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Mayor, Council Chair Split on Tax Increases

By Valencia Mohammed
Special to the AFRO
Mayor Vincent C. Gray and DC Council
Chairman Kwame Brown have hit a snag on
increased taxes as one way to close the budget deficit.
Gray proposes an increase in income and property
taxes to add $35 million to the revenue stream.
Brown opposes it without any apparent plans on the
table as a substitute.
Some believe the outcome could strain the
friendship of these Ward 7 allies. Others say it’s just
politics at its best.
AFRO File Photos/Rob Roberts “Having been on the Council, the mayor
Brown opposes proposed tax understands that the chairman and other members
increases without any apparent may disagree with some of his proposals,” said Doxie
plans on the table as a substitute. McCoy, senior communications manager, Executive
Office of the Mayor. “This does not put a strain on
relationships.”
The mayor has outlined his proposal online with
answers to many questions frequently asked. The
FY2012 budget is estimated to have a gap of $322
million. Gray urged District agencies to identify cost
savings, reductions and revenue opportunities to
help balance the budget. Thirty percent of the current
budget comes from property taxes. Additionally, 32
percent comes from income taxes.
“The mayor stands by his proposal but is
confident that when all is said and done, the
executive and the Council will come together to
produce a balanced budget that serves the residents of
the District of Columbia well,” said McCoy. Gray proposes an increase in
Brown is encouraged to challenge whenever income and property taxes to add
Continued on A8 $35 million to the revenue stream.

Shiloh Baptist Church Target D.C. Schools to Cut Hundreds of Jobs

of Racist Attacks
By Valencia Mohammed
By AFRO Staff

D.C. school officials say about 660 teachers and other school employees have been
told that their jobs will be eliminated next month because of budget concerns and shifting
Special to the AFRO enrollment within the school system.
The process known as “excessing” allows for a redistribution of jobs. Schools with budget
Racial threats were hurled or other changes often lose jobs, which then go to other schools. But those teachers and
at one of the District’s most staff will still have the opportunity to seek other jobs in the system, according to the DCPS
prestigious Black churches after website.
a visit from President Barack This year, 745 (384 Washington Teachers Union members) were “excessed” and that
Obama on Easter Sunday. number will likely increase in the coming weeks. But, the department said, these numbers are
Shiloh Baptist Church, in comparable to previous years. In 2010, 672 (373 WTU members) employees were excessed
northwest Washington, became and in 2009, 848 (427 WTU members) were excessed.
the target of criticism after a Nathan Saunders, the president of the Washington Teachers’ Union, said that excessing
member of the FOX Nation, a may be a way to remove older teachers or to target certain individuals, such as “teachers who
national organization of White are nontraditional…or who speak out on issues…who are not in agreement with the style of
conservatives, linked statements reform here in D.C…. [or] who are union activists.” If that is the case, he told the AFRO, the
made by the church’s pastor on WTU will take action.
another occasion to Obama’s “To the extent that retaliatory or punitive actions are taken against our members [for
visit. reasons that] are not educationally sound, we’re going to be their worst enemy,” Saunders
“We received over 100 calls, Courtesy photo said.
from across the U.S., that were Pastor Wallace Charles Smith, head minister at Shiloh DCPS officials said a series of transfer fairs will be held by the District to help teachers
extremely nasty, disrespectful Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., and his congregation find new spots, beginning May 11.
and challenging,” said Pastor have come under attack by members of the FOX Nation
Wallace Charles Smith. “Some for hosting President Obama at the church on Easter The Associated Press contributed to this story.
Sunday.
Continued on A8

INSERT
• Home Depot D.C. Organizations, Leaders Fight Abortion Funding Ban
Erica Butler
AFRO Staff Writer
Local organizations say they are already feeling
the effects of a move to end government funding
for abortions in the District of Columbia.
The DC Abortion Fund has seen an outpouring
Hear the AFRO on The Daily of financial support since H.R. 3, No Taxpayer
Drum, Wednesday at 7 p.m. Funding for Abortion Act, was introduced. The
House passed the GOP-backed legislation May
5 and it now awaits Senate approval, though
President Obama has vowed to veto the measure.
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Fund’s Tiffany Reed said the organization
raised $14,619 from individuals, donors and
Councilmember Jim Graham. But, said Kate Vlach,
a board member of the pro-choice organization, the
financial support the organization receives is not
enough.
“Ultimately, the massive outpouring of support
from the community has put DCAF in a very strong
position to assist even more women,” Vlach said,
“but a small grassroots fund like ours will never
be able to replace the comprehensive coverage
provided by the Medicaid program.”
in April, forcing some clients to put their
procedures on hold. The organization worked with
local and national abortion fund programs to make
sure 28 women that were scheduled to be seen on
April 13 were able to keep their appointments,
Vlach said. However, there were other women,
number unknown, who were scheduled for
abortions the next day and weekend, who found out
they were unable to use their Medicaid. Instead,
they are waiting to raise more money for their
abortions.
“For some of these women, such a delay may

In a press release dated April 14, Abortion Medicaid coverage for abortions was rescinded Continued on A4

bin Laden’s followers. Those metro stations, synagogues

Transportation Security Woes fears were magnified since
during the attack on the al-
and mosques. And Amtrak
and subway riders faced

Revisited after bin Laden’s Death Qaeda leader’ hideout, Navy

SEALs confiscated papers
that revealed a list of possible
future attacks against U.S.
railroads that was compiled in
February 2010, according to
the State Department.
“We have no information
of any imminent terrorist
threat to the U.S. rail sector,
but wanted to make our
partners aware of the alleged
After plans for attacks on U.S. railways were plotting; it is unclear if any
discovered among Osama bin Laden’s papers, further planning has been
security was increased at rail systems such as conducted since February of
09 Washington, D.C.’s. last year,” Matt Chandler, the
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press secretary of Homeland
Erica Butler bin Laden’s death, security including Washington, D.C. Security, said in a statement.
AFRO Staff Writer has been heightened around Agencies have been Immediately following the
transportation systems warning the public of takedown of bin Laden, more
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In the wake of Osama in major metropolitans, potential vengeful acts from security was present around
minor screening compared to
those who ride airplanes.
Emergency response in
the District is handled by the
National Capital Response
Squad (NCRS), which
includes members of the FBI,
Metro Transit Police, Capitol
Police, the Metropolitan
Police Department and
the U.S. Postal Inspection
Service, said James
McJunkin, assistant director
of the FBI’s Washington Field
Office.
“We’re ready every day
and we respond every day,”
he said. “Although this was
a significant event, no single
event is going to change
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AFRO National Briefs

monitors the porn industry.
African actresses are wanted
for pornography in Europe,
she said. Koh Bela said
Your History • Your Community • Your News New Jersey Girl, 15, Heads of existence, Oprah Winfrey executives in media, and I that companies have added
The Afro-American Newspapers to Harvard dismissed OWN network look forward to his leadership “special Black” pornography
Baltimore Office • Corporate Headquarters CEO Christina Norman as we build our development as a new niche to adult film
2519 N. Charles Street and replaced her with Peter slate and work toward the categories that already flood
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4602 Liguori, chief operating launch of ‘Oprah’s Next the Internet.
410-554-8200 • Fax: 1-877-570-9297 officer for Discovery Chapter.’ Over the remainder Money is what attracts the
www.afro.com Communications. Liguori of the year, Peter and I will performers, Koh Bela said.
will lead OWN until the end work together to recruit a The cities of Doula, Yaoundé
Founded by John Henry Murphy Sr., August 13, 1892 of the year. permanent CEO for OWN’s and Kribi in Cameroon are
Washington Publisher Emerita - Frances L. Murphy II According to the New next phase of growth.” emerging as African porn
York Times, the decision to In an interview with the production centers, where
Chairman of the Board/Publisher - John J. Oliver, Jr. (Courtesy Photo) remove Norman from the New York Times, Liguori
Executive Assistant - Takiea Hinton - 410-554-8222 Saheela Ibraheem, 15 actors and actresses brag
position came after several said he plans to increase about their jobs, Koh Bela
Receptionist - Wanda Pearson - 410-554-8200 Saheela Ibraheem, meetings with members of the entertainment value said.
Director of Advertising/Sponsorship Development & Sales a 15-year-old senior at the OWN board of directors of programs on OWN One Cameroonian man,
Susan Gould - 410-554-8289 Wardlaw-Hartridge School and Winfrey, who touted while keeping in line with
who has since dropped
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out of performing in the
Advertising Manager - Robert Blount - 410-554-8246 other students her age as worker.
industry, told TheRoot.com
Sr. Advertising Account Executive - Annie Russ - 410-554-8235 she prepares to attend the “I want to thank Young Africans Turn to
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Marquise Goodwin - 410-554-8274
At Harvard, Ibraheem will accomplishments, incredible two adult films made by
Director of Finance - Jack Leister - 410-554-8242 major in either neurobiology passion and many sacrifices a French producer. Palesa
Archivist - John Gartrell - 410-554-8265 or neuroscience. She in helping to launch the Mbau, a 23-year-old South
Director, Community & Public Relations was also accepted to the network,” said Winfrey in a African woman, has a
Diane W. Hocker - 410-554-8243 California Institute of press statement. “With the website catering to adult
Editorial Technology, Princeton, final taping of ‘The Oprah film enthusiasts from which
Executive Editor - Talibah Chikwendu Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Winfrey Show’ only a few she sells photos and films of
E-mail: editor@afro.com Columbia and a host of other weeks away, I will soon herself for $75 to $100.
Managing Editor - Kristin Gray - 410-554-8277 distinguished schools. be able to devote my full But there are dangers in
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E-mail: dceditor@afro.com
blackvoices.com report, natural point of transition, exposure may be the worst
Global Markets Ibraheem cites her and I am confident that risk, according to journalist
Director - Benjamin M. Phillips IV - 410-554-8220 parents, who are Nigerian Peter, as an integral part of Habibou Bangré. Condoms
bphillips@afro.com immigrants, as key factors in the launch of OWN, will (Courtesy Photo)
are rarely used during shoots
Washington Circulation/Distribution Manager Palesa Mbau
her scholastic success. She be a terrific partner for me and HIV testing is not always
Edgar Brookins - 202-332-0080, ext. 116
Baltimore Circulation/Distribution Manager has maintained a grade point going forward. He is one of available.
average between 96 and 97 the smartest, most creative Young Africans are
Sammy Graham - 410-554-8266 According to the Joint
and received a 2,340 SAT entering an emerging
Production Department - 410-554-8288 United Nations Program on
score. pornography market in Africa
HIV/AIDS global report,
According to the Star as a way of coping with low
Washington Office 22.5 million people in
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Edgar Brookins - ext. 116 swimming teams. part of the reason for a surge West African communities,
Office Administrator - Mia Hayes-Hawkins - ext. 112
AP Photo in the production of sex films according to the June 2010
Customer Service, Home Delivery and Subscriptions: Oprah Fires African- Former OWN network featuring Africans in the Globalization of Crime
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Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain NephewA3 May 14, 2011 - May 20, 2011, The Afro-American

Community Seeks Assistance to

By Alan King
AFRO Staff Writer
sport-utility vehicle sought in
connection with the murder of
from a neighbor about a suspi-
cious vehicle. The man noticed Service Honors Officers in D.C. Areagraph
Killed
around on Duty
the city. On
posted fliers bearing his photo-

Curb Gang Violence

Hudson’s mother and brother. the vehicle while walking his Sunday, Jennifer Hudson asked
The white, 1994 Chevrolet dog. According to the Chicago WASHINGTON (AP) — Police for the public’s help in finding
Jennifer Hudson and other
relatives positively identified Suburban with Illinois license Tribune, the boy had been shot officers who have died in the line her nephew. In her MySpace
multiple times in the back seat of duty have been honored along blog, she thanked fans and sup-
By Valencia Mohammed occurred in the same period do not vehicle.
of the grow orThe operate
SUV,inregis-
a with their families at an event in porters for their prayers and
Special to the AFRO last year. vacuum. “Look at
tered to Hudson’s murdered the family Washington. offered a $100,000 reward to
“This is the result of the profile,
brother,the
wasconditions
towed withofthe Dozens of officers attended the anyone who returned the boy
At first, the May 5 new administration cutting off where
boy’s body insideeducational
they live, and is being memorial service Monday morning alive.
meeting seemed like the same funding to community-based experiences
processed byand close ties.
evidence techni- outside the headquarters of the District Since the investigation,
old gang summit where law organizations that provided the What we are
cians and finding
workers. Theoutbody
is of Columbia police department. D.C. Hudson – who gained stardom
enforcement rattle off the services to monitor and resolve that
was youth take to the
later removed andstreets
taken to Mayor Vincent Gray also spoke. after appearing on “American
numbers of teens prosecuted disputes among these gangs,” when thereCounty
the Cook are family
Medical issues The service honored officers from Idol,” and then won an
for gang-related crimes and said Moten. “This could be a that need to office.
Examiner’s be corrected or D.C., Maryland and Virginia who have Academy Award for her role in
groups beg for funding. But horrific summer with cuts in addressed,”
Hudson and saidother
Patterson.
family died on duty. the movie Dreamgirls – has
a mother of four brought services for our youth.” “If we would
members arrivedinvest in Medical
at the D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier told stayed out of the public eye.
home the problem when she U.S. Attorney Ron building
Examiner’s relationships with
office mid-after- The Chicago Tribune report-
noon to identify thewant
body.to Juliancrowd
the King,that it requires
Jennnifer a special nephew.
Hudson’s will
ed that a parade of cars moved
painted a vivid picture of Machen Jr. told the gathering organizations that and determination to pursue a career as
gang activity at her children’s that 65 youth were prosecuted Given
heal thethe choicethen
family between
we can look- slowly past her family’s home
aApolice officer.
spokesman forShe
the said
officeit’s important
the murders but is being held in
ing directly at the body or Monday morning, past the
school and discussed the last year as adults involved raise the child.” to honor and comfort families of
told the newspaper that Hudson jail for parole violation after
viewing it on a wall-mounted news vans, reporters and curi-
lengths she took to save their in gang activities. Some Del McFadden, 38, officers who have been killed.
AP Photo/Tampaous onlookers.
Tribune, Peter Masa
lives. received as much as 150 years
Courtesy Photos youth outreach coordinator
“EveryHudson
Jennifer day afterand
school, imprisonment.
her mom, “These youth
Darnell Donerson who “She held hands with her family. It was obviously a very emotional moment.”
for the Columbia Heights Members of the Honor Guard watch the proceedings May 4, 2011, during a tribute for
Neighbors stood
quietly and
Iwas
rushkilled, as well
to transport fourasloads
her brother, Jason.
are just as intelligent as some – Shaw Family Support fallen police officers in Tampa, Fla. Tampa police honored the 31 officers reflected who have onlost
the
of students from Coolidge of the CEO’s for Fortune 500 Collaborative,
video screen, the agreed
family with
chose their lives
“remained in the
strong forline
her of duty during
fami- the department’s
being convicted of attemptedhistory.
violence.
Senior
the bodyHigh School
of her to their
7-year-old companies.
plate X584859 Butwas
theyfound
madeon Patterson
the latter. According to ifthe
and said that city ly” and was clearly its leader. murder and vehicular hijack- In front of the Hudson’s
homes to keep them from
nephew Monday, just hours the wrong decisions.
Chicago’s West Side afterWe need officials are serious
Tribune, Hudson said, “Yes, about which includes
“She held handsthe
withfamily, behavior,”
her fami- ing. McFadden
Cook County said.
records these roundtable
show home, men in heavy hearings
jackets
being jumped by a gang
after his body was found in a that to give
police our youth
received a 7the support
a.m. call stopping
that’s him.”youth violence, it employment opportunities,
ly,” the spokesman said. “It thatDel. Eleanorguilty
he pleaded Holmes
to both about
and youthsweatshirts
hooded and the plight
came to
positions itself in front of the systems early on to stay out must invest in preventive was obviously
mental a very emotional
health issues, and the charges in 1999. Hewho
Norton (D-D.C.), was also of Black
kiss males
the twin in D.C.
white I bar-
crosses

ACORN Fights Back

measures. “Prevention is just moment.”
reasons why our youth drop convicted
convened in the1998 for posses-
summit, said heard
ing theyour
namesheart wrenchingand
of Donerson
as important as intervention. The boy – the son of Julia
out of school which leads to
sion of a stolen motor vehicle.
she will find funds to help. testimonies. Now it’s time for
Jason.
Hudson, Jennifer’s sister – had He was released from prison in
Let’s look at the total picture forming gangs and violent “Nothing has moved me like me“Everybody
to act.” is sick of going
been missing since Friday, 2006 after serving seven years
Leader Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’
through stuff like this,” Artisha
when a relative found Julian’s for the attempted murder and West, a former resident of the
grandmother, Darnell car hijacking charges. area told the Tribune. “We all
By Alan King and Dallas Cowboys players No wonder Obama’s campaign is Donerson, 57, and his uncle, The boy remained missing have to stick together. All these
AFRO Staff Writer Tony Romo 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
among the names submitted to group, saying, “Barack Obama in his grandmother’s home in which police and volunteers for what?”
Presidential candidate John election officials. Never Organized with ACORN.” the 7000 block of South Yale
McCain’s attack on ACORN – Hurd said those workers, who But Obama’s ties to ACORN run Avenue.
Associated Community were doing those things without long and deep. He taught classes An Amber Alert – a desig-
Organization for Reform Now – ACORN’s knowledge or permis- for ACORN. They even endorsed nation for high-risk missing
confirms the success of the
organization, the head of the
sion, were fired.
“The evidence that has sur-
Succeeding in business
him for President.
But now ACORN is in trouble.
children – was issued Friday
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
is all about who you know.
Reporter: There are at least
11 investigations across the
missing after the murders.
Police arrested William
didn’tPhoto
Starting with your bank.
we’ve done and success we’ve do, notby to
Valencia Mohammed
stuff ballot country involving thousands of Balfour, the missing boy’s step-
Peaceoholics founder
had,” Maude Hurd, president of Ron Moten, left, listens as Darice
boxes.” ACORN, she said, is the potentially fraudulent ACORN father and estranged husband
Stevens,
ACORN, said a mother of four, talksvictim
in an interview aboutofthe alleged
fraud, not the gang
perpetra- forms. of Julia, at his girlfriend’s
fights
with thethat
AFRO.occur daily at Coolidge tor ofSHS.
it. Announcer: Massive voter Southside apartment several
“When this attack started, we Hurd said the only things fraud. And the Obama campaign hours after the murders.
school
had justand bus stops,”
announced that wesaidhad of trouble,”
bogus are thesaid Machen.
charges them- paid more than $800,000 to an Balfour’s mother, Michele, has
Darice Stevens, 34, mother
registered 1.3 million new vot- of selves. And factcheck.42,
Brian McEwen, org ACORN front for get out the vote told reporters that her son had
four. “Their
ers,” she said.safety
“That’sshouldn’t
just to say founder
agrees. of Crossing the efforts. nothing to do with the slayings.
be
thatmy responsibility
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scared Lines, a community-based
It concluded, “Neither Pressuring banks to issue risky Balfour remains a suspect in Jason Hudson
Police
because ofofficials
ACORN’sindicatesuccess.” organization
ACORN nor its that targets have
employees loans. Nationwide voter fraud.
there are 90who
McCain, active crews in
is running for youth involved
been found guiltyinof,violence
or even Barack Obama. Bad judgment.
the city. Stevens
president describedtick-
on the Republican a and theirwith,
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fraudulent Blind ambition. Too risky for
dilemma
et, lashed many studentsinface
out at ACORN the Moten.
votes.” “This summer will America.
at schools
final debateacross
againstthe District.
Barack The problem
be chaotic becausecamethousands
about pri-
Obama, contending the
“Police officers are stationed group “is marily because of
of young people will have the way Since McCain’s comments, SQUARE HIGH
on school
the verge of maybe ACORN operates. Rather than
perpetrat- nothing ACORN’s 87 offices have been
on property while to do but hang on the
ing one of the greatest frauds in rely on volunteers, it pays peo- bombarded with threats and
the gang members in school corner. Many have become
voter history in this country, ple, many of them poor or unem- racist mail.
uniforms prey onthe
maybe destroying innocent
fabric of aggravated
ployed, to sign withupnewnew rich,
voters. The day after the presidential
people and
democracy.” instigate fights White residents moving
The idea was to help both those debate, vandals broke into the
withFactcheck.org,
other neighborhood
a non-partisan into beingthe neighborhoods
registered and thoseand doing organization’s Boston and Seattle
crews in surrounding
Web site, found those claims toareas,” thousands
the registration. going to the
of jobs offices and stole computers.
said Stevens.
be “exaggerated,” with “no evi- Latinos,” McEwen “We
Maud explained, said.have
“The a After a Cleveland representative BREAD NOT ON THE LIST
RonofMoten,
dence any such41, cofounder youth
democracy- are angry,
zero tolerance frustrated,
policy for deliber- appeared on TV, an e-mail was
of Peaceoholics
destroying fraud.”and getting high and
ate falsification of breaking
registration.” sent to the local office saying she
moderator for thethesummit,
Hurd believes McCain intoMost
businesses. Give neglect
news account them to “is going to have her life ended.”
said there
charges haspolitically
were been a motivat- apoint chance for employment
out that ACORN is A worker in Providence, R.I.,
significant
ed. increase in gang opportunities
required by lawortototurn create
in alltheir
reg- received a threatening call say- LEFT RIGHT
violence since
She said, last year.
“Because it’s Since
low- own businesses.”
istration forms. And they also fail ing, “We know you get off work
and moderate-income
January, there have been people,70 to note that it was
Longtime the organiza-
parental at 9” and uttered racial epithets.
and people of color, I
conflicts between rival gangs believe the involvement advocate that
tion, in many instances, Jenisefirst A caller to one office left a
McCain campaign thinks those brought the phony registrations message on the answering
which is a drastic increase Patterson, 59, director of
voters are going to vote to the attention of authorities. machine, saying: “Hi, I was just
from the 41 incidents that Parent
TheWatch
McCainInc.,camp said gangs
apparently calling to let you know that
Democratic, which is not neces-
sarily true.” isn’t interested in those fine Barack Obama needs to get
ACORN is no stranger to points, preferring to air mislead- hung. He’s a (expletive deleted)
controversy. ing ads that seek to link Obama nigger, and he’s a piece of
For 38 years, the non-partisan to ACORN, thereby undercutting (expletive deleted). You guys are
organization has fought for social his political support. fraudulent, and you need to go to
and economic justice for low- McCain: I’m John McCain hell. All the niggers on oak trees.
and moderate-income and I approve this message. They’re gonna get all hung hon-
1 BANANA
Americans. With 400,000 mem- Announcer: Who is Barack eys, they’re going to get assassi-
ber families organized into more Obama? A man with “a political nated, they’re gonna get killed.”
than 1,200 neighborhood chap- baptism performed at warp Another message said, “You
ters in 110 cities nationwide, speed.” Vast ambition. After col- liberal idiots. Dumb (expletive
ACORN has over the years seen lege, he moved to Chicago. deleted). Welfare bums. You
its share of criticism while advo- Became a community organizer. guys just (expletive deleted)
cating for affordable housing, There, Obama met Madeleine come to our country, consume
living wages, healthcare for the Talbot, part of the Chicago every natural resource there is, Ranked “Highest in Customer Satisfaction
R
underserved— and while organ- branch of ACORN. He was so and make a lot of babies. That’s with Small Business Banking”
w
izing voter registration drives. impressive that he was asked to all you guys do. And then suck
But none has been as withering train the ACORN staff. up the welfare and expect every-
and baseless as this one. What did ACORN in Chicago one else to pay for your hospital
With the presidential election engage in? Bullying banks. bills for your kids. I jus’ say let
less than two weeks away, Intimidation tactics. Disruption your kids die. That’s the best Before age five, every room is a classroom.
ACORN’s detractors allege the of business. ACORN forced Business
move. Just Classdie.
let your children Banking. At SunTrust, ourFun Business Class Banking are everywhere. Simple things like
learning opportunities
organization has engaged in mas- banks to issue risky home loans. Forget about paying for hospital
team delivers ideas and solutions to help businesses counting andovercome
identifying daily shapes activate a child’s learning ability,
sive voter registration fraud after The same types of loans that bills for them. I’m not gonna do and help them enter school more prepared. That’s why PNC
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Study Discloses 62 Percent Drop in Home Mortgages to

Blacks and Latinos
By Kenneth J. Cooper
Special to the AFRO
(America’s Wire) — Since the housing market collapsed,
mortgage lending to African Americans and Hispanics has
plunged precipitously – by more than 60 percent, according to a
new study of loan information that banks submit to the federal
government.
Together, African Americans and Hispanics were able to
borrow 62 percent less to buy or refinance homes in 2009 than
in 2004, before the market crashed, the computerized analysis
finds. With lenders imposing tighter credit standards, mortgage
dollars going to non-Hispanic White borrowers also declined,
though by considerably less—17 percent. Asians fared best,
obtaining nearly an equal amount in mortgages.
The study, released last month, was conducted by
Maurice Jourdain-Earl, founder and managing director of
ComplianceTech in Arlington, Va., which advises financial
institutions on fair lending practices. The study also found
wide racial-ethnic disparities in how often financial institutions
approved mortgage applications and made mortgage loans
during the six-year period.
Whites were about twice as likely as African Americans
and Hispanics to be approved for prime mortgages with the
lowest interest rates, while members of the two largest minority
groups were two to four times more likely to receive subprime
loans, which have higher rates. By contrast, the disparities were
much narrower for loans insured by the government’s Federal
Housing Administration, which has attracted a growing number
of borrowers during the credit crunch.
The study concluded that a “dual mortgage market” has
emerged, with White and Asian borrowers having better
access to lower-cost mortgages than African Americans
and Hispanics, who on average pay more to own or
refinance a home – if they can obtain a mortgage.
“The higher cost for mortgage credit translates into less
money for basic necessities,” Jourdain-Earl writes. “The
higher cost for mortgage credit also translates into African
Americans and Latinos having lower homeownership rates
and lower opportunities to build wealth, lower educational
achievement and higher unemployment.”
Reasons for the lending disparities are not directly
reflected in the national data, which do not include credit
scores of borrowers or ratios of loan amounts to values
of homes. Nor does the Federal Reserve Bank collect
information on foreclosures by race and ethnicity.
Jourdain-Earl blames a cycle of higher cost loans being
made to minorities for leading to higher levels of defaults and
foreclosures, ultimately causing “greater disparities in access
to credit.” He raises the possibility of an unknown degree of
discrimination, noting an “erroneous notion” that minorities
caused the housing market’s collapse, despite the relatively low
amount in mortgages they received, compared with those for
White borrowers.
The Mortgage Bankers Association declined to comment
on the report because, spokeswoman Melissa Key says in an
e-mail, “The author does not control for any of the factors that
could lead to rate or approval differences across borrowers.”
Barry Zigas, director of housing policy for the Consumer
Federation of American, agrees with Jourdain-Earl that a dual
market exists. Zigas says it is unclear whether the causes
have to do with lower credit scores of African Americans and
“The higher cost for mortgage credit also translates into
African Americans and Latinos having lower homeownership
rates and lower opportunities to build wealth, lower educational
achievement and higher unemployment.”
Latinos, private investors being reluctant to buy mortgages
made in minority communities or the disproportionate
subprime loans representing an “unsustainable volume” of
borrowing. “Since the meltdown, there is no question that
credit has constricted across the board,” Zigas says. “It’s even
more difficult for minorities and low-income people.”
The report, entitled “The Foreclosure Crisis and Racial
Disparities in Access to Mortgage Credit 2004-2009,”
illustrates disparities by race and ethnicity. The study uses
data banks submitted to the Federal Reserve under the Home
Mortgage Disclosure Act and analyzes racial-ethnic patterns in
prime, subprime and FHA loans, which together constitute the
vast majority of the market.
Mortgages made to Hispanics have decreased the most, by
63 percent, to $78 million in 2009 from $214 million in 2004.
Lending to African Americans has dropped to $49 million from
$122 million, or 60 percent.
Whites have been affected much less and Asians barely.
New mortgages to White borrowers declined to $1.1 billion
from $1.3 billion, or 17 percent. Lending to Asians stayed
almost the same at about $128 million, with the difference
being equivalent to one modest mortgage.
“Analyzing the issue of access to mortgage credit by race
is significant because of the central role homeownership
plays in building personal wealth,” Rep. Maxine Waters
(Calif.), ranking Democrat on the House subcommittee on
capital markets and government sponsored enterprises, says
of the report in an e-mail. “As a 2010 study from Brandeis
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University illustrates, for example, the wealth gap between
African-Americans and whites is only growing larger, having
quadrupled over the course of the last 23 years.”
The lending field was more level for mortgage loans backed
by the Federal Housing Administration, which spokesman Brian
Sullivan says has seen its share of the mortgage market jump
from 3 percent to 30 percent since 2006. Compared with those
for Whites, loan approval rates were 19 percent lower for African
Americans, 13 percent for Hispanics and 9 percent for Asians.
On the other hand, the report found that the rapid growth has
changed the racial composition of FHA-backed borrowers, with
the higher percentages going to Whites and Asians, and lower
percentages to African Americans and Hispanics. Jourdain-Earl
questions whether FHA was acting in accord with its affordable
housing goals.
Sullivan says the shifting racial balance of FHA borrowers
merely reflected that Whites predominate in the mortgage
market and have turned to the agency in increasing numbers.
“That’s not because of any
application of unfair lending
practices, he says. “It was
a consequence of what was
happening in the marketplace.”
Sullivan notes, though,
that the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban
Development is investigating
22 lenders to determine whether their imposition of
higher credit standards than FHA’s minimums has had a
discriminatory impact on African-Americans and Hispanics.
Chris Herbert, research director of the Joint Center for
Housing Studies at Harvard University, says the report has
limitations in explaining why minorities fare less well in the
housing market, a trend he acknowledges. For instance, he says
focusing only on first mortgages and comparing borrowers
in the same income levels would provide a sharper picture of
home-buying trends in particular, since African Americans and
Hispanics, on average, earn less than Whites.
Academics at Harvard’s housing center and elsewhere
are examining whether current credit standards are unduly
restrictive and not justified by the economic situation. In
response to criticism from Herbert and the Mortgage Bankers
Association, Jourdain-Earl says his focus was the flow of credit
to different racial-ethnic groups, not the reasons behind the
disparities. “I wasn’t trying to ascertain the why but to shine
a bright light on the outcome and the effects on wealth and
homeownership rates,” he says.
In the study, Jourdain-Earl urges the FHA to study “the
potential of adverse effects” from its credit standards and
proposed that federal laws should require lenders to report
on foreclosures, defaults, short sales and loan modifications,
including the race and other demographics of those borrowers.
He also calls for implementing financial reform legislation
enacted last year “in a way that promotes sustainable diverse
lending.”

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range, making abortion care
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not have a physical location
to interact with clients,
conferring with them by
phone, only. Last year, 1,766
girls and women called
DCAF’s hotline – a number
that has doubled since the
previous fiscal year, Vlach
said. Of those who called in
2010, 426 received grants to
help pay for abortions. Many
of those recipients are D.C.
residents between the ages of
18 and 30, who have at least
one child.
Currently, there are
228,019 individuals in
the D.C. area who receive
medical assistance and of
those, 195,623 are Medicaid
recipients, according to
Reggie Sanders, spokesman
for the Department of Human
Services. There is no gender
breakdown of Medicaid
recipients.
Vlach said the choice of a
getting Medicaid instead of
private insurance should not
decrease a person’s access to
health care coverage. “Just
because someone gets their
health coverage through
Medicaid instead of a private
insurance plan doesn’t mean
she should be denied access to
care or have fewer health care
options,” she said.
But supporters of the
GOP-backed No Taxpayer
Funding for Abortion Act,
such as Deirde McQuade,
assistant director of policy
and communications at
the Secretariat of Pro-Life
Activities of the United
States Conference of Catholic
Bishops (USCCB), said the
vast majority of Americans
want to reduce abortions and
the legislation will protect
taxpayers, who unequivocally
finance those under Medicaid.
“The vast majority of
Americans want to reduce
abortions,” McQuade said.
“[USCCB is] strongly in
favor of this funding ban ...
it protects U.S. taxpayers
for subsidizing abortions
and protects health care
providers.”
McQuade said that passing
the bill will mean “turning it
into a law where it doesn’t
have to be revisited every
year.”
Even though the
legislation may alleviate
the headache of politicians
constantly voting on the Hyde
Amendment, which must be
renewed every year and has
less restrictions on abortions
than H.R. 3, Ilir Zherka, the
executive director of non-
partisan organization D.C.
Vote, said that the bill strips
the city’s autonomy. The bill
prohibits the District from
using locally-raised taxpayer
dollars for any abortion
services. Zherka said that
should be the decision of D.C.
residents.
“For [D.C. Vote] it’s not a
question about abortion, we’re
focused on who decides how
D.C. money is spent,” he said.
“For us, the question is about
local control.”
The organization held
a protest May 4 in Upper
Senate Park in outcry against
the sweeping passage of
H.R. 3 in the House. Joined
by local lawmakers and
organizations such as the
Greater Washington Urban
League and the DC League
of Women Voters, D.C. Vote
members were arrested,
including Abigail Levine, the
organization’s program and
development manager.
“I was moved to get
arrested at last week’s rally
because I saw that D.C.
women were being used by a
bargaining chip by women,”
she said. “By getting arrested,
I wanted to send a message to
the president and Congress.”
The bill now faces
the Democrat-controlled
Senate, but, according to a
White House statement, the
president is moving towards
vetoing the bill.
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gifilmfestival.com. dance movements inspired
by the cultures of the Gullah, May 13
May 12 Geechee, Brazil and Sierra Step it Up 2011
Dance Workshop Leone. The workshop will Dance Place, 3225
May 12-15 N.W. D.C. Various times. the heroic stories of the
The Smithsonian be led by Carol Foster, the Eighth St., N.E. D.C. 8 p.m.
GI Film Festival View films from various American Armed Forces
Anacostia Community executive artistic director Witness this step dance
Carnegie Institution of international and domestic and the worldwide struggle
Museum, 1901 Fort Place, and founder of the DC competition showcasing the
Washington, 1530 P St., filmmakers that honor for American liberty. For
S.E. D.C. 10:30 a.m. Youth Ensemble. For more best talent in D.C. $5-$12.
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Ibiza Nightclub, 1222
First St., N.E. D.C. 9
P.m. Join in the official
celebration of Howard
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Rapper Rick Ross will join
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the upcoming release of
Maybach Music Group’s
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Teen Talent Show

Auditions
East County Community
Center, 3310 Gateshead
Manor Way, Silver Spring,
Md. 3-5 p.m. Local teens
are invited to an audition
for a teen talent show,
sponsored by The Teen
Escape Club. The winner of
the competition will receive
an opportunity to perform on
Nu Globe Entertainment’s
Fresh TV station on Channel
21 in Montgomery County.
For more information and to
sign up for the audition: 240-
777-4984.

May 14
Family Secrets: What’s In
Your Pocket?
The Smithsonian
Anacostia Community
Museum, 1901 Fort Place,
S.E. D.C. 10:30 a.m.-12:30
p.m. Family historian Maria
Goodwin will help you
explore those special bits
and pieces you carry around
every day to discover your
personal history. For more
information: 202-633-4820.

Calvary Baptist Church

Community Cookout
Calvary Baptist Church,
8330 Crain Highway, Upper
Marlboro, Md. 1-4 p.m.
Calvary Baptist will host a
free community cookout for
you to enjoy food, games,
friends and fun. For more
information: calvarybaptist.
us.

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Collaboration of Hip Hop &
Urban Runway
Annabelle Ferguson
Auditorium, 5200 Silver
Hill Road, Suitland, Md.
5:30 p.m. Local group
JaiShaun Urban Runway
Models will present this
collaboration of hip hop and
urban fashion runway. The
event is dedicated to the
awareness and prevention of
teen suicide. $20-$35. For
more information: www.
werockthedistrict.com.

May 15
Africa on My Mind
Educational Series: A
Geography & Culture
Lesson
The Capoeira Studio, 733
Euclid St., N.W. D.C. 4-8
p.m. Author and researcher
Runoko Rashidi will present
this series focusing on the
African presence globally and
the African foundations of
world civilizations. $5-$10.
For more information: 202-
299-8694.

May 18
U Street Live: The Cross
Rhodes Reunion
U Street Music Hall,
1115A U St., N.W.D.C.
8 p.m. Artists Raheem
DeVaughn, W. Ellington
Felton and Incwell will
reunite to form their former
group Cross Roads. $20-
$25. For more information:
crossrhodes.eventbrite.com.

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 May 14, 2011 - May 20, 2011, The Afro-American A7

Hundreds Gather at Howard University Hospital

to Applaud Drop in D.C. Infant Mortality
Special to the AFRO baby’s heartbeat. And I’m keeping a pregnancy journal “Although we have assisted
about how I feel. I’m trying to have a many District women with
WASHINGTON – healthy baby.” our annual baby shower event,
Natasha Smith is exactly As part of that process, and have made strong strides
the kind of woman the Smith’s grandmother has towards reducing our city’s
District of Columbia agreed to no longer smoke in infant mortality rate, there is
Department of Health’s the house. still much more work that
Healthy Start Program Because of its work needs to be done to ensure
was designed for when with women like Smith, the that every District mother
it was established 20 Healthy Start Program has is afforded the tools and
years ago. Smith is 19, seen a more opportunity to give birth
A participant of the
single, living with her April Tucker, mother of Grammy- than 50 percent Natasha Smith, to a baby who is safe and
19, is single and Healthy Start baby
grandmother in the nominated artist Trey Songz, drop in the healthy.”
pregnant with her shower event.
Trinidad neighborhood greets expectant mothers at the city’s infant DOH officials and
of Washington and six huge baby shower at Howard mortality first child. more than
months pregnant with her University hospital after talking to rate since its 200 women celebrated the program and
first child. the women about what it takes to inception. When it began its success during the eight annual baby
Her initial reaction to have a healthy baby. in 1991, the rate stood at shower for at-risk expectant mothers at
her pregnancy was typical 22 deaths per every 1,000 Howard University Hospital last week
for an unwed teen. “I was scared and nervous,” said Smith, children. That figure is less with information sessions and lunch.
who lost her mother to breast cancer in April. “I didn’t know than 11 now. The participants heard from April
what to do. I haven’t even finished high school.” “It’s success stories like Tucker, mother of Grammy-nominated
To help her deliver a healthy baby, the program, Natasha’s that reminds me R&B artist Trey Songz, on how she raised
established when the city’s infant mortality rate was a national of just how important the him as an unwed teen. Also among the
embarrassment, began providing counseling and medical help. work we do for young speakers were Dr. Kerry Lewis, chair
“I’ve learned a lot, especially about second-hand smoke,” mother’s in the District of the Howard University Hospital
said Smith, who turns 20 May 12. “I am taking my vitamins. is,” said DOH Senior Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
I got into WIC (Women, Infants and Children). Deputy Director Dr. and Sheila Stewart of Radio One, who
“A nurse comes to the house every month to check the LaQuandra Nesbitt. Photos by Robert Roberts/ AFRO emceed.

Transportation Woes “Agencies have been warning the public of

Continued from A1
the protocols we have put
into place that have proven
effective in responding
to emergency situations.”
McJunkin added that the FBI
has reached out to those in the
intelligence community and
law enforcement to make sure
plans are synchronized and up
to date.
Mayor Vincent Gray and
Police Chief Cathy reiterated
in a monthly online chat
with The Washington Post
that no “specific threats”
against the District were
received. Still, because the
city is significant worldwide,
extra security is always
needed, Chief Lanier said.
“Because we operate
in undoubtedly the most
important city in the world,
the Metropolitan Police
Department maintains a
potential vengeful acts from bin Laden’s who decide to travel abroad to limit their travel outside of
or who reside abroad their homes…,” the Bureau
followers.” to be conscious of their of Consular Affairs said in a
surroundings as the capture of statement. “U.S. government
heightened state of alert,” used by the Metropolitan bin Laden and other members facilities worldwide remain
Lanier said in an e-mail. Police Department. However, of his compound may fuel at a heightened state of
Lanier would not go many of those tactics are anti-American hostility. alert. These facilities
into detail about how much very visible to the public and “Given the uncertainty may temporarily close or
security was added and said designed to be so.” and volatility of the current periodically suspend public
the following: “Clearly, it A travel alert was issued situation, U.S. citizens in services to assess their
would not be prudent to by the State Department, areas where recent events security posture.”
talk about deployments and effective until Aug. 1, 2011, could cause anti-American No official terror alert has
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Donald Trump Obliviously Continues to Irritate

“The” Blacks and Others
By AFRO Staff drive the pace car in the Indy 500, presumably thanks to the Black community and have a relationship with Trump and
pressure from the businessman’s critics including the more not call him out for his actions.”
The first week of May was a rough one for “The Donald.” than 18,000 Facebook users who joined the group “We Don’t In a lengthy opinion article for CNN’s website, news
Faced with plummeting poll numbers, an advocacy Want Donald Trump to Drive the Indy 500 Pace Car.” He has correspondent Roland Martin apologized to viewers for the
group’s campaign to persuade the Black cast of his reality been replaced by four-time Indy winner A.J. Foyt, several media’s “pathetic and morbidly obese” coverage of Trump.
show to censure him and CNN commentator Roland Martin’s news outlets have reported. “We have afforded him the kind of respect normally
assertions that he is a liar that “loves the sound of his own On May 5, Black political advocacy group ColorOfChange reserved for people who have truly made a major difference
voice,” real estate tycoon launched a Twitter-based in this world,” Martin wrote. “Instead, the builder of gaudy
Donald Trump, who once movement to convince lawyer buildings replete with the kind of extravagance that would
boasted of a great relationship and television personality make a Saudi oil titan blush, has demanded he be referred to as
with “the Blacks,” has seen Star Jones and rapper Lil Jon, Mr. Trump.”
his presidential ambitions two Black cast members on “What has been revealed is a man so obsessed with the
bruised. “Celebrity Apprentice,” to sound of his own voice that even when he is caught in a lie, he
His journey on a bumpy denounce Trump for his “race- pretends it is absolute truth,” Martin said.
public road started May 1, baiting” attacks against Obama. A national Quinnipiac University poll released May 4
when the final moments of the Trump generated found that 58 percent of those surveyed “would never vote”
last episode of his “Celebrity widespread media attention for Trump, while a Marist College survey reported that 75
Apprentice” reality show were recently for aligning with percent of New Yorkers polled don’t want him to run for
abruptly clipped, as President the “birther movement,” president. Those results crossed party lines, with 82 percent
Obama announced that Osama questioning if Obama was born of Democrats and 66 percent of Republicans hoping that Mr.
bin Laden had been killed. in the U.S. He also has raised Trump won’t pursue the nation’s top office.
Many East Coast viewers AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File questions about the president’s That came a day after the May 3 premier of a documentary
didn’t learn who had been qualifications to attend Harvard film titled, “You’ve Been Trumped” at Toronto’s Hot Docs
eliminated from the show In this Feb. 10, 2011 file photo, Donald Trump addresses University. filmfest. The movie details the impact of Trump’s $2 billion
until the following morning. the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) ColorOfChange Executive golf course development in Scotland which environmentalists
Then, the Indianapolis in Washington. Recent polls have shown him slipping Director Rashad Robinson told claim has adversely affected the area’s ecosystem, Politico
Motor Speedway announced from the top tier of potential Republican challengers to Reuters that Trump’s co-stars reported. One resident claims in the film “I haven’t had water
that Trump would no longer President Barack Obama next year. “can’t have a relationship with for a week.”

Mayor, Council Chair does not wish at this time to relied on stimulus funds to mayor has veto power,” added irresponsible to add any
Sibert explained,
Continued from A1 “Chairman Brown is discuss publicly the details of help fill the gap that are not Plotkin. tax increases at this time,”
necessary. “Spirited debate is opposed to increasing his proposals to counter the available this year. There is But some are not buying said Paul Craney, executive
the nature of the democratic the tax rate for families with tax rate increase,” said Sibert. an increase in reimbursement either proposal, saying director of the DC Republican
process. Chairman Brown incomes of $200,000. His Political analyst Mark to providers for Medicaid government waste needs to Committee.
has the highest respect for view is that this will impact Plotkin, of WTOP, said their services and the capital end. Craney said the
Mayor Gray and there are many families and small differences are insignificant. budget is underfunded. “D.C. has an annual government employs over
many aspects of this budget business owners negatively,” “This is not unusual and does “I believe Gray is doing budget of $10 billion for 20,000 people. “There are
where they have mutual Sibert continued. “It is not affect friendship. These the right thing. Brown, on the approximately 600,000 other jurisdictions, like
agreement,” said Karen important to note that the are separate branches of other hand, is pandering to the residents. We are spending Charlotte, N.C., with the
Sibert, Brown’s deputy chief mayor’s budget proposal government that have their public for political support. close to $17,000 per person of same amount of residents
of staff. “However, there will includes more than $90 own responsibilities. This Both claim to have six votes taxpayer money. Our Council with a city government of less
be times when their views million in other tax increases won’t be the only time we on the council to support their and mayor need to do find than 5,000 employees. Our
diverge, such as with the that the chairman is willing to will see the mayor and council budget idea. There might be ways to reduce spending if government should reduce in
proposal to cut services for support in order to close the disagree,” Plotkin said. lots of back and forth before they want to be economically size. That would really close
homeless families; green team deficit.” Last year, the government it’s all over. Don’t forget the responsible. It would be our budget.”
services in Wards 1, 5, 7, and While Gray laid his plans
8; and services for victims
of domestic violence – all of
on the table for everyone to
peruse, Brown would not
Shiloh were so outrageous and vulgar until we time.
had to hang up.” “This remark was only a few minutes of my speech yet it
which Chairman Brown is divulge his proposal—at Continued from A1
Shiloh also received faxes from a escalated because a television personality has decided to take
looking to restore.” least not yet. “The Chairman
group called [Defecating] on Obama it out of context and label my views as racist,” Smith said. “At
that depicted the president as an ape. The faxes labeled the best, the FOX coverage was the worst journalism I’ve ever
Get $4,000* church congregation as the “Obama Ass Sniffing Chimps of seen.”
Thinking About toward your Shiloh Baptist.” Some Shiloh members questioned why the church should be
One fax kept referring to Obama and the congregation as the the target of insults when the minister made the remarks outside
Buying a Home? home purchase
in Baltimore City “N” word and called for their deaths. of the church. Shiloh has a history of welcoming Republican
The matter has been turned over to Secret Service because and Democratic presidents to its services.
Attend the BUYING INTO BALTIMORE Homebuying Fair &
Neighborhoods Tour event for the Western City neighborhoods
the threats were directed at President Obama, and could be “If these individuals did call, they are prime examples
considered a hate crime. of what Pastor Smith said. However, they have no right to
Saturday, May 14, 2011, 8:30am - 2pm at Polytechnic High School
“The calls seemingly came from people who were opposed threaten our church. We have done nothing wrong. We were
to Obama’s policies and presidency, in general,” said Smith. Christians long before there was a FOX-TV and will remain in
“They questioned whether our church was really Christian and perpetuity,” said Sammie Ellis, longtime member at Shiloh.
Attend homebuying workshops
Tour Western City neighborhoods
View homes for sale claimed that I was racist.” Clint Morris, professor of journalism and graduate professor
Meet homebuying experts Pastor Smith gave a speech on Jan. 15, 2010, at Eastern of mass communications at Howard University, said that
University in Pennsylvania. In the sermon he said people with members of FOX Nation have targeted Obama since he became
Register Online Now the mentality of the Ku Klux Klan wear pin-striped suits and the Democratic nominee for president in 2008.
www.LiveBaltimore.com/bib might be talk show hosts on FOX-TV. This angered members “When talk show hosts do not make any efforts to dissuade
For only $10 per person* of the FOX Nation when it was brought to their attention by people from making negative racial comments or engage in
FOX host Sean Hannity, well known for his outspoken remarks wrongful acts, they are in fact promoting this behavior,” Morris
$5,000* against Obama. said. “Look at Donald Trump. He spent months going around
“There might not be Jim Crow anymore…[now he] wears the country questioning the birth certificate of President Obama
To turn a vacant home
into your dream home
blue pin stripes, goes to law school and carries fancy briefs. just to plant doubts in people’s minds.”
Now Jim Crow has become James Crow, Esq. He doesn’t Morris said new technology allows people to disguise
have to wear the white robe anymore because he can wear the themselves. “The Internet and electronic communications allow
protective cover of talk radio or get a regular new program on individuals with this kind of hatred to hide themselves and
* To be considered for the $4,000/$5,000 homebuying awards, you must attend this event and have a valid FOX,” said Smith at the university. gives them opportunities to spew their racial bigotry to a wider
homeownership counseling certificate. Home sales contracts signed prior to event date are not eligible for award
funds. Only 50 awards are available to qualifying participants who buy in the designated geographic area. West/
Hannity hosted several heated shows following the church audience,” Morris said.
East boundary is defined by the following streets: From the north city/county line proceed south on Charles visit, which seemingly led to the backlash against the Shiloh According to Hannity’s website, FOX Nation is for those
Street to west on 29th Street to south on Howard Street to west on Camden Street to south on Russell Street.
See website for full eligibility requirements and event details, or call 410.637.3750. minister. opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our
Online pre-registration by May 10, 2011 is required to guarantee event participation. A per person fee of $10
applies; children under 10 are free. No refunds will be given. Live Baltimore reserves the right to limit on-site
Several calls and e-mails were sent to FOX-TV seeking lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom
registration and/or increase on-site registration participation fees. their response. However, it did not respond by AFRO press of thought, expression, and worship.

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playing sports and par ticip
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making the right choices for my future.
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“Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin” Wh ile I did not
ter- school activities. dless follower with-
my friends, I was not a min
In this article, Cassandra says that leader or “boss” of all of
written by Cassandra C. Stevenson. In her out an opinion. I had a
mind of my own and the cou rage to voice my
there were times
essay, she explains how important it is to stay because of her self-confidence, hard work opu lar. Of cou rse,
y were unp
opinions, even when the t dec isio n. And to be honest, I
ing the righ
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takes along the way . Fort una tely, I had two
definitely made a few mis vided guidance which help
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When it was “uncoo to l” get good grades
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finished high school. This is the life story Reading about Cassandra’s success knew doing well in school
might say. My real friends wha t I valu ed. I was not ashamed
for who I was and
of every teenager. We’re faced with nothing encourages me that success is possible for me and they accepted me
Cassandra C.
self -con fide nce to stand up and
rent because I had the
or embarrassed to be diffe
but choices, and in the end, it’s up to us to me by making the right choices; it inspires defend the things that wer
e important to me.
decide what’s right and what’s wrong. For me to work so much harder in everything
Stevenson
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qualities, values, and the con fide nce to be yourself.
and hav e
special. The key is to recognize them and key is to recognize them
feel comfortable, they should always seek
guidance so that they can make sure they’re have the confidence to be yourself.” This
staying on the best path for their future. quote from Cassandra will always stay with know there are many opportunities out there my tomorrow. I have learned to/Bla always try
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Miss Cotillion 2010 Lauren
Simmons and the newly
crowned Miss Cotillion 2011,
Stranjae’ Ivory-Boynes
Ade’leaka Gore, former second vice president,
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority; Dr. Barbara Shaw,
chairwoman, NCNW and Michelle Jones, chapter
president
Debutantes perform the minuet with their escorts.
Demaris Thompson, co-chairwoman; Hazel Cameron,
chairwoman, Ivy Foundation of NOVA; Michelle Jones,
chapter president and Carolyn Rowe, co-chairwoman
Fathers of the 2011 debutantes
Dr. Charles W. Simmons, Dr. Charlestine R. Fairley, Carl Snowden,
Dr. Bernice A. King and Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler
Photos by Rob Roberts
May 14, 2011 - May 20, 2011, The Afro-American B1
By Edgar Brookins
AFRO Staff The 2011 debutantes: Kiera Willis (first row, left) Ciara Roberts, Lyndzey Elliott, Tia Thompson,
Under the leadership of Hazel M. Cameron, chairwoman of Reani Lewis, Jocelyn Collins, Tierra Arnold, Stranjae’ Ivory-Boynes, Imani Bigsby, Lauren
the Ivy Foundation of NOVA’s Board of Directors; Michelle Jones, Porter, Leah Bankett and Ashley Brewton
president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority’s Zeta Chi Omega chapter
and planning committee co-chairwomen Demaris Thompson and
Carolyn Rowe, 12 young ladies made their society debut at the
Hilton Crystal City Hotel in Alexandria, Va.
This was the 54th annual cotillion, which concluded more than
five months of cultural and educational activities designed to Lyndzey Elliott, second attendant and
enrich the lives of the debutantes. In addition to the cultural Ashley Brewton, Miss Congeniality.
events, the young ladies participated in workshops and and Jones, hundreds of family The official charge to the
seminars on budgeting, interviewing skills, career choices, members, friends and supporters debutantes was given by Dr. Barbara
college life and health/fitness awareness. witnessed the crowning of Stranjae’ Shaw, chairwoman, National Council
After welcoming remarks and greetings by Cameron Ivory-Boynes as Miss Cotillion of Negro Women (NCNW). Linda
2011; Tierra Arnold, first attendant; J. Washington was the mistress Miss Cotillion 2011 with family
of ceremonies. After the formal and friends
program, the evening concluded with
dinner and dancing.
Miss Cotillion 2011 and her
court: Second attendant Lyndzey
Elliott, Miss Congeniality Ashley
Brewton, Miss Cotillion 2011
Stranjae’ Ivory-Boynes and first
attendant Tierra Arnold
Zeta Chi Omega Chapter members
Fathers and daughters perform the waltz.
Mistress of
Lauren Simmons,
ceremonies Linda
Miss Cotillion 2010
Michelle M. Jones, J. Washington,
and Michelle Jones,
chapter president, member, Zeta Chi
president, Zeta Chi
gives greetings and Omega Chapter
Omega Chapter
welcome remarks.
Photos by Rob Roberts
Mothers of the 2011 debutantes
The escorts. Isaiah Floyd (first row, left), Jamal Payne,
Moms and dads perform the waltz. Angelo Carter, Justin Brooks, Dwayne Holloway; 2nd row
- Jacob Collins, Kimari Moore, Aaron Williams, Christopher
Bradley, Michael Tesfaal and Khalil
H undreds gathered at Sojourner-
Douglass College’s Annapolis
campus to honor the life and legacy of
Attendees gather around
civil rights activist Coretta Scott King
the Coretta Scott King
with the official opening of a memorial
Memorial Garden
garden.
Although rain threatened to damper
the festive occasion, hundreds lined
a multipurpose room for a program
that included remarks from Bernice
A. King, daughter Scott King and late
civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.;
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Event organizer Carl O.
Gansler and Imam Talib Shareef. Also Snowden, civil rights director
in attendance was a delegation from for Maryland’s attorney
general’s office, and Bernice
Ghana. A. King, daughter of Martin
Scott King died Dr. Charles W. Simmons, Luther King Jr. and Coretta
in 2006 at age 84. president Sojourner- Scott King and former
Douglass College Southern Christian Leadership
Conference president
Imam Talib
Shareef of Masjid
Muhammad gives
the invocation.
Congressman Chris Dr. Charlestine
Van Hollen, D-Md. R. Fairley, dean The Rev. Ruby
of Sojourner- Moone, president,
Douglass College’s Maryland SCLC
Annapolis campus,
gives the statement
of occasion.
Despite the threat of rain, a large crowd Evelyn C. Mason and her daughter, The Annapolis Drum
attended the ceremony. Jessica C. Henderson, sing “Oh, How and Bugle Corps
I Love Jesus.”
B2 The Afro-American, May 14, 2011 - May 20, 2011

Faith Pulse
President Obama Names Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook Ambassador-at-Large
for International Religious Freedom
Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook, who was confirmed by the freedom is the birthright of to Congress, a report that examines the state of religious
U.S. Senate on April 14 as Ambassador-at-Large for all people everywhere; a freedoms in 198 countries throughout the globe.
International Religious Freedom at the Department of foundation of civil society, A noted leader in the religious community, Johnson
State’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will be sworn- a key to international Cook is adept at developing inter-faith synergies. Founder
in May 11.  security, and it must always and president of Wisdom Worldwide Center, and a former
The first woman and person of African-American be a pillar of U.S. foreign advisor on President Bill Clinton’s Domestic Policy
descent to hold this position, Johnson Cook was appointed policy.” Council, Johnson Cook is the first female and African
by President Barack Obama, and will serve as principal Johnson Cook plans to American to serve as chaplain to the New York Police
advisor on religious issues globally to him and Secretary of embrace the mandate of Department, a position she has held since 1990, and has
State Hillary Rodham Clinton. She will be supported by the the International Religious served as the senior pastor of Bronx Christian Fellowship
office of International Religious Freedom in the Bureau of Freedom Act, while Baptist Church in New York City since 1996.
Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. aggressively promoting Johnson Cook also served as the senior pastor to The
Upon her confirmation, Johnson Cook said, “I am deeply the growth of the Office Mariners Temple Baptist Church from 1983 to 1986. A
honored by the trust that President Obama and Secretary of International Religious graduate of Harvard University, Dr. Johnson Cook also
Clinton have placed in me to serve our nation in advancing
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Freedom.  Plans also holds a bachelor’s from Emerson College, a master’s from
Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook
the right to freedom of religion abroad. I am similarly call for Johnson Cook to The Columbia University Teachers College, a master’s of
persuaded in my mind, heart, and soul that religious provide oversight of the Annual Religious Freedom Report divinity from Union Theological Seminary and a doctorate
of ministry from The United Theological Seminary.

Obituaries
Louis M. Eggleston Jr., 61
Retired Airman
Louis Mason Eggleston Jr. suddenly
departed his earthly home on April 19.
He was born Sept. 18 1949, in Newburgh,
N.Y. He was the only child born to
Virginia and Louis Eggleston.
Louis was educated in the public school
of Prince George’s County and graduated
from DuVal High School in Lanham, Md.
He continued his education at Kentucky
State University where he also became
a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
After three years, he left Kentucky State
to accept a position with the federal
government. In the government, he held
several positions until finally retiring from
the U.S. Air Force. After his retirement, Louis continued relatives and friends.
Paulette Y. Heath, 48
Educator
Paulette Yvette Heath, a
Washington, D.C. public school
teacher for more than 25 years
and proud member of Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority, passed
to work as a security guard on a part-time away on May 4. She was 48
basis. years old.
Louis was a quiet person, devoted Paulette was born on
father and always willing to lend a helping Oct. 8, 1962 to James Arthur
hand whenever called upon. He enjoyed and Johnnie Mae Thomas in
Washington, D.C. She began
sports, exercising, reading and listening to
her early years of learning in
R&B and jazz music. He had an extensive the Prince George’s County,
collection of albums and CDs. Md., public school system.
Louis is survived by his mother, She attended Hillcrest Heights
Virginia H. Eggleston; his daughter, Tara Elementary, Benjamin Stoddert
K. Eggleston; aunt and uncle Patricia and Junior High and finished at PAULETTE Y. HEATH
Potomac Senior High School in Wonderland Day Care,
Vernon Hawkins; cousin and his wife
1980. where Johnnie Mae was her
Ronald and Tanya Hawkins; cousins After graduating from high “supervisor.” Paulette let
LOUIS M. EGGLESTON JR. Barbara Martin and Valerie Hawkins; Vicki school, Paulette decided to everyone know that well or sick,
Jones and her husband Michael and other pursue a career in teaching. Johnnie Mae expected her to
She enrolled at Bowie State work. Ever the “fashionista,”
University and received a Paulette enjoyed working
Free Service bachelor’s degree in early retail at many stores, including
childhood education. While Lane Bryant and Mr. B’s. She

Hilarious, sweet
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picture to:
Sorority. Paulette was forever
proud of being a lady of pink
schools. In April 1986, Paulette
began her teaching career at
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Mike Sampson, Joblo Baltimore AFRO-American and green. School. It was here in “Mrs.
Newspaper, Paulette learned good Heath’s class” that many
2519 N. Charles Street, work ethics from her mother children received their first
“one of the MoSt SatiSfying Baltimore, MD 21218 while working at Alice and formative learning. She opened
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along in yearS.” “THE PERFECT COMEDY” to instructing pre-kindergarten

children for more than 25 years.
She nurtured not only the minds
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and maintaining a ski club
over a decade.” – a lOT!” and ski team at River Terrace,
Peter Sciretta, SlaShfilM
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entertainMent WeekLy
with the team winning first
place in numerous D.C. public
“iT’s a school competitions. Paulette’s
commitment to children
MusT-sEE.”
eRicKa Boston, sister 2 sister continued right up to the
“Fun, FaiTH-FillED very end. Her devotion to her
anD Full OF laugHs! profession is a tremendous loss
bEsT ROManTiC COMEDY to the River Terrace Elementary
OF THE YEaR!” School community.
While working at Alice
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and Wonderland, Paulette not
“THis is THE
only learned work ethics, but
TYPE OF MOviE caught the eye of her soul mate
wE nEED MORE OF!”
teRRence J, 106 & park, Bet – Melvin Dennis Heath. They
met in August of 1986. On May
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Devi Dev, 2, 1991, by the romantic ocean,
kBXX 97.9 the BoX houston Paulette and Melvin married in
Nassau, Bahamas. They pledged
their love until death parted
them. Neither knew it would be
so soon. From this loving union,
a son was born: Paulette’s pride
and joy, her son, Melvin “Mel
Mel” Dennis Heath Jr.
Paulette Heath leaves to
cherish her memory: committed
and caring husband, Melvin Sr.;
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On the Clock with Russ Parr Vineyard Serves as

Popular Radio Personality
Turned Filmmaker Dishes
on New Movie ’35 & Ticking’
By Gregory Dale
AFRO Staff Writer
He’s conquered the airwaves and
he’s tackled book writing, but now radio
personality Russ Parr can add filmmaker
to his sprawling résumé. After breaking
out on to radio in the late 1980s, Parr
later went on to host his own show on the
District’s WKYS. Now, the nationally
syndicated Russ Parr Morning Show
reaches 3.2 million listeners in 45 cities
across the country.
Parr is currently gearing up for
his new movie 35 & Ticking. The
independent film, which marks his fourth
work that he’s written and directed, is a
hip romantic comedy with an all star cast
including Nicole Ari Parker, Kevin Hart,
Meagan Goode, Wendy Raquel Robinson
and many more.
The AFRO spoke to Parr about his
breakout in the movie industry and the
efforts it took to put this new film together.
AFRO: Starting off, you’ve already
had an amazing career in radio.
Explain your crossover into becoming a
filmmaker.
Russ Parr: I’ve always dabbled in
the TV and film side. I actually have a
degree in radio television and film from
California State University, Northridge.
Radio provided me with an opportunity
to feed my kids. The entertainment
industry is very competitive and can cost
you a lot of money and I didn’t have that.
But I always had a love for writing and
in fact, I wrote my first script about 15
years ago. It just sat in my drawer for
about 10 years before I decided to do
something with it. That’s pretty much
how I got started. You don’t want to put
all your eggs in one basket.
AFRO: Explain the creation
of “35 & Ticking.” Why did
you want to bring this story to
light?
RP: I watched so many of
my friends hit “that age.” It’s
not just women —but guys
[also say], “I haven’t found the
right [person]” and “I don’t
have any kids.” And women
want to start having kids before
they reach that magical age of
40. I’ve watched a lot of friends
of mine just say, “I’m getting
married no matter what…the
clock is ticking.” I’m dealing Russ Parr
with real Black relationships in
a fun and dramatic way.
AFRO: How was the chemistry you
and the cast members had with each
other?
RP: Incredible. A lot of them signed
on because they liked the script. I have
just one rule and it is no one is allowed
to yell at anybody on the set. We shot 35
& Ticking in 15 days, so we had to move.
You can’t have conflict and people going
at it. So, everybody pretty much followed
the rule. Everybody liked each other and
we had fun. [You have] to give actors a
little room to bring personalities to their
characters. It really worked out.
AFRO: Explain why you think it’s
important for the African-American
community to embrace Black
independent films.
RP: We’re not getting the same
amount of opportunities and we’re all put
into the same box. It’s like the definition
of success for Black films is Tyler Perry.
There are a lot of other Black films that
are not going to get the [major film
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company] backing, and have to go the
independent route. It’s sad because there
are a lot of great stories that don’t get
told. There are a lot of great independent
films that I know about that should be
in theaters, but they’re not going to be.
Then they want to put us in the same
box — If Tyler Perry’s movie doesn’t do
well, we’re not seeing another Black film
for another six months. Hollywood looks
at it like, “Black films aren’t in right
now, look what Tyler did.” I’m not being
disrespectful to Tyler in any way and I’m
not knocking his hustle at all. I’m glad
he found a formula that works, but some
of us have formulas that could work, too.
To be honest, I haven’t made any money
from any of my movies, but I’m still
doing it because I think that someone
is going to recognize me as something
other than a radio personality. There’s
more to me than just that.
“35 & Ticking” comes to theaters in
Washington D.C., Baltimore and Atlanta
on May 20. For more information, visit:
www.therussparrmorningshow.com.
Setting for ‘Fish Out
of Water’ Comedy
By Kam Williams
Special to the AFRO
Jason Taylor (Laz Alonso), a rising star at Goldman
Sachs’ Manhattan office, never introduced any of his
friends or family members to his relatively refined fiancée,
Sabrina Watson, (Paula Patton), the whole time they were
dating. After all, her high-falutin’ parents (Angela Bassett
and Brian Stokes Mitchell) have a mansion up on Martha’s
Vineyard, so he’s a little embarrassed about hailing from
humble origins and the fact that his widowed mom, Pam
(Loretta Devine) works as a window clerk in a Post Office in
Brooklyn.
Nevertheless, that doesn’t prevent Jason from popping the
question after a whirlwind romance of just five months and,
when Sabrina accepts, the two decide to tie the knot right
away at her folks’ place up on the Vineyard. However, that
means that the Taylor and the Watson clans will finally meet
for the first time on the island.
This sets the stage for the epic ghetto vs. bourgie clash
which ensues over the course of one incomparably-eventful
District native Laz
Alonso and Paula Patton
star in the new comedy,
Jumping the Broom.
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weekend in Jumping the Broom, an old-fashioned “fish out
of water” comedy marking the feature film debut of veteran
TV director Salim Akil (“Girlfriends” and “The Game”). Not
only does this unlikely gathering serve as fodder for plenty
of coarse jokes, but the festivities also take on the distinct
tone of a soap opera as all manner of messy skeletons come
bursting out of the closet.
Not surprisingly, most of the laughs come courtesy of the
trashy Taylors while the uptight Watsons are the ones with
the shocking revelations. Since it would be unfair to spoil the

Stephanie Mills Rekindles ‘the Fire’ With flick by divulging the latter, allow me to elaborate solely on
the movie’s lowbrow brand of humor.

Tour and New Album

By Gregory Dale
AFRO Staff Writer
Her string of memorable
hits have been embedded
in R&B fans’ hearts for
decades, and now, soul singer
Stephanie Mills is setting out
to rekindle this magic once
more.
Mills first captured
audiences’ attention when she
was just a youth, appearing
in many Broadway hits
including the classic musical
The Wiz in 1975. Shortly
thereafter, the Brooklyn
native exploded into the R&B
scene and scored her first
hit with “What Cha Gonna
Do With My Lovin’?” in career?
1979. The single marked Stephanie Mills: I feel
Mills’ coming of age and her blessed and I feel fortunate.
collection of subsequent hits Will Downing and I [recently]
quickly ushered her into R&B played in Las Vegas and
hall of fame status. we had great show. It was
After nearly three decades just wonderful to not have
in the music industry, Mills something new out, and to
slowed down in the early have people still come. The
2000s following the birth of house was almost full. I just
her son. Now, the singer is felt appreciated.
celebrating her return and
anticipating the release of AFRO: So, what’s been
her album Breathless. your proudest moment?
She’s currently SM: Having my son. He’s
touring across 10 years old now…that was
the country my proudest moment.
and will
come to Rams AFRO: Your career must
Head in be pretty demanding. How do
you manage it all and taking
care of your son?
SM: Well, I took some
time off to take care of him.
I haven’t been working a lot.
Now, I’m getting back into it
because he’s 10. But I wanted
to be home
when he
Stephanie Mills
came home
comes to the from school
Rams Head On and those
Stage in Annapolis formative
years.
on May 19
AFRO:
Annapolis, Md., on What can
May 19. The AFRO spoke fans expect at your show at
with Mills about her upcoming Ram’s Head?
album, her tour and life as a SM: We just revamped the
performer and mother. show that we performed in
Vegas. It’s upbeat. I wanted
AFRO: You’ve been in to do a show that I enjoyed
the music industry for quite and knew that my audiences
a long time. How does it feel would enjoy. I’m going to sing
to have had such a lengthy all of my songs−Something in
the Way, Feel the Fire, I Feel
Good, Home, Never Knew
Love…I’m singing a lot of the
older songs.
AFRO: Let’s talk about
‘Breathless.’ Explain the
creation of this album and
what listeners can anticipate.
SM: Well, I wrote a song
called “Breathless” and I just
thought it was such a nice
title that [I made] it the title
of my album. I’m staying true
to who I am, but just with an
updated version of music.
I’m staying very true to my
R&B roots and what people
are used to me sounding
like−just with a 2011 sound. I
have Josiah Martin producing
tracks. Donald Lawrence is
overseeing the project for
me. He’s connecting me with
some R&B that have wanted
to work with him for a very
long time. So, it’s coming
together very nicely.
AFRO: When will it be
released?
SM: We don’t have an
exact date because we went
back and redid some tracks.
But there will be a single out
probably by the end of June.
AFRO: You’ve already
had an amazing career. But
is there something that you’d
like to do that you haven’t
already?
SM: I want to release a
children’s book. I also want to
continue touring and do a lot
of shows because I absolutely
For example, flirtatious cousin Malcolm (DeRay Davis)
offends a bridesmaid by saying, “I don’t usually talk to
dark-skinned girls, but I’m making an exception with
you.” Furthermore, he confesses to feeling nervous about
the presence of Caucasians since, “Any time I’m around
White people, I get arrested.” Yet, that doesn’t prevent
the loquacious ladies man from later developing a case of
“jungle fever” when he has his head turned by the clumsy
but comely, White wedding planner (Julie Bowen).
Speaking of guests dating the help, maid of honor Blythe
(Meagan Good) rejects Malcolm’s awkward advances
in favor of the smoothly-seductive chef McKenna (Gary
Dourdan). And elsewhere on the sprawling estate, Pam’s
middle-aged, best friend, Shonda (Tasha Smith), finds herself
falling for a charming Yale University undergrad (Romeo
Miller) less than half her age.
Then there’s Jason’s Uncle Willie Earl (Mike Epps),
who hates ferries because, “They make you feel like they’re
taking you back to Africa.” Still, the movie’s most divisive
remarks are reserved for sassy Pam who feels “like a bald
stepchild at my own son’s wedding” after the bride and
groom initially refuse to incorporate the heirloom she’s
brought along into their solemn ceremony.
Mother Taylor would like the couple to “jump the
broom” in accordance with a longstanding, cultural tradition
dating back to slave days when their ancestors weren’t
even allowed to marry legally. “You’re Black!” she blurts
out in frustration to try to shame her horrified hosts into
acknowledging their roots.
As hopeless as the situation sounds, leave it to the Rev.
James (Bishop T.D. Jakes) to minister to this dysfunctional
menagerie. With him on the case, it’s merely a matter of time
before compromises are reached, vows are exchanged, and
the entire wedding party’s doing the Cupid Shuffle as the
closing credits roll.
The African-American answer to Meet the Parents.
Very Good (HHH stars)
Rated PG-13 for sexuality and profanity.
In English, French and Italian with subtitles.
Running time: 113 Minutes
Distributor: Columbia TriStar Pictures
love that. I’d like to have a
perfume line and a clothing Stephanie Mills comes to
line made for petite women. Rams Head On Stage on May
It seems like everything is 19. For more information and
made for tall women and I’m to purchase tickets, visit www.
small−that’s something that I ramsheadonstage.com and
want to do. www.stephaniemillsmusic.com.
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Former Howard SID Honored with CoSIDA Rising Star Award

By Perry Green energy and enthusiasm to as the assistant director of
for reporting to four different an annual honor awarded
AFRO Sports Editor the profession make that communications/sports liaison
conferences on a regular to a top-performing UMES
individual a ‘rising star’ in the for the Southwestern Athletic
basis, including the Mid- employee in athletics.
Former Howard University collegiate communications Conference (SWAC).
Eastern Athletic Conference “Chevonne has always
Assistant Sports Information field,” stated Ed Hill, the But before she joined the
(MEAC), the Atlantic Soccer worked hard,” said G. Stan
Director Chevonne Mansfield longtime senior sports SWAC, Mansfield served at
Conference (ASC), Great Bradley, sports information
will be honored this summer information director for Howard University for three
West Conference (GWC) and director at the University of
as the 2011 CoSIDA Rising Howard and current at-large years, managing the medial
Coastal Collegiate Swimming Maryland Eastern Shore. “She
Star Award recipient for the board of director for CoSIDA. relations for all women
Association (CCSA). has done a tremendous job of
University Division (Division “I am truly honored to be a athletics and administering
Prior to Howard, setting goals for herself and
I organizations), according to part of CoSIDA and to receive Mansfield then achieving them. It’s no
reports. this award,” said Mansfield, Chevonne Mansfield, the assistant director served fulltime surprise that she has moved
According to CoSida. who will be honored in June of communications/sports liaison for the as a sports up the ladder of success in
com, the Rising Star Award at the CoSIDA National Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), information this profession. She is very
is presented to sports Convention in Marcos Island, will be given the CoSIDA Rising Star award assistant for the worthy of this prestigious
information personnel with Fla. “It truly means a great for excellent service. University of honor.”
a maximum of 10 years or deal to me and I’m very proud Maryland-Eastern Mansfield, 28, carries a
less serving at their college to be honored with so many Courtesy Photo/CoSida.com the school’s athletic Shore while completing her bachelor’s degree from St.
or university. The “rising distinguished professionals.” website. According to Hill, graduate studies. There, she John’s (2004) and a master’s
in 2010 to take her position
star” must exude “dedication, Mansfield left Howard Mansfield was responsible was named Hawk of the Year, degree from UMES (2007).

Howard’s Keith Pough Listed among Top-10 Linebackers in FCS

By AFRO Staff Championship Subdivision (FCS) for the 2011 football season
scheduled to kickoff in August, as reported by howard-bison.
College football season is months away, but Howard com.
University’s football team is already gaining national attention According to Ed Hill Jr., Howard’s sports information
for the upcoming season. director, the 6-foot-3-inches, 235-pound red-shirt junior from
The Sports Network recently cited Bison linebacker Orangeburg, S.C., has proved that he has the natural “speed
Keith Pough as one of the top-10 linebackers in the Football and range” an outside pass rusher needs, leading the FCS last

Bison linebacker Keith Pough Courtesy Photo

season with 28.5 tackles for loss of yardage, including 10.5

sacks.
Hill said Pough gave “early notice” his freshman season
that he would eventually develop into a “special player.” He
recorded 35 solo tackles, 12.5 of them for losses as a redshirt
freshman in 2008. He now has 157 total tackles, 40 for losses
in is career.
“He improved considerably because he learned to read plays
better and put himself in excellent position, where his natural
ability, which is always full speed - takes over,” Hill stated.
“He finished the season with 100 tackles, five QB hurries, four
forced fumbles and three passes defended.”
A member of the the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
2010 first team, Pough is a favored candidate to win MEAC
Defensive Player of the Year in 2011.

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 May 14, 2011 - May 20, 2011, The Afro-American B5

Howard Dominates UMES in Prep for MEAC

Softball Championship
By AFRO Staff the Lady Bison didn’t need bat” to Christine Sborz who overall record, 8-7 against
great pitching in the season smacked a two-run double at the MEAC, and will take
Howard University’s finale, as junior centerfield the top of the second round on Bethune-Cookman
softball team finished its Marissa Coats found her that led to a 7-0 cushion in the MEAC Softball
season with a dominating win batting stroke, posting a lead that Howard never Championship scheduled May
over Mid-Eastern Athletic perfect 3-for-3 at bat for three relinquished. 12-14 at the Ormond Beach
Conference for University runs and six runs-batted-in Howard finished the (Florida) Sports Complex in Photo Courtesy of Howard University
of Maryland Eastern Shore (RBI). She passed the “hot regular season with a 16-26 Ormond Beach, Fla. Marissa Coats scored three runs in the season finale.
on May 8. It was one of their
finest batting performances
of the season, smashing in 15
runs to the Lady Hawks’ five
runs.
Junior Samantha Gatson
earned the win as the leading
pitcher for Howard; she gave A WEEKEND
up six hits in the game. But
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B6 The Afro-American, May 14, 2011 - May 20, 2011

Health
Trending Therapy Procedure Eliminates Surgery for
Foot and Ankle Patients
(Courtesy Photo/MorgueFile.com)
Foot and ankle patients are quickly discovering Platelet-
rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy, a new form of treatment that
uses the body’s own natural ability to heal itself instead
of surgical operations.
By Stephen D. Riley
AFRO Staff Writer
The recovery time from foot and ankle surgery can
be extensive for most patients. Going under the knife
for Achilles tendon injuries, bone fractures, arthritis
and other related feet and ankle issues isn’t guaranteed
to correct the pain but is definitely assured of leaving
patients subdued for a credible amount of a time.
However, a trending therapy process is revving up the
recovery time without the pain or procedure of surgery.
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy is the latest technique
under the new health sector known as Orthobiologics,
which is being used by foot and ankle surgeons and
picks up where medication, physical therapy and other
past healing methods are leaving off.
Using PRP, a growth factor found in blood platelets
that promotes the healing of bones, cartilage, blood
vessels, tendons and tissue, surgeons are getting patients
back up and running faster than ever before. The
procedure incorporates a small vial of the patient’s blood
which is then spun in a centrifuge to separate out the
PRP, which then is injected directly to injured site. The
process is simple, eliminates major surgery and attacks
the healing procedure better than any previous form of
surgery could.
“The technology has kind of always been there,”
says Dr. Sean T. Grambart, an Illinois foot and ankle
surgeon who presented on PRP at the American
College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons’ (ACFAS) Annual
Scientific Conference in Fort Lauderdale last March.
“We’ve always known that platelets contain factors that
stimulate healing but it was hard to initially execute it.
But surgeons have devised [some new techniques] and
it’s taken off from there.”
After PRP therapy, a patient wears a protective boot
for four to seven days before they can start to advance
in their activities. Grambart, who has been using the
procedure for four years, has referred to it for patients
that suffer from Achilles tendon pain, nonunions (bones
that fail to heal) and acute ligament injuries in athletes.
With the increased use of PRP therapy, Grambart
believes that “realistically, there’s a variety of ways you
can use it and it’s one of those things that seems to work
on all kinds of tissue.”
However, although PRP has been widely effective,
the varying pathologies within different body and blood
structures eliminate the procedure from being full proof.
“It seems to help most patients, but it’s unpredictable,”
Grambart cautions. “Just because it works on one patient
doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to work on the other,
for several factors.”
Continued research to expand the use of PRP
therapy to all patients is the next step in the advanced
treatment. Although the first form of PRP was reportedly
used 20 years in dentist operations, Grambart sees the
trending procedure as the next step in body treatment
and recovery. “I think we are just seeing the tip of the
iceberg with how PRP affects the different tissues within
the body and how it can be used to advance healing.”
For more information on PRP therapy visit www.
foothealthfacts.org
www.afro.
May is Healthy Vision Moth
Keep an Eye on Your Vision
(Stock Photo)
African Americans
and Latinos are at
higher risk for eye
disease.
Special to the AFRO
Americans agree that eyesight has a huge impact on day-
to-day living and is one of the senses they fear losing most.
Unfortunately, people often do not pay attention to their
eye health unless they notice a problem. Many common
eye diseases that can lead to vision loss and blindness,
such as diabetic eye disease, glaucoma, or age-related
macular degeneration, often have no early warning signs or
symptoms. Having regular eye exams to make sure the eyes
are healthy and seeing their best is important for everyone.
However, the risk of vision loss and blindness is higher for
some people based on race, ethnicity, and other demographic
and socioeconomic factors.
You might be at higher risk for eye disease if you have
a family history of eye disease; have diabetes; are African
American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian, or Alaska
Native; or are older than 50. Some diseases affect certain
populations disproportionately.
• Glaucoma, which affects your side or peripheral vision
first, is three times more common in African Americans
than in Whites. It is a leading cause of blindness in African
Americans.
• Diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness caused
by uncontrolled diabetes, occurs more often in Hispanics/
Latinos than in Whites.
• American Indians and Alaska Natives are 35 percent
more likely to have diabetes than the average adult in the
United States, putting them at increased risk of diabetic eye
disease.
• Older adults are at higher risk of developing age-related
eye diseases and conditions such as age-related macular
degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, or cataract. AMD is a
leading cause of blindness in Whites.
“If you are at higher risk of eye disease, having a
comprehensive dilated eye exam is the best thing you can do
to protect your vision,” said Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D.,
director of the National Eye Institute, part of the National
Institutes of Health. “A comprehensive dilated eye exam is
a painless procedure where your eye care professional puts
drops in the eyes to dilate, or widen, the pupil so he or she
can get a good look at the back of the eye to check for signs
of eye disease. With early detection, treatment can slow or
stop vision loss and reduce the risk of blindness.”
In addition to having regular eye exams, eating a healthy
diet, not smoking, and wearing protective eyewear are just
a few other things you can do to protect your sight. For
more information on eye exams, common eye diseases and
conditions, and finding financial assistance for eye care, visit

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D.C. Fitness Challenge Tackles Obesity Epidemic

Washington, D.C. — Aimed at battling D.C.'s alarming obesity rate, one of the highest in • One in every three children living in the District is at risk of becoming, or is already,
the country, on May 14 Project Fitness Community and WIAS (Wellness In American Schools) overweight.
will host the second annual DC Fitness Challenge. The event will take place at McKinley • Citywide, obesity rates are extremely disproportionate between races. The report shows
Technology High School, located at 151 T St., N.E., from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. that less than one in 10 White residents is obese;
The DC Fitness Challenge is a community-focused health and fitness competition designed while rates rise to one in every three African-
to help combat the city's overweight and obesity crisis through encouraging local communities American residents.
to get active and fit. The event began last year as a way to motivate fitness enthusiasts to reach • More District residents die each year
back into their communities and inspire young people to get involved in health and fitness from the complications of obesity-related
activities. Through friendly competition, participants motivate future generations to start their diseases than from AIDS, cancer and homicide
fitness journey. combined.
"This event will challenge both the athleticism and character of our city," said Chickaro • Costs of overweight and obesity in the
Martin, founder of Project Fitness Community, in a prepared statement. "The competition District were estimated to be more than $400
will highlight how individuals, supported by local businesses and organizations, can make an million in 2004.
impact through supporting healthy lifestyles at all ages. At the same time, we'll find out who the Project Fitness Community is an initiative
fittest people in DC are and how they got there." of WIAS (Wellness In American Schools), a
In the District, adult and childhood obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions, with local non-profit organization helping to prevent
more than half of all residents either overweight or obese, according to the latest figures childhood obesity. Proceeds from the DC
released by the DC Department of Health (DOH). The DOH Overweight and Obesity Action Fitness Challenge will help support free student
Plan shows the statistics get worse in DC's most underserved wards. The risk of being workshops throughout the year.
overweight or obese can be forecast with some certainty simply by looking at zip codes.
• More than half of all adults living in the District (55 percent) are overweight or obese—this For more information and to register
rate skyrockets to 72 percent in Wards 7 and 8. for the Challenge, please logon to: www.
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20001-2131 the District of (Room, Apt, House, etc.) INSERTION DATE:
Administration No. District of Columbia
(410) 554-8200 skills, good driving his- AIRLINE ME- 2011ADM414 PROBATE DIVISION
All ads must be tory, and able to travel CHANIC – Train for James Marc Taylor Washington, D.C.
Decedent
high paying Aviation 20001-2131
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States. Email resume Maintenance Career.
NOTICE OF
APPOINTMENT,
Administration No.
2011ADM345
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to Recruiter4@osmose. FAA approved program. NOTICE TO Joe Louis Randolph
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AND NOTICE TO
UNKNOWN HEIRS
Evelyn E. Crawford
Queen
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AUCTIONS
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Rachel Randolph, whose ad-
dress is 5221 Winchester
Crossing Court, Canal Win-
1629 K Street NW
Suite 300
Effective October 1, 2006
chester, Ohio 43110 was ap- Washington DC 20006
(866) 823-6729.
AUCTION - Con- FURNITURE pointed personal representa-
tive of the estate of James
Attorney
PROBATE DIVISION
NOTICE OF
struction Equipment & Marc Taylor, who died on APPOINTMENT,
Trucks, May 20, 9 AM,
Warbirds Over the March 30, 2011 without a will,
NOTICE TO (Estates)
Cherry Bedroom Set. Beach Airshow - May and will serve without Court
CREDITORS
Richmond, VA. Excava- Solid Wood, never used,
supervision. All unknown
202-879-9460/61
22 and 23 at the Virginia heirs and heirs whose AND NOTICE TO
tors, Dozers, Dumps & brand new in factory whereabouts are unknown UNKNOWN HEIRS
Beach Airport, hosted
More. Accepting Items boxes. English Dovetail.
shall enter their appearance Erik Randolph and Tony Ran-
by the Military Aviation in this proceeding. Objec- dolph, whose address(es) is
Daily. Motley’s Auc- Original cost $4500. Sell
tion & Realty Group, Museum. For more
tions to such appointment
shall be filed with the Regis-
1012 Jackson Street NE,
Washington DC 20017 were PROBATE NOTICES
for $895. Can deliver. information visit www. ter of Wills, D.C., 515 5th appointed personal repre-
804-232-3300, www. Call Tom 240-482-8721 Street, N.W., 3rd Floor sentative(s) of the estate of
motleys.com, VAAL VBairshow.com call Washington, D.C. 20001, on Joe Louis Randolph, who a. Order Nisi $ 60 per insertion $180.00 per 3 weeks
or before November 13,
#16. (757) 721-PROP (7767) 2011. Claims against the de-
died on February 25, 2011
without a will, and will serve b. Small Estates (single publication) $ 50 per insertion
LEATHER LIVING cedent shall be presented to without Court supervision. All
ROOM SET. In origi- the undersigned with a copy unknown heirs and heirs c. Notice to Creditors
nal plastic, never used. MISC. FOR to the Register of Wills or filed whose whereabouts are un- 1. Domestic $ 60 per insertion $ 180.00 per 3 weeks
AUTOMOBILE Orig price $3000, Sac-
with the Register of Wills with known shall enter their
SALE a copy to the undersigned, on appearance in this proceed- 2. Foreign $ 60 per insertion $ 180.00 per 3 weeks
DONATION rifice $975. Can deliver. or before November 13,
2011, or be forever barred.
ing. Objections to such
appointment shall be filed d. Escheated Estates $ 60 per insertion $ 360.00 per 6 weeks
Call Bill 301-841-7565 Persons believed to be heirs with the Register of Wills, e. Standard Probates
DONATE VEHICLE: HOMEOWNERS or legatees of the decedent D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., $ 125.00
who do not receive a copy of 3rd Floor Washington, D.C.
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this notice by mail within 25
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20001, on or before Novem-
ber 13, 2011. Claims against CIVIL NOTICES
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shall so inform the Register
of Wills, including name, ad-
the decedent shall be pre-
sented to the undersigned
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Date of Publication: Wills or filed with the Register
Shelters. Advanced maintenance-free Kayak May 13, 2011 of Wills with a copy to the b. Real Property $ 200.00
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DONATE YOUR Available Credit or
TYPESET:
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including name, 2011 and DOMESTIC RELATIONS
5/13, 5/20, 5/27 relationship.
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estate of Betty J. Heath, who 2011ADM362 the District of District of Columbia
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to the Register of Wills or filed
the estate of Amanda G. Sell- standard probate, including APPOINTMENT, address is 6733 New Hamp- 20815
ers aka Amanda Sellers, who shire Avenue, #312, Takoma
HEARTLAND EX- visit our website: www. with the Register of Wills with died on February 22, 2011
the appointment of one or NOTICE TO Park MD 20912 was ap-
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more personal representa- NOTICE OF
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PRESS 1-800-441-4953 or before November 13,
with a will, and will serve with-
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AND NOTICE TO
pointed personal repre-
sentative of the estate of APPOINTMENT,
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NOTICE TO
known heirs and heirs whose Superior Court Probate Di- UNKNOWN HEIRS Umar Hassan Yusuf, who
ment - Reach 4.1 mil- com VACATION Persons believed to be heirs
or legatees of the decedent
whereabouts are unknown vision Rule 407 is filed in this Agostino S. Buttinelli Sr, died on December 14, 2009 CREDITORS
shall enter their appearance without a will, and will serve
lion readers in 83 daily RENTALS who do not receive a copy of in this proceeding. Objec-
Court within 30 days from the
date of first publication of this
whose address is 2801 New
without Court supervision.
AND NOTICE TO
Mexico Avenue NW, #602, UNKNOWN HEIRS
and weekly newspapers HOMES FOR
this notice by mail within 25
days of its first publication
tions to such appointment (or notice, the Court may take Washington DC 20007 was
All unknown heirs and heirs
Jeffrey L. Rowan, whose ad-
to the probate of decedent´s whose whereabouts are un-
for just $1450.00 per OCEAN CITY, the action hereinafter set appointed personal repre- dress is 3251-C Sutton
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of Wills, including name, ad-
will) shall be filed with the forth.
sentative of the estate of
known shall enter their
Place, NW, Washington DC
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5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor ing. Objections to such
cal exposure at one time Active Adult Commu- selection of affordable Date of Publication: Washington, D.C. 20001, on
the will dated May 22, 1992
exhibited with the petition on January 19, 2011 with a appointment shall be filed sonal representative of the
May 13, 2011 estate of Vivien M. Rowan,
in Maryland, Delaware nity (55 Plus) in Beauti- rentals. Full/ partial Name of newspaper:
or before November 13, upon proof satisfactory to the will, and will serve without with the Register of Wills,
who died on March 26, 2011
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shall so inform the Register Date of First Publication Claims against the decedent legatees of the decedent
who do not receive a copy
or before November 6, 2011.
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of Wills, including name, ad-
dress and relationship.
May 13, 2011 shall be presented to the
of this notice by mail within
Claims against the decedent
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a copy to the undersigned, on
ister of Wills, including with the Register of Wills with
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or be forever barred. Persons
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or be forever barred. Persons
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Jackie Sellers
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legatees of the decedent who Name of newspaper:
believed to be heirs or
Ground, Maryland SURES on Virginia’s Eastern NOTICE OF Personal
1304 Rhode Island Ave
NW, DC 20005 do not receive a copy of this Afro-American legatees of the decedent who
do not receive a copy of this
Eastern Shore. Leave STOP GARNISH- Shore. Now under new APPOINTMENT, Representative 202-387-8680 notice by mail within 25 days Washington Law
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Petitioners/Attorney inform the Register of Wills, Mame Diarra Cisse of its first publication shall so
CREDITORS inform the Register of Wills,
$1500 includes water, STOP REPOSSES- the vacation property of AND NOTICE TO
REGISTER OF WILLS 5/13, 5/20 including name, address and Personal
including name, address and
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electric & sewage. 3 SIONS your dreams at Corbin UNKNOWN HEIRS relationship.
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dress is 2908 30th Street, May 6, 2011
TRUE TEST COPY
May 6, 2011
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EMPLOYMENT 547-0442 ing meadow land. Spend shall enter their appearance REGISTER OF WILLS REGISTER OF WILLS
in this proceeding. Objec-
time sailing, swimming, tions to such appointment 5/6, 5/13, 5/20 5/6, 5/13, 5/20
shall be filed with the Regis-
ter of Wills, D.C., 515 5th
Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
Washington, D.C. 20001, on
or before November 13,

TYPESET: Tue May 10 11:34:50
LEGAL NOTICES
Superior Court of
the District of
District of Columbia
PROBATE DIVISION
Washington, D.C.
20001-2131
Administration No.
2011ADM379
Willie Winthrop Stark,
Jr
Decedent
NOTICE OF
APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO
CREDITORS
AND NOTICE TO
UNKNOWN HEIRS
Gail J. Stark, whose address
is 10105 Baltimore Avenue,
#3207, College Park, MD
20740 was appointed per-
sonal representative of the
estate of Willie Winthrop
Stark, Jr., who died on March
13, 2011 without a will, and
will serve without Court su-
pervision. All unknown heirs
a n d h e i r s w h o s e
whereabouts are unknown
shall enter their appearance
in this proceeding. Objec-
tions to such appointment (or
to the probate of decedent´s
will) shall be filed with the
Register of Wills, D.C., 515
5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
Washington, D.C. 20001, on
or before November 6, 2011.
Claims against the decedent
shall be presented to the
undersigned with a copy to
the Register of Wills or filed
with the Register of Wills with
a copy to the undersigned, on
or before November 6, 2011,
or be forever barred. Persons
believed to be heirs or
legatees of the decedent who
do not receive a copy of this
notice by mail within 25 days
of its first publication shall so filed with the
inform the Register of Wills,
including name, address and
relationship.
Date of Publication:
May 6, 2011
Civil Action No. Magistrate Judge
UNKNOWN HEIRS Lena Celeste
(Signed inLoman
chambers)
08-6085 L(RP) Decedent 4/29, 5/6, 5/13
Florence Ginwright, (Action Involving
whose address is 1710 D Real Property NOTICE OF
Street, SE Washington Bukfol, Inc. EXISTENCE OF
DC 20003, was ap- Plaintiff REVOCABLE
pointed personal repre- v.
sentative of the estate of Havilah Real Property Ser-
James Edward Wood, v i c e s , L L C ; V L K , L L C ;
TRUST
Lena Celeste Loman (name
of deceased settlor) whose
May 14, 2011 - May 20, 2011, The Afro-American B9
Fabco Investment Corp. address was 517 Fern Place,
TYPESET: EDT Tue 2011
May 10 who died EDT
11:36:13 on March2011 21, ;Mayor and Attorney Gen- TYPESET: Wed May 11 09:48:49
LEGAL NOTICES 1995 LEGAL without NOTICES
a Will. All eral LEGAL of theNOTICES
District of
NW, Washington DC 20012
LEGAL
created NOTICES
a revocable trust on TYPESET: Tue May 10 11:32:31
LEGALEDT 2011
NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES
unknown heirs and heirs Columbia; July 28, 1989, which re-
whose whereabouts are All unknown owners of the mained in existence on the
Superior Court of Superior Court of
unknown shall enter their property described below, date of her death on October DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY
the District of their heirs, devisees,per- 9, 2010, and Lillian L. the District of
appearance in this REQUEST FOR BIDS
District of Columbia
proceeding. Objections sonal representatives, Barnes, whose address is
INVITATION NO. 110050 District of Columbia
PROBATE DIVISION executors, administrators, 9417 Utica Place,
DC CLEAN RIVERS PROJECT PROBATE DIVISION
to such appointment (or g r a n t e e s , a s s i g n s o r Springdale, Maryland 20774
Washington, D.C. ANACOSTIA RIVER PROJECTS Washington, D.C.
20001-2131 to the probate of de- successor sin right, title, is the currently acting trustee,
cedent´s will) shall be interest and any and all hereinafter the Trustee. DIVISION C, CSO-019 OVERFLOW AND DIVERSION STRUCTURES 20001-2131
Administration No. Communications to the trust Administration No.
2011352 filed with the Register of p e r s o n s h a v i n g o r
Wills, D.C., 515 5th claiming to have any inter- should be mailed or directed The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) is soliciting bids for 2011ADM385
Gladys A. Bettis est inthe leasehold or fee to Cheryl Chapman Hender- Invitation No. 110050: Division C, CSO-019 Overflow and Diversion Structures. This James B. Lancaster Sr.
Decedent Street, N.W., 3rd Floor simple in the Property de- son, Esq. at 4920 Niagara
Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . is part of DC Clean Rivers Project for controlling Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) Decedent
Dena C. Feeney Esq scribed as Square 6153 Lot Road, Suite 200 College to the Anacostia River. NOTICE OF
1010 Wayne Avenue 20001, on or before 0 0 3 5 , m o r e c o m m o n l y Park, Maryland 20740.
O c t o b e r 2 9 , 2 0 11 . known as a vacant lotin the The Trust is subject to claims APPOINTMENT,
Suite 220 The following listing enumerates the major items of work included in this contract: NOTICE TO
Silver Spring MD Claims against the de- 200 block of Valley Avenue, of the deceased settlor’s
cedent shall be pre- SE,whose southwest creditors, costs of admin- CREDITORS
20910 istration of the settlor ’s
0
Construction of a cast-in-place concrete Diversion Chamber over the existing AND NOTICE TO
Attorney sented to the under- boundary lies 25 feet from estate, the expenses of the Northeast Boundary Trunk Sewer
NOTICE OF signed with a copy to the the northeast boundary of
229 Valley Avenue, SE, and deceased settlor’s funeral 0
Construction of a cast-in-place concrete Overflow Structure
UNKNOWN HEIRS
Valerie Lancaster Beal,
APPOINTMENT, Register of Wills or filed whose northeast boundary and disposal of remains, and whose address is 220 River-
NOTICE TO with the Register of Wills l i e s 2 5 f e e t f r o m t h e statutory allowances to a The project requires completion within 699 consecutive calendar days. side Blvd., Apt 38A New
CREDITORS with a copy to the under- southwest boundary of 237 surviving spouse and chil- This project is estimated to cost between $25,000,000 and $35,000,000. York, NY 10069 was ap-
signed, on or before Valley Avenue, SE,Wash- dren to the extent the de- pointed personal representa-
AND NOTICE TO ceased settlor’s residuary
The date for receipt of bids is June 8, 2011.
UNKNOWN HEIRS October 29, 2011, or be ington, DC probate estate is inadequate
tive of the estate of James B.
Defendants Lancaster, Sr. who died on
D o r i s H a n f o r d a n d forever barred. Persons ORDER OF to satisfy those claims, costs, This project may be funded in part by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
January 7, 2011 with a will,
Wanda Brownlee, whose believed to be heirs or PUBLICATION expenses, and allowances. (EPA). A Fair Share Objective for Minority and Women´s Business Enterprises and will serve without Court
address are 754 Ken- legatees of the decedent In accordance with D.C. Claims of the deceased set- participation in this work of 32% and 6%, respectively, has been established. The supervision. All unknown
nedy Street NE, who do not receive a Code §47-1375, the object of tlor’s creditors are barred as program requirements are fully defined in USEPA´s Participation by Disadvantaged heirs and heirs whose
Washington DC 20011, copy of this notice by mail this proceeding is to secure
against the Trustee and the Enterprises in Procurement under EPA Financial Assistant Agreements - May 27, whereabouts are unknown
trust property unless pre- 2008.”
and 10919 Jarboe Ave- within 25 days of its first the foreclosure of the right of
shall enter their appearance
redemption in the following sented to the Trustee at the in this proceeding. Objec-
nue, Silver Spring MD publication shall so in- real property, located in the address provided herein on The Davis-Bacon wage determinations shall apply. tions to such appointment (or
20902, respectively were form the Register of District of Columbia and sold or before November 13, 2011 to the probate of decedent´s
appointed personal re- Wills, including name, by the Mayor to the Plaintiff in 6 months after the date of the
DC Water Owner Controlled Insurance Program will provide insurance. will) shall be filed with the
presentative(s) of the address and relation- this action, described as first publication of this no- Register of Wills, D.C., 515
tice). An action to contest the
estate of Gladys A. Bet- ship. Square 6153 Lot 0035 and
validity of this trust must be Bid documents are available at the Department of Procurement, 5000 Overlook
5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
tis, who died on October Date of Publication: assessed to Havilah Real Washington, D.C. 20001, on
commenced by the earliest of Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20032. Sets of Bidding Documents can be procured or before November 13,
25, 2010 with a will, and April 29, 2011 Property Services, LLC,
which property is known as a (1) Octomber 9, 2011 (one for a non-refundable $150 purchase price each, payable to DC Water. Payment must 2011. Claims against the de-
will serve (with, without) Name of newspaper: year from date of death of the be in the form of a money order, certified check or a company check. Documents cedent shall be presented to
vacant lot in the 200 block of
Court supervision. All un- Afro-American Valley Avenue, SE, whose deceased settler) or (2) can be shipped to Bidders providing a Federal Express account number. the undersigned with a copy
known heirs and heirs Washington Law southwest boundary lies 25 N o v e m b e r 1 3 , 2 0 11 ( 6 to the Register of Wills or filed
Reporter months from the date of first with the Register of Wills with
whose whereabouts are feet from the northeast
publication of this notice) or The DC Water Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant is a secured
unknown shall enter their Florence Ginwright boundary of 229 Valley Ave- facility. Persons intending to pick-up Bidding Documents are to contact the Depart- a copy to the undersigned, on
(3) ninety days after the or before November 13,
appearance in this Personal n u e , S E , a n d w h o s e Trustee sends the person a ment of Procurement at 202-787-2020 for access authorization. 2011, or be forever barred.
proceeding. Objections Representative northeast boundary lies 25 copy of the trust instrument Persons believed to be heirs
to such appointment (or 301-341-5577 feet from the southwest and a notice informing the For procurement information contact Mr. Carlo Enciso; email carlo.enciso@dcwater. or legatees of the decedent
boundary of 237 Valley Ave-
to the probate of de- TRUE TEST COPY nue, SE, Washington, DC.
person of the trust’s exis- com, (voice 202-787-2029). who do not receive a copy of
cedent´s will) shall be TYPESET: OF
REGISTER TueWILLS
May 10 11:37:56
The complaint EDT 2011
states, among
tence, the Trustee’s name this notice by mail within 25
4/29, 5/6, 5/13 o t h e r t h i n g s , t h a t t h e and address, and the time al- For technical information contact: DETS-Construction.Bid.Inquiry@dcwater.com days of its first publication
Register of lowed for commencing a
amounts necessary for re- shall so inform the Register
Wills, D.C., 515 5th proceeding. of Wills, including name, ad-
Street, N.W., 3rd Floor SUPERIOR COURT OF demption have not been The Trustee may proceed to
View DC Water website at www.dcwater.com for current and up coming solicitations.
paid. dress and relationship.
Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . THE DISTRICT OF Pursuant to the Chief
distribute the trust property in Date of Publication:
20001, on or before COLUMBIA accordance with the terms of May 13, 2011
Judge´s Administrative Or-
O c t o b e r 2 9 , 2 0 11 . PROBATE DIVISION the trust before the expiration
Concrete General, Inc. is seeking MBE Name of newspaper:

SUPPORT OUR
der Number 02-11, it is this

ADVERTISERS
Name of newspaper: of the time within which an Afro-American
Claims against the de- Washington, D.C. 19th day of April, 2011,
Afro-American
Washington Law cedent shall be pre- 20001-2131 ORDERED by the Superior
action must be commenced
unless the Trustee knows of
subcontractors & suppliers who perform Washington Law
Reporter
Reporter sented to the under- Foreign No. Court of the District of Colum-
bia that notice be given by
a pending judicial proceeding various types of work relating to highway, Valerie Lancaster Beal
Gail J. Stark signed with a copy to the 2011FEP52 contesting the validity of the
Personal Register of Wills or filed Date of Death
insertion of a copy of this Or- trust or the Trustee has re- bridge, & utility construction in the Mary- Personal
Representative
der in the Washington Afro-
Representative
301-345-4153
with the Register of Wills December 31, 2010 American, having a general
ceived notice from a potential
contestant who thereafter land area. Call Mark Miller 301-948-4450. TRUE TEST COPY
917-576-8302
with a copy to the under- Lawrence Amman
TRUE TEST COPY
signed, on or before Decedent
circulation in the District of commences a judicial EEO REGISTER OF WILLS
TYPESET: Tue May 10 11:35:18 EDT 2011
REGISTER OF WILLS Columbia, once a week for proceeding within sixty days 5/13, 5/20, 5/27
5/6, 5/13, 5/20 October 29, 2011, or be NOTICE OF three successive weeks, no- after notification.
forever barred. Persons APPOINTMENT tifying all persons interested This Notice must be mailed
OF FOREIGN in the real property described
believed to be heirs or postmarked within 15 days of
Superior Court of PERSONAL
above to appear in this court its first publication to each
the District of
legatees of the decedent by the 29th day of June, heir and qualified beneficiary
SUBSCRIBE TODAY!
who do not receive a REPRESENTATIVE 2011, and redeem the real
District of Columbia copy of this notice by mail AND property by payment of
of the trust and any other per-
PROBATE DIVISION son who would be an
within 25 days of its first NOTICE TO $1,056.40, together with in- interested person within the
Washington, D.C. publication shall so in- CREDITORS terest from the date the real

To advertise
meaningof D.C. Code, sec.
20001-2131 form the Register of Mary K. Robitaille whose ad- property tax certificate was 20-101(d)
Administration No. Wills, including name, dress is 10860 Bucknell purchased; court costs; rea- Date of Publication:
2011ADM383 Drive, #201, Silver Spring, sonable attorney´s fees; ex-
address and relation- MD 20902 was appointed penses incurred in the pub- May 13, 2011
Bessie S. Page ship. Name of newspaper:
Decedent personal representative of l i c a t i o n a n d s e r v i c e o f Afro-American
Date of Publication:

in the
the estate of Lawrence Am- process; reasonable fees for Washington Law
Attorney April 29, 2011 man, deceased, by the Or- title search; all other amounts Reporter
NOTICE OF Name of newspaper: phan’s Court for Montgomery paid by Plaintiff in accor- Lillian L. Barnes
APPOINTMENT, Afro-American County, State of Maryland, dance with the provisions of Personal
NOTICE TO Washington Law on March 14, 2011. TYPESET:
D.C. Code §§Tue 47-1361Mayand 10 11:32:04 EDT 2011
Representative
CREDITORS Service of process may be 47-1377 (2001 ed.), and all TRUE TEST COPY

AFRO
Reporter made upon Robert Chuey II, outstanding municipal lien
AND NOTICE TO Doris Hanford 426 N Street, NW, Unit B, amounts due and owing on REGISTER OF WILLS
UNKNOWN HEIRS Wanda Brownlee Wa s h i n g t o n D C 2 0 0 0 1 theSuperior Court ofreal
aforementioned 5/13, 5/20, 5/27
Kelvin Page, whose address
Personal whose designation as District property the- or
District
answer of the com-
is 1039 Higgins Way Hyatts- TYPESET: Tue
Representative of Columbia agent has been plaint,
May 10 11:39:03
District EDT 2011a final
of Columbia
or, thereafter,
ville MD 20782, was ap-
www.afro.

filed with the Register of judgment will

PROBATE DIVISION be entered

call
pointed personal representa- 202-635-1762 foreclosing the right of re-
Wills, D.C. Washington, D.C.
tive of the estate of Bessie S. 301-592-9091 The decedent owned District demption in the real property
Page, who died on January TRUE TEST COPY SUPERIOR COURT OF 20001-2131
of Columbia
THE personal
DISTRICT OF prop- and vesting in the Plaintiff a
com

5, 2011 without a will, and will REGISTER OF WILLS

serve without Court supervi- TYPESET: Tue May 10 11:36:40 EDT 2011 sen- titleAdministration
erty. (Strike
COLUMBIApreceding in fee simple. No.
sion. All unknown heirs and 4/29, 5/6, 5/13 tence if
CIVIL no personal
DIVISION prop- 2011NRT12 J.E. Beshouri
Lena Celeste Loman

202-332-0080
erty).Civil Action No. Magistrate Judge
heirs whose whereabouts
are unknown shall enter their Claims TYPESET:
the decedent Decedent
againstL(RP)
08-6085 (SignedTue May 10
in chambers) 11:39:44 EDT 2011
Superior Court of may be presented to the 4/29, 5/6, 5/13
appearance in this proceed- the District of
(Action Involving NOTICE OF
undersigned and filed with
Real Property
ing. Objections to such
District of Columbia the Register of Wills for the
EXISTENCE OF
appointment (or to the pro- Bukfol, Inc. INREVOCABLE
THE SUPERIOR
bate of decedent´s will) shall PROBATE DIVISION District of Columbia, 500 In-
Plaintiff COURTTRUST OF THE STATE
be filed with the Register of Washington, D.C. v.d i a n a A v e n u e , N . W . ,
Washington,
Havilah D.C. 20001
Real Property Ser- LenaOF WASHINGTON
Celeste Loman (name
Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, 20001-2131 of deceased IN AND FOR whose
settlor)
N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, Administration No. vwithin
i c e s ,6 months
L L C ; V from
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of first publication
Fabco Investmentof Corp.this no- address was 517 Fern Place,

Strictly Personal
D.C. 20001, on or before 2011ADM327 NW,INWashington
THE INTEREST DC 20012OF
November 6, 2011. Claims tice. (Strike
;Mayor precedingGen-
and Attorney sen-
Baby Boy Yarborough
against the decedent shall be Alonzo Ware tenceof
eral if no
therealDistrict
estate.) of created a revocable
aka, 28, 1989, which re-
trust on
Decedent Columbia; Mary K. Robitaille July
presented to the under- JourneyinChristian
mained existence on the
signed with a copy to the Attorney Personal Representative(s)
All unknown owners of the Yarborough,
date of her death on October
property described 301-649-1860
below,
Register of Wills or filed with NOTICE OF person underandthe
Pen Pals
their heirs, TRUE TEST COPY
devisees,per- 9, 2010, Lillian L.
the Register of Wills with a APPOINTMENT, age of eighteen.
copy to the undersigned, on NOTICE TO
sonal REGISTER OF WILLS
representatives,
Date of firstadministrators,
executors, publication:
Barnes, whose address is
9 4 1 7No.11-5-00019-6
Utica Place, YOU KNOW YOU’RE IN THE
or before November 6, 2011, SUMMONS AND
or be forever barred. Persons CREDITORS gMay
r a n 6,
t e 2011
es, assigns or Springdale,
NOTICE
Maryland 20774
BY trustee, KNOW...
AND NOTICE TO Name of newspapers
successor sin right, and/or
title, is the currently acting
believed to be heirs or PUBLICATION
Truthful man seeking spiritual pen
hereinafter the Trustee.
legatees of the decedent who
do not receive a copy of this
UNKNOWN HEIRS
Ruby L Willis, whose ad-
periodical:
interest
pThe
erso Daily
and any and all
n s Washington
h a v i n g o rLaw
OF PETITION
Communications
HEARING
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should be mailed or directed
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notice by mail within 25 days dress is 1921 Lawrence Theinthe
Afro-American
TERMINATION
to Cheryl Chapman Hender- OF
est leasehold or fee
of its first publication shall so Street NE, Washington TYPESET:
Newspaper Tue Mayde-10 11:38:26
son, Esq. EDT
PARENT/CHILD
at 49202011 Niagara
is unification. Breath, knowledge
inform the Register of Wills, simple in the Property RELATIONSHIP
including name, address and
DC 20018 was appointed scribed as Square 5/6, 6153
5/13, Lot
5/20 Road, Suite 200 College
To: Christopher
Park, Maryland 20740. Jenkins:
personal representative 0035,more commonly
and consciousness! William Pig-
relationship. There
The hasisbeen
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claims
Date of Publication: of the estate of Alonzo known as a vacant
Superior Courtlotin
ofthe Clerk of the Skagit County
200 block of the deceased settlor’s
May 6, 2011 Ware, who died on Feb- theof Valley Avenue,
District of Superior Court, costsa of Petition for
gie, P.O. Box 565, Pittsboro, N.C.
SE,whose southwest creditors, admin-
Name of newspaper: ruary 5, 2011 without a Districtlies of Columbia Termination
istration of ofthethesettlor Parent- ’s
Afro-American boundary 25 feet from Child Relationship,
will, and will serve with- thePROBATE DIVISIONof estate, the expensespraying of the
Washington Law
Reporter
out Court supervision. All
northeast boundary
Washington,
229 Valley Avenue, SE, D.C. and
that the parent/child
deceased
shipdisposal
and betweenofthe
settlor’s relation-
funeral
father and
remains, and
27312
unknown heirs and heirs 20001-2131
whose northeast boundary
Kelvin W. Page
Personal whose whereabouts are lies 2 5 f e e t f r o mNo.
Administration the
the above-named
statutory
terminated.
allowances
surviving spouse and chil-
children to be a ---
Representative unknown shall enter their southwest boundary of 237
2011ADM356 You are
dren to hereby
the extent summoned the de- to
301-559-1179 appearance in this Valley Avenue, SE,Wash- appear on the 3rdresiduary
of June,
RufusDC
ington, Williams ceased settlor’s

Lonesome Hearts -
TRUE TEST COPY proceeding. Objections 2011, atestate 9:00isa.m. at the
TYPESET:
REGISTER OFTue May 10 11:35:45 Decedent probate inadequate
to such EDT 2011
WILLS Defendants Skagit County Superior
appointment SandyORDERV. Lee OF to satisfy those claims, costs,
5/6, 5/13, 5/20 Court, 205and W. Kincaid Street,
shall be filed with the 4701PUBLICATION
Melbourne Place expenses, allowances.

Pen Pals
Mount of
Claims Vernon, Washington,
the deceased set-
Register of Wills, D.C., College
In Park MD
accordance with D.C. roomcreditorsnumberaretobarred be an-
Superior Court of
515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd tlor’s as
the District of 20740
Code §47-1375, the object of nounced,
against theand defendand
Trustee against
the
District of Columbia Floor Washington, D.C. this proceeding
Attorney is to secure the above-entitled
trust property unless action,pre-an-
PROBATE DIVISION
Washington, D.C.
20001, on or before
O c t o b e r 2 9 , 2 0 11 .
the foreclosure
NOTICE of the
OFright of
redemption in the following
swer the
sented
serve a copy
to the Petitioner,
Trustee at and
of your
the
answer
To have a notice published in the
APPOINTMENT, address provided herein on
20001-2131
Administration No.
Claims against the de-
cedent shall be pre-
real property,
NOTICE
District of
located in the
ColumbiaTO and sold
upon
or before
6torney
months
theNovember
undersigned
forafter
Petitioners
the date at
13, 2011at-
the
of the
Strictly Personal Section, write the
CREDITORS
message you want printed in the
2011ADM313 by the Mayor to the Plaintiff in office listed below.
first publication of this no-
Lillian C. Smith sented to the under- this AND NOTICE
action, describedTO as If youAn failaction
to doto so, judgment
tice). contest the
Decedent signed with a copy to the Square 6153 Lot HEIRS
UNKNOWN 0035 and may be of rendered against
must you
Charles E. Walton Esq
10905 Fort Washington
Register of Wills or filed assessed
Ruth Williams-Lee,
Property
to Havilah whose Real
validity
according tobythe
commenced
this trust
therequest
be
earliest of of space below. Enclose ten dollars
with the Register of Wills address Services, is 912 Othman LLC, the Octomber
Petition. 9, 2011 (one
($10.00), check or money order for
(1)
Suite 201 which
Drive,property is known asMD
Ft. Washington a The fromchild date
was of born February
Fort Washington MD with a copy to the under- year death of the
vacant
20744 lot in the
was 200 blockper-
appointed of 26, 2011. settler) or (2)
deceased
signed, on or before
20744
Attorney October 29, 2011, or be
Valley
sonal Avenue,
southwest
representative
estate of boundary
SE, whose
Rufus Williams,
of the
lies 25
NTheo v echild´s
m b e r mother
ricia E. Yarborough.
months
1 3 , 2is
from the date of first
Cap-
0 11 (6 25 words. NO CASH PLEASE.
NOTICE OF
Additional words will cost 50 cents
forever barred. Persons feet
who from died on theSeptember
northeast5, YOUR FAILURE
publication of this notice) or TO
APPOINTMENT, believed to be heirs or boundary of 229 Valley
NOTICE TO CREDITORS 2010 with a will, andAve- will APPEAR
(3) ninetyATdays THE after the

each.
legatees of the decedent nserve
u e , without
S E , aCourt n d wsupervi-hose HEARING
Trustee sendsMAYthe RESULT
person a
AND NOTICE TO northeast boundaryheirs lies and 25 IN A DEFAUL ORDER
UNKNOWN HEIRS who do not receive a sion. All unknown copy of the trust instrument
feet
heirsfrom whose the whereabouts
southwest PERMANENTLY
Lutheran Smith, Reginald L. copy of this notice by mail boundary of 237 Valley
and a notice informing the
Smith, Sr., Yvonne Makell, & are unknown shall enterAve- their TERMINATING
person of the trust’sALL YOUR exis-
within 25 days of its first nue, SE, Washington, DC. RIGHTS
Barbara Ballen whose ad- appearance in this proceed- tence, theTO THE ABOVE-
Trustee’s name
dress(es) are Lutheran Smith
publication shall so in- The complaint
ing. Objections to such states, among NAMED CHILD.
and address, and the time al-
11916 Crestwood Ave South form the Register of oappointment
t h e r t h i n g (or s , tot h athe t tpro-
he Any non-consenting
lowed for commencing parent a
Brandywine, MD 20613, Wills, including name, amounts necessarywill)
bate of decedent´s for shall
re- has a right to be represented
proceeding.
Reginald L. Smith Sr. 12707 address and relation- demption
be filed with have not beenof
the Register by an attorney,
The Trustee may proceed to and an at-
Woodbridge Ct Bowie, MD paid.
Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, torney will thebe appointed
propertyfor
ship. PN.W.,
u r s u3rd a n tFloor
t o tWashington,
he Chief
distribute
an indigent parent
trust
who so re-
in
20721-4243, Yvonne Makell accordance with the terms of
6607 Oak Orchard Ct Clin-
Date of Publication: Judge´s Administrative Or- quests.
D.C. 20001, on or before the trust before the expiration
ton, MD 20735, Barbara Bal- April 29, 2011 der
November 6, 2011.it Claims
Number 02-11, is this You
of theare timefurther
within notified
which thatan
len 2869 Forest Down, Madi- Name of newspaper: 19th
against daythe of April,
decedent 2011,shall be your failure
action must to befile a claim of
commenced
s o n , W I 5 3 7 11 , w e r e Afro-American ORDERED
presented by to thetheSuperior
under- paternity within
unless the Trustee knows 30 days of of
appointed personal repre- Washington Law Court
signed of the
with District
a copy of Colum-to the athe first publication
pending of this no-
judicial proceeding
sentative(s) of the estate of bia that notice
Register of Wills beorgiven
filed with by tice or to respond to theofPeti-
Lillian C. Smith, who died on Reporter insertion of a copy of this Or-a
contesting the validity the
the Register of Wills with tionerorwithin
trust 30 dayshas
the Trustee of re-
the
February 1, 2011 with a will, Ruby L. Willis der in to thetheWashington Afro- first publication of athis notice
copy undersigned, on ceived notice from potential
and will serve without Court Personal American,
or before November having a general 6, 2011, is grounds to terminate your
contestant who thereafter
supervision. All unknown Representative circulation
or be forever in barred.
the DistrictPersons of cparent/child
o m m e n c erelationship
s a j u d i cwith ial
heirs and heirs whose TRUE TEST COPY Columbia,
whereabouts are unknown believed once to be a week
heirs for or respect to the
proceeding withinchildren,
sixty daysand
REGISTER OF three successive weeks, who no- such relief will be requested
shall enter their appearance TYPESET:4/29, TueWILLS
May 10
5/6, 5/13
legatees
11:37:14
tifying
do notall
of the decedent
EDT
persons
receive 2011
interested
a copy of this
after notification.
at the
This courtmust
Notice hearing stated
be mailed To answer a Lonesome Heart
in this proceeding. Objec- innotice
the real by property
mail within described
25 days above.
postmarked within 15 days of
notice, enclose a check or money
tions to such appointment (or
above
of its firstto appear
publication in this court
shall so One
its method
first of filingto
publication your
eachre-
to the probate of decedent´s
byinform the RegisterofofJune,
the 29th day Wills, sponseand and servicing a copy
will) shall be filed with the Superior Court of heir qualified beneficiary
Register of Wills, D.C., 515
5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
the District of
2011,
including
property
andname,
relationship.
redeem
by payment of
the real
address and ofthe
of
sby
thetrust
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who w
and any
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to send
d bReturn
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order for $2.00 for each letter
District of Columbia
you wish to have forwarded. NO
Washington, D.C. 20001, on $1,056.40,
Date of Publication:together with in- Receipt Requested.
interested person within the
or before November 6, 2011. PROBATE DIVISION terest
May 6, from
2011 the date the real DATED thisD.C.
meaningof 18th Code,
day of April,
sec.
Washington, D.C. property tax certificate was 2011.
CASH PLEASE. Be sure to in-
Claims against the decedent Name of newspaper: 20-101(d)
shall be presented to the 20001-2131 purchased;
Afro-American court costs; rea- Date /s/ Richard M. Sybrandy
of Publication:
undersigned with a copy to Administration No. sonable
Washington Law fees; ex-
attorney´s May 13, 2011 RICHARD M.
the Register of Wills or filed
2011ADM344
penses
Reporter incurred in the pub-
l i c a t i o n aRuth n d sWilliams-Lee
ervice of
Name of newspaper: SYBRANDY - clude the fox number of the person
with the Register of Wills with Afro-AmericanWSBA #25114
you wish
EDT to contact.
James Edward Wood process; reasonablePersonal fees for TYPESET: Tue May 10 11:32:04 2011
a copy to the undersigned, on Washington Law Petitioners
Attorney for
or before November 6, 2011, Decedent title search; all Representative
other amounts Reporter 4/29, 5/6, 5/13
or be forever barred. Persons W. Alton Lewis Esq paid by Plaintiff in
301-203-0358 accor- Lillian L. Barnes REGISTER OF WILLS
believed to be heirs or 1450 Mercantile Lane dance
TRUEwith TEST theCOPY provisions of
Superior Court Personal
of 5/13, 5/20, 5/27
legatees of the decedent who
TYPESET:OFTue May and10 11:39:03 EDT 2011
All letters, queries and
Suite 155 D.C.
REGISTER Code §§ 47-1361
WILLS Representative
TRUE TEST COPY of
the District
do not receive a copy of this 47-1377 (20015/6, ed.), and5/20
5/13, all
notice by mail within 25 days Largo, MD 20774
Attorney
outstanding municipal lien District of Columbia
of its first publication shall so foreclosing the right of re-
notices should be sent to:
amounts due and owing on PROBATE
inform the Register of Wills, NOTICE OF theSUPERIOR
aforementioned COURT real OF demption in theDIVISION
real property
including name, address and APPOINTMENT, property THE - orDISTRICT
answer the OF com- andWashington,
vesting in the Plaintiff D.C. a
relationship.
NOTICE TO plaint, or,COLUMBIA thereafter, a final title in fee20001-2131
simple.
Date of Publication:
May 6, 2011
Name of newspaper:
CREDITORS
AND NOTICE TO
judgment CIVIL will be entered
DIVISION
Civil Action No.
Administration
2011NRT12
Magistrate Judge
No.
J.E. Beshouri
STRICTLY PERSONAL
2519 N. Charles Street
08-6085 L(RP) (Signed
Lena Celeste Loman in chambers)
Afro-American UNKNOWN HEIRS
Washington Law Florence Ginwright,
(Action Involving Decedent 4/29, 5/6, 5/13
Reporter Real Property NOTICE OF
Baltimore, MD 21218
Lutheran Smith whose address is 1710 D Bukfol, Inc.
Street, SE Washington Plaintiff
EXISTENCE OF
Reginald L.Smith
Yvonne Makell DC 20003, was ap- v. REVOCABLE
TRUST
Barbara Ballen
Personal Representative(s)
pointed personal repre-
sentative of the estate of
Havilah Real Property Ser-
vices, LLC;VLK, LLC; Lena Celeste Loman (name
of deceased settlor) whose
NO PHONE CALLS
301-292-8357 Fabco Investment Corp.
James Edward Wood,
TRUE TEST COPY
REGISTER OF WILLS who died on March 21,
;Mayor and Attorney Gen-
eral of the District of
address was 517 Fern Place,
NW, Washington DC 20012
created a revocable trust on
PLEASE!
5/6, 5/13, 5/20 1995 without a Will. All Columbia;
unknown heirs and heirs All unknown owners of the July 28, 1989, which re-
property described below, mained in existence on the
whose whereabouts are date of her death on October
unknown shall enter their their heirs, devisees,per-
sonal representatives, 9, 2010, and Lillian L.
appearance in this executors, administrators, Barnes, whose address is
proceeding. Objections grantees, assigns or 9417 Utica Place,
B10 The Afro-American, May 14, 2011 - May 14, 2011

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