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By AFRO Staff
With the signing of yet
Serious Condition affordable and accessible for
all Americans.
The Health Care and
another historical piece of Education Reconciliation
legislation, President Obama Act, enacted on March
made good on his promise to 30, strengthens the Pell
make higher education more Grant program, invests
Barbara Jones laughs
with her classmates as
she waits for the Norfolk
State University fall
commencement ceremony.
Black students and
historically Black colleges
and universities like Norfolk
State received a boost in
funding from new federal
legislation.
AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Hyunsoo Leo Kim
Stokes Reveals Plans for 12th District
By Melanie R. Holmes down to run an unsuccessful
AFRO Staff Writer mayoral campaign, he’s
back with three top
Carl Stokes is far from priorities- responding to 12th
being the new kid on the District residents, creating
Council. He was sworn in as opportunities for the youth
12th District representative in and getting rid of vacant
mid March, after taking his housing.
first seat in City Council from For the combined effect
1987-1995. After stepping of assuring safety and
maintaining youth services,
Listen to “First Edition” Stokes hopes to keep open
many of the pools and 29
recreation centers that Mayor
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
Dani McClain for ColorofChange.org proposed to close in her
talks this week about the militia groups preliminary budget.
and hate intensifying in the country. “If you close the
Join host Sean Yoes
Sunday night at 8 p.m.on WEAA 88.9 FM, [recreation] centers and the
The Voice of the Community. pools, you can’t have enough
police,” he said. “I want the
[recreation] centers to be very
engaging for young people 16
and younger. I think that’s as
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Autistic Student Allegedly Assaulted
By Melanie R. Holmes
AFRO Staff Writer
Alleged physical abuse of a 13-year-old
student on a Baltimore County school bus has
caused a continuous court battle between the
state of Maryland and the defendants involved.
On Nov. 20, 2009,
Daniel Harris Jr., a student
with autistic spectrum
disease, was handled by bus
driver Christina Brocato and
bus aide LaToya Wilson in a
manner, which the student’s
father characterized as
assault.
“The aide gave my son
her [hair] scrunchy,” Daniel
Harris Sr. said. “He started
playing with it because it’s
made out of elastic material. He started trying
to unravel it and she slapped him and that set
him off. He became uncontrollable at that
point. That’s where it started.”
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Were Four B5
in community colleges,
extends support for
historically Black colleges
capping repayments at 10
percent of their discretionary
income. These efforts will
and other minority-serving be fully paid for by ending
institutions, and helps the government subsidies
student borrowers manage currently given to banks and
their student loan debt by other financial institutions
that make guaranteed federal
student loans.
“By removing the bank’s
middle men and eliminating
millions of dollars in annual
subsidies we are able to
ensure that students have
a more competitive and
robust program for entering
colleges and leaving them
and going on to jobs not
burdened so heavily by
additional loans,” said
Melody Barnes, director of
the White House Domestic
Policy Council.
In addition to increasing
affordability, this legislation
comes at a crucial time for
HBCUs and predominantly
Black institutions (PBIs),
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important as good policing by
having young people engaged
in opportunities.”
And, starting in East
Baltimore, he plans to
improve neighborhoods with
the help of investors and
potential homeowners. In
addition to slicing property
tax for homeowners in half,
he intends to propose a vacant
housing policy to fix up
neighborhoods rundown by
abandoned houses.
“The person with the nice
improved home pays more
than the person with the
vacant home,” Stokes said.
“Why should the person who
leaves their house in derelict Courtesy photo
condition get away with little Carl Stokes recently
tax? I want the vacant house returned to the Baltimore
to be assessed at a penalty so City Council after a 15-year
they have to pay as much tax
hiatus.
However, District Court Judge Darrell
Russell Jr. said a surveillance tape shows
nothing more than attempts at maintaining
order on the bus.
A letter written by Lori Mazan, operator
and safety supervisor of Durham School
Services, seems to support that claim. Mazan
stated Harris got out of his
harness and ran to the front
“I just want to see her of the bus, while it was on
get a guilty plea so she Interstate 83.
“The driver had to swing
can stay the heck off of [her] arm across the aisle way
so that he couldn’t get to the
these buses and not do door,” Mazan wrote in the
that to another child letter to a colleague. “Daniel
then jumped into the first
again.” seat behind the driver, found
a pair of scissors and, as the
driver expressed it ‘had to be
disarmed.’”
Mr. Harris said Brocato pulled the bus over
and got on top of his son, at which point the
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AP Photo/Barnard College, Diane Bondareff
Seen here in June 2004, civil rights activist
and 2004 Congressional Gold Medal of
Honor recipient Dorothy Height, 98, has been
hospitalized since March 18.
Story on A4
as the improved home.” [personel] like fire [fighters]
To best respond to the and police and after-school
needs and suggestions of his programs, I’d like to get back
constituents, the councilor in there and help,” he said.
also said he will do his best to Dealing with budgetary
return calls and emails from matters is another aspect of
12th District residents within the Council that drew him
48 hours. back in. Stokes said he rejoins
After leaving City Council the Council at a time when
15 years ago, Stokes sat on the government is forced to
the Baltimore City school make tough decisions about
board and was chairman its priorities which he would
of the Maryland Higher like to be a part of.
Education Commission. He “I’m really exited about
had no intentions of returning being back at a time when
to City Hall, but once the 12th there’s some challenges for
District seat opened, he was us,” Stokes said. “It gives
encouraged to take another me and the Council and the
stab at it. mayor a chance to look at our
“I said, ‘Well, why?’ But priorities and how to fund
with the challenge of the things that are important for
$121 million deficit that may city services. I didn’t want
continue into the following to come back and just sit in a
year, cutting of central service quiet time.”
Baltimore City Council
Bill Leaves Contractors
Weary Over Job Potential
By Melanie R. Holmes
AFRO Staff Writer
A City Council bill proposed to increase local hiring of
construction workers is catching heat from local contractors
who fear the legislation will, in actuality, shut them out of big
projects. If passed, Councilman Bill Henry said the Community
Partnership Agreements (CPA) bill would secure major city-
funded construction jobs for all Baltimore City contractors. But
inconsistency between the wording of the bill and its intention
has left local contractors fearful that only the city’s small
percentage of union contractors will reap the benefits.
More commonly referred to as a project labor agreement
(PLA), a CPA establishes the terms and conditions of
employment for construction projects. For any city-funded
construction project of $5 million or more, section 23.6B
of the bill states, “The [community partnership] agreement
must require all contractors that perform work on a covered
construction project to use the hiring halls of…construction
unions as their first source of employees…”
Pless Jones Sr., president of the Maryland Minority
Contractors Association, believes the unions have their own
selfish motives that would leave nonunion contractors like
himself with two choices if the bill is passed- pay to join a
union or go without work.
“[Unions] want to capture all the work to say everyone has
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AFRO National Briefs
Obama-Biden Sticker
Incites Road Rage
According to Nashville’s
News 2, a local man said he
and his 10-year-old daughter
were the victims of road
rage because of a political
bumper sticker on his car.
Mark Duren told News
2 that Harry Weisiger made
an obscene gesture with
his hands and rammed into
his vehicle after seeing his
Obama-Biden sticker. Duren
had picked his daughter up
from school only minutes
before.
“He pointed at the back
of my car,” Duren told News
2, “the bumper, flipped me
off, one finger salute.”
In addition, Duren said
Weisiger honked his horn at
him and then smashed his
SUV into the back of his
car. “He pushed my car up
towards the sidewalk, almost
onto the sidewalk,” Duren
said.
Police have charged
Weisiger with felony
reckless endangerment.
Study: Black Women
Least Likely to Breast
Feed
A new study from the
U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
(CDC) found that Black
American women are the
least likely racial group to
breastfeed their children.
Although more than 80
percent of Hispanic women
and about 74 percent of
White women attempt to
breastfeed, only 54 percent
of Black mothers make the
Courtesy Photo
Black American women
are the least likely racial
group to breastfeed their
children.
attempt. The study found
that one year after delivery,
24 percent of Hispanic
women and 21 percent
of White women are still
breastfeeding while only 12
percent of Black mothers
sustain the practice.
According to the
CDC’s “Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report,”
the American Academy
of Pediatrics currently
recommends that babies
only be fed breast milk
during their first six months
and non-exclusive breast-
feeding until their first
birthday.
The overall number of
breast-feeding women is
nearing the Healthy People
2010 goal of 75 percent for
new mothers and 50 percent
for mothers who breast feed
for at least six months.
Oprah Winfrey Settles
Defamation Case
Oprah Winfrey has
settled a defamation lawsuit
filed against her by the
former head of her all-girls
school in South Africa.
The two women “met
woman-to-woman without
their lawyers and are happy
that they could resolve
this dispute peacefully to
their mutual satisfaction,”
lawyers for Nomvuyo
Mzamane, the accuser, and
Winfrey said in a statement
released by Winfrey’s
Harpo Productions. Details
of the settlement were not
AFRO File Photo
Oprah Winfrey
disclosed.
In the suit, Mzamane
alleged that Winfrey
defamed her when
Winfrey made certain
remarks following a 2007
sex abuse scandal at the
Oprah Winfrey Leadership
Academy for Girls in South
Africa. Mzamane sought
$250,000 plus damages in
the suit.
According to the suit,
there were several comments
which drew the ire of
Mzamane. At the premiere
of the movie The Great
Debaters in December 2007,
Winfrey spoke candidly with
the media about the incident
at the school, and hinted that
Mzamane’s oversight of the
school might be to blame.
“I think that all crisis
is there to teach you
about your life,” Winfrey
said, according to People
magazine. “You have to be
far more careful in choosing
people to stand in the gap
for you. You have to stay on
it.”
The academy, located
in Meyerton, South Africa,
opened its doors to 150
poverty-stricken girls in
January 2007. According to
NewJerseyNewsroom.com,
the school now serves over
330 girls.
Census Bureau
Director Apologizes
for ‘Negro’ Category
According to theroot.
com, a C-SPAN caller
upset with the “Negro”
category on the 2010
census prompted Census
Bureau Director Robert
Groves to apologize for the
classification on March 2.
“I am Black. I did not
appreciate the Black, the
Afro-American and Negro.
That is back when I used
to live in Nashville, Tenn.,
when people were called
Negro,” the caller reportedly
said. “I do not like that; that
is out of character; and it
really hurt my feelings ...
That to me is racist.”
Groves responded, “First
of all, let me apologize to
you on behalf of all my
colleagues,” theroot.com
reported.
The Census Bureau
director said the word
“Negro” was kept on the
forms to be “as inclusive
as possible so that all of us
could see a word here that
rings a bell for us…it was
not to be offensive and again
I apologize on that. My
speculation is that in 2020
the word will disappear
and there are gonna be
other words that are gonna
change.”
Several States Plan
Lawsuits over Health
Care Reform
In the wake of the
massive health care reform
bill passed by the House of
Representatives on March
21 and signed into law by
President Obama, more than
a dozen states have joined
in a lawsuit against the U.S.
government.
Attorneys general in 12
states have joined a lawsuit
filed March 23 by Florida
Attorney General Bill
McCollum, according to The
New York Times. McCollum,
who is running for governor,
and 11 of the other attorneys
general are Republican.
AFRO File Photo
Virginia’s attorney general,
also a Republican, has filed
a separate challenge.
Officials in those and
other states believe the new
reform violates state and
individual rights.
“I made it clear in late
December of last year that if
the health care bill passed, I
would ask you to challenge
its constitutionality,” Gov.
Gibbon, R-Nev., told
Reuters. “Any reasonable
person experiencing such
inaction from a private law
firm would have fired that
law firm already.”
Some argue that the
lawsuits are frivolous.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,
wrote an amendment into
the new reform law which
allows states to opt out of
the federal individual health
insurance mandate and set
up their own system.
“Why would you just
say you are going to sue
everybody, when this bill
gives you the authority,
and the legal counsel is on
record, as saying you can
do it without an individual
mandate,” Wyden told the
Huffington Post.”
 November 1, 2008 - November 7, 2008, The Washington Afro-American A3

Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain NephewA3 April 3, 2010 - April 9, 2010, The Baltimore Afro-American
By Alan King sport-utility vehicle sought in from a neighbor about a suspi- posted fliers bearing his photo-
AFRO Staff Writer connection with the murder of cious vehicle. The man noticed Committee presented their are facing” just like
graph every
around theother state
city. On
Hudson’s mother and brother. the vehicle while walking his Budget Reconciliation and “Currently in the budget in the country
Sunday, JenniferisHudson
facing asked
a
Jennifer Hudson and other The white, 1994 Chevrolet dog. According to the Chicago Financing Act (BRFA) there is an $800 million tonthe
for ofpublic’s
unpleasant helpeconomic
in finding
relatives positively identified Suburban with Illinois license Tribune, the boy had been shot and addressed the looming obligation because the state imperatives.
her nephew. In her MySpace
multiple times in the back seat teacher pension dilemma. assumes 100 percent of the blog,“Ifsheyou know…that
thanked fans andyou’re
sup-
of the vehicle. The SUV, regis- “If the state funded teacher retirement obligation porters for their prayers
facing a big deficit one and
tered to Hudson’s murdered teachers pensions at the offered a $100,000 reward to
brother, was towed with the required level, the cost would anyone who returned the boy
boy’s body inside and is being
processed by evidence techni-
be $1.2 billion this year… “If you know…that you’re facing a big alive.
Since the investigation,
is more than the state will
deficit one would think you would make
‘Here Comes the Pain…’
cians and workers. The body Hudson – who gained stardom
was later removed and taken to spend on all of public higher after appearing on “American
the Cook County Medical education,” according to preparation.” Idol,” and then won an
Examiner’s office. a statement by the Senate Academy Award for her role in
In the 1993 movie to liken SRB to the great finance
Hudson [department]
and other family dictate. committee. They propose the movie Dreamgirls – has
Carlito’s Way, Al Pacino’s Pacino; in less than two Part of this
members proposal,
arrived at thethis is
Medical gradually sharing a portion and that’s due next year wouldout
stayed think youpublic
of the would make
eye.
character Carlito Brigante months she has been finance saying,
Examiner’s officethis is what
mid-after- of teachers pensions costs to go up to $1.2 billion preparation,”
The ChicagoMcFaddenTribune report-
loads his gun as he prepares confronted with high drama will happen,”
noon to identifyshe theadded.
body. between
Julian the state
King, and local
Jennnifer andnephew.
Hudson’s obviously that’s not edexplained.
that a parade of cars moved
for battle during a climactic at the helm of City Hall. Given Forthe thechoice
record, SRB look-
between school systems. sustainable.” slowly“So, weher
past have to home
family’s
ASenator
spokesman for the office
Nathaniel the murders
“The citybutdoes
is being held in
not like understand that we’re dealing
scene. As he enters the fray First, there were the twin did directly
ing give a glimpseat the body of an or
told the newspaper that Hudson jail for parole violation after
Monday morning, past the
he exclaims, “Here comes the apocalyptic snow storms, and viewing
alternative it onplan
a wall-mounted
to generate McFadden, a member of the it, obviously Dr. Alonso and with vans,
news the public’s
reportersmoney and
and curi-
pain!” now it’s a doomsday budget
Courtesy Photos revenue and prevent some taxation committee, said, the teachers unions, but it’s a if you know ous thatonlookers.
you have a
That could
Jennifer have and
Hudson beenherthe mom,
scenario,
Darnellwhich has triggered
Donerson who “She held hands with her family. It was obviously a very emotional moment.”
of the more severe cuts. “The city’s not looking bad
relatively speaking…the
situation that begs for some
attention…it’s an absolute
cliff that you’re going to
Neighbors
quietly
off of next year, I think youand
fall
stood
mantra of Baltimore
was killed, as well Mayor wavesJason.
as her brother, of fear and loathing One option the mayor is
only contentious piece is this imperative nextofyear.” ought to make reflected on the
preparations
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake throughout Baltimore. considering is a tax on non- “remained strong for her fami- being convicted attempted
video screen, the family chose teacher retirement piece we violence.
last weekofasher
the body she7-year-old
announced plateThe new mayor’s
X584859 was foundbudget
on profits,
the latter.which are exempt
According to the ly” and was clearly its leader. murder and vehicularMaryland
Unfortunately, hijack- for that.”
In front of the Hudson’s
some of the details of
nephew Monday, just hoursthe pronouncement even
Chicago’s West Side after sparked Tribune, Hudsontaxes.
from property said, About
“Yes, “She held hands with her fami- ing. Cook County records show home, men in heavy jackets
city’s draconian
after his body wasbudget
found cuts.
in a a somewhat
police snarky
received response
a 7 a.m. call one-third
that’s him.”of Baltimore land ly,” the spokesman said. “It that he pleaded guilty to both and hooded sweatshirts came to
The city’s budget prepared from the former disgraced is occupied by non-profits, was obviously a very emotional charges in 1999. He was also kiss the twin white crosses bar-

ACORN Fights Back

by the finance department mayor. which means an annual loss moment.” convicted in 1998 for posses- ing the names of Donerson and
includes layoffs of more The budget, Sheila Dixon of about $80 million for the The boy – the son of Julia sion of a stolen motor vehicle. Jason.
than 600 city employees said, “should have been city. Hudson, Jennifer’s sister – had He was released from prison in “Everybody is sick of going
including, 120 police officers, presented with alternatives Not unexpectedly, been missing since Friday, 2006 after serving seven years
Leader Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’
through stuff like this,” Artisha
90 firefighters, as well as and ways to address the venerable Johns Hopkins when a relative found Julian’s for the attempted murder and West, a former resident of the
Hospital,
grandmother, Darnell car hijacking charges.
wonder the biggest “non- is area told the Tribune. “We all
By Alan King and Dallas Cowboys players No Obama’s campaign Donerson, 57, and his uncle, The boy remained missing
AFRO Staff Writer Tony Romo and Terrell Owens, profit” of them all
trying to distance him from the is scoffing have to stick together. All these
“The budget should have been presented among the names submitted to nosilysaying,
group, at the prospect
“Barack Obama of
Jason Hudson, 29, shot to death through a long weekend in
in his grandmother’s home in which police and volunteers
young children are dying, and
having to pay property taxes. for what?”
with
McCain’salternatives
attack on ACORNand
Presidential candidate John
– ways to address the
election officials.
Hurd said those workers, who
Never Organized with ACORN.”
IBut
was amused at
Obama’s ties to ACORN runHopkins’
the 7000 block of South Yale
Avenue.
hubris and–deep.the massive
issue,
Associatednot just give people a scare tactic.”
Community
Organization for Reform Now –
were doing those things without
ACORN’s knowledge or permis-
long
for ACORN.literally
institution
He taught classes
They evensits in
endorsed
An Amber Alert – a desig-
nation for high-risk missing
confirms the success of the sion, were fired. Eastfor
him Baltimore
President.like a city children – was issued Friday
the closure oftheseven
organization, head fire
of the issue,
“Thenot just give
evidence thatpeople
has sur- ontonow
But itself
ACORN – givenis inthe fact
trouble. after Julian was discovered
companies
group says. and more than afaced
scare sotactic.”
far showsDixon made
they faked they historically
Reporter: Therehave are atgotten
least missing after the murders.
half“This
of the city’s recreation
is testimony to the work the
formscomments
to get paidtoforveteran
work they just
11 about everything
investigations across the they’ve Police arrested William
centers.
we’ve done and success we’ve journalist
didn’t do, notRichard
to stuffSher
ballot asked for
country from the
involving city and
thousands of Balfour, the missing boy’s step-
had,” Maude Hurd, president
Rawlings-Blake didn’t of boxes.” aACORN,
during taping of shethe
said, is the potentially
the state. fraudulent ACORN father and estranged husband
ACORN,tosaid
hesitate in an interview
declare elements victim of fraud, not
recently resurrected localthe perpetra-
talk forms.Police and fire cuts are of Julia, at his girlfriend’s
with the AFRO. tor of it. Announcer: Massive voter
of the budget as, “simply show, “Square Off,” now on a different deal though. I Southside apartment several
“When this attack started, we Hurd said the only things fraud. And the Obama campaign hours after the murders.
unacceptable and go too far.” WMAR-TV Channel
bogus are the charges Two.
them- ran into
paid moreathan recently
$800,000 retiredto an
had just announced that we had Balfour’s mother, Michele, has
Perhaps,
registered 1.3itmillion
is appropriate
new vot- “You can’t have
selves. And factcheck. org [the] police commander
ACORN front for get out outthe at vote
Martin’s West last weekend 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 who lamented
Pressuring banksthe possible
to issue risky Balfour remains a suspect in Jason Hudson
because of ACORN’s success.” ACORN nor its employees have fate of some
loans. Nationwide voterof his former
fraud.
McCain, who is running for been found guilty of, or even colleagues.
Barack Obama. Bad judgment.
president on the Republican tick- charged with, casting fraudulent Blind “Morale
ambition. is Too
badrisky
enough,for
et, lashed out at ACORN in the votes.” could you imagine what it
America.
final debate against Barack The problem came about pri- is going to be like with this
Obama, contending the group “is marily because of the way hanging over theircomments,
Since McCain’s heads?” he SQUARE HIGH
on the verge of maybe perpetrat- ACORN operates. Rather than wondered.87 offices have been
ACORN’s
16th ANNUAL
ing one of the greatest frauds in rely on volunteers, it pays peo- bombarded
While the withdoomsday
threats and
voter history in this country, ple, many of them poor or unem- racist
budget mail.scenario has rattled EDUCATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
maybe destroying the fabric of ployed, to sign up new voters. The day after the presidential
a whole lot of cages in
democracy.” The idea was to help both those debate, vandals broke into the
Baltimore, two of the most Saturday, April 17, 2010
Factcheck.org, a non-partisan being registered and those doing organization’s Boston and Seattle
powerful and members of the
Web site, found those claims to the registration. offices stole computers. 8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
be “exaggerated,” with “no evi- Maud explained, “We have a After a Cleveland representativein
Baltimore City Delegation BREAD NOT ON THE LIST
dence of any such democracy- zero tolerance policy for deliber- Annapolis
appeared on are
TV, not pushing
an e-mail wasthe
destroying fraud.” ate falsification of registration.” panic button…yet.
sent to the local office saying she The Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center
Hurd believes the McCain Most news account neglect to “It’s going
“is going to havetoherbelife a major
ended.” Morgan State University
charges were politically motivat- point out that ACORN is point of contention…there’s
A worker in Providence, R.I.,
ed. required by law to turn in all reg- going toa have
received to be call
threatening some say- LEFT RIGHT
She said, “Because it’s low- istration forms. And they also fail delicate
ing, “We know balancing
you get between
off work FREE to attend
and moderate-income people, to note that it was the organiza- public
at 9” andsafetyutteredand theepithets.
racial city…
and people of color, I believe the tion, in many instances, that first because
A callerthat’sto onethe backbone,”
office left a
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McCain campaign thinks those brought the phony registrations said Senator
message on theJoan Carter
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voters are going to vote to the attention of authorities. machine,
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strolled just For questions, please call 410.938.8990.
Democratic, which is not neces- The McCain camp apparently calling to let you know
the State House to the Senate that
sarily true.” isn’t interested in those fine Barack Obama needs to get
Office Building.
ACORN is no stranger to points, preferring to air mislead- hung. He’s a (expletive deleted)
“All the local jurisdictions
controversy. ing ads that seek to link Obama nigger, and he’s a piece of
For 38 years, the non-partisan to ACORN, thereby undercutting lose in terms
(expletive of certain
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organization has fought for social his political support. made, the largest budgetary
fraudulent, and you need to go to
and economic justice for low- McCain: I’m John McCain itemAll
hell. probably
the niggers is those
on oakteacher
trees.
and moderate-income and I approve this message. pensions that the
They’re gonna get all hung city willhon-
Americans. With 400,000 mem- Announcer: Who is Barack havethey’re
eys, to pay…,” going to Conway
get assassi-
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ber families organized into more Obama? A man with “a political added.they’re gonna get killed.”
nated,
than 1,200 neighborhood chap- baptism performed at warp In fact,message
Another last week the“You
said,
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ters in 110 cities nationwide, speed.” Vast ambition. After col- Senateidiots.
liberal Budget Dumb and(expletive
Taxation
ACORN has over the years seen lege, he moved to Chicago. deleted). Welfare bums. You
its share of criticism while advo- Became a community organizer. guys just (expletive deleted)
cating for affordable housing, There, Obama met Madeleine come to our country, consume
living wages, healthcare for the Talbot, part of the Chicago every natural resource there is,
underserved— and while organ- branch of ACORN. He was so and make a lot of babies. That’s
izing voter registration drives. impressive that he was asked to all you guys do. And then suck
But none has been as withering train the ACORN staff. up the welfare and expect every-
and baseless as this one. What did ACORN in Chicago one else to pay for your hospital
With the presidential election engage in? Bullying banks. bills for your kids. I jus’ say let
less than two weeks away, Intimidation tactics. Disruption your kids die. That’s the best Before age five, every room is a classroom.
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New Policy Boosts Students

Continued from A1
Bill Leaves Contractors Weary
Continued from A1
which will receive $850 and $150 million, on sounder footing by covering past and to come to the union,” Jones say that would not been the with local contractors as
respectively. The institutions typically bear expected shortfalls and that invest new said. “Then you’d have to go case.” priority. The campaign, which
the brunt of economic despair more than dollars in community colleges. by their regulation.” The CPA, not the is backing the bill, is an effort
other colleges and universities. Doing more “The success of these institutions is Currently, 87 percent of legislation, is where local by the Laborers International
withenrolling higher proportions of low- and not only vital to the success of African Baltimore’s construction residency criteria will be Union of North America
middle-income students. These much-needed Americans, but it is also vital to the success workforce and 95 percent of made, according to Henry. (LIUNA) to create more job
dollars can be used to renew, reform, and of all Americans,” said John S. Wilson, the city’s minority contractors Each construction job would opportunities in construction
expand programming to ensure that students executive director of the White House do not belong to a union, have its own negotiated for Baltimore residents.
at these institutions are given every chance Initiative on Historically Black Colleges which would exclude agreement to meet the distinct Williams echoes Henry’s
to live up to their full potential. and Universities, in a teleconference this almost nine out of 10 local needs of the community the sentiment that the legislation
Several provisions in the bill, which week. Strengthening HBCUs and PBIs, construction workers on city- construction takes place in. does not give preference to
Black lawmakers fought to include, will: said Wilson, pushes the U.S. Department funded projects. Furthermore, The district councilor said union members. Instead,
• Invest $35 billion over 10 years to of Education closer to their goal set by because the legislation does the bill purposely avoids he said unions would act as
increase the maximum annual Pell Grant to President Obama last February, that “by not explicitly state that explicit statements favoring community partners to ensure
$5,550 in 2010 and to $5,975 by 2017. 2020, America will once again have the priority will be given to local contractors over outside local hiring.
• Invest $2.55 billion in HBCUs and highest proportion of college graduates in Baltimore contractors, local workers.
minority-serving Institutions to provide the world.” workers believe big Baltimore “The legislation “Every [agreement] may be
students with the support they need to stay “That is the goal that guides structure and projects will go to outside only lays out the bare
in school and graduate. context for all we’re doing,” he said. union contractors. minimum,” he said. different but none of them
• Invest $2 billion in a competitive grant Starting July 1, all new federal student “What opponents of the “You can’t legally just will be able to negate that
program for community colleges to develop loans will be direct loans delivered and bill keep trying to say that come right out and
and improve educational or career training collected by private companies under is not true is that the bill say you can only hire they have to go through
programs. performance-based contracts with the requires that you be a union people from Baltimore hiring halls because that’s in
• Save taxpayers $61 billion over 10 year Department of Education. According to employee to work on jobs,” City, [but] priority will
by allowing students to borrow directly from the Congressional Budget Office, ending Henry said. “The bill does not be given to people who the bill.”
the government through the Direct Loan these wasteful subsidies frees up nearly $68 require that. The community live in Baltimore City
program, thus avoiding excessive bank fees. billion which this new law reinvests back partnership agreement, which when they show up at the “We are able to do that
These benefits build on other provisions into students and into deficit reduction over the bill would authorize, union halls.” through the union hiring hall
of the law that put the Pell Grant program the next 11 years. would be able to specifically But standard union policy to give [local contractors] a
states that hiring priority is structure for the job and help
given first to union members sell you as an individual to
with seniority, second to construction sites,” Williams
union apprentices, then to said. “They are the priority.”
union members with less But Jones isn’t buying
seniority and last to locals. that. To truly create more
The bill would not be able job opportunities for local
to override union mandates, contractors, he said it would
said Attorney Nancy Roberts, be best if the bill were
managing director of Duane “scrapped.”
Morris Government Affairs. Giving local construction
Instead, she said it would jobs to outsiders is such a
leave fewer than 15 percent frequent occurrence that it has
of local contractors eligible seemingly become the rule
to work on city-funded as opposed to the exception,
construction projects. National Minority Contractors
“Every [agreement] may Association President Arnold
be different but none of them Jolivet said. He supports the
will be able to negate that concept of the bill but says
they have to go through hiring it will only be effective if
halls because that’s in the amendments are made.
bill,” said Roberts. “Baltimore has a
Get Baltimore Working considerable number of
Campaign Executive Director construction-related jobs the
Jason Williams rejects the local community doesn’t get,”
idea of seniority hiring, and Jolivet said. “We’ve got to do
said the CPA bill is set up something.”

Student Assaulted
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boy spit on the driver. “He was defending himself,” he said.
“She was not supposed to do that.”
Harris was called to come pick his son up from school and
had to drive his son to school for two months after the incident.
Child Protective Services reviewed the surveillance tape and
alerted the police, which sparked an investigation. Since then,
the driver and aide have been fired and Harris is back on the
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Russell tossed Wilson’s case on March 11 and is scheduled
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Height, called the “godmother” of the civil rights
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Height was president of the National Council of Negro
Women for more than 30 years and fought for justice for
Black women and worked to strengthen the Black family.
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the NCNW’s headquarters, where 150 guests had gathered.
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Committee Strikes Down
Gansler Impeachment Charges
By Shanua Miller
and Adam Kerlin
Capital News Service
ANNAPOLIS - The House
Judiciary Committee struck
down articles of impeachment
against Attorney General
Douglas Gansler Wednesday
afternoon at a hastily called
hearing following a dramatic
morning on the House floor.
Del. Don Dwyer, R-Anne
Arundel, brought charges
against Gansler during the
House’s morning session,
citing “willful neglect of
duty” in Gansler’s February
opinion recognizing same-sex
marriages from out of state.
Dwyer demanded a full
vote on the House floor, but
members voted against his
proposal 101 to 39, upholding
House Speaker Michael
Busch’s move to send the
issue to committee.
Dwyer argued that the
state’s constitution gives the
House “the sole power of
impeachment in all cases,”
but Busch, an Anne Arundel
Democrat, said he followed
House rules in moving the
resolution to committee.
At the committee hearing
Wednesday afternoon, Dwyer
moved to return the charges
to the House floor for a full-
body vote. The committee
rejected the motion, with
only six members siding with
Dwyer.
Dwyer was defiant before
the committee, refusing
to testify on the grounds
that it would legitimize the
proceedings.
He called the hearing “a
kangaroo court,” insisting
that the full House was the
most appropriate venue
to weigh the matter of
impeachment.
Gansler was not present
for either discussion. But
Raquel Guillory, Gansler’s
spokeswoman, said “this was
a political stunt that never
should have been allowed to
take place.”
“This has been the job of
our office for hundreds of
years. It is our constitutional
duty,” Guillory said of
Gansler’s opinion.
Delegate Ben Barnes,
D-Prince George’s, called
Dwyer’s charges against
Gansler “meritless” and
“baseless,” and said Dwyer
did not present specifics on
how Gansler’s legal opinion
constituted a violation of his
oath of office.
Dwyer has not had
many visible allies in his
impeachment endeavors.
No delegates testified at the
hearing, including House
Minority Leader Anthony
O’Donnell, R-Calvert, who
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Attorney General Douglas Gansler is the second public
official Republican Del. Don Dwyer has attempted to
impeach over the same-sex marriage issue.
had spoken in support of
Dwyer Wednesday morning
on the House floor.
Delegate Luiz R. S.
Simmons, D-Montgomery,
said he was disappointed that
Dwyer and other Republicans
had “abandoned” real
“…this was a political stunt that never
should have been allowed to take place.”
discussion after standing in
solidarity during the morning
House session.
All but five Judiciary
Committee members voted
that there were not sufficient
grounds for Gansler’s
removal by the legislature.
The committee vote
essentially blocks Dwyer’s
impeachment attempt, but
Dwyer said he may attempt
to return the resolution to the
House floor.
Dwyer said he would
not rule out bringing
impeachment charges against
Busch for favoring House
procedure over the state’s
constitution.
“The constitution
supersedes everything,”
Dwyer said.
Gansler issued his opinion
in February in response to
a request by Sen. Richard
Madaleno, D-Montgomery.
The opinion interpreted
Maryland’s current law
on recognizing marriages
from out of state. The
state recognizes marriages
performed in other
jurisdictions according to the
“full faith and credit” clause
of the U.S. Constitution, but
makes no mention of how to
address same-sex marriages.
Maryland law has defined
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and a woman since 1973.
In more than a decade of
bills on same-sex marriage,
none has made it to the
House floor. Dwyer has long
sponsored constitutional
amendments defining
marriage as being between a
man and a woman.
This is the second time
Dwyer has attempted to
impeach a public official
over the issue of same-sex
marriage.
On March 7, 2006,
Dwyer moved to impeach
Baltimore Circuit Judge M.
Brooke Murdoch after she
ruled the state’s Equal Rights
Amendment protected the
right of gay couples to marry.
Dwyer alleged that Murdoch
had neglected her duty as a
result of her ruling.
The resolution was
referred to the House
Judiciary Committee, which
voted it down 19 to 3.
Simmons said Wednesday
that a committee hearing was
the most appropriate venue to
consider such serious charges
against a public official. “If
you don’t like his opinion,
take it to the ballot box,” he
said.
Simmons argued that the
proper process needs to be
followed before removing a
duly elected official.
“When we get to jealously
guarding our concern
about the constitution, we
should also care about that
bedrock principle that the
people deserve to have the
individuals that they elect
serve them,” Simmons said.
April 3, 2010 - April 9, 2010, The Baltimore Afro-American A5
‘AFRO’ Honors
George L. Russell Jr.
A native of Baltimore, George L. Russell
has had an extensive career as a lawyer
and has been recognized by many for his
dedication to the community.
Russell received his primary and
secondary education from Baltimore
City public schools,
graduating from Frederick
Douglass Senior High
School in 1946.
After earning a degree
in economics from Lincoln
University, he returned to
Maryland, obtaining a degree
in law from the University of
Maryland School Of Law in 1954. for the Baltimore City Historical Society,
After serving two years in the United and is a member of the board of governors
States Army, Russell returned to Baltimore of the National Museum of Baltimore.
in 1956, beginning his life-long legal career. Additionally, Russell serves as the chairman
Russell became the first African- of the boars at Reginald F. Lewis Maryland
American city solicitor for Baltimore City Museum of African-American History and
and was the first African American to sit on Culture.
the Circuit Court of Maryland. He was also His distinguished service to the
the first African-American president of the community in the area of law has resulted
Bar Association of Baltimore City and the in several distinguished awards including,
first African American from Maryland to The Henry G. Parks Jr. Business award, an
be elected to the American College of trial induction in the National Bar Association
lawyers. Hall of Fame, the Walter Sondeheim
Throughout his 50-year career, Russell Lifetime Achievement Award, and the
has been very active in professional Greater Baltimore Urban Leagues’ Whitney
organizations, business endeavors and M. Young Jr. Memorial award.
community organizations. He served as a On Feb. 14, the AFRO honored
trustee for Villa Julie College and also was Russell for his amazing career in law at
the chair of the board of Federal Reserve the company’s fifth annual Legends and
Bank of Richmond’s Baltimore branch. Pioneers ceremony at the Reginald F. Lewis
Russell currently serves as a trustee Museum.
The fourth annual Legends and Pioneers gala, held
Feb. 24 at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland
African American History & Culture, was sponsored by
Coors Light.
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A6 The Baltimore Afro-American, April 3, 2010 - April 9, 2010
Census Encourages Participation
With Fanfare
By Diana Nguyen
Capital News Service
WASHINGTON -
National Census Day has
come and gone —the federal
government’s reminder to get
those census forms in post
haste and save money.
To promote the day and
its message, the U.S Census
Bureau and its community
partners will sponsored a slew
of events across the nation to
“empower communities” and
remind residents that $400
billion in federal assistance is
at stake.
“This is the push,” said
Census Bureau spokeswoman
Sylvia Ballinger this week.
“We use this day to rally
people, encourage and remind
them to fill out the 2010
census form” so that someone
won’t have to show up and
knock on their doors after May
1.
Those census takers will
cost a pretty penny.
To send back a completed
form takes 10 minutes and
costs a mere 42 cents. But it
costs taxpayers $25 per person
to send a census taker door-
to-door to collect the same
information, according to the
Census Bureau.
Every 1 percentage point
increase in mail-back rates
saves taxpayers $85 million in
follow-up costs.
To follow up on those
who fail to respond costs an
estimated $2.74 billion, which
is the largest portion of the
projected $14.7 billion needed
to operate the 2010 census.
To keep follow-up costs
down and spread census
awareness to “Hard to Count”
Development Foundation, Inc.
Dr. & Mrs. Reginald S. Avery
cordially invite you to attend
to establish the dr. dorothy i. height
center for the advancement of social justice
the endowed chair and lectureship in social work
and social justice at coppin state university
sunday, april 25, 2010
Tickets & Information: www.coppin.edu/dh (410) 951.3819
Coppin Wishes
Dr. Height
A Very Happy
98th Birthday
areas, the Census Bureau spent
$62.7 million on television,
$18.1 million on radio, and
$21.1 million on print ads.
But critics say census
publicity is unnecessary.
“The census happens every
10 years,” said Muir Boda,
communications director of the
Libertarian Party of Maryland.
“It’s another extreme waste of
taxpayer money to promote
something we know is already
going to happen.”
Although Maryland
continues to surpass the
national participation rate,
“This is the push. We use this day to rally people,
encourage and remind them to fill out the 2010
census form so that someone won’t have to show up
and knock on their doors after May 1.”
about half the state still needs
to answer the 10-question
survey as of Wednesday.
Census Bureau and
Maryland officials expect
a wave of forms to return
after April 1 because there
is usually an uptick from
residents waiting until Census
Day to send back their forms,
said Jane Traynham, manager
of the Maryland State Data
Center.
Traynham predicted there
will be a big effort from
the counties to encourage
communities with low
response rates after the first
week of April.
That’s because the count
counts: A community’s
population count will
determine the area’s
legislative and congressional
representation and serves
as a major factor in the
allocation of federal funds to
Coppin State University
and
& The award usually touches
3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Young Responds to Residency Questions
By AFRO Staff
City Council President Jack Young
undergarment drawers within both houses.
At the conclusion of a budget hearing at
City Hall on Tuesday, WBAL investigative
jurisdictions. invited reporters on a tour of two houses he reporter Jayne Miller tried to ask the Council
Census numbers are also owns in East Baltimore to clear up questions president some questions about his residence,
used in other ways. that erupted about his residency on Tuesday. to which he replied, “I have a meeting to go
For example, the Census Young included his Madison Street home to” and refused to schedule a later time for
Bureau produces about 100 address on annual ethics filings completed an interview.
surveys a year based on census under oath, but because his water bills Young’s spokesman, Dennis Edwards told
data; companies use housing show no water has been recently used, Miller, “Like I told you before, the Council
and income figures to locate uncertainties have arisen about whether that president is not going to talk to you” but
ideal consumers; and non- is where he actually lives. answered “yes” when asked if Young lives
profit organizations look at the Young also owns a second home nearby on Madison Street.
data to determine important on Central Avenue that he said he purchased “I made the decision to split my time
statistics in their communities about 10 years ago after drug dealers between the two homes in an attempt
when applying for grants. threatened his family for informing police to protect my family,” Young said in a
While census takers battle about their illegal activities. He has owned statement released Wednesday. “I don’t
low response rates in rural the Madison Street home since 1978. On understand why certain people are harassing
and urban communities, they Thursday, he showed reporters the inside me. I only want to serve the citizens of
will also have to deal with of his refrigerator, bedroom closets and Baltimore.”
Marshall College Fund to Host
suspicious residents who
3rd Awards Ceremony
By Stephen D. Riley
consider census questions
AFRO Staff Writer
intrusive and unconstitutional.
“They are asking
The Thurgood Marshall
questions that are private. And
College Fund (TMCF)
oftentimes [the government]
embodies many of the same
uses the information for
principles that its storied
purposes that it’s not intended
namesake exuded. Through
for,” Boda said. “Race and
preparing aspiring youths and
ethnicity are irrelevant and
helping them gain access to
information the government
college, the Fund has become
doesn’t need.”
a staple across the nation in
The only necessary
several Black communities.
question, Boda said, is the
On April 7, the Fund
one that pertains to how
and the Baltimore Host
many people are living in the
Committee will present the
household.
city’s third annual Awards of
The Census Bureau said
Excellence reception at the
it plans to follow up several
Reginald F. Lewis Museum in
times if questions are left
Baltimore.
unanswered or an occupied
This year’s winners
household fails to respond. It’s
will include Brian G. Kim,
important that every person
associate judge of the District
living in your household is
Court of Maryland for
counted as of April 1, said
Montgomery County; Ava
Ballinger. But even then, it’s
E. Lias-Booker, a partner
not too late.
at McGuireWoods; Ackneil
Muldrow II , CEO of Parker
Muldrow & Associates and
Dr. Levi Watkins, professor
of surgery and associate dean
at the School of Medicine Courtesy Photo
at Johns Hopkins Heart & Thurgood Marshall’s son, John Marshall, delivers a speech
Vascular Institute among on behalf of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund at a
others. New Jersey awards reception.
Award winners are chosen
based upon the TMCF’s belief who do a lot of work that’s added. “They help to show
that they have exemplified not noticed and not getting the importance of the fund
Justice Thurgood Marshall’s recognition in a particular through their work and their
commitment to justice, work that is right in line support of it and how it makes
education and civil rights or with what my father fought it a difference.”
exceeded excellence in their for so much throughout his For the last 23 years, the
chosen fields. career,” Marshall said. “In TMCF has been making an
Adding to what should particular civil rights, justice astonishing difference in
already be an extraordinary and education – that’s kind of several lives. Established
night will be keynote speaker the foundation of the award. with Marshall’s permission
in 1987 by Dr. Joyce Payne,
and Marshall’s son, John
Marshall. While continuing to in some way in one of those the fund was set up to assist
fulfill the legacy of his famed three areas or all three.” the 47 historically Black
father, Marshall recognizes “The people who are college universities (HBCUs)
that the reception not only selected for this award, we and their students. Since its
benefits award recipients but see them in many ways as exception, the TMCF has
that their work continues to role models certainly in their awarded more than $100
extend the branches of the respected fields but also for million in scholarships and
TMCF’s core beliefs. what they stand for and what has enabled more than 18,000
“There are individuals they’ve achieved,” Marshall students to attend HBCUs.
With a vast number of
collegiate success stories
under its belt, the TMCF
continues to serve as the only
national organization that
provides scholarships and
multiple forms of assistance
to the 47 HBCUs and six
historically Black law schools
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Opinion
What Are We Waiting For?
Black community, it’s time for some tough decision making.
Richard Rowe It’s time for an up or down vote to decide the best way to
conceptualize, create and configure our communities for both
positive and optimal socio-economic and political outcomes. Moreover, it’s time to time for us
to promote and demonstrate by example that “more is not always better;” and that there comes
a time when it is necessary to downsize and scale back to salvage, strengthen and support those
existing organizations and businesses that have the “best” business models to confront and
survive the economic and political realities that are before us. Never has there been a worse time
for us to lose the capacity to face the reality of our long-term challenges as a community. It is
time to disconnect ourselves from the last sequential obsession with the politics of divisiveness
and whatever relative triviality that dominates our conversation.
Given the present economic realities, one can only ponder why there have not been more
mergers of Black not-for-profit and for-profit organizations, colleges, churches and businesses
in the Baltimore region in particular, and across the nation in general. News headlines appear
each and every day about the dire and precipitous decline of Black businesses, historically Black
colleges (HBCUs), and not-for-profit organizations. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to conclude

“What are we waiting for, the waving of a magic wand by our

first Black president, Mr. Barack Obama? Let’s hope not.”
that the Black community has adopted a “more is better” approach to address its present
conditions. If we really looked critically at our situation and removed our emotions and egos
from the equation, we would realize that we have far too many businesses, churches, colleges
and not-for-profit organizations that are on life support and whose days are numbered. We would
realize that far too many of these “life-sustaining” institutions are duplicating services; that they
seldom collaborate with one another on any major projects; and, that they are led by individuals
that appear to be trapped in a “Darwinian” matrix of “survival of the fittest/biggest” and of
“going it along” at all cost, which, by the way, is a recipe for romantic, symbolic and specious
trappings of Black progress.
One would think that when most American cities and states have and are experiencing
the worst recession ever recorded since the Great Depression, there would be a movement
in the Black community towards greater group solidarity and intra-group collaboration; and,
that we would engage in serious dialogue, discussions and debates about our socio-economic
and political fate – both locally and nationally – and how we should proceed in developing
cooperative/collaborative business models. One would also think that we would be having
serious conversations about figuring out, once and for all, how to create a pool of assets (our
own) to fund our institutional needs, and to develop the infrastructure to truly maintain those
life-giving and life-sustaining institutions in our community that promote and sustain intra-group
support and solidarity.
Maybe it’s time for Black economists, business leaders, demographers, urban planners and
social scientists to revisit and advance the sociological prescriptions highlighted in Dr. W.E.B.
DuBois’ classic work, The Philadelphia Negro (1899); or the urban analysis by Harvard’s
preeminent scholar, William Julius Wilson in his recent book, More Than Just Race: Being
Black and Poor in the Inner City (2009); or the theories examined in Roger Waldinger’s Still the
Promised City (1996). It is clear that we need to do something, or the Black community will
find itself reacting to the avalanche of social and economic policies that will reflect a myopic and
debilitating vision that maintains the notion of conditioned expectations and the “arrogance of
dominance” by a select few. Again, Black community, it’s time for some tough decision making.
What are we waiting for, the waving of a magic wand by our first Black president, Mr. Barack
Obama? Let’s hope not.
Richard A. Rowe writes from Maryland. Send feedback to rrowe84@aol.com.

Letters to the Editor

Naming Ourselves
Here I am answering my census question and asking myself,
“When will we name ourselves?” After slavery, we accepted
whatever names they called us. As years went by, we became
known as Negroes and colored people. In the ‘60s, we asked
ourselves, are we colored people, Negro or Black? In 2010,
the U.S. Census Bureau will be asking Black America, “Are
you Negro, Black, or African American?” Granted, the census
is about counting heads so that the government can distribute
monies to the states, but WHO ARE WE? Our people possess
various degrees of DNA from Africa, Native America, Europe
and Asia, thus we have a large spectrum of hues that represent
us. This mixture changes daily. Is color enough to describe
ourselves? Does our food and music alone define us? What
name would fit a people like us? It took time to create us, so we
should take some time to name ourselves.
The process of naming a new people was normal on the
African continent, but in North America, the removal of our
names and the resulting continuing confusion about who we
are, maintains our color obsession, an obsession that has its
roots in slavery. We need to address this! Martin Luther King
Jr. stated, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.” This idea of naming can take root
as demonstrated by my 9-year-old niece, when asked by her
teacher, “What are you?” She stated, “I am not Black or African
American, I am nameless. But we are working on it.”
This was her response after hearing me speak at a book
signing. I did not think that she was even listening. So, as we
evolve, should we remove references of color from our lives?
For the sake of our children, let us name ourselves, sooner,
rather than later.
Ronald Deloach
Antioch, Calif.
Political Parties are Managed by Party Members
In reply to the letter from McNair Taylor complaining
about those who register as Independents instead of with one
of the established parties and then are denied a vote in primary
elections, here’s the reasoning:
Political parties are formed by and then joined by persons of
like political beliefs. It’s like a club, or any other organization
which correctly limits the voting for its officers to those who
are its legitimate members. Coincidence?
How would you like it if while your organization was
holding its election, supposedly among its members, that some
stranger would walk in and cast a vote?
If you don’t agree with the beliefs or any established party,
then don’t meddle in any party’s affairs. Either establish your
own party with like-minded voters, or wait until the General
Election. But don’t be an outsider meddling in the affairs of
established parties.
Harry E. Bennet Jr.
Baltimore, Md.
African-American Struggle Being Militantly Besmirched
Proponents of gay marriage claim the struggle of
homosexual couples to marry compares to the African
American’s struggle to obtain equal rights through the 1960s.
Should anyone compare the homosexuals’ fight to the African-
American experience? With malice toward none, I respectfully
answer that question, “No.” Being an African American, I am
offended by this assertion.
Being African American at or before 1968 meant facing
egregiously difficult conditions of existence. A separation of the
races, formally called segregation, was present in employment,
parks, water fountains, restaurants, bathrooms, transportation,
churches, schools, playgrounds, marriages, and various other
areas of daily life. Beatings, hangings and other various
mistreatments of African Americans because of ethnicity went
unpunished and largely ignored. I find it appalling that anyone
would compare 400 years of slavery, oppression, torture and
being defined by one’s skin tone to homosexuals’ experience.
Homosexuals are in fact protected from these egregious
injustices unlike my African-American ancestors, further
contrasting our differences.
Simply, marriage is an institution that is available to
anyone that satisfies certain legal qualifications such as
age. Qualifications based on race are discriminatory and
wrong; whereas qualifications based on the gender of the
parties involved is not only relevant, but sensible. I was born
with my skin tone, and I will always be African American.
Homosexuals however are able to change their way of life;
testimonials may be found at www.pfox.com. Sadly, some
homosexuals have been abused by people in their life. This
abuse created painful factors for them, which led them to lead
that lifestyle. However, that raw pain can be and has been
overcome.
I therefore beg my fellow Americans to respect and hold in
higher regard the path that my ancestors have tread, and cease
to compare their harsh trials with the sexual preferences of a
few.
Stephen Gaines
Annapolis, Md.
The ‘Racist’ Citizens Party
Whether you call it the “tea party,” “Council of
Conservative Citizens” or “White Citizens Council,” the same
word applies – racist. They represent the racist Republican
Party. Just because they wear a coat and tie and successfully
masquerade as mainstream conservative organizations, this
appearance is nothing more than a “ruse.” We see that the
Virginia leadership is off and running with its discriminatory
practices and corporation cronyism. Like the colleges and
universities opinion, will the Virginia attorney general make a
ruling on the improper solicitation of contributions regarding
Clarence Thomas’ wife’s political advocacy group with ties
to the tea party? The tea party’s bigoted views, comments and
recent actions clearly reflect their racist attitudes. Joan Walsh
of Salon.com wrote on March 20 about the tea party protest at
the U.S. Capitol. Protesters called Democrat leaders “nigger”
and “faggot” – one Black Caucus leader was spat upon. Also
on Saturday a brick came through the window at another Black
Caucus member’s office in New York. The tea partiers are
true racists as shown by their ugliness and behavior on March
20. The GOP cannot ignore their role in the racism because
these are their party members and supporters. The GOP is
“encouraging” the tea partiers actions. This is why Democrats,
both Black and White, must get out (again) in 2010 with heavy
voting to counter this racist movement.
Walt Hill
Petersburg, Va.

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Opinion
Staying Alive is a Civil Right
On March 23, I had and anger of those opposed to reform.
the honor of joining my I was proud to play my own part in making history. Far
Democratic colleagues at the more important than my personal feelings, however, are the
White House. We had been tangible benefits that the American people will receive.
asked by President Obama For example, on a staged-in basis during the next four
to serve as witnesses as he years, our legislation will extend insurance coverage to more
signed the Patient Protection than 28,000 uninsured residents of Maryland’s Seventh
and Affordable Care Act (H.R. Congressional District and guarantee that 9,600 of our
3590) into law. neighbors with pre-existing conditions can obtain coverage.
While waiting for For those who already have health insurance, the new law
President Obama to sign the will improve insurance coverage for 403,000 people in our
legislation, I thought about district — and provide tax credits and other assistance for up to
the millions of Americans 147,000 families and 14,000 small businesses, helping them to
who worked and voted for afford coverage.
Congressman progressive change during the For those who receive their healthcare through Medicare,
Elijah Cummings 2008 election campaign. our legislation will extend the solvency of the Medicare Trust
My mind was filled with Fund from 2017 to 2026. Beginning next year, preventive
the memories of that long road from Iowa to Washington, services under Medicare will be free and primary care,
the hundreds of days and nights working to elect a more coordinated care and nursing home care will improve.
progressive government that would stand up for everyday Moreover, for the 4,700 Medicare beneficiaries in the 7th
people against the predatory and heartless forces in our society. district whose prescription costs place them in the “Medicare
Here is a tangible result of our success, I thought. This Part D donut hole” each year, they will receive a $250 rebate in
legislation is not perfect, but it is a major step along the road to 2010, 50 percent discounts on brand name drugs beginning in
a healthier, more productive and more humane society. 2011, and closure of the “donut hole” within a decade.
I still believe that the long-term solution to the challenge of Within six months, 56,000 young adults who live in
providing universal healthcare at a cost that we can afford will be Maryland’s Seventh Congressional District will be able to
a national, single-payer insurance system — one, in all probability, obtain insurance coverage on their parents’ plans, allowing
that will be based upon an expansion of Medicare to all Americans. them to be insured while they build their own long-term
I also know, however, that the healthcare reforms we prosperity.
enacted this year will be remembered by history as the moment Equally important to our community, our legislation
in which our nation affirmed healthcare as a fundamental civil provides millions of dollars in new funding for our 37
right for all. community health centers ($11 billion nationally). These health
Tens of thousands of Americans have been dying each year centers are a critical resource, allowing better care for chronic
because they lacked insurance coverage. Millions more are conditions while preventing unnecessary (and more expensive)
suffering, both physically and financially. trips to our emergency rooms.
These deaths and suffering are an unacceptable blight on our These reforms – and the others contained in our new law
national morality. This is why my Democratic colleagues and I − are significant statements about our national morality. Yet,
were able to vote for H.R. 3590 despite the attacks, half-truths progressive change in the way that we provide and pay for
healthcare is also a practical necessity.
Had we not acted, economists informed the Congress,
more and more employers would have been unable to afford
the rapidly rising health care premiums and an additional
3.5 million people would have become unemployed and
without benefits in the next four years. National health care
expenditures would have doubled by 2019, reaching $4.5
trillion annually.
In a national climate of unfounded claims and partisan
hostility, these are the critical facts of life for all Americans
and, especially, for African-American communities where
health disparities continue to exact a deadly toll.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act adopts
an initiative that Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-Ill., and I have
advanced in the past. The National Center on Minority Health
and Health Disparities will be elevated to the level of institute,
giving it the authority to better address the appalling health
disparities that are plaguing our nation’s minority communities.
Equally meaningful for me, personally, our new healthcare
legislation honors the life of Deamonte Driver, the 12-year-old
boy from Maryland whose life was drastically cut short three
years ago when an untreated tooth infection spread to his brain.
Eighty dollars worth of dental care might have saved
Deamonte’s life, but he never received that care because he
lacked access to dental coverage. The health care bill that we
enacted into law last week will go a long way toward assuring
that no other child dies in this way because his parents lack
insurance coverage.
Morally, as well as practically, our nation can no longer
afford a broken healthcare system that forces tens of millions of
uninsured Americans —countrymen, women and children like
Deamonte Driver —to struggle just to stay alive. We can no
longer accept so many people dying before their time.
We have more to accomplish. Yet, in our time, the protection
of our lives has finally been recognized as a civil right.
Congressman Elijah E. Cummings represents Maryland’s Seventh
Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

Is France Right to Ban Wearing the Burka in Public?

As a Muslim
Mona Eltahawy woman
and as a
feminist, I
support banning the face veil, everywhere and
not just in France where they are to vote on a
resolution and possibly a ban on wearing the
garment in public places [hospitals, schools
and public transport, but not in the streets]
after regional elections end.
I am appalled to hear the defense of the
niqab or burka in Europe. A bizarre political
“I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and
for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance...”
correctness has tied the tongues of those who
would normally rally to defend women’s rights
but who are now instead sacrificing those very
rights in the name of fighting an increasingly
powerful right wing.
Every time I return to Cairo from New
York City, where I now live, I wonder what
Hoda Shaarawi, the pioneering Egyptian
feminist, would say if she could see how
many of her sisters are disappearing behind
the face veil. Returning from an international
women’s conference in Italy in 1923 – yes, we
had feminists that early in Egypt – Shaarawi
famously removed her face veil at a Cairo
train station, declaring it a thing of the past.
We might not have burned our bras in Egypt
but some have described Shaarawi’s gesture as
even more incendiary for its time.
And yet here we are, almost a century
later, arguing over a woman’s “right” to cover
her face. What is lost in those arguments is
that the ideology that promotes the niqab (the
total body covering that leaves just the eyes
exposed) and the burka (the garment which
covers the eyes with a mesh) does not believe
in the concept of women’s rights to begin with.
It is an ideology that describes women
alternately as candy, a diamond ring or a precious
stone that needs to be hidden to prove her
“worth.” That is not a message Muslims learn
in our holy book, the Qur’an, nor is the face veil
prescribed by the majority of Muslim scholars.
It is instead a pillar of the ultra-
conservative interpretation of Islam known as
Salafism. It is associated with Saudi Arabia,
where I spent most of my adolescence and
where it is clear that women are effectively
perpetual children, forbidden as they are from
driving, from travelling alone and from even
the simplest of surgical procedures without the
permission of a male “guardian.” I detest the
niqab and the burka for their erasure of women
and for dangerously equating piety with that
disappearance – the less of you I can see, the
closer you must be to God. I defend a woman’s
right to cover her hair if she chooses but the
face is central to human interaction and so
the ideologues who promote its covering are
simply misogynists.
I abhor the rightwing Muslim ideology
behind the veils but I equally abhor the political
rightwing xenophobes of Europe. The European
political right — be it President Nicolas
Sarkozy, his ultra-right rival Jean-Marie Le Pen
(who did alarmingly well in the first round of
those regional elections) or Dutch provocateur
Geert Wilders — do not give a rat’s ass about
Muslim women or their rights: they are merely
using the issue in an attempt to win votes.
The racism and discrimination that Muslim
minorities face in many countries — such
as France, which has the largest Muslim
community in Europe, and Britain, where two
members of the xenophobic British National
Party were shamefully elected to the European
parliament — are very real. But the silence of
the left wing and liberals isn’t the way to fight
it. The best way to support Muslim women
would be to say we oppose both the racist right
wing and the niqabs and burkas which are
products of what I call the Muslim right wing.
Women should not be sacrificed to either.
Over the last
Stephanie Street five years I
interviewed
43 British
Muslim women for my play, Sisters, a
verbatim piece constructed from those
interviews. My intention was to dispel the
ludicrous notion that there is a single, fixed
Muslim female identity. As a non-Muslim who
grew up in Singapore surrounded by Muslim
women, I was shocked by the mainstream
response to 9/11 and 7/7 which was, obliquely,
the polarization of “us” and “them.” Probably
the most offensive thing about it all was how
few commentators and analysts in the media,
or people in positions of power, had ever
spoken in person to a Muslim woman.
I wonder how many niqab-wearing French
citizens Nicolas Sarkozy has sat with and
talked to. I imagine not many. Because if he
had, he could not with a clear conscience say
that “the burka is not a religious sign (but)
a sign of subservience, of debasement.” He
is right to assume that there are significant
problems with the status of women in certain
“I wonder how many niqab-wearing French citizens Nicolas
Sarkozy has sat with and talked to.”
Muslim communities. This, however, is not
oppression on religious grounds but rather,
cultural. And the hypocrisy of what he is doing
is surely transparent – he, in condemning
what he sees to be a symbol of oppression of
women by men, is oppressing women’s rights
to practice their faith as they choose.
To whatever extent a Muslim woman
chooses to practice it, modesty is a central
concern within the religion (for men as well,
although this is often ignored). Everyone
I spoke to who wore Islamic dress did so
because this issue of modesty is sacrosanct,
and they felt liberated not being judged on
their appearance. And those who choose to
wear the niqab are doing that to an extreme.
Only one character in my play wears the
niqab, but the issue of Islamic dress came
up in every interview I did. Azra (not her
real name), who wore the full covering, was
young, had a job and wore it against her
parents’ wishes. They felt that she would be
discriminated against for wearing it.
She took it off when she went to work
because she had to, knowing she was “going
to get the reward for the time I was wearing it,
making God happy by fulfilling his covenant
to me.”
She related to me an incident that took
place when she had her photo taken for her
university ID. They requested she remove her
niqab, so she asked for a female photographer.
When the male photographer at the adjacent
booth asked if she’d like the men to look
away, she told them not to worry about it, not
wanting to cause a scene. And when he did
still turn away, she was touched: “I thought, I
just wish people could be kind like that.”
France clearly needs to address why
immigrant Muslims and French converts are
rejecting western identity so demonstratively,
but this proposed ban is not the way. There
is the not insignificant problem that it might
contravene articles 8 and 9 of the European
convention on human rights which protect the
individual’s right to a private life and personal
identity and freedom to manifest one’s
religion.
There is no denying that in certain countries
the burqa is a manifestation of the oppression
of women, but in the west it is nearly always
worn out of choice. It is an issue of how a
person chooses to practice their faith, and in a
democracy we cannot deny any human being
that.

Student Motivation is Essential to Academic Success

Many years ago, renowned
Joe A. Hairston educator Ronald Edmonds
wrote, “We can, whenever
and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose
schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we
need to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on
how we feel about the fact that we haven’t so far.”
Efforts to address the failure to successfully teach all
children have taken many forms – including the federal No
Child Left Behind Act and the new Race to the Top initiative
– and are reflected in Baltimore County Public Schools’
“Blueprint for Progress,” which predates these federal
initiatives.
I would like to suggest, however, that Edmonds’ words
merit an addendum—that all children “do” learn when learning
is of interest “to them.”
This statement is supported by a growing body of
“…students’ interest in and commitment to learning had greater influence on their final grades,
school attendance, hours spent doing homework, and standardized test scores than their IQs did.”
evidence that shows, for example, that students who set earning certain grades, winning scholarships, preparing for
goals for themselves and use self-directed learning strategies college or careers – are students who will be most successful.
perform better academically. An article in a 2005 issue of the We live in a world with no limits except those we impose
Psychological Science journal, for example, underscored the upon ourselves. So many things that we have never envisioned
importance of student’s self-discipline. The article described – men walking on the moon, an African American being elected
an observational research study of eighth-grade students. president, instantaneously accessing virtually any information,
The study found that students’ interest in and commitment anywhere, anytime – have come to pass.
to learning had greater influence on their final grades, school The truth is that there are no longer any limits. We should all
attendance, hours spent doing homework, and standardized test work together to ensure that our young people know any goal is
scores than their IQs did. within their reach.
While the quality of our teachers, schools, curriculum,
and educational policies matter, so does what each individual Joe A. Hairston, Ed.D., is the superintendent of Baltimore
student brings to the classroom. Students who find their own County Public Schools, the 26th largest school district in the
motivation for success – whether that is self-satisfaction, nation.
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Clarence White
displays an image
of the AFRO paper
created in his
honor.

Clarence White, seated, with

his sons Clarence White Jr.
and Carl White

AFRO Employee Retires after 50 Years

Photos by Talibah Chikwendu
After 50 years of diligent service to the AFRO, Clarence White AFRO employees
retired March 31 amid relatives, friends and longtime co-workers. wait to greet
White began his career as a typesetter at the AFRO and worked Clarence White
as a security officer at the time of his retirement.
AFRO employees shared fond memories of White and touted his Clarence White, left,
unwavering work ethic during his decades with the company. and former AFRO
employees James
Johnson and Moses
Newson

Clarence
White
and AFRO Clarence White,
publisher seated, and former
Clarence White received John “Jake” AFRO writer Ursula
an engraved watch Oliver Battle, left, and
commending his work at former AFRO editor
the AFRO. Willie Givens

Shirley
Briscoe,
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority members hosted their Founders Rita
Day and unveiled their chapter’s history book. Johnson
and their
Awards were presented to sorority members Edith S. Gordon, relative,
D.Ed., Elizabeth E. Craig, Reona J. Thomas and Dr. Charles W. Corinda
Simmons was the recipient of the community service award. S. Waters,
In addition to commending the sorority’s founders, the event a 76-year
Cardrienne Griffin and member
honored members celebrating 25 and 50 years of membership. of Alpha
Photos by A. Lois Angela Gibson, president,
De Laine, Ed.D. Corinda S. Waters was applauded as a “Diamond Diva” for her present the 2010 Epsilon Kappa
76-year membership in Alpha Kappa Alpha. A highlight of the Omega history book to Alpha
afternoon luncheon was a musical presentation, “When I Fall in sorority members.
Love” by Maysa Leak, Baltimore-born recording artist.

Adrienne Stokes, co-chair; Maysa Leak,

Baltimore-based recording artist, and
Karen Miller, chair, Founders’ Day 2010

Paula Tolson, Ramona Green

and Helen Dupree
Golden sorors
Gloria Jones
and Margaret
Jackson

Sen. Verna Jones Rodwell, Mayor Dr. Roselyn Hammond, Carolyn Cole, Honorees Elizabeth E.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and LaJerne Cornish and Cheryl Frazier, Craig, Dr. Charles W.
Del. Barbara Robinson immediate past president Simmons, Reona J. Thomas
and Dr. Edith S. Gordon
B2 The Baltimore Afro-American, April 3, 2010 - April 9, 2010
Baltimore Businessman to Win Entrepreneur of the Year Award
By Stephen D. Riley
AFRO Staff Writer
Baltimore businessman
Eddie C. Brown grew up
studying the men in the white
shirts and ties as opposed to
those in the field and factories
in his home town of Apopka,
Fla. With his grandmother
instilling in him the belief that
studying hard and staying in
school would grant him his
own white shirt and tie, an
aspiring entrepreneur was
born.
When Brown walks
through the aisles of fellow
business moguls on April
14 to receive the 2010
Entrepreneur of the Year
Award at the 17th Annual
Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards
Dinner in New York, he’ll
remember those words of
encouragement that his
grandmother embedded into
his memory.
He’ll also remember his
self-made uncle, who along
with his grandmother, helped
shape Brown’s mindset of
breaking the ordinary and
electing to manage himself
rather than being managed by
others.
“I never remember my
uncle working for anyone else
except himself,” Brown recalls.
“That was kind of ingrained,
of somehow finding a way to
basically work for myself or
have my own business.”
The start of Brown’s
business success began in
1973, when he moved to
Baltimore after being hired
as a portfolio manager by
headlining investment firm T.
Rowe Price. Brown became
the first African-American
investment professional to
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Eddie C. Brown will
become just the third
African American to win
the Network for Teaching
Entrepreneurship’s
Entrepreneur of the Year
Award later this month.
be hired by the firm during a
time when employing Blacks
in the investment business
wasn’t one of the more
popular trends.
Brown operated as a
portfolio manager for 10 years
before deciding to venture
out and conquer his own
endeavors. He founded Brown
Capital Management in July
1983 and currently serves as
the president and CEO. His
storied success earned him
Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur
of the Year award in the
financial services category
for Maryland in 2003. The
following year he was
inducted into the Maryland
Chamber of Commerce’s
Business Hall of Fame.
Brown was also a regular
panelist on Louis Rukeyser’s
“Wall Street Week” and was
inducted into the program’s
Hall of Fame in 1996.
After Brown accepts the
Entrepreneur of the Year
Award later this month, he
will become just the third
African American to receive
the honor in the award’s 17-
year history. The award will
be presented by the Network
Hip-Hop Mogul Simmons
Still Has Magic Touch
By George Barnette
AFRO Staff Writer
Throughout his storied
career, New York-born media
mogul Russell Simmons has
helped bolster the image and
scope of hip-hop culture. Now
in his 50s, the multifaceted
maven shows no signs of
slowing down. With his
new ventures, such as the
Rush Card and his Global
Grind Web site, Simmons
has evolved into a business
industry chameleon, constantly
reinventing himself.
“One thing I, and people
like Diddy and Jay-Z have
is the entrepreneurial spirit,”
Simmons said. “We’re always
searching for new avenues. I
don’t think a person should
ever stay stagnant.”
Despite many artists’
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(NFTE), an international
nonprofit organization
based in New York that
provides entrepreneurship
programs to youths from
low-income communities.
The organization’s Baltimore
affiliate was established in
2002.
Although Brown will
be one of three other
Baltimoreans that will be
honored on the evening, the
opportunity to join Russell
Simmons and Frank Savage
as the only African Americans
to win the award is a feat
that sets Brown in unique
company.
“When they approached me
last year about being one of the
three awardees for this year’s
dinner, I had to think about
it for a long time for many
different reasons,” Brown
said, “When I looked at their
list of prior award recipients I
said ‘You know, if I’m being
offered this opportunity, I’m
going to have to accept it.’ It’s
not too often at least based
short-lived careers, Simmons
has sustained throughout
the transformation of hip-
hop music from an inner
city gem to a billion-dollar,
international operation.
But Simmons said he
initially became involved in the
hip-hop movement because of
his love of music, not money.
“I got started in hip-hop
because I wanted to make
music,” he said. “I wanted to
be in the studio and at the end
of the night say, ‘Yo, that’s a
dope record,’ and then share it
with the world.”
It’s a mindset the Phat
Farm clothing line creator
said he wishes more Black
hip-hop executives would
take, adding that people’s
measures of success should be
re-evaluated.
“What’s success?” he
asked. “If it’s being rich,
buying the big house, the cars
and the jewelry, that’s fine.
For me, success is achieving
the ultimate happiness, which
is loving what you’re doing
and loving God.”
In that process, Simmons
became the first major hip-
hop mogul, bringing the
sounds of urban life to Middle
America and beyond. It was
a risky move at the time,
as critics deemed hip-hop a
passing teenage fad. But those
closest to Simmons say risk-
taking is a part of the 52-year-
old’s nature.
“If it’s two words that I
think describe Russell it’s
courage and continuity,” said
the Rev. Lennox Yearwood
Jr., head of the Hip Hop
Caucus. “He has the courage
to persevere, but he also has
continuity because he never
stops.”
Simmons has also made
his presence known outside
of business and music. In
2001, he entered the political
arena as creator of the Hip-
Hop Summit Action Network
(HSAN), which was created
to “serve as a catalyst for
education advocacy and other
societal concerns fundamental
to the empowerment of
youth,” according to the
organization’s Web site.
One of the group’s major
achievements was raising
on the history that they have
selected African Americans to
bestow that honor. I consider it
a big deal and I’m honored to
be selected.”
Brown’s recent selection
continues a remarkable trend
of historic accomplishments
for the small town Florida
native. With a host of
other accolades under his
belt, Brown continues
to establish himself as a
pioneer in African-American
entrepreneurship, an
achievement that continues to
gain national recognition.
“NFTE is honoring Eddie
Brown for his exemplary
leadership, vision and success
as an entrepreneur,” said the
Baltimore affiliate’s Executive
Director Patricia Granata
Eisner in a press release.
“There could be no better role
model for our students in the
city than Eddie Brown. He
has shown them firsthand how
an education and a passion
for entrepreneurship can lead
to professional and personal
success.”
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Russell Simmons
voter awareness during the
2004 presidential election.
Yearwood, who was
the grassroots director of
HSAN, said Simmons saw
an opportunity where hip hop
could be used for more than
just entertainment.
“It was new for all of us,
but we knew Russell wanted
to go political,” Yearwood
said. He wanted to use hip-
hop as a voice and try to figure
out how we could use our
cultural expression to form our
political experience.”
Yearwood sees many
parallels in Simmons’
transcendent business career
and his burgeoning political
presence.
“I really believe that
Russell, who helped start
Def Jam and really got that
going from the industry, was
instrumental in creating hip-
hop politics, which birthed the
Hip Hop Caucus and that’s
now a major institution,” said
Yearwood. “He has really
been the catalyst in hip-hop
for both the record industry
and now in politics.”
Whether tackling the
music industry, the world of
fashion or utilizing his public
persona to forge political
change, Simmons said he
finds each facet of his work
gratifying.
“Being rich is a state of
happiness,” he said. I found
something I loved and it’s the
focus on the work itself that
makes you happy.”
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Lyfe Jennings Finds Comfort at Last

By George Barnette
AFRO Staff Writer
Throughout his life, Chester “Lyfe” Jennings has been
through one trial after another. However, approaching his fourth
and last album entitled I Still Believe, he seems to be evolving as
a person and as an artist.
“I try to write a simpler message now,” said Jennings. “I
still try to do things that are community based that will be
hotter than just some melody. People want to see growth so a
lot of times I don’t wear baggy pants and a hat. Sometimes I’ll
have on a suit and tie.”
His growth is different from many people. Jennings spent
10 years in prison and that has shaped him in a way few R&B
artists can relate to.
Although he did go to prison, he didn’t fall victim to the
penitentiary system that claims many Black males in America.
Instead, he used it as a learning experience and vowed to never
return.
“I’ve always been watcher,” said Jennings. “By watching
these people, I saw who they were in life and who they were in
their community and I just asked, ‘Do I want to be like these
people?’
“Obviously I didn’t because I got heavy into reading and
heavy in to clarifying truths about my life.”
Now he’s a spokesman for a new campaign, Stay Busy,
Stay Out of Trouble. He says staying busy can lead to future
careers.
“I’m just talking about the importance of involving yourself
in activities, preferably ones that well help the community,”
Jennings said. “Whether it’s mentoring, reading to kids,
tutoring, going to detention centers or going to retirement
homes, it’s important to keep yourself busy.”
He says his past led him to start this campaign, but it’s
something he’s come to enjoy very much.
“I’m not a shy guy and I don’t feel intimidated by kids,” he
said. “I always just say what’s on my mind. I never have a set
script when I speak to kids.”
His experiences can also be felt in his raspy-voiced
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melodies as he is one of most socially conscience R&B singers
in the industry today. No matter what the topic is, he manages Lyfe Jennings’ fourth album, I Still Believe, will be his last.
to approach it in a responsible way.
“Even if I write a sexual song, it comes out like ‘S.E.X.’,”
he said. “For some reason I just can’t write about the act. I percent, but when I listen to them it gives me something to
have to write about everything that surrounds the act. strive for. They sometimes remind me of things I should be
“I think people’s hearts recognize. Maybe the media doing that I haven’t been doing.”
doesn’t recognize, but I think people really get and love Lyfe Jennings’ latest single, “Busy,” has already been released in
Jennings.” preparation for his album release on May 25. Although it will
What people are getting is Jennings’ therapy—though he be his last album, he says he’ll still be around.
says he loves to write for various reasons. “It’s not over, we’re just rocking one more time,” he said.
“It is my therapy at times and sometimes is just something “We’re out here in the community. That’s how we started and
to shoot for,” he said. “Some songs are not me or not me 100 that’s how we’ll finish.”

Baltimore Author Explores the Afterlife Entertainment Briefs

in Mystical Page-Turner
By AFRO Staff
Baltimore-based author
A.C. Moore delves into
the domain of angels and
demons in Even Angels Need
Miracles, taking readers
on a mystical journey with
protagonist Aalon, a guardian
angel.
After Satan accuses Aalon
of murdering a human he’s
been assigned to protect,
the fallen angel is forced to
await news of his fate in hell.
However, Aalon attempts
to rectify his accusation by
daring to rescue the soul he
inadvertently sent to hell.
Now an outcast among his
peers, Aalon transcends the
afterlife and travels to Earth
to seek the assistance of a
defense attorney.
“This is an extraordinary
adventure into the world of
angels, fallens and demons.
It sheds light on how they
might do battle to manipulate,
win or rescue souls,” said
Moore in a statement. “On a
deeper level, however Even
Rap Legend to Co-Host
Hip-Hop Awards
Rap icon Kurtis Blow,
For more information about
the HHHOF and the Hip Hop
Hall of Fame Museum &
Angels Need Miracles deals one thing I’m certain of is to the author, the book most famous for his hit Entertainment Complex, visit
with the theme of protecting readers pull out of this book is was created to be a “quick, “The Breaks,” is set to co- HipHopHoF.TV.
values, purposeful sacrifice its entertainment quality.” creative and entertaining read host the Hip-Hop Hall of
and accepting and allowing Even Angels Need with fantasy and charm.” Fame Awards (HHHOF) in Beyoncé’s ‘Heat’ Turns Big
for redemption. I’m sure Miracles is Moore’s second His first book, romance June. This will be the first Profit
readers will identify with the novel and is part of an novel Always Room for broadcast of the awards show After dominating radio
characters, both human and ongoing series. According Dessert, was published in since it aired in national and waves, the big screen and the
spiritual in the 2004. international syndication. It fashion world, Beyoncé has
story and will will also appear on the BET laid her stake in the perfume
hopefully ask “Even Angels Need Cable Network. industry, releasing her
themselves a Miracles” is available This year’s show, which signature scent, Heat, to the
few questions through MooreNovels.com will take place in New masses.
– what kind of and Amazon. It will soon be York, will feature a week of In just over one month,
available on the Web sites of activities leading up to the the perfume, which comes
character do I Barnes and Noble, Borders
embody when televised program. Among in a sloping crimson-colored
and other online outlets. To
facing my most the events will be several bottle with gold accents,
view the book trailer, visit
grim moments? MooreNovels.com, or search
community outreach projects, has reached sales exceeding
Could the fate of for the title on YouTube. a VIP reception, artist parties $3 million, according to
someone I barely and programs honoring BlackAmericaWeb.com. In
know could industry pioneers and New March, the singer sold 72,000
ever be worth a York City leaders. bottles of the perfume in
steep sacrifice? The week will end just one hour while signing
After all, we all with the unveiling of the autographs in New York,
to some degree Manhattan Home of the Hip- Women’s Wear Daily reported.
are sort of Hop Hall of Fame Museum But Beyoncé is not the
connected. While & Entertainment Complex, only celebrity to venture
there are several which will introduce over into the world of beauty and
internal questions 120 jobs to the community, perfumes. Queen Latifah,
a reader can ask according to a press release. Kim Kardashian and Halle
him or herself The new museum is expected Berry are also promoting
while reading to generate an estimated $400 their own fragrances at stores
this book, the A.C. Moore Courtesy Photo million in revenue. nationwide.
In other Beyoncé news,

Buddies Travel Back to the ‘80s in Raunchy Road Comedy

By Kam Williams
Special to the AFRO
If the ostensible objective
of each generation of raunchy
road comedies is to up the
ante in terms of debauchery,
then Hot Tub Time Machine
definitely deserves to be given
its due, since this relentlessly
vulgar exercise in depravity
easily outdoes many of the
earlier examples of the shock
genre. For instance, remember
that moment in There’s
Something about Mary (1998)
where Cameron Diaz mistakes
semen for hair gel? Well, now
you better brace yourself for
the sight of a guy messily
ejaculating all over the face of
one of his buddies.
Or how about the Oedipal
overtones of Back to the
Future (1985), in which
Michael J. Fox found himself
fending off his own mother’s
advances? By contrast, in this
case we have a character, who
travels back in time to watch
himself being conceived
by his naked mom during a
drunken one-night stand?
The movie also makes
an allusion to more recent
“teensploits,” such as The
Hangover (2009), which
featured a convicted sex
offender molesting a missing
infant. Here, we have incest
instead of pedophilia, with a
man erotically massaging his
grown son’s private parts.
This sort of tasteless fare
proves to be par for the course
in Hot Tub Time Machine,
a cinematic sign of the
imminent collapse of Western
civilization. Directed by Steve
Pink (Accepted), the movie
stars John Cusack, Craig
Robinson and Rob Corddry as
best friends, each in the midst
of a midlife crisis.
At the point of departure,
we learn that Adam (Cusack)
has just been dumped by his
girlfriend; Nick’s (Robinson)
controlling wife (Kellee
Stewart) is cheating on him;
and clinically-depressed
Lou (Corddry) feels he has
nothing to live for between
his alcoholism and erectile
dysfunction.
So, Adam and Nick decide
to try to cheer up their pal by
planning a vacation getaway
Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Rob Corddry and John
Cusack star in Hot Tub Time Machine.
to the same ski resort which
served as the site of their
sordid sexual conquests during
the lost glory days they all
so sorely miss. And for good
measure, they bring along
Adam’s video-game-addicted
nephew (Clark Duke), an
agoraphobic who needs to get
out of the basement.
Soon after their arrival
at the Silver Peaks Lodge,
the buddies find themselves
magically deposited in 1986
for a second go-round as
bawdy bachelors, courtesy of
an electrical short circuit of
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the hot tub they’re marinating
in. The story doesn’t
bother to offer a plausible
scientific explanation for this
astounding development, nor
as to why our heroes suddenly
look young again to everyone
other than each other.
However, they do
determine that they really
have been teleported back a
quarter of a century by asking
someone whether Michael
Jackson is Black or White.
That line might have been
funny were the “Prince of
Pop” still alive. But it goes
over like a lead balloon in the
wake of his recent passing.
Other questionable skits
which should have hit the
cutting room floor include
projectile vomiting on a
defenseless squirrel, an
adult prompting a child
to share his Ritalin, and a
running joke about how the
ski lodge’s bellboy (Crispin
Glover) lost his arm in an
accident. Nonetheless, in
essence, this sleazy flick is a
titillating, homoerotic fantasy
masquerading as a nostalgic,
male-bonding opportunity.
Watch as the latent lads
indulge their every forbidden
fantasy in a drug- and
alcohol-fueled stupor until
the clueless custodian (Chevy
Chase) finally figures out how
to reverses the effects of the
faulty hot tub.
A kinky cross of Caligula
and Back to the Future.
Poor (H star)
Rated R for nudity, graphic
sexuality, crude humor, drug use
and pervasive profanity.
Running time: 99 Minutes
Distributor: MGM
representatives for the Texas-
born star have denied recent
Internet rumors that she and
husband Jay-Z are pregnant
with their first child.
India Arie Slams Lady Gaga
Video
Known for her deep,
soul-searching lyrics and
guitar-laden hits, Grammy-
nominated singer India.
Arie has based her career on
socially conscious, uplifting
music. In several postings
on her Twitter page, the
Atlanta-based singer slammed
Lady Gaga, a flamboyant
pop star, for her latest video
for “Telephone,” which also
features Beyoncé.
“I agree gaga is being her
image . . . I dig her creative
mind But still . . . There’s
a such thing as socially
irresponsible (sic),” the singer
tweeted.
She added, “I respect the
creative mind but disagree
with the ‘choices’ as a dish
meant to be served for mass
consumption... Crazy to me
that the Dark, underbelly,
shock at all cost thing is a
TREND like asymmetrical
hair and big shoulder jackets.
Slippery slope!”
B4 The Baltimore Afro-American, April 3, 2010 - April 9, 2010

By Rosa Pryor

Hello, everyone. While
I am talking to you, I’ll be
packing my suitcases. Shorty,
my boo-boo, and I will be
driving to Ft. Lauderdale,
Fla., to board the Island
Princess Ship traveling to
the Panama Canal, Aruba,
Cristobal, Limon and Ocho
Rios. We are leaving April 7
for 14 days. I’ll miss you all
so much. Such dirty work, but
somebody has to do it.
Before I leave, I want to
talk to you about a few things.
I want you to check out these
restaurants and clubs and let
me know what you think.
The Blair Mansion Inn
Restaurant, located 7711
Eastern Ave. in Silver Spring,
Md., is now open for lunch,
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and dinner,
5-9 p.m. Monday- Friday.
The Mansion Inn is in its
third century of welcoming
people through its doors.
Built at the end of the
19th century as a wedding
present, the mansion has
witnessed much change from
its beginning as a country
estate, evolving into one of
the premiere destinations in
the Washington, D.C. area
for dinner, theatre, wedding
receptions, parties and catered
special events. The mansion
also provides comedy murder
mystery dinner theatre.
The Blair Mansion has live
entertainment every Monday
night with a jazz jam session,
hosted by Brandon Combs
and the WPG Trio is featured.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
WPG Trio is composed of
Blues Webb, Benji Porecki
and Gary Granger. They
have been together since
1998. The three bring a
tight-knit, energetic, vital
unit to the stage and have
been wowing audiences
around the world. They are
the house band and head
up the jazz jam session
every Monday night at
the Blair Mansion Inn
Restaurant.
Chef Mac’s Louisiana
Cuisine is owned and
operated by Maclonza Lee
who has over 30 years of
experience in the food service
industry. One of his major
specialties, Louisiana cuisine,
especially gumbos and Creole
dishes, draws on his roots as
a native of Alexandria, La.
As a teenager, he worked
in the kitchens of a variety
of food establishments in
Hannibal and St. Louis, Mo.,
and Quincy, Ill. From there,
he gained more experience
as a food service specialist
in the U.S. Army. He used
that experience to open his
first restaurant in Hannibal,
Mo., Odell’s Barbeque, where
he developed another of his
trademarks, St. Louis-style
barbecue. In addition, he
has extensive experience
in the restaurant and
hospitality industries as both
a production manager and an
executive chef. He currently
uses his varied knowledge
of the food service industry
as Production Manager at
Howard University. His
restaurant is located 4311
Harford Road. For more
information or reservations,
call 410-319-6227.
Chef Maclonza “Mac” Lee
is the owner and operator
of Chef Mac’s Louisiana
Cuisine, 4311 Harford
Road.
The Eubie Blake Center
will honor international
recording artist Ethel
Ennis in an exhibit called,
“Memories of Ethel’s
Place,” photographs, films,
memorabilia, and other
items will be on display, now
through May 1. Also on April
11 at 4 p.m. is “Spring Fever
Lovefest at Eubie Live.”
Join them for an evening of
jazz and romance as they
explore and celebrate that
most intoxicating of human
experiences….EROS. Savor
the music, dance, poetry
and humor; passionate
poetry readings and sensual
love dance performance,
complimentary glass of
fine wine, snacks and silent
auction. The Eubie Blake
Center is located at 847 N.
Howard St. in Baltimore. For
more information, call 410-
225-3130.
Afro-jazz guitarist Jay
Lou Ava will perform at
Strathmore on April 3 at 8
p.m. at the Music Center at
Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman
Lane, North Bethesda,
Md. The concert will
commemorate a pivotal event
in South Africa’s struggle to
end apartheid, the June 1976
Soweto massacre, in which
Black youths were killed by
police during a student protest
of government policies. In
Ava’s words, “We must not
forget that there are other
Afro-jazz guitarist and composer Jay Lou
Ava will perform cuts from his 2008 album
Unforgettable Soweto on April 3 at 8 p.m.
at the Music Center at Strathmore, 5301
Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, Md.
Photo by B&B Photography, Bobby Parker
Cleve Brister, former Baltimore City Recreation
Department administrator, joined by the first African-
American of Charlotte, N.C., Harvey Gantt, and nationally
renowned dentist, Dr. Spurgeon W. Webster Jr., watch
the CIAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament in
Charlotte, N.C.
Soweto’s happening in the includes Spyro Gyra,
world today.” For ticket Shemekia Copeland Blues,
information, call 301-581- Tim Warfield Band doing
5100 or 410- a tribute to Shirley Scott,
299-5437. Chuchito Valdes, Juanita
Sister- Williams with Fred Hughes,
To-Sister Shook Russo Quartet, B.D.
Van Club of Lenz; Monnette Sudler
Maryland with Bootsie Barnes, Steve
presents a Turre and Aaron Graves,
“Blackout Mississippi Heat Blues band
Freakum and Little Jazz Giants, just
Dress Party” to name a few. For more
featuring DJ information, call 609-884-
Mater T on 7200 and tell them that Rosa
April 17 in Pryor told you or you can
Pikesville go to their Web site, www.
Community capemayjazz.org.
Hall, 40 East Central Library says
Sudbrook “Happy Birthday, Billie
Lane, 9 p.m. Holiday” on April 7. The
to 1 a.m. Pratt Library and the Billie
BYOB and Holiday House invite you to a
50-50 raffle. daylong celebration of the life
For more of Billie Holiday. The opening
information,
call Blondie at
410-922-3884.
Cape May
Jazz Festival
is April 16-18
in Cape May,
N.J. This year’s
entertainment

RISING ZION BAPTIST CHURCH

2300 Llewelyn Avenue • Baltimore, Maryland 21213
REV. THEODORE D. ADDISON, SR., PASTOR
“A church fulfilling its call by faith, living, loving, laboring in Christ”

You are Cordially Invited The memory of the late

Robert Clay will be the
To Join Us for Our order of the day when
32nd Church Anniversary Celebration Donnie Clay & Vision
“A Church Fully Committed For 32 Years Proclaiming Productions present the
The Word Of God For The Advancement Of His Kingdom “32nd Street Plazza 1st
Through Jesus Christ Our Lord” Annual Reunion” with an
Easter brunch.
Wed. April 7th, Thurs. April 8th, Fri. April 9th
7:30 Nightly
Sunday, April 11th of exhibit is “Lady Day: The
Many Faces of Billie Holiday.”
Services 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
A replica of a Billie Holiday
1978 - 32 Years - 2010 sculpture by James Earl Reid
will be unveiled at 11 a.m. A
jazz concert follows at 7 p.m.
featuring Lonette McKee,
Damia Satterfield, Michael
Henderson and friends.
Well, my dear friends, it
is about that time. Remember
to send your press releases at
Services least four weeks in advance
to make the deadline. If you
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 - 7:30 p.m.
Bishop Clifford M. Johnson Jr., Pastor need me, call me at 410-
Mt. Pleasant Church and Ministries 833-9474 or 410-802-8632.
You can also e-mail me at
Thursday, April 8th, 2010 - 7:30 p.m. rosapryor@aol.com.
Reverend Gregory Perkins, Pastor
St. Paul Community Baptist Church
UNTIL THE NEXT
Friday, April 9th, 2010 - 7:30 p.m. TIME, I’M MUSICALLY
Reverend Tyrone Thomas, Pastor YOURS. I’LL SEE YOU AT
Charity Community Baptist Church THE NEWSSTAND.
Sunday, April 11th, 2010 - 11:00 a.m.
Reverend Dr. Steve Daniels, Pastor Editor’s note: The AFRO
Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church - St. Paul, MN sends condolences to Rosa
Pryor-Trusty and her family
Sunday, April 11th, 2010 - 3:30 p.m. on the recent death of her
Reverend P. M. Smith, Pastor
Huber Memorial Church brother, Roland McKinley
Pryor. See B6 for Pryor’s
“Thank you for helping us celebrate our 32nd Church Anniversary!” obituary.
Chairpersons: Deacon Michael Rice, Sister Erica Cook
Co-Chairpersons: Deaconess Irma Beasley, Sister Cheryl Pugh
 April 3, 2010 - April 9, 2010, The Baltimore Afro-American B5
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‘And Then There Were Four’

Duke, West Virginia, Butler and Michigan State scrap for title
By Stephen D. Riley
AFRO Staff Writer
When West Virginia (31-
6) and Duke (33-5) clash
in Saturday’s semifinal
matchup, it’ll be the classic
battle of rugged vs. finesse.
The Mountaineers stormed
their way through the first
four rounds of the tournament
by utilizing an in-your-face
brand of tough defense. By
closing off cutting lanes,
doubling and even triple-
teaming low-post big men,
the Mountaineers dared their
adversaries to shoot from the
outside – a feat its opponents
have failed at miserably.
Against West Virginia’s
switching zone defense,
teams have shot a woeful
20 percent from three-point
range, connecting on only 17-
83 shots from beyond the arc.
The Mountaineers have used
a barrage of missed shots to
fuel their fast break and the unrecognized. But game at Detroit’s Ford Field. the 2005-2006 season. The
collect easy baskets it’s not in the order you Michigan State is well aware upending of one and two-
but if there’s any team would suspect. Butler, of what they’ll be up against seeded Syracuse and Kansas
equipped to solve West located in Indianapolis, this weekend and they should State have made 31-year-old
Virginia’s defensive will become the first be. Head coach Tom Izzo’s head coach Brad Stevens a
riddles, it’s the sweet team to play a “Final Spartans have reached the top candidate as one of the
shooting Blue Devils. Four” in its hometown “Final Four” six times over best young coaches in college
Duke’s starting since 1972. The least the last 12 seasons. basketball. Add in Stevens’
guard trio of Jon noticeable school out Izzo doesn’t seem to be collection of gritty and
Scheyer, Nolan Smith of this year’s “Final affected by early departures hardnosed players and Butler
and Kyle Singler have Four” cast will be or years of adjusting to new more than makes up for its
all shot more than 38 come the most popular talent on the fly; he simply lack of popularity as one of
percent from behind over the weekend wins with whatever crew of the better teams in the nation.
the arc this season as thousands of fans players that walk through his The 2010 NCAA
and have had some will undoubtedly door. Izzo will be gunning for Tournament has been a
monumental games be pumping fist and his second title this decade wild and wacky ride for
in the tournament. Courtesy Photo/Michigan State University waving flags in favor of and another championship much of the last few weeks.
Shooting from deep is Michigan State is one of the remaining the Bulldogs. would cement his legacy as With a host of Goliaths
something that Duke teams that will battle for a chance at If any team can well as Michigan State’s as slain and droughts ended,
not only thrives at, but the National Championship. understand what kind one of the top coaches and a descent upon downtown
lives for. Legendary of support Butler (32-4) programs of the modern era. Indianapolis this weekend
Duke head coach Mike Virginia’s “I-dare-you-to- will receive Saturday But Butler is beginning is the last stop in the quest
Krzyzewski does a great job shoot” defensive style, Duke night it’s the Spartans (28- to create a legacy of its own. for a championship trophy.
of instilling discipline in his will have its chances. 8). Michigan State’s “Final The Bulldogs are currently With two games remaining
clubs but also has stamped in The Butler vs. Michigan Four” run last year ended riding a 24-game win streak and four highly touted and
his players minds to fire away State matchup is more of more than 80 miles away – the longest of any team in talented teams, the best of
at will. And that’s a good a popularity contest, so to from their campus against the Final Four– and haven’t March Madness has yet to
thing because against West speak; the well known vs. North Carolina in the title won less than 26 games since come.

‘New-school’ commentary Baylor’s Griner Overshadows

Star Power Takes Backseat to Parity in
‘Final Four’ ‘Big Dance’
By Stephen D. Riley not be the power quartet that most fans were By Perry Green
Baylor freshman Brittney
AFRO Staff Writer hoping for, but a closer look reveals that this AFRO Sports Editor
Griner dunks and blocks
is probably the best scenario we common-folk shots better than any
Wow! I definitely didn’t see that one fans could’ve gotten. There may be just as many,
other woman in the
coming. Who would’ve thought my hand- All four teams began the year ranked in if not more folks tuning into
nation, making her the
picked Kentucky Wildcats would’ve shot the top 10 of ESPN/USA Today’s preseason the Women’s “Final Four”
biggest star in the NCAA
themselves out of the tournament with a 4-for- rankings. And Michigan State (No. 2 ranking), as there will be for the men’s
Tournament.
32 three-point display over the weekend? With Duke (No. 8 ranking), West Virginia and final games this weekend,
three No. 1 seeds out, visions of an attractive Butler (No. 9 and 10) all solidified their thanks in large part to Baylor
“Final Four” were quickly diminishing. If not preseason rankings with outstanding seasons freshman star Brittney Griner.
for Duke’s win over Baylor last Sunday, we and a combined 108-23 regular season record. It’s not very often we find
could’ve been staring at a “Final Four” devoid Aside from Michigan State, all three more star-power coming from
of any No. 1 seeds for just the third time in schools won their conference tournaments and the women’s side of college
NCAA history. although there isn’t an Evan Turner or a John basketball, but it’s even more
But Duke pulled it out and now the Blue Wall left to hug the spotlight, the coaching uncommon to witness a
Devils will have to be one of, if not the favorites star power more than makes up for the lack woman with Griner’s talent.
to cut down the championship nets next of superstar recognition. Michigan State’s The 6-foot-8-inch freshman
Monday in Indianapolis, right? Well, not so fast. Tom Izzo, West Virginia’s Bob Huggins and sensation made a game-
If you’ve been keeping up with this Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski are some of the best winning shot to lead the No.
year’s tourney, you’ve seen some of the most coaches in any sport at any level and even 4 seed Baylor Lady Bears to
entertaining and unpredictable basketball that’s Butler’s Brad Stevens is young enough, 31, to a 51-48 win against the No.
ever been played in March and scheduling be considered as one of better up-and-coming 2 seeded Duke Lady Blue
Duke to just take home title honors is a mouse coaching prodigies. Devils on March 29 during
trap that I’m not willing to stick my hand in. Could we have gotten a more attractive the “Elite 8” round. Her
The lack of an overwhelming favorite is set of “Final Four” teams? Probably. Are we double-double of 15 points
actually a good thing but people always seem going to miss the TV coverage of some of the and 11 rebounds helped
to find the negative in the unfamiliar. I had a nation’s brightest stars? Maybe. Will we still Baylor advance to its first
friend (we’ll call him Joe for short) tell me the receive a competitive championship weekend? “Final Four” appearance since
other day that this is the worse tournament he’s Absolutely. winning the national title in
ever seen in his life. Joe’s also a bit of a drama When Kentucky fell last Saturday I had to
2005.
king, but I understood his point. He wasn’t sit back and rethink what was actually going
But Griner’s ability to help
dogging the tourney because of poor play or on. With all the favorites on summer vacation,
win games isn’t what’s made
an overabundance of blowouts (because it’s this tourney is now anybody’s to win. Sure, AP Photo
her name a staple in sports
actually been the exact opposite) but it’s hard I would’ve loved to see a predominantly
headlines— it’s her ability said Griner, who fits an 18 Griner’s physical advantage
for casual fans to keep up with schools they freshmen-led team conquer the unlikely, but
to completely dominate in men’s shoe size and has put her in a negative light.
can hardly identify on a map. this is what the NCAA committee had in
mind when they created this whole one-game
the hardwood court that a wingspan that extends 86 Griner was ejected from a
So while teams like Northern Iowa,
elimination tournament thing. has common sports fans so inches long, in a post-game game earlier in March after
Cornell and Saint Mary’s were “dancing”
“March Madness” is based more intrigued. statement. “It’s kind of second punching Texas Tech player
and advancing, Joe was steadily stewing and
boo-hooing. Once Kentucky, Ohio State and upon parity amongst schools rather than Griner, a native of nature. I just see the shot, go Jordan Barncastle in the face,
Kansas State were ushered out of the “Big prestigiousness and although there is no Houston, recorded an up there and try to grab it or breaking her nose. Griner’s
Dance” over the weekend, Joe really went Syracuse, Kansas or Kentucky left to pencil outstanding nine blocks in throw it out of bounds.” punch came after the two
crazy. He then went on to dog this year’s crop into your printed bracket, the upcoming Baylor’s win over Duke Griner’s unique physical got tangled up on a hard foul
of “Final Four” teams due to their lack of top weekend is wide open for even the most Monday night, giving her a ability gives her an advantage called against Barncastle.
seeding without even bothering to recognize unlikely champions to be crowned. And as new NCAA record of 36 total on offense, too. It didn’t Griner expressed an
reality. This year’s “Final Four” — Michigan unattractive as the circumstances may be, even blocks during the NCAA surprise many when she apology, served a two-game
State, Butler, West Virginia and Duke— may a guy like Joe should be able to appreciate that. Tournament. She had set a became the seventh woman in suspension, and returned
new NCAA record of most NCAA history to dunk during just in time for the NCAA
blocks in a single game a basketball game, joining Tournament.
Sports Digest earlier in the tournament
when she recorded 14 blocks
the likes of former college
star Candace Parker, who
She used her physical
talent uniquely again
NFL Players Visit South of the Minnesota Vikings, selected to join a delegation in the second round against still remains the only woman on Monday night when
Africa Tommie Harris of the Chicago of Americans touring South Georgetown. to dunk during the NCAA she joined 6-foot-2-inch
Four NFL stars, including Bears, Roy Williams of Africa to “get a feel for the In the eyes of many Tournament (did so twice in teammate Mariah Chandler
Mark Clayton of the the Cincinnati Bengals and country” before the World basketball experts, she’s the ’05). But even Parker would to hoist their coach up to cut
Maryland-based Baltimore Clayton kicked a ball around Cup arrives in July. most dominant defensive admit she can’t dunk like the down the basketball nets in
Ravens, recently visited soccer-style with students According to the AP, player to man the paint since Baylor freshman. It’s become celebration of their “Final
Capetown, South Africa, from Cape Town township American fans are expected to NBA legend Bill Russell. But a tradition for some Baylor Four” appearance.
to play football. But the last week. be the largest group of foreign if you ask Griner, swatting fans to rush to games early to “I never had players tall
football they played while “It’s always great to be attendees for the World Cup, balls into the nearest crowd watch Griner during warm- enough to lift me to cut the
in the “motherland” isn’t the able to play with kids,” said which will be held in Africa should come natural for ups as she puts on a dunking nets, so that’s a first,” said
football most Americans are Williams, who’s used to using for the first time. someone of his her stature. display, jamming down one- Baylor coach Kim Mulkey.
accustomed to. his hands more when playing “I think it’d be kind of hand dunks, two-hand slams, With a talent like Griner,
The Associated Press American-style football. See more sports briefs on funny, being 6-foot-8 and and 360 rim-rattlers. there may be many more first-
reported that Adrian Peterson The NFL players were Afro.com not having any blocks at all,” But it wasn’t long ago that time achievements to come.
B6 The Baltimore Afro-American, April 3, 2010 - April 9, 2010
Faith In Action
‘God Belongs in My City’
By Rev. Dorothy
Boulware
Special to the AFRO
With all the clamor
of recent debates, the
silent nature of an
upcoming demonstration
will be welcomed, but
its message will still be
heard. Hundreds will
gather in Baltimore on
April 10 to proclaim
“God belongs in my
city.”
They will walk designated
paths wearing white
T-shirts with the message
emblazoned in black. They
will pray silently and they
won’t approach passersby.
According to their Web site,
this movement is against
violence. “There will be no
“There was such a sense of urgency for
change in our community that people just
wanted to pray.”
debating, arguing or giving
out tracks. It will not be a
day of public evangelism. No
screaming, no shouting, no
banners, no signs, no music,
no flags.”
Young people responded
overwhelmingly to the
movement which began in
New York, Nov. 14, 2009.
More than 1,500 believers
gathered peacefully on their
knees in Grand Central
Station. A spokesperson from
that event said, “There was
such a sense of urgency for
change in our community that
people just wanted to pray.”
In Baltimore, walkers
“your award
is truly
a lifesaver...
”
Nordstrom scholarship program
Do you know a student who deserves special recognition? We encourage you to have them apply for a Nordstrom Scholarship — $10,000 to use toward
the four-year accredited college of their choice. Applications and more information are available at nordstrom.com/scholarship. Applications must
be postmarked by May 15, 2010.
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Courtesy Photo
will gather in one of four
sites, begin their sojourn at
noon and converge on War
Memorial Plaza in front of
City Hall. On the east side,
they’ll leave from Monument
Street and Patterson Park
Avenue. On the north, they’ll
leave from North Avenue
and Calvert Street. On the
west side, walkers will meet
at either 1300 Druid Hill
Ave. (Bethel AME) or 2001
Frederick Ave., Charm City
Church.
The full message will be
carried by the T-shirts and the
hundreds of human billboards
who bear them.
For more information go
to the Facebook page: God
Belongs in My City Baltimore
or e-mail matt@chainreaction.
be. T-shirts can be ordered on
Godbelongsinmycity.com or
be picked up by ordering on
Godbelongsinmycity@gmail.
com.
enabling an intelligent and dedicated young man
First International Faith Center for
Women Leaders to Open in D.C.
Founding lifetime members to
be honored at grand opening
By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware
Special to the AFRO
Tina Frundt has worked tirelessly since 2000, sounding
the alarm of the reality of human trafficking in this country,
specifically the sexual exploitation of children, which she
personally experienced as a teen. The founder of Courtney’s
House in D.C., Frundt trains law enforcement officers and
other first responders in rescuing and meeting the needs of
trafficking survivors.
She is just one of the women being recognized at the Grand
Opening of the International Faith Center for Women Leaders,
6:30 p.m., April 9 at 900 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Suite 208.
This first-of-a-kind endeavor is the “next thing” of the Rev. Dr.
Suzan “Dr. Sujay” Johnson Cook, preacher, author, innovator,
who recently transitioned from parish ministry to a more global
reach.
The center is a place where women leaders in all walks of
life can be mentored, advocated for and prepared for public
and private life — a place for resources and networking,
according to Dr. Johnson Cook.
“It’s a safe place to find real sisterhood, a place to deal with
burnout prevention and bouncing back from burnout,” she said.
“We’ll offer field education opportunities, self care information
and the opportunity for sister-chats with leading women.”
Other honorees, who have already accomplished so much
and are willing to share their wisdom with the next generation,
Courtesy Photo
are:
Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook is the author of Live Like You’re
• First lady Trina Jenkins, First Baptist Church of
Blessed and Moving Up.
Glenarden, for her tremendous women’s ministry.
• Dr. Thelma Adair, a living legend who paved the way for
Churches of the USA, the first woman president of the
women in ministry, who is still an activist at 90.
12,000- member Hampton University Ministers’ Conference
• Mattie Taylor, preserver of the Van McKoy legacy.
and a former White House Fellow, called by former President
• The Rev. Dr. Wilma Johnson, pastor of New Prospect
Bill Clinton, “a brilliant, dynamic woman who served with
Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit, who built a light center
distinction.”
for $5 million dollars in the middle of a recession.
She understands that ministry happens wherever women
• Teresa Hairston, publisher of Gospel Today magazine
of faith do their work. “We have women in politics, the arts
• Donna Hicks Izzard, business manager for the Women in
and sciences, media, labor and law enforcement,” she said.
Ministry International (WIMIN) Conference.
“There’s no limit to the sphere of influence and all women are
“Dr. Sujay” was the first African-American woman
welcome.”
to pastor in the 200-year history of the American Baptist
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to achieve his academic goals.
Jay S., parent of 2009 Nordstrom Scholarship recipient
3/23/10 3:57 PM
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Obituaries Roland McKinley Pryor, 63

Mozell Jennings, 96
Mozell blessed the world with
her presence on March 23, 1913.
Born to the late Sye and Mary
Street, she was one of 10
children, all who preceded
her in death. On Feb. 16,
God called her home.
Mozell attended public
school in Virginia. After a
meaningful courtship, she
was united in holy matrimony
to Luther Jennings (deceased)
and from this union, there
were six children. Mozell was
the matriarch of her family. She was
affectionately known by family and close
friends as “Big Mom.” Big Mom was often
outspoken and she said what she meant and
meant what she said. She enjoyed cooking
and helping others in need. She was loved
and adored by her extended families in
the community. But some of her fondest
memories were spending time with her family
and spoiling her grandchildren.
There were three important essentials in
Mozell’s life: God, family and friends. She
was a member of Union Baptist Church,
where she served as an usher and
a missionary. Mozell’s kind and
giving spirit shined a light on the
spirit of everyone she encountered.
She nurtured them through their
trials and rejoiced in the glow of
their triumphs. Mozell knew about
personal triumphs because she
had overcome some challenges of
her own, but she remained strong
and continued to share her gifts with
everyone she met along life’s pathway.
Mozell was blessed because of the
long active life she lived and her family is
also blessed by the acts of love she has shown
them. She will leave a lasting impression on
the lives she has touched.
Mozell leaves to cherish her memories,
two daughters, Mary Price and Dora
Jennings; a son-in-law, William Price; and
a daughter-in-law, Margaret Jennings; 14
grandchildren, 29 grandchildren, 27 great-
great grandchildren, a host of loving nieces,
nephews, cousins, friends and her extended
families in the community.
Roland McKinley Pryor,
affectionately known as M.C. to
all of his friends and family,
was born Jan. 6, 1947, as the
second child, but first son to the
late Rollen Hayes Pryor and
Annie Mae (Mason) Pryor in
Baltimore City. He was called
home March 29 early in the
morning after suffering a long
illness.
M.C. was educated in the
Baltimore City school system at
Edmonson High School.
During his term in the U.S. Army, he
married his high school sweetheart, Mary
Virginia Hooper, on June 20, 1968. She died
in 1994, leaving him to guide and encourage
his daughters.
As busy as he was with his own life, he
was a part of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters
of America association, mentoring young
boys who were less fortunate. M.C. was a
hardworking man, working no less than 12-
hour shifts all of his adult life. He also held
many jobs, including working as chemical
operator, janitor and airport security.
M.C. made numerous friends, both young
and old, wherever he went. He enjoyed
spending time with his friends at local bars
such as Roots and Norma Jeans.
His hobbies included watching
sports, fishing and traveling.
M.C. enjoyed listening and
singing music from the classic
Motown era and was a fan of
The Temptations. He will be
sincerely missed by everyone
who knew and loved him. He
was always a true friend to all
and believed in second chances.
M.C. was devoted to his family.
Highly respected, M.C. was looked
up to as a true man.
M.C. leaves to mourn three birth
daughters, Cecilia, Rhonda and Sandra; two
extended-family daughters, Sylvia Dyson
and Tracy Smith; six grandsons, Brandon,
Bradley, Breyon, Bryan, Jamien and David;
one granddaughter, Iyanaa; one great-
granddaughter, Brinya; four sisters, Rosa,
Shirley, Maxine and Shirley; brothers, Joseph,
William and Bernard; an uncle, Dave; devoted
friend, Norma Smith and a host of nieces,
nephews, other relatives and friends.
Roland “M.C.” Pryor’s funeral takes
places April 6 at 11:30 a.m. at Chatman-
Harris Funeral Home, 5240-44 Reisterstown
Road. The viewing takes places April 5 from
1-8 p.m. at the same location.

Sarah Ann Crawley Harper, 95

Sarah Ann Crawley Harper loved God, believed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ
and lived a long and glorious Christian life that allowed her to see 11 decades, until
she slipped away to meet her savior on the morning of March 10. Sarah knew that
to be absent from the body was to be present with the Lord, evidenced by her
peaceful transition while in hospice care at home with her daughter, Alfreda, in
Severna Park, Md.
Sister “Hoppa,” as she was lovingly called, was born on Sept.1, 1914, into
the family of John Archer Crawley Sr. and Martha Flippin Crawley in Charlotte
Court House, Va. She received her early education in the Bartese Public School of
Charlotte County Training School. She grew up in a loving household as the middle
child of seven brothers and sisters, but by age 11, her mother died, forcing Sarah to
stop attending school to care for her younger siblings.
After moving to Maryland, the very attractive and spry 18-year-old found
employment as a domestic worker and caretaker of several families. Over a 50-year period,
Sarah spent most of her time with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hecht and their son Carl Jr., with whom she
remained in contact. She also worked for short periods of time with Western Electric and as a
factory worker in South Baltimore.
In 1943, she met the love of her life, Verge Harper, the dashing choir director
at the Mount Moriah Baptist Church in south Baltimore. After only four months of
dating, they were married on Feb. 28, 1944. Together, they began a ministry
of service to the Mount Moriah Baptist church, initially as Sunday school
teachers.
Sister Harper is survived by her loving and caring daughter Alfreda Matthews;
son-in-law, Dr. Earl Thomas Matthews; son, Verge V. Harper; son-in-law, Timothy
Matthews (Yvonne); four grandchildren, Kia JeNai Harper, Juenara Danielle
Washington (Darell), Cherice Nicole Jeffries (James) and Jason Earl Thomas
Matthews; two great-grandsons, Noah Earl Thomas Washington and Terell James
Jeffries; extended family Michelle Powell and Rodney Brown (Alana Michelle); her
“girls” Roxan (Rockie) Caillet, Marie Alston, Francera Johnson and Diseriee Urquhart;
nephew Albert Crawley; niece Barbara Crawley; godchildren Bernadette Azzie Lee Barnes,
Rodney Makel, William Vaughn Lee and Ryan Middleton and a host of other nieces, nephews,
adopted daughters
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LEGAL NOTICES
IN THE CIRCUIT
COURT FOR
BALTIMORE CITY
Case No.:
24D08002566
IN THE MATTER OF
TENIKA NICHELLE
LANE
FOR CHANGE OF
NAME TO
FRANKIE NICHELLE
LANE
ORDER FOR
NOTICE BY
PUBLICATION
The object of this suit
is to officially change
the name of the peti-
tioner from
Tenika Nichelle Lane
to
Frankie Nichelle Lane
It is this 2 day of
March, 2010 by the
Circuit Court for Bal-
timore City,
ORDERED, that pub-
lication be given one
time in a newspaper of
general circulation in
Baltimore City on or
before the 2nd day of
April, 2010, which
shall warn all
interested persons to
file an affidavit in op-
position to the relief
requested on or be-
fore the 12th day of
April, 2010.
Frank M. Conaway
Clerk
4/2
IN THE CIRCUIT
COURT FOR
BALTIMORE CITY
Case No.:
24D09003276
IN THE MATTER OF
TERRY HOWARD
DAVIS
FOR CHANGE OF
NAME TO
ANTHONY FINNELL
ORDER FOR
NOTICE BY
PUBLICATION
The object of this suit
is to officially change
the name of the peti-
tioner from
Terry Howard Davis
to
Anthony Finnell
It is this 26th day of
March, 2010 by the
Circuit Court for Bal-
timore City,
ORDERED, that pub-
lication be given one
time in a newspaper of
general circulation in
Baltimore City on or
before the 26th day of
April, 2010, which
shall warn all
interested persons to
file an affidavit in op-
position to the relief
Circuit Court for Bal- Baltimore City on or
timore City, before the 15th day of
ORDERED, that pub- April, 2010, which
lication be given one shall warn all
time in a newspaper of interested persons to
general circulation in file an affidavit in op-
position to the relief
Baltimore City on or
requested on or be-
before the 26th day of
April, 2010, which fore the 26th day of
April, 2010.
shall warn all
interested persons to
file an affidavit in op-
position to the relief
requested on or be-
fore the 6th day of
May, 2010.
Frank M. Conaway
Clerk
4/2
IN THE CIRCUIT
COURT FOR
BALTIMORE CITY
Case No.:
24D10000067
IN THE MATTER OF
ESTHER CECILIA
BADERINWA
FOR CHANGE OF
NAME TO
ESTHER CECILIA
WILLIAMS
ORDER FOR
NOTICE BY
PUBLICATION
The object of this suit
is to officially change
the name of the peti-
tioner from
Esther Cecilia
Baderinwa
to
Esther Cecilia
Williams
It is this 4th day of
March, 2010 by the
Circuit Court for Bal-
timore City,
ORDERED, that pub-
lication be given one
time in a newspaper of
general circulation in
Baltimore City on or
before the 2nd day of
April, 2010, which
shall warn all
interested persons to
file an affidavit in op-
position to the relief
requested on or be-
fore the 12th day of
April, 2010.
Frank M. Conaway
Clerk
4/2
IN THE CIRCUIT
COURT FOR
BALTIMORE CITY
Case No.:
24D10000732
IN THE MATTER OF
WILLIAM EDWARD
KASTELIK
FOR CHANGE OF
NAME TO
WILLIAM EDWARD
CIOCIOLA
ORDER FOR
NOTICE BY
PUBLICATION
The object of this suit is
to officially change the
name of the petitioner
from
William Edward
Kastelik
to
William Edward
Ciociola
It is this 26th day of
March, 2010 by the Cir-
cuit Court for Baltimore
City,
ORDERED, that pub-
lication be given one
time in a newspaper of
general circulation in
Baltimore City on or
before the 26th day of
April, 2010, which shall
warn all interested per-
sons to file an affidavit
in opposition to the re-
lief requested on or be-
fore the 6th day of May,
2010.
Frank M. Conaway
Clerk
4/2
Frank M. Conaway
Clerk
4/2
City of Baltimore
Department of Finance
Bureau of Purchases
Sealed proposals addressed to the Board of
Estimates of Baltimore, will be received until,
but not later than 11:00 a.m. local time on
the following date(s) for the stated
requirements:
APRIL 14, 2010
PURCHASE OF TWO (2) BALTIMORE HAR-
BOR CONNECTOR VESSELS-EACH VES-
SEL SUITABLE FOR CONTINUOUS DAILY
OPERATION OF TRANSPORTING PAS-
SENGERS BETWEEN HARBOR WATER
TAXI STATIONS B50001446
APRIL 21, 2010
STEEL PIPES, VALVES AND FITTINGS
B50001420
APRIL 28, 2010
BALTIMORE CITY BUILDING DEMOLITION
B50001351
THE ENTIRE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT
CAN BE VIEWED AND DOWN LOADED BY
VISITING THE CITYS WEB SITE:
www.baltimorecitibuy.org
CONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITY
The University of Maryland Medical Center
is seeking qualified general contractors
(GC´s or CM´s) to participate in an Indefinite
Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), also
known as a task order or on-call, contract
program. The Work will consist of alterations,
renovations etc. of hospital facilities including
in-patient, procedure, clinic, support, and of-
fice areas; and building, utility, and electronic
systems within the 22 South Greene Street
complex. The Work will be organized and
managed as specific projects that fall into the
following levels: CM services up to $100,000;
CM services from $100,000 to $400,000; and
CM services from $400,000 to $700,000.
Prospective bidders must be familiar with
academic healthcare settings and performing
work in an active, urban, healthcare environ-
ment.
If interested in being considered for this work,
please email us at construction@umm.edu
by no later than 5:00 PM on April 22, 2010.
When emailing, please include the following
information:
-Name of company and point of contact-
Applicable certifications (MBE, WBE, GSA,
etc...)
-Recent work experience in a healthcare
environment
-Four (4) references from recent healthcare,
commercial, or institutional work
-Resumes of team members proposed for
this work
-Dollar amount level (s) of work capable of
performing
The UMMC will review qualifications and
send out an RFP (Request for Proposal) to
qualified contractors the first part of May. The
intent is to receive those proposals by the
first of June and award contracts by the first
of July to align with our new fiscal year start.
This is the first part of a UMMC initiative to
broaden our contractor base and provide
opportunities to the local community. The
next phase will include soliciting similar ser-
vices for subcontractors (mechanical, elec-
trical, etc...) later in calendar year 2010.
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SERVICES
RFP NUMBER: B-1615-10
The Housing Authority of Baltimore City
(”HABC”) is requesting proposals from
interested and qualified firms to provide prop-
on Monday, April 12, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., at
417 E. Fayette Street, Room 416, Baltimore,
Maryland, 21202.
HABC has established a minimum goal of
twenty percent (20%) of the total dollar
amount of the proposed contract for Minority
Business Enterprise (”MBE”) utilization, ap-
plicable to all minority and non-minority
businesses proposing to provide the re-
quested services as the prime contractor. No
goal has been established for participation of
Women-owned businesses (”WBEs”), how-
ever, HABC strongly encourages and affir-
matively promotes the use of WBEs in all
HABC contracts.
Responders shall also comply with all ap-
plicable requirements of Section 3 of the
Housing and Urban Development Act of
1968, 12 U.S.C. Section 1701u.
The RFP may be obtained on or after Mon-
day, April 5, 2010, at the following location:
Housing Authority of Baltimore City
Division of Fiscal Operations,
Purchasing Department
417 E. Fayette Street, Room 414
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Attention: John Airey,
Chief of Contracting Services
Tel: (410) 396-3261 Fax: (410) 962-1586
Questions regarding the RFP should be di-
rected in writing to the address and individual
indicated above, and must include the refer-
ence: HABC RFP Number B-1615-10.
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY
INVITATION FOR BIDS
COMBINATION CO/SMOKE ALARM DEVICES
IFB NUMBER: B-1616-10
The Housing Authority of Baltimore City
(”HABC”) will issue an Invitation for Bids
(”IFB”) for qualified and interested vendors
to submit sealed bids to supply Combination
CO/Smoke Alarm Devices as needed for
various HABC projects.
BIDS WILL BE DUE no later than 2:00 p.m.
Eastern Time on Friday, April 9, 2010.
No pre-bid meeting is planned.
HABC has established a minimum threshold
of twenty percent (20%) of the total dollar
amount of the proposed contract for Minority
Business Enterprise (”MBE”) utilization, ap-
plicable to all minority and non-minority
businesses proposing to provide the re-
quested services as the prime contractor. No
threshold has been established for participa-
tion of Women-owned businesses (”WBEs”),
however, HABC strongly encourages and
affirmatively promotes the use of WBEs in all
HABC contracts.
The IFB and all supporting documents may
be obtained on or after Monday, April 5, 2010
from the following location:
Housing Authority of Baltimore City
Division of Fiscal Operations,
Procurement Department
417 E. Fayette Street,
Room 414
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Attention: John Airey,
Chief of Contracting Services
Tel: (410) 396-3261 Fax: (410) 962-1586
Questions regarding the IFB should be di-
rected in writing to the address and individual
indicated above, and must include the refer-
ence: HABC Bid No. B-1616-10.
INVITATION TO BID
The FDA CBER Labs project at the White Oak Campus
in Silver Spring, Md.Tutor Perini Corp. is requesting bids
from Small Businesses (SDB, WOSB, HUBZ, VOSB,
SDVOSB) for the new Laboratory and Office Building
referenced above. Work includes sitework, foundations,
landscaping, cast in place concrete, misc. metals, roofing,
curtainwall, carpentry / drywall, interior finishes , fire
protection, mechanical and electrical. Drawings and
specifications can be obtained through the government
website: www.fbo.gov or by contacting Leslie Luker in
our office at lluker@keatingnet.com or fax 610-668-4062.
Bids are due to Keating Building Company (a Division of
Tutor Perini Corp.) on April 29 at 2:00 pm. Please submit
bids via fax to 610-668-4062.
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by grants for the Maryland Department of the
Environment under the Chesapeake Bay
Restoration Fund. Qualified MBEs, WBEs
and SBEs are especially encouraged to
participate. Copies of the complete RFP may
be obtained from Cathy Lyons at GMB
Salisbury by calling 410-742-3115. The dead-
line for submission is 4:00 pm on May 3,
2010.
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF FREDERICK
The Housing Authority of the City of Frederick (HACF) is inviting
Architects to submit letters of interest to render Architectural services for
the siding replacement and all related work at Sagner Apartments.
Architectural services will consist of designing and performing some
contract administration of the above referenced work.
The general scope and extent of professional services requested may
include: development of design concepts; preparation of design and
construction documents; work write-ups and cost estimates; evaluation
of construction bids; inspections of materials and workmanship during
construction; notifying the contractor and the HACF of problems ob-
served; and certification that construction is being performed in accor-
dance with the construction documents. Contract form to be utilized for
the architectural contract will be Form HUD-51915 Agreement Between
Owner and Design Professional.
Letters of interest (3 complete copies) will be evaluated on the following
factors:
Your response to this request for ”Letters of Interest” must provide:
1. Signed Certificate of Insurance for Errors and Omissions that is
enforced at the time of submission.
2. A copy of license for the architectural firm indicating that the firm is
currently registered to perform work in the State of Maryland.
YOUR FAILURE TO PROVIDE THIS DOCUMENTATION AT THE TIME
YOU FILE YOUR RESPONSE WILL DISQUALIFY YOUR FIRM FROM
ANY FURTHER CONSIDERATION.
Evidence of the firm´s ability to perform the work, as indicated by profiles
of the principals and staffs´ professional/technical competence and
experience and their facilities, 0-30 points; capability to provide pro-
fessional services in a timely manner, 0-10 points; past performance in
terms of cost control, quality of work and compliance with performance
schedules, 0-20 points; knowledge of local building codes and Federal
building alterations requirements, 0-10 points. Note- Past Performance
of Architectural Firm working for HACF, if any, will be considered in the
above related categories.
This letter of interest shall be received no later than May 4, 2010, 4:30
p.m. at the Housing Authority of the City of Frederick, 209 Madison
Street, Frederick MD 21701. Attachments to letters of interest shall be
kept at a minimum, standard forms 254 & 255 are recommended. All
inquires should be directed to Mr. Rick Gladhill at (301) 662-8173 ext.121,
Mon.- Fri. 8:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. only. We are E.O.E.
NOTICE OF HEARINGS AND PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD
MARYLAND´S DRAFT CONSOLIDATED PLAN
Under the guidelines established by the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD), notice is hereby given that the Maryland
Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) will hold
a series of public hearings and is opening a 30 day public comment
period of the State´s new draft Five Year Consolidated Plan.
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ooa.state.md.us for the official job announcement and to www.mdstad.com under Employment
obtain a MS-100 (application). Submit MS-100 by 4/19/10
to: MDoA, HR, 301 West Preston St., Suite 1007, Bal-
timore, MD 21201. EOE
MD STATE RETIREMENT AGENCY
IT Programmer Analyst, Lead/Advanced 079134
Permanent -Special Appointment Position
Salary Range $45,399 - $72,857 (Grade 18)
COMMERCIAL LOAN ADMINISTRATOR I
The MD State Retirement Agency is recruiting for an (Canton)
Analyst Systems Development position. This position will
plan, organize and conduct systems development projects. This position is responsible for all administrative functions required
Consult with clients to: identify, plan, design/develop/ for an assigned portfolio of complex commercial loans. This is a
evaluate and implement new business/computer systems Level I position; requiring one year experience in a similar setting.
and/or revise existing systems. For a full job description A basic understanding of the concepts and terminology of Commer-
visit www.sra.state.md.us, General Interest, Jobs. This cial Loan Administration is required, as is a general knowledge of
position is located at 120 E. Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD banking. Excellent PC skills. The successful candidate will have the
21202. Due to the confidential nature of work, the selected
candidates must undergo & pass a background check. ability to grasp new concepts quickly, and to pay close attention to
detail. Excellent written and oral presentation skills. Drug/alcohol/
smoke-free workplace. E.O.E.
Office Administrator
St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center, Inc seeks an Office TO APPLY: Go to www.1stmarinerbank.com, click on About Us/
Administrator to manage administrative services. Admin- Career Opportunities, or, go directly to: https://home.eease.com/
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Multi-tasker. Detail oriented. Demonstrated people skills.
Benefits/sal. depending on experience. Send letter of
interest and resume to jillj@stambros.org or mail to Dir of To advertise in the AFRO
HR, SAHAC, 321 E. 25th Street, Baltimore MD 21218. EOE call 410-554-8200
CONDO FOR RENT
2 Bedroom Condo For Rent
Baltimore County
Address: 12 Mountbatten Ct. #102
Located between Essex Rd
& Windsor Mill Rd
$850.00 per month
Will Be shown next week
Section-8 Are Welcome
Will Be Shown Next Week
Contact BJR Associates
4908 Liberty Heights Ave.
410-542-8118

The Consolidated Plan is a five-year planning document required by

HUD that sets out overall Statewide goals and priorities for housing, HOUSE FOR RENT
community development, and economic development activities. Special
emphasis is given under the Plan to provide assistance for extremely House For Rent
low-, low, and moderate-income persons. Located in West Baltimore
Address: 3228 Belmont Ave.
3 bedrooms1 1/2 bathrooms
The Consolidated Plan also makes it possible for DHCD, public housing Gas heat
authorities, local governments, nonprofit organizations, community action freshly painted
agencies and others to apply for funding under HUD´s competitive grant fenced yard, front porch
programs. Local public housing authority Plans must be consistent with Located near Elementary School
the State´s Consolidated Plan, and USDA Farmer´s Home housing $800.00 per month
programs and Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits are also Section-8 are Welcome
Will be shown Friday & Saturday
coordinated with the Plan. Lastly, while not directly covered by the March 19th & 20th
Consolidated Plan, HUD funding allocations for the Section 8 Certificate from 10:00 am until 11:00 am.
and Voucher programs may be made in a way that enables jurisdictions Contact BJR Associates,
to carry out their Consolidated Plan. 4908 Liberty Heights Ave.
410-542-8118
In addition to being a planning document, the Consolidated Plan also
serves as the State´s application to HUD for Community Development
Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME), Emer- APARTMENTS FOR RENT
gency Shelter Grants (ESG), and Housing Opportunity With AIDS
(HOPWA) funding. Based on preliminary information, DHCD expects to Announcing that our wait list is now open and we
receive $8.3 million in CDBG funds, $8 million in HOME funds, $608,847 are accepting applications for 1 & 2 bedroom
in ESG funds, $357,000 in HOPWA funds for the State´s Rural Program,
$575,000 in HOPWA funds on behalf of Montgomery and Frederick
subsidized (Section 8) apartments. Woodland I
and II is conveniently located in the Park Heights,
NW Baltimore area. Our leasing office is located
Strictly Personal
Counties in the coming year. These funds are used primarily in the
State´s rural areas, as many communities, including Anne Arundel,
in the Waverly neighborhood - 2821 Mathews
Street Baltimore, MD 21218. Our office hours are
Pen Pals
Baltimore, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, and Prince George´s Counties, Monday - Friday from 9am - 4pm. Please stop in
as well as the Cities of Annapolis, Baltimore, Bowie, Cumberland, and see us during these hours or can contact us Attractive lady 5’6”, interested in cooking, music, DVDs, good conversation and quiet
Frederick, Gaithersburg, Hagerstown and Salisbury prepare their own at 410-366-1800. EHO
evenings. I would like to meet someone with similar interests, who is religious, with his own
Consolidated Plans and receive their own funding directly from HUD.
home and transportation.
In developing its draft Consolidated Plan, the State determined it would HELP WANTED
focus its resources on three main priorities: Community Revitalization, Black female 67, interested in meeting christian male (64-70) for friendship and possibly
Expanding the Supply of Decent Affordable Housing, and New salon opening downtown Baltimore.
homeownership opportunities. These priorities were developed based on Seeking experienced and mature nail techs, bar- more. Phot/phone. Write box holder 5325 Capital Heights, MD 20791, Maryland area.
information gathered at public hearings, housing and community devel- bers, stylist and receptionist. Call Damon & Sophia
opment surveys, census and other data, consultations with other State at 443-813-3851 or 410-900-6312
agencies regarding their policies and goals, and meetings with other
organizations and agencies interested in the Plan. It is to this purpose A historical establishment is looking to hire a night
that we are holding public hearings - to gather additional public input on
the draft plan, its priorities, and the State´s housing and community time Security Guard. The individual must possess a Lonesome Hearts - Pen Pals
development goals. High School Diploma; have the ability to communi- To have a notice published in the Strictly Personal Section, write the message you want printed
cate with customers, employees, and basic comput-
in the space below. Enclose ten dollars ($10.00), check or money order for 25 words. NO CASH
The public hearings will be held at the following dates, times, and places: er skills. The work hours are Mon - Thu 5pm to 1am.
No phone calls. You must have a drivers license. PLEASE. Additional words will cost 50 cents each.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. Mail or fax your resume to:
Caroline County Central Library The AFRO American Newspapers, To answer a Lonesome Heart notice, enclose a check or money order for $2.00 for
100 Market Street 2519 North Charles Street, each letter you wish to have forwarded. NO CASH PLEASE. Be sure to include the
Small Meeting Room Baltimore, Maryland 21218

H AV E Y O U R E T U R N E D
Denton, Maryland or fax 1.877. 570.9297. box number of the person you wish to contact.

YOUR CENSUS?
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. All letters, queries and notices should be sent to:
Maryland Department of Housing
and Community Development STRICTLY PERSONAL
First Floor Conference Room 2519 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
100 Community Place
Crownsville, Maryland

Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 10:30 a.m.

Fairview Branch Library
Small Meeting Room
Rt. 4 and Chaneyville Road
Owings, Maryland 20736

Friday, April 23, 2010 at 1:30 p.m.

Allegany County Office Complex
701 Kelly Road
Commissioner´s Conference Room 212
Cumberland, Maryland

All of the hearing rooms are accessible to persons with disabilities.

Persons requiring a translator should request one at least three days
prior to the hearing they plan to attend.

In addition to the hearings, DHCD is also seeking written comment of

the draft Plan, which will be accepted through 5:00 p.m. Monday, May
3, 2010. Written comments may be sent either regular mail or email to
John M. Greiner at the address listed below.

Copies of the Plan may be found at the following regional lending

libraries: the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, the Blackwell Library
in Salisbury, the Washington County Free Library in Hagerstown, the
Lewis J. Ort Library in Frostburg, the Frederick Douglas Library in
Princess Anne, and the Southern Maryland Regional Library in Charlotte
Hall. A large print version is also available at the Library for the Blind
and Physically Handicapped in Baltimore. The draft Plan is also available
on DHCD´s website. It may be found under the ”Public Information, Plans
and Reports” link on DHCD´s homepage, www.dhcd.state.md.us. Click
on that link, and then click on the Publications link, and the draft
Consolidated Plan will be found there. Last but not least, free copies of
the draft Plan are available by calling, writing, or e-mailing Mr. John
Greiner at the address and phone numbers listed below.

Mr. John M. Greiner

Housing Policy Officer
Maryland Department of Housing and
Community Development
100 Community Place
Crownsville, Maryland 21032-2023
(410) 514-7191 or Maryland Relay for the Deaf at 1(800)735-2258.
greiner@dhcd.state.md.us.
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