spent a lot of time in Charlottesville, giving the message to these folks that they are not wanted and we don’t condone that kind of behavior–hatred, and bigotry in Virginia. That’s not what we’re about, and to please go to wherever you came from or go home and don’t come back. I think that’s good leadership to give that message.

We’ve also started the healing process. We’ve been to three funerals: Heather Heyer, and two of our state troopers which lost their lives. Again, I think it is important for our leaders to step up and call it what it is: just as you said, domestic terrorism. This one individual weaponized his vehicle and ran over 19 people, killed one person, and that’s just not what this Commonwealth is about. We need to make sure to send that message out there loudly and clearly.

Shroder: You’ve now signaled support for removing Confederate

monuments in Virginia, yet polling for them to remain is split almost evenly. That doesn’t really provide a solid basis for reconciliation on both sides. Where is the balance in this argument?

Northam: I think we have to look at the principle of it. Certainly if a statue in Charlottesville, Virginia gave these white supremacists an excuse to come in and spew their hatred and bigotry and left three people dead, then that has to lead to a discussion. Personally, I think that these monuments should be placed in a museum. If people want to go look at them and put that history in context, then that is their prerogative. If people chose not to, then that is also their prerogative.

I think that needs to be at a local level, and I think there needs to be legislation to give localities the ability to make those kinds of decisions. And I think also, Landon, we need to tell the rest of the story. A lot of civil rights leaders that come to mind are Barbara Johns and Oliver

Northam: I think there has really been an awakening. Not only in Virginia, but in this country regarding race relationships, and again, it is a discussion we need to have moving forward. I would also say there are other monuments, Landon, that are not built out of bronze that need to be dealt with and those are inequities in income, inequities in access to education, access to healthcare, and voting rights. These are all issues that we need to discuss in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Also, we need to talk about other things that we are focused on such as work force development, such as jobs and the economy, access to healthcare, clean environments. All of these things are important. A lot of things will be talked about regarding this campaign for governor between now and November.

Shroder: That leads me into my next question. You have spoken extensively on rural economics and have proposed a plan for accelerating jobs and economy in these spaces.

You’ve talked about “new collar” jobs.

Can you explain what those jobs are?

Northam: Absolutely. First of all, our unemployment rate in Virginia, we’re very proud, has gone from 5.4 to 3.7 percent, the lowest that its

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(from page 14) been in nine years. We’ve brought in over 200, 000 new jobs. If one goes though to the Eastern Shore, where I’m from, or the Southwest, the unemployment rate is nowhere near 3.7. So we still have a lot of work to do. I have a plan on the table to restore and really bring back rural Virginia and we need to talk about the jobs of the 21st Century, which are STEAM [science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics] related jobs. There are some very good high paying jobs in areas like cyber-security, unmanned aerial systems, bio-technology, artificial intelligence, data collection and data analysis.

These are the jobs of the 21st Century so we have to really think outside of the box on how we’re educating our youth and preparing them for these 21st Century jobs. So when I refer to jobs not as white or blue collar, but ‘new’ collar jobs, these are jobs that you don’t necessarily need a four year college or university education. And that’s why we’re promoting the G3 program: get skilled, get a job, and give back, which allows Virginians to go to community college for two years without incurring any debt, with the understanding that once they become certified they will give back a year of public service, with pay, or will work in a high demand area or high demand job in the Commonwealth.

This allows people to continue their education, to prepare for new collar jobs, while not incurring any debt.

Shroder: Just a follow-on question from that, a lot of our readers understand that there is innovation happening in urban spaces. How do we connect that innovation with the growth potential of rural spaces?

Northam: There are a couple other things, Landon. Obviously there are still pockets throughout Virginia that don’t have access to broadband, this is something that I find unacceptable. Some still don’t have access to cell coverage, this is very important to rural Virginia. And one of the things that is part of my plan is to expand University of Virginia.

Why? To bring talent into that area.

When out of state students come to

Virginia this is a great opportunity for them. When you bring talent to an area like that, talent attracts talent, and businesses will start up.

And that will hopefully rejuvenate or jump start the economy in rural Virginia.

Shroder: Speaking about young people, I think it is fair to say that a lot of young people now feel estranged from traditional party politics. How do you, as the most senior progressive voice in this election, reach them? What are you offering to get them re-engaged?

Northam: That is a great question.

Pam and I have two children, they are both millennials. One went to University of Virginia one went to William and Mary. And so I am very much in tune with our millennials.

You know, there are several things we need to talk about: one is college affordability. We need to make sure that everyone can achieve the American dream. We also need to talk about the importance of a job, and prepare our youth for 21st Century jobs. So when our youth graduate from high school or college, they have a skill and that they are able to enter the work force.

Again, things like health care should be important to all of us, but especially millennials. They need to know that they have access to affordable quality healthcare.

Millennials are also very in-tune with our environmental issues and we’ve made a lot of progress in Virginia promoting renewable energy. And we’re planning by 2030 that 30 percent of our energy that is generated in Virginia is from renewable energy. Millennials also care very strongly about living in safe communities, where there are not guns on every street corner.

These are a lot of the things I talk about with millennials, our children.

I am certainly going to make a tremendous effort to get around to our colleges and universities and listen and hear with what’s going on with millennials and make sure we can attract them. We want them to they stay in Virginia, work and raise a family – that is very important to us.

Shroder: As you know Dr. Northam,

we also run GayRVA, and as I am sure you are very aware as of yesterday the president has issued guidelines on transgender soldiers.

You were also a soldier, and one of those requirements will be removing them from the military altogether.

I know this is a national issue, but how do we protect our transgender service members in Virginia?

Northam: It starts with leadership.

As you said, I served in the US Army for eight years, I fought beside folks from the LGBTQ community. I am very proud to have served with them, they have served their country just like everybody else and I think it is very short-sighted for our president to pick and choose who should be in the military. I will do everything I can, and I have in the past, to support our LGBTQ community. We understand that we live in a diverse society. That means we need to be inclusive, and as long as we continue to elect Democrats in Virginia, our lights will be on and our doors will be open, and we will welcome people to the commonwealth.

Shroder: You are taking a bit of heat for not coming out against the proposed Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines. There does seem to be a myriad of issues surrounding these pipelines: property rights, how they impact on low income communities, in addition to the Commonwealth subsidizing methods of energy that are becoming obsolete. Doesn’t Virginia have a responsibility to lead nationally by opposing this planning?

Northam: I appreciate the question, and I hope that people will look at my environmental record. I think I was the first elected official statewide to be outspoken against off-shore drilling. I have been opposed to fracking, opposed to uranium mining, I have done so much to restore the health of the Chesapeake Bay and taking phosphorous out of fertilizer.

I hope people look at my environmental record and compare that to my opponents. I want to do everything I can to make sure I am a good steward of our environment.

I have written a letter to the DEQ [Department of Environmental Quality] regarding the permitting

process. We need to work with our DEQ and corps of engineers and I want to make sure it is done with transparency with public input, with science, and with environmental responsibility. Also taking into account people’s property rights.

That’s what I want to do as the next governor. I will do everything I can to make sure that as the process moves forward it will be done with transparency and responsibility.

I have said that all along and I will stand by my word.

Shroder: Just one more on climate: the rate of sea level rise in Virginia is at three to one vs the national average. Not only is that an environmental crisis, but an economic crisis. Naval Station Norfolk has already signaled they might have to re-deploy the fleet.

We’re all aware of what’s happening to Tangier Island–what practical things can we do?

Northam: I took the lead on this Landon, several years ago when I was in the Senate. I put in legislation to study sea-level rise, especially in Hampton Roads. And because of that we’ve been able to apply for federal grants, which we have received, and we have a resiliency plan in place. I have been very involved with sealevel rise and will continue to be.

As you said, it is not only a national security issue, but an economic issue for Virginia, and we need to make sure that we are doing everything we can to deal with this. So we need to have a resiliency plan and look at ways to decrease the amount of carbon we are putting into the atmosphere.

As I said earlier, I have a plan to move 30 percent of our energy to renewable energy by 2030. And I think if we make that a priority, that is something we can make happen in Virginia.

Shroder: That’s all from my side.

Thank you for taking the time to chat with us and always a pleasure to speak with you.

Northam: I appreciate everything your doing and keep up the good work! © RVA Mag

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Members and friends are invited to attend the 2017 Statewide NAACP Virginia Gubernatorial Forum which will be held at Virginia Union University, 1500 N. Lombardy St. This first ever event has been jointly formed by Area Four NAACP leaders, NAACP Political Action, criminal justice and religious affairs committee leaders, various statewide NAACP members and many other community-based leaders from all across Virginia.

As a non-partisan organization, the organization invited the Virginia gubernatorial candidates of the two leading political parties; Ralph Northam (D) and Ed Gillespie (R).

Both candidates have confirmed their attendance. The forum’s format will allow candid dialog about important issues and particularly about the concerns of African American families, voters, leaders, organizations and many other citizens in Virginia.

The event is open to the public.

All are encouraged to arrive early to ensure entry. For more info, contact 804-410-4567 or NAACPVAGOVForum@gmail.com.

9.8, 7 p.m.

Broomfield Christian Methodist Episcopal Church will celebrate its Annual Choir Day at 609 Jefferson Davis Highway, Richmond, with special guests. They include the legendary Ingramettes, Gospel Truth of Sixth Baptist Church, D. K. Logan and Nu Beginnings.

Dr. Johnny J. Branch will serve as master of ceremonies. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information e-mail Linda Lewis at 150lewis@yahoo.com.

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Join Lesley Haines, the assistant conservator of the USS Monitor Project as she discusses Civil War artifact preservation. The lecture will take place at the Mariners’ Museum, 100 Museum Dr. in Newport News.

During the discussion “The Many Faces of Preservation: Where does Conservation End and Restoration Begin?” Haines will talk about the theory of preservation using examples from the museum’s collection, including the conservation of USS Monitor artifacts and the restoration of the Cape Charles Lighthouse lens.

Picking an appropriate process for preservation and conservation depends on many factors: what is the object made of, how it was used, and where will it be displayed.

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9.13, 6:30 p.m.

Henrico County Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman and Fairfield District Supervisor Frank J. Thornton will hold a constituent meeting to discuss health care and financial assistance that may be available for senior citizens. He also will lead a discussion of the topic “Why Do Counties Matter?” Thornton will be joined by Jelisa S. Turner, Henrico’s advocate for the aging.

The meeting will be held at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center, 1440 N. Laburnum Ave. For information, call 804-501-4208.

9.16, 10 a.m.

The Chesterfield County Public Library will host Little House Day—a festival highlighting the Little House on the Prairie book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The event which highlights the pioneer lifestyle of the 1870s-1880s, will take place at Enon Library, 1801 Enon Church Rd, Chester.

For more information, visit library. chesterfield.gov or call 804-751-CCPL.

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Cheyney University, one of the nation’s oldest HBCUs, could lose its accreditation STACY M. BROWN

After years of financial trouble and heartbreaking enrollment decline, Cheyney University, one of the oldest Black institutions of higher education in America, is on the verge of fiscal ruin and in danger of losing its accreditation.

Cheyney’s problems have sparked rallies, protests and an outpouring of support and outrage from state senators, alumni and others.

“On the one hand, it’s tragic. On the flip side, this didn’t happen overnight,” said Johnny Taylor Jr., the president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

“While there were all sorts of other factors, including a bad economy in 2008 and state and federal [agencies] that failed to help, this still reflects badly on Cheyney’s board of trustees and the university’s president.” unded in 1837, by Richard Humphreys, a reformed slave trader, Cheyney represents more than just a place of learning, said Pennsylvania State Representative Stephen Kinsey, who recently joined students and others at a rally for the school.

“Cheyney represents the struggle of being Black in America, fighting to be recognized, speaking up to be supported, and a never-ending

struggle to be treated equally,” Kinsey said.

A report issued by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights noted that, although HBCUs only make up three percent of today’s colleges and universities, more than 20 percent of AfricanAmerican college graduates attend an HBCU. “For years, these historic institutions have produced amazing leaders, that not only contribute to their respective fields, but who also pride themselves on their ‘lifting while they climb’ attitudes,” said U.S. Senator Bob Casey, D-Pennsylvania.

Cheyney has faced a myriad of financial struggles as funding to the school decreased and tuition rose.

Since 2010, enrollment dropped 50 percent from over 1,500 students to an estimated 746.

Since 2013, Cheyney has borrowed over $30.5 million to stay solvent and, if school officials can’t deliver a plan that satisfies the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the school could lose its accreditation in September.

This would be particularly devastating, because the school’s accreditation is tied to its access to federal grant programs, including Pell grants.

The Philadelphia Tribune reported

that State Rep. Stephen Kinsey (DPa.) said that nearly three-quarters of the students are from low-income households and qualify for federal Pell grants.

State Rep. Stephen Kinsey (D-Pa.) said that he felt obligated to save Cheyney University, during a recent rally about the fate of the school, according to the Tribune.

Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Hughes, a Cheyney trustee, said work continues to prevent the loss of accreditation. “We’ve been working with the governor and others,” Hughes said. “I wish I can guarantee things, but I also can’t allow myself to think negatively.”

Such notables to attend Cheyney include, the late “60 Minutes” journalist Ed Bradley; charismatic educator Marcus Foster; former Chicago Bears linemen James Williams; Emmy-winning anchorman Jim Vance; and Philadelphia Tribune Publisher Robert Bogle.

“Cheyney University of Pennsylvania has been an important contributor to the education of African- Americans since before the Civil War, and the data shows that we need every HBCU in the country to continue their legacy of contributing to its education outcomes,” said Dr. Michael L.

Lomax, the president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund.

“HBCUs continue to show their outsized impact, representing three percent of all two and four-year nonprofit colleges and universities, enrolling 10 percent of AfricanAmerican undergraduates, producing 18 percent of all African-American bachelor’s degrees and generating 25 percent of all bachelor’s degrees in STEM fields earned by AfricanAmericans annually.”

Lomax added that federal and state governments, alumni, corporations, philanthropists, and others need to invest more heavily in institutions like Cheyney University.

“The governor has been working closely with the state system and its board to create a path forward for Cheyney, that allows it to build off its history, continue as a degreegranting institution, and address its financial struggles,” said J.J. Abbott, a spokesman for Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf.

Pennsylvania Democratic State Rep. Jordan Harris, a member of a task force formed to advise Cheney’s administration, said the university has been underfunded for years and without permanent leadership.

“The task force’s job is not to tell

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