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She said they threat,” she said. had come together to bring a Among the programs Marlow sense of uniformity in the way wants to see implemented are domestic violence victims and stricter restraining order policies, survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families “She's using her own personal to intervene on behalf of a vicstory, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assesspush forward,” Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further said about Marlow. training for law enforcement Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies, a Child's Life Protecwho reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counsel“get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers. case in such a way, the average “If we are ever going to eradiperson can get it.” She said at the cate domestic violence, we must end of the day, the book will look at both sides of the coin. help people begin to have a dia- We need to address both the viclogue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow Also present at the event was said. Mildred Muhammad, the exMarlow would also like to see Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), says a fewprograms words at a party celebrating wife of John Allen Muhammad, designed to We raise Act Radio’s one year anniversary. In 2009, the congressman introduced who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among childrena in bill thatlife obligated stations to pay musicians for records on theShe utive terms radio without parole public and privateplayed schools. air. The legislation and other events inspired the creation of We Act Radio. by a Maryland jury for his role in feels children need to be educat/Photo courtesy of We Act Radio the Beltway Sniper attacks in ed about domestic violence. 2002. Mildred Muhammad is “We have to stop being pasthe Trauma, sive-aggressive with poor chiltookfounder place of in After the the midst of a novice broadcasters. The radio an organization that helps the station dren about domestic violence,” showdown between indepenoffers non-stop prosurvivors of domestic Marlow said. dent musicians and violence Cathy gramming boasts its and their founder children. and CEO of Marlow and has worked to timely break Hughes, and accurate reporting the “I lived in fear for six years. Six the cycle of abuse in her of family, urban multimedia company years in fear is a long time. It is Supreme and is confident the policies she Court’s Affordable Radio One, and other radio not an easy thing to come out Care is pushing for will start that Act ruling in 2012 when moguls stemming from their process. of,” she said. many organizareluctance pay artists forsaid the Mildred toMuhammad “I planmainstream to take these policies to spins their records accumulatfailedand to do so. them to people who want to help a tions Congress implore ed on a violence daily basis. Freeman domestic victim must change laws,”has Marlow said.a The our station gained hosted a series town be careful of howofthey go halls into following “I will not stop untilprogressive these poliin the withvictim's members theunderstand indepen- cies are passed.” the life,ofand community with guests such as that mayandbe underground in “survival dent she media Tia Carol Jones can be reached of Islam Minister Louis mode”. at tiacaroljones@sbcglobal.net hip-hop community hoping to Nation Farrakhan, local hip-hop artist “Before you get to 'I'm going gain support. to When kill you,' it started as a verbal WIBonney, civil rights activmainstream radio sta- Tabi tions flooded the airwaves with ist Dick Gregory, Conyers, and advertisements opposing the various mayors of the District Performance Tax Bill, legislaof Columbia. The radio station sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) that would tion also serves as a commumandate radio stations across nity resource center for D.C. the country to pay artists for residents. Additionally, We Act the record spins, Freeman re- Radio, along with its producalized that giving independent ers, often hosts media training artists and commentators a workshops for budding newsvoice required the presence of casters. an independent media outlet. Program manager Alex Law“We [were] looking at the son said the station lives up to further [commercialization] of news and information,” said its motto: “Do Something.” Freeman. “The need for inde“We have a mandate to break pendent media is at an all-time this monopoly and highlight high [because] it spurs indewhat the media does not talk pendent thought and this is something that is dangerous [to about,” said Lawson, 33. “Every day, we connect people the current power structure].” We Act Radio debuted its with online tools to take action. L.Y. Marlow first program, The Inside When you look at how much Scoop with Mark Levine, on has grown out of We Act RaNew Year’s Day in 2012 to dio, [you see] we are building more than 50,000 listeners up communities,” the Northnationwide. Since then, it has produced more than 13 pro- west resident said. wi For more information about We grams, nine of which are hosted by community leaders and Act Radio, visit www.weactradio.com.
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Black Facts September 5 1859 – “Our Nig” by Harriet Wilson, the first novel published in the U.S. by an African American woman, is published. It was lost for years until reprinted with a critical essay by African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in 1983. September 6 1848 - National Black Convention met in Cleveland with some seventy delegates. Frederick Douglass was elected president of the convention. 1865 - Thaddeus Stevens, powerful U.S. congressman, urged confiscation of estates of Confederate leaders and the distribution of land to adult freedmen in forty-acre lots. 1960 - Rafer Johnson won the Olympic Decathlon--the first for an African American. 1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson named Walter E. Washington commissioner and “unofficial” mayor of Washington, D.C. September 7 1800 - Zion AME Church dedicated in New York City. 1859 - Co-organizer of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, John Merrick was born. 1930 - Sonny Rollins, a powerful force in jazz, was born. 1954 - The start of Integration for both Maryland and District of Columbia public schools. 1957 - Ghana becomes a free self-governing nation. This country will be the first of the British Commonwealth of Nations to be self-governing.
1965 - Actress Dorothy Dandridge died in Hollywood, she was 41. 1981 - Roy Wilkins, longtime executive director of the NAACP, died in New York. September 9 1908 - Writer, Richard Wright, author of “Native Son” and “Black Boy” was born. 1915 - The father of Black history, Carter G Woodson, founds the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. 1934 - Poet Sonia Sanchez was born Wilsonia Benita Driver in Birmingham, Alabama. 1946 - Singer and musician, Billy Preston was born. 1957 - The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since reconstruction was passed by President Eisenhower. 1979 - Robert Guillaume wins an Emmy for best actor in a comedy series for Soap. September 10 1913 - Cleveland Call & Post established 1956 - Louisville, Ky., public schools integrated. 1961 - Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile to lead his country.
1962 - Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black vacated an order of a lower court, ruling that the University of Mississippi had to admit James H. Meredith, a Black Air Force veteran whose application for admission had been on file and in the courts for fourteen months. September 10 1847 – John Roy Lynch is born into slavery on this day near Vidalia, Louisiana. Lynch would be among the first group of Blacks to serve in the United States Congress after slavery. He represented the state of Mississippi. He died in 1939 at the age of 92. 1965 – Father Divine dies in Philadelphia. From about 1910 to his death in 1965, Father Divine was Black America’s foremost spiritual and cult leader, claiming be God. September 11 1851 – In a fairly unusual development, a group of Blacks on this day in 1851 rout a group of slave catchers who had come to Christiana, Pennsylvania to recapture runaway slaves. One white was killed and a second one seriously wounded.
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September 8 1875 - Mississippi governor requested federal troops to protect Black voters. Attorney General Edward Pierrepont refused the request. 1957 - Althea Gibson becomes the first Black athlete to win a US national tennis championship.
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Viewp int Katina Bush Germantown, Md. I think the United States should stay out of the Syrian Civil War. A lot of Americans did not like [former president] George Bush’s foreign policies that were responsible for getting the country involved in two wars, and President Obama is now doing the same. The American people have become fatigued with war and the country should stay out of the Syrian conflict. An attack on Syria would also cost the country a lot financially.
Charlie Perticari College Park, Md. It’s a tough call. It’s hard to balance taking action in response to an atrocity, without engaging in an overly-aggressive act of war – especially without multinational support and approval. It’s mandatory for nations to address atrocities like the one that’s occurring in Syria, but it’s a difficult call when you consider the risk of losing American and Syrian civilian lives. On the other hand, you can’t wait for approval and debate. It’s a sign of weakness. … The leaders of the aggressive countries will believe they can act with impunity.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA INTENDS TO LOBBY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF MILITARY ACTION AGAINST THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR CHEMICAL ATTACKS IN THE SYRIAN CONFLICT. SHOULD THE U.S. PURSUE MILITARY ACTION, OR REFRAIN FROM INVOLVEMENT?
Linda Wright Washington, D.C. I think attacking Syria is a bad idea – the conflict could spill into other Middle Eastern countries. What is the United States’ ultimate goal by authorizing missile strikes? The British Parliament has voted against military action and it seems like the United States is the only country that wants to get involved. I feel the United States should stay out of the situation.
Wezlynn Davis Washington, D.C. Our young service [men and women] have had enough of war. Too many were sent to Afghanistan and Iraq by the Bush administration and I don’t think they should have to do it again in Syria. If anything, the Obama administration should send a Special Operations unit – like they did to find Osama bin Laden – and go after [Syrian president Bashar al-Assad]. Sending missiles to take out the chemical weapons depots will kill and injure many innocent Syrian civilians as well. I think we should just stay out of it.
Darryl Harper Cheverly, Md. I think President Obama feels the need to help the Syrian people, but our country cannot continue to constantly police the rest of the world. Going into Syria would be a mistake because no one really knows what the outcome will be – which is why I believe President Obama has been hesitant throughout the whole matter. We don’t even know if [Syrian president Bashar] al-Assad is the one responsible for the chemical attacks. Syrian rebels could have done it to draw the United States into another war. We don’t know. The British Parliament saw the light and voted against military action, I hope the United States sees it too.
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continued from Page 1 of Wednesday, Aug. 28. “In some ways, though, the securing of civil rights, voting rights, the eradication of legalized discrimination – the very significance of these victories may have obscured a second goal of the march,” he said. “For the men and women who gathered 50 years ago were not there in search of some abstract ideal. They were there seeking jobs as well as justice – not just the absence of oppression but the presence of economic opportunity. For what does it profit a man, Dr. King would ask, to sit at an integrated lunch counter if he can’t afford the meal?” “This idea – that one’s liberty is linked to one’s livelihood; that the pursuit of happiness requires the dignity of work, the skills to find work, decent pay, some measure of material security – this idea was not new. Lincoln himself understood the Declaration of Independence in such terms – as a promise that in due time, “the weights should be
lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.” Since the economic meltdown of 2008, America’s middle class has been decimated by the economy’s disintegration and a lingering recession. In his State of the Union, and in speeches since, Obama has argued that the economic inequities must be redressed, proposed remedies and called on the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share. The meltdown and recession has exposed the growing disparities between America’s rich and poor. The top one percent of this nation’s wealthy is estimated to control 40 percent of America’s wealth, income and resources. And life for middle-class and low-income Americans is characterized by chronic high unemployment affecting about 15 Washington Informer million people; a housing collapse triggering unprecedented numbers of foreclosures from which the country is just now recovering; lack of access to health 5.65” care; and a host of other social and economic ills.
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Labor leaders such as Lee Saunders of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the National Federation of Teachers’ President Randi Weingarten, echoed the anger and displeasure of the rank-and-
file of organized labor at the assaults by the right wing against unions, but vowed to continue fighting to restore economic and other gains for the middle and working class. “The promise is not real for people who work hard and play
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around the region KING continued from Page 8 for retirees who worked hard all their lives but don’t know how they’ll make it day-to-day. The promise is not real for students who graduate under so much debt, they wonder if they’ll ever climb out of it. And if the promise is not real for all of us, it is not real for any of us.” In the face of retrenchment, hostility and a Congress that appears to be a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. corporate interests, union leaders, civil rights groups and others spoke at both marches marking the March on Washington of the need to join forces. “What a debt we owe to those people who came here 50 years ago. The martyrs played it all for a dream, a dream, as John Lewis said, that millions have now actually lived,” said President Bill Clinton on Aug. 28. “So how are we going to repay the debt? Dr. King’s dream of interdependence, his prescription of wholehearted cooperation across racial lines – they ring as true today as they did 50 years ago.” Janaye Ingram takes particular satisfaction in the fact the Aug. 24 March on Washington brought together more than 100,000 people. Ingram, newly named national executive director of the National Action Network (NAN), was the lead person for all the logistics for theAug. 24th “National
Action to Realize the Dream March,” organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King, III. “I think a lot of people were unsure if we could reach 100,000 people but by every estimate I got, we had 200,000 and even the low estimates were about 150,000,” she said. “I also heard that the messages the crowds heard were effective. People came together around certain issues seemingly not intertwined, but we were really able to lift a collective voice and say that we’re going to fight for issues of concern to us.” Sharpton agreed. “This, what we’re doing Saturday, Martin Luther King, III and I were determined that they would not hijack this anniversary and make it into something it’s not,” he said at a pre-march rally at Union Temple Baptist Church in Southeast on Aug. 20. “Some people want to commemorate and celebrate as if what they envisioned is here. It would be a betrayal as if [Dr. King’s] dream has come.” “We’re better off than we were but in a lot of ways we’re not. When we’re on a plane, there may be turbulence. Some of us confuse getting through turbulence as a landing.” It was impossible to ignore the large numbers of students and young people, including many from area schools and universities, who marched, worked and had a significant presence at both events. And in preparation,
Marilyn Lorenze, 66, who hails from St. Louis attended the original March on Washington in 1963. She returned for the 50th anniversary march on Aug. 28. /Photo by Nancy Shia
planning and implementation of the weeklong events, young people and women were involved at every level, Ingram said. The Rev. Bernice King, CEO of the MLK Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, said its time to pass the baton
to “a new generation of people who must now carry that message in their time, in their communities, amongst their tribes and amongst their nations of the world.” “[My mother] reminded us that struggle is a never ending
process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation and so we come once again to let freedom ring because if freedom stops ringing, then the sound will disappear and the atmosphere will be charged with something else,” King said. wi
Jeanette Walker, 68, attended the original March on Washington when she was 18. She traveled from New York to attend the anniversary march on Aug. 28. /Photo by Nancy Shia
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More Schools on Extended-Day Schedules By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer For most students and their parents, the first day back to school is always an exciting time. But for many students, opening day on Aug. 26 at several District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) also meant an additional hour of learning. “It came as a surprise when I took my grandchild to Simon Elementary on the first day, to learn that the day was being extended,” said Southeast resident Angie Johnson. “They were handing out a paper with the new school hours and when I asked my daughter about it, she didn’t recall
being previously notified,” Johnson said. “I’m not [necessarily] for or against the extra hour, but I understand it will replace the before- and after-school activities that [parents] usually [have] to pay for.” According to a statement issued by DCPS, nine schools will participate in the extended-school day program, which stems from the success of the program that was launched last year. “Expanding the school day allows schools to engage in more time on tasks, and gives teachers more time to teach,” said DCPS spokesperson Melissa Salmanowitz. She added that sufficient notice had been given to parents regarding the
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flyers posted in [school] offices, [and in notifications] at the time of enrollment and registration. [Parents also received notification via] robo-calls,” Salmanowitz said In addition to Simon, this year’s participating buildings are C.W. Harris, Garfield, Nalle, and Orr elementary schools in Southeast; Noyes in Northeast; Kelly Miller and Johnson middle schools in Southeast; and Dunbar Senior High School in Northwest. Chancellor Kaya Henderson acknowledged earlier that her decision to add more schools to this year’s extended-day roster depended on accessing funds and negotiating with Washington Teachers’ Union (WTU) officials. “In [April] 2012, Chancellor Henderson created the ‘Proving What’s Possible’ program [gleaned from the DCPS budget] and identified $10 million for schools to apply for a grant to innovate around time, talent and technology,” said Salmanowitz. “Several schools chose to extend their school day using these funds and were very successful.” Seven of the eight schools that tested the extra hour during the 2012-13 term at a combined cost of $300,000, showed significant improvement on standardized tests. For example, while students at C.W. Harris in Ward 7 posted significant gains among standardized test scores released in July – with math proficiency up to 11.9 percent and reading proficiency of 13.1 percent, students at Malcolm X Elementary School in Ward 8 achieved 13.1 percent in math and 20.2 percent in reading. Overall, the “Proving What’s Possible” initiative includes a set of goals to be accomplished by the debut of the 2016-17 school term – in accordance with Henderson’s five-year reformation plan.
The goals include getting at least 70 percent of students proficient in reading and math and doubling the number of students with high test scores. In addition, the District’s 40 lowest-performing schools will have increased proficiency by 40 percent, at least 75 percent of first-time freshmen will have graduated on time – and more importantly, DCPS will have significantly increased its enrollment. But Elizabeth Davis, newly-elected Washington Teachers’ Union president, hasn’t signed off on the extended school day. Unlike her predecessor, Nathan Saunders who was in the midst of teacher contract negotiations with Henderson that included plans for across-the-board longer school days, Davis said she isn’t so sure that last year’s progressive test scores could he tied to extended learning sessions. “We should be looking more at students having a more productive day, than basing everything on test scores,” Davis said earlier this summer. “More research needs to be conducted to [prove a correlation] between student performance and longer school days.” On the other hand, Kevin Welner, director of the Colorado-based National Education Policy Center, said that city and DCPS officials appeared to be operating on a sound premise. “Extended school days unquestionably have the potential to improve student learning,” Welner said in a recent blog. “We should, however, take care about drawing facile conclusions. Simply adding time is a blunt instrument. If done without awareness of students’ needs and strengths, it could accomplish little or nothing. Past research suggests that extended learning time should be carefully crafted to ensure that students’ opportunities to learn are in fact enriched.” Meanwhile, Mayor Vincent C. Gray has joined District officials in cheering the success of schools that participated last year, while encouraging more to follow their lead. “Somewhere along the way somebody defined that, 30 hours a week was enough for kids,” Gray said when the initiative was announced. “We don’t think so, [as] there is mounting evidence elsewhere. You look at charter schools that have a longer school day, it benefits the children, instructionally.”wi www.washingtoninformer.com
AmeriHealth District of Columbia Leader, Executive Director Karen Dale – Passionate about Member Relations Since AmeriHealth District of Columbia’s recent acquisition of certain DC Chartered Health Plan’s assets, members of DC Chartered were transitioned to a new plan, AmeriHealth District of Columbia (AmeriHealth DC). The new plan’s Executive Director, Karen Dale, has provided continuing compassion for members, demonstrating strong leadership to ensure that they continue to receive the high-quality services and care they’ve received throughout the years. “We know what works for our members,” says Dale, who spent five years in various management positions at Chartered before accepting the role of Executive Director of AmeriHealth DC. “We have transformed our care management approach to tackle the most pressing barriers our members face. We’re always pushing the envelope, not just to be pioneers but to make a difference in the health of our community.” Dale has made a difference throughout her 25-year career, focusing on improving the lives of those living in communities that have the highest needs or challenges to achieving optimal health. AmeriHealth DC continues, with her leadership, to engage members at a grassroots level. In addition to her role at AmeriHealth DC, Dale participates on several nonprofit boards, and says her contribution to these organizations also gives her a sense of fulfillment. The preparation for such accomplishments began at a young age. While performing a clinical practicum as a senior in Catholic University’s nursing program, she led the successful reorganization of an adolescent unit transitioning to managed care. Although still a student, her work caught the attention of the hospital CEO who offered her a staff nurse position. A few years later she was promoted to the role of assistant manager, and then manager of the unit. Dale recalls having to learn skillful ways to lead when others were skeptical of her being a recent college graduate in a new management role. Dale admits the experience was difficult at times, but instead of being intimidated by those with years
of experience, she chose to preserve and learn from other managers, and went on to become an expert in her job. “What doesn’t kill us makes us more resilient,” said Dale who, with the help of mentors, avid reading of books on leadership and a number of difficult leadership challenges feels, one of the most important skills a leader can have is to be an effective communicator. Dale emphasizes that effective communication with members is vitally important. “It is more important to engage with members, hear where they are, what is on their minds, before you jump into what you want to communicate,” said Dale. “This approach can make all the difference in getting members to shift their thinking or even change their behavior.” Dale’s level of devotion towards members and health plan objectives has not gone unnoticed. AmeriHealth Caritas president and CEO, Michael A. Rashid describes Dale as a “talented and proven executive.” While she appreciates the honor, she’s quick to acknowledge those who’ve helped her along the way and whose leadership styles she admires. For instance, Dale says Jay Feldstein, DO, regional president, AmeriHealth Caritas, Northern Division, sets a great leadership example. She notes that he “provides support, empowers and removes barriers.” In her current role, Dale relies on other team members to assist in providing care for members in the District of Columbia. She affectionately recognizes Stephanie Hafiz, director of Member Services at AmeriHealth DC, as a local “rock star” because of the kind and sincere manner in which she handles members. In fact, Hafiz is noted for calling members for no other purpose than to make sure they are ok. Recently, Dale and Hafiz worked diligently to help AmeriHealth DC members better understand the health plan’s transition. Even in the midst of member emergencies, both have influenced members enough that they trust Dale and Hafiz to personally guide them through difficult times. Dale and the AmeriHealth DC team continue to provide
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In his bid for a Maryland House of Delegates’ seat, Rushern Baker IV presses the flesh at the Greenbelt Labor Day Parade. /Photo courtesy of Theo Linder
Another Baker Throws His Hat into the Ring By Gale Horton Gay WI Staff Writer For years Rushern Baker IV expressed his political views through his art. Now he’s seeking a much more direct approach. He wants voters to send him to Annapolis. Baker, 25, said he’s a candidate for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 22, and he used Greenbelt’s Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 2 as his first
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campaign event to shake hands and make his candidacy known. “I want the residents of Greenbelt to know that I love their city just as much as they do, and I see a lot of opportunities for growth here,” said Baker. “Greenbelt’s history, sense of pride and community involvement make it unique, and I will work hard in Annapolis to make sure they have someone representing their interests.” Baker is seeking one of the three District 22 House seats in 2014. Currently those seats are occupied by delegates Tawana P. Gaines, Anne Healy and Alonzo T. Washington. All three will be up for re-election with the top three vote-getters taking office. An educator who lectures at the University of Maryland, College Park on drawing and two-dimensional design, Baker previously coordinated a publicly funded mobile arts program for youth. He’s the current artist-in-residence for Gateway Community Development Corporation in Brentwood. He’s also the son of Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III and said he’s been inspired by his father’s leadership, which he called “undeniably beneficial for Prince George’s County.” He acknowledged that politics is in his blood, recalling knocking on doors at age six when his father campaigned and continually having political debates at the family dinner table. Asked about two Bakers in the political arena, the younger Bak-
er said, “We are going to serve in different roles, different issues.” This is Baker’s first bid for public office. “I think right now is the time to capitalize on the momentum in the county,” he said of the growth and development taking place in areas such as the Gateway Arts District. “If we don’t strike now, it will be a lost opportunity.” He said he wants to advocate on behalf of residents to ensure that the district receives the resources it deserves. Baker said “fresh, young leadership” is needed. He also said that he wants to see the arts, which he described as the catalyst for much of the current development in the district, to continue to be cultivated and advanced. “I really feel like the 22nd [district] could be the mecca for culture,” he said, citing the influx of “great restaurants, great live performances, [and] cool galleries.” In July during an hour-long talk at the 39th Street Gallery in Brentwood, Baker, described his evolution as an artist and how politics and foreign affairs factor into his work. “I want my paintings to generate a discourse around policy, especially foreign policy,” said Baker. Baker attended Suitland High School before going to The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New
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BSU Professors Guide Students in Astrobiology By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer Two Bowie State University (BSU) professors are helping to increase minority participation in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) professions by sharing with their students, research they conducted as fellows in a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) program on astrobiology. In the process, they hope to inspire their students to follow in their footsteps as scientists. During their research this summer in Northern Virginia, Alan Anderson and Anne Osano, who sought to determine if life – such as bacteria – exists beyond earth, found that their discoveries could have major effects on future advancements in biomedicine. “We can not only discuss DNA in the classroom, but now we can actually synthesize a DNA double helix in my laboratory at Bowie State University,” said Anderson, an organic chemist. Anderson, along with Osano, a biology professor, counted among five fellows who studied for 10 weeks with some of the nation’s most renowned scientists in NASA’s Astrobiology Minority Institution Research Support (MIRS) program. The MIRS program, a corpo-
rate venture of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), provides opportunities for scientists and engineers with doctorate degrees at historically black colleges and universities to partner with organizations like NASA for advanced study in astrobiology – or life in the universe. This fall, Anderson and Osano, both of whom have shown promise and ability in their respective professions, will be conducting research at BSU that’s compatible with what they learned in the MIRS program. To further their research at BSU, the pair received a $10,000 award from the NASA project. The main goal of the duo focuses on encouraging students to pursue careers in astrobiology, and their work with students in specialized laboratories at BSU will re-create experiments conducted at the MIRS program. Anderson, who focuses on the development of new methodologies, earned his doctorate degree in organic chemistry at Howard University and pursued postdoctoral studies at Harvard University in synthetic organic chemistry. He worked with a chemist from the Scripps Research Institute in California to synthesize DNA and proteins and uncover answers regarding replication of biological material. Anderson’s research could ultimately impact how doctors treat patients with conditions
BAKER IV continued from Page 12 York City to pursue a bachelor of fine arts degree and then to Yale University in New Haven, Conn., for his master of fine arts degree. In the past year, he exhibited his work at the Reginald Ingraham Gallery in Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn, N.Y., Motus Fort and Koki Arts in Tokyo and Yale University. He also recently co-curated “On the Verge,” an exhibition recognizing Prince George’s County artists in Annapolis. During his talk, Baker projected images of his works on a wall. One of his themes was suburwww.washingtoninformer.com
like heart arrhythmia. Osano, whose research findings will shed light on questions crucial to the study of life on desert planets like Mars, collaborated with a scientist from the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., to investigate cyanobacteria, one of the planet’s oldest life forms – and using samples from one of the driest places on earth – the Atacama Desert in Chile – she and Anderson determined that cyanobacteria can perform photosynthesis in extremely dry climates. “Involving students in the research will create an awareness of the possibilities and opportunities in astrobiology,” Osano said. “Since I [was not able] to bring [my BSU] students to NASA, I am bringing back the same project that I’ve been doing here so I can involve a lot more students.” Meanwhile, Malik Hopkins, project director for the UNCF undertaking, said there’s always been a significant absence of minority faculty in astrobiology. “We’re not sure why that is, but we think there’s been a lack of general outreach to the minority higher-education community in explaining the study of astrobiology and its benefits,” said Hopkins. “Astrobiology is not just chemistry or biology; it involves all of the physical and life sciences, and I think that in a lot of
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Alan Anderson and Anne Osano, science professors at Bowie State University, participated in a 10-week NASA fellowship program earlier this summer that encourages more minority faculty members to teach astrobiology and to inspire their students to go into the field. /Photos courtesy BSU
regards, many higher-education professionals don’t necessarily see the relevance to their fields.” He said however, that “[overall], we wanted to put forth the
understanding that other areas of study are possible through astrobiology which – no pun intended – are really out of this world.”wi
ban architecture and he showed a piece titled “Gerrymander” with a bright yellow line cutting down the center. Another painting has President Barack Obama outfitted as an astronaut with a predator drone in the background. Baker, who volunteered for the Obama campaign in New Hampshire, said he wanted to capture the angst and elation of an African American in the White House but also with a foreshadowing of things to come. A piece with dominant colors of blue, orange, green and gray was related to the war in Afghanistan and Iraq and several others showed explosions, missiles, tanks, predator drones and other war-themes.wi The Washington Informer
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GOP Honors King, March By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer Robert L. Woodson admired Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s moral consistency and a willingness to step on sacred cows. Last week, Woodson illustrated the latter during remarks at a luncheon hosted by the Republic National Committee. The event, honoring King and the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, brought together Republicans, Democrats and
representatives from civic, social and civil rights organizations. Woodson, founder and president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise in Northwest, apologized for being “the skunk at the garden party” for his less-than-celebratory comments. “The King I remember was a man who was not content to be a reflection of majority opinion,” said Woodson, 76. “We forget that the civil rights movement wasn’t a monolith. There was great conflict and tension that
defined the movement. Students challenged the slow pace of progress and King tried to convince them to take it slow. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and young people were the ones bitten by dogs and beaten back. SNCC, the Congress on Racial Equality and others were involved in this great debate.” What people should remember, Woodson said, is that most involved in the struggle didn’t benefit from the change. “For many, the dream for poor
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Robert Woodson, founder and president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, shares his opinion with fellow Republicans and Democrats during a luncheon commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 26. /Photo by Roy Lewis
people has been a nightmare,” he said. “Gays, immigrants, women, environmentalists – all have come before them. We never hear people talking about the problems of the poor.” What the GOP, Political Action Committees and other groups would have been smart to do, Woodson said, is to have taken a portion of the $1 billion they spent on attack ads in the 2012 general election and used it to invest in black communities and businesses. “Both political parties should be competing on how they treat the least among God’s children,” he said, “We don’t need outreach, but uplift.” As guests dispersed following the Aug. 26 luncheon, Reince Priebus’ face wore a look of satisfaction and accomplishment. When he suggested three weeks ago that the RNC host the luncheon, Priebus said some tried to discourage him because of the Congressional recess and others thought it was just a bad idea. Priebus admitted to being nervous ahead of the luncheon, afraid no one would show. “I wanted to come together to commemorate this historical week,” said Priebus. “It was important for the party to do this. You can’t make a sale if you don’t show up and ask for an order.” “This is just a complete and total blessing to our party. In this room it’s not 100 percent Republican. I know that a few Democrats came up to me and said, ‘You know what? We’re
supporting this because if the Republican Party is not going to fight like crazy for every single vote in this country, if it’s not going to fight like crazy for the African-American vote, then [Democrats will] just take it for granted.’” Priebus, 40, said the gathering dovetails with his outreach efforts to minorities for whom the Republican Party isn’t the first option. “At our core, we’re fighting for better ways to improve our country and we need to do more of it,” he said of the outreach efforts. Priebus said, the event was an opportunity to put partisan politics aside, but that didn’t stop speakers from espousing their party and gently skewering Democrats. More than 250 people dined in a main room and an overflow room at the Republican Club on Capitol Hill in Southeast. GOP bigwigs like former Florida Congressman Allen West; D.C. GOP Chairman Ron Phillips; Priebus’s friend and mentor Bob Brown; RNC Committee member Dr. Ada Fisher; the 34-year-old Oklahoma Speaker of the House, T.W. Shannon; RNC Co-Chair Sharon Day; Dr. Alveda King, niece of the civil rights icon; and younger party members such as John Burnett, running for New York Comptroller against former Gov. Eliot
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Robert J. Brown, center, introduces Wade Henderson, first left, to RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, prior to the beginning of the National Republican Committee luncheon commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 26. /Photo by Roy Lewis “The King I remember was a man who was not content to be a reflection of majority opinion. We forget that the civil rights movement wasn’t a monolith. There was great conflict and tension that defined the movement. Students challenged the slow pace of progress and King tried to convince them to take it slow. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and young people were the ones bitten by dogs and beaten back. SNCC, the Congress on Racial Equality and others were involved in this great debate.” – Robert Woodson
GOP continued from Page 16 Spitzer in November; and John Campbell, also vying for a seat in the New Jersey Assembly. “I’m thrilled and honored to celebrate the March on Washington,” said Day. “It was truly a pivotal event in our nation’s history. We honor the hundreds of thousands who raised their voices, took a stand. America, our America, is better off today.” Brown concurred. “Fifty years ago, I was here in Washington with Martin Luther King and Wyatt Walker,” said Brown, chairman and CEO of B&C Associates Inc., in North Carolina. “I was with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and did some marching. It was a revelation. We have so much to thank God for today. We’ve come a long way. There are a lot of people in this room who’ve sacrificed so much.” Brown spoke of an impoverished childhood and a path that led to the White House, activism, meeting President Nelson Mandela in Pollsmoor Prison in South Africa and bringing Mandela’s children to the U.S. to be educated. He said he’s experienced life’s www.washingtoninformer.com
highs and lows. “My life has not been a crystal stair. I know what a billy club feels like on my head, and I know what the inside of a jail cell looks like,” Brown explained. “My years have been filled with torment and anger but also success.” He lamented the partisan gridlock that has destroyed comity in the Nation’s Capital. “The White House and Congress need to remember that this country was built on compromise,” he said. “And if we don’t learn how to get it together, we’re going to sink this ship. I know what we can do, what we’re capable of and what we need to do. We need to get on with it!” Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) promised to make restoration of the Voting Rights Act his top legislative priority. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a key section of the law. “… All the civil rights bills in the ’50s and ’60s were important but the most important was the Voting Rights Act,” said Sensenbrenner, 70. “We have to take a monkey wrench, fix it constitutionally and make it impervious to the challenges that will be filed by the usual suspects.”wi The Washington Informer
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Civil Rights Legends Encourage Today’s Teens By Margaret Summers WI Contributing Writer Many civil rights legends, all young people during the 1960s desegregation campaigns, recounted their participation in those campaigns at a recent forum at the N Street, Northwest campus of School Without Walls, a District public school. “50 Years of Struggle: Youth Driving Economic, Education and Social Change,” was sponsored by Discovery Education, which broadcast the event live from the school’s auditorium, and the Atlanta, Ga.-based King Center, founded in 1968 by Martin Luther King, Jr.’s family to advance King’s teachings on nonviolent social change. It was one of several events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. “We were 14, 15 and 16 years old, just like many of you in this audience, when we integrated Little Rock, Arkansas’ Central High School,” Ernest Green, 71, told more than 100 students in the forum audience on Aug. 27. Green and eight other African-American teens enrolled in the segregated high school in 1957, confronting daily mobs of angry whites. “We always believed that education was important. It was important enough for the governor of Arkansas to call out the National Guard to keep us out of school. We thought if it was that important, it was something we had to stay with.” Green, who served as the assistant secretary of labor for employment and training under President Carter, joked with the young audience. “I may have gray hair now, but at one time I was 16. I’m one of the few people who can say that Dr. King came to his high school gradua-
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tion.” The struggle for justice is a big job, said Green. “It requires you (young people) to continually figure out what you can do.” Carolyn McKinstry, 65, of Birmingham, Ala., is a survivor of the September 1963 16th Street Baptist Church fire bombing, which killed four African-American girls preparing for Sunday school. “I was 15 years old when Dr. King came to the Birmingham church,” she said. McKinstry recalled that The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a local Birmingham activist, wanted King to help him mount an anti-segregation campaign. “Every aspect of social interaction in Birmingham was segregated,” said McKinstry. “We could not go into most public places. Hospitals couldn’t even treat black patients. This is what we were up against. When Dr. King spoke at the church, he enlisted the aid and support of young people. Over 5,000 answered his call. They marched, faced police dogs and fire hoses, and went to jail. Because of the power of Birmingham young people, the back of segregation was broken,” she said. Angela Farris Watkins of Atlanta, Ga., 49, an educator and civil rights activist who is a niece of Martin Luther King’s, said “I am very concerned about young people, especially today, understanding that there are alternatives to violence. We must embrace the philosophies of Dr. King. We have to be nonviolent in our daily lives.” Doris Crenshaw, 70, of Montgomery, Ala., worked under Rosa Parks, a key figure in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, The Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Martin Luther King’s widow Coretta. Concern that today’s young people are not involved
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SCLC, Rainbow PUSH Address Poverty, Voting Rights By James Wright WI Staff Writer Two leading civil rights organizations teamed up to host town hall meetings on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington to discuss two hot-button issues: poverty and voting rights. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Atlanta (SCLC) and the Rainbow Push Coalition of Chicago held the forums on Aug. 23 at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Northwest. Julianne Malveaux, a nationally-syndicated columnist and economist, who lives in the District, moderated the panel on poverty. “In 1963, black unemployment was 10 percent but this year, the unemployment rate for blacks is 13 percent,” Malveaux, 59, said in her opening remarks. “If you consider the rate of under-employment in the black community, the rate stands at 25 percent. In some urban areas, black male unemployment is as high is 50 percent so while we have made great progress, we still have some ways to go.” The SCLC was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in 1957 in Atlanta as a vehicle to push for civil rights. Rainbow Push Coalition of Chicago is a combination of two organizations founded by The Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1971 to promote political and economic parity for people of color. Malveaux’s panel consisted of Jackson, founder and president of Rainbow Push Coalition; The Rev. Frederick Haynes III, pastor of the Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas; former trial judge Penny Brown Reyn-
olds of Atlanta and The Rev. Otis Moss Jr., of Cleveland. Malveaux pointed out that low wages contribute to poverty and used a District controversy to bring the point home. “In Washington, you have McDonald’s and Wally’s World [Walmart] that wants to pay its employees in the city the minimum wage of $8.25,” Malveaux said. “You cannot live in Washington making that type of money. I think a wage of $12.25 is better but that is still not enough.” Haynes agreed, saying that Walmart is not the only large employer that doesn’t pay its employees well. “You can look at employees of the Smithsonian Institution,” he said. “They are working for a federal contractor and they are getting minimum wage. Many people don’t know this and this is why we need to learn to re-humanize the impoverished.” Jackson, who blazed a trail in American politics when he made serious runs for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, said that the problem of economic inequality is broader than just worker’s wages. “Today, you have 22,000 car dealers in America with only 200 that are black-owned,” said Jackson, 71. “Yet, 19 percent of the cars purchased are by blacks. The federal government bailed out American Insurance Group but they did not bail out Detroit or Birmingham (Jefferson County, Ala.). Jackson suggested that civil rights activists need a new focus when they come to Washington to protest.
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contributing author of several books on the civil rights movement, and Sinclair Blue, 17, a student at School Without Walls. “What I learned from being on this panel is that it doesn’t matter how old you are or how many years you have been on this earth. If you want things to change, you have to make it happen,” Sinclair said. Students in the audience asked the panelists questions such as what did Martin Luther King’s dream mean to them, how could today’s teens obtain support
in social change led Crenshaw to organize the Southern Youth Leadership Development Institute in Montgomery five years ago. “Find something that you’re passionate about,” Crenshaw told the audience. “Find other people to be passionate about it with you. Be inspired to know that you can do it.” Other panelists included Andrew Young, 81, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, William Leventhal, 66,
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“We do not come to Washington for motivation but appropriation and legislation,” he said. Legislation is what may be needed to ensure that all Americans can exercise their voting rights, said several speakers during the next panel. Atlanta attorney Janice Mathis presided over a discussion of voting issues that consisted of Jackson, Hilary Shelton, NAACP Washington Bureau Chief and U.S. Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas), Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) and Hank Johnson (D-Ga.). In June, the U.S. Supreme Court gutted key portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, saying that its pre-clearance requirements needed to be updated by the U.S. Congress. Conyers, 84, who helped to craft the landmark legislation in 1965, said that some members of Congress want to make it difficult for people to vote. “There are [those] who are de-
termined to turn the clock back like they did 50 years ago,” he said. “They want to reduce the number of people voting.” Shelton said that there have been very few documented cases of voter fraud. Despite that, the governors of Kansas and Pennsylvania have pushed anti-voting methods such as limiting early
from their communities to become activists as did young people during the civil rights movement, which individuals inspired the panelists to become activists, and how did the panelists feel about current attempts to restrict voting rights. “I was concerned about your generation,” said Bernice King, 50, at the conclusion of the event. “But after listening to your questions during the question and answer section of the forum, I think the struggle for justice is in good hands.” wi The Washington Informer
voting and requiring state-issued identification cards in order for individuals to cast their ballots. “That’s just the thing,” Shelton said. “Pennsylvania and Kansas have enacted laws fighting voter fraud when there is no instance of voter fraud.” Conyers said that he’s working with U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) to create a bill that would meet the requirements that the Supreme Court requested. Jackson-Lee, Brown and Johnson cited examples of voter intimidation in their states and said that a new voting rights act is needed to protect people of color, students, the disabled and the elderly. U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) has a bill, The Voter Empowerment Act of 2013, which would outlaw voter harassment; allow same-day registration and voting along with other pro-voting measures. Shelton said that Lewis’s bill can become law if people mobilize and take action. “We can win this fight if we are organized,” Shelton said.wi
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It’s All about the Benjamins A. Peter Bailey, Contends Pooling Resources, Key to ‘Dream’ By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer In the aftermath of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, many activists, participants, and others who attended the commemorative celebration continue their pledge to work toward the dream Martin Luther King Jr., spelled out at the original march in 1963. However, others, such as journalist and author, A. Peter Bailey, are quick to point out that even King realized a short time after his famous speech that the
dream had become something akin to a nightmare, and African Americans needed to collectively flex their financial muscle. “We as a people spend $600 billion a year and that is a lot of money and it should represent a lot of power,” said Bailey, 70, a former editor at Ebony Magazine. “We talk about King’s dream and it seems like the only thing we took away from that important speech was, ‘I have a dream.’ We have not put into action anything that makes sense or anything that can help us.” Bailey said the money spent
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collectively by African Americans could be used more effectively not simply by supporting black businesses, but it could be used as leverage against established white businesses to
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demand high-level jobs for qualified persons of color. A self-described Malcomite who worked shoulder-to-shoulder with the former Nation of Islam minister, Malcolm X, Bailey said African Americans have been bamboozled into believing that voting and politics will change their lot in life. He said the election of Barack Obama as the first black president proved nothing in the way of realizing King’s dream and he decried the tears of joy shed by people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton when Obama scored his stunning victory in 2008. “Those who are serious about promoting and protecting the interest of black people should pay close attention to the one essential point that there can be no political power without economic power, only varying degrees of political influence. With economic power, there is automatic political power,” he said. “We seem to be happy with a little influence, but power goes a whole lot further than influence. Trust me,” Bailey said. One of the greatest achievements in history by a black person occurred on Oct. 31, 1919 when the first ship was launched by Marcus Garvey’s Black Steam Ship Corporation as thousands of people watched on the a pier in New York’s Harlem district, Bailey said. “White newspapers splashed the news in disbelief all over the world. Black people rejoiced because the ship was designed to show what self-reliance could do. It was financed from its shareholders, all of whom were black. It was a classic example of pooling our economic resources and what doing so could accom-
plish,” he said. Bailey, a Northwest resident and Howard University graduate, served as a pallbearer at Malcolm X’s funeral in 1965. He said he attended the 1963 March on Washington simply out of curiosity. “I had never met King, I was with Brother Malcolm and I am a history buff and I knew this was going to be something historic, so I decided to get on a bus [from New York] and go,” Bailey said. “I thought it was interesting to mingle with everyone and I think it is interesting today that King’s message, is still reduced to just a dream. He’s become a caricature and it’s a shame because even those who profess to really know him, seem to forget that this was more than just a dream or a, ‘I’ve been to the mountaintop,’ matter for King. He spoke of needed changes just before they killed him,” Bailey said. The accomplished writer, whose latest book is titled, “Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X,” said he recalled King telling a reporter about fighting fire-with-fire just one year before he headed toward Memphis, Tenn., to help union workers pursue better wages and job conditions. King’s assassination took place on April 4, 1968 in Memphis. Bailey said King had grown tired of the dogs being unleashed on civil rights activists and followers and the beatings they continued to endure during the struggle for equality. The Nobel Peace Prize winner had seemingly began to rethink the non-violent approach he
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“I thought it was interesting to mingle with everyone and I think it is interesting today that King’s message, is still reduced to just a dream. He’s become a caricature and it’s a shame because even those who profess to really know him, seem to forget that this was more than just a dream or a, ‘I’ve been to the mountaintop,’ matter for King. He spoke of needed changes just before they killed him.” – A. Peter Bailey BAILEY continued from Page 20 had preached about for so many years and King publicly doubted his “dream” would ever be realized. A recently unearthed NBC News video verified Bailey’s recollections. During a May 8, 1967 interview, King told veteran correspondent, Sander Vanocur, that the dream had in some ways “turned into a nightmare.” During the conversation, King acknowledged the “soul searching,” and “agonizing moments” since delivering his iconic speech four year earlier. King told Vanocur that the “old optimism” of the civil rights movement was “a little superficial” and now needed to be tempered with “a solid realism.” And just 11 months before his death, he spoke candidly about what he called the “difficult days ahead.” Bailey isn’t alone in his belief that King’s message has been misrepresented and that African Americans have failed to collectively join together and pool their resources to demand economic parity. “We must wake up and then get up and be about the business of economic empowerment regardless of who wins any election,” said economist James Clingman, chairman of the Economic Development Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Cincinnati, Ohio. “We must not allow the hoopla of making history to divert our attention from the real action and that action is building, owning and controlling our own income producing assets,” said Clingman, 69. Also, being considered poor doesn’t always mean being without resources,” said economist Michael Shuman, founder of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, headquartered in Oakland, Calif. The nonprofit represents 30,000 local businesswww.washingtoninformer.com
es in North America, scattered throughout 80 various communities in Mexico, Canada and the United States. “Anacostia is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., yet the total income of all its households is $370 million per year. Most of this money quickly departs in the hands of landlords, business owners, and bankers who live in more upscale parts of town,” said Shuman, 56. “The principal affliction of poor communities is not the absence of money, but its systematic exit.” An economic policy remains the central agenda of all politics, because it determines who gets a slice of the pie, who gets a crumb, and who receives nothing at all, said The Rev. Earl Trent, pastor of the Florida Avenue Baptist Church in Northwest. “The new agenda for black America must consciously replace the social agenda with an economic agenda whose central focus is how we can improve the state of the black economy,” said Trent, 56. Bailey said a slave mentality still exists which causes millions of blacks to shy away from taking the necessary steps to cultivate and protect their economic wherewithal. “Black people have an extremely powerful, not influential, but powerful weapon which we don’t effectively use,” Bailey said. “That weapon is our individual and group economic resources. We spend too much time focusing on electoral politics and not nearly enough on wisely using the approaching trillion dollars that we gross annually in this country. Somehow many of us, despite strong evidence to the contrary, believe with all our hearts and souls that the path to equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity lies mainly in electing people to political offices.”wi
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Young’s Film Highlights Civil Rights in Alabama By Margaret Summers WI Contributing Writer The seeds of the 1963 March on Washington were planted in 1941. Activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin planned to bring 100,000 African Americans to Washington to protest discrimination in federal employment and defense contracting. Rattled at the prospect of a massive demonstration, President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order barring such discrimination. The march was cancelled. But Andrew Young, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, said those seeds took root in Birmingham, Ala., during a 1963 desegregation campaign. Young screened a one-hour documentary film about the Birmingham civil rights struggle, “1963: The Tipping Point,” recently at the law offices of Hogan Lovells in Northwest. The screening on Aug. 26 was one of several events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. “When African-American teens arrested in Birmingham ‘D-Day’ [Desegregation Day] Children’s Crusade demonstra-
tions were released from jail, they were mad,” said Young, 81. “They were ready to take to Highway 11 (now U.S. 11 in Alabama) and march all the way to Washington, D.C. on their own. But Martin Luther King, Jr., whose Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organized the Birmingham campaign, told them that was not the right way to do it.” Instead, Rustin and Randolph helped create a more formal and organized March on Washington, Young said. The film screening was sponsored by the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. in partnership with the Atlanta, Ga.-based Andrew Young Foundation, which promotes and supports human rights, health, education and leadership in the U.S., Africa and the Caribbean, and CRP, Inc., a Silver Spring, Md.-based professional services and management consulting firm owned by women of color. “I feel that the reason I’ve been left alive this long is to tell this story,” Young told the audience during a question and answer session, after the film, moderated by WUSA-TV9 news anchor J.C. Hayward. “It began as a documentary about Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a civil rights ac-
tivist in Birmingham, Ala., and it has a lot of interview footage with him.” When Shuttlesworth died in 2011, said Young, “we tried to use the footage we had to complete the film.” The documentary highlights events in Birmingham which drew King and the SCLC to the city, particularly the bombing of Shuttlesworth’s church, Bethel Baptist, three times. The first bombing, in 1956, completely destroyed his home, a parsonage attached to the church, but Shuttlesworth escaped unharmed. In the film, Shuttlesworth said a white man told him to leave Birmingham for good. “I told him that if God could deliver me through this, I’m here for the duration, and the war is just starting.” Young, who narrated the documentary, said Shuttlesworth asked King and the SCLC to come to Birmingham to direct public and media attention to attacks on African Americans. “There were 60 bombings in Birmingham that we didn’t know about in Atlanta (where SCLC was based),” Young said. But that would change with King in Birmingham. “I remember a news photographer, who followed Martin throughout his career, always kept his camera focused on him,” said Young. “When asked why, he said ‘If someone shoots King and I don’t get it on camera, I’ll lose my job.’” King, the SCLC and Shuttlesworth launched an African-American boycott of segregated businesses. “Three
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hundred thousand black people wouldn’t buy anything in Birmingham but food and medicine,” said Young in the film. “My job was to convince the white business community to end segregation.” Shuttlesworth initiated what was called “Project C” with the “C” standing for “Confrontation.” African-American adults staged several days of non-violent sit-ins and pray-ins. They were fire hosed, beaten and mauled by police attack dogs. The national news media finally took notice. Demonstrations waned as African Americans in Birmingham felt pressured by employment and familial responsibilities. Several African Americans met with King, asking him to end
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Surviving John Lewis Fifty years after the March on Washington, the sole surviving speaker from that day is Democratic Rep. John Lewis of Georgia. Lewis is a living symbol of “the Black struggle.” As the struggle continues, Lewis is at once a prominent part of the past, but now, possibly part of Black peoples’ problems. Called “one of the most courageous persons the civil rights movement produced,” Lewis, and his gaggles’ political accomplishments are subject to question. There’s no progress without struggle, so it’s proper to honor Lewis for his struggle. In his struggle, Lewis has experienced more than 40 arrests, physical attacks and serious injuries. While still a young man, Lewis became chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. By 1963, he was dubbed one of the “Big Six” leaders of the civil rights movement. At the age of 23, he served as both an architect of and a keynote speaker during the historic 1963 March on Washington. In 1965, Lewis and Hosea Williams led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 7. They intended to march from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate the need for voting rights, but were attacked by Alabama state troopers in a brutal confrontation that became known as “Bloody Sunday.” John Robert Lewis is known by most as an accomplished civil rights leader, but actually, Lewis has spent most of his life as a politician. A former Atlanta Council member, Lewis has
By William Reed spent decades in Congress. The powerful Democrat has served in Congress since 1987. He represents the Fifth District of Georgia, which includes most of Atlanta. This district is nearly 56 percent African American. He’s the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation and serves as senior chief deputy whip. At 72, Lewis epitomizes African Americans “marching in place.” Blacks are in a “static hold,” pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition. In reality, Blacks’ economic condition shows no change since Lewis spoke on the National Mall in 1963. Economically, African Americans benefited from the advances made during the civil rights era but not without the lingering effects of historical marginalization when considered as a whole. The income gap between White and Black Americans is $8,000 less than it was 40 years ago. Over the past 50 years, the unemployment rate for African Americans has remained twice that of Whites. The income gap between African Americans and Whites has closed a mere 7 percent. There’s little evidence that Blacks correlate their voting patterns and economic status. It’s as if they never heard the political term “bring home the bacon.” There’s been little serious
thought or discussion among African-American leadership as to “why the failures?” To whom do we attribute our overall lack of “change” over the years? At minimum, longtime politicians and officeholders such as Lewis, the Democratic Party and the roles they’ve played must be scrutinized. Given the economic problems that still beset the Black community, has our historic and overwhelming loyalty to the Democratic Party really paid off ? At whose door should Blacks lay blame for their static conditions? Who has been at the helm when African Americans got the worst as the economy declined and the least when it grew? We are complicit in our own demise. We refuse to hold Lewis, Black elected officials and executives that became post-civil rights movement power brokers accountable. Somehow Black voters can’t see that the blame for our paltry economic status goes to African-American voters who regularly return Black incumbents like Lewis to local and national office. Black Democrats hold 43 of the 50 least competitive seats in the Congress. Lewis holds the country’s “least competitive House district” and hasn’t faced a challenger in decades. Twenty-two members of the Congressional Black Caucus hold “safe” seats similar in profile to Lewis. Continuing to do what you’ve always done will continue to provide what it always has. To experience a “change” in our status, Blacks must make decisive changes.wi William Reed is publisher of “Who’s Who in Black Corporate America” and available for projects via the BaileyGroup.org
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One Day, Maybe D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, as one of the featured speakers at the Aug. 28 observance of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, used his time to advocate for D.C. statehood. It wasn’t lost on Washingtonians that as the nation and the world celebrated the gains of the civil rights movement and honored the work and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the observances took place in a city which itself isn’t free. Even as President Obama prepares to launch airstrikes against Syria in the name of freedom and justice, we in D.C. have neither autonomy nor the right to handle our financial affairs. Residents here pay billions in taxes a year, but Congress, in its wisdom, controls the purse strings and decides how our money is spent. The foul situation is akin to someone owning a home, a stranger barging in, taking up residence and the owner being forced out but coerced into paying the utilities, mortgage and other bills. The situation leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of all freedom-loving citizens, and in the end, what District residents are stuck with is the proverbial promissory note Dr. King talked about in 1963 that should grant us the right to govern ourselves, but which when we’ve tried to cash it has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
Syria: Look before You Leap One would think that after America’s failed forays into Iraq and Afghanistan, the devastating loss of American soldiers, and Afghani and Iraqi civilians, and military that our elected leaders would think long and hard about launching another foreign incursion. President Obama has been meeting with members of Congress in an effort to garner support for airstrikes. So far, Congress is divided with one side clamoring for action and the other suggesting caution. But the word from the Senate is that a resolution has been drafted and is being circulated which would give Obama 60 days of limited airstrikes with one 30-day extension. Obama is citing a moral obligation and national security interests as the reasons he should be given permission to bomb Syria. At the moment, the president appears willing to go this alone after Britain and other allies declined to step up and join the U.S.
A True Reunion!
Elton Hayes’s Goodman League Doubles as Family Reunion (Aug. 29) article did an exemplary job in capturing the familial component of the annual Goodman League tournament. Many of the national and local writers who cover the league’s games and tournaments tend to focus on the big-name athletes and star power of those who participate or make an appearance at the games. I attended the Goodman League Roundball Classic and was both surprised and pleased to read about the Oladipo family’s reunion. Victor Oladipo provides a great example of a true student-athlete. Academics were just as important to him and his family as evidenced by the fact he graduated from Indiana University in three years. In fact, it seemed as if he and his parents were more pleased about him graduating with his degree in three years than they were by him being the NBA
draft’s No. 2 pick. Mr. Hayes’s article was very refreshing and a reminder of why local newspapers such as the Washington Informer are relevant and important to the community. Keep up the great work, Washington Informer! David Johnson Hyattsville, Md.
A Memorable Edition!
I want to applaud the Washington Informer for its coverage of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The supplement was especially enjoyable. While other local news publications covered the march and had some intriguing articles and photos, I enjoyed the Informer’s stories more, because they seemed to be far more personal and intimate in nature. As an older reader, I’ve seen a lot of things on the racial front in the country. I remember
watching coverage of the 1963 March on Washington, but I still enjoyed the way the Informer contrasted the two, while also offering great commentary. While the Informer doesn’t have the circulation of some District publications, its community brand of journalism continues to keep me reading. And the paper’s exemplary coverage of the March on Washington is a glowing example of that fact. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for producing great material that resonates well within our community. And just because there exist larger news outlets, that doesn’t necessarily mean that its material is any better. In my opinion, the Informer writers and content is significantly better. Thank for all you do! Anthony Butler Washington, D.C.
To date, although the president has expressed a desire to go to war, we would hope that this country’s leaders would exhaust every other option before dropping bombs. Especially since there’s no clear indication that airstrikes would be an effective deterrent to Syrian President Bashir Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons.
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By Marian Wright Edelman
“Where Do We Go From Here?” As the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, many are discussing what Dr. King would say to the nation and world today and tell us to do. But his message to us today is as clear as it was 50 years ago if only we could hear, heed, and follow his warnings about what we need to do to make America, America. Just as Biblical Old and New Testament prophets were reject-
ed, scorned, and dishonored in their own land in their times, so was Dr. King by many when he walked and worked among us. Now that he is dead, many Americans remember him warmly but have sanitized and trivialized his message and life. They remember Dr. King the great orator but not Dr. King the disturber of unjust peace. They applaud the Dr. King who opposed violence but not the Dr. King who called for massive nonviolent demonstrations to end war and poverty in our national and world house.
They recite the “I Have a Dream” part of his August 1963 speech but ignore its main metaphor of the promissory note still bouncing at America’s bank of justice, waiting to be cashed by millions of poor and minority citizens. And while we love to celebrate his dream and great oratorical skills, we ignore his fears and repeated warnings about America’s misguided priorities and values. He worried that we were missing God’s opportunity to become a great and just nation by sharing our enormous
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riches with the poor and overcoming what he called the “giant triplets” of racism, materialism, and militarism. In his last Sunday sermon at Washington National Cathedral, Dr. King retold the parable of the rich man Dives who ignored the poor and sick man Lazarus who came every day seeking crumbs from Dives’ table. Dives did nothing. Dives went to hell, Dr. King said, not because he was rich but because he did not realize his wealth was his opportunity to bridge the gulf
separating him from his brother and allowed Lazarus to become invisible. He warned this could happen to rich America, “if we don’t use her vast resources to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life.” The day he was assassinated in Memphis Dr. King called his mother to give her the title of his next Sunday’s sermon. It was “Why America May Go to Hell.” In his 1967 book Where
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Marching Orders for the Future landscape. Consequently, we had passage of the 1965 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act. Those laws were passed not because of a speech in the nation’s capital, but because of the hard work and dedication of people at the local, state and national level to bring about change. While the “I Have a Dream” speech might have been Dr. King’s most popular oration, it was not his most substantive one. In 1963, Dr. King etched a
Now that we’ve had two events at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, it is important to remember a few things about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. beyond his “I Have a Dream” speech. The question is always asked: What happens after the marches are over? Demonstrators left Washington, D.C. in 1963 determined to change the American
prosaic picture of what America should look like in the future. But a far more important one was his “Mountaintop” speech, delivered in Memphis the night before he was assassinated. In that speech, Dr. King outlined a plan for economic empowerment and told us how to strengthen our institutions to accomplish that goal. He reminded us, “Always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal.” Dr. King explained, “We don’t
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have to argue with anybody. We don’t have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don’t need any bricks and bottles, we don’t need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, ‘God sent us by here, to say to you that you’re not treating his children right. And we’ve come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda—fair treatment, where God’s children are concerned. Now, if
you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you.” He urged us to “strengthen our Black institutions” by patronizing them. Instead of placing so much emphasis on what Dr. King said in 1963, we should look at what he was doing at the time of his death. He wasn’t trying to create
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By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon
1963 vs. 2013: From Aggressive Peaceful Activism to Tranquilizing Gradualism “We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.” –Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. August 28, 1963 During the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom there was www.washingtoninformer.com
a lot of discussion about the “then” vs. “now”. Has the “Dream” been realized? Are we in a post-racial America? How did the 50th anniversary March compare to the first? The answer to the first question is an emphatic “no”. As I have written and lectured on a number of occasions, to refer to Dr. King’s message as a dream misses the point of the speech. Over the years Dr. King’s revolutionary message has been hijacked, compromised
and relegated to being that of just a dreamer, not the lucid and radical ideas of a man seeking solutions to how a people can overcome oppression and racism. To cast King in the light of a dreamer allows people to be convinced that substantive change resulting from clear vision and direct action is not necessary. Are we in a post-racial America? No, and that’s a ridiculous question. I have written to this point as well. America cannot be close to
being post racial when a candidate for president has to run a de-racialized campaign in order to make the masses comfortable with the obvious aesthetic. This is not a post-racial America when the unemployment rate in the African American community is more than double the national average and the wealth accumulation of the average European American family is 20 times that of the average African American family. How did the 50th anniversary March compare to the first?
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Comparisons are natural due to the fact that the two marches were convened to address many of the same issues. The fact that 50 years later, speakers still addressed issues such as unemployment, jobs, civil liberties, education, health care, support for social programs and protection against police brutality made for easy yet unfortunate comparisons. It is understandable that people will try to make qualitative and quantitative assessments
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By Julianne Malveaux
After the March on Washington The 1963 March on Washington was a pivotal moment for African Americans, a day when people joined to fight for jobs, peace and justice. More than 250,000 people traveled to Washington, coming by busses, trains, and occasionally planes. They came despite the scourge of segregation, which meant that many who were driving had to carefully select the places they
could stop and eat (actually most brought goodies from home) or relieve themselves. Despite obstacles, a quarter of a million people showed up in Washington, gathering peacefully and with dignity. As a result of the March, the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, and the Voting Rights Act in 1965 was passed with more than three-quarters of the House and Senate supporting both Acts. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. continued his activity for jobs, peace and justice helping to or-
ganize the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, which was interrupted by Bloody Sunday. He spoke, in 1965, to Playboy magazine, suggesting that “compensation” (he didn’t use the word reparations) would be the only way to close the economic gap between African Americans and Whites. He began connecting poverty with war in his 1967 speech “Beyond Vietnam.” When he died, he was organizing the Poor People’s Campaign, envisioned as a way to bring tens of thousands of people to Wash-
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ington, D.C. to demand that each department of the federal government recognize and ameliorate poverty issues in housing, education, health, and other areas. The Poor People’s campaign was more muted than expected in the wake of Dr. King’s 1968 assassination, but some of the people came anyway. Even before the 2013 commemorative march was organized, estimates were that 100,000 would join that March. In 1963, about 1.3 percent of our nation’s 18.9 million Afri-
can Americans marched. Before the 2013 march (numbers may change as t) the 100,000 estimate represents just .2 oof one percent of our nation’s 44 million African Americans. Proportionately, the 1963 march drew 5 times as many African Americans as the 2013 March. What does this mean when we look at the status of African Americans then and now? In 1963, the movement had clear goals. African Americans
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By Askia Muhammad
Civil Rights Scorecard: Muslims=0; Bigots=30 Much ado was made over the fact that no national Republican elected officials participated in the 50th anniversary commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Even the lone African American serving in the U.S. Senate – Tim Scott, a Republican from South Carolina – declined an invitation to speak as did all the White Republican leaders of both the Senate and the House. Nothing however was said, ei-
ther from the dais, or in the volumes of news reports on even the most arcane minutiae of the last 50 years, from or about Muslims, this despite the fact that there is hardly a single African-American family in America which does not have a Muslim relative. So it’s not like Muslims are strangers at the table, so to speak. Indeed, there are two (count them) long-standing members of Congress – Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Andre Carson (D-Ind.) – who are Muslim,
so why did neither of them participate? Who “blackballed” the invitations to those two members of the Congressional Black Caucus? Or was this just a “members only” event, with membership limited to Black Christians, Jews, Latinos, women (who were denied a speaking role at the 1963 March), LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer, whose plight was on the lips of practically every speaker at the 50th anniversary celebration); why even a group of
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Maori dancers from Australia were prominent performers; as was a White Country & Western singer (and we all know how partial White race-haters were to Country music 50 years ago); all of those members of what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described as the “beloved community” were prominent participants in this year’s commemoration; but there were absolutely no Muslims, and only one mention of Islamic believers in the Aug. 28, 2013 speeches, and that was inadvertently made by President
Barack Hussein Obama, who is believed by a sizeable portion of the U.S. White population, to himself be a Muslim and a Socialist. At the 20th anniversary commemoration of the March in 1983, Minister Louis Farrakhan was a keynote speaker. But 10 years later at the 30th anniversary March, Minister Farrakhan was blocked from appearing by a prominent Jewish leader – Rabbi David Saperstein – who wrote
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By J.R. Clark
The Continuing Significance of Race Justice, fairness and honest political intent has too often throughout our nation’s history taken a backseat to ignorance, greed and expediency. The prosecution of the war on drugs over the last 30 years squarely highlights the truth that America as a fair democracy is very much still a work in progress. In May, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), re-
leased a report on the war on marijuana which offered all sorts of supporting data and evidence on the gross racial inequities found in America’s prosecution of this supposed war. That the black community has been the target of the drug war can’t be a surprise to anyone who has read a newspaper or watched any news program in the last 30 years. That’s old news for blacks in America. The report focused on marijuana arrests made in each of the 50 states and the District between 2001 and 2010.
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The ACLU report confirms what we already knew. Voices from the streets could be heard way back in 1982 as President Ronald Reagan announced his war on drugs that those most impacted by such a war would be black America. Marijuana arrests account for over half of all drug arrests in the U.S. As the ACLU points out, there has been an explosion of arrests with 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88 percent of those arrested were for possession. Found The Washington Informer
within those arrests are the sad racial disparities that confirm the perhaps unintentional but no less real target of the war on marijuana has been black men. The report tells us that, “[d] espite comparable marijuana usage rates between white people and black people, Blacks are 3.73 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession.” In fact other studies have shown that for all drugs, possession and use tend to be similar across racial lines. Whether there was an appreciation of the dis-
proportionate impact this modern drug war would have on the black community is unclear. Ignorance of the facts, however, has for some time no longer been an excuse. As Michelle Alexander points out in her book The New Jim Crow, our nation’s jails overflow with black men having been admitted at rates 20 to 50 times greater than those of white men. If the intent of targeting black men was absent in the 1980s,
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“Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker” by Simmie Knox. Oil painting.
Exhibit Spotlights Racism, Injustice By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer Celebrated artist Simmie Knox was born and grew up in the segregated South. He lived through the indignities, felt the jagged knife of bigotry, and endured the slights and the disrespect that were part and parcel of the racism, segregation and discrimination that formed the pillars of Jim Crow. The Aliceville, Ala., native recalls being a high school student when two white men kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till for whistling at a relative on Aug. 28, 1955. So when details of the Trayvon Martin shooting were revealed in 2012, Knox’s reaction was the same. “I recalled the response to that,” said the 78-year-old Knox during a recent interview. “It was an injustice then and echoed many other situations such as lynchings that had gone on in the past. When you get to my age, you call it as you see and usually we know what it is.” So when Knox’s friend and fellow artist Michael Brown called asking him to be a part of an exhibit giving an artistic voice of www.washingtoninformer.com
protest to Trayvon’s murder and the plight of black and brown children across this country, Knox agreed. Knox’s portrait of civil rights icons Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer is one of 100 pieces of art created by 60 artists in the exhibit entitled, “The Art of Justice: Honoring and Continuing a Movement for Equality through Artistic Expression.” Baker and Hamer advocated for voting rights for blacks and fought tirelessly against the attempts by segregationists to deny black people the vote. Brown, also curator of the exhibit which is at the Mount Rainier Artist Lofts gallery at 3311 Rhode Island Ave, N.E., said he is delighted at the response from his colleagues. “Racial injustice is the theme, and the exhibit also deals with nonviolence, freedom and humanity,” he said. “I put out the word and everybody wanted to be involved. We have every media – printmaking, ceramic, bronze, etchings and mixed media pieces.” Well over 100 people stopped by at a reception marking the exhibit’s premier on Aug. 23, one day before the first of two marches commemorating the 50th anni-
versary of the historic March on Washington which took place on Aug. 28, 1963. Trayvon’s murder on Feb. 26 2012 in Sanford, Fla., angered the nation and for well over a month after, hundreds of thousands of outraged protestors across the United States and in cities around the world, took to the streets.They demanded that the authorities in Sanford properly investigate the case and at least force Trayvon’s killer, George Zimmerman, to be tried in a court of law. Forty-four days after the shooting, a special prosecutor returned a second-degree murder charge against Zimmerman, who followed and confronted Trayvon, an unarmed black teen, who happened to be wearing a hoodie. Zimmerman claimed that after he confronted Trayvon, a scuffle ensued and fearing for his life, he shot Trayvon once in the heart. The initial indignation at the shooting was compounded on July 13 when a six-woman jury found Zimmerman, 28, not guilty. “Well, I thought what I had painted would fit the subject,” said Knox who is the first African American artist commissioned to paint an official White House
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“Involuntary Kinder’HOOD” by Kwame Shaka Opare. Photograph on canvas.
portrait. “I like the idea and it’s something that was appropriate and timely.” Brown said he was at a cookout on the night he heard the Zimmerman verdict.
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“Everybody was texting, everybody was upset,” said Brown, who lives in Northwest. “I was disgusted but couldn’t express how I felt.
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LIFESTYLE JUSTICE continued from Page 29 The thing is that we weren’t the only ones who were screaming. Half of our artists are white. It’s a mix which is as it should be. The media isolates us but the feeling is shared.” Ohio artist Susan Shie created a quilt called Trayvon Martin: 8 of Wooden Spoons in the Kitchen Tarot, which depicts flowers, a heart, spoons who’ve witnessed the murder, a mother crying, President Barack Obama and the words on his face, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon,” and stories written all over the colorful quilt. Her quilt, said the Wooster resident, is a statement of grief. Shie, a 63-year-old wife and grandmother, is a member of a quilting collective called CyberArtists for Hope, which started out as The Obama Quilters. Fifty artists produced a show called American Spring: A Cause for Justice,” she said, which began after Trayvon was murdered. “We’re from all over the country,” said Shie, a self-described liberal and feminist. “There are 24 people in this particular show right now and 35 in an online group. We do themes about social justice. We have black women, white women and a token Latina, one from England and one from Canada.” “Overall, the topic was crimes against young blacks and minori-
ties. We started touring last summer. I don’t know how Michael found out about us but I’m thrilled to be in this show.” As a Caucasian woman, Shie said, she’s ashamed at the racism she’s seen since Obama became president. “I would like to have something very positive to say but I don’t feel Michael Anthony Brown. /Photo by Roy Lewis we’re in a post-raand other symbols of the murders cial country at all,” she lamented. “A lot of people I of children of color dominate the know turned out to be so racist. It artwork. Brown said Trayvon’s murder was a blessing to have the March [on Washington] so soon after reminded him of the fragility of Zimmerman was set free and the the black male’s existence in the Supreme Court ruled on the Vot- United States. “I went to private school but ing Rights Act. They were two very negative acts overshadowed I was watched and followed,” he said. “What saved me is that I’m by the march.” “I don’t know how much good articulate. As a black man, I know it does but we have to keep on I could end up in jail anytime and trying. It’s so shameful and I’m not because I did anything. They would not arrest Zimmerman for white.” The exhibit occupies four 45 days. The reality is that we have rooms of the gallery’s first floor the same issues and challenges and the artwork carries names and have to deal with them. The exhibit is a great way to open up such as Justice Betrayed, Sweet Tears of Justice, Revolution, Stand Your Ground, dialogue.” The exhibit’s run has been exTriumph and Involuntary Kinder Hood. Trayvon Martin’s face as well tended to Sept. 22 and plans are in as hoodies and Skittles, dead and the works to take the show on the dismembered bodies of children road, Brown said. wi
“Triumph” by Michael Anthony Brown. Bronze sculpture.
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“8 of Wooden Spoons (Wands) in the Kitchen Tarot” by Susan Shie. (Fiber Art).
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KanKouran Celebrates its 30th Anniversary in Style By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer For about an hour and a half, members of the KanKouran West African Dance Company held a standing-room-only audience spellbound with the stellar drumming and scintillating dance numbers for which the group is known. Co-Founder and Artistic Director Assane Konte dedicated the dance company’s 30th anniversary and the Aug. 31 performance, “Kounta Balamoure,” to his childhood friend Abdou Kounta who died January 24, 2011. Kounta served as KanKouran’s co-founder and its first director of music. Saturday’s event was the culmination of three days of workshops. “Abdou and I met in elementary school in Dakar, Senegal,” Konte recalled. “We became friends because we shared similar personalities. He loved to drum and I loved to dance.” Konte, 63, said the pair each shared dreams of lives in The Arts, and as they grew up, they pursued their interests. Kounta joined the Ballet D’Afrique Noire, while Konte joined Les Ballets Africains. Konte was invited to tour the Ivory Coast with the troupe, all the while missing his friend terribly, he said. “Because I was having problems continuing to keep my dancing secret from my family, I quit my job just before the tour began,” he said. “I knew that once we got to the Ivory Coast, I was not going back home.” The pair moved off on separate paths but ended up bumping into each other in Washington in 1979. Ami Kounta enjoyed the performance and the fact that it honored her father. “I thought it was nice,” the 14-year-old dancer said. “The set and the lights were pleasing to the eye and it was special because the show was dedicated to my father.” Ami remembered her dad as a master drummer deeply immersed in his craft and someone www.washingtoninformer.com
who was funny and quiet but very outgoing. “He was laid-back but told people what he thought,” she said. Konte arrived in the U.S. to dance with the group Koumpo, under the direction of Ibrahim Camara. In the years since he’s been in the Nation’s Capital, Konte has developed a renowned dance company that has amassed adoring audiences while bringing the richness and diversity of West African dance to the area. KanKouran means “teacher” and Konte and Kounta offered drumming and dance classes to eager students from this area and beyond. The dancers at the Lisner Auditorium Saturday night sashayed, spun and stepped, arms outstretched, graceful bodies moving in unison, their sweeping movements powered by the mesmerizing drums, tamanis, ngonis, koras and a balafone, which resembles a xylophone. As many as 10 drummers stood side-by-side, their hands a blur as they pounded and coaxed ancient rhythms out of the drums, and drum soloists stepped forward to showcase their expertise. The drums led call-and-responses which were picked up by the audience who sang and chanted along with the performers. Everywhere people looked, they were met with African prints splashed with a riot of color. In the midst of rousing performances, men and women walked to the front to throw rolled up dollar bills onto the stage – in appreciation of the searing performances. Members of KanKouran’s Senior, Adult Community Class, Junior Returning and Children’s companies danced. When the young children danced and drummed, the audience expressed their appreciation, and at the end, a tremendous roar, clapping, cheers and whooping and hollering rocked the auditorium. Guests were treated to the program’s drum call, the Spir-
Co-Founder and Artistic Director Assane Konte dedicated the dance company’s 30th anniversary and the Aug. 31 performance, “Kounta Balamoure,” to his childhood friend Abdou Kounta. Kounta served as KanKouran’s co-founder and its first director of music. The concert took place at Lisner Auditorium in Northwest on Saturday, Aug. 31. /Photos by Roy Lewis
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audience for their 30 years of sustained and enthusiastic support. “I want to thank you for all these years,” he said. “Thirty years is not one day. Everyone grew up in the company. I was getting ready to retire but I’m ready to bounce back. This performance was difficult for me. Usually, I’d be up doing everything but this is my time to mourn my buddy. I miss him, I love him … I’m surprised we’re still here and we’re still here because of the community of Washington.” “We go place-to-place to rehearse. We don’t have anywhere but we have faith. In Africa, it’s family – we like to share and keep family close. They leave and come back but the Spirit lives on at KanKouran.” Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks, senior pastor at Inner Light Ministries in Southeast, smiled broadly during intermission. “The energy of the show each year changes and gives you something different,” he said. “I just saw the show Africa Umoja and the energy of that show matches what we saw tonight. The dancers are wonderful. Assane has done great work. Every year he tells a different story. You think you’ve seen it all but he comes and does something different.” Revered dancer Melvin Deal sat close to the stage watching intently, his head bobbing almost imperceptibly to the music. Deal, 70, founder and artistic director of the African Heritage Dancers and Drummers which he established in 1959, said he gets great satisfaction from knowing the place African dance now occupies after decades of the art form being regarded as primitive, ethnic and lacking in credibility. “It means that we’ve reached a point where we can enjoy our African selves without apology,” said Deal, a dancer, choreographer and director for 57 years. “As I watched, I saw that God helped me lay the foundation. I don’t take anything for granted. We celebrate our culture while the world sits on a precipice of destruction.”wi www.washingtoninformer.com
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$26.99 / $28.99 Canada 340 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer WI Contributing Writer Everything you believe is wrong. There are, for instance, no alligators living in the sewers of New York. Elvis is not alive and living near a burger joint in Michigan. Head colds are not caused by walking in the snow, and the Tooth Fairy? Sorry. So what do you know about drugs, and the causes of addiction? In the new book “High Price” by Dr. Carl Hart, you’ll be surprised at recent revelations. Growing up in “one of the roughest neighborhoods of Miami,” Carl Hart had all kinds of temptations at his fingertips. Still, he managed to resist many of them. That doesn’t mean, however, that Hart was a complete angel. Guns were easy to get where he lived, and there was once a time when he wanted one for revenge. He and his friends shoplifted, dine-and-dashed, and once held a gun on a white man for fun. And he experimented with drugs – marijuana, cocaine, tobacco, and alcohol – even though he knew that those substances would poorly affect the basketball career he so badly wanted. When he didn’t get a basketball scholarship, Hart knew that his best option was to join the military, so he entered the Air Force and discovered that basic training was easy for an athlete from Miami who was used to hot-weather activity. He used that ease to challenge his fellow airmen, and he found his leaderwww.washingtoninformer.com
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ship abilities. And because he was trying to stay out of trouble – which meant avoiding the brothers who wanted to smoke marijuana – he took his first college class. Today, Hart’s career lies in the study of the effects of drugs on behavior, and because of his research, he has learned some surprising things about addiction; for instance, the vast majority of cocaine use is outside the black community, and 80-90 percent of cocaine users “do not develop problems with the drug.” Furthermore, Hart believes that the solution to the drug problem – and, by extension, many of the other societal ills that befall inner cities – isn’t through a racially-motivated “war on drugs.” What’s needed, he says, is for people – especially young adults – to have a “stake in our society.” Though it tends to take awhile to get to the point, “High Price” isn’t bad. Author and neuropsychopharmacologist Dr. Carl Hart, Ph.D. uses his own life experiences and plenty of up-front truth to show how general perceptions of drug use and abuse is wrong, particularly when it comes to drugs and the black community. This mixing of a personal story and hard research is interesting and appealing, in part because Hart isn’t preachy and partly due to his unique history as someone who actually lived that which he’s trying to help others avoid. It took some effort for me to stay with this book at first, but I was ultimately glad I stuck around. And if you’re a reader who questions assumptions, is tired of “experts” who don’t walk the walk, and you love a good biography, then “High Price” is a book I believe you’ll like, too.wi
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ARIES Confusion exists over some question, and every time you think you’ve got the answer, circumstances will change and new information will come to your attention. Don’t worry, things are going to clear up and work out. Take it easy. Change the question. Soul Affirmation: I make myself an inspiration to others this week. Lucky Numbers: 12, 19, 20 TAURUS Communications flow smoothly this week and your word is golden. A wild idea for money making could come to you, but you should let the strictly material walk on by. Stick to your current plan and use your imagination for ways to up-level your spiritual outlook. Soul Affirmation: I celebrate freedom of mind this week. Lucky Numbers: 33, 42, 49 GEMINI A party or gathering with friends from the past will give you the opportunity to see how much you are loved. You’ve made tremendous strides and accomplished much in your life, so be pleased with yourself this week. Pass some of your wisdom along to others. Soul Affirmation: I give thanks for who I am this week. Lucky Numbers: 40, 48, 55 CANCER An afterglow will surround you this week if you summon it up from your subconscious, and you may not feel like getting immediately into work-mode on several days this week. It’s okay to go with your feelings; the world will wait for a little while. Treasure happy moments. Soul Affirmation: My smile gives light to everyone I meet this week. Lucky Numbers: 9, 21, 38 LEO Your mind will be extra busy this week with thoughts of new projects and the things you want to get done. Best course of action is to clear up pending and overdue items. You’ll have a clean slate in no time and will feel genuinely content and ready for the new stuff. Soul Affirmation: Light from my soul shines in many directions. Lucky Numbers: 11, 13, 51 VIRGO You should know by now that trying to be in two places at once is very taxing to your nerves! Slow down a bit and trust that you’ll get what needs to be done accomplished. Give yourself a head start on all road trips so that you have time to enjoy the view. Love promises much this week. Accept the promise. Soul Affirmation: My mood is created by the company I keep. Lucky Numbers: 12, 19, 36 LIBRA A friend from the past could suddenly appear in your life. This could be a highly beneficial reunion for both of you. Let bygones be bygones, and renew this friendship. Love isn’t used up just because it’s shared. Soul Affirmation: My blessings come through others this week. Lucky Numbers: 8, 24, 53 SCORPIO Drive the speed limit this week or you could wind up with a ticket. Why rush? Serenity is available if you only stop and listen for it inside of you. Discharge your usual obligations with dignity and silently count your blessings. Soul Affirmation: Friendships are the shock absorbers on the bumpy road of life. Lucky Numbers: 4, 52, 53 SAGITTARIUS Trust! –that’s what you need to do. Sure people lie sometime but when you know their hearts you know what to expect and therefore you’re not deceived. Be prepared for lots of compliments this week. Most of them will be sincere, so plan to accept them gracefully. You may be planning a summer trip. Make it a nice getaway. Soul Affirmation: I take a chance on new beginnings. Lucky Numbers: 22, 28, 29 CAPRICORN Live free and large, and cherish good friends. Financial matters are highlighted during working hours. Everything to do with your money, or money under your care, goes smoothly. A party invitation arrives. . . say YES! Soul Affirmation: I open myself up to the good news that wants to come ot me. Lucky Numbers: 33, 46, 55 AQUARIUS Creative mental energy makes this a banner week for you. An ambition that you thought you had left behind years ago suddenly resurfaces, and you’ll see similarities between what you are doing now and what you dreamed of back then. Enjoy! Soul Affirmation: Laughter is strong medicine against any disease. Lucky Numbers: 34, 46, 55 PISCES No need for rowdiness, wild ones! You can make your point without jumping up and down and waving your hands and arms in the air! Speak your wisdom softly, gently this week, so that others can hear it and benefit, smooth one! Soul Affirmation: Wearing three different hats is easy for a person like me. Lucky Numbers: 18, 27, 39
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Book Review: With Eyes From Both Sides: Living My Life In and Out Of The Game The Lexus RX 350 has a reputation for being not just refined and comfortable, but also for being exceptionally well-equipped. /Photo courtesy of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
2013 RX 350 Offers Luxury, Comfort and Utility By Njuguna Kabugi WI Contributing Writer Back in the day, that is before 1998, an SUV was a lightly made over truck. That meant an upright windshield, live axles fore and aft, wrapped in an angular, flat-faced farm-boy body styling. Those were the days when an SUV in the driveway gave the impression your family had interesting and exotic destinations that simply could not be reached by car – even better if there was also a boat to tow. But, like the trucks they were derived from, these SUVs consumed too much gasoline and were not particularly designed for everyday use. Sensing opportunity, Toyota placed the body of a sporty midsize SUV on top of a platform designed for the Camry sedan and called it the Lexus RX 300. The luxury utility vehicle offered a commanding view of the road and plenty of usable interior space, like a traditional SUV, combined with the fuel efficiency and smooth ride of a car. The crossover was an instant hit, and provided a first-win for the Japanese automaker’s skirmishes against the German luxury brands. While Lexus may have lagged behind BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz with its sedans and coupes, the RX gave the automaker a loyal following of repeat owners and buyers not swayed by the European rivals. The RX is more practical, often less expensive, and has standout safety and entertainment features. It also has a long-estabwww.washingtoninformer.com
lished reputation for reliability and dealer service. The RX is also a money mint for Lexus. In 2012 Lexus sold nearly 250,000 vehicles in the United States. Almost 100,000 of these were RX SUVs. We recently tested the RX 350 and were pleasantly surprised that the 2013 model still retains the qualities that have made the RX series a standout for over a decade. Not only is the RX luxurious with a well-crafted cabin and easy-to-use Lexus remote-touch technology, it is also a blast to drive. The new RX 350 comes in either front-wheel or all-wheel drive. There is also a hybrid, the RX 450h, and an F-Sport version. The 2013 model features an updated look with the new bolder, signature Lexus spindle grille, exterior enhancements, and an upgraded interior. Though the RX 350 is no sports car, if you’re used to driving SUVs that feel heavy and a bit sluggish, this vehicle will be a pleasure. The 3.5-liter V6 engine puts out 270 hp with plenty of torque to propel you safely in town and on the freeway. The front seats are comfortable, but the passenger seat doesn’t have the same range of electric adjustability as the driver’s seat. The rear seats are higher off the ground for greater visibility and mercifully, the RX has no differentiable “hump” in the rear making sitting three-across far less painful than in many RWD based crossovers. For cargo hauling, the RX pro-
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Anyone that really knows me knows I am a huge fan of Frank Sinatra’s music and his ability to embody a lyric that is, simply put, magical. Why do I mention this? Because I have always felt that writers can also embody the words they write in books. This certainly applies to Thelma Wright and her first book, “With Eyes from Both Sides: Living My Life In and Out of the Game.” Before I get into my full review, let me tell you how I came to find out about and eventually meet Thelma, who I also call “Green Eyes” (Check the book’s cover to see why). Recently, I was watching the fights on HBO, but they were boring and I began channel surfing. I came across a show on the Biography Channel called “Gangsters: America’s Most Evil,” featuring Philadelphia’s “Gangster Queen,” Thelma Wright. The story was very captivating and I was turning between channels during commercials for it, but finally, gave up on the fights and stuck with Thelma’s story. And what a story she has. As I always do, if a story piques my interest, I hit Google to find out more. I learned that Thelma had a website, so I shot her an email about getting a press copy of her book to review. She personally emailed me back and was very professional about sending a copy right away. She, too, as it turns out, loves boxing, but told me her story would be much more interesting. The jury was still out on that — until I read her tome. Her story starts in Philly back in the late 1950s, with a loving parents and a large family. A self described “tomboy,” Thelma went to Catholic school and excelled in sports. As the years rolled by, the tomboy became a woman who enjoyed life and would meet a big-time drug dealer named Jackie Wright who would take her to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, or, as she called it, “crazy love.” Jackie would give her attention and lots of love, but a few years into the relationship, he shot her in the leg on her birthday when she confronted him about not spending the day with her. End of story, right? For most, sure, but not Thelma. The two would eventually marry and she would give birth to a son before Jackie was killed in 1986. Thelma stepped in and ran the drug business, doing very well. Many would ask, how did a Catholic girl from a loving family get involved in the drug trade? Read the book and find out! I finished it in one sitting and it’s a very well-written, easy read. My biggest concern about a book that is based on a true story, is how well that story is told and whether it paints a picture for me, and this one definitely does both. Throughout the book “With Eyes From Both Sides,” both my eyes were wide open and could not wait to get to the next chapter. Bravo to Thelma Wright and her writer, C. Alease. Follow Thelma on Twitter @ThelmaBWright and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thelmabwright.
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Spotlights Complexities of an African-American Family By Margaret Summers WI Contributing Writer “Broke-ology” is a word not found in any dictionary, but it’s an apt description of a fictional African-American family at the center of a play which uses the word as its title. Written by Nathan Louis Jackson and directed by Candace L. Feldman, “Broke-ology” opened at the new Anacostia Playhouse in Southeast on Aug. 14. The play is sponsored by the Theater Alliance. The mission of the decade-old, Southeast-based alliance is to produce provocative, challenging, and socially conscious works which fully engage the community. The term “Broke-ology”, created by one of its characters, Ennis King (played by Jacobi Howard) describes the economic and emotional condition smothering his family. “‘Broke-ology’ is a science and a mathematical equation,” Ennis explains in the play. “It’s made up of fried bologna times sidewalk sales, plus minimum wage, minus health insurance, divided by an adequate education, equaling brokeness times being alive.” For Ennis and his Kansas City-based family, “brokeness” is a devastating one-two punch of poverty and racism. His father William (G. Alverez Reid), strong, proud and self-sufficient, exhausted himself working two jobs to support his wife Sonia (Tricia Homer), Ennis, and Ennis’ younger brother Malcolm (Marlon Russ). Sonia gives up her dreams of becoming a visual artist and moving with her family from their decaying neighborhood. Instead, she raises her sons at home on William’s limited earnings installing home heating and air conditioning systems. Many of William’s customers couldn’t pay him. In one of the play’s lighter moments, William recalls one customer’s “payment” being a cooked possum. “But you told us it was chicken!” Malcolm protests. “It was the only way I could make you and Ennis eat it,” says William. After Sonia’s sudden death from cancer, William worked even harder as a single parent. The adult Ennis becomes a single father himself when his girl-
friend gives birth to their son. Ennis struggles to support his family on the meager wages he makes in a fast-food restaurant. Only Malcolm seems unaffected. He graduates from the University of Connecticut with a master’s degree and lands a job with a local branch of the Environmental Protection Agency. The family is subjected to more “brokeness” when William is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The disease attacks the muscles in his left eye so much that the eye crosses, and he has to wear an eye patch. Barely able to see, William stops working, and is forced to depend on his sons for care. “I used to work 60 hours a week to take care of my sons. Now, they’re taking care of me,” William says plaintively. “I stay home taking expensive medicines that don’t work.” As William weakens, his memory rapidly declines, and the pains in his neck, arms and legs intensify, Ennis and Malcolm face a dilemma: Which son will be William’s primary caregiver? Malcolm weighs returning to Connecticut to launch a career as an environmental activist. He makes Ennis accompany him on visits to assisted living facilities where they might place their father. Ennis feels guilty that he has less time to spend with William due to his own familial responsibilities, but opposes placing his father in assisted living. William becomes increasingly despondent over losing Sonia, the love of his life, even though she died 15 years ago. The family appears stuck in a permanent state of “brokeness” it can never escape. “This is a very powerful play,” said Jeff Hunter, 46, of Severna Park, Md. following a recent performance. “All the acting was
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William King (played by G. Alverez Reid) suffers from pain in his neck due to multiple sclerosis as his oldest son Ennis (Jacobi Howard) looks on helplessly in the play “Broke-ology.” /Photo courtesy of C. Stanley Photography
stellar.” “The play really held your attention,” said Margaret Wells, 47, of Bel Air, Md. Dyane Hill Boone, 60, of Baltimore, Md. said the play “drew me into the story, and made me forget that I was watching actors on a stage.” “It’s a story about African-American men as family,” said Stephanie Briggs, 60, who also hails from Baltimore. “Women in the play were almost secondary. You saw men talking about family issues in ways that you don’t see in other plays. These are usually problems we women deal with and men don’t.” The storyline provided audiences with lots to consider. “I thought about my own parents, who are in their 70s,” said Alison McNeil, 35, of Hyattsville, Md. “The play made me think about how my sister and I will care for them as they get older.” wi “Broke-ology’s” Anacostia Playhouse run has been extended to Sept.15. For more information regarding the play and future Theater Alliance productions, visit the organization’s website at www.theateralliance. org.
From left, Malcolm King (played by Marlon Russ) and his father William (G. Alverez Reid) play dominoes over breakfast as William’s oldest son Ennis (Jacobi Howard) watches in the play “Broke-ology.” /Photo courtesy of Stanley Photography
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Alonzo Malcom, 9 of Washington, D.C., right, and Damari Philson, 8, also of the District trade punches during the 6th Annual Cease Fire Don’t Smoke the Brothers and Sisters and Universal Madness Amateur Boxing Cookout at Upshur Recreation Center in Northwest on Saturday, Aug. 31. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah
Bernard Roach, right, tapes Kevon Cooke’s hands before his boxing match at the 6th Annual Cease Fire Don’t Smoke the Brothers and Sisters and Universal Madness Amateur Boxing Cookout at Upshur Recreation Center in Northwest on Saturday, Aug. 31. /Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah
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By Brittney M. Walker. *Steve Harvey’s Ford Neighborhood Awards was another rewarding spectacular in Las Vegas, Nevada. Every year, community members doing great deeds and delivering outstanding services to good ol’ regular folk are recognized for their hard work and enduring effort. This year, Ford presented Stan Richards author of “From the Bus to the Bentley” with the Community Leader of the Year award. Along with the accolades, Richards also received a $30,000 check to be donated to a non-profit organization of his choice, a first for Ford and the Neighborhood Awards. Typically, Ford gives away a car, but instead, the company recognized the importance of embracing and uplifting businesses and supporting the community in a different way. Richards has motivated and inspired thousands through his story and consistent work in the community. The author and motivational speaker is the epitome of rags to riches, coming from impoverished Washington D.C. to becoming one of the most impactful leaders in business. Since launching his career, he’s helped join other entrepreneurs in the D.C. area to begin an entertainment company, Positive Black Men Coalition in 1992. He also became a mogul of sorts with Metro, becoming a top executive. Eventually he and his wife joined a business venture 5LINX, a global telecommunications and energy company. Within 18 months, he garnered enough success to leave his post as double platinum senior vice president at Metro, where he nurtured an 18-year career. Check out more about Stan Richards at stanrichardsonline.com.
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Screenwriter/producer Tonya Lewis Lee brought her family to Martha’s Vineyard yesterday for a special screening of her upcoming Hallmark Channel film “The Watsons Go to Birmingham.” Filmmaker Spike Lee was on hand to support his wife, who presented the film to about 300 guests at the Tabernacle. Directed by Kenny Leon, “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” stars Anika Noni Rose, David Alan Grier, Skai Jackson, LaTanya Richardson, Wood Harris, Pauletta Washington, Bryce Jenkins and Harrison Knight. The film premieres September 20 at 8pm ET/PT on the Hallmark Channel. / Photos Courtesy of So Focused Photography
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Howard midfielder Nia Walcott (Elizabeth Seaton High School) brings the soccer ball out from the Howard backfield and heads toward the goal in the first half of Howard’s 2013 season opener on Saturday, Aug. 30 at Greene Stadium in Northwest. American University defeated Howard University 1-0. /Photo by John E. De Freitas
Howard midfielder Owyn Manson (Chevy Chase High School) shields the ball from American University midfielder Alexandra Day during Howard’s 2013 season opener on Saturday, Aug. 30 at Greene Stadium in Northwest. American University defeated Howard University 1-0. /Photo by John E. De Freitas
Howard forward Ashley Knight-Williams (Cox Mill High School) drives past American University’s Katarina Kingston during Howard’s 2013 season opener on Saturday, Aug. 30 at Greene Stadium in Northwest. American University defeated Howard University 1-0. /Photo by John E. De Freitas
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George Washington University forward Jonny Forrest steals the ball from Howard University goalkeeper Eric Hamilton and scores the first goal of the George Washington University-Howard University third- round game during the 2013 D.C. College Cup soccer tournament on Sunday, Sept. 1 at George Mason Stadium in Fairfax, Va. George Washington University defeated Howard University 2-0. /Photo by John E. De Freitas
View Howard University midfielder Mario Martin clears the ball from an approaching player during the third- round game of the 2013 D.C. College Cup soccer tournament on Sunday, Sept. 1 at George Mason Stadium in Fairfax, Va. George Washington University defeated Howard University 2-0. /Photo by John E. De Freitas
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Howard, Morehouse Ready for Nation’s Classic HBCU Football Teams Clash for Bragging Rights By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer The long-standing rivalry between Howard University and Morehouse College is scheduled to continue this week as the two highly-respected programs from the country’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) gear up for the third annual AT&T Nation’s Football Classic. For the 3:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 7 game at RFK Stadium in Southeast, both squads return familiar faces as well as new players. The Howard Bisons scored victories in the first two years of the annual classic, including a 2012 nail-biter which saw the home team defeat the Morehouse Maroon Tigers, 30-29, before nearly 17,000 fans. “We have a lot of great returning players, many of whom have been on the squad for two years,” said Rayford Petty, 56, Howard’s head coach. “With seasoned leaders on the team, and new freshmen, we’re ready to focus on the fundamentals and get better as a team as we head into the beginning of the season.” Morehouse’s squad boasts five preseason All-Conference selections, and head coach Rich Freeman said health issues contributed to a losing season last year, but the Maroon Tigers are poised for a big year in 2013. “One of the things that we have to do is stay healthy,” said Freeman, 40. “I feel like that was a factor in our lack of success, and we previously had five winning seasons.” While the game represents a crucial match and the continuation of the fierce rivalry, both coaches said they understand that many fans and others also are looking forward to a myriad of activities planned around the gridiron battle. “We are excited to celebrate the HBCU football season with the community and proud of our continued support of education and the rich history of HBCUs,” said AT&T spokesperson Jennifer Jones. “We look forward to seeing fans show us their school spirit.” Officials from Howard University and Events DC have organized several activities which are scheduled to begin on Thursday, Sept. 5, and include festivities on The Washington Informer
Howard Bison’s wide receiver Jonathan Booker breaks a tackle en route to a touchdown. /Courtesy Photo
Sunday, Sept. 8, one day after the big game. A Presidential Symposium that will explore topics highlighting the diverse contributions of HBCUs to the development of the country will be held at Cramton Auditorium on the campus of Howard University in Northwest beginning at 9:30 a.m., on Thursday. Participants of the symposium will include Howard University President Sidney A. Ribeau, Paul Quinn College President Michael J. Sorrell, and Tennessee State University President Glenda Baskin Glover. David Johns, executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, will moderate. On Friday, Sept. 6, Cramton will also be the location for the Mordecai Wyatt Johnson and Benjamin E. Mays Student Debate, which will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. The debate will focus on solutions which address balancing national security interests with individual privacy and a single-payer funded health care system. The debate will be open to the public and free to attend. Also, on Friday, singer and songwriter Elle Varner is scheduled to perform at the, “Friday Night Lights,” event, the official party of the Nation’s Classic. The performance will be held at the Howard Theatre at 9 p.m., and will be followed by an 11 p.m., late night party hosted by actor Lance Gross, of “Tyler Perry’s House of Pain.” The party will include WKYS 93.9 FM radio personality, DJ Money.
Tickets for that event are $22.50 in advance and $27.50 at the door. Other celebrities confirmed for the week’s events include Howard alum and actress Wendy Raquel Robinson, and Morehouse graduate, Fonzworth Bentley. District favorites, Raheem DeVaughn and Experience Unlimited, also are scheduled to appear. “Go Howard,” said Robinson, who will assist in the opening game ceremonies on Saturday. “I am honored to return as one of the hosts of the kickoff rally and I think it’s wonderful that AT&T continues to support HBCUs and education. I am pulling for Howard to get that three-peat this year,” said Robinson, 46. Festivities will conclude on Sunday, Sept. 8, with services at Howard’s Rankin Chapel beginning at 11 a.m. Still, all eyes will be on the big game. Prior to the beginning of the classic two years ago, Howard and Morehouse hadn’t played since 1997. Overall, Howard has won 13 of the 15 meetings between the teams. “I’m excited to get this game back for our student body and our alumni. It gives us a chance to play against a team in a full scholarship situation and show what we can do,” Freeman said. Tickets for the game are on sale at the Howard University Box Office, located at Cramton Auditorium. Tickets, which begin at $25, are also on sale at www.ticketmaster.com.wi www.washingtoninformer.com
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Fix it by Faith, Part 2 age three, Gabby started to imitate her sister’s moves. Then she did handstands, splits, back walkovers, flips. There’s also significance in her name, Gabrielle, which mean “God’s able-bodied one!â€? “Mom, look at Brie,â€? Arielle said. “She needs to be in gymnastics.â€? “Not yet,â€? Gabby said. “Mom was protective of all of us, and maybe even more so of me, since I was the baby.â€? Not until Gabby was six years old, did her mother finally take her to a gym and sign her up. When Gabby saw all that equipment; beams, bars, trampolines, mats, and lots of space, she couldn’t believe her eyes! Gabby’s attitude sometimes got in her way. Whenever she got grumpy, her Mom would turn to her big brown-leather Bible and pick out a verse. “All that negative thinking isn’t going to do a thing for you,â€? she said, and quoted Proverbs: “As a man thinketh‌â€? As a teenage girl too! “For I know the plans I have for you,â€? declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.â€? – Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) Her Mom knew how homesick Gabby would be, once she was able to send her to train in Des Moines, Iowa, with a coach who produced champions. Still, she let Gabby go; but on that day in Des Moines, in the fall of 2010, Gabby said, “We hugged hard. I held her tight. She stepped back and cupped
Last week, I shared with you how faith makes the difference. Though I wasn’t planning to turn this topic into a series, the Lord directed my steps and inspired me to Google “Stories of Faith.� As it turns out, there are pages upon pages of people, some famous and many regular folks with extraordinary stories. These are narratives about how “faith� has made the difference in their lives. Over the next few weeks, I will share some of them with you – it’s my fondest hope that they replenish your spirit and motivate you to also adopt the mindset of “things not yet seen, but hoped for.� The first story was written by Olympic champion Gabby Douglas who won two gold medals during the 2012 Olympics in London. “Her unique blend of power, flexibility, body alignment and form has led her to be compared with three-time Olympian Dominique Dawes,� according to an article published in American-Gymnast. com. Douglas is the first African American to make the U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team since Dawes in 2000. Gabby broke new barriers, even surpassing Dawes, becoming the first African American to win the all-around Olympic gold medal. Gabby was born with a desire to do something extraordinary; she tried to keep up with her brother Johnathan, climbing and jumping off closet doors. Her older sister Arielle, a gymnast in her own right, had already mastered cartwheels. At
with Lyndia Grant my face in her palms.� “I love you, baby girl,� she said. “Remember, God is with you all the time. And you can Skype me or text me whenever you want.� Gabby’s Mom and her siblings traveled to London to watch her compete. They stood in the stands cheering when the Fierce Five took the title, only the second U.S. women’s team ever to win gold. But Gabby said, “I couldn’t rest. I had the individual allaround final two days later.� The morning of August 2, 2012, Gabby reached into her bag and pulled out the letter for the day. This one was from her Mom. She reminded her to be strong in the Lord, and quoted God’s words spoken to Moses as the Israelites reached the Promised Land. Her Mom reminded her to be strong and to be bold. And the rest is history. What a wonderful story! Gabby’s Mom never lost faith, and wouldn’t allow Gabby to lose faith either. Encourage your children to “Fix it by Faith.�wi Lyndia Grant is a columnist, she hosts a radio talk show on WYCB AM 1340, a Radio One station, tune in Fridays at 6 p.m.; call Lyndia at 202-518-3192; or send emails to lyndiagrant@gmail.com.
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Historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church Rev. James Manion Supply Priest Foggy Bottom • Founded in 1867 728 23rd Street, NW • Washington, DC 20037 Church office: 202-333-3985 • Fax : 202-338-4958 Worship Services Sundays: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Music and Hymns Wednesdays: 12:10 p.m. - Holy Eucharist www.stmarysfoggybottom.org Email: stmarysoffice@stmarysfoggybottom.org All are welcome to St. Mary’s to Learn, Worship, and Grow.
Blessed Word of Life Church Dr. Dekontee L. & Dr. Ayele A. Johnson Pastors 4001 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 265-6147 Office 1-800 576-1047 Voicemail/Fax Schedule of Services: Sunday School – 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship Service – 11:00 AM Communion Service – First Sunday Prayer Service/Bible Study – Tuesday, 6:30 PM www.blessedwordoflifechurch.org e-mail: church@blessedwordoflifechurch.org
Campbell AME Church Reverend Daryl K. Kearney, Pastor 2562 MLK Jr. Ave., S E Washington, DC 20020 Adm. Office 202-678-2263 Email:Campbell@mycame.org Sunday Worship Service 10: am Sunday Church School 8: 45 am Bible Study Wednesday 12:00 Noon Wednesday 7:00 pm Thursday 7: pm “Reaching Up To Reach Out” Mailing Address Campbell AME Church 2502 Stanton Road SE Washington, DC 20020
Mt. Zion Baptist Church Rev. John W. Davis, Pastor 5101 14th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20011 202-726-2220/ 202-726-9089 Sunday Worship Service 8:00am and 11:00am Sunday School 9:15am Holy Communion 4th Sunday 10:00am Prayer and Bible Study Wednesday 7;00pm TV Ministry –Channel 6 Wednesday 10:00pm gsccm.administration@verizon.net
Pilgrim Baptist Church
700 I. Street, NE Washington, D.C. 20002 Pastor Louis B. Jones, II and Pilgrim invite you to join us during our July and August Summer schedule! Attire is Christian casual. Worship: Sundays@ 7:30 A.M. & 10:00 A.M. 3rd Sunday Holy Communion/Baptism/Consecration Prayer & Praise: Wednesdays @12:00 Noon @ 6:30 P.M. – One Hour of Power! (202) 547-8849 www.pilgrimbaptistdc.org
Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ Drs. Dennis W. and Christine Y. Wiley, Pastors 3845 South Capitol Street Washington, DC 20032 (202) 562-5576 (Office) (202) 562-4219 (Fax) SERVICES AND TIMES: SUNDAYS: 10:00 am AM Worship Services BIBLE STUDY: Wonderful Wednesdays in Worship and the Word Bible Study Wednesdays 12:00 Noon; 6:30 PM (dinner @ 5:30 PM) SUNDAY SCHOOL: 9:00 AM – Hour of Power “An inclusive ministry where all are welcomed and affirmed.” www.covenantbaptistdc.org
Twelfth Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 1812 12th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-265-4494 Fax: 202 265 4340
Church of Living Waters
Rev. Paul Carrette Senior Pastor Harold Andrew, Assistant Pastor 4915 Wheeler Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 301-894-6464 Schedule of Service Sunday Service: 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 PM Communion Service: First Sunday www.livingwatersmd.org
St. Stephen Baptist Church Lanier C. Twyman, Sr. State Overseer 5757 Temple Hill Road, Temple Hills, MD 20748 Office 301-899-8885 – fax 301-899-2555 Sunday Early Morning Worship - 7:45 a.m. Church School - 9:30 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m. Tuesday – Thursday - Kingdom Building Bible Institute – 7:30 p.m. Wednesday – Prayer/Praise/Bible Study – 7:30 p.m. Baptism & Communion Service- 4th Sunday – 10:30am Radio Broadcast WYCB -1340 AM-Sunday -6:00pm T.V. Broadcast - Channel 190 – Sunday -4:00pm/Tuesday 7:00am
“We are one in the Spirit” www.ssbc5757.org e-mail: ssbc5757@verizon.net
Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church Rev. Dr. Michael E. Bell, Sr., • Pastor 2498 Alabama Ave., SE • Washington D.C. 20020 Office: (202) 889-7296 Fax: (202) 889-2198 • www.acamec.org 2008: The Year of New Beginnings “Expect the Extraordinary”
Crusader Baptist Church
Isle of Patmos Baptist Church Reverend Dr. Calvin L. Matthews • Senior Pastor 1200 Isle of Patmos Plaza, Northeast Washington, DC 20018 Office: (202) 529-6767 Fax: (202) 526-1661
Rev. Dr. Alton W. Jordan, Pastor 800 I Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 202-548-0707 Fax No. 202-548-0703
Sunday Worship Services: 8:00a.m. and 11:00a.m. Sunday Church School - 9:15a.m. & Sunday Adult Forum Bible Study - 10:30a.m. 2nd & 4th Monday Women’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m. Tuesday Jr./Sr. Bible Study - 10:00a.m. Tuesday Topical Bible Study - 6:30p.m. Tuesday New Beginnings Bible Study - 6:30p.m. Wednesday Pastoral Bible Study - 6:30p.m. Wednesday Children’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m. Thursday Men’s Bible Study - 6:30p.m. Friday before 1st Sunday Praise & Worship Service - 6:30p.m. Saturday Adult Bible Study - 10:00a.m.
Sunday Morning Worship 11:00am Holy Communion – 1st Sunday Sunday School-9:45am Men’s Monday Bible Study – 7:00pm Wednesday Night Bible Study – 7:00pm Women’s Ministry Bible Study 3rd Friday -7:00pm Computer Classes- Announced Family and Marital Counseling by appointment E-mail: Crusadersbaptistchurch@verizon.net www.CrusadersBaptistChurch.org
“The Amazing, Awesome, Audacious Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church”
“God is Love”
Third Street Church of God Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders, Th.D. Senior Pastor 1204 Third Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 202.347.5889 office 202.638.1803 fax Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Prayer Meeting and Bible Study: Wed. 7:30 p.m. “Ambassadors for Christ to the Nation’s Capital” www.thirdstreet.org
Sunday Worship Services: 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Holy Communion: 2nd Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday Church School: 9:20 a.m. Seniors Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Noon Day Prayer Service: Tuesdays at Noon Bible Study: Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Motto: “A Ministry of Reconciliation Where Everybody is Somebody!” Website: http://isleofpatmosbc.org Church Email: ipbcsecretary@verizon.net
Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.; Senior Bishop & Evangelist Susie C. Owens – Co-Pastor 610 Rhode Island Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (202) 529-4547 office • (202) 529-4495 fax Sunday Worship Service: 8 AM and 10:45 AM Sunday Youth Worship Services: 1st & 4th 10:45 AM; 804 R.I. Ave., NE 5th 8 AM & 10:45 AM; Main Church Prayer Services Tuesday – Noon, Wednesday 6 AM & 6:30 PM Calvary Bible Institute: Year-Round Contact Church Communion Every 3rd Sunday The Church in The Hood that will do you Good! www.gmchc.org emailus@gmchc.org
ST Marks Baptist Come Worship with us... St. Mark's Baptist Church 624 Underwood Street, NW Washington, dc 20011 Dr. Raymond T. Matthews, Pastor and First Lady Marcia Matthews Sunday School 9:am Worship Service 10:am Wed. Noon Day prayer service Thur. Prayer service 6:45 pm Thur. Bible Study 7:15 pm
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Reverend Dr. Paul H. Saddler Senior Pastor Service and Times Sunday Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Communion every Sunday 11:00 a.m. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Bible Study Tuesday 12Noon Pastor’s Bible Study Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Motto; “Discover Something Wonderful.” Website: 12thscc.org Email: Twelfthstcc@aol.com
Mount Carmel Baptist Church
52 Years of Expert Engraving Services
Joseph N. Evans, Ph.D Senior Pastor 901 Third Street N.W. Washington, DC. 20001 Phone (202) 842-3411 Fax (202) 682-9423 Sunday Church School : 9: 30am Sunday Morning Worship: 10: 45am Bible Study Tuesday: 6: 00pm Prayer Service Tuesday: 7:00pm Holy Communion: 3rd Sunday 10: 45am themcbc.org
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All Nations Baptist Church
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Rev. Dr. James Coleman Pastor 2001 North Capitol St, N.E. • Washington, DC 20002 Phone (202) 832-9591
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Israel Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Morris L Shearin, Sr. Pastor
4850 Blagdon Ave, NW • Washington D.C 20011 Phone (202) 722-4940 • Fax (202) 291-3773
1251 Saratoga Ave., NE Washington, DC 20018 (202) 269-0288 Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 A.M. Sunday School: 8:30 A.M. Holy Communion1st Sunday: 10:00 A.M. Prayer Service: Wednesday at 6:30 P.M. Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 P.M.
Mount Moriah Baptist Church
St. Luke Baptist Church
1415 Gallatin Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-3851 P: (202) 726-5940 Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Sunday School: 9:15 a.m. Holy Communion: 11:00 a.m., 3rd Sun. Bible Study: Monday - 7:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting: Thursday - 7:00 p.m.
2324 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-1730 Sunday School – 9:30 am Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 am Baptismal Service – 1st Sunday – 9:30 am Holy Communion – 1st Sunday – 11:00 am Prayer Meeting & Bible Study – Wednesday -7:30 pm
Rev. Keith W. Byrd, Sr. Pastor
Rev. Aubrey C. Lewis Pastor
Rev. Daryl F. Bell Pastor
Sunday Church School – 9:30 AM Sunday Worship Service – 11:00 AM Holy Communion – 1st Sunday at 11:00 AM Prayer – Wednesdays, 6:00 PM Bible Study – Wednesdays, 7:00 PM Christian Education School of Biblical Knowledge Saturdays, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM, Call for Registration
Zion Baptist Church
Sunday Worship Service 10:15AM- Praise and Worship Services Sunday School 9:00am Monday: Noon Bible School Wednesday: Noon & 7PM: Pastor’s Bible Study Ordinance of Baptism 2nd Holy Communion 4th Sunday Mission Zion Baptist Church Shall; Enlist Sinners, Educate Students, Empower the Suffering, Encourage the Saints, and Exalt Our Savior. (Acts 2:41-47) www.zionbaptistchurchdc.org
King Emmanuel Baptist Church
Dr. Lucius M. Dalton, Senior Pastor 1636 East Capitol Street, NE Washington, DC 20003 Telephone: 202-544-5588 Fax: 202-544-2964 Sunday Worship Services: 7:45 am and 10:45 am Holy Communion: 1st Sundays at 7:45 am and 10:45 am Sunday School: 9:30 am Prayer & Praise Service: Tuesdays at 12 noon and 6:30 pm Bible Study: Tuesdays at 1 pm and 7 pm Youth Bible Study: Fridays at 7 pm
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Rehoboth Baptist Church
St. Matthews Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Maxwell M. Washington Pastor 1105 New Jersey Ave, S.E • Washington, DC 20003 202 488-7298 Order of Services Sunday Worship Services: 9:05 A.M. Sunday School: 8:00 A.M. Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting: 7:00 P.M. (Tuesday) Bible Study: 7:30 P.M. (Tuesday) Theme: “Striving to be more like Jesus “Stewardship”. Philippians 3:12-14; Malachi 3:8-10 and 2 Corinthians 9:7 Email: stmatthewbaptist@msn.com Website: www.stmatthewsbaptist.com
Salem Baptist Church
Emmanuel Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Clinton W. Austin Pastor 2409 Ainger Pl.,SE – WDC 20020 (202) 678-0884 – Office (202) 678-0885 – Fax “Come Grow With Us and Establish a Blessed Family” Sunday Worship 7:30am & 10:45am Baptism/Holy Communion 3rd Sunday Family Bible Study Tuesdays – 6:30pm Prayer Service Tuesdays – 8:00pm www.emmanuelbaptistchurchdc.org
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Foreign No. 2013 FEP 88
Valita Jean Shepperd Decedent James Larry Frazier, Esq. 918 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Andris Dandridge, whose address is 209 {elham Road, Philadelphia, PA 19119, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Valita Jean Shepperd, who died on July 14, 2013 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 22, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 22, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.
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Neamer P. Connelly Decedent
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Delores A. Jones Name of Decedent
Marcia C. Hooks, whose address is 517 Quincy Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011-5931, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Neamer P. Connelly, who died on July 17, 2013 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 28, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 28, 2104, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: August 29, 2013 Marcia C. Hooks Personal Representative
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Monica V. Jones whose address is 7814 Berry Place District Heights, MD 20747 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Delores A. Jones, deceased, by the Orphans Court for Prince Georges County, State of Maryland, on January 15, 1999. Service of process may be made upon Michael A. Douglas, 1596 – 42nd St., SE, Washington, DC 20020 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real estate property: 1837 Swann Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009. The decedent owned District of Columbia personal property. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. Date of first publication: August 29, 2013
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Probate Division Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013 ADM 886 Elizabeth D. Dyson Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Benjamin H. Dyson, whose address is 2800 Quebec St., NW, Apt. 1046, Washington, DC 20008, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Elizabeth D. Dyson, who died on July 29, 2013 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 5, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 5, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: September 5, 2013
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Charles C. Gaither, Sr. Decedent Jennifer E. Loud, Esquire The Loud Law Firm 7826 Eastern Ave., NW, Suite 410 Washington, DC 20012 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Alyce Gaither and Charles C. Gaither, Jr., whose addresses are 7519 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20012 and 1422 Van Buren St. NW, Washington, DC 20012, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Charles C. Gaither, Sr., who died on November 3, 2012 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 5, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 5, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: September 5, 2013 Alyce Gaither Charles C. Gaither, Jr. Personal Representative
July 10, 2013 Date of Death Robert A. Brand Name of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Karen E. Blair whose address is P.O. Box 53083 1921 Florida Ave. Washington, DC 20009 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Robert A. Brand, deceased, by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Court for Centre County, State of Pennsylvania, on July 10, 2013. Service of process may be made upon Karen E. Blair P.O. Box 53083 1921 Florida Ave., Washington, DC 20009 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real estate. The decedent owned District of Columbia personal property: interest in 3677 Upton, NW, Washington, DC. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, 515 5th Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. Date of first publication: September 5, 2013
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Margaret Johnson Decedent
Arthur E. Rice Decedent
Barbara L. Shaw Decedent
Deborah D. Boddie, Esq. 1308 Ninth Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Attorney
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Eric Wilson, whose address is 12604 King Arthur Court, Glenn Dale, MD 20769, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Margaret Johnson, who died on June 7, 2013 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 5, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 5, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.
Lisa D. T. Rice, whose address is 634 Morton Place, NE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Arthur E. Rice, who died on August 17, 2011 with a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 5, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 5, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.
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Brian N. Shaw and Michael A. Shaw, whose addresses are 237 12th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002 & 4620 Hunt Place NE, Washington, DC 20019, were appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of Barbara L. Shaw, who died on April 21, 2013 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 5, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 5, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: September 5, 2013
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eradication of slums housing millions is far beyond integrating lunch counters.” He said the price would be great but so would the rewards. It would all come down to our will: “The great majority of Americans…are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.” Fifty years later, we must not give up on building a just America that ensures a level playing field for every child and person. We must not let anyone tell us that our rich nation’s vaults of justice and opportunity are bankrupt. And we must not tolerate any longer any resistance to creating jobs, jobs, jobs which pay enough to escape poverty, public and private sector, and providing the education and early childhood development supports every human being needs to survive and
thrive. I hope we will commit ourselves on this fiftieth anniversary to building and sustaining a powerful transforming nonviolent movement to help America live up to its promises and forge the will to translate America’s dream into reality for all. Let’s honor Dr. King and save America’s future and soul by hearing, heeding, and following our greatest American prophet.wi Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children’s Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org.
SCLC continued the Poor People’s March after King’s death, erecting a tent city on the Mall. After six weeks, demonstrators were evicted. Today, the poor are still suffering. Poverty is defined as a family of four being able to live off of $23,021 a year. Today, a record 46.2 million people –15 percent of the U.S. population – are living in poverty. One of the goals of the 1963 March on Washington was a minimum wage that could lift a family of four out of poverty. They demanded that the minimum wage of $1.15 an hour be increased to $2 an hour. As a report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) titled, “The Unfinished March: An Overview,” noted, “The inflation-adjusted value of the minimum wage today is about $2.00 less than it was at its peak value in 1968.” Worse than living on below-poverty wages is to have no job at all. “Even when the national unemployment rate has been low, the African American unemployment rate has been high,” the
EPI report stated. “For example, in 2000, when the national unemployment rate was 4.0 percent, and the non-Hispanic white unemployment rate was 3.1 percent, the unemployment rate of non-Hispanic blacks was still 7.6 percent. Put another way, even when the economy was booming in 2000, the black unemployment rate was still higher than the national unemployment rate during recessions.” When he was assassinated, Dr. King was helping organize garbage workers in Memphis. He was not dreaming because he was not asleep. We honor him by continuing his work, not by merely continuing to recite his “I Have a Dream” speech. George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge and George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook.
tect the civil rights of Negros of the day. This pressure was being applied in the streets (sit-ins, boycotts, and marches), the courts (Brown v. Board of Education, etc.) and the legislature (civil rights laws, voting, and public accommodations). It was the struggle of a people to be included into the social, economic and legal mainstream of America. Due to the constant pressure that the Civil Rights Movement brought to bear upon the government which culminated with the 63’ March, President Kennedy reluctantly came to support what would become the
1964 Civil Rights Act. Torn between along with the 1965 Voting Rights DovellWilliamsMDDC3.79x2.indd 1 the moral reality of the Movement Act, and the Fair Housing Act. In and practical Southern electoral pol- seizing the initiative, Johnson stated itics, Kennedy in June of 63’gave a that “rarely in any time does an issue nationally televised address where lay bare the secret heart of America he stated, “A great change is at hand, itself. The issue of equal rights for and our task, our obligation, is to American Negroes is such an issue. make that revolution, that change, And should we defeat every enemy, peaceful and constructive for all.” He should we double our wealth and then asked Congress to enact a civ- conquer the stars, and still be unil rights bill that would remove race equal to this issue, then we will have from consideration “in American life failed as a people and as a nation… or law.” Wednesday I will send to Congress a After Kennedy’s assassination, law designed to eliminate illegal barPresident Johnson would support riers to the right to vote.” and sign the 1964 Civil Rights Act, It is important to understand what
edelman continued from Page 27 Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Dr. King stated that America hadn’t yet committed to paying the real price—in actual dollars and cents—of equality: “The practical cost of change for the nation up to this point has been cheap. The limited reforms have been obtained at bargain rates. There are no expenses, and no taxes required, for Negroes to share lunch counters, libraries, parks, hotels, and other facilities with whites.” But, he said, “the real cost lies ahead . . . The discount education given Negroes will in the future have to be purchased at full price if quality education is to be realized. Jobs are harder and costlier to create than voting rolls. The
curry continued from Page 27 a special commission or hold conferences on how to strengthen the middle class. He was organizing a Poor Peoples Campaign, a trek to Washington, D.C. to dramatize the urgent need to help the least among us. After President Lyndon B. Johnson shifted his focus from the War on Poverty to the war in Vietnam, Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) launched an effort in 1968 to seek economic justice for poor Blacks, Whites, Latinos and Native Americans. The idea was to have another March on Washington that would force political leaders to address the issue of poverty. “We ought to come in mule carts, in old trucks, any kind of transportation people can get their hands on,” King said. “People ought to come to Washington, sit down if necessary in the middle of the street and say, ‘We are here; we are poor; we don’t have any money; you have made us this way… and we’ve come to stay until you do something about it.”
leon continued from Page 27 between similar events. While there might be some obvious and natural similarities between the two marches they are also quite different. Their political contexts are very different. Leading up to the 1963 March, civil rights organizations such as CORE, SNCC, SCLC and the NAACP were engaged in non-violent direct action. There was a three pronged strategy to bring pressure upon the executive branch and other branches of government to recognize and prowww.washingtoninformer.com
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both Kennedy and Johnson said and 1:22 PM did to bring about substantive5/21/13 change in American society. Today, due to complacency and the fallacy that those who dare criticize the president should turn in their “Black Card”, there has been virtually no pressure on the current administration to work with the Congressional Black Caucus to propose and fight for targeted legislation that addresses the interests of the African American community. As a result of orchestrated efforts by some in the extremist wing of the
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and tribute to the past, but it failed to articulate a legislative agenda and plan to pressure the Obama administration and Congress to address disparities in mass incarceration, home foreclosure, unemployment or education. In 1963 President Kennedy stayed in the White House, choosing to watch the March on television. He was afraid that the March would turn into a riot. In 2013 President Obama was the keynote speaker. Many see this as progress. During his speech President Obama applauded the struggles and successes of the past and with soaring rhetoric talked about the promise
of tomorrow. He did not propose any substantive legislative initiatives to address the suffering of today and ask those in attendance to go back to their homes and hamlets and work with him to defeat legislative gridlock. He offered the “tranquilizing drug of gradualism.”wi Dr. Wilmer Leon is the Producer/ Host of the Sirius/XM Satellite radio channel 110 call-in talk radio program “Inside the Issues with Wilmer Leon” Go to www.wilmerleon.com or email:wjl3us@yahoo.com. www.twitter.com/drwleon and Dr. Leon’s Prescription at Facebook.com
that makes up CAIR’s core constituency could not have care less about the well being of America’s dark ghettoes, except as they were the most loyal customers of the little stores they had begun to operate in Black neighborhoods, selling poor Black people pork and liquor which their religion prohibits them from consuming. But it was OK for them to sell these divinely prohibited products to Black folks, taking their ill-gotten profits and enriching their neighborhoods far from the inner cities. The Muslim Democratic Caucus of Washington, D.C. was mostly silent about their non-inclusion in the grand reunion. So much for an all-inclusive, Civil Rights Movement “big tent.” The tent is not yet big enough for the Muslim “Brothers and Sisters” (or, should I say “Cousins?”). Maybe Muslims were officially persona non grata because President Obama and the key members of his administration’s for-
had been denied employment rights, civil rights, civil liberties, and voting rights. The hundreds of thousands of African Americans who came to Washington were protesting, not only the restoration of these rights, but also a stop to the police brutality that had killed or crippled supporters. People were so focused that change was made, and when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he articulated his vision for our nation. He said: “I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.” He set out an agenda that was economic, social and
political. Fifty years after the March on Washington, we have yet to achieve the metrics that Dr. King offered. Millions experience “food insecurity”, or have nothing to eat several times a month. The education gap has not been closed, and African American students are differently treated than others in the K-12 education system. Where is the equality? Paraphrasing Dr. King, African Americans have twice the negatives and half to positives in terms of equity. Little freedom has been achieved, especially when trillions are spent on senseless wars, while our national unemployment rate exceeds 7 percent and the unofficial black unemployment rate is 25 percent. In the five years after the 1963 March on Washington, there were setbacks, but also the achievement of far-reach-
ing goals. After the commemoration, the several events in Washington, DC, parallel events in other cities, and the NAACP’s online march, what will be the results? Will this generation be as effective as Dr. King and his generation was? Will we mobilize around Voting Rights after the setback of a Supreme Court decision? Will we push to close the employment gap between African Americans and others? In 1963, African Americans were desperate to effect change. In 2013, there is neither desperation nor a passionate push for implementation. In five or 10 years, when there is another commemorative gathering, how will history judge us?wi Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer. She is President Emerita of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C.
eign policy/military team were busy drawing up plans to wage war on Syria, yet another Muslim country. Dr. King’s “Dream” was indeed the focus of attention, no one wanted to discuss his condemnation of the Vietnam War or of the United States as “the greatest purveyor of violence” on the Planet Earth. After all, like Afghanistan, Iraq,
Libya, Somalia, and Yemen, Syria is yet another Muslim country to be targeted by the U.S. war machine. So, anyone talking about Muslims at all, or Dr. King’s opposition to war would have been so-o-o out of place at this year’s March on Washington commemoration, and this silent bigotry has prevailed in the Civil Rights community now, for 30 years.wi
now and forever will be affected by the branding of a criminal record. The Department of Justice’s “Smart on Crime” initiative recently announced by the attorney general refines its charging policies regarding mandatory minimum sentences for certain non-violent offenses. In other words, the government is looking to ease up on marijuana prosecutions. Pulling back now after the damage is done. The marijuana drug war as executed over the last several decades has been and will continue to con-
tribute to the destabilization and perpetration of unhealthy black communities. Even if marijuana were legalized today the impact will be felt by generations of black families. Today over 2.7 million children have at least one parent incarcerated. Two-thirds of those parents are in jail for non-violent drug offenses. One in nine black children or 11.4 percent of all black children have at least one parent in jail. That’s compared to one in 57 or less than 2 percent of white children having at least
one parent in jail. Without real solutions to fiscal problems, the illusion of being hard on crime was and remains a creative distraction to win elections. This war and this process only work if there’s a disposable pawn. Enter the black man, a role that history and societal perception has assigned him. The ACLU report is just a reminder to me and others that the expected role of black men has been that of villain in the story of the drug war. As progressives now move to
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muhammad continued from Page 28 to the Atlanta Civil Rights leaders at the Martin Luther King Center and to those in other prominent positions, complaining about the Muslim leader’s role. A copy of Rabbi Saperstein’s letter was obtained by a Farrakhan supporter and leaked to reporters at the rally. Since then, the conspiracy against Muslims has been unspoken and unbroken. This, despite the fact that 18 years ago Minister Farrakhan organized the Million Man March, the largest gathering ever at the U.S. Capitol, with more than 2 million mostly Black men, in attendance, and not a single crime committed in Washington that day, and not a speck of trash left behind on the National Mall. This year the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a congratulatory statement on the anniversary of the March on Washington, even though 50 years ago, the Islamic community
clark continued from Page 28 corporate greed and political timidity perhaps is the excuse now for the continued enhanced and expanded drug enforcement efforts which have led to the explosion of arrests and incarcerations of black America. This of course, leads to homes without fathers or children who come to know of their fathers through a glass window during visiting hours at jail. Generations of black men
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Republican Party and the complacency of the Black electorate after the election of President Obama, many of the civil rights gained from the movement and culminating in the 1963 March (affirmative action, voting rights, and protections against police brutality) have been eviscerated. The focus of the struggle has shifted away from inclusion into mainstream America to futile efforts to hang onto the gains that were hard fought and won in the 1960’s. The 2013 March on Washington was a wonderful commemoration
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