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Freshness Given to Classics from Legendary Composer and Pianist
Brenda C. Siler WI Contributing Writer
An enthusiastic Kennedy Center audience experienced an energetic performance from Herbie Hancock last week at the Kennedy Center. The concert was the first stop on a two-and-a-half-month tour featuring acclaimed trumpeter Terence Blanchard, "Saturday Night Live" bassist James Genus, Hancock mentee, guitarist and vocalist Lionel Loueke from Be-
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nin, Africa and Berklee College of Music alumnus drummer Justin Tyson. Before the group hit the stage, I noticed Hancock's set up of five to six types of keyboards, including an acoustic baby grand and a keytar, which is a keyboard that goes around your neck and shoulder. He also incorporated the vocoder, which takes the voice into a semi-singing instrument for music. It made sense for this octogenarian to have all his "tools" with him because he has composed lots of music in his lifetime. With 14 Grammys and a Kennedy Center Honor, Hancock has been successful because he knows how to collaborate effectively with other great musical talents. They all have the same goal HERBIE Page 33
4 Legendary pianist/composer Herbie Hancock recently performed at the Kennedy Center to kick off his current tour. (Photo courtesy Jati Lindsay)
5 Legendary pianist/composer Herbie Hancock recently performed at the Kennedy Center to kick off his current tour. His band included [l-r] Herbie Hancock, Lionel Louke (guitar), Justin Tyson (drums), Terence Blanchard (trumpet) and James Genus (bass). (Photo courtesy Jati Lindsay)
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ed, was renamed W.T.B. Williams Training School in 1944.
Over 1,000 people whose family roots are connected to Josephine City are laid to rest in a three-acre cemetery at the end of Josephine Street.
Nearly 80 spies and civil war veterans are buried there, including Thomas Laws, who was among those enslaved in Clarke County. Laws is barely recognized for his bravery as a Union spy who delivered critical information about the Confederate troops’ movement that led to the Union victory of the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley – The Battle of Winchester on September 19, 1864.
Tour buses will leave THEARC, 1901 Mississippi Ave., S.E., at 8 a.m. and return by 4 p.m. In addition to the tour, visitors will also attend the Juneteenth celebration at the Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds. Allison Seymour, WUSA’s Get Up DC Anchor and Marc Clark will host the day-long event that also includes educational and cultural activities, food, arts and crafts and music.
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of perfection. Satisfying my soul during the concert, I heard snippets of "Butterfly" and "Speak Like a Child," two of my favorite Hancock compositions reimagined through electronic jazz-funk chords. "Actual Proof" from the "Thrust" album and "Come Running to Me" from the "Sunlight" album were performed in full effect. I last saw Hancock perform in 2018 when Genus and Loueke were a part of that tour. Tyson is the "baby" of the group on this tour. Then Hancock began introducing Blanchard. "Now on trumpet," Hancock said, then the audience erupted with applause. "Oh, you already introduced yourself." In a brief interview with Blanchard, I was surprised to learn that he had not worked with Hancock very much. "Last time I did a tour with him was actually when Obama was elected," Blanchard said. "This is a good chance for me to get back and reconnect." Reconnect they did. During the concert, Hancock introduced the jazz standard "Footprints," composed by his best friend, Wayne Shorter. The version we heard was a Blanchard arrangement. In addition to touring with Hancock, the trumpeter is still riding high from his successful September 2021 Metropolitan Opera premiere of "Fire Shut Up In My Bones," the operatic adaptation of Charles Blow's autobiography. During this concert, Hancock praised Blanchard for his 50 film scores and his work on another score while the band was on tour. "'The Woman King' with Viola Davis is the score in the works," Blanchard shared. All that talent on stage took the audience to new heights during the encore of "Chameleon." Hancock moved around on stage with the keytar while dueling in chord exchanges with bandmates. Blanchard summed up what we all felt. "We were having a lot of fun," Blanchard said. Indeed!
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4 Award-winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard performs at the Kennedy Center alongside Herbie Hancock. (Photo courtesy Jati Lindsay)
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Dems Hope Revelations Shared Before Jan. 6 Committee Will Spur Greater Midterm Participation
Stacy M. Brown WI Staff Writer
With the recent airing of the House Committee investigation into the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and revelations which confirm the indisputable role which former President Donald Trump played, Democrats hope voters will show up at the polls in record numbers during the upcoming midterm elections.
With new information which reveals how Republican lawmakers sought pardons and other deals from Trump during the insurrection, Democrats believe they can overcome voter apathy caused by Congress’s inability to pass legislation like the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
“It was a sophisticated seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power,” Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the chair of the House committee, said regarding the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Cheney noted that several GOP members of Congress pressed Trump for pardons during the insurrection – the inference could explain why many Republicans have remained loyal to the former President and have shown a reluctance to participate in the hearings.
She reminded the Committee of a Tweet sent by Trump encouraging the attack: “Be there, will be wild!” Trump tweeted.
Trump’s supporters responded, including two extremist groups: Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
One rioter read Trump’s tweet over a megaphone at the Capitol and several others, including one which criticized Vice President Mike Pence for denying the request to overturn the election loss to Joe Biden.
“Hang Mike Pence,” the supporters chanted.
“Maybe he deserves it,” Trump allegedly said in response.
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On Tuesday, June 14, The Society of Professional Journalists, Washington, D.C., Pro chapter held its 2022 Dateline Awards Dinner and Hall of Fame Ceremony. The event, held in person for the first time in three years, took place in The Ballroom at The National Press Club in Northwest.
The Washington Informer’s publisher, Denise Rolark Barnes, along with nine other members of the editorial staff and friends, attended the event and celebrated as the Informer snagged six awards.
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Some Democrats believe the revelations could equate to a game-changer for the midterms which up to this point appeared destined for an easy Republican takeover of both the House and Senate.
Many Black voters have expressed weariness with Democrats, especially after the leaked Roe V. Wade opinion that points to the likelihood that the court will vote to dismantle America’s current abortion rights.
“Black voters are understandably frustrated with the lack of reform around voter rights but the lack of success with this is due to actions by Republicans, not Democrats,” insisted Dr. Michal Strahilevitz, the director of the Elfenworks Center for Responsible Business and marketing professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.
“Black voters are far more pragmatic than most segments of the Democratic voter base. I expect them to show up not so much to reward Democrats for their lackluster success as to limit the power Republicans have to stop the necessary reforms,” Strahilevitz continued. “In short, Black voters are not just a loyal part of the Democratic base – they’re a very practical one, too.”
During the Jan. 6 public hearings, a new video of the deposition by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, revealed that Pence gave the orders to send National Guard troops to the Capitol.
However, Milley said administration officials told Pence to falsely state that Trump gave those orders.
Democrats are counting on voters to rebuke the GOP – a party where a sitting President abdicated his responsibility to safeguard his own vice president, members of Congress, law enforcement officers and American citizens.
“Our democracy remains in danger,” Committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) declared during the hearing.
“In 2020, Black voters were getting messages online telling them not to go to the polls, so we must make sure that our people can get to the polls and challenge the laws and policies that keep us from making important decisions,” Black Lives Matter Co-founder and Black Futures Lab leader Alicia Garza stated.
“Black voters are kept from being powerful on purpose by policies the conservative movement has designed,” Garza said.
In a radio interview, Democratic Strategist Karen Finney implored voters to understand what’s at stake during the 2022 midterms.
“It’s very clear in terms of the GOP candidates who emerged – one of the big things we saw is that people who were peddlers of The Big Lie, deniers of the 2020 election, seem to do pretty well, regardless of Donald Trump,” Finney told radio personality Charles Ellison on his Reality Check show.
“That tells you a lot about what their agenda would be if they win. Voters came out in record numbers in 2020 and we did something extraordinary,” Finney said. “We’re going to have to do it again in 2022 if we want to keep America moving away from what I saw as a very divisive destruction of the Trump years.”
House Select Committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said the Jan. 6 conspiracy should alarm all Americans.
“The conspiracy to thwart the will of the people is not over,” Thompson asserted. “Unfortunately, there are those in this country who thirst for power but have no love or respect for what makes America great: devotion to the Constitution, allegiance to the rule of law and our shared journey to build a more perfect Union.” WI
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Some say that in 1876, something carrying millions of dollars of gold crashed and fell into the Ashtabula River in Ohio. Many have tried to find the mystery bullion, but to date no one has. Do you think it is really there? Or is it a legend? To find out what crashed, color each space with one dot BLACK and color each space with two dots BLUE.
In the 1600s, Port Royal, Jamaica, was one of the busiest seaports in the Caribbean. It was home to merchants, missionaries, smugglers and pirates.
In 1692, an earthquake hit the city. Much of it sank 65 feet (20 meters) below sea level. For hundreds of years, sand and mud covered the city. Many treasure seekers tried to find the sunken city and failed.
Then in 1965, a diver named Robert Marx used modern equipment to dig under the layers of mud and found the lost city. He was not looking for treasure, but find it he did! Thousands of coins were found—perhaps lost pirate treasure.
Take a trip under the deep blue sea and look for treasures from A to Z. Can you find each letter of the alphabet hidden in the picture?
Diving for the lost city of Port Royal is dangerous. Divers must watch out for sharks.
Do all sharks look the same? No siree! Circle five ways the two sharks are different. Divers looking for sunken treasure do not look for the hulls of sunken ships. Wooden hulls rot after hundreds of years under water.
Treasure hunters look instead for lumps that could be the remains of metal parts of a ship: cannons, anchors, tools and ballast. Sometimes, even these are hard to see, as most of them have been encrusted with sand and shells.
Long ago, Spanish ships full of treasure sailed the seas. Sometimes these ships sank, leaving tons of treasure on the sea floor. Search the sea floor for seven coins with letters on them. Unscramble the letters to find out what these ships were called!
A Spanish treasure ship was called a
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"My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole" by Will Jawando
c.2022, Farrar, Straus and Giroux $28 / 232 pages
Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer
They say it takes a village.
This abuelita has wisdom to offer. That grandfather shares good secrets. An auntie can teach, a tio can show, and neighbors and ninongs can contribute more to a baby's life. It takes a village, no one should have to raise a child alone — and as in the new book "My Seven Black Fathers" by Will Jawando, no child should have to grow up that way, either.
As the biracial child of a white mother and a Nigerian father, Will Jawando says he struggled to fit in until a boy at the basketball courts befriended him. As with many childhood friendships, the two drifted apart and one day, Jawando learned that his buddy had been killed. The incident still reminds him that compassion and grief are forever interlinked.
It also, he says, "made room in my heart for the mentorship of my seven Black fathers."
Studies show that "a father in the home matters to his Black son," no matter their income or what their neighborhood looks like. Even a father figure works: Jawando says that he is the man he is today because of "the Black men that I gained access to because of my mother's job and where I went to school."
His step-father, Joseph Jacob, gave Jawando his "Black American identity." His fourth grade teacher, Mr. Williams — the first Black male teacher he'd ever seen — tutored him on respect and respectability. His mother's co-worker, Jay Fletcher, a gay man, taught Jawando that showing vulnerability was necessary to be "whole." Coach Wayne Holmes showed him how to succeed. Deen Sanwoola, a friend and mentor, gave Jawando "perspective" on his "Nigerian identity." Barack Obama, with whom Jawando worked, showed Jawando his "birthmark" in his outside-of-mainstream name. And from his own birth father, once they connected again and traveled to Nigeria together, he found forgiveness and understanding. "Now the healing could begin," Jawando said. "All it took was a four-thousand-mile journey together."
Sit up and pay attention.
That's what "My Seven Black Fathers" asks you to do. It oozes with gratitude and grace, it flashes with remembered anger and calm, and, while author Will Jawando tells his story, it asks you to pay attention.
That's not hard to do. Jawando's childhood, which he relates in great detail, was like that of many Black boys, but with a difference: seven Black men gave of their time to help form him, which he indicates doesn't happen for a lot of children. And yet, despite its benefits, getting the mentorship was a struggle sometimes — a surprising point that surfaces but isn't belabored, nor is Jawando's reasoning for why this matters. Like any good storyteller, he tells, then lets his tale linger, leaving an impression you'll come back to, time and again.
It shouldn't be a surprise if "My Seven Black Fathers" might also spur you to mentor a kid, or to somehow get involved in a child's life now or soon. In the meantime, this memoir on being a Black man has a lot to offer.
On your way to the bookstore or library, pick up "Daddy Speaks Love" by Leah Henderson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis. It's a cute picture book for kids ages 3-5 about the love between father and child. WI ARIES When the week begins, you'll be focused on researching new ways to understand your psyche, innate wiring, and what will help you thrive emotionally and mentally. You'll do well to spend time exploring these themes in therapy or on your own through journaling or meditation. Lucky Numbers: 6, 9, 26
TAURUS Early in the week, you might feel torn between what you're being required to do to hit a certain milestone on the job and what you feel is right for you at this moment. It might also be challenging to explain this to higher-ups. Remaining patient while also being true to yourself is the best way forward. Lucky Numbers: 3, 31, 48
GEMINI Pitch a creative project to higher-ups at the beginning of the week. They'll appreciate a desire to learn and grow. Midweek, you'll be drawn to brainstorms and collaborative work with colleagues or friends. At times, all that socializing you're apt to do might seem like it's distracting from the task at hand, but the truth is that fostering these platonic and professional bonds is actually setting you up for even greater success now. Lucky Numbers: 22, 39, 52
CANCER At the beginning of the week, you'll be reflecting on the many ways your work is fulfilling and eclipsing your needs and values. If it's time to shift what's on your plate and assert yourself in order to achieve more balance, this is a powerful moment to do just that. Lucky Numbers: 15, 30, 39
LEO You'll be craving extraordinary experiences, especially the type that could be shared with loved ones or a significant other, at the start of the week. Hitting the road together or even exploring your own town can feel thrilling and set off sexy fireworks. Lucky Numbers: 9, 22, 33
VIRGO You'll be focused on what you can do to connect with your significant other or someone else special in a physical but also deeply emotional way at the start of the week. Being vulnerable is a major part of this, and while you might initially be uncomfortable putting yourself out there, you'll find that owning your needs in a bold way can be empowering and enlivening. Lucky Numbers: 4, 17, 28
LIBRA Although you tend to romanticize time with a significant other or someone special anyway, you'll be even more focused on one-on-one bonding early this week. You'll adore any activity-from the most whimsical date night to the most mundane household chores-that you're able to do alongside your sweetheart. Lucky Numbers: 15, 39, 55
SCORPIO You might be drawn to expressing how you feel more than usual and in an especially flirtatious, spontaneous, lighthearted way when the week starts. If you can initiate that hot date or open up to your significant other about that fantasy you've been musing about, you'll set up some sexy fireworks. Lucky Numbers: 14, 17, 45
SAGITTARIUS You'll be drawn to pleasurable, playful activities and expressing your biggest, sweetest emotions in a grandiose way even more than usual at the start of the week. Being spontaneous is one thing, which could make for having an especially memorable, enjoyable time, but being impulsive is another and could get you into a dramatic situation if you're not careful. Lucky Numbers: 3, 15, 29
CAPRICORN You can look forward to having even more lively conversations with colleagues or friends and feeling psyched to dive into your pick of stimulating research projects as the week starts. When it comes to collaborations you want to get involved in, make sure to get your ducks in a row before you approach anyone with a plan. Later, the Universe is bumping up your desire to plan cozy nights in with your significant other, a special someone, or your loved ones. Whether you're cooking, gardening, or simply catching up over heartfelt conversation, you'll benefit from nurturing your closest bonds. Lucky Numbers: 2, 11, 52
AQUARIUS At the beginning of the week, you'll be more apt to speak openly with friends and colleagues about your big-picture moneymaking goals and strategies. You might also be inspired to do some research related to the potential game plan you've been batting around in your head. You'll have an even easier time than usual tracking down and chatting with experts and looking up helpful data now. Lucky Numbers: 9, 10, 44
PISCES When the week starts, the Universe is amplifying your ability to put what's in your heart into words. You have the green light to talk about and better understand the details of any heartfelt pursuit now, whether that's proposing a passion project, initiating an emotional conversation with a loved one, or researching a new way to tackle ongoing wellness concerns. Lucky Numbers: 5, 16, 53
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Pastors in the DMV Reflect on Significance of Father’s Day and Juneteenth
Hamil R. Harris WI Contributing Writer
While dads in America will be honored on Sunday, June 19, on the annual celebration known as Father's Day, the familiar holiday shares the day with Juneteenth – the newest national holiday which President Joe Biden approved in 2021. It commemorates the date in 1865 when slaves in Texas, the last state of the Confederacy with institutional slavery, learned that they were free.
This year, Juneteenth has served as the basis of a call for Black Men – to wake up. In the same way slaves in Texas didn’t get the message that they were free until two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Juneteenth must be a wakeup call for men of color to step up and lead their families.
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“My message to men on Father's Day serves as a challenge for Black fathers to surround themselves in strength, resilience and faith,” said the Rev. Henry P. Davis. “Strength is critical as only the strongest of Africans were able to survive the Middle Passage. They then faced slave owners who routinely looked for way to break their spirits.”
“Resilience is necessary because we have to look at how many times doors have been shut in the faces of African-American men who, nonetheless, kept pressing forward,” Davis said. “Finally, faith in the power of God can allow fathers to be all that God intended for them to be.”
The Rev. Willie F. Wilson, 75, pastor emeritus of Union Temple Baptist Church pointed to the power that comes when working in community.
“Our communities have been decimated because so many of our men have been taken out of circulation,” he said. “We have manhood training but there must be a collective effort.”
Dr. Alvin Thornton, a retired Howard University professor and provost, said the impressive number of scholarships his grandson has received serve as the result of decades of grooming.
“Fatherhood is not biological – it is sociological and it’s about relationships,” he said. “Fatherhood must be grounded in respect but today the larger culture doesn’t support fatherhood. When I was growing up there were fatherhood role models but today some brothers are not interested in fatherhood.
Horace Thompson, 81, a resident of Bowie and the lead singer for the Sensational Nightingales, has two children, seven grandsons and nine great-grandchildren.
“Father’s Day means a lot to me because I came from a really disciplined family and I had a great father,” he said. “Father’s Day used to be a big day for gospel singing and I will be singing this year.
He added that during the 61 years that he has sung quartet music, he’s never allowed it to keep him from maintaining tabs on his children.
“The Bible says, ‘train up a child in the way they should go,’” Thompson said. “When I see the grandkids and great grandchildren going off to college and doing great things it’s special to me.”
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