January 22, 2011 - January 22, 2011, The Afro-American A1
Volume 119 No. 24
JANUARY 22, 2011 - JANUARY 28, 2011
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Disconnect May be Preventing Who Should Pay
Police-Community Partnership State Employee
By George Barnette
AFRO Staff Writer
Prince George’s County officials
and community groups both
acknowledge that in order to solve
many of the violent crimes that have
plagued the county in the early days
of 2011, the community will have
to get involved. However, some
community groups think there is a
disconnect between the police and
residents that is preventing that from
happening.
At a Jan. 18 press conference,
County Executive Rushern Baker
made note of the need for citizens
to understand what snitching really
means and why hard-working
taxpayers need to feel free coming
forward to the police.
Baker spoke of a visit he made
to Community of Hope Church
on Jan. 9 in which the Rev. Tony Jamal Spratley, CEO of Circle of HOPE believes
Lee told the young people in the police should form a better relationship with
congregation about the issue. Baker the community.
said he was glad Lee addressed
the issue because young people in the African-American
community oftentimes get the message confused.
“Snitching is not when you aren’t doing anything wrong and
you tell on somebody who did something wrong,” Baker said.
“Snitching is when you’re in
violence together and you try
to craft a deal for yourself.
“Honest people – men
Budget, Ethics are Big Concerns
and women who everyday
get up and go to work, do
nothing wrong, should not be
for Prince George’s Legislators
fearful of walking out their By George Barnette
doors,” he continued. “In this
AFRO Staff Writer
county, as long as I’m county
The Prince George’s
delegation in Annapolis is
beginning the 2011 legislative
session with some key goals.
Most include getting funding
for the county as it tries to
stabilize its school system
Hear the AFRO on The Daily and create new jobs.
Drum, Wednesday at 7 p.m. Prince George’s County
Executive Rushern Baker has
been working hard with the
Prince George’s delegation
to ensure the county gets its
fair share. With a $77 million
budget deficit for fiscal year
2012, he wants to get every
penny he can from Annapolis.
“My legislative priority
is protecting the County
and making sure we get the
funding we need,” said Baker.
“The state has made several
commitments to Prince
George’s County, and I will
not back down until they are
fulfilled.”
The delegation in
Annapolis appears to be
on the same page as they
recognize the dire straits of
the Prince George’s budget.
“Obviously, we’re trying
to do all we can to keep our
county from suffering more
than it has to financially when
it comes to money we’ll get
from the state,” Del. Jolene
Ivey, D.-Dist. 47, said.
Ivey acknowledged
another area of concern for
the county‘s elected officials.
She‘s also working on ethics
reform bills that she says will
“provide the most honest
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executive, it will not.”
Circle of HOPE, a Prince
George’s based group formed
Pension Benefits?
to promote peace in the county, By George Barnette “I am not interested
wants residents to understand the AFRO Staff Writer in raising any taxes and
same thing, but Jamal Spratley, the the only way I can see
group’s CEO and co-founder, says Maryland is heading making that difference up
there’s a bigger issue there. towards a major budgetary is cutting,” Peters said.
“I think the real issue is our crossroads as policymakers “I feel like if the state is
community does not have a real rush to develop a plan for really focused on education
working relationship with law state employee pensions. then it should fully fund
enforcement,” Spratley said. “We There are some who the teacher’s pension so
have an adversarial relationship.” believe the counties should I cannot agree with that
Spratley said that former Prince now bear the burden, but decision.”
George’s Police Chief Roberto Gov. Martin O’Malley A possible solution
Hylton worked hard at community wants to reform the system would require the state
policing to build relationships with before shifting costs. and its counties to share
residents and community groups in “We owe it to
the county. He said with Hylton’s our police officers,
ouster, there is a void there that still teachers and other “It is my belief that
hasn’t been filled. hardworking state
“Ex-chief Hylton I could call and employees, and we we cannot have an
also owe it to our
Courtesy Photo/Circle of HOPE say, ‘this is about to happen or that
children, and to our
honest conversation
is about to happen,’” Spratley said.
“It was because of a relationship. taxpayers to find about sharing costs, or
That’s what law enforcement needs a sustainable way
now.” forward that protects even the need to share
our commitments
Since that void hasn’t been filled, Spratley says there’s
and maintains fiscal
costs, until we reach
hesitancy for residents or groups to trust police with information
responsibility,” an agreement on how
Continued on A4 O’Malley said in a
statement. “It is my we can fix the pension
belief that we cannot
have an honest
conversation about
system.”
sharing costs, or even the the costs. Last month,
need to share costs, until
we reach an agreement on
how we can fix the pension
the Public Employees
and Retirees Benefit
Sustainability Commission
system.” voted to do just that over a
The issue surfaced three-year period.
last year when several Under this plan, a
Maryland senators wealth equalization option
proposed legislation that will be formulated where
would shift the full cost of the state will grant aid to
pensions to the counties. counties based on their
Sen. Douglas J.J. Peters, wealth, meaning affluent
D.-Dist. 23, told the AFRO counties receive less aid.
he would fight tooth and “The State would then
nail so counties like Prince charge the local boards by
George’s would not feel double the increased aid
additional economic strain amount for pension costs,”
because of new costs. according to the report.
Courtesy Photo/Maryland General Assembly Courtesy Photo/JoleneIvey.com
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AFRO’s Leading into the Digital Age
‘AFRO’ Launches AFRO Premieres Online
IPhone Application Employment Center
New Rollout Provides Easy News Access By Shernay Williams
AFRO Staff Writer
By Dorothy Rowley
The AFRO American Newspapers has recently launched
AFRO Staff Writer
a free job search engine on its website. As a supplement to
the newspaper’s weekly print “Career Corner” employment
For many businesses, the ever increasing pressures of
section, the online employment center will connect readers
keeping pace with the latest advances in technology often
with national and local jobs. The venue also allows job
makes them feel like they’re falling behind. But officials
seekers to post resumes and search extensive jobs listings.
at the AFRO American Newspapers, which has bureaus
During a time when African-American unemployment
in Washington and Baltimore, are keenly aware they must
looms at 16 percent nationwide, the AFRO hopes to
keep up in order to remain competitive in a rapidly changing
promote business and career opportunities for its readers.
newspaper environment.
As the newspaper builds its jobs database, employers
With that in mind, publisher Jake Oliver recently
– searching for new hires within the minority community
announced the paper’s launch of a new application now
– are offered competitive introductory pricing. The quick,
available for free downloading at the online Apple App Store
efficient self-posting process allows businesses to add their
that gives readers access to breaking news from their IPhone.
listing to the AFRO’s virtual job catalog and conveniently
Also known as a smartphone, the sleek rectangular device
pay online. Companies will have the option of having their
works more like a palmtop computer than a cell phone, and
posted jobs appear exclusively on the AFRO site or have
as with many smartphones, it provides owners the choice
extended exposure on a nationwide network of affiliate
of watching movies, listening to music, browsing the web
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A2 The Afro-American, January 22, 2011 - January 28, 2011
AFRO National Briefs
‘Baby Doc’ Charged with Corruption in Haiti
By Shernay Williams
AFRO Staff Writer
Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, former Haitian dictator,
was escorted to court Jan. 18, only two days after his shocking
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return to the
beleaguered
country. Hours
later, Haitian
prosecutors
charged the
former leader with
corruption charges,
including theft and
misappropriation AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery
of funds, during his Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude
15 years as head of "Baby Doc" Duvalier, center, waves to
supporters from a hotel balcony after
the country.
his arrival in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on
According to Jan. 16. Duvalier returned Sunday to
tweets from Mother Haiti after nearly 25 years in exile, a
Jones reporter Mac surprising and perplexing move that
McClelland, who is comes as his country struggles with a
stationed in Haiti, political crisis and the stalled effort to
while Duvalier was recover from last year's devastating
at the courthouse earthquake.
his supporters were
on the street calling for his release, saying, “Time is up!” After
what was described by Associated Press reporter Jonathan M.
Katz as an “hours long closed-court meeting,” Duvalier left the
courthouse around 6 p.m. EST, McClelland tweeted.
There is much speculation regarding why Duvalier has
returned to Haiti now. Many outside the country are wondering
if the absence of power left by the devastating earthquake a
year ago and the contentious, unresolved presidential election
is the reason. Still others postulate, at least according to tweets
from McClelland, that he has returned to the country to die.
Duvalier mysteriously arrived in Haiti Jan. 16, accompanied
by his companion Veronica Roy, after 25 years of exile in
France. He ruled over the island nation beginning in 1971,
following the death of his father Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier
and maintained power until his oust during an uprising in 1986.
Human Rights Watch and other international groups have
called for the controversial leader’s arrest, saying he and his
father created a vicious dynasty that ordered the death and
torture of 20,000 to 30,000 Haitians.
“Duvalier’s return to Haiti should be for one purpose only:
to face justice,” José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director of
Human Rights Watch said in a statement. “His time to be held
accountable is long overdue.”
He has never been prosecuted of any crimes. According
to Human Rights Watch, four Haitians recently filed torture
complaints against the former leader in France but charges
were overturned because the country’s statue on crimes against
humanity was not retroactive.
Some civil leaders are urging media to focus on the
devastation in Haiti – caused by a cholera outbreak, extreme
poverty and slow earthquake recovery – not on Duvalier’s
return. “To the extent that Baby Doc is a citizen of Haiti, many
say he has the right to visit the county,” said Eric Walcott,
executive director of the D.C.-based National Organization for
the Advancement of Haitians. “I know there are outstanding
warrants for his arrest because of crimes against humanity and
it is their obligation to take a stance on that.”
But the country is in dire straits, he said. “That should be the
focus, not the diversion created by Baby Doc.”
AFRO Executive Editor Talibah Chikwendu and Managing
Editor Kristin Gray contributed to this article.
Astronomer Unveils Revised Astrology Chart
After all those years of checking your daily horoscope,
you may have been following the wrong astrological sign,
according to an astronomer at the Minnesota Planetarium
Society.
Parke Kunkle, a board member with the organization,
claimed that, in the thousands of years since zodiac signs were
first configured, a “wobble” in the Earth’s rotation shifted our
view of the stars, making the dates of the current astrological
signs inaccurate.
Depending on an individual’s birthday, his or her, their true
zodiac sign may in fact be the preceding one. For example, a
person born on Sept. 12, who astrologists call a Virgo, may
really be a Leo.
Kunkle says the star’s realignment also created a 13th sign
called Ophiuchus, representing those whose birthday falls
between Nov. 29 and Dec. 17.
“Historically, people looked at the sky to understand the
world around us,” he told The Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “But
today I don’t think people who are into astrology look at the
sky very much.”
Kunkle’s theory has prompted a flurry of attention and
confusion, and fueled the centuries-old “beef” between
astronomers and astrologers.
East Coast astrologer Adam Gainsburg told the AFRO,
“Western Civilization has known about this [the Earth’s
wobble] since 200 A.D. He said while the Earth does
“wobble,” it does not change the current zodiac calendar. And
the Ophiuchus, Gainsburg said, is not a zodiac sign, just a
collection of stars. He said most astronomers have “no concept
of astrology.” “Astronomers have no interest in informing
themselves in astrology but we always take interest in learning
about astronomy.”
Devine said the new
astrological calendar would
not even give an accurate
reflection of personalities. “If
you have been studying the
signs like I have for 40 years,
you will see the character traits
(associated with the signs)
won’t line-up.”
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Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain NephewA3

A2 The Afro-American, January 22, 2011 - January 22, 2011 January 22, 2011 - January 28, 2011 The Afro-American
By Alan King sport-utility vehicle sought in from a neighbor about a suspi- posted fliers bearing his photo-

African-American Contributions to Civil War Shown

AFRO Staff Writer connection with the murder of cious vehicle. The man noticed graph around the city. On
Hudson’s mother and brother. the vehicle while walking his Sunday, Jennifer Hudson asked
Jennifer Hudson and other The white, 1994 Chevrolet dog. According to the Chicago for the public’s help in finding
relatives positively identified Suburban with Illinois license Tribune, the boy had been shot her nephew. In her MySpace
multiple times in the back seat
By Brian Englar served in a medical capacity of it,”blog, she thanked
Wunderlich said.fans
“We and sup-
of the vehicle. The SUV, regis- porters for their prayers and
The Frederick News-Post during the war are highlighted in pride ourselves at being out front
tered to Hudson’s murdered offered a $100,000 reward to
a traveling exhibit at the National whenever possible breaking
brother, was towed with the anyone who returned the boy
boy’s body inside and is being FREDERICK, Md. (AP) Museum of Civil War Medicine downalive.myths.”
–
processed by evidence techni- Nearly 100 years before in downtown Frederick. The museum
Since the was the first to
investigation,
cians and workers. The body Rosa Parks stood up against The exhibit, entitled Binding display the exhibit
Hudson – who gained as part of a
stardom
discrimination
was later removed and taken to by refusing Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: Civil War medicine conference
after appearing on “American in
the Cook County Medical to give up her seat on a African-Americans in Civil Towson in October,
Idol,” and then won an Wunderlich
Examiner’s office. Montgomery, Ala., bus, Maj. War Medicine, was created by said. Academy Award for her role in
Hudson and other family Alexander T. Augusta took a the Library of Medicine at the Tamara
the movie Aw Dreamgirls
of Lanham –was has
members arrived at thesimilar Medical stand in Washington, National Institutes of Health and visiting the out
stayed museumof the on a Sunday
public eye.
Examiner’s office mid-after-D.C. runs through Jan. 28. afternoon The forChicago
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noon to identify the body.Augusta,Julian one of King,
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in uniform and
the murders but is being held in Monday morning, past the
people are completely unaware for a school report.
told the newspaper that Hudson jail for parole violation after
viewing it on a wall-mountedon his way to testify at a court of,” said George Wunderlich, the Aw newssaidvans,
she wasn’t
reporters aware
and curi-
Courtesy Photos martial when he was removed museum’s executive director. of the contributions ousmadeonlookers.
by
Jennifer Hudson and her mom, Darnell Donerson who
was killed, as well as her brother, Jason.
“She held hands with her family. It was obviously a very emotional moment.”
from a street car for refusing to
stand up front with the driver,
Wunderlich said the National
Museum of Civil War Medicine
African-AmericansNeighbors to Civil stood
quietly and
War medicine. She said she was
reflected on the
as was required of African
“remained has beenbeing
strong for her fami- at theconvicted
forefrontof attempted particularly interested in learning
video screen, the family chose violence.
plate X584859 was found on the latter. According to Americans,
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to walkits leader.
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In front of King Taylor,
the Hudson’s
the body of her 7-year-old
nephew Monday, just hours Chicago’s West Side after Tribune, Hudson said, “Yes, to the hearing in
“She the
held rain.
hands with her achievements
fami- ing. of
Cook Black
County doctors
records showa slave who secretly
home, men in heavy jacketslearned to
after his body was found in a police received a 7 a.m. call that’s him.” In another instance,
ly,” the Augusta
spokesman said. and
“It nurses.
that He
he said the
pleaded museum
guilty to both read and write. Taylor
and hooded sweatshirts came served as ato
was attackedwas by obviously
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ACORN Fights Back

young Whitemoment.”
men for wearing his knowledge the firstinbook
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for posses-for illiterate
ing the namessoldiers. of Donerson and
uniform on a train The in boyBaltimore. the storysion
– the son of Julia of African-American
of a stolen motor vehicle. “IJason. like how she wasn’t
But the incidents didn’t deter
Hudson, Jennifer’s sister –surgeons
had He in was
the Civil War.
released from prison in allowed“Everybody
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Leader Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’
this,” Artisha
an officer ofwhen a relative
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States, to Change, for was
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written bymurder and learn,West, and that turned
a former out to of
resident bethe
entitles me to grandmother,
wear the insignia Darnell Dr. Robert carSlawson,
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By Alan King and Dallas Cowboys players No wonder Obama’s campaign is Donerson, 57, and his uncle, The boy remained missing
AFRO Staff Writer Tony Romo and Terrell Owens, of
trying to distance him from the my office, and if I am either volunteer at the museum. He said. have to stick together. All these
Jason Hudson, 29, shot to death through a long weekend in
group, saying, “Barackafraid Obamaor ashamed to wear them, said Slawson also provided much Staff at the museum said the
young children are dying, and
among the names submitted to in his grandmother’s home in which police and volunteers
Presidential candidate John electionAs the nation celebratesNever
officials. the 150-year anywhere, I am not fit
Organized with ACORN.” the 7000 block of South Yale to hold my of the research for the exhibit, exhibitforhaswhat?”been well-received.
commission,” Augusta wrote in a which will be displayed all over “It’s definitely drawn
AFRO File Photo

McCain’s attack on ACORN – Hurdanniversary

said those workers, of the who But Obama’s
American Civil ties to ACORN run Avenue.
Associated Community were doing War, those
many thingsarewithout long and
remembering letter
thedeep. He taught classes to The Christian Recorder,
An Amber Alert – a desig- the country. interest,” said guest services
Organization for Reform Now – ACORN’s knowledge or of
contributions permis- an African-American
for ACORN. They even endorsed nation for high-risk missing
African-Americans newspaper. “When we heard there was member Katie Reichard. “A lot
confirms the success of the sion, were fired.
to the war. him for President. The story of Augusta and
children – was issued Friday an exhibit being put together, of people have called about this
organization, the head of the “The evidence that has sur- But now ACORN is in trouble.others like him who proudly
after Julian was discovered we really wanted to get a hold specific exhibit.”
group says. faced so far shows they faked Reporter: There are at least missing after the murders.
“This is testimony to the work forms to get paid for work they 11 investigations across the Police arrested William

Obamas Visit Historic Black Church

we’ve done and success we’ve didn’t do, not to stuff ballot country involving thousands of Balfour, the missing boy’s step-
had,” Maude Hurd, president of boxes.” ACORN, she said, is the potentially fraudulent ACORN father and estranged husband
ACORN, said in an interview victim of fraud, not the perpetra- forms. of Julia, at his girlfriend’s
with the AFRO. tor of it. Announcer: Massive voter Southside apartment several
“When this attack started, we Hurd said the only things fraud. And the Obama campaign hours after the murders.
hadDerek
By just announced
Braxtonthat we had bogus are the charges them- paid more than $800,000 to an Balfour’s mother, Michele, has said Monteiro. “The
registered
Special 1.3 AFRO
to the million new vot- selves. And factcheck. org ACORN front for get out the vote told reporters that her son had congregation would also
ers,” she said. “That’s just to say agrees. efforts. nothing to do with the slayings. find it disruptive, having
thatMetropolitan
someone’s running African scared It concluded, “Neither Pressuring banks to issue risky Balfour remains a suspect in Jason Hudson to get swept every Sunday.
because of ACORN’s
Methodist Episcopal success.”
(A.M.E.)
ACORN nor its employees have loans. Nationwide voter fraud. He would like to join a
McCain, who is running for been found guilty of, or even Barack Obama. Bad judgment.
Church has hosted the church but he doesn’t
president on the Republican tick- charged with, casting fraudulent Blind ambition. Too risky for
funeral service of civil rights votes.” America. want to cause too much
et, lashed out at ACORN in the
leader Rosa Parks
final debate against Barack and both The problem came about pri- disruption to the churches
inauguration services for
Obama, contending the group “is marily because of the way Since McCain’s comments, and their congregations.
former President William
on the verge of maybe perpetrat- ACORN operates. Rather than ACORN’s 87 offices have been
SQUARE HIGH He doesn’t want to be a
Jefferson Clinton. Founded
ing one of the greatest frauds in rely on volunteers, it pays peo- bombarded with threats and distraction.”
in 1838,
voter the church,
history known
in this country, ple, many of them poor or unem- racist mail. However, besides
as the National
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Washington,
be “exaggerated,” D.C.’s withpremier
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places
dence of ofany
worship – especially
such democracy- zero tolerance policy for deliber- appeared on TV, an e-mail was President Barack Obama, Metropolitan. The choir sang
destroying
with fraud.”
a location just a few ate falsification of registration.” sent to the local office saying she Sasha, Michelle and Malia, joyfully, scriptures were read
Hurd believes the McCain Most news account neglect to “is going to have her life ended.”
blocks from the White House. enjoy the worship service on and churchgoers nodded
charges were politically motivat- point out that ACORN is A worker in Providence, R.I.,
At Metropolitan, it’s Jan. 16 at Metropolitan AME their heads as prayers were
ed. required by law to turn in all reg- received a threatening call say-
commonplace to encounter
She said, “Because it’s low- istration forms. And they also fail ing, “We know you get off work
LEFT Church, Washington. delivered
RIGHT and testimonies
men in suits on Sunday
and moderate-income people, to note that it wasand the organiza- at 9” and uttered racial epithets. are Metropolitan AME Church were given. Like any other
morning, but on Jan. 16, it was The president his family greet members and visitors Sunday, the congregation
and people of color, I believe the Jan. tion, in many instances, that first
16. A caller to one office left a Photos by Kea Dupree Photography
anything but ordinary.
McCain campaign thinks those That brought the phony registrations message on the answering Continued on A4
morning, men in
voters are going to vote black suits “Obama represented a long
to the attention of authorities. machine, saying: “Hi, I was just
stood at every
Democratic, vantage
which is notpoint
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The McCainof U.S.camp presidents
apparently calling to let you know that
inside and outside the church
sarily true.” who visited the church.
isn’t interested in those It was Barack Obama needs to get
fine
in downtown
ACORN is Washington,
no stranger to and significant for him to visit on
points, preferring to air mislead- hung. He’s a (expletive deleted)
many of them were not only
controversy. ing ads that seek to
this day, especially being an link Obama nigger, and he’s a piece of
dressed
For 38 foryears,
service, but also
the non-partisan to ACORN, thereby
African-American president, undercutting (expletive deleted). You guys are
to protect the president of the
organization has fought for social his political support.
on the day that we celebrated
fraudulent, and you need to go to
and economic justice for low-
United States, Barack Obama, an African American [the McCain: I’m John McCain hell. All the niggers on oak trees.
and moderate-income
and his family. and I approve this message. They’re gonna get all hung hon-
Americans. With 400,000 mem- Rev. Dr. MartinWho
Announcer: Luther King
is Barack eys, they’re going to get assassi-
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A4 The Afro-American, January 22, 2011 - January 28, 2011 January 22, 2011 - January 22, 2011, The Afro-American A3

Police-Community Partnership Pension Benefits

Continued from A1
that they provide.
“You’re more than likely to tell your friend,
who happens to be a police officer, ‘Look,
this is what’s going on’ when you can trust
that friend,” he said. “The whole problem is
mistrust and a lot of times we’d rather deal
with street justice.”
However, county officials may be taking
Spratley words to heart already as they hold
press conferences and reach out to community
groups. Prince George’s State’s Attorney
Angela Alsobrooks has started a project
called “Speak Up,” which will go into Prince
George’s schools to reach people at a younger
age.
“I want it to be fully understood that I
believe education and prevention are our keys
to unlocking a longer solution to this homicide
problem,” she said. “The smartest strategy we
have is prevention.”
Continued from A1
“The increased aid would cover half of the
total cost of the required retirement payments,
but it would cover more than half of the
increased costs in lower wealth jurisdictions
and less than half of the increased costs in
higher wealth counties.”
Still, few favor that option as counties
like Montgomery and Howard would have to
shell out more percentage wise because of the
formulas, while counties like Prince George’s
are looking for more funding to cover
do,” Baker said. “We just want to make sure
that our [Prince George‘s Senate Delegation],
and I think they’re mindful of this, holds us as
harmless as they can.”
However, Baker can’t rest easy for the time
being as not even the governor is interested in
any shift to the counties at this point. Despite
the study, O’Malley is still looking for ways to
spare counties that responsibility.
“The Governor is considering a number of
options for pension reform with the goal of

Prince George’s Legislators

Continued from A1
government and most effective government
that we can, for the people we serve.”
The ethics legislation is being pushed
through by Baker, who has already done
things locally to address the issue by
looking into the county’s credit card and
automobile take-home policies and creating
the Accountability, Compliance and
Integrity Board. Now, he wants new laws
on the books to fight the corruption, which
was well documented under the previous
administration.
“These bills represent a balanced approach
to address past bad practices,” Baker said in a
statement. “They are not an attempt to upset
the balance of power between the executive
and legislative branches.”
One bill that Baker is trying to get passed
would close a loophole allowing council
members to vote on cases in which they have
received campaign contributions through a
slate. Another bill would prohibit council
members from seeking review of site plan
cases by the planning board where there has
been no appeal. This bill was put in because
of alleged cases where council members have
reviewed cases to receive some benefit from
developers.
It appears the Prince George’s delegation
is on board with Baker in this regard as well.
Del. Dereck E. Davis, D.-Dist 25, is working
with Ivey and others in Annapolis to get the
legislation passed.
“I applaud the county executive for
proposing to close a significant loophole in an
otherwise sound public policy decision made
by the General Assembly two decades ago,”
Davis said in a statement. “It is imperative
that we do everything we can to restore public
trust in our government as we continue on the
path from good to great.”
The Prince George’s delegation is also
working on bills preventing cell phone towers
from being built on or near school grounds as
well as making direct wine shipments legal in
Maryland.
budgetary issues they’re already facing.
Prince George’s is already expecting $77
million budget deficit for fiscal year 2012.
The shifting costs are believed to tack on at
least another $28 million, according to County
Executive Rushern Baker.
“What we’re saying is clearly the state
has more options in terms of revenue than we
Obamas Visit
Continued from A3
exploded with an enthusiasm that’s unique
to the Black Church, but on this Sunday, the
enthusiasm had a new attitude.
It was the same attitude that Metropolitan
member Ernest Green, one of the oldest of
the “Little Rock Nine” had when he first
met President Obama, although when he
met Obama, he wasn’t president yet. Before
Obama’s arrival at Metropolitan, Green said,
“Seeing Obama as a president today visiting
my church, makes me, as a teenager of 1957,
know that I was on the right path. This is
something that I could have never predicted.”
The president greeted Green with a sincerity
putting the system on a path of sustainability
before we can begin a discussion of cost
sharing,” said Shaun Adamec, spokesman for
O’Malley. “Options include revising the time
it takes for a new employee to become vested
in the system, as well as changing benefit
structures for new employees and offering
more options to existing employees.”
he gave everyone he encountered that Sunday.
And, like everyone who encountered Obama,
Green was caught up in the rapture of the
nation’s leader.
The Obama family left Metropolitan
A.M.E. Church after the service but stayed in
the memories and hearts of those who were
fortunate enough to worship with them and
shake their hands. There was never a moment
when one of the Obamas was not either
smiling, praying or worshipping. For everyone
in attendance, it was a historic moment that
will continue the legacy of Metropolitan
African Methodist Episcopal Church.

‘AFRO’ Launches IPhone Application

Continued from A1
and sending e-mails and text
messages.
“[The IPhone application]
is an important first step for
us in our quest to make the
AFRO far more available
to people who need to have
quick access to their news,”
Oliver said.
AFRO Web manager
William Parschalk added
that the new application will
enable readers full access
to news from District of
Columbia, Prince Georges
County and Baltimore, as
well as sports and national
issues. “This is a great
way for us to connect with
readers on the go,” Parschalk
said. “We’d like readers
to have as many options
as possible to access their
AFRO news AFRO ... as new
technology and mediums of
communication continue to
open up.”
Oscar Robinson, a
Radio Shack manager in
Northeast Washington, said
smartphones are becoming
the latest trend among cellular
customers. “All phones
are essentially becoming
smartphones because they can
do so much,” said Robinson.
“They have operating systems
the first Black newspaper to
showcase this technological
innovation nevertheless
makes this a significant event.
“It’s not too many
weeklies that we’re aware of
that have IPhone applications
at all, and as far as I can
tell, we’re the first African-
American newspaper to have
hard copies of the AFRO.
“People will still be able to
buy the AFRO where they
normally pick it up.” Oliver
said. “But additionally, this
new IPhone application
will facilitate greater access
to the growing volume of
current late breaking news
we continue to post on our
website.
“Among the many
programs we currently have

Employment Center
Continued from A1
news sites.
“(This is) just another
way of using the digital
environment to focus
on some of the pressing
needs of the businesses
and the unemployed in our
community,” said AFRO
Publisher Jake Oliver.
“We believe this is a great
opportunity for making these
interactions easy and almost
instantaneous.”
To learn more about the
new online employment
center, please go to AFRO.
COM or call the Advertising
Department at 410-554-8289.
that are usually going to be
Android, Windows or Safari
- which means that they run
on their own networks to give
owners better access to many
of the latest applications.”
While readers’ access to
the new application would
not necessarily put the AFRO
ahead of the times, being
such,” Oliver said. “But
we’ve always recognized
new technology as being an
important tool to better serve
the ever changing needs of
our readership.”
Oliver assured that
implementation of the
application will have no
bearing on readers who prefer
on the drawing board is the
ultimate expansion of this
new IPhone application to
other smartphone platforms
and eventually to the IPad
and other tablet formats as
well. Our objective continues
to be to expansively deliver
the information news to the
our community “
 January 22, 2011 - January 28, 2011, The Afro-American A5

Community Bowie State ROTC Program

Mentors Baltimore City
Elementary Students
UN Foundation’s ‘Girl Up’ Campaign Kicks The ROTC Bulldog Battalion at Bowie State University

Off in D.C.
By Brandi Forte
Special to the AFRO
There is a United Nations “girlafesto” that says, “I am a
girl….I am me. I follow. I lead. I learn. I teach. I change my
clothes, my hair, my music and my mind. I have a voice that
speaks, ideas to stand on, and a world to step up to.”
The empowering message of the “girlafesto” came alive
for hundreds of area adolescents and teens who attended the
United Nations Foundation Girl Up pep rally hosted at the
THEARC in Southeast D.C., which is the first stop on the
campaign’s national tour.
Girl Up is a national campaign that mobilizes American
girls to raise awareness and funds for United Nations
programs targeted towards meeting the needs of girls in
African countries Malawi, Liberia, Ethiopia and South
America’s Guatemala.
In the spirit of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service,
the Girl Up launch brought together Estelle, a Grammy
Award-winning singer and songwriter; Nigel Barker, a judge
on “America’s Next Top Model” and Alana Beard, a member
of the WNBA’s Mystics.
“American girls take a lot for granted. They need to travel.
Get a passport and see another perspective on life,” London-
born Estelle told the AFRO. “The first step to helping other
girls in other countries would be by joining Girl Up.”
Adorned in purple, pink and blue, the rally offered hands-
on activities and even a female deejay that spun inspirational
jams by female artists.
As Jill Scott’s “Golden” echoed from the speakers,
droves of girls bounced from a surreal passport booth to
informational booths that shared issues girls from around the
world face.
“These girls have dreams to be educated just like I do but
are not afforded the opportunity,” said Erica Lamberson, a
high school senior and one of the 17 Girl Up teen advisors
that represent cities from around the nation. “These girls
face so many obstacles. They have to walk miles to get clean
water. Some are married off as teenagers because the families
cannot afford the economic burden.”
recently hosted a group of more than 50 students from The
Young 500 program at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School,
located in Baltimore City, to introduce them to military careers
high school including a campus tour and group sessions of push-ups and
senior, gender flutter-kick exercises.
discrimination The elementary school students learned about Bowie State
and limited University’s campus during a tour. Following the tour, the
group gathered in the Theodore McKeldin Gymnasium where
health care
they competed in a push-up contest where students were given
access are one minute to do as many correct push-ups as possible. The top
only some of three students, including one who completed 60 push-ups, were
the disparities awarded T-shirts while the entire group was given additional
impoverished Bowie State memorabilia.
girls may face. The students were provided lunch while professor of
But Barker military science for the University, Maj. Timothy Blackwell
implored the addressed the group. “The day served as an excellent mentoring
young women opportunity for students at the elementary level,” said Maj.
and men in Blackwell in a prepared statement. “The ROTC students at
attendance to be the University are setting an example for these children to
follow and we hope they will remember this experience when
more proactive
they graduate from high school and begin to make important
in ending social decisions about continuing their education.”
inequities. The Young 500 program promotes academic enhancement
“Girl up Photo by Brandi Forte
and interest in higher education. Bowie State University’s
and man up,” Erica Lamberson, a senior at School Army ROTC program plans to continue the partnership with
an energetic Without Walls Senior High School, and this group as a way to provide direction and motivation to
Nigel Barker a teen advisor for Girl Up America’s youth.
told the crowd
of teenage girls.
“Everyone has the power to make a difference. As a father, I
believe fathers must have better dialogue with their daughters.
We must change the past injustices and make a difference in
our daughters and girls lives.”
According to the United Nations Foundation, a donation of
$5 can provide school supplies, health checkups, clean water,
keep them safe from violence and support for girl centers in
their communities. In addition it can help families purchase
goats and hens to “serve as incentives to keep their girls in
school.”
Lamberson is passionate about girl issues and believes
American girls should take greater interest in helping other Courtesy Photo
young women around the world. Students from Baltimore City’s Robert W. Coleman
“I could not imagine walking miles to get water for my Elementary School participate in a push-up contest
family. I could not imagine not going to school,” Lamberson during a recent visit to Bowie State University’s campus.
said as she stared at a photo of an Ethiopian girl. “I want to go

Local Woman Graduates

Lamberson attends Schools Without Walls Senior High to college, maybe for architecture. These girls have the same
Schools and isn’t bashful when it comes to educating her dreams, too.”
peers about the struggles some “600 million adolescent
girls” in developing nations experience. According to the For more information on Girl Up visit www.GirlUp.org.
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Newlyweds Celebrate Photo by Herb Quarles

toward an
associate in applied science degree through the Community
College of the Air Force.

Life Together Idella Ford celebrated her 100th birthday recently with
family and friends at Martin’s Crosswinds in Greenbelt,
Md. In this picture, her great-nieces Judith Brown and
Airwoman Flannagan is the daughter of Raymond
Flannagan of Wyngate Road, Suitland, Md., and cousin of
Sleeprell Rice of Quebec Place, Washington, D.C.
Patricia Hite, welcome her into the building. She is a
member of the VIPs duplicate bridge club, and for many
years served as parliamentarian for the Washington
Bridge Unit. After graduating as a nurse from Freedman’s
Hospital in Washington, D.C., she had a long and
distinguished nursing career including being the first
African-American psychiatric nurse in the U.S. Army.

By Herb Quarles
Special to the AFRO

The family of Elsie Mann Shaw is pleased to announce

her marriage to the Rev. Dr. Alfonso John Harrod. The
ceremony, witnessed by family and friends, took place
recently in the Howard University Divinity School in
Northeast Washington. The Rev. Dr. Frank E. Tucker, pastor
First Baptist Church in Northwest Washington, officiated
during the ceremony. The newlyweds celebrated their union
during a reception at the Golden Flame Restaurant in Silver
Spring, Md. Mrs. Harrod, before her retirement, was an
educator and counselor in the D.C. Public School System,
and Alfonso, who was called out of retirement, is the pastor
at Lanham United Methodist Church on Whitfield Chapel
Road. They reside in Northeast Washington.
A6 The Afro-American, January 22, 2011 - January 28, 2011

Community Calendar
Jan. 20
Business Golf Luncheon
Renditions Golf Course,
1380 W. Central Ave.,
Davidsonville, Md. 11:30
a.m.-1:30 p.m. Harvin Golf
Management Group will
be kicking off the year by
hosting a business golf
luncheon. The guest speaker
will be avid golfer Jay
Davidson, president and CEO
of the Baltimore Grand Prix.
$45 in advance, $55 at the
door. For more information:
410-300-6511.
Jan. 22
Washington’s Dance Party
The Smithsonian
Anacostia Community
Museum, 1901 Fort Place,
S.E. D.C. 1-3 p.m. In this film
discussion, view the award-
winning documentary Dance
Party: The Teenarama Story,
that examines the popular TV
dance programs of the 1960s.
Following the viewing, the
movie’s creators will discuss
the making of the film. For
more information: 202-633-
4820.
Tribute to Phyllis Hyman,
Rachelle Ferrell, Patti
LaBelle, Jennifer Holliday
and Teena Marie
The Carlyle Club, 411
John Carlyle St., Alexandria,
Va. 7:30-10:30 p.m. This
concert will feature talented
performances in tribute to a
bevy of notable female R&B
stars. $25-$30. For more
information: www.brencore.
com.
Jan. 23
‘The Language You Cry In’
The Smithsonian
Anacostia Community
Museum, 1901 Fort Place,
S.E. D.C. 2 p.m. This film
tells the story about the search
for meaningful links between
African Americans and their
ancestral past. For more
information: 202-633-4820.
Business & Opportunity
Fair
The Hilton Garden Inn,
7301 Waverly St., Bethesda,
Md. 1 p.m. Learn how you
can transform your skills and
talents into full careers. For
more information: workitgirl.
eventbrite.com.
Jan. 23
Intro to Jazz Singing
The Mansion at
Strathmore, 10701 Rockville
Pike, North Bethesda, Md.
7:30-9:30 p.m. Jessica
Boykin-Settles, jazz singer
and Howard University
music professor, will lead

start this popular class introducing

participants to elements

something
of jazz rhythms, harmony
and improvisation. $275

NEW
for 6 sessions. For more
information: 301-581-5100.

Jan. 25
NBMBAA DC General Body
Meeting
Courtyard By Marriott
Capitol Hill, 140 L St., S.E.
D.C. 6:30-9 p.m. Join the
D.C. Chapter of the National

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greet featuring free pool
lessons and drink specials.
Also enjoy video games,
darts and foosball. For
more information: www.
alleycatalexandria.com.

Jan. 29
Salute To Excellence-
Community Education
Awards Luncheon
The Sheraton Washington
North, 4095 Powder Mill
Road, Beltsville, Md., 11:30
a.m. The Ladies of Alpha
Kappa Alpha’s Educational
Advancement Foundation of
the North Atlantic Region
will host an awards luncheon
designed to recognize those
in the community who have
made a difference in non-
traditional educational ways
to create an environment
where the youth can grow
and develop a love of lifetime
learning. $50. For more
information: www.akaeaf.org.

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9421 Largo Drive West,
Largo, Md. 12 p.m.
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will inform you on how to
change your dreams into a
reality. $35-$45. For more
information: 240-550-7403.

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Opinion
It’s About What Kind of Country We
Want to Be
Last week, Americans watched as the new Republican
majority in the U.S. House of Representatives began a
concerted effort to destroy one of President Obama’s signature
initiatives – The Affordable Care Act. We need to be clear about
all that is at stake.
Every senator and representative has been educated about
the mortal consequences of our flawed health care system, so
none of us can plead ignorance as an excuse.
When we look deeply into our hearts, we know that
even one death that could have been prevented would be
unacceptable. Yet, the harsh reality that we are struggling to
overcome is far worse.
The National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine
has been informing us for some time that at least 18,000
Americans die every year because they lack the affordable
Elijah Cummings health insurance that could have allowed them to survive.
When I speak to opponents of The Affordable Care Act,
I tell them of the neighbors I see every day who are walking
around with cancer – and must choose between feeding their families and the treatment they
need.
In response to my testimony, all too often, the health care opponents’ eyes glass over. As
scripture tells us, their “hearts have become hardened.”
Nowhere in America is the “butcher’s bill” from our flawed health care system worse than in
minority communities. That is why we must not allow the suffering in our midst to become lost
in a blizzard of statistics and competing claims.
As Dr. Lesley Russell observed in a recent monograph for the Center for American Progress,
“The Affordable Care Act will improve health coverage and access to health services for all
Americans, [and] especially for people of color.”
Her article summarizes what so many African Americans already know from our own lives.
Currently, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than one-half of America’s uninsured.
Without The Affordable Care Act, we will continue to be more likely to be denied adequate
health insurance coverage and continue to have higher rates of infant mortality, disease and
disability.
Without substantial reform, we will continue to be less likely to receive the life-prolonging
benefits of preventive health screenings, regular health care and necessary medications that can
prolong our lives.
To be certain, arguments about the impact of The Affordable Care Act upon jobs and our
national budget are relevant. Personally, I am convinced that supporters make the better case.
For me, however, there is a larger, more compelling question – and a far more clear-cut
answer.
Scott Sisters, Free at Last
Ben Wrobel
This month, Jaime and Gladys Scott walked out of prison 16 years after they first entered.
Their double-life sentences were criticized as indicative of the egregious sentencing in our
criminal justice system, and their release by Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was hailed as a
long-overdue victory for justice, as well as an example of a governor using his commutation
powers to right a wrong.
“I have no doubt that the reason the governor let them out is that this is a grave injustice,”
said NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, who advocated strongly on the
sisters’ behalf. “We need more days like this in Mississippi. We need more days like this in this
country.”
The sisters’ release marks the end of a grassroots campaign led by a coalition of concerned
individuals and groups, including the sisters’ family Evelyn Rasco and Nancy Lockhart, their
attorney Chokwe Lumumba, the national NAACP, the Mississippi NAACP State Conference
and other organizations. Supporters from around the country brought attention to the sisters’
imprisonment and petitioned Gov. Barbour for their freedom.
“This is a result of all of the individuals across this state and across the country who
saw injustice in what was taking place and gave voice to it,” said Mississippi NAACP State
Conference President Derrick Johnson. “This is a great day to let us know that if we stick
together, work together, we can make mighty things happen.”
Jamie and Gladys were each arrested as teenagers for a first-time offense in which no one
was hurt and court records maintain that little more than $10 was stolen. The sisters were
convicted of luring two men to be robbed by three teenage boys. The boys each received eight
years and served fewer than three.
The sisters’ case has become increasingly tragic and urgent over the years. While in prison,
Jamie lost the use of both her kidneys.
“They have served more time than they should have served,” Lumumba said.
After leaving prison, the sisters returned to Pensacola, Fla., where their mother and children
live. Jamie has three children, ages 23, 20 and 17, and two grandchildren, ages 5 and 3.
Racial and Ethnic Divide over Gun Rights
Columbine High School. The Washington, D.C.
sniper.  Northern Illinois University.  Virginia Tech. Red
Lake Indian Reservation. Chicago school children. And now,
Tucson, Ariz. In dramatic ways, shooting deaths have horrified,
mesmerized and confounded Americans. Yet, an increasing
number of people say it is more important to protect the rights
of citizens to own guns than to limit those authorized to carry
lethal weapons.
In a September survey, the Pew Research Center found
that 50 percent of Americans favor protecting the right to own
guns over the adoption of stricter gun control laws. There were
important racial and ethnic distinctions. Non-Hispanic Whites
favor gun rights by a margin of 54 percent to 42 percent.
However, people of color hold opposite views. Among
African Americans, two-thirds – 66 percent – favor control
George E. Curry
of guns, compared to 20 percent who favor giving preference
to the right to own guns. Among Hispanics, the gap was even
larger, with 75 percent favoring tougher gun control laws and only 21 percent giving the edge to
gun owners.
Considering the national tragedies the nation has witnessed, often via around-the-clock
coverage on cable television, I am somewhat surprised by the shift in public opinion toward the
rights of gun owners.  What is not surprising is that people of color are not part of that trend.
Looking back on how Black communities have changed for the worse, two factors stand
out more than any others: the widespread use and sale of illicit drugs and the accompanying
gun violence. Even how we settle disputes among ourselves has radically changed. When I was
growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, if I got in a fist fight with a guy, at worst, we might have a
rematch the next day. Over the years, however, things have changed. Instead of settling disputes
by duking it out, it is far more likely that one of the parties will try to settle the feud with a gun.
Today, elderly people are not exempt from armed robbery and churches don’t stand a prayer
of a chance of being off-limits to scoundrels. The negative impact of guns has impacted other
aspects of our communities, such as making adults less willing to exercise their authority over
wayward young people for fear of being assaulted or killed.
Led by the National Rifle Association (NRA), the gun lobby has been very successful
depicting gun ownership as not only a right but a necessity. It argues that in addition to being
able to have a weapon to protect one’s home, citizens need to be able to carry concealed
January 22, 2011 - January 28, 2011, The Afro-American A7
Our ongoing debate
about universal access to
high-quality, affordable
health care comes down
to a straightforward moral
determination.
What value will we, as a
society, decide to place on
saving a human life?
In the resolution of this
fundamental, moral debate,
America’s minority citizens
must remain unafraid to lift
our own voices about the
critical importance of reform
in our own lives.
As most Americans realize, the objective of our legislation is to expand health coverage to at
least 32 million people who currently have no insurance, providing financial assistance to help
those with lower incomes purchase their coverage.
Although our strategy is being implemented over several years, I am deeply gratified that our
progress toward this goal is already being felt in our community.
More children are being insured; our seniors are receiving free preventive care and facing
a smaller “donut hole” in their prescription coverage; insurance plans for the uninsured with
pre-existing conditions are being provided; young people are now able to stay on their parents’
insurance until age 26.
Fewer people with insurance are seeing their insurance canceled when they get sick – and
the annual and lifetime limits on coverage are being eliminated.
We also are determined to expand access to the primary care and medical homes (including
federally qualified health centers) that can better ensure a regular source of care.
In the ongoing national effort to eliminate racially based health disparities, I was proud to
have contributed personally to placing the Office of Minority Health within the Office of the
Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The Affordable Care Act includes many more examples of constructive change, but the
moral boundaries of this health care debate should now be clear for all to see.
As President Obama once observed, “It’s about what kind of country [we] want to be.”
Congressman Elijah E. Cummings represents Maryland’s Seventh Congressional District in
the United States House of Representatives.
Gladys has two children,
ages 22 and 15 and two
grandchildren, ages 7 and 4.
Jealous said that the
NAACP will continue
to ensure that the sisters
receive the best medical care
available, and Lumumba
said he would help the
sisters seek a full pardon.
“Our next step is to ensure
that the sisters get the health
care that they need, and
ultimately, the full pardon
Courtesy Photo they deserve,” Jealous said.
NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, left, According to Jealous, the
Jaime Scott, NAACP’s Kim Keenan, Gladys Scott and sisters’ release speaks to the
NAACP’s Derrick Johnson urgent need for the work the
NAACP and its allies have
been doing for more than a
century to encourage governors and presidents to use their clemency powers to advance justice.
“The case of the Scott sisters gives hope to others who are unjustly imprisoned,” Jealous
said. “During the past few weeks, two governors released Black Americans who had been
railroaded by our nation’s criminal justice system. One week before the Scott sisters were
released, New York Gov. David Paterson commuted the sentence of John White, a man who
was defending his family. We hope that this trend continues in other cases, such as the case of
John McNeil, a Georgia man who was given a life sentence for defending his home.”
Ben Wrobel is a press assistant with the NAACP.
weapons on us as if we were still in the wild, wild west. That attitude has been fueled by hot
rhetoric that somehow, the federal government is the enemy of the people.
According to Gallup, the polling firm, “Almost half of Americans say they perceive the
federal government to be an ‘immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.’”
That figure has risen from 30 percent in 2003 to 46 percent in 2010.
Forty-eight states have laws that permit citizens to carry concealed firearms in public,
usually after obtaining a permit from local or state law enforcement authorities. Last year,
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a bill that allows most adults to carry concealed
firearms without a permit except in such sensitive areas as schools and airports. Only two other
states – Alaska and Vermont – have similar laws.  
Jared Lee Loughner, who went on a Jan. 8 shooting rampage in Tucson, legally purchased
his semi-automatic pistol. And, he was acting lawfully when he concealed his weapon at a
public rally held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). Loughner crossed the line, however,
when he pulled his weapon and killed six people and wounded 13 others, including Giffords.
Gun advocates cite the Second Amendment as upholding their right to own guns. It reads:
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people
to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
An article in the University of California-Davis Law Review [Winter 1997] by Carl T. Bogus
titled, “The Hidden History of the Second Amendment” provides an interesting perspective. 
“The Second Amendment was not enacted to provide a check on government tyranny; rather, it
was written to assure the Southern states that Congress would not undermine the slave system
by using its newly acquired constitutional authority over the militia to disarm the state militia
and thereby destroy the South’s principal instrument of slave control,” he wrote.
Of course, that perspective is rarely expressed by historians. Bogus thinks he knows why:
“The Second Amendment’s history has been hidden because neither James Madison, who was
the principal author of the Second Amendment, nor those he was attempting to outmaneuver
politically, laid their motives on the table.”
According to Bogus, the trend of states relaxing their gun laws is not only dangerous, as we
have seen in Arizona, but based on a flawed reading of the Second Amendment.
George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine and the NNPA News Service, is
a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach.  He can be reached through his Web site, www.
georgecurry.com.  You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge.
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Photos by Andrea L. “Aunni” Young

By Andrea L.
“Aunni” Young
Special to the AFRO

The Capital Area Asset

Builders (CAAB) partnered
District resident Shani
Lee Huggins, who
recently purchased a
home with CAAB’s six-
month $3,000 matching
savings programs
with the Washington, D.C. Links chapter, along with
new Links member, WUSA Channel 9 anchor
Andrea Roane, to help area residents pay off
debt, save money, fund education, buy homes
and start new businesses at its recent “CAAB
in the Community” seminar and reception at
First Trinity Lutheran Church in Northwest,
D.C. “It was a perfect linking together of the
two organizations (CAAB and Links),” said
Roane. “We have similar goals – service to
An event the community.”
participant Financial expert Linda Stroman, who
listen attentively facilitated the CAAB “Can I Afford
to seminar My Life?” financial seminar, helped
presenters residents answer the question, “Do
you need this or is this something you
want?” Stroman educated attendees about
income, budgeting, credit building, saving
and their financial rights.
Maureen Lewis, a
Attendee Shani Lee Huggins and her
husband recently purchased a home member of Links,
with CAAB’s six-month $3,000 matching expressed her
savings programs, and were educated appreciation for
through CAAB’s Money Management 101 the CAAB/Links
course. “CAAB fosters healthy savings,” partnership
said Huggins. “They prepare you to
practice saving, having a goal and keeping
it.”
Offered mainly in D.C.’s financial
district, CAAB seminars are also offered
at churches and other partnering
organizations.

Facilitator Linda
Stroman educates
residents about
Second row: Marcella Harshbarger, president of the CAAB Board; budgeting,
Gwen McCall, Links; Maurita Coley, CAAB executive director. First credit skills and
Attendees learn money management skills
row: Janice Anderson, Links; Maureen Lewis, Links and Andrea emergency funding
Roane, Links

Celebrity chef Cheo, left, and event co-chairwomen

R. Denise Everson and Deidra Barksdale present
the entrée winner Frank Malone. Chef Cheo, left, and event organizers present
the dessert winner, Barry Williams.

Chef Earnest Chrapph serves a dish of curry

chicken marsala to Dr. E. Gail Anderson.

Enrique Young and his son Shiloh ; Tony Freeman

with his son, Cryz

Chef Garrett Milliam, 12, serves

up a side dish of sweet cornbread
to an attendee while his father
looks on.

R. Denise Everson (left), and Deidra Barksdale

(right), co-chairwomen, announce raffle winners
with celebrity guest Cheo

Deidra Barksdale, Venida Y.

Hamilton, president, board of
directors, DC Alumni Foundation;
R. Denise Everson, A. Chevelle
Glymph Foster and chef Cheo Event organizers

Chef Barry William’s pineapple rum cake

The Washington, D.C. Alumnae Chapter and Washington D.C. Alumnae Foundation of
was the most popular dessert
First-time Delta Sigma Theta Sorority hosted its “Seventh Annual Distinguished Men Cookin’ with
participants the Deltas Community Fundraiser” recently at the Howard University Armour J. Blackburn
Rico Rowell Sr. Center.
and his son, Under the leadership of A. Chevelle Glymph Foster, chapter president; Venida Y.
Rico Rowell II Hamilton, chairwoman, foundation board of directors and event co-chairwomen Deidra
of Bowie, Md.,
Barksdale and R. Denise Everson, family and friends gathered for an afternoon of fine
present their
Asian salad.
cuisine prepared by local volunteer chefs.
Guests enjoyed a variety of finger-licking, lip-smacking entrees and desserts fit for the
king’s table. Once all the dust had settled, two chefs were singled out as the best: Frank
Malone (entrée winner) and Barry Williams (dessert winner).
Celebrity chef Cheo served as the official host. The chapter and foundation’s mission is A. Chevelle Glymph Foster, chapter
president, speaks about the fundraiser.
to service D.C.- based community programs though sisterhood, education and awareness.
Sponsors and vendors included Frankie Banks Cosmetic Company, Joyce’s Purses and
Things, Black Sauce Kitchen and Rita’s Water Ice.
Photos by
Danita
Delaney

Chef Padua Player

DJ Soprano
mixes old and
new school
R&B hits for
the foodies’ Delta sisters: Andrella Smith, Andrea Smith, Tiki Hall,
listening Erin Clark and Alissa Greer The Rowell family with three generations of male
pleasure. culinary enthusiasts
B2 The Afro-American, January 22, 2011 - January 28, 2011

Faith Pulse
Local Church’s CD Debuts on Billboard Charts
Bishop Alfred A. Owens Jr. and Co-Pastor Susie C. Award winner Maurette Brown-Clark, Courtney Nero, and
Owens, founders and pastors of the Greater Mount Calvary Grammy-Award winner Steve Lawrence (Bishop T.D. Jakes
Holy Church, are celebrating the Greater Mount Calvary & The Potter’s House Mass Choir) all hailed from Calvary’s
Recording Choir and Calvary Records’ new CD, Greater music department.
Mount Calvary LIVE As Told By The Music Ministry, for Calvary Records and the GMC Recording Choir kicked
debuting at No. 7 on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart off the release in true Calvary style with a red carpet
in its first-week sales. “I believe it’s truly a testament to the release event attended by over 2,500 people. “This has truly
vision of the church and will give people another chance energized our church for the New Year and new season for
to experience Calvary,” Bishop Owens said in a prepared the Calvary Nation,” Co-Pastor Susie Owens added in a press
statement. release.
This is the first time that Calvary Records and its  Greater Mount Calvary LIVE As Told By The Music
choir have landed on a Billboard chart. However, its Ministry is an inspiration, 17-song live set that gives its
music ministry is no stranger to the spotlight. The music listeners a front row seat to experience the Pentecostal fervor
department produced the Greater Mount Calvary Men of of a Sunday morning service at the 3,000-member church,
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Valor ensemble that won Verizon’s “How Sweet the Sound” founded in 1976. The album was produced by Grammy
Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church’s co-pastor Susie C.
Regional (Washington, D.C.) and National VCast People’s Award winner Steven Ford, who has also produced other
Owens and Bishop Alfred A. Owens Jr. sign copies of the
Choice Awards gospel choir competition in 2010. Stellar artists such as Vickie Winans, Tye Tribbett and Richard
recording choir’s new CD.
Smallwood.

African-American Baptist Mission Grants $1 Million to Haiti

Relief Efforts
The African-American Baptist Mission Collaboration collaboration to leverage the impact their members could have
(AABMC) presented Habitat for Humanity International in the region. The collaboration granted Habitat $500,000 in
with a second grant of $500,000 in December to support June 2010, making it the largest faith-based donation Habitat
the homebuilding ministry’s recovery program in Haiti. The had received for Haiti relief. The NAACP branches and units
donation follows a previous gift given to the organization in contributed $50,000 to the second AABMC $500,000 grant.
June, bringing the AABMC’s total contribution to Habitat to “Our commitment to help our brothers and sisters in Haiti
$1 million. The pledge was made and completed in one year. continues with this contribution,” said Dr. David Emmanuel
Immediately following the earthquake in Haiti last year, Goatley, coordinator with AABMC and executive secretary-
Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, National treasurer, Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission, in a statement.
Baptist Convention, USA, National Baptist Convention of “The African-American Baptist Collaboration is determined to
America, National Missionary Baptist Convention of America raise our target of $50 million over a five-year period to help
and the Progressive National Baptist Convention formed the rebuild the lives of those hit by the devastating earthquake. We

Courtesy Photo
Dr. Robert G. Murray, Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission
Convention; Dr. Julius R. Scruggs, National Baptist Convention,
USA; Dr. T. DeWitt Smith Jr., Progressive National Baptist
Convention; Mike Carscaddon, Habitat for Humanity
International; Dr. Stephen John Thurston, National Baptist
Convention of America; and Dr. C.C. Robertson, National
Missionary Baptist Convention of America
are just getting started in earnest with our assistance, and this
partnership with Habitat for Humanity is one part of a variety
of investments our network is making in support to churches,
clinics, schools, and families.”
The initial funding supported the construction of
transitional shelters to help meet basic needs of more than
1,600 Haitians in Cabaret. “The current gift will be used
in Léogâne to fund more than 80 housing solutions, which
includes materials, construction, site preparation, water,
sanitation, training, community engagement and access to
basic infrastructure such as roads, schools and churches,”
said Dr. Julius R. Scruggs, president of the National Baptist
Convention, USA.
AABMC continues to raise funds to assist with other
earthquake relief related problems. “We are tentatively
scheduling a Summit on Advocacy for Haiti to convene
in Miami,” said. Dr. Caroll A. Baltimore, president of the
Progressive National Baptist Convention. “AABMC will
band with other denominations and organizations to develop
a coherent and concise advocacy strategy to advance in the
United States and with the international community.”
The African-American Baptist Mission Collaboration’s
pledge is not just a financial one; the group is hands-on with

Want a free
the Haiti relief ministry. “Last year in June and October,
pastoral visitation teams made short-term mission assignments
to Haiti,” said Dr. C.C. Robertson, president of the National
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Pr. George’s Man

Stakes Claim in Online
Radio Movement
By Brandi Forte
Special to the AFRO
The future of African-
American radio appears
bright. According to the
Federal Communications
Commission, there are 337
Black-owned radio stations
throughout the country,
and radio pioneer and
mogul Cathy Hughes has
monopolized 28 of those
Arthur
Medley
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radio markets. Meanwhile,
hundreds of budding Black
entrepreneurs have discovered
online radio as a new launch
pad for success.
Arthur Medley, president
of Illastr8 Internet Radio in
Largo, Md., understands the
past history, struggles and
triumphs of Black radio since
its inception in 1949. As a
matter of fact, Medley has
plans to engineer a global
movement. Radio trailblazers
Jesse Blayton Sr., Alex
Leech, Leonard Evans, Percy
Sutton and Cathy Hughes
provided the blueprint, and
now Medley, a new kid on
the block, is excited about
the innovative opportunity.
He shares with the AFRO
his outlook, dreams, advice
for other entrepreneurs
and how he plans to take
Illastr8, which was launched
in November 2009, to new
heights in 2011.
AFRO: What makes
illastr8radio.com unique?
Arthur Medley:
We strive to be the first
international Internet radio
show that connects the global
community to a myriad of
positive forward-thinking
ideas and concepts while
providing entertainment. By
doing so, we will introduce
our listeners to various
cultures, entrepreneurial
ideas, as well as many other
proactive activities, while
simultaneously introducing
a diverse group of talented
individuals that are worthy of
recognition.
We pride ourselves in
delivering authentic music
and keeping our listeners
informed with current
news as we get it. We are a
community-oriented radio
show and we take pleasure in
participating and broadcasting
at local events.
AFRO: How did the idea
of launching an online radio
station begin?
AM: I have always had
an entrepreneurial spirit from
me being a music producer
and being indirectly involved
in the music/entertainment
industry. Radio is completely
a new endeavor for me, but I
enjoy and have had success in
establishing and creating my
own avenues to build on that.
[It] could be sustainable for
years to come.
AFRO: Where is the radio
station located and what are
the air times?
AM: We are located at
1300 Mercantile Lane, Suite
100B in Largo, Md. We air
between the hours of 6 to
8 p.m. every Wednesday.
Currently, we are live on
the Internet via IM4 Radio
Broadcasting Network.
AFRO: How can you
connect the dots from your life
growing up until now?
Janet Jackson Set to Rock D.C.’s
DAR Constitution Hall
From the sultry “Anytime, Anyplace” to the upbeat her gratitude and excitement for the upcoming show with the
“Escapade,” Janet Jackson’s fans in the following statement: “I thank my fans who have voted
Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area will and helped me choose the cities we are announcing today.
enjoy an intense lineup of the multitalented Each of you are so important to me,” said Jackson. “These
star’s biggest hits when she heads to DAR concerts will be different from anything I have ever
Constitution Hall March 22. done. I will be as up close and personal as possible.
The legendary icon took the These concerts are not about special effects. This is
suggestions of her fans to heart and a love affair between me and those of you who have
after her start in Asia, she will be supported me and my work for all these years. I’ll be
bringing the tour to the United singing and dancing from my heart. The music will
States and Canada. Jackson will all be songs that you’ve made number ones for me.”
perform songs from her 35 No.1 Janet will also select the first fan winner from
hits in 35 global cities. each of the selected cities. The winner will be
This tour will differ from announced on www.JanetJackson.com and will
her previous concert schedules receive an autographed copy of Number Ones and
in that she will perform music an autographed copy of her upcoming book, True
exclusively from her chart- You,which hits stands Feb. 8.
topping CD Number Ones. There Published by Karen Hunter Publishing – an
will also be a focus on venues that imprint of Gallery Books at Simon & Schuster
will allow Janet to be up close and – True You reveals Jackson’s unique, insider’s
personal in an intimate setting. perspective on dieting and exercise with help
In each selected city, Jackson from her personal nutritionist, David Allen. True
will offer something new, ensuring You also chronicles the famed singer’s lifelong
no two shows are alike. According struggles with weight and self-esteem. The book
to event organizers, “This tour is Janet is a self-help/esteem book where Janet will use
more revealed, more intimate, and more anecdotes from her real life to illustrate the power of
personal than ever before. Don’t look self-esteem and how she struggles and her continued
for special effects. Just listen to and growth as an artist and a woman.
look at Janet, as you have never seen
her before.” For more information about Jackson’s visit to D.C,
Courtesy Photo
The Gary, Ind., native expressed Janet Jackson see janetjackson.com.
AM: Perseverance and Simpson, who have taken AM: We interviewed Mr. sure that whatever God has
dedication is the key. Without this industry from both sides Roach Brown, who served planned for me will be.
dedication in your desires, and completely shifted the a life sentence in Lorton
whatever that may be, you look and feel of urban radio. Correctional Facility and AFRO: How do you
have to persevere through Moguls and entrepreneurs like created a movement called see the future of African-
the tough times which will them have lifted us up as a the “Inner Voice” while American radio?
ultimately make you a people to make us believers in incarcerated. He ultimately AM: The future of
stronger and more sustainable our own abilities. What they paved the way for other African-American radio
human being. represent translates to prestige inmates to be heard. He was looks bright. I just believe
Life growing up was and longevity. provided parole in 1976 via that we as a people should
actually not bad. I have the former late President be more assertive in our
always had support and AFRO: Recently, who are Gerald R. Ford. Inspirational approach and don’t get
great people in my corner to some of the celebrities you individuals and stories like frustrated when things don’t
participate in my success. have had on your show? this makes up the essence of go quite our way. We must
We all have setbacks and AM: Comedian Chris our show and what we pride adhere to the thinking of
challenges, but it is how you Thomas, model Ophelia from ourselves. our forefathers. It is in our
overcome them that makes “For the Love of Ray J,” best interest as the economy
you who you are. Seezinz (“Flavor of Love”) AFRO: Do you have plans changes and opportunities
and pioneer band Full Force... on going AM/FM? present themselves to African
AFRO: Who in radio do just to name a few. AM: We have expansion Americans, to stake our claim
you look up to? plans in 2011-12 to move to and continue to move forward
AM: I of course look up AFRO: What is one XM Radio, so look out for us. understanding mass media
to radio pioneers such as of your most memorable As long as I keep this idea in and entertainment thrives off
Cathy Hughes and Donnie interviews? the forefront of my mind, I’m of our ingenuity.

Walk-On
Reader’s Corner ‘Poetry Extravaganza Day’ Celebrated in D.C.
Before Bo Jackson and Cam By Patrick D. McCoy
Newton, Thom Gossom made Special to the AFRO
history in 1970 by walking onto
the Auburn football team as a wide Mayor Vincent Gray declared “Poetry Extravaganza Day”
receiver—and ended up being one in D.C. on Jan. 15 during a celebration at the Martin Luther
of the first African Americans to King Jr. Memorial Library in the Great Hall. Sponsored by
integrate the team and the first The Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts
African-American athlete to (C.A.A.P.A.), the 15th anniversary presentation featured
graduate from the nearly all-White readings and performances by some of the area’s finest poets.
university. Featured prominently on the program was poetry ensemble
Even the flap copy to his Collective Voices, comprised of members Joy “Sistah Joy”
book, Walk-On, a memoir that Matthews Alford, Sylvia Dianne “Ladi Di” Beverly, Andre
outlines his “reluctant journey into “Brenardo” Taylor, Evette “Billye” Keene Okera, Carolyn
integration,” sets the tone of his missive by stating that Gossom Cooley-Joyner, Angela Boykin-Turnbull, Dyone Mitchell,
did not set out to be a groundbreaker or trailblazer. He didn’t Avery Lanier Tynes and Darrick “Bro. Malcolm” Johnson. Courtesy Photo

apply to Auburn with the goal of integrating the team or being
the first Black anything from the almost all-White college. He
was talented and smart—and he just had a love of football and
really wanted to play at Auburn. Earning a scholarship after
one season, he became the teams’ best receiver and a three-year
starter.
“I always knew I would write this book,” said Gossom
in a prepared statement. “It was evident by what we were
going through that history was being made, and it needed to
be chronicled. Sometimes I’m not sure that within the sports
industry today, athletes have a good sense of what barriers were
being broken and what myths debunked that paved the way for
their success and place on the team. I wanted my book to tell a
story that respected the times, and chronicled one of the biggest
cultural changes since the Civil Rights Movement.”
Walk-On is also a testament to Auburn’s courage as sports
pioneers. “Auburn signed the first black basketball and football
players in the deep south, knowing it would not be a smooth
journey to today,” said Gossom
Final word: Heart-warming underdog story particularly
touching for sports enthusiasts
Available now at Borders Books and online at Amazon and
bestgurl.com.
The event’s emcee was Josephine Reed, managing producer,
audio division at the National Endowment for the Arts and the
Malcolm X Drummers and Dancers, founded by Doc Powell,
provided accompaniment to the moving readings. Meanwhile,
soprano Karen Wiggs-Wilbanks lent her soaring voice to the
singing of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and “If I Can Help
Somebody.” A reception and book signing followed the
celebration.
This special program celebrated the life and legacy of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. in one of the many places named in his
memory. Written statements of congratulations came from the
mayor, Washington, D. C. poet laureate Dolores Kendrick, the
Prince George’s Arts Council and the C.A.A.P.A.
Nigger for Life
Born and raised in Warren, Ohio, Nigger for Life author
Neal Hall is the textbook definition of an American success.
Hall attended Cornell University where he excelled at school
and garnered much in the nature of sports accolades. He went
on to receive a medical degree from Michigan State and his
ophthalmology surgery subspecialty training from Harvard
University. Despite his track record of accomplishments, Hall
believes some Americans will still see him as a “nigger for life.”
Sistah Joy, founder of Collective Voices; Terri Allen,
Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts;
Brenardo, Carolyn Joyner and Ladi Di
Committed to “bringing color to the classics” C.A.A.P.A
works diligently to further King’s vision by offering the arts
and classical music to the African-American community.
For more information, visit http://www.4caapa.org.
Patrick D. McCoy is an arts columnist and musician
residing in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. His online
column can be read at examiner.com/kennedy-center-in-
washington-dc/patrick-mccoy.
The poetry book explores Hall’s painful realization of an
“unspoken America” where he is judged primarily by his skin
color and not his Ivy League education and intelligence.
Noted scholar Cornel West praised the book, saying
Hall’s “poetry has the capacity to change ordinary people’s
philosophy on social and racial issues.”
Final word: Striking, rare look at America through the
viewpoint of a Black surgeon/poet/activist
For more information visit surgeon-poet.com.
B4 The Afro-American, January 22, 2011 - January 28, 2011

Hue Jackson Named 15th Black Howard Women’s Basketball

Head Coach in NFL History Lady Bison Snap Seven-Game
Losing Skid with Two Wins
By Perry Green
AFRO Sports Editor
Former Baltimore Ravens
quarterback coach Hue Jackson became
the 15th African-American head coach
in NFL history after his latest promotion
from Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis.
Jackson, 45, served as the Raiders
offensive coordinator in 2010 under
former head coach Tom Cable. He ran
the play calling duties for the Raiders
last season, leading them to more than
twice as many points in 2010 as they
scored in ‘09. Jackson’s rejuvenated
offensive unit helped Oakland win eight
games last year, avoiding an eighth
straight losing season. Before he joined
the Raiders, he served as the Ravens’
quarterbacks coach from 2008-‘09,
helping develop third-year quarterback
Joe Flacco into one of the top productive
passers in the league.
“I’m excited about Hue getting the
head coaching job,” Raiders tight end
Courtesy Photo
Hue Jackson is the third Black NFL head coach Zach Miller told ESPN in a phone
interview. “I really like the direction
named this year.
our offense is going and how much we
improved. This was the best offensive
year we’ve had since I’ve been a Raider. I’m excited to have the continuity.”
Jackson is now the third Black NFL head coach named this year, following the
Minnesota Vikings’ Leslie Frazier and the Denver Broncos’ Eric Studesville, both named
interim head coach for their teams during the ’10 season. Frazier was named the Vikings’
permanent head coach on Jan. 3, while Studesville went back to his former position as the
Broncos’ running backs coach after John Fox was named the new head coach last week.
There are now seven African-American head coaches currently in the league, including
Jackson, Frazier, the Cincinnati Bengals’ Marvin Lewis, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Mike
Tomlin, the Indianapolis Colts’ Jim Caldwell, the Chicago Bears’ Lovie Smith and the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Raheem Morris.
David Shaw, another former Ravens assistant coach, was also recently hired as head
coach of Stanford University’s football team. Shaw, a 38-year-old African American,
served as offensive coordinator under former Stanford head coach Jim Harbaugh, who was
just named the new head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. Shaw not only served the last
four years on Stanford’s football coaching staff, but is also a former player and graduate of
the university. He served from 2002-’04 as the Ravens receivers/quarterbacks coach.
“David has the experience, intellect, coaching skills and organizational abilities to be
a tremendous head coach,” said Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby via Stanford University’s
athletic website. “He understands the combination of world class academics and world
class athletics that is
required at Stanford.”
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By Perry Green
AFRO Sports Editor
Howard University’s
women’s basketball team
snapped their seven-game
losing skid by winning against
two Mid-Eastern Athletic
Conference opponents this
week.
The Lady Bison (5-13
overall, 2-3 MEAC) first
ended their losing funk on
Jan. 15 by beating the North
Courtesy Photo/Howard Sports Information
Carolina A&T Lady Aggies,
Howard’s Saadia Doyle scored 17 points against N.C.
69-53, at Burr Gymnasium.
A&T and 29 points against Norfolk State to help the Lady
Howard head coach Niki
Geckeler called it one of the
Bison win two straight games.
better performances from her double-double against North Carolina A&T
team all season. on Jan. 15 with a game-high 29 points and
“The difference between this conference 15 rebounds. Cheyenne Curley-Payne also
game and the last two is the fact that the contributed to Howard’s success during their
team was able to stay poised,” said Geckeler. two-game winning streak, scoring 21 points
“They were focused from start to finish. and six assists against the Lady Aggies, and
We were able to maintain our composure scoring 13 points with eight assists against
Norfolk State.
throughout the game.”
“Cheyenne has done a great job as
Howard followed up with another
impressive home performance on Jan. 17 by a leader,” coach Geckeler said of her
crushing Norfolk State, 65-43. sophomore point-guard. “Everyone is able to
Lady Bison’s Tamoria Holmes scored feed off of her.”
Howard will see its next MEAC action
a career-high 22 points against the Lady
Spartans, while star Saadia Doyle followed on Jan. 22 with a road trip to Florida A&M
with 17 points. Doyle had led recorded a University.
Lady Firebirds Push Winning Streak
to Four Games
By AFRO Staff
The University of the District of Columbia women’s basketball team extended its current
winning streak to four games after a Jan. 16 matchup against Philadelphia University. The Lady
Firebirds edged Philadelphia,
59-52, improving to an 11-6
overall record on the season.
UDC graduate student
Niqky Hughes led her team
with 19 points, including five
three-pointers, while senior
forward and team captain
Lillian McGill followed with
her eighth double-double of
the season, finishing with 18
points and 15 rebounds.
UDC’s men’s basketball
squad also extended a
winning a streak, claiming
Courtesy Photo/UDC
their second straight victory
UDC’s Niqky Hughes scored 19 points in a win over
Philadelphia University on Jan. 16. Continued on B5

Hampton and Morgan State Top HBCU

Basketball Power Rankings
By Donal Ware 1. (tie) Morgan State/ 8-7/ 76  
Special to the AFRO 3.  Bethune-Cookman/ 10-8/ 62    
4.  Jackson State/ 9-9/ 51      
Fuquay-Varina, N.C. - Hampton and Morgan State are 5.  Tennessee State/ 8-9/ 38                    
atop the Boxtorow.com HBCU Division I national basketball Others receiving votes: North Carolina Central (7-8) 12,
power ranking poll, while Xavier (La.) remains on top in the Coppin State (7-9) 6.
Division II/NAIA poll.  
Hampton and Morgan State received an equal amount Boxtorow.com Top 10 HBCU Division II/NAIA Basketball
of first and second place votes to tie for the No. 1 spot.  Poll
Bethune-Cookman (8-8) moves up one spot from last week School/ Wins-Losses/ Points     
to No. 3 and remains undefeated in the Mid-Eastern Athletic
Conference. BCC is also one of the hottest teams having 1.  Xavier (La.)/ 17-2/ 59            
reeled off five-straight victories. Jackson State went 1-1 last 2.  Winston-Salem State/ 11-2/ 49      
week and dropped to No. 4, while Tennessee State remained 3.  Bowie State/ 9-2/ 45     
No. 5. 4.  Tougaloo/ 12-3 / 8      
In the Division II/NAIA top 10 poll, Xavier (La.) received 5.  Shaw/ 10-5/ 31     
all but one first place vote to keep the top spot. Winston- 6.  West Virginia State/ 10-4/ 27      
Salem State has won five of its last six and moved up one 7.  Kentucky State/ 7-3 / 21     
spot from last week to No. 2.  Bowie State received the other 7. (tie) Cheyney State/ 10-3/ 21     
first place vote and is No. 3. Tougaloo moved up two spots to 9.  Elizabeth City State/ 9-4/18
No. 4, while Shaw dropped three spots to No. 5.  Of the five 10.  Texas College/ 9-6/ 13   
remaining teams, West Virginia State and Cheyney State made Others receiving votes: Johnson C. Smith (7-4) 7,
the most significant jumps, the Yellow Jackets moving up two Virginia Union 1.
spots to No. 6, while the Wolves moved up three spots to No.
7. Kentucky State is tied with Cheyney at No. 7 followed by The Boxtorow.com basketball poll is presented by
Elizabeth City State at No.9 and Texas College at No. 10.   DWCommunications, LLC parent company of FROM THE
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Named
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Courtesy Photo/BSU
Darrell Brooks was named
CIAA Coach of the Week
after leading Bulldogs to
three wins last week.

By AFRO Staff

Bowie State University’s

Darrell Brooks was named
the Central Interscholastic
Athletic Association (CIAA)
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known shall enter their
Administration No. appearance in this
2010ADM1218 proceeding. Objections
Theodore E. Powell to such appointment
Decedent shall be filed with the
NOTICE OF
Register of Wills, D.C.,
APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO
CREDITORS
515 5th Street, N.W.,
3rd Floor Washington, August 1, 2009 - August 7, 2009, The Washington Afro-American B7
D.C. 20001, on or be-
ds
AND NOTICE TO
fore July 7, 2011. Claims
410-554-8200
UNKNOWN HEIRS
Barbara P. Hale, whose
address is 712 Quade
against the decedent
shall be presented to the la 202-332-0080
l
undersigned with a copy
Sma
Buy it • Sell it
Street, Forest Heights,
MD 20745 was ap- to the Register of Wills
or filed with the Register
Swap
Swap it
it •• Lease
Lease itit
pointed personal repre-
sentative of the estate of of Wills with a copy to
the undersigned, on or
Rent
Rent it •• Hire
it Hire itit
Theodore E. Powell,
who died on August 22, before July 7, 2011, or
2010 without a will, and be forever barred. Per-
will serve without Court sons believed to be
rr ee ss uu ll tt ss
supervision. All un- heirs or legatees of the
known heirs and heirs decedent who do not re-
whose whereabouts are ceive a copy of this no-
unknown shall enter tice by mail within 25
their appearance in this days of its first publica-
LEGAL NOTICES
LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES
LEGAL
proceeding. NOTICES
Objections LEGAL
tion
LEGAL NOTICES
shall so inform the
NOTICES
Register of Wills, includ-
SAMPLE
to such appointment AFRO Classified minimum ad rate is $26.74 per col. inch
Superior Court of shall be filed with the ing name, address and 1 Col.
relationship. (an inch consists of up to 20 words). Mail in your ad on
the District of
Columbia
Register of Wills, D.C.,
515 5th Street, N.W., Date of Publication: Inch form below along with CHECK or MONEY ORDER to:
Civil Division 3rd Floor Washington, January 7, 2011
Case No. 11-0000005 D.C. 20001, on or be- Name of newspaper: Up to WASHINGTON AFRO-AMERICAN CO., 1917 Benning
Afro-American
IN RE: fore July 7, 2011. Claims Road, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002-4723, Attn: Clsf. Adv.
Tia Lynnisha Garrett against the decedent Washington Law
Reporter
20 Words Dept.
Applicant
ORDER OF
shall be presented to the
undersigned with a copy Joyce Moreland
PUBLICATION
CHANGE OF NAME
to the Register of Wills
or filed with the Register
Personal
Representative
Tia Lynnisha Garrett
having filed a complaint
of Wills with a copy to
the undersigned, on or
202-257-9730
TRUE TEST COPY
1 2 3 4 5
for judgment changing
Tia Lynnisha Garrett
before July 7, 2011, or
be forever barred. Per-
REGISTER OF WILLS
1/7, 1/14, 1/21
6 7 8 9 10
name to Tia Lynnisha
Ellis and having applied
sons believed to be
heirs or legatees of the Superior Court of
to the court for an Order
of Publication of the no-
decedent who do not re-
ceive a copy of this no-
the District of
District of Columbia 11 12 13 14 15
tice required by law in tice by mail within 25 PROBATE DIVISION
such cases; it is by the days of its first publica- Washington, D.C.
Court this 3rd day of
January 2011 hereby
tion shall so inform the
Register of Wills, includ-
20001-2131
Administration No.
16 17 18 19 20
ing name, address and
ORDERED, that all per- 2010ADM1248
sons concerned show relationship. Edyth V. Anderson
cause, if any there be,
on or before the 7th day
Date of Publication:
January 7, 2011
Decedent
Alan Scott Gregory NAME
of February 2011, why Name of newspaper: 7600 Georgia Ave NW
the prayers of said com- Afro-American Washington DC 20012 ADDRESS
plaint should not be Washington Law Attorney
granted; provided that a Reporter NOTICE OF
PHONE NO.
copy of this order be Barbara P. Hale APPOINTMENT,
Personal
CLASSIFICATION
published once a week NOTICE TO
for three consecutive Representative
301-749-8046
CREDITORS (Room, Apt, House, etc.) INSERTION DATE:
weeks before said day AND NOTICE TO
in the Afro-American TRUE TEST COPY UNKNOWN HEIRS
Newspapers. REGISTER OF WILLS Lyn Dyson, whose ad-
JUDGE 1/7, 1/14, 1/21 dress is 5327 East
A TRUE COPY TEST:
1/7, 1/14, 1/21 Superior Court of
Capitol Street, SE
Washington DC 20019 WASHINGTON AFRO-AMERICAN-NEWSPAPER
the District of was appointed personal
Superior Court of representative of the
the District of District of Columbia
Columbia PROBATE DIVISION
Washington, D.C.
estate of Edyth V. An-
derson, who died on Legal Advertising Rates
Civil Division December 10, 2010 with
Case No. 10-9630
IN RE:
20001-2131
Administration No. a will, and will serve Effective October 1, 2006
without Court supervi-
Shawnique Pitt 2010ADM1225
sion. All unknown heirs
in case of John Shaw Toole
Decedent and heirs whose PROBATE DIVISION
Sean Mervyn Pitt whereabouts are un-
Applicant Attorney
ORDER OF NOTICE OF known shall enter their (Estates)
PUBLICATION APPOINTMENT, appearance in this
CHANGE OF NAME NOTICE TO proceeding. Objections
to such appointment (or 202-879-9460/61
Shawnique Pitt having CREDITORS
to the probate of de-
filed a complaint for AND NOTICE TO
cedent¬s will) shall
shall bebe
UNKNOWN HEIRS cedent’s will)
judgment changing filed with the Register of
Sean Mervyn Pitt name Barbara V. Hubbard,
whose address is 3609 Wills, D.C., 515 5th PROBATE NOTICES
to Sean Mervyn Garcia Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
Jr. and having applied to Hamilton Street, Hyatts-
Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .
ville, MD 20782 was ap-
the court for an Order of
pointed personal repre- 20001, on or before July a. Order Nisi $ 60 per insertion $180.00 per 3 weeks
Publication of the notice
required by law in such sentative of the estate of 7, 2011. Claims against b. Small Estates (single publication) $ 50 per insertion
the decedent shall be
cases; it is by the Court John Shaw Toole, who
presented to the under- c. Notice to Creditors
this 30 day of December died on May 20, 2008
signed with a copy to the 1. Domestic
2010. without a will, and will $ 60 per insertion $ 180.00 per 3 weeks
ORDERED, that all per- serve without Court su- Register of Wills or filed
2. Foreign $ 60 per insertion $ 180.00 per 3 weeks
with the Register of Wills
sons concerned show pervision. All unknown
with a copy to the under- d. Escheated Estates
cause, if any there be, heirs and heirs whose
signed, on or before July
$ 60 per insertion $ 360.00 per 6 weeks
on or before the 2 day whereabouts are un- e. Standard Probates
known shall enter their 7, 2011 or be forever $ 125.00
of February 2011, why barred. Persons be-
the prayers of said com- appearance in this
proceeding. Objections lieved to be heirs or
plaint should not be legatees of the decedent CIVIL NOTICES
granted; provided that a to such appointment (or
to the probate of de- who do not receive a
copy of this order be copy of this notice by
published once a week cedent’s will)
cedent¬s will) shall
shall bebe a. Name Changes 202-879-1133 $ 80.00
filed with the Register of mail within 25 days of its
for three consecutive first publication shall so b. Real Property $ 200.00
Wills, D.C., 515 5th
weeks before said day inform the Register of
in the Afro-American. Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . Wills, including name,
that pursuant to SCR
0
address and relation-
205(b) notice be sent to 20001, on or before July
ship. FAMILY COURT
7, 2011. Claims against
applicants creditors by
the decedent shall be Date of Publication:
registered or certified
presented to the under- January 7, 2011 202-879-1212
mail and that proof of Name of newspaper:
service of mailing be signed with a copy to the
Afro-American
made in the manner pro- Register of Wills or filed
with the Register of Wills Washington Law DOMESTIC RELATIONS
vided in SCR Probate
Rule 19(b). with a copy to the under- Reporter
Superior Court 202-879-0157
of
Superior Court of
signed, on or before July Lyn Dyson the District of
JUDGE Personal the District of District of Columbia
7, 2011, or be forever
A TRUE COPY TEST:
barred. Persons be- Representative a. Absent Defendant District of Columbia $ 150.00PROBATE DIVISION
1/7, 1/14, 1/21 202-270-2850 PROBATE DIVISION
lieved to be heirs or b. Absolute Divorce Washington, D.C. $ 150.00 Washington, D.C.
Superior Court of legatees of the decedent TRUE TEST COPY 20001-2131
REGISTER OF WILLS c. Custody Divorce 20001-2131 $ 150.00Administration No.
the District of who do not receive a
Columbia copy of this notice by 1/7, 1/14, 1/21 Administration No. 2011ADM0016
2010ADM1252
Civil Division mail within 25 days of its
Superior Court of Elizabeth D Bacon
Margaret Lee
Case No. 9944-2010 first publication shall so ToDecedent
place your ad, call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 262 Washington
IN RE: inform the Register of the District of Decedent
District of Columbia Winfred
Public R Mundle
Notices $50.00Sr, & up depending on sizeDr. Elena M. Tilly Esq
Ronald Nathaniel Little Wills, including name,
PROBATE DIVISION Esq 6931 Arlington Blvd.
Applicant address and relation- Baltimore Legal
Washington, D.C. 901 6th Street SWNotices are $24.15 per inch. Suite 302
ORDER OF ship.
PUBLICATION Date of Publication: 20001-2131 There is no flat rate — 1-800 (AFRO) 892 Bethesda MD 20814
314A
CHANGE OF NAME January 7, 2011 Administration No. For Proof Washington
of Publication,DC 20024
please call 1-800-237-6892, ext. Attorney
244
Ronald Nathaniel Little Name of newspaper: 2010ADM1251 Attorney NOTICE OF
William Eric Johnson, NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT,
having filed a complaint Afro-American LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES
Sr LEGAL NOTICES APPOINTMENT,
LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES
for judgment changing
Ronald Nathaniel Little
Washington Law
Reporter Decedent NOTICE TO
NOTICE
CREDITORS
TO
name to Ayyub Shuaib Barbara V. Hubbard W. Alton Lewis, Esq Superior Court of CREDITORS
AND NOTICE TO
Superior Court of AND NOTICE TO
Sulaiman and having Personal 1450 Mercantile Lane, the District of the District of UNKNOWN HEIRS
applied to the court for Representative Suite 155 Columbia UNKNOWN HEIRS Columbia M a r y Wa s h i n g t o n ,
an Order of Publication 301-779-0560 Largo, Maryland 20774 Civil Division Russell J Bacon Jr., Civil Division whose address is 1241
whose address is 11714 V. Street, SE Washing-
of the notice required by TRUE TEST COPY Attorney Case No. 0000158-11 Case No. 0000130-11
law in such cases; it is REGISTER OF WILLS NOTICE OF IN RE: Brookeville Landing IN RE: ton, DC 20020 was ap-
by the Court this 28th 1/7, 1/14, 1/21 Terri Thompson Court, Mitcheiville, Elena Laura Zamfir pointed personal repre-
APPOINTMENT,
day of December 2010. Mallett Maryland 20721, was Applicant sentative of the estate of
Superior Court of
NOTICE TO appointed personal re- Margaret Lee Washing-
ORDERED, that all per- CREDITORS Applicant ORDER OF
sons concerned show the District of ORDER OF presentative of the PUBLICATION ton, who died on May
AND NOTICE TO estate of Elizabeth D
cause, if any there be, District of Columbia
UNKNOWN HEIRS PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME 11, 2010 without a will,
on or before the 1st day PROBATE DIVISION CHANGE OF NAME Bacon, who died on Elena Laura Zamfir hav- and will serve without
Washington, D.C. William Eric Johnson, Jr.
of February 2011, why Terri Thompson Mallett November 24, 2010 with ing filed a complaint for Court supervision. All
the prayers of said com- 20001-2131 whose address is 805
having filed a complaint a will, and will serve j u d g m e n t c h a n g i n g unknown heirs and heirs
Parrot Court, Hyattsville,
plaint should not be Administration No.
Maryland 20785 was ap- for judgment changing without Court supervi- Elena Laura Zamfir whose whereabouts are
2010ADM1224 Terri Thompson Mallett sion. All unknown heirs name to Elena Laura unknown shall enter
granted; provided that a
Joyce Biggs Washing- pointed personal repre- a n d h e i r s w h o s e O'Neale-Saimac and their appearance in this
copy of this order be
ton sentative of the estate of
name to Terri Allyn
published once a week Thompson and having whereabouts are un- having applied to the proceeding. Objections
for three consecutive Decedent William Eric Johnson, applied to the court for known shall enter their court for an Order of to such appointment
weeks before said day Wesley L. Clarke Sr. who died on Novem- an Order of Publication appearance in this Publication of the notice shall be filed with the
in the Afro-American 1629 K Street NW ber 16, 2010 without a of the notice required by proceeding. Objections required by law in such Register of Wills, D.C.,
will, and will serve with-
Newspapers. Washington DC 20006
Attorney out Court supervision.
law in such cases; it is to such appointment (or cases; it is by the Court 515 5th Street, N.W.,
0
that pursuant to SCR by the Court this 7th day to the probate of de- this 6th day of January 3rd Floor Washington,
205(b) notice be sent to NOTICE OF All unknown heirs and of January 2011. cedent¬s will) shall
cedent’s will) shall be
be 2011. D.C. 20001, on or be-
the DC Chief of Police APPOINTMENT, h e i r s w h o s e ORDERED, that all per- filed with the Register of ORDERED, that all per- fore July 21, 2011.
and to the DC Depart- NOTICE TO whereabouts are un- sons concerned show Wills, D.C., 515 5th sons concerned show Claims against the de-
ment of Corrections by CREDITORS known shall enter their cause, if any there be, Street, N.W., 3rd Floor cause, if any there be, cedent shall be pre-
AND NOTICE TO
registered or certified appearance in this on or before the 12th Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . on or before the 10th sented to the under-
mail and that proof of UNKNOWN HEIRS proceeding. Objections day of February 2011, 20001, on or before July day of February 2011, signed with a copy to the
service of mailing be Joyce Moreland, whose to such appointment why the prayers of said 14, 2011. Claims against why the prayers of said Register of Wills or filed
made in the manner pro- address is 2901 32nd shall be filed with the complaint should not be the decedent shall be complaint should not be with the Register of Wills
vided in SCR Probate Street, SE Washington Register of Wills, D.C., granted; provided that a presented to the under- granted; provided that a with a copy to the under-
Rule 14(b). DC 20020 was ap- 515 5th Street, N.W., copy of this order be signed with a copy to the copy of this order be signed, on or before July
JUDGE pointed personal repre- published once a week Register of Wills or filed published once a week 21, 2011, or be forever
3rd Floor Washington,
A TRUE COPY TEST: sentative of the estate of D.C. 20001, on or be- for three consecutive with the Register of Wills for three consecutive barred. Persons be-
1/7, 1/14, 1/21 Joyce Biggs Washing- fore July 7, 2011. Claims weeks before said day with a copy to the under- weeks before said day lieved to be heirs or
ton, who died on in the Afro-American signed, on or before July in the Afro-American legatees of the decedent
Superior Court of November 15, 2010
against the decedent
who do not receive a
shall be presented to the Newspapers. 14, 2011, or be forever Newspapers.
the District of without a will, and will
undersigned with a copy
0
that pursuant to SCR barred. Persons be- 0 that pursuant to SCR copy of this notice by
District of Columbia serve without Court su- 205(b) notice be sent to lieved to be heirs or 205(b) notice be sent to mail within 25 days of its
PROBATE DIVISION pervision. All unknown to the Register of Wills
the applicant's creditors legatees of the decedent the applicant's creditors first publication shall so
Washington, D.C. heirs and heirs whose or filed with the Register
by registered or certified who do not receive a by registered or certified inform the Register of
20001-2131 of Wills with a copy to
Administration No.
whereabouts are un-
known shall enter their the undersigned, on or mail and that proof of copy of this notice by mail and that proof of Wills, including name,
service of mailing be mail within 25 days of its service of mailing be address and relation-
2010ADM1218 appearance in this before July 7, 2011, or
made in the manner pro- first publication shall so made in the manner pro- ship.
Theodore E. Powell proceeding. Objections be forever barred. Per- vided in SCR Probate inform the Register of vided in SCR Probate Date of Publication:
Decedent to such appointment sons believed to be January 21, 2011
Rule 19(b). Wills, including name, Rule 19(b).
NOTICE OF shall be filed with the heirs or legatees of the JUDGE address and relation- JUDGE Name of newspaper:
APPOINTMENT, Register of Wills, D.C., decedent who do not re- A TRUE COPY TEST: Afro-American
A TRUE COPY TEST: ship.
NOTICE TO 515 5th Street, N.W., ceive a copy of this no- 1/14, 1/21, 1/28 Date of Publication: Washington Law
CREDITORS 3rd Floor Washington, tice by mail within 25 January 14, 2011 Superior Court of Reporter
AND NOTICE TO D.C. 20001, on or be- days of its first publica- Superior Court of the District of Mary Washington
UNKNOWN HEIRS fore July 7, 2011. Claims tion shall so inform the the District of
Name of newspaper:
District of Columbia Personal
Afro-American
Barbara P. Hale, whose against the decedent Register of Wills, includ- District of Columbia Washington Law PROBATE DIVISION Representative
address is 712 Quade shall be presented to the ing name, address and PROBATE DIVISION Reporter Washington, D.C. 202-658-5549
Street, Forest Heights, undersigned with a copy relationship. Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 TRUE TEST COPY
MD 20745 was ap- to the Register of Wills Date of Publication: 20001-2131
Russell J. Bacon Jr.
Administration No. REGISTER OF WILLS
Personal
pointed personal repre- or filed with the Register January 7, 2011 Administration No. Representative
2011ADM0016 1/21, 1/28, 2/4
sentative of the estate of of Wills with a copy to 2010ADM1252 Margaret Lee
www.
Name of newspaper: 1-301-218-2990
Theodore E. Powell, the undersigned, on or Afro-American Elizabeth D Bacon Washington
who died on August 22, TRUE TEST COPY Decedent
before July 7, 2011, or Washington Law Decedent REGISTER OF WILLS
2010 without a will, and be forever barred. Per- Reporter Winfred R Mundle Sr, Dr. Elena M. Tilly Esq
1/14, 1/21, 1/28 6931 Arlington Blvd.
will serve without Court
afro.
sons believed to be William Eric Johnson Jr Esq
supervision. All un- heirs or legatees of the 901 6th Street SW Suite 302
known heirs and heirs decedent who do not re-
Personal
314A Bethesda MD 20814
Representative
whose whereabouts are ceive a copy of this no-
240-441-6094
Washington DC 20024 SUBSCRIBE Attorney
com
unknown shall enter tice by mail within 25 Attorney NOTICE OF
their appearance in this
proceeding. Objections
days of its first publica-
tion shall so inform the
TRUE TEST COPY
REGISTER OF WILLS
NOTICE OF
APPOINTMENT,
TODAY! APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO
to such appointment Register of Wills, includ- 1/7, 1/14, 1/21 NOTICE TO CREDITORS
shall be filed with the ing name, address and CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO
Register of Wills, D.C., relationship. AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
515 5th Street, N.W., Date of Publication: UNKNOWN HEIRS M a r y Wa s h i n g t o n ,
3rd Floor Washington, January 7, 2011 Russell J Bacon Jr., whose address is 1241

LEGAL NOTICES
Superior Court of
the District of
District of Columbia
PROBATE DIVISION
Washington, D.C.
20001-2131
Administration No.
2011ADM15
Talaiferro M. Barnes
Decedent
Brenda L. Hopkins Esq
3724 Twelfth Street NE
Washington DC 20017
Attorney
NOTICE OF
APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO
CREDITORS
AND NOTICE TO
UNKNOWN HEIRS
Patricia Barnes
Brookes, whose ad-
dress is 12512
Whiteholm Drive, Upper
Marlboro, MD 20770
was appointed personal
representative of the
estate of Talaiferro M.
Barnes, who died on
June 20, 2010 with a
will, and will serve with-
out Court supervision.
All unknown heirs and
h e i r s w h o s e
whereabouts are un-
known shall enter their
appearance in this
proceeding. Objections
to such appointment (or
to the probate of de-
cedent¬s will) shall
cedent’s will) shall be
filed with the Register of
be
Wills, D.C., 515 5th
Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .
20001, on or before July
21, 2011. Claims against
the decedent shall be
presented to the under-
signed with a copy to the
Register of Wills or filed
with the Register of Wills
with a copy to the under-
signed, on or before July
21, 2011, or be forever
barred. Persons be-
lieved 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 relation-
ship.
Date of Publication:
January 21, 2011
Name of newspaper:
Afro-American
Washington Law
Reporter
Patricia Barnes Brookes
Personal
Representative
301-390-3222
TRUE TEST COPY
REGISTER OF WILLS
1/21, 1/28, 2/4
Superior Court of
the District of
District of Columbia
PROBATE DIVISION
Washington, D.C.
20001-2131
Administration No.
2011ADM20
Carla F. Cohen
Decedent
Beth Shapiro Kaufman
Caplin & Drysdale
Chartered
One Thomas Circle
NW. Suite 100
Washington DC 20005
Attorney
NOTICE OF
APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO
CREDITORS
AND NOTICE TO
UNKNOWN HEIRS
David Cohen, whose ad-
dress is 1322 Holly
Street NW, Washington
DC 20012, was ap-
pointed personal repre-
sentative of the estate of
Carla F. Cohen, who
died on October 11,
2010 with, a will, and will
serve without Court su-
pervision. All unknown
heirs and heirs whose
whereabouts are un-
known shall enter their
appearance in this
proceeding. Objections
to such appointment (or
to the probate of de-
cedent¬s will) shall
shall be
be
cedent’s will)
filed with the Register of
Wills, D.C., 515 5th
Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .
20001, on or before July
21, 2011. Claims against
the decedent shall be
presented to the under-
signed with a copy to the
Register of Wills or filed
with the Register of Wills
with a copy to the under-
signed, on or before July
21, 2011, or be forever
Strictly Personal
barred. Persons be-
lieved 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,
Senior white
address male searching for a lady to be able to help ar-
and relation-
Date of Publication: Please call William 410-458-2480.
range furniture.
ship.
January 21, 2011
Name of newspaper:
Truthful man seeking spiritual pen pals. Womb my emana-
Afro-American
tion. Law is unification. Breath, knowledge and conscious-
Washington Law
Reporter
ness! William Piggie, P.O. Box 565, Pittsboro, N.C. 27312
David Cohen
Personal
Representative
202-723-0707
TRUE TEST COPY
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1/28, 2/4
write the message you want printed in the space below.
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20001-2131 LEGAL NOTICES
Administration No.
2011ADM20 WMATA Certified DBE Firms
CarlaSubcontractor
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Decedent Continued from A2
Beth
Replacement of Southeastern Bus Garage
ShapiroInfo:
Solicitation Kaufman
Landscaping, Fencing, Masonry,
Dominic Johnson,
Caplin
Misc. & Drysdale
Metals, Waterproofing & Caulking, Millwork,
CharteredDivision 8 - Doors and Windows,
Officials: Magnetic North Shift ‘Not an Event’ the 17-year-old
One Thomas
Division 9Circle- Finishes (excluding painting), A shift of the magnetic north pole earlier this year cousin of the
NW. SuiteDivision
WashingtonJib
10010 - Specialties, Bridge Cranes,
DCCrane,
20005Portable Cranes generated widespread interest and some concern, but experts 15-year-old boy,
Attorney
A pre-bid meeting will be held on January 31st at from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said regular, natural testified against
NOTICE
10:00 AM OFat The Potomac Job Corps
(e-mail below for directions to
APPOINTMENT, process is nothing to be worried about. Shannon during the
NOTICEThe TOPotomac Job Corps)
Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
CREDITORS The pole shifted 40 miles towards Russia around the first trial.
AND 4437 Brookfield
NOTICE
UNKNOWNChantilly,
TO Corporate Dr., Suite 207
HEIRS VA 20151-1691
of the year. The shift can be a nuisance for planes that use old- “Silvonus
Contact:
David Cohen, whose ad- Jarett Lowman for information
jlowman@henselphelps.com
fashion compasses for navigation, but Jeffrey Love, USGS came around
dress is 1322 Holly
Street NW, Washington Phone: 703.828.3200 advisor on geomagnetic research, said the Earth’s magnetic and stomped
Fax:703.802.1580
DC 20012, was
Hensel Phelps
pointed personal repre-
ap-
Construction Co. is an poles are in constant flux due to changes in the Earth’s core. him,” Johnson
sentative of the estate of Opportunity Employer.
Equal Employment
“It’s not really an event I would say—it’s a continuous
Carla F. Cohen, who said according
died on October 11, process,” said Love. “The Earth’s magnetic pull and the shape to the Chicago Courtesy Photo
2010 with, Western
Archer a will, andContractors,
will Ltd. is seeking
serve without from
participation Courtbona su- fide subcontractors, Anne of the geomagnetic field is changing all the time. “I would not Sun Times. “He A Chicago man has been convicted
Arundel Broadneck
pervision. All unknown WRF, ENR Upgrades. All
and heirs whose quotes are due before
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heirs
say this is significant or unusual,” he added. “It is an ongoing stomped him in the in the beating death of teen honors
Tuesday, February
whereabouts are 1st,un- 1:30 p.m. Fax quotes to: process, which is an interesting phenomenon.” head.” student Derrion Albert (pictured).
(404) shall
known 495-8701enter referencing
their project name and
scope of work.inEnhanced
appearance this Nutrient Removal Up- Love said the shifting is caused by liquid iron at the Earth’s Shannon’s
grade Facilities, which includes a new Blower
proceeding. Objections
to building addition, oxidation
such appointment (or ditch modifications, core, which is perpetually in motion. That motion creates lawyer, Robert Byman, argued that the pair were involved a
to effluent filter system,
the probate
facility, ultraviolet
cedent¬s
of de- mudwelll post aeration
will) shallradiation
be disinfection system, electric currents in the core, which in turn, creates magnetic fight rather than an attack, and that Albert was one of several
effluent pumping
filed with the Register
provements and
system,
of
process
electrical system im-
control system im-
fields. The motion of the Earth’s core changes over time and people who attacked Shannon. He claimed that Shannon
Wills, D.C., 515 5th
provements.
Street, N.W., 3rd - AllFloor
other work specified herein therefore, the planet’s magnetic fields change as well. wanted to stay out of the fracas.
and/or indicated on the documents. Plans are
Wa shingto
available
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following
on or before July
link: https://sharepoint. But the shift had at least one real effect. In Florida, planes “Derrion Albert didn’t deserve to die that day, but he was
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21, 2011. Claims against
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will be evaluated on scope, forced workers to repaint the signs at Tampa International The Chicago Tribune. “All Silvonus Shannon wanted to do
signed
price,with
Register
pertinent
a copy tofinancial
experience,
of factors.
the
Wills orEOEM/F
filed
condition, and other Airport’s primary runway to account for the shift. that day was get home.”
with the Register of Wills
with a copy to the under-
Love said that shifting had nothing to do with the recent However, the video and prosecutors painted a different
signed, on or before July phenomenon of large numbers of dead birds and fish being story. According to reports, in the video, Shannon can be seen
21, 2011, or be forever
barred. Persons be- found at several locations worldwide. kicking Albert, who lay on the ground after being hit punched
lieved to be heirs or
legatees of the decedent and hit repeatedly. Prosecutors say Shannon jumped in the air
who do not receive a
copy of this notice by
NAACP Receives $100,000 Grant from Coca-Cola and delivered a final stomp as Albert’s body lay motionless.
mail within 25 days of its Foundation for Health T-awannda Piper testified that she watched the brawl
first publication shall so
inform the Register of Program unfold from her office window about a half-mile from the
Wills, including name,
address and relation-
The Coca-Cola incident. She said she went outside after the attack and
ship. Foundation, the philanthropic brought Albert in.
Date of Publication:
arm of the Coca-Cola Co., “He took a deep breath,” she said on the stand. “There was
To Advertise call 202-332-0080
January 21, 2011
Name of newspaper:
Afro-American has awarded the NAACP nothing else.”
Washington Law $100,000 for Project Three other men, Eric Carson, Eugene Riley and Lapoleon
Reporter
David Cohen H.E.L.P. (Healthy Eating, Colbert, are awaiting trial on charges in Albert’s murder.
Personal
Representative Lifestyle Change and
TRUE TEST COPY
202-723-0707 Physical Activity), a program Report Shows Discrepancy in Young Adult Sexual
REGISTER OF WILLS dedicated to promoting active Activity Claims
1/21, 1/28, 2/4
and healthy living. The foundation also granted $35,000 to Family doctors should consider screening young adults
the NAACP New York State Conference for their education for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) even if they claim
initiatives. The grants are part of $19 million donated in abstinence, researchers suggest in a new report released in the
2010 to support community programs focusing on water Pediatrics Journal early this month.
conservation, community recycling, active healthy living and After testing approximately 14,000 young adults with
education. an average age of 22, the researchers found over 10 percent
The grant money will be distributed to five local of participants who tested positive for STDs claimed they
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NAACP branches through funding of Project H.E.L.P., a hadn’t had sex in the last year. Moreover, a fraction of those
national program designed to create awareness and educate individuals claimed they were virgins.
underserved communities about healthy living. The pilot Participants completed online questionnaires in 2001 and
program will focus on the entire family to promote healthy 2002 about their sexual activity and provided urine samples
behaviors and advocate for healthier environments in that were tested for chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomonas
communities. vaginalis. The study included a nearly even number of men
“We are truly grateful to the Coca-Cola Foundation for and women, as well as 67 percent Whites and 16 percent
their support,” stated NAACP Chairwoman Roslyn M. Brock Blacks.
in a prepared statement. “This will increase our efforts to Just over 960 participants tested positive for one of the
effectively improve the health of families and communities. three STDs, but 118 of them had claimed abstinence and 60
Young people living in communities where families practice said they had never been sexually active.
healthy lifestyles and have access to nutritious food and Age, race, gender and level of education were not
recreational areas also demonstrate higher academic associated with the discrepancy, the researchers noted.
achievement and lower involvement in high-risk activities. “This counterintuitive finding suggests that sole reliance on
Health and education are essential core elements to enhance young adults’ self-reported penile/vaginal sexual activity as a
our children’s ability to realize their greatest potential.” marker for STD acquisition risk may be imprecise, and further,
Since 1986, the Coca-Cola Foundation has awarded a total could be problematic,” researchers said in the report.
of $2.1 million to the NAACP, including over $490,000 to Dr. Renata Arrington-Sanders, assistant professor of
various local chapters, $578,000 to the National Chapter for Adolescent Health at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, said
Annual National Conference Sponsorship, $500,000 for the the discrepancies between the self-reports and test-results
Legal Defense Fund and $522,000 for the Atlanta chapter. present a common problem.
“People underreport in general,” she told the AFRO. “Some
Chicago Man Convicted in 2009 Beating of Honors people don’t feel as comfortable reporting in a survey…or
Student speaking about STD’s in a clinical setting with a provider.”
A Chicago man was found guilty on Jan. 10 of first-degree In their conclusions, the researchers suggest all young
murder in the videotaped beating death of a high school people, “whether their sexual history indicates they are
honors student. Silvonus Shannon, 20, faces up to 60 years recently sexual active or not, should be tested for prevalent
in prison for his role in the attack. He was the second person STDs, like those assayed in this study.”
convicted in the 2009 beating death of 16-year-old Derrion Also noteworthy in the study, Black participants were
Albert, and was shown on the grainy videotape stomping more than six times more likely than White participants to test
Albert repeatedly outside of Fenger High School in Chicago. positive for one of the venereal diseases and risks were also
Last month, a 15-year-old boy, the first person convicted higher for participants without a high school degree.
Pen Pals in the 2009 beating, was found delinquent in juvenile court.
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