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INSIDE • Gun-law study’s nil recommendations • Va. Gov. Northam’s unlikely rebirth • Freedom: Cyntoia Brown finds her voice • Diabetes: An end to finger pricking?

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Virginians who could soon pay more for health coverage if ACA is overturned the administration’s “efforts to undermine” the ACA and protect people with preexisting conditions.

Earlier this year, Warner led the Senate Democratic Caucus in introducing a resolution to force an up-or-down vote on overturning a Trump administration rule that explicitly undermines protections

for preexisting conditions by flooding the health care market with junk health care plans, which are often advertised in low-income communities or communities of color. Last month, Warner successfully forced a vote on this resolution, which was ultimately defeated by Republicans.

HUD awards nearly $100,000 to assist NN youth aging out of foster care (L) Marlo, and her son, Danté, from Virginia Beach, are two of many Virginia citizens who have spoken to Sen. Mark R. Warner about how health care coverage is a literal life and death issue for them.

On Friday, ahead of a decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on the Trump-backed lawsuit to dismantle health protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) met with Virginians to hear firsthand about what’s at stake as he says attacks on the nation’s health care law continue.

Unsuccessful in repealing the ACA in Congress, the Trump administration has turned to the courts to try to strike down the law.

If successful, the Texas v. United

States lawsuit would raise health care costs, gut protections for more than three million Virginians with preexisting conditions, and rip insurance away from millions of Americans, says Warner. It would also give power to insurance companies to sell policies that don’t cover people when they are sick and would fully eliminate Medicaid expansion, which is now providing health care coverage for nearly 300,000 Virginians.

In the Senate, Warner says has sponsored several bills to block

The Newport News Redevelopment and Housing Authority has been awarded $96,895 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to assist young people who are aging out of foster care and are at risk of experiencing homelessness.

This grant provides housing vouchers to prevent or end homelessness among young adults under the age of 25 who are leaving or have recently left the foster care system without a home to go to.

These young adults will also receive supportive services for the length of assistance to help them achieve self-sufficiency.

Activities will center around basic

life skills, landlord outreach, and job preparation. Additionally, they will receive educational and career advising as well as counseling on program and lease compliance. This is critical given that the assistance is time limited.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that more than 20,000 young people age out of foster care each year.

The National Center for Housing and Child Welfare estimates that approximately 25 percent of these young people experience homelessness within four years of leaving foster care and an even higher share are precariously housed.

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Virginia Beach latest community affected by high levels of lead in drinking water Water samples from 27 schools in Virginia Beach, Virginia were found to have levels of lead higher than industry safety recommendations, according to published reports. All potable water sources were tested, including those used for drinking and food preparation. Out of those samples, 61 were found to be contaminated with lead levels of more than 15 parts per billion.

“We understand that this may be concerning news, especially if your child is in one of the schools that was affected,” wrote Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) Superintendent Aaron Spence on the school system’s website. “But we are working closely with the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) and Virginia Beach City Public Utilities, both of which are providing guidance and support. Our testing protocol is in place for this very reason: to identify and correct issues expediently. We are and will remain committed to protecting the health and well-being of our students and staff in VBCPS.” Officials moved quickly to alleviate the problem, according to Jack Freeman, COO of Virginia Beach Schools.

“We began correcting by replacing faucets and conducting a retesting program,” Freeman said in an interview. “Over the course of about a week and a half, we were able to make those corrections and as of this morning, all of those sites that have previously tested above threshold are within threshold.”

Dr. Demeria Lindsay, Health Director of the Virginia Beach Department of Health believes the

hazard is minimal.

“In order to achieve levels in the bloodstream that would cause toxicity,” Lindsay said, “based on the levels we've heard from the school, the amount of water that would have to be consumed is significantly beyond normal human consumption.”

However, not all the schools that meet the criteria have been tested.

Bottled water will be made available on an as-needed basis in those schools. Testing is scheduled to be completed by the end of the school year.

While some Virginia Beach schools have taken care of their lead contamination problem, not all the schools have been tested.

While exposure to lead is harmful to anyone, the World Health

Organization says children are “particularly vulnerable” to lead poisoning. Young children absorb 4-5 times more of the lead they ingest than adults. High levels of lead in the bloodstream can adversely affect the development of the nervous system and brain.

High levels of exposure to lead can cause convulsions, coma and potentially death. One of the greatest causes of exposure is water being delivered through lead pipes or pipes that have been soldered together with lead.

The Environment Defense Fund says that 6.1 million homes have lead pipes. Additionally, over 10 million homes get their water through lead pipes that branch off the main service line.

Lead pipes are partially to blame for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. When the city began using the Flint River for their drinking water source, the corrosive untreated water began leaching the lead out of the service pipes. Some samples tested at more than 100 times actionable levels, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Even though Flint switched over to the Detroit water system in 2015, National Public Radio reported that practically every line in the city still requires inspection or replacement.

The problem with pipes is also prevalent in New Orleans, where records of where the lead pipes are under the city have not been updated

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Va. GOP’s promised gun-law study yields three-page report that makes no recommendations

House Speaker Kirk Cox, R-Colonial Heights, and Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment, R-James City, talk to reporters following the abrupt adjournment of the special session called by the governor on gun violence. PHOTO: Ned Oliver/ Virginia Mercury VM - Virginia Republicans promised a “thoughtful and deliberative study” of gun legislation when they abruptly adjourned a special legislative session called

by Gov. Ralph Northam following a May mass shooting in Virginia Beach.

GOP leaders released the resulting report last week — a three-page document that makes no recommendations.

Virginia State Crime Commission staff members tasked with the study wrote that there was “inconclusive evidence to develop

recommendations” and that it was ultimately up to elected politicians to decide what policies to enact.

“The absence of recommendations should not be interpreted as meaning that no changes to Virginia’s laws are necessary, but rather that any changes are policy decisions which can only be made by the General Assembly,” they wrote. The staffers noted they could use their gun violence research to offer “technical assistance” to state lawmakers going forward.

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(from page 2) information obtained unreliable. since before Hurricane Katrina.

According to published reports, a report on water safety was never released to the public, which may have exposed residents to the risk of lead exposure.

Officials allegedly combined test results from both low-risk [without lead pipes] and high-risk [with lead pipes] homes, which made the

“The bottom line: According to the Inspector General’s detailed investigation many New Orleans residents may have been drinking significantly lead-contaminated water for years without knowing it due to faulty testing,” said NRDC senior director Erik Olson. “This is in large part because the Sewerage and Water Board was violating federal rules and recommendations.”

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From pariah to powerhouse: Northam’s unlikely rebirth TRIP GABRIEL Nine months ago, Democrats at every stratum in Virginia called on Gov. Ralph Northam to resign over a racist photograph on his medical school yearbook page.

Northam bumbled his response, admitting he was in the picture before saying he was not, then seemed like he might demonstrate Michael Jackson’s moonwalk at a news conference where he acknowledged blackening his face for a dance contest.

Now, after Democrats recently won control of the Legislature Northam is positioned to be one of the most consequential Democratic governors in America in 2020, aiming to enact strong gun restrictions and LGBTQ protections and clear the way to take down Confederate statues — all potential headline-making changes that could galvanize the party base nationally in the presidential race.

For Northam, a medical doctor with a rural drawl, and a political moderate whom Republicans once hoped to recruit, it is an astonishing reversal of fortune. His salvaging of a year that began in disaster is a testament to a political age in which the half-life of scandal is brief and where suburban voters are punishing Republicans because of President Trump. It also reflects Northam’s own efforts, largely out of the headlines, in repairing the damage with black constituents and lawmakers.

Virginians “supported me through this,” Northam said in an interview.

“And they supported what our agenda has been, and now we need to deliver.”

Nudged to reflect on his personal arc of the past nine months, the governor deflected, steering attention instead to achievements in his two years in office: Medicaid expansion, criminal justice reform and luring an Amazon headquarters to Northern Virginia. “My drive is to serve Virginia. That's been my life,

one of service,” he said earnestly.

The scandalous events of February that drew intense media attention played no apparent role in dampening enthusiasm for Democratic candidates on Election Day, as the party once feared.

“I kind of forgot about the blackface until you brought it up just now,” Tanisha Kelly, an adviser at a group home in the Richmond suburbs, said last week after voting for Democratic state lawmakers.

She said the governor had seemed invisible during the campaign, making little impression on her.

Most governors love the limelight during an election season, but Northam may have helped himself this year by quietly tending to alliances and candidates and largely letting events play out rather than be seen as trying to stage manage them. And by all appearances he seemed fine letting other politicians cut a bigger figure on the campaign trail.

Northam did appear at get-outthe-vote rallies in the final weeks before Election Day, and at two dozen political events over the summer. But his predecessor, Terry McAuliffe, who in the spring ended a flirtation with a presidential run, was far more visible on the campaign trail. McAuliffe’s boisterous glad-handing was the opposite of Northam’s measured reserve. The former governor popped up at more than 125 parades and political events for candidates, sparking rumors that he might run again for governor in 2021. Northam will be ineligible because Virginia governors cannot serve back-to-back terms.

While Northam’s political action committee raised $1.5 million for Democrats on the ballot, it was a more modest sum than the $7.1 million that McAuliffe raked in for legislative races four years ago.

“What brought people to the polls, it was to vote for Governor Northam’s agenda,” said Jennifer

Gov. Ralph Northam

Furious critics protested against at the governor’s mansion in February.

Carroll Foy, a member of the House of Delegates. “I believe that no one wants to get in the way of what he can do here in Virginia.’’

In the end, money was no problem: It rained down on Democrats from national anti-gun and abortion rights groups, and from individual donors in the state and around the country. All were driven to flip the General Assembly, where Republicans’ narrow majorities were the last barrier to unified Democratic control of state government for the first time in 26 years.

Party officials and analysts in Virginia said Northam owed his political survival to fortuitous events as well as his own efforts.

Just days after the surfacing of Northam’s 1984 yearbook photo — with one figure in blackface and another in Ku Klux Klan robes — the lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax, was accused of sexual abuse by two women, which he denied. Before the week was out, Attorney General Mark R. Herring acknowledged he had worn blackface as a college student.

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‘Evicted’ author: Bold political leadership needed to solve America’s housing crisis Matthew Desmond, Ph.D., author of “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” Virginia Commonwealth University’s 2019 Common Book, told an audience recently that bold political leadership on housing is needed to help the 2.3 million American families facing eviction.

“For about 100 years in America we have had this idea, this consensus, that we should spend 30 percent of our income on housing costs. That gives us enough money to save, afford food, afford transportation. For a long part of our history we have achieved that goal, but times have changed,” Desmond said. “Today, the majority of poor American families are paying 50 percent of their income on housing costs. And about one-fourth of those families are spending 70 percent of their income just on rent and utilities.”

In his talk, Desmond set up the scenarios of families he followed throughout the book, while recounting his experiences embedded in their lives. Desmond lived in a trailer park and a rooming house to shine a light on the depth and breadth of the housing problem nationwide. Only one in four Americans who qualify for housing assistance receives it, Desmond said.

“Families that are crushed by the high cost of housing [if they had that help, then they] could afford job training, community college, VCU tuition,” Desmond said. “Many can’t hold a job down long enough.

They can’t hold their house down long enough. Think about the brainpower, all the potential that we just squandered, wasted, when people … wonder how they are going to make rent from one month to the next.”

In “Eviction,” which takes place in Milwaukee, Desmond follows

Eviction Lab founder Matthew Desmond Arleen and seven other families as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads with issues coming up that put them in precarious housing, financial and employment situations along the way, often snowballing one after another. The book won numerous awards, including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Desmond is a Princeton University sociologist and founder of the Eviction Lab, which built the first nationwide database of evictions.

The book was selected for VCU’s Common Book Program, which selects a book each year that touches on societal issues that have no easy answers to encourage students to move beyond singular solutions to complex problems. Copies of the book were distributed to all firstyear students.

Desmond’s talk capped a year of events at VCU and in the Richmond community organized by the Common Book Program.

“We’re talking about evictions in our classrooms here at VCU,” said Kathryn Howell, Ph.D., co-

director of the RVA Eviction Lab in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, as she introduced Desmond. “We’re discussing it with advocates, policymakers and residents.

Eviction and its roots in income inequality, affordable housing shortages, historic discrimination and the lack of means for those most marginalized is now an ongoing part of local, state and national conversation. The work of tonight’s speaker and his Eviction Lab has changed the conversation and brought eviction out of the shadows.”

In his lecture, Desmond showed the results of his initial research questions: Who gets evicted and what are the consequences of losing one’s home?

“I went everywhere with these families,” Desmond said. “I followed them in shelters and in their homes. I watched their kids. I went to church with them. I went to funerals. I was there for a birth.

Some are white, some are black, some have kids.”

In his presentation, Desmond

personalized the story of Arleen and her sons. They were evicted when a man kicked down their door after one son threw a snowball at the man’s car and another time, at a different apartment, when the police came after a son kicked a teacher and ran home.

The cause, Desmond said, has to do with the fact that incomes for many Americans have plunged or stayed stagnant, especially for people with only a high school education. And housing costs have soared. The cost of utilities have gone up too.

Desmond looked at thousands of courtroom records in Milwaukee and across the country. What he found crunching the numbers was that 40 people a day were evicted in Milwaukee.

“That’s 1 in 14 evicted in the inner city alone,” Desmond said. “That is a huge amount of displacement.”

But he had no way to understand whether that was a high or low number, whether it was an unusual case.

“For a long time, we had no way to answer that. The U.S. government does not collect data on evictions.”

Desmond said evictions are so harmful that they are as important to track as the number of school dropouts or car wrecks. So for the past seven years, Desmond has been working with a team at Princeton on building the first national eviction database. They have collected 80 million eviction records and put them all online.

“It’s literally taking an invisible problem and trying to put it on the map,” he said.

Desmond said the number of evictions nationally are higher than the number of foreclosures at the height of the foreclosure crisis, and double the number of people

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What’s at stake in Byron Allen’s Supreme Court showdown with Comcast MAURITA COLEY The U.S. Supreme Court heared arguments last week in a suit between Comcast and Byron Allen, a prominent African American programming executive. What began as a fairly routine television carriage dispute has turned into risky gambit that may give the court’s conservative majority an opportunity to roll back fundamental civil rights protections.

The lawsuit arose out of Comcast’s decision several years ago not to carry several Allen-owned television channels, such as Pets.TV and Recipe.TV. Comcast has argued its rejection of Allen’s channels was purely a business decision, reflecting what it viewed as the channels’ limited audience appeal. Allen then promptly filed a $20 billion lawsuit against Comcast, alleging that the company’s refusal to contract with Allen’s company was racially motivated, in violation of Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

District Court Judge Terry Hatter – a well-respected African American judge with an apparently strong record on civil rights – dismissed the The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 5 No. 47 Mailing Address P.O. Box 12474 Richmond, VA 23241 Office Address 105 1/2 E. Clay St. Richmond, VA 23219 Call: 804-644-1550 Online www.legacynewspaper.com

case three times, finding that Allen had not established a plausible argument that Comcast would have contracted with his company “but for” Allen’s race.

Allen appealed to the 9th Circuit, which remanded Judge Hatter’s dismissal with a new guideline to the lower court that a plaintiff can state a viable claim under Section 1981 if discriminatory intent plays any role in a defendant’s decision not to contract, regardless of whether race discrimination was a “but for” cause of that decision.

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Court to review the 9th Circuit’s decision, and the Supreme Court agreed.

Carriage disputes between cable operators like Comcast, and programming content providers like Allen, are exceedingly common.

In my more than 30 years in the industry, I’ve represented both sides – networks seeking distribution and distributors seeking content – and in the early days of cable, I even represented minorityowned distributors such as Barden Cablevision of Detroit, and minorityowned programmers such as Black Entertainment Television.

In my experience, this ComcastAllen case doesn’t fit the usual framework for a race discrimination case. As best I can surmise, Allen’s channels are not ethnically or culturally diverse; he claimed the alleged race discrimination was that, “but for” the fact that his channels are black-owned, his channels would have been carried because Comcast was already carrying similar white-owned food and petthemed channels. His suit rejected Comcast’s defense that its decision not to carry his channels was not

racially motivated, saying that it had other non-racial reasons, such as better ratings, higher-quality programming, or other business considerations for not carrying the channels owned by Allen.

In any event, the parties were not able to resolve their content carriage dispute, and now this case, which started as a private contract dispute, now puts at risk the civil rights enjoyed by all Americans, because a conservative Supreme Court majority hostile to civil rights has a chance to fundamentally reexamine Section 1981. The court will get to decide – not just for this case, but in a precedent that will impact all future discrimination cases – whether a plaintiff must prove that intentional race discrimination was the decisive factor in a decision (the “but for” standard of proof), or whether race just needs to be one factor in the decision (the 9th Circuit’s “mixed motive” standard, which civil rights leaders strongly support).

If the Supreme Court gets to decide this case, it seems very likely that – at a minimum – the court

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

What do you believe?

Earlier this month (at a gathering of the Deep State intelligencia at a Johns Hopkins forum) Former Acting CIA Director, John McLaughlin, along with failed Russiagate Coup Architect & Former CIA Director John Brennan, decided to unmask and declared “Thank God for the Deep State”. Then went on to defend themselves, their treason & sedition, by asserting that they’re the true patriots, they’re the ones who have the best interests of the nation at heart.

In 1963, when the fledgling, treasonous Deep State got away with the assassination of JFK, (who, in a remarkable speech, threatened to destroy them when he exposed their secret agency and secret agenda) they have since gained nearly complete control of all global intelligence apparatus.

They have infiltrated every agency

in every nation. They control nearly every government. They are a cancer that needs to be destroyed. Nothing has stood in their way – until President Trump.

What the DS didn’t count on was patriot, Admiral Mike Rogers, the former head of the NSA, who was made aware of the CIA, and other agencies, spying on then President Elect Trump with Obama’s knowledge and consent as admitted

by Former DNI Director, James Clapper.

Once exposed, Operation ‘Frame President Trump’ began, and despite every failed attempt to destroy him, continues to this day. Keep this in mind as the complicit Democrats seek to impeach the president in an attempt to regain control. If they win – we lose.

The CIA controls the MSM, so it’s no surprise you haven’t heard about most of this. It’s all documented, available – for now. The censorship of alternative media outlets that have researched and exposed these traitors is almost complete.

Impending is the Inspector General’s Report and indictments

by Attorney General Barr. Pray! Do NOT disarm! We’re in for a bumpy ride.

Catherine Crabill Irvington, Virginia

(from page 6) will choose the “but for” standard that is currently used in most jurisdictions outside the 9th Circuit.

That would be a major setback to the civil rights community’s advocacy for establishing nationwide the 9th Circuit’s broader “motivating factor” standard. It’s even conceivable that this conservative Supreme Court could go even farther, exploiting the facts of Allen’s private contract claim to justify an even more regressive outcome by applying the “but for” standard in EEO retaliation, fair housing, voting rights, or other claims.

Civil rights groups such as NAACP have jumped into this case, filing amicus briefs that seek to convince the court not to embrace the “but for” standard. What I suggest now is that the civil rights groups try to persuade both parties to help get us out of this precarious place in history. To do that, it’s essential that Allen withdraw his $20 billion lawsuit, and that Comcast withdraw its petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court — It would have been ideal before the Nov. 13 oral argument or soon after.

Given Allen’s huge success as an businessman, these channels cannot be so important to him that it’s worth placing all of our civil rights at risk. Likewise, Comcast, which ranks No. 2 on Fortune’s list of 100

Byron Allen best workplaces for diversity and has one of the strongest records of programming diversity in the industry, should demonstrate those values by withdrawing its petition for Supreme Court review if Allen also agrees to step back from the ledge.

Both parties should close their eyes, take a leap — and hold their noses if they must — but do their part to take this case off the docket of a deeply conservative court. Otherwise we might all find ourselves facing an uncertain future, stripped of key civil rights protections.

No contract or channel is worth the risk.

Coley, a veteran communications attorney and former executive at BET Networks, serves as president and CEO of the Multicultural Media, Telecom, and Internet Council.

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Faith & Religion Southern Baptist church: Racial prejudice a factor in rejection of black pastor RNS — A prominent Southern Baptist church in southwest Florida has acknowledged that “racial prejudice” was a factor in its congregation’s decision not to appoint a black senior pastor candidate.

Pastor Marcus Hayes, a leader of Biltmore Church in Asheville, North Carolina, received 81 percent of the vote by “a record 3,818” in attendance Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 26-27) where the “energy and excitement was like nothing we have ever seen before,” according to an email from the pastoral staff of First Baptist Church Naples.

But an 85 percent vote was needed for approval, based on the church’s constitution, the staff said.

“Last week, through social media, texting, phone calls and emails, racial prejudice was introduced into our voting process,” the staff wrote in the email that was posted on The Baptist Blogger Twitter account.

“Please know that specifically your Pastoral Staff is deeply, deeply grieved,” the staff wrote. “We are grieved for Marcus and Mandy that they had to endure such vileness.

We are deeply grieved that the wonderful name of our Lord and the reputation of First Baptist Church Naples was affected by this campaign against Marcus Hayes.”

Hayes, who is married to Mandy Hayes, was being considered to succeed Hayes Wicker, who announced earlier this year his plans to leave his position after 27

years.

The staffers went on to call “anyone who took part in such divisive and sinful actions to immediately confess and repent.”

Hayes, through his assistant, declined an interview. First Baptist Church Naples did not immediately comment further on the situation.

The southwest Florida congregation once included Chuck Colson, the onetime “hatchet man” for Richard Nixon who founded Prison Fellowship after serving seven months in prison as a felon who had pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice.

Hayes is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee and previously worked at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, where former SBC President Jack Graham is senior pastor.

Graham told Religion News Service he has seen the email from the pastoral staff and is “very angry” about the outcome of the vote for Hayes, whom he has mentored.

Divisions in the church prior to Hayes’ consideration could have made it difficult to choose any new pastor — Graham said he has joked that even “Billy Graham in his prime” would have had trouble getting an 85 percent vote.

“However, it appears that there was racism that raised its very ungodly head in the midst of this and some false reports and just slander and flat-out lies regarding

Pastor Marcus Hayes preaches at First Baptist Church Naples.

Video screengrab via FBCN Marcus,” said Graham. “You can only conclude that sin, in effect, disrupted this whole process and the call of a good and godly man to be the pastor.”

The Southern Baptist Convention has grappled with race relations for decades before and since it passed a 1995 “racial reconciliation” resolution. That statement, adopted on the 150th anniversary of its founding in defense of slave-holding missionaries, said members of the denomination “lament and repudiate historic acts of evil such as slavery from which we continue to reap a bitter harvest.”

The Rev. Dwight McKissic, a Texas pastor who has worked to get Southern Baptists to adopt

resolutions condemning white supremacy and repudiating the Confederate flag, called the outcome of the Hayes vote “Shameful!” and tweeted a suggestion that the Naples church should be disfellowshipped from the Southern Baptist Convention.

Graham said he considered the issue a matter for the local church — including possibly removing some of its members — but he doubts the SBC would disfellowship the Florida church under the current circumstances.

“They could do that but I’m sure the Southern Baptist Convention would think twice about that,” he said. “You do have … 3,000-plus members that sit on the right side of this issue.”

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Redemption: Cyntoia Brown finds her voice NSENGA K. BURTON To say Cyntoia Brown’s life has been complicated is an understatement. Brown is a young, black woman sentenced as an adult to life in prison when as a teenager, she killed Johnny Mitchell Allen, a 43-year-old man, who had solicited her for sex. Brown maintained she killed Allen in self-defense after he purchased her from a pimp and later appeared to be reaching for a gun to kill her. Prosecutors insisted Brown robbed and murdered Allen in cold blood.

Brown was supposed to spend 51 years in prison before she could even be considered for parole but her precarious case caught the attention of criminal justice reform activists, A-List celebrities and eventually Bill Haslam, the governor of Tennessee.

Upon learning of the details surrounding Brown’s case and calling on a higher power, the former governor granted Cyntoia Brown full clemency Aug. 7, 2019, releasing the 31-year-old from the Tennessee Women’s prison. Brown who once had given up hope after losing all of her appeals, had been granted “mercy” in a socio-political climate that readily demonstrates anything but mercy or empathy towards black women.

Brown, who strengthened her relationship with Jesus, found a God-fearing husband and the importance of education while in prison, set about to making her new lease on life count by continuing to do what she calls “God’s work” and share her story in order to help others.

One of the many ways Brown is sharing her story is through her book, “Cyntoia Brown: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System”.

Brown’s book offers a detailed look at Brown’s life behind bars and her traumatic childhood, which Brown attributes to the unfortunate direction of her early life. When speaking with Brown, it is clear she is getting used to her newfound

Cyntoia Brown freedom and has not had the privilege of thinking too far into the future.

Her answers to the questions are short and to the point and focused on the past and the here and now.

When asked what motivated her to write a book, Brown states matterof-factly, “God.” “I prayed and felt that it [writing the book] was necessary. God gives us testimony so we can share them and not so we can sit on them,” Brown offers. The discussion of time is a constant in Brown’s answers.

She is a young woman who has gone from having nothing but time with a life sentence, to a new world where everyone wants some of her time.

Brown has a clear understanding that time is of the essence and she has to capitalize on new-found fame and empathy if she is going to help young girls struggling in their young lives just as she had when turned out as a child.

How might her life have been different if she knew at a young age there was more for her? “I know that a lot of people have been through what I’ve been through,

so I felt it was necessary for people to see representations of their own experiences,” Brown says. “They need to know there is help out there for them.”

Help that evaded Brown at every stage of her early life. Brown, whose birth mother drank during her pregnancy, giving up for adoption at age 2. Her adoptive mother provided a stable home, but Brown didn’t get the treatment or help she needed to address her issues with fetal alcohol syndrome and abandonment, leading to her life as a runaway.

As a runaway, Brown was drugged, beaten and trafficked by a pimp named, “Kut-throat.”

Brown, who received therapy and treatment to help cope with her traumatic childhood while in prison, found writing the book took her to some “dark places.”

“I thought I had done a lot of processing of my childhood, but once I was working with (coauthor Bethany Mauger) and she was asking me questions, I had to go back into those moments and that was kind of tough some times,” Brown says quietly. “This is Bethany’s first book too,” she

adds letting me know they both underestimated the effect going into those dark corners would have on their lives.

Brown had endeavored to write this book many times while in prison but couldn’t do it. She would start and stop. Start and stop again. The disappointment of losing all of her appeals and not having the judges find any mercy or compassion for her and all she endured as a child wreaked havoc upon her mind.

Always a believer [in Christ], Brown kept praying and asking for what she wanted and was not getting it, which was difficult to understand. Brown credits relinquishing control of her life to God with the freedom that would eventually come. “After I realized I had to give God complete control over my life, that’s when things started changing,” including her ability to write her book.

“I was at a church service and the minister had come around and was anointing everyone and she said God said write the book. I went back to the cell and I called my husband

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BNC will now to launch to a larger audience Black News Channel (BNC) announced recently that it has updated the launch of the nation’s only African American news network to Jan. 6, 2020 in order to more than triple its viewing audience. Network executives credit advancements in new technologies and the advent of new distribution platforms as the catalysts for rethinking their launch strategy.

“The launch of BNC will be a historic event, and our highly qualified journalists are chomping at the bit to be on-air now,” said Bob Brillante, co-founder and CEO for BNC. “But if we have a chance to more than triple our viewing audience in January 2020, then this was an easy call to make.”

“Our network is about providing intelligent programming that is informative, educational, inspiring and empowering to our African American audience, so they are participants in a national conversation,” said J.C. Watts, Jr., co-founder and chairman for BNC. “If we have the opportunity to include the largest African American

(from page 3) Democrats had blasted Republicans for adjourning Northam’s special session after only 90 minutes, calling the decision to send legislation to the crime commission and delay action until after the November elections a stall tactic to avoid addressing the issue on the campaign trail. Northam had asked lawmakers to return to Richmond days after a gunman killed 12 people at a municipal building in Virginia Beach to reconsider gun violence legislation that Republicans voted down in January.

Many of the proposals sent to the crime commission for study have been proposed by Democrats and rejected by Republican lawmakers for years, including legislation that would require universal background

NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (at right), who participated in the teleconference, said the NNPA’s partnership with the BNC is a profound win-win for black America. Also pictured are former Republican U.S. Congressman J.C. Watts, chairman of BNC (left) and Jacksonville Jaguars owner, Shad Khan, who is a primary investor in the new network (center. audience possible from day one, then that should be our top priority.”

BNC plans to release more information about how and where

customers can view the network’s programming in the coming weeks.

checks, limit magazine capacity and require gun owners to report stolen weapons to police.

The commission heard two days of testimony in August and reviewed more than 4,000 written comments.

Staffers said planning for the meetings took “an extraordinary amount of time” and that they also “examined relevant literature and reports; requested an analyzed relevant data; consulted with subject-matter experts; and attended a Congressional briefing on mass shootings by leading academic researchers.”

Ultimately, though, they said their research was inconclusive because limited studies have been conducted and that research that has been conducted is “insufficient, mixed or contradictory.”

Democrats said they’re not surprised by the outcome. Northam’s

Secretary of Public Safety, Brian Moran, argued from the outset that proposals for things like universal background checks did not require further study.

“We did not have high expectations,” he said of Tuesday’s report. “And certainly those expectations were not exceeded.”

Republicans, who lost majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly last week, announced they were cancelling a commission meeting scheduled. They had planned to go over the report and discuss recommendations to forward to the full General Assembly, which was scheduled to reconvene next week to act on those recommendations. The party has also cancelled that meeting, noting that Northam said he expected to pass his full package of gun legislation now that Democrats

control both chambers.

“The staff looked long and hard at it and concluded that the studies (into gun violence legislation) are not conclusive,” said Del. Rob Bell, R-Albemarle, who serves as vice chair of the Crime Commission.

He said the commission would have still met to make recommendations had the GOP not lost, but that it would be pointless for a commission that reflects the current make-up of the General Assembly to put forward proposals that the incoming majority would likely ignore.

Del. Paul Krizek, D-Fairfax, a crime commission member, said he was disappointed, but he understands commission staffers were in a difficult position.

“But at least a report on where the gaps are in data collection would have been helpful,” Krizek said.

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(from page 5) arrested for drugs. It is bigger than the opioid crisis. It affects women and children in great numbers.

In choosing his research, Desmond explained that he wanted to look deeper into the problem and beyond typical arguments that poor people have made wrong decisions or the system fails them.

“I wanted to tell a story about folks who are poor and not poor and are tethered together and try to understand how a gain for one could be a loss for another,” Desmond said. ”And I thought eviction does that. When Kathryn Howell, Ph.D we told the story of poverty, we had to tell the story of a lot more of us.”

Desmond found that landlords in some of the poorest areas were making six-figure incomes off their renters. He stressed that another factor that plays into the cycle of poverty and evictions is the legacy of racism in the United States.

Desmond lauded Richmond’s efforts to stem its high eviction rates, which were made public in 2018. Desmond’s datasets showed neighborhoods with 11 percent eviction rates, which is five times the national average, making Richmond the U.S. city with the second-highest eviction rates.

He keeps a positive outlook on the possibility of diminishing evictions and prioritizing stable housing for all. He looks to other sweeping public health campaigns eradicating diseases and slum housing.

“We have the money. It’s well within our capacity,” Desmond said. “We just make decisions on how to spend it. Homeowner Tax Subsidies … far, far, far outpace direct housing assistance to the needy. We already have a universal housing program in America, it’s an entitlement, it’s just not for poor people.”

Desmond pointed out that $170 billion in federal homeowner subsidies go to families with sixfigure incomes versus $40 billion of direct housing assistance for the poor. He also said the housing voucher program works and should be expanded to everyone who qualifies.

Desmond urged students to make an impact by connecting to organizations and people working on housing, poverty and eviction issues.

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Legal Notice NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR REVISION OF RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE: RIDER US-2, SCOTT, WHITEHOUSE, AND WOODLAND SOLAR POWER STATIONS CASE NO. PUR-2019-00159 •Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) has applied to update its Rider US-2 by which it recovers the costs of three solar power stations.

•Dominion requests $10,209,992 for its 2020 Rider US-2. According to Dominion, this amount would decrease a typical residential customer’s bill using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by $0.08.

•A Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hear the case on March 17, 2020.

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

On October 1, 2019, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion” or “Company”), pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 of the Code of Virginia, filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an annual update with respect to the Company’s rate adjustment clause, Rider US-2 (“Application”). Through its Application, the Company seeks to recover costs associated with (i) the Scott Solar Facility, a 17 megawatt (“MW”) (nominal alternating current (“AC”)) facility located in Powhatan County; (ii) Whitehouse Solar Facility, a 20 MW AC facility located in Louisa County; and (iii) Woodland Solar Facility, a 19 MW AC facility located in Isle of Wight County (collectively, “US-2 Solar Projects” or “Projects”).

In Case No. PUE-2015-00104, the Commission approved construction of the US-2 Solar Projects. In conjunction therewith, the Commission also approved a rate adjustment clause, designated Rider US-2, which allowed Dominion to recover costs associated with the development of the Projects, including projected construction work in progress and any associated allowance for funds used during construction.

In this proceeding, Dominion has asked the Commission to approve Rider US-2 for the rate year beginning September 1, 2020, and ending August 31, 2021 (“2020 Rate Year”). The two key components of the proposed total revenue requirement for the 2020 Rate Year are the Projected Cost Recovery Factor and the Actual Cost True-Up Factor. The Company is requesting a Projected Cost Recovery Factor revenue requirement of $10,016,213 and an Actual Cost True-Up Factor revenue requirement of $193,779. Thus, the Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of $10,209,992 for service rendered during the 2020 Rate Year.

For purposes of calculating the Projected Cost Recovery Factor in this case, Dominion proposes a rate of return on common equity (“ROE”) of 10.75%, which is consistent with the Company’s testimony in PUR-2019-00050 that is pending before the Commission. For purposes of calculating the Actual Cost True Up Factor, the Company utilized an ROE of 9.2%, which it states is supported by the Commission’s Final Order in Case No. PUR-2017-00038.

If the proposed Rider US-2 for the 2020 Rate Year is approved, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider US-2 on September 1, 2020, would decrease the monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month by approximately $0.08.

The Company made several changes in the methodology approved in Case No. PUR-2018-00167. First, the Company states that its projected renewable energy credits reflect Staff’s recommendations with respect to the capacity factor, basing them on actual experience. Second, the demand allocation factor for the Actual Cost True-up Factor is different from that used for the Projected Cost Recovery Factor. Next, the Company states that it is utilizing an updated Lead/Lag Study based on calendar year 2017 in its Cash Working Capital calculations. The Company indicates that it modified the calculation of financing costs on the monthly (over)/under recoveries to be consistent with the Staff’s method of calculating the financing costs on a two-month average.

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

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

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing on March 17, 2020, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Application from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

The public version of the Company’s Application, as well as the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Paul E. Pfeffer, Esquire, Dominion Energy Services, Inc., Law Department, RS-2, 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

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

On or before March 10, 2020, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments on the Application with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before March 10, 2020, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2019-00159.

On or before December 27, 2019, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation, or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by Rule 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2019-00159.

On or before February 4, 2020, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address above. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR 2019-00159.

All documents filed with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

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

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Artificial pancreas partly developed at UVa could mean end to finger-pricking A new artificial pancreas system is more effective at controlling blood sugar for those with Type 1 Diabetes than existing treatments and could mean an end to finger-pricking for Type 1 patients who use the device, according to a study spearheaded by University of Virginia researchers.

The device, powered by an algorithm developed at UVa, automatically monitors blood sugar and releases insulin. Researchers studied the system in a randomized trial that included 168 people from around the country and lasted six months.

Their results were released recently in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The artificial pancreas system, also known as closed-loop control, is made up of an app and an implanted insulin pump; they calculate proper levels of blood sugar and deliver insulin automatically. The system means that people with Type 1 Diabetes don’t have to prick their fingers to measure their blood sugar or inject themselves daily with insulin. Type 1 Diabetes is a condition that means a person’s pancreas produces little to no insulin.

“It automates insulin delivery,” said Boris Kovatchev, director of UVa’s Center for Diabetes Technology. “That’s the major feature [of the

system].”

Sue Brown, an endocrinologist at UVa, said researchers found the system worked effectively overnight. When participants woke up after beginning use, their blood sugar was in the target range 90 percent of the time.

Overall, Brown said the system helped participants keep their blood sugar within a target range better than the control group, which used an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor.

“That can be challenging to do for individuals with Type 1 Diabetes,” Brown said of controlling blood sugar. “... [The system] will ease that daily burden of constantly monitoring blood sugar.”

Brown said the artificial pancreas combines the

pump and monitor and make them talk to each other.

However, those who have the device will still need to interact with it, watch their meals and deliver an insulin injection before a meal.

Approximately 30 million Americans suffer from various forms of diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only about 5% of people with diabetes have Type 1, which is thought to be caused by an autoimmune reaction. Currently, no one knows how to prevent or cure Type 1 diabetes.

UVa researchers developed the algorithm that Brown said is the “brains behind” the artificial pancreas, while a private company created the pump and monitor. That algorithm monitors glucose levels, projects future levels and then adjusts the amount of insulin released.

Tandem Diabetes Care, a company that is taking the device to market, has submitted the results to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval.

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases provided funded for the study. Kovatchev also thanked UVa for its support in creating the infrastructure that made the research possible.

Excellent teachers

Henrico County Public Schools teachers and leaders gathered last week at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture to recognize 2019 winners of the REB Award for Teaching Excellence. Pictured are Reggie Davenport, Glen Allen High School principal; Tracie Weston, HCPS director of professional learning and leadership; Amanda Hach (REB winner), Glen Allen High School teacher; Caitlyn Carpenter (REB winner), Glen Allen High School teacher; Timothy Towslee (REB winner), Glen Allen High School teacher; Kimberly Jackson, (REB winner), Echo Lake Elementary School teacher; and Amy Cashwell, HCPS superintendent.

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COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES & EVENTS

11.20, 4 p.m.

11.21, 5:30 p.m.

Get together with young adults with disabilities for socializing and entertainment. Build friendships, offer support and share accomplishments.

Adults 18+ at Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library: 4100 Virginia Beach Blvd.. Registration is not required.For information, call 757385-2680.

A public safety specialist with the Virginia Beach fire department will offer tips about fire-related safety issues common during the holiday season, such as indoor and outdoor lights, Christmas trees, open flames, and space heaters at Pungo-Blackwater Library, 916 Princess Anne Rd. For adults 18 and over.

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11.21, 9 a.m.

“#BallotBattle: The Social Struggle for Suffrage” will use modern social media platforms to examine the suffrage debate and the intersecting issues of race, gender, power and politics as they coalesced in Virginia’s capitol city in the early 1900s.

Examining the positions, opinions and disagreements between five high-profile Richmonders between 1909 and 1920, the exhibit will imagine these tensions playing out as if historical activists had access to present-day social media.

Virginia’s 1902 Constitution had stripped Richmond’s African American men of their voting rights, and the role of women in the home and public society was hotly contested. In the midst of this heated political and social climate, the individuals highlighted in #BallotBattle will represent a variety of positions beyond pro-suffrage and anti-suffrage, providing the visitor with a nuanced take on a vitally important era in Richmond history.

Visitors will also be encouraged to interact with the exhibition itself, using an Instagram wall and engaging with a rotating list of written prompts where they can “like”, “dislike” and comment via sticky-note emojis.

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(from page 4) With the state’s top three Democrats compromised, the desire to force them from office and make way for the Republican next in line lost appeal to many in the party.

Republican candidates who reminded voters of Northam’s past had little success in the fall.

Glen Sturtevant, a state senator in difficult terrain in the Richmond suburbs, ran TV ads flashing the yearbook picture and accusing his opponent, Ghazala Hashmi, of once calling on Northam to resign, until he donated $25,000 to her, “buying her silence.”

Despite the attack, Hashmi crushed Sturtevant in Richmond precincts with many black voters, the key to her upset victory.

“The liberal groups that should have continued to put pressure on Governor Northam for this scandal made the political calculation that it was better for their self-interest to shut up about it,” said Will Ritter, a Republican strategist in the state.

Whatever doubts that lingered with Democratic voters about state leadership were largely banished in the summer, when the governor called the legislature back to Richmond to pass gun restrictions after a mass shooting in Virginia Beach on May 31.

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(from page 10) and I said what do you think? He said write the book,” she shares.

“I started writing the book and it started flowing out of me. Within three months I had a manuscript.”

Brown’s story has been covered all over the news, social media outlets, criminal justice reform spaces, college campuses – you name it and #FreeCyntoiaBrown has been a topic of discussion.

When asked, what will people get from her book they haven’t already gotten from the media and she responds, “The full truth.” “For one, everything in the interview is very surface level, cleaned up and it’s not entirely correct,” she states. “You’re going to get the full truth. It goes a lot deeper than anything you’ve

adjourned the session after 90 minutes, a bit of political drama that stuck with many voters in November.

“The calling of the special session turned out to be brilliant,” said Bob Holsworth, a longtime political analyst in the state. “Republicans couldn’t bring themselves to go against their rural base to make changes. This put a totally different dynamic on the election.”

Northam said the eight bills he introduced in the aborted session would be the first ones out of the gate when the new General Assembly majorities meet in January. They include universal background checks, a ban on assault rifles and high-capacity magazines, limiting handgun purchases to one a month and a so-called red flag law to let a court remove weapons from

people who pose a threat. He has not ruled out confiscating assault weapons from gun owners.

Northam, who has treated gunshot victims as a pediatric neurologist and an Army medical officer, said he had hoped for bipartisanship from Republicans when he called a special session. “I said I want to dialogue. I want votes and laws,” he said. “They had an opportunity to have that dialogue and they chose not to, and I think they paid that price.”

All year, Northam has retained the support of black voters. Even as his overall approval plunged to 40 percent two months after the yearbook photo surfaced, 63 percent of African-American voters wanted him to remain in office, according to a poll by Christopher Newport University in Newport News.

The same pollster found in an October survey that Northam’s overall approval had recovered, to 51 percent.

Defying calls to resign by the Democratic caucuses in the House of Delegates and State Senate in February, the governor vowed to dedicate the rest of his term to fighting racial inequity. His effort won support from black lawmakers.

He created a commission to comb Virginia’s laws for legacies of Jim Crow, and a second commission to review school textbooks for fair coverage of black history.

Recently, the governor included

two historically black colleges in $1 billion of funding to graduate more computer science majors from the state’s universities.

Lamont Bagby, a member of the state’s House of Delegates and chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, said the majority of caucus members were graduates of HBCUs, and ensuring more state support was a priority.

“February put the issues that have been important to the black caucus for decades on the front burner,” Bagby said, expressing his support for Northam.

Back in February, the Legislative Black Caucus had called on the governor to resign.

Looking ahead, Bagby said black lawmakers want to see laws aimed at preventing evictions and increasing affordable housing. He added: “There is no reason why we can’t finally have a discussion on monuments.”

Northam said he supports overturning a century-old law that would clear the way to let local governments decide the fate of Civil War statues.

Modesty is not a quality in demand in modern American politics, either from voters or officeholders. But Northam’s level of self-effacement may have been what helped him survive. “The election was about Virginia,” he said. In other words, not Ralph Northam. - NYT

seen in an article. So many people have told me after reading the book, they got to experience it,” says the first-time author. It refers to the traumatic life she lived up until being sentenced to life after fighting for her life. “So many things affected me from the time in school, to the time in the facilities and you really get to walk through that journey with me.”

Readers will be able to fully step into the shoes of Brown and understand all of the things that had to happen for society to lock up and throw away the key on the life of a 16-year-old black girl who had seen the worst life has to offer from her beginning in the womb.

Despite the horrific acts that transpired in Brown’s young life, she is aware that some people

think she should still be in jail and should not be forgiven. Brown who believes everyone is “entitled to their opinion,” knows she has to focus on telling her story to help the girls who are currently in the same position as she was as a teenager.

When asked what advice she would give to girls mired in the same dire circumstances she faced, she simply states, “I want them to know there is another side of life.”

The criminal prison reform advocate adds, “There were so many times when I felt there was nothing and nobody out here to help me. But, you have to allow yourself to be helped to get to the point to see there’s better for you and it’s possible. Know who you are in God. Know that he’s looking out for you even when you can’t see it,”

says Brown, a free woman who has clearly found her voice.

Although she speaks energetically about God, change and submission to God’s will, Brown shies away from questions about movies or what movie star should play her in a movie about her extraordinary life.

Brown grows quiet, and says she has no idea. “I haven’t even thought about that,” she says, giving voice to the fact freedom is still new for her.

The here and now appears to be her safe place and criminal justice reform is where her attention resides. Brown’s sense of urgency is wrapped in her obedience to God, the need to help save others from the painful path she took as a child, the desire for redemption and the recognition that time waits for no one.

Ghazala Hashmi

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Classifieds NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY OF RICHMOND BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS Will hold a Public Hearing in the 5th Floor Conference Room, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA on December 4, 2019, to consider the following under Chapter 30 of the Zoning Code: BEGINNING AT 1:00 P.M. BZA 48-2019: An application of John Wilson for a building permit to construct a new accessory building (approximately 16’ X 8’) and to use a portion thereof (79 sq. ft.) for use as a home occupation (art studio) at 505 NORTH 24th STREET. BZA 49-2019: An application of DMS Construction for a building permit to construct an addition (basement, 1st & 2nd floor) and a two-story deck on the rear of a single-family attached dwelling at 2318 VENABLE STREET. BZA 50-2019: An application of Keana and Shanell Williams for a building permit to enclose an existing 1st floor covered porch and to construct a 2nd floor addition to a single-family detached dwelling at 3422 R STREET. BZA 51-2019: An application of BT Property Holdings, LLC for a building permit to construct a new single-family detached dwelling at 1201 CHANTILLY STREET. BZA 52-2019: An application of Lancaster Custom Builder, Inc. for a building permit to construct a new single-family dwelling and detached garage at 120 GRANITE AVENUE. BZA 53-2019: An application of Mark Julian and Natalie Newfield for a building permit to construct a one-story detached garage (24’ x 24’) in 409 the rear of a single-family detached dwelling at 3866 FAUQUIER AVENUE. Roy W. Benbow, Secretary Phone: (804) 240-2124 Fax: (804) 646-5789 E-mail: Roy.Benbow@richmondgov.com Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged and Disenfranchised (RIHD) www.rihd.org ● (804) 426-4426 P.O. Box 55 Highland Springs, Virginia 23075

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CITY OF HAMPTON Wednesday, December 04, 2019 1:30 p.m. EST – RFP 20-23/CLP Seeking proposals from public organizations and the private sector to conduct a benchmark study examining the impact of the Hampton Healthy Families Partnership services on several indicators of child and family well-being over the last 25 years

REAL ESTATE AUCTION: THURS. DEC 5 AT 4PM. 311 Acres offered in 6 large tracts and 10 one-acre building lots.

The zoning offers great potential for commercial, industrial, residential, agricultural, and recreational uses. Long public road frontage. Land joins George Washington National Forest. Located on Magnolia Ave. (Rte. 501) across from Dickinson Ln. in Buena Vista, VA. Minimum bid $572,000 (plus 5% buyer’s premium). Contact Woltz & Associates, Inc. Brokers & Auctioneers - VA#321. 800-551-3588 - woltz.com

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SEALED BID SALE SALE OF REAL ESTATE LOCATED AT 3008 IDLEWOOD AVENUE RICHMOND, VA 23221 PARCEL 119, PMI #10395 Sealed bids are being accepted by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) in the office of the Property Management Assistant Program Manager located at 7511 Burbage Drive, Suffolk, VA 23435, until, but no later than, January 14, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. for the following property.

For that certain parcel of land (Parcel 119), located in Richmond, Virginia, on the north side of and fronting on Idlewood Avenue. The surplus property is unimproved vacant land, relatively rectangular in shape with level topography and road access to Idlewood Avenue.

Subject property contains 2,867.287 square feet or 0.0658 acre. Zoning for subject property has been determined to be R-5, Single Family Residential with a special use permit. Property is located in Flood Plain Zone X, Map # 5101290036D. Bids must be submitted in the manner prescribed in the “Instruction to Bidders” available from VDOT, accompanied by a certified check, cashier’s check or money order in the amount of 10% of the bid as a deposit. The successful bidder’s deposit will be applied toward the purchase price. All others will be returned. Closing shall occur within 30 days after approval of sale. The value placed on this parcel is $40,140.00.

Employees of VDOT, their immediate families or any person employed with the valuation and/or acquisition of this property are ineligible to bid.

The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. The property is being sold “as is” with conveyance by deed without warranty. For further information and proposals, contact VDOT at the above address or call Jacqulyn M. Lane at (757) 956-3254 or send an email to Jacqulyn.Lane@VDOT. Virginia.gov to request a bid package.

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