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Health Reform—One Year Later By AFRO Staff

It’s been one year since President Obama

enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable
“Given the
“I have a 23-year-old Care Act (ACA), but you could hardly tell—public
economic
daughter…now she opinion remains just as divided as it did 12 months
climate,
has coverage. ago, and Americans seem just as confused.
the level of
“I am very happy that According to the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll
unemployment
Americans without released by the Kaiser Family Foundation this
and the ability
healthcare have month, 52 percent of Americans say they do not
for people my
coverage.” have adequate information about how the health
age to find jobs,
reform law impacts them personally, while 47
the healthcare
percent believe they do (last year 56 percent felt
legislation has
“I graduated college and now I’m in law school. I’m they didn’t have enough information).
taken away a
happy he changed the age limit so I have insurance And the poll also found that currently 42 percent
major concern.”
under my parents.” of Americans favor the law, while 46 percent view it
unfavorably, which also mirrors opinions last year.
Dennis Holmes, law student, Sean Mickens, 23, Here, area residents sound off on how they believe
Rawle King, father George Washington University non-profit employee health reform has impacted or will impact them.
Continued on A4

Expert: Higher Ethics Student Who Shared Cocaine

Standards Needed in D.C. with Classmates Back Home
By Valencia Mohammed Columbia. “The current group
Special to the AFRO of legislators is not willing
to police itself. The best that
Charges of cronyism, we could do is set up a quasi-
nepotism, campaign government group to monitor
malfeasance and other and take action if needed.”
scandals involving The UDC professor went
Washington, D.C. lawmakers on to say there should be
and the mayor highlights firmer definitions of what
the need for revised ethical constitute ethical violations.
standards and keener “There is no uniform
supervision, a local political definition of corruption,” he
analyst said. said. “So what supporters of a
“I think the recent scandals politician or project may view
in D.C. suggest there might as positive, the opposition
be a need for more oversight,” might believe the behavior is
said G. Derek Musgrove, corrupt.”
assistant professor of history That was the case made
and political science at the recently by the Living
University of the District of Wages, Healthy Communities
Coalition, a grassroots
alliance of neighborhood
organizations, clergy people,
workers, environmentalists,
parents, students and
community members,
who worry that Wal-Mart
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is buying its way into the
District.
In a letter to the D.C.
Council on March 10, the
coalition wrote it learned two
advisers and a fundraiser for
one of the council members
was being paid to promote
a Wal-Mart store opening in
northeast/southeast. And, it
urged all council members to
disclose any ties they had to
Wal-Mart including staffers,
fundraisers or campaign
advisors.
“At best, this creates the
appearance of a conflict of
interest. At worst, it suggests
that the world’s largest retailer
believes it can ‘buy off’ the
DC Council,” the letter stated.
“In the present political
environment, where scandals
have rocked the confidence
D.C. residents have in our
top elected leaders – truth,
Continued on A4
Prosecutor: Woman Killed Co-worker after Fight
By Eric Tucker
Associated Press
ROCKVILLE (AP) — An employee at an upscale
Maryland yoga clothing shop is accused of killing a co-
By Michael Crutchfield
Special to the AFRO
Thomson Elementary School in northwest Washington, D.C. is known for being the
first school in the District to offer Chinese as a second language, and for being the closest
elementary school to the White House. Now the school is making national headlines for a
student bringing something other than lunch and books to school – cocaine.
Five children were hospitalized after ingesting
or sniffing an unclear amount of the drug after
the student brought it to school, according to
D.C. public schools spokesman, Frederick Lewis.
After students complained of pain in their throats,
a teacher at the school spoke to the student that
brought the substance to school and immediately
alerted the main office. The children were
taken to Children’s National Medical center as a
precautionary measure after an evaluation by a
school nurse. The students were determined to
Continued on A3
In the wake of news that a Washington, D.C.
student had distributed cocaine to some of
his classmates, Washington teachers Union
President Nathan Saunders said budget
cuts may be forcing schools to scrimp on
drug prevention programs and other vital
services.
convicted.
Norwood’s blood was found inside Murray’s car,
McCarthy said. Only two sets of bloody footprints were
found inside the shop, and workers at the adjacent Apple
store reported hearing two women – but no men – arguing

worker who found suspected stolen merchandise in her bag,
then trying to conceal the crime by tying herself up and
blaming the attack on two masked men.
Brittany Norwood was ordered held without bond
Monday on a charge of first-degree murder after
Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy
described the slaying.
McCarthy said Norwood, 28, spun an elaborate ruse to
convince authorities that she and the dead woman, Jayna
Murray, had been attacked inside the Lululemon Athletica
shop in Bethesda where they worked. “Her cunning and
her ability to lie is almost unparalleled,” McCarthy said of
Norwood.
AP Photo/Montgomery County, Md. Police When Norwood was found the morning of March 12
Department inside the shop, she told police that she and Murray, 30, had
This photo provided by the been sexually assaulted by two masked men who came in
Montgomery County, Md. Police the previous night after closing time. Norwood was found
Department shows Brittany with minor scratches and other wounds, her hands and feet
Norwood. Police in an affluent bound.
Washington suburb say on March Police initially treated Norwood as a rape victim,
02 18, Norwood killed a woman offering rewards for information leading to arrests and even
found dead inside a yoga clothing doing surveillance on a person of interest. But detectives
store in Bethesda, Md., then concluded that neither woman had been sexually assaulted
concocted a story about the two and that Norwood had staged the scene. She was arrested
being attacked by masked men. Friday and charged with murder and faces life in prison if
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when the attack was believed to have happened. And
Norwood’s wounds were self-inflicted, authorities said.
“No one could have ever anticipated seven or eight days
ago that we would be standing here telling you what we are
telling you today,” McCarthy told the judge.
Norwood appeared via videoconference from the jail
where she is being held. She did not speak during the brief
hearing except to answer procedural questions, and her
public defender declined to comment as he left court.
McCarthy offered new details about what happened
before Murray died, saying she had been asked by a store
manager to check Norwood’s bag for stolen merchandise.
Murray called the manager that night to say she believed
Norwood had been stealing.
That same night, after the store had closed, Norwood told
Murray she needed to get back into the store because she
left her wallet. When the two returned, they argued over the
suspected theft, McCarthy said.
Norwood then picked up some sort of weapon inside the
store and used it to beat Murray for as long as 20 minutes
throughout the shop, McCarthy said. He said Murray
sustained a severed spinal cord and blows “too numerous to
count.”
“The nature of this crime is shocking in terms of the level
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Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain

A3 N March 26, 2011 - April 1, 2011, The Afro-American

Pay-to-Play Claims Bear Legal Ramifications

By Alan King sport-utility vehicle sought in from a neighbor about a suspi- posted
AFRO Staff Writer connection with the murder of cious vehicle. The man noticed graph a
Hudson’s mother and brother. the vehicle while walking his Sunday
Jennifer Hudson and other The white, 1994 Chevrolet dog. According to the Chicago for the
relatives positively identified Suburban with Illinois license Tribune, the boy had been shot her nep
By Erica Butler ramifications if his claims are true—was multiplefired timesfrom in thehisback seat blog, sh
AFRO Staff Writer $110,000 government job at the D.C. of theDepartment
vehicle. TheofSUV, Health regis- porters
Care Finance after details of a criminal tered torecord surfaced. Now
With allegations of cronyism, nepotism and corruption four agencies are assessing the claims: brother,
Hudson’s
thewas FBI,towed
murdered
D.C.’swithOffice
the “With allegations of cronyism, nepotism offered
anyone
shrouding Mayor Vincent Gray a mere three months into his of Campaign Finance, the U.S. Attorney’s
term, public sentiment toward the new administration is turning the U.S. House Oversight and Government
boy’s bodyOffice
processed by
insideofand
Reform
evidence
D.C. and
is being
Committee.
techni-
and corruption...public sentiment toward alive.
Sinc
sour. Wesley Williams, spokesman cians for theand Office of Campaign
workers. The body the new administration is turning sour.” Hudson
But Gray and his staff may have to face more than Finance (OCF), said the alleged campaign wrongdoing taken
was later removed and is underto after ap
voters’ displeasure if former mayoral candidate Sulaimon the Cook
review. “The Office of the General Counsel and the Audit County Medical Idol,” a
Brown’s pay-to-play allegations are proven true. With several Division are reviewing the allegations Examiner’s
againstoffice.both the Gray Academ
the committee’s spokesman Frederick Hill. Recipients include
Hudson and other family the mov
government agencies investigating the matter, the mayor and for Mayor Committee and the Sulaimon Brown for Mayor Howard Brooks, Gray’s campaign consultant; Geri Mason Hall,
members arrived at the Medical stayed
his cohorts also face potential legal consequences. Committee,” he said. the mayor’s former chief of staff that resigned last week and
Examiner’s office mid-after- The
“Our position is the truth, which is, Williams said there are six potential noon toviolations
identify the Graybody. LorraineKing,
Julian Green, Gray’s campaign
Jennnifer Hudson’s chairman.
nephew. ed that
Mayor Gray didn’t know of any and Brown could face including, “filing a false
Given the choice between report look- “The cooperation of key witnesses will expedite the slowly
pay-offs,” said Robert Bennett, of receipts and expenditures with the
ing directly at Office
the body of or committee’s
A spokesman efforts,”
for theHill said. the murders but is being held in
office Monda
Gray’s newly-hired lawyer, Campaign Finance.”viewing it on a wall-mounted toldThe committee that
the newspaper can Hudson
investigatejail
Gray
for under
parole “House
violationRule
afterX,” news v
best known for his legal Many of the violations have associated which states that the group can oversee municipal affairs of the
representation of charges including: accepting a contribution
Courtesy Photos
District of Columbia, clashing with D.C.’s fight for autonomy.
President Bill Clinton
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 momen
made by one person in the name of another, “Just as many state governments have some jurisdiction over
in the Monica $2,000 per infraction; making a contribution matters involving cities in their respective states, the federal
Lewinsky scandal. in the name video
of another person, $2,000 per “remained strong for her fami- being convicted of attempted
screen, the family chose government plays a similar role for the District of Columbia violenc
“The mayor did infraction and
theaccepting legal tender to theof ly” and was clearly its leader. murder and vehicular hijack-
the body of her 7-year-old plate X584859 was found on latter. According since it is not a part of any state,” Hill said. He added that the In fr
“She held hands with her fami- ing. Cook County records show
absolutely nothing $25 or more, $500 per infraction. D.C.the Inspector General and D.C. that
Attorney General’s
guiltyrefusal
nephew Monday, just hours Chicago’s West Side after Tribune, Hudson said, “Yes, home, m
ly,” spokesman said. “It he pleaded to both
wrong.” after his body was found in a police received a 7 a.m. Brown told the media Gray’s staff
call that’s him.” to investigate the matter due to conflict of interest concerns and hoo
was obviously a very emotional charges in 1999. He was also
Brown, who gave him thousands of dollars in prompted response from the committee. kiss the

ACORN Fights Back

moment.” convicted in 1998 for posses- ing the
joined former envelopes and false names were made to During
The boy the
– theinvestigation,
son of Julia Hill sionsaid of
thea committee
stolen motorwillvehicle.
Mayor Adrian report expenditures. Jason.
specifically determine if public funds
Hudson, Jennifer’s sister – had He was released or the promise
fromofprison
publicin
“Eve
Fenty (D) and A “purchase, payment, distribution, positions were used
been missing since Friday, to reward behavior that was illegal or
2006 after serving seven years
Leader Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’
through
Gray in the 2010 loan advance, deposit, gift of money” are unethical.
when “Thefound
a relative committee intends
Julian’s fortothe
publicly present
attempted its and
murder West, a
race, alleges Gray’s all inclusive of an expenditure, according findings,” he Darnell
grandmother, said. car hijacking charges. area tol
staff promised him By Alan King and Dallas Cowboysthe Office of Campaign
players No wonderFinance Obama’swebsite.
campaign is FBI Special
Donerson, 57, andAgent Katherine Schweit
his uncle, saidremained
The boy the agency can
missing have to
a job in exchange AFRO Staff Writer Tony Romo and Terrell Expenditures
Owens, “must tryingbe disclosed
to distance himandfrom the “neither
Jason confirm
Hudson, 29,[nor]
shot deny the existence
to death through of an investigation.”
a long weekend in young c
for remaining in the among the names submitted identified” to as well.
group, saying, “Barack Obama However,
in according home
his grandmother’s to reports,
in Brownwhichsaid he has
police andmet with
volunteers for wha
race and waging brutal Presidential candidate John election officials. Interview requests have beenwith
Never Organized made ACORN.” the 7000
the FBI. And
blockonofMarch
South 9, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of D.C.
Yale
attacks against Fenty. He McCain’s attack on ACORN – Hurd said those workers, who But Obama’s
on behalf of the House Oversight and ties to ACORN run Avenue.
issued a statement saying, “The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the
claims he was also paid, Associated Community were doing those things without long and deep.
Government Reform Committee, according to He taught classes AnareAmber
FBI awareAlert – a desig- including information appearing
of allegations,
Organization for Reform Now – ACORN’s knowledge or permis- for ACORN. They even endorsed nation for high-risk missing
receiving money for his in the media, involving the 2010 mayoral race in the District of
confirms the success of the sion, were fired. him for President. children – was issued Friday
campaign. Columbia.”
organization, the head of the “The evidence that has
In this Jan. sur-
4 photo,ButWashington,
now ACORN isD.C. Mayor
in trouble. after Julian was discovered
Brown—who faced so far shows theyGrayfaked is seen atReporter: Peter Nickles, the former general counsel for Mayor Fenty
group says. Vincent a news There conferenceare at least
on missing after the murders.
also faces legal and attorney
“This is testimony to the work forms to getCapitol paid for work they
Hill. Allegations 11 investigations
by a formeracross the
candidate, Police arrestedgeneral
Williamfor D.C., said if Brown’s statements are
we’ve done and success we’ve didn’t do, whonot tosays stuff heballot
was promisedcountry involving
a city thousands
job during of
last true, the city will
Balfour, the missing beboy’s
severely
step-affected. “If the allegations are
had,” Maude Hurd, president of boxes.” ACORN, she said, is the
year’s campaign potentially fraudulent
if he continued attacks on ACORN the true, the mayor would
father and estranged husband be forced to resign,” he said. “The
ACORN, said in an interview victim of fraud, former not the perpetra-
mayor, couldforms.
have legal consequences credibility of the city’s
of Julia, at his girlfriend’s leadership is at stake.”
with the AFRO. tor of it. Announcer: Massive voter Southside apartment several
for the mayor.
“When this attack started, we Hurd said the only things fraud. And the Obama campaign hours after the murders.
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak had just announced that we had bogus are the charges them- paid more than $800,000 to an Balfour’s mother, Michele, has
registered 1.3 million new vot- selves. And factcheck. org ACORN front for get out the vote told reporters that her son had
ers,” she said. “That’s just to say agrees. efforts. nothing to do with the slayings.
that someone’s running scared It concluded, “Neither Pressuring banks to issue risky
Prosecutor because of ACORN’s success.”
McCain, who is running for
ACORN nor its employees have
been found guilty of, or even
loans. Nationwide voter fraud.
Barack Obama. Bad judgment.
Balfour remains a suspect in Jason Hudson

Continued from A1
president on the Republican tick- charged with, casting fraudulent Blind ambition. Too risky for
et, lashed out at ACORN in the votes.” America.
of violence that was directed at the victim,” McCarthy said. The problem came about pri-
final debate against Barack
He said Norwood tracked Murray’sObama, blood through
contending thethegroupstore “iswhile wearing
marily becausea size-14
of the way shoe, Since McCain’s comments,
used by the store in determining the length of pants, to throw off detectives.
on the verge of maybe perpetrat- ACORN operates. Rather than ACORN’s 87 offices have been
SQUARE HIGH
McCarthy said detectives confronted
ing one Norwood
of the greatest andfrauds
her family in on Friday
rely with what
on volunteers, theypeo-
it pays bombarded with threats and
believed happened. He said the family asked to
voter history in be
thisleft alone with Norwood,
country, ple, many of who them couldpoorthen be
or unem- racist mail.
heard telling a relative that she was sorrydestroying
maybe and didn’t thewant
fabrictoofdisappointployed,him. But up
to sign shenew alsovoters.
told him The day after the presidential
she was wary of talking more because she feared they were being recorded,
democracy.” The idea was McCarthy
to help both said.those debate, vandals broke into the
Norwood was most recently livingFactcheck.org,
in Washington, D.C., but grew
a non-partisan up registered
being in Washington and those statedoing
and organization’s Boston and Seattle
was a standout soccer player for Stony
Web site,Brook found University
those claims in New
to York. The soccer coach there
the registration. offices and stole computers.
did not return phone messages on be Monday.
“exaggerated,” with “no evi- Maud explained, “We have a After a Cleveland representative BREAD NOT ON TH

Appearing Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Murray’s parents said only that they appeared on TV, an e-mail was
dence of any such democracy- zero tolerance policy for deliber-
believe in the justice system and will let thefraud.”
destroying case work its course. ate falsification of registration.” sent to the local office saying she
Hurd believes the McCain Most news account neglect to “is going to have her life ended.”
charges were politically motivat- point out that ACORN is A worker in Providence, R.I.,
ed. required by law to turn in all reg- received a threatening call say-
Student
LEFT RIGH
She said, “Because it’s low- istration forms. And they also fail ing, “We know you get off work
and moderate-income people, to note that it was the organiza- at 9” and uttered racial epithets.
Continued from A1 “...budget cuts force schools to curb
and people of color, I believe the tion, in many instances, that first A caller to one office left a
be fine after being examined McCain
vital services such as drug prevention
campaign
voters are going to vote
thinks those brought the phony registrations
to the attention of authorities.
message on the answering
machine, saying: “Hi, I was just
and were released from the
hospital’s care. measures...”
Democratic, which is not neces-
sarily true.”
The McCain camp apparently calling to let you know that
isn’t interested in those fine Barack Obama needs to get
Leadership at the school
less.” According to the union, Okonkwo. “You have to take hung. He’s a (expletive deleted)
ACORN is no stranger to points, preferring to air mislead-
notified the parents of the
the proposed budget cuts to
controversy. intoads
ing account
that seek thistoyoung
link Obamaman’s nigger, and he’s a piece of
students involved and met to
these programs in the 2012
For 38 years, the non-partisan ACORN, thereby undercutting
age and balance that with how (expletive deleted). You guys are
with a group of concerned his
organization has fought
fiscal year will have dramatic for social he political
should be support.
treated. I’m not fraudulent, and you need to go to
parents after school to and economic justice for low- McCain: I’m John McCain hell. All the niggers on oak trees.
effects on the school’s sure if extended time off of
address concerns. “This is and moderate-income and I approve this message. They’re gonna get all hung hon-
climate. school would have theBarack
desired eys, they’re going to get assassi- 1 BANANA
not a situation that is typical Americans. With 400,000 mem- Announcer: Who is
at Thomson, and we take it ber According
families organizedto schools into more Obama? affect and will with
A man properly
“a political nated, they’re gonna get killed.”
spokesman Lewis, the child rehabilitate him.”at warp
very seriously,” wrote Albert than 1,200 neighborhood chap- baptism performed Another message said, “You
who brought thenationwide,
drug to The Vastboy ambition.
was in the custody
DuPont, the principal of the ters in 110 cities speed.” After col- liberal idiots. Dumb (expletive
school was charged with of Child Protective Services deleted). Welfare bums. You
school, in a statement. ACORN has over the years seen lege, he moved to Chicago.
possession
its share of of a controlled
criticism while advo- since the
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community but
organizer. guys just (expletive deleted)
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substance.
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hearing in every natural resource there is,
Police Department and Child
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underserved— and while organ- D.C. Superior Court.
branch of ACORN. He was so and make a lot of babies. That’s
Protective Services had
said they are concerned that
izing voter registration drives. According to a school
impressive that he was asked to all you guys do. And then suck
been told of the incident.
the punishment takes into
But none has been as withering spokesman, the other children up the welfare and expect every-
train the ACORN staff.
Counselors were available
consideration the age of the
and baseless as this one. thatWhat
ingested
did ACORNthe cocaine were one else to pay for your hospital
in Chicago
March 21, at the school, With the presidential election engage in? Bullying banks. bills for your kids. I jus’ say let
student. “We should have a in school March 21 and the
to discuss drug prevention less than two weeks away, Intimidation tactics. Disruption your kids die. That’s the best Before age five, every room is a cla
system [with] a response that boy was not.
and the dangers of using ACORN’s detractors allege the of business. ACORN forced move. Just let your children die.
teaches a lesson, but doesn’t This is the third drug Fun learning opportunities are everywhere. Simple t
drugs. “As always, we are organization has engaged in mas- banks to issue risky home loans. Forget about paying for hospital
make it more [likely] that this The incident
same in D.C. publicthat counting and identifying shapes activate a child’s learn
committed to providing a safe sive voter registration fraud after types of loans bills for them. I’m not gonna do
young man discovery
with be thrown schoolsthe this year, two crisisofwe’re
and help them enter school more prepared. That’s
environment for your child,” the reported of bogus caused financial it. You guys are lowlifes. And I
off developmentally,” said which involved marijuana. founded Grow Up Great and its Spanish-language equivale
wrote Du Pont. names, such as Mickey Mouse in today. hope you all die.”
con Éxito, a 10-year, $100 million program to help prep
But that becomes difficult Hurd thinks the hate calls will
children for school and life. Pick up a free bilingual Sesam
when budget cuts force cease soon.
“Happy, Healthy, Ready for School” kit at a PNC branch
schools to curb vital services “In two weeks, I think these
attacks will be over. But I think it with all kinds of simple, everyday things you can do to h
such as drug prevention learn. Together, we can work with our communities so
will be harder for us to get our
measures, said Nathan generation won’t just grow up... but grow
name back on good graces
Saunders, president of Identification Statements
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A4 The Afro-American , March 26, 2011 - April 1, 2011

New Early Childhood Education Facility Announced

By Jamaal Abdul-Alim
Special to the AFRO
In an effort to stave off academic losses by reaching
children during their earliest years, D.C. officials and
philanthropists have teamed up to construct a $12 million
facility in Ward 7 that will provide daylong year-round early
childhood education.
The facility is expected to serve 171 infants, toddlers and
preschoolers.
“If I were in a position to have fetuses in the program,
I would do that,” D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said March 15
during a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Educare facility
that is set to be built just next to the Neval Thomas Elementary
School in the 600 block of Anacostia Ave. N.E.
The mayor – joined by an array of city and federal
government officials and leaders in philanthropy and the
sphere of early childhood education – said the achievement
gap that besets public education must be dealt with before
children even reach school.
“If we wait until kindergarten, first, second grade, for many
of our children, the battle is already lost,” Mayor Gray said.
“We have to win the battle early in order to win the war,”
he continued, adding that if investments are not made in early
childhood education, society will pay for it later on in the
area of special education and juvenile justice for children who
didn’t get a good academic start early on in life.
Though its construction is being funded separately with private
dollars, the building of the Educare facility is expected to play a
critical role in the D.C. Promise Neighborhood Initiative, one of
20 such U.S. Department of Education-funded initiatives across
the country meant to replicate famed charter school educator
Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone, which provides a
comprehensive array of services to children and families.
Chavez Public Charter Schools recently won a $500,000
federal planning grant to help launch the D.C. Promise
Neighborhood Initiative.
D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton said the
planned Educare facility of D.C. – just one of several Educare
facilities expected to open throughout the nation in the next
year or so – will be looked at by Congress and others as a
model for early childhood education.
“Early learning is not a cliché,” Holmes Norton said. “It
is the life of these children. It is the life we owe them upon
entrance to the world.”
Educare is a national network of full-day, year-round
schools whose programs are funded mostly with public money.
The first Educare appeared roughly a decade ago in Chicago
and others have since been constructed in 12 U.S. cities that
range from Miami to Seattle.
Several foundations – including the Buffett Early
Childhood Fund – provide money to local partnerships for
their capital campaigns.
An ongoing evaluation of Educare being conducted at the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has shown that the
longer a child spends in Educare, the better the child’s overall
readiness for school.

Feds Foil Md. Redistricting Plan to Count Inmates by Former Home

By Steve Kilar
Capital News Service
WASHINGTON — A
federal roadblock has stopped
Maryland short of counting
all prison inmates at their
pre-incarceration addresses
in order to draw political
boundaries.
An appeal for the
addresses has been made
to the U.S. Department
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of Justice, said Andrew
Ratner, a representative for
the Maryland Department
of Planning. But because
the Baltimore City charter
requires approval of a
redistricting map by April
1, the department decided to
release revised population
figures now.
“We couldn’t wait any
longer,” Ratner said. “We felt
we had to move forward.”
But the new numbers
are not adjusted to reflect
residents of Maryland’s
federal penitentiary in
Cumberland – as required
by a 2010 Maryland law –
because the Federal Bureau
of Prisons denied the state’s
request for prior residence
information.
The federal government
will not release address
information for prisoners
because it violates privacy
protections, said Chris Burke,
a spokesman for the federal
prisons bureau.
If Maryland wins the
appeal, redistricting numbers
will be adjusted again to
account for the former
Maryland residents among the
roughly 1,500 federal inmates
at the Cumberland facility.
After the tally of each
decennial census, states
redraw their governmental
districts so that each
lawmaker represents an
approximately equal number
of people. Counting inmates
at prison locations has buoyed
population figures, giving
voters who live near prisons
more political clout. Over the
past few years, in anticipation
of states redistricting before
the 2012 congressional
elections, there has been a
national push to modify where
prisoners are counted.
In Maryland, figuring
inmates at their last known
addresses significantly
reduces the populations of
counties that are home to
state prisons. The adjustment
reduces Somerset County’s
population by more than 10
percent and both Allegany
and Washington counties
lose about 3 percent with the
adjusted numbers.
The population
adjustments are particularly
important in Somerset, where
the county’s prison has
distorted election districts and
inhibited the election of racial
minorities, said Meredith
Curtis, a spokeswoman for
the American Civil Liberties
Union of Maryland, which
supported the legislation’s
passage. The inmate
adjustment boosts Baltimore
City’s population by nearly
6,000 people.
In February, the U.S.
Census Bureau reported that
Baltimore lost about 30,000
residents – almost 5 percent
of its population – between
2000 and 2010. Relocating
inmates for the purposes of
redistricting has narrowed that
loss to around 4 percent.
The “No Representation
without Population Act” was
sponsored by a baker’s dozen
of Maryland senators and
more than 80 delegates.
When Gov. Martin
O’Malley signed the bill last
April, Maryland was the first
state to enact a redistricting
law of this type, according to
the Prison Policy Initiative, a
nonprofit that tracks inmate
redistricting legislation.
New York and Delaware are
implementing similar laws.
The adjusted population
figures were certified by the
secretaries of the MDP, the
Department of Public Safety
and Correctional Services and
the executive director of the
Department of Legislative
Services.

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great nations, ensuring health care for all. Is it enough? No,
Kimberly Nettles, 21,
because it doesn’t include a public health plan, but it is a Chris Vines, 26, intern
pharmacy student
start.”
“The health care reform serves as a progression for the medical profession. “The passage of the Affordable Care Act gives
The millions who go untreated every year will finally have access to not only me peace of mind that my younger siblings are
treatment, but security from insurance. As a student pharmacist, it is a direct now insured through college, and it signals a
influence on my career. The demand for prescriptions and labor will drastically change in ethics that people with a ‘pre-existing
increase, thus resulting in a promising future for the therapeutic field. “ condition’ are no longer cast aside as uncoverable
These are real people who hunt down $1 pints of Natty Boh. People who
take the Circulator to free movies on Federal Hill. People like you. to HMOs.”

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trust and transparency surely
“I’m excited when the opportunity presents itself for District
deserve your highest priority.” residents to obtain employment, and if I personally know
The Rev. Douglas E. Moore,
87, author of The Buying and qualified candidates, I don’t have a problem giving them a
Selling of the DC City Council
and former at-large member of
reference...”
the DC Council, was reminded retailers to offer fair wage benefits and engage the community
of his years as an elected official when the southwest corridor with a comprehensive benefits agreement.”
was being transformed from swamp to a vibrant habitable Many residents disagreed that community leaders with close
community. ties to public officials should not be able to speak on behalf of
“My colleagues fought hard to get me off the council to the community and believe their involvement will force Wal-
keep from exposing them publicly one-by-one. What needs to Mart to offer District residents more jobs.
be monitored in the Wal-Mart development is tracking whether “We have immigrant-owned food marts, carryouts, liquor
funds are coming to any council member through a third party,” stores, dry cleaners and gas stations that only hire their own
said Moore. people. These same groups never said a word. Given the size
Councilwoman Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7), the of Wal-Mart, it will offer far more opportunities to African
councilmember in question, admitted that persons closely Americans than these immigrant-owned businesses,” said
associated with her campaign are consultants for a public Debra A. Daniels, 55, longtime Ward 4 homeowner. “We want
relations firm in contract with Wal-Mart, but she denied any someone at the table from the onset who can keep the political
conflict of interest. leaders informed.”
“I’m excited when the opportunity presents itself for District Former Ward 7-resident, Monica Y. Fenton, 55, agreed.
residents to obtain employment, and if I personally know “Wal-Mart is a wake up call to those businesses that shunned
qualified candidates, I don’t have a problem giving them a our employment in the past. We have no loyalty to them and if
reference,” said Alexander. “As far as Wal-Mart is concerned, it goes out of business, it should be replaced with another that
I’m proud to have co-sponsored legislation that requires such hires from the community.”

Opinion
One Week Later
A personal perspective on the Japan crisis
The writer is the
James Howard son of AFRO freelance
photographer J.D. Howard.
He lives in Tokyo with his
family and is an employee of Dell computers. He sent this letter What I write now will be old by the
to family and friends via e-mail on March 18, then a week after time you read it, and I’m assuming
the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan.
Dear family and friends,
… I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about the
situation over here, and thought this would be the best way to
summarize where things are as of now…
First of all, my wife and I would like to thank each and
every one of you for your kind words of concern, and for
keeping us in your thoughts and prayers over the past week.
Last Friday’s earthquake was terrifying for us living here
in Tokyo, but the fear we experienced that afternoon, and
the inconveniences we still experience to this day are trivial
compared to what the people of northeastern Honshu have gone we’re seeing “a ray of hope.”
though and are still going through.
I haven’t counted how many people have reached out to
Motoko and I inquiring as to our safety and the safety of our
family. It’s probably been several dozen people around the world at the west gate of the plant have been recorded as high as 400
by now. And yet, as this crisis continues into a new phase and
events around the nuclear power plant in Fukushima continue
to unfold, I understand that many of you, now for very different they were talking about levels of more than 8,000 microsieverts
reasons, are still asking the same question: “Are you okay?”
To answer that question, I wish I could simply say that
everything’s fine and that the situation at the power plant is
under control, with radioactive contamination confined to
the immediate vicinity. But as we also know, events are still
extremely fluid and the reality is that things could still go
either way. Having said that, I remain cautiously optimistic
that the technicians up there will resolve the crisis—although
it will take time. Meanwhile, we continue to gather as much
information as we can from a variety of sources to understand
the situation there and what it means for us here, re-evaluating levels looked like there or anywhere else.
our understanding of the situation as the facts change.
James Howard and family in Japan. Standing: Dr. Honda, father-in-law; James Howard is anywhere between 0.03 to 0.08.
and his wife, Dr. Motoko Howard and mother-in-law, Mrs. Honda along with other
family members.
Women’s History Month
President Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation
in 1980, calling on the American people to remember the
contributions of women to our great nation. Only 14 governors
had declared March as Women’s History Month in 1987, but
that same year, Congress and the president declared March as
National Women’s History Month to recognize the important
contributions women have made throughout history. This
year’s theme is “Our History, Our Strength,” and this annual
observance allows us to consider the vital role women have
played through the course of our history since this nation’s
inception.
Over the years, caregivers of veterans and women
who have worn a military uniform themselves have found
inspiration in the achievements of those women who have
gone before them. During the Civil War, Clara Barton
braved danger repeatedly to aid and comfort the wounded.
She gathered her own medical supplies, gained permission
to transport those supplies to the battlefield and to ride
in Army ambulances. She faced obstacles, had to obtain
special approval to travel to the frontlines, but she ushered
in a new profession: nursing battle wounded. Undaunted,
Barton continued breaking through barriers after the war
ended, directing a multi-year search for missing servicemen,
promoting women’s suffrage, and founding and leading the
American Red Cross. After her death, her final “first” came
when her Maryland home became a first-ever national historic
site dedicated to the accomplishments of women.
Women have been playing an essential role in the United
States Army since 1776 and the percentage of women in the
military has doubled in the last 30 years. As of 2009 more than
350,000 women were serving in the Armed Forces, assuming
leadership roles and responsibilities impossible for them to
attain 20 or 30 years ago. In modern wars, particularly in Iraq
and Afghanistan, there no longer is a frontline, and women
March 26, 2011 - April 1, 2011, The Afro-American
Things are still changing by the
hour, so I won’t try and give you a
detailed report here on the state of
efforts to get the reactors under control.
you already know a lot of what has
happened so far. As I’m writing this,
electricians are trying to get electric
power restored to they can get cooling
and other equipment running once
again. Attempts have been made to
get water on the reactor using water
drops by air and by water cannons. I
read an article this morning that said
experts from the IAEA (International
Atomic Energy Agency) say that the
situation has not deteriorated in the past
24 hours, but it’s still premature to say
I think this is a fair assessment. We are clearly not out of the
woods yet. But I also want to stress that the Fukushima Daiichi
power plant is about 150 miles from Tokyo. Radiation levels
microsieverts per hour (that’s 0.04 rad), but as of this morning
it’s been around 270 (27 rad). As early of Tuesday morning
per hour near one of the reactors. As I mentioned earlier, we
haven’t seen things deteriorate in the past day or so, so I think
we can take some solace in this.
The Japanese authorities didn’t do a very good job of
communicating all this in the first days of the disaster. This
is beginning to change, but it is part of the reason for the
heightened state of anxiety. In the absence of news, rumors run
rampant. And while people on TV kept telling us all was safe
outside of the 30 kilometer zone around the facility, for a while
it has been difficult to attain information on what radiation
Fortunately that has been improving. NHK (Japan
Broadcasting Corp.) now
will occasionally show maps
that look like weather maps,
but instead of temperatures
they show radiation levels in
different parts of the country,
and they are now explaining
what the numbers mean. So far,
while radiation levels have risen
in some areas, levels are still
quite low and well below what
would pose health risks.
So what does this mean for
us living in Tokyo? Official
measurements are released
twice a day now, and anyone
can download them and see
hour by hour what the situation
looks like for the past 24 hours.
I took a look at the figures this
morning, and for Tokyo, we
were at about 0.05 microsieverts
per hour yesterday on average.
Photo courtesy James Howard Under normal conditions Tokyo
A few days ago the same reading
was 0.09. Radioactive levels for
Letters to the Editor
warriors have risen to the challenge, showing they are equal to
the task. As of Feb. 1, 2011, 137 service women have died in
defense of our nation since 9/11.
National Women’s History Month is an ideal time to
renew our historic commitment to the nation’s veterans and
particularly to our women warriors who often don’t consider
themselves veterans, or who traditionally put the needs of their
children and family before their own. An increasing number
of women nowadays who return home from military duty as
combat veterans return to their roles as wives and mothers.
Their needs are complex and sometimes different from those
who served and deployed before them; and they challenge us
in VA (Veterans Administration) to do things differently to
meet those needs.
At the VA Maryland Health Care System, we offer our
women warriors a full spectrum of services, including breast
and cervical cancer screenings, gynecological evaluation and
treatment, and in-house mammography and bone density
screens. Constantly adding and improving services, we
recently began offering the human papilloma virus vaccine
to our younger women veterans. We currently have fourteen
women’s health care providers and two surgeons who provide
gender specific care to our women veterans, with plans to
expand this number. Eight of our nine locations, which include
our six community based outpatient clinics, offer gender-
specific providers and services. Gender specific services such
as maternity care and pelvic oncologic surgical care that are
not available from VA can be outsourced to local providers.
There are approximately 484,013 veterans in Maryland,
of which 47,276 are female (less than 10 percent). There
are 73,266 women veterans in the VA Capitol Health Care
Network, which includes Maryland, Virginia and Washington,
D.C., but only 5,000 women in Maryland have enrolled for VA
health care. Women veterans, where are you?
March is National Women’s History Month, a time to
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Tokyo are fluctuating but are still around what one would consider
normal for this part of Japan.
In my part of town (Tama-shi, Western Tokyo), I’m
fortunate enough to have a physicist who lives nearby, and he
has a website on which he posts radiation levels at his home
every 10 minutes. According to Dr. Ichikawa’s site, this part
of town is currently at 0.18, about the same level as typical
background radiation around here.
To put all these numbers in perspective, exposures of 10
millisieverts or more per hour correspond to a CT scan, so
this means things around the plant are still quite bad, but the
situation (for now at least) are still quite localized.
So for now, we do not appear to be in harm’s way, but
embassies of several countries have asked their nationals to
consider leaving. I received an e-mail from the US Embassy
yesterday offering to take me and my wife to either Seoul or
Taipei so I can arrange for passage to the US. I know of people
who have taken the offers or have already left. I have to admit,
it’s somewhat disconcerting to get a notice like that, and see
people around you taking off for the hills. But I intend to ride
this out. I love this place, and have spent half of my life – and
nearly all of my adult life – living here. It’s hard to think of
turning your back on a place and its people when they are
facing their darkest hours in memory.
Having said that, we will continue to remain vigilant and
follow developments. We will keep our heads up and our spirits
upbeat. And we will reach out to our friends and neighbors here
in Japan, and to our extended family and friends elsewhere
to get to the other side of this terrible tragedy. I think Japan
has some tough days ahead of it, but I’ve never seen a people
face adversity with such civility and concern for one another,
and the blackouts, train stoppages and shortages for items like
bread and gasoline are nothing compared to what the people up
north are facing now. Snow is falling, hundreds of thousands
of people are displaced, and people in the vicinity of the power
plant are quite literally forced to deal with two crises at once.
… For now, please think about what you can do from there
to help the people in the north. I am sure aid agencies are
starting to organize now so please find out what you can and
try and help. Rebuilding that area is going to be a monumental
task and I think this nation will rise to the challenge, but it will
require a lot of support.
As always, thanks to all of you for keeping us in your
thoughts, and God Bless!
James
observe that our nation’s women contribute greatly to our
strength. Marylanders, do you know a woman who has served
in the Armed Forces and who may not consider herself a
veteran? She may need that nudge to enroll for the VA health
care benefits she has earned and deserves while serving our
nation in uniform. Enrolling for her VA health care benefits
may be the best gift she gives herself and her family.
Dennis H. Smith, director
VA Maryland Health Care System
Re: ‘D.C. Unmasked & Undressed, the Memoir of
Lillian McEwen’
Zenitha Prince, Washington Bureau Chief:
Great interview of an examined life. What a complex,
talented person!
She overcame obstacles and reinvented a happy self,
without regrets, that she could be proud of. Sadly, not
everyone is so lucky. I also grew up with an abusive father and
a long-suffering mother in survival mode. I lost my childhood,
my siblings and a spouse to addiction and mental illness. I
survived like the author by hiding in the library and imagining
a different life. I got to an Ivy League university, med school
and raised four good citizens with less baggage. I pray for
President Obama and a society with more compassionate
priorities toward children and families, so Judge McEwen’s
redemption story and the chilling Faustian story of Justice
Thomas become things of the past.
Maybe I hope in vain...the human condition is what it is.
Thanks for a sensitive and insightful profile.
Dr. N.M. Williams
Somerville, Mass.
A6 The Afro-American, March 26, 2011 - April 1, 2011

Community Calendar
‘Men Ain’t Boys’ Film requirements for maintaining 3845 S. Capitol St., S.W. Show Your Colors Bowling
Premiere lasting love. $10-$20. For D.C. 3 p.m. Experience this Party
Avalon Theatre, 5612 more information: www. theatrical performance that Fort Myer Bowling Center,
Connecticut Ave., N.W. menaintboysdc.eventbrite. will empower young women 411 McNair Road, Fort Myer,
March 24 Largo Road, Largo, Md. D.C. 8 p.m. This film offers com. to promote social change Virginia. 8 p.m. The Psi Nu
Prince George’s Community 12-2 p.m. Students will a thought-provoking look in their communities while Chapter of Omega Psi Phi
College Poetry Slam share original writings about at issues surrounding Black March 26 addressing sexual and social Fraternity will host a bowling
Prince George’s women’s history. For more manhood, the results of ‘The Backpack Monologues’ issues. $10-$20. For more party at Fort Myer Bowling
Community College, 301 information: 301-336-6000. effective fatherhood and the Covenant Baptist Church, information: 202-562-5576. Center. Ticket includes two
games, shoe rental, food
and drinks. $25. For more
information: 703-606-6434.

Get Radical Women’s

Conference
Renaissance Washington
Hotel, 999 Ninth St., N.W.,
D.C., 8:30 a.m- 9 p.m. The
third annual Get Radical
Women’s Conference hosted
by Doreen Rainey will
include guest speakers Jillian
Michaels (“The Biggest
Loser”), Niecy Nash (“Clean
House”/ “Entertainment
Tonight”), Ali Brown (“Secret
Millionaire”) Rhonda Britten
(“Celebrity Fit Club”), and
also Deborah Owens (PSB/
NPR). For more information:
www.getradicalconference.
com.

Capitol Heights
Community Fun Day 2011
8847 Walker Mill Road,
Capitol Heights, Md. 11
a.m.-4 p.m. Join the Capitol
Heights community for the
biggest fun day event of the
year featuring food, fun and
lots of fellowship. For more
information: 301-324-3002.

March 28
Introduction to Matchmaking
Columbia Square, 555
13th St., N.W. D.C. 6-7
p.m. In this matchmaking
information session, learn
the details of hiring a
matchmaker to help you find
your Mr. or Ms. Right. $15.
For more information: www.
keeshastrickland.com.

Charles S. Dutton ‘From Jail

to Yale: Serving Time on
Stage’
The Kennedy Center,
2700 F St., N.W. D.C. 7:30
p.m. Charles Dutton, Emmy
Award-winning actor, director
and Broadway star, will
share the dramatic narrative
of his life from the streets
of Baltimore to Broadway.
A second show will be held
on March 29. $50-$150. For
more information: 202-467-
4600.

March 30
Redemption Wednesdays
Patty Boom Boom, 1359 U
St., N.W. D.C. 8 p.m.-1 a.m.
Each Wednesday, unwind at
this midweek party featuring
the best mix of reggae
and soca music. For more
information: 571-435-5166.

March 31
Creating Multiple Streams
of Income
Eggspecation Restaurant
& Café, 923 Ellsworth Drive,
Silver Spring, Md. 7 p.m.
During this informative
event, you will learn how to
think creatively to earn extra
sources of income in this
tough economy. For more
information: 301-218-8200.

April 2
Mission Wow: Learn
Inexpensive Secrets Top
Agencies Use
Upper Marlboro Library,
14730 Main St., Upper
Marlboro, Md. 10:30 a.m.-
12:30 p.m. In this seminar,
learn great marketing skills
and techniques on a limited
budget. For more information:
www.mission-wow.com.

Cherry Blast: Art & Music

Dance Party
Zanzibar on the
Waterfront, 700 Water St.,
S.W. D.C. 8 p.m. Celebrate
the arrival of spring in this
community event featuring
DJs, visual and performing
artists. $10. For more
information: 202-554-9100.

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a guide to senior living for the active african american
Fifty, Fit, Feisty and Fashionable
By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware
Special to the AFRO
You may have difficulty
distinguishing the 50-something
woman from her younger
counterparts, these days. She’s in
the gym making elliptical moves.
She’s on the road tallying jogged
miles. She’s putting the pedometer
through its paces. She’s shaking
her booty to the beat of Zumba.
The bulky tell-tale shoes of
grandmothers, the darker colors,
the loose fitting garments – not
so much anymore.
She’s in the classroom, the
boardroom and the operating
room; she’s in the cockpit and
the pulpit. She’s running her
own business and creating
the beat rather than stepping
to someone else’s rhythm.
Today’s experienced woman
wears whatever complements
her style and figure without
regard for societal dictates
Beach party or concert,
this dress is a great fit.
Dress photos by Dorothy Boulware
Senior Social Groups Flourish
By Joi-Marie McKenzie
Special to the AFRO
Nancy Hesham, a middle-aged woman living in Potomac, Md., three years ago joined
Meetup.com, an online community that allows people around the world to self-organize,
after her divorce. With all of her friends married, and her son on his way to college, she
often found herself alone on a Friday night.
Deborah Miller-Tuck (front row, left) smiles along with her S.W.A.P. members after a
recent meeting.
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“It’s really more of an attitude difference than an Collection, a boutique in Catonsville, Md., that offers
age difference,” said Kenya Rennie, manager of Lettie any kind of dress you can imagine.
Gooch Boutique in Washington, D.C. “If people are “I love dresses because you can do so much with
socializing and in the party set, they’re usually more them,” said Paris Couture Collection owner, Deborah
open to trendy clothes. If not, they tend to be more Blackwell. “You can dress them up for fancy parties or
conservative.” weddings and dress them down for the beach.”
As the weather teases with fleeting warmer She demonstrated with a long, blue dress, instructing
temperatures and spring presents itself by calendar – if that adding sandals and a short jean jacket would
not by consistency – thoughts begin to wander toward make it appropriate for a walk
lighter clothes and open toes. on the beach, while a little
And what’s “hot” for the spring? Bold colors and high-end jewelry would take
plenty of jewelry. it to a reception or a special
“Coral and turquoise are really in this spring,” celebration.
Rennie said. “And your statement pieces – necklaces,
bangles and bracelets.” Paris Couture Collection in
She said funky earrings are always a mainstay, “the Catonsville, 707 Frederick Rd.,
big, brightly colored ones.” Baltimore, Md., 410-788-1112.
As for the tone, there’s been a revival of the ‘70s. Lettie Gooch Boutique,
“Oh yes, bell bottoms and the new bohemian…nice 1517 U St. N.W., Washington,
and light and airy,” she said. “And we’ve still got the D.C., 202-332-4242.
clogs and espadrilles,” which have been popular for a
while now.
As for clothing, the pencil skirts of
the fall have evolved into fuller, longer
skirts for the warmer weather.
“And dresses, also in longer lengths,”
she said. “Although, you still have the
basic ‘mini.’”
The dresses are all important in warm
weather as they give an easy solution to
the “what shall I wear” question.
Accessories can take your outfit
from dull to dynamite. Dress this beautiful blue
piece up with jewelry and
heels or down with a nice
jean jacket and sandals.
Accessories photos by Danita Delaney
“If you want to go to a movie or see a band, there’s no one to go with because your
friends are married and there’s no one available,” she explained. “It’s not fun going out
alone.”
So, instead, the realtor joined an online community allowing her to create her own
social gatherings with people her own age.
“It’s rewarding for me because it has given me friendships that otherwise I wouldn’t
have and a few dates I wouldn’t have,” said Hesham. “It’s a non-threatening way for us
to get together in a social arena as a group.”
One of the latest trends for people living out their golden years is meeting people
online to find companionship and even love. Online members of Meetup.com enjoy
going to the movies, game nights at members’ houses, potluck dinners, skating rinks,
dancing, and even weekend trips to New York City. Hesham is one of 1,092 members,
all ages 40-55+, in the “Annapolis Area Social Meet Up Group.” And there are many
more websites helping seniors find friends and love such as LavalifePRIME, Senior
Friendfinder and SeniorMatch.com.
“When we were in seventh, eighth or ninth grade, we used to go out in bunches in the
mall,” said Hesham. “Now, it’s the same sort of comfort zone.”
A Meetup.com organizer, Hesham also said that many of her members find love,
with nearly 25 percent of the group eventually dating and becoming a couple. Still, not
everyone is looking for love. Many simply want friends to explore the city and discover
the latest in entertainment. “They’re happier. They have a life now,” Hersham said of
her Meetup.com members.
Meeting like-minded people online is just one of the many tools that seniors and
mature adults are utilizing to find love, fun and friendship during their later years.
Seniors and mature adults are also gathering on their own.
Deborah Miller-Tuck, 57, a resident of Baltimore, Md., along with 11 other women is
a member of S.W.A.P., which stands for Sisters With A Purpose. The group of Christian
women hails from a variety of churches in the Baltimore area with a mission to provide
outreach to those in need. Not only do the women visit nursing homes and donate
care baskets during the holiday seasons, they also make time to fellowship among
Courtesy Photo themselves. Miller-Tuck says that’s the best part of being a member of S.W.A.P. “We
are very close friends who support each other as a family member would,” she said.
Continued on B3
B2 SENIORGUIDE The Afro-American, Spring 2011

For Many, Hip, Joint Surgery a Gateway to New Beginnings

By Kyle Taylor
Special to the AFRO
The word “surgery”
generally tends to have a
negative connotation. Not
too many are thrilled with
the thought of a loved one,
or themselves for that matter,
being given anesthesia and
then going under the knife. It
is the hope of medical experts,
however, that the benefit of
certain surgeries will one day
outweigh any inherent fears a
wary patient may have.
Hip and joint replacement
surgery is on that list,
according to Dr. James Wood,
a local orthopedic surgeon.
By shying away from such
surgery, Wood said that the
elderly are needlessly living
with pain by choice. Wood Total hip, knee and shoulder replacement surgery replaces the joint and socket with artificial material.
believes that if people were
aware of the new beginning
hip and joint replacement surgery offered
them, they would be more receptive to it.
“It just is a matter of getting people
better educated and helping them to better
understand what joint replacement surgery technique, with the only difference being
is,” said Wood, chair of the Department
of Orthopedic Surgery at Harbor Hospital
of Baltimore. “The reality is people who
need to have joint replacement surgery
have pain in a joint that bothers them in
their everyday activities. Those are the
people who get a new lease on life.”
According to the AARP, the most
common joints replaced are the hips
and knees, with 70 percent of all joint
replacements attributed to severe arthritis
pain. The AARP also reported that
more than 170,000 hip replacements are
performed in the United States every
year. Due to the finite lifetime of the
artificial joint, the best candidates for joint between two to four hours.
replacement are over the age of 60.
With hip replacement surgery, all
or part of the hip joint is replaced
with prosthesis. It can be performed
traditionally or by using what is
considered a minimally invasive
the size of the incision. The surgeon
makes an incision at the side of the hip
and moves the muscles connected to
the top of the thighbone to expose the
hip joint. The ball portion of the joint is
removed and an artificial joint is attached
to the thighbone using either cement or a
special material that allows the remaining
bone to attach to the new joint. The
replacement socket is then attached to
the hipbone, and the new ball part of the
thighbone is inserted into the socket part improvement
of the hip. After draining any fluids, the
doctor reattaches the muscles and closes
the incision. The surgery usually lasts
Recovery time varies, according to
“The majority of the
population is embracing
this technology. African
Americans, however, are
slow to come to the table.
Caucasian patients have done
their research on it and are
ready to go. Black patients
say, ‘I’ll get back to you.’
We really want people to
understand that you don’t
have to live with this pain—
it’s not a badge of honor. You
don’t have to limit yourself
and not be active because of
bad joints.”
A study by the Center for
Disease Control supports Dr.
Wood. According to the study,
which examined national
and state-specific knee
replacement rates for 2000-
Figures were produced using Servier Medical Art, www.servier.com 2006 Medicare enrollees,
Whites were more likely to
undergo knee replacement
Dr. Wood, with some people not even surgery than Blacks, with
spending a night in the hospital. the disparity ranging from 11 percent
“We used to keep people in the hospital (Washington, D.C.) to 52 percent (Illinois).
for a week, or eight to nine days,” Dr. For those who cite money as an
Wood said. “Now people can go home issue, Dr. Wood said that many times
in two to three days. Some get the joints the insurance companies would cover
and go home that same day. Patients the costs of the operation. He was also
find themselves up and moving more confident that healthcare reform would
efficiently than they ever did before. make the surgery more cost effective.
Women put their high heel shoes back on. Dr. Wood warned that the longer the
Men get back out there to golf and bowl.” surgery is delayed, the harder it will be to
In the short term, however, physical recover from it.
therapy is likely to be needed for weeks “What I don’t want to see is African
to months following the surgery. The Americans left behind,” Dr. Wood
AARP reported that over 90 percent said. “That’s why there’s a focus on the
of patients receiving hip replacements education to let people get the information
achieve complete relief from pain and and then get out there. If you don’t get it
in joint function. done, then you find yourself further down
Because of the procedure’s high the road, not able to function to maximally
success rate, Dr. Wood advocates joint benefit your family or anybody else. The
replacement surgery to African Americans, older you get, the weaker you get, and
and wants them to put aside their fear and illnesses creep in, making it much more
distrust of doctors. difficult to recover.”

4th Annual Governor’s Leadership in Aging Award

For Excellence and
Outstanding Contributions
to the Field of Aging
DEPARTMENT OF AGING
and Quality of Life for Seniors
Older Americans/Marylander Month
Celebration
May 10, 2011, 12 noon – 2pm
Catonsville Senior Center
501 N. Rolling Rd., Catonsville, MD 21228
Nomination Information
Categories Instructions
Trailblazer • Select a Category.
An individual, community group, business or organization • Complete the nomination form and attach
that has demonstrated leadership in advocacy or developed an a 500 word or less description of recommendation
innovative program, research or training for seniors. (why the nominee meets criteria).
• Visual Arts nominations must be accompanied by
Visual and Performing Arts photos, slides, or CD of artwork.
An individual, 60 years of age or older, or a group (members • Performing Arts nominations must be accompanied
must be 55 years of age or older), who has demonstrated by a DVD or web link to a video sharing site
excellence in the visual or performing arts. (i.e. YouTube).
• Photography nominations must be in .jpg or .gif and
must not exceed 5 MB in size.
Photography • Nominations that do not require supporting materials
An individual 60 years or older who demonstrates excellence can be faxed to: 410-333-7943
in photography or photojournalism that portrays “Successful
Aging”. All nominations must be postmarked or e-mailed
no later than April 8, 2011.
Health and Vitality
An individual 60 years or older who demonstrates a You may download copies of the nomination form by visiting
commitment to healthy living and who serves as a role model the website at: www.mdoa.state.md.us
to others. For more information, call: 410-767-1064 or 1-800- 243-3425

Spring Blooms
Tips for starting your garden
By Courtney A.
Bonaparte
Special to the AFRO
As seniors bask in
the golden rays of their
golden years, physical
impairments need not
hinder them from being
one with nature. The
Center for Disease
Control and Prevention
recommends 30 minutes
of moderately intense
activity every day to be
healthy. Why not spend it
gardening?
According to a report
by the American Institute
for Cancer Research,
gardening is an excellent
form of exercise because it
involves all three types of
physical activity - strength,
endurance and flexibility.
Gardening encourages the
use of motor skills, through
gardening tasks like
digging and planting seeds.
And though some seniors
may have restrictions on
their physical activity,
gardening tasks and
equipment can be modified
to meet their needs.
Because gardening is a
moderate impact workout,
it helps release endorphins
that relieve stress—as does
the beauty of the “Eden”
that you may create in or
outside your home.
It doesn’t take much
money to get your garden
Experts suggest
starting seedlings
inside before moving to
an outdoor garden.
Senior Social Groups
Continued from B1
“We support individual
members’ church activities
and support each other
during personal triumphs
and also when there is
a family crisis.” For
recreation, the group also
enjoys shopping trips to
New York City as well as
treks to the Eastern Shore
to feast on crabs.
Even at a mature age,
many adults and seniors
are continuing to find their
passions—like Iris Steele,
62, who is now pursuing
her doctorate degree at
Morgan State University.
Steele balances going
to school and being the
principal of a Baltimore
County elementary school,
which is no easy task. To
unwind, she often has what
she calls Coffee Klatches.
“It’s just having coffee and
talking… talking about
whatever topic that comes
up,” Steele said. “It helps
to free your brain.”
Along with balancing
school and work, Steele
has no shortage of social
activities. From shopping
with friends in Lancaster,
Pa., to happy hour at
Friday’s, Steele only has
one request of her friends:
“We don’t talk about work
going—and it can save
you money in the end.
With small modifications,
objects that are already
around the house can
be turn in to the perfect
gardening tools. Old food
tubs can be transformed
into planting containers
for your seeds. Old coffee
grounds, and fruit and
vegetable scraps can be
used as compost for your
garden. It is also more cost
efficient to purchase seeds
instead of seedlings and
plants.
Large spaces are not
necessary for a garden;
they can be grown on
rooftops, trellises and
even in small spaces in
and around your home.
Gardens can help spruce
up a living space, eliminate
Black-eyed susans provide bright spots of color.
the need for store-bought
vegetables, and be a hobby.
So, how do you start?
• Before constructing
your garden, survey the
area you have designated
Courtesy Photos/Morguefile
or school,” she said. She
also enjoys going to the
gym and going to the early
service at her church. “It’s
my reflection time with
God. ...It helps me see the
forest beyond the trees.”
Spending time with
family, especially her
daughter, is also an activity
Steele cherishes. “It keeps
me young, it really does,”
she said. And when her
adult daughter, Jade, moved
out of the house after she
bought her own home,
Steele felt the pain. “It
was really ‘Empty Nest
Syndrome.’ I had to find
my own life. The same way
she has her life, I had to
reconnect.” From planning
monthly date nights with
her husband of 34 years to
spending time with friends,
Steele not only reconnected
she was reenergized.
Like Steele many more
seniors are discovering
that finding activities
that work best for them
later in life, whether it’s
going back to school,
planning group trips or
even meeting people
online, is ever important.
While they may be slowing
down physically, they
have found it important to
Spring 2011, The Afro-American SENIORGUIDE B3
for your garden. If you are
planting outside, consult
an USDA Hardiness Zone
map to understand the
climate you are living in.
This map will help you
decide which plants will
flourish in your garden.
If you are planting inside
it would be beneficial to For seniors, gardening can be a hobby that is beneficial to their mental and physical
determine how much sun health as well as their wallets. Stock Photo
and shade the area gets
because this will also help you seedlings. Check the plant and the conditions Now you are ready to
determine what plants acidity of the soil as well necessary for it to grow, dig in and try your hand
will thrive in the garden. as the nutrient levels. including the type of soil, at what is considered to
Physically measuring the Most seed packages degree of moisture and light be one America’s favorite
space will also help you provide information on the and quantity of fertilizer. hobbies.
decide the type of plants to
grow in the garden.
• After you have a
general design for your
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garden, you must decide
where the water will come
from. Will you use a hose
or a watering can?
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receptacles such as egg
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Mr. Skinner, husband of nurse Scipio- Skinner,
presents her with a state of Maryland citation
from Gov. Martin O’Malley.
Karen Scipio-Skinner, RN, MSN,
receives the Black Nurse of the
Year award from Diana Wharton,
RN, BSN, president, Black Nurses
of America, D.C. chapter.
Scholarship recipients Rahnesha White, Brittany
White, Ayesha Ibrahim, Regina Leonard, Christina
Code and Awawu Ojikutu
Volunteers Agnes Ekiti, Rahnesha
White, Brittany Harris, Natasha
Hamilton and Racheal Bonas
C. Alicia Georges, Diana Wharton, Karen Scipio-
Skinner, Juanita Hall and Rev. Gregory Scurlock
The Rev. Keith Byrd, Julia Pitts and Doris Johnson
Paul Coates, Perry Anderson Smith III
and Constance Smith
The Rev. Perry Anderson Smith III
and the Rev. Duane T. Kay
March 26, 2011 - April 1, 2011, The Afro-American C1
By Edgar Brookins FAAN. The event’s highlight came when
AFRO Staff six scholarship recipients were presented
followed by a delectable luncheon. After a
The Black Nurses Association (BNA) powerful speech by C. Alicia Georges, Ed.D,
of the Greater Washington District of RN, FAAN, a professor and chairwoman
Columbia Association (GWDCA) chapter of the Department of Nursing at Lehman
hosted its “31st Annual Salute to the Black College, Gwendolyn Johnson, BS, MA, RNC,
Nurse of the Year and Scholarship Awards presented the 2011 Black Nurse of the
Luncheon” at Martin’s Crosswinds in Year plaque and other accolades to Karen
Greenbelt, Md. Scipio-Skinner.
Juanita Hall, chairwoman of the Program Saxophonist Johnny Johnson, a student
Committee, presided as a processional at Dr. Henry A. Wise High School, provided
kicked off the program, which included the musical entertainment.
seating of founders, the seating of Event speaker C. Alicia
lifetime members, the invocation Georges, Ed.D, RN, FAAN,
by the Rev. Gregory Scurlock and professor/chairwoman,
the singing of “Lift Every Voice Department of Nursing,
and Sing” led by vocalist Robin Lehman College
Strickland.
The program proceeded with
a welcome by chapter President
Diana Wharton, RN, BSN, and
greetings by BNA’s national Karen Scipio-
President Debra Toney, PhD, RN, Skinner, RN,
MSN, 2011
Photos by Black Nurse of
Rob Roberts
the Year and
D.C. chapter
member
Margaret Green
Juanita A.
Hall, RN, BSN,
chairwoman
of the
Program
Debra Toney, PHD, RN, Committee,
FAAN, president of the Lifetime members Mary E. Jones, Dr. Eva Stephens, Nan Hemphill, presiding
National Black Nurses Blanche Newton Finch, Cynthia B. Edwards, Doris A. Huges, Elmira
Association Asogwed, Margaret Green, Judith Jourdain-Earl, Addie Carrington,
Margaret Pemberton, Martha Herrin, Dr. Veronica Clark-Tasker, Velma
Henderson and Barbara J. Patterson
CDR Barbara Fuller, Capt. Norma Hatot, Clarice Gee, Capt.
Tino Merceo-Galindez, Capt. (Ret.) Shirley Zeigler, Capt.
Beverly Dandridge, CDR Janice Davis, RADM Denise
Canton, Lt. Kami Cooper, Lt. CDR Carol Corbie, Capt. Leslie
Jacqueline Batcha, Janice Johnson, Concheeta
Cooper, Capt. Tina Murray, LCDR Fred Echoles and CDR
Wright, Crystal Scott, Nyantakyi Andre, Julia Ugorji,
John David
Violet Gordan and Deirdre Artist
Courtesy Photos
Dr. Sandra Shannon
Dr. Sandra Shannon, Saundra Watkins, Mark
Watkins and Rev. Perry Anderson Smith III
Jacquie Gales Webb
On Feb. 19, the Gwendolyn Britt Senior Activity Center in North Brentwood, Md., was
the scene of a book signing and reception marking the end of a seven-year effort to
chronicle the history of First Baptist Church of North Brentwood, Md., which is over 100
years old.
A Time To Build: History of the First Baptist Church Inc. of North Brentwood Maryland
and the Fifty-Two-Year-Spiritual Journey of Its Pastor, Perry Anderson Smith III, written by
Howard University professor Dr. Sandra G. Shannon, excavates, reconstructs and preserves
the rich history of one of Prince George’s County’s oldest African-American churches.
Also on hand to sign copies and to commemorate the occasion was the church’s former
senior pastor, the Rev. Perry A. Smith III, who served in this capacity for 52 years. Joining
him to offer remarks were Rushern Baker, Prince George's County executive; the Rev. Duane
T. Kay, the church's current senior pastor and Paul
Coates, the book's publisher and owner of Black
Classic Press of Baltimore, Md.
The mistress of ceremony for the afternoon
event was Jacquie Gales Webb, host of the
WHUR FM Sunday afternoon gospel Petrella Robinson
program. The well-attended event was
organized by Kimberli Meadows, a
Kitty Butler and Irene Gray Clarke long time member of First Baptist
Church of North Brentwood
and president of BDG
Public Relations
Firm.
Prince George's County Executive
Kimberli Meadows, Dr. Sandra Shannon, Rev. Perry Rushern Baker, Dr. Sandra Shannon
Anderson Smith III and the Rev. Janet Caldwell and Rev. Perry Anderson Smith III
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Community Omega Psi Phi Members

Honor Late Founders
Local Teen Hosts ‘Jamboree of Art’ For Seniors

Photo by Milbert O. Brown

Bro. Robert Littlejohn Jr. , the second vice grand
basileus in foreground joined other men of Omega Psi
Phi Fraternity to pay a memorial tribute to founder Dr.
Ernest E. Just at his grravesite.

On March 12, the men of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity

Lafayette Wallace Phillips III, a member of the Boy Scouts
Troop 96, hosts an art project for seniors in Northwest
Washington, D.C.
By Gregory Dale
AFRO Staff Writer
Vibrant paintings, created
by the residents of Asbury
Dwellings senior citizen
complex in Northwest D.C.,
were showcased at the
“Jamboree of Contemporary
Art,” held at the apartment
community on March 18.
The event, which
brought together many local
residents, honored the senior
citizens who participated in
recreational art sessions at
the complex in January.
The sessions and the final
showcase were created by
15-year-old Silver Spring,
Md., resident Lafayette
Wallace Phillips III. Phillips,
paid a memorial tribute to two founders, Dr. Ernest E. Just
and professor Frank Coleman, at their gravesites. Over 300
Omega men join together at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery for
the memorial and the beginning of their fraternity's 100th-
Courtesy Photo year celebration. The fraternity was founded at Howard
University in 1911. After the memorial for brothers Just
and Coleman, the men of Omega traveled to the gravesites
of Bishop Edgar A. Love in Baltimore, Md., and Oscar J.
a Boy Scout in Troop 96 at Cooper in Ambler, Pa.
the People’s Community
Baptist Church, created the
event to fulfill a leadership contemporary pieces and the seniors filled in and painted
project that would heighten them.
his rank in the Eagle Scout The teen’s mother, Janis Nero-Phillips, said her son has
program. always shown a strong interest in art, even at a young age.
The teen wanted to She explained that his ultimate goal is to become an animator
ensure his project involved for the Walt Disney Company.
his own church, Asbury “From the age of 5, Wallace was always an artist,” she
United Baptist, and met said. When he was 2, I knew that he had incredible artistic
with his pastor last summer ability because while the other kids were drawing outside the
to develop a project that lines, he was drawing inside the lines very meticulously.”
infused his personal interest And Phillips’ love for art rubbed off on the seniors in the
in art. community. Nero-Phillips said the jamboree was a success,
Thus, the program was as it thrilled the residents to see their own work on display.
born, and he raised funds to “This project was really nice because it’s brought a
purchase materials to bring permanent aspect to the residence because they never had
art back into the lives of the any art on the walls or in the hallways,” she said. “When he
senior citizen residents. did his grand opening art event, the residents were so pleased
During the sessions, and happy that they get to look at the art that they created
Phillips sketched forever.”

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Jazz Pianist Mark Adams ‘Plays’ It Forward

By Gregory Dale instill in your students who Adams: I want to create a enough name recognition, I’ve done with Roy, under my
AFRO Staff Writer may want to pursue a career program in the urban schools I could get grants to help name, I’d be fine.
in music like yourself? and set up an after-school these young Black kids.
When he’s not performing Adams: I try to instill program, because it takes [Additionally], I’ve been “Embellishments: The
alongside music greats such in them that there are no so much time to fit it in the to every country with Roy Q&A Project” will be
as Erykah Badu, Bobbi limitations on what they can school day. I would like to Ayers. My goal is to be able released on April 5. For more
Humphrey and Roy Ayers, do, as long as they don’t allow pick target schools in every to do the same thing under my information, visit: www.
jazz pianist Mark Adams others to set any for them. I city. That’s what I’m working name. But at the end of the robertsmusicgroup.com.
teaches music theory at York also tell them that we are not on now. If I can build up day, if I could do half of what
College and provides free defined by circumstances.
private music lessons to inner-
city youth. After receiving
Poverty doesn’t define us,
wealth doesn’t define us—it’s Joe Willie ‘Pinetop’ Perkins, Bluesman and
his break in the industry, the
40-year-old Baltimore native
ideology that does. Once you
have that set, you can make Oldest Grammy Winner, Dies at 97
has imminent goals to help whatever it is that you want By AFRO Staff position, Perkins helped
others achieve their dreams. to do happen. The only way shaped the band’s sound and
Adams is currently gearing Courtesy Photo to assure failure is to quit. Joe Willie “Pinetop” became famous for his bright
up for the release of his fourth Mark Adams So, I tell them to keep going Perkins, famous bluesman piano solos. Although he
album, Embellishments: The [and] working, and if it gets and the oldest person in acquired notability through
very strong, that will evoke history to win a Grammy his work as a sideman, he
Q&A Project. The AFRO harder, you have to practice
emotions out of your music. award, died at his Austin, struck out on his own in the
spoke to the jazz sensation a little harder. I realized that
That’s been one of the saving Texas home on March 21, ‘90s and released a total of
about his career in jazz, his when you’re hard on kids and
graces for me and it has according to his website. He 15 solo recordings after this
latest project and his ultimate raise the bar for them, they
helped me through so many was 97. move.
plans for the future. raise their expectations on
situations. Roy Ayers would Born in Belzoni, Miss. Perkins earned a handful
themselves. That’s why I love in 1913, Perkins’ began his of Grammy nominations
always say to me when I was
AFRO: Explain how you teaching. It’s a balance for me career playing the piano and throughout his solo career,
younger, “Let yourself go…
got started playing the piano. and it keeps me grounded. the guitar at house parties but snagged the coveted
play, and stop thinking so AP Photo
Mark Adams: My mom and “honyk-tonk” bars. “I award in 2007 for his
much.” It’s about reaction Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins
was a music teacher in AFRO: Let’s talk about didn’t [receive] schooling. collaboration on the album,
and interaction. I also try to another collaboration project.
Baltimore and she showed your ‘Embellishments’ album. I [came] up the hard way in Last of the Great Mississippi
bring the younger people into Perkins received his last
me how to play. Then, I What can listeners expect on the world,” Perkins told The Delta Bluesman: Live
this music…so we don’t get Associated Press during a in Dallas. He was also living honor on Feb. 24,
started taking lessons from this piece?
fazed out of here. 2009 interview. recognized by the Grammys when Mississippi Gov. Haley
this lady that lived up the Adams: I’m going back
After dropping the guitar in 2005, when he received Barbour honored him with a
street. She used to teach the to my roots of jazz. I was Lifetime Achievement Award
AFRO: Speaking of due to an arm injury, he their Lifetime Achievement
neighborhood kids piano and trying to be too commercial for his legacy in the arts.
today’s youth, how do you continued to work throughout Award.
that’s where I started. That’s and it doesn’t work. You don’t Saddened by Perkins’
try to make sure your music the Mississippi Delta in the In February, the musician
where I really learned how to have to dumb down what you 1930s and ‘40s. It was during made musical history passing, friend and fellow
reaches multiple generations?
play and read music. do to try to be commercial this time that he picked up when his Joined at the Hip musician B.B. King reflected
Adams: I try to make it
because Black people [aren’t] the nickname “Pinetop,” a collaborative album with on the performer’s legacy.
danceable and I play the kind
AFRO: What do you want ignorant. They know what moniker he gave himself harmonica player Willie “Big “He was one of the last great
of beats that they would hear Mississippi Bluesman,” King
audiences to get out of your they like and they know what after an earlier blues pianist. Eyes” Smith earned him his
on a typical R&B song. I told the AP. He had such a
performances and bodies of they feel. Even though jazz A landmark moment in third Grammy, making him
[usually] make it instrumental distinctive voice, and he sure
work? is one of the lowest-selling Perkins’ career came in 1969 the oldest person to ever win
because everybody doesn’t when he became the pianist the award. Prior to Perkins’ could play the piano. He will
Adams: Evoked emotion [genres] in the industry,
necessarily need to hear in blues musician Muddy death, Smith told the AP be missed not only by me,
is the main thing. It’s all there’s still a lot of people that
words. That allows them to Waters’ band. Through this that they were in talks about but by lovers of music all
about how [the audience] buy it and like it. So, I did this over the world.”
interpret their own feelings
feels after listening to you. record for them. But I didn’t
and how they take it. I also do
If you can’t make them lose my voice in terms of
cover songs. [Jazz] is a part of
feel anything, you’re doing contemporary jazz.
[young people] and the music
something wrong. So, I try
they listen to stems from it.
to let myself go and put 100 AFRO: What would you
percent into what I’m playing like to accomplish over the
AFRO: What are the
at that moment. If you play course of your career that you
biggest lessons you try to
the music very hard and haven’t already?

Book Review
‘D.C. Unmasked & Undressed: A Memoir
By Kam Williams
Special to the AFRO
When Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginni, placed a
phone call to Anita Hill last
fall asking for an apology for the tawdry
testimony during the Supreme Court confirmation
hearings that almost torpedoed her husband’s
candidacy, little did she know the extent to which
the ill-advised request would only open up a can
of worms. For, not only did Dr. Hill reaffirm her
allegations of sexual harassment, but the rekindled
controversy inspired another credible witness to
step forward, finally, in defense of the sister.
That would be Lillian McEwen, a retired
federal judge who broke a 20-year silence to
announce that she’d dated Justice Thomas for
many years and that her esteemed colleague
and boyfriend had indeed been addicted to
pornography as alleged by Anita
under oath. In fact, Lillian even
went further, confessing that she
and Clarence had both been sex
freaks back in the day, indulging
in threesomes together, and even
copulating in front of strangers at
swingers’ clubs like the legendary
Plato’s Retreat.
What makes Ms. McEwen’s
revelations so damning of Thomas is
that at the time that they were an item,
he was serving as chairman of the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission at
the pleasure of President Reagan. In that capacity,
ironically, he was presumably the top federal
official charged with fielding complaints of sexual
harassment. Yet, according to his ex-lover, he hired an elephantine, ever-erect phallus which felt like
and fired his own female staff members based on
their appeal as prospective sex partners and their
tolerance of his awkward advances.
Curiously, back in 1991, then Sen. Joe Biden
declined McEwen’s offer to appear before the
Judiciary Committee investigating Clarence.
Today, she still feels that the nation would’ve been
this juicy memoir which blows the sheets off her
lascivious liaisons with Clarence as well as a
number of other Washington, D.C. political power
brokers. The jaw-dropping tell-all is reminiscent
of Karrine Steffans’ Confessions of a Video Vixen,
which exposed the wanton debauchery of many a
Hollywood icon.
Here, hedonistic Judge McEwen recounts
raunchy romps ranging from the conventional to
the kinky, including wife-swapping, threesomes,
group gropes, and even a homoerotic session
with a couple of brothers ostensibly on the down-
low. As if on truth serum, the author almost
compulsively admits to such conduct unbecoming
as cheating on her first husband while she was
pregnant and climaxing a half-dozen times in a
strip club while receiving a lesbian lap dance and
being pawed by aroused customers.
To her literary credit, Judge
McEwen does exhibit a romance
novelist’s flair for the sensual, deftly
turning a profusion of titillating
euphemisms, whether she’s being
“kissed into oblivion” or inducing
“a symphony of soft moans” from a
satisfied lover. When not imaginatively
invoking readers to the point of arousal,
she devotes considerable time to
reflecting upon the abusive childhood
which apparently triggered the
Courtesy Image insatiable, lifelong lust in her loins.
This trait might have made the
similarly-damaged and sex-driven Clarence
Thomas her ideal mate had it not been for his
right-wing political philosophy. Instead, despite
his prodigious performance in the sack courtesy of
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could no longer ignore “the speeches you give all
over the country.”
She especially didn’t care for “The
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spared the arch-conservative’s serving as the swing “[N-words] and flies, I do despise. The more I see DIRECTED
vote on so many the Supreme Court decisions had [N-words], the more I like flies.” The African-
Committee Chairman Biden merely opted to allow American community owes a debt of gratitude to
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her to testify about the “real Clarence” rather than
inexplicably run interference for the embattled
nominee.
Consequently, the previously-promiscuous
jurist has had to settle for belatedly publishing
Lillian McEwen for correcting the historical record
with this salacious page-turner confirming most
folks’ suspicions regarding a self-hating Uncle
Tom whose sordid sexcapades give a whole new
meaning to the phrase “Here come da judge!”
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PBS Series Honors Dr. Bernard Harris, First African-American to Walk in Space
Established “Going for the Launch” summer camp at Howard U. to expose kids to rocket science
By Michael Crutchfield Carter Blount’s face was pensive American to walk in space. Black community, Harris told an the program has not yet been
Special to the AFRO and inspired as he prepared to As a part of the PBS audience March 16 at Howard announced.
hear Dr. Bernard Harris give an “HistoryMakers” series, which University a story of triumph Harris spoke of the influences
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“I considered myself one of
the earliest space cadets when
I was young,” said Harris. “It’s
always been a part of my life.”
Although it was a goal
already set in his mind, his hope
wasn’t something he shared
with everyone. “At that time in
the 1960s, African Americans
weren’t going to space so rather
than having people tell me I
couldn’t do it, I kept it a secret,”
said Harris.
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Faith Pulse
Pilgrim Baptist Celebrates Centennial and Pastor’s Anniversary in April
Pilgrim Baptist Church,
a historic institution in the
District’s faith community,
will celebrate its 100th year
of existence at the 21st
anniversary of the Rev. Louis
B. Jones II’s leadership April
3-May 1.
George Bray founded
Pilgrim Baptist from
Rehoboth Baptist Church
on March 29, 1911, when
he and 75 worshippers met
in Southwest Washington’s
Faith Chapel and organized
their new place of worship.
Since that time, five pastors
have led the church, which
boasts a “legacy of traditional Providence St. John Baptist
Baptist” worship style.
Pilgrim Baptist is located
at 700 I St., N.E., D.C.
Celebratory events take place
at the following times:
April 3
Centennial Kick-Off
100th Anniversary of the
Pilgrim Baptist Church
21st anniversary of Louis
B. Jones II, pastor
 April 13
7:30 p.m.  Guy A. Williams, pastor,
Saluting First
Lady Michelle Jones
Guest Preacher, the Rev.
George Gilbert Sr., pastor,
Holy Trinity United Baptist
Church.
 
April 29
7:00 p.m.
Formal Dinner Gala
Courtesy Photo Camelot Ballroom,
Rev. Louis B. Jones II 13905 Central Ave., Upper
  Marlboro, Md.
7:30 a.m. Master of Ceremony, the
Rev. Patrick J. Walker, pastor
Guest Preacher, the Rev.
Phillip L. Pointer Sr., pastor, , New Macedonia Baptist
Church
Guest artist, Grammy
Church
  Award-winning Lady
11 a.m. Tramaine Hawkins and
D.C.’s own Critical
Guest Preacher, the Rev.
Dr. Carroll A. Baltimore Revelation Band
Sr., president Progressive Guest Preacher, the Rev.
National Baptist Convention Dr. Leonard N. Smith, pastor,
  Mt. Zion Baptist Church in
4 p.m. Arlington, Va.
Guest Preacher, Overseer  
Lanier Tywman, pastor, St. May 1
Stephens Baptist Church 7:30 a.m.
Guest Preacher, the Rev. 11 a.m. 4 p.m.
Guest Preacher, the Rev. Guest Preacher, Dr.
Parker Memorial Baptist A. Michael Black, pastor, Haywood A. Robinson
Church Westwood Baptist Church III, pastor, Peoples
    Community Baptist Church
Reverend Dr. R. Clinton Washington
Reverend Dr. R. Clinton Washington (Pastor Washington) was born in Fauquier
County, Virginia on November 2, 1935. He was the eldest of 9 children born to
Deacon Robert L. Washington (deceased) and Mrs. Gladys Washington.
He was educated in the Fauquier County public school system. At an early
age Pastor Washington was baptized by the Late Rev. J.P. Baltimore and became a
member of the Mt. Morris Baptist Church in Hume, Virginia.
In 1953 his family moved to Washington, D.C., where he united with the
Jerusalem Baptist Church under the leadership of the late Rev. Augustus Lewis.
Pastor Washington was a member of the Fellowship and Dramatic Guild, Gospel
Chorus, Senior Usher Board and Male Chorus. He served faithfully in the above
capacities until the Church recommended that he serve as a trial Deacon, and
was later made a full pledge deacon of Jerusalem Baptist Church. Because of his
faithfulness as a Deacon he was promoted to the position of Acting Chairman of the
Deacon Board.
Pastor Washington married the love of his life, Lois R. Gilbert on September 7, 1958, and from this union, four
children was born.
In February 1966, Pastor Washington delivered his initial sermon and was ordained as a Minister on February 18,
1967. In just a short period of time, he was elected to serve as Acting Pastor in 1968 and by unanimous decision was
selected Pastor of Jerusalem Baptist Church on January 31, 1968 where he served as Pastor for 40 years and maintained
the title of Pastor Emeritus until his death.
During his Pastoral ministry, the church grew spiritually, numerically, and financially. He instituted the Augustus
Lewis Memorial Scholarship Fund, New Membership Orientation, Men and Woman’s Ministry, Feeding Ministry for the
Homeless, Single’s Ministry, Youth and Children Ministry, and he incorporated the Christian Education Ministry. Pastor
Washington was a person who identified with persons from all walks of life.
Pastor Washington was a graduate of the Washington Baptist Seminary; Urban Institute, School of Religion, Howard
University; Inter-Met Theological Seminary, Hampton University Minister’s Conference. In 1988, Pastor Washington
received an Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree from the Richmond Virginia Seminary.
During his ministry, Pastor Washington served faithfully in the following organizations:
• Former Treasurer, Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNBC);
• Executive Board Member, PNBC;
• Trustee, PNBC;
• Member, Finance and Property Committee, PNBC;

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• Former President, Baptist Convention of D.C. & Vicinity;
• Executive Board Stoddard Baptist Home
• Member Mt. Bethel Baptist Association

Metropolitan Memorial • Former President, Baptist Educational Congress, Washington, D.C.

Organist Eileen Guenther, soprano Millicent Scarlett and tenor Robert
Baker will present “The Power of Spirituals,” music interspersed with
commentary and slave narratives, at 4 p.m. April 10. An art show opening
and reception follow. A free-will offering benefits Little Angels, a home in
South Africa for abandoned and abused children. Metropolitan Memorial
United Methodist Church is located at 3401 Nebraska Ave., N.W. For more
information, call 202-363-4900.
• Treasurer (23 years) Baptist Ministers Conference of D.C. & Vicinity
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shall bebe
sented to the under-
signed with a copy to the
WASHINGTON AFRO-AMERICAN-NEWSPAPER
filed with the Register of Register of Wills or filed
Wills, D.C., 515 5th with the Register of Wills
Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .
with a copy to the under-
signed, on or before
Legal Advertising Rates
20001, on or before
September 11, 2011.
September 11, 2011, or
be forever barred. Per- Effective October 1, 2006
Claims against the de- sons believed to be
cedent shall be pre- heirs or legatees of the
sented to the under- decedent who do not re- PROBATE DIVISION
signed with a copy to the ceive a copy of this no-
Register of Wills or filed
with the Register of Wills
tice by mail within 25
days of its first publica-
(Estates)
with a copy to the under-
signed, on or before
tion shall so inform the
Register of Wills, includ-
202-879-9460/61
September 11, 2011 or ing name, address and
be forever barred. Per- relationship.
sons believed to be Date of Publication:
heirs or legatees of the March 11, 2011 PROBATE NOTICES
decedent who do not re-
ceive a copy of this no-
Name of newspaper:
Afro-American
tice by mail within 25 Washington Law
a. Order Nisi $ 60 per insertion $180.00 per 3 weeks
days of its first publica- Reporter b. Small Estates (single publication) $ 50 per insertion
tion shall so inform the Shirley Rivens Smith
Register of Wills, includ- Personal
c. Notice to Creditors
ing name, address and Representative 1. Domestic $ 60 per insertion $ 180.00 per 3 weeks
relationship. 202-635-3138
Date of Publication: 2. Foreign $ 60 per insertion $ 180.00 per 3 weeks
TRUE TEST COPY
March 11, 2011 REGISTER OF WILLS d. Escheated Estates $ 60 per insertion $ 360.00 per 6 weeks
Name of newspaper: 3/11, 3/18, 3/25 e. Standard Probates
Afro-American $ 125.00
Washington Law Superior Court of
Reporter the District of
Ann H. Ressing Columbia CIVIL NOTICES
Personal Civil Division
Case No. 1731-2011
Representative $ 80.00
TRUE TEST COPY IN RE: a. Name Changes 202-879-1133
REGISTER OF WILLS Konstantin Steven b. Real Property $ 200.00
3/11, 3/18, 3/25 Baugh-Ruschman
Applicant
Superior Court of ORDER OF
the District of PUBLICATION FAMILY COURT
District of Columbia CHANGE OF NAME
PROBATE DIVISION 202-879-1212
Konstantin Steven
Washington, D.C. Baugh-Ruschman hav-
20001-2131 ing filed a complaint for
Administration No. judgment changing DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Superior Court of
2011ADM154 Konstantin Steven
ROSA LEE ABNEY Baugh-Ruschman name
202-879-0157 the District of
District of Columbia
Decedent to Constantine Steven Superior Court of PROBATE DIVISION
Archie L. Palmore Baugh-Ruschman and a. Absent Defendant the District of $ 150.00
Esq having applied to the
Washington, D.C.
b. Absolute Divorce District of Columbia 20001-2131 $ 150.00
Metro-Plex II, court for an Order of
8201 Corporate Drive Publication of the notice c. Custody Divorce PROBATE DIVISION
Washington, D.C.
Administration No.
2011ADM189
$ 150.00
Suite 1120 required by law in such
Landover MD 20785 cases; it is by the Court
20001-2131 Edythe Perguson
Attorney this 7th day of March
Administration No. Decedent
NOTICE OF To place 2011ADM170 Thomas L Campbell,
your ad, call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 262
2011, hereby. Donald J. Rooney Esq
APPOINTMENT, ORDERED, that all per- SUPERIOR COURT OF Public Notices $50.00 & up depending on size Superior Court of
NOTICE TO sons concerned show
Decedent 3807 Minnesota Ave the District of
CREDITORS cause, if any there be,
THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA
Baltimore
Anthony P.Legal
12604
NoticesNE
Interdonato are $24.15 per inch. District of Columbia
AND NOTICE TO on or before the 6th day PROBATE DIVISION
ThereGlen is no Road
flat rate —Washington
1-800 (AFRO) DC 20019
892 PROBATE DIVISION
UNKNOWN HEIRS Potomac, MD 20854 Attorney Washington, D.C.
of April 2011, why the For
Washington, D.C. Proof of Publication,
Attorney please call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 244
Denise Brown, whose NOTICE OF 20001-2131
prayers of said com-
address is 2300 Good plaint should not be
20001-2131 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, Administration No.
Administration No. APPOINTMENT,
LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICES TO 2011ADM168
Hope Road SE, Apt. 512 granted; provided that a LEGAL
LEGAL
NOTICES
NOTICES
2011ADM184 LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES Lawrence LEGAL NOTICES
LEGAL NOTICES
Washington DC 20020 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Lee Jones
copy of this order be Estate of CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO Decedent
was appointed personal published once a week
representative of the for three consecutive
Elizabeth Anne AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Darrel S. Parker
Osborne UNKNOWN HEIRS Angela Walker Suttles, 1822-11th Street NW
estate of Rosa Lee weeks before said day Deceased
Walter F. Rooney, whose ad- whose address is 4820 Washington DC 20001
Abney, who died on in the Afro-American NOTICE OF dress is 500 Crestwood Dix Street, NE Washing- Attorney
September 20, 2010 newspaper. STANDARD Drive #1304, Charlottesville
without a will, and will JUDGE VA. 22903 was appointed
ton DC 20019 was ap- NOTICE OF
serve without Court su- A TRUE COPY TEST:
PROBATE
Notice is hereby given
personal representative of pointed personal repre-
sentative of the estate of
APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO
pervision. All unknown the estate of Donald J.
heirs and heirs whose
3/18, 3/25, 4/1 that a petition has been Rooney, who died on Feb- Edythe Ferguson, who CREDITORS
filed in this Court by died on February 8, AND NOTICE TO
whereabouts are un- Superior Court of Leonard C. Pederson Jr.
ruary 8, 2011 with a will, and
will serve without Court su-
2011 with a will, and will UNKNOWN HEIRS
known shall enter their the District of for standard probate, pervision. All unknown heirs serve without Court su- Yv o n n e P D u n c a n ,
appearance in this Columbia including the appoint- a n d h e i r s w h o s e
pervision. All unknown whose address is 1843-
proceeding. Objections Civil Division whereabouts are unknown
to such appointment Case No. 0001888-11
ment of one or more shall enter their appearance heirs and heirs whose 24th Street NE, #102
personal representative. whereabouts are un- Washington DC 20002
shall be filed with the IN RE: Unless a complaint or
in this proceeding. Objec-
tions to such appointment known shall enter their was appointed personal
Register of Wills, D.C., LaVatte Daisy an objection in accor- (or to the probate of de- appearance in this representative of the
515 5th Street, N.W., Johnson
3rd Floor Washington, Applicant
dance with Superior cedent¬s
cedent’s will)
will) shall be filed
shall be proceeding. Objections estate of Lawrence Lee
Court Probate Division with the Register of Wills,
D.C. 20001, on or be- ORDER OF D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W.,
to such appointment (or Jones, who died on
Rule 407 is filed in this to the probate of de- December 2, 2010 with
fore September 11, PUBLICATION
Court within 30 days
3rd Floor Washington, D.C.
cedent’s
cedent¬s will)
will) shall be a will, and will serve
shall be
2011. Claims against the CHANGE OF NAME 20001, on or before
LaVatte Daisy Johnson
from the date of first September 18, 2011. Claims filed with the Register of without Court supervi-
decedent shall be pre- publication of this notice,
sented to the under- having filed a complaint against the decedent shall Wills, D.C., 515 5th sion. All unknown heirs
the Court may take the be presented to the under- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor a n d h e i r s w h o s e
signed with a copy to the for judgment changing
action hereinafter set signed with a copy to the Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . whereabouts are un-
Register of Wills or filed LaVatte Daisy Johnson Register of Wills or filed with
forth. 20001, on or before known shall enter their
with the Register of Wills name to LaVatte Daisy the Register of Wills with a
Ordered any interested September 18, 2011. appearance in this
0
with a copy to the under- Turner and having ap- copy to the undersigned, on
signed, on or before plied to the court for an
person to show cause or before September 18, Claims against the de- proceeding. Objections
why the provisions of 2011, or be forever barred. cedent shall be pre- to such appointment (or
September 11, 2011, or Order of Publication of
the lost or destroyed will Persons believed to be heirs sented to the under- to the probate of de-
be forever barred. Per- the notice required by
dated October 8, 2009 or legatees of the decedent signed with a copy to the cedent¬s will) shall
cedent’s will) shall be
be
sons believed to be law in such cases; it is
should not be admitted who do not receive a copy Register of Wills or filed filed with the Register of
heirs or legatees of the
decedent who do not re-
by the Court this 11th
day of March 2011,
to probate as expressed of this notice by mail within
25 days of its first publica- with the Register of Wills Wills, D.C., 515 5th
ceive a copy of this no- hereby.
in the petition tion shall so inform the Reg- with a copy to the under- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
Register of Wills signed, on or before Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .
tice by mail within 25 ORDERED, that all per-
Clerk of the
ister of Wills, including
sons concerned show name, address and relation- September 18, 2011, or 20001, on or before
days of its first publica- Probate Division ship. be forever barred. Per- September 18, 2011.
tion shall so inform the cause, if any there be,
Register of Wills, includ- on or before the 18th
Date of First Publication Date of Publication: sons believed to be Claims against the de-
ing name, address and day of April 2011, why
March 18, 2011 March
Name
18,
of
2011
newspaper:
heirs or legatees of the cedent shall be pre-
Names of Newspapers: decedent who do not re- sented to the under-
relationship. the prayers of said com-
Washington
Afro-American
plaint should not be Washington Law ceive a copy of this no- signed with a copy to the
Date of Publication: Law Reporter Reporter tice by mail within 25 Register of Wills or filed
March 11, 2011 granted; provided that a
Name of newspaper: copy of this order be
Washington Walter F. Rooney days of its first publica- with the Register of Wills
AFRO-AMERICAN Personal tion shall so inform the with a copy to the under-
Afro-American published once a week
Leonard Pederson Jr. Representative Register of Wills, includ- signed, on or before
Washington Law for three consecutive
5039 Connecticut Ave 434-984-0881
ing name, address and September 18, 2011, or
Reporter weeks before said day TRUE TEST COPY
Denise Brown in the Afro-American
NW Bldg 3 REGISTER OF WILLS relationship. be forever barred. Per-
Washington DC 20008 sons believed to be
Personal Newspapers. 3/18, 3/25, 4/1 Date of Publication:
Representative 0
that pursuant to SCR- Signature of March 18, 2011 heirs or legatees of the
205(b) notice be sent to Petitioners/Attorney Superior Court of Name of newspaper: decedent who do not re-
TRUE TEST COPY
REGISTER OF WILLS the applicant's creditors 3/18, 3/25, 4/1 the District of Afro-American ceive a copy of this no-
tice by mail within 25
3/11, 3/18, 3/25 by registered or certified Superior Court of
District of Columbia Washington
PROBATE DIVISION Law Reporter days of its first publica-
Superior Court of
mail and that proof of the District of
Washington, D.C. Angela Walker Suttles tion shall so inform the
service of mailing be District of Columbia
the District of made in the manner pro- 20001-2131 Personal Register of Wills, includ-
PROBATE DIVISION
District of Columbia Administration No. Representative ing name, address and
PROBATE DIVISION
vided in SCR Probate Washington, D.C.
2011ADM189 TRUE TEST COPY relationship.
Rule 19(b).
Washington, D.C. JUDGE
20001-2131
Administration No.
Edythe Perguson
Edythe Ferguson REGISTER OF WILLS Date of Publication:
20001-2131 Decedent 3/18, 3/25, 4/1 March 18, 2011
Administration No.
A TRUE COPY TEST: 2011ADM170
Thomas L Campbell, Name of newspaper:
2011ADM149
3/18, 3/25, 4/1 Donald J. Rooney
Esq Superior Court of Afro-American
Decedent the District of Washington Law
Hubert P Rivens SUPERIOR COURT OF 3807 Minnesota Ave
Anthony P. Interdonato District of Columbia Reporter
aka THE DISTRICT OF 12604 Glen Road
NE
Hubert Pressley COLUMBIA Washington DC 20019 PROBATE DIVISION Yvonne P. Duncan
Potomac, MD 20854
Attorney Washington, D.C. Personal
Rivens PROBATE DIVISION Attorney
Decedent Washington, D.C. NOTICE OF 20001-2131 Representative
NOTICE OF Administration No. 202-399-7969
Theodora H. Brown 20001-2131 APPOINTMENT,
APPOINTMENT,
2011ADM168
Esq Administration No. NOTICE TO
NOTICE TO TRUE TEST COPY
Law Office of 2011ADM184 CREDITORS Lawrence Lee Jones REGISTER OF WILLS
CREDITORS Decedent 3/18, 3/25, 4/1
Theodora H Brown Estate of AND NOTICE TO
AND NOTICE TO Darrel S. Parker
PLLC Elizabeth Anne UNKNOWN HEIRS
UNKNOWN HEIRS
3127 Cherry Road NE Osborne Walter F. Rooney, whose ad- Angela Walker Suttles, 1822-11th Street NW
Washington DC 20018 Deceased dress is 500 Crestwood whose address is 4820 Washington DC 20001
Attorney NOTICE OF Drive #1304, Charlottesville Dix Street, NE Washing- Attorney
NOTICE OF STANDARD VA. 22903 was appointed ton DC 20019 was ap- NOTICE OF

LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES
Superior Court of Superior Court of
the District of the District of
District of Columbia Columbia
PROBATE DIVISION Civil Division
Washington, D.C. Case No. 0001872-11
20001-2131 IN RE:
Administration No. EVA IZABELA PEÑA
2011ADM211 RAU
Homero C. Lurns Applicant
Decedent ORDER OF
David Booth Beers, PUBLICATION
Esq CHANGE OF NAME
Goodwin Procter LLP Sandra Monique Rau
901 New York Avenue having filed a complaint
NW Washington DC for judgment changing
20001 EVA IZABELA PEÑA
Attorney RAU name to EVA
NOTICE OF IZABELA DELA PEÑA
APPOINTMENT, and having applied to
NOTICE TO the court for an Order of
CREDITORS Publication of the notice
AND NOTICE TO required by law in such
UNKNOWN HEIRS cases; it is by the Court
Bernard A. LeBeau, this 11th day of March
whose address is 3640 2011.
Fessenden Street NW ORDERED, that all per-
Washington DC 20008 sons concerned show
was appointed personal cause, if any there be,
representative of the on or before the 15th
estate of Homero C. day of April 2011, why
Lurns, who died on July the prayers of said com-
21, 2010 with a will, and plaint should not be
will serve without Court granted; provided that a
supervision. All un- copy of this order be
known heirs and heirs published once a week
whose whereabouts are for three consecutive
unknown shall enter weeks before said day
their appearance in this in the Afro-American
proceeding. Objections Newspaper.
to such appointment (or JUDGE
to the probate of de- A TRUE COPY TEST:
cedent¬s will) shall
cedent’s will) shall bebe 3/25, 4/1, 4/8
filed with the Register of
Wills, D.C., 515 5th Superior Court of
Street, N.W., 3rd Floor the District of
Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . District of Columbia
20001, on or before PROBATE DIVISION
March 18, 2011. Claims Washington, D.C.
against the decedent 20001-2131
shall be presented to the Administration No.
undersigned with a copy 2011ADM210
to the Register of Wills Michael McCall
or filed with the Register Decedent
of Wills with a copy to NOTICE OF
the undersigned, on or APPOINTMENT,
before March 18, 2011, NOTICE TO
or be forever barred. CREDITORS
Persons believed to be AND NOTICE TO
heirs or legatees of the UNKNOWN HEIRS
decedent who do not re- Wanda McCall, whose ad-
ceive a copy of this no- dress is 3104 Needleleaf
tice by mail within 25 Lane, Springdale, MD
20774 was appointed per-
days of its first publica- sonal representative of the
tion shall so inform the estate of Michael McCall,
Register of Wills, includ- who died on December 24,
ing name, address and 2010 without a will, and will
relationship. serve without Court supervi-
Date of Publication: sion. All unknown heirs and
heirs whose whereabouts
March 18, 2011
Name of newspaper:
are unknown shall enter
their appearance in this
Afro-American proceeding. Objections to
Washington Law such appointment shall be
Reporter filed with the Register of
Bernard A. LeBeau Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street,
N.W., 3rd Floor Washington,
Personal
D.C. 20001, on or before
Representative
September 25, 2011. Claims
202-686-1433 against the decedent shall
TRUE TEST COPY be presented to the under-
REGISTER OF WILLS signed with a copy to the
3/18, 3/25, 4/1 Register of Wills or filed with
the Register of Wills with a
Superior Court of copy to the undersigned, on
the District of or before September 25,
District of Columbia 2011, or be forever barred.
Persons believed to be heirs
PROBATE DIVISION or legatees of the decedent
Washington, D.C.
who do not receive a copy
20001-2131 of this notice by mail within
Administration No. 25 days of its first publica-
2011ADM200 tion shall so inform the Reg-
Samuel L. Davis ister of Wills, including
name, address and relation-
Decedent
ship.
Willie Faye Garrett Date of Publication:
Attorney March 25, 2011
NOTICE OF Name of newspaper:
APPOINTMENT, Afro-American
NOTICE TO Washington Law
Reporter
CREDITORS
Wanda McCall
AND NOTICE TO Personal
UNKNOWN HEIRS Representative
Carol A. Hooks and 301-772-8131
TRUE TEST COPY
Sandra D. Dunaway,
whose address(es) are REGISTER OF WILLS
3/25, 4/1, 4/8
3136 Berry Road, NE
Washington DC 20018 Superior Court of
and 1271 Goldmine Ct. the District of
Landover, MD 20785 District of Columbia
were appointed per-
PROBATE DIVISION
sonal representative(s) Washington, D.C.
of the estate of Samuel 20001-2131
L. Davis, who died on Administration No.
November 9, 2010 with-
2011ADM201
out a will, and will serve Ophelia Janie Thomas
without Court supervi-
Decedent
sion. All unknown heirs NOTICE OF
and heirs whose APPOINTMENT,
whereabouts are un- NOTICE TO
known shall enter their CREDITORS
appearance in this AND NOTICE TO
proceeding. Objections UNKNOWN HEIRS
to such appointment Mercelle Davis, whose
shall be filed with the address is 5203 Kansas
Register of Wills, D.C., Ave., NW Washington
515 5th Street, N.W., DC 20011 was ap-
3rd Floor Washington, pointed personal repre-
D.C. 20001, on or be- sentative of the estate of
fore September 25,
Ophelia Janie Thomas,
2011. Claims against the who died on October 1,
decedent shall be pre- 2010 without a will, and
sented to the under- will serve with Court su-
signed with a copy to the pervision. All unknown
Register of Wills or filed heirs and heirs whose
with the Register of Wills
whereabouts are un-
with a copy to the under- known shall enter their
signed, on or before appearance in this
September 25, 2011, or proceeding. Objections
be forever barred. Per- to such appointment
sons believed to be shall be filed with the
heirs or legatees of the
Register of Wills, D.C.,
decedent who do not re- 515 5th Street, N.W.,
ceive a copy of this no- 3rd Floor Washington,
tice by mail within 25 D.C. 20001, on or be-
days of its first publica- fore September 25,
tion shall so inform the
Register of Wills, includ-
2011. Claims against the
decedent shall be pre-
ing name, address and
sented to the under-
relationship. signed with a copy to the
Date of Publication: Register of Wills or filed
March 25, 2011 with the Register of Wills
Name of newspaper:
Afro-American
with a copy to the under-
signed, on or before
Washington Law September 25, 2011, or
Reporter
Carol A. Hooks
be forever barred. Per-
sons believed to be
Sandra D. Dunaway heirs or legatees of the
Personal
Representative
decedent who do not re-
ceive a copy of this no-
292-403-4606 tice by mail within 25
240-691-1901
TRUE TEST COPY
days of its first publica-
tion shall so inform the
REGISTER OF WILLS Register of Wills, includ-
3/25, 4/1, 4/8 ing name, address and
relationship.
Date of Publication:
March 25, 2011
YOU KNOW YOU’RE IN THE KNOW...
Name of newspaper:
Afro-American
Washington Law
WHEN YOU READ THE AFRO
Reporter
Mercelle Davis
Personal
Representative
202-291-3417
TRUE TEST COPY
REGISTER OF WILLS
3/25, 4/1, 4/8
SUBSCRIBE
TODAY!
Code ß47-1375, the object
of this proceeding is to se-
cure the foreclosure of the
right of redemption in the
following real property, lo-
cated in the District of
Columbia, andThe soldAfro-American,
by the March 26, 2011 - Apirl 1, 2011, The Afro-American D3
Mayor of the District of
LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES Columbia LEGAL to NOTICES
the Plaintiff(s)
in this action, described as
Superior Court of Superior Court of lot number 0007 in Square
the District of the District of 4140, in the subdivision
District of Columbia District of Columbia known as Brookland,
PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION situated on a vacant lot at
Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.
20001-2131
the southwest corner of 17th
20001-2131
Administration No. Administration No. and Jackson Streets, NE,
2011ADM217 2011ADM197 across the street from hous-
Rosie A. McCray Edrie B. Davis ing units located at 1700
Decedent aka Jackson Street NE. (Square
Joseph J. Gigliotti Edrie Belle Davis 4128, Lot 0008) and 1701
5707 East West Decedent Jackson Street NE, (Square
Highway Thomas L. Campbell, 4142, Lot 0019), beside
Riverdale, MD 20737 Esq
3807 Minnesota Ave property located at 1611
Attorney
NOTICE OF NE Jackson Street, NE (Square
APPOINTMENT, Washington DC 20019 4140, Lot 0011) and directly
NOTICE TO Attorney properties located at 1604
CREDITORS NOTICE OF Ft. Place, NE. (Square
AND NOTICE TO APPOINTMENT, 4140, Lot 0004) and 3180
UNKNOWN HEIRS NOTICE TO 17th Street, NE (Concord
Letita McCray, whose CREDITORS Baptist Church) (Square
address is 5007 Illinois AND NOTICE TO
UNKNOWN HEIRS 4140, Lot 0001). The com-
Avenue NW, Washing-
ton DC 20001 was ap- Belinda Stroman, whose plaint states, among other
pointed personal repre- address is 591 Bain- things, that the amounts
sentative of the estate of bridge Street, Brooklyn, necessary for redemption
Rosie A. McCray, who NY 11233 was ap- have not been paid.
died on December 22, pointed personal repre- Pursuant to the Chief
2007 without a will, and sentative(s) of the estate Judge¬s AdministrationOr-Or-
Judge’s Administration
will serve without Court of Edrie B. Davis aka der Number 02-11, it is this
supervision. All un- Edrie Belle Davis, who
known heirs and heirs died on January 26, 10th day of March, 2011..
whose whereabouts are 2011 with a will, and will ORDERED by the Superior
unknown shall enter serve without Court su- Court of the District of
their appearance in this pervision. All unknown Columbia, that notice be
proceeding. Objections heirs and heirs whose given by the insertion of a
to such appointment whereabouts are un- copy of this order in The
shall be filed with the known shall enter their Afro-American Newspaper,
Register of Wills, D.C., appearance in this having a general circulation
515 5th Street, N.W., proceeding. Objections
3rd Floor Washington, to such appointment (or in the District of Columbia,
D.C. 20001, on or be- to the probate of de- once a week for three (3)
fore September 25, cedent¬s will) shall
cedent’s will) shall bebe successive weeks, notifying
2011. Claims against the filed with the Register of all person(s) interested in
decedent shall be pre- Wills, D.C., 515 5th the real property described
sented to the under- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor above to appear in this
signed with a copy to the Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . Court by the 1st day of June,
Register of Wills or filed 20001, on or before
September 25, 2011.
2011, and redeem the real
with the Register of Wills
with a copy to the under- Claims against the de- property by payment of
signed, on or before cedent shall be pre- $1,073.60 together with real
September 25, 2011, or sented to the under- estate taxes assessed and
be forever barred. Per- signed with a copy to the interest and penalties
sons believed to be Register of Wills or filed thereon from the date the
heirs or legatees of the with the Register of Wills real property tax certificate
decedent who do not re- with a copy to the under- was purchased; court costs,
ceive a copy of this no- signed, on or before
tice by mail within 25 September 25, 2011, or and reasonable attorney's
days of its first publica- be forever barred. Per- fees, expenses incurred in SUPPORT OUR
ADVERTISERS
tion shall so inform the sons believed to be the publication and service
Register of Wills, includ- heirs or legatees of the of process by publication
decedent who do not re- and for reasonable fees for
ing name, address and
relationship. ceive a copy of this no- the title search, all other
Date of Publication: tice by mail within 25 amounts paid by the peti-
March 25, 2011 days of its first publica- tioner in accordance with the
Name of newspaper: tion shall so inform the
Afro-American Register of Wills, includ- provisions of D.C. Code
ing name, address and ß47-1361 §47-1361 through 1377 et.
Washington Law
Reporter relationship. seq., (2001 ed.),or answer
Letita McCray Date of Publication: the complaint, or thereafter,
Personal March 25, 2011 a final judgment will be en-
Representative Name of newspaper: tered foreclosing the right of
202-882-2392 Afro-American
redemption in the real prop-
TRUE TEST COPY Washington Law erty and vesting in the
REGISTER OF WILLS Reporter
Belinda Stroman plaintiff title in fee simple.
3/25, 4/1, 4/8
Personal /s/ Joseph I Beshouri
Superior Court of Representative Magistrate Judge
the District of
202-388-7794 3/25/, 4/1, 4/8
District of Columbia TRUE TEST COPY
PROBATE DIVISION REGISTER OF WILLS
Washington, D.C. 3/25, 4/1, 4/8 Invitation to Attend
20001-2131 CherryHill
Cherry HillConstruction’s
Construction¬s MBE/WBE
MBE/WBE Outreach
Outreach
Cherry Hill Construction, Inc. will be hosting an
Administration No. IN THE SUPERIOR
2010ADM1197 outreach event for MBE & WBE subcontracting
COURT OF THE firms at our main office located at 8211 Washing-
Fannie P. Singletary DISTRICT OF
Decedent ton Blvd Jessup, MD 20794. The event will be held
COLUMBIA on April 29th 2011 from 8-11 am and 1-4 pm.
Brenda L. Hopkins, CIVIL DIVISION
Esq There is limited space available and interested
Civil Action No. firms are asked to RSVP for one of the two time
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Washington DC 20017 slots by April 1st, 2011. Please go to our website;
Magistrate Judge www.cherryhillconstruction.com under the tab
Attorney J.B. Beshouri ∫Plan Room∫ to RSVP. Please contact Tim Gilmore
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NOTICE OF Next Event: at 410-799-2362 for additional information.
APPOINTMENT, Status Hearing
NOTICE TO
May 4, 2011 at 10:00am
CREDITORS Wiper Corporation
Johnston Construction requests M/W/DBE quotes
AND NOTICE TO 17962 Foxborough Lane
UNKNOWN HEIRS for civil,site,mechanical & electrical work as well
Boca Raton, FL 33496-
as the supply of related materials for WTP in
Ryan L. Singletary, 1321
whose address is 1391 PLAINTIFF Severna Park, MD. Quotes & scopes required by
v. 3/28. Contact: 717 292-3606 or aa@jcc-ri.com.
Pennsylvania Avenue
The ESTATE OF
SE Apt No 356 THEODOSIA MURRISH
Washington DC 20003, Serve: The Estate of William
was appointed personal E. Murrish NOTICE TO
representative of the c/o Gary Murrish Executor BIDDERS
estate of Fannie P. 4747 Maytime Lane
Culver City, California
Singletary, who died on The Pocomoke City Housing Authority will receive
90230 separate sealed bids for rehabilitation for one (1)
November 1, 2010 with- GARY MURRISH
out a will, and will serve 4747 Maytime Lane houses until 4:00 pm April 17, 2011 at which time
without Court supervi- Culver City, California they will be opened and read aloud.
Bids are to be delivered or mailed to the Housing
sion. All unknown heirs 92584
and heirs whose MELINDA MURRISH KAY Authority, City Hall P.O. Box 29, Pocomoke City,
30213 Calle Pompeii Maryland 21851, Attention: Mr. Harvey Lee Davis,
whereabouts are un-
known shall enter their Menifee, California Sr. Location and specifications for the house to be
92584 rehabilitated may be picked up at the Housing
appearance in this ESTATE OF DAGMAR Office at City Hall, Clarke Avenue. Pocomoke City,
proceeding. Objections MARIE MCNELLY Maryland.
to such appointment Serve: Dagmar Marie
The Housing Authority reserves the right to reject
shall be filed with the McNelly Ross, Personal
any or all bids and waive formalities therein, as
Register of Wills, D.C., Rep.
2069 Springbrook Road may be in the best interests of the City.
515 5th Street, N.W., Medford, Oregon 97504
3rd Floor Washington, And Harvey Lee Davis, Sr.
D.C. 20001, on or be- David Thomas McNelly, Housing Coordinator
fore September 25, Personal Rep.
2011. Claims against the 2089 Springbrook Road
decedent shall be pre- Medford, Oregon 97504 EMPLOYMENT
DAGMAR MARIE
sented to the under- MCNELLY ROSS Part-time employment opportunities are available
signed with a copy to the 2069 Springbrook Road for candidates in the Washington DC area to work
Register of Wills or filed Medford, Oregon 97504 as Field Interviewers on a social research project.
with the Register of Wills GREGG CONROY Pay rate for the Washington DC area is $13.00/hr.
with a copy to the under- MCNELLY Interviewers are reimbursed for mileage and ex-
signed, on or before 6976 W. 85th Street penses. An additional $2.00/hr. differential will be
Los Angeles, California
September 25, 2011, or given to hires who are verified as certified Spanish
90045 speakers. Higher starting rates for applicants with
be forever barred. Per- DAVID THOMAS
sons believed to be prior interviewing data collection experience may
MCNELLY be available. No college degree required. For a
heirs or legatees of the 2089 Springbrook Road full description of the project and to apply, please
decedent who do not re- Medford, Oregon 97504 visit our website at: https://recruit.isr.umich.edu.
ceive a copy of this no- MICHAEL BEECH
MCNELLY
The University of Michigan is an affirmative action/
tice by mail within 25 equal opportunity employer. 1-877-712-7284.
603 Glendon Road
days of its first publica- Kerby, Oregon 97531
tion shall so inform the District of Columbia
Register of Wills, includ- Serve: Mayor of the
ing name, address and
relationship.
District of Columbia
Adrian M. Fenty Strictly Personal
Date of Publication: Attn: Tabatha Braxton Pen Pals
Office of the Secretary
March 25, 2011 1350 Pennsylvania Ave,
Name of newspaper: NW, Ste 419
Afro-American Washington, DC 20005 Looking for girl 19-29. Contate William,
Washington Law
Reporter
Serve: Office of the
Attorney General good pay, clean apt., white male, 410-458-
Ryan L. Singletary Attn: Peter J. Nickles
One Judiciary Square
2480.
Personal
Representative
441 4th Street, NW, ---
Ste 11458
202-669-4945 Washington, DC 20001 Truthful man seeking spiritual pen pals.
TRUE TEST COPY
REGISTER OF WILLS
Any and all persons having
or claiming to have any in- Womb my emanation. Law is unification.
3/25, 4/1, 4/8 terest or fee simple in the
property and premises
Breath, knowledge and consciousness!
situate, lying and being in William Piggie, P.O. Box 565, Pittsboro,
the District of Columbia de-
scribed as: N.C. 27312
www.afro.com
The property known for
assessment and taxation ---
purposes as Square 4140,
Lot 0007, in the subdivision
Lonesome Hearts -
Pen Pals
known as Brookland and
situated on vacant lot at the
southwest corner of 17th To have a notice published in the Strictly
and Jackson Streets, NE
Personal Section, write the message you
across the street from hous-
ing units located at 1700
Jackson Street NW (Square
want printed in the space below. Enclose
4128, Lot 0008) and 1701 ten dollars ($10.00), check or money order
Jackson Street NE, (Square
4142, Lot 0019), beside for 25 words. NO CASH PLEASE. Ad-
property located at 1611
Jackson Street NE (Square ditional words will cost 50 cents each.
4140, Lot 0011), and directly
behind properties located at
1604 Ft. Place NE (Square
4140, Lot 0004) and 3180
17th Street NE., (Concord To answer a Lonesome Heart notice, enclose
Baptist Church) (Square
4140, Lot 0001).
a check or money order for $2.00 for each
Defendants. letter you wish to have forwarded. NO CASH
AMENDED ORDER
OF PUBLICATION PLEASE. Be sure to include the fox number of
In accordance
Code
accordancewithwith
ß47-1375,the
Code §47-1375,
d.C. D.C.
theobjec
object
t
the person you wish to contact.
of this proceeding is to se-
cure the foreclosure of the
All letters, queries and notices should be sent to:
right of redemption in the
following real property, lo- STRICTLY PERSONAL
cated in the District of
Columbia, and sold by the 2519 N. Charles Street
Mayor of the District of
Columbia to the Plaintiff(s) Baltimore, MD 21218
in this action, described as
lot number 0007 in Square
4140, in the subdivision
known as Brookland,
situated on a vacant lot at
the southwest corner of 17th
and Jackson Streets, NE,
D4 The Afro-American, March 26, 2011 - April 1, 2011
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