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By Shernay Williams

AFRO Sta Writer

Gov. Martin O’Malleyunveiled his much-anticipated

2012 state budget proposal last

week, apparently closing a $1.3billion projected budget shortfall

by reforming the state’s pension

system, consolidating governmentalofces and calling for deep cuts to

Medicaid. Yet, the budget freezesK-12 funding, slightly raises college

tuition, proposes no tax increases

or state furloughs and somehowmusters up health coverage for over

900,000 low-income children and

adults.In a budget brieng, O’Malley

said the proposal mitigates thestructural decit by $730 millionwhile keeping the rainy day fund

By Hazel Trice Edney

Editor-in-Chief, Trice Edney News Wire

WASHINGTON (TEWire) — It was an evening

marked by thunderous applause, Republicans and

Democrats symbolically sitting together instead of across the aisles, and

a message from the

president of the UnitedStates that soared with

hope for economic

recovery, health care,education and jobs.

Still, PresidentObama fell slightly

short of 10 points

in the view of most

Congressional BlackCaucus members

and Black leadersinterviewed by the

Trice Edney News

Wire after the Tuesdaynight speech when they

were asked to gradethe State of the Union

on a scale of 1-10.

“I give it a nine-and-a-half,” says

CBC Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.). He says the

president got an “A” for giving the inspiration that wasneeded as the economy appears to be generally turning

around. But, Cleaver expressed concern about a void

in specicity on what programs might be cut in orderto make up for a

$400 billion freezeon annual domestic

spending that the

president proposedto start this year and

extend for the next ve years.

“This freeze will require painful cuts,” President

Obama said. “Already, we’ve frozen the salaries of hardworking federal employees for the next two years.

I’ve proposed cuts to things I care deeply about, like

community action programs. The secretary of Defense

has also agreed to cut tens of billions of dollars in

spending that he and his generals believe our military cando without.”

That one phrase, “community action programs” or

CAPs, as they are formally known in cities across thenation, appears to be the wrench that caused concern

among CBC members, including Cleaver.Community Action Programs, founded in the mid-

1970s, help thousand of elderly and low income with

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Michelle Obama andWal-Mart Team for Health

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Black Lawmakers, Leaders RateObama Near 10 on State o the UnionPresident Gets High Marks on Inspiration, but Poverty, Plight

of Black Economics Still a Question

New State BudgetOfers Pension Reorm,No Furloughs

Photo by Webster Phillips III

Maryland Gov. Martin

O’Malley’s proposed budgetcuts nearly $1 billion in

spending and shues unding

to address the states hugebudget shortall.

President Obama, seen here giving the annualState o the Union Address in 2010, struck a tone

o unity in Tuesday night’s speech.

Justice Thomas Admits‘Inadvertant’ Error Common Cause Responds: ‘Implausible’ By AFRO Staf

Supreme Court Justice ClarenceThomas has acknowledged that he erred

in not disclosing his wife’s income onhis nancial statements in the wake of complaints raised by liberal advocacy

group Common Cause.

In lings dated Jan. 21, Thomassent seven similarly-worded letters to

the Federal Committee on Financial

Disclosure asking to amend his disclosureforms. In the letters, Thomas said he

“inadvertently omitted” the informationdue to “a misunderstanding of the ling

instructions.”However Common Cause, a watchdog

group that monitors government andindustry, is still crying foul as ofcialsquestion his explanation.

“Justice Thomas sits on the highest

court of the land, is called upon dailyto understand and interpret the most

complicated legal issues of our day and

makes decisions that affect millions.It is hard to see how he could have

misunderstood the simple directions of a

federal disclosure form,” said CommonCause President Bob Edgar in a statement.

“We nd his excuse is implausible.”Common Cause pointed out to the

Judicial Conference of the United States,

the regulator for the judicial branchof government, that Virginia Thomas’

earnings while at the Heritage Foundation,

a conservative advocacy organization,were not reported from 2003 to 2007.

During that period, Common Cause

indicates that Thomas earned $686,589, asalary of $120,000 or greater each year.

Common Cause indicates that she leftHeritage in 2008; but in 2009 Liberty

Central, an organization with strong ties

to the Tea Party Movement, which sheco-founded, paid Thomas for services,

according to its chief operating ofcer

Sarah Field.

AP Photo

Supreme Court Justice ClarenceThomas has admitted that he ailed

to disclose his wie Virginia’s income

on his nancial statements.

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Law enforcement agencies

and other groups continue thesearch for Phylicia Barnes,

the North Carolina teen

who disappeared on Dec. 28while visiting her sister in

Baltimore. The Baltimore Police

Department, the FBI and TeamAdam from the National Center

for Missing & Exploited Children

are all working to follow anylead, in an effort to nd her.

“Baltimore is doing anincredible job of trying to locate

this young lady,” said Herbert C.

Jones, vice president, externalaffairs for the National Center.

“Our hope is that this young lady

will be brought home safely.”

Search Continues for N.C.

Teen Missing from Baltimore

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Community ActivistsCriticize Handlingof Beating CaseBy Shernay Williams

AFRO Sta Writer

A group of independent Black journalists and community activists

are demanding comment fromfreshly sworn-in State’s Attorney

Gregg Bernstein about his dismissal

of felony charges against a Jewishman accused of attacking a Black

teenager in Northwest Baltimore

last November.Last week, Bernstein’s ofce

would not comment on the felony

assault charge they dropped againstJewish community patrolman

Eliyahu Werdesheim.

The State’s Attorney’s Ofcedecided to drop the charge—the

steepest of four—at a preliminaryhearing on Jan. 20. Werdesheim

now faces only misdemeanor

charges of second-degree assault,false imprisonment and possession

of a deadly weapon.

“At the end of the day, we justwant an answer (from Bernstein),”

said Hassan Giordano of the

Baltimore Black Media Group. “Wethink it is only fair and tting.”

Giordano and other activistsheld a media conference in front of

the Clarence Mitchell Courthouse

Jan. 24 seeking answers.Marvin “Doc” Cheatham,

former Baltimore NAACP

president, said Bernstein vowed“fair and equal” prosecutions

during his swearing-in ceremony,

therefore, he owes an explanationto the Black community.

According to court records,the 16-year-old alleged victim had

been walking in the predominately-

Jewish Upper Park Heightsneighborhood when Werdesheim,

Werdesheim’s brother, Avi, and

another man allegedly forced

him to the ground and struck him

with a radio. The teen sustainedlacerations, bruises and a broken

wrist. During the assault, Eliyahu

Werdesheim reportedly said, “Youdon’t belong around here. Get out

of here.”

“If that’s not rst degree assault,I don’t know what is,” Giordano

said.

The attack sparked an outcryfrom Black and Jewish community

leaders late last year and testedBlack and Jewish relations in

Baltimore City.

Michael Eugene Johnson,a leader of the Paul Robeson

“If this is the way he is going to handle all cases,then we are in trouble.”

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Wal-Mart, First Lady Unveil Healthy FoodCampaign

Meeting at a Southeast Washington, D.C., community center

THEARC last week, executives from Wal-Mart, the nation’s

largest grocer, and rst lady Michelle Obama unveiled the

powerhouse retailer’s new campaign, which aims to provide

customers with healthier and more affordable food choices.

According to Wal-Mart, the initiative will do the following:1. Reformulate thousands of everyday packaged food items

by 2015 by reducing sodium 25 percent and added sugars 10

percent, and by removing all remaining industrially produced

trans-fats.

2. Make

healthier

choices more

affordable,

saving

customers

approximately

$1 billion per

year on fresh

fruits and

vegetables

through a

variety of sourcing,

pricing, and transportation and logistics initiatives that will drive

unnecessary costs out of the supply chain.

3. Develop strong criteria for a simple front-of-package

seal that will help consumers instantly identify truly healthier

food options such as whole grain cereal, whole wheat pasta or

unsweetened canned fruit.

4. Provide solutions to address food deserts by building

stores in underserved communities that are in need of fresh and

affordable groceries; and

5. Increasing charitable support for nutrition programs that

help educate consumers about healthier food solutions and

choices.

“No family should have to choose between food that is

healthier for them and food they can afford,” said Bill Simon,

president and CEO of Wal-Mart U.S., in a prepared statement.

“With more than 140 million

customer visits each week,

Wal-Mart is uniquely

positioned to make a difference

by making food healthier and

more affordable to everyone.

We are committed to working

with suppliers, government and non-governmental organizations

to provide solutions that help Americans eat healthier and live a

better life.”

Former Chicago Ocer Jailed for Torture of 100Black Men

For years, a growing number of young Black men in

Chicago complained of a White policeman who used variousforms of physical abuse – burning, suffocating, shocking – to

force crime confessions. That ofcer, former Chicago Police

Department Commander Jon Burge, 63, vehemently denied

the allegations during a civil case involving

allegations of torture at the hands of Chicago

police ofcers.

But on Jan. 21, the U.S. Department of

Justice (DOJ) announced that Burge, who now

lives in Florida, was guilty of abusing at least

100 Black men and he was sentenced to 54

months in prison followed by three years of

supervised release for lying in a deposition.

According to the DOJ, Burge was convicted

of two counts of obstruction of justice and one

count of perjury last June. Those charges came

from lies he told during a civil case in 2003,

when Burge denied “using, or being awareof other ofcers using, any type of improper

coercion, physical abuse or torture with

suspects” in custody at Chicago’s Area Two police department.

But evidence showed Burge suffocated multiple victims with

plastic bags, threatened suspects with a gun and shocked

them with electrical equipment.

“Burge abused his power and betrayed the public

trust by abusing suspects in his custody, and then

by lying under oath to cover up what he and

other ofcers had done,” said Thomas E. Perez,

assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights

Division, in a press release. “The department

will aggressively prosecute any ofcer who

violates the Constitution.”

Pregnancy Rate Soars at

Memphis High SchoolThe pregnancy rate among

students at a Memphis high

school has reached alarming

proportions, as more than 90 girls at Frayser High

School, in predominantly Black Shelby County,

Tenn., have already given birth this year or are

pregnant, according to reports.

One of the girls, mother of a 2-month-old daughter, told

WMC-TV in Memphis that more needs to be done by school

ofcials to teach students about pregnancy prevention.

Tericka Sutton, 16, said she discovered she was having a

baby in her fth month of pregnancy.

“It’s a shame that all of these girls are pregnant, but it’s

nothing new,” Sutton said. Referring to her own pregnancy she

said that although “it just happened,” family and friends wereaghast at the revelation.

Asked if there might have been a pact among others to get

pregnant, Sutton told the TV station that it was possible, but

those she knew who got pregnant did so because they thought it

was cute, or conceived by accident.

Frayser High School enrolls 800 students, and the Tennessee

Education Department claims pregnant girls make up 20 percent

of the school’s female population.

Alicia Williamson, who graduated from Frayser in 2004,

told WMC-TV that adults are just beginning to catch on to the

problem. “When we would come back from summer break,

there would be a thousand people pregnant,” she was quoted as

saying. “We were like, ‘What’s going on?’ There were a whole

lot of bellies.”

According to the online publication, Black Spin, teens

that give birth are usually unprepared for the challenges of

parenthood and often drop out of school. They also end uptaking low-paying jobs and never complete their education.

Children born to teen moms are also often sicker, poorer and

less educated as a group.

Meanwhile, school ofcials are scrambling

to curb the pregnancy trend by working

on a pregnancy prevention initiative

expected to go into effect by the end of

January

Where’s the Beef?Law rm sues Taco Bell for falseadvertising on meat products

A Montgomery, Ala., law rm is

suing popular fast food eatery Taco

Bell, claiming the company uses false

advertising when referring to its “seasoned

ground beef” and “seasoned beef” oncommercials and product labels.

The law rm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin,

Portis & Miles led the suit in California federal court on Jan.

21. In a press release, the law rm said Taco Bell’s products

do not meet the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)

standards and claims the “majority of the lling is comprised of

substances other than beef.”

Instead, Taco Bell’s labels and other advertisements

should say “taco meat lling,” according to the law rm. “Our

government, through the USDA and FDA, provides denitions,

standards and labeling guidelines for ‘ground beef.’ What

Taco Bell is representing on their restaurant menu as ‘ground

beef’ does not meet any of those denitions, standards and

labeling guidelines,” said Beasley Allen attorney Dee Miles

in a prepared statement. “This product does not qualify to

be considered ‘ground beef’ and many of the ‘seasoning’

ingredients are in fact binders, llers and coloring. Theseingredients increase the overall volume of this product, reducing

the actual ‘beef’ content per serving. It is against the law in this

country to take someone’s

money for a product that is

misrepresented. This lawsuit

seeks to put a stop to that type

of conduct and practice.”

According to The

Associated Press, Taco Bell

spokesman Rob Poetsch

said the company denies any

wrongdoing and plans to

defend the lawsuit.

AFRO National Briefs

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50 years ago they boarded a busand risked their lives for freedom.

today we celebrate their courage.University of Mary Washington

Freedom Rides 50th Anniversary Celebration

Fbay 7, 2011

Freedom Rides Celebration Kickoff ,featuring “James Farmer and the FreedomRides” exhibit unveiling

James Farmer Visiting Professor Lecture:Eric Etheridge, author of Breach of

Peace, Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders

Mach 30, 2011

Freedom Riders lm event in cooperation

with PBS

Mach 30-31, 2011

James Farmer Visiting Professor Lectures:Andy Lewis, author of The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of theCivil Rights Generation

Mach 31, 2011

Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series:Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom

Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

May 7, 2011

UMW Commencement Speaker:Former Freedom Rider and GeorgiaCongressman John Lewis

May 8, 2011

The Bus Stops Here: PBS 2011 StudentFreedom Ride event

All events will be held on the UMW

campus, and are free and open to

the public.

For times and locations of events:

freedomrides.umw.edu

FRRCbUR, VRA

James Farmer, architect of the Freedom Rides and a key leader of the civil rights movement,

was a distinguished professor of history and American studies at UMW from 1985-98.

F . . :

Balanced.Morally centered.Responsive.Coeducational.

Join us for “Lunch

and Learn” with theHead of School

Observe classes,

speak with students,

meet faculty and

administrators. Next

sessions: January 21

and February 8.

Visit friendsbalt.org

or call 410.649.3211

to register.

Melanie Gatewood ’10

• Senior Class president• Peer Educator• National Student DiversityLeadership Conference delegate

• Varsity Soccer, Lacrosse teams• Concert Chorale Attending Washington University in St. Louis

Billy Collins ’10• Sustainability Club, head• Varsity Tennis,Cross-country teams

• Guitar• Participated in environmentalservice project in Haiti

Attending Bates College

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Irene Bennett Reid,

78, died of lung cancer at

Sinai Hospital on Jan. 11.She served the Baltimore

community as a social worker

and then later, the worldcommunity as a missionary.

Her family held servicesin celebration of her life

on Jan. 15, beginning with

a wake, an Omega OmegaService conducted by her

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

sisters and then, the funeral.Her son, the Rev. Dr. Frank

M. Reid, pastor of Bethel

AME Church, where theservices were held, delivered

the eulogy.Her body was interred

in at Arbutus Cemetery

following the funeral.She is survived by her

sons, Rev. Reid, and former

Baltimore Mayor KurtSchmoke, and their families.

After demolishing Bob

Ehrlich last November in

the General Election, MartinO’Malley ofcially beganhis second and nal term as

Maryland governor with his

inauguration last week, therst full week of work for the

2011 version of the Maryland

General Assembly.And the governor, the

House and the Senate are

all still staring at the same800-pound gorilla they

grappled with in 2010, abillion dollar budget decit.

“It’s an honor and privilege

to be here, but the real workbegins to try and close a $1.6

billion decit,” said Del.

Keiffer J. Mitchell, one of dozens of freshman members

of the House of Delegates.

I caught up with him while

he waited in line to sign thebook all new members signduring opening day of the

session, also known as friends

and family day. Just think of the rst day of school—on

steroids.

“And we’re prepared tomake tough choices. Some

of them aren’t going to be

popular, but at the end of theday it’s time, we need to do

the right thing for the state of Maryland,” he added.

Mitchell, who represents

the 44th legislative district inBaltimore City – the same

district his uncle, Clarence

“The Bear” Mitchell IIIrepresented in the 1960s –

may be a rookie in Annapolis,but he is a veteran of

Baltimore politics serving on

the City Council from 1995 to2007, a stretch that included a

run for mayor in 2007.Mitchell argues shifting

exploding pension costs to

local governments shouldnot be one of those tough

choices—at least not now.

“Shifting the pension costto the city of Baltimore would

break the back of the city,”

Mitchell said. “To shift thatcost over while we’ve got a

tax base that is dwindling,with the issues in Baltimore

City, right now is not the time

for the city to absorb that typeof shift.”

Gov. O’Malley stirred up

some dust earlier this monthduring the annual Conference

of Maryland’s Association of

Counties, when he announcedhe would not propose pension

costs to shift beginning inscal year 2012. A sentiment

Senate President Mike Miller

sneered at during the same

Irene Reid’s son, former

Baltimore Mayor KurtSchmoke, and his wife,

are escorted from thefuneral service. Mrs. Reid

was interred at Arbutus

Cemetery in a servicefollowing the funeral.

‘Dollars and Sense’

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Family, sorors, friends and members of the Baltimore community turned outto celebrate the life of Irene Reid at herhomegoing service on Jan. 15 at Bethel

AME Church in Baltimore.

The Rev. Dr. Frank Reid,

pastor of Bethel AME

Church and Mrs. Reid’sson, delivered the eulogy.

Seated on the pulpit is

Bishop Adam J. Richardson.

Homegoing for Irene Reid

Photos by J.D. Howard



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intact and limiting new

spending to three percent.

Without the convenientbillion-dollar stimulus funding

O’Malley leveraged last

year, he plans to expand theoperating budget by $1.5

billion and shift monies fromstate funding pots, including

the Transportation Trust Fund

to the General Fund.The proposed transfers

from the transportation fund

have drawn opposition from

some legislative analysts,who say Maryland’s needy

transportation systems cannot

afford to lose money. Early

this week, a group of businessleaders formed a coalition

– the State TransportationAlliance to Restore the Trust

– to oppose diversion of thefunds.

O’Malley has seen similar

opposition to his pensionreform suggestions which

would require current state

workers and teachers tocontribute an additional two

percent toward their benets

while new workers wouldhave to wait ve extra years to

retire. O’Malley’s budget team

says the reforms would save$100 million.

Patrick Moran, Marylanddirector of the American

Federation of State, County

and Municipal Employees,said he is disappointed in the

governor’s pension decisions.

“Even in these tough times, it

is essential that we remember

our priorities in Maryland,and that the people of this

state come rst,” he said in a

statement. “It’s particularlydisappointing because the

governor had other options tobalance the budget, including

closing corporate tax loopholes

and nding other revenuestreams.”

O’Malley described

pension overhaul as one of

the toughest decisions thelegislature will make this

year. “All of us have a vested

interest in nding the most

fair and equitable way to keepour pension commitments,”

he said.Since O’Malley took

ofce, state employees haveabsorbed over $580 million in

salary and benet reductions,

but this budget eases up onthe workers, recommending

no furloughs – in fact offering

$750 bonuses – and allowing1,000 to apply for early

retirement. The executive

ordered Voluntary SeparationProgram is expected to save

the state $40 million a year.

On the health coveragefront, O’Malley plans to set

aside $7 billion in health carefor 916,000 low-income,

disabled and chronically-

ill residents. According tothe state, his dedication

to improving health care

access is not new – the

administration has expanded

coverage to more than247,000 Marylanders to date.

O’Malley proposes the most

drastic cuts – $264 million – toMedicaid reimbursements to

state hospitals.The budget includes

$2.18 billion in public safety

funding, including millionsto support an initiative

targeting violent offenders and

advancing law enforcementtechnology; increased funding

for the Chesapeake Bay trust

fund and more than $6 millionfor low-income families to

improve energy efciency intheir homes.

The governor’s

administration is also toutingthe budget’s investment in

job creation, including the

formation of a $100 million

venture capital fund andfunding for 15,000 state

construction jobs. Thenancial plan also consolidates

some state ofces, includingthe Higher Education

Commission and the State

Department of Education, tosave an estimated $4 million.

O’Malley has said he is

committed to “a balancedbudget with just cuts” but that

does not stop the legislature

from proposing tax hikes.On a radio show the

morning of his budget-roll

out, O’Malley said he hasonly vetoed ve bills since

he’s taken ofce. “I workcollaboratively with the state

legislature,” he said.

John Rohrer, scal analystfor the state Department

of Legislative Services

commended O’Malley for

reducing the general fund

structural decit by one third,but noted it was unclear how

his budget accounted for about

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Three days after

O’Malley’s budget reveal,he presented his legislative

agenda, which includes

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energy usage, federal healthcare reform implementation,

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basic needs, such as food, nancial literacy,and job search assistance.

“The stuff that he said about cuts kindof worries me,” said Rep. Keith Ellison

(D-Minn.), who gave the speech a six-and-

a-half, giving high marks for Obama’sdiscussion about increasing jobs by rebuilding

America’s infrastructure. “[CAPS] are lifeline

programs. Those are not luxury programs.These are programs that keep people

subsisting. So what is he talking about?”

The president’s speech was also watched

closely by Black civil rights leaders. “Weapplaud the President for his foresight inrecognizing that we need to prepare our

workforce for the jobs of the future and to be

able to compete with the rest of the world,”said National Urban League President Marc

Morial said in a statement.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose Rainbow/PUSH Coalition has historically focused

on strengthening the poor, said in an

interview that he would give the speech highmarks for inspiration, but it was missing a key

element, he said.“He didn’t mention the word poverty

and poverty is growing,” said Rev. Jackson.

“Forty-nine million are in poverty. They workand can’t pay their rent. Poverty is a big deal. I

think his assumption is that rising tides lifts all

boats. Wall Street’s yachts have lifted, but noone is discussing poverty.”

Still, President Obama’s promise to

simultaneously shore up jobs and educationwas a big hit with U. S. Rep. David Scott

(D-Ga.) who gave the speech a whole 10.

“You can’t have the job if you don’t havethe education. You can’t get the education

if you’re not disciplined and you can’t getthe discipline if you don’t have that family

structure,” Scott said.

U. S. Rep. Clyburn (D-S.C.) called theState of the Union “a great speech” – though

he echoed concerns about program cuts. “I

think the people are now seeing who andwhat President Obama is. We have to give

him credit for stepping up when we had an

economy that was hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs

a month,” Clyburn said. “So, when you’reresponding to a crisis and you look at a placewhere you’ve never been, then it’s going to be

hit and miss.”

Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), who declinedto give a rating, said everyone should not be

surprised by the president’s mention of CAPS

after the across the board tax cuts last year.“That’s what happens when you pass an $850

billion tax cut,” Scott said. “Everybody wants

a tax cut. That’s nice. How are we going to payfor it? Now we are nding out.”

Still, some CBC members praised thePresident for simply making hard decisions.

“I think the president hit a home run because

he’s really talking about the future. If not a 10,maybe a 10 plus,” said Rep. Donna Edwards.

“This is about the 21st century.”

Edwards quickly pointed out that thePresident stressed his willingness to make

sacricial cuts but only of those programs that

are not necessary. “But let’s make sure thatwe’re not doing it on the backs of our most

vulnerable citizens,” Obama said to applause.

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Opinion

(TEWire) - In the wake of

the State of the Union Addressthere is likely to be much

partisan conversation about

the direction of our nation.President Obama will address

the economy and jobs, andRepublicans will talk about

the health of the economy,

and about cutting budgets intheir rebuttal. Citing growing

decits, both parties are

concerned that spending is outof control. Yet some spending

is absolutely needed to create

jobs, just as $700 billionof spending was needed to

bail out banks. It intrigues me that the same folk who eagerlybailed banks out have now suddenly discovered the concept

of budget cuts and are pushing them, even as they have added

to the decit by insisting on

extending Bush tax cuts.

President Obama hasfurthered the notion that thereis a budget crisis by appointing

Erskine Bowles and Alan

Simpson to make suggestionsto manage the federal budget decit. The Bowles/Simpson

commission would trim about $4 trillion from the federalbudget in the next decade by increasing the Social Security

retirement age, freezing federal pay, leveling Pentagon

spending, and making other cost-cutting suggestions. Therewere 18 people on the National Commission on Fiscal

Responsibility and Reform, and 14 had to approve the

suggestions for them to be accepted. Only 11, however, wentalong with some of the draconian plans that were announced,

so the suggestions are only suggestions.

It is important to raise questions about the nature of the decit crisis. Is this a cyclical crisis, connected to the

economic downturn? Is it more structural, something that

would have occurred with our without the downturn? How

should it be managed, and will there be equal pain

around curtailing the decit, or will only one or two

sectors pay for the challenges the decit creates?

For example, there has been talk of raising

the social security retirement age for years, andalways we have looked at an across the board age

increase, whether workers are high income or low,whether they have pensions or not, whether their

work is physical or not. It’s entirely different to

ask a professor to work until 70 than it is to ask awaitress to do so, but these plans increase the social

security retirement age do not seem to take these

things into consideration, thus continuing a classbased economic inequality that also creates racial

inequality. Is this our goal? To widen gaps instead

of narrowing them? Increasing the social securityretirement age indiscriminately will do this.

Similarly, the attack on federal employees isan attack that has a differential impact by race and gender.

Women and people of color are both more likely to be

employed by the federal government, but also more likely

to get more equal pay in the public sector than in the privatesector. United for a Fair Economy released their annual

State of the Dream report last week. Entitled, “Austerity for

Whom,” the report explores the ways that so-called budgetcutting measures actually hit women and people of color more

severely.

White women earn 82 cents for every $1 White men earnin the public sector, compared to 71 cents in the private sector.

Black men earn 80 cents to the White male dollar in the public

sector, but a scant 57 cents for every dollar in the private sector.Black women earn 73 cents to the White male dollar in the public

sector, but 56 cents in the private sector. Latino men earn 86 cents

to the White male dollar in the public sector but just 48 cents to

the dollar, while Latina women earn 71 cents to the dollar in the

public sector, but just 46 to the White male dollar in the privatesector.

The solution may not be to maintain a large public

workforce, but any solution will include an awareness of

these differences and, perhaps, a strong Equal EmploymentOpportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforce anti-

discrimination laws. Who wants to bet that the EEOC will beanother of the budget cutting casualties? In an anti-regulatory

climate, the combination of federal employment cuts, and

an indifference to enforcement of anti-discrimination laws isdesigned to increase the racial unemployment gap.

It makes sense that the decit should rise during an

employment crisis. While we should be careful with our

resources, we should certainly not budget and employment

signicantly in a recession. The so-called decit crisis could

be a more complex crisis if we don’t put people back to work,

no matter what it costs.

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is president of Bennett College

for Women in Greensboro, N.C . Her latest book, “Surviving

and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History” can be

ordered at www.lastwordprod.com.

Is There Really a Defcit Crisis?

“Freedom has always

been an expensive thing.

History is a ft testimony to

the fact that freedom is rarely

gained without sacrifce and

self-denial.” – Dr. Martin

Luther King Jr.

Last Monday, the nation

celebrated what would have

been the 82nd birthday of the

20th century’s great drum

major for justice Dr. MartinLuther King Jr. Dr. King

understood that economic

justice was the most crucial

question confronting Black

people, as well as poor and middle class people generally

throughout America. In fact, at his death, he was on the brink

of launching a nationwide campaign for jobs and income.

As, America enters the second decade of a new millennium,

and the National Urban League begins its second century, our

organization is introducing a new blueprint for achieving that

goal.

The nation remains mired in a great recession. The National

Urban League has seen the impact of this crisis rst hand. Our

more than 100 local afliates across the country are economic

rst-responders in the ongoing effort to help ease the burden of

those most profoundly affected by this recession, serving some

2.1 million citizens in 2010 alone.

Over the past two years, much of the work of the Obama

administration and the 111th Congress has been nothing short

of heroic. From the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ,

to the passage of the Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection Act ,

the Affordable Healthcare Act , and the extension of middle

class tax relief and unemployment benets, the administration

has taken historic actions to restore America’s economic

vitality.

But the persistent nature of the recession has brought little

relief to families either out of work or stretching part-time

wages to meet full-time nancial commitments. Record

numbers of Americans were forced into foreclosure in 2010,

and many urban families in communities already long beset by

economic stagnation are enduring unemployment rates as high

as 20 percent.

That is why the National Urban League is proposing a new

12-point Blueprint for Quality Job Creation. Our plan offers a

dozen dynamic and imaginative measures to both rescue those

most profoundly affected by the ongoing economic emergency,

while also remedying many of the underlying causes behind

the recession’s inordinate and seemingly-amplied impact on

the communities we serve:

1. Restore the Summer Youth Jobs Program as a stand-

alone program employing 5 million teens in summer 2011.

2. Create 100 urban jobs academies to implement an

expansion of the Urban Youth Empowerment Program.

3. Develop a dynamic national public-private jobs

initiative to create jobs and train urban residents and stimulate

economic growth in the areas of technology and broadband,

health care, manufacturing, transportation and public

infrastructure and clean energy.

4. Boost minority participation in information and

communication technology (ICT) industries.

5. Reform, revise and reauthorize Workforce Investment

Act to prepare and retrain

workers for 21st century jobs.6. Create green

empowerment zones.

7. Expand small business

lending.

8. Initiate tax reform that

reduces rates across the board and eliminates tax loopholes.

9. Establish and promote multilateral international trade

policies that expand the market for American goods and

services.

10. Enact the Urban Jobs Act (H.R. 5708).

11. Expand the hiring of housing counselors nationwide.

12. Fund direct job creation in cities and states.

We urge the Congress and the White House to adopt these

measures without delay.

Marc H. Morial is president and CEO of the National

Urban League.

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

Poor Haiti. As if the

unrelenting poverty and

political strife, a mass-killing earthquake, a

cholera epidemic and

widespread homelessnessand hopelessness were not

enough, now comes the

aggravation of an exileddictator’s shocking return.

What prompted Jean-Claude“Baby Doc” Duvalier to

come back to Haiti after aquarter of a century is all theintrigue these days. Many

will remember his ight with

his pretty wife in 1986, when the privileged and powerfulDuvaliers zipped off to Paris as their country came apart. How

painful it was to see them escape, with all the world knowing

about the millions in their pockets and the rank needinessof their countrymen who had nothing but anger, fear and

desperation to feed on.

Out of the blue – for no apparent reason – the man whoruled the island nation with brutality and blood thirst simply

showed up one day last week. To millions there, Baby Doc is

a legend, a gure in the history books, someone their parents

and grandparents talked about but, for them, far enough

removed from their own experiences that they can afford to be

generous with the benet of the doubt. Maybe he really wasn’t

that bad, they may say; after all, the old folks say there was, atleast, some order when Baby Doc ruled the place.

They should know that he really was that bad. Between

Jean-Claude and his infamous father, Francois “Papa Doc”Duvalier, thousands upon thousands of ordinary Haitians

suffered torture, wrongful imprisonment and death. Their not-

so-secret “secret” police, the Tonton Macoutes, terrorized the

countryside for decades. You may recall how the tables wereturned on the henchmen after their patron ran off like a scared

chicken, leaving them to face the vengeful mobs.

The truth about the Duvaliers becomes even more shadedwith the cover being woven for Jean-Claude by three lawyers

from Georgia, including former congressman Bob Barr, who

used to be a prosecutor. To hear Barr tell it, the charges of corruption and human rights violations are just cheap gossip.

Even more galling is lawyer Ed Marger’s apologia. He hadthe nerve to tell reporters that “at least there was stability in

the country” when Baby Doc was in charge. Couldn’t the same

have been said about Saddam Hussein, Nicolai Ceaucescu

and Josef Stalin, to name but a few standouts from the Brutal

Dictators Club? Theirs were frightful systems, but there was

denitely an order to them.

Marger says Baby Doc’s old man had told him, “If you ever

have a problem with the United States,” he should get in touchwith Marger. Yes, the shark seems to think that an endorsement

and recommendation from a mass murderer and plunderer is

something to crow about.The great suspicion – and,

sadly, a reasonable one – isthat money is behind these

freakish developments. Duringhis 15 years as “president forlife,” Baby Doc salted away

millions in Swiss bank accounts. When he was driven out

of the country in 1986, the Swiss froze the accounts. Now, aforthcoming statutory change may free up about $7.3 million.

Whether that goes to broke-to-the-bone Haiti or it’s cunning

former dictator depends on some technicalities that Duvalier’ssurprise return may have been set up to serve.

He says he came back to help his decrepit homeland,

nothing more. If you believe that, you should see the manabout some oceanside property in Port-au-Prince.

Deborah Mathis is a columnist with BlackAmericaWeb.

com, where this article was originally published.

Was Duvalier All That Bad in Haiti? Yes

Marc H. Morial

Deborah Mathis

Julianne Malveaux

“Citing growing decits, both parties are concerned that spend-

ing is out o control. Yet some spending is...needed to create jobs...”

“Our plan ofers a dozen dynamic and imaginative measuresto... rescue those most prooundly afected by the ongoingeconomic emergency...”

“Between Jean-Claude and his inamous ather, Francois ‘PapaDoc’ Duvalier, thousands upon thousands o ordinary Haitians

sufered torture, wrongul imprisonment and death.”



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Institute and a city council

candidate, said the public felt

the “volatile” incident washandled poorly.

“If this is the way he isgoing to handle all cases, then

we are in trouble,” he told

reporters.

The leaders also criticizedthe State’s Attorney’s Ofce

for not demanding bail fromAvi Werdesheim, who is also

charged with misdemeanors.

They are calling for afederal probe to determine

whether or not the accusedshould face hate crime

charges.

After the press conference,Bernstein’s ofce released

a curt statement, saying the

decision to drop the chargeagainst Eliyahu Werdesheim

was “based on a careful and

thorough investigation of the facts and analysis of the

applicable law.”“It is not appropriate

to make any further public

statements about the factsof this case—or any other

pending cases—until after

a trial in which all of the

evidence is presented,” itread. “Such public comments

are unfair to all the partiesinvolved.”

The injured teen’s

attorney, J. Wyndal Gordon,

told the AFRO Bernstein is“being soft” on Werdesheim

because he is Jewish.“There is no other reason

why the charges would be

dropped,” he said, insisting theincident had all the elements

of a hate crime. “This youngchild was assaulted because

he was African American in a

Jewish community.”The third man involved

in the attack has yet to be

prosecuted, he said, and thetwo brothers are receiving

“special treatment.”

Gordon asserts he hasreason to believe the two men

are dual citizens of Israel andthe U.S. and can ee at anymoment, especially the second

brother who did not face baildemands.

Neglecting to disclose this

information would violate

the Ethics in Government Act

of 1978, which requires all

federal ofcials, including

Supreme Court justices,to disclose their spouse’s

income. Thomas indicated

“none” under the lattercategory on his disclosure

forms from 2003 to 2009.Common Cause on Jan.

20 also requested the Justice

Department investigate the“apparent involvement” of

both Thomas and Justice

Antonin Scalia in what it calls

“strategy sessions” hosted by

Koch Industries in January2010. Koch Industries, one of

the nation’s largest privately-

held companies owned by theKoch brothers, conservative

magnates, is the umbrella for

such companies as Georgia-Pacic.

Koch sent out a description

for its next program inPalm Springs, Calif.,

entitled “Understandingand Addressing Threats to

American Free Enterprise and

Prosperity” which states:“This action-oriented

program brings together

top experts and leaders to

discuss –and offer solutions

to counter – the most critical

threats to our free society. …Past meetings have featured

such notable leaders as

Supreme Court JusticesAntonin Scalia and Clarence

Thomas; Governors Bobby

Jindal and Haley Barbour;commentators John Stossel,

Charles Krauthammer, Glenn

Beck, and Rush Limbaugh;Senators Jim DeMint and Tom

Coburn; and RepresentativesPaul Ryan, Mike Pence, and

Tom Price.”

Common Cause claimedthat sitting justices meeting

with the second largest private

corporation in the U.S. raises

questions about whether

the two jurists should back

away from upcoming casesinvolving campaign nancing

by corporations.

Common Cause is askingthe Judicial Conference to

probe these matters and, if

warranted, refer the issue tothe Justice Department for

enforcement under the Ethics

in Government Act.

If found guilty, Thomas

would become only thesecond justice in modern

times to encounter ethics

problems. Liberal AssociateJustice Abe Fortas resigned

in 1969 under pressure over

nancial and ethics issues.

Baltimore City PoliceDet. Donnie Moses said the

FBI is still taking an active

role in the investigation andthat every effort is being

made to locate this young

lady. The department is stillencouraging anyone with

any information to call the

hotline at 855-223-0033.“We’re trying to remain

optimistic that we will ndher safe and sound,” Det.

Moses said.

Community Activists

ThomasSearch Continues for Teen

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meeting.“The counties determine how many

people they hire and they don’t set the

pensions,” Miller said. “It makes no sensewhatsoever. You can’t run a business

like that. You couldn’t run your private

business like that, and the state can’t.”In addition to working on the ailing

pension system, a 3 percent hike instate tuitions, a funding freeze for K-12

education and a $250 million cut in

Medicaid payments to hospitals, amongother issues, should get plenty of debate

time on the oors of the Senate and the

House.I also got to catch up with newly

minted Del. Mary Washington – who

was also on line to sign the rookie book –another soldier who’s trudged Baltimore’s

often precarious political trenches.The Eastside community leader, now

representing the 43rd legislative district,

rst ran for the seat in 2006. She says sheembraces the unique challenges of the

2011 session.

“I don’t think my feelings have caughtup with me yet…but, now to be in this

room with 141 other delegates it’s really

exhilarating,” Washington said.“We’re going to be delegates at a

difcult time, but I’d rather be here to

help us move forward during the difculttimes. And I trust and I believe that the

people that sent me here trust that I’mgoing to look out for our priorities…if

you’re a ballplayer…you can’t be afraid

to take that shot at the buzzer. You haveto be the person that wants to be on the

court when you’re behind and that’s

where we are right now,” Washingtonadded. “And I think we’ve got a great

team of people from Baltimore City who

are new, who want to be here during thisdifcult time and I’m really excited. We

don’t have to do it alone.”But, the talk on opening day wasn’t

just about the “$1.6 billion cavernous

hole,” in the words of the venerable Sen.Nathaniel McFadden. There was also

a lot of talk – and much whispering –

about the burgeoning mayor’s race inBaltimore.

Literally, as soon as I walked through

the doors of the State House I was greetedby the spokesperson for one of the

biggest players in Maryland politics, whoalso at one time worked closely with the

man who wants to be mayor, Otis Rolley.

My friend basically lauded Rolley’seducation and knack for trouble-shooting,

but seemed to question whether or notthe former Woodrow Wilson Fellow and

MIT graduate, who touts Bill Cosby as a

benefactor, was built for the blood sportbrutality of running Baltimore City. “I

don’t know if he’s ready for all that,”Rolley’s supporter lamented.

And despite the splash he made a

couple of weeks ago with the appearanceof Cosby at his fundraiser at the Tremont

Hotel and some other big money

supporters he’s attracted, Rolley lags farbehind Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

(and Sen. Catherine Pugh) in the size of

his mayoral war chest.The latest nancial report I saw has

SRB at $842,000; Pugh, who told mevia Facebook, “Squarely focused on the

session…have not made a decision at

all yet regarding the Mayor’s race,” is at$252,000; and Rolley is a distant third

with $106,000.

I’m still waiting to see if the sonof a legendary Maryland senator, who

attempted to wrestle the City Council

president’s chair away from SRB in 2007will make a run for the mayor’s ofce.

In the words of Yogi Berra, “This islike déjà vu all over again.”

Sean Yoes is a former staff reporter

and contributing writer to the AFRO.

DollarsContinued from A3



By Kyle TaylorSpecial to the AFRO

Although it is currently

in a state of recovery, the

economy has had a drastic

nancial effect in many

areas, especially the real

estate market. Americans

across the country have had

to make minor and major

adjustments to get by,including seniors who have

had to put off settling into

their golden years.

Considered by some asan unnoticed consequence

of the recession, seniors

who would rather sell their

houses so they can move

into smaller lodgings,

retirement communitiesor other assisted-living

housing facilities have

essentially become

prisoners in their own

homes.

“It is a mixed issue,”

said Rawle Andrews,

senior state director of the

AARP in Maryland. “When

we do surveys, peopleoverwhelmingly tell us if they have a choice, they

would prefer coming home

at the end of the day to

their homes. Many people,

if they can, will stay at

home. But at some point,

you reach the point where

you can’t do it alone.

Either you’re going to

move or someone is goingto move you. However,

we’re certainly anticipating

that this is something that

we’re going to be lookingvery closely at.”

With the economy

expected to improve,

analysts have predicted that

it would eventually lead to

an improvement in home

sales as well. While it is

still very early in the year,

those expectations have

remained guarded amongwould-be buyers and

sellers, including seniors

who have not been able to

sell their homes.“We’re denitely

hearing that this is a

problem and people are

trying to be creative

solving it,” said Lauren

Shaham, vice president of communications for the

American Association of

Homes and Services for the

Aging (AAHSA).

According to Shaham,

some of those creative

solutions include

facilities, which are facing

depopulated waiting lists

and rising vacancy rates,establishing relationshipswith real estate agents to

assist prospective residents

in selling their homes.

Some communities have

deferred their entry and

up-front fees—ranging

from $100,000 to

$500,000—and others have

collaborated with banks to

develop programs to helphomeowners secure loans.

According to AAHSA,

there are currently 39,500

assisted living facilitiesand 1,900 continuing care

retirement communities in

the United States. Close

to 1 million people live

in those residences with

approximately 745,000

living in the retirement

communities.

Shaham noted that

occupancy numbers inretirement communities

and assisted living

communities have gone

up in 2010, which maybe a sign of good things

to come. According to

the National Investment

Center for the Seniors

Housing and Care Industry

(NIC), occupancy rates forindependent and assisted-

living facilities remained

steady during the second

and third quarters of 2010

at 87.7 percent, suggesting

some stability.

Everyday life stressors,

such as trying to sell a

home, are exactly what

seniors seek to avoid bymoving into a retirementhome Shaham explained.

“Retirement

communities are much

more of a lifestyle choice

than a health care choice,”

Shaham said. “They offer

people freedoms from a

lot of the hassles of daily

living. A lot of the people

there decide they don’twant to take care of a

home anymore and like

how the amenities are

consolidated.”Before nalizing the

move to a retirement or

assisted-living community,

Shaham suggested seniors

examine the resources they

need in order to make the

change by understanding

the living costs where they

want to live. Once that

conclusion is reached, thencomes the hard part.

To boost the chances of

nding a buyer, the AARP

suggests owners create aclever marketing plan and

hire an experienced agent

who is savvy at pushing

property online. They also

recommend inexpensive

xes to help the housesell such as a new paint

in a neutral color, carpet

cleaning and fresh

landscaping. Paramount

among those, however, is

setting a realistic price and

accepting the reality that

it may be lower than what

you’d like. The sooner

this is accepted, the better,Shaham said.

“People need to realize

that home values are never

going to be what they were

before,” she said. “Even if

they don’t reach that level,

you can still sell your home

for a prot and still have a

nice nest egg. It might not

be what it was ve years

ago, but it will probably bemore than it was 40 years

ago.”

SENIOR GUIDEa g u i d e t o s e n i o r l i v i n g f o r t h e a c t i v e a f r i c a n a m e r i c a n

Lasting LoveMaking relationships work for the long haulBy Joi-Marie McKenzieSpecial to the AFRO

After years of marriage, you know exactly how he

likes his coffee. You know that she’s more of a night

owl than a morning person. You’ve raised kids and now

grandchildren together. You have even endured changesin nances because of retirement. You are together...but

are you happy?

As you mature in age, your love also matures. Long-

lasting relationships require creativity and commitment

in order to remain fresh and fun. While unhappy couplesare often left bitter because of indiscretions or issues that

occurred earlier in the marriage, happier couples know

how to let it go. They also know how to reinvent what

makes their relationship so special. The AFRO reached

out to younger married couples, who have been married

11 years or less, to uncover a novel perspective and nd

out how these couples keep their union fresh, new and

strong.

“And did I

mention she’s really

pretty?” askedReginald Pickett,

38, when describing

what attracted him to

his wife. Reggie met

his wife Natalie, 33,

while working at the

Washington Post in

2000. Their friendship

evolved one nightwhen the two hung

out with a few

coworkers at Dave

& Busters in White Flint, Md. “Chemistrysparked that night...it just started

happening,” recalled Reginald. While on

his way home from the outing, he called

his future bride, who just so happened to be

calling him at the same time. The two knew

it wasn’t just any coincidence and theytalked all the way home.

After nearly eight years of marriage and

two children, Natalie and Reggie, who pen a relationship

blog called “Love Notes by Reggie and Natalie,” have

already gured out the secret to keeping their spark.“Every now and then you have to make a commitment

to re-court and get to know your mate all over again,”

explains Reggie. “You

change. What you

thought you wanted

to do 10 years ago is

not the same thing

anymore.”

The couple, who

live in Largo, Md.,

enjoy frequent datenights, watching chick

icks and enjoying

each other’s company

without their children.

Adrienne Watson

Carver, 41, met her

husband Stacey, 40, at

a local gym. The two noticed each other while grooving

in a hip-hop aerobics class. When Stacey approachedAdrienne after class to say, “Good work out,” she

recognized him. Adrienne, a model and dance coach,

had just seen the comedian onstage opening up for

Mo’Nique at a club in Laurel, Md.

“From right then I fell in love because she knew my

jokes,” Stacey said when Adrienne replayed some of his

performance. “No one had knew my jokes before. ...I

fell in love right there.”

The two laughed their way into each others hearts andafter 11 years, the two have gured out what makes their

marriage tick. “Doing things together,” said Adrienne.

“Of course we both have our own interests but we’re

very supportive. … I always say it’s us against the

world.”

Their supportive nature paired with their ability to

accept each other for their strengths and weaknesses has

made a happy home for the Carvers. Stacey stressed that

an important value in their relationship is acceptance.He accepts his wife for who she is and who she isn’t.“Adrienne is not the come home and ‘Baby, your

dinner is ready’ type of woman. And I accept that.”

Instead of creating an argument, Stacey cooks meals for

their family and tends to the house when he can. Both

Adrienne and Stacey take a shared approach to creating

a home for their three children, which has put less stress

on them individually and less stress on their marriage.

Relationship expert Paul Carrick Brunson met

his wife of 10 years, Jill, while the two attended Old

Dominion University in Virginia. While taking a test in

W i n t e r 2 0 1 1

Continued on B3

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Homebound: Senior Sellers Stuck at Home

Natalie and Reggie Pickett

Courtesy Photo

Stacey and Adrienne Carver

Courtesy Photo

AFRO Illustration/V. Johnson

Younger couples oer advice to their elders

on how to re-ignite the relationship ames.

Some seniors would rather give up the burden of their

homes but have not been able to do so due to a laggingreal estate market.



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A 2009 study conducted by the Centers for Disease

Control (CDC) revealed that Black teens and young

adults are more prone to violence than their White

counterparts. Despite that alarming fact, mentoring and

counseling groups like the District-based Evolutionary

Elders (EE) continue to inspire African-American youth

to excel personally and professionally.

Co-founder and author, Eugene Williams Sr., said the

organization ghts the odds by maintaining a positive

outlook about the future of Black youth.”We don’t want

to be bothered with defeatist attitudes,” Williams, 68,

said. “Our goal is to work with mentors, counselors and

organizations who have not given up on our children.”

Evolutionary Elders seeks to heal social ills that plague

African-American young men and women by bridging

generational gaps. Members close these gaps by using

education and positive reinforcement to reach Black

youth.

“We came together to forge this concept—soon-

to-become-movement—because we were really upset

at some of the things we saw in families and also in

schools,” William said.The Clinton, Md., resident established Evolutionary

Elders in spring 2010 with his long-time friend Wetzel

Witten, a 67-year-old community organizer from

Washington, D.C.

The two men bring together men and women that were

born in the 1930s and 1940s, grew up in the 1950s and

became social revolutionaries in the 1960s, to mentor and

counsel young people and their families. These elders

forfeit vacations in Miami to “liberate and elevate the

thinking and actions” of Black youth.

“We are an African people, and Negritude represents

our attitude,” Witten said. “Therefore, we will never be

senior citizens because senior citizens retire; Evolutionary

Elders inspire.”

Members inspire by venturing into schools, recreation

centers and churches across the D.C. metro area with atwo-pronged mission: to work with parents, guardians

and educators to improve education (academics and

athletics) and to teach Black youth about their history and

respect for their elders.

“Whether anybody accepts it or not, our schools and

families are in crisis and our children are caught up in

this,” Williams said. “As we see it, if something is not

done soon, we will see our schools dissolve and become

worse off than they are now.”

Now 10 members strong, the group’s counselors

include an eclectic mix of doctoral degree holders and

activists; mathematicians and wordsmiths; athletes and

musicians--each of whom share their knowledge with

young mentees.

Mary H. Johnson, a member of Evolutionary Elders,

said psychological counseling warrants as much attention

as academic tutoring.

“The highest compliment I have received since I

began working with EE came from a student who was

asked, ‘Why do you go to the math center so often?’ Do

you know what he said in response to that? ‘Because Dr.

Johnson makes me fee l like I’m somebody,’” Johnson

said.

Johnson holds a doctorate in mathematics education

from University of Maryland-College Park and is married

to Williams. The two founded Academic Resources

Unlimited (ARU) in 2008. ARU is a non-prot that

provides tutorial and communication services to high

school students and educators.

Johnson said because many of the organization’smentees receive little encouragement at home, it is

incumbent on the mentors to remind them of their worth.

“Our children ght so hard to feel accepted,” Johnson

said. “Sometimes all it takes is for them to meet someone

who says, ‘You can do it!’”

Ed Brown, c reator of YouTube’s social commentary

program “The Ed Brown Show,” echoed Johnson’s

sentiment.

“Environment affects development,” Brown said.

“Some of these kids have no one who cares whether or

not they succeed.”

Brown’s program covers topics ranging from politics

to education, and featured guests include university

presidents and local lawmakers. He said the elders’

experience is their greatest asset. “A child might pay

more attention to someone who is much older,” Brownsaid. “An elder brings knowledge that other people don’t

have. So when an elder says, ‘Study hard,’ they listen.”

Williams and Witten said several students have

changed their behavior since coming under their tutelage.

“We mentored a 15-year-old boy, a very smart kid,

who sold drugs. He told me, ‘I never thought about the

consequences.’ So, I decided to give him a job designing

our books,” Williams said. “Now, he tells me he’s staying

out of trouble. On top of that, the work he produces for us

is outstanding.”

Evolutionary Elders collaborates with non-prot

group Wise Educators.com and the Success and Learning

Math Center in Upper Marlboro, Md., to provide quality

tutoring and counseling services to their mentees.

“We don’t want volunteers looking to benet from the

name, Evolutionary Elders. They must have a history of

doing good things and want to continue to do that work,”

Williams said.

Elders interested in mentoring or counseling for

Evolutionary Elders should contact Eugene Williams Sr.

at (301) 768-8316 or [email protected], or

Wetzel Witten at [email protected].

Bridging Generation Gaps to Inspire African-American Youth

Courtesy Photo

Eugene Wiliams Sr. has started a senior mentoring

program to inspire and guide African-American youth.

“Our goal is to work with mentors,counselors and organizations who have

not given up on our children.”



complicated.

The other two

guides support the

process of changing

your life. These

give details on small

changes that make a

difference and waysto track what you do

and how you feel. These

tools keep you conscious of

the process and motivated

by the accomplished

milestones.

Equally emphasized by

the program is getting your

body moving. Body Gospel

comes with a piece of

resistance equipment

called the Body

Gospel Band.

It’s easy to

assemble

and is used in some of the

workouts.

The three disks

of workouts each

have a focus area:

strength, power

and core. There are

multiple 30-minute

workouts on

each disk. The

fourth disk is

an audio that can be played

while walking and running,

to help you keep a steady

pace and stay motivated.

The workouts

are sound and as

with any program,

will work if you

work them. The

music was good

and there was

always someonedemonstrating the

low-impact version

on an exercise (in

case your

knees are

not up to

the pounding

of high impact moves).

The workouts include

some kind of commercial

for Shakeology – the

antioxidant, vitamin,

probiotic shake connected

to the program. While the

commercials are annoying,

the shake is awful. After

several tries, mixing it

different ways – with

juices and plain water – not

even half a glass could be

consumed. Others tried the

various concoctions with

even less success. No onecould stomach enough

of this to make a

difference.

Over all, Body Gospel

is a good program, ideal

for someone who wants a

workout that acknowledges

the inuence of faith

on moving towards a

better life. But for the

best experience, stick

to the workouts and the

motivational/nutritional

guides and avoid

Shakeology.

Winter 2011, The Afro-American SENIORGUIDE B3

By Talibah

Chikwendu

AFRO Executive Editor

Proper

nutrition,

exercise and

healthyliving are

important for

longevity and

a productive

life. Everyday people

are looking for new

ways to incorporate

these into their lives,

in meaningful and

sustainable ways. This has

made the exercise/tness

and nutrition industries big

businesses, with people of

all ages, ethnic groups and

income levels spending

into it.

For

many

people,

bringing

worship

into their

everyday

activities

is also

important.

So it

comes

as no surprise that faith

and tness are being

connected. Nor is it a bad

match. Is it really possible

for our physical being toreach its potential without

involving our spiritual

being? The creation of

Body Gospel seems to

indicate the answer is no.

Body Gospel is

an exercise/

nutrition program

surrounded

by Christian

principles and

religious music.

It combines

a variety of exercises and

workouts

with

important

tools to

help

users

keep

on track,

motivated and

moving forward

toward their

weight loss and

tness goals.

Donna

Richardson

Joyner is at the

center of this

program, leading

the exercises and

reminding users

to put God rst in

their life because

that orientation

will make

improving their

health possible.

Out of the box, the most

useful of the tools are the

Nutrition Guide, the Total

Transformation Guide andthe Basic 10 Fitness Cards.

The nutrition guide has

simple, nutritious recipes

and details about managing

calories in a way that

makes losing weight less

Courtesy images

Body Gospel, the

newest tnessoering from

Donna Richardson

Joyner, is the onlytness program on the

market, according the

marketing materials,that combines tness

with faith.

Body Gospel: Mixing Fitness with Faith

Continued from B1Lasting Love

class, Paul began to notice

the girl with the highest

score in the class. Still, he

remembers his future wife

piqued his interest with her

smile.

“Typically, if a male is

interested in having a long

term relationship, they are

gravitated toward the face,

the eyes or the smile,” Paul

explained. “It was funny

because Jill had braces at the time but her smile was still

on it.”And although it was the smile that got his attention, it

was her curves that kept it. “I’m not going to deny that

at all,” he adds. Brunson, along with other relationship

experts, stress the need for older couples to maintain

romance and intimacy throughout their marriage.

According to Brunson, men who are in long-lasting

relationships have an improved sex life. And in an

established marriage, it’s not only important to make

sure your partner’s sexual desires are met, but it’s also

important to create intimacy. Giggling, holding hands

and being physically close are ways to recreate that

spark. “When it’s cold at night, it’s great to be able to

snuggle up and spoon somebody,” Brunson adds.

Each married couple, the Picketts, the Carvers and the

Brunsons can remind older couples of what’s important.

While the Picketts encourage couple to recreate their

relationship to keep it fresh, the Carvers stress that doing

activities together will keep a relationship strong. And

matchmaker and relationship expert Brunson pushes

intimacy, even in your golden years, to light the re in

your partnership.Ultimately, however, you know the nuances of your

relationship, so trust your instinct to know what’s right

for you and your spouse. Regardless, don’t be afraid

to try something new. You never know, a new hobby,

a change of scenery or a break from the grandchildren

may be the thing to kick you out of your marital plateau

and make you feel like young lovers again.

Paul and Jill Brunson

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More than 10,000 baby

boomers will turn 65 each day

during the next two decades,says AARP, the nation’s

leading organization on

elder issues. The generationthat grew up with changes

in social mores, music, and

more now faces a particularlychallenging time to leave the

workplace.

But what’s a person todo with the rest of their

lives, if they were born

between the years of 1946and 1964? Especially when

current economic trends and

measures are more down thanup, who can really afford to

retire?Kiss goodbye the days

of secure pensions and gold

watches for decades of service. According to the

Employee Benet Research

Institute, only 15 percentof the workforce today has

a traditional pension plan.

Instead, 401(k)s in theprivate sector and 403(b)s

in public and not-for-prot

organizations are the likelyalternative plans. These

benets are tied to stockmarket performance. When

the market performs well,

benets boom; but conversely,benets diminish when the

market performs poorly.

Also gone are the dayswhen owning a house meant

sure-re wealth building.

Eleven million Americansnow owe more than their

home is worth. Boomers

hoping to downsize to smallerspaces may nd that while

unemployment hovers near10 percent, prospective

homebuyers may be waiting

for the job market to improvebefore making such a large

and long-term investment.

When disposable funds

are fewer than in workplaceyears, older consumers can

be particularly at-risk to incur

debts that tarnish the goldenyears. Or as the O-Jays sang,

it’s that “almighty dollar” thatcan change you – especially

when there’s not enough to

provide for yourself or yourfamily.

For example, long-time

homeowners with title to theirhomes or nearing the end of

mortgage payments might be

lured into a reverse mortgage.

As a loan against market

value, reverse mortgages can

be a transaction that enablesborrowers to turn that value

into ready cash without

selling the property.However, before signing

on the dotted line for a reversemortgage, borrowers should

clearly understand that they

are signing an end of life loan.Full repayment is required

when either the borrower

passes away or no longer livesin the residence for more than

a year. Any absence due to

year-long extended healthcare, such as rehab or assisted

living facilities will make theloan due.

Overdraft, another debt

trap, may offer a convenientway to pay for purchases;

but if there is no cushion

in the account or consumercheckbooks aren’t accurately

balanced, overdraft fees that

average $34 per transactioncan quickly siphon off

disposable income. Even

worse, consumers onlylearn of the charges after the

statement arrives. Rather thanincur the risk of overdraft

fees that each year strip $23.7

billion from checking accountholders, it is better to decline

overdraft than to accept it.

Unauthorized overdraftsstrip fees from Americans

55 and older at the level of

$4.5 billion per year. Nearly$1 billion of that comes

from people who are heavilydependent on Social Security

income.

Even worse than overdraftfees are payday loans that

promise quick and easy cashwithout credit checks. Inrecent months, many payday

lenders began accepting

unemployment checks ordisability benets as income.

Yet what the marketing andadvertising do not share is how

only a very small percentage

of payday borrowers areactually able to retire their

short-term loan in two weeks.

The vast majority of paydayborrowers – 12 million each

year – become trapped into

a turnstile of repeat loansand high-cost fees that

result in more money being

paid for interest and feesthan the amount borrowed.

Meanwhile, payday lendersreap $5 billion annually.

The sobering reality for

everyone is that there willalways be lenders that would

like to take away some of

your hard-earned incomeand savings, just as nancial

advisors have an array of

recommended strategies forpreparing for retirement in a

post-recession era.But, it is far wiser for

people regardless of age to

make regular savings a partof your nancial plan. With

every paycheck, start andkeep saving. Emergencies,unexpected expenses,

and vacations, can all be

managed, if dollars are setaside on a consistent basis. If

you’re unable to begin savingright now, consider saving

a portion of any tax refund

received this year to offsetthe amount of money you

expect to need over the year.

Ideally, everyone should havea personal nancial cushion

that enables them to maintain

their lifestyles without goinginto debt.

A keen awareness

combined with a sensible andpractical personal strategy

can together chart a path tosustainable nancial growth in

spite of any market downturn.

To paraphrase the words of theO’Jays, don’t let money – or

lenders – fool you.

Charlene Crowell is

the Center for Responsible

Lending’s communications

manager for state policy and

outreach. She can be reached

at: Charlene.crowell@

responsiblelending.org.

By Charlene Crowell

NNPA Columnist

Commentary

How Baby Boomers Can Retire Despite a Downturned Economy



January 29, 2011 - February 4, 2011, The Afro-American C1

Surrounded by supporters rom Baltimore and other par ts o Maryland, Gov. Martin

O’Malley celebrated his second term in ofce at the Fith Regiment Armory on Jan. 19.

Also on hand was Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-

Blake and a number o state lawmakers.

Members o Delta Sigma Theta Sorority’s Baltimore

Alumnae chapter recently celebrated the organization’s

ounders at a ceremony that included singing rom the

Delta Chorale, awards presentations and a Founders Day

address rom Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, the rst

emale bishop in the Arican Methodist Episcopal Church.

The Delta Chorale, directed by Dorothy

Marshall, performed for the crowd

Past president Roslyn Smith with 14th

National President, Dr. Thelma T. Daley

Sharon D. Grant,

chairwoman, andDenise Gordon, vice

chairwoman The Vashti Turley Murphy Award is presentedto Doris R. Nash by Eleanor Peters Matthews,

president

Delta legacy

Cimmon Byrd Burrisand mother Laura

Phillips Byrd

Bernard“Jack”

Young,president,

Baltimore

CityCouncil

Past presidents Aloha McCullough, Beverly Boston,

Laura Phillips Byrd, Rita Cooper. Seated are Dr. RuthPratt, Frances Stith-Martin and Sara Smalley

Monica Watkins,

rst vice president,introduces the

speaker

Bishop Vashti Murphy

McKenzie gives the

Founders Day address

Delta legacy Vashti-Jasmine McKenzie and

her mother, Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie

Thelma Banks Cox Service

Award recipients are BeverlyBrown and Toya Fitch. Seated

are Bernadette Adams andKathy Alexander

Monica McKinneyLupton, chairwoman

of Awards Committee

Baltimore CityCouncilwoman

Helen Holton,

D-8

A band entertains the crowd at Mayor Martin

O’Malley’s inauguration celebration

Jason Grave, Katrina Weber, Ryan Swann

and Delora Sanchez

Adrian Harpool, C. Jackson

Harpool and Thomas Maze

Gov. Martin O’Malley showso his singing and guitar-

playing skills.Alexander Green, Jeremy

Simmons, Arthur H. Green,Sandra Simmons Green

and Alfred Simmons

Edward Anthony andSheila Dixon

Baltimore City MayorStephanie Rawlings-Blake

Del. Nathaniel Oaks, D-41, andWOLB radio host Larry Young

Harold Lawson, Mike Jonesand Robert Campbell

Dr. Derick Ausby, Adrienne Waite, Dr.

Bowyer Freeman and Kimberly Taylor

Linda Janey, secretary, Maryland

Department of Planning; Pastor BillStaneld and LaSchelle Janey

Lauren Walker and Linda DorseyWalker, 11th District Baltimore

County Central Committee

Gov. Martin O’Malley greets the crowd with Lt.Gov. Anthony Brown, his guest, Maryland rst

lady Katie O’Malley and their children, Grace,

Tara, Will and Jack

Norris Ramsey and Baltimore

City Del. Salima Siler

Marriott, D-40

Joseph and Anne Chester, Dr.

Rosetta Stith

Photos by A.

Lois De Laine



C2 The Afro-American, January 29, 2011 - February 4, 2011

Community

Each year, the Baltimore Tuskegee Alumni Association (BTAA) honors standout community

leaders who exemplify the ideals of Tuskegee University founder Booker T. Washington

and scientist George Washington Carver. The 2011 recipients of the Carver-Washington

Distinguished Service Awards are the Rev. Julius Jefferson, pastor of Heritage United Church

of Christ in Baltimore, and Dr. E. Albert Reece, vice president of medical affairs and the

University of Maryland’s School of Medicine dean.

On Feb. 12, BTAA President Patricia Fields will present the honorees with their awards

at the 29th Annual Carver-Washington Scholarship Awards Breakfast at The Forum. Also,

Tuskegee University’s newly elected president, Dr. Gilbert L. Rochon, will be the event

speaker.

“We are inviting the Baltimore community to join us in saluting Reverend Jefferson and

Dr. Reece for their outstanding commitment to humanitarian efforts, community service,

and leadership,” Fields said in a prepared statement. “African-American History month is an

appropriate time for us to acknowledge their signicant contributions to society.”

The annual fundraising breakfast, themed “Baltimore Tuskegee Alumni Association:

Pledging Allegiance, Delivering Action,” helps Baltimore-area Tuskegee University alumni

provide various forms of support to local students attending the storied Alabama school.

Currently, 21 students from the greater Baltimore area attend Tuskegee.

BTAA’s scholarship breakfast takes place 9-11:30 a.m., Feb. 12, at The Forum, 4210

Primrose Ave.

Tuskegee Alumni Announce Annual Honorees

To help up-and-coming fashion enterprises and entrepreneurs, Macy’s is gearing up

for “The Workshop at Macy’s,” a business development program designed to “nurture and

grow” budding retail companies owned by people of color and women.

According to the company, the workshop’s curriculum is aimed at retail business owners

with exceptional potential who lack the business know-how to maintain growth. The

workshop is a four-and-a-half-day training course at Macy’s Herald Square ofce in New

York City and takes place in May. Seasoned Macy’s executives and other retail industry

experts will lend their time as teachers.

“Of the many initiatives Macy’s, Inc. has pursued on behalf of our expanding diversity

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“I still nd each day too short for all the thoughts I want to

think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read,

and all the friends I want to see.” - John Burroughs “I could have danced all night.” The 5th Regiment Armory

was transformed into a glamorous ballroom for the Governor’s

Ball. Guests dined on ne cuisine prepared by Martin’s

West and danced to the music of O’Malley’s March with the

Governor performing, the Irish band Sawdust and Spur of the

Moment. People travelled from all over the state to attend the

ball. Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown introduced his parents Dr. and

Mrs. Brown, to me, a charming couple who whirled around

the dance oor to the delight of the guests. At the ball were

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Kim Washington, Gaines

Lansey, Patricia Tunstall, Marilyn Harris Davis, Wanda Watts,

Cynthia Jackson, Glenn Middleton, Councilwoman Sharon

Green Middleton, Marsha Jews, J P Grant, Benjamin Brooks,

Marty Glaze, Paul Wolman, Marc Broady, former Mayor

Sheila Dixon and Edward Anthony.

“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” -

Carl Sandburg

“I know what you did last summer.” Congratulations to

beaming grandmothers Rosalind Dailey on the birth of Justinto proud parents Kelley and Gary Richards; grandmother

Cynthia Carey and auntie Isis Carey on the arrival of 8-pound-

8-ounce Dominic Stevens to glowing mom Nioka Carey; to

doting grandparents Debbie and Errol Taylor on their new

addition grandson Jackson Matthew Bailey, weighing in at 8

pounds, 5 ounces; loving parents Christopher and Erica Bailey;

new grandparents Sharon and Reginald Pinder on the birth

of granddaughter Delphine Pinder Nkanda to adoring parents

Biah Khun and Jaffrey Nkanda.

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the

utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and

richer experience.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

“I’m in with the in crowd” at the completely renovated Five

Mile House. The orange décor and upscale seating remind you

of a Vegas style setting with recessed lighting and state of the

art kitchen. They are open daily serving food at happy hour

prices. Wednesday Herman Jones, Reggie Thomas and Nate

Stewart celebrated their birthday. On Feb. 2, drummer Vance

James’ Jazz Quartet will be performing.

“I work until beer o’clock.”- Stephen King Meet at the

Five at Five for $2, $3 and $5 happy hour drinks seven days a

week.

Nestled quietly in the foothills of Shawan Valley is

one of the best-kept happy hour spots The Oregon Grille

highlighting a classic cocktail hour daily from 5 to 7 p.m.

with daily drink specials; on Thursday, any martini with the

vodka of your choice for $5 and complimentary oysters on

the half shell. Wednesday, they feature Stella Artois beer for

$3 with complimentary steamed shrimp. “It’s Friday night”

complimentary sushi prepared by Chef Tominori Oku and

Sapporo beer for $3. Oops, I forgot the bartenders’ names but

they are great and pleased to accommodate your requests.

Gentlemen, good news, a jacket is not required in the bar

area but always “dress to impress.”

“Great were the lamentation and the cry when the newsof this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult

of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was

moved.”- Marie de France

“Pull up to the bumper.” The trafc jam on Liberty Road

from the beltway to Wiley’s Funeral Home was friends and

family paying tribute to Ofcer William Torbit. The grief and

anguish etched in Commissioner Bealefeld’s face as he greeted

each mourner and thanked them for paying their respect was

painful to witness. Our prayers for the Baltimore City Police

Department, Fran Torbit Davis, Curtis Torbit, William and

Delores Torbit, and family during this difcult season.

“A good person, out of the good treasure of the heart brings

forth good things.”- Matthew 12:35

“Guess who I saw today my dear?” At the funeral of our

friend Shirley Pinkett, I was surprised when people walked

down the aisle to take pictures of Will and Jada Smith during

the funeral. “R.E.S.P.E. C.T nd out what it means to me”

Obviously a few people forgot the respect afforded a family in

mourning.

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the

seeds that you plant.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

Condolences to Kurt and Patricia Schmoke, the Rev.

Frank and Marlaa Reid and family on the death of our friend,

Irene Reid. During the eulogy, her son, Rev. Reid, said Irene

believed in the three Fs: faith, family and friendship, which

was so evident in the way she lived her life. Rest in peace my

sister.

“The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes

are played on the oldest ddles.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy 73rd birthday, Etta James. We are praying for your

speedy recovery.

“It’s your birthday make some noise!” Happy birthday,

Reggie Haysbert, Reggie Thomas, Bobby Garland of Bobby’s

Place, Ann of The Place and LaVonne Grant “its celebrationtime.”

“Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it

improves everything.” James Thurber

“Practice what you preach,” a play written by Janora

Winkler featuring our own Libby from Tequila Sunset, will be

performed each Saturday in February at the United Church of

Love and Deliverance. For tickets call Janora at 443-955-8600.

Libby says they cannot get through rehearsal laughing so hard.

Now that sounds like my kind of play. You know I like to

laugh and to hear laughter.

“I’ll be seeing you.”

Valerie & the Friday Night Bunch

By Gregory Dale AFRO Staf Writer

Infectious beats and clever lyrics are the

components of tracks constructed by rapper

Phil Adé. But while he may be one of a

handful of emcees attempting to put the DMVregion the map, his material certainly proves

that he’s in a league of his own.

“My music is free,” Adé told the AFRO

in a recent interview. “I like to try a lot of different things. I rap and I sing--[I don’t]

have one particular sound.”

Perhaps that’s the reason why he’sexperienced so much success in such little

time. After being signed to D.C. R&B

crooner Raheem DeVaughn’s 368 MusicGroup in 2008, Adé has picked up a sizeable

fan base, been featured in a bevy of music

magazines and has worked with a string of notable artists.

His latest mixtape, The Letterman,

featured appearances by rappers Wale, TabiBonney and Raekwon and was hosted by

popular mixtape DJ and hip-hop producerDon Cannon.

But the 22 year old’s popularity surely

didn’t occur overnight.

Born as an Army brat to a Nigerianfather and a Grenadian mother,

Adé was reared in Maryland’s in

Montgomery and Prince George’scounties. He developed a passion

for rapping early on, but he didn’tseriously pursue it until after enrolling

in college in Alabama.

A twist of fate landed him an

opportunity to meet DeVaughn and

Adé was signed to the singer’s District-

based 368 label shortly thereafter.

He then transferred to MontgomeryCollege in Rockville, Md. so he could

perform at shows throughout the D.C.region.

“I think I decided to just go intomusic because I felt like I had a good

shot at it,” Adé said. “So I just wanted

to ride it out to see where it took me.”After ultimately dropping out of

school, his parents, both sticklers for

education, were not happy about hisdecision.

“[With] my father [being] Nigerian

and my mother being from the West Indies,you know they’re not trying to hear that

you’re going to quit school and become arapper,” he said. “It was a little rough, but

they’re cool now. They still don’t like it…but

they still love me and respect my decision.”Now, Adé is being hailed by rap fans as a

“breath of fresh air” for hip-hop, and many

music connoisseurs have compared his workto rap’s celebrated “golden era.”

Adé is also one out of a recent string of

DMV-area rappers who have garnered widemainstream attention now more than ever

before.

With rappers like Wale, Bonney and afew others all touting the District and its

surrounding area on their radio hits, Adébelieves it’s time to nally shed light on one

of the nation’s best kept secrets.

“The whole DMV region is like anuntapped market,” he said. “There’s so much

to offer here and I think it’s because we like

having our stuff to ourselves and keeping it at

home. I think I’m just playing my role.”For more information on Phil Ade, visit

www.368musicgroup.com.

Rapper Phil Adé: The Newest Faceof DMV Hip-Hop To celebrate Black History Month,

beginning Jan. 31 at 10 p.m., and airing

each weeknight over four weeks, TV Onewill present “Way Black When,” a month of

high-prole programming designed to reect

back on the golden age of Black culture thatemerged during the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s. The

centerpiece of the initiative is “Way Black

When: Prime Time,” a high-energy, one-hour talk show that will showcase Black pop

culture icons across three decades – the ‘70s,‘80s and ‘90s “including actors, comedians,

athletes, musicians and many more” from

Black Power through hip hop.Guiding a live studio audience and

television viewers on their trip back through

Blackness will be three hosts, each of whomembodies a decade’s essence. Comedian and

actor Sinbad will conduct a voyage through

the ‘70s, Niecy Nash keeps it moving andgroovin’ through the ‘80s and comedian and

actor Chris ‘Kid’ Reid picks up the nal legof the “Way Black When” journey with ‘90s

hip hop. Each night, guests who characterize

the specic week’s decade will be showcased,along with a musical act and a comedian

who provide the tunes and the tone of the

time. The series will include a “Retro Trek”segment of nightly comedic sketches spoong

memorable hairstyles, fashion trends, and

cultural fads from each decade. Each week,

TV One will feature a Heroes, Newsmakers,Icons and Celebs (HNIC) segment in which

“Washington Watch” host Roland Martin will

provide a look back at the major news eventsof the day.

The fourth week of “Way Black When:

Primetime”, Feb. 21-25, will offer a “BestOf” week that will feature the best interviews,

comedy sketches and performances of the

prior three weeks, plus original, unseenmaterial, with the best of the ‘70s airing on

Feb. 21; the best of the ‘80s airing on Feb.22; the best of the ‘90s airing on Feb. 23, plus

an all-stand-up comedy show on Feb. 24 and

an all-musical performance show on Feb. 25. Each weeknight at 11 p.m., TV One will also

pair “Way Black When” with decade-specicmovies, including such lms from the ‘70s asCooley High and Cotton Comes to Harlem,

from the ‘80s as Harlem Nights and from the

‘90s as Juice.

“Last year during Our History Month we

introduced the concept of ‘Way Black When,’a celebration of recent popular black culture,

with vignettes that really resonated with our

audience,” said TV One Senior Vice Presidentof Original Programming Toni Judkins in

a prepared statement. “In 2011, we wanted

to build on that concept and provide a full-edged programming experience that will

allow us to bring together some of our biggest

stars and to celebrate, more fully, the manypoignant, entertaining and groundbreaking

events and moments in black culture that took

place during the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s.”

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Loring CornishIn Each Other’s Shoes

By Donal Ware

Special to the AFRO

Morgan State is all

alone atop the Boxtorow.

com HBCU Division I

national basketball power

rankings poll, while Xavier

(La.) remains on top in the

Division II/NAIA poll.

Just like last week,

Hampton and Morgan State

received equal amount of rst-

place votes, but the Bears gotthe top spot by one point this

week. Bethune-Cookman (8-

8) remained at No. 3, beating

out Jackson State, who is at

No. 4 by one point. Tennessee

State went 2-0 last week and

remains at No. 5.

In the Division II/NAIA

top-10 poll, for the rst time

this year, it was a unanimous

No. 1 as Xavier (La.) holds

on to the top spot. Bowie

State moved up one spot to

No. 2 this week after going

3-0 last week. Winston-Salem

State lost to fellow Central

Interscholastic Athletic

Association foe Saint Paul’s

for the second time this year,

but rebounded to win two

games and fell one spot to

No. 3 this week. Despite its

loss to top-ranked Xavier

(La.), Tougaloo remained at

No. 4, while West Virginia

State moved up one spot to

No. 5.

The Thorobreds of

Kentucky State moved up

one spot from last week to

No. 6, while Shaw dropped

two spots to No. 7. ElizabethCity State went 2-1 last week,

with its loss coming to Bowie

State, but moved up one spot

to No. 8. Two previously

unranked teams debuted in

the poll as Benedict came

in at No. 9 and Johnson C.

Smith came in at No. 10.

Boxtorow.com Top 10

HBCU NCAA Division I

Basketball Poll

School/ Wins-Losses/ Points

1. Morgan State/ 9-8/ 66

2. Hampton/ 15-5/ 65

3. Bethune-Cookman/ 11-9/

52

4. Jackson State/ 10-9/ 51

5. Tennessee State/ 10-9/ 40

Other receiving votes: North

Carolina Central (8-9) 6.

Boxtorow.com Top 10

HBCU Division II/NAIA

Basketball Poll

School/ Wins-Losses/ Points

1. Xavier (La.)/ 19-2/ 60

2. Bowie State/ 12-3/ 533. Winston-Salem State/ 13-

3/ 48

4. Tougaloo/ 13-4/ 36

5. West Virginia State/ 11-5/

28

6. Kentucky State/ 10-3/ 25

7. Shaw/ 11-6/ 20

8. Elizabeth City State/ 11-

5/ 15

9. Benedict/ 9-4/ 12

10. Johnson C. Smith/ 2-4/

11

Others receiving votes:

Cheyney State (10-5)10,

Stillman (10-4) 7, Texas

College (10-8) 1, Tuskegee

(7-5) 1.

Morgan State Remains at Top of HBCU Basketball Power Rankings

By Perry Green

AFRO Sports Editor

The Morgan State Lady Bears bowling team

hit the bowling lanes for the rst time in 2011

last weekend, but the players showed no rust

from their nearly two-month break. MSU won

seven matches while losing only one to capture

the Fred Underwood Bowie State Lady Bulldogs

Bowling Classic Championship Jan. 22-23.

Lady Bears sophomore Sagirah Wheeler

and her teammates went a perfect 5-0 onJan. 22, beating Virginia State University

(923-718), Howard University (857-784),

Saint Paul’s (991-785), North Carolina A&T

University (909-772) and Salem International.

Their sweep in victories gave them the highest

score of the day (1124-541).

Morgan State followed up on strong on

Sunday, Jan. 23. They had to match play in

best four-out-of-seven series tournament,

winning two series with just one loss to claim

the classic championship. Their only loss came

in their rst series of the day against Norfolk

State, falling 4.5 to 2.5. But they bounced back

in the second match, beating Hampton, 4-2,

before defeating Norfolk State, 4-1, in the nal

match for the title.

Wheeler was named to the all-tournament

team for averaging a score of 200 throughout

the classic. Freshman Danielle Hale was

also named to the all-tournament team withan average score of 195. Junior Keisheena

Waldon also stood out for Morgan State in her

rst event performance of the season, nishing

with a high game score of 279.

The Lady Bears will return to action on

Friday, Jan. 28, when they travel to Reading,

Pa., to perform in the Kutztown Invitational

tournament.

Lady Bears Claim Bowie State BowlingClassic Title

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The Morgan State Lady Bears bowling team won the Bowie State Bowling Classic

championship on Jan. 22-23, 2011.

It’s no secret

that I am a football

fan. I don’t care

if the Mississippi

Rattlesnakes

are playing the

Arkansas Rut Hogs,

if the game is on

TV, I have clicked right on

past the “I Love Lucy” rerun

and settled on football with

my popcorn.

College football is

my viewing choice, but

the madness of the Bowl

Championship Series (BCS)

has sent me to my medicine

cabinet so many times, I have

run out of aspirin.

So most NFL Sundays you

will nd me propped up in

front of my TV with clicker

in hand. I try to catch every

game, and if there is more

than one game going on, my

clicker is getting a workout.

When they came up with split

screen viewing, I

was among the rst

to sign up. When

they advertised

the NFL package,

I picked up my

telephone.

As far as I am

concerned there is no better

entertainment on TV. (Sorry

Arnold. Sorry Stalone).

Football is alive and

unscripted. The only thing

that can ruin the contest you

are watching is a ag happy

zebra, technically known as a

game referee, who seems to

be covering a bet to pay his

car note.

However, there are games

afoot in the commissioner’s

ofce. NFL commissioner

Roger Goodell seems hell

bent on ruining the game that

we know and love. First, he

decided that the NFL All Star

Game, trademarked as the

Pro Bowl, should be played

before the Super Bowl. For

my money this is stupid from

all angles.

If my home team has a

few studs selected for the

Pro Bowl and they also

are to contend in the Super

Bowl, it isn’t fair that they

should have to pass on the

opportunity because they

have to play the following

week. The fans miss out,

and the players can’t reap

the benet of playing in the

Hawaiian sunshine after a

game in the sub zero weather

in Green Bay. There are a few

dollars involved here also.

Then Goodell, in his

innite wisdom, decided it

would be nice to extend the

current 16-game season to

an 18-game season. I am a

fan and want to see as much

football as possible, yet

even I think this is a stupid

idea. Some of the players

have weighed in on this

proposal, and they ain’t for

it. This makes no difference

to Goodell because he will

be sitting in his luxury box

sipping on a cocktail while

the players are trying to avoid

concussions in a February

snow storm.

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Doubletree ColumbiaHotel, Morgan’s Lounge,5485 Twin Knolls Road,Columbia, Md. 8-11 p.m.Witness the top jazz bands

from the Washington, D.C.,and Baltimore areas andenjoy great food, great drinksand more. $10. For moreinformation: www.brencore.com.

Jan. 29 Jumpstart Your DreamWorkshop

Spiritual EmpowermentCenter, 2129 N. Charles St.,Baltimore. 11 a.m.-1 p.m.Dreams Work ConsultingConcept will host a workshopaiming to help participantsignite their dreams. $25. Formore information: 443-509-6897

Booklovers’ Breakfast 2011Baltimore Marriott

Waterfront Hotel, 700Aliceanna St., Baltimore.8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. VictoriaRowell, star of the populartelevision show “The Youngand the Restless,” will speakabout her book, The Woman

Who Raised Me at thisliterary event. $40. For moreinformation: 410-396-5494.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Memorial Breakfast

Druid Hill Family CenterYMCA, 1609 Druid HillAve., Baltimore. 9-10:30

a.m. In honor of Dr. King’slegacy, the Y of CentralMaryland will host abreakfast to kick off a seriesof community events thatbenet the revitalization of

the Druid Hill Family CenterY and youth programming inBaltimore City. Dr. CarnellCooper, associate professorof surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center andFounder of the Baltimore CityViolence Protection Programwill speak at the event. $20.For more information: www.ymaryland.org.

Jan. 31Get Fit at Your Library

Enoch Pratt Free Library,Waverly Branch, 400 E. 33rdSt., Baltimore. 12-2 p.m. Getyour Monday workout topopular hip-hop, African andCaribbean rhythms. For moreinformation: 410-396-6053.

Feb. 2Charm City Jazz Valentine’sDinner Cruise

Spirit of Baltimore Ship,Inner Harbor-Light StreetPavilion, Baltimore. 8:30 p.m.Bring your sweetheart aboarda very special cruise eventat the Spirit of Baltimore.Enjoy a delicious buffet,live performances and have

a romantic experience at theInner Harbor. $75. For moreinformation: 1-800-695-2628.

Feb. 3Lunch and Learn: African-American Art

The Walters Art Museum,600 N. Charles St., Baltimore.12:15 p.m. Learn theimportance and relevanceof African-American artand listen to lectures bythe museum’s curatorsand scholars. For moreinformation: 410-547-9000.

Songwriting: PerformingLife’s Art

Enoch Pratt Free Library,Cherry Hill Branch, 606Cherry Hill Road, Baltimore.5 p.m. Local artists willteach the art of songwritingthrough visual exercises,brainstorming and teamcollaborations. For moreinformation: 410-396-1168.

Feb. 4Allstate Gospel SuperfestGilliam Concert Hall,

Morgan State University,2201 Argonne Drive,Baltimore. 7 p.m. The

biggest stars in gospel willperform at this event, hostedby actress Wendy RaquelRobinson. $33-$48. For moreinformation: 443-885-4440.

Feb. 5BMA African AmericanHistory Month Family Day2011

Baltimore Museumof Art, 10 Art MuseumDrive, Baltimore. 1-5 p.m.

Live musical groups andstorytellers will take the stageat this event to honor African-American history makersfrom Maryland. For moreinformation: 443-573-1700.

Volunteer Tax Preparation

Enoch Pratt Free Library,Brooklyn Branch, 300 E.Patapsco Ave., Baltimore.10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Volunteersfrom the AARP will be athand to help you prepareyour tax returns. For moreinformation: 410-396-1120.

Book DiscussionEnoch Pratt Free Library,

Cherry Hill Branch, 606Cherry Hill Road, Baltimore.2 p.m. Read and discusstwo books about the life of Frederick Douglass. For moreinformation: 410-396-1168.

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Larry O’Neill Brown Sr., son of the late Elizabeth Ophelia James

Oliver and John Charles Brown, was born March 17, 1945, and

returned home to our Lord on Jan. 16.

He received his education in Baltimore City public schools,

attending Carver Vocational Technical High School. In 1961, Larry

married the late Diretha Victoria Hall and from this union came three

children, the late Hilda Diane Neal, Larry “Poncho” Brown and

Jacqueline Diretha Brown. One of his earliest jobs in the late 1960s

was for the {Afro-American Newspapers} as a typesetter. After

working in the printing industry for 13 years as a linotype operator,

he pursued a career in education in 1976. He received a master’s

degree in career and technology and was certied as a printing

instructor with Baltimore

City public schools. Larry

was a stellar athlete who

competed in cross-country,

excelled in pole vaulting and

was a championship wrestler.

“Coach Brown,” as

he was known, was an

accomplished wrestling and track and eld coach in both high school and college levels. His

athletes dreaded his intense workouts, but he was a father gure to many of them. He taught

printing and coached wrestling at Northwestern High School, Lake Clifton-Eastern High School

and Westside Skills Center-Edmondson High School. He also briey coached track and eld at

Coppin State University, formerly Coppin State College. He retired from teaching in 2006 after

devoting 30 years of service and gained the loveand respect of all of his students, co-workers,

peers and administrative staff.

Larry was a member of the

New Psalmist Baptist Church,

where his funeral took place

Jan. 25.

Alvin Anderson Parson, son

of the late Alvin Parson and Mary

Monger, was born on July 4, 1947,

at Johns Hopkins Hospital in

Baltimore. In 1961, he joined the

Nation of Islam. Alvin, known to

all as Al, received his education

at Douglass High School in

Baltimore City. While in school,

Al excelled in wrestling as well as

cross country.

Al made numerous friends

wherever he went. In 1968 he

developed his interest in martial

art under the guidance of Master

Riley Hawkins. The friends he met

at the Sharpe Street Dojo, notably

known as t he Avenger, extended into

a brotherly bond that collectively

made a positive impact on more than

5,000 youngsters in the city.Al had a love for two things,

karate and teaching young people.Al began teaching karate at theDepartment of Recreation inBaltimore City and later Druid HillYMCA. This continued throughoutthe years at various locations

throughout the city.

Edward “Ed” Eugene

Holt, the rst child of the late

William and Henrietta Elliott

Holt, was born Nov. 5, 1917,

in Stockbridge, Ga. He had one

brother, Howard, 11 half-brothers

and three half-sisters. He

departed this life peacefully on

Oct. 4, 2010. All of his siblings

predeceased him.

Ed grew up in Atlanta, Ga.and was educated in the Atlanta

Public Schools. He was a

member of Mount Moriah Baptist

Church. He always had a thirst

for learning and was adventurous

and industrious. He often said

that he began working at age three.

He had many jobs throughout

his youth and worked while in college. He told

the story of working as a delivery boy for a drug

store and delivering lunch daily to a lady who was

writing a book. It was Margaret Mitchell and she

was writing Gone With The Wind . He portrayed

a slave in “Aida” which led to his love of opera

and one summer he picked cranberries in New

England.

In 1938, Ed, who was president of the senior

class, graduated from his dear Morehouse College

with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. While

attending graduate school at Atlanta University, hefounded and published The Collegian, a newspaper

that reported news from all of the Black colleges

of Atlanta. During this time he took a civil service

examination for federal government employment

and was appointed to a supervisory position at

the Census Bureau in Washington, D.C. In 1943,

during World War II, he was drafted and served for

two-and-a-half years in the U.S. Coast Guard as

a pharmacist’s mate. While in Washington D.C.,

he promoted boxing matches and helped organize

various football classics involving Black colleges.

On Dec. 25, 1943, he married the love of

his life, Charlotte Coleman of Roanoke, Va.

They shared 60 years of marriage before her

passing in 2004. To this union were born two

daughters, Charlotte Yvonne and Pamela Gail.

He cherished his family and they shared many

happy times. They travelled around the world

together throughout the United States, Canada, the

Caribbean, Europe, Asia, South America, Latin

America and Africa.Ed seized every opportunity to further

his education and expand his knowledge. He

matriculated at Columbia, Catholic and Howard

universities prior to entering Howard University

Medical School in 1946. Just prior to entering

medical school, he was offered a job in the

Commerce Department as a patent examiner.

Although he would have been the rst Black patent

examiner, he decided in favor of medical school.

After graduating from medical school in 1950,

Ed interned at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St.

Louis, Mo. He spent two years of residency at

Lincoln Hospital, Durham, N.C.

concentrating in general surgery.

In 1953, the family moved

to New Bern, N.C. where Ed

began a private practice and

served as the chief of staff at

Good Shepherd Hospital. While

there, he was a member of the

Old North State Medical Society

and the Rocky Mount Medical

Society. In 1956, the Holtsmoved to Baltimore, Md., where

he completed extensive surgical

training at Provident Hospital

and Freedmen’s Hospital in

Washington, D.C. Later, he

served as chief of surgery at

Provident.

Ed, a highly skilled general

surgeon, practiced medicine in Baltimore from

1956 until his retirement in 1990, was among the

few African-American surgeons in the nation. He

was also a physician for the Baltimore City Public

Schools, the Maryland Athletic Commission and

was on the surgical staff of Provident Hospital.

Ed was honored on two occasions by the

Baltimore Morehouse Alumni Association of

which he was a founder, and received service

awards from the women’s auxiliaries of Chi Delta

Mu (Medical) Fraternity and Monumental City

Medical Society.Golf consumed much of Ed’s leisure time.

He played throughout the country and was a

founder of the Colonial Golf Club. He won many

trophies and was an accomplished golfer. He was

a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Prince

Hall Masons, Chi Delta Mu Fraternity, National

Medical Association, MedChi, The Maryland

State Medical Society, Monumental City Medical

Society, the Baltimore City Medical Society, the

Baltimore Morehouse Alumni Association and

a Life Member of the NAACP. He was an avid

sports fan and was known to watch two sporting

events on television, listen to a game on the radio

and read the sports page all at the same time! Ed

was an accomplished pinochle and bridge player.

He loved a good laugh and would spend hours

with his friends solving the world’s problems.

He was a member of Hunting Ridge Presbyterian

Church where he enjoyed participating in “Senior

Camaraderie” and helped coordinate a health fair.

Ed was a kind, patient, humble, intelligentman who loved and revered his wife, daughters,family and friends. Generous and introspective,he was much admired by his patients. He waseven-tempered and hardly ever raised his voice inanger. He took pride in his family. A championof civil rights, Ed was deeply concerned about thestruggle of African Americans, human rights andthe provision of health care.

He leaves to celebrate his living his devoteddaughters, the Honorable C. Yvonne Holt-Stoneand Pamela G. Holt, sister-in-law, Irene B.Coleman, nieces, nephews and a host of patients

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Obituaries

Mamie Christine ChambersJones departed this life on Dec. 30,2010, after a lengthy illness. She wasborn April 27, 1926, to Willie andMary Chambers in Murfreesboro,

N.C. She was the older of twochildren.

Mamie grew up in Baltimore andattended public schools. She marriedLinwood S. Jones in June of 1943.They had two daughters, Pamela andStephanie.

In August 1984, after serving 30years as a career federal employee,where she received many awards andcitations, Mamie retired from theSocial Security Administrationas chief of the Auditing Section,Division of Earnings Operation.

Mamie participated in many socialorganizations. In 1984, she was elected presidentof the National Council of Negro Women, GreaterBaltimore Section. Her other afliations include:

Alpha Chapter of Government GirlsOn The Go, the Freedom Chapterof the American Business Women’sAssociation, King’s Landing Women’sClub and W.A.N.A. a ministry of

Douglas Memorial CommunityChurch.

In addition, Mamie was an activevolunteer in a number of communityprograms. Reading For The BlindProgram, broadcasting on closedcircuit radio Station WBJC at theCommunity College of Baltimore;the Johns Hopkins Tutorial Service,tutoring at the Liberty Medical Center;guiding tours at the Science Center and

at the “Top of the World”, WorldTrade Center, to name a few.

Mamie enjoyed traveling.Her travels took her throughout

the United States, Europe, Africa, the MiddleEast, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands.She also enjoyed modeling hats and organizingactivities.

Mamie Christine C. Jones, 84Career Federal Employee

MAMIE CHRISTINE C.

JONES

Dr. Edward E. Holt, 93Physician

EDWARD E. HOLT

Alvin A. Parson, 63

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Sylvester James Crosswas born on June 30, 1943,in Baltimore, the thirdoldest child of the late

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Aretha Kea White

was born Aug. 9, 1969, in

Baltimore to Matthew and

Mary White. She departedthis earthly life on Jan. 18.

Aretha loved the Lord.

At an early age she was

baptized at Berean Baptist

Church and later became a

member of Unity Church of

Christ in Washington, D.C.

She attended Milford Mill

High School and traveled

to Vicenza, Italy, as part of

a student exchange. During

her life, she sought to expose

herself to diverse cultures and

people, helping to weave a

tapestry of human experience that made her

an unequaled and special young woman.

Aretha, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha

Sorority, had one of the most magnetic

personalities among her peers. She also had

an atypical way of being a true girlfriend, a

formidable basketball player, defender of the

righteous, a snarky quipster and ultimately, a

deeply spiritual woman who traversed life’s

conicts with the sensibilities of an elder.

She was, by profession, a photographer who

cut her teeth in the business at the Baltimore

Afro-American Newspaper.

Her artistic air

transcended her profession

as a photographer. Arethawas a creative in the kitchen,

too. Her bread pudding with

chocolate trufes, sundried

tomato fettuccini dishes

and stir-fried collard greens

mixed with turnips and turkey

wings were just a sampling

of her artistry. In her 20s,

Aretha could eat anything,

including the hamhock from

a pot of beans, and maintain

her perfect frame. She was

a determined woman who

approached a minor health

problem with a strict macrobiotic diet. The

same woman eventually declared a war on

meat and preached the virtues of miso soup,

tofu and lentils for nearly a year.

She was self-willed and decisive,

especially in her decision to leave her home,

her then-boyfriend and her photojournalism

career at the Baltimore Business Journal to

attend a graduation program in photography

in Georgia. Aretha returned with a slick

portfolio, a honed version and a renewed

dedication to her now husband, Alan Kline.

Aretha K. White, 41Photographer

ARETHA K. WHITE

Shirley Holland Pinkettwas born Aug. 8, 1931, inBaltimore, Md., and wasthe fth of 10 children bornof the union between thelate James P. Holland andthe late Alice WhiteheadHolland Floyd.

Before her death, Mrs.

Pinkett wrote, “Those of you who knew me, knewhow I live my life. Thereis no need to elaborate onaccomplishments, successesor failures. Sufce it tosay that I walked to thedrumbeat of the MasterDrummer, our Lord andSavior Jesus Christ. I lived,

now I have died. My missionis over. Whatever the Lordhad planned for me to do,I sincerely hope I was ableto do it in ways that werepleasing to him.

May you who remain useevery minute of each daywisely and well. The bell still

tolls. One day it will toll forthee. Prepare now, for theticking of your clock maybe silenced at any moment.Think rationally and purely.Act bravely, fairly and puttruth rst. Follow this recipeand I will see you in themorning.”

Shirley H. Pinkett, 79Baltimore Native

SHIRLEY H. PINKETT

Clarence Cleon Butler, son of the latedeacon and deaconess Harrison and MarySimms-Butler, was born on Nov. 1, 1932,at University Hospital in Baltimore. Hedeparted this life for a better home on Dec.

30, 2010, at 2:30 a.m., at his earthly residenceon Chase Street.He was third in the birth order of ve

siblings, the only son of Mary Simms andHarrison Butler, who were themselvesdescendants of four of the founders of UnityBaptist Church. He attended Elkridge andHarriet Tubman High School in HowardCounty. His religious training was providedby his parents, grandparents and UnityBaptist Church.

He was married to Sylvia Hale in 1949and from this union came one son, ArthurC. (Jimmy) Butler. In 1952, he was draftedinto the U.S. Army, where he served in theKorean Conict as a demolition expert. He

was captured for 18 days while serving inthe war. This traumatic event would have adevastating effect on the rest of his life. Hetried courageously to live and carry on asnormal as he could afterwards, but he could

not do so. He worked for a while at the Bel-Air Road Brick and Supply Company, afterwhich he was employed by the United StatesPostal Service. He then became home boundfor more than 50 years. My parents lovinglytook care of him until their deaths.

He devotedly cared for them to thebest of his ability. After his father died hedevoted himself completely to the care of our mother. He loved children, especially hisnieces and nephews who helped care for him,also when they became grown. However,he had a special rapport with his nephews,Thomas Williams, Anthony Butler and thelate Michael Butler, who grew up in thehousehold with him. Anthony resided withhim until his death.

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SPECIAL NOTICEWater Contract No. 1197-Susquehanna Transmission Main ValveReplacements, Baltimore City Department of Public Works

The Prequalification Categories required for bidding on this project areB02551-Water Mains OR G90042-Installation of Valves, Pressure Tap-pings, and Line Stoppings. An additional pre-bid meeting will be held onFebruary 8, 2011, at 10:00 A.M. in the 3rd Floor Conference Room atthe Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 Holliday Street, Baltimore, MD21202.

BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLANDINVITATION FOR BIDS

CONTRACT NO. 11017 RX0PUTTY HILL AVENUE INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS

PARKVILLE - DISTRICT 14 and 9 c 6CONTRACT COST GROUP ∫C ($500,000 to $1,000,000)∫

WORK CLASSIFICATION: A-2, B and Ewith Pre-Qualified F-1, F-2 and F-3 SUB-CONTRACTORS

BID DATE: TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011 AT 10:30 A.M. LOCAL TIME

On or after MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2011 the above contractdocuments (See Note *) may be inspected and purchased from theDivision of Construction Contracts Administration, Department ofPublic Works, Room 300B, County Office Building (COB), 111 W.Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, upon receipt of paymentof $20.00 (TWENTY DOLLARS) per contract, and if sent by U.S. mailwith an additional $10.00 (TEN Dollars) postage and handling fee. Allchecks should be made payable to BALTIMORE COUNTY MD. NOREFUNDS will be made to anyone. Direct any questions to410-887-3531. Bidders obtaining documents from another source other than Baltimore County WILL NOT be allowed to submit proposals to Baltimore County .

*Note: Contract Documents will consist of One (1) Paper Copy ProposalBook and One (1) Compact Disk (CD) with all of the required drawings.The CD will be in PDF format. Contractors and Sub-Contractors canpurchase paper copies of the drawings from Baltimore County - OIT -Central Printing located in the Basement of the COB, RM G-9 for $1.50a copy.

The proposed work consists of: Road widening, placing curb, gutter,

sidewalks, storm drains and fire hydrant relocations. Also reconstructionto add separate left turn lanes on Eastbound and Westbound Putty HillAvenue from School Road to Wilson Avenue.

A pre-bid meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at10:00 a.m. local time in Room 215 of the County Office Building.Located at 111 West Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, Maryland 21204.

THE PROJECT IS SUBJECT TO A MINORITY BUSINESS ENTER-PRISE UTILIZATION GOAL AND FEMALE CONTRACTORS UTILIZA-TION GOALS. THESE GOAL REQUIREMENTS ARE MORE FULLYEXPLAINED IN THE SPECIFICATIONS. THE MBE/WBE FORMS INTHE PROPOSAL BOOKLET MUST BE COMPLETED AND SUBMITTEDAT THE TIME OF BID OPENING.

Sealed proposals (the entire book) addressed to Baltimore County,Maryland for this contract will be received in the Baltimore CountyPurchasing Division, Room 148, Old Courthouse, 400 WashingtonAvenue, Towson, MD 21204, until the time specified on the contract atwhich time they will be publicly opened and read.

ONLY CONTRACTORS WHO HAVE BEEN PREQUALIFIED BY BAL-TIMORE COUNTY AT LEAST TEN (10) DAYS PRIOR TO THE OPEN-ING OF BIDS WILL BE ALLOWED TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS.

All proposals must be accompanied by a Bid Bond, on the approvedform provided, in the amount as set forth in the ∫Information for Bidders∫.

No other form of proposal guaranty is acceptable.

The Purchasing Agent reserves the right to reject any or all proposalsor bids or parts of bids and to waive technicalities as may be deemedbest for the interest of the County.

Keith Dorsey, DirectorOffice of Budget & Finance

CERTIFICATION OF PUBLICATION

CITY OF BALTIMOREOFFICE OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS

PUBLIC NOTICE

PROJECT # 1161 - ON CALL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTMANAGEMENT SERVICES

The City of Baltimore Office of Boards & Commissions has beenrequested by the Department of Transportation, Transportation Engineer-ing and Construction Division, to certify the qualifications of aConstruction Project Management firm to provide technical and admin-istrative assistance in all aspects of construction project managementand various engineering and inspection disciplines for the proposedimprovements to the City¬s system of Streets, Highways and Bridges fora three-year contract with an extension of up to one additional year atthe City¬s option.

The services to be provided include, but are not limited to, assisting theTransportation Engineering & Construction Division in managing variousCapital Improvement Projects. Responsibilities will include cons-tructability review of construction contract documents, tracking andassisting in answering contractor requests for information (RFI¬s) changorders & claims analysis and inspection. Depending on the nature ofassignments and City staff workload, a variety of personnel representingthe selected firm shall be available.

The selected firm must demonstrate:

0 Experience in Construction Project Management development andimplementation.0 Experience with Constructability Review of construction contractdocuments.0 Experience with Change Order/Claims Analysis and Minimization/ Mitigation.0 Experience with Critical Path Method Construction Scheduling, CostReport and Recovery Schedule Analysis.0 Ability to supplement City staff to provide field inspection if needed.0 Experience and ability to evaluate existing program procedures anddevelop cost effective improvements.0 Ability to Analyze and Maintain construction Master Schedules toanticipate future staffing requirements.0 Experience with Industry Standard Hardware/Software for InformationTracking Systems.0 Overall team approach with Minority/Women Business Enterprises.

Project design fees have been estimated at $2,000,000 per consultant.Duration of the professional services contract is estimated to be three(3) years. Four (4) consultants will be awarded contracts. If furtherinformation is required regarding this request, please contact Mr. JamieMcDonald at 410-396-6915. Projects must comply with the 2006 editionof ∫The Specifications for Materials, Highways, Bridges, Utilities andIncidental Structures. City personnel will utilize the ∫City of BaltimoreGuidelines for The Performance Evaluation of Design Consultants andConstruction Contractors∫ for this contract/project.

Firms intending to submit a proposal as a prime consultant for this projectshould submit a ∫Letter of Interest∫ to the Office of Boards andCommissions, 751 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 attentionMari B. Ross. Since these letters are utilized to assist small, minorityand women business enterprises in identifying potential teaming partners,the letters should be submitted within five (5) days of the date of theproject¬s advertisement. The letter should contain a contact personFailure to submit a ∫Letter of Interest∫ will not disqualify a firm submittinga proposal for the project.

Each prime consultant applying for this Project will be required tocomplete and submit an original Federal Form 255, along with five (5)copies to the Office of Boards and Commissions, 751 Eastern Avenue,Baltimore, Maryland 21202. The Federal Form 255 and the five copiesmust be submitted on or before 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on 02-28-2011.Submittals will not be accepted after this deadline.

Insurance RequirementsThe consultant selected for the award of this project shall provideprofessional liability, auto liability, general liability and workers¬ com-pensation insurances as required by the City of Baltimore.

Prequalification Certification RequirementAll architectural, engineering, and surveying firms listed in the specificproposal for the Project must be prequalified by the Office of Boardsand Commissions for each applicable discipline at time of submittal forthis Project. Information regarding prequalification certification can beobtained by contacting the Office at 410-396-6883.

MBE/WBE RequirementsIt is the policy of the City of Baltimore to promote equal businessopportunity in the City¬s contracting process. Pursuant to Article 5Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code (2000 Edition) - Minority and Women¬Business Program, Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Women¬Business Enterprise (WBE) participation goals apply to this contract.

The MBE goal is 27%The WBE goal is 9%

Both the proposed Minority and Women¬s Business Enterprise firms musbe named and identified as an MBE or WBE within Item 6 of the StandardForm (SF) 255 in the spaces provided for identifying outside keyconsultants/associates anticipated for utilization for this project.

Any submittals that do not include the proper MBE/WBE (in someinstances DBE) participation will be disapproved for further considerationfor this project.

Verifying Certification

Each firm submitting a SF 255 for consideration for a project isresponsible for verifying that all MBEs and WBEs to be utilized on theproject are certified by the Minority and Women¬s Business OpportunitOffice (MWBOO) prior to submitting the proposal. A directory of certifiedMBEs and WBEs is available from MWBOO. Since changes to thedirectory occur daily, firms submitting SF 255¬s should call MWBOO a(410)396-4355 to verify certification, expiration dates and services thatthe MBE or WBE is certified to provide.

Non-AffiliationA firm submitting a proposal may not use an MBE or WBE to meet acontract goal if:1. The firm has a financial interest in the MBE or WBE2. The firm has an interest in the ownership or control of the MBE or WBE3. The firm is significantly involved in the operation of the MBE or WBE(Article 5 subtitle 28-41.

A firm submitting as a prime consultant that fails to comply with therequirements of Article 5, Subtitle 28 of Baltimore City Code whenexecuting a contract is subject to the following penalties: suspension ofa contract; withholding of funds; rescission of contract based on materialbreach; disqualification as a consultant from eligibility to provide servicesto the City for a period not to exceed 2 years; and payment for damagesincurred by the City.

Additional RequirementsA resume for each person listed as key personnel and/or specialist,including those from MBE and WBE must be shown on the page providedwithin the application.

Please be advised that for the purpose of reviewing price proposals andinvoices, the City of Baltimore defines a principal of a firm as follows:

A principal is any individual owning 5% or more of the outstanding stock of an entity, a partner of a partnership, a 5% or more shareholder of a sub-chapter ¬S¬ Corporation, or an individual owner.

Out-of-State Corporations must identify their corporate resident agentwithin the application.

Firms will not be considered for a specific project if they apply as botha sub-consultant and prime consultant.

The applications for this Project (Form 255) cannot be supplementedwith any additional information such as graphs, photographs, organ-ization chart, etc. All such information should be incorporated into theappropriate pages. Applications should not be bound. Applications shouldsimply be stapled in the upper left-hand corner. Cover sheets should notbe included. Inclusion and/or submittal of additional material may resultin the applicant being disqualified from consideration for this project.

Failure to follow directions of this advertisement or the application maycause disqualification of the submittal.

Mari B. RossExecutive Secretary

CAREER

CORNERCertified Medical Assistant - Pediatric and Adult

Comprehensive health care center located in downtownBaltimore has an opening for a Certified Medical Assistanton the Medical (Pediatric and Adult) team. Requirementsinclude H.S. diploma, GED or equivalent experience;

pediatric phlebotomy experience a plus; certification as aMedical Assistant; active AAMA or RMA certification and,Pediatric experience a must; good telephone communica-tion skills; legible handwriting and good basic typing skills;well-developed organizational and strong interpersonalskills, ability to maintain confidentiality surrounding allinformation related to clients; computer skills preferred.Send resume to Ms. C. Berry, HCH, 421 Fallsway, Bal-timore, MD 21202 by 2/07/11. Email: [email protected], Fax 410-837-8020. No Phone calls. EOE

Constituent Services Representative for CongressmanJohn Sarbanes¬ office in Towson. For more information goto www.sarbanes.house.gov/job

Data Base Specialist II$45,650-$73,259

Serves as the Database Mgr providing all front-end andback-end technical support. Functions as the SQL ServerSpecialist on db development, and assists in applicationend-user training. REQ: BS in CIT, MIS, Computer Scienceor other information technology-related field to includecourse work in data management systems. 1yr exp design-ing, developing, implementing, maintaining and controllingdb management systems for multipurpose, multi-taskingcomputers. Exp developing db with Microsoft SQL Serverincluding writing queries, using Transact SQL, and Mic-rosoft Access with Visual Basic programming abilities. Visitwww.mdoa.state.md.us for the official job announcement.Submit a State application (MS-100) to: MD Dept of Aging,301 W. Preston St., Suite 1007 Balto., MD 21201 by2/11/11. EOE

Senior Employment Program Mgr$40,291 - $64,317Experienced Program Manager needed to administer theSenior Community Employment Program (SCSEP) fundedby DOL. SCSEP provides low-income persons ages 55and older with employment and training opportunitiesleading to unsubsidized employment. Statewide travelrequired. REQ: BA & 5 yrs exp in any combination: public

budget, public personnel administration, managementanalysis, program planning or administrative staff work. 3yrs of this exp must have been specialized work in aprofessional or administrative capacity in a program thatprovides services for or by the elderly. One yr exp in theadministration of an employment and training program isrequired. For the official job announcement, visit www.mdoa.state.md.us. Submit a State employment application(MS-100) by 2/4/11 to: MD Department of Aging, HR, 301West Preston St. Suite 1007, Balto, MD 21201. Downloadapplications from www.dbm.maryland.gov.EOE

EducationPHYSICAL EDUCATION

Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) -The #1 Ranked Education Program in the USA

(For the 3rd STRAIGHT YEAR)AND WINNER of the RACE TO THE TOP (RTTT) Grant

Seeks a part-time contractual Education Program Specialist to provide technical assis-tance, & coordination for the implementation of the fitness assessment of health relatedfitness & the promotion of physical activity in Maryland¬s public schools while assistingcentral office & school staff in the promotion of physical activity in low performing schoolsidentified in the Race to the Top (RTTT) Grant.

www.marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/aboutmsde/jobs

MSDE is a State agency that develops & administers education, library, & rehabilitationprograms, is on the f orefront of standards-based reform of public education, & is committedto promoting & maintaining a diverse workforce. Annual salary range: $56,496 - $73,674prorated @ 50%.

QUALIFICATIONS: Masters or equiv 36 credit hrs post-baccalaureate course work inEduc., Educ Admin/Supervision, or related area & 4 yrs prof admin, accountability, orteaching exp in or affiliated w/ an educ prog including 2 yrs exp in coordinating oradministering directly related educ prog or service. (Exp w/ Physical Education programs,&/or related field pref.) NOTE: 2 yrs additional exp. as defined may sub for the Master¬s.

To Apply: Reference position RTTTDOI#334-11 & Send/FAX (410-333-8950) resume toOffice of Human Resources, 200 W. Baltimore Street, Balto. MD. 21201. Applications/ resumes should be received by February 4, 2011.

AA/EOE

Special Education Job Fair Tuesday, February 1, 2011

For information or to register go to

www.hcpss.org

EOE

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