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Black Lawmakers, Leaders Rate New State Budget

Obama Near 10 on State of the Union Offers Pension Reform,
President Gets High Marks on Inspiration, but Poverty, Plight No Furloughs
of Black Economics Still a Question By Shernay Williams
AFRO Staff Writer
By Hazel Trice Edney extend for the next five years.
Editor-in-Chief, Trice Edney News Wire “This freeze will require painful cuts,” President Gov. Martin O’Malley
Obama said. “Already, we’ve frozen the salaries of unveiled his much-anticipated
WASHINGTON (TEWire) — It was an evening hardworking federal employees for the next two years. 2012 state budget proposal last
marked by thunderous applause, Republicans and I’ve proposed cuts to things I care deeply about, like week, apparently closing a $1.3
Democrats symbolically sitting together instead of community action programs. The secretary of Defense billion projected budget shortfall
across the aisles, and by reforming the state’s pension
a message from the system, consolidating governmental
president of the United offices and calling for deep cuts to
States that soared with Medicaid. Yet, the budget freezes
hope for economic K-12 funding, slightly raises college
recovery, health care, tuition, proposes no tax increases
education and jobs. or state furloughs and somehow
Still, President musters up health coverage for over
Obama fell slightly 900,000 low-income children and
Photo by Webster Phillips III
short of 10 points adults.
Maryland Gov. Martin
in the view of most In a budget briefing, O’Malley
O’Malley’s proposed budget
Congressional Black said the proposal mitigates the
cuts nearly $1 billion in
Caucus members structural deficit by $730 million
spending and shuffles funding
and Black leaders while keeping the rainy day fund
to address the states huge
interviewed by the
Continued on A4 budget shortfall.
Trice Edney News
Wire after the Tuesday
night speech when they
were asked to grade
President Obama, seen here giving the annual
State of the Union Address in 2010, struck a tone Community Activists
Criticize Handling
of unity in Tuesday night’s speech.
the State of the Union
on a scale of 1-10. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
“I give it a nine-
and-a-half,” says
CBC Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.). He says the
president got an “A” for giving the inspiration that was
has also agreed to cut tens of billions of dollars in
spending that he and his generals believe our military can
of Beating Case
By Shernay Williams president, said Bernstein vowed
needed as the economy appears to be generally turning do without.” AFRO Staff Writer “fair and equal” prosecutions
around. But, Cleaver expressed concern about a void That one phrase, “community action programs” or during his swearing-in ceremony,
in specificity on what programs might be cut in order CAPs, as they are formally known in cities across the A group of independent Black therefore, he owes an explanation
to make up for a nation, appears to be the wrench that caused concern journalists and community activists to the Black community.
$400 billion freeze among CBC members, including Cleaver. are demanding comment from According to court records,
Listen to “First Edition” on annual domestic Community Action Programs, founded in the mid- freshly sworn-in State’s Attorney the 16-year-old alleged victim had
spending that the 1970s, help thousand of elderly and low income with Gregg Bernstein about his dismissal been walking in the predominately-
president proposed of felony charges against a Jewish Jewish Upper Park Heights
to start this year and Continued on A4
man accused of attacking a Black neighborhood when Werdesheim,
Join Host Sean Yoes teenager in Northwest Baltimore Werdesheim’s brother, Avi, and
 Sunday @ 8 p.m. on
88.9 WEAA FM, the Justice Thomas Admits last November.
Last week, Bernstein’s office
another man allegedly forced

‘Inadvertant’ Error “If this is the way he is

would not comment on the felony
Voice of the Community.
assault charge they dropped against
Jewish community patrolman going to handle all cases,
Common Cause Responds: ‘Implausible’ Eliyahu Werdesheim.
The State’s Attorney’s Office
then we are in trouble.”
“inadvertently omitted” the information decided to drop the charge—the him to the ground and struck him
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By AFRO Staff
Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas has acknowledged that he erred
in not disclosing his wife’s income on
his financial statements in the wake of
complaints raised by liberal advocacy
group Common Cause.
In filings dated Jan. 21, Thomas
sent seven similarly-worded letters to
the Federal Committee on Financial
Disclosure asking to amend his disclosure
forms. In the letters, Thomas said he
AP Photo
Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas has admitted that he failed
Join the AFRO on to disclose his wife Virginia’s income
Twitter and Facebook on his financial statements.
due to “a misunderstanding of the filing
instructions.”
However Common Cause, a watchdog
group that monitors government and
industry, is still crying foul as officials
question his explanation.
“Justice Thomas sits on the highest
court of the land, is called upon daily
to understand and interpret the most
complicated legal issues of our day and
makes decisions that affect millions.
It is hard to see how he could have
misunderstood the simple directions of a
federal disclosure form,” said Common
Cause President Bob Edgar in a statement.
“We find his excuse is implausible.”
Common Cause pointed out to the
Judicial Conference of the United States,
the regulator for the judicial branch
of government, that Virginia Thomas’
earnings while at the Heritage Foundation,
a conservative advocacy organization,
were not reported from 2003 to 2007.
During that period, Common Cause
indicates that Thomas earned $686,589, a
salary of $120,000 or greater each year.
Common Cause indicates that she left
Heritage in 2008; but in 2009 Liberty
Central, an organization with strong ties
to the Tea Party Movement, which she
co-founded, paid Thomas for services,
according to its chief operating officer
Sarah Field.
Continued on A6
steepest of four—at a preliminary
hearing on Jan. 20. Werdesheim
now faces only misdemeanor
charges of second-degree assault,
false imprisonment and possession
of a deadly weapon.
“At the end of the day, we just
want an answer (from Bernstein),”
said Hassan Giordano of the
Baltimore Black Media Group. “We
think it is only fair and fitting.”
Giordano and other activists
held a media conference in front of
the Clarence Mitchell Courthouse
Jan. 24 seeking answers.
Marvin “Doc” Cheatham,
former Baltimore NAACP
Search Continues for N.C.
Teen Missing from Baltimore
AFRO Staff
Law enforcement agencies
and other groups continue the
search for Phylicia Barnes,
the North Carolina teen
who disappeared on Dec. 28
while visiting her sister in
Baltimore. The Baltimore Police
Department, the FBI and Team
Adam from the National Center
with a radio. The teen sustained
lacerations, bruises and a broken
wrist. During the assault, Eliyahu
Werdesheim reportedly said, “You
don’t belong around here. Get out
of here.”
“If that’s not first degree assault,
I don’t know what is,” Giordano
said.
The attack sparked an outcry
from Black and Jewish community
leaders late last year and tested
Black and Jewish relations in
Baltimore City.
Michael Eugene Johnson,
a leader of the Paul Robeson
Continued on A6
for Missing & Exploited Children
are all working to follow any
lead, in an effort to find her.
“Baltimore is doing an
incredible job of trying to locate
this young lady,” said Herbert C.
Jones, vice president, external
affairs for the National Center.
“Our hope is that this young lady
will be brought home safely.”
Continued on A6

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AFRO National Briefs

Wal-Mart, First Lady Unveil Healthy Food with suppliers, government and non-governmental organizations One of the girls, mother of a 2-month-old daughter, told
Campaign to provide solutions that help Americans eat healthier and live a WMC-TV in Memphis that more needs to be done by school
Meeting at a Southeast Washington, D.C., community center better life.” officials to teach students about pregnancy prevention.
THEARC last week, executives from Wal-Mart, the nation’s   Tericka Sutton, 16, said she discovered she was having a
largest grocer, and first lady Michelle Obama unveiled the Former Chicago Officer Jailed for Torture of 100 baby in her fifth month of pregnancy.
powerhouse retailer’s new campaign, which aims to provide Black Men “It’s a shame that all of these girls are pregnant, but it’s
customers with healthier and more affordable food choices. For years, a growing number of young Black men in nothing new,” Sutton said. Referring to her own pregnancy she
According to Wal-Mart, the initiative will do the following: Chicago complained of a White policeman who used various said that although “it just happened,” family and friends were
1. Reformulate thousands of everyday packaged food items forms of physical abuse – burning, suffocating, shocking – to aghast at the revelation.
by 2015 by reducing sodium 25 percent and added sugars 10 force crime confessions. That officer, former Chicago Police Asked if there might have been a pact among others to get
percent, and by removing all remaining industrially produced Department Commander Jon Burge, 63, vehemently denied pregnant, Sutton told the TV station that it was possible, but
trans-fats. the allegations during a civil case involving those she knew who got pregnant did so because they thought it
2. Make allegations of torture at the hands of Chicago was cute, or conceived by accident.
healthier police officers. Frayser High School enrolls 800 students, and the Tennessee
choices more But on Jan. 21, the U.S. Department of Education Department claims pregnant girls make up 20 percent
affordable, Justice (DOJ) announced that Burge, who now of the school’s female population.
saving lives in Florida, was guilty of abusing at least Alicia Williamson, who graduated from Frayser in 2004,
customers 100 Black men and he was sentenced to 54 told WMC-TV that adults are just beginning to catch on to the
approximately months in prison followed by three years of problem. “When we would come back from summer break,
$1 billion per supervised release for lying in a deposition. there would be a thousand people pregnant,” she was quoted as
year on fresh According to the DOJ, Burge was convicted saying. “We were like, ‘What’s going on?’ There were a whole
fruits and of two counts of obstruction of justice and one lot of bellies.”
vegetables count of perjury last June. Those charges came According to the online publication, Black Spin, teens
through a from lies he told during a civil case in 2003, that give birth are usually unprepared for the challenges of
variety of Official White House Photo when Burge denied “using, or being aware parenthood and often drop out of school. They also end up
sourcing, of other officers using, any type of improper taking low-paying jobs and never complete their education.
pricing, and transportation and logistics initiatives that will drive coercion, physical abuse or torture with Children born to teen moms are also often sicker, poorer and
unnecessary costs out of the supply chain. suspects” in custody at Chicago’s Area Two police department. less educated as a group.
3. Develop strong criteria for a simple front-of-package But evidence showed Burge suffocated multiple victims with Meanwhile, school officials are scrambling
seal that will help consumers instantly identify truly healthier plastic bags, threatened suspects with a gun and shocked to curb the pregnancy trend by working
food options such as whole grain cereal, whole wheat pasta or them with electrical equipment. on a pregnancy prevention initiative
unsweetened canned fruit. “Burge abused his power and betrayed the public expected to go into effect by the end of
4. Provide solutions to address food deserts by building trust by abusing suspects in his custody, and then January
stores in underserved communities that are in need of fresh and by lying under oath to cover up what he and
affordable groceries; and other officers had done,” said Thomas E. Perez, Where’s the Beef?
5. Increasing charitable support for nutrition programs that assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Law firm sues Taco Bell for false
help educate consumers about healthier food solutions and Division, in a press release. “The department advertising on meat products
will aggressively prosecute any officer who A Montgomery, Ala., law firm is
choices.
violates the Constitution.” suing popular fast food eatery Taco
“No family should have to choose between food that is
  Bell, claiming the company uses false
healthier for them and food they can afford,” said Bill Simon,
Pregnancy Rate Soars at advertising when referring to its “seasoned
president and CEO of Wal-Mart U.S., in a prepared statement. Courtesy
Photo ground beef” and “seasoned beef” on
“With more than 140 million Memphis High School
The pregnancy rate among commercials and product labels.
customer visits each week,
students at a Memphis high The law firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin,
Wal-Mart is uniquely
school has reached alarming Portis & Miles filed the suit in California federal court on Jan.
positioned to make a difference
proportions, as more than 90 girls at Frayser High 21. In a press release, the law firm said Taco Bell’s products
by making food healthier and
School, in predominantly Black Shelby County, do not meet the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)
more affordable to everyone.
Tenn., have already given birth this year or are standards and claims the “majority of the filling is comprised of
We are committed to working
Courtesy Photo pregnant, according to reports. substances other than beef.”
Instead, Taco Bell’s labels and other advertisements
should say “taco meat filling,” according to the law firm. “Our
government, through the USDA and FDA, provides definitions,
standards and labeling guidelines for ‘ground beef.’ What
Taco Bell is representing on their restaurant menu as ‘ground
beef’ does not meet any of those definitions, standards and
labeling guidelines,” said Beasley Allen attorney Dee Miles
in a prepared statement. “This product does not qualify to
be considered ‘ground beef’ and many of the ‘seasoning’
ingredients are in fact binders, fillers and coloring. These
ingredients increase the overall volume of this product, reducing
the actual ‘beef’ content per serving. It is against the law in this
country to take someone’s
money for a product that is
misrepresented. This lawsuit
seeks to put a stop to that type
50 years ago they boarded a bus of conduct and practice.”
According to The
and risked their lives for freedom. Associated Press, Taco Bell
spokesman Rob Poetsch
said the company denies any
wrongdoing and plans to
defend the lawsuit.

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February 7, 2011 May 7, 2011 Morally centered. sessions: January 21

and February 8.
Freedom Rides Celebration Kickoff,
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to register.
James Farmer Visiting Professor Lecture: May 8, 2011
Eric Etheridge, author of Breach of The Bus Stops Here: PBS 2011 Student
Peace, Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Ride event
Freedom Riders Melanie Gatewood ’10
• Senior Class president
March 30, 2011 All events will be held on the UMW • Peer Educator
Freedom Riders film event in cooperation campus, and are free and open to • National Student Diversity
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• Varsity Soccer, Lacrosse teams
March 30-31, 2011 For times and locations of events: • Concert Chorale
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Andy Lewis, author of The Shadows of
Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the
Civil Rights Generation Billy Collins ’10
March 31, 2011
• Sustainability Club, head
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Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom Cross-country teams
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Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain NephewA3

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By Alan King sport-utility vehicle sought in from a neighbor about a suspi- posted fliers bearing his photo-

Homegoing for Irene Reid

AFRO Staff Writer

Jennifer Hudson and other

connection with the murder of
Hudson’s mother and brother.
The white, 1994 Chevrolet
cious vehicle. The man noticed
the vehicle while walking his
dog. According to the Chicago
may be
graph
but
for
he
a rookie
around
is a
the in
veteran
the public’s
Annapolis,
city.
of
Sunday, Jennifer Hudson asked
Baltimore politics
On

helpserving on
in finding
relatives
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sorors, friends Suburbanofwith Illinois license
and members Tribune, the boy had been shot her nephew. In her MySpace to
the City Council from 1995
the Baltimore community turned out multiple times in the back seat 2007,she
blog, a stretch
thanked that
fansincluded
and sup-a
to celebrate the life of Irene Reid at her of the vehicle. The SUV, regis- run for for
porters mayortheirinprayers
2007. and
homegoing service on Jan. 15 at Bethel tered to Hudson’s murdered Mitchell
offered arguesreward
a $100,000 shiftingto

‘Dollars and Sense’ exploding

AME Church in Baltimore. brother, was towed with the anyone whopension
returnedcosts to
the boy
boy’s body inside and is being local governments should
alive.
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choices—at – who gained
least stardom
not now.
was later removed and taken to Ehrlich last November in I caught up with him while after“Shifting
appearingtheonpension
“American cost
the Cook County Medical the General Election, Martin he waited in line to sign the Idol,” and then won an
to the city of Baltimore would
Examiner’s office. O’Malley officially began book all new members sign Academy Award for her role in
break the back of the city,”
Hudson and other family his second and final term as during opening day of the the movie Dreamgirls – has
Mitchell
members arrived at the Medical Maryland governor with his session, also known as friends stayed outsaid.
of the“To shift eye.
public that
Examiner’s office mid-after- cost over while we’ve
The Chicago Tribune report- got a
inauguration last week, the
Julian King, Jennnifer Hudson’s and nephew.
family day. Just think of tax base that is dwindling,
noon to identify the body. first full week of work for the the first day of school—on ed that a parade of cars moved
Photos by J.D. Howard Irene
Given Reid’s son,between
the choice formerlook- with the
slowly issues
past in Baltimore
her family’s home
2011 version of the Maryland steroids. City, right now is past
not the
AFRO Staff Baltimore Mayor Kurtor
ing directly at the body A spokesman for the office the murders but is being held in Monday morning, the time
Schmoke, and his wife, General
told Assembly.that Hudson jail “And
the newspaper we’re
for parole prepared
violation to
after for the cityreporters
to absorband thatcuri-
type
viewing it on a wall-mounted news vans,
Irene Bennett Reid, are escorted from the And the governor, the make tough choices. Some of shift.” ous onlookers.
Courtesy Photos
78, died of lung cancer at House and the Senate are of them aren’t going to be Gov. O’Malley stirredstood
up
Jennifer Hudson and her mom, Darnell Donerson who
Sinai Jason.
was killed, as well as her brother, Hospital on Jan. 11. “She held hands with her family. It was obviously a very emotional moment.”
funeral service. Mrs. Reid
was interred at Arbutus all still staring at the same popular, but at the end of the some dust earlier
Neighbors
thisand
quietly month
She served the Baltimore Cemetery in a service 800-pound gorilla they day it’s time, we need to do during the annual Conference
reflected on the
community as a social worker video screen,
following thefuneral.
the family chose grappled with
“remained in 2010,
strong for herafami- the right
being thing for
convicted of the state of
attempted
of Maryland’s Association of
violence.
the body of her 7-year-old and
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ly” and was clearly its leader. Maryland,” he added.hijack-
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Counties,
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ly,” the spokesman said. “It that he he would
home, mennot in propose pension
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after his body was found in a police
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family held call
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fiscal year 2012. A sentiment bar-

ACORN Fights Back

moment.” convicted in 1998 for posses-
on Jan. 15, beginning with sons, Rev. Reid, and former billion deficit,” said Del. district his uncle, Clarence ing the names of Donerson and
Senate President Mike Miller
The boy – the son of Julia sion of a stolen motor vehicle.
a wake, an Omega Omega Baltimore Mayor Kurt Keiffer J. Mitchell, one of “The Bear” Mitchell III Jason.
sneered at during the same
Hudson, Jennifer’s sister – had He was released from prison in
Service conducted by her Schmoke, and their families. dozens of freshman members represented in the seven
1960syears
– “Everybody is sick of going
been missing since Friday, 2006 after serving Continued on A6
Leader Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’
through stuff like this,” Artisha
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority when a relative found Julian’s for the attempted murder and West, a former resident of the
sisters and then, the funeral. grandmother, Darnell car hijacking charges. area told the Tribune. “We all
By Alan
The Rev. King
Dr. Frank Reid, Her son, the
and Dallas Rev. Dr.
Cowboys Frank
players No wonder Obama’s campaign is Donerson, 57, and his uncle, The boy remained missing have to stick together. All these
AFRO Staff
pastor WriterAME
of Bethel M.
Tony Reid,
Romo pastor of Bethel
and Terrell Owens, trying to distance him from the Jason Hudson, 29, shot to death through a long weekend in young children are dying, and
Church and Mrs. Reid’s
Presidential candidate John
AME
amongChurch,the names
election officials.
where the to
submitted “My banker helped
group, saying, “Barack Obama
Never Organized with ACORN.”
in his grandmother’s home in which police and volunteers for what?”
son, delivered the eulogy. services were held, delivered the 7000 block of South Yale
McCain’son
Seated attack
the on ACORN
pulpit is – theHurd
eulogy. said those workers, who
were doing those things without
me plan for 23
But Obama’s ties to ACORN run
long and deep. He taught classes
Avenue.
Associated Community An Amber Alert – a desig-
Bishop Adam J. Richardson. Her body was interred
Organization for Reform Now – ACORN’s knowledge or permis- new employees.
for ACORN. They even endorsed nation for high-risk missing
confirms the success of the sion, were fired. him for President. children – was issued Friday
organization, the head of the “The evidence that has sur- But now ACORN is in trouble. after Julian was discovered
group says. faced so far shows they faked
“This is testimony to the work forms to get paid for work they
And one new
Reporter: There are at least
11 investigations across the
missing after the murders.
Police arrested William
Your
andHistory • Your Community
didn’t do,•not Your News
we’ve done
The
success we’ve
Afro-American
had,” Maude Hurd, president of Newspapers
to stuff
boxes.” ACORN, she said, is the
ballot freshman.”
country involving thousands of
potentially fraudulent ACORN
Balfour, the missing boy’s step-
father and estranged husband
ACORN, Baltimore
said in an Office
interview• Corporate victim ofHeadquarters
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votes.” - 410-554-8222 America.
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ple, many of them poor or unem- racist mail.
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of ployed, to sign up new voters. The day after the presidential
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democracy.” TheBlount
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Sr. Advertising Account Executive -
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falsification of registration.” sent to the local office saying she
Hurd believes the McCain Most news account neglect to “is going to have her life ended.”
Archivist - John Gartrell - 410-554-8265
charges were politically motivat- point out that ACORN is A worker in Providence, R.I.,
ed. required by law to turn in all reg- received a threatening call say-
Director, Community & Public Relations LEFT RIGHT
She said, “Because it’s low- istration forms. And they also fail
Diane W. Hocker - 410-554-8243
ing, “We know you get off work
and moderate-income people, to note that it was the organiza- at 9” and uttered racial epithets.
and people of color, I believe the tion, in many instances, that first A caller to one office left a
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Democratic,
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is notChief
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ACORN is no stranger to points,
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organization has fought for social his political support. fraudulent, you need to go to
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organized Circulation/Distribution with “a political
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get killed.”
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than 1,200 neighborhood Sammychap- Graham - baptism
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New State Budget Offers Pension Reform, No Furloughs

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intact and limiting new
spending to three percent.
Without the convenient
billion-dollar stimulus funding
O’Malley leveraged last
year, he plans to expand the
operating budget by $1.5
billion and shift monies from
state funding pots, including
the Transportation Trust Fund
to the General Fund.
The proposed transfers
from the transportation fund
have drawn opposition from
“All of us have a vested interest in finding
the most fair and equitable way to keep
our pension commitments.”
some legislative analysts,
who say Maryland’s needy
transportation systems cannot
afford to lose money. Early
this week, a group of business
leaders formed a coalition
– the State Transportation
Alliance to Restore the Trust
– to oppose diversion of the
funds.
O’Malley has seen similar
opposition to his pension
reform suggestions which
would require current state
workers and teachers to
contribute an additional two
percent toward their benefits
while new workers would
have to wait five extra years to
retire. O’Malley’s budget team
says the reforms would save
$100 million.
Patrick Moran, Maryland
director of the American
Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees,
said he is disappointed in the
governor’s pension decisions.
“Even in these tough times, it
is essential that we remember
our priorities in Maryland,
and that the people of this
state come first,” he said in a
statement. “It’s particularly
disappointing because the
governor had other options to
balance the budget, including
closing corporate tax loopholes
and finding other revenue
streams.”
O’Malley described
pension overhaul as one of
the toughest decisions the
legislature will make this
year. “All of us have a vested
interest in finding the most
fair and equitable way to keep
our pension commitments,”
he said.
Since O’Malley took
office, state employees have
absorbed over $580 million in
salary and benefit reductions,
but this budget eases up on
the workers, recommending
no furloughs – in fact offering
$750 bonuses – and allowing
1,000 to apply for early
retirement. The executive
ordered Voluntary Separation
Program is expected to save
the state $40 million a year.
On the health coverage
front, O’Malley plans to set
aside $7 billion in health care
for 916,000 low-income,
disabled and chronically-
ill residents. According to
the state, his dedication
to improving health care
access is not new – the
administration has expanded
coverage to more than
247,000 Marylanders to date.
O’Malley proposes the most
drastic cuts – $264 million – to $245 million of funds.
Medicaid reimbursements to
state hospitals.
The budget includes
$2.18 billion in public safety
funding, including millions
to support an initiative
targeting violent offenders and
advancing law enforcement
technology; increased funding
for the Chesapeake Bay trust
fund and more than $6 million of worries me,” said Rep. Keith Ellison
for low-income families to
improve energy efficiency in
their homes.
The governor’s
administration is also touting
the budget’s investment in
job creation, including the
formation of a $100 million
venture capital fund and
funding for 15,000 state
construction jobs. The
financial plan also consolidates workforce for the jobs of the future and to be
some state offices, including
the Higher Education
Commission and the State
Department of Education, to
save an estimated $4 million.
O’Malley has said he is
committed to “a balanced
budget with just cuts” but that
does not stop the legislature
from proposing tax hikes.
On a radio show the
morning of his budget-roll
out, O’Malley said he has
only vetoed five bills since
he’s taken office. “I work
collaboratively with the state
legislature,” he said.
John Rohrer, fiscal analyst
for the state Department
of Legislative Services 030890B / MD (D-Ga.)
commended O’Malley for find, potentially, there’s some agenda, which includes
reducing the general fund underfunding,” Rohrer told bills for job creation, green
structural deficit by one third, reporters at a recent legislative energy usage, federal health
but noted it was unclear how briefing. care reform implementation,
his budget accounted for about Three days after pension reform, criminal
O’Malley’s budget reveal, offenses for child neglect and
“Within the budget we he presented his legislative provisions for gun offenders.
Obama Near 10
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basic needs, such as food, financial literacy, “You can’t have the job if you don’t have
and job search assistance. the education. You can’t get the education
“The stuff that he said about cuts kind if you’re not disciplined and you can’t get
the discipline if you don’t have that family
(D-Minn.), who gave the speech a six-and-
a-half, giving high marks for Obama’s
structure,” Scott said.
U. S. Rep. Clyburn (D-S.C.) called the
discussion about increasing jobs by rebuilding State of the Union “a great speech” – though
America’s infrastructure. “[CAPS] are lifeline he echoed concerns about program cuts. “I
programs. Those are not luxury programs. think the people are now seeing who and
These are programs that keep people what President Obama is. We have to give
subsisting. So what is he talking about?” him credit for stepping up when we had an
The president’s speech was also watched economy that was hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs
closely by Black civil rights leaders. “We a month,” Clyburn said. “So, when you’re
applaud the President for his foresight in responding to a crisis and you look at a place
recognizing that we need to prepare our where you’ve never been, then it’s going to be
hit and miss.”
able to compete with the rest of the world,” Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), who declined
said National Urban League President Marc to give a rating, said everyone should not be
Morial said in a statement. surprised by the president’s mention of CAPS
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose Rainbow/ after the across the board tax cuts last year.
PUSH Coalition has historically focused “That’s what happens when you pass an $850
on strengthening the poor, said in an billion tax cut,” Scott said. “Everybody wants
interview that he would give the speech high a tax cut. That’s nice. How are we going to pay
marks for inspiration, but it was missing a key for it? Now we are finding out.”
element, he said. Still, some CBC members praised the
“He didn’t mention the word poverty President for simply making hard decisions.
and poverty is growing,” said Rev. Jackson. “I think the president hit a home run because
“Forty-nine million are in poverty. They work he’s really talking about the future. If not a 10,
and can’t pay their rent. Poverty is a big deal. I maybe a 10 plus,” said Rep. Donna Edwards.
think his assumption is that rising tides lifts all “This is about the 21st century.”
boats. Wall Street’s yachts have lifted, but no Edwards quickly pointed out that the
one is discussing poverty.” President stressed his willingness to make
Still, President Obama’s promise to sacrificial cuts but only of those programs that
simultaneously shore up jobs and education are not necessary. “But let’s make sure that
was a big hit with U. S. Rep. David Scott we’re not doing it on the backs of our most
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Opinion
Is There Really a Deficit Crisis?
(TEWire) - In the wake of should it be managed, and will there be equal pain
the State of the Union Address around curtailing the deficit, or will only one or two
there is likely to be much sectors pay for the challenges the deficit creates?
partisan conversation about For example, there has been talk of raising
the direction of our nation. the social security retirement age for years, and
President Obama will address always we have looked at an across the board age
the economy and jobs, and increase, whether workers are high income or low,
Republicans will talk about whether they have pensions or not, whether their
the health of the economy, work is physical or not. It’s entirely different to
and about cutting budgets in ask a professor to work until 70 than it is to ask a
their rebuttal. Citing growing waitress to do so, but these plans increase the social
deficits, both parties are security retirement age do not seem to take these
concerned that spending is out things into consideration, thus continuing a class
of control. Yet some spending based economic inequality that also creates racial
Julianne Malveaux is absolutely needed to create inequality. Is this our goal? To widen gaps instead
jobs, just as $700 billion of narrowing them? Increasing the social security
of spending was needed to retirement age indiscriminately will do this.
bail out banks. It intrigues me that the same folk who eagerly Similarly, the attack on federal employees is the dollar, while Latina women earn 71 cents to the dollar in the
bailed banks out have now suddenly discovered the concept an attack that has a differential impact by race and gender. public sector, but just 46 to the White male dollar in the private
of budget cuts and are pushing them, even as they have added Women and people of color are both more likely to be sector.
to the deficit by insisting on The solution may not be to maintain a large public
extending Bush tax cuts. “Citing growing deficits, both parties are concerned that spend- workforce, but any solution will include an awareness of
President Obama has these differences and, perhaps, a strong Equal Employment
furthered the notion that there ing is out of control. Yet some spending is...needed to create Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforce anti-
is a budget crisis by appointing
Erskine Bowles and Alan
jobs...” discrimination laws. Who wants to bet that the EEOC will be
another of the budget cutting casualties? In an anti-regulatory
Simpson to make suggestions climate, the combination of federal employment cuts, and
to manage the federal budget deficit. The Bowles/Simpson employed by the federal government, but also more likely an indifference to enforcement of anti-discrimination laws is
commission would trim about $4 trillion from the federal to get more equal pay in the public sector than in the private designed to increase the racial unemployment gap.
budget in the next decade by increasing the Social Security sector. United for a Fair Economy released their annual It makes sense that the deficit should rise during an
retirement age, freezing federal pay, leveling Pentagon State of the Dream report last week. Entitled, “Austerity for employment crisis. While we should be careful with our
spending, and making other cost-cutting suggestions. There Whom,” the report explores the ways that so-called budget resources, we should certainly not budget and employment
were 18 people on the National Commission on Fiscal cutting measures actually hit women and people of color more significantly in a recession. The so-called deficit crisis could
Responsibility and Reform, and 14 had to approve the severely. be a more complex crisis if we don’t put people back to work,
suggestions for them to be accepted. Only 11, however, went White women earn 82 cents for every $1 White men earn no matter what it costs.
along with some of the draconian plans that were announced, in the public sector, compared to 71 cents in the private sector.
so the suggestions are only suggestions. Black men earn 80 cents to the White male dollar in the public Dr. Julianne Malveaux is president of Bennett College
It is important to raise questions about the nature of sector, but a scant 57 cents for every dollar in the private sector. for Women in Greensboro, N.C . Her latest book, “Surviving
the deficit crisis. Is this a cyclical crisis, connected to the Black women earn 73 cents to the White male dollar in the public and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History” can be
economic downturn? Is it more structural, something that sector, but 56 cents in the private sector. Latino men earn 86 cents ordered at www.lastwordprod.com.
would have occurred with our without the downturn? How to the White male dollar in the public sector but just 48 cents to

National Urban League’s 12-Point Blueprint for Job Creation

“Freedom has always
been an expensive thing.
History is a fit testimony to
the fact that freedom is rarely
gained without sacrifice and
self-denial.” – Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
Last Monday, the nation
celebrated what would have
been the 82nd birthday of the
20th century’s great drum
major for justice Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. Dr. King
Marc H. Morial understood that economic
justice was the most crucial
question confronting Black
people, as well as poor and middle class people generally
throughout America. In fact, at his death, he was on the brink
of launching a nationwide campaign for jobs and income.
As, America enters the second decade of a new millennium,
and the National Urban League begins its second century, our
organization is introducing a new blueprint for achieving that
goal.
The nation remains mired in a great recession. The National
Urban League has seen the impact of this crisis first hand. Our
more than 100 local affiliates across the country are economic
first-responders in the ongoing effort to help ease the burden of
those most profoundly affected by this recession, serving some
2.1 million citizens in 2010 alone.
Over the past two years, much of the work of the Obama
administration and the 111th Congress has been nothing short
of heroic. From the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,
to the passage of the Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection Act,
the Affordable Healthcare Act, and the extension of middle
class tax relief and unemployment benefits, the administration
has taken historic actions to restore America’s economic
vitality.
But the persistent nature of the recession has brought little
relief to families either out of work or stretching part-time
wages to meet full-time financial commitments. Record
“Our plan offers a dozen dynamic and imaginative measures
to... rescue those most profoundly affected by the ongoing
economic emergency...”
numbers of Americans were forced into foreclosure in 2010,
and many urban families in communities already long beset by
economic stagnation are enduring unemployment rates as high
as 20 percent.
That is why the National Urban League is proposing a new
12-point Blueprint for Quality Job Creation. Our plan offers a
dozen dynamic and imaginative measures to both rescue those
most profoundly affected by the ongoing economic emergency,
while also remedying many of the underlying causes behind
the recession’s inordinate and seemingly-amplified impact on
the communities we serve:
1. Restore the Summer Youth Jobs Program as a stand-
alone program employing 5 million teens in summer 2011.
2. Create 100 urban jobs academies to implement an
expansion of the Urban Youth Empowerment Program.
3. Develop a dynamic national public-private jobs
initiative to create jobs and train urban residents and stimulate
economic growth in the areas of technology and broadband,
health care, manufacturing, transportation and public
infrastructure and clean energy.
4. Boost minority participation in information and
communication technology (ICT) industries.
5. Reform, revise and reauthorize Workforce Investment
Act to prepare and retrain
workers for 21st century jobs.
6. Create green
empowerment zones.
7. Expand small business
lending.
8. Initiate tax reform that
reduces rates across the board and eliminates tax loopholes.
9. Establish and promote multilateral international trade
policies that expand the market for American goods and
services.
10. Enact the Urban Jobs Act (H.R. 5708).
11. Expand the hiring of housing counselors nationwide.
12. Fund direct job creation in cities and states.
We urge the Congress and the White House to adopt these
measures without delay.
Marc H. Morial is president and CEO of the National
Urban League.

Was Duvalier All That Bad in Haiti? Yes

Poor Haiti. As if the
unrelenting poverty and
political strife, a mass-
killing earthquake, a
cholera epidemic and
widespread homelessness
and hopelessness were not
enough, now comes the
aggravation of an exiled
dictator’s shocking return.
What prompted Jean-Claude
“Baby Doc” Duvalier to
come back to Haiti after a
quarter of a century is all the
Deborah Mathis intrigue these days. Many
will remember his flight with
his pretty wife in 1986, when the privileged and powerful
Duvaliers zipped off to Paris as their country came apart. How
painful it was to see them escape, with all the world knowing
about the millions in their pockets and the rank neediness
of their countrymen who had nothing but anger, fear and
desperation to feed on.
Out of the blue – for no apparent reason – the man who
ruled the island nation with brutality and blood thirst simply
showed up one day last week. To millions there, Baby Doc is
a legend, a figure in the history books, someone their parents
and grandparents talked about but, for them, far enough
removed from their own experiences that they can afford to be
generous with the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he really wasn’t
that bad, they may say; after all, the old folks say there was, at
least, some order when Baby Doc ruled the place.
They should know that he really was that bad.  Between
Jean-Claude and his infamous father, Francois “Papa Doc”
Duvalier, thousands upon thousands of ordinary Haitians
suffered torture, wrongful imprisonment and death. Their not-
“Between Jean-Claude and his infamous father, Francois ‘Papa
Doc’ Duvalier, thousands upon thousands of ordinary Haitians
suffered torture, wrongful imprisonment and death.”
so-secret “secret” police, the Tonton Macoutes, terrorized the
countryside for decades. You may recall how the tables were
turned on the henchmen after their patron ran off like a scared
chicken, leaving them to face the vengeful mobs.
The truth about the Duvaliers becomes even more shaded
with the cover being woven for Jean-Claude by three lawyers
from Georgia, including former congressman Bob Barr, who
used to be a prosecutor. To hear Barr tell it, the charges of
corruption and human rights violations are just cheap gossip.  about some oceanside property in Port-au-Prince.
Even more galling is lawyer Ed Marger’s apologia. He had
the nerve to tell reporters that “at least there was stability in
the country” when Baby Doc was in charge. Couldn’t the same
have been said about Saddam Hussein, Nicolai Ceaucescu
and Josef Stalin, to name but a few standouts from the Brutal
Dictators Club?  Theirs were frightful systems, but there was
definitely an order to them.
Marger says Baby Doc’s old man had told him, “If you ever
have a problem with the United States,” he should get in touch
with Marger. Yes, the shark seems to think that an endorsement
and recommendation from a mass murderer and plunderer is
something to crow about.
The great suspicion – and,
sadly, a reasonable one – is
that money is behind these
freakish developments. During
his 15 years as “president for
life,” Baby Doc salted away
millions in Swiss bank accounts. When he was driven out
of the country in 1986, the Swiss froze the accounts. Now, a
forthcoming statutory change may free up about $7.3 million.
Whether that goes to broke-to-the-bone Haiti or it’s cunning
former dictator depends on some technicalities that Duvalier’s
surprise return may have been set up to serve.
He says he came back to help his decrepit homeland,
nothing more. If you believe that, you should see the man
Deborah Mathis is a columnist with BlackAmericaWeb.
com, where this article was originally published.
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meeting.
“The counties determine how many
people they hire and they don’t set the
pensions,” Miller said. “It makes no sense
whatsoever. You can’t run a business
like that. You couldn’t run your private
business like that, and the state can’t.”
In addition to working on the ailing
pension system, a 3 percent hike in
state tuitions, a funding freeze for K-12
education and a $250 million cut in
Medicaid payments to hospitals, among
other issues, should get plenty of debate
time on the floors of the Senate and the
House.
I also got to catch up with newly
minted Del. Mary Washington – who
was also on line to sign the rookie book –
another soldier who’s trudged Baltimore’s
often precarious political trenches.
The Eastside community leader, now
representing the 43rd legislative district,
first ran for the seat in 2006. She says she
embraces the unique challenges of the
2011 session.
“I don’t think my feelings have caught
up with me yet…but, now to be in this
room with 141 other delegates it’s really
exhilarating,” Washington said.
“We’re going to be delegates at a
difficult time, but I’d rather be here to
but seemed to question whether or not
the former Woodrow Wilson Fellow and
MIT graduate, who touts Bill Cosby as a
Community Activists
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help us move forward during the difficult benefactor, was built for the blood sport
times. And I trust and I believe that the brutality of running Baltimore City. “I Institute and a city council pending cases—until after
people that sent me here trust that I’m don’t know if he’s ready for all that,” candidate, said the public felt a trial in which all of the
going to look out for our priorities…if Rolley’s supporter lamented. the “volatile” incident was evidence is presented,” it
you’re a ballplayer…you can’t be afraid And despite the splash he made a handled poorly. read. “Such public comments
to take that shot at the buzzer. You have couple of weeks ago with the appearance “If this is the way he is are unfair to all the parties
to be the person that wants to be on the of Cosby at his fundraiser at the Tremont going to handle all cases, then involved.”
court when you’re behind and that’s Hotel and some other big money we are in trouble,” he told The injured teen’s
where we are right now,” Washington supporters he’s attracted, Rolley lags far reporters. attorney, J. Wyndal Gordon,
added. “And I think we’ve got a great behind Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake The leaders also criticized told the AFRO Bernstein is
team of people from Baltimore City who (and Sen. Catherine Pugh) in the size of the State’s Attorney’s Office “being soft” on Werdesheim
are new, who want to be here during this his mayoral war chest. for not demanding bail from because he is Jewish.
difficult time and I’m really excited. We The latest financial report I saw has Avi Werdesheim, who is also “There is no other reason
don’t have to do it alone.” SRB at $842,000; Pugh, who told me charged with misdemeanors. why the charges would be
But, the talk on opening day wasn’t via Facebook, “Squarely focused on the They are calling for a dropped,” he said, insisting the
just about the “$1.6 billion cavernous session…have not made a decision at federal probe to determine incident had all the elements
hole,” in the words of the venerable Sen. all yet regarding the Mayor’s race,” is at whether or not the accused of a hate crime. “This young
Nathaniel McFadden. There was also $252,000; and Rolley is a distant third should face hate crime child was assaulted because
a lot of talk – and much whispering – with $106,000. charges. he was African American in a
about the burgeoning mayor’s race in I’m still waiting to see if the son After the press conference, Jewish community.”
Baltimore. of a legendary Maryland senator, who Bernstein’s office released The third man involved
Literally, as soon as I walked through attempted to wrestle the City Council a curt statement, saying the in the attack has yet to be
the doors of the State House I was greeted president’s chair away from SRB in 2007 decision to drop the charge prosecuted, he said, and the
by the spokesperson for one of the will make a run for the mayor’s office. against Eliyahu Werdesheim two brothers are receiving
biggest players in Maryland politics, who In the words of Yogi Berra, “This is was “based on a careful and “special treatment.”
also at one time worked closely with the like déjà vu all over again.” thorough investigation of Gordon asserts he has
man who wants to be mayor, Otis Rolley. the facts and analysis of the reason to believe the two men
My friend basically lauded Rolley’s Sean Yoes is a former staff reporter applicable law.” are dual citizens of Israel and
education and knack for trouble-shooting, and contributing writer to the AFRO. “It is not appropriate the U.S. and can flee at any
to make any further public moment, especially the second

Thomas
Continued from A1
Neglecting to disclose this
information would violate
the Ethics in Government Act
of 1978, which requires all
federal officials, including
Supreme Court justices,
to disclose their spouse’s
income. Thomas indicated
“none” under the latter
category on his disclosure
forms from 2003 to 2009.
Common Cause on Jan.
20 also requested the Justice
Department investigate the
“apparent involvement” of
both Thomas and Justice
Antonin Scalia in what it calls
“strategy sessions” hosted by
Koch Industries in January
2010. Koch Industries, one of
the nation’s largest privately-
held companies owned by the
Koch brothers, conservative
magnates, is the umbrella for
such companies as Georgia-
Pacific.
Koch sent out a description
for its next program in
Palm Springs, Calif.,
entitled “Understanding
and Addressing Threats to
American Free Enterprise and
Prosperity” which states:
“This action-oriented
program brings together
top experts and leaders to
discuss –and offer solutions
to counter – the most critical
threats to our free society. …
Past meetings have featured
such notable leaders as
Supreme Court Justices
Antonin Scalia and Clarence
Thomas; Governors Bobby
Jindal and Haley Barbour;
commentators John Stossel,
Charles Krauthammer, Glenn
Beck, and Rush Limbaugh;
Senators Jim DeMint and Tom
Coburn; and Representatives
Paul Ryan, Mike Pence, and
Tom Price.”
Common Cause claimed
that sitting justices meeting
with the second largest private
corporation in the U.S. raises
questions about whether
the two jurists should back
away from upcoming cases
involving campaign financing
by corporations.
Common Cause is asking
the Judicial Conference to
probe these matters and, if
warranted, refer the issue to
the Justice Department for
enforcement under the Ethics
in Government Act.
If found guilty, Thomas
would become only the
second justice in modern
times to encounter ethics
problems. Liberal Associate
Justice Abe Fortas resigned
in 1969 under pressure over
financial and ethics issues.
statements about the facts brother who did not face bail
of this case—or any other demands.
Search Continues for Teen
Continued from A1
Baltimore City Police
Det. Donnie Moses said the
FBI is still taking an active
role in the investigation and
that every effort is being
made to locate this young
lady. The department is still
encouraging anyone with
any information to call the
hotline at 855-223-0033.
“We’re trying to remain
optimistic that we will find
her safe and sound,” Det.
Moses said.

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Lasting Love
Making relationships work for the long haul
By Joi-Marie McKenzie & Busters in White Flint, Md. “Chemistry
Special to the AFRO sparked that night...it just started
happening,” recalled Reginald. While on
After years of marriage, you know exactly how he his way home from the outing, he called
likes his coffee. You know that she’s more of a night his future bride, who just so happened to be
owl than a morning person. You’ve raised kids and now calling him at the same time. The two knew Younger couples offer advice to their elders
grandchildren together. You have even endured changes it wasn’t just any coincidence and they on how to re-ignite the relationship flames. Stock Photos
in finances because of retirement. You are together...but talked all the way home.
are you happy? After nearly eight years of marriage and Mo’Nique at a club in Laurel, Md.
As you mature in age, your love also matures. Long- two children, Natalie and Reggie, who pen a relationship “From right then I fell in love because she knew my
lasting relationships require creativity and commitment blog called “Love Notes by Reggie and Natalie,” have jokes,” Stacey said when Adrienne replayed some of his
in order to remain fresh and fun. While unhappy couples already figured out the secret to keeping their spark. performance. “No one had knew my jokes before. ...I
are often left bitter because of indiscretions or issues that “Every now and then you have to make a commitment fell in love right there.”
occurred earlier in the marriage, happier couples know to re-court and get to know your mate all over again,” The two laughed their way into each others hearts and
how to let it go. They also know how to reinvent what explains Reggie. “You after 11 years, the two have figured out what makes their
makes their relationship so special. The AFRO reached change. What you marriage tick. “Doing things together,” said Adrienne.
out to younger married couples, who have been married thought you wanted “Of course we both have our own interests but we’re
11 years or less, to uncover a novel perspective and find to do 10 years ago is very supportive. … I always say it’s us against the
out how these couples keep their union fresh, new and not the same thing world.”
strong. anymore.” Their supportive nature paired with their ability to
“And did I The couple, who accept each other for their strengths and weaknesses has
mention she’s really live in Largo, Md., made a happy home for the Carvers. Stacey stressed that
pretty?” asked enjoy frequent date an important value in their relationship is acceptance.
Reginald Pickett, nights, watching chick He accepts his wife for who she is and who she isn’t.
38, when describing flicks and enjoying “Adrienne is not the come home and ‘Baby, your
what attracted him to each other’s company dinner is ready’ type of woman. And I accept that.”
his wife. Reggie met without their children. Courtesy Photo Instead of creating an argument, Stacey cooks meals for
his wife Natalie, 33, Adrienne Watson their family and tends to the house when he can. Both
while working at the Carver, 41, met her Stacey and Adrienne Carver Adrienne and Stacey take a shared approach to creating
Washington Post in husband Stacey, 40, at a home for their three children, which has put less stress
2000. Their friendship a local gym. The two noticed each other while grooving on them individually and less stress on their marriage.
evolved one night in a hip-hop aerobics class. When Stacey approached Relationship expert Paul Carrick Brunson met
when the two hung Courtesy Photo
Adrienne after class to say, “Good work out,” she his wife of 10 years, Jill, while the two attended Old
out with a few recognized him. Adrienne, a model and dance coach, Dominion University in Virginia. While taking a test in
Natalie and Reggie Pickett
coworkers at Dave had just seen the comedian onstage opening up for Continued on B3

Homebound: Senior Sellers Stuck at Home

By Kyle Taylor
Special to the AFRO
Although it is currently
in a state of recovery, the
economy has had a drastic
financial effect in many
areas, especially the real
estate market. Americans
across the country have had
to make minor and major
adjustments to get by,
including seniors who have
had to put off settling into
their golden years.
Considered by some as
an unnoticed consequence
of the recession, seniors
who would rather sell their
houses so they can move
into smaller lodgings,
retirement communities
or other assisted-living
housing facilities have
essentially become
prisoners in their own
homes.
“It is a mixed issue,”
said Rawle Andrews,
senior state director of the
AARP in Maryland. “When
we do surveys, people
overwhelmingly tell us if
they have a choice, they
would prefer coming home
at the end of the day to
their homes. Many people,
if they can, will stay at
home. But at some point,
you reach the point where
you can’t do it alone.
Either you’re going to
move or someone is going
to move you. However,
we’re certainly anticipating
that this is something that
we’re going to be looking
very closely at.”
With the economy
expected to improve,
analysts have predicted that
it would eventually lead to
an improvement in home
sales as well. While it is
still very early in the year,
those expectations have
remained guarded among
would-be buyers and
sellers, including seniors
who have not been able to
sell their homes.
“We’re definitely
hearing that this is a
problem and people are
trying to be creative
solving it,” said Lauren
Shaham, vice president of
communications for the
American Association of
Homes and Services for the
Aging (AAHSA).
According to Shaham,
some of those creative
solutions include
facilities, which are facing
depopulated waiting lists
and rising vacancy rates,
establishing relationships
with real estate agents to
assist prospective residents
in selling their homes.
Some communities have
deferred their entry and
up-front fees—ranging
from $100,000 to
$500,000—and others have
collaborated with banks to
develop programs to help
homeowners secure loans.
According to AAHSA,
there are currently 39,500
assisted living facilities
and 1,900 continuing care
retirement communities in
the United States. Close
to 1 million people live
in those residences with
approximately 745,000
living in the retirement
communities.
Shaham noted that
occupancy numbers in
retirement communities
and assisted living
communities have gone
up in 2010, which may
be a sign of good things
to come. According to
the National Investment
Center for the Seniors
Housing and Care Industry
(NIC), occupancy rates for
independent and assisted-
living facilities remained
steady during the second
and third quarters of 2010
at 87.7 percent, suggesting
some stability.
Everyday life stressors,
such as trying to sell a
home, are exactly what
seniors seek to avoid by
moving into a retirement
home Shaham explained.
“Retirement
communities are much
more of a lifestyle choice
than a health care choice,”
Shaham said. “They offer
people freedoms from a
lot of the hassles of daily
AFRO Illustration/V. Johnson living. A lot of the people
Some seniors would rather give up the burden of their there decide they don’t
homes but have not been able to do so due to a lagging want to take care of a
real estate market. home anymore and like
how the amenities are
consolidated.”
Before finalizing the
move to a retirement or
assisted-living community,
Shaham suggested seniors
examine the resources they
need in order to make the
change by understanding
the living costs where they
want to live. Once that
conclusion is reached, then
comes the hard part.
To boost the chances of
finding a buyer, the AARP
suggests owners create a
clever marketing plan and
hire an experienced agent
who is savvy at pushing
property online. They also
recommend inexpensive
fixes to help the house
sell such as a new paint
in a neutral color, carpet
cleaning and fresh
landscaping. Paramount
among those, however, is
setting a realistic price and
accepting the reality that
it may be lower than what
you’d like. The sooner
this is accepted, the better,
Shaham said.
“People need to realize
that home values are never
going to be what they were
before,” she said. “Even if
they don’t reach that level,
you can still sell your home
for a profit and still have a
nice nest egg. It might not
be what it was five years
ago, but it will probably be
more than it was 40 years
ago.”
B2 SENIORGUIDE The Afro-American, Winter 2011
Bridging Generation Gaps to Inspire African-American Youth
By Jessica Harper
Special to the AFRO
A 2009 study conducted by the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) revealed that Black teens and young
adults are more prone to violence than their White
counterparts. Despite that alarming fact, mentoring and
counseling groups like the District-based Evolutionary
Elders (EE) continue to inspire African-American youth
to excel personally and professionally.
Co-founder and author, Eugene Williams Sr., said the
organization fights the odds by maintaining a positive
outlook about the future of Black youth.”We don’t want
to be bothered with defeatist attitudes,” Williams, 68,
said. “Our goal is to work with mentors, counselors and
organizations who have not given up on our children.”
Evolutionary Elders seeks to heal social ills that plague
African-American young men and women by bridging
generational gaps. Members close these gaps by using
education and positive reinforcement to reach Black
youth.
“We came together to forge this concept—soon-
to-become-movement—because we were really upset
at some of the things we saw in families and also in
schools,” William said.
The Clinton, Md., resident established Evolutionary
Elders in spring 2010 with his long-time friend Wetzel
Witten, a 67-year-old community organizer from
Washington, D.C.
The two men bring together men and women that were
born in the 1930s and 1940s, grew up in the 1950s and
became social revolutionaries in the 1960s, to mentor and
counsel young people and their families. These elders
forfeit vacations in Miami to “liberate and elevate the
thinking and actions” of Black youth.
“We are an African people, and Negritude represents
our attitude,” Witten said. “Therefore, we will never be
senior citizens because senior citizens retire; Evolutionary
Elders inspire.”
Members inspire by venturing into schools, recreation
centers and churches across the D.C. metro area with a
two-pronged mission: to work with parents, guardians
and educators to improve education (academics and
athletics) and to teach Black youth about their history and
respect for their elders.
“Whether anybody accepts it or not, our schools and
families are in crisis and our children are caught up in
this,” Williams said. “As we see it, if something is not
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Now 10 members strong, the group’s counselors
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activists; mathematicians and wordsmiths; athletes and
musicians--each of whom share their knowledge with
young mentees.
Mary H. Johnson, a member of Evolutionary Elders,
said psychological counseling warrants as much attention
as academic tutoring.
“The highest compliment I have received since I
began working with EE came from a student who was
asked, ‘Why do you go to the math center so often?’ Do
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Johnson makes me feel like I’m somebody,’” Johnson
said.
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Eugene Wiliams Sr. has started a senior mentoring
program to inspire and guide African-American youth.
Johnson holds a doctorate in mathematics education
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“Our goal is to work with mentors,
counselors and organizations who have
not given up on our children.”
Johnson said because many of the organization’s
mentees receive little encouragement at home, it is
incumbent on the mentors to remind them of their worth.
“Our children fight so hard to feel accepted,” Johnson
said. “Sometimes all it takes is for them to meet someone
who says, ‘You can do it!’”
Ed Brown, creator of YouTube’s social commentary
program “The Ed Brown Show,” echoed Johnson’s
sentiment.
“Environment affects development,” Brown said.
“Some of these kids have no one who cares whether or
not they succeed.”
Brown’s program covers topics ranging from politics
to education, and featured guests include university
presidents and local lawmakers. He said the elders’
experience is their greatest asset. “A child might pay
more attention to someone who is much older,” Brown
said. “An elder brings knowledge that other people don’t
have. So when an elder says, ‘Study hard,’ they listen.”
Williams and Witten said several students have
changed their behavior since coming under their tutelage.
“We mentored a 15-year-old boy, a very smart kid,
who sold drugs. He told me, ‘I never thought about the
consequences.’ So, I decided to give him a job designing
our books,” Williams said. “Now, he tells me he’s staying
out of trouble. On top of that, the work he produces for us
is outstanding.”
Evolutionary Elders collaborates with non-profit
group Wise Educators.com and the Success and Learning
Math Center in Upper Marlboro, Md., to provide quality
tutoring and counseling services to their mentees.
“We don’t want volunteers looking to benefit from the
name, Evolutionary Elders. They must have a history of
doing good things and want to continue to do that work,”
Williams said.
Elders interested in mentoring or counseling for
Evolutionary Elders should contact Eugene Williams Sr.
at (301) 768-8316 or educationissues@hotmail.com, or
Wetzel Witten at Wit10men@verizon.net.
 Winter 2011, The Afro-American SENIORGUIDE B3

Body Gospel: Mixing Fitness with Faith

By Talibah an exercise/ complicated. The workouts the shake is awful. After
Chikwendu nutrition program The other two are sound and as several tries, mixing it
AFRO Executive Editor surrounded guides support the with any program, different ways – with
by Christian process of changing will work if you juices and plain water – not
Proper principles and your life. These work them. The even half a glass could be
nutrition, religious music. give details on small music was good consumed. Others tried the
exercise and It combines changes that make a and there was various concoctions with
healthy a variety of difference and ways always someone even less success. No one
living are exercises and to track what you do and is used in some of the demonstrating the could stomach enough
important for workouts and how you feel. These workouts. low-impact version of this to make a
longevity and with tools keep you conscious of The three disks on an exercise (in difference.
a productive important the process and motivated of workouts each case your Over all, Body Gospel
life. Everyday people tools to by the accomplished have a focus area: knees are is a good program, ideal
are looking for new help milestones. strength, power not up to for someone who wants a
ways to incorporate Equally emphasized by and core. There are the pounding workout that acknowledges
these into their lives, the program is getting your multiple 30-minute of high impact moves). the influence of faith
in meaningful and users body moving. Body Gospel workouts on The workouts include on moving towards a
sustainable ways. This has keep comes with a piece of each disk. The some kind of commercial better life. But for the
made the exercise/fitness on track, resistance equipment fourth disk is for Shakeology – the best experience, stick
and nutrition industries big motivated and called the Body an audio that can be played antioxidant, vitamin, to the workouts and the
businesses, with people of moving forward Gospel Band. while walking and running, probiotic shake connected motivational/nutritional
all ages, ethnic groups and toward their It’s easy to to help you keep a steady to the program. While the guides and avoid
income levels spending weight loss and assemble pace and stay motivated. commercials are annoying, Shakeology.
into it. fitness goals.
For Courtesy images
Donna Lasting Love
many Body Gospel, the Richardson Continued from B1
people, newest fitness Joyner is at the
bringing offering from center of this class, Paul began to notice established marriage, it’s not only important to make
worship Donna Richardson program, leading the girl with the highest sure your partner’s sexual desires are met, but it’s also
into their Joyner, is the only the exercises and score in the class. Still, he important to create intimacy. Giggling, holding hands
everyday fitness program on the reminding users remembers his future wife and being physically close are ways to recreate that
activities market, according the to put God first in piqued his interest with her spark. “When it’s cold at night, it’s great to be able to
is also marketing materials, their life because smile. snuggle up and spoon somebody,” Brunson adds.
that combines fitness
important. that orientation “Typically, if a male is Each married couple, the Picketts, the Carvers and the
with faith.
So it will make interested in having a long Brunsons can remind older couples of what’s important.
comes improving their term relationship, they are Courtesy Photo While the Picketts encourage couple to recreate their
as no surprise that faith health possible. gravitated toward the face, relationship to keep it fresh, the Carvers stress that doing
and fitness are being Out of the box, the most the eyes or the smile,” Paul Paul and Jill Brunson activities together will keep a relationship strong. And
connected. Nor is it a bad useful of the tools are the explained. “It was funny matchmaker and relationship expert Brunson pushes
match. Is it really possible Nutrition Guide, the Total because Jill had braces at the time but her smile was still intimacy, even in your golden years, to light the fire in
for our physical being to Transformation Guide and on it.” your partnership.
reach its potential without the Basic 10 Fitness Cards. And although it was the smile that got his attention, it Ultimately, however, you know the nuances of your
involving our spiritual The nutrition guide has was her curves that kept it. “I’m not going to deny that relationship, so trust your instinct to know what’s right
being? The creation of simple, nutritious recipes at all,” he adds. Brunson, along with other relationship for you and your spouse. Regardless, don’t be afraid
Body Gospel seems to and details about managing experts, stress the need for older couples to maintain to try something new. You never know, a new hobby,
indicate the answer is no. calories in a way that romance and intimacy throughout their marriage. a change of scenery or a break from the grandchildren
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How Baby Boomers Can Retire Despite a Downturned Economy
By Charlene Crowell
NNPA Columnist
More than 10,000 baby
boomers will turn 65 each day
during the next two decades,
says AARP, the nation’s
leading organization on
elder issues. The generation
that grew up with changes
in social mores, music, and
more now faces a particularly
challenging time to leave the
The Afro-American, Winter 2011
workplace.
But what’s a person to
do with the rest of their
lives, if they were born
between the years of 1946
and 1964? Especially when
current economic trends and
measures are more down than
up, who can really afford to
retire?
Kiss goodbye the days
of secure pensions and gold
watches for decades of
service. According to the
Employee Benefit Research market performs poorly.
Institute, only 15 percent Also gone are the days
of the workforce today has when owning a house meant
a traditional pension plan. sure-fire wealth building.
Instead, 401(k)s in the Eleven million Americans
private sector and 403(b)s now owe more than their
in public and not-for-profit home is worth. Boomers
organizations are the likely hoping to downsize to smaller
alternative plans. These spaces may find that while
benefits are tied to stock unemployment hovers near
market performance. When 10 percent, prospective
the market performs well, homebuyers may be waiting
benefits boom; but conversely, for the job market to improve
benefits diminish when the before making such a large
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When disposable funds
are fewer than in workplace
years, older consumers can
be particularly at-risk to incur
debts that tarnish the golden
years. Or as the O-Jays sang,
it’s that “almighty dollar” that
can change you – especially
when there’s not enough to
provide for yourself or your
family.
For example, long-time
homeowners with title to their
homes or nearing the end of
mortgage payments might be
lured into a reverse mortgage.
As a loan against market
value, reverse mortgages can
be a transaction that enables
borrowers to turn that value
into ready cash without
selling the property.
However, before signing
on the dotted line for a reverse
mortgage, borrowers should
clearly understand that they
are signing an end of life loan.
Full repayment is required
when either the borrower
passes away or no longer lives
in the residence for more than
a year. Any absence due to
year-long extended health
care, such as rehab or assisted
living facilities will make the
loan due.
Overdraft, another debt
trap, may offer a convenient
way to pay for purchases;
but if there is no cushion
in the account or consumer
checkbooks aren’t accurately
balanced, overdraft fees that
average $34 per transaction
can quickly siphon off
disposable income. Even
worse, consumers only
learn of the charges after the
statement arrives. Rather than
incur the risk of overdraft
fees that each year strip $23.7
billion from checking account
holders, it is better to decline
overdraft than to accept it.
Unauthorized overdrafts
strip fees from Americans
55 and older at the level of
$4.5 billion per year. Nearly
$1 billion of that comes
from people who are heavily
dependent on Social Security
income.
Even worse than overdraft
fees are payday loans that
promise quick and easy cash
without credit checks. In
recent months, many payday
lenders began accepting
unemployment checks or
disability benefits as income.
Yet what the marketing and
advertising do not share is how
only a very small percentage
of payday borrowers are
actually able to retire their
short-term loan in two weeks.
The vast majority of payday
borrowers – 12 million each
year – become trapped into
a turnstile of repeat loans
and high-cost fees that
result in more money being
paid for interest and fees
than the amount borrowed.
Meanwhile, payday lenders
reap $5 billion annually.
The sobering reality for
everyone is that there will
always be lenders that would
like to take away some of
your hard-earned income
and savings, just as financial
advisors have an array of
recommended strategies for
preparing for retirement in a
post-recession era.
But, it is far wiser for
people regardless of age to
make regular savings a part
of your financial plan. With
every paycheck, start and
keep saving. Emergencies,
unexpected expenses,
and vacations, can all be
managed, if dollars are set
aside on a consistent basis. If
you’re unable to begin saving
right now, consider saving
a portion of any tax refund
received this year to offset
the amount of money you
expect to need over the year.
Ideally, everyone should have
a personal financial cushion
that enables them to maintain
their lifestyles without going
into debt.
A keen awareness
combined with a sensible and
practical personal strategy
can together chart a path to
sustainable financial growth in
spite of any market downturn.
To paraphrase the words of the
O’Jays, don’t let money – or
lenders – fool you.
Charlene Crowell is
the Center for Responsible
Lending’s communications
manager for state policy and
outreach. She can be reached
at: Charlene.crowell@
responsiblelending.org.
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A band entertains the crowd at Mayor Martin

O’Malley’s inauguration celebration

Surrounded by supporters from Baltimore and other parts of Maryland, Gov. Martin
O’Malley celebrated his second term in office at the Fifth Regiment Armory on Jan. 19.
Also on hand was Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-
Blake and a number of state lawmakers.
Harold Lawson, Mike Jones
and Robert Campbell
Jason Grave, Katrina Weber, Ryan Swann
and Delora Sanchez

Del. Nathaniel Oaks, D-41, and

Dr. Derick Ausby, Adrienne Waite, Dr. WOLB radio host Larry Young
Bowyer Freeman and Kimberly Taylor Baltimore City Mayor
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Adrian Harpool, C. Jackson
Harpool and Thomas Maze

Linda Janey, secretary, Maryland

Lauren Walker and Linda Dorsey
Walker, 11th District Baltimore
County Central Committee
Department of Planning; Pastor Bill
Stanfield and LaSchelle Janey
Gov. Martin O’Malley shows
Alexander Green, Jeremy off his singing and guitar-
Simmons, Arthur H. Green, playing skills.
Sandra Simmons Green
and Alfred Simmons

Gov. Martin O’Malley greets the crowd with Lt.

Gov. Anthony Brown, his guest, Maryland first Norris Ramsey and Baltimore
lady Katie O’Malley and their children, Grace, City Del. Salima Siler Edward Anthony and Joseph and Anne Chester, Dr.
Tara, Will and Jack Marriott, D-40 Sheila Dixon Rosetta Stith

The Delta Chorale, directed by Dorothy

Marshall, performed for the crowd

Members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority’s Baltimore

Monica Watkins, Delta legacy Alumnae chapter recently celebrated the organization’s
first vice president, Cimmon Byrd Burris founders at a ceremony that included singing from the
introduces the and mother Laura Delta Chorale, awards presentations and a Founders Day
speaker Phillips Byrd address from Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, the first
female bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Baltimore City
Councilwoman Photos by A.
Helen Holton, Lois De Laine
D-8

Past president Roslyn Smith with 14th

National President, Dr. Thelma T. Daley

Sharon D. Grant,
chairwoman, and
Denise Gordon, vice Bishop Vashti Murphy
chairwoman The Vashti Turley Murphy Award is presented McKenzie gives the Monica McKinney
to Doris R. Nash by Eleanor Peters Matthews, Founders Day address Lupton, chairwoman
president of Awards Committee

Bernard
“Jack”
Young,
president,
Baltimore
City
Council

Thelma Banks Cox Service

Award recipients are Beverly
Brown and Toya Fitch. Seated
are Bernadette Adams and Past presidents Aloha McCullough, Beverly Boston,
Delta legacy Vashti-Jasmine McKenzie and
Kathy Alexander Laura Phillips Byrd, Rita Cooper. Seated are Dr. Ruth
her mother, Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie
Pratt, Frances Stith-Martin and Sara Smalley
C2 The Afro-American, January 29, 2011 - February 4, 2011
Community
Tuskegee Alumni Announce Annual Honorees
Each year, the Baltimore Tuskegee Alumni Association (BTAA) honors standout community
leaders who exemplify the ideals of Tuskegee University founder Booker T. Washington
and scientist George Washington Carver. The 2011 recipients of the Carver-Washington
Distinguished Service Awards are the Rev. Julius Jefferson, pastor of Heritage United Church
of Christ in Baltimore, and Dr. E. Albert Reece, vice president of medical affairs and the
University of Maryland’s School of Medicine dean.
On Feb. 12, BTAA President Patricia Fields will present the honorees with their awards
at the 29th Annual Carver-Washington Scholarship Awards Breakfast at The Forum. Also,
Tuskegee University’s newly elected president, Dr. Gilbert L. Rochon, will be the event
speaker.
“We are inviting the Baltimore community to join us in saluting Reverend Jefferson and
Dr. Reece for their outstanding commitment to humanitarian efforts, community service,
and leadership,” Fields said in a prepared statement. “African-American History month is an
appropriate time for us to acknowledge their significant contributions to society.”
The annual fundraising breakfast, themed “Baltimore Tuskegee Alumni Association:
Pledging Allegiance, Delivering Action,” helps Baltimore-area Tuskegee University alumni
provide various forms of support to local students attending the storied Alabama school.
Currently, 21 students from the greater Baltimore area attend Tuskegee.
BTAA’s scholarship breakfast takes place 9-11:30 a.m., Feb. 12, at The Forum, 4210
Primrose Ave.
Class in Session at Macy’s
To help up-and-coming fashion enterprises and entrepreneurs, Macy’s is gearing up
for “The Workshop at Macy’s,” a business development program designed to “nurture and
grow” budding retail companies owned by people of color and women.
According to the company, the workshop’s curriculum is aimed at retail business owners
with exceptional potential who lack the business know-how to maintain growth. The
workshop is a four-and-a-half-day training course at Macy’s Herald Square office in New
York City and takes place in May. Seasoned Macy’s executives and other retail industry
experts will lend their time as teachers.
“Of the many initiatives Macy’s, Inc. has pursued on behalf of our expanding diversity
strategy, supplier diversity is an area of special importance,” said Terry J. Lundgren,
chairman, president and chief executive officer of Macy’s, in a statement. “The Workshop
at Macy’s is the latest example of our continued commitment to support and grow certified
minority or women-owned retail vendors that will allow us to enhance our business, while
also providing our customers with compelling product. As partners, it’s a true win-win for
both the vendor and our company. Macy’s finds and nurtures talented new vendors who can
deliver high quality, competitively priced merchandise and these vendors, in turn, see their
business grow.”
Macy’s is now accepting entries for consideration. The deadline for entries is Feb. 11.
For requirements and more information, visit macysinc.com/workshop.
 January 29, 2011 - February 4, 2011, The Afro-American C3

Reader’s Corner on afro.com

Rapper Phil Adé: The Newest Face TV One Takes Viewers Way ‘Black’ When
of DMV Hip-Hop To celebrate Black History Month,

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beginning Jan. 31 at 10 p.m., and airing
each weeknight over four weeks, TV One
didn’t occur overnight. will present “Way Black When,” a month of
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Born as an Army brat to a Nigerian high-profile programming designed to reflect

father and a Grenadian mother,
Adé was reared in Maryland’s in
Montgomery and Prince George’s
counties. He developed a passion
for rapping early on, but he didn’t
seriously pursue it until after enrolling
in college in Alabama.
A twist of fate landed him an
opportunity to meet DeVaughn and
Adé was signed to the singer’s District-
based 368 label shortly thereafter.
He then transferred to Montgomery
College in Rockville, Md. so he could
perform at shows throughout the D.C.
region.
“I think I decided to just go into
music because I felt like I had a good
shot at it,” Adé said. “So I just wanted
to ride it out to see where it took me.”
After ultimately dropping out of
school, his parents, both sticklers for
Phil Adé education, were not happy about his
decision.
By Gregory Dale “[With] my father [being] Nigerian
AFRO Staff Writer and my mother being from the West Indies,
you know they’re not trying to hear that
Infectious beats and clever lyrics are the you’re going to quit school and become a
back on the golden age of Black culture that
emerged during the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s. The
centerpiece of the initiative is “Way Black
When: Prime Time,” a high-energy, one-
hour talk show that will showcase Black pop
culture icons across three decades – the ‘70s,
‘80s and ‘90s “including actors, comedians,
athletes, musicians and many more” from
Black Power through hip hop.
Guiding a live studio audience and
television viewers on their trip back through Sinbad
Blackness will be three hosts, each of whom
embodies a decade’s essence. Comedian and cultural fads from each decade. Each week,
actor Sinbad will conduct a voyage through TV One will feature a Heroes, Newsmakers,
the ‘70s, Niecy Nash keeps it moving and Icons and Celebs (HNIC) segment in which
groovin’ through the ‘80s and comedian and “Washington Watch” host Roland Martin will
actor Chris ‘Kid’ Reid picks up the final leg provide a look back at the major news events
of the “Way Black When” journey with ‘90s of the day.
hip hop. Each night, guests who characterize The fourth week of “Way Black When:
the specific week’s decade will be showcased, Primetime”, Feb. 21-25, will offer a “Best
along with a musical act and a comedian Of” week that will feature the best interviews,
who provide the tunes and the tone of the comedy sketches and performances of the
time. The series will include a “Retro Trek” prior three weeks, plus original, unseen
segment of nightly comedic sketches spoofing material, with the best of the ‘70s airing on
memorable hairstyles, fashion trends, and Feb. 21; the best of the ‘80s airing on Feb.
22; the best of the ‘90s airing on Feb. 23, plus
an all-stand-up comedy show on Feb. 24 and
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components of tracks constructed by rapper
Phil Adé. But while he may be one of a
handful of emcees attempting to put the DMV
region the map, his material certainly proves
that he’s in a league of his own.
“My music is free,” Adé told the AFRO
in a recent interview. “I like to try a lot of
different things. I rap and I sing--[I don’t]
have one particular sound.”
Perhaps that’s the reason why he’s
experienced so much success in such little
time. After being signed to D.C. R&B
crooner Raheem DeVaughn’s 368 Music
Group in 2008, Adé has picked up a sizeable
fan base, been featured in a bevy of music
magazines and has worked with a string of
notable artists.
His latest mixtape, The Letterman,
featured appearances by rappers Wale, Tabi
Bonney and Raekwon and was hosted by
popular mixtape DJ and hip-hop producer
Don Cannon.
But the 22 year old’s popularity surely
rapper,” he said. “It was a little rough, but an all-musical performance show on Feb. 25.
they’re cool now. They still don’t like it…but Each weeknight at 11 p.m., TV One will also
they still love me and respect my decision.” pair “Way Black When” with decade-specific
Now, Adé is being hailed by rap fans as a movies, including such films from the ‘70s as
“breath of fresh air” for hip-hop, and many Cooley High and Cotton Comes to Harlem,
music connoisseurs have compared his work from the ‘80s as Harlem Nights and from the
to rap’s celebrated “golden era.” ‘90s as Juice.  
Adé is also one out of a recent string of “Last year during Our History Month we
DMV-area rappers who have garnered wide introduced the concept of ‘Way Black When,’
mainstream attention now more than ever a celebration of recent popular black culture,
before. with vignettes that really resonated with our
With rappers like Wale, Bonney and a audience,” said TV One Senior Vice President
few others all touting the District and its of Original Programming Toni Judkins in
surrounding area on their radio hits, Adé a prepared statement. “In 2011, we wanted
believes it’s time to finally shed light on one to build on that concept and provide a full-
of the nation’s best kept secrets. fledged programming experience that will
“The whole DMV region is like an allow us to bring together some of our biggest
untapped market,” he said. “There’s so much stars and to celebrate, more fully, the many
to offer here and I think it’s because we like poignant, entertaining and groundbreaking
having our stuff to ourselves and keeping it at events and moments in black culture that took
home. I think I’m just playing my role.” place during the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s.”
For more information on Phil Ade, visit  
www.368musicgroup.com. Niecy Nash

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to
think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read,
and all the friends I want to see.” - John Burroughs
“I could have danced all night.” The 5th Regiment Armory
was transformed into a glamorous ballroom for the Governor’s
Ball. Guests dined on fine cuisine prepared by Martin’s
West and danced to the music of O’Malley’s March with the
Governor performing, the Irish band Sawdust and Spur of the
Moment. People travelled from all over the state to attend the
ball. Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown introduced his parents Dr. and
Mrs. Brown, to me, a charming couple who whirled around
the dance floor to the delight of the guests. At the ball were
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Kim Washington, Gaines
Lansey, Patricia Tunstall, Marilyn Harris Davis, Wanda Watts,
Cynthia Jackson, Glenn Middleton, Councilwoman Sharon
Green Middleton, Marsha Jews, J P Grant, Benjamin Brooks,
Marty Glaze, Paul Wolman, Marc Broady, former Mayor
Sheila Dixon and Edward Anthony.
“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” -
Carl Sandburg
“I know what you did last summer.” Congratulations to
beaming grandmothers Rosalind Dailey on the birth of Justin
to proud parents Kelley and Gary Richards; grandmother
Cynthia Carey and auntie Isis Carey on the arrival of 8-pound-
8-ounce Dominic Stevens to glowing mom Nioka Carey; to
doting grandparents Debbie and Errol Taylor on their new
addition grandson Jackson Matthew Bailey, weighing in at 8
pounds, 5 ounces; loving parents Christopher and Erica Bailey;
new grandparents Sharon and Reginald Pinder on the birth
of granddaughter Delphine Pinder Nkanda to adoring parents
Biah Khun and Jaffrey Nkanda.
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the
utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and
richer experience.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“I’m in with the in crowd” at the completely renovated Five
Mile House. The orange décor and upscale seating remind you
of a Vegas style setting with recessed lighting and state of the
art kitchen. They are open daily serving food at happy hour
prices. Wednesday Herman Jones, Reggie Thomas and Nate
Stewart celebrated their birthday. On Feb. 2, drummer Vance
James’ Jazz Quartet will be performing.
“I work until beer o’clock.”- Stephen King Meet at the
Five at Five for $2, $3 and $5 happy hour drinks seven days a
week.
Nestled quietly in the foothills of Shawan Valley is
one of the best-kept happy hour spots The Oregon Grille
highlighting a classic cocktail hour daily from 5 to 7 p.m.
with daily drink specials; on Thursday, any martini with the
vodka of your choice for $5 and complimentary oysters on
the half shell. Wednesday, they feature Stella Artois beer for
$3 with complimentary steamed shrimp. “It’s Friday night”
complimentary sushi prepared by Chef Tominori Oku and
Sapporo beer for $3. Oops, I forgot the bartenders’ names but
they are great and pleased to accommodate your requests.
Gentlemen, good news, a jacket is not required in the bar
area but always “dress to impress.”
“Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news
of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult
of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was
moved.”- Marie de France
“Pull up to the bumper.” The traffic jam on Liberty Road
from the beltway to Wiley’s Funeral Home was friends and
family paying tribute to Officer William Torbit. The grief and
anguish etched in Commissioner Bealefeld’s face as he greeted
each mourner and thanked them for paying their respect was
painful to witness. Our prayers for the Baltimore City Police
Department, Fran Torbit Davis, Curtis Torbit, William and
Delores Torbit, and family during this difficult season.
“A good person, out of the good treasure of the heart brings
forth good things.”- Matthew 12:35
“Guess who I saw today my dear?” At the funeral of our
friend Shirley Pinkett, I was surprised when people walked
down the aisle to take pictures of Will and Jada Smith during
the funeral. “R.E.S.P.E. C.T find out what it means to me”
Obviously a few people forgot the respect afforded a family in
mourning.
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the
seeds that you plant.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
Condolences to Kurt and Patricia Schmoke, the Rev.
Frank and Marlaa Reid and family on the death of our friend,
Irene Reid. During the eulogy, her son, Rev. Reid, said Irene
believed in the three Fs: faith, family and friendship, which
was so evident in the way she lived her life. Rest in peace my
sister.
“The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes
are played on the oldest fiddles.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy 73rd birthday, Etta James. We are praying for your
speedy recovery.
“It’s your birthday make some noise!” Happy birthday,
Reggie Haysbert, Reggie Thomas, Bobby Garland of Bobby’s
Place, Ann of The Place and LaVonne Grant “its celebration
time.”
“Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it
improves everything.” James Thurber
“Practice what you preach,” a play written by Janora
Winkler featuring our own Libby from Tequila Sunset, will be
performed each Saturday in February at the United Church of
Love and Deliverance. For tickets call Janora at 443-955-8600.
Libby says they cannot get through rehearsal laughing so hard.
Now that sounds like my kind of play. You know I like to
laugh and to hear laughter.
“I’ll be seeing you.”
Valerie & the Friday Night Bunch
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Lady Bears Claim Bowie State Bowling Morgan State Remains at Top of
Classic Title HBCU Basketball Power Rankings
By Donal Ware for the second time this year, 52
Special to the AFRO but rebounded to win two 4. Jackson State/ 10-9/ 51
games and fell one spot to 5. Tennessee State/ 10-9/ 40
Morgan State is all No. 3 this week. Despite its Other receiving votes: North
alone atop the Boxtorow. loss to top-ranked Xavier Carolina Central (8-9) 6.
com HBCU Division I (La.), Tougaloo remained at
national basketball power No. 4, while West Virginia Boxtorow.com Top 10
rankings poll, while Xavier State moved up one spot to HBCU Division II/NAIA
(La.) remains on top in the No. 5. Basketball Poll
Division II/NAIA poll. The Thorobreds of
Just like last week, Kentucky State moved up School/ Wins-Losses/ Points
Hampton and Morgan State one spot from last week to
received equal amount of first- No. 6, while Shaw dropped 1. Xavier (La.)/ 19-2/ 60
place votes, but the Bears got two spots to No. 7. Elizabeth 2. Bowie State/ 12-3/ 53
the top spot by one point this City State went 2-1 last week, 3. Winston-Salem State/ 13-
week. Bethune-Cookman (8- with its loss coming to Bowie 3/ 48
8) remained at No. 3, beating State, but moved up one spot 4. Tougaloo/ 13-4/ 36
Courtesy Photo/MSU out Jackson State, who is at to No. 8. Two previously 5. West Virginia State/ 11-5/
The Morgan State Lady Bears bowling team won the Bowie State Bowling Classic No. 4 by one point. Tennessee unranked teams debuted in 28
championship on Jan. 22-23, 2011. State went 2-0 last week and the poll as Benedict came 6. Kentucky State/ 10-3/ 25
remains at No. 5. in at No. 9 and Johnson C. 7. Shaw/ 11-6/ 20
By Perry Green best four-out-of-seven series tournament,
In the Division II/NAIA Smith came in at No. 10. 8. Elizabeth City State/ 11-
AFRO Sports Editor winning two series with just one loss to claim
top-10 poll, for the first time 5/ 15
the classic championship. Their only loss came
this year, it was a unanimous Boxtorow.com Top 10 9. Benedict/ 9-4/ 12
The Morgan State Lady Bears bowling team in their first series of the day against Norfolk
No. 1 as Xavier (La.) holds HBCU NCAA Division I 10. Johnson C. Smith/ 2-4/
hit the bowling lanes for the first time in 2011 State, falling 4.5 to 2.5. But they bounced back
on to the top spot. Bowie Basketball Poll 11
last weekend, but the players showed no rust in the second match, beating Hampton, 4-2,
State moved up one spot to
from their nearly two-month break. MSU won before defeating Norfolk State, 4-1, in the final
No. 2 this week after going School/ Wins-Losses/ Points Others receiving votes:
seven matches while losing only one to capture match for the title.
3-0 last week. Winston-Salem Cheyney State (10-5)10,
the Fred Underwood Bowie State Lady Bulldogs Wheeler was named to the all-tournament
State lost to fellow Central 1. Morgan State/ 9-8/ 66 Stillman (10-4) 7, Texas
Bowling Classic Championship Jan. 22-23. team for averaging a score of 200 throughout
Interscholastic Athletic 2. Hampton/ 15-5/ 65 College (10-8) 1, Tuskegee
Lady Bears sophomore Sagirah Wheeler the classic. Freshman Danielle Hale was
Association foe Saint Paul’s 3. Bethune-Cookman/ 11-9/ (7-5) 1.
and her teammates went a perfect 5-0 on also named to the all-tournament team with
Jan. 22, beating Virginia State University an average score of 195. Junior Keisheena
(923-718), Howard University (857-784), Waldon also stood out for Morgan State in her
Saint Paul’s (991-785), North Carolina A&T first event performance of the season, finishing
University (909-772) and Salem International. with a high game score of 279. It’s no secret screen viewing, I
Their sweep in victories gave them the highest The Lady Bears will return to action on that I am a football was among the first
score of the day (1124-541). Friday, Jan. 28, when they travel to Reading,
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Jan. 28
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BMA African American
History Month Family Day
Live musical groups and
storytellers will take the stage
at this event to honor African-
American history makers
Enoch Pratt Free Library,
Brooklyn Branch, 300 E.
Patapsco Ave., Baltimore.
10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Volunteers
Book Discussion
Enoch Pratt Free Library,
Cherry Hill Branch, 606
Cherry Hill Road, Baltimore.
biggest stars in gospel will 2011 from Maryland. For more from the AARP will be at 2 p.m. Read and discuss
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ignite their dreams. $25. For
more information: 443-509-
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Booklovers’ Breakfast 2011

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Memorial Breakfast
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Obituaries Dr. Edward E. Holt, 93

Mamie Christine C. Jones, 84
Career Federal Employee
Mamie Christine Chambers
Jones departed this life on Dec. 30,
2010, after a lengthy illness. She was
born April 27, 1926, to Willie and
Mary Chambers in Murfreesboro,
N.C. She was the older of two
children.
Mamie grew up in Baltimore and
attended public schools. She married
Linwood S. Jones in June of 1943.
They had two daughters, Pamela and
Stephanie.
In August 1984, after serving 30
years as a career federal employee,
where she received many awards and
citations, Mamie retired from the
MAMIE CHRISTINE C.
Social Security Administration
as chief of the Auditing Section, JONES
Division of Earnings Operation.
Mamie participated in many social
organizations. In 1984, she was elected president
of the National Council of Negro Women, Greater
Baltimore Section. Her other affiliations include:
Alvin A. Parson, 63
Karate Teacher
Alvin Anderson Parson, son
of the late Alvin Parson and Mary
Monger, was born on July 4, 1947,
at Johns Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore. In 1961, he joined the
Nation of Islam. Alvin, known to
all as Al, received his education
at Douglass High School in
Baltimore City. While in school,
Al excelled in wrestling as well as
cross country.
 Al made numerous friends
wherever he went. In 1968 he
developed his interest in martial
ALVIN A. PARSON
Physician
Alpha Chapter of Government Girls
On The Go, the Freedom Chapter
of the American Business Women’s
Association, King’s Landing Women’s
Club and W.A.N.A. a ministry of
Douglas Memorial Community
Church.
In addition, Mamie was an active
volunteer in a number of community
programs. Reading For The Blind
Program, broadcasting on closed
circuit radio Station WBJC at the
Community College of Baltimore;
the Johns Hopkins Tutorial Service,
tutoring at the Liberty Medical Center;
guiding tours at the Science Center and
at the “Top of the World”, World
Trade Center, to name a few.
Mamie enjoyed traveling.
Her travels took her throughout
the United States, Europe, Africa, the Middle
East, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands.
She also enjoyed modeling hats and organizing
activities.
art under the guidance of Master
Riley Hawkins. The friends he met
at the Sharpe Street Dojo, notably
known as the Avenger, extended into
a brotherly bond that collectively
made a positive impact on more than
5,000 youngsters in the city.     a pharmacist’s mate. While in Washington D.C.,
 Al had a love for two things,
karate and teaching young people.
Al began teaching karate at the
Department of Recreation in
Baltimore City and later Druid Hill
YMCA. This continued throughout
the years at various locations
throughout the city.   
Edward “Ed” Eugene
Holt, the first child of the late
William and Henrietta Elliott
Holt, was born Nov. 5, 1917,
in Stockbridge, Ga. He had one
brother, Howard, 11 half-brothers
and three half-sisters. He
departed this life peacefully on
Oct. 4, 2010. All of his siblings
predeceased him.
Ed grew up in Atlanta, Ga.
and was educated in the Atlanta
Public Schools. He was a
member of Mount Moriah Baptist
Church. He always had a thirst
for learning and was adventurous
and industrious. He often said
that he began working at age three.
EDWARD E. HOLT
He had many jobs throughout
his youth and worked while in college. He told
the story of working as a delivery boy for a drug
store and delivering lunch daily to a lady who was
writing a book. It was Margaret Mitchell and she
was writing Gone With The Wind. He portrayed
a slave in “Aida” which led to his love of opera
and one summer he picked cranberries in New
England.
In 1938, Ed, who was president of the senior
class, graduated from his dear Morehouse College
with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. While
attending graduate school at Atlanta University, he
founded and published The Collegian, a newspaper
that reported news from all of the Black colleges
of Atlanta. During this time he took a civil service founder of the Colonial Golf Club. He won many
examination for federal government employment
and was appointed to a supervisory position at
the Census Bureau in Washington, D.C. In 1943,
during World War II, he was drafted and served for
two-and-a-half years in the U.S. Coast Guard as
he promoted boxing matches and helped organize
various football classics involving Black colleges. a Life Member of the NAACP. He was an avid
On Dec. 25, 1943, he married the love of
his life, Charlotte Coleman of Roanoke, Va.
They shared 60 years of marriage before her
passing in 2004. To this union were born two
daughters, Charlotte Yvonne and Pamela Gail.
He cherished his family and they shared many
happy times. They travelled around the world
Lincoln Hospital, Durham, N.C.
concentrating in general surgery.
In 1953, the family moved
to New Bern, N.C. where Ed
began a private practice and
served as the chief of staff at
Good Shepherd Hospital. While
there, he was a member of the
Old North State Medical Society
and the Rocky Mount Medical
Society. In 1956, the Holts
moved to Baltimore, Md., where
he completed extensive surgical
training at Provident Hospital
and Freedmen’s Hospital in
Washington, D.C. Later, he
served as chief of surgery at
Provident.
Ed, a highly skilled general
surgeon, practiced medicine in Baltimore from
1956 until his retirement in 1990, was among the
few African-American surgeons in the nation. He
was also a physician for the Baltimore City Public
Schools, the Maryland Athletic Commission and
was on the surgical staff of Provident Hospital.
Ed was honored on two occasions by the
Baltimore Morehouse Alumni Association of
which he was a founder, and received service
awards from the women’s auxiliaries of Chi Delta
Mu (Medical) Fraternity and Monumental City
Medical Society.
Golf consumed much of Ed’s leisure time.
He played throughout the country and was a
trophies and was an accomplished golfer. He was
a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Prince
Hall Masons, Chi Delta Mu Fraternity, National
Medical Association, MedChi, The Maryland
State Medical Society, Monumental City Medical
Society, the Baltimore City Medical Society, the
Baltimore Morehouse Alumni Association and
sports fan and was known to watch two sporting
events on television, listen to a game on the radio
and read the sports page all at the same time! Ed
was an accomplished pinochle and bridge player.
He loved a good laugh and would spend hours
with his friends solving the world’s problems.
He was a member of Hunting Ridge Presbyterian

Larry O. Brown Sr., 65
Educator, Artist
Larry O’Neill Brown Sr., son of the late Elizabeth Ophelia James
Oliver and John Charles Brown, was born March 17, 1945, and
returned home to our Lord on Jan. 16.
He received his education in Baltimore City public schools,
attending Carver Vocational Technical High School. In 1961, Larry
married the late Diretha Victoria Hall and from this union came three
children, the late Hilda Diane Neal, Larry “Poncho” Brown and
Jacqueline Diretha Brown. One of his earliest jobs in the late 1960s
was for the {Afro-American Newspapers} as a typesetter. After
working in the printing industry for 13 years as a linotype operator,
he pursued a career in education in 1976. He received a master’s
degree in career and technology and was certified as a printing
Claudia Mae Gallop
March 7, 1923 - January 28, 1998
Dear Momma Claudia,
It has been 13 years since your spirit
took flight as you slept at night.
Remembering you is easy. We do it
every day. But missing you is a
heartache that never goes away.
Lovin Son,
Ishmael Gallop, Jr.
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LARRY O. BROWN SR.
instructor with Baltimore
City public schools. Larry
was a stellar athlete who
competed in cross-country,
excelled in pole vaulting and
was a championship wrestler.
“Coach Brown,” as
he was known, was an
together throughout the United States, Canada, the
Caribbean, Europe, Asia, South America, Latin
America and Africa.
Church where he enjoyed participating in “Senior
Camaraderie” and helped coordinate a health fair.
Ed was a kind, patient, humble, intelligent
Ed seized every opportunity to further man who loved and revered his wife, daughters,
his education and expand his knowledge. He family and friends. Generous and introspective,
matriculated at Columbia, Catholic and Howard he was much admired by his patients. He was
even-tempered and hardly ever raised his voice in
universities prior to entering Howard University
Medical School in 1946. Just prior to entering anger. He took pride in his family. A champion
medical school, he was offered a job in the of civil rights, Ed was deeply concerned about the
Commerce Department as a patent examiner. struggle of African Americans, human rights and
Although he would have been the first Black patent the provision of health care.
He leaves to celebrate his living his devoted
examiner, he decided in favor of medical school.
daughters, the Honorable C. Yvonne Holt-Stone
After graduating from medical school in 1950, and Pamela G. Holt, sister-in-law, Irene B.
Ed interned at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Coleman, nieces, nephews and a host of patients
Louis, Mo. He spent two years of residency at
and friends.
accomplished wrestling and track and field coach in both high school and college levels. His
athletes dreaded his intense workouts, but he was a father figure to many of them. He taught
printing and coached wrestling at Northwestern High School, Lake Clifton-Eastern High School
and Westside Skills Center-Edmondson High School. He also briefly coached track and field at
Coppin State University, formerly Coppin State College. He retired from teaching in 2006 after
devoting 30 years of service and gained the love
and respect of all of his students, co-workers, Continued on D1
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Larry was a member of the
New Psalmist Baptist Church,
where his funeral took place
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Shirley H. Pinkett, 79
Obituaries Baltimore Native
Shirley Holland Pinkett
was born Aug. 8, 1931, in
now I have died. My mission
is over. Whatever the Lord
Aretha K. White, 41 Baltimore, Md., and was
the fifth of 10 children born
had planned for me to do,
I sincerely hope I was able
Photographer of the union between the to do it in ways that were
late James P. Holland and pleasing to him.
Aretha Kea White Afro-American Newspaper. the late Alice Whitehead May you who remain use
was born Aug. 9, 1969, in Her artistic flair Holland Floyd. every minute of each day
Baltimore to Matthew and transcended her profession Before her death, Mrs. wisely and well. The bell still
Pinkett wrote, “Those of tolls. One day it will toll for
Mary White. She departed as a photographer. Aretha
you who knew me, knew thee. Prepare now, for the
this earthly life on Jan. 18. was a creative in the kitchen, how I live my life. There ticking of your clock may
Aretha loved the Lord. too. Her bread pudding with is no need to elaborate on be silenced at any moment.
At an early age she was chocolate truffles, sundried accomplishments, successes Think rationally and purely.
baptized at Berean Baptist tomato fettuccini dishes or failures. Suffice it to Act bravely, fairly and put
Church and later became a and stir-fried collard greens say that I walked to the truth first. Follow this recipe
member of Unity Church of mixed with turnips and turkey drumbeat of the Master and I will see you in the
Christ in Washington, D.C. wings were just a sampling Drummer, our Lord and morning.”
Savior Jesus Christ. I lived, SHIRLEY H. PINKETT
She attended Milford Mill of her artistry. In her 20s,
High School and traveled Aretha could eat anything,
to Vicenza, Italy, as part of
a student exchange. During
including the hamhock from
a pot of beans, and maintain
Clarence Butler, 78
her life, she sought to expose her perfect frame. She was
Employee, U.S. Postal Service
herself to diverse cultures and ARETHA K. WHITE a determined woman who Clarence Cleon Butler, son of the late was captured for 18 days while serving in
people, helping to weave a approached a minor health deacon and deaconess Harrison and Mary the war. This traumatic event would have a
tapestry of human experience that made her problem with a strict macrobiotic diet. The Simms-Butler, was born on Nov. 1, 1932, devastating effect on the rest of his life. He
at University Hospital in Baltimore. He tried courageously to live and carry on as
an unequaled and special young woman. same woman eventually declared a war on departed this life for a better home on Dec. normal as he could afterwards, but he could
Aretha, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha meat and preached the virtues of miso soup, 30, 2010, at 2:30 a.m., at his earthly residence not do so. He worked for a while at the Bel-
Sorority, had one of the most magnetic tofu and lentils for nearly a year. on Chase Street. Air Road Brick and Supply Company, after
personalities among her peers. She also had She was self-willed and decisive, He was third in the birth order of five which he was employed by the United States
an atypical way of being a true girlfriend, a especially in her decision to leave her home, siblings, the only son of Mary Simms and Postal Service. He then became home bound
formidable basketball player, defender of the her then-boyfriend and her photojournalism Harrison Butler, who were themselves for more than 50 years. My parents lovingly
righteous, a snarky quipster and ultimately, a career at the Baltimore Business Journal to descendants of four of the founders of Unity took care of him until their deaths.
Baptist Church. He attended Elkridge and He devotedly cared for them to the
deeply spiritual woman who traversed life’s attend a graduation program in photography best of his ability. After his father died he
Harriet Tubman High School in Howard
conflicts with the sensibilities of an elder. in Georgia. Aretha returned with a slick County. His religious training was provided devoted himself completely to the care of
She was, by profession, a photographer who portfolio, a honed version and a renewed by his parents, grandparents and Unity our mother. He loved children, especially his
cut her teeth in the business at the Baltimore dedication to her now husband, Alan Kline. Baptist Church. nieces and nephews who helped care for him,
He was married to Sylvia Hale in 1949 also when they became grown. However,
he had a special rapport with his nephews,
Sylvester J. Cross, 67 www.afro.com
and from this union came one son, Arthur
C. (Jimmy) Butler. In 1952, he was drafted
into the U.S. Army, where he served in the
Thomas Williams, Anthony Butler and the
late Michael Butler, who grew up in the
Amateur Photographer household with him. Anthony resided with
Korean Conflict as a demolition expert. He him until his death.
Sylvester James Cross
was born on June 30, 1943,
in Baltimore, the third
oldest child of the late
Ethel M. Cross and Benny
L. Cross. He attended the
Baltimore City Public
School System.
For a short time, along
with his two brothers Benny
and Joseph, he worked
as a presser in a tailoring
factory. Sylvester loved
taking pictures. When you
walked into his apartment
you would see frames of
pictures on every wall. He
SYLVESTER J. CROSS was an expert when it came
to recording and taping
.He had tapes from A-Z. Sylvester accepted Christ as his
Lord and Savior on Jan. 14, 2004. He recommitted his life to
Christ on July 5, 2010, at 3:27 p.m. On Nov. 2, 2010, at 7:54
p.m., God called him home. Sylvester had three brothers who
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LEGAL NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF
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MAMIE IRENE
20 Words Dept.
IN THE CIRCUIT JONES
COURT FOR
BALTIMORE CITY
FOR CHANGE OF
NAME TO
Case No.: EVELYN LUCILLE 1 2 3 4 5
24D10003667 THOMAS
IN THE MATTER OF ORDER FOR
FATOUMATA NOTICE BY 6 7 8 9 10
MEDINE KANDE PUBLICATION
FOR CHANGE OF The object of this suit
NAME TO
MEDINE FATIMA
is to officially change 11 12 13 14 15
the name of the peti-
tioner from
ORDER FOR
NOTICE BY
Mamie Irene Jones
to
16 17 18 19 20
PUBLICATION
The object of this suit
Evelyn Lucille
Thomas
is to officially change It is this 12th day of NAME
the name of the peti-
tioner from
January, 2011 by the
ADDRESS
Circuit Court for Bal-
Fatoumata Medine
Kande
timore City,
PHONE NO.
ORDERED, that pub-
to lication be given one CLASSIFICATION
Medine Fatima Kande time in a newspaper of
It is this 29th day of general circulation in (Room, Apt, House, etc.) INSERTION DATE:
December, 2010 by
the Circuit Court for
Baltimore City on or
before the 12th day of
Baltimore City, February, 2011, which
ORDERED, that pub- shall warn all
lication be given one
time in a newspaper of
interested persons to WASHINGTON AFRO-AMERICAN-NEWSPAPER
file an affidavit in op-
general circulation in position to the relief
Baltimore City on or
before the 29 day of
requested on or be-
fore the 11 day of
Legal Advertising Rates
January, 2011, which
shall warn all
March, 2011.
Frank M. Conaway Effective October 1, 2006
interested persons to
file an affidavit in op-
Clerk
1/28
position to the relief PROBATE DIVISION
requested on or be- LEGAL NOTICES
fore the 8th day of (Estates)
February, 2011.
Frank M. Conaway Baltimore City Public Schools
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
202-879-9460/61
Clerk
1/28 RFP-11031
On Site Information
IN THE CIRCUIT Technology Specialists PROBATE NOTICES
COURT FOR
BALTIMORE CITY
Case No.:
The Baltimore City Board of School Commis-
a. Order Nisi
sioners invites interested companies to sub- $ 60 per insertion $180.00 per 3 weeks
24D11000022 mit proposals to supply On Site Information b. Small Estates (single publication)
IN THE MATTER OF $ 50 per insertion
Technology Specialists. c. Notice to Creditors
PAMELA SUE
NORRIS NORWOOD In order to participate, interested bidders 1. Domestic $ 60 per insertion $ 180.00 per 3 weeks
FOR CHANGE OF need to register with eMaryland Marketplace
2. Foreign $ 60 per insertion $ 180.00 per 3 weeks
NAME TO by visiting their website at https://
PAMELA SUE ebidmarketplace.com and clicking the Reg- d. Escheated Estates $ 60 per insertion $ 360.00 per 6 weeks
NORRIS istration button. e. Standard Probates $ 125.00
ORDER FOR
NOTICE BY Solicitation RFP-11031 will be available for
PUBLICATION review commencing Monday January 24, CIVIL NOTICES
The object of this suit 2011. A pre-proposal meeting will be held on
is to officially change Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 10:00am in
the name of the peti- a. Name Changes 202-879-1133 $ 80.00
room 301 at 200 East North Avenue.
tioner from b. Real Property $ 200.00
Pamela Sue Norris The Proposal Due Date is Thursday,
Norwood March 3, 2011 at 11:00am. No proposals will
to
Pamela Sue Norris
be accepted after that time. Any questions
related to this solicitation should be directed
FAMILY COURT
It is this 11th day of to the Buyer, John Egerton at jegerton@ 202-879-1212
January, 2011 by the bcps.k12.md.us
Circuit Court for Bal-
timore City, DOMESTIC RELATIONS
ORDERED, that pub-
Baltimore City Public Schools. 202-879-0157
lication be given one
time in a newspaper of
a. Absent Defendant $ 150.00
general circulation in INVITATION FOR BIDS:
BCS-11050
Baltimore City on or b. Absolute Divorce $ 150.00
before the 11th day of Provide Emergency Generators Services
at Various Baltimore City Public Schools c. Custody Divorce $ 150.00
February, 2011, which
shall warn all
interested persons to The Baltimore City Board of School Commis-
file an affidavit in op- sioners is inviting interested companies to To place your ad, call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 262
submit bids to: BCS-11050.
position to the relief Public Notices $50.00 & up depending on size
requested on or be- Baltimore Legal Notices are $24.15 per inch.
fore the 21 day of Feb- In order to participate, interested bidders
ruary, 2011. need to visit eMaryland Marketplace website There is no flat rate — 1-800 (AFRO) 892
Frank M. Conaway at https://ebidmarketplace.com For Proof of Publication, please call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 244
Clerk
1/28 Solicitation BCS-11050 will be available for LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES
review commencing Friday, January 28, LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES
IN THE CIRCUIT 2011.
COURT FOR
BALTIMORE CITY City of Baltimore STATEMENT OF FACT
The Bid Due Date is Thursday, March 3,
Case No.: 2011, at 11:00 a.m. local time. No bids will
Department of Finance
24D11000135 Bureau of Purchases I, Janice Mae Jackson, am Executrix to the
be acceptedafter that time. Any questions
IN THE MATTER OF related to this solicitation should be directed JANICE MAE JACKSON, Estate as Wit-
JOHN DARRELL Sealed proposals addressed to the Board of nessed by my Sole Ability to Personally
to the Buyer. Estimates of Baltimore, will be received until,
WAGSTAFF Obtain a CERTIFICATE OF BIRTH and Do
but not later than 11:00 a.m. local time on
FOR CHANGE OF Hereby Give Legal, Lawful, Public and Actual
NAME TO the following date(s) for the stated Notice of The Same-Hereby and Herein.
AKEEL FAROUQ
Baltimore City Public School System requirements:
AL-SHABAZZ By: executrix Janice Mae Jackson, of my own
INVITATION FOR BIDS: FEBRUARY 9, 2011 right.
ORDER FOR BCS-11047
NOTICE BY TRANSPORTATION, CREMATION AND
Boiler Brickwork, Refractory & Insulation DISPOSAL OF ANIMAL CARCASSES nation Maryland
PUBLICATION Repair/Replacement Services
The object of this suit B50001806 general post-office.
at Various Baltimore City Schools county Prince George's.
is to officially change
THE ENTIRE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT Jackson Province.
the name of the peti- The Baltimore City Board of School Commis- CAN BE VIEWED AND DOWN LOADED BY
tioner from
John Darrell Wagstaff
sioners is inviting interested companies to VISITING THE CITYS WEB SITE: United States Minor Outlying Islands.
submit bids to: BCS-11047. Run Dates: 1/21, 1/28, 2/4
to
Akeel Farouq www.baltimorecitibuy.org
In order to participate, interested bidders
Al-Shabazz need to visit eMaryland Marketplace website
It is this 20th day of at https://ebidmarketplace.com REQUEST FOR SERVICES
January, 2011 by the
Circuit Court for Bal- PQS-2011-3
Solicitation BCS-11047 will be available for Extended Learning Services
timore City, review commencing Friday, January 21,
ORDERED, that pub-
2011. City Schools invites interested organizations
lication be given one
to submit applications to provide summer and
To
time in a newspaper of The Bid Due Date is Thursday, February
general circulation in after school extended learning programs for
24, 2011,at 11:00 a.m. local time. No bids
Baltimore City on or Baltimore City Schools.
before the 20th day of
will be acceptedafter that time. Any questions
related to this solicitation should be directed
February, 2011, which to the Buyer.
In order to participate, interested parties
shall warn all need to download and complete the PQS
Advertise
interested persons to documents at
file an affidavit in op- http://www.baltimorecityschools.org/
position to the relief Baltimore City Public Schools. Procurement/PQS.asp
requested on or be-
fore the 2nd day of INVITATION FOR BIDS: A pre-proposal meeting will be held on
call
March, 2011. BCS-11049 Thursday, January 27 at 11:00 am in room
Frank M. Conaway Provide Boiler Replacement Services at 301 at 200 East North Avenue.
Clerk Edmondson High School #400A
1/28 All applications are due Thursday, February
3 at 11:00 am. Any questions should be
addressed to the buyer, Shabray Stanfield at
The Baltimore City Board of School Commis-
410-4554-
sstanfield@bcps.k12.md.us.
sioners is inviting interested companies to
SUBSCRIPE TODAY!
submit bids to: BCS-11049.
In order to participate, interested bidders
need to visit eMaryland Marketplace website
afro.com
8200
at https://ebidmarketplace.com
Solicitation BCS-11049 will be available for
review commencing Friday, January 21,
2011. • Your History
The Bid Due Date is Thursday, February • Your Community
24, 2011, at 11:00 a.m. local time. No bids
will be acceptedafter that time. Any questions • Your News
related to this solicitation should be directed
to the Buyer.
 MBE/WBE Requirements
It is the policy of the City of Baltimore to promote equal business
opportunity in the City¬s contracting process. Pursuant to Article 5

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Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code (2000 Edition) - Minority and Women¬s
Business Program, Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) January 29, 2011
and Women¬s
Business Enterprise (WBE) participation goals apply to this contract.
- February 4, 2011, The Afro-American

CAREER
The MBE goal is 27%
LEGAL NOTICES The WBE goal is 9% LEGAL NOTICES
SPECIAL NOTICE Both the proposed Minority and Women¬s Business Enterprise firms must
Water Contract No. 1197-Susquehanna Transmission Main Valve be named and identified as an MBE or WBE within Item 6 of the Standard

Replacements, Baltimore City Department of Public Works
The Prequalification Categories required for bidding on this project are
B02551-Water Mains OR G90042-Installation of Valves, Pressure Tap-
pings, and Line Stoppings. An additional pre-bid meeting will be held on
February 8, 2011, at 10:00 A.M. in the 3rd Floor Conference Room at
the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 Holliday Street, Baltimore, MD
21202.
BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND
INVITATION FOR BIDS
CONTRACT NO. 11017 RX0
PUTTY HILL AVENUE INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS
PARKVILLE - DISTRICT 14 and 9 c 6
CONTRACT COST GROUP “C ∫C ($500,000
($500,000to to $1,000,000)∫
$1,000,000)”
WORK CLASSIFICATION: A-2, B and E
with Pre-Qualified F-1, F-2 and F-3 SUB-CONTRACTORS
BID DATE: TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011 AT 10:30 A.M. LOCAL TIME
On or after MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2011 the above contract
documents (See Note *) may be inspected and purchased from the
Division of Construction Contracts Administration, Department of
Public Works, Room 300B, County Office Building (COB), 111 W.
Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, upon receipt of payment
of $20.00 (TWENTY DOLLARS) per contract, and if sent by U.S. mail
with an additional $10.00 (TEN Dollars) postage and handling fee. All
checks should be made payable to BALTIMORE COUNTY MD. NO
REFUNDS will be made to anyone. Direct any questions to
410-887-3531. Bidders obtaining documents from another source other
than Baltimore County WILL NOT be allowed to submit proposals to
Baltimore County.
*Note: Contract Documents will consist of One (1) Paper Copy Proposal
Book and One (1) Compact Disk (CD) with all of the required drawings.
The CD will be in PDF format. Contractors and Sub-Contractors can
purchase paper copies of the drawings from Baltimore County - OIT -
Central Printing located in the Basement of the COB, RM G-9 for $1.50
a copy.
The proposed work consists of: Road widening, placing curb, gutter,
sidewalks, storm drains and fire hydrant relocations. Also reconstruction
to add separate left turn lanes on Eastbound and Westbound Putty Hill
Avenue from School Road to Wilson Avenue.
A pre-bid meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at
10:00 a.m. local time in Room 215 of the County Office Building.
Located at 111 West Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, Maryland 21204.
THE PROJECT IS SUBJECT TO A MINORITY BUSINESS ENTER-
PRISE UTILIZATION GOAL AND FEMALE CONTRACTORS UTILIZA-
TION GOALS. THESE GOAL REQUIREMENTS ARE MORE FULLY
EXPLAINED IN THE SPECIFICATIONS. THE MBE/WBE FORMS IN
THE PROPOSAL BOOKLET MUST BE COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED
AT THE TIME OF BID OPENING.
Sealed proposals (the entire book) addressed to Baltimore County,
Maryland for this contract will be received in the Baltimore County
Purchasing Division, Room 148, Old Courthouse, 400 Washington
Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, until the time specified on the contract at
which time they will be publicly opened and read.
ONLY CONTRACTORS WHO HAVE BEEN PREQUALIFIED BY BAL-
TIMORE COUNTY AT LEAST TEN (10) DAYS PRIOR TO THE OPEN-
ING OF BIDS WILL BE ALLOWED TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS.
All proposals must be accompanied by a Bid Bond, on the approved
form provided, in the amount as set forth in the ∫Information for Bidders∫.
No other form of proposal guaranty is acceptable.
The Purchasing Agent reserves the right to reject any or all proposals
or bids or parts of bids and to waive technicalities as may be deemed
best for the interest of the County.
Keith Dorsey, Director
Office of Budget & Finance
CERTIFICATION OF PUBLICATION
CITY OF BALTIMORE
OFFICE OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
PUBLIC NOTICE
PROJECT # 1161 - ON CALL CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
Form (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for identifying outside key
consultants/associates anticipated for utilization for this project.
Any submittals that do not include the proper MBE/WBE (in some
instances DBE) participation will be disapproved for further consideration
for this project.
Verifying Certification
Each firm submitting a SF 255 for consideration for a project is
responsible for verifying that all MBEs and WBEs to be utilized on the
project are certified by the Minority and Women’s
Women¬s Business Opportunity
Office (MWBOO) prior to submitting the proposal. A directory of certified
MBEs and WBEs is available from MWBOO. Since changes to the
directory occur daily, firms submitting SF
SF255’s
255¬s should call MWBOO at
(410)396-4355 to verify certification, expiration dates and services that
the MBE or WBE is certified to provide.
Non-Affiliation
A firm submitting a proposal may not use an MBE or WBE to meet a
contract goal if:
1. The firm has a financial interest in the MBE or WBE
2. The firm has an interest in the ownership or control of the MBE or WBE
3. The firm is significantly involved in the operation of the MBE or WBE
(Article 5 subtitle 28-41.
A firm submitting as a prime consultant that fails to comply with the
requirements of Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code when
executing a contract is subject to the following penalties: suspension of
a contract; withholding of funds; rescission of contract based on material
breach; disqualification as a consultant from eligibility to provide services
to the City for a period not to exceed 2 years; and payment for damages
incurred by the City.
Additional Requirements
A resume for each person listed as key personnel and/or specialist,
including those from MBE and WBE must be shown on the page provided
within the application.
Please be advised that for the purpose of reviewing price proposals and
invoices, the City of Baltimore defines a principal of a firm as follows:
A principal is any individual owning 5% or more of the outstanding stock
of an entity, a partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a
sub-chapter ¬S¬
“S” Corporation, or an individual owner.
Out-of-State Corporations must identify their corporate resident agent
within the application.
Firms will not be considered for a specific project if they apply as both
a sub-consultant and prime consultant.
The applications for this Project (Form 255) cannot be supplemented
with any additional information such as graphs, photographs, organ-
ization chart, etc. All such information should be incorporated into the
appropriate pages. Applications should not be bound. Applications should
simply be stapled in the upper left-hand corner. Cover sheets should not
be included. Inclusion and/or submittal of additional material may result
in the applicant being disqualified from consideration for this project.
Failure to follow directions of this advertisement or the application may
cause disqualification of the submittal.
Mari B. Ross
Executive Secretary
CORNER
Certified Medical Assistant - Pediatric and Adult
Comprehensive health care center located in downtown
Baltimore has an opening for a Certified Medical Assistant
on the Medical (Pediatric and Adult) team. Requirements
include H.S. diploma, GED or equivalent experience;
pediatric phlebotomy experience a plus; certification as a
Medical Assistant; active AAMA or RMA certification and,
Pediatric experience a must; good telephone communica-
tion skills; legible handwriting and good basic typing skills;
well-developed organizational and strong interpersonal
skills, ability to maintain confidentiality surrounding all
information related to clients; computer skills preferred.
Send resume to Ms. C. Berry, HCH, 421 Fallsway, Bal-
timore, MD 21202 by 2/07/11. Email: hrresumes@hchmd.
org, Fax 410-837-8020. No Phone calls. EOE
Constituent Services Representative for Congressman
John Sarbanes’
Sarbanes¬ office in Towson. For more information go
to www.sarbanes.house.gov/job
Data Base Specialist II
$45,650-$73,259
Serves as the Database Mgr providing all front-end and
back-end technical support. Functions as the SQL Server
Specialist on db development, and assists in application
end-user training. REQ: BS in CIT, MIS, Computer Science
or other information technology-related field to include
course work in data management systems. 1yr exp design-
ing, developing, implementing, maintaining and controlling
db management systems for multipurpose, multi-tasking
computers. Exp developing db with Microsoft SQL Server
including writing queries, using Transact SQL, and Mic-
rosoft Access with Visual Basic programming abilities. Visit
www.mdoa.state.md.us for the official job announcement.
Submit a State application (MS-100) to: MD Dept of Aging,
301 W. Preston St., Suite 1007 Balto., MD 21201 by
2/11/11. EOE
Senior Employment Program Mgr
$40,291 - $64,317
Experienced Program Manager needed to administer the
Senior Community Employment Program (SCSEP) funded
by DOL. SCSEP provides low-income persons ages 55
and older with employment and training opportunities
leading to unsubsidized employment. Statewide travel
required. REQ: BA & 5 yrs exp in any combination: public
budget, public personnel administration, management
analysis, program planning or administrative staff work. 3
yrs of this exp must have been specialized work in a
professional or administrative capacity in a program that
provides services for or by the elderly. One yr exp in the
administration of an employment and training program is
required. For the official job announcement, visit www.
mdoa.state.md.us. Submit a State employment application
(MS-100) by 2/4/11 to: MD Department of Aging, HR, 301
West Preston St. Suite 1007, Balto, MD 21201. Download
applications from www.dbm.maryland.gov.EOE

SUPPORT OUR
MANAGEMENT SERVICES

ADVERTISERS
The City of Baltimore Office of Boards & Commissions has been
requested by the Department of Transportation, Transportation Engineer-
ing and Construction Division, to certify the qualifications of a
Construction Project Management firm to provide technical and admin-
istrative assistance in all aspects of construction project management
and various engineering and inspection disciplines for the proposed Special Education Job Fair
improvements to the City’s
City¬ssystem
systemofofStreets,
Streets,Highways
Highways and Bridges for Tuesday, February 1, 2011
a three-year contract with an extension of up to one additional year at
the City’s
City¬soption.
option.
For information or to register go to
The services to be provided include, but are not limited to, assisting the www.hcpss.org
Transportation Engineering & Construction Division in managing various
Capital Improvement Projects. Responsibilities will include cons-
tructability review of construction contract documents, tracking and EOE
assisting in answering contractor requests for information (RFI¬s) change
(RFI’s) change
orders & claims analysis and inspection. Depending on the nature of
assignments and City staff workload, a variety of personnel representing Education
the selected firm shall be available. PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) -
The selected firm must demonstrate: The #1 Ranked Education Program in the USA
(For the 3rd STRAIGHT YEAR)
0
Experience in Construction Project Management development and
implementation. AND WINNER of the RACE TO THE TOP (RTTT) Grant
0
Experience with Constructability Review of construction contract
documents. Seeks a part-time contractual Education Program Specialist to provide technical assis-
0
Experience with Change Order/Claims Analysis and Minimization/ tance, & coordination for the implementation of the fitness assessment of health related
Mitigation. fitness & the promotion of physical activity in Maryland’s
Maryland¬s public schools while assisting
0
Experience with Critical Path Method Construction Scheduling, Cost central office & school staff in the promotion of physical activity in low performing schools
Report and Recovery Schedule Analysis.
0
Ability to supplement City staff to provide field inspection if needed. identified in the Race to the Top (RTTT) Grant.
0
Experience and ability to evaluate existing program procedures and
develop cost effective improvements. www.marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/aboutmsde/jobs
0
Ability to Analyze and Maintain construction Master Schedules to
anticipate future staffing requirements. MSDE is a State agency that develops & administers education, library, & rehabilitation
0
Experience with Industry Standard Hardware/Software for Information
Tracking Systems. programs, is on the forefront of standards-based reform of public education, & is committed
0
Overall team approach with Minority/Women Business Enterprises. to promoting & maintaining a diverse workforce. Annual salary range: $56,496 - $73,674
prorated @ 50%.
Project design fees have been estimated at $2,000,000 per consultant.
Duration of the professional services contract is estimated to be three QUALIFICATIONS: Masters or equiv 36 credit hrs post-baccalaureate course work in
(3) years. Four (4) consultants will be awarded contracts. If further
information is required regarding this request, please contact Mr. Jamie Educ., Educ Admin/Supervision, or related area & 4 yrs prof admin, accountability, or
McDonald at 410-396-6915. Projects must comply with the 2006 edition teaching exp in or affiliated w/ an educ prog including 2 yrs exp in coordinating or
of “The
∫The Specifications for Materials, Highways, Bridges, Utilities and administering directly related educ prog or service. (Exp w/ Physical Education programs,
Incidental Structures. City personnel will utilize the “City
∫City of Baltimore &/or related field pref.) NOTE: 2 yrs additional exp. as defined may sub for the Master’s.
Master¬s.
Guidelines for The Performance Evaluation of Design Consultants and
Construction Constractors”
Construction Contractors∫ for
for this contract/project.
this contract/project. To Apply: Reference position RTTTDOI#334-11 & Send/FAX (410-333-8950) resume to
Firms intending to submit a proposal as a prime consultant for this project Office of Human Resources, 200 W. Baltimore Street, Balto. MD. 21201. Applications/
should submit a “Letter
∫Letter ofofInterest”
Interest∫ to the Office of Boards and resumes should be received by February 4, 2011.
Commissions, 751 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 attention AA/EOE
Mari B. Ross. Since these letters are utilized to assist small, minority
and women business enterprises in identifying potential teaming partners,
the letters should be submitted within five (5) days of the date of the
project¬s advertisement. The letter should contain a contact person
Failure to submit a “Letter
∫Letter of
of Interest”
Interest∫ will not disqualify a firm submitting
a proposal for the project.
Each prime consultant applying for this Project will be required to
complete and submit an original Federal Form 255, along with five (5)
copies to the Office of Boards and Commissions, 751 Eastern Avenue,
Baltimore, Maryland 21202. The Federal Form 255 and the five copies
must be submitted on or before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on 02-28-2011.
Submittals will not be accepted after this deadline.

Insurance Requirements
The consultant selected for the award of this project shall provide
professional liability, auto liability, general liability and worker’s
workers¬ com-
pensation insurances as required by the City of Baltimore.

Prequalification Certification Requirement

All architectural, engineering, and surveying firms listed in the specific
proposal for the Project must be prequalified by the Office of Boards
and Commissions for each applicable discipline at time of submittal for
this Project. Information regarding prequalification certification can be
obtained by contacting the Office at 410-396-6883.
MBE/WBE Requirements
It is the policy of the City of Baltimore to promote equal business
opportunity in the City’s
City¬s contracting process. Pursuant to Article 5
Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code (2000 Edition) - Minority and Women’s
Women¬s
Business Program, Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women’s Women¬s
Business Enterprise (WBE) participation goals apply to this contract.

The MBE goal is 27%

The WBE goal is 9%
Both the proposed Minority and Women¬s Business Enterprise firms must
be named and identified as an MBE or WBE within Item 6 of the Standard
Form (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for identifying outside key
consultants/associates anticipated for utilization for this project.
D4 The Afro-American, January 29, 2011 - January 29, 2011