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For many businesses, the ever increasing pressures of The AFRO American Newspapers has recently launched
keeping pace with the latest advances in technology often a job search engine on its website. As a supplement to the
makes them feel like they’re falling behind. But officials newspaper’s weekly print “Career Corner” employment
at the AFRO American Newspapers, which has bureaus section, the online employment classifieds will connect readers
in Washington and Baltimore, are keenly aware they must with national and local jobs. The venue also allows job seekers
keep up in order to remain competitive in a rapidly changing to post resumes and search extensive jobs listings.
newspaper environment. During a time when African American unemployment
With that in mind, publisher Jake Oliver recently looms at 16 percent nationwide, the AFRO hopes to promote
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announced the paper’s launch of a new application now business and career opportunities for its readers.
available for free downloading at the online Apple App Store As the newspaper builds its jobs database, employers
that gives readers access to breaking news from their iPhone. – searching for new hires within the minority community
Also known as a smartphone, the sleek rectangular device – are offered competitive introductory pricing. The quick,
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African-American Contributions
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 graph around the city. On
Hudson’s mother and brother. the vehicle while walking his Sunday, Jennifer Hudson asked
Jennifer Hudson and other The white, 1994 Chevrolet dog. According to the Chicago for the public’s help in finding
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dence of any such law. democracy- zero tolerance
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the party, many Republican ate falsification
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the need sent to the local office saying she
listing to the AFRO’s virtual job catalog and conveniently pay Oliver. “We believe this is a great opportunity for making these
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charges were politically motivat- point out that ACORN is A worker in Providence, R.I.,
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Continued from A1 Washington, D.C., to even coupled, he said, with the leadership he had shown as mayor. importantly he can tell them about his successes and his
apply for, let alone win a Fenty’s close friend and Peaceaholics founder Ron Moten mistakes in doing so,” Moten said. “[Education reform] seems
national competition among states and cities . . . for the top said he thought the former mayor’s taking to the road to to be the movement across the country and Fenty did a lot of
dollars that we were able to receive,” Fenty said. “We believe promote education reform was a good idea. things the right way –although there are some things he could
that is because of Chancellor Rhee’s strong academic reform” “He can tell people how he did what he did, but most have done differently.”
Kwame Brown
Metro board].” Meanwhile, hoping to offset doubts over his ability to lead game plan will be.”
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Graham also said in a Jan. the Council, Brown has maintained that it is a job he can handle Known by his Council colleagues and constituency for his
17 interview with the AFRO that despite last year’s unfolding (in the midst of his campaign) that solid presence in local government, Brown’s efforts to not only
it is obvious Brown’s style differs from Gray’s. “Vince Gray the married father of two was behind more than $50,0000 in improve the lives of residents through education, job creation
was extremely effective,” Graham said, “But just watching how credit card payments, late fees s and attorney costs. and economic development, have seemingly paid off as
Brown dispatched the Council business today, he did it very The revelation, which was initially brought to the fore by evidenced by the 90 percent vote that landed him the Council
straightforwardly, and for an additional legislative meeting he the mainstream media, left many to ponder Brown’s leadership chair’s post.
marched straight through it and got things done.” over a city that was already struggling with a $188 million Having made it no secret his plans to effect progressive
Graham said that was clear signal there will less talking and budget deficit –which, left unresolved, could easily double by change for the District, Brown was not available for response
more action in the Council. “Today’s session was good because 2012. But Brown responded that his personal responsibilities to the AFRO’s inquiry regarding his management style and
I was settling back thinking it would be an hour-and-half had nothing to do with his ability to take charge of the Council. agenda for reform. But speaking through Hughes, he let on
meeting, when it was actually over in 10 minutes,” he said. “So He explained at the time that he and his wife had made that his main priorities are balancing the budget, ensuring
although he’s got a different style, it’s clearly a very good one.” arrangements to pay off the debt, and that with the country that education mandates set in motion by the former schools
In other immediate Brown changes, Ward 5 Councilman being in a recession, his family was not unlike any others chancellor remain on track and creating more jobs that will put
Harry Thomas now presides over the Economic Development grappling with financial obligations. more residents to work.
Committee, while the entire education committee comes under According Roger Newell, strategic organizer for the “I think that one thing people can count on is that the
Brown’s watch. Ward 8 Council Marion Barry –in a much Washington, D.C.-based International Brotherhood of chairman will have a collaborative style,” Hughes said. “We
smaller capacity than his former Workforce and Development Teamsters, there has not been enough time to fairly assess have the benefit of having a mayor with whom the chairman
Committee chairmanship of which he was stripped in early Brown’s ability in his latest role. has a good relationship, and he’s going to ensure that there will
2010 – will oversee the Committee on Aging and Community “We have to wait and take a look at how things will shape be strict oversight of the executive and District government
Affairs. Tommy Wells will assume Graham’s former post on up,” Newell said. “We need to give him some working space agencies [to the point] that they are operating efficiently –
the Public Works and Transportation Committee. first as I want to see what he puts together and what his full particularly in light of the budgetary constraints.”
January 22, 2011 - January 28, 2011, The Afro-American A5
Off in D.C.
recently hosted a group of more than 50 students from The
Young 500 program at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School,
located in Baltimore City, to introduce them to military careers
By Brandi Forte high school including a campus tour and group sessions of push-ups and
Special to the AFRO senior, gender flutter-kick exercises.
discrimination The elementary school students learned about Bowie State
There is a United Nations “girlafesto” that says, “I am a and limited University’s campus during a tour. Following the tour, the
group gathered in the Theodore McKeldin Gymnasium where
girl….I am me. I follow. I lead. I learn. I teach. I change my health care
they competed in a push-up contest where students were given
clothes, my hair, my music and my mind. I have a voice that access are one minute to do as many correct push-ups as possible. The top
speaks, ideas to stand on, and a world to step up to.” only some of three students, including one who completed 60 push-ups, were
The empowering message of the “girlafesto” came alive the disparities awarded T-shirts while the entire group was given additional
for hundreds of area adolescents and teens who attended the impoverished Bowie State memorabilia.
United Nations Foundation Girl Up pep rally hosted at the girls may face. The students were provided lunch while professor of
THEARC in Southeast D.C., which is the first stop on the But Barker military science for the University, Maj. Timothy Blackwell
campaign’s national tour. implored the addressed the group. “The day served as an excellent mentoring
Girl Up is a national campaign that mobilizes American young women opportunity for students at the elementary level,” said Maj.
girls to raise awareness and funds for United Nations and men in Blackwell in a prepared statement. “The ROTC students at
programs targeted towards meeting the needs of girls in attendance to be the University are setting an example for these children to
follow and we hope they will remember this experience when
African countries Malawi, Liberia, Ethiopia and South more proactive
they graduate from high school and begin to make important
America’s Guatemala. in ending social decisions about continuing their education.”
In the spirit of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, inequities. The Young 500 program promotes academic enhancement
the Girl Up launch brought together Estelle, a Grammy “Girl up Photo by Brandi Forte
and interest in higher education. Bowie State University’s
Award-winning singer and songwriter; Nigel Barker, a judge and man up,” Erica Lamberson, a senior at School Army ROTC program plans to continue the partnership with
on “America’s Next Top Model” and Alana Beard, a member an energetic Without Walls Senior High School, and this group as a way to provide direction and motivation to
of the WNBA’s Mystics. Nigel Barker a teen advisor for Girl Up America’s youth.
“American girls take a lot for granted. They need to travel. told the crowd
Get a passport and see another perspective on life,” London- of teenage girls.
born Estelle told the AFRO. “The first step to helping other “Everyone has the power to make a difference. As a father, I
girls in other countries would be by joining Girl Up.” believe fathers must have better dialogue with their daughters.
Adorned in purple, pink and blue, the rally offered hands- We must change the past injustices and make a difference in
on activities and even a female deejay that spun inspirational our daughters and girls lives.”
jams by female artists. According to the United Nations Foundation, a donation of
As Jill Scott’s “Golden” echoed from the speakers, $5 can provide school supplies, health checkups, clean water,
droves of girls bounced from a surreal passport booth to keep them safe from violence and support for girl centers in
informational booths that shared issues girls from around the their communities. In addition it can help families purchase
world face. goats and hens to “serve as incentives to keep their girls in
“These girls have dreams to be educated just like I do but school.”
are not afforded the opportunity,” said Erica Lamberson, a Lamberson is passionate about girl issues and believes
high school senior and one of the 17 Girl Up teen advisors American girls should take greater interest in helping other Courtesy Photo
that represent cities from around the nation. “These girls young women around the world. Students from Baltimore City’s Robert W. Coleman
face so many obstacles. They have to walk miles to get clean “I could not imagine walking miles to get water for my Elementary School participate in a push-up contest
water. Some are married off as teenagers because the families family. I could not imagine not going to school,” Lamberson during a recent visit to Bowie State University’s campus.
cannot afford the economic burden.” said as she stared at a photo of an Ethiopian girl. “I want to go
Life Together Idella Ford celebrated her 100th birthday recently with
family and friends at Martin’s Crosswinds in Greenbelt,
Md. In this picture, her great-nieces Judith Brown and
Airwoman Flannagan is the daughter of Raymond
Flannagan of Wyngate Road, Suitland, Md., and cousin of
Sleeprell Rice of Quebec Place, Washington, D.C.
Patricia Hite, welcome her into the building. She is a
member of the VIPs duplicate bridge club, and for many
years served as parliamentarian for the Washington
Bridge Unit. After graduating as a nurse from Freedman’s
Hospital in Washington, D.C., she had a long and
distinguished nursing career including being the first
African-American psychiatric nurse in the U.S. Army.
By Herb Quarles
Special to the AFRO
Community Calendar
Jan. 20 of the Baltimore Grand Prix. winning documentary Dance LaBelle, Jennifer Holliday Jan. 23 Business & Opportunity
Business Golf Luncheon $45 in advance, $55 at the Party: The Teenarama Story, and Teena Marie ‘The Language You Cry In’ Fair
Renditions Golf Course, door. For more information: that examines the popular TV The Carlyle Club, 411 The Smithsonian The Hilton Garden Inn,
1380 W. Central Ave., 410-300-6511. dance programs of the 1960s. John Carlyle St., Alexandria, Anacostia Community 7301 Waverly St., Bethesda,
Davidsonville, Md. 11:30 Following the viewing, the Va. 7:30-10:30 p.m. This Museum, 1901 Fort Place, Md. 1 p.m. Learn how you
a.m.-1:30 p.m. Harvin Golf Jan. 22 movie’s creators will discuss concert will feature talented S.E. D.C. 2 p.m. This film can transform your skills and
Management Group will Washington’s Dance Party the making of the film. For performances in tribute to a tells the story about the search talents into full careers. For
be kicking off the year by The Smithsonian more information: 202-633- bevy of notable female R&B for meaningful links between more information: workitgirl.
hosting a business golf Anacostia Community 4820. stars. $25-$30. For more African Americans and their eventbrite.com.
luncheon. The guest speaker Museum, 1901 Fort Place, information: www.brencore. ancestral past. For more
will be avid golfer Jay S.E. D.C. 1-3 p.m. In this film Tribute to Phyllis Hyman, com. information: 202-633-4820. Jan. 23
Davidson, president and CEO discussion, view the award- Rachelle Ferrell, Patti Intro to Jazz Singing
The Mansion at
Strathmore, 10701 Rockville
Pike, North Bethesda, Md.
7:30-9:30 p.m. Jessica
Boykin-Settles, jazz singer
and Howard University
music professor, will lead
something
of jazz rhythms, harmony
and improvisation. $275
NEW
for 6 sessions. For more
information: 301-581-5100.
Jan. 25
NBMBAA DC General Body
Meeting
Courtyard By Marriott
Capitol Hill, 140 L St., S.E.
D.C. 6:30-9 p.m. Join the
D.C. Chapter of the National
new from
Black MBA Association
for their January general
body membership meeting.
For more information:
Jan. 29
Salute To Excellence-
Community Education
Awards Luncheon
The Sheraton Washington
North, 4095 Powder Mill
Road, Beltsville, Md., 11:30
a.m. The Ladies of Alpha
Kappa Alpha’s Educational
Advancement Foundation of
the North Atlantic Region
will host an awards luncheon
designed to recognize those
in the community who have
made a difference in non-
traditional educational ways
to create an environment
where the youth can grow
and develop a love of lifetime
learning. $50. For more
information: www.akaeaf.org.
Opinion
It’s About What Kind of Country We
Want to Be
Last week, Americans watched as the new Republican Our ongoing debate
majority in the U.S. House of Representatives began a about universal access to
concerted effort to destroy one of President Obama’s signature high-quality, affordable
initiatives – The Affordable Care Act. We need to be clear about health care comes down
all that is at stake. to a straightforward moral
Every senator and representative has been educated about determination.
the mortal consequences of our flawed health care system, so What value will we, as a
none of us can plead ignorance as an excuse. society, decide to place on
When we look deeply into our hearts, we know that saving a human life?
even one death that could have been prevented would be In the resolution of this
unacceptable. Yet, the harsh reality that we are struggling to fundamental, moral debate,
overcome is far worse. America’s minority citizens
The National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine must remain unafraid to lift
has been informing us for some time that at least 18,000 our own voices about the
Americans die every year because they lack the affordable critical importance of reform
Elijah Cummings health insurance that could have allowed them to survive. in our own lives.
When I speak to opponents of The Affordable Care Act, As most Americans realize, the objective of our legislation is to expand health coverage to at
I tell them of the neighbors I see every day who are walking least 32 million people who currently have no insurance, providing financial assistance to help
around with cancer – and must choose between feeding their families and the treatment they those with lower incomes purchase their coverage.
need. Although our strategy is being implemented over several years, I am deeply gratified that our
In response to my testimony, all too often, the health care opponents’ eyes glass over. As progress toward this goal is already being felt in our community.
scripture tells us, their “hearts have become hardened.” More children are being insured; our seniors are receiving free preventive care and facing
Nowhere in America is the “butcher’s bill” from our flawed health care system worse than in a smaller “donut hole” in their prescription coverage; insurance plans for the uninsured with
minority communities. That is why we must not allow the suffering in our midst to become lost pre-existing conditions are being provided; young people are now able to stay on their parents’
in a blizzard of statistics and competing claims. insurance until age 26.
As Dr. Lesley Russell observed in a recent monograph for the Center for American Progress, Fewer people with insurance are seeing their insurance canceled when they get sick – and
“The Affordable Care Act will improve health coverage and access to health services for all the annual and lifetime limits on coverage are being eliminated.
Americans, [and] especially for people of color.” We also are determined to expand access to the primary care and medical homes (including
Her article summarizes what so many African Americans already know from our own lives. federally qualified health centers) that can better ensure a regular source of care.
Currently, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than one-half of America’s uninsured. In the ongoing national effort to eliminate racially based health disparities, I was proud to
Without The Affordable Care Act, we will continue to be more likely to be denied adequate have contributed personally to placing the Office of Minority Health within the Office of the
health insurance coverage and continue to have higher rates of infant mortality, disease and Secretary of Health and Human Services.
disability. The Affordable Care Act includes many more examples of constructive change, but the
Without substantial reform, we will continue to be less likely to receive the life-prolonging moral boundaries of this health care debate should now be clear for all to see.
benefits of preventive health screenings, regular health care and necessary medications that can As President Obama once observed, “It’s about what kind of country [we] want to be.”
prolong our lives.
To be certain, arguments about the impact of The Affordable Care Act upon jobs and our Congressman Elijah E. Cummings represents Maryland’s Seventh Congressional District in
national budget are relevant. Personally, I am convinced that supporters make the better case. the United States House of Representatives.
For me, however, there is a larger, more compelling question – and a far more clear-cut
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Faith Pulse
Local Church’s CD Debuts on Billboard Charts
Bishop Alfred A. Owens Jr. and Co-Pastor Susie C. Award winner Maurette Brown-Clark, Courtney Nero, and
Owens, founders and pastors of the Greater Mount Calvary Grammy-Award winner Steve Lawrence (Bishop T.D. Jakes
Holy Church, are celebrating the Greater Mount Calvary & The Potter’s House Mass Choir) all hailed from Calvary’s
Recording Choir and Calvary Records’ new CD, Greater music department.
Mount Calvary LIVE As Told By The Music Ministry, for Calvary Records and the GMC Recording Choir kicked
debuting at No. 7 on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart off the release in true Calvary style with a red carpet
in its first-week sales. “I believe it’s truly a testament to the release event attended by over 2,500 people. “This has truly
vision of the church and will give people another chance energized our church for the New Year and new season for
to experience Calvary,” Bishop Owens said in a prepared the Calvary Nation,” Co-Pastor Susie Owens added in a press
statement. release.
This is the first time that Calvary Records and its Greater Mount Calvary LIVE As Told By The Music
choir have landed on a Billboard chart. However, its Ministry is an inspiration, 17-song live set that gives its
music ministry is no stranger to the spotlight. The music listeners a front row seat to experience the Pentecostal fervor
department produced the Greater Mount Calvary Men of of a Sunday morning service at the 3,000-member church,
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Valor ensemble that won Verizon’s “How Sweet the Sound” founded in 1976. The album was produced by Grammy
Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church’s co-pastor Susie C.
Regional (Washington, D.C.) and National VCast People’s Award winner Steven Ford, who has also produced other
Owens and Bishop Alfred A. Owens Jr. sign copies of the
Choice Awards gospel choir competition in 2010. Stellar artists such as Vickie Winans, Tye Tribbett and Richard
recording choir’s new CD.
Smallwood.
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Dr. Robert G. Murray, Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission
Convention; Dr. Julius R. Scruggs, National Baptist Convention,
USA; Dr. T. DeWitt Smith Jr., Progressive National Baptist
Convention; Mike Carscaddon, Habitat for Humanity
International; Dr. Stephen John Thurston, National Baptist
Convention of America; and Dr. C.C. Robertson, National
Missionary Baptist Convention of America
are just getting started in earnest with our assistance, and this
partnership with Habitat for Humanity is one part of a variety
of investments our network is making in support to churches,
clinics, schools, and families.”
The initial funding supported the construction of
transitional shelters to help meet basic needs of more than
1,600 Haitians in Cabaret. “The current gift will be used
in Léogâne to fund more than 80 housing solutions, which
includes materials, construction, site preparation, water,
sanitation, training, community engagement and access to
basic infrastructure such as roads, schools and churches,”
said Dr. Julius R. Scruggs, president of the National Baptist
Convention, USA.
AABMC continues to raise funds to assist with other
earthquake relief related problems. “We are tentatively
scheduling a Summit on Advocacy for Haiti to convene
in Miami,” said. Dr. Caroll A. Baltimore, president of the
Progressive National Baptist Convention. “AABMC will
band with other denominations and organizations to develop
a coherent and concise advocacy strategy to advance in the
United States and with the international community.”
The African-American Baptist Mission Collaboration’s
pledge is not just a financial one; the group is hands-on with
Want a free
the Haiti relief ministry. “Last year in June and October,
pastoral visitation teams made short-term mission assignments
to Haiti,” said Dr. C.C. Robertson, president of the National
Missionary Convention of America. “Eight persons were
checking account? on each team and they visited Port-au-Prince, Cabaret and
Léogâne.”
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Walk-On
Reader’s Corner ‘Poetry Extravaganza Day’ Celebrated in D.C.
Before Bo Jackson and Cam By Patrick D. McCoy
Newton, Thom Gossom made Special to the AFRO
history in 1970 by walking onto
the Auburn football team as a wide Mayor Vincent Gray declared “Poetry Extravaganza Day”
receiver—and ended up being one in D.C. on Jan. 15 during a celebration at the Martin Luther
of the first African Americans to King Jr. Memorial Library in the Great Hall. Sponsored by
integrate the team and the first The Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts
African-American athlete to (C.A.A.P.A.), the 15th anniversary presentation featured
graduate from the nearly all-White readings and performances by some of the area’s finest poets.
university. Featured prominently on the program was poetry ensemble
Even the flap copy to his Collective Voices, comprised of members Joy “Sistah Joy”
book, Walk-On, a memoir that Matthews Alford, Sylvia Dianne “Ladi Di” Beverly, Andre
outlines his “reluctant journey into “Brenardo” Taylor, Evette “Billye” Keene Okera, Carolyn
integration,” sets the tone of his missive by stating that Gossom Cooley-Joyner, Angela Boykin-Turnbull, Dyone Mitchell,
did not set out to be a groundbreaker or trailblazer. He didn’t Avery Lanier Tynes and Darrick “Bro. Malcolm” Johnson. Courtesy Photo
apply to Auburn with the goal of integrating the team or being The event’s emcee was Josephine Reed, managing producer, Sistah Joy, founder of Collective Voices; Terri Allen,
the first Black anything from the almost all-White college. He audio division at the National Endowment for the Arts and the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts;
was talented and smart—and he just had a love of football and Malcolm X Drummers and Dancers, founded by Doc Powell, Brenardo, Carolyn Joyner and Ladi Di
really wanted to play at Auburn. Earning a scholarship after provided accompaniment to the moving readings. Meanwhile,
one season, he became the teams’ best receiver and a three-year soprano Karen Wiggs-Wilbanks lent her soaring voice to the Committed to “bringing color to the classics” C.A.A.P.A
starter. singing of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and “If I Can Help works diligently to further King’s vision by offering the arts
“I always knew I would write this book,” said Gossom Somebody.” A reception and book signing followed the and classical music to the African-American community.
in a prepared statement. “It was evident by what we were celebration.
going through that history was being made, and it needed to This special program celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. For more information, visit http://www.4caapa.org.
be chronicled. Sometimes I’m not sure that within the sports Martin Luther King Jr. in one of the many places named in his Patrick D. McCoy is an arts columnist and musician
industry today, athletes have a good sense of what barriers were memory. Written statements of congratulations came from the residing in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. His online
being broken and what myths debunked that paved the way for mayor, Washington, D. C. poet laureate Dolores Kendrick, the column can be read at examiner.com/kennedy-center-in-
their success and place on the team. I wanted my book to tell a Prince George’s Arts Council and the C.A.A.P.A. washington-dc/patrick-mccoy.
story that respected the times, and chronicled one of the biggest
cultural changes since the Civil Rights Movement.” Nigger for Life The poetry book explores Hall’s painful realization of an
Walk-On is also a testament to Auburn’s courage as sports Born and raised in Warren, Ohio, Nigger for Life author “unspoken America” where he is judged primarily by his skin
pioneers. “Auburn signed the first black basketball and football Neal Hall is the textbook definition of an American success. color and not his Ivy League education and intelligence.
players in the deep south, knowing it would not be a smooth Hall attended Cornell University where he excelled at school Noted scholar Cornel West praised the book, saying
journey to today,” said Gossom and garnered much in the nature of sports accolades. He went Hall’s “poetry has the capacity to change ordinary people’s
Final word: Heart-warming underdog story particularly on to receive a medical degree from Michigan State and his philosophy on social and racial issues.”
touching for sports enthusiasts ophthalmology surgery subspecialty training from Harvard Final word: Striking, rare look at America through the
Available now at Borders Books and online at Amazon and University. Despite his track record of accomplishments, Hall viewpoint of a Black surgeon/poet/activist
bestgurl.com. believes some Americans will still see him as a “nigger for life.” For more information visit surgeon-poet.com.
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2010 without a will, and be forever barred. Per-
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known heirs and heirs decedent who do not re-
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2011 PAY RAISE! to such appointment Register of Wills, includ- 1/7, 1/14, 1/21 NOTICE TO CREDITORS
shall be filed with the ing name, address and CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO
Register of Wills, D.C., relationship. AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
515 5th Street, N.W., Date of Publication: UNKNOWN HEIRS M a r y Wa s h i n g t o n ,
3rd Floor Washington, January 7, 2011 Russell J Bacon Jr., whose address is 1241
Superior Court of
the District of
District of Columbia January 22, 2011 - January 28, 2011, The Afro-American B7
20001-2131 NAACP branches through funding of Project H.E.L.P., a hadn’t had sex in the last year. Moreover, a fraction of those
Administration No.
2011ADM20 national program designed to create awareness and educate individuals claimed they were virgins.
Carla F. Cohen
Decedent underserved communities about healthy living. The pilot Participants completed online questionnaires in 2001 and
Beth Shapiro Kaufman
Caplin & Drysdale
program will focus on the entire family to promote healthy 2002 about their sexual activity and provided urine samples
Chartered behaviors and advocate for healthier environments in that were tested for chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomonas
One Thomas Circle
NW. Suite 100 communities. vaginalis. The study included a nearly even number of men
Washington DC 20005
Attorney “We are truly grateful to the Coca-Cola Foundation for and women, as well as 67 percent Whites and 16 percent
NOTICE OF their support,” stated NAACP Chairwoman Roslyn M. Brock Blacks.
APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO in a prepared statement. “This will increase our efforts to Just over 960 participants tested positive for one of the
CREDITORS
AND NOTICE TO effectively improve the health of families and communities. three STDs, but 118 of them had claimed abstinence and 60
UNKNOWN HEIRS
David Cohen, whose ad-
Young people living in communities where families practice said they had never been sexually active.
dress is 1322 Holly healthy lifestyles and have access to nutritious food and Age, race, gender and level of education were not
Street NW, Washington
DC 20012, was ap- recreational areas also demonstrate higher academic associated with the discrepancy, the researchers noted.
pointed personal repre-
sentative of the estate of achievement and lower involvement in high-risk activities. “This counterintuitive finding suggests that sole reliance on
Carla F. Cohen, who
died on October 11,
Health and education are essential core elements to enhance young adults’ self-reported penile/vaginal sexual activity as a
2010 with, a will, and will our children’s ability to realize their greatest potential.” marker for STD acquisition risk may be imprecise, and further,
serve without Court su-
pervision. All unknown Since 1986, the Coca-Cola Foundation has awarded a total could be problematic,” researchers said in the report.
heirs and heirs whose
whereabouts are un-
of $2.1 million to the NAACP, including over $490,000 to Dr. Renata Arrington-Sanders, assistant professor of
known shall enter their various local chapters, $578,000 to the National Chapter for Adolescent Health at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, said
appearance in this
proceeding. Objections Annual National Conference Sponsorship, $500,000 for the the discrepancies between the self-reports and test-results
to such appointment (or
to the probate of de- Legal Defense Fund and $522,000 for the Atlanta chapter. present a common problem.
cedent¬s will) shall
shall be
be
“People underreport in general,” she told the AFRO. “Some
cedent’s will)
filed with the Register of
Wills, D.C., 515 5th
Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
Chicago Man Convicted in 2009 Beating of Honors people don’t feel as comfortable reporting in a survey…or
Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . Student speaking about STD’s in a clinical setting with a provider.”
20001, on or before July
21, 2011. Claims against
A Chicago man was found guilty on Jan. 10 of first-degree In their conclusions, the researchers suggest all young
the decedent shall be murder in the videotaped beating death of a high school people, “whether their sexual history indicates they are
presented to the under-
signed with a copy to the honors student. Silvonus Shannon, 20, faces up to 60 years recently sexual active or not, should be tested for prevalent
Register of Wills or filed
with the Register of Wills in prison for his role in the attack. He was the second person STDs, like those assayed in this study.”
with a copy to the under-
signed, on or before July
convicted in the 2009 beating death of 16-year-old Derrion Also noteworthy in the study, Black participants were
21, 2011, or be forever Albert, and was shown on the grainy videotape stomping more than six times more likely than White participants to test
Strictly Personal
barred. Persons be-
lieved to be heirs or Albert repeatedly outside of Fenger High School in Chicago. positive for one of the venereal diseases and risks were also
legatees of the decedent
who do not receive a Last month, a 15-year-old boy, the first person convicted higher for participants without a high school degree.
copy of this notice by
mail within 25 days of its
Pen Pals in the 2009 beating, was found delinquent in juvenile court.
first publication shall so
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