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Farewell to the champ Muhammad Ali fought for justice, equality and title Free Press staff, wire reports

More than 62 years ago, an anonymous bicycle thief in Louisville, Ky., unknowingly set in motion the amazing career of a boxing legend and remarkable world figure who would live up to his self-billing as “The Greatest.”

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BROOKLYN, N.Y. Eight years after conceding the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination to then-rival Barack Obama, the first African-American to be the standard-bearer for a major political party, Hillary Clinton is poised to make history of her own.

Tuesday night, the former U.S. senator and secretary of state took her place as the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee after claiming victory over persistent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

“Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone,” Mrs.

Dr. Jones drops out Dr. Derik E. Jones is not going to seek four more years on the Richmond School Board — opening the door to other candidates.

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Mrs. Clinton

Clinton told cheering supporters at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, noting that, for the “first time in our nation’s history,” a woman would lead a major-party ticket.

After being formally nominated at the Democratic Party’s national convention in late July, Mrs. Clinton will face off against the presumptive Republican nominee, racism-spouting businessman Donald Trump, who is holding a campaign rally at the Richmond Coliseum Friday, June 10.

For many, her triumph was a moment to savor.

Just as President Obama’s nomination and later election in November 2008 was an astonishing and transcendent moment for a nation built on slavery, so Mrs. Clinton’s win is a huge moment for a country where women were once

considered property of fathers or husbands and were unable to vote or own property.

Mrs. Clinton treads in the footsteps of many others.

Women have been running for the presidency since 1872, long before they gained the right to vote in 1920. Nearly 30 women have topped tickets for lesser third parties in the ensuing 144 years.

Before Mrs. Clinton, others had tried and failed to get a major-party nomination, including Republicans Margaret Chase Smith in 1964 and Carly Fiorina this year and Democrats Shirley Chisholm in 1972 and Carol Moseley Braun in 1974.

VSU grad crowned Miss USA Free Press wire, staff report

During Tuesday night’s celebration, Mrs. Clinton spoke about the struggle she and others endured to reach this point.

“Tonight’s victory is not about one person,” said Mrs. Clinton, who was framed by American flags draping the walls behind her. “It belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible.”

A video prior to her speech spliced images of pivotal moments in the fight for women’s equality in the United States — from the suffragettes and the women’s liberation movement — with shots of her climbing

Deshauna Barber has brains and beauty, and she’s a commander in the Army Reserve to boot.

The 2011 Virginia State University graduate now adds another title: Miss USA 2016.

Miss Barber, 26, who represented the District of Columbia in Sunday’s pageant at the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas strip, beat contestants from 50 states to win the crown.

She will go on to represent the United States in the annual Miss Universe pageant later this year.

Miss Barber is the first military member to win Miss USA. She drew on her military background to cinch the win, her answers to questions during the pageant scoring high with the judges and the applauding

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Polls open Tuesday for 4th District primaries

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Who will represent Richmond in Congress?

Next week, voters will take the first step toward choosing a new representative to Washington.

They will do so by selecting standardbearers for the Democratic and Republican parties in a state-run primary election.

Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Tuesday, June 14.

Participants can vote in either political party’s primary, but not both. The vote is

open to anyone registered as of May 23.

The Democratic contenders are Henrico state Sen. A. Donald McEachin and Chesapeake City Councilwoman Ella Ward.

On the Republican side, veteran Henrico Sheriff Michael Wade is taking on conservative activist Jackee K. Gonzalez.

Only Dr. Ward, a retired educator, actually lives in the 4th Congressional District, but under the U.S. Constitution, congressional candidates do not have a residency requirement.

Two familiar names will be missing from the ballot: U.S. Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, Virginia’s longest serving congressman and the lone African-American in the

delegation, and Republican U.S. Rep. J. Randy Forbes.

Rep. Scott is running for re-election to a 13th term, but in his familiar 3rd Congressional District. Richmond is no longer part of that district, which now is centered around Newport News and Norfolk.

Under a court-ordered shift of boundaries to end the packing of African-Americans into the 3rd District, Richmond has been moved into the 4th Congressional District along with the eastern part of Henrico County, Petersburg, Hopewell and other localities to the City of Chesapeake.

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Customers left hanging after dry cleaner shuts down

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

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Kailee Lundy, 5, center, discovers her inner yogi during “Yoga and More in the Park” Saturday at Chimborazo Park. The youngster was flanked by her mother, Ashlee Boyd, left, and aunt, Asantewoa Fitzgerald, right, who also participated in the weekly yoga practice. The free sessions, which will continue at 10 a.m. on Saturdays through the summer, are part of the Desert Canvas Network, a community movement to help people step outside their comfort zones, face their fears and become who they want to be, according to its organizers.

Lonnie McLaurin took two jackets, two shirts and two pair of pants to a dry cleaner in Highland Park at the end of April.

When he returned a week later to pay his bill and pick up his clothes, he hit a surprising roadblock — a padlock on the front door of the shop. He could see his clothes covered by plastic hanging on a rack in the front of the store, but no one was there to let him in.

That was when he found out that the company, Family Valet Cleaners at 1311 E. Brookland Park Boulevard, had shut down.

The owner left no forwarding address and no instructions to customers trying to get their clothes.

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City struggling to pay bills City Hall is still struggling to pay its bills on time.

In a report to Richmond City Council, Lenora Reid, the city’s chief financial officer, said some suppliers of goods and services continue to wait months to get paid.

The report noted that of $1.35 million in bills awaiting payment on April 30, more than half — $721,000 — had been awaiting payment for 91 days or more, with $315,416 in bills still unpaid for 121 days or more.

A state law gives localities 45 days to pay bills. After that, vendors are allowed to add a finance charge of 1 percent a month.

Facing complaints, City Council now requires Mayor Dwight C. Jones’ administration to track unpaid bills and report on how long they remain unpaid.

Ms. Reid, who joined the administration July 1, stated that the city began tracking its accounts payable in August 2015.

At that point, the city had $5.9 million in bills that had piled up — including more than $3.7 million in invoices that had been left unpaid for 61 days or longer.

The good news, she told the council, is that the April report shows the amount of unpaid bills has dropped by $4.6 million from the August level.

That is attributable, she stated, “to the renewed efforts that have been placed on ensuring vendor payments are made more timely.”

She did not offer an explanation for why the current majority of bills have been awaiting payment for at least 91 days. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Property owners lagging on stormwater payments Hundreds of property owners in Richmond are failing to pay their stormwater bills.

Last year, the city issued $10.97 million in bills to support the stormwater program, but collections fell to a record low of 85.4 percent. Overall, $1.6 million went uncollected, or 14.6 percent, according to an April report from the city Finance Department.

The stormwater program represents the city’s effort to comply with federal and state environmental rules aimed at reducing pollution from rainwater.

The city began its stormwater program about six years ago.

Every owner of a property, including churches, nonprofits, governments as well as residences and businesses, began receiving a bill in 2010.

The money is used to pay for improvements to drainage and to educate residents about ways to help, such as picking up pet waste and keeping storm drains clear of trash.

According to the city Finance Department, collection percentages for the program have fallen each year since billing began.

In 2010, 92.3 percent of property owners paid. However, by 2013, the collection rate had dropped to 89.1 percent and in 2014, the percentage fell below 86 percent for the first time.

In 2015, businesses and other nonresidential property owners failed to pay $1 million in bills for the stormwater program, or 17 percent of the amount billed.

Nonprofits had the lowest payment percentage, with 68.9 percent going unpaid. The city billed nonprofits $225,722 in stormwater charges, but only $70,226, or 31.1 percent, was paid.

Between 12 percent and 15 percent of homeowners also ignored the stormwater bills from the city. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

CARE van drivers receive pay raise under new contract

It took 17 months, but the union drivers who pilot GRTC’s CARE vans for the elderly and disabled have a new contract that will improve pay and benefits.

The 77 full-time and 36 part-time drivers will receive an immediate 2.5 percent pay increase following last Saturday’s ratification of the agreement with MV Transportation, a private company that operates the door-to-door para-transit service for Greater Richmond Transit Co. Along with the pay bump, the contract provides for paid vacations, sick leave and life insurance and health insurance coverage for full-time workers, according to Frank Tunstall III, president and business agent for Local 1220 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, which represents the drivers.

“It was a long fight, and I’m glad its over,” Mr. Tunstall said.

He said that the agreement should help reduce turnover among drivers.

Drivers had been making $11 to $12.55 an hour since MV began operating the service in January 2015.

The contract runs through December 2017 and includes two pay increases, one immediate and another 2.5 percent increase in April 2017. That will raise top pay above $13 an hour, Mr. Tunstall said, although it is still below the pay for regular GRTC bus drivers that begins around $14 an hour and tops out at $21 an hour.

CARE drivers have been working without a contract and without health insurance and other benefits since MV Transportation took over operations, Mr. Tunstall said. “Many of the more experienced drivers left. They couldn’t afford to stay.”

He credited the intervention of officials from Richmond City Hall and GRTC with breaking the logjam on the major disagreement between the union and the company — health insurance costs.

He said the agreement became possible when GRTC’s board voted in April to provide an additional $250,000 to the company.

The board approved the extra money “contingent on the increase being sufficient to provide all the benefits outlined in the agreement with the union,” according to the board’s minutes.

Mr. Tunstall said the $250,000 enabled the company to cover 80 percent of the premium costs for drivers’ health insurance, leaving the workers to pay 20 percent — the same split that had been in place before MV Transportation arrived. “The drivers could not afford to pay more than 20 percent,” Mr. Tunstall said.

Until GRTC sweetened the payment to the company, MV had proposed paying a far smaller share of the premium costs.

Mr. Tunstall said that the contract disagreement could have been avoided if GRTC had ensured in its request for proposals that companies were reflecting the real cost of benefits.

“The process is flawed when companies are allowed to underbid to get a contract,” he said. “That needs to be fixed” the next time GRTC bids the contract, he said. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

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City Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson stands in the giant splash pad in Ann Hardy Plaza in Highland Park where she envisions children enjoying the water on summer days. Behind is the newly renovated community building. More than $700,000 has been spent so far on improvements.

Ann Hardy Plaza ready for youngsters, summer

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

The first phase of improvements to Ann Hardy Plaza in northern Highland Park are expected to be finished this week, and City Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson, 6th District, can’t wait to show them off to the public.

Ms. Robertson, who lives a few steps from the plaza, spearheaded the facelift for the park that was named in 1995 in honor of the late community activist who once ran a volunteer preschool at the plaza’s community center.

Bounded by Carolina and 1st avenues and Milton and Pollock streets, the park is a satellite for Highland Park’s main recreation center, Hotchkiss Field Community Center, located about a mile away on Brookland Park Boulevard.

Ms. Robertson said Ann Hardy Plaza is needed. “This is an extremely large land mass that offers valuable recreational opportunities,” including grassy areas for

children to run around in, she said.

“Our children need more places to play and have fun,” she said. “It is also a place where young and old can meet, where neighbors can interact and build relationships.”

She said the community has been involved for more than four years in planning

Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond the improvements that will cost nearly $1.5 million when everything is done.

The $712,000 first phase includes installation of a splash pad that will spray children with water on hot summer days, improved landscaping and upgrades to the bathrooms in the community center that stands at the center of the park.

Old steps and ramps in the rear of the building have been removed and a change area for the splash plaza has been added

since construction began last October.

The second phase, which is projected to cost $600,000, is expected to start next year. It will include additional improvements to the building, including installation of an elevator and a commercial kitchen, an overhaul of the heating and cooling systems and renovation of the second floor community meeting space.

The basketball court also is to be improved and possibly expanded. And security cameras are to be added.

Ms. Robertson said that the park can only offer so much. Hotchkiss Field, which includes an outdoor swimming pool and fields for soccer, football and baseball, is near enough to offer more organized recreation programs.

Still, “we need this kind of wellmaintained, quality space to promote walking, biking and other healthy activities,” Ms. Robertson said. “We need welcoming places where people can relax and enjoy themselves.”

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VCU receives recommendations for remains in well

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

Bury them with an appropriate West African ceremony in the African Burial Ground in Downtown.

That’s one of the major recommendations on what to do with the bones of 53 adults, teens and children — apparently

slaves — found discarded in a capped well on the medical campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.

The recommendation, along with a host of other ideas, was presented to VCU representatives Saturday during the latest session of the East Marshall Street Well Project.

The project coincides with city efforts underway to create a multimillion-dollar memorial museum to the enslaved at the site of Lumpkin’s Jail, a once notorious slave pen and auction block. It also appears to complement a separate proposal to create a 9-acre park in Shockoe Bottom to highlight

Richmond’s role in slavery.

The bones have haunted VCU since their discovery in 1994 at a construction site. They were sent to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, where they were analyzed and identified as belonging to at least 53 individuals, including 44 people

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stairs to address supporters.

For about 3 minutes, to the strains of Sara Bareilles’s “Brave,” Mrs. Clinton basked in the cheers of her supporters, including her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

She was obviously pleased, but appeared calm. Then, suddenly, she exhaled, lifted her arms to the sky in a victory salute, and beamed with delight — a moment of release after the months, years, decades of effort needed to reach this point.

Even the shadow that has dogged her campaign — a federal probe into her use of a private email server while she served as the nation’s top diplomat — seemed to disappear on this night.

She clinched the nomination following primary voting Tuesday in six states. Her

victories in New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota and California allowed her to hit the magic number of 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the nomination.

On Monday, the Associated Press issued a report that Mrs. Clinton had secured enough delegates to win the nomination.

That determination was based on support her from “super delegates” — party leaders and elected officials who have a vote at the national convention.

Sen. Sanders won the North Dakota caucuses and the Montana primary, but it was too little, too late, particularly after the big prize, California, spurned his revolution to choose Mrs. Clinton.

At his own rally Tuesday night, he publicly congratulated her on her primary wins, but vowed to battle on, leaving to campaign in Washington, D.C., which will hold its primary on Tuesday, June 14.

In 2008, Mrs. Clinton waited to concede to then-candidate Obama until the final primary was done; she is hoping that Sen. Sanders will acknowledge her win soon after the D.C. results are in for the sake of presenting a united front against the bombastic Mr. Trump, who has aroused racial passions with his rhetoric.

Meanwhile, the White House released a statement late Tuesday night saying that President Obama called both Mrs. Clinton and Sen. Sanders to congratulate them “for running inspiring campaigns” and Mrs. Clinton for surpassing the number of delegates needed to secure the Democratic nomination.

The statement also noted that the president was to meet with Sen. Sanders at the White House on Thursday, June 9.

The president is expected to endorse Mrs. Clinton soon, possibly this week.

age 14 and older and at least nine younger children.

As best as VCU can determine, the bones belong to people whose bodies were used in teaching medical students about human anatomy prior to 1860, when the well was capped.

They appear to exemplify VCU’s participation in the purchase and theft of bodies of dead slaves and other black people for use in medical training. It was common practice in an era when Virginia and other states made it illegal to dissect cadavers.

Since 2013, VCU President Michael Rao has been trying to come up with a way to deal with the bones with dignity and respect.

Last year, VCU set up a 15-member community planning committee and a separate 10-member committee of residents designated to serve as a “Family Representative Council” on behalf of the nameless people whose remains were found.

The representatives want the bones and associated artifacts in the well buried in a public and

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he can win and has jumped into the race for the open 2nd Congressional District seat that is centered in Virginia Beach.

In the revamped 4th District, voters in Richmond and Eastern Henrico will have an outsized influence. About 40 percent of the congressional district’s 490,000 registered voters live in the two localities.

Sen. McEachin, who is making his first bid for Congress, is regarded as the front-runner in the Democratic race because of his name recognition in the city and county.

He is well known as a personal injury attorney in the firm McEachin

& Gee and also has served in the state Senate since 2008. Currently chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus, he previously served stints in the House of Delegates and ran unsuccessfully for attorney general in 2001. He also holds a master’s degree in ministry.

Sen. McEachin also has a bigger war chest, having raised $105,000 to his opponent’s $9,850, according to April figures.

Dr. Ward, who is making her second bid for Congress after losing to Rep. Forbes in 2012, has been on the Chesapeake political scene since 2000. She is facing an uphill climb to gain name recognition in Richmond and Henrico.

She has been on the Chesapeake political scene since 2000. She is now serving her third term on the Chesapeake City

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Council and previously served six years on the Chesapeake School Board. She retired in 2004 after 35 years as a teacher and administrator in Portsmouth Public Schools. She also served eight years on the state Board of Education, including five years as vice president.

On the Republican side, Sheriff Michael L. “Mike” Wade is regarded as the front-runner because of his Henrico base. A former county police officer, he won a fifth term as sheriff last year to retain command of one of the largest sheriff’s departments in the state. He oversees more than 500 full-time and part-time deputies and staff. Among other things, he has won plaudits for creating programs and initiatives to aid inmates to kick addictions to drugs

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and alcohol.

He, too, has a bigger campaign fund, having raised $38,618 for his primary effort, while his rival reportedly has not raised any money, according to theVirginia Public Access Project, which tracks campaign spending.

Ms. Gonzalez, his competitor, is a Kenya native, who has been active in Republican circles in Chesterfield County, where she resides.

She got her feet wet in politics in 2012 when she was a volunteer on Rep. Forbes’ re-election campaign. She later worked for three and a half years for the anti-abortion Family Foundation of Virginia as a grassroots and prayer coordinator, a post she said she gave up in March to run for Congress.

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audience.

Another contestant with Virginia ties, Dr. Desiree J. Williams, was among the 10 finalists.

Dr. Williams, 26, who is Miss Virginia USA, is an assistant professor of physical therapy at Hampton University and interim director of the William R. Harvey Leadership Institute at HU. Miss Barber graduated from VSU’s Reginald F. Lewis College of Business with a degree in business management and works as an information technology analyst with the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington. The newly crowned beauty queen also is a logistics commander for the Army Reserve’s 988th Quartermaster Detachment Unit at Fort Meade, Md. “We are exceedingly proud to have a Trojan represent the U.S.A. in this capacity,” VSU President Dr. Makola Abdullah said in a statement issued after the pageant.

“Deshauna exemplifies scholarship, leadership and inner strength. She is a role model for all students.”

When asked during the pageant about the role of women in combat, Miss Barber commended the Pentagon’s recent decision to open up all combat jobs to women.

“As a woman in the United States Army, I think it was an amazing job by our government to allow women to integrate into every branch of the military,” she responded. “We are just as tough as men.

“As a commander of my unit, I’m powerful, I am dedicated, and it is important that we recognize that gender does not limit us in the United States Army.”

Miss Barber also hit a home run when answering a final pageant question about the meaning of the words “confidently beautiful.”

“To me ‘confidently beautiful’ means understanding that it’s not always about your appearance,” she said. Serving in the military has taught me that being confidently beautiful is about being able to earn respect from people regardless of what you look like.”

Miss Barber said she plans to use her title to support veterans’ causes and tackle the issue of suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder among military members.

When asked during the pageant what message she had for the presidential candidates — including former Miss USA pageant owner and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump — Miss Barber, who wore a glittering gold gown, said the candidates should focus more on veterans’ issues, including the backlog at veterans hospitals.

Miss Hawaii, Chelsea Hardin, was named first runner-up, while Miss Georgia, Emanii Davis, was selected as second runner-up.

inclusive ceremony based on West African burial traditions at an appropriate location, such as the African Burial Ground.

Along with promoting proper burial, the council members also are recommending: • Further research into the genetic ancestry of the remains and into the ties between the well and the African-American experience in Richmond.

• VCU build an appropriate memorial to the individuals on the campus and hold an annual ceremony for medical students in commemorate those people whose remains assist their learning.

Dr. Kevin Allison, special assistant to President Rao, said he expects a final decision in the fall.

“Then this would move to the implementation phase,” Dr. Allison said, which would include discussions with such partners as the city government and the Richmond Slave Trail Commission about how best to proceed.

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re-election.”

The son of Mayor Dwight C. Jones, Dr. Jones announced his decision just a week before the Tuesday, June 14, deadline to file candidacy papers, including required petitions.

“I am extremely proud of what we have accomplished in hiring a new superintendent and decompressing teacher pay,” Dr. Jones stated, but he said he needs to focus more on his growing church, which will soon open a new satellite sanctuary in Chesterfield County.

The pastor of First Baptist Church of South Richmond where his father is senior pastor, Dr. Jones is completing his first, fouryear term and is a well-regarded member of the board.

With his departure, the ninemember School Board will have at least five open seats that voters will fill in November’s elections.

Other vacancies are in the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 7th districts. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

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NEW YORK Nearly 40,000 striking Verizon employees in Virginia and eight other states returned to work June 1 after reaching a tentative contract agreement.

The deal includes the company’s agreement to provide 1,400 new call-center jobs in the United States and to provide nearly 11 percent in raises over four years.

The company won concessions that will allow it to make health care plan changes to save money, the company and its unions announced.

The pact ends one of the largest strikes in the United States in recent years and the first since 2011 against Verizon.

In addition to the pay raises and call-center jobs, the tentative agreement includes $1,250 in signing bonuses and health care reimbursements for new workers, a 25 percent increase in the number of unionized crews maintaining Verizon’s utility poles in New York state, and three 1 percent increases in pensions.

It also includes the first contract for wireless retail store workers.

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Mr. McLaurin said.

Mr. McLaurin, president of the Tenant Council at Fay Towers in Gilpin Court, is just one of the customers whose clothes are trapped inside.

“I was told last week the store would open so me and others could get our clothes,” he said.

But no one was there when he showed up.

The Free Press first reached out May 30 to the owner of the building, Emanuel Dowtin, who lives in an upscale subdivision in Chesterfield County. A woman who answered the door at Mr. Dowtin’s listed address promised that someone would be in touch.

On May 31, a woman who identified herself as LaTasha Morgan and said she represented Mr.

Dowtin, claimed another cleaners would be moving into the space. She also said arrangements were being made to open the store so customers like Mr. McLaurin could get their clothes.

This week, however, nothing has changed.

The Family Valet Cleaners sign is still up; the front door remains locked; no new business has moved in. And Mr. McLaurin’s and other people’s clothes remain on racks inside.

Repeated calls last week and this week to the cell phone number that Ms. Morgan used have gone unanswered. There has been no response to several messages left on voicemail.

“I’m glad I have more clothes,” Mr. McLaurin said. “This has been very frustrating. I’m just hoping one day I can get my clothes back.”

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UVA rays are longer and penetrate the skin more deeply. These are the rays you have to be concerned with even on cloudy days.

UVA contributes to skin aging and wrinkling, known as photoaging. It has nothing to do with selfies and everything to do with light. These rays damage skin cells called “keratinocytes” in the basal layer of the skin, which is where most skin cancer occurs.

Quality sunscreens are designed to combat both. The F.D.A. requires all sunscreens in the U.S. to be labeled with an SPF (sun protection factor). The SPF number listed on sunscreens relates to the amount of sunburn protection that they provide. While the SPF number is important, the amount of protection does not increase at the same rate of the number. For example, SPF 15 delivers a 93 percent UVB protection, while SPF 30 delivers a 97 percent protection.

And sunscreen isn’t just for the pool, the river and the beach.

It’s for everyday use. The American Melanoma Foundation recommends a daily sunscreen of at least SPF 15 year-round.

Nowadays a lot of moisturizers and makeup have sunscreen mixed into them. They help provide a daily protection without having to layer on multiple products. The best sunscreens are “broad spectrum,” meaning they offer protection from both UVA and UVB rays.

Here are a few sun protection tips for adults and kids alike: • Use a “broad spectrum” sunscreen with a 30 SPF or higher • Apply sunscreen 30 minutes before going out • Reapply sunscreen every two hours • Apply on all exposed spots, including the ears and the head

Your Journey to Wellness Starts Here Shining Sunlight on the Truth

There is a huge misconception when it comes to African-Americans and sunburn. And that misconception is that it just doesn’t happen, due to skin pigmentation or darker skin. This misguided idea is not just among patients; even doctors have treated and not treated AfricanAmericans under the premise that sun damage and skin cancer are less likely due to darker pigmentation. It’s a cavalier notion for a serious issue that can be life-threatening.

The hard truth is that sun damage and sunburn can occur in African-Americans; even resulting in skin cancer. The danger in being misinformed is twofold. First, it contributes to a community of darker-skinned people doing nothing to protect themselves from sun damage. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most Americans don’t use sunscreen. Second, it keeps those with possible sun damage and skin cancer from seeking help and possibly receiving treatment early, which could be a lifesaver in the case of skin cancer.

Sunburn doesn’t take long to happen. Depending on the amount of exposure to UVR, sunburn can happen quickly, within 15 minutes. Unlike the overly sun-cooked characters on TV sitcoms, the telltale sign of redness may not be the best indicator. Instead, look for other signs such as tightness, skin that’s hot to the touch, and peeling. If precautions are not taken, even those shortsleeve “farmer’s tans” can pose a danger.

VCU Health wants you to enjoy the summer months and be safe. Here are a few need-to-know tips: 1. African-Americans get sunburn.

2. Don’t think that sunburn and sun damage are a light complexion-only problem.

3. Even if you can’t see the damage, it can still be there.

4. Pay careful attention to moles on the body.

5. Seeing a board-certified dermatologist once a year for a full-body scan helps with early detection.

• Put a cold, damp towel on the skin for 10 to 15 minutes intervals a few times per day.

• Use a moisturizer that contains aloe vera or soy to soothe the skin.

• Ibuprofen reduces swelling and helps relieve discomfort.

• Drink lots of water to prevent dehydration.

• Leave blisters alone and allow them to heal. Blisters mean that you have second-degree burns. Popping them makes the burn worse.

• See a doctor if feeling sick or dizzy.

• Protect sunburned skin while it heals.

Skin Deep is Too Deep

According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, over 5 million cases of nonmelanoma cancer are treated each year in the U.S. And as enormous as those numbers are, each year there are more new cases of skin cancer than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, lung, prostate and colon. That’s a pretty big deal. A quick look at the numbers shows that one in five Americans will develop skin cancer over the course of a lifetime.

One of the rarest forms of skin cancer also happens to be the most well-known and most deadly. Melanoma, named for the melanocytes

cells in which it is found, has the highest death rate. It accounts for 75 percent of all skin cancer deaths. Diagnosing melanoma early makes it easier to treat and results in more positive outcomes for patients.

The story here is not that melanoma exists.

It’s not that skin cancers if left undiagnosed and untreated, can lead to loss of life. The story is that what is commonly thought of as a Caucasian health issue is actually a big health issue for African-Americans.

Typically, African-Americans are not filling up the appointment books in tanning salons. They’re not lying out by the pool or on the beach to get that perfect summertime skin tone.

But like everyone else, African-Americans are out enjoying the summer in the pool, at amusement parks and on the beach—often times with the only form of protection being darker skin.

That’s not to say that darker skin doesn’t provide some level of protection—because it does.

However, it provides an even larger false sense of security that keeps many African-Americans from getting checked out. Cancer specialists at VCU Massey Cancer Center will tell you that it makes their job harder. The false pretense that

darker skin is damage-proof makes skin cancer masseycancercenter.org or call (804) 828more deadly in African-Americans. Infrequent 5116, or toll-free 877-4-MASSEY [877-462visits to the doctor or dermatologist lead to late 7739]. diagnosis of skin cancers, which makes them much harder to treat.

The most common skin cancer among blacks is squamous cell carcinomas. Melanomas are second. Melanoma rates have been on the rise across the board for the past 30 years according to the American Cancer Society. This is due in part to insufficient sun-protection measures by citizens, but also an increase in tanning booth usage. While melanoma is more common among whites (1 in 50) versus blacks (1 in 1,000), the survival rate skews the other way: 91 percent for whites and 73 percent for blacks.

In people of color, the disease is mostly found on the palms, the soles of the feet and nail beds.

Specialists at VCU Massey Cancer Center stress that it is important to do self-examinations and pay attention to changes in the skin. You are your first line of defense. Look for changes in moles or the appearance of new moles where there were none. Oozing or bleeding moles can also be an indicator. If a mole feels itchy, hard, lumpy, swollen or tender to the touch, you should consult a physician to have it diagnosed.

If you have questions or need to make an appointment with a dermatologist, please visit

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Muhammad Ali • The Greatest

Farewell to the champ Continued from A1

A shaken and angry 12-year-old Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., wanting to report the crime, was introduced to Joe Martin, a police officer who doubled as a boxing coach at a local gym..

The officer advised the youth to learn to box first before seeking revenge, and young Cassius, who would later change his name to Muhammad Ali and his religion to Islam, found his future at Martin’s Gym. Mr. Ali would rise to become a repeat heavyweight champion and much more.

Bold, charismatic and outspoken, the defiant one dubbed the “Louisville Lip” also would became a symbol of black liberation as he successfully stood up to the U.S. government by refusing to go into the Army as a violation of his adopted Muslim faith, adding his name to the roll call of black activists like baseball great Jackie Robinson, football and singing great Paul Robeson and tennis star and Richmond’s own Arthur Ashe.

Later, Mr. Ali would travel the world, raising money for charity and relief efforts, despite battling Parkinson’s disease that made him shake uncontrollably, becoming one of the most recognizable figures across the globe on par with Nelson Mandela.

Always a devout Muslim after his conversion, he would at one point use his celebrity to secure the release of 15 American hostages from Iraq, when it was still under the rule of Saddam Hussein.

Tributes to Mr. Ali’s stature, courage, generosity and character have poured in following his death at 9:10 p.m. Friday, June 3.

He died in a hospital in his adopted home of Scottsdale, Ariz., of “septic shock,” a complication of the Parkinson’s he had fought for three decades.

As the world mourns, his family plans to carry out his funeral wishes in his hometown of Louisville this Friday, June 10.

Following a private funeral the day before, his body will travel in a motorcade along the avenue that bears his name.

The procession will wind through his boyhood neighborhood and down Broadway, the same avenue where a parade 56 years ago celebrated the brash young man who had won a gold boxing medal at the 1960 Olympics, opening the way to his professional career.

The procession is to be followed by a memorial service open to the public that will be held at Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center in downtown. Eulogists will include former President Bill Clinton, comedian Billy Crystal and sports television host Bryant Gumbel.

The ceremony will be led by an imam in the Muslim tradition but include representatives of other faiths. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, for example will represent Mormons.

“Muhammad Ali was clearly the people’s champion,” family spokesman Bob Gunnell said, “and the celebration will reflect his devotion to people of all races, religions and nationalities.”

As one of the best-known figures of the 20th century, Mr. Ali did not believe in modesty and proclaimed himself not only “the greatest” but “the double greatest” during his heyday. In 1978, DC Comics even featured Mr. Ali and Superman as partners in a comic book.

Americans had never seen an athlete like him, a man with lightning-fast feet, a quick knockout punch and unrepentant words.

He was heavyweight champ a record three times between 1964 and 1978, taking part in some of the sport’s most epic bouts, dethroning and eclipsing champions like Sonny Liston and George Foreman and winning boxing immortality with his battles with former champion Joe Frazier.

In his heyday, Mr. Ali was cocky and rebellious and psyched himself up by taunting opponents and reciting original poems that predicted the round in which he would knock them out. The audacity caused many to despise Mr. Ali but endeared him to millions who adored him for his ability “to float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

“He talked, he was handsome, he did wonderful things,” said George Foreman, a prominent rival, who lost the heavyweight title to Mr. Ali in the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire “If you were 16 years old and wanted to copy somebody, it had to be him.”

Mr. Ali’s emergence coincided with the American civil rights

in Vietnam. He was convicted of draft evasion, banned from boxing and stripped of his heavyweight title.

When asked about his stance on the North Vietnamese, Mr. Ali famously said, ‘’They never called me nigger. They never Muhammad Ali holds the lynched me. They didn’t put no dogs on me. They didn’t rob me Olympic torch as he prepares of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father.’’ to light the flame and open the His decision to stay out of the war later won a major deci1996 games in Atlanta. sion from the U.S. Supreme Court upholding his position and wiping out his conviction, and with that, Mr. Ali had defeated what many saw as a racist system.

It would have been easier and more lucrative for Mr. Ali to keep quiet and go along with what many in white society wanted from him, said his longtime friend and sports commentator Howard Cosell. They wanted ‘’a white man’s black man,’’ Mr. Cosell once said.

Mr. Ali didn’t do deference.

“I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize,” Mr. Ali said. “But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”

He “made people accept him as a man, as an equal, and he was not afraid to represent himself in that way,’’ said Jim Brown, a football great who in 1967 was a among a group of black athletes who came together in the “Ali Summit” to support the boxer’s anti-war stance.

President Obama, the nation’s first black president, keeps a set of Mr. Ali’s boxing gloves on display in his study at the White House.

“He stood with King and Mandela, stood up when it was hard, spoke out when others wouldn’t,’’ the president stated after learning of Mr. Ali’s death.

“His fight outside the ring would cost him his title and his public standing. It would earn him enemies on the left and the right, make him reviled and nearly send him to jail,” stated President Obama, who is not planning to attend the service.

“But Ali stood his ground. And his victory helped us get used to the America we recognize today.’’

Reuters The Rev. Al Sharpton, a longtime friend, said Mr. Ali “went movement and his persona of a rebel offered youths something from one of the most despised figures in the world to one of the they did not get from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and most other most popular men in the world because people respected that he leaders of the era. believed and sacrificed for what he believed in.’’

The day after conquering then-champion Sonny Liston and Mr. Ali, a one-time Baptist, could be considered the most famous winning his first world heavyweight championship in 1964, Mr. convert to Islam in American history, though he later rejected MalAli announced he had joined the Nation of Islam under the guid- colm X during a power struggle within the Nation of Islam. ance of Malcolm X and had shed his ‘’slave’’ name of Cassius His battle with the government began after Mr. Ali was twice Clay, shocking the country. rejected for service because the draft board rated him retarded Three years later, he propelled the anti-war movement to new with an IQ of 78. However, under revised standards, he was heights by refusing to be drafted into the U.S. military to fight declared fit for service. When he refused induction in April 1967 and was convicted of draft evasion, the World Boxing Association stripped him of his title.

He did not get his title back after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upheld his “conscientious objector” status and was forced to start over, his boxing career having been at a standstill for nearly four years while he appealed the conviction because state boxing officials would not grant him licenses to fight.

But he put the gloves back on and would win the title back after knocking out Mr. Foreman, lose it later and briefly regain it in 1978 before losing it to Larry Holmes in 1980 at the close of his career. He retired with a record of 56 wins, including 37 knockouts, and five losses.

After Mr. Ali’s boxing career ended, he became an even more “powerful force Associated Press Sports stars take part in the 1967 “Ali Summit” in Cleveland to show support for for peace and reconciliation around the the boxing champ’s refusal to be drafted. Mr. Ali, seated second from left, was world,” President Obama stated, recalling joined by, seated from left, Bill Russell, Boston Celtics; Jim Brown, Cleveland that Mr. Ali visited sick children and those Browns, and then college star Lew Alcindor Jr., later L.A. Lakers great Kareem with disabilities and told them that they, Abdul-Jabbar. Standing from left: Ohio Congressman Carl Stokes; Walter Beach, too, could become the greatest.

Cleveland Browns; Bobby Mitchell, Washington NFL team; Sid Williams, Cleveland Mr. Ali’s death held special meaning Browns; Curtis McClinton, Kansas City Chiefs; Willie Davis, Green Bay Packers; Jim in Louisville, where he was the city’s Shorter, former Cleveland Browns player and John Wooten, Cleveland Browns. favorite son.

Area residents tell their brush with ‘The Greatest’ Stories by Bonnie V. Winston

‘A far greater human being than I ever thought’ Jesse Vaughan, the Richmond native and creative genius behind Virginia State University’s recent “Building a Better World” campaign, has won 27 Emmy Awards during the course of his career.

But Vaughan says the highlight of his nearly 40 years as a director and producer for television and film in Richmond, Washington and Los Angeles was directing “The Last Punch,” a feature film about Muhammad Ali’s last fight.

Filmed in Atlanta in 2013-2014 but not yet released, the movie tells the story about “The Drama in the Bahamas,’ the Dec. 11, 1981, fight in Nassau, Bahamas, against Canadian Trevor Berbick that capped Mr. Ali’s extraordinary 21-year professional boxing career.

Mr. Ali was about five weeks shy of his 40th Petersburg resident Jesse Vaughan displays poster art from “The Last Punch,” the feature film he directed about Muhammad Ali’s final fight.

birthday and already suffering with trembling hands and vocal stutters. Just a year earlier, Mr. Ali had attempted to regain the heavyweight title for an unprecedented fourth time and went into the ring against Larry Holmes. Mr. Ali lost miserably.

“He didn’t want to end his career on a sour note,” Mr. Vaughan explained. “But no one would grant him a license to fight again.”

James Cornelius, a street hustler and Ali groupie (who has since become a member of the Nation of Islam and changed his name to Ali Muhammad), took up the challenge of getting a license, finding investors and promoting the fight. The film, which is based on Mr. Cornelius’ book by the same name, details the struggles. Mr. Ali, who went 10 rounds with Mr. Berbick, lost the match by unanimous decision, ending his career with a 56 wins and five losses.

Mr. Vaughan took a six-month leave of absence from his job as director of Advance Creative Services Group at Virginia State University to work on the film. Post-production work was completed in both Richmond and Los Angeles.

The film, starring Tony Grant and Keith David, was screened Jan. 3, 2015, in Atlanta by the Ali Sports Foundation and premiered earlier this year at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Additionally, it was shown Feb. 20 at the Nation of Islam’s Saviours’ Day weekend in Detroit.

“I was told Mr. Ali saw the film and liked it,” Mr. Vaughan said. “He was proud of (Mr. Cornelius) because he, like Mr. Ali, accomplished something no one thought he could.”

Mr. Vaughan said researching Mr. Ali’s life and career for the film “made me realize he was a far greater human being than I ever thought. It rekindled my love and admiration for him.”

A gift from Ali: A ring to Gov. Wilder Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder has a cherished memento from “The Greatest” — Muhammad Ali’s third championship ring.

The gift from Mr. Ali, a large onyx and gold ring commemorat-

Muhammad Ali taunts Sonny Liston after knocking him out in the first round of their May 1965 rematch, three months after Mr. Ali first defeated Mr. Liston to win the heavyweight title.

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Malcolm X and newly crowned heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali are together in New York City in March 1964.

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Mr. Ali and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the military draft in March 1967 in Louisville, Ky.

Below left, the boxing champ hugs former President Bill Clinton at a gala to open the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville in November 2005. Below, President George W. Bush awards the Medal of Freedom to Mr. Ali at a White House ceremony in November 2005. Right, Mr. Ali proudly stands with daughter, boxing champion Laila Ali, after she won the Super Middleweight title in June 2005 at a match in Washington.

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Cars lined the street outside his childhood home, a bright pink single-story house that was recently renovated and turned into a museum.

Visitors piled flowers and boxing gloves around the marker designating it a historical site. They were young and old, black and white, friends and fans.

Another memorial grew outside the Muhammad Ali Center downtown, a museum built in tribute to Mr. Ali’s core values: Respect, confidence, conviction, dedication, charity, spirituality.

He chose his hometown as the place for the center.

“He was a really sweet, kind, loving, giving, affectionate, wonderful person,” said his younger brother, Rahaman Ali. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer summed up Ali’s deep ties to the city. ‘’Muhammad Ali belongs to the world, but he only has one hometown,’’ he said. ‘’The ‘Louisville Lip’ spoke to everyone, but we heard him in a way no one else could.’’

Mr. Ali did not have to be in a boxing ring to command the world stage. In 1990, a few months after Iraq invaded Kuwait, Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein held dozens of foreigners hostages in hopes of averting an invasion of his country. Mr. Ali flew to Baghdad, met Saddam and left with 15 American hostages.

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A nation that once questioned his patriotism cheered loudly in 1996 when he made a surprise appearance at the Olympic games in Atlanta, stilling the Parkinson’s tremors in his hands enough to light the Olympic flame. He also took part in the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in 2012, looking frail in a wheelchair.

In November 2002, he went to Afghanistan on a goodwill visit after being appointed a U.N. “messenger of peace.”

Mr. Ali was married four times, most recently to the former Lonnie Williams, who knew him when she was a child in Louisville. He had nine children, including daughter Laila, who became a boxer.

The diagnosis of Parkinson’s, which has been linked to head trauma, came about three years after Mr. Ali retired from boxing in 1981. He helped establish the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at a hospital in Phoenix.

Those who knew and admired him still see him as the young man who stood up for principle.

“At a time when blacks who spoke up about injustice were labeled uppity and often arrested under one pretext or another,” basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote of him, “Muhammad willingly sacrificed the best years of his career to stand tall

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and fight for what he believed was right.

“In doing so, he made all Americans, black and white, stand taller. I may be 7’2” but I never felt taller than when standing in his shadow.”

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Mr. Ali, accompanied by his wife Lonnie, accepts the President’s Award at the 40th Annual NAACP Image Awards in February 2009.

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nothing to do with it.”

“He laughed, and said, ‘I like you.’

“I told him, ‘I like you, too.’ ” The two would joke when they saw one another, Gov. Wilder said. “He would tell me, ‘I’m prettier than you are.’ ” When Mr. Ali wowed the crowds at Gov. Wilder’s inaugural ball in January 1990, people followed him around the Richmond Coliseum, the bold asking for autographs.

“You would have thought the inaugural was his,” Gov. Wilder laughed.

Mr. Ali was among a rare group of people, like Nelson Mandela, leaders with worldwide impact, Gov. Wilder said.

“Unfortunately today, we have a diminishing of that spirit,” he said. “That’s why youngsters need to know who he was, what he was and how he was.”

Former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder holds the championship ring that Muhammad Ali gave him when he became the nation’s first elected African-American governor in 1989.

ing Mr. Ali’s world championship rematch against Sonny Liston in May 1965, arrived the day after the Richmond native’s historic November 1989 win as the nation’s first elected African-American governor.

Inside, the ring is inscribed with the words “To Doug Wilder with respect.”

“I don’t wear it often,” Gov. Wilder told the Free Press Monday, adding that he was surprised when the gift arrived.

He recalled their first meeting in March 1986, when Gov. Wilder was presiding over the Virginia Senate as lieutenant governor.

Gov. Wilder invited Mr. Ali to the Capitol to speak to the Senate.

“He said, ‘Are you sure it’s alright with them?’ he recalled Mr. Ali asking.

Gov. Wilder, who was in charge, told Mr. Ali, “They have

Richmond couple touched by ‘The Greatest’ For Dr. Jill Bussey and her husband, Dr. Monroe Harris, their memories of former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali are literally quite tangible.

When Dr. Bussey was 2, a young Cassius M. Clay Jr., then a recent Olympic gold medalist and friend of Dr. Bussey’s older sister, gave her a stuffed rabbit autographed with his name at the time.

Then 13 years ago, Dr. Harris purchased a pair of boxing gloves autographed by Mr. Ali during a fundraiser at the Atlanta home of fighter Evander Holyfield.

While the toy bunny is long gone, the gloves are prominently displayed in a shadow box in the couple’s Richmond home.

Dr. Bussey, 56, and Dr. Harris, 57, both grew up in the same neighborhood in Louisville’s West End as Mr. Ali. But what’s even more valuable than their Ali memorabilia, they said, is the legacy the renowned athlete left their hometown, the AfricanAmerican community and the world.

“He was inspirational,” Dr. Harris said. “Even after he was infirmed, he continued to inspire people with his public appearances. That took a lot of courage.”

Dr. Bussey has hazy recollections of a young Mr. Ali, who knowledged. would come to the backyard parties thrown by her sister, Connie A check this week of SportsMemorabilia.com has single Bussey Cosby, who is 16 years older. gloves autographed by Mr. Ali listed for sale between $3,000 What stands out the most is how big he was, she said. and $9,000. One glove authenticated with Mr. Ali’s signature, “He wouldn’t drink anything more than water, milk or juice. a drawing and inscription, is listed at $45,464.

It shows how disciplined he was While Mr. Ali never wore these even then.” gloves, Dr. Harris said the MuhamWhile Mr. Ali attended Central mad Ali Center, a museum a cultural High School, the longtime Loucenter in Downtown Louisville, has isville high school for Africanon display gloves that the fighter American students, Connie and wore during several bouts.

Dr. Harris’ cousin, Monroe Phelps, “I remember when he fought were among the first students to (Joe) Frazier” in 1971, Dr. Harris integrate Male High School, which recalled. “I was sitting with my had been all white. father listening to it on the radio.

On one occasion when Mr. Ali “I was devastated when he lost. came by the house, he gave her the It was the first professional fight Ali stuffed rabbit that he’d autographed. lost. He was my hero, and when he She kept it for years. got knocked down, I felt like the “I didn’t think about it being air was gone from me. He was just valuable one day,” Dr. Bussey said. that popular and that great.

“I’m so disappointed my parents “For us in Louisville, he defididn’t put it away.” nitely had a special place in our Fast forward to 2003. Dr. Bussey hearts.” and Dr. Harris, now married with Dr. Bussey is packing up her children, have successful dental 96-year-old father, George Bussey, and oral and maxillofacial surgery for the drive to Louisville to atpractices in Richmond. Dr. Harris tend Mr. Ali’s memorial service goes to Atlanta with a group of Friday at the KFC Yum! Center friends for the NBA All-Star Game in dowtown. and ends up at Mr. Holyfield’s house “Her father knew Ali’s dad Dr. Monroe Harris and his wife, Dr. Jill Bussey, for a fundraiser. and guys in Ali’s entourage,” Dr. show boxing gloves autographed by the champ, “I don’t remember now what who grew up in the same neighborhood with them Harris said. the fundraiser was for,” Dr. Harris in Louisville, Ky. Their nephew, Dr. Kevin W. said. “But they had an auction — a Cosby, pastor of St. Stephen Baptist live auction and a silent auction. And Ali’s autographed gloves Church in Louisville, will be among the speakers at the service. were in the silent auction.

The motorcade of family and mourners that will wind through “By being from Louisville and Ali being my idol, I bid on the streets of Louisville is scheduled to pass the house in the them. And I was lucky enough to get them.”

West End neighborhood where Dr. Harris grew up.

The winning bid: Around $600.

“I know the streets will be packed,” Dr. Harris said. “We’ll “It was a steal to get those gloves at a low price,” he ac- always look at him as ‘The Greatest.’”

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4th Congressional District primaries On Tuesday, voters in Richmond and portions of several nearby cities and counties will go to the polls to make their choices for Democratic and Republican nominees to run for the 4th Congressional District seat.

Because the seat is open — there is no incumbent — and because roughly 43 percent of the voting age population living in the newly drawn 4th District is African-American, we urge our readers to seize this opportunity to select candidates who will represent their interests.

Tuesday, June 14

Democratic primary Two upstanding Democrats, state Sen. A. Donald McEachin of Henrico and Dr. Ella Ward, a member of Chesapeake City Council, are running for the party nod.

Both have solid records earned through representing the people in elective and appointed office.

Dr. Ward, 70, has a clear understanding of the critical issues confronting urban school systems in the district — and possible solutions — because of her 35 years of experience as a teacher and administrator in Portsmouth. She also was appointed by former Gov. Mark Warner to the state Board of Education and served for eight years.

She would be a strong advocate on the federal level to help Richmond, Petersburg and the district’s other jurisdictions to obtain desperately needed resources for public education.

When the district’s host of issues are taken into account, we believe that Sen. McEachin, 54, would be the most effective candidate should he win the Democratic nomination.

We believe his combined 16 years of experience and leadership in the Virginia General Assembly have forged the mettle needed in Congress.

Many of the issues he has wrestled with in the Virginia House of Delegates and the state Senate are playing out in Washington — gun safety, health care for the uninsured, infrastructure improvement, job creation and environmental protection. He will be able to push for legislation nationally without a huge learning curve.

He also would be a strong candidate in the November general election.

GOP primary We know that readers of the Free Press defy stereotype.

Firstly, our publication is enjoyed weekly by a wide audience that spans many categories of racial and ethnic backgrounds.

And secondly, while some people believe African-Americans are all Democrats, we know that’s not the case. We don’t all fall into lockstep with any political party.

Like those voters, we at the Free Press research the platforms and positions of all candidates seeking public office and determine whose action plan will best address the critical issues facing our community.

For the Free Press, it’s not about permanent friends; it’s about permanent interests — our readers’ interests.

With that background, we were prepared to make an endorsement in the 4th Congressional District GOP primary. We spent time researching and interviewing the two Republican candidates — Mike Wade, the longtime sheriff of Henrico County, and Jackee K. Gonzalez, who resigned her job March 15 as grassroots and prayer coordinator for the Family Foundation of Virginia to run for office.

Sheriff Wade, 59, has creatively implemented several successful programs as sheriff to reduce illegal drug dependence among inmates, boost health care and pharmacy services at the jail and train potential deputies through partnerships with Virginia Union and Virginia Commonwealth universities.

Ms. Gonzalez, 40, has a drive and passion for helping people borne from her own experiences in he native Kenya and since immigrating to the United States.

But given events of recent days, we cannot in good conscience make an endorsement in the GOP primary unless and until Sheriff Wade and Ms. Gonzalez repudiate the Republican presidential standard-bearer Donald Trump.

We will not support any candidate who will aid or abet a racist who is bent on bringing this nation to its knees by a hatred he regularly expresses about Mexicans, Muslims, women, immigrants, the disabled, President Obama, Black Lives Matter, people of color and the latest person, ethnic group or country he despises.

The latest insult: Mr. Trump claims that U.S. Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s heritage makes him unfit to preside over lawsuits filed against the billionaire. He actually believes that a judge’s ethnicity casts doubt upon the judge’s ability to decide cases impartially.

As one person asked: How many racist comments must someone make before you know they are racist?

Asked if he would support Trump, Sheriff Wade said he would support the Republican Party’s nominee.

“I don't like some of the things he does and says, but I hope to bring some reason, be that voice that would bring reason to the situation.”

Asked the same question, Ms. Gonzalez said: “You're asking me if I would support the president of the United States? That’s like asking me if I would support President Obama.

“I will work for the people of the 4th District. And if there’s a conflict, then I would push to do what I feel is the right thing.”

To us, both Sheriff Wade and Ms. Gonzalez are half-stepping.

Mr. Trump’s hate-filled views could lead to serious and quite dangerous consequences if he is elected president. His intemperate, unprincipled, bigoted statements and lack of judgment clearly show he is unfit to be the nation’s commander-in-chief with an array of nuclear weapons at his whim.

So why should we, the Free Press, recommend that voters support a candidate who doesn’t have the guts to stand up against Mr. Trump? Why would we support someone who is too afraid of political backlash if they call out Mr. Trump for the racist he is as detrimental to and for America?

If Sheriff Wade and Ms. Gonzalez can’t do that, then neither deserves our support.

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The people’s champion Ditch the memories of Muhammad Ali showing up uninvited at Sonny Liston’s training camp, announcing that he was going bear hunting. Put aside his boasts of being the greatest of alllll-timmmme. Scratch the images of the “Ali Shuffle” and his patented rope-a-dope.

Mr. Ali’s greatest victories came outside the boxing ring.

He was the greatest of all time as a boxer and, more importantly, as a humanitarian. He consistently displayed unwavering courage and a willingness to be unpopular.

In fact, it was his unpopularity with the establishment that made him popular with people throughout the word.

I met Mr. Ali twice, first in the late 1960s during a conference of college newspaper editors in Washington, and in the late 1990s as a board member of the American Society of Magazine Editors.

At the first meeting, I was struck by how physically imposing Mr. Ali was at 6-foot-2½ and about 236 pounds. I pretended to be boxing with him — making sure he knew that I was just

pretending. My fist looked like a small pimple next to his face.

Mr. Ali was extremely generous with his time and was playful as ever.

By our second meeting, he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects body movement.

Though considerably slowed, he was still the star attraction, communicating with his eyes more than with his mouth.

George Curry “Muhammad Ali was The Greatest. Period. If you just asked him, he’d tell you. He’d tell you he was the double greatest; that he’d ‘handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail.’ But what made The Champ the greatest — what truly separated him from everyone else — is that everyone else would tell you pretty much the same thing,” President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama said in a statement.

Mr. Ali was also the boldest — unafraid to take a stand. He was widely criticized — even

by African-Americans such as Jackie Robinson — for joining the Nation of Islam shortly after his upset victory over Mr. Liston. He later left the NOI but

remained an outspoken advocate for African-Americans and the downtrodden.

In an interview with Playboy magazine, which is included in “The Muhammad Ali Reader” edited by Gerald Early, Mr. Ali was asked: “What would the old Cassius Clay be doing today?”

In his typical direct manner, Mr. Ali replied, “If I was Cassius Clay today, I’d be just like Floyd Patterson. I’d probably have a white wife and I wouldn’t represent black people in no way. Or I’d be like Charley Pride, the folk singer.

Nothin’ bad about him — he’s a good fella and I met his black wife, but Charley stays out of controversy. I’d be that kind of man.”

But he wasn’t that kind of man. And he was sensitive to the type of lifestyle his high-profile career afforded him and the rest of black America.

“Last week, I was taking a ride and thought, ‘I’m driving a Rolls-Royce and I got another one in the garage that I hardly ever use that cost $40,000,’ ” Mr. Ali said. “I got a Scenicruiser Greyhound bus that sleeps fourteen and cost $120,000 and another bus that cost $42,000 to $162,000 just in mobile homes.

“Well, I was driving down

A clear and present danger The danger that Donald Trump, practitioner of questionable business practices, inveterate bully, racist, sexist, demagogue and the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for president of the United States, presents to American society was never more evident than last week amid a flurry of negative news stories.

The result was more additions to the ever-expanding “enemies’ list” he has promised he’ll retaliate against once he gets to the Oval Office.

For example, there’s Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over the court case involving Mr. Trump’s ill-fated Trump University. The evidence and testimony in the case thus far strongly suggest the “school” wasn’t simply a mismanaged enterprise but, as New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman put it, “just straight up fraud.”

Because Judge Curiel’s parents emigrated from Mexico decades ago and became American citizens, Mr. Trump keeps referring to him as “Mexican,” although he was born in East Chicago, Ind., took both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Indiana, and has forged a sterling legal career in the United States. Last week, Mr. Trump told his supporters at a rally that the federal court system “is a rigged system” and that “they ought to

look into Judge Curiel because what Judge Curiel is doing is a total disgrace.”

Mr. Trump’s words reek of those used by Southern segregationists during Jim Crow to denounce federal court decisions that were re-establishing the civil

Lee A. Daniels rights of black Americans. But his threat to bend the judiciary to his will is unprecedented for a serious presidential candidate.

Also last week, after reporters began asking him pointed questions about the disbursement of donations he had collected last January and pledged to give to veterans’ groups, Mr. Trump began insulting individual reporters at the news conference he had called and bitterly threatening to curb press freedoms once he gets to the Oval Office.

Also, Mr. Trump last week excoriated the PGA Tour after its officials told him they were moving its World Golf Championship tournament from Mr. Trump’s golf course in Miami to Mexico City next year. The reason: Mr. Trump’s “brand” is now so toxic officials couldn’t get the commercial advertising and corporate sponsorship deals they needed to make holding the event there profitable.

Mr. Trump characteristically cast the decision as a personal insult. “Can you believe it?” he later bellowed at a rally in Sacramento. “But that’s OK. Folks, it’s all going to be settled.

You vote for Donald Trump

as president. If I become your president, this stuff is all going to stop.”

Hillary Clinton, the Democrat’s presumptive nominee, had the proper, scathing assessment of Mr. Trump’s candidacy and character in a speech she gave last Thursday in San Diego that effectively marked the opening of her general election campaign against him.

“Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different — they are dangerously incoherent,” she said.

“They’re not even really ideas — just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies.

He is not just unprepared — he is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility.”

Mr. Trump now faces several significant problems. They include a serious legal case that could produce devastating consequences; and growing pressure to reveal his tax returns, amid suspicion that he both pays very little taxes and isn’t nearly as wealthy as he claims.

And, finally, he must contend with a lone, seasoned politician who has long marched through tough political battles at home and abroad.

However, Mr. Trump does hold one high card that makes him a clear and present danger.

It’s not just that his mob of supporters have so eagerly sold their own birthright. It’s that they’ve done so because they’re intent on stealing ours.

The writer, a former journalist, is an author and speaker.

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the street and I saw a little black man wrapped in an old coat standing on a corner with his wife and little boy, waiting for a bus to come along — and there I am in my Rolls-Royce.

The little boy had holes in his shoes and I started thinkin’ that if he was my little boy, I’d break into tears. And I started crying.”

Mr. Ali didn’t know it, but wherever he was going, the FBI was spying on him as part of its COINTELPRO campaign to undermine civil rights leaders and organizations.

Although his own government engaged in such cowardly acts, Mr. Ali was a true patriot, standing up to his government when it was wrong — costing him more than three prime years of his life — and praising it when it was right.

As Mr. Ali liked to say, “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

The writer is president and CEO of George Curry Media LLC.

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VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY’S REQUEST TO REVISE ITS FUEL FACTOR CASE NO. PUE-2016-00047

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On May 4, 2016, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Virginia Power (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) its application (“Application”) pursuant to § 56-249.6 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”) seeking a decrease in its fuel factor from 2.406 cents per kilowatt-hour (“¢/kWh”) to 1.971¢/kWh, effective for usage on and after July 1, 2016, on an interim basis.

The Company’s proposed fuel factor, reflected in Fuel Charge Rider A, consists of both a current and prior period factor. The Company’s proposed current period factor for Fuel Charge Rider A of 2.115¢/kWh is designed to recover the Company’s estimated Virginia jurisdictional fuel expenses, including purchased power expenses, of approximately $1.4 billion for the period July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017. The Company’s proposed prior period factor for Fuel Charge Rider A of (0.144¢/kWh) is designed to return the approximately $95 million overcollection, which represents the net of two projected June 30, 2016 fuel deferral balances.

In total, Dominion Virginia Power’s proposed fuel factor represents a 0.435¢/kWh decrease from the fuel factor rate presently in effect of 2.406¢/kWh, which was approved in Case No. PUE-2015-00022. According to the Company, this proposal would result in an annual fuel revenue decrease of approximately $286.2 million between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2017. The total proposed fuel factor would decrease the average weighted monthly bill of a typical residential customer using 1,000 kWh of electricity by $4.35, or by approximately 3.8%.

The Commission entered an Order Establishing 2016-2017 Fuel Factor Proceeding (“Order”) that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing to be held on September 14, 2016, 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 15 minutes before the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff. Individuals with disabilities who require an accommodation to participate in the hearing should contact the Commission at least seven (7) days before the scheduled hearing at 1-800-552-7945.

In its Order, the Commission also allowed the Company to place its proposed fuel factor of 1.971¢/kWh into effect on an interim basis for usage on and after July 1, 2016.

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

The public version of the Company’s Application, pre-filed testimony, and exhibits are available for public inspection during regular business hours at all of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. A copy of the public version of the Company’s Application also may be obtained, at no cost, by written request to counsel for Dominion Virginia Power, William H. Baxter II, Esquire, Dominion Resources Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Riverside 2, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

On or before August 30, 2016, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Application shall file written comments 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 August 30, 2016, 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. PUE-2016-00047.

Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing a notice of participation on or before June 29, 2016. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be filed with the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at counsel’s 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. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00047. Interested persons should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for further details on participation as a respondent.

On or before July 13, 2016, 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. 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 set forth above. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE 2016-00047.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at the Commission’s website: http:// www.virginia.scc.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order Establishing Fuel Factor Proceeding in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above.

Retired judge should be honored As we honor Henry L. Marsh III and his brother Harold M. Marsh Sr. with the renaming of the Manchester Courthouse, there is one among us who led the charge in the justice system in Richmond whom everyone seems to have forgotten.

He is retired Richmond Judge Willard H. Douglas Jr. A native of Amherst County, Judge Douglas is a Marine veteran and a 1957 graduate of Virginia Union University. In 1960, he graduated from Howard University with his degree in law.

He served as a staff attorney for the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights and then was employed with the law firm of Tucker, Hill and Marsh.

He served as the first black assistant prosecutor for the City of Richmond. He was elected as the first full-time black judge in Virginia in 1974. His nomination was sponsored and championed by then-Sen. L. Douglas Wilder. He also was the first African-American to be appointed to the Ethics Committee of the Virginia Supreme Court.

Deservedly, Attorney Oliver Hill has a street

and a federal courthouse named after him, as well as a bust on Third Street. Gov. Wilder has a school named after him. The Marsh brothers have a courthouse named for them.

We have honorary streets for the first black Richmond City Council members and the first black mayor, Henry Marsh. I take nothing from these great individuals for I respect their role and place in history.

However, one must ask, “What happened to the very first?” I ask the question to the City of Richmond and the city administration: What have you done for Judge Douglas, this quiet, gentle giant?

What has been done in his honor? Did he not pave the way for so many African-Americans?

I appreciate all of those people previously mentioned. But how can you forget a person who has accomplished so many firsts in the history of the City of Richmond, not to mention the state of Virginia?

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Highland Springs junior vaulting toward championship As a younger athlete, Chris St. Helen tried his luck at basketball, football and long-distance running, and he was average.

Then he discovered the pole vault and he was average no more.

From then on, it has been up, up and away.

The Highland Springs High School junior with Caribbean-born parents has taken off, literally, into the wild blue yonder as the springiest Springer of all time.

“There’s a spark about the kid,” says Highland Springs High vault Coach Kyle Bishop. “He’s a ball of fire.”

The 5-foot-8, 140-pound St. Helen, who turns 17 in August, cleared a personal best 15-4 in winning the Division 5, South Region title last month.

Competing in wet, windy conditions last Saturday at the State 6A Track and Field Championships in Newport News, St. Helen cleared 14 to finish second to Mark Miller of Hickory High School in Chesapeake. Miller’s winning height was 14-6.

St. Helen won both the indoor and outdoor 6A State titles as a sophomore.

Steadily, he has pushed the crossbar bar higher and higher — from a best of 12-6 as a freshman, to 14-6 last year, obliterating the school record.

He’s now at 15-plus.

His goal?

“I want to clear 17 feet before I’m finished” high school, he said confidently.

And after high school?

“I want to continue vaulting at one of the service academies — either Navy or the Air Force,” he said.

St. Helen flies high in the classroom, too, with a 3.85 overall GPA in all college-bound courses.

His background can be read with a calypso beat.

He is son of Neil and Tricia St. Helen, who both came to Richmond with their families from the Caribbean.

His father, a truck driver and mechanic, hails from the Virgin Islands.

Chris has inherited his dad’s mechanical aptitude.

“I love working on cars — and driving them,” he said, referring to his smooth ride, a glistening 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix GT with “Got PV?” bumper sticker.

His mother, who works at UPS, hails from Trinidad & Tobago.

Growing up in Eastern Henrico County, Chris signed up for basketball and football.

“I was just average,” he recalled.

He began running long distances in eighth grade on Fairfield Middle

Pole vaulter Chris St. Helen practices his lift and positions at Aerial East Gymnastics in Mechanicsville. The Henrico resident won the Division 5, South Regional title last month by clearing 15-4.

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School’s track team, but found the activity more perspiring than inspiring.

“It didn’t look like I would go far and, worse, it wasn’t any fun,” he said. “I began watching the vaulters.

It was eye catching.”

That’s when Coach Bishop, who is one of the state’s vaulting gurus, came into sharp focus.

With great success, Coach Bishop has coached a large chuck of the area’s elite vaulters for some 30 years. The mentoring began in Coach Bishop’s backyard in Mechanicsville. Now his Aim High Vault Club has a home with a roof at Aerial East Gymnastics off Pole Green Road in Hanover County.

St. Helen trains alongside some of Virginia’s top vaulters, including Griffin Kowalt from New Kent, who has sailed 15-7 in Division 3A. St. Helen’s Highland Springs High and Aim High teammates include Springer Patrick Booker, who cleared 13 feet at the South Region meet.

Previously, Coach Bishop’s clients tended to hail from Lee-Davis and Atlee High schools.

He says he changed, purposely, “to give back, to help out with some of the inner- city athletes.”

Highland Springs isn’t inner city, but St. Helen and Booker stand out as young African-Americans in an event that is predominantly white and suburban.

“That’s right, there aren’t many black vaulters,” Coach Bishop conceded.

With that, he added: “But probably the three most successful vaulters in Virginia history were all black.”

Topping Coach Bishop’s list of vaulters of color is Lawrence Johnson of Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake, who went on to win four NCAA titles at the University of Tennessee and then a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Then there was Brian Hunter, also of Great Bridge High, who went on to win the 2002 NCAA crown at the University of Texas.

Closer to home, Kevin Brown of Henrico High School was a state champion in Virginia and went on to star at the University of North Carolina before competing on the pro circuit with 18-4 best.

Vaulters tend to be over 6 feet tall, but St. Helen takes heart in the fact that the world record holder, Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie, is just 5-foot-10

and 152 pounds.

“It is an advantage to be taller,” said St. Helen. “But if you don’t have that advantage, you make the most of what you do have.”

Coach Bishop praises St. Helen for his intelligence, explosive speed, strength relative to his slender frame and rubbery joints.

In fact, despite no formal training, St. Helen has been hired at Aerial East to help train gymnasts in the 4 to 15 age groups.

There’s more to being a vaulter than can be determined from physical stature. Sometimes you need to look into their head. To flip upside down, so far into the air, isn’t for the timid.

To succeed on a top level, the fear factor must be minimized.

“I never had any fear factor,” insists St. Helen. “Sure, I’ve had some tough falls. But it’s the falls, I think, that help you eliminate the fear factor.”

Coach Bishop noted Lavillenie, the 2012 Olympic champ in London at 19-7, was a “circus acrobat” before becoming a vaulter.

Virginia’s all-divisions state record for the vault is held by another Great Bridge High athlete, Mike Morrison, who sailed 17-6 1/2 in 2005.

Out of Richmond, former JeffersonHuguenot-Wythe High School stand-

VUU coach, player on ballot for College Football Hall of Fame The College Football Hall of Fame has taken notice of Virginia Union University’s rich football history.

Former Panthers Coach Joe Taylor and defensive stalwart William Dillon are on the ballot as candidates for the Hall of Fame Class of 2017.

Selections will be announced Jan. 6, 2017, in Tampa, Fla., as part of the festivities surrounding the College Football Playoff National Coach Taylor Championship.

Induction ceremonies will be Dec. 5, 2017, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City during the 60th Annual National Football Foundation Awards dinner. Honorees will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame in Atlanta and recognized at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.

Other coaching nominees from historically black colleges and universities are Rudy Hubbard (83-48-3 at Florida A&M University) and Dwight Reed (135-75-6 at Lincoln University in Missouri).

Coach Taylor, 66 and native of Washington, already is a member of the VUU, CIAA and MEAC halls of fame.

He received his college coaching start at VUU in 1980 under Coach Willard Bailey.

William Dillon Coach Taylor’s squads were frequent post-season participants. He guided VUU to three NCAA playoff berths and Hampton University to five NCAAs and a Heritage Bowl appearance.

With 233 career victories, he retired from Florida A&M University in 2012, ranking 33rd in wins among all coaches and tied for third among HBCU coaches.

Since returning to VUU as athletic director two years ago, Coach Taylor has been busy with successful coaching hires.

Football Coach Mark James, in his second season, led VUU to its first NCAA appearance since 1991, when Taylor

Joe Taylor coaching file School

Record

Years

Howard University

1- 9

1983

Virginia Union University

60-19-3

1984-1991

Hampton University

136-49-1

1992-2007

Florida A&M University

36-20

2008-2012

Totals 233-97-4

Taylor was an assistant coach on Eastern Illinois University’s 1978 NCAA Division II championship team.

was coach.

First-year women’s basketball Coach AnnMarie Gilbert directed VUU to a 28-3 record, the CIAA and Atlantic Region titles and a berth in the NCAA Division II Elite Eight.

And first-year men’s basketball Coach Jay Butler led VUU to its first CIAA tournament game victory in seven seasons.

On Coach Taylor’s watch, VUU also has excelled in some of the less publicized sports such as track and field, cross country, softball and golf.

Dillon amassed 28 interceptions and was a three-time Associated Press First Team All-American in a brilliant football career as a free safety from 1979 to 1982 under Coach Bailey.

He was recruited to VUU by then assistant coach Bill Williamson. Coach Taylor was an assistant under Coach Bailey at VUU during the time Dillon played.

During the Detroit native’s career, the Panthers went 38-8-2 and qualified for four NCAA Division II playoffs. Undrafted, Dillon was invited to the Seattle Seahawks’ preseason training camp in Spokane, Wash.

After football, Dillon took up a new sport — slow-pitch softball — and last year was inducted into the Central Virginia Amateur Softball Association Hall of Fame.

At 58, he remains active with the Mid-Atlantic Seniors, Cooke’s-Allen and T&T co-rec softball teams. He also serves as umpire-in-chief for SoftballNation’s Black American division.

out Keith Young won two state titles and posted a 15-0 best in 1983.

Nowadays, only a few high schools — none in Richmond — place much concentration on the vault largely because of a lack of facilities and coaching, and the danger.

Coach Bishop’s former pupils include Chris Pillow, an Atlee High School graduate, who soared to 16-3 to win the State AAA title in 2011. He later vaulted at Rice University.

Last year, Coach Bishop took a group of vaulters, including St. Helen, to the National Pole Vault Summit in Reno, Nev. Coming up June 17 to 19 is the New Balance Nationals competition in Greensboro, N.C. To soar to vaulting’s upper tier, an athlete needs speed, strength, flexibility, mental toughness and opportunity.

St. Helen is way above average in all.

VSU extends Blow’s contract Virginia State University officials like what they see in basketball Coach Lonnie Blow Jr. so much so they have extended his contract through 2021.

“Coach Blow is a true leader for our men’s team,” said Coach VSU President Dr. Makola Abdullah.

Under Coach Blow, the Trojans won the CIAA basketball tournament in early 2016 in Charlotte, N.C., and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division II playoffs in West Virginia.

The Trojans were 24-6 overall last season and 14-2 in the CIAA. Coach Blow earned CIAACoach of the Year honors.

The Hampton Roads native’s three-season record in Ettrick is 56-24, lifting his overall coaching mark to 118-54 counting two stints at St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh, N.C. “Coach Blow’s leadership ability, coaching style and all-round commitment to our student-athletes’ academic success makes him the right fit,” said VSU Director of Athletics Peggy Davis.

Coach Blow has stabilized what had been a shaky basketball foundation. Between 1994 and 2013, VSU had eight different head coaches, counting interim Coach Gene Thompson

in 2011.

The 2016 CIAA basketball title was VSU’s first since 1988 and only the second in school history.

There is much for VSU hoops fans to be excited about.

Late last season, the Trojans moved Blow into the sparkling 5,100-seat Multi-Purpose Center, easily the top facility in the CIAA and arguably the best among NCAA Division II schools.

Returning from the 2015-16 championship squad are the team’s two leading scorers, Kevin Williams and Elijah Moore, and a host of others who played prominent roles.

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Personality: Dr. Addie J. Briggs Spotlight on honorary chair of ‘Jazz Inside Out’ Virginia Higher Education Fund benefit

Dr. Addie J. Briggs is accustomed to raising funds for educational causes that benefit Richmond area youth.

Patients at Dr. Briggs’ Eastern Henrico pediatric practice are familiar with her passion for promoting reading among her patients. She is known as the doctor who gives each patient a book during checkups. She also has lobbied congressional representatives to provide federal funding to purchase books for thousands of Virginia children up to age 5.

Dr. Briggs is so convinced that education and reading are gateways to knowledge and success that her latest endeavor is to raise funds for scholarships, books, emergency aid and mentoring activities for at-risk students.

She is the honorary chair of this year’s Virginia Higher Education Fund’s “Jazz Inside Out” benefit.

The fundraiser is 7 to 11 p.m. Friday, June 10, at the Willow Oaks Country Club, 6228 Forest Hill Ave. Parties will be held in the ballroom and on the terrace which has views of the James River and the golf course.

Performances will include the Cloud 9 Band, Quintessential Jazz Ensemble, comedian James Lawson and Kemel Patton, who will lead line dancing.

Despite her busy schedule, Dr. Briggs makes time to support such causes because she is convinced that education not only is a “way out,” but also a prescription for lifelong health

$30,000 during the music event. This year’s goal is to raise enough to start an endowment.

Dr. Briggs is confident the goal will be met because of continuing support from individuals and small businesses.

“It’s that kind of love and support that let’s us know we’ll meet our challenges,” says Dr. Briggs.

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and happiness.

Dr. Briggs and the members of the Virginia Higher Education Fund are especially concerned about students who have experienced homelessness. Many such students fail to complete high school or pursue college and graduate or professional schools.

“Half of our scholarships each year benefit students that have been in the foster care system,” Dr. Brigg says.

She encourages churches, fraternities, sororities and other community organizations to become more collaborative in raising funds to help send students to college.

Last year, the Virginia Higher Education Fund, a Henrico County-based nonprofit established in 2010, raised more than

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Happenings Richmond’s Plunky Branch releases autobiography at June 23 event

By Malik Russell

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

‘The Loving Story’ to be featured Sunday at Byrd Theatre The Byrd Theatre in Carytown will host a free showing of the HBO documentary “The Loving Story” at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, June 12, the Virginia Film Office announced this week.

Doors at the 1,300-seat theater will open at 4 p.m. and no tickets will be needed, the film office stated.

The documentary traces the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the Caroline County couple who defied a Virginia law banning inter-racial marriage and won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding their right to wed.

The showing is being held on “Loving Day,” a commemoration of the landmark decision that the nation’s highest court handed down 49 years ago on June 12, 1967.

Considered the nation’s biggest multiracial activity, Loving Day generates celebrations across the country, notably by gay activists, to pay tribute to the couple who changed the nation’s view of marriage and opened the door for the most recent change, same-sex nuptials.

The Lovings wed in 1958.

After being arrested and forced to leave Virginia, they gained legal help to attack the state’s miscegenation law that banned marriages between white and nonwhite people.

The showing comes just a few months before the release of the feature film “Loving” that also will tell the couple’s story and was made largely in Virginia.

The film, set to hit screens in November, was shown this spring at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim.

Appetite for Appétit Natasha Wilson of Croaker’s Spot serves an eager customer during Sunday’s Broad Appétit, an annual food fest on the main street through Downtown.

Hundreds of people enjoyed Clement Britt a variety of dishes from local restaurants during the $3-a-plate smorgasbord spanning four blocks on East Broad Street between Henry and Adams streets. Art, music and vendors also lured festivalgoers to the event hosted by the Downtown Neighborhood Association. Proceeds benefit FeedMore, a Central Virginia hunger-relief organization.

James “Plunky” Branch’s music consistently contains elements of jazz, funk and soul linked with African concepts of “Juju” and “oneness.”

Such sounds, which echo the title of his new autobiography, “PLUNKY — JuJu Jazz Funk & Oneness,” reflect a “positive force” for the music that has shaped his life.

Mr. Branch will perform and answer questions during a book launch at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 23, at the Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., in Downtown.

The program is free, but registration is required.

Mr. Branch, who was one of the founders of the Richmond Jazz Society, was honored by Dominion and the Library of Virginia in the Strong Men and Women in Virginia History series in 2015.

“Juju for me refers to everything African, jazz is the art music of the early 20th century and funk is the gritty urban music in the second half of the 20th century,” the internationally known saxophonist and Richmond native said in a recent Free Press interview. “Oneness is where I hope the music is going in the 21st century.”

For more than 40 years, Mr. Branch and his various incarnations of JuJu and Oneness have been a positive force in Richmond and beyond.

Under the names “Oneness of Juju,” “Plunky and Oneness of JuJu” and “Plunky & Oneness,” he has released 25 albums through his independent label, N.A.M.E. Brand Records. The song, “Every Way But Loose,” made the Top 10 on London’s soul music chart in 1982.

He has opened for such luminaries as Patti LaBelle, Ray Charles, Earth Wind & Fire, the Yellowjackets, Frankie Beverly and Maze, LL Cool J, and Chuck Brown.

Mr. Branch said he uses juju in his music to empower people, particularly those of African descent, to help them understand their own power in their struggles against oppression.

While his book chronicles his musical and spiritual journey, Mr. Branch hopes that it will benefit current and future musicians.

“The biggest purpose of the book is to share my experience with the intent that other people coming behind me will get some (insight on) best practices of what worked for me,” he said.

“The book is an attempt to mentor to younger musicians by sharing what I’ve done.”

Mr. Branch’s foray into intercultural music began when he was a student at Columbia University in New York. There he became involved with the antiwar protests and Black Power movements of the 1960s.

“I was involved in the concept of nationalism, the concept of elevating black life and black culture to what we believed was its rightful position of at least equality

Mr. Branch

to any other culture,” Mr. Branch said.

The experience made him realize there was more than one way to empower people, and music was to become his weapon of choice.

“It (protest) wasn’t the only way to get that information out and it wasn’t the only way to affect behavioral change,” Mr. Branch said. He believed that music could be a subtle reminder of “our power, a subtle reminder of what we wanted to achieve in terms of societal change.”

After Columbia, Mr. Branch went to

San Francisco, where he studied African music under Ndikho Xaba, a South African musician and performer in exile from apartheid in his homeland.

The experience became Mr. Branch’s impetus to form the band “JuJu,” which focused on African drumming, African spirituality and culture.

The band’s first album was “Juju — A Message From Mozambique” in 1973.

In New York, Mr. Branch and his band tapped into the local music scene, where they worked with musicians such as Sam Rivers, Frank Lowe, Rashied Ali, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, Clifford Jordan, Sonny Fortune and Jackie McLean. Jazz great Ornette Coleman allowed them to live and work out of his studio in SoHo, Mr. Branch recalls.

In 1974, after the release of “Juju Chapter Two: Nia,” the band moved to Richmond.

Through the years, his music has become as layered as his experience, incorporating hip- hop, smooth jazz, reggae, samba and classical. He has traveled throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and South America.

Two years ago Mr. Branch worked with his son, J. “Fire” Branch, to release the “Never Too Late” album, in which some of Mr. Branch’s older soul and jazz songs are remixed with hip-hop sounds.

Earlier this year, he released a jazz rendition of The Whispers’ tune, “In the Mood.”

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Prince autopsy report hints at puzzling painkiller mystery

By Carla K. Johnson AP Medical Writer

The report from the medical examiner who conducted Prince’s autopsy is tantalizing for what it doesn’t say.

The single-page document released last week lists a fentanyl overdose as the cause of death, but it offers few clues to indicate whether the musician was a chronic pain patient desperately seeking relief, a longtime opioid user whose habit became an addiction or a combination of both.

Authorities probably know much more than they are willing to discuss publicly as they seek the source of the fentanyl and consider criminal charges.

For now, details in the report, combined with what’s known about Prince’s final days, hint at a fuller picture.

Among those details is a note that Prince’s body had scars on the left hip and right lower leg. The report doesn’t say, but it’s possible the scars were evidence of past surgeries for joint pain. At least one friend has said Prince suffered years of hip and knee pain from his athletic stage performances.

In many ways, the 57-yearold superstar fit the description of a chronic pain patient who got hooked on opioids, said Andrew Kolodny, director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing. Opioids lead to tolerance, and some patients seek out stronger drugs after initial dosages stop working.

“We see far more overdose deaths in middle-aged people receiving legitimate prescriptions,” Mr. Kolodny said, citing a 2013 study of 250 deaths.

Relatives told rethat produce fentanyl searchers their loved equivalents for global ones, in the year bedistribution. fore they died, had Heroin-spiked fenbeen misusing their tanyl is marketed with medicine, taking more brand names such as than prescribed or us“China White” or ing painkillers to get “Fire.” high.

“Users know this Prince Less than a week and request it by before Prince died on April 21 name,” said Drug Enforcement in his home outside Minneapolis, Administration spokesman his plane made an emergency Lawrence Payne. stop in Illinois on a flight back Nothing in the report exto Minnesota following a concert plains whether Prince used a in Atlanta. The Associated Press pharmaceutical product or a and other media organizations, street drug. The report is silent citing anonymous sources, on whether it was prescribed by reported that first responders a doctor or obtained illegally. gave him an antidote commonly (Federal law sets a 20-year used to reverse suspected opioid minimum sentence for someone overdoses. who illegally provides fentanyl Fentanyl is a powerful opioid that kills a person. In Minnesota, prescribed by doctors to patients doing so could net a third-degree who develop a tolerance to murder charge and as much as other narcotics. It’s also a street 25 years in prison.) drug with ties to labs in China “Was it a lozenge? Was it a

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The report says nothing about other drugs Prince may have been taking. Some prescription drugs can affect the way fentanyl is processed by the body, increasing its toxicity, Dr. Agrawal said.

Some opioid users — whether they start as legitimate pain patients or recreational users — become addicted and lose control over how much they take. They use much more than is prescribed or seek out drugs on the black market.

Some also try to get drugs

by “doctor shopping,” visiting various health professionals until they find one who will prescribe opioids.

Minnesota, like most states, runs a monitoring program to track prescriptions of opioids and other high-risk drugs. The database includes the names of the patients prescribed the drugs, although those names are only available to law enforcement for 12 months from when pharmacies or doctors record it.

Minnesota shares information with 21 states.

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Nothing in the report indicates whether Prince’s name appears in the database.

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Happenings These gorgeous stained glass windows are a highlight of the exhibit.

The works are, from “Saint Adelaide,” “Saint Remi” and “Saint Amelie.”

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By Toni Wynn Special to the Free Press

‘Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic’ opens Saturday at VMFA

Asked what “A New Republic” means, visual artist Kehinde Wiley replies rapid-fire.

“It’s a space-clearing gesture.”

As the 20th century dawned, artists created modernism as a place where they could “create zones of new conversations,” he explained, throwing off the constraints of the old and too familiar.

Mr. Wiley’s “new space of undiscovered country” becomes a new republic of the 21st century.

Who populates this republic?

We all can if we feel the urgency of conversations about black bodies and how they represent and are represented in society.

When Mr. Wiley speaks of “a broader need to redefine ways bodies are coded,” his artwork speaks louder than words.

Nearly 60 portraits in this mid-career retrospective by Mr. Wiley, 38, will be on view

“On one level, the paintings are beautiful. On another level, they ask questions about who’s in power.

Who’s in the privileged position?

Why weren’t people of color in these [classical] paintings?” Dr. Eckhardt points out.

“A New Republic” contains pieces from Mr. Wiley’s World Stage series, which Dr. Eckhardt sees as addressing the history of colonialism.

“That’s the not the only way to look at the paintings, but it is one way,” she said. The VMFA invites us to “come look and have those conversations.”

In addition to his dazzling portraits, Mr. Wiley’s bronze busts are included the show.

Why work in bronze?

“Timelessness,” Mr. Wiley replies. “The illusion of fighting against time and decay.

Sculpture is a stand-in for what we value most in society.”

In his hands, sculpture “celebrates an aspect of African-American culture.” We’ll see how Monument Avenue affects him.

The opening of “A New Republic” will bring Mr. Wiley to Richmond for the first time. Asked how he thinks visitors will respond to the show, Mr. Wiley deflects.

He’s not looking for “a site-specific response.

Each [city] has its own cultural temperature,” he said.

For his part, Mr. Wiley is hoping to “get in a little fishing” while he’s here. Let’s hope the temperature is right.

such an unstinting way of need to pursue their vision Want to go? all-out glorification. without regard to how it can “They’re huge, jaw-drophelp the community.

“Kehinde Wiley: ping, so intricately wrought,” “I think it’s wonderful A New Republic” she said. “The rendering is so that we feel this commitment Where: Virginia Museum of Fine beautiful. Those skin tones! … but it can hold you back.

Arts, 200 N. Boulevard The execution is just very It can empower your work, When: Daily through Sept. 5 difficult and the works are give you passion. But it can Time: Museum open 10 a.m. to epic, heroic.” also limit you. It’s a very 5 p.m. daily, and until 9 p.m. on Mr. Wiley has taken heat delicate balance between the Thursdays and Fridays. for the actual execution of motivation and the limitation Exhibit tickets: $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, students with his paintings. He employs aspects of being a socially I.D. and youths ages 7 to 17; free assistants who work in concerned artist,” Harris for VMFA members, children age his studios, taking direcsaid. But after a point, she 6 and under and active military tion from the artist to help added, “[Wiley] should be personnel. create the portraits’ ornate held accountable.”

General admission: Free. backgrounds.

Art historian and cultural Information: www.vmfa.museum Here again, Mr. Wiley is writer John Welch sees Mr. or (804) 340-1400. following tradition.

Wiley’s work “as much a “Reubens, Rembrandt focus on thought-provoking had huge studios,” Dr. Eckhardt said. For 20th- social and political realities of ‘blackness,’ as century conceptual artists and minimalists, “em- it is an attempt to realize, through facility with phasis was on the concepts — it was important paint, a singular beauty.” not to make the art themselves.

Is the VMFA is a safe space for the kinds “Wiley has an enormous vision,” she contin- of difficult or controversial conversations Mr. ued. “You have to have people working alongside Wiley’s work elicits? you to work at that scale,” she says.

There’s a balance between the professional and the personal, the wide open and up close.

Mr. Wiley sees his process as “very open.”

He uses street casting — basically, asking passersby on the world’s streets to model for him — and documents the encounters. But he also wants the viewer in his head.

“The studio practice, how the paintings are made, convincing people to model for me, the act of seduction — this is an integral part of what it should be to experience the painting,” he said in a telephone interview last week with the Free Press.

“It’s about me looking, me seeing the world through sexual desire, political interest, desire to decode certain questions for myself. It’s about a black American going through the streets of black America and walking through the world.”

Other criticisms revisit the middle-school markers: Is Wiley black enough? Too black?

Does he meet shifting and arbitrary standards and expectations?

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Samantha Schwartzkopf takes in Kehinde Wiley’s “Judith and Holofernes.”

beginning Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.

The exhibit, “Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic,” was organized by the Brooklyn Museum and has toured the country and most recently drawn acclaim at the Seattle Art Museum.

The next stop, Richmond’s VMFA, is halfway through the tour.

Sarah Eckhardt, associate curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at VMFA, organized the local exhibit, which runs through Sept. 5.

“When you see the paintings together, you see the scope of his vision, which is big. He’s clearly putting African-American men — and now women and people of color from all over the world — into the center of the composition. That, to me, forms a new republic,” Dr. Eckhardt said.

In 2006, under the direction of former senior curator John Ravenal, the VMFA purchased Mr. Wiley’s “Willem van Heythuysen,” a 96” x 72” portrait, for the museum. “Our painting is from the time when he was just establishing himself,” Dr. Eckhardt said.

The exhibit opens with the VMFA’s painting, allowing visitors to see how the portrait fits into the whole of Mr. Wiley’s work. Given the majesty of the piece, it’s not a heavy lift to appreciate it.

But the artistic reference — the backstory — is well worth considering. In 1625, Dutch artist Frans Hals painted “Willem van Heythuysen posing with a sword.” Nearly 400 years later, Wiley posed a young African-American man similarly, painted his portrait on a huge canvas and used van Heythuysen’s name for the work.

A “space-clearing gesture,” indeed.

Of Mr. Wiley, Richmond native Juliette Harris, noted former editor of the International Review of African American Art published at Hampton University, said, “His works are stunning — the unexpected combination of figures from the ’hood with the opulent Renaissance-era backgrounds.

He’s taking these figures that are considered commonplace and heroically elevating them in

Thursday, June 16 | 5:30 p.m.

Kehinde Wiley exhibit events The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is hosting several events throughout the Kehinde Wiley exhibits run through Sept. 5. Among them: • Artist Talk with Kehinde Wiley, Friday, June 10, 6 p.m. Tickets sold out. Free overflow room available. Performance by the Harlem Chamber Players follows.

• Family Day. Celebrating African and AfricanAmerican Art, with art activities, demonstrations and performances, including by the Harlem Chamber Players. Saturday, June 11, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free. Participants will receive vouchers for free admission to the Wiley exhibit.

• Fine Art and Wine Tours, Friday, June 17 through Sept. 2, 7 and 7:30 p.m. Free.

• Wiley & Sporting Art, 30-minute gallery talk, Tuesday, July 5, 11 a.m.; Thursday, July 7, 6:30 p.m. Free.

• Community Conversation: Casting the World Stage. Moderated by Sarah Eckhardt, VMFA Wiley exhibit curator, and Richard Woodward, VMFA’s African Art curator. Video clips of Mr. Wiley’s street casting models around the world. Free, but ticket required.

• Wiley & South Asian Portraiture, 30-minute gallery talk, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 11 a.m., and Thursday, Aug. 7, 6:30 p.m. Free.

• Family Open Studio. Sunday, Aug. 7, 1 to 4 p.m. Free.

• “An Economy of Grace,” screening of the 52-minute PBS documentary about Mr. Wiley’s process and how he moves through the world. Friday, Aug. 12, 6:30 p.m. Ticket required.

• Creating a New Republic, talk by Brooklyn Museum Curator Eugenie Tsai, organizer of “Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic.” Friday, Aug. 26, 6:30 p.m. Ticket required.

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President Carter pushes for interracial Baptist cooperation

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service

Pastors Frederick Haynes and George Mason both lead Baptist churches in Dallas, but they had never met until the not-guilty verdict in the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin brought them together in 2013.

Now the two men — one the leader of a predominantly black megachurch, the other of a mostly white congregation — have signed a “covenant of action” spearheaded by former President Jimmy Carter.

President Carter, now 91, has long been known for building bridges between divided parties.

But his work to bring Baptists of different races together on a national level is morphing into grass-roots attempts to address community needs.

About a dozen partnerships have been created by groups of Baptists from Alabama to Oklahoma — renovating campgrounds, mentoring youth, packing boxes at a food bank.

The former president and a younger cohort of leaders are hoping the movement will grow to 100 by 2018.

“What we are trying to do now with the New Baptist

Covenant is to pair up AfricanAmerican-dominated churches and white churches in the same community — or sometimes on the same street almost — to work together on projects that are good for the low-income people in that neighborhood,” President Carter said in an interview.

Rev. Haynes and Rev. Mason have co-authored an op-ed on reducing payday loan businesses in Dallas. Recently, staffers of Rev. Haynes’ mostly black church, which once had some 20 payday loan businesses within a five-mile radius, trained Rev. Mason’s historically white church on ways to block them.

And now they are spending time together on racial reconciliation activities, including studying the Bible and sharing a meal that emphasized privilege.

“There were some who received more food than others and some received nothing and I think that was an eye-opening piece for many who were there,” said Rev. Haynes, who said the work of the two churches has moved beyond “feel-good” experiences. “What makes this effort different is that we are refusing to settle for a kumbaya moment.”

President Carter, the country may have who is scheduled to prematurely thought keynote a training racial reconciliation meeting of the New was achieved afBaptist Covenant ter the Civil Rights in Atlanta in midMovement victories September, said he of the 1960s. was moved origi“I think that was nally to bring black a sigh of relief too and white Baptists toearly because we gether because they rested on our laurels once met together President Carter and now we’ve found in the Triennial Convention in out in the last year or two, very the 1800s, before the Southern vividly with the police attacks Baptist Convention broke off on innocent black young people, in a dispute over slaveholding that we still have a long way to missionaries. go in this country,” President As a child, the former presi- Carter said. dent grew up in Georgia with He and other leaders say the African-American playmates fact that many churches have who helped him gain an un- not worked together — across derstanding of “some of the racial or other lines — is often problems of legalized racial more a matter of inertia than segregation.” of animosity.

After leaving the White “We actually know each House, he later quit the South- other but we don’t cooperate ern Baptist Convention over its with each other,” said President 2000 decision to bar women Carter, citing the example of the from the pastorate. He has 11 churches in his hometown of worked with more moderate Plains, Ga., that tend to come Baptist leaders to found the together mostly for Christmas New Baptist Covenant move- concerts. ment, bringing 15,000 people The Rev. James C. Perkins, together for an Atlanta meeting president of the historically in 2008. black Progressive National His continuing hopes for Baptist Convention, said he greater Baptist and interracial will be encouraging greater cooperation come, he said, after participation of his churches

Ebenezer Baptist Church

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2003 Lamb Avenue Richmond, VA 23222 (804) 321-7622 Dr. Arthur M. Jones, Sr., Pastor

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Sunday Worship Sunday Church School Service of Holy Communion Service of Baptism Life Application Bible Class Mid-Week Senior Adult Fellowship Wednesday Meditation & Bible Study Homework & Tutoring Scouting Program Thursday Bible Study

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the Oklahoma Indian American Baptist Association to provide tablet computers to elementary schools.

Hannah McMahan, executive director of New Baptist Covenant, works in an office the movement leases from the PNBC at its Washington headquarters. She’ll be traveling to annual meetings of some Baptist groups this summer to encourage expanded involvement.

Rev. Mason said he expects the movement will grow in part because of the inspiration and motivation by President Carter.

“His vision of the Baptist movement is that it be a movement of reconciliation,” said Rev. Mason. “It’s easier to get a lot of people to the table when he’s the convener.”

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with New Baptist Covenant to achieve more social justice progress and foster improved racial understanding.

“The more we come together to get to know one another,” he said, “the easier it becomes to talk about these touchy, volatile issues that impact the quality of life, not just in our congregations but across the nation.”

About half a dozen predominantly black PNBC congregations have committed to covenants of action. A PNBC state convention in Georgia and its counterpart in the mostly white Cooperative Baptist Fellowship are working together to repair an interfaith campground for joint youth retreats. And Oklahoma members of both of those national groups have joined with

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Ali remembered in Muslim world Ramadan observed amid as a voice of change hardships

By HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press

Free Press wire reports

Muslims around the world began observing Ramadan on Monday, Islam’s holy month during which believers abstain from eating and drinking during daylight hours.

President Obama marked the religious period with a proclamation that indirectly criticized Republican Donald Trump.

After paying tribute to American Muslims, Obama said, “I stand firmly with Muslim-American communities in rejection of the voices that seek to divide us or limit our religious freedoms or civil rights.”

Mr. Trump, who essentially has clinched the GOP presidential nomination, has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.

President Obama’s proclamation says, “We will continue to welcome immigrants and refugees into our nation, including those who are Muslim.”

Families displaced by the continuing fighting in Iraq and Syria say that tough living conditions will make it difficult for them to participate in Ramadan this year.

Falluja, already suffering water, food and medicine shortages, is being bombed by Iraqi forces, allied Shi’ite militias and aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition, in an offensive to retake the city from Islamic State militants.

Many families have fled to a nearby makeshift camp, where they say they have little electricity to keep them cool in the blistering heat of the daytime fasting hours, and little food to break the fast at dusk.

“Who can fast this year? Doesn’t someone who fasts need to eat? We have nothing,” said 75-year-old Shukriya Na’im, in comments echoed by many others in the camp.

“We used to lead a comfortable life when we were at our home. We used to fast and welcome Ramadan with happiness. But now our life in the tents is so hard, diseases are rampant and it is too hot,” said Sana Khamis, also has been displaced by the violence.

In Damascus, many complained that economic hardship caused by Syria’s five-year conflict made it hard to enjoy the month’s festive spirit.

Ramadan traditionally begins the morning after the sighting of the crescent moon. In most countries, it began on Monday, although some Muslims in countries including Oman, Pakistan, Iraq and Lebanon, were due to start a day later.

The daily fast often ends with a large evening meal.

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boxing coach who is also a member of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, Mr. Ali was an inspiration.

“God created him to box, not for anything else. I owe it to him that I took up boxing and that I fell in love with the sport,” he said.

Nizam Zayed, 48, a Palestinian handyman at a gym in the West Bank city of Ramallah, said he watched most of Mr. Ali’s matches during the old days of black-and-white television. “My generation liked Muhammad Ali because he was very good at boxing and because his name was Muhammad Ali and he was a Muslim.”

Pakistan’s cricket legend-turned-politician Imran Khan, writing a series of tweets mourning Mr. Ali’s death, described the boxer as the “greatest sportsman of all time” and a man of strong convictions. “Sportsmen have a limited career life span in which they can earn and Ali sacrificed it for his beliefs with courage and conviction.”

In Iraq, where Mr. Ali visited in 1990 to secure the release of 15 Americans who had been taken hostage by Saddam Hussein, retired heavyweight boxer Ismail Khalil mourned “The Greatest.”

“Today marks the death of a great champion. It is sad day for the world of boxing.

This champion does not represent America only, but the entire Islamic world, too.”

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Muhammad Ali speaks at a Nation of Islam convention in Chicago in February 1968.

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CAIRO Of all Muhammad Ali’s travels in the Muslim world, his 1964 trip to Egypt was perhaps the most symbolic, a visit remembered mostly by an iconic photo of the boxing great happily shaking hands with a smiling Gamal Abdel-Nasser, Egypt’s nationalist and popular president.

It was a mutually beneficial meeting: President Nasser was viewed with suspicion and mistrust by the United States, but was revered across much of Africa and Asia for his support of movements fighting European colonial powers.

For Mr. Ali, the new heavyweight boxing champion, being received by one of “imperialist” America’s chief enemies announced his arrival on the global stage as a powerful voice of change.

The boxing genius and revolutionary political views of Mr. Ali, who died last Friday at age 74, emerged when America’s Civil Rights Movement was in full swing and the Vietnam War raged on, sharply dividing Americans. In those years, the Muslim world was experiencing a postcolonial era defined by upheaval, with most developing nations taking sides in the Cold War, allying themselves to varying degrees with the United States or the Soviet Union.

Mr. Ali’s conversion to Islam won him the support of many across the region.

Three years later, his refusal to serve in the U.S. Army in Vietnam — “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong” — and his subsequent loss of the world title resonated with Muslims, many of whom saw that conflict as the epitome of America’s global tyranny.

“Muslims wanted a hero to represent them, and Clay was the only Muslim champion ... No other Muslim athlete managed to achieve what Clay did ... Thus, he was a symbol for Muslims,” said Mohammed Omari, an Islamic law professor in northern Jordan’s Al al-Bayt University.

In a Muslim world with a seemingly in-

finite number of people called “Mohammed Ali,” the Louisville, Ky., native was mostly referred to as “Muhammad Ali Clay” — ironically retaining one of the “slave” names that he argued so hard and long for people to drop after he became a Muslim.

It was the diversity of the causes embraced by Mr. Ali during his lifetime — from the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war activism to global charity work and dealing with Parkinson’s disease — that has won him a large following among a wide range of admirers in the Muslim world. To them, he meant different things.

“The uplifting exuberance of Muhammad Ali will endure long after his passing, ensuring that the lasting political achievements of one of the 20th century’s greatest sports superstars will remain a vital part of the history of the turbulence that changed the world in the 1960s and 1970s,” Dubai’s Gulf News, a widely read daily in the United Arab Emirates, said in an editorial.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II wrote that Mr. Ali “fought hard, not only in the ring, but in life for his fellow citizens and civil rights.”

“The world has lost today a great unifying champion whose punches transcended borders and nations,” King Abdullah wrote on his Twitter account. Accompanying his tweet was a photo of Mr. Ali, King Hussein, Abdullah’s late father, and President Gerald Ford — all in tuxedos.

Yet others in the region remember him for his boxing first, not his religion or politics.

Mohammed Assem Faheem, a threetime youth heavyweight champion in his native Egypt, takes a different view of Mr. Ali. “To me, he was primarily a boxing role model to follow,” he said. “When I watched tapes of his fights, I focused on two things: His footwork and defense tactics. I could not copy them, they were too good for me,” said Mr. Faheem, 26, who is better known by his nickname, Konga.

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Richmond Free Press

Legal Notices/Employment Opportunities City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the City of Richmond Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, June 20, 2016 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fifth Floor Conference Room of City Hall and the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing on Monday, June 27, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinances: Ordinance No. 2016-167 To authorize the special use of the property known as 21 West Clay Street for the purpose of authorizing one two-family attached dwelling and accessory parking, upon certain terms and conditions.

The Downtown Master Plan states that, “Historic Jackson Ward is also an example of the general urban condition in Richmond. The district represents the historic pattern of settlement in Downtown Richmond, with a connected network of blocks and streets and buildings shaping the public space.

A mix of buildings types exist in the neighborhood, ranging from single-family homes to rowhouses to mixed-use, main street buildings” (p.3.24).

Ordinance No. 2016-168 To authorize the special use of the property known as 3903 Hill Monument Parkway for the purpose of permitting an accessory dwelling unit and accessory parking, upon certain terms and conditions. The Land Use Plan of the City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for Single-Family (Low Density) land use. Primary uses in this category are single-family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre.

The density of the parcel if developed as proposed would be approximately 7 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2016-169 To authorize the special use of the property known as 4618 West Grace Street for the purpose of permitting a second floor lodging unit accessory to a dwelling unit, upon certain terms and conditions. The City of Richmond’s Master Plan designates the subject property for Single-Family (Low Density) land use. Primary uses in this category are “single family detached dwellings at densities up to seven units per acre” (p.

133). The authorized residential density of the parcel would be approximately 6 units per acre.

Ordinance No. 2016-170 To authorize the special use of the property known as 616 North 25th Street for the purpose of authorizing a retail store and twofamily attached dwelling with no parking required, upon certain terms and conditions. The Richmond Master Plan designates this area as Single-Family (medium density). “Primary uses are single-family and two-family dwellings, both detached and attached, at densities of 8 to 20 units per acre. Included are residential support uses such as schools, places of worship, neighborhood parks and recreation facilities, and limited public and semi-public uses” (p. 133).

Ordinance No. 2016-171 To amend Ord. No. 2014121-201, adopted Nov. 10, 2014, which authorized the special use of the property known as 1650 Overbrook Road for the purpose of authorizing multifamily dwellings with up to 205 dwelling units, to permit up to 117 multifamily dwelling units and other site amenities, upon certain terms and conditions. For the Near West Planning District, The Master Plan states that “There are a number of vacant industrial and commercial properties within the District, many of which are within or adjacent to residential neighborhoods. Creative reuse strategies for these buildings or sites are needed” (p. 229).

Ordinance No. 2016-172 To close, to public use and travel, a portion of Rowe Street located between South 1st Street and South 2nd Street, consisting of 1,177± square feet, and a 4’± strip of South 2nd Street along its northwest line at its intersection with Rowe Street, consisting of 527± square feet, upon certain terms and conditions.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.Richmondgov.com and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

Jean V. Capel City Clerk

City of Richmond, Virginia CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Richmond has scheduled a public hearing, open to all interested citizens, on Monday, June 13, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber on the Second Floor of City Hall, located at 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, to consider the following ordinance: Ordinance No. 2016-176 To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer and the Director of Procurement Services, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute a Goods and Services Contract between the City and Manchester Marketing, Inc. T/A Seibert’s Towing for towing-related services and tow lot operation.

Interested citizens who wish to speak will be given an opportunity to do so.

Copies of the full text of all ordinances are available by visiting the City Clerk’s page on the City’s Website at www.Richmondgov. com and in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23219, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Jean V. Capel City Clerk

Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND JOHN MARSHALL COURTS BUILDING PHILLIP EUGENE BROWN, SR., Plaintiff v.

MICHELLE BROWN, Defendant.

Civil Law No.: CL16-1762 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of the abovestyled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony from the defendant on the grounds that the parties have lived separate and apart without interruption for a period of more than one year, since July 7, 2003. And it appearing

by Affidavit filed according to law that Michelle Brown, the above-named defendant, is not a resident of this state and that due diligence has been used by or in behalf of plaintiff to ascertain in what county or city the defendant is, without effect.

It is therefore ORDERED that the said Michelle Brown do appear in the Clerk’s office of the Law Division of the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, John Marshall Courts Building, 400 North 9th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, on or before August 8, 2016 and do whatever necessary to protect her interest in this suit.

An Extract, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS

BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, BUNCOMBE COUNTY In the General Court of Justice, District Court Division Justina H. Scallion v.

Dale R. Scallion, 16-CVD-1055 TO: DALE R. SCALLION: Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above -entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is: Absolute Divorce. You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than July 6, 2016, and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought. This, the 26th day of May, 2016.

Laura G. Hooks, Attorney for Plaintiff, One Oak Plaza, Ste 209, Asheville, NC 28801, Tel: 828.333.2630 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER TAMMY DESPRES, Plaintiff v.

JAMES DESPRES, Defendant.

Case No.: CL16000970-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 1st day of July, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure Counsel for Plaintiff VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER DAWN JAMES-TAYLOR, Plaintiff v.

ANDREW TAYLOR, Defendant.

Case No.: CL16001386-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION

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the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of living separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for a period exceeding twelve months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 1st day of July, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: FRANK D. HARGROVE, JR., Clerk I ask for this: Dorothy M. Eure Counsel for Plaintiff VSB# 27724 8460 Mount Eagle Road Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9667

CUSTODY virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt IN the COunty of Chesterfield Commonwealth of Virginia, in re EMILY ELIZABETH JEAN & DYLAN JAMES CAROLINA BLUE MCMILLIAN, JIM HARFORD WILLIAMS v.

JOSHUA RAY JEAN & ELIZABETH ANN MCMILLIAN Case No. JJ067715-06-00, JJ052464-07-00 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Determine custody of Emily Elizabeth Jean (DOB: 1/5/05) and Dylan James Jean (DOB: 12/3/01), whose mother is Elizabeth Ann McMillian, and whose father is Joshua Ray Jean, pursuant to Virginia Code Section 16.1-241A3.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Joshua Ray Jean & Elizabeth Ann McMillian appear at the above-named Court and protect his or her interests on or before August 8, 2016 at 10:00 A.M. virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of the City of Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re SOPHIA RINEHULTS, Juvenile Case No. JJ091775-04, OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Unknown, (Father), of S O P H I A RI N E H U LT S , child, DOB 11/06/2015, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person, including but not limited to rights of: visitation; adoption consent; determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Unknown (Father), appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before 9/7/2016, at 9:30 AM, Court Room #5.

Diane Abato, Esq. 730 E. Broad St., 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-646-3493

PROPERTY Virginia: In the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond Theo Jones, Plaintiff v.

Bernice D. Washington, et al, Defendants.

Case No. 760CL15002102-00 ORDER OF PUBLICATION TO: Bernice D. Washington AND Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Successors in Interest and/or Assigns of Bernice D. Washington

The object of suit is to quiet title in and establish title in the plaintiff to 105 West 21st Street, Richmond, Virginia 23224, that was willed

by Milton Jones, to Lillian Jones Dobbins and Herbert Dobbins, her husband, in Will Book 15, page 358, probated February 16, 1959; both died intestate, leaving Bernice D. Washington, as a potential heir to said property, now a lot.

An affidavit having been made and signed that the heirs, devisees, successors in interest and/or assigns of Bernice D. Washington, believed to be deceased, whose names are unknown, are or may be interested in the property to be disposed of in this suit, and if any such heirs, devisees, successors or assigns there be, it is therefore

ORDERED, that each of said parties appear on or before July 10, 2016, and do whatever is necessary to protect their interest.

A Copy, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk I ask for this: Audrey Freeman JaCobs (VSB 13166) Attorney at Law 2214 East Marshall Street P.O. Box 7970 Richmond, Virginia 23223 804.643.0500

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Documents are located at www.eva.virginia. gov and available from the individual indicated below.

Second Baptist Church (South Richmond) is seeking candidates for a Church Administrator. Interested parties can view the job description, the employment application and authorization for background check form at www.2bcsouthside.org and follow the link on the front page. This position is reposted to reflect changes in the duties.

Application, authorization for background check form and resume (if desired) can be emailed to employment@2bcsouthside.org or mailed by June 17, 2016 to: Second Baptist Church Attention: Human Resources 3300 Broad Rock Blvd.

Richmond, VA 23224

Inquiries should be directed to: Brenda L. Williams at brenda.williams@vdot.virginia.gov, or (804)786-2777.

Proposals will be received in accordance with the information posted at www.eva.virginia.gov until 2:00 P.M. local time on July 7, 2016.

If questions, contact the church at 804-232-5124.

Request foR PRoPosals Crater and Richmond Multi-Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan CVeMa threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

ECONOMIST Richmond, VA

The Research division of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) seeks an Economist to research, track, and analyze fiscal, economic, marketing, and industry issues. This work supports VEDP’s goals of helping companies to create jobs and make capital investments in Virginia. A Bachelor’s degree in economics, business, finance or related field is required. Master’s degree in economics, finance or business is preferred. Experience in economic development is desirable. Hiring range: $55,000 - $65,000.

The Richmond Regional Planning District Commission (PDC) invites all qualified individuals and firms to submit a proposal to develop an update to the multi-regional hazard mitigation plan for the Crater and Richmond Regional PDCs plus a Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment for the Central Virginia Emergency Management Alliance.

Proposal and submission information available at www.richmondregional.org. Deadline for submission is June 20, 2016. EOE

All candidates must apply through our website http://www.yesvirginia.org/AboutUs/Employment.

Application deadline: June 20, 2016.

EOE/M/F/V/D

INVITATION FOR BID The County of Warren invites qualified contractors to submit sealed proposals to complete Carson Trail located in Rockland Park (250 Rockland Park Court, Front Royal, VA 22630). Work includes but is not limited to 2,981 LF of 6-foot-wide aggregate trail with prime & double seal surface; earthwork; clearing & grubbing; erosion control measures; dry swales, level spreaders, and grass filter strips; HDPE culverts; and site furnishings.

This is a Federally-funded Recreational Trails Program (RTP) project where Buy America requirements must be met. The Contractor must meet a 5% DBE participation requirement. Companies that cannot provide the required insurance and bonds or do not meet project qualifications need not respond to this announcement.

Loan Program SPeciaLiSt VHDA seeks an experienced, results-oriented individual to provide accurate and timely document review and analysis related to the VHDA Mortgage Credit Certificate Program. The ideal candidate would have a high school diploma or GED with several years of experience in residential mortgage lending. Must have knowledge and familiarity with mortgage lending documents and working with lending systems and data entry, as well as strong communication skills, excellent customer service ability and the capacity to work in a fast paced environment.

We offer a competitive salary with generous benefits package. Submit resume with cover letter stating salary requirements online only at:

Contract Documents will be available for purchase at Warren County Offices, 220 North Commerce Ave., Suite 100, Front Royal, VA 22630, Ph: 540.636.4600, Fax: 540.636.6066.

A non-refundable check, payable to Warren County in the amount of $50.00, is required prior to issuance of Contract Documents. No more than three sets of documents will be made available to one potential bidder. No partial sets will be provided.

http://www.vhda.com/about/careers An EOE This position closes at midnight on Friday, June 17, 2016.

Background and credit checks will be performed as a condition of employment.

Hiring range - $39,084 – 50,808

Bids will be due at the Warren County Offices, Attention Brandy Rosser, no later than 3:00 p.m., Monday, June 20, 2016. Telegraph or Facsimile Bids will not be accepted. Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud on the day of receipt at 3:15 pm.

Payroll SPecialiSt The Virginia Housing Development Authority is seeking an individual to join its Human Resources Division as a Payroll Specialist. Duties of this position include the coordination of the payroll process with Human Resources, payroll administration, and reviewing and reconciling payroll and retirement plan records.

All inquiries for technical information should be submitted in writing (no phone calls) and mailed, e-mailed, or faxed to: Bill Mechnick, Land Planning & Design Associates, Inc. 1006 E. Jefferson St. Suite B, Charlottesville, VA 22902 Fax: 434.296.2109, bill@lpda.net.

Associate degree or equivalent payroll or HR related experience is preferred.

Knowledge of Federal/State payroll laws and regulations, Affordable Care Act reporting requirements and general bookkeeping in order to reconcile and balance accounts is preferred. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a focus on customer service, professional standards and work quality are required. Experience with Ceridian HR/Payroll software is a plus. The ideal candidate is collaborative, detail oriented and well organized with the ability to think critically to resolve ongoing complex issues while managing important details in a deadline driven environment. Successful candidates will possess sound judgment and solid decision making skills as well as excellent time management skills. Must be able to multi-task and balance priorities involving confidential and/or sensitive matters.

Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center

Lifeguard/Recreation Assistant $20.00 – 25.00 per hour The Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center is actively recruiting for a Lifeguard/Recreation Assistant. The selected individual will maintain constant surveillance of youth in direct care during recreation and leisure activities and maintain the aquatic facility along with serving as the Lifeguard. The incumbent will assist with the planning and development of on campus activities for male and female residents; assist with implementing a variety of physical, therapeutic and leisure activities.

The successful candidate must have a working knowledge of recreation and leisure planning activities with adolescents; experience supervising the daily activities in a recreational environment. This is an hourly position not to exceed 29 hours a week, must be available to work weekends. The selected candidate must be a certified lifeguard and must have a valid driver’s license by the time of employment.

Pre-employment drug testing and background investigation is required.

For additional information, please contact Human Resources at (804) 323-2505. To be considered for this position applicants must apply online at www. jobs.virginia.gov Equal Opportunity Employer

Freelance Writers

The Richmond Free Press has immediate opportunities for freelance writers. Newspaper experience is a requirement.

To be considered, please send 5 samples of your writing, along with a cover letter to news@richmondfreepress.com or mail to: Richmond Free Press P. O. Box 27709 Richmond, VA 23261 No phone calls.

We offer a competitive salary with generous benefits package. Submit resume with cover letter stating salary requirements online only at: http://www.vhda.com/about/careers An EOE Background and credit checks will be performed as a condition of employment.

Hiring range - $44,946 – 58,428

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SECRETARY OF THE BOARD, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) seeks an accomplished professional to serve as Secretary of the Board and provide comprehensive support to the Rector, the Board of Visitors, and the President on issues of Virginia policy governing Board meetings and operations, sound Board practices, and Board-related functions.

Provides leadership and oversight of the strategic, operational and administrative work of the VCU Board of Visitors. Provides leadership for the planning, implementation and coordination of Board and Board Committee meetings as well as supporting communciations and engagement between the President and other members of the university’s administrative leadership and the Board.

Virginia Commonwealth University is a major, urban public research university with national and international rankings in sponsored research. Located in downtown Richmond, VA., VCU enrolls more than 31,000 students in 222 degree and certificate programs in the arts, sciences and humanities. Sixty-seven of the programs are unique in Virginia, many of them crossing the disciplines of VCU’s 13 schools and one college. One of the nation’s leading academic medical centers, the VCU Medical Center encompasses VCU’s entire medical enterprise and conceptually integrates VCU’s hospitals and clinical care facilities, five health sciences schools, and medical research components. The Inger and Walter Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences in Charles City County, VA., is VCU’s 494-acre field station devoted to environmental studies and research. The VCU-Inova Campus in Northern Virginia provides training for third- and fourth-year medical and pharmacy students, while another satellite location for Doctor of Pharmacy students is hosted by the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, VA. Even further afield, the VCU School of the Arts in Qatar has been awarding fine arts degrees since 2002.

Must have an advanced degree or training and work experience at a level that equates to an advanced degree. A law degree and/or a Master’s degree is preferred.

Equivalent applicable training and experience is required. VCU seeks candidates with demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff and student environment or a commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU. To ensure consideration, nominations and applications (including resume and cover letter) should be sent to Virginia Commonwealth University, ATTN: Cathleen Burke, Human Resources, Lindsey House, 600 West Franklin Street, P.0.Box 842511, Richmond, VA 23284-2511. For questions and confidential inquiries, please call VCU Human Resources, at (804) 828-0179.

Virginia Commonwealth University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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The Greatest of All Time

Ali was golden starting in 1960 Olympics

By Fred Jeter

The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome were held during the height of the bitter Cold War. Helping to ease world tension was 18-year-old Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., just two months after his graduation from Central High School in Louisville, Ky., where he was a bit of a class clown.

Clay’s playful antics included racing the school bus down neighborhood streets, losing ground when the bus was moving and then gaining the lead — to the delight of the student passengers — when the bus stopped for pick ups.

Running was central to his boxing regimen.

Clay reportedly was introduced to the sport after his bicycle was stolen at age 12.

While reporting the theft to police, young Clay vowed to “whip” whoever stole it.

The officer, Joe Martin, told him he had to learn how to box first and invited Clay to the local Police Athletic Club.

Quickly, Clay became the Kentucky Golden Gloves champ, a title he won six times, along with the national Golden Gloves title, which he won twice.

He carried his Hollywood smile and his jaw-dropping athleticism across the Atlantic Ocean to the Olympics in August 1960.

Once in Rome, Clay, who later would change his name to Muhammad Ali, was so intent on shaking everyone’s hand he was dubbed the “mayor of the Olympic Village.”

The outgoing teen became particularly chummy with U.S. sprinter Wilma Rudolph, the long-legged, 20-year-old from Tennessee State University who won three gold medals in the competition. The two were frequently photographed together and became life-long friends.

Young Clay, competing in Olympic boxing’s light heavyweight class, warmed hearts with his smile and broke opponent’s dreams with a quick-fisted, quick-footed

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Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, stands in the top spot after winning a gold medal in boxing at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

boxing style that later would be dubbed the “Ali shuffle.”

In claiming the gold medal before capacity crowd of more than 16,000 at Palazzo dello Sport, Clay won four bouts, all against Europeans. He defeated Belgium’s Yvon Becaus by technical knockout, and then Gennadiy Shatkov of the Soviet Union, Australia’s Anthony Madigan and, finally, Poland’s three-time European champ, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski.

Clay won the quarterfinal, semifinal and final matches all by 5-0 unanimous decisions.

Winning in the ring was the easy part.

After all, Clay was 100-5 as an amateur and was the lone American to score a knockout at the U.S. Olympic Trials finals earlier in California.

However, getting to Rome posed a problem.

Clay endured bouncy flights to and from the

U.S. Olympic Trials and developed a flying paranoia. He vowed not to board a jet to Rome, and instead requested to travel by ship.

When he learned he couldn’t sail to Europe, he agreed to fly — but only with a parachute strapped on his back during the entire trip.

Clay wasn’t alone in the Italian Olympic spotlight.

Two other U.S. gold medalists in boxing were African-American. Wilbert McClure won the light middleweight division and Eddie Crook struck gold in the junior middleweight division.

Also during the Rome Olympics in 1960, Rafer Johnson, who would become famous as a bodyguard for Robert F. Kennedy, won the decathlon.

And Ethiopian Abebe Bikila became the first sub-Sahara African to earn Olympic gold by finishing first in the marathon. Astonishingly, Bikila ran the 26.2 miles barefoot.

Clay wasn’t the first U.S. Olympic champ to become the world’s heavyweight champion. Floyd Patterson used his Olympic win in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland, to launch his illustrious pro career.

George Foreman, who would lose to Ali in the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire, won the Olympic heavyweight title in 1968 in Mexico City.

Just two months after the 1960 Olympic Games, Clay turned pro and began an ascent to the world heavyweight throne.

He became famous for his fast fists, fancy feet and rhyme-laced predictions of upcoming bouts. Before challenging champion Sonny Liston in 1963, Clay got poetic with reporters: “He’s big and tough and his name is Clay, He calls the round and puts ‘em away; The hide he wants is Sonny Liston’s, To win, his fists must work like pistons.”

He would go on to become known as heavyweight champion of the world, Associated Press athlete of the century, the greatest of all time, cultural icon, philanthropist and beloved senior citizen.

Give ear to this story and listen to what I say About a man born named Cassius Clay, He believed in himself – His work was his play, He earned his living, the pugilistic way.

With dancing feet and bullet fast hands, He was no match for the ordinary man!

He represented America in the Olympics in Rome – Dazzled the crowds and brought the gold Home.

But a hero’s welcome he did not receive, For at that time in America, Black people lived on their knees.

In Rome he was called an Olympian - In America a “N-----” Because of America’s treatment, he threw his gold into a river.

He changed his name to Muhammad Ali; And became the man Allah made him to be.

He took on all the challengers of his day; And he backed up the words he had to say.

At every Victory you would hear him cry, “I am the Greatest” – Which wasn’t a lie.

With rhymes and wit and a gift to entertain – The “Greatest of All Time” was his claim to fame.

Like a magician and a fortune teller with a crystal ball, He would broadcast the round that his opponent would fall.

And many began to believe the truth of his predictions, When he took the heavy weight title from Sonny Liston.

But not all were happy with this loud and truculent man.

And by virtue of his color, America was not going to let him stand.

He fully understood the rules – He was born in the South, And dared the establishment to shut his mouth.

Now, he got into an argument with America’s Uncle Sam, For refusing to go to war to fight the people of Vietnam.

Against the Vietnamese Ali refused to pull the trigger.

He had nothing against them – They had never called him “N-----” America called him a coward – Tried to assassinate his name, for refusing to fight a people that America wanted to tame.

Others were sent to fight, the people of Vietnam; Something he would not do – Something he did not understand.

Soon, an organization by the name of the WBA, Stripped of him of his belt and took his title away.

To inflict more pain – They did all they could do; Blacklisted his name and stopped his ability to earn a living too!

“You’ll never box again – You’ve had your last fight,” Were the insults yelled whenever he was in sight!

But many begin to question, “Was the war in Vietnam Right?”

Allah was weaving a plan that would later come to light.

In a time when it was legal to segregate, discriminate, and hate; It was acceptable to keep and put, black people in their place.

They called for his beating – His lynching with their might, But he held on to his faith and prayed both day and night!

He spoke at college campuses and talked with politicians too!

To feed his family and return to the ring – He did all that he could do!

His refusal to fight the people of Vietnam was hotly debated.

But Uncle Sam wasn’t listening – Just wanted him incarcerated.

Serena screams to a halt in French Open Reuters

PARIS The real Serena Williams finally turned up at the French Open last Saturday in pursuit of a 22nd grand slam singles title.

But it was to no avail.

Williams lost to a tenacious opponent who beat her at her own power game.

In contrast to her listless quarter and semi-final performances in laboring past two players outside the world’s top 50, Williams looked more like her unbeatable self as she traded high-octane blows with Spanish fourth seed Garbine Muguruza.

The return of Williams’ trademark screams after key points also pointed to a more focused approach than she had shown during matches last Thursday and Friday.

A share of the professionalera record tally of singles crowns held by Steffi Graf would have been hers had she won, but it was Muguruza who

triumphed 7-5 6-4.

Earlier in the tournament, Williams appeared to view the landmark with indifference, telling reporters last Friday, there’s “nothing I can do about it.”

But her committed con-

tribution to last Saturday’s captivating final suggested that, she cared more than she was willing to admit.

In the end, the better player won and Williams denied suggestions that the pressure of gunning

for a 22nd grand slam singles title might be getting to her.

“Today Garbine played unbelievable,” Williams told reporters.

“The only thing I can do is just keep trying.”

Brothers awaiting Olympic trials after injuries Noah Lyles has bigger fish to fry than Virginia’s 6A Track and Field Championships.

The state’s fastest sprinter, a junior at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, chose not to run last Saturday at the track championships Todd Stadium in Newport News after suffering a slight hamstring injury during the preliminaries.

Last Friday, he breezed to the fastest qualifying time in the 100-meter preliminary round — 10.71 seconds — but felt some discomfort in the back of his leg.

He was scratched from both the 200-meter trials on Friday,

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June 3 and the 100-meter final on Saturday, June 4.

Lyles’ brother, Josephus Lyles, sat out the entire meet with a quadriceps injury. Josephus also did not compete a week earlier at the Northern Division regionals.

Noah Lyles was the defending State 6A champ in the 100and 200-meter events, while Josephus was the defending champion in the 400 meters.

Both Noah, 18, and Josephus, 17, have qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials July 1 through 10 and the IAAF World Junior Championships July 22 through 27, both in Eugene, Ore.

Noah, with the fastest 100- and 200-meter clockings in Virginia school history, is one of 32 Olympic trials qualifiers in the 100 and one of 30 in the 200.

Josephus is among 28 qualifiers for the 400 trials.

Trials qualifying standards are 10.16 seconds for the 100, 20.50 for the 200 and 45.40 for the 400.

If successful in Eugene, the brothers could advance to the Summer Olympics Aug. 5 through 21 in Rio de Janeiro.

They have signed to compete at the University of Florida starting this fall. — FRED JETER

They shut doors in his face and tried with all their might, To lock him up, knock him down, and dim his mighty light.

But our athletes and others came to him – And gave support, too.

They had walked in his shoes – His pain was something they knew.

Some urged him to escape to Canada, Go overseas – To run, duck and hide, But he chose to stand his ground, and fight – Knowing Allah was on his side.

A win was not certain – For the first time in history, A Black man would take on a Nation that denied him the right to be.

He would fight for his life and freedom; a fight the world would see – The United States of America v. Muhammad Ali. Not in the ring but on the World Stage - Would this fight be.

Like David v Goliath – It would go down in history!

No one could imagine – none had the vision to see – It was Allah’s plan – The United States of America v. Muhammad Ali. He took their best shots and didn’t go down He kept his head up – while his feet danced all around.

He floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee He did the “Ali shuffle,” and got the victory!

He is the Greatest – The Greatest of all time.

He’s the people’s champion, over whom none will climb.

They took his title and belt, without a fight you see; But, the title and belt they removed were not greater than he.

He kept his head up and maintained his pride He took on the fight of his life – He didn’t duck and hide.

They tried to break and humble him for the world see.

But even mighty America was no match for Muhammad Ali. Now, you know the story — The legend of Cassius Clay.

A fighter who knew from the beginning he would be The Greatest one day.

Along the path to glory, he changed his name to Muhammad Ali. Allowing Allah’s plan to be! © 2016 ErnEst t. Woodson

Employment Opportunities .

Deputy County Manager

County of Henrico, Virginia

INSTRUCTOR ACCOUNTING Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Business is seeking an Instructor for the Department of Accounting.

The mission of the Department of Accounting, School of Business is to provide quality education through undergraduate and graduate programs, and continuing professional development initiatives that: 1) prepare students for professional and academic careers in the field of accounting; 2) provide business accounting concepts to School of Business majors and other students of all types; and 3) encourage and build active partnerships between the academic and private/public sectors. Continuing scholarship and professional growth contributing to the knowledge-base of the discipline are central to the mission.

For a detailed job description and instructions on how to apply, please visit https://www.vcujobs.com.

Virginia Commonwealth University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Virginia State Fire Marshal The VA Department of Fire Programs is accepting applications for State Fire Marshal until 5 p.m. Monday, June 27th, 2016. This is a full-time position, pay band 6, with a hiring range of $55,000 to $95,000. For the full job description, and to apply, visit: http://virginiajobs. peopleadmin.com/postings/45309.

IRC81625. Performs varied and independent work of a highly responsible nature in administering the daily activities of the County in a variety of areas, as assigned by the County Manager; does related work as required. For a more specific description of duties and qualifications and to apply, visit our iRecruitment site on the Internet at http://henrico.us/services/jobs/. Deadline 6/27/2016. EOE.

SEEKING ORGANIST Ebenezer Baptist Church is seeking a proficient organist to play for our Women’s Choir on 4th Sundays. The applicant must read music on sight, as well as play in anthem, spiritual, and gospel style, and read hymns.

Please submit a cover letter of interest and a resume via email to ebcoffice1@yahoo.com or mail to the Director of Music, Ebenezer Baptist Church, 216 W. Leigh Street, Richmond, VA 23220.

University of Virginia Center for Comparative Medicine

Coordinator of Dual Enrollment

The Center for Comparative Medicine is seeking two full time Virginia licensed Veterinary Technicians to assist in providing veterinary health care to research animals predominantly rodents. These positions require the incumbents to work at least one weekend day as a portion of their 40-hour workweek, and holidays on a rotational basis with the other veterinary technicians in the Center. These full time positions come with full benefits including health and dental insurance, retirement, and up to $2000/yr in an educational benefit relevant to the position.

A current active veterinary technician license in the Commonwealth of Virginia is a requirement for the position. Please apply for position no. #0618560 at https://Jobs.virginia.edu. The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer.

(Position #FA276) (J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA) Master’s degree in higher education, student personnel services, educational leadership, counseling, or a related field. Completion of the Commonwealth’s Statement of Economic Interest and pre-employment security screening required.

TYPE OF APPOINTMENT: Full-time, twelvemonth professional faculty-ranked appointment.

Salary commensurate with the education and experience of the applicant. Salary range: $60,457$119,039. Approximate maximum hiring salary: $67,236. Additional information is available at the College’s website: www.reynolds.edu.

APPLICATION PROCESS: Review of applications will begin AUGUST 4, 2016 and will be accepted until the position is filled.

AA/EOE/ADA/Veterans/ AmeriCorps/Peace Corps/ Other National Service Alumni are encouraged to apply.

Manager The Richmond Heritage Federal Credit Union is seeking a Manager with no less than 5 years of credit union management experience or the equivalent. The candidate must have a solid financial lending and accounting background and have the ability to deliver superior member service. Will be expected to supervise employees as well as lead the credit union forward.

Please send resume and salary history to : richmond2016credit@gmail.com

The City of Richmond is seeking to fill the following position: Construction Inspector III – Gas & Water 35M00000602 Public Utilities Apply 6/26/16 Pipeline Technician I - Gas & Water 35M00000416 Public Utilities Apply by 6/26/16 Pressure Control Technician II – Gas & Water 35M00000798 Public Utilities Apply by 6/26/16 ****************** For an exciting career with the City of Richmond, visit our website for additional information and apply today! www.richmondgov.com EOE M/F/D/V

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