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Stuck at start New RPS bus plan adds to first day issues

By Lauren Northington

At 7:35 a.m. Tuesday, sixth-grader Ayanna Street and her mother, Yakysha Langhorne, stood excitedly outside Westover Hills Elementary School waiting for Ayanna’s scheduled 7:53 a.m. school bus to take her to Binford Middle School.

Like Ayanna, more than 23,000 students started their first day of the 2016-2017 academic year in Richmond Public Schools in a fit of nerves, new outfits and new opportunities.

Mrs. Langhorne had taken the day off from her job in Short Pump to see her daughter off to her first day of middle school and eagerly snapped photos of a beaming Ayanna standing at the bus stop.

As one of thousands of students affected by the Richmond School Board-approved bus transportation plan for the new school year, Ayanna seemed unphased by the loss of her neighborhood bus stop. Despite having to get to a “hub” bus stop at a neighborhood elementary school to catch her bus to Binford, Ayanna seemed more anxious about attending a new school than worrying about where to catch the bus.

But the family’s joy faded to anxiousness and then upset as, an hour after the scheduled pick up time, the bus had not yet arrived.

After calling Binford Middle School, Mrs. Langhorne was advised to find alternate transportation for Ayanna for the morning because her bus was not coming.

Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press “I can’t lose my job waiting at a bus stop, and I cannot take Sixth-grader Ayanna Street, left, and her mother, Yakysha Langhorne, embrace during a first-day-of-school pep talk off work just to bring her all the way up to Westover Hills while waiting at the bus stop Tuesday at Westover Hills Elementary School. The South Side elementary school is everyday,” Mrs. Langhorne said.

Ayanna’s hub to get to Binford Middle School in the West End under the new transportation plan.

The problems were a mixture of first day kinks and the new transportation plan, which shifts the cost of transportation from the school district to parents.

RPS cut the pupil transportation budget by 3.2 percent even as two-thirds of the city’s students are transported daily on school buses.

On Tuesday, many parents

By Jeremy M. Lazarus 18 and 25 firefighter positions to save at waiting with their middle least $675,000.

Smokers will pay an extra 80 cents in Barraged by complaints that the fire- and high school students at tax for each pack of cigarettes they buy house closing would threaten public safety, Westover Hills complained inside the city limits of Petersburg begincouncil members backed off and voted to about the RPS administration ning Oct. 1 — a move the city officials leave all four firehouses open — leaving using them to offset costs in hope will generate $900,000 a year in it to interim City Manager Dironna Moore transportation.

Mr. McDonnell “I don’t understand why much needed revenue.

Belton to find another way to save the they don’t see the impact of On the same date, residents will face money.

Mayor Myers Ms. Belton modest increases in taxes on cars, resAdding pressure, the council voted to the transportation on parents, taurant meals and hotel rooms and will The deficit amounts to about $375 for keep paying $183,000 a year to Southside as if school administrators have to pay an extra $6 a month for trash each of the city’s 33,000 residents.

Virginia Emergency Crew (SVEC) to keep aren’t parents or have children collection, all aimed at generating at least Still, it remains uncertain whether City the 70-year-old ambulance service in opera- in Richmond Public Schools,” $1.2 million in additional cash Petersburg Council went far enough with the package tion in two districts to supplement the Fire Mrs. Langhorne said while needs to pay its bills. of cuts and tax increases that won approval Department’s emergency medical services several parents nodded and At the same time, Petersburg will slash in front of a largely hostile audience of — rather than expanding the department’s spoke in agreement.

Like many RPS students Free Press wire report $3.4 million in yearly support for public more than 500 residents. service to replace SVEC as the consulting schools, freeze the hiring of police offices, The seven-member council stopped The U.S. Supreme Court Please turn to A4 Please turn to A4 overturned federal corruption close its five museums and tourist centers, $1 million short of eliminating the $12.5 convictions against former Gov. cut recreation programs for city youths, million deficit. They also took no action end a subsidy for a minor league baseball to create a roadmap for paying off an Bob McDonnell in June.

But the former Republican team and extend a 10 percent cut in city estimated $14 million in accumulated, unpaid bills from the previous year. governor’s legal woes may not employee pay for the full year.

Those are just some of the changes that Despite the financial stress, the council be over. the Petersburg City Council approved Tuesrejected a recommendation from their Last week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern day night in a bid to dry up most, but not financial consultant, Public Financial District of Virginia reportedly all, of the $12.5 million in red ink that has Management of Richmond, to close one of its four firehouses and eliminate between recommended that the U.S. engulfed the current 2016-17 budget.

Justice Department retry Mr. McDonnell.

Free press wire report According to the Washington WASHINGTON Post, “people familiar with the President Obama nominated a Washington case” mentioned that the recomattorney for the federal bench Tuesday. If mendation does not guarantee confirmed, he would be the first Muslim that Mr. McDonnell will have Mr. Qureshi American to serve as a federal judge. to return to court to again fight

By Jeremy M. Lazarus to vote, run for office, serve on a President Obama nominated Abid Riaz Qureshi of Maryland for corruption charges. jury and act as a notary public. the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Higher ranking officials will Gov. Terry McAuliffe is facWhile Gov. McAuliffe and Mr. Qureshi’s bio at Latham & Watkins LLP says he specializes decide at a later date whether Mr. ing a new challenge from the his allies are vowing to fight, in cases involving fraud and securities violations. Mr. Qureshi also McDonnell will return to trial.

Republican-dominated Virginia they face an uphill battle given has managed large, complex investigations on behalf of international Asked if she would accept the General Assembly to his authority the Republican majorities in companies. recommendation of prosecutors to restore the rights of felons who the state Senate and House of He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1997 and Cornell who handled the case, U.S. At- have served their time — even Delegates.

University in 1993. torney General Loretta E. Lynch on a case-by-case basis.

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Norment An advocacy group called Muslim Advocates is applauding the told the Washington Post, “That’s Blocked by the Virginia SuThomas K. Norment, R-James nomination, saying that diversity helps ensure the fair administration working its way through the preme Court from issuing blanket orders City County, has opened the new front. of the law, and it is vital for Muslims to be included. process, so I’m not able to give to restore felons’ rights and hit with a Offended that the Democratic governor The group said he had worked with the organization on a pro bono you a comment on that.”

Republican request that the high court hold has sought to restore the voting rights of basis in two important civil rights cases.

Federal prosecutors have him in contempt for allegedly trying to get every felon who completes his or her senThe White House regularly has cited President Obama’s efforts to until Monday, Sept. 19, accord- around the ruling, Gov. McAuliffe now is tence — regardless of the crime — Sen. bring diversity to the federal judiciary, noting he has appointed 120 ing to the Washington Post, to trying to halt a move by GOP lawmakers Norment has introduced a constitutional minority federal judges and 138 female federal judges. inform the 4th U.S. Circuit Court to strip him and future governors from any amendment to overhaul the 186-year-old However, confirmation by the U.S. Senate is uncertain. role in the rights restoration process.

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Rakeem Bruce delivers his signature beats in Downtown.

He’s among the group of street musicians dubbed the Bucket Heads who perform original

Cityscape Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

rhythms on traditional and nontraditional percussion instruments in hopes of receiving donations from passers-by.

He was playing last Friday in the 700 block of East Broad Street.

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Scott readying Richmond hosts 9/11 memorial Friday for statewide race

By Bonnie V. Winston

U.S. Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott may be gearing up for a statewide race.

At his 40th Annual Labor Day Cookout hosted Monday in Newport News, Rep. Scott told the Free Press he would accept the U.S. Senate seat should its current occupant, Sen. Tim Kaine, be elected vice president in November and should Gov. Terry McAuliffe appoint him as Sen. Kaine’s replacement.

Rep. Scott, Sen. Kaine and Gov. McAuliffe all are Democrats. The governor is empowered by state law to appoint a temporary replacement to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate.

The new senator would fill Sen. Kaine’s seat until the next general election in November 2017, when he or she would have to run statewide for the right to complete Sen. Kaine’s current term. The winner would have to run again in November 2018 to win Rep. Scott a new six-year term.

Rep. Scott acknowledged that fundraising would be vital to Democrats continuing to hold the U.S. Senate seat.

At the Labor Day Cookout, an annual kickoff to the election season, Rep. Scott’s niece, Newport News Delegate Marcia Price, asked attendees to support Rep. Scott with their time and money.

Rep. Scott, who has represented Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District since 1993, is facing a challenge in November from Republican M.L. “Marty” Williams of Chesapeake.

Delegate Price added that donations to Rep. Scott’s campaign fund also would help him “as a potential statewide candidate.”

“He’s the hardest working politician I know,” she said. “When we call, he shows up for us. Now it’s important that we show up for him.

“The nation is watching Virginia,” she continued. “The nation is watching this campaign. We have to show we have his back.”

Correction A photo caption published in the Sept. 1-3 edition of the Richmond Free Press incorrectly identified the mothers of slain black men at the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 28 in New York.

The correct caption is republished below with the photograph.

The Free Press regrets the error.

From left, Lesley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown; Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant; and Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, pose Aug. 28 at the MTV Video Music Awards, where they were guests of Beyoncé at the glitzy ceremony.

Richmond will host a memorial program and a day of service Friday, Sept. 9, to mark the 15th anniversary of the terrorists attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, better known as 9/11, it has been announced.

Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones will lead the commemoration 8:30 a.m. at Marshall Plaza, 900 E. Marshall St., with the ringing of bells and a moment of silence.

The program will include remarks from the mayor and Brian Moran, state secretary of public safety and homeland

security. Richmonder Evan McKeel, a former contestant on “The Voice,” will sing.

Tours will be available of the city’s Mobile Command Post as well as information on fire safety and emergency preparedness and CPR training.

After the program, people will be able to climb the stairs inside Richmond City Hall to honor the first responders who sacrificed their lives to save others on 9/11.

Richmond residents also are encouraged to take part in service projects to be held

throughout the city from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., organizers said.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed, and more than 6,000 injured on 9/11 when terrorists flew two passenger jets into the World Trade Center towers in New York and a third into the Pentagon outside Washington. A fourth jet hijacked by terrorists crashed into a Pennsylvania field, also killing all on board.

Information about the service projects is available at www.richmondgov.com/Neigh borToNeighbor/911DayOfService.aspx.

8 scholarship winners announced

by Richmond Better Housing Coalition The Richmond Better Housing Coalition has named eight adult residents as winners of its first college scholarships.

A total of $10,000 will be awarded to the recipients at a reception 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at RBHC’s Lincoln Mews Community Center, 4013½ North Ave. in North Side.

Two recipients, Joi Green, who is attending Virginia Union University, and Quinesse White, who has enrolled at Bryant & Stratton College, are each to receive a $2,000 scholarship for enrolling in a four-year program.

The six other recipients each are to receive a $1,000 scholarship for enrolling in a two-year program. They are Anthony

Brooks, Cadisha Hurdle, Derek Lem, Brian Jefferson, Delsa Sally and Joyce Spain.

Recipients in good standing can re-apply each year, RBHC officials said.

The scholarships honor RBHC co-founders Carter McDowell and the late Mary Tyler McClenahan.

Started in 1988, the nonprofit housing group is now the developer and operator of 15 mixed-income apartment communities with 1,500 units in Richmond, Petersburg and Henrico and Chesterfield counties. It also has built or renovated 200 single-family homes for first-time homebuyers.

— JEREMY M. LAZARUS

FAMIS program reaches 15th anniversary with more than 1 million youngsters covered

By Jeremy M. Lazarus

More than 1.6 million low-income Virginia children have benefited from government health insurance programs during the past 15 years.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe celebrated that milestone Wednesday with doctors and officials who have helped ensure children are provided coverage through the Family Access to Medical Insurance Security (FAMIS) program and Medicaid.

Since 2001, FAMIS has provided “more than 630,000 children in the Commonwealth with coverage,” the governor said. The program also helped enroll nearly 1 million more children in the state’s Medicaid program through FAMIS Plus.

Both programs have been of incredible importance to the lives and health of children, said Dr. Karen Rheuban, a pediatric cardiologist at the University of Virginia Hospital.

“I personally cared for eight patients in my pediatric cardiology clinic” on Tuesday, Dr. Rheuban said. “Because of Medicaid and FAMIS, not one of those families had to choose between paying the rent or buying food and getting the right care and medication for their child.”

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner recalled the effort that it took to develop the program.

“When I ran for governor in 2001,” he said. “Virginia’s lack of participation in

the children’s health insurance program was a national embarrassment.

“Only about 17 percent of our eligible kids were enrolled, and Virginia was yearly turning away almost $60 million in federal support,” he said.

“As governor, I made FAMIS one of our top priorities. We simplified the application process and broadened outreach to eligible families. Ultimately, we signed up 98 percent of eligible children, improving health outcomes and providing affordability and peace of mind for their

parents,” he said.

By the end of his gubernatorial term in 2005, Sen. Warner noted that “the nonpartisan Kaiser Health Foundation honored Virginia’s FAMIS as the most dramatically improved children’s health insurance effort anywhere in the country.”

Currently, the monthly enrollment in FAMIS and FAMIS Plus is almost 600,000 children. However, there are still an estimated 75,000 Virginia children and teenagers who qualify for FAMIS or FAMIS Plus and are not enrolled, officials said.

The state is continuing its partnership with Virginia’s 1,863 public schools to try to reach and enroll all eligible children, Gov. McAuliffe said. Again this year, every school is distributing FAMIS Back-to-School fliers to students during the first week of class, he said.

“Whether you are a student, teacher, parent, grandparent or just someone who wants to help, you can share one of these fliers with a friend or relative.

“The program’s success is attributed to the hard work of state and local agencies, as well as the medical community,” he said.

“We need to keep up that good work to make sure our children have access to quality, affordable health care options.”

Information also is available at www. coverva.org and from the FAMIS and Cover Virginia accounts on Facebook and Twitter.

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Bill Cosby to go on trial in June 2017

By Joseph Ax Reuters

NORRISTOWN, PA. Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial in Pennsylvania has been scheduled for June. And if prosecutors have their way, more than a dozen accusers will take the stand to detail what they claim is a decades-long pattern of attacks.

During a hearing on Tuesday, Court of Common Pleas Judge Steven O’Neill in Norristown, Pa., set Mr. Cosby’s trial for June 5, 2017, setting up what likely will be months of fiercely fought legal battles over the scope of evidence allowed at trial.

The Montgomery County DistrictAttorney’s office on Tuesday asked Judge O’Neill’s permission to call as witnesses 13 women who claim the 79-year-old entertainer assaulted them.

Mr. Cosby is charged with drugging and assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004 at his Pennsylvania home. Approxi-

mately 60 women have accused Mr. Cosby of similar attacks, though the Constand case is the only one to result in a criminal prosecution thus far.

The former star of the 1980s Mr. Cosby TV series “The Cosby Show,” who built a long career on family friendly comedy, has denied assaulting anyone and has portrayed all of the encounters as consensual.

In general, a defendant’s prior bad acts are not admissible as evidence that he or she committed a particular crime.

Prosecutors, however, are allowed on rare occasions to use evidence or witnesses to prove a defendant committed a crime as part of a longstanding pattern of behavior.

Judges typically weigh the value of such evidence against the possibility that it will unfairly prejudice a jury.

In incidents dating to the 1960s, all 13 women claim Mr. Cosby offered them either drinks or pills that left them disoriented and then sexually assaulted them in strikingly similar circumstances. Kevin Steele, the district attorney, said following the hearing that the women all agreed to appear as witnesses.

The women’s names were not disclosed in court papers filed Tuesday. But the details of their claims, outlined in the prosecutors’ motion, match those of several women who have come forward publicly.

Those accusers include Heidi Thomas, an aspiring actress; Linda Kirkpatrick, who played tennis with Mr. Cosby in Las Vegas; Margie Shapiro, a former donut shop employee; and Rebecca Lynn Neal, a masseuse.

Some of the women are represented by the high-profile attorney Gloria Allred.

Mr. Cosby’s lawyers did not address the motion in court but said in a stateMs. Constand ment following the hearing that Ms. Allred’s “campaign against Mr. Cosby builds on racial bias and prejudice.”

“The time has come to shine a spotlight on the trampling of Mr. Cosby’s civil rights,” the statement read. “And when the media repeats her accusations — with no evidence, no trial and no jury — we are moved backward as a country and away from the America that our civil rights leaders sacrificed so much to create.”

Ms. Allred, who has attended prior hearings in the case, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Cosby’s lawyers have filed their own motions seeking to limit the trial evidence. They have asked Judge O’Neill to bar prosecutors from introducing a telephone conversation between Mr. Cosby and Ms. Constand’s mother that was secretly recorded, as well as a deposition from Ms. Constand’s civil lawsuit against Mr. Cosby in which the comedian admitted giving Quaaludes to women before sexual encounters.

In addition, Brian McMonagle, the lead defense lawyer, said Tuesday he planned to request that the trial be moved elsewhere. He suggested the pool of potential jurors in Montgomery County had been tainted because the Constand case became a major campaign issue when Mr. Steele ran for office last year.

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who live south of the James River, Ayanna will be catching her bus to Binford, located in the Fan District, from Westover Hills Elementary on Forest Hill Avenue.

The new transportation plan, approved by the School Board earlier this year, requires thousands of middle and high school students to walk or find their own transportation to their nearest elementary school to catch the bus to their respective schools.

Students attending the city’s eight middle schools, five high schools and three specialty centers are affected.

Although Westover Hills Elementary is a short 5-minute drive from their home, Mrs. Langhorne explained that she fears for her daughter’s safety as the weather changes and traffic on Forest Hill Avenue increases.

“As a parent, I am extremely nervous about her having to walk here to catch the bus, which is why I took off today,” she said.

For the rest of the first week, and hopefully the remainder of the academic year, Mrs. Langhorne plans on having her mother, Ayanna’s grandmother, drop her off and pick her up from the elementary school.

“I am really anxious for her safety, as a female and as a child.”

The new transportation plan was to help ease an $11 million budget gap that has since been closed.

According to Assistant Superintendent Tommy Kranz during a conversation earlier this summer with the Free Press, transportation costs skyrocketed as RPS added routes to transport students outside of their normal school zones, like Ayanna.

In a letter to RPS parents in May, Mr. Kranz highlighted the effect the additions had on pupil transportation.

“Trying to provide this level of service on a citywide basis is extremely expensive and difficult for a system that struggles to hire/retain the adequate number of drivers, acquire the necessary number of buses … and still operate within time and budget parameters,” the letter reads.

Despite the setbacks of the first morning, Mrs. Langhorne encouraged Ayanna to stay excited for the new school year.

“I just need you to continue to stay positive, and continue to be a leader,” she told her daughter.

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Students headed to Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School board a bus Tuesday at Westover Hills Elementary School, their new pickup point.

The first day of school also was marked by students from Broad Rock and Fairfield elementary schools being placed on the wrong buses in the afternoon. The RPS transportation office received several calls from frantic parents looking for their children.

School administrators and bus drivers blamed the mix-up on miscommunication.

Also on Tuesday, administrators at the Richmond Alternative School faced a surprise when more than 80 unexpected students showed up.

According to RPS spokeswoman Kenita Bowers, the unexpected number of students, who nearly doubled the school’s total student population, had not attended orientation and therefore were not accounted for in the staffing and operational budget.

It is unclear whether the students will be able to remain at the school this year.

RPS also appointed eight new principals and 10 new instructional leaders this academic year.

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company recommended.

The council also slashed spending on schools by $3.4 million — $700,000 short of the $4.1 million PFM had recommended — again leaving Ms. Belton to find a way to make up the difference.

That leaves one big question that neither the City Council nor Ms. Belton has yet to answer: Whether the debtbesieged city can negotiate a desperately needed, short-term loan to avoid a shutdown of all city agencies except for public safety within a few weeks — a prospect that Ms. Belton told council and the audience is still on the table.

Mayor W. Howard Myers said Wednesday, “We have our fingers crossed that the actions of City Council” will enable the city to secure a loan. He said one financial institution has expressed interest, but it could take 60 days or more to translate that interest into a loan.

Even with the council’s action, Petersburg remains in dire straits, particularly after New York agencies dropped the city’s credit rating to BB, or junk status, in recent days, making the challenge of securing a loan even more daunting.

The city also is barred by state law from going bankrupt.

Ms. Belton has said she is squeezing every penny in trying to lead the city to firm financial footing. She cited the work she has done to reduce the city’s personnel spending by $800,000 a month through

hiring freezes, across-the-board pay cuts and elimination of vacant positions.

However, the city’s financial picture remains opaque despite such statements and public discussion before City Council voted to embrace 16 of the 19 recommendations PFM provided.

City Council did not receive, or at least did not make public, any financial report on the city’s condition Tuesday, including the amount of cash on hand to pay bills.

Even now, Ms. Belton has not made clear whether the city will have the necessary $145,000 available to meet a Friday payment deadline to ensure that residents’ trash will continue to be collected. Nor is it clear whether the city will be able to pay off a $32,000 past due bill by next week to prevent repossession of more fire equipment.

Nor has Ms. Belton made clear whether the city will have the more than $1 million it will need to avoid default on bond payments that will come due later this month and next month. If Petersburg were to default, state law would require the governor to take state funds earmarked for the city, including funding for public schools, and use it to make payments on the bonds — the only intervention in a local government’s financial affairs that is permitted under state law.

Amid the crisis, Mayor Myers and other council members spent time Wednesday interviewing candidates to fill the post of city attorney.

Residents threaten Petersburg over sale of old hospital property Amid the city’s financial woes, Petersburg had hoped to gain $1.3 million by selling a former hospital site to a developer promising to create new homes, apartments and retail space on the vacant land.

However, that hope may evaporate.

Three Petersburg residents have notified the Petersburg City Council that the 4-1 vote to dispose of the city-owned property did not meet requirements under state law, and that they will sue to block the land sale if the council does not rescind the decision.

The residents, former Petersburg Mayor Florence Farley, Barbara “Barb” Rudolph and Gina Harrison, are founders and members of a group called Clean Sweep Petersburg.

In a letter to City Council dated Aug. 31, their attorney, Wyatt B. Durrette Jr. of the Richmond-based firm of Durrette Crump PLC, cited a series of procedures and state laws that the council allegedly violated that would void the sale.

Mr. Durrette ran for governor in 1985 and lost to Democrat Gerald L. Baliles.

The most serious problem he cited was the lack of sufficient votes. He noted the state Constitution and the state code require an affirmative vote of three-fourths of the members elected to a council to sell property.

In the case of the seven-member Petersburg City Council, that requirement would mean that at least six of the elected members must approve the sale of city-owned property.

“We ask that all actions pertaining to the sale of the properties (at 29 and 41 S. Union St. and 801 S. Adams St.) be stopped immediately,” Mr. Durrette wrote.

Neither Mayor W. Howard Myers nor the council have yet responded to the letter.

The Richmond-based Fountainhead Properties proposed to purchase the site to develop a housing and retail complex to serve veterans and others.

The properties include the former site of the Southside Regional Medical Center and two vacant warehouses. A Police Department property on the Adams Street portion would not be affected. — JEREMY M. LAZARUS

Meanwhile, the city was hit with more bad news: Projected collections of delinquent real estate taxes appear to have been overstated by $1 million in the 2016-17 budget.

The notice came from city Treasurer Kevin Brown, who

reported the amount of delinquent tax to be collected would decline because of the faulty assessment of property values by a company that the city and the commissioner of revenue hired to do the work last year.

process of rights restoration and eliminate the governor’s role.

Since at least 1830, Virginia’s governor has been the only person who could restore rights of felons, who otherwise are stripped of those rights for life.

Under the Norment amendment, the governor would lose the authority to “remove political disabilities” as the state constitution now describes the process.

Instead, people convicted of nonviolent felonies, as defined by the General Assembly, would “have their political rights automatically restored” once they had served their time, including any probation, parole or suspension of time, and “paid in full any fines, court costs and restitution,” the Norment amendment states.

However, people convicted of murder, rape, robbery or other crimes the legislature defines as violent never would be able to regain their rights in Virginia, according to the amendment.

If passed in the 2017 and 2018 sessions of the General Assembly, the amendment would go to Virginia voters for approval before becoming law.

Gov. McAuliffe, whose term will end in early 2018, has described Sen. Norment’s proposal as an “affront to the ideals” the state was founded on. He stated that he and his administration would “strongly oppose any new civil rights barriers that would move Virginia backward.”

However, by law, the governor is barred from using his greatest power to halt the amendment — his veto pen.

And Sen. Norment views the prospects for passage as bright given that it only takes a majority of members elected in each chamber of the legislature to approve the measure.

Republicans hold a 21-17 majority in the 40-member Senate, with two current vacancies. In the Senate, only 21 votes are enough to pass a constitutional amendment.

In addition, Republicans hold 66 of the 100 seats in the House of Delegates, or far more than the 51 votes needed to pass a constitutional amendment.

Still, it is unclear that every Republican in the legislature would support such a major change. House Republicans have regularly killed proposed constitutional amendments to make it easier for even nonviolent felons to have their rights restored.

Sen. Norment, who previously supported a proposed constitutional amendment to restore the rights of nonviolent felons, believes that the “right way” to deal with the issue is to get an amendment “approved by the General Assembly” and sent to the people of Virginia for a vote.

“I believe,” he stated in announcing his proposed amendment, that “those convicted of nonviolent felonies deserve a second chance. This amendment would guarantee those who have their right to vote restored are truly deserving of that second chance.”

The top Republican in the House, Speaker William J. Howell of Fredericksburg, believes “Sen. Norment is right: The time has come for Virginia’s policy on restoration of rights to change, and that can only happen with a constitutional amendment approved by the elected members of the General Assembly and Virginia voters.

“Sen. Norment’s proposal will certainly be part of that discussion. I am also asking several members of the House to begin developing proposals that can be discussed when the General Assembly convenes in January. We very much hope the governor is willing to work with the General Assembly in a productive way.”

That seems unlikely. Nor do the governor’s allies seem amenable to finding a compromise amendment.

The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus “will oppose any effort to further restrict efforts to restore the rights of citizens to vote in the Commonwealth of Virginia, which includes recently proposed constitutional amendments,” according to caucus chairwoman Sen. Mamie E. Locke, D-Newport News.

“In a democracy, we should want more citizens participating, not less,” she said. “Instead, we have legislators who seek more ways to demonize, condemn and restrict the voting process for citizens who have paid their debts to society. There is no moral authority or redemptive value in that kind of legislation, and we are not that kind of Commonwealth.”

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of Appeals if they are going to move forward with a trial.

In September 2014, a federal jury in Richmond found Mr. McDonnell guilty of 11 counts of corruption for accepting gifts and loans in excess of $177,000 from former Star Scientific CEO Johnnie R. Williams Sr. The former governor was sentenced to two years in prison, but was allowed to remain free pending his appeals.

In June, the U.S. Supreme

Court reversed Mr. McDonnell’s convictions based on a ruling that the state’s definitions of what constitutes public corruption were too broad.

Mr. McDonnell’s wife, Maureen, also was convicted of eight counts of corruption for taking gifts in exchange for promoting Mr. Williams’ dietary supplement.

Mrs. McDonnell was sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Her appeal has been on hold pending the outcome of her husband’s case.

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Years before he became the co-founder of the National Black Marathoners Association, Tony Reed knew he would have to run away from one major problem in his life — diabetes threatened his health if he didn’t stay active.

In an interview with Dallas radio station KERA-FM last year, Reed recalled when he was diagnosed as pre-diabetic at only 8 years old: “The doctor said I would go on insulin when I was a teenager.” But the Texas native was able to keep the disease at bay by exercising in school, and when he reached college, Reed learned that it was possible to avoid the need for insulin altogether if he made cardiovascular activity a daily habit.

“With that in mind,” he told KERA, “I decided to set a lifetime goal of averaging three miles a day of running. I felt if I did that, I could avoid having to take insulin. In January [2015], I ran my 40,000th mile, and at 60 years old, I’m still not on insulin.”

Many African-American adults have yet to follow Reed’s example, however. According to groups like the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association, black men and women are at much higher risk of developing obesity, heart disease and diabetes. The AHA suggests that just 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise a day — even a brisk walk — can keep American adults healthy.

Participation in recreational running has grown wildly in recent years with women being the fastest-growing segment of the sport. And despite the increased efforts of national road-running groups like the National Black Marathoners Association, Black Men Run and Black Girls Run, African Americans are still underrepresented among the millions of people who show up at organized road races.

But that could change for African-American adults in central Virginia who are ready to take that challenge for better health. That’s because Richmond is for runners.

In weeks, thousands of people like Tony Reed of the NBMA will hit city streets in “America’s Friendliest Marathon” — the Anthem Richmond Marathon. It’s just one of many events the region hosts each year to keep people happy and fit.

Alongside the big event, you can find an easier way to get on track — the VCU Health 8K that takes you on a downtown course through some of the city’s historic neighborhoods and districts.

And it’s here, in the heart of the city, that VCU Health has

the resources to keep you running and walking all year round, not just for the big running parties each season.

At the VCU Sports Medicine Center in downtown Richmond, one focus is keeping runners on the path to their goals, whether aiming for weight loss, social involvement, personal accomplishment or competitive results. The center offers a full range of health care for athletes experiencing any kinds of aches, pains or injuries related to their physical activity.

Dr. Seth Cheatham, an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery, says it’s not uncommon for runners of all levels to encounter pain along the way. But the VCU Sports Medicine Center can get active people back to exercise sooner by catching problems early.

“With the number of runners that we have in Richmond — between the marathon in the fall and the Monument Avenue 10K in the spring — it’s a decent part of the VCU Health practice,” Cheatham says. “From my standpoint, it’s not that a lot of runners necessarily need any surgery.

We typically see runners come Seth A. Cheatham, M.D., in because, during their training, Associate Professor Department something will arise that is limof Orthopaedic Surgery VCU Health, Associate Clinical iting them or prohibiting them Director VCU Sports Medicine from achieving their goals. The majority of the time it’s going to be leg problems of some sort, whether it’s their hip or their shins or their ankles or their feet.”

VCU Health’s access makes it seamless for patients to connect with the care they need, Cheatham says. “When people have problems, they very rarely need a referral. They can just call up and say I’m a runner, I’m an athlete and I’m training for so-and-so and my knee is starting to hurt. Can I come over to get it evaluated?”

Once in the VCU Sports Medicine Center, a patient will usually have X-rays taken and undergo a physical exam to evaluate the problem and the challenges particular to that person. Because running injuries may usually involve “wear” issues from repetitive movement — rather than a major trauma common to other sports — Cheatham says many injuries have non-invasive solutions. “A lot of time it is more about counseling the patient — potentially encouraging them that they need a period of rest

or physical therapy.”

Just as any runner wants to take their performance to the next level, VCU Health also climbs to another level in the world of running, making it one of the most exceptional programs in the Mid-Atlantic Region, if not the East Coast.

Working in conjunction with the VCU Sports Medicine Center is the VCU RUN LAB, a state-of-the-art program coordinated by the VCU departments of Physical Therapy and Kinesiology & Health Sciences.

The program is run by D.S. “Blaise” Williams, Ph.D., who has more than a dozen years of expertise and research in running mechanics, physical therapy and other related fields.

The program states its mission like this: “The VCU RUN LAB is a collaborative effort by sport biomechanists, exercise physiologists and coaches to help athletes of all levels run better through science. Running better isn’t just about performance, it’s about health.”

Williams describes the lab as a place where a runner may be equipped with hightech wearable sensors to undergo movement studies on a treadmill. If you’ve ever seen the science behind 3-D blockbuster movies like “Avatar” or even animated films like “Shrek,” then you may understand how much VCU Health D. S. Blaise Williams III, Ph.D., MPT, FACSM is pushing the study of running Director, VCU RUN LAB into the future.

“It’s our goal to keep our runners healthy,” Williams says.

The VCU RUN LAB can achieve this by taking precise measurements of an athlete’s heart, lungs, muscles and joints, thereby designing specific training, mechanics and cross-training programs for every kind of runner.

“That’s one of the great things about Richmond,” Williams says. “There are so many different people who like to engage in running as a form of physical activity. They’re beginners. They’re men, they’re women. They’re old, they’re young, they’re experienced runners. There are just so many different types of people. So, we’re not just dealing with that experienced, elite runner. In fact, that’s a very small component of the people we see.”

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Georgetown begins atonement for role in slavery

These are the faces. Here are the direct WASHINGTON descendants of the 272.”

Georgetown University apologized for Standing alongside him, Ms. Royal then its historical links to slavery and said last read a joint declaration on behalf of more week it would give an admissions edge to than 300 descendants, who are located in descendants of slaves whose sale in the Louisiana, Maryland and elsewhere.

19th century helped pay off the school’s Mr. Stewart thanked Dr. DeGioia and debts. his team for their efforts. But he continued: The Washington-based university, “Our attitude is that all of this evolved founded by the Roman Catholic Jesuit order from the pain and suffering of the 272 in 1789, will create an institute to study people we talked about and we are those the history of slavery at the school. It also faces and our attitude is: Nothing about will rename two buildings that honored us without us. university presidents “If reconciliation is going to take place as who oversaw the 1838 it has to, it needs to start at home and you sale of 272 enslaved don’t start reconciling by alienating.” people who had Mr. Stewart, a retired Kellogg’s employee worked on churchfrom Battle Creek, Mich., added: “We want affiliated plantations a partnership. We are not interested in conin Maryland. flict. We are not talking reparations. We’re “This original talking about how this university can be an evil that shaped the asset to the world in healing some pain and early years of the healing racism that is just destroying our republic was present society, our one human family.”

Dr. DeGioia here,” Georgetown Dr. DeGioia stood with head bowed President John DeGioia told an audience respectfully throughout the comments and Sept. 1 that included descendants of the joined in the applause of the audience. He enslaved. then thanked Mr. Stewart for his attendance The university will hold a Mass of and trust. reconciliation “in which we will seek “We know we can’t do our best work forgiveness for our participation in the alone,” Dr. DeGioia said, promising to institution of slavery, specifically for the engage the descendants in the design Joshua Roberts/Reuters sale of 272 children, women and men Joe Stewart, center, listens intently as Georgetown University lays out its plans to deal with its links of a campus memorial to the enslaved who we should regard as members of our to slavery. His forebears were among the enslaved people the Jesuit-run university sold in 1838 to and help them trace long-lost family community.” pay off debts. members.

The 1838 sale of people brought The 18,000-student university will re$115,000, or roughly $3.3 million in today’s dollars, to pay organizer of a group of descendants, stated in an email. name its Freedom Hall for Isaac, the slave whose name led the off debts. The 272 enslaved were sent from Jesuit plantations She added that the school should have offered scholarships list of those to be sold, and Remembrance Hall will be renamed in Maryland to Louisiana, “where they labored under dreadful to the enslaved people’s descendants and included them on the for Anne Marie Becraft, a free African-American woman who conditions,” and families were broken up, according to a 104- panel that made the recommendations. founded a school for black girls in the Georgetown neighborpage report Dr. DeGioia received from a working group he Ms. Royal was among a group of descendants who said they hood in 1827 and later joined the Oblate Sisters of Providence, convened a year ago. have been left out of the process and “rushed” to the event after the oldest group of Roman Catholic nuns started by women of The steps, as outlined in the report’s recommendations, go not receiving invitations. They rose from their seats and joined African descent. further than those taken by other universities that are confronting President DeGioia at the front of the university’s historic Gaston Students at dozens of universities protested last fall over the their past association with slavery, including Harvard, Brown, Hall last week. legacy of racism on campus. The protests led to the resignation Princeton and the University of North Carolina.

Polite but firm, Joe Stewart said he objected to an earlier com- of the president of the University of Missouri and prompted But some criticized as inadequate the decision to give the ment by the Rev. David Collins, chairperson of the university’s many schools to review their diversity commitments. descendants of the enslaved the same admissions preference as working group on the issue, that the faces of the slaves were “Georgetown, being a Catholic institution, really can’t escape the children of faculty, staff and alumni. invisible and would have to be imagined. the moral problem of that history because it’s come to challenge “We remain hopeful that we can forge a relationship with George“One of the working group said what was missing from this scenario its Catholic identity,” said Craig Stephen Wilder, a history protown that will lead to ‘real’ atonement,” Karran Harper Royal, an was the faces of the slaves,” Mr. Stewart said. “Here are the faces. fessor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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A new school year The new school year has started.

And that truly is a cause for celebration.

To students, we say open your books, open your minds and enjoy. Learning is your passport.

Do your best. Be your best. Be the active hero of your own life.

To selfless parents who encourage their children daily, committed teachers who see an outstanding student in each child and everyone devoted to improving our struggling school system: Remember that the education of our youths is the key to improving our own lives and community.

Our elected school board members urgently need to fulfill their pledges and responsibility to improve the quality of education for our children.

No matter where we start, a good education paves the road to personal achievement and success and ensures the future of our city.

Success for our children does not have to present itself solely as financial success, but as a chance for self-actualization and selfdetermination.

Sadly, too many of our schoolchildren are not mastering the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. Too many of our schoolchildren lack access to critical opportunities to learn world history, foreign languages, art and music. Too many of our children are being left behind.

What is to be done?

In our view, more needs to be done to rally our community to take action to support the education of our children, who, in a few years will become the leaders, executives and workers who run things.

That means volunteering as tutors and mentors and speaking up to ensure that our schools have the funding they need to get the job done.

It means participating in PTAs. It means making donations of time and money. And it means encouraging students at every chance to keep going, to keep learning, to keep dreaming.

If we are going to succeed as a city, we need our children to be highly educated.

So let us cheer the start of classes, but let us also vow to make sure that our city’s students are learning and achieving so that they can build the foundation for a better life.

In the words of poet Claude McKay, “Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted, they are dwarfed and overshadowed.”

Have a great school year.

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Fourth-grader Diamond Johnson gets a sweet send-off at Westover Hills Elementary School from her mother, Shannon Johnson, on Tuesday, the first day of school.

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15 years after the 9/11 attacks, where is our nation?

This year is the 15th anniversary of 9/11.

There will be numerous memorials remembering those who died and processing the tragedy and trauma visited upon our national community.

This will be a necessary and good thing for us as Americans to do.

In addition to these memorials, the Richmond Peace Education Center and the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia are using the occasion to look closely at 15 years of “the war on terror” and ask if we are better off than on Sept. 10, 2001.

Our answer, unfortunately, is no.

Since Sept. 11, 2001, our country has prosecuted a global “war on terror” with no deadlines, no long-term strategies, no clearly defined enemies

and no exits, keeping us in a perpetual state of war with one armed conflict succeeding the next, and, in fact, creating the enemy for the next war.

We have engaged in illegal

Rob Gabriele torture and assassination, even of U.S. citizens, without benefit of trial.

Our government has seriously eroded the civil liberties and privacy protections that are the foundation of a free and democratic society.

Many of our political leaders have encouraged fear, jingoism and hatred of “the other” to promote the illusion of insecurity in order to coerce the acquiescence of the American people while encouraging the growth of extremism here at home.

We have turned police forces throughout the country into paramilitary occupying forces with a tragic record of killing

people of color.

We have devoted most of our discretionary budget to war and militarism year after year at a time of deep economic suffering, while withholding the real investments in infrastructure, human needs and green technology that would actually lay the groundwork for a healthy future.

These activities have made us less safe, less free and poorer. If we continue on our current course, we’ll inflict deep and lasting damage to our democracy, our economy and our values, while producing a world that is less safe for our children.

It is time for a reassessment.

Together, as engaged citizens, we must work to halt the militarization of police forces, the decline of privacy and the growth of the surveillance state and the growth of endless war.

We must call out political leaders who stoke the baked in racism and nativism of the so-called “war on terror,” which defines

Raising minimum wage is good policy Today, full-time work yearround at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour leaves an adult with two children earning thousands of dollars below the poverty threshold. That is unacceptable. No one who works full time should live in poverty. But the Rep. Robert C. Scott

Republicancontrolled Congress has refused to even consider legislation to raise the minimum wage.

You may think that when a majority of Congress and the president are from different political parties they could never work together to raise the minimum wage. But you would be wrong.

Congress raised the minimum wage in 2007, when Democrats controlled Congress and President George W. Bush, a Republican, signed it into law.

The Fair Minimum Wage Act took us from $5.15 to $7.25.

You also may think that it’s a foregone conclusion that a Republican-controlled Congress and a Democratic president would never work together to raise wages, especially in an election year. But you would be wrong.

Twenty years ago, thenHouse Speaker Newt Gingrich and a Republican-controlled Congress passed an increase in the minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.15. The legislation was approved with significant bipartisan support; 160 House Republicans and 31 Republican senators — including the

current Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — voted in favor of it. President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, signed it into law. All of this happened in the middle of a presidential election. What happened in 1996 can and should be replicated in 2016.

Many of the arguments made back then by our House and Senate colleagues in support of raising the minimum wage are relevant today.

The real value of the federal minimum wage has eroded significantly, declining nearly 25 percent since 1968, when the purchasing power of the minimum wage was at its highest.

The Raise the Wage Act, introduced by Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott of Virginia and Sen. Patty Murray of Washington State, with the support of President Obama, would raise the minimum wage to $12 by 2020, phase out the tipped minimum wage and link the minimum wage to median wages thereafter so its value no longer erodes over time.

It would give more than 35 million Americans a raise and lift 4.5 million Americans out of poverty.

More than 600 economists, including seven Nobel Prize winners, affirmed that increases in the minimum wage have had little or no negative effect on the employment of minimum wage workers. In fact, a minimum wage increase could help stimulate the economy as low-wage workers would have additional earnings to spend.

People across the political spectrum support an increase in the minimum wage. A survey conducted by conservative

pollster Frank Luntz showed that 80 percent of business executives in local chambers of commerce support increasing the minimum wage.

Yes, raising the minimum wage is a responsible policy that’s supported by research and Secretary Tom Perez

demanded by the American public. But it’s also the right thing to do. Each day, minimum wage workers across the country struggle to make ends meet and provide a decent life for their children.

It’s unconscionable that if you add up the salaries of all 1.1 million full-time workers who earn $7.25 an hour or less, it’s still $9 billion short of what Wall Street bankers earned in bonuses alone last year.

It is always the right time to do the right thing, and now is the moment for Congress to work together on a bipartisan basis to raise the minimum wage.

We raised it under challenging circumstances in 1996, when a Democrat was in the White House and Republicans controlled Congress. And we raised the minimum wage in 2007, when Democrats controlled Congress and a Republican was in the White House.

We should raise the minimum wage again in 2016.

Rep. Scott, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, represents Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District. Mr. Perez is the U.S. secretary of labor.

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“terrorists” as brown-skinned Muslims while allowing extremism to grow dramatically in this country.

In the midst of a national election in which the candidate of one of the major parties is an authoritarian and irrational demagogue, it is more important than ever that informed and engaged citizens present a vision for our country that draws on the best of our democratic values; proposes diplomacy and dialogue rather than endless war; creates community across racial, ethnic and religious divides; and builds bridges to understand other people rather than walls to keep them out.

Remember, in the words of Margaret Mead, “Never doubt for a single moment that a small group of committed citizens has the power to change the world.

Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

The writer is vice chair of the Richmond Peace Education Center’s Board of Directors.

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Novem the rnick raised, In look Kaepe to hands part When their my d him of deadly selfish on a home game with Clara, Calif., fans greete be referring to police use entered the stadium for slogan adopted by years stadium in Santa Kaepernick appeared to the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” increased criticism in recent ng of Michael Kaeper- a reference to and cheers. force, which has come under ed on cellphone video. strations against the shooti unsuccessfully to trade The team, which has tried demotion, issued a statement protesters in demon black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. as incidents have been capturfor rejection by the public and ed his unarm since an , team ed Brown nick to another He said he was prepar game. his plans. me, I of support after the did not warn anyone of my endorsements from “If they take football away,

About three weeks ago, I found a wallet outside the Main Library in Richmond. When I looked inside, I found an address on North 21st Street. I decided I would return the person’s wallet and took an East Broad Street bus to 21st Street, thinking I would only have a short walk to the person’s home.

Unfortunately, it turned out to be a much longer walk, and I ended up on the outskirts of Fairfield Court.

The looks I got and the rocks that were thrown at me all said, “Honky, get out of here.”

Fortunately, I wasn’t hurt, and I was able to return the wallet without further incident. The woman was thrilled.

However, I have one question: Did the hostile individuals who threw rocks at me as I entered Fairfield Court commit a hate crime?

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Canno n Trento sity, 6 p.m. as a starter. The Trojans also receiver. at Old Dominion Univer own Kavon Bellamy and Barlow whose and pass have a veteran offensive line sity “I’ve been blessed,” said Coach Bellamy, after missing Cannon Elizabeth City State Univer p.m.

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Sept. 3, at Lenoir the season with a leg injury, Senn, Terry Johnson and g on University in Hickory, N.C. finished with 640 yards, averaging 5.6 yards been around and we’re countin rs. all ve “They’ burly blocke Kickoff is at 2 p.m.

Coach Barlow said of his per carry. , he is a pound- them,” Barlow becomes VSU’s fourth coach “In Jacksonville, they When not toting the leather Coach called Fred ‘Thunder’ and ing lead blocker. tt, is now Coach Bar- since 2012. said Thwea e,” Byron James ‘Lightning.’ I hate attitud an coach, with “Kavon runs Last year’s head rsity. to put the pressu re on low. “Trent is a slasher, quick to the edge.” nt at James Madison Unive ton High School, an assista Latrell Scott, who took the Trojans to them, but with us, Kavon Both Bellamy, from Hamp Coach n in l Trento 2014, and Schoo and der’ 2013 High in l is ‘Thun and Cannon, from Bethe football rich turf. back-to-back CIAA North titles University. same is ‘Lightning.’ ” at Norfolk State Hampton, are from the 58-53 cker but is head coach Coach Barlow In 1999, Jacksonville Andrew Faison, who was arrived at VSU as a lineba y Coach And Bellam Taylor record, with nt coach under Coach posted a 14-2 regular season converted to fullback. in 11 seasons, is an assista Norfolk State Unifor nearly 1,700 yards Hampton University and and Stewart combining their Scott at NSU. from 2007 to 2014 versity are taking different approaches to and 19 touchdowns.

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LRU tions Carolina. destina North them those in State University “It would be great to see If the Trojans are to reach Atlantic Conference. contest is a renewal ll storm ay, Sept. 10, . “If you can move the The Elizabeth City-NSU home opener is Saturd they’ll likely follow a footba n of VSU’s plus,” said Coach Barlow year, this visits Classic. you’ve ssee Day over, turn it e of Tenne orange versio of the long-standing Labor when Tusculum Colleg ball on the ground and not g.” caused by their blue and astern Athletic Con2 p.m. kickoff.

As members of the Mid-E Rogers Stadium for a got a solid chance of winnin last season with “Thunder and Lightning.” are affiliated 6-4 or MEAC, HU and NSU e, ferenc The VSU Trojans were ionship Subdivision State (22-19) and with the Football Champ excruciating losses to Bowie (FCS) of the NCAA. er of ConferOld Dominion is a memb Subdivision ll Bowl ence USA of the Footba plays home games (FBS) — the top tier. ODU k State’s Norfol was which Field, at Foreman opening of Dick Price home turf prior to the Stadium in 1997. on II of Divisi in Elizabeth City State plays the CIAA. HU went 7-4 Coach Connell Maynor, third season under s Under player ll footba owns and averaging Virginia Union University Coach James: a year ago, with 39 touchd tough.

Shawheem need to be strong, fast and 352 yards per game. able alarm clock.

12: All-MEAC wideout Twarn No. y, They also need a depend feature Dowd Pirates The 5:15 at meetings receptions in 2015 for The Panthers report for The Boxtorow AllMixson, who made 59 e field at 6:10 a.m. on owns. a.m. and hit the practic Amer ican ranks 1,027 yards and nine touchd Hampton will reand Thursdays. quarterTuesdays, Wednesdays After traveling to ODU, said third-year with top all of life,” night t m on Saturday, Sept. correc Stadiu helps in “It turn to Armstrong at your watch backs look you m & Mary of “If .

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The 6-foot-4, the FCS. eem Dowdy Abrah for bed.” under first-year Kevon Cooley Shawh 230-pound transfer NSU finished 4-7 last season Coach James says there from Gramb ling scouts have on their radar. brilliant all-around Coach Latrell Scott. le back Gerald is more thought behind his University threw for 2,410 yards and 20 touchKevon Cooley, No. 23: A The Spartans showcase versati and caught Cooley has different receivers. sunrise practice tactics. for 463 yards Armstrong High School, downs in 2015, hitting 15 season. Johnson, who ran n as “Na- athlete out of “It takes some adjustam Garcia, No. 77: Know rred to become a front-line receiver in his third target passes for another 213 yards last season.

Abrah is there native transfe ntral Region ment, but I feel another explosive cho,” the South Florida Cooley gives Dowdy yet Johnson is a former All-Ce more attention to detail VUU from the University of Louisville, where he of former VUU player High School in and reminds VUU fans rback at Meadowbrook e Walker High School, quarte and more discipline at that blocked for then quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, Anthony Leonard of Maggi Chesterfield County. in the 1970s.

NFL ion advanced hour. It’s something I’ve now with the Minnesota Vikings. At 6-foot-6, the in champ play to MEAC on the went For decades, r Panther the NFL who with little 53: The 6-foot -6, always done.” te in the FCS playoffs, Pauli n Mian o, No. 340 pounds, Garcia is anothe rdinaire registered to compe It’s hard to fault Coach or financially to show for 265-pound pass rusher extrao 2015, success on the field in age Coach James scrimm of James’ strategy. line ff 25 tackles behind the Countdown to kicko efforts. that the squad Miano a s. ed fumble the other inherit and forced In 2014, Coach James with 11 sacks and five rsity will open its Starting last season, MEAC 4 season. During his Virginia Union Unive Baltimore-connection, conference, the Southwas 3-7 during the 2013-1 n with a 1 p.m. is part of Coach James’ historically black FCS led the Panthers to m Holland.

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‘We took oath so that he would Ex-Green Beret have the freedom to do what he did’ weighs in

Re “49ers quarterback under fire for sitting during national anthem,” Sept.

1-3 edition: As a former Green Beret major from 1967 to 1970, I see no incompatibility in Colin Kaepernick’s position — sitting during one preseason game and then kneeling on one knee in the next — during the national anthem and support of the U.S. military mission.

In fact, I applaud him. The military should be more vocal in this regard.

I am a veteran of two branches of our armed forces, and I support the actions of Colin Kaepernick without reservation.

I and my fellow veterans took an oath to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States. When we did that, we were preserving the right of every American to have the right and the freedom to live in a free and democratic society. In effect, we took that oath so that Mr. Kaepernick would have the freedom and the right to do what he did in the manner he chose.

The criticism he received is disappointing. It is also in appropriate.

One school of thought claimed that his manner of protest was offensive.

When did protesting become nonoffensive to the status quo? Did we have to

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LINDLEY T. SMITH, M.D. Midlothian The writer is a former major with the U.S. Army Special Forces.

consult with the fellow tea drinkers to see if they would be offended by the dumping of tea into the Boston Harbor?

An African-American athlete chooses to exercise his right to protest and all of a sudden he is not doing it right. Mr. Kaepernick did not and does not need to check with anyone prior to exercising his right to protest in whatever manner he chooses.

The American people who criticize him can’t have it both ways. They cannot condemn someone for being politically correct and then turn and condemn Mr. Kaepernick for not being politically correct for protesting in his way.

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Sports Stories by Fred Jeter

VUU loses to LIU-Post; looking for victory in S.C. Virginia Union University is an NCAA Division II football program with plenty of Division I talent.

Some exciting Division I transfers made a positive impression but couldn’t produce a victory in VUU’s rainy opener last Saturday before 757 fans at Hovey Field in Richmond.

The Panthers fell 14-12 to Long Island University-Post Hitting the road of New York despite piling up Saturday, Sept. 10 359 yards total offense to the Virginia Union University visitor’s 228 yards. plays at Newberry Now VUU faces a 408-mile College in Newberry, S.C. trip to Newberry College in Kickoff: 4 p.m.

South Carolina to try and even its record under third-year Coach Mark James.

An 0-2 start would place VUU in a precarious catch-up position for NCAA Division II polls and playoff consideration.

The Panthers earned their first playoff bid in a quarter century under Coach James a year ago.

Newcomers wearing maroon and steel were front and center last Saturday against LIU-Post. William Stanback ran for 104 yards, Lavatiae Kelly had 83 yards in receptions and Eddie Johnson made 16 tackles.

A lead blocker for VUU is 6-foot-6, 340-pound Abraham Garcia, a transfer from the University of Louisville.

All four of the players arrived at VUU after starting for Division I programs. Stanback transferred from the University of South Florida; Kelly from Tennessee State University; and Johnson from the University of Miami in Florida.

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Virginia Union University wide receiver Lavatiae Kelly tries to avoid a takedown by Long Island University-Post’s defensive players during last Saturday’s season opener at Hovey Field. The VUU Panthers lost the matchup 14-12.

Also, former University of Florida defensive back Willie Bailey returned to the Panthers’ lineup with 12 tackles after missing last season at VUU because of injury.

Coach James is hoping for a cleaner performance at Newberry.

VUU suffered three interceptions, two lost fumbles, a blocked punt and two safeties against LIU-Post. The Panthers also were flagged 14 times for 117 yards in penalties.

Newberry College also is now 0-1 after losing its opener 42-28 to Florida Tech last Saturday, but flexed considerable air power. Quarterback Raleigh Yeldell hit 37 of 55 passes for 447 yards and four touchdowns.

Overall, Newberry College had 550 yards in total offense.

VUU quarterback Shawheem Dowdy, a transfer from FCS Grambling State University, struggled against LIU-Post. The senior was just 15 for 35 through the air for 158 yards. He threw for one touchdown, but was picked off three times. The Panthers

had a chance to tie the game within the closing minutes, but Dowdy’s 2-point, extra point attempt fell incomplete.

Hakeem Holland, last year’s top rusher, gained 44 yards on 10 carries.

Miles Pace, a transfer from the University of South Florida, had a sack in his first game back after missing the second half of the 2015 season with a knee injury.

VUU lost a high-profile transfer in linebacker Holland Fisher, who began college at Virginia Tech. Coach James announced that Fisher dropped out of the program for personal reasons.

The road doesn’t get any smoother following the game at Newberry College.

On Sept. 17, VUU goes to Western North Carolina to face defending CIAA champion Winston-Salem State University.

The VUU-Winston-Salem State matchup could be a preview of the CIAA championship game set for Nov. 12 in Durham, N.C.

Shawheem Dowdy Hakeem Holland

Courtesy of VSU Trojan Athletics

Virginia State University Coach Reggie Barlow addresses the team before last Saturday’s game against LenoirRhyne University in Hickory, N.C.

VSU opens at home on Saturday; defeated Lenoir-Rhyne University in first game So far so good.

After just one game, Virginia State University football Coach Reggie Barlow has earned a Gatorade shower, a game ball and, best of all, a resounding road victory.

The Coach Barlow era began gloriously last Saturday with a 34-9 victory over Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, N.C. The Trojans are favored in this Saturday’s home opener against Tusculum College, a program VSU routed last year 40-13 in East Tennessee.

Upending a formidable opponent such as Lenoir-Rhyne University on foreign turf provides much momentum for the home opener.

“Today was a great way to start our season against a very good team,” said Coach Barlow. “The guys came out with the type of energy and enthusiasm we want. It was a blessing.”

Lenoir-Rhyne was the NCAA Division II runner-up in 2013 and the South Atlantic Conference champ from 2011 through 2014.

The North Carolinians pounded VSU 34-6 in Ettrick in 2014 in Coach Latrell Scott’s final season.

Tusculum College, also of the South Atlantic Conference, comes to VSU with a

0-1 record following a 13-10 loss last week added 51 yards and his first college to the University of Virginia-Wise. touchdown on six carries.

Coach Barlow’s first game on the “It’s a great feeling. Getting my first Trojans’ sidelines couldn’t have gone (touchdown) feels great,” said Mines, much smoother. who was part of Bird High School’s 2014 Then there was celebration.

Division 5 state championship.

In the seconds following the victory, Pre-season All-CIAA pick Feggins, the Trojans drenched their coach with from Park View High School in South Gatorade in good fun.

Hill, led a revved-up Next, defensive defense with 15 tackVSU home opener lynchpin Geo Feggins les, including three for S a t u r d a y, S e p t . 1 0 presented Coach Barlow losses.

Virginia State University with the game ball.

Bryant Frazier, from plays Tusculum College VSU attacked LenoirMeadowbrook High of Greeneville, Tenn., Rhyne University by air School, had 2½ of the at Rogers Stadium in with third-year starting team’s four quarterEttrick. Kickoff: 2 p.m.

Family Weekend and quarterback Tarian Ayres back sacks, and Bryce Military Appreciation and overland with Kevon Bradley, from Varina Day. Bellamy, Trenton Cannon High School, returned and Stephen Mines. a fumble recovery for Ayres, from Buckingham County 44 yards.

High School, hit 17 of 24 passes for Coach Barlow, having previously 201 yards and two touchdowns. coached at Alabama State University, is Bellamy ran 13 times for 85 yards and VSU’s fourth coach since 2012. two touchdowns as VSU accumulated He follows Coach Byron Thweatt 244 yards rushing.

(2015), Coach Scott (2013 and 2014) Cannon carried 15 times for 66 and Andrew Faison (2012). yards and a touchdown, while adding The Trojans travel to Kentucky State 72 yards and another touchdown on University on Sept. 17 before opening pass receptions. their CIAA schedule Sept. 24 at defendMines, a VSU sophomore from L.C. ing champion Winston-Salem State Bird High School in Chesterfield County, University.

Paulin Miano

3 VUU players on watch list for inaugural Deacon Jones Trophy Virginia Union University’s Shawheem Dowdy, Hakeem Holland and Paulin Miano are on the first Deacon Jones Trophy watch list.

The Black College Football Hall of Fame announced Aug. 31 the establishment of the Deacon Jones Trophy to be awarded annually to the top football player at a historically black college or university.

Essentially, the award will be like the Heisman Trophy of HBCUs. The Deacon Jones Trophy is open to HBCU athletes from all levels of competition, including the Division II CIAA. Dowdy is VUU’s senior quarterback, while Holland is a sophomore running back and Miano is a junior defensive end.

Dowdy and Holland hail from Baltimore, while Miano is from Washington.

Also on the 53-player watch list are Norfolk State University quarterback Greg Hankerson and Hampton University receiver Twarn Mixson.

The first Deacon Jones Trophy winner will be announced Feb. 25 at the eighth annual Black College Football Hall of Fame ceremony in Atlanta.

“Players from historically black colleges and universities have had a tremendous impact on the game of football,” said James Harris, co-founder of the Black College Football Hall of Fame and a 2012 inductee. “There are very few players who represent this award better than the legendary Deacon Jones.”

A native Floridian, Jones played at South Carolina State University and Mississippi Vocational, now Mississippi Valley State University, before embarking on an NFL Hall of Fame career.

The defensive end accumulated 173.5 sacks between 1961 and 1974, although sacks were not an official category during his career with the Los Angeles Rams, the San Diego Chargers and Washington.

In 2014, the NFL established the Deacon Jones Award to honor its league leader in sacks. The Houston Texans’ J.J. Watt won the honor last year after the Indianapolis Colts’ Robert Mathis claimed the inaugural title.

In college football, there also is a Walter Payton Award to honor the top player from Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) schools. Payton went from Jackson State University in Mississippi to become one of the NFL’s all-time great ball carriers.

NSU plays UR at Robins Stadium; HU takes on W&M at home There was a time not so long ago when no man on earth wanted to see the University of Richmond win a football game more than Coach Latrell Scott.

This Saturday, however, Coach Scott will be wishing for a Spiders loss.

Coach Scott was UR’s head coach in 2010. But now he is in his second season coaching Norfolk State University.

He will be both the visitor and heavy underdog when he brings his Spartans to what figures to be a packed Robins Stadium for a 6 p.m. kickoff.

Under Coach Danny Rocco, UR is coming off arguably its most impressive performance in program history.

Last Saturday in Charlottesville, the Spiders dominated the FBS University of Virginia 37-20.

With that victory, UR is among

the favorites to win the NCAA FCS title. The Spiders advanced to the semifinals a year ago before falling to North Dakota State University, the eventual champion.

Meanwhile, NSU’s Green and Gold doesn’t seem to be traveling in top gear.

The Spartans struggled mightily to defeat NCAA Division II Elizabeth City State University 20-12 last Sunday before 11,780 fans in the Labor Day Classic.

The annual event at Dick Price Stadium in Norfolk was moved to Sunday because of concerns with Hurricane Hermine.

NSU quarterback Greg Hankerson passed for 151 yards and two touchdowns, and running back Quintreil Chung, from James River High School in Chesterfield County, ran for 81 yards and a touchdown.

Coach Scott, an alumnus of Lee-Davis High School in Hanover County and

Local attraction Saturday, Sept. 10 Norfolk State University plays at the University of Richmond.

Kickoff: 6 p.m. at Robins Stadium. (CSN telecast.)

Hampton University, was just 34 when UR made him the youngest Division I head coach in America in 2010.

The Spiders went 6-5 in his first season.

Then less than one month prior to the 2011 season, Coach Scott resigned from UR after being charged with driving a car while intoxicated. Since then, Coach Scott served as an assistant coach at James Madison University in 2012 and head coach at Virginia State

in 2013 and 2014.

Coach Scott’s Spartans, while 1-0, aren’t heading to Richmond with much momentum. In surviving the Division II, upset-minded CIAA Vikings of Elizabeth City State, NSU was outgained 362 yards to 321.

NSU went 4-7 overall and 4-4 in MEAC a year ago under Coach Scott.

While UR has never played NSU, the Spiders have been tough on other HBCUs. In 2005, UR defeated Hampton University 38-10 in the NCAA Division 1-AA playoffs. In 2014, UR topped Morgan State University 46-24, also in the playoffs.

However, last September, UR had to surge from behind to defeat homestanding Hampton University 31-28.

UR has an abundance of AfricanAmerican athletes, but that wasn’t always the case. In 1971, running back Weldon

Edwards became the firstAfrican-American to play for the Spiders after starring in football and track at Richmond’s Maggie L. Walker High School. ◆ In another game moved to last Sunday because of the weather threat, Hampton University was trounced by Old Dominion University 54-21 before 20,118 fans at Foreman Field in Norfolk.

David Washington tossed four touchdown passes for the FCS Monarchs of Conference USA. Yahkee Johnson, a former L.C. Bird High School star, rushed for 59 yards on 11 carries in his first game for the HU Pirates.

Johnson is the brother of Indiana University starting basketball guard Robert Johnson.

HU will play host to the College of William & Mary at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at Armstrong Stadium.

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Personality: Elliott Eddie

Spotlight on Toastmasters International Top 10 public speaker Ever since Elliott Eddie was a child, he could run his mouth like a steam engine, his cousin says.

Mr. Eddie’s oratorical skills, refined through the years and sprinkled with inspiration, have earned him a top international award.

On Aug. 20, the Henrico County resident earned the distinction as one of the top 10 finalists in Toastmasters International’s World Championship of Public Speaking Contest.

After six months and several rounds of competition that involved more than 32,000 contestants from Toastmasters groups from 124 countries around the world, Mr. Eddie emerged as one of the best.

As one of the Top 10, he delivered a talk, “Just Do the Work,” to an audience of more than 2,500 people at the organization’s 2016 international conference held in Washington. Another 125,000 were live streaming the final competition.

While Mr. Eddie didn’t win, he was ecstatic to be chosen as one of the Top 10.

“It is a great experience and honor,” Mr. Eddie says. “I was able to bring a message that resonates with people from around the world.

“I lost count of the people who came to me and said how the speeches rekindled a flame within them. That is why I speak — to motivate, educate and inspire.”

Toastmasters International, a nonprofit that helps members improve their communication, public speaking, and leadership skills, operates through clubs that compete within districts. Richmond’s Toastmaster community competes through District 66, which stretches from Fredericksburg to the North Carolina border.

The 50-year-old entrepreneur did not always use his oratorical skills on stage. In fact, the Hamilton College graduate who studied theater and creative writing was introduced to Toastmasters by his wife.

For more than a year, he considered joining.

“I was looking for something fun to put in my schedule and finally visited a club, and loved it. Turns out, my wife was right.”

Through speech, Mr. Eddie hopes to inspire future entrepreneurs, professionals and even other inspirational speakers.

“It would be a shame to work for someone else your whole life, to pay bills to someone else and never get to delve into your heart’s dream and give yourself an opportunity to achieve it. Time will pass anyway, how will you let yours pass?”

M e e t t h i s w e e k ’s Personality, international orator Elliott Eddie: Occupation: Entrepreneur who manages Superior Tax Service, a tax preparation company, and film and television producer for DM Media Inc. Also a licensed Primerica agent.

Date and place of birth: April 30 in Harlem. Raised in the Bronx.

Current residence: Henrico County.

Alma mater: Hamilton College, bachelor’s degree in 1991, with a major in theater and creative writing and a minor in dance.

Family: Wife, Pamela Eddie.

Toastmasters is: An incredible organization for personal development, networking and building dreams.

drives home its point, but allows the audience to actively participate during the trip.

Secrets to writing a good speech: Hard work. Speech writing is a learned skill, but like all skills, it needs practice to flourish. Some of the work includes research, being concise with the message and practice, practice, practice. You perform the way you practice.

Toastmasters then versus now: The organization has changed a bit, and has grown to become a better representation of excellence in communication and leadership training. I believe Toastmasters has benefited from the input and hard work from individuals with different backgrounds, thoughts and aspirations. I would highly recommend visiting a club and seeing what you can gain from Toastmasters.

What this honor means to me: This honor is a confirmation of where I have always believed my life was heading.

Often in life, we are sidetracked by the intensity and variables of life. Sometimes we have a goal or dream, but it seems like we are going in the opposite direction and can’t catch a break. It is in those times, marked by continued hard work — even in the dark — that we see our achievements as a blessing and a confirmation that those years of your life were not in vain.

Family’s reaction: My family is thrilled for me. My cousin says, “I knew it. Ever since you were a child, you could run your mouth like a steam engine.” Everyone was thrilled for me. Then the next day came and life went on.

How to overcome audience fear: Face it and practice. We all have a measure of fear. I still do, although I now recognize it as a massive amount of nervous energy.

We overcome our fears by accepting the challenge — “Just Do The Work.” Some measure of fear always will be present in whatever we do. But if we decide to face it and push through no matter what, we will find that what we feared was not worth fearing, and each time we experience that, it will make us bolder and more confident to follow our dreams.

Toastmasters No. 1 challenge: To stop talking once your time is up.

If I could have my wish, it would be: To complete the mission I am here for — motivate, educate and inspire.

Hero or heroine: Anyone who is actively fighting for their dream and refuses to give up.

Favorite speech: “A Message for All of Humanity” by Charlie Chaplin.

What makes me tick: The possibilities. The idea that I can envision a goal — any goal — and I can set a solid plan, adjust to life’s curve balls and eventually reach that goal in some measure.

Even if I am not the best, I will be formidable.

Three words that best describe me: Creator, doer, relentless.

My winning speech was about: “Just Do the Work,” a lesson I learned from my grandmother, a woman born during the U.S depression.

She explained that the way to overcome life’s challenges was to “Just Do The Work.”

Over the decades, I learned that doing the work meant fighting for what’s right, continuing to dream and go after them, building lives and forgiving our fellow human beings. Never give up, even when it looks like you are failing. If you do this, you will reach your dreams and live a meaningful life along the way.

How I start the day: I start at my computer. Each day is a new adventure and I look forward to each day to find my stake in it.

Key to becoming a good speaker: Honesty. I believe the best speakers are individuals who have learned some hard life lessons and are not afraid to expose themselves to get that message out. I believe the best speakers have a truth inside them that resonates with audiences when they are honest about what they have to say and real about how they say it.

Nobody knows that: I am extremely sensitive. I have a hard shell that I operate in, but because of my artistic bent and the openness it requires, things get to me for short periods of time. But eventually I can put it in its place and move forward with the plan.

What makes a good speech: The best speeches are born from stories. Audiences want to understand what you are talking about, why you are speaking about it and what your words will do for them.

A good speech captures the imagination of an audience and tells them a story that

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The book that influenced me the most: The most influential book I ever read, I read as a child. It is “The Long Dream” by Richard Wright.

It was about a child named Fishbelly who grew up in the South during horrendous times. The experiences of the main character, along with his determination to live, touched me at a young age and I have never forgotten.

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My next goal: To continue sharing my messages on larger stages. I look forward to motivating, educating and inspiring the world to know that we all have the possibility of greatness. It is not reserved for just a few. We all can dream and follow our dream as long as we commit to doing the work, determine we will not quit and fight for every inch.

If we can do that, we all can live an incredibly adventurous life, and have more good days along the way.

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A perfect evening: I am a homebody. I work hard every day, so in the evenings I am content to kick back, relax, watch a movie or plan the “next great thing.”

I place top value on: Respect and loyalty.

Hobby: Sounds funny, but my hobby is researching new information about the world we live in and its “owners.”

Best late-night snack: Grapes or cherries.

The best thing my parents ever taught me was: I mostly grew up in a group home.

From the group home I learned that I needed to be knowledgeable, I needed to know how to navigate the world of business and that I needed to believe in myself.

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Happenings Politics served up at Rep. Scott’s Labor Day cookout Free Press staff report

More than 1,000 people enjoyed hot dogs, hamburgers and politics Monday at the 40th Annual Labor Day Cookout hosted by Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott at his family home in Newport News.

People had the chance to informally meet and talk with 40 or more state and local politicians from Richmond to Portsmouth and Danville, while enjoying music, food and the waterfront location.

Even with a bevy of Secret Service agents nearby, former Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton, wife of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, was swarmed by throngs of people who took selfies with her and talked about the Nov. 8 presidential campaign.

Taking the stage with Rep. Scott and Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, Ms. Holton spoke about the political record of her husband and his running mate, presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

She said voting for Mrs. Clinton and U.S. Sen. Kaine would help improve the lives of working families, citing their support for increasing the minimum wage and education programs and funding.

She said while the polls show fluctuating results, nothing can be taken for granted.

“Tim says we’re making history here,” Ms. Holton told the crowd. “That is never easy. Virginia is absolutely going to be a battleground.”

She reminded people the deadline to register to vote in the election is Oct. 17, and that Election Day is Nov. 8.

“Let’s make a difference together,” she said. “We’re stronger together.”

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Flanked by U.S. Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, left, and Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, Anne Holton, wife of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, engages the crowd as she stumps for her husband and presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Rep. Scott’s Annual Labor Day Cookout. In front, from left, are Delegate Marcia Price of Newport News, Rep. Scott’s niece; state Sen. Mamie Locke of Hampton, chair of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus; Lisa Lucas-Burke, a candidate for Portsmouth City Council; former Newport News Delegate Flora Crittenden; Newport News Mayor McKinley Price, Rep. Scott’s brother-in-law and the father of Delegate Price; and Chesapeake City Councilwoman Ella P. Ward.

Saxophonist James “Plunky” Branch of Richmond and his group, Plunky & Oneness, provide the musical entertainment for the event.

More than 1,000 people spread out across the lawn of the Newport News family home of Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott for the 40th annual Labor Day event.

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Anne Holton, left, and Free Press President-Publisher Jean P. Boone greet one another and pause to talk at the annual Labor Day Cookout.

Documentary on Elizabeth Keckly to be shown Sept.16 at VMFA A documentary exploring the life of Elizabeth Keckly, who was born enslaved in Dinwiddie County and later purchased her freedom to become a dressmaker and confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, will be shown 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept.

16, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

The screening is part of the 2016 Virginia Commonwealth Southern Film Festival that runs from Thursday, Sept. 15, through Monday, Sept. 19,

and explores the portrayal of Southern women on screen.

“The Life & Times of Elizabeth Keckly” was directed

by Tim Reid, with historian Elvatrice Belsches of Richmond serving as researcher and writer.

Ms. Belsches, actress Daphne Maxwell Reid and coproducer Ken Roy will discuss the documentary following the screening.

Mr. and Mrs. Reid opened a studio in Richmond’s Scott’s

UR international film series includes African Film Weekend The University of Richmond is hosting its 28th Annual International Film Series, beginning Friday, Sept. 9 through Nov. 20.

The film series is free and open to the public, and will offer on-campus screenings of 13 contemporary and classic foreign films by leading international filmmakers.

Five of the 13 films will be shown during the 12th Annual African Film Weekend on Friday, Sept.16, and Saturday, Sept. 17. Films from South Africa, Nigeria and Ethiopia will be featured.

Screenings will take place in the Robins

School of Business, Queally Hall and Ukrop Auditorium on campus.

The films will be shown in their original language with English subtitles.

Friday afternoon screenings will feature faculty-led introductions and post-film discussion.

The series is co-sponsored by the Office of International Education and the Boatwright Memorial Library Media Resource Center.

For more information, including trailers, the screening schedule and parking details: www. richmond.edu/ifs.

‘Back 2 School’ drive for A.P. Hill Elementary in Petersburg The Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Post 622 of Petersburg is sponsoring a “Back 2 School” drive for A.P. Hill Elementary School students on Saturday, Sept. 17.

The auxiliary hopes to supply at least 50 school uniforms for boys and girls and 100 backpacks filled with school supplies for students.

A.P. Hill Elementary students, who attend school year-round, began the 2016-2017 school

Addition earlier this year.

The VCU Southern Film Festival was founded in 2010.

Tickets are $8; $5 for VMFA members; and free for VCU students, faculty and staff with VCU ID. Film festival details: http:// wp.vcu.edu/sff/

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year Aug. 3, and are in need of supplies such as paper, pencils, glue, crayons, scissors, fourfunction calculators and notebooks, organizers said.

The “Back 2 School” drive will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the VFW post, 1925 Johnson Road in Petersburg. Food, entertainment and a presentation for elementary students from McGruff the Crime Dog will be featured.

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Viola O. Baskerville, the former state secretary of administration, poses in the study of her Ginter Park home, Pineapple Acre, which was selected as this year’s Richmond Symphony Orchestra League Designer House. The work of more than 30 designers will be showcased throughout the 1929 Georgian revival home on Hawthorne Avenue. Below, Mrs. Baskerville holds the deed to her family’s Buckingham County property.

The deed is one of many family heirlooms featured in the Designer House.

Former Va. official’s Ginter Park home featured as Symphony Designer House

By Lauren Northington

Imagine a team of area interior designers completely remodeling or redesigning each room of your home at no cost to you. And when they’re finished, your home becomes a four-week showcase open to the public.

For the last 34 years, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra League has been raising money to support the symphony — and giving Richmond homeowners the opportunity of a lifetime — through their biennial Designer House project.

This year’s homeowners are former state Secretary of Administration Viola O. Baskerville and her husband, cardiologist Dr. Archer Baskerville.

They are the first African-American homeowners to be selected to host the Designer House.

Their brick, Georgian revival home at 3223 Hawthorne Ave. known as “Pineapple Acre” boasts five bedrooms, three full baths, two half baths and an in-ground pool.

Located next door to the former residence of former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder in Richmond’s Ginter Park, the home is assessed at $661,000, according to City of Richmond tax records.

All 4,533 square-feet of the Baskervilles’ home, with the exception of the kitchen, have been redone, and will be available for public viewing and special events Monday, Sept. 12, through Oct. 10.

Mrs. BaskWant to go? erville, a former Richmond Symphony Orchestra League Richmond City Designer House is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Council memMonday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ber who also Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. represented the In addition to tours, the home will feature city in the Vira café and boutique where clothing, ginia House of jewelry, accessories and home goods will Delegates from be available for purchase.

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1998 to 2005, Details: www.rsol.org or (804) 662-0334. served in the cabinet of former Gov. Tim Kaine. She later served as the CEO of the Girl Scouts of the Commonwealth of Virginia before stepping down in May 2015.

She believes the choice of her home was “serendipity.”

The house had been on the market for more than a year. She took down the “for sale” sign three months ago.

According to Ann Burke, RSOL president-elect, the home was chosen for its unique architecture and historical location.

It was built in 1929 by noted architect Courtenay Somerville Welton.

“This year, one of our members noticed the Baskervilles’ home was on the market,” Ms. Burke said. “The selection committee contacted her and toured the home. We knew immediately that

multiple formal rooms on the first floor, has been leased to the RSOL for three months while the Baskervilles live in a temporary residence.

While Mrs. Baskerville continues to have the final say in architectural and significant design changes, she said she is blown away by the changes.

“The designers have really awakened my sense of color and style,” Mrs. Baskerville said. “They have really showcased a traditional house with a very modern twist.”

She said her favorite rooms include the master suite, the dining room and the first floor powder room.

“This year, the RSOL wants to increase awareness of local designers and increase the diversity of designers, especially fresh, young designers in Richmond,” said Mrs. Baskerville.

While this year’s Designer House includes no African-American designers, Ms. Burke said RSOL hopes to widen the pool of designers for future symphony Designer House fundraisers. it would be a great Designer House.”

She and Mrs. Baskerville believe visitors will be inspired The RSOL, a nonprofit that supports the Richmond Symphony through fundraising, education and community involvement, is by the designers’ work. “Everyone will find ideas for their own lauded for the fundraiser that includes the selection of 30 local homes,” Ms. Burke said.

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The festival was created in 2004 in response to rising fear and Islamophobia in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks.

This year’s event will feature performances from the Ezibu Muntu African dancers, the Latin Ballet of Virginia, Sri Sai Dance Academy and Falun Dafa Chinese Dancers. The Richmond Boys Choir also will perform.

Mexican and Middle Eastern food will be available for purchase.

For the first time, the festival will include a “Mini Memoir Exhibit” hosted by the Chrysalis Institute. People from across the Richmond region have submitted six-word memoirs about their lives over the course of the year, which will be displayed as a visual tapestry at the festival.

The RVA Peace Festival is sponsored by the Interfaith Council of Greater Richmond, the Chrysalis Institute, the Richmond Peace Education Center and Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church’s Center for Interfaith Reconciliation.

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Mother Teresa lifted to sainthood Religion News Service

Mother Teresa, the tiny nun who devoted her life to the poor, was declared a saint by Pope Francis at the Vatican as he celebrated her “daring and courage” and described her as a role model for all people during his year of mercy.

At least 120,000 people crowded St. Peter’s Square for the canonization of the acclaimed nun who worked in the slums of Kolkata and was a force to be reckoned with by political and religious leaders around the world.

“Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy, making herself available for everyone through her welcome and defense of human life, those unborn, and those abandoned and discarded,” the pope said in his homily at the Mass last Sunday morning.

“She bowed down before those who were spent, left to die on the side of the road,” Pope Francis continued, saying her life was an example for other Christians and an indictment of those with influence who could ease the problems of poverty but did not.

“She made her voice heard before the powers of this world so that they might recognize their guilt for the crime of poverty they created.”

The pope then repeated that final line for emphasis: “The crimes of poverty they themselves created.”

Pope Francis gave VIP seats to 1,500 poor people who are supported by the saint’s Missionaries of Charity order across Italy and invited them to a pizza lunch at the Vatican, sending another message about her work — and his own commitment to the poor and vulnerable.

The pope described the new saint as an “eloquent” model for her humble devotion to the poorest of the poor and an “emblematic figure of womanhood.”

Mother Teresa, whose feast day will now be Sept. 5, the date she

died in 1997 at age 87, will now be known as St. Teresa of Kolkata — although in an unscripted aside, Pope Francis recognized that many people “may struggle” to remember the new appellation.

“With great spontaneity, I think we will continue to call her Mother Teresa,” the pontiff said.

Considered one of the most influential women in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, St. Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was regarded by many Catholics as a “living saint” for her work in the slums of Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta.

Thirteen official delegations and heads of state, including the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, attended the canonization Mass amid the tightest security seen at the Vatican since recent terrorist attacks in France and Germany.

President Obama sent a delegation that included the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Kenneth Hackett, and two other administration officials, as well as Sister Donna Markham, head of Catholic Charities USA, and Carolyn Woo, head of Catholic Relief Services — respectively the domestic and international relief arms of the Catholic Church in the United States.

The faithful began lining up overnight but crowd numbers appeared to be far lower than the 300,000 who turned out for the nun’s beatification in 2003, possibly because of security fears.

The Rev. Vincent Druding, a priest from Church of the Assumption in Peekskill, N.Y., traveled to the Vatican for the canonization after making a personal pilgrimage to Kolkata to meet the nuns from the Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded.

The saint was born Agnese Gonxha Bojaxhiu of Albanian parents in Skopje in 1910 in what is now Macedonia. She became a nun as a teenager and moved to India in 1929, creating her own order of nuns in 1950.

Under her guidance, the order set up hundreds of shelters for the poor and needy around the world. There are now more than

William ‘Bill’ Anderson, 68, retired U.Va. clinical psychologist dies For more than three decades, Dr. William Henry “Bill” Anderson played a key role in providing mental health services for students at the University of Virginia.

During his 33-year career at U.Va., the Henrico County native was best known for providing individual and group therapy to students and for mentoring and training new clinical psychologists.

His family said Dr. Anderson considered his career in psychology to be a sacred vocation. He sought to connect his professional work with his religious faith, his family said, regularly opening his clinical sessions with a prayer: “Help me to know that You are here as I try to help this person. Keep me mindful that it is You I am serving.”

Dr. Anderson’s warm personality endeared him to many at the university, said Patricia M. Lampkin, U.Va. vice president and chief student affairs officer.

“A more gentle and loving person I will never know,” said Marcus L. Martin, U.Va. vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity. “Bill gave of himself mentally and spiritually to anyone in need. I will have lasting memories of his wonderful smile and kind words.

Bill’s unselfish service and commitment to students, faculty, staff and community were unmatched.”

Retired from U.Va. in 2014, Dr.

Anderson is being remembered for his contributions following his death Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, in Charlottesville. He was 68.

Family and friends celebrated his life Saturday, Sept. 3, at Four Mile Creek Dr. Anderson Baptist Church near his birthplace in Henrico.

As a child, he entered school in 1954 just months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down public school segregation and later was among the first AfricanAmerican students to integrate Varina High School.

After earning his bachelor’s degree in psychology at Virginia Tech and his doctorate in the field at State University of New York at Stony Brook, he spent seven years as a psychology professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Returning to Virginia, he joined the U.Va. faculty in 1981 as an assistant professor and then in 1985 became an associate professor and director of training at the U.Va. Counseling Center. He became more involved in clinical work after the merger of the center and Student Mental Health in 1996.

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Dr. Anderson’s professional associations included membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, the Association of Black Psychologists and the American Psychological Association. He also was a fellow at Hereford Residential College.

He was active in civil rights and movements for peace and justice, including being an NAACP life member.

He also was a founder and president of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice and served on the national executive committee of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, the National Council of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Peace Commission for the Episcopal Church.

Dr. Anderson was fluent in French and Spanish and was a music lover. He sang tenor in two Charlottesville choral ensembles, the Virginia Consort and Zephyrus, as well as the choir at Trinity Episcopal Church in Charlottesville, which he joined in 1981 and later served on the vestry.

He traveled to more than 15 countries on peace and singing missions, including Great Britain, Ireland, Nicaragua, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Russia, Hungary, Lithuania, Cuba, Libya and South Africa, where he stayed with Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu for several days.

Survivors include his sister, Jacqueline A. Lawrence of Henrico.

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4,500 nuns as well as priests and brothers from her order working in more than 130 countries, including Yemen, Australia, Venezuela, Guatemala and the United States.

Mother Teresa was credited with two miracles related to healing the ill. One of them, Marcilio Andrino of Brazil, unexpectedly recovered from a severe brain infection in 2008.

He and his wife, Fernanda, were in Rome to attend the canonization, which is considered a highlight of Pope Francis’ Holy Year of Mercy.

Mother Teresa’s worldwide reputation for service and sanctity so impressed St. John Paul II, a friend and pope when she died, that he waived the usual five-year waiting period and opened her cause for sainthood just two years after her death. Pope John Paul then beatified her — the second step toward formal recognition as a saint — in 2003.

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“The People’s Church”

216 W. Leigh St. • Richmond, Va. 23220 • Tel: 804-643-3366 Fax: 804-643-3367 • Email: ebcoffice1@yahoo.com • web: ebcrichmond.org 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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Every 3rd Sunday 2nd Sunday, 11 a.m.

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Tues. 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Wed. 7:45 p.m.

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Thurs., 11:45 a.m.

Dr. Levy M. Armwood, Pastor  Dr. Wallace J. Cook, Pastor Emeritus

Sixth Baptist Church Theme for 2016: Becoming a Five-Star Church of Excellence With Mission, Growth, Prayer, Purpose, Vision We Are Growing In The Kingdom Sunday, September 11, 2016 As We Grow The Kingdom 10:45 AM Divine Worship with Word, Worship and Witness

Message By: Pastor Bibbs New Series: Mobilizing For Ministry Part 2 Scripture: Books of Acts Save The Date Family and Friends Community Fall Festival Saturday, September 17, 2016 11AM – 5PM (Church Parking Lot) Center Stage, Choirs, Spoken Word, D.J’s, Food Trucks and Children Floats.

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Rev. Dr. Yvonne Jones Bibbs, Pastor

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Celebration Sept.17 honoring gospel musician Bubba Johnson

Gospel singer, songwriter and musician Bubba Johnson will be honored for his contributions to gospel music at “The 50 Year Journey Celebration: Honoring Gospel Pioneer Bubba Johnson” at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, at Jerusalem Baptist Church, 16210 Short Cut Road in Doswell.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature area gospel legends, including The Gospel Gents and a reunion of The Omega Singers, a group Mr. Johnson formed for touring.

A Hanover County native, Mr. Johnson began singing at area churches at age 17. He performed with numerous artists and wrote more than 100 songs before releasing his first CD, “Bubba Johnson and Company,” in 2001.

Evangelist Dorothy Norwood is featured on two songs on his second CD, “No Doubt in My Mind.”

Mr. Johnson Mr. Johnson received the En Sound Music Award for traditional gospel artist of the year in 2006.

The awards seek to recognize independent Christian and gospel recording artists worldwide.

In 2005, Mr. Johnson was nominated for a Newsome Gospel Award for best gospel group/duo.

In addition to his service as musical director for choirs around Virginia for many years, Mr. Johnson retired in 2004 from the Virginia Department of Information and Technology.

Mr. Johnson is a member of Bethany Baptist Church in Montpelier.

Details: (804) 467-5813.

St. Paul’s Episcopal to host rally supporting minimum wage hike St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Downtown will host a rally to support raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, it has been announced.

The rally will be held 1 to 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12, at the church, 815 E. Grace St. The event, “Moral Day of Action to Fight for $15,” aims to bring together faith leaders, low wage earners and activists to urge candidates and elected officials to promote a fair wage, organizers said.

Open to the public, the program is part of an effort to hold simultaneous rallies in state capitals across the country to promote an increase in the minimum wage, now $7.25 an hour in Virginia and many other states.

Information: (804) 643-3589.

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125TH PRE-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS - COME ONE, COME ALL PRAYER BREAKFAST—$15.00

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Speaker: Rev. Dr. Diane Mosby, Pastor Anointed New Life Baptist Church

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Saturday, October 8, 2016: 4:00 p.m.

Featuring: Rev. Phillip Knight Sr., Pastor Rock Hill Baptist Church **SAVE $5.00 AND ATTEND BOTH EVENTS FOR $25.00”

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The 5th Anniversary of

Rev. Dr. Michael A. Sanders And First Lady AJ Sanders

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, left, is accompanied by Steve Parson of Richmond and Omarosa Manigault, former contestant on “The Apprentice” and director of African-American outreach for the Trump campaign, during his visit last Saturday to an African-American church in Detroit.

Trump, accompanied by Steve Parson, met by protesters, half-filled pews at Detroit church Reuters

city the economic envy of the world, and we can do that.”

His address of more than 10 minutes at the Great Faith Ministries International church received moments of applause, including when he said Christian faith is not the past, but the present and the future.

Accompanying Mr. Trump to the church was Dr. Ben Carson, the former Republican presidential hopeful and retired neurosurgeon who grew up in Detroit and whose childhood neighborhood Mr. Trump visited last Saturday.

Also with him was Steve A. Parson Sr., founding pastor of Richmond Christian Center.

Mr. Parson was ousted from the church early last year among allegation’s that he mismanaged funds of the once 3,000-member congregation.

Mr. Trump has argued that his emphasis on job creation would help minority communities in a way that Democrats have failed.

Speaking to the Free Press on Tuesday, Mr. Parson described the church service as “absolutely

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stepped up his bid to win over minority voters by addressing a largely black church in Detroit last Saturday and calling for a new civil rights agenda to support African-Americans.

As scores of protesters outside chanted “No justice, no peace,” Mr. Trump said he wanted to make Detroit, a predominantly African-American city that recently emerged from bankruptcy, the economic envy of the world by bringing back companies from abroad.

Mr. Trump separately met with about 100 community and church leaders, his campaign said, in his latest push to peel away minority voters from Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

His outreach to minorities over recent weeks comes as he seeks to improve his chances in the Nov. 8 election and shake off months of offending the sensibilities of African-American and Latino voters with his hard line on immigration and roughhewn rhetoric.

“I fully understand that the African-American community is suffering from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right,” Mr. Trump said at the church, which was half full. “I want to make America prosperous for everyone. I want to make this

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Riverview

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Dr. Anthony Michael Chandler, Sr., Pastor

2604 Idlewood Avenue Richmond, Va. 23220 (804) 353-6135 www.riverviewbaptistch.org Rev. Dr. Stephen L. Hewlett, Pastor Rev. Dr. Ralph Reavis, Sr. Pastor Emeritus

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1127 North 28th St., Richmond, VA 23223-6624 • Office: (804) 644-1402 Dr. Sylvester T. Smith, Pastor “There’s A Place for You” Tuesday Sunday 10:30 AM Bible Study 9:30 AM Church School 6:30 PM Church-wide Bible Study 11:00 AM Worship Service 6:30 PM Men's Bible Study (Each 2nd and 4th) (Holy Communion Thursday each 2nd Sunday) Wednesday (Following 2nd Sunday)

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stands for. We will be ‘abundantly provided for’ as the Bible says … Donald Trump will do that for us.”

Opinion polls show Mr. Trump has little support among minorities.

Emma Lockridge, 63, said as she entered the church that she found his comments about Mexicans and Muslims “hateful.”

But she said she also had concerns about Mrs. Clinton’s support in the 1990s for crime legislation signed by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, which many AfricanAmericans say contributed to high incarceration rates in their communities.

Vicki Dobbins, an activist protesting outside, said she was disappointed the church asked Mr. Trump to speak.

“I believe that Trump coming to Detroit is a joke, and I’m ashamed of the pastor who invited him,” she said. “In my opinion, he stabbed everyone in the back.”

Free Press writer Lauren Northington contributed to this article.

Cedar Street Baptist Church

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

2611 Bells Road, Richmond, VA 23234 804-230-9300 • mobcsecretary2@comcast.net • http://newmobc.org/ Rev. Dr. Michael A. Sanders, Pastor

wonderful,” and said he enjoyed Mr. Trump’s comments.

“Trump is bringing back black inner cities all across America by introducing empowerment and not entitlement programs,” said Mr. Parson, who oversees the Virginia African-American Coalition for Trump, which he said includes about 20 local pastors.

He’s also a member of the National Diversity Coalition for Trump.

He said Richmond, as the former capital of the Confederacy, is the perfect place to start programs to build wealth.

“Jackson Ward was known as ‘Black Wall Street’ in the 1920s,” he said. “It was one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the United States.

“So when Trump says he wants to ‘make America great again,’ he means returning our communities — even Richmond — to their heyday.

“Wealth is financial independence,” Mr. Parson continued.

“That is what the AfricanAmerican community needs, and that’s what Donald Trump

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Sunday, September 18, 2016 • 10:00 am Homecoming/Unity Worship

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Sports Plus

African-Americans hold key NFL coaching, quarterback positions

By Fred Jeter

The NFL season opens this weekend with five AfricanAmerican head coaches and likely six African-American starting quarterbacks representing the 32 teams.

The number of African-American coaches remains the same as in 2015.

While Coach Lovie Smith was fired in January by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after two seasons (8-24 record; replaced by Dirk Koetter), Coach Hue Jackson was hired by the Cleveland Browns in January.

Coach Jackson previously coached the Oakland Raiders to an 8-8 record in 2011.

Four returning African-American coaches this season are Marvin Lewis with the Cincinnati Bengals, Mike Tomlin with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Jim Caldwell with the Detroit Lions and Todd Bowles with the New York Jets.

Coach Lewis, the dean of African-American NFL coaches, has an 112-92-2 regular season record with the Bengals since 2003.

Coach Tomlin, an alumnus of the College of William & Mary, is 92-52 with the Steelers since 2007.

Coach Caldwell is 18-14 in two seasons with the Lions, and he was 26-22 from 2009 to 2011 with the Indianapolis Colts.

Coach Bowles was 10-6 with the Jets in his first season a year ago.

There were no African-American head coaches in the NFL until 1989, when Coach Art Shell was hired by Los Angeles

Griffin, a former starting quarterback with Washington, is back in the saddle with the Browns after not playing last season in D.C. Teddy Bridgewater was a clear starter with the Minnesota Vikings before suffering a season-ending injury.

For the time being, Colin Kaepernick of the San FranCoach Bowles Coach Caldwell Coach Jackson Coach Tomlin Coach Lewis cisco 49ers appears to have (now Oakland) Raiders. lost the No. 1 quarterback slot to Blaine Gabbert. Kaepernick A high-profile addition to the list of African-American quar- was the 49ers’ starter from 2013 to 2015. terbacks in the NFL is Dak Prescott, the Dallas Cowboys rookie Geno Smith, a former starter for the New York Jets, is now who has, at least temporarily, replaced injured Tony Romo. listed behind Ryan Fitzpatrick. Smith missed most of last season Prescott was the Cowboys fourth round draft pick out of with an injury.

Mississippi State University.

In Buffalo, the first three quarterbacks on the Bills’ depth Other likely African-American starters at the most important chart — Taylor, E.J. Manuel and rookie Cardale Jones — are position are Tyrod Taylor of the Buffalo Bills, Cam Newton of all African-American. the Carolina Panthers, Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks, This marks the third time in NFL history that a team has had Jameis Winston of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Robert Griffin three black quarterbacks.

III of the Cleveland Browns.

In happened in 2004 in Seattle with Wilson, Tarvaris Jackson Hampton native Taylor is a Virginia Tech alumnus. Wilson and Terrelle Pryon, and in 2005 with the Jacksonville Jaguars is a native Richmonder who played for Collegiate School and with Byron Leftwich, David Garrard and Quinn Gray. starred at North Carolina State University and the University of The NFL’s first African-American starting quarterback was Wisconsin before joining the Seahawks.

Marlin Briscoe of the Denver Broncos in 1968.

Legal Notices/Employment Opportunities Divorce VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO LEON COWARD, SR., Plaintiff v.

NELIDA MONTALVOCOWARD, Defendant.

Civil Law No.: CL16-713 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 and without cohabitation for a period of more than one year, since May 15, 2010. And it appearing by Affidavit filed according to law that Nelida Montalvo-Coward, 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 Nelida MontalvoCoward do appear in the Clerk’s Office of the Law Division of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, 4301 East Parham Road, Henrico, Virginia 23273, on or before October 29, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. and do whatever necessary to protect his interest in this suit.

A Copy Teste: HEIDI S. BARSHINGER, Clerk I ask for this: Rudolph C. McCollum, Jr. Esq. VSB # 32825 P.O. Box 4595 Richmond, VA 23220 Phone (804) 523-3900 Fax (804) 523-3901

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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 OF THE COUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD CARL THOMAS WAYBRIGHT, JR., Plaintiff v.

SARAH ELIZABETH BURRELL, Defendant.

Civil Law No.: CL16-2137 8/02/16 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 and without cohabitation for a period more than one year, since December 24, 1998.

And it appearing by Affidavit filed according to law that Sarah Elizabeth Burrell, 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 Sarah Elizabeth Burrell do appear in the Clerk’s Office of the Law Division of the Circuit Court of the County of Chesterfield, 9500 Courthouse Road, Chesterfield, VA 23832, on or before September 19, 2016 at 8:45 a.m. and do whatever necessary to protect his interest in this suit.

A Copy Teste: WENDY S. HUGHES Rudolph C. McCollum, Jr. Esquire P.O. Box 4595 Richmond, VA 23220 804-523-3900

determination of religious affiliation; and responsibility for support

It is ORDERED that the defendant, Tiffany Hill (Mother), appear at the above-named Court and protect her interest on or before 11/17/2016, at 11:40 AM. Court Room #3.

Kate O’Leary, Esq. 730 E. Broad St, 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 (804) 646-3493

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), Shasha May (Father), Cokeia Criss (Mother), appear at the above-named Court and protect his/her interest on or before 11/30/2016, at 11:40 AM. Court Room #5.

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

The object of this suit is to: Pursuant to VA. Code § 161-277.01, Children’s Home Society of Virginia (“CHS”) requests that the Court terminate the residual parental rights of the birth mother; Jennifer Lynn Smith, whose whereabouts are unknown, and the unknown father, whose identity and whereabouts are unknown, and allow custody of Hunter Lee Smith, d/o/b 05/06/16 to remain with the CHS with the right to place the infant for adoption.

It is ORDERED that the defendant Jennifer Lynn Smith and Unknown Birth Father appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his or her interests on or before 10/3/2016, at 9:20 AM.

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE CITY OF RICHMOND MARGARETTE HOUCHENS-LEONARD, Plaintiff v.

DONALD HOUCHENS, Defendant.

Case No.: CL15004758-00-3 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 (12) months.

It is ORDERED that the defendant, whose whereabouts are unknown, appear here on or before the 20th day of October, 2016 and protect his interests.

A Copy, Teste: EDWARD F. JEWETT, Clerk I ask for this: Robert E. Walker, Jr., Esq. VSB No. 27729 217 W. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23220 Telephone: (804) 780-2889

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER JIMMY STUMP, JR., Plaintiff v.

CLAUDIA CALLEJAS DE AMAYA, Defendant.

Case No.: CL1600-2072 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 5th day of October, 2016 at 9:00 a.m.

Courtroom 1 and protect her interests.

A Copy, Teste:

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF HANOVER TIMOTHY BISHOP, Plaintiff v.

BOBBI BISHOP, Defendant.

Case No.: CL16002170-00 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 5th day of October, 2016 at 9:00 a.m.

Courtroom 1 and protect her 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

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virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of the City of Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re JAMAR RASHEED CEPHAS JR., Juvenile v.

TIFFANY HILL (Mother) JJ042758-16 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Tiffany Hill, (Mother) of Jamar Rasheed Cephas Jr., child, DOB 3/22/2002, “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, Tiffany Hill (Mother), appear at the above-named Court and protect her interest on or before 11/17/2016, at 11:40 AM. Court Room #3.

Kate O’Leary, Esq. 730 E. Broad St, 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 (804) 646-3493

virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of the City of Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re KYMON JASHAUD CEPHAS, Juvenile v.

TIFFANY HILL (Mother) JJ079462-16 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Tiffany Hill, (Mother) of Kymon Jashaud Cephas, child, DOB 4/26/2006, “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;

virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of the City of Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Sha’Keem Criss, Juvenile v.

Cokeia Criss (Mother), and SHASHA MAY, (Father), and Unknown (Father) JJ090309-10, JJ090309-11, JJ090309-12 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Cokeia Criss, (Mother), Shasha May, (Father), & Unknown, (Father), of Sha’keem Criss, child, DOB 9/18/2014, “RPR” means all rights and responsibilities remaining with parent after

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virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of the City of Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Zy’mier givens, Juvenile v. quanasia givens (Mother), and Unknown (Father) JJ090066-11, JJ090066-12 OrDEr Of puBLicatiON

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the residual parental rights (“RPR”) of Quanasia Givens, (Mother) and Unknown, (Father), of Zy’mier Givens, child, DOB 7/12/2009, “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, Quanasia Givens (Mother) and Unknown (Father), appear at the abovenamed Court and protect his/her interest on or before 12/14/2016, at 9:50 AM. Court Room #5.

Diane Abato, Esq. 730 E. Broad St, 8th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 (804) 646-3493 virgiNia: iN thE JuvENiLE aND DOmEstic rELatiONs District cOurt Of the City of Richmond Commonwealth of Virginia, in re HUNTER LEE SMITH, Juvenile Children’s Home Society of Virginia v.

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Job Description: The Executive Minister is responsible for assisting the Senior Pastor in the implementation of the vision and mission of Cedar Street Baptist Church of God. This role includes supervising all church staff and overseeing, as well as coordinating and integrating, all the ministries and daily operations of the church.

Qualifications: This individual should possess a proven track record of at least five years of pastoral, business or non-profit management experience. Capabilities should include relational, organizational and managerial skills. A Master’s Degree from an accredited seminary is preferred. This person should possess exceptional interpersonal, verbal and written capabilities and be able to work with a diverse and growing congregation. This person must be a licensed (preferably ordained) minister.

All resumes should be submitted by Tuesday, September 20, 2016 to the church office 2301 Cedar Street Richmond, VA 23223 Attention: Dr. Anthony M. Chandler, Sr.