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By Odochi Ibe
NNPA Special Correspondent
Several town hall meetings will be held
throughout the week to discuss jobs and
‘Too Close to Call’
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education, said Cummings.
Elsie Scott, president of the CBC
Baltimore City state’s attorney and Baltimore County
Congressional Black Caucus this year is Foundation, said people need to know that
tackling the current debilitating joblessness federal jobs are available, but it’s no longer a District 4 Council seats still up for grabs
in the Black community head on with matter of taking a civic exam and having an
several sessions on the connection between application read by a supervisor. “There are By Talibah Chikwendu
education and employment at its 40th technological advances in the hiring process” AFRO Executive Editor
Annual Legislative Conference (ALC). The Scott said. “A computer now scans each
conference is being held this week, Sept. 15- application looking for key words and phrases The voters of Baltimore City have spoken. But it
18, at the Walter E. Washington Convention and we want the community to be cognizant doesn’t appear they spoke loudly enough, because at the
Center. of these changes to increase their chances.” end of the preliminary counting in the Sept. 14 primary,
Sen. Ronald W. Burris (D-Ill.) is hosting This year’s conference will also attempt to in the watched and highly contested state’s attorney’s
a panel break down the race between Patricia Jessamy and Gregg Bernstein, it
“Exploring complex new was still too close to call.
Minority health care As the evening progressed and there was little
Business law through news about counts and precincts reporting, Marilyn
Opportunities a Cliff- Harris-Davis, campaign advisor for Jessamy, expressed
with the Federal notes-type surprise at how slowly election results for the entire
Government” guidebook. city were coming in. “We never had this kind of pull
on Sept. Free health back on election results before,” she said. “They are not
16. Sen. Burris, a strong advocate of care screenings, panel discussions, and telling us anything.”
looking toward the future when it comes forums on serious medical issues in the Black With 97 percent of the precincts reporting, around
to employment, believes Americans should community will be featured. But there will 9:45 a.m. Sept. 15, there were only 1,421 votes between
devote time into learning new technologies be particular focus on HIV/AIDS and bone State’s Attorney Patricia Jessamy and Gregg Bernstein,
and becoming aware of new jobs in the marrow donation. with Bernstein in the lead. According to information
emerging green industry. The sessions will include “Beyond a from the Baltimore City Board of Elections, the official
The Congressional Black Caucus National AIDS Strategy: Next Steps in the count of the absentee ballots will begin on Sept. 16
Foundation, which funds the legislative Fight Against HIV/AIDS in Black America,” and the count of the provisional ballots – those cast by
conference, wants to ensure that the Black “Sister Speak: Reducing HIV/AIDS in the people eligible to vote but have an issue on Election
community is aware of the changing job Black Community” and “Beyond Blood: Bone Day like being at the incorrect polling location or not
market, new jobs and how to prepare for Marrow Donation Among African Americans have a valid ID – begins Sept. 22. It may be another
Photo by Bill Tabron
them. - A Health and Wellness Luncheon.” week before this race is finally decided. “The results are
Patricia Jessamy, center, greets
“So many people will never return to “CBC Foundation has an ongoing project not final,” said Patricia Jessamy on the morning after
supporters after the polls closed
the jobs they lost,” said U.S. Rep. Elijah E. to increase AIDs awareness with full-time the election. “We’ll just wait and see.”
on Sept. 14. She said, in a later
Cummings, D-Md., honorary co-chair of research on how to prevent the spread of Several of the big races were never in question,
conversation, “I really want to
this year’s events. “It’s our responsibility to this disease,” Scott said. “We have a grant including the Democratic nominations for governor,
thank all the people who voted
increase their ability to do the jobs that are from the Centers for Disease Control and are comptroller and senator. Gov. Martin O’Malley and
for me and supported me over the
available to them.” Continued on A3 Continued on A4 years.”

Ron Walters, Community’s

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Jackson said Howard University had recently
convinced Walters to come out of retirement Initiative ‘smarthealth’
and return to teaching, and that Walters was By Kristin Gray metropolitan area’s battle
For more than four decades, Ronald looking forward to the opportunity. AFRO Managing Editor against the bulge. According
Walters, Ph.D., served the African-American Howard President Sidney A. Ribeau to hospital officials,
community, the United said Walters was largely Helen Phillips’ body once “smarthealth” is the first
States and the world as a responsible for increasing the bulged uncomfortably in multidisciplinary initiative
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political analyst, consultant, number of graduates from size 22 pants. The Michigan in Maryland offering a
teacher, writer, mentor and the institution’s then-nascent woman – who went on to medically-supervised and
friend. His service came political science doctoral vanquish an astonishing comprehensive approach to
to a close Sept. 10, when program. “As a young chair 140 pounds on NBC’s diet, exercise, lifestyle and
he lost a battle with cancer of the Political Science “The Biggest Loser” last mind. The program, founded
at Suburban Hospital in Department, he played a year – had fallen victim by Saint Agnes’ renowned
Bethesda, Md. He was 72 critical role in making it to a destructive cycle of bariatric expert Dr. Kuldeep
years old. more relevant to a rapidly
Walters was born in changing political and racial
Wichita, Kan., in 1938. environment,” Ribeau said in a “According to hospital officials, ‘smarthealth’
He earned a bachelor’s statement. “He also served as
degree with honors from the intellectual mentor to many
is the first multidisciplinary initiative in
Fisk University and of the nation’s most prominent Maryland offering a medically-supervised
earned a master’s degree African-American political
in African studies and a scientists who now serve on and comprehensive approach to diet, exercise,
doctorate in international the faculties of major research lifestyle and mind.”
studies from American universities.”
University. Walters was U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings overeating, inactivity and Singh and Sykesville, Md.-
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
a professor since the (D-Md.) was one of Walters’ self-pity. Like millions of based corporate wellness
Ronald Walters, seen in this
early 1970s, teaching at students. “As a teacher, he obese Americans, it seemed company WellAdvantage,
July 19, 2006 photo, was
numerous institutions always found time for his Phillips’ fate had been seeks to affordably offer
honored that year by the
including at Georgetown, students,” Cummings told predetermined to include a the emotional and fitness
NAACP for leading the first
Syracuse, Brandeis and the AFRO. “When he was at plethora of weight-related support “Biggest Loser”
sit-in in Wichita, Kan. in 1958.
Howard universities and Howard, we would fight to get illnesses like hypertension, participants enjoyed.
Walters, 72, died Sept. 10
the University of Maryland. in his classes. He was always diabetes and possibly heart “When I look back at
from cancer.
He was chairman of telling us to reach high, to be a failure. my life, I wish I’d started
the Howard University part of the political process.” Sound familiar? this type of program a long
Department of Political Science and chairman Walters also made his mark as a dedicated In Baltimore, where the time ago,” said Phillips in
of Afro-American Studies at Brandeis. He scholar, authoring and co-authoring more obesity rate among African an interview with the AFRO.
also served as a visiting professor at Princeton than 10 books and hundreds of academic Americans is dangerously “I was such a horrible yo-
University and was a fellow at the Institute of articles and commentaries. His book, Black high, officials at Saint Agnes yo dieter that I was always
Politics at the Kennedy School of Government Presidential Politics in America, (1989), won Hospital sought to develop looking for a quick fix. Now
at Harvard University. the American Political Science Association’s a multi-faceted wellness I realize there is no quick
Join the AFRO on Walters’ longtime friend, the Rev. Jesse Continued on A5 program to combat the Continued on A6
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Your History • Your Community • Your News President Obama Talks Jobs, Health Care on ‘Tom
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2519 N. Charles Street mid-term elections, President Barack
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4602 Obama is attempting to rally Black
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improve seniors’ drug expenses – and discussed a consumer
Director of Finance - Jack Leister - 410-554-8242 financial protection agency so “people are able to keep their
Archivist - John Gartrell - 410-554-8265 money.” Finally, Obama spoke about his administration’s
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Diane W. Hocker - 410-554-8243 two years than the last 20.”
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Washington Bureau Chief - Zenitha Prince - 202-332-0080, ext. 119 Johnson said she has repaid approximately
E-mail: dceditor@afro.com $31,000 to the Congressional Black Caucus
Global Markets Foundation (CBCF) after acknowledging that
Director - Benjamin M. Phillips IV - 410-554-8220 she had violated the group’s rules by giving
bphillips@afro.com awards to four of her relatives and a staff
Washington Circulation/Distribution Manager member’s two children, The Associated Press
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While I am not ashamed of helping, I did
Production Department - 410-554-8288 not intentionally mean to violate any rules
in the process—CBCF Scholarship rules in Eddie Bernice Johnson
Washington Office particular,” the nine-term Democrat said in a
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202-332-0080 Fax: 1-877-570-9297 Johnson provided 23 scholarships totaling $25,000 to two
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of her grandsons, two of her great nephews and to an aide’s
Edgar Brookins - ext. 116 children. The organization claimed Johnson’s actions violated
Office Administrator - Mia Hayes-Hawkins - ext. 112 rules against nepotism and granting awards to students residing justice fervor of young people,” said Benjamin Todd Jealous,
or attending schools outside her district. The Dallas Morning
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410-554-8234 “There will be no self-dealing or nepotism in the awarding
Customer Service@afro.com of college scholarships,” Rep. Donald M. Payne (D-N.J.),
Billing Inquiries: 410-554-8226 chairman of the foundation said in a statement. Payne added
Nights and Weekends: 410-554-8282 that the group recently started an audit of its scholarship
students in 2009. The CBCF provides $10,000 a year for
scholarships awarded by the 43 members of the CBC. The
money comes from corporate donations.
Nation’s Top Black Lawyers, Zeta
Phi Beta, Honor National Leaders
On Sept. 15, the National Bar
Association (NBA) along with Zeta
Phi Beta Sorority, honored U.S. Trade
Representative Ronald Kirk with its
Presidential Award of Merit for Equal
Justice and current and past chairs of
the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)
with its Presidential Award of Merit. The
awards were presented in the Renaissance
Mayflower Hotel’s Grand Ballroom
during the NBA’s fourth annual CBC
Reception.
AP Photo This year’s award recipients will join
a prestigious list of past honorees, which
includes U.S. Attorney General Eric H.
Holder Jr. The reception recognizes individuals who have been
outspoken advocates for equal justice and the rule of law.
Sheryl Underwood, international president of Zeta Phi
Beta Sorority, also celebrated the awardees. “We join the
NBA in applauding the work and tenacity of the current and
former chairs of the CBC, whose leadership, strength and
vision continue to provide African Americans a
voice and an open door to the highest levels of
government,” said Underwood in a statement.
“Together the CBC chairs and Ambassador Kirk
serve as inspiration for generations to come.”
Starbucks and NAACP Team for National
Spoken Word Tour
The NAACP and Starbucks have partnered to
launch the One Nation Spoken Word Showcase
Tour, a youth empowerment tour that will
travel to Chicago, New York City, Atlanta, Los
Angeles, Houston and Washington, D.C. In each
Courtesy Photo city, the tour will bring a number of activities for
young adults and teens, including empowerment
seminars at local high schools and colleges,
community service projects and a spoken word showcase
featuring young talent.
“The NAACP is proud to be working with Starbucks to
showcase the creative gifts, talents, consciousness and social
NAACP president and CEO, in a statement. “One Nation
Working Together is about all people, regardless of age,
religion, political affiliation or race working together to pull
this nation back together. The NAACP supports the efforts and
hard work of young people who are committed to helping attain
a better tomorrow for all people,” concluded Jealous.

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 Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain NephewA3
A2 The Afro-American, September 18, 2010 - September 18, 2010 September 18, 2010 - September 24, 2010, The Afro-American
By Alan King sport-utility vehicle sought in from a neighbor about a suspi- posted fliers bearing his photo-
AFRO Staff Writer connection with the murder of cious vehicle. The man noticed graph around the city. On

Druid Hill Park Turns 150

Jennifer Hudson and other
relatives positively identified
By Melissa Jones
AFRO Staff Writer
One of the cornerstones of African-
American history and life in Baltimore will
be 150 years old in October. Druid Hill Park
was originally developed as part of a major
urban parks initiative in the late 19th century.
To celebrate the green oasis in the heart of
urban life, Tree Baltimore, a division of the
Department of Parks and Recreation; The
Friends of Druid Hill Park, a local cooperative;
and Cathy Allen, the green ambassador, have
teamed up to plant 150 new trees in the park
on Oct. 9. The plan is to enhance the tree
canopy on the Zoo Mansion House lawn and
replace
Jennifer
saplings.
older,
Hudsondying and trees heraround
was killed, as well as her brother, Jason.
mom,the Darnell
Allen, who frequently visits the park with
her two young children and lives in close
the body of her 7-year-old
proximity, is excited about the celebration of
nephew Monday, just hours
the history of the park and the initiative to
after his body was found in a
plant more trees. She calls it “green goodness.”
Hudson’s mother and brother.
The white, 1994 Chevrolet
Suburban with Illinois license
Courtesy Photos
park withDonerson who
plate X584859 was found on
Chicago’s West Side after
police received a 7 a.m. call
the vehicle while walking his Sunday, Jennifer Hudson asked
dog. According to the Chicago for the public’s help in finding
Tribune, the boy had been shot her nephew. In her MySpace
multiple times in the back seat blog, she thanked fans and sup-
of the vehicle. The SUV, regis- porters for their prayers and
tered to Hudson’s murdered offered a $100,000 reward to
brother, was towed with the anyone who returned the boy
boy’s body inside and is being alive.
processed by evidence techni- Since the investigation,
cians and workers. The body Hudson – who gained stardom
was later removed and taken to after appearing on “American
the Cook County Medical Idol,” and then won an
Examiner’s office. Academy Award for her role in
Hudson and other family the movie Dreamgirls – has
members arrived at the Medical stayed out of the public eye.
Examiner’s office mid-after- The Chicago Tribune report-
noon to identify the body. Julian King, Jennnifer Hudson’s nephew. ed that a parade of cars moved
Given the choice between look- slowly past her family’s home
A spokesman for the office the murders but is being held in
ing directly at the body or Monday morning, past the
told the newspaper that Hudson jail for parole violation after
viewing it on a wall-mounted news vans, reporters and curi-
ous onlookers.
“She held hands with her family. It was obviously a very emotional moment.” Neighbors stood
quietly and
reflected on the
video screen, the family chose “remained strong for her fami- being convicted of attempted violence.
ly” and was clearly its leader. murder and vehicular hijack-
the latter. According to the In front of the Hudson’s
“She held hands with her fami- ing. Cook County records show
Tribune, Hudson said, “Yes, home, men in heavy jackets
ly,” the spokesman said. “It that he pleaded guilty to both
that’s him.” and hooded sweatshirts came to
was obviously a very emotional charges in 1999. He was also kiss the twin white crosses bar-

ACORN Fights Back

“Just think, 150 years ago my ancestors moment.” convicted in 1998 for posses- ing the names of Donerson and
could not fully enjoy this park, they were The boy – the son of Julia sion of a stolen motor vehicle. Jason.
usually working in some capacity,” said Hudson, Jennifer’s sister – had He was released from prison in “Everybody is sick of going
Allen. “Here I am today, an African-American been missing since Friday, 2006 after serving seven years
Leader Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’
through stuff like this,” Artisha
woman, heading up a major planting when a relative found Julian’s for the attempted murder and West, a former resident of the
initiative.” grandmother, Darnell car hijacking charges. area told the Tribune. “We all
ByWhatAlanAllen
Kingalludes to is federally andmandated
Dallas Cowboys players No wonder Obama’s campaign is Donerson, 57, and his uncle, The boy remained missing have to stick together. All these
AFRO
racial Staff Writerduring the Jim Crow
segregation Tony Romoera. and Terrell Owens, trying to distance him from the Jason Hudson, 29, shot to death through a long weekend in young children are dying, and
among the names submitted to group, saying, “Barack Obama in his grandmother’s home in which police and volunteers
There were no laws in place to stop Black for what?”
Presidential candidate John election officials. Never Organized with ACORN.” the 7000 block of South Yale Photo by Bill Tabron
Baltimoreans from enjoying the amenities at
McCain’s attack on ACORN – Hurd said thoseDruid Hillwho
workers, Park, But
originally
Obama’sdeveloped
ties to ACORN 150runyearsAvenue.
ago as part of a national major urban parks initiative, will be getting 150 new trees on
the park. However, the facilities available,
were doing those Oct. things9,without longthis
and deep.
Associated Community to celebrate livingHemonument.
taught classes An Amber Alert – a desig-
separate from their
Organization for Reform Now White counterparts,
– ACORN’s knowledge or permis- for ACORN. They even endorsed nation for high-risk missing
provided
confirms the initial steam
the success of the in the engine to help
sion, were fired. Court at the time.him Theforevent put Baltimore on
President. big oaks –are about 100Friday
years old,” said Anne all planned, it’s not random,” she said.
children was issued
bring an end to a racially-motivated
organization, the head of the injustice.
“The evidencethe thatnational
has sur- map of Butthe
nowcivil
ACORNrightsis movement,
in trouble. Draddy, author of Druid
after Julian was discovered Hill Park: The Heart The planting is all part of a 20-year tree
Tennis
group says.courts at Druid Hill Parkfaced provided
so far showswhich gained full steam
they faked in theThere
Reporter: 1960s.are at least of Historic
missing Baltimore
after the murders.and director of Tree master plan for every large park in Baltimore
the backdrop for a civil
“This is testimony rights
to the workprotest
forms against
to get paid for work On Oct. they16 Allen plans to plant
11 investigations treesthe
across at Baltimore.
Police arrested“WeWilliam
are planting these trees for City. Local Boy Scout troops have adopted
segregation by young
we’ve done and success we’ve athletes. According
didn’t do, not to stuff the site
ballotof a now defunct segregated
country involving pool and
thousands of generations
Balfour, the to come,boy’s
missing so that in 150 years there
step- the Tree Baltimore initiative, and will earn a
tohad,”
reports
Maude in aHurd,
1950president
edition of of the AFRO, a
boxes.” ACORN, dedicate
she said, is those
the trees to prominent
potentially African
fraudulent ACORN will
fatherbeand
shade and cooler
estranged husbandair in Druid Hill conservation badge by helping to plant trees in
group
ACORN, of 22 saidtennis
in anplayers,
interviewBlack and victimWhite,of fraud, not Americans
the perpetra- in Baltimore.
forms. “These trees are Park.”
of Julia, at his girlfriend’s the park to help celebrate the anniversary,
were
with arrested
the AFRO. in 1948 for attempting tor to
of play
it. Announcer: Massive voter Southside apartment several “Druid Hill is the third oldest park of
an interracial
policy
“When thistennis
had just wouldn’t
announced
attack tournament.
allow
started, we “TheHurd
that uswetohadplay. Itbogus
wasn’t
“These trees are living monuments, and this is monument city.”
parksaid the only things
are the charges them-
fraud. And the Obama campaign hours after the murders.
paid more than $800,000 to an
its kind [owned by a municipality] in the
Balfour’s mother, Michele, has country,” said Draddy. New York City’s
the law. It 1.3
registered wasmillion
the policy,
new vot-and the policy
selves. And said factcheck. org ACORN front for get out the vote told reporters that her son had
living monuments, and this is monument city,” Draddy said everyone can participate in Central park was developed in 1858 and
noers,” she said. sports
interracial “That’son justthe say agrees.
to court,” said Mitzi efforts.
she said. “But instead of taking away from the the sustainable
nothing to do with effort
theby purchasing a tree
slayings. Fairmount Park in Philadelphia began with
that someone’s
Swan, one of the running
original players, in aIt2003
scared concluded, “Neither
earth, we are
Pressuring banks to issue risky
giving back and honoring the from Balfour
the remains
Friends of aDruid
suspect Hill Jason
in Park Hudson
website or a group of private citizen’s desire for public
because ofSwan ACORN’s ACORN nor its employees have loans. Nationwide voter fraud.
interview. also success.”
mentioned that the tennis earth. I am happy to be a part of history.” volunteering to help plant a tree. “There will green space around 1855.
McCain, who is running for been found guilty of, or even Barack Obama. Bad judgment.
court for Black players was “overgrown with The trees to be planted will also become be experienced tree planters on hand to teach Druid Hill’s 745-acres is also listed on the
president on the Republican tick- charged with, casting fraudulent Blind ambition. Too risky for
weed and ruts,” a far cry from the votes.” “separate a part of that history. “Druid
America. Hill has some people how to plant them. The species and National Register of Historic Places.
et, lashed out at ACORN in the
but equal” mandate
final debate against Barack upheld by the Supreme
The problem of
came the oldest
about pri-trees in the state. Some of the spots where we will plant are
Obama, contending the group “is marily because of the way Since McCain’s comments,

CBC’s Conference
SQUARE HIGH
on the verge of maybe perpetrat- ACORN operates. Rather than
ing one of the greatest frauds in rely on volunteers, it pays peo-
ACORN’s 87 offices have been
bombarded with threats and
Owning a home can be
voter history in this country,
Continued from A1the fabric of
ple, many of them poor or unem- racist mail. more than just a dream.
maybe destroying ployed, to sign up new voters. The day after the presidential
participating
democracy.” with other Black organizations The idea wastotoget helpoutboth
more those debate, vandals broke into the
attention to the public.”
Factcheck.org, She added,
a non-partisan “This
being year the
registered and conference
those doing organization’s Boston and Seattle
will have at least one workshop focusing on Black women.
Web site, found those claims to the registration. offices and stole computers.
be “exaggerated,” with “no evi- Maud explained, “We have a After a Cleveland representative BREAD NOT ON THE LIST
But we want all aspects of the community especially those at a
dence of
higher riskanytosuch democracy-
be informed.” zero tolerance policy for deliber- appeared on TV, an e-mail was
destroying fraud.” ate falsification of registration.” sent to the local office saying she
Also, for the first time in its history, the conference is
Hurd believes the McCain Most news account neglect to “is going to have her life ended.”
partnering with the National Black Justice Coalition to hold
charges were politically motivat- point out that ACORN is A worker in Providence, R.I.,
an LGBT leadership summit. The required coalitionbyislaw thetoonlyturn nation-
in all reg- received a threatening call say-
ed.
wideShe Black
said,gay civil rights
“Because it’s low-organization.
istration forms. And they also fail ing, “We know you get off work
LEFT RIGHT

andThe goal of this summit

moderate-income people, is to bring
to note attention
that it was to the
issues
organiza- at 9” and uttered racial epithets.
pertaining to gays and lesbians, including
and people of color, I believe the tion, in many instances, their fight forthat first A caller to one office left a M&T makes homebuying easy.
equality. The ultimate
McCain campaign thinks those goal is for people to be able to
brought the phony registrations come message on the answering Some of the most talked about challenges to homeownership are
together
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cating for affordable housing, There, Obama met Madeleine come to our country, consume
living wages, healthcare for the Talbot, part of the Chicago every natural resource there is,
and make a lot of babies. That’s
intelligent talk

underserved— and while organ- branch of ACORN. He was so

izing voter registration drives.
But none has been as withering
and baseless as this one.
With the presidential election
less than two weeks away,
ACORN’s detractors allege the
impressive that he was asked to all you guys do. And then suck
train the ACORN staff. up the welfare and expect every-
What did ACORN in Chicago one else to pay for your hospital
engage in? Bullying banks. bills for your kids. I jus’ say let
Intimidation tactics. Disruption your kids die. That’s the best Before age five, every room is a classroom.
of business. ACORN forced move. Just let your children die.

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Hundreds to March for Sickle Cell Anemia Victims

100th anniversary of the disease’s discovery commemorated by SCDAA 38th Convention
By AFRO Staff
One hundred years ago, Chicago
physician Dr. James Herrick reported anemia
characterized by “peculiar elongated and sickle
shaped” red blood cells in Walter Clement
Noel, “an intelligent negro of 20,” who had
left Grenada to study dentistry at
the Chicago College of Dental
Surgery. It was a discovery
that changed the medical
landscape – and that of African
descendants in particular.
Sickle cell disease is a
hereditary blood disorder that
affects the red blood cells.
The abnormal hemoglobin in
these cells can cause them to
make a crescent shape that
can block small blood vessels.
The blockage decreases the
amount of blood reaching
tissue, which causes painful
complications and even death.
The disease affects millions
of people worldwide, particularly families
from Africa, South and Central America, the
Caribbean, Mediterranean countries, India and
Saudi Arabia.
On Sept. 18, hundreds of Washington area
residents – including a contingent of Howard
University students – will commemorate the
100th anniversary of the discovery of sickle
cell with the Stomp Out Sickle Cell Disease
Walk/Run at Freedom Plaza on Pennsylvania
Avenue between 13th and 14th streets in
northwest Washington, D.C.
The 5-kilometer walk is to raise funds for
and awareness of the painful, life-threatening
disease that affects about 72,000 people –
mostly Black – in the United States. According children. Jeff Henderson, celebrity author and
to the National Institutes of Health, the disease star of the Food Network program, “The Chef
occurs in about 1 in every 500 African- Jeff Project,” will be in attendance to show
American births and 1 support and to promote the cause.
in every 1,000 to 1,400  Coordinators for this event include the
Hispanic-American Children’s National Medical Center, Center
births. About 2 million for Cancer and Blood Disorder, Georgetown
Americans, or 1 in 12 University Hospital’s Division of Pediatric
African Americans, Hematology and Oncology, Faces of Our
carry the sickle cell Children Inc., Howard University, National
trait. Institutes of Health and Sickle Cell Association
“Thousands of of the National Capital Area Inc.
people are affected Then on Sept. 21 the Sickle Cell Disease
by this disease every Courtesy Photo Association of America (SCDAA) kicks off
day,” said Barbra People can participate in teams during the their 38th annual convention. Themed “Giving
Harrison, a genetics Stomp Out Sickle Cell Walk, as employees New Voice to Sickle Cell Disease ~ 100 Years
counselor, assistant of the National Institutes of Health and of Recognition”, the event will be held at the
professor in the their families and friends did at last year’s Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center,
Howard University event. National Harbor, Md.
College of Medicine’s According to the SCDAA, the “convention
 “This walk is one of the very few efforts in
Department of Pediatrics and is a time when health professionals and
the Washington, D.C. area to show support to
director of community outreach and individuals with sickle cell disease and related
those impacted by it.  Plus, it’s a lot of fun,”
education for the Howard University conditions come together to learn the latest
she added.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease. developments in research, treatment and
Washington-area residents are invited to
services related to the disease.” Towards that
participate in this event from 8
end a variety of presentations are planned
a.m. to noon, or to sponsor Howard
on all aspects of the disease from outreach
University student walkers/
and education to clinical and psychosocial
runners for $10. Registration is
research. There will also be exhibits on display.
available online at www.soswalk.
With seminars and workshops scheduled
org or at the site on the day of
through Sept. 24, the public is invited to come
the event. Participants can sign
out and learn about this disease and how each
up individually or as a group.
person can make a difference.
Free T-shirts will be available for
participants while supplies last.
For more information on the Stomp Out Sickle
There will be stations set up
Cell Disease Walk, please visit www.soswalk.
Courtesy Photo by local hospitals to give out org or call 202.865.4443. For information
Organizations sign up walkers and runners in front of information about the disease and about the SCDAA 38th Annual Convention,
how those affected can utilize area
Howard University Hospital for the Stomp Out Sickle visit www.scdaaconvention.com or call 800-
services for themselves or their
Cell Walk Saturday on Freedom Plaza. 421-8453.

Many Races ‘Too Close to Call’

Photo by Bill Tabron

Continued from A1
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown
carried the day, along with
Comptroller Peter Franchot
and Sen. Barbara Mikulski.
Also, some important
incumbents secured
the Democratic Party
nominations for the
November general elections
including U.S. Reps. Elijah
Cummings, C.A. Dutch
Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes
and Donna Edwards.
In Baltimore City districts
most incumbents were
successful in keeping the
Democratic nominations
for their seats. State Sens.
Catherine Pugh, D-40th;
Lisa Gladden, D-41st and
Nathaniel McFadden,
D-45th, running unopposed
in the primary and with no
Republican challengers in
November, retain their seats.
With 70 percent of the vote,
Sen. Joan Carter Conway,
D-43rd, defeated Democratic
challenger Hector Torres and
will retain her seat as well.
Sen. Verna Jones, D-44th,
retains the Democratic
nomination and will face
Republican Bernard Reiter
in November. In District
46, with no Republican
challenger, longtime Sen.
George Della was unseated
by Bill Ferguson.
For the House of
Delegates, Frank Conaway
Jr. , Barbara Robinson
and Shawn Tarrant in the
40th District , and Curt
Anderson, Maggie McIntosh
and Mary Washington
in the 43rd District all
retain their seats, facing
no Republican challenge
in November. Incumbents
in the 41st District – Jill
Carter, Nathaniel Oaks and
Samuel “Sandy” Rosenberg
– will face Republican Mark
Ehrlichmann in the general
election. In the 44th District
Keiffer Mitchell Jr. was able
to unseat Ruth Kirk and will
join Melvin Stukes and Keith
Haynes to face Republicans
Brian Jones and Trae Lewis
in November. In the 45th
District Talmadge Branch,
Cheryl Glenn and Hattie
Harrison all survived the
challenge for the nomination, Patricia Jessamy supporters gathered at the Rowing
but face Republicans Rick Club on Sept. 14, spending time with the candidate and
Saffery and Larry Wardlow watching election results come in, slowly.
Jr. in the General Election.
Despite what seemed to
be a smaller than expected
voter turnout, especially
in Baltimore County, the
mechanisms for gathering
and reporting the results
To all our friends, supporters, sponsors... were inadequate to the task.
And the 35,000 participants The Maryland State Board
of Elections website was
of the 1st annual Pennsylvania Avenue not able to handle the traffic
Weekend Homecoming Festival and the staff did not keep up
during Labor Day Weekend with the 20 minute updates
promised. Reportedly,

2010 Baltimore County results

came in very slowly because
of computer problems.
Kevin Kamenetz, more
than 12 hours after the
polls closed, gave a victory
speech, shortly after Joseph
Bartenfelder conceded the
race. “This was a hard fought
contest and each side was
able to put forward their
ideas and their goals before
the voters,” he said.
In the District 10, all the
incumbents – Sen. Delores
Kelley and Delegates Nathan
Pulliam, Emmett Burns
and Adrienne Jones – all
retain their seats, as they
are not facing Republican
challengers in November.
But the Baltimore County
Council 4th District race
remained too close to call,
mid-day Sept. 15, with
incumbent Kenneth Oliver
a mere 93 votes ahead of
challenger Julian Jones and
3.1 percentage points ahead
of challenger Leronia Josey.
With three precincts left
to report and absentee and
provisional ballots to count,
- www.RoyalTCHC.com - it may be days before this is
resolved as well.
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N.C. Civil Rights Museum Misses Attendance Goals

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) —
A recent report on attendance at a
new civil rights museum shows that
despite widespread publicity, fewer
than 6 percent of the visitors to
the facility are from beyond North
Carolina and neighboring states.
The News and Record of
Greensboro reported Sunday
that the first six months of the
International Civil Rights Center &
Museum in Greensboro saw about
40,000 people come through its
doors. Organizers had estimated the
facility would draw 200,000 visitors
a year.
Fewer than 3,000 of those
visitors came from beyond North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
and Virginia.
The museum’s centerpiece is the
Woolworth’s lunch counter where
black college students challenged
the whites-only policy in 1960.
“We’ve just started,’’ said
Melvin “Skip’’ Alston, chairman
of the museum’s management
committee and the Guilford County
Board of Commissioners. “Three
or four years, once we get it all
together, then that’s when we’ll be
averaging 200,000 a year.
“Once we get our whole
organization up and running, yes,
200,000, I don’t see that being a
problem.’’
More than 80 percent of the
museum’s visitors have been from
North Carolina and more than half
of those were Greensboro, High
Point or Winston-Salem residents.
The museum’s annual budget
is about $3 million with the
money coming from ticket sales,
special programs and corporate
contributions. The museum also
hosts three fundraising events to
help with operating funds. No
public money is used for daily
operations.
Even though the museum has
yet to bring outside visitors to the
area, Henri Fourrier, president of
the Greensboro Area Convention
and Visitors Bureau, said he thinks
it has attracted positive national
attention that could translate in
future visitors.
“I can’t begin to say what it’s
done for us in terms of generating
national press,’’ Fourrier said.
“We’ve had a tremendous number of
travel writers come into the area.’’
The museum has been featured
in several of the visitors bureau’s
advertisements, he said.
Those who do come say it is
worth the trip.
“I’ve been coming here for 10
years waiting for it to open,’’ Joy
Cowdery, associate professor of
education at Muskingum University
in New Concord, Ohio, said during a
recent visit. “Now, at last, it’s open.’’
Muskingum sends a group of
education majors to Greensboro
every fall to improve their teaching
skills at area facilities such as
Gateway Education Center.
Her students who are too young
to remember the struggle for civil
rights in the 1960s were impressed
by the exhibits at the museum.
“I think this is extremely
valuable, especially for someone
who is not familiar with the history,
exactly what happened and how it
happened,’’ said Brock Whiteman,
one of Cowdery’s students who
hopes to pursue a career in special
education.
The museum is open Tuesday
through Saturday. Tickets are $10 for
adults with discounts for children,
students and seniors.

Ron Walters, Community’s ‘Tallest Tree,’ Dead at 72

Continued from A1
Ralph Bunche Prize and
the Best Book Award from
the National Conference of
Black Political Scientists
(NCOBPS). Pan Africanism
in the African Diaspora
(1993) also won the NCOBPS
Best Book award. His most
recent books were White
Nationalism, Black Interests:
Conservative Public Policy
and the Black Community
(2003), Freedom Is Not
Enough: Black Voters, Black
Candidates, and American
Presidential Politics (2005),
and The Price of Racial
Reconciliation (2008).
According to reports, at the
time of his death, he was
working on a book about
President Barack Obama.
During Obama’s
presidential campaign and
throughout the political
seasons of the past few
decades, Walters distinguished
himself as an expert on Black
politics and policy and helped
elevate the field.
“Over many years,
he was a major force for
greater civic and political
engagement in the African
American community, and
his work left an indelible
mark on our society and made
America a better place for all
its citizens,” said Ralph B.
Everett, president and CEO of
the Joint Center for Political
and Economic Studies, a
Washington-based think tank
focused on how public policy
affects Black Americans.
“When you consider how
racially diverse the country’s
elected leadership has become
over the past 40 years, think
of Dr. Ronald Walters,
because he had a lot to do
with it.”
Walters used that expertise
as a political consultant,
serving as policy adviser
to former congressmen
William Gray and Charles
Diggs and other members
of the Congressional Black
Caucus. “Professor Walters
was a scholarly giant and
was one of America’s most
He touched many people, Chief Zenitha Prince. “Our others thought permanently
personally and professionally. interviews invariably turned powerless. His lesson guided
“His powerful intellect, into conversations in which my life’s work.”
integrity and race he would demonstrate an Funeral services for Dr.
consciousness will be deeply erudite knowledge of the Walters will take place in
missed,” said Ramona issues affecting the African- Washington, D.C. A memorial
Edelin, a longtime friend and American community and service will be held at Howard
leading Black scholar. “This also a deep commitment to University on Sept. 19. And
loss is very personal for so Black progress. He will be on Sept. 20, the Rev. Jesse
many people he has helped missed.” Jackson will officiate over a
throughout the years.” President and CEO of the funeral service at the historic
Cummings considers himself NAACP Ben Jealous shared Shiloh Baptist Church. Burial
one of those people. “He was his thoughts on Walters’ services will be held at Gates
like a part of my family,” said passing via Twitter. He of Heaven Cemetery in Silver
Cummings. “I’m going to wrote, “He [Walters] guided Spring, Md.
miss him tremendously.” generations of Black political He is survived by his wife,
“He encouraged me to run scientists and political leaders. Patricia Ann Walters.
for Congress,” Cummings “I first met Ron when I
Photo courtesy Washington Interdependence Council
added. “He [Walters] said, was 20. He showed how to Zenitha Prince contributed
Dr. Ron Walters received many accolades for his
‘Not only will you win, you build real power for people to this article.
scholarship and activism.
must win.’ Whenever I had
mentor. difficult political questions,
“He’s the tallest tree in the “Ron Walters was a I could always pick up the
forest of activists, political brilliant, dedicated, consistent phone and call Ron. He was
scientists,” Jackson said in an and unapologetic warrior a sort of quiet man, but had
interview with the AFRO. “I for African Americans,” strong, well thought-out
miss him so much already.” said syndicated columnist opinions and he could always
Walters was always ready George E. Curry. “While he back them up.”
to assist, whether to lend his is best known for teaching at It’s that quality that will
thoughts or his actions to a Howard and the University be missed at the AFRO as
“When you consider how racially diverse the country’s
elected leadership has become over the past 40 years, think
of Dr. Ronald Walters, because he had a lot to do with it.”
just endeavor. He traveled of Maryland, advising well. Along with the many
around the world, and was Jesse Jackson and the commentaries published in
actively involved in the Congressional Black Caucus, its pages in which Walters
movement to end apartheid he spent many hours sharing addressed important issues,
and the efforts to return Jean- his expertise with small, he was a valued source for a
Bertrand Aristide to office in largely unknown community variety of stories.
Haiti, according to Jackson. groups. Black America has “It was always a pleasure
And while his hard work gave lost a scholar whose life to speak with Dr. Walters,
him national recognition and exemplified excellence.” who remained remarkably
standing, an organization did “He was definitely one humble and accessible
not have to be big to get his of the greatest thinkers we despite his stature,” said
assistance. have,” said1Cummings.
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Arc Celebrates 60 Years

By Alexis Gutter
Capital News Service
BALTIMORE - Every
morning for more than a
year, Joe Brown has made
the 45-minute, multi-bus
commute to The Arc of
Baltimore headquarters
where he is the friendly office
clerk responsible for all mail
operations. Brown is mentally
disabled.
Brown, 22, is just one
of The Arc’s many success
stories. Beyond being the
first service provider for
disabled children and adults
in Maryland, and one of the
largest in the country, The
Arc, now celebrating its
60th year, has revolutionized
what it means to be disabled
through its many programs
and services.
In 1949, when eight
Choose
parents met to form a group
focusing on the needs of
what were then referred to as
mentally retarded children,
there were virtually no support
services available, Executive
Director Stephen Morgan said.
Now, The Arc offers a
range of programs for disabled
people in the arenas of job
placement, housing, family
services and social pursuits,
reaching more than 6,000
people.
Project Search, which
Brown is a part of, is a new
program that recruits a dozen
students in their final year of
special education in Baltimore
public schools to focus almost
exclusively on acquiring and
maintaining a job.
In addition to the
curriculum, students rotate
in a number of internships,
spending up to two months
at each to determine which
job will fit best. When
Brown was in the first class
of the program, one of his
internships was his current
position.
Having been successful
at placing students in jobs
post graduation, Project
Search, now in its third year,
has expanded to two classes
and doubled in enrollment,
Morgan, 60, said.
Had Brown not
participated in Project Search,
“my guess is he’d be sitting
at home with no meaningful
activity,” which could result in
isolation, loss of skill, Morgan
said.
Before 1975, when there
was no entitlement to public
education, disabled children
were excluded from school,
barring them from learning
the basic skills necessary to
most jobs in the workforce.
Programs like Project
Search have transformed the
trajectory for the adult life of a
disabled person.
In its beginning, The Arc
offered sheltered workshops
in which a group of people
would label, box or package
for companies that would
bring in products.
“It was an opportunity to
earn wages, but not optimum
because it still isolated people
from the community,” Morgan
said.
Removing disabled people
from isolated environments
and into the community has
been an ongoing practice
Hospital Launches ‘smarthealth’
Continued from A1
fix; it’s all about living a
healthy lifestyle.”
To celebrate the program’s
launch, Phillips, 50, visited
Saint Agnes where she spoke
to more than 200 community
members and health experts
about her journey to wellness
and the enduring effects of
dramatic weight loss. But Joe
Meyers, director of strategic
planning at Saint Agnes, said
most Americans looking to
improve their health will not
experience the media fanfare
– and $250,000 winning
prize – that fuels many reality
show contestants. And while
smarthealth touts its team
of über-dedicated lifestyle
coaches, participants must
be equally invested in the
initiative’s cause.
“One of the biggest
differences you’ll see with
of The Arc as “individual
empowerment and community
focus are the two most
distinguishing features of what
we do,” Morgan said.
In 1971, The Arc opened
the first community home in
Maryland for disabled people.
Before it opened, the only
other option outside of the
family home was confinement
in state institutions. Such
facilities tended to be large,
impersonal and poorly
maintained with unhealthy
environments, Morgan said.
The Arc now supports
more than 300 people
throughout nearly 200 sites in
the community.
Rather than a dormitory
the programs is the level of
support you will get from
your health coach and the
other members of the team
on an ongoing basis,” said
Meyers, who also works part-
time as a fitness instructor.
“You can come in and out
of the gym and people don’t
even know you’ve been
there…but this program
does require a level of work
and participation from
the participant and we’re
very clear about personal
accountability.”
In addition to a supportive
team of coaches, a nurse
practitioner or health care
expert conducts a biometric
screening that tests
cholesterol, triglycerides and
glucose levels. Participants
are then educated about
their overall health outlook
and encouraged to nix
unhealthy habits like smoking
or excessive drinking.
According to the Baltimore
City Food Policy Task Force,
14 percent of the city’s low-
type facility, The Arc’s homes In order to protect services,
are small, free-standing The Arc has been forced to lay
houses or apartments that off some employees, furlough
typically accommodate others and depend more on
three people with whatever volunteers.
necessary complement of McGuire said the Arc
staffing, either live-in or shift, supports a proposed dime-a-
Morgan said. drink tax, which if approved,
Maintaining its good work would provide state money
has been more difficult in for disability services, among
the current recession. With other things. She remains
about 70 percent of The Arc’s hopeful that funding will
funding coming from the increase to help the many
state and the other 30 percent people on the waiting list to
coming largely from charity, receive services.
grants and work contracts that “Across the board, we’re
have been lost or reduced, making due with less,”
the past few years have McGuire said. “You try to get
been a challenge, director of creative, but the needs of the
Advancement Kate McGuire people don’t change, so we
said. can’t compromise.”
Helen Phillips, winner of the “Biggest Loser’s”
seventh season, shared her weight loss tips with the
AFRO in a recent interview. She cited goal-making,
calorie-counting and self-control as keys to her
success.
H Permanent weight loss requires a lifestyle
change. Dieting is temporary.
H Purchase a calorie-counting book and a
journal to jot down your feelings, fears,
successes and failures.
H All foods are OK in moderation.
H Listen to your intuition. We know what’s bad
for us – fried foods, junk foods, copious
amounts of soda – so don’t overindulge.
way to bring the experience statistics, but diseases often
to the average person on born of overweight/obesity
a more affordable level. also play a pivotal role in the
In addition to face to face city’s startling health trends.
meetings with the coach, the It was this fear of a future
coach will interface with the wrought with uncertainty and
client via the web and be disease that prompted Phillips
able to monitor them on an to enter the “Biggest Loser”
ongoing basis with affordable competition and ultimately,
technology.” become a weight loss victor.
In Baltimore, more than “The smarthealth program

The Quality of Mercy... income families did not have

adequate access to healthy
foods in 2009 and advertisers
for your personal OB/GYN heavily promote alcoholic
and tobacco products in
urban neighborhoods. While
smarthealth cannot solve
the city’s public health
disparities, Meyers said it
could become a community
resource for those lacking
structure and guidance on
their weight loss journey.
“It has to be more than
about weight and really
more about your health,”
said Meyers. “We’ve also
integrated technology,
particularly to the web, as a
a third of adults are obese,
according to the city’s health
department, and nearly twice
as many obese adults are
African American compared
to White city-dwellers.
Even more disturbing is
the mortality rate among
Baltimoreans compared to
other Maryland residents.
According to the health
department, city residents die
six years earlier than other
Marylanders, on average,
and life expectancy can vary
by up to 20 years in nearby
neighborhoods. Factors like
HIV/AIDS and homicides
also factor into these
is exactly what everybody
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amazing to me because after I
read over everything in their
program, it’s exactly what
the ‘Biggest Loser does,’ said
Phillips, who was moved to
tears as she reflected on her
weight-loss challenge. “There
are no big surprises, there’s
no magic. The magic is you
and how committed you want
to be to change your lifestyle.
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A6 The Afro-American, September 18, 2010 - September 18, 2010 September 18, 2010 - September 24, 2010, The Afro-American A7

EPA Told Gas Drilling Does, Does Not Taint Water

By Mary Esch
Associated Press Writer
BINGHAMTON, N.Y.
(AP) — Rep. Maurice
Hinchey told a federal
hearing Monday that the
Environmental Protection
Agency must regulate
hydraulic fracturing, the
natural gas extraction process
that he said has contaminated
water near drilling sites
around the country.
“There are numerous
reports of water contamination
related to hydraulic fracturing
in states across the country,’’
said Hinchey, D-N.Y. “Despite
the fact that EPA is, in many
ways, precluded from taking
regulatory action in response
to these reports, I believe EPA
must investigate to understand
what is being done — to
keep water supplies safe and
secure.’’
The process, also known
as fracking, blasts millions
of gallons of water mixed
with sand and chemicals,
some of them carcinogens,
deep into the earth to free gas
from dense shale deposits.
As a gas rush sweeps parts
of the vast and lucrative
Marcellus Shale region
that underlies New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West
Virginia, environmentalists are
concerned for the watershed
that provides drinking water
for 17 million people from
Philadelphia to New York
City.
Environmentalists fear
the process, which leaves as
much as 90 percent of the
post-fracking water known
as “produced water’’ deep
underground, will irreversibly
taint aquifers.
No water supplies have
been poisoned by fracking, the
petroleum industry says, and
the process – which promises
lucrative industry profits
and thousands of jobs in
economically depressed areas
– is safe.
“Billions of dollars in
economic impact on New
York and its citizens is at
stake here,’’ said Brad Gill
of the Independent Oil and
Gas Association, with drilling
promising more than 60,000
jobs in New York alone. “The
positive impact is staggering
but it doesn’t come at the
expense of environmental
protection.’’
John Harmon of the
New York-New Jersey
African American Chamber
of Commerce said full
development of the Marcellus
Shale would create 280,000
jobs over the next 10 years,
jobs sorely needed in the black
community
“This is not the time
to further limit energy job
opportunities for those in
need,’’ Harmon said
Congress has ordered EPA
to conduct a new fracking
study and EPA is considering
how broadly to construct it,
since the agency’s 2004 study
that declared the technology
safe was widely criticized
as flawed. The earlier study
had enabled passage of 2005
energy legislation exempting
fracking from federal
regulation under the Safe
Drinking Water Act, leaving
regulation to individual states.
“The EPA must do all it can to ensure that its scientists and
researchers are not influenced by industry or by politics as they
were influenced back in 2004.’’
“The EPA must do all
it can to ensure that its
scientists and researchers are
not influenced by industry
or by politics as they were
influenced back in 2004,’’
Hinchey said, “so that the
public can be assured that this
study is being carried out in
the public interest.’’
Hinchey is one of the
authors of the so-called FRAC
Act in Congress, which
would put fracking under EPA
regulation.
The petroleum industry is
strongly opposed to federal
regulation – which it says
would be more costly than
complying with adequate state
rules.
Gill said “strict state
regulations’’ for decades
have governed fracking and
the industry has “a stellar
environmental record’’ to
show for it.
In New York, he said, there
are about 14,000 producing
natural gas wells, thousands
of which were begun by the
fracking process. New York
has not seen one case of
groundwater contamination by
fracking fluids, he said.
“A Hollywood actor
holding a glass of cloudy
water proves nothing except
that fear-mongering and
emotion will always trump
science and logic,’’ he said,
taking aim at the recent
critical TV documentary
“Gasland,’’ by Josh Fox.
The Marcellus rush is
barely two years old in
Pennsylvania and West
Virginia, where thousands
of wells have been fracked.
Some geologists estimate
the Marcellus contains more
than 500 trillion cubic feet of
natural gas, of which fracking
could recover 50 trillion
cubic feet – enough to supply
the entire East Coast for 50
years. The proximity of the
gas stores to the large East
Coast energy market makes it
particularly valuable.
Hundreds of people on
both sides gathered for the
last of four public hearings
on a pending EPA study of
fracking. The Binghamton
hearings, twice postponed
because of anticipated large
crowds, are split into double
sessions on Monday and again
on Wednesday.
“Kids can’t drink gas’’
and “Protect our water. Stop
fracking America,’’ were
some of the signs carried
by opponents. Supporters,
including union workers eager
for jobs, carried signs that
said “Yes to science, no to
paranoia’’ and chanted “Pass
gas now!’’
New York’s Department of
Environmental Conservation
has halted issuing drilling
permits until it draws
regulations to govern the
process. Complaints of
wellwater contamination and
surface spills of post-fracking
water have forced revision of
state rules in Pennsylvania,
where more than 1,600 wells
have already been drilled in
the Marcellus Shale and more
than 4,000 permits have been
granted.
Drilling companies have
used fracking to release
natural gas from other shale
reserves around the country.
EPA earlier held hearings
in Colorado, Texas and
Pennsylvania.
Paul Rush of New
York City’s Department of
Environmental Protection
noted that half the state’s
population, residing in New
York City and its environs,
depend on unfiltered water
from the Catskills-Delaware
watershed that is in the
Marcellus Shale region. Two
DEP studies showed serious
risks to the watershed if gas
drilling is allowed there. He
urged the EPA to read the
studies posted on the DEP’s
website.
“There’s no way this can
be done safely. It will toxify
the air, water and soil,’’ said
protester Kathy Shimberg,
73, of Mount Vision, N.Y.,
wearing a T-shirt that read
“Love N.Y.? Don’t frack it
up.’’

Man Convicted in 1990s

Race Riots Stabbed
By Colleen Long
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — A black man
convicted in the death of a white Jewish
scholar during race riots in the 1990s has
been stabbed in the head with an ice pick in
a possible road rage attack, police say.
Lemrick Nelson was found outside his
car on a Manhattan street early Sunday and
was taken to a hospital, where he was listed
in stable condition. Police had made no
arrests.
Nelson was a central figure in the rioting
that tore through Brooklyn’s Crown Heights
neighborhood in 1991, stoked by tensions
between the Jewish and black communities
living side by side.
The riots began Aug. 19 of that year
after a 7-year-old black boy, Gavin Cato,
was struck and killed by a driver belonging
to the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitch community.
Three hours later, a gang of angry blacks
shouting “Get the Jew!’’ descended on
and fatally stabbed Yankel Rosenbaum,
who was visiting from Australia. For
more than two days, blacks looted stores,
burned police cars and hurled bottles in the
neighborhood.
Nelson, who was 16 at the time, was
acquitted of state murder charges but was
convicted of federal civil rights charges
after Rosenbaum’s death. An appeals court
later overturned the federal conviction,
saying the judge had tampered with the
racial makeup of the jury.
In 2003, a new jury found Nelson guilty
of violating Rosenbaum’s civil rights.
Nelson was sentenced to 10 years in prison
but was released within a year because of
time he had already served.
Nelson’s defense lawyers didn’t deny
he had stabbed Rosenbaum, who was 29.
Instead, they contended the slaying had
nothing to do with the fact Rosenbaum
was Jewish – a key element needed for a
conviction.
Nelson, now 35, was on probation for
three years. He has been living in New
Jersey.

Alabama’s 1st Incorporated

Black Town Wants Zip Code
HOBSON CITY, Ala. (AP) — Officials
in Hobson City, the first black town
incorporated in Alabama more than a century
ago, want their own ZIP code.
Hobson City currently shares its ZIP code
– 36201 – with Anniston, but Hobson City
Mayor Alberta McCrory says the town of less
than a thousand residents wants its own postal
service identity.
“We need to make sure Hobson City is not
lost,’’ she said. “We
were never a part of
Anniston, but we are “We need to make sure Hobson City is not lost.’’
lumped in with them
and that is not a good thing for us.’’
U.S. Postal Service spokesman Joseph
Breckenridge told The Anniston Star in a
story Monday that Hobson City’s identity
crises has been shared by other small towns.
“When we created ZIP codes, we did it
just to serve mail,’’ Breckenridge said. “But
some thought ZIP codes are the same as city
boundaries, but they are not, and they get all
scrambled up because of the way cities grow.
Sometimes some addresses are in the same
municipalities but are served by different post
offices.’’
Originally a part of Oxford, Hobson City
was incorporated in 1899 and has struggled
financially in recent years due mainly to an
insufficient tax base. Some city leaders have
said the shared ZIP code is partly to blame.
But Anniston Finance Director Danny
McCullars said Hobson City needs to
inform its vendors and taxpayers that
license fees and local taxes need to be paid.
“It’s not about the ZIP code, it’s about
physical location,’’ he said.
County revenue officials said property
tax revenue is paid to municipalities based
solely on physical location.
Decades ago, a post office was
contracted out to a small Hobson City
business called Young’s Grocery, and the
memory of that little post office has led
some in Hobson City to believe it once had
its own ZIP code.
But the Postal Service has no record of
the town having a separate ZIP code.
While ZIP codes typically are shown
with only five digits, there are four other
digits that post offices can use to identify
specific residences. Breckenridge said they
might help Hobson City.
“We can show them how to drill down
and find that information,’’ he said.
A8 The Afro-American, September 18, 2010 - September 24, 2010

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 September 18, 2010 - September 24, 2010, The Afro-American A9

Opinion
Ron Walters was a One-Man
Civil Rights Movement
(NNPA) I led a crusade to force Ron to start
— Ronald charging for speaking engagements. He
Walters, and I were serving on a panel at Columbia
the highly- University years ago and, in passing, he
respected mentioned that he had agreed to serve on the
political panel for only expenses.
scientist “Ron, I am getting paid and they are taking
who died care of my expenses,” I told him. “And others
George E. Curry last week on this panel are getting paid. You must stop
of cancer at letting people exploit you like this.” I told
the age of 72, exemplified the true meaning him that if universities could pay thousands
of a public intellectual. To many, the term of dollars to rappers, they could afford to
public intellectual regretfully has become pay for his exceptional intellect. A couple of
synonymous with selfish private advancement, months later when I saw him, Ron told me he
largely through the writing of books that had learned his lesson. That wasn’t surprising
lead to appearances on television that lead to because Ron was always a quick study.
numerous high-price speaking engagements Ironically, the last time I saw Ron, less
and lofty appointments in academia. than a year ago, was when we were both
Ron Walters, on the other hand, used his serving on a panel discussing politics at the
intellect to disturb the status quo, to advocate New Carrollton, Md., public library; it was
“Ron Walters was a strong, consistent and unapologetic voice
for African Americans and Pan-Africanism. He was a strong
proponent of developing a Black Agenda, even in the age of
Barack Obama.”
for Africans and African-Americans with no sponsored by the Prince George’s County
thought of enriching himself. The scholar- chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership
activist followed in the rich tradition of fellow Conference (SCLC). And, yes, we participated
Fisk University graduates W.E.B. DuBois and in the event for free. Even though Ron was
John Hope Franklin. finally charging for speaking engagements –
Ron’s activism took on many forms. He but not at the $15,000-plus level most public
was issues adviser to Jesse Jackson during intellectuals receive – he never stopped giving
his 1984 and 1988 presidential bids. Over to community groups that could not afford to
the years, he sat quietly in the background as pay him anything.
members of the Congressional Black Caucus There was a fun side to Ron as well. One
executed strategies he had devised to advance of the hottest tickets in the nation’s capital
the interest of Blacks. Not only did he advise was an invitation to the annual Christmas
African-American leaders and elected officials, party that Ron and his wife, Pat, gave each
he spent many hours – at no charge – speaking year in their Silver Spring, Md., home. It was
to community groups. a time of great discussion with old and new
friends, good food and plenty
of laughter. Whenever I was
in town, I made it a point to
attend.
Ron was a brilliant, low-
key brother who preferred
to focus on issues, not
personalities. In fact, it wasn’t
until February of this year that
many of us learned about his
youth activism. And that was
because he was responding to
a column I had written during
Black History Month.
“My friend George Curry
reminded me of something
in his article on ‘Being True
to Black Historymakers’
when he said that in this year
when we celebrate the 50th the Black Agenda: health disparities, police
anniversary of the Greensboro Sit-in that we brutality, equal access to education, voting
must remember that ‘they were not alone.’” rights enforcement, access to credit, racial
Ron continued, “It is true that these profiling, ex-offenders voting rights,  housing
and equal employment.
students were not alone because in August
“It is the task of modern civil rights
of 1958, those of us in the NAACP Youth
Council of Wichita, Kan., targeted the lunch organizations to make the demand that
counter at the Dockum Drug store in the heart equality be achieved, that fairness be the rule
of town for a sit-in demonstration because of conduct of all American institutions,” he
they, like so many other establishments, did wrote. “It is their role to demand closure of the
gaps in civil and human rights, even though
not let Blacks eat there. After about six weeks
much of the technical and political work is
of sit-ins that drew 20-40 young participants,
carried out by our elected leaders. It is their
we successfully desegregated not just Dockum
job to mobilize Black people and our allies, to
Drugs, but the Rexall chain of drug stores in
influence institutions to behave in ways that
that state.”
honor our citizenship and humanity in the 21st
What Ron deliberately left out of the century.”
column was that he was the leader of that sit-in By that definition, Ron Walters was a civil
movement in his hometown. rights movement by himself.
Ron Walters was a strong, consistent and
unapologetic voice for African Americans and George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief
Pan-Africanism. He was a strong proponent of of “Emerge” magazine and the NNPA News
developing a Black Agenda, even in the age of Service, is a keynote speaker, moderator, and
Barack Obama. media coach. He can be reached through his
In one recent column, Ron ticked off a website, www.georgecurry.com You can also
series of issues he said should be included in follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge.

Our Future is in Our Own Hands

Election year 2010 is so has observed) would we put the Republicans – who drove the
important for Maryland’s American economy into the ditch – back behind the wheel?
African-American families We Americans have better memories (and better sense) than
that it is essential we remain to return to failed policies that left America reeling. We also
engaged, register to vote and have a better strategy for our economy.
vote in large numbers this President Obama proposed another national initiative on
November. Fortunately, here Labor Day. He challenged us to invest $50 billion to create
in Maryland, we hold the more jobs while we also rebuild 150,000 miles of roads and
future in our own hands. 4,000 miles of railways.
The congressional races Our president understands that we can (and must) create
this year will have a lasting good jobs in our community now – even as those same
impact on our community investments also provide for a better, safer transportation
– and the alternatives are network in our future. As a senior member of the House
Elijah E. Cummings compelling. Either our nation
will vote to move forward “Why … would we put the Republicans – who drove the
toward President Obama’s
vision of a more prosperous and equitable America, or House American economy into the ditch – back behind the wheel?”
Republican Leader John Boehner and his allies in the tea party
will be given an opportunity to gut the president’s initiatives on Transportation Committee, I will work with him and my House
jobs, health care, Wall Street reform and the environment. colleagues to make this new initiative a reality.
Do we move forward with the president or return to The Maryland governor’s race also is crucial for our
December 2008, when Bush administration policies were community.
allowing this country to lose more than 700,000 jobs every The early projections indicate that the outcome in November
month? Those of us who are “Obama voters” are determined to could be close enough that Black voters in Baltimore City,
grasp a better future – not to retreat into the past. Baltimore County and Howard County will decide the result. If
In Washington, President Obama and our Democratic we show up and vote in large numbers, as we did in 2006 and
Congress have enacted historic stimulus legislation to halt the 2008, the odds are very good that Gov. Martin O’Malley and
economic hemorrhaging that Bush-era policies helped to create. our legislators in Washington and Annapolis will win.
As a result, we now have had eight straight months of private That outcome is an important goal for Maryland’s working
sector job growth. families – and, especially, for those of us who own or work
Why, then, would we change drivers in the middle of our for a minority business. We need strong, committed and
national drive toward full recovery? Why (as the president cooperative leadership in Annapolis if we are to make the new
federal jobs initiatives a reality in our community.
The O’Malley administration has demonstrated a positive
record of supporting minority businesses and jobs. In just three
years, Martin O’Malley and Anthony Brown have increased
state contracting awards to minority- and women-owned firms
by $1.65 billion (62 percent). For the first time, Maryland’s
minority contracting dollars begin to reflect our numerical
strength in this state.
We should remember, as well, that Gov. O’Malley has been
a strong supporter of our public schools, expanded our access
to health care and frozen our college tuition bills over the past
four years. Equally important, we must not forget that our next
governor will have the major role in redrawing Maryland’s
election districts for the next
decade.
All things considered,
African-American voters
have good reasons to support
Gov. Martin O’Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown this
November. We need to move forward with the positive,
progressive agenda that has helped to keep our economy, our
schools and our health care system in better shape than those of
the rest of our nation.
By registering and voting in record numbers this year,
we have the opportunity to stand with our president and our
governor at an historic moment. However, if we stay home on
General Election Day, that failure to vote could allow Robert
Ehrlich to prevail – along with his pledge to take Maryland
back to the past.
Our future is in our own hands.
Congressman Elijah E. Cummings represents Maryland’s
Seventh Congressional District in the United States House of
Representatives.

Oct. 2 One Nation Rally: Demand the Change We Voted For

On Oct. 2, the National
Marc H. Morial Urban League will join a
coalition of more than 150
progressive organizations and tens of thousands of Americans
at a national rally for jobs, education and social justice at
the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The goal of the
One Nation Working Together (ONWT) rally is to galvanize
Americans of every race, religion and walk of life to demand
swift action that will put America back to work and pull
America back together.  I will be a featured speaker along
with a number of other human rights, civil rights, union and
progressive thought leaders.
Seven weeks before the mid-term elections, the American
people are in a restless mood and rightfully so. The latest
employment report shows that the economy lost another 54,000
jobs last month. Overall unemployment has climbed to 9.6
percent, with African-American unemployment rising to 16.3
percent and Latino joblessness now at 12 percent. While much
of this is the result of the persistent great recession which began
in 2007, unfortunately, there is a faction in the Congress that
has repeatedly refused to pass job creation legislation which
could alleviate the suffering of millions of middle class and
working Americans.
In addition to the economic woes, the nation is also
experiencing deep social divisions, fanned by hateful anti-Muslim
sentiment, self-serving tea party vitriol and constant cable news
and conservative talk show bluster. The prospects for our young
people are especially bleak, with a staggeringly high 45 percent
unemployment rate for African-American teens, a million students
dropping out of school each year and recent college grads finding
it more difficult than ever to land that first job.
Clearly, this confluence of crises calls for a unity of purpose
and action that has defined the American experience through
most of the past 234 years, but which has been sorely lacking in
recent times. The One Nation rally is intended to rekindle that
spirit and to demand the change we voted for in 2008.
Millions of Americans want to know–if we can bailout big
banks and investment firms on Wall Street, why can’t we bring
good jobs to Main Street? Are we a nation that believes in
shared prosperity for all who are willing to work for it, or are
we a nation that favors only the privileged few?
The American people want to know–if education is the
gateway to prosperity and a life of meaning, why are so many
of our schools failing so many of our children?
And do we believe in the religious pluralism and freedom
that first brought our founders to these shores, or will we
remain silent in the face of faith-based bigotry? These are some
of the issues that have defined the National Urban League
movement for the past 100 years.
The Oct. 2 rally at the Lincoln Memorial will give the
majority of us who believe we must be one nation again
the chance to make our voices heard. I hope you will
join us. To find out more about the rally log on to www.
onenationworkingtogether.org.
Marc Morial is the president and CEO of the National
Urban League.
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Yetty Goodin, left, Lucy Miller, Orrester Shaw, Everne

Johnson-Turner, Mildred Long Harper and Marsha Taylor

Reada
Nelson and
Anita Turks Photos by A. Lois In 2009, the “Stepping Out Lunch” bunch
Hunter De Laine, Ed.D. met on the first day of school at Olive
Branch restaurant. The number of attendees
Andrew Johnson, left, Rhoda L. Jones, Amos included 18 Baltimore City public school
Matthews and Kendell Matthews retirees, who had a great time swapping
stories of their working days.
News spread around the city, and on
the first day of school this year, the Forum
Caterers was bursting out at the seams with
more than 300 retirees representing every
Gloria Stewart area of the city, county, federal and state
and Nancy government agencies. The celebration
Mitchell Solomon included a buffet lunch, dancing, karaoke,
cards, games and more.
The theme was “Goodbye Tension, Hello
Pension.” Catherine
Dolores Winston, left, Geraldine Stansbury and
One of the highlights of the afternoon was
Griner and Anne Roberts Vera Newton
a performance by former principal Orrester
Shaw, who donned a black wig and cape and
imitated James Brown with his dancing and
singing. Several of the former administrators
provided the “backup” singing.

Orrester
Shaw, former
principal, does Sharon Evans
a James Brown Attaway, Carolyn
Virginia Watkins, Doris Cooke
impression Newsome and
and Shirley Briscoe
Geneva Fletcher
Marguerite Walker, Wendy Parker Robinson, Helen
McDonald, Eleanor “Pete” Matthews and Gladys Rice
Janet Williams
and Yvonne
Woods Howard
The Forest Park Golf Course was the scene where beginners, PGA professionals and golfers of all
ages gathered for the DST Cup Golf Tournament sponsored by the Baltimore Alumnae Chapter of
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
Charles “Chuck” Thomas coordinated the tournament and Tim Saunders, Dr. Walter Amprey and
Garland Brown served as honorary chairs.
Some corporate sponsors included March Funeral Home, Joseph G. Locks, Jr. Funeral Home, The
Forum Caterers, Kabee Lawn & Landscape, The Paint Doctors, Howell Funeral Homes, Johnson Tree
Service, King Memorial Park, Joe Mann Awards, and and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum.
Trophies and awards were presented to the top golfers during the luncheon.

Charles Thomas, Dr.

Photos by A. Lois De Laine, Ed.D. James Wood and
Herb Brown
Charles Thomas, Mildred Long Harper,
Bernard “Jack” Young, president,
Baltimore City Council, and Eleanor
P. Matthews, president, Baltimore
Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta
George Taylor, golf pro, Sorority
and Eric Adams

Deltas Marjorie Jennings, left, Beatrice Ashford, Jean

Powell, Alice Taylor, Pat Jessamy, Baltimore City State’s
Honorary chairs
Attorney; Almenta Bell, Eleanor Matthews, Eugenia
Tim Saunders, golf
Mattison Gibson, Lynda Brown, Debra Feaster, Phyllis
Golfer pro, Dr. Walter
Atkins Mackay and Mildred Long Harper, chair.
Alexander Amprey and
Brown Garland Brown
Photos by Rob Roberts

The groomsmen and bridesmaids are pictured moments

before the wedding ceremony began.

The groomsmen and the groom (center):

Kenny Kohlhaas, Joshua Gilcrease, Henry
Stan McKenzie, Jasmine Saint-Jean, JR Benjamin, Warren Jones, Amos Saint-
Amos Phenix Saint-Jean and Rev. Vashti Jean, Kavoni Benjamin (ring bearer),
McKenzie Harvey Mashall, Tony Hemmings, Reger
Kavoni Benjamin and Smith and Brian Wilson
The Rev. Vashti-Jasmine Courtnie Savage
McKenzie and Amos Phenix
Saint-Jean shared nuptials
Sisters of the groom, Vophsie Cantave, left, and Altagracia
at Ebenezer AME in Fort
Perceval; mother of the bride, Bishop Vashti McKenzie; Washington, Md., on Aug.
father of the groom, Amos Saint-Jean Sr.; sister of the 7. The groom, a gospel
groom, Magalie Israel and uncle of the bride, Carl Smith recording artist, sang to the
bride as she walked down
the church aisle alongside
her father, Stan McKenzie.
Five groomsmen, five
bridesmaids, two maids of
honor, two best men and a
matron of honor completed Father of the bride Erika and Curis Jones, Fawn and Adam Johnson and Jarrett and
Ashley N. Johnson, Edwinas King, Rita Baldwin, La Juana P. the wedding party. The Stan McKenzie and Ayanna Baker.
Ackin, Elnora A. Allen Angela Addo and Jolie Simone Carter, couple will reside in Vashti-Jasmine
all friends of the bride Maryland. McKenzie
B2 The Afro-American, September 18, 2010 - September 24, 2010

www.afro.com

Baltimore Film Director Shocks Audiences in First Feature Film

By Stephen D. Riley music videos and corporate videos and that’s what kind of led
AFRO Staff Writer me into directing.

Nakia Warren is on the come up. The Baltimore-based film
director is rising through the ranks of the city’s up-and-coming
entertainment artists quickly while her first feature film, Sweet
Dreams recently debuted at the Landmark Theatre this past July
to an impressive turnout. The University of Baltimore County
grad never majored in film production, but that didn’t stop her
from breaking ground into her new career. The AFRO caught
up with Warren to discuss her latest production and future
plans.
AFRO: The trailer for your film is pretty unnerving. For
those who haven’t seen it yet, could you describe what ‘Sweet
Dreams’ is all about?
Nakia Warren: It’s a psychotic thriller. It’s about a
photographer who falls in love with this beautiful model only
to find out that she can see into his dreams and is pretty much
crazy and very jealous. She starts to kill off the women that he
fantasizes about in his dreams and the women who are in his
life as well. It’s like a romantic love story that turns really dark
and twisted.
AFRO: How did you get started in directing and what drove
you into the business?
NW: I started off in front of the camera modeling and doing
commercial work and then I became more and more interested
in the creative process: putting commercials together and
putting short stories together. I started doing little short stories,
Courtesy Photo
Baltimore film director Nakia Warren’s latest film, Sweet
Dreams, debuted July 15 at Baltimore’s Landmark Theatre
and showed again Sept. 2.
AFRO: Your film debuted at the Landmark Theatre a few
months ago. You were cordial enough to grace the audience
with your presence so you saw reactions first hand. How was
the turnout?
NW: We had a pretty good response from the public. The
people who actually came out to see the movie were very
surprised. Sometimes when you say you have an independent
film people automatically think low budget [or] low quality but
basically we had a lot of great responses from the people who
came out to see the film.
AFRO: How was it working on your first major project?
NW: It was interesting. The film was shot over a course of
a year and a half for budget reasons. It was a long process but
I was fortunate enough to work with a dedicated cast and crew
so that made it a lot easier but the process of not having a big
budget did make it stressful.
AFRO: The movie looks great, it was well-received and
your one film into your career. How far do you want to go with
film directing?
NW: Pretty far. I love being able to take stories and bring
them to life. As long as I’m able to, God-willing, I’m going to
continue on doing that.
For more information about Nakia Warren and “Sweet
Dreams,” visit sweetdreamsthemovie.com.

R&B Star Enjoys Local Lounge Reader’s Corner

Moët &
Chandon, Pass the Salt: Spiritual collection of spiritual poetry
one of the Poetry, Prophetic and prose centered around
world’s premier Messages and the scripture, “You are the
champagnes, Empowering Quotes to salt of the earth; but if the
and Def Jam Awaken the Conscience salt loses its flavor, how can
Grammy-award and Revive the Spirit it be made salty again? It is
winner NE- Prince George’s County, then good for nothing but to
YO celebrated Md.-based pastor and author be thrown out and trampled
with an Anita G. Naves looked to on by the world”- Matthew
exclusive event the Bible when writing 5:13.
collaboration, Described as a Courtesy Images

“The Möet Rosé “combination of prophetic of the United States and

Lounge Presents messages, spiritual poetry Great Britain.
NE-YO’s and encouraging quotes,” Unlike standard texts,
Champagne Life” Pass the Salt boldly Teaching Theatre Today is
NE-YO and radio comprised of 13 essays. The
at the Josephine addresses some of the
personality Big Tigger essays are arranged to lead
Lounge in the world’s most critical social
District. The issues. the reader from an overview
event was The pastor first earned of changing theories of
inspired by the international acclaim in theatre education through
first single from NE-YO’s 2008 when she held a the teaching of specific
soon-to-be-released album, prayer service inside a local types of courses. It includes
Libra Scale – “Champagne grocery store. Since then, the study of the African-
Life,” and Moet & Chandon’s she has gone on to host American experience in
Nectar Imperial Rosé. NE-YO numerous community-based theatre education, issues of
was joined by radio personality events and is currently changing pedagogical goals
Big Tigger and a number of her second book, Pass the working on her third book in the United Kingdom,
D.C’s top influencers and Salt. The founder and CEO while pursuing a doctorate and the current state of
VIPs. Guests enjoyed Moet of the county’s Youthfest in religion. training for future teachers
& Chandon champagne while Guests enjoy the champagne hopes to inspire the masses Naves, is currently the of theatre. Finally, the book
listening to a musical sampling and festive atmosphere. with her latest release, a pastor and founder of Set offers both historical and
preview of Libra Scale. Time To Prosper Christian theoretical insights that
Aaron J. / RedCarpetImages.net Ministry. drove pedagogy in American

Go-Go Godfather Debuts ‘We Got This’ Sept. 21

Chuck Brown, “godfather”
of the city’s go-go sound,
will release a three-disc set
Sept. 21 on Raw Venture. The
album, We Got This, features
Photo by James Hilsdon/Hilsdon Photography
a live DVD performance and
a disc with five new songs
that feature collaborations
with celebrated soul singers
Jill Scott and Ledisi and
musician Marcus Miller.
The live album/DVD
was recorded at Washington,
D.C.’s legendary 9:30 Club,
while the studio tracks
were produced by Chucky
Thompson. The set follows
the 2007 release of Brown’s
critically acclaimed studio
album We’re About The
Business, which gave the go-
go legend his highest chart
and sales debuts to date.
The studio material
rolls and grooves from the
Ledisi-assisted “Funky
Stuff” to the horn drenched
“LOVE,” which features
Scott and Miller. The live
CD/DVD document Brown
and his band’s marathon
live shows, working their
way from Duke Ellington’s
“It Don’t Mean a Thing” to
KRS One’s “Rappaz R. N.
Dainja” to Brown’s nationally
recognized 1979 hit “Bustin’
Loose.”
Brown, 73, is a guitarist,
vocalist and bandleader
whose musical intuition has
spawned generations of local
artists and an intimate local
music scene.
For more information, visit
windmeupchuck.com.
Available now. For more
information visit anitanaves.
com.
Teaching Theatre Today
Teaching Theatre Today
was released in late 2009.
The book, edited by Bowie
State University’s associate
professor of theatre arts,
Dr. Gail S. Medford,
and Purdue University’s
assistant professor of
theatre, Dr. Anne Fliotsos,
addresses the changing
nature of educational theory,
curricula, and teaching
methods in theatre programs
of colleges and universities
theatre education in colleges
and universities during the
20th and 21st centuries.
“I’ve returned my focus
on teaching and research,
and I’m proud to be able to
exemplify that in Teaching
Theatre Today,” said
Medford in a statement.
In stores now. Learn
more at bowiestate.edu
My Two Best Friends are
Hamsters
Native Washingtonian
and author Mignon Pinson’s
second children’s book,
My Two Best Friends are
Hamsters, seeks to entertain
and teach youngsters
valuable life lessons. The
colorful, 44-page book
shows children the value of
playing alone sometimes and
having pets as their closest
friends.
The author said her
newest release and previous
children’s book, Angel
Bee from Heaven (2006),
were inspired by her two
daughters.
For more information
visit loschildrenstories.net.
 September 18, 2010 - September 24, 2010, The Afro-American B3

By Rosa
Pryor

Hello, everyone. I sure

hope you feel better than I do.
I have been under the weather
for the past two weeks. My
“Boo-Boo” and I both have
been sick as a dog. We both had
chronic bronchitis, but I had to
have acute sinusitis with it. So
I haven’t been able to breathe,
smell, taste or blow my nose.
My husband and I just took
turns coughing or we cough
together. I tell you my friends,
it has been a terrible situation!
But with the anti-bronchitis and
nose sprays, pills, and prayers
we are feeling so much better.
I’m not ready to run a monkey
up a tree yet, but at least I can
throw him a banana.
I have been trying to keep
up on what’s going on and
realize it is a lot. The beautiful
weather we have been having
has contributed to that. My
God! Hasn’t the weather been
gorgeous?
An organization called
YADA is a resource center and
has a program to help change
the lives of youth and disabled
adults. A day program, which
will assist traumatized youths
due to economic, educational or
social dysfunctions, ultimately
results in a positive family
change. The organization
expects to impact children
whose lives have been affected
Top to bottom: Bro. Arthur
Burrell, CEO and founder
of YADA; Cornelius
“Jammie” Winchester,
outreach specialist for
YADA; Yvette Williams
is the assistant CEO and
mentor of the YADA
program.
June Smith is
celebrating her 65th
birthday on Sept. 25
with her friends and
family at B Smith
Restaurant in fine
style.
directly or indirectly by substance abuse, said CEO. Some
of the children have been abandoned due to inappropriate
parenting and in need of mentoring and or life coaching skills.
They will service the Maryland and the Baltimore metropolitan
areas. They offer life coaching skills, meditation, spiritual
awareness, amateur radio broadcasting and a uniform drill
team. The radio broadcasting will introduce the participants to
the field of broadcasting and communications. The uniformed
drill team will offer discipline, structure and build character.
Arthur O. Burrell is the CEO, founder and mentor; Yvette
Williams is the assistant CEO. For more information, or to send
donations to this non-profit organization, call M’s 410-327-
5464 or Arthur at 410-493-1395.
The MC Booze Band featuring Marshall Booze on lead
guitar will be appearing at The Exclusive Lounge, 4314 Curtis
The Panama Band will be performing for the New
Horizons of Men and Women, Board of Directors Annual
Crab Feast on Sept. 19 at Columbus Gardens, 4501
Klosterman in Baltimore, 1-6 p.m.
Ave., Sept. 19, 8-10 p.m. For more information, call 410-354-
5566.
Please don’t forget Eleanor Janey is celebrating her 75th
birthday on Sep. 19, 5-9 p.m. at the Arch Social Club, 2426
Pennsylvania Ave. All of you who know this fantastic woman
are invited to come to party with her. Go share your love. Give
her flowers while she still can smell them. HAPPY BIRTHDAY
ELEANOR JANEY!
John Lamkin II Sacred Jazz Quintet featuring Eartha takes
place on Sept. 17, 5-8 p.m. at Timothy Baptist Church, 1214 W.
Saratoga St. The fundraising outdoor concert and is free. For
more information call 410-728-1447.
John Lamkin, trumpeter, has the weekend very busy for you.
He also will be performing on Sept. 19, 4-6 p.m., at the Church
of the Holy Covenant, 5657 The Alameda in Baltimore. “The
Gospel According to Jazz” is the theme and it is free.
Well, my dear friends, it is about that time. I am out of space
and out of time. If you need me call me at 410-833-9474 or
e-mail me at rosapryor@aol.com. UNTIL THE NEXT TIME,
I’M MUSICALLY YOURS.

TV One’s ‘Unsung’ Rolls Out Fourth Season

By AFRO Staff

While artists like Marvin Gaye, James Brown and Patti LaBelle have all been recognized
for their huge talent and contributions to the music industry, other artists like Phyllis Hyman,
Melba Moore and Donny Hathaway—all talented in their own respects—have not received
equal recognition and have often faded over time. TV One’s signature music biography series
“Unsung” sets out to honor these often forgotten acts.
Now in its fourth season, “Unsung” will reveal the untold back stories on the lives of
Teddy Pendergrass, Tammi Terrell, the Fat Boys, the O’Jays and more. During these one-hour
biographies, fans will be intrigued by the gripping tales and forgotten legacies these artists left
behind.
Following its debut in 2008, “Unsung’s” premier episodes were viewed by over 1.1 million
people. Additionally, the Phyllis Hyman episode went on to be the network’s highest-rated
original program that same year.
Phyllis Hyman’s life New episodes of “Unsung”
story on “Unsung” premier every Monday at 10

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match wits with the Wiz, and awaken Oz to a brand new day in this rock ’n soul
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Faith Pulse
Allen Chapel AME Still Local Muslims Host ‘Day of Dignity’
Ministering at 140
By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware
Special to the AFRO

The Rev. Frank Madison Reid III is the preacher for the Anniversary Service of Allen Chapel
AME Church in Silver Spring, Md. Celebrating 140 years in ministry is a community endeavor
and begins with the Allen Chapel Day Festival, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sept. 18. The church has
engaged area preachers to continue the celebration in worship with the theme, “Healing Virtue
for a Reconciled People.” Pre-Anniversary worship services are scheduled for:
Sept. 19 4 p.m. The Rev. Dr. Mark Tyler, Mother Bethel AME, Philadelphia
Sept. 22 7:30 p.m. The Rev. Dr. Peggy Wall, St. John AME Church, Baltimore
Sept. 23 7:30 p.m. The Rev. Dr. Lee P. Washington, Reid Temple AME Church, Bowie
Sept. 24 7:30 p.m. The Rev. Dr. Ann Lightner-Fuller, Mt. Calvary AME Church, Towson

The Right Rev. Adam Jefferson Richardson Jr., presiding prelate of the Second Episcopal
District, is the preacher for the Sept. 25 anniversary banquet to be held at Bolling Air Force Base
Officers Club. At Allen Chapel, according to the church website, the church family believes in
the power of love and looks for ways to support one another as they journey through life living
by faith. The Rev. Alan M. Gould Sr. is the newly appointed pastor of the church.

For more information on the church located at 2518 Fairland Rd. in Silver Spring, visit
allenchapelame.org or call 301-879-9232.
Photo by Bill Tabron

Sept. 19
Faith Bytes
The Rev. Harold A. Carter
Sr., New Shiloh Baptist
Church, is the 8 a.m. preacher
for Prime Age Emphasis Day
at Calvary Baptist Church,
3911 Garrison Blvd. The
Right Rev. Robert Farrow,
Mt. Calvary Freewill Baptist
Church, will preach at 11 a.m.
For more information, visit:
www.calvarybaltimore.org or
call 410-664-2111. The Rev.
Dr. Stephen J. Russell Jr. is
pastor of the church.
Sept. 24
Chosen Generation Youth
and Young Adult Ministry
of Mt. Moriah is hosting
a Back to School Concert
featuring Eric Waddell and
The Abundant Life Singers,
7 p.m., 2201 Garrison Blvd.
There will also be a guest
praise and worship team and
worship leader. For more
information on the concert
and praise party, visit: tmmbc.
org or call 410-945-3575.
Jeans and Jazz, an evening
As underserved communities in Baltimore continue to battle startling rates of HIV
infection, homelessness and poverty, the local Muslim community united to combat
these social ills with the annual “Day of Dignity” on Sept. 4. The event, held at Masjid
of jazz with light fare, begins ul-Haqq, distributed clothing, job resources, contacts for job training, hygiene
at 6 p.m. at Macedonia products, toys, hot meals and health screenings to over 1,000 persons who are
Baptist Church, 718 W. homeless or underserved in Baltimore City. Held locally since 2005, Day of Dignity
Lafayette Ave. Enjoy the is part of a national initiative sponsored by Islamic Relief USA, an advocacy group
music of Majestic Notes with
seeking to eliminate poverty, and initiated in Los Angeles, Calif., so Muslims could
guest vocalist Sheila Ford.
For more information call fulfill their Ramadan obligations to aid the needy.
443-610-3100.
Obituaries
Moses C. Autry, 76
Engineer, ‘Chef’
Moses, the oldest of six children, was born on Sept. 22, for the family home. He was greatly loved, respected and
1933, to the late John and Eleanor Autry. He departed this appreciated for his expertise
life on Aug. 29. Moses accepted Christ at an early age, but as he provided guidance,
rededicated his life to the Lord in 1997 and was a servant of good advice, friendship and
God. He was educated in the Baltimore City Public School professional mentoring. He
System and attended Howard University. He served his considered himself a chef
country during the Korean War and was honorably discharged and didn’t mind flaunting his
in 1958. He worked as an environmental engineer and contract cooking expertise. His family
specialist at Fort Meade Military Installation, retiring after and friends will miss him
over forty years of faithful service. as they commit to honoring
Known as “Buddy” to his family and “Moe” to his friends, God by putting in practice the
he was a “drill sergeant” at heart as he interacted with the good and profitable lessons
youth in his family and their friends declaring, “We’re on a he taught.
mission!” Through these missions, he taught responsibility Moses is survived by:
to duty, leadership, cooperation and the rewards of work his devoted and loving wife,
well done. Using his engineering skills, he drew up the plans Catherine Autry; two sons,
MOSES C. AUTRY
Steven and Brian from his first
marriage; daughters-in-law,
Joan and Marian; two grandsons, Joshua and Joseph; two
granddaughters, Kendra and Sharnice; two great-grandsons,
Kingston and Joshua; brother, James Autry; three sisters,
Vashti Bennett, Bessie Eggleston and Alice Redd and a host of
nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Margaret Wigfall, 67
Cook, Health Aide
Margaret Wigfall was
born on Oct. 28, 1942, and
was called home by her Lord
and Savior on Aug. 24.
Born to the late Creola
Williams and John Blanding
in Clarendon, S.C., Margaret
moved to Baltimore to
live with her mother after
attending Manning Schools.
At the age of 17, she moved
to New York City. For over
20 years, she worked as
a machine operator in the MARGARET WIGFALL
city’s Garment District. She
on the Senior Usher Board
also worked part time as
and 2010 Family and Friends
a home health aide. After
Day Committee.
receiving her GED in 1994,
Margaret loved to travel,
she obtained employment
attend church functions,
with the New York City
cook big and delicious
Department of Education.
dinners and spend time
Margaret was a hard worker
with her family and friends.
and was promoted to a civil
She also volunteered at her
service worker as head cook
local elementary school in
where she eventually retired.
Baltimore.
Margaret was a faithful
She leaves to cherish her
member of Southern Baptist
memory: her children, Tory
Church in New York for
L. Wigfall and Shauna J.
over 30 years. She was a
Rivers; her grandchildren,
member of the Adult Usher
DeVaughn, Jalayah, Tarayah
Board and the Junior Usher
and Tory Jr.; her sisters,
Board prior to returning to
Arnette Evans-Griffin and
Baltimore where she joined
Clotell Macklin-Davis; her
the Village Baptist Church.
aunt, Evelyn Davies and a
While attending Village
host of family and friends.
Baptist, she briefly served

Community
Meteorologist Lynette Charles Joins
ABC2 Storm Team
“I am so excited to have
Lynette join our weather
team.  Her knowledge,
energy and enthusiasm are
infectious;” says News
Director Kelly Groft in a
statement.  “We are fortunate
that she joins the team
already knowing the lay of
the land and knowing how
important weather is to
ABC2 News viewers.”
Charles began her career
at The Weather Channel
as a camera operator and
was chosen to participate
in the Weather Channel’s
“Practice Team Program.”
She then became weekend
meteorologist at WDEF, in
Chattanooga, Tenn., where
she became an active part of
Judge Marcella Holland Begins Term as Chair
of National Bar Association Council
Baltimore City Circuit
Administrative Judge
Marcella Holland has
begun her term as the
new chair of the National
Bar Association Judicial
Council. Judge Holland was
sworn into office during the
association’s 85th Annual
Meeting, held last month in
New Orleans.
Judge Holland has served
on the Baltimore City Circuit
Court since September 1997,
and was appointed circuit
administrative judge in
November 2003. She was
the first African-American
woman administrative judge
in Maryland. “I am honored
to have been chosen by my
colleagues from around the
country,” Judge Holland
said in a statement. “I am
particularly thrilled to
be chair during this 40th
anniversary of the NBA
Judicial Council. As we
Pancreatic, Liver Specialist Joins
Saint Agnes Medical Staff
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Dr. Steven Cunningham
Saint Agnes Hospital
recently introduced
Baltimore-based doctor
Steven Cunningham as the
newest member of its medical
staff. The Johns Hopkins-
trained pancreatic and liver
surgery specialist is also
board-certified in general
surgery.
Dr. Cunningham’s arrival
supports Saint Agnes’ Cancer
Institute, known for its skilled
clinical leadership, state-
of-the-art technology and
comprehensive treatment and
patient service programs.
Long term, Saint Agnes is
striving to become a regional
destination hospital for
patients undergoing treatment
and surgical interventions
for liver and pancreatic
diseases. “I am excited to
be part of Saint Agnes,”
said Cunningham, whose
appointment to the medical
staff was effective Aug. 23, in
Courtesy Photo
Lynette Charles
the community she covered.
Before moving to
Baltimore, Charles was the
plan a year-long celebration
of our accomplishments,
it is appropriate to
rededicate ourselves to the
goals and mission of the
Judicial Council, including
eradicating racial and class
bias in every aspect of
the judicial process, and
improving the public’s trust
and confidence in the courts.”
As chair, Judge Holland
will lead the implementation
of the Judicial Council
agenda, which includes
seminars and conferences
for the exchange of judicial
experiences and the training
of new judges and the
improvement of the ethnic
balance of the federal and
state judiciary.
The National Bar
Association (NBA) was
founded in 1925 and is
the oldest, largest bar
association for people of
color, predominantly African
a statement “Everyone I talk
to has nothing but good things
to say about the hospital.”
Most recently,
Cunningham completed a
fellowship at Johns Hopkins
University in hepato-
pancreato-biliary (HPB)
surgery. Prior to that, he
completed a postdoctoral
research fellowship at
Johns Hopkins University
from 2003 – 2006, while
performing his residency at
the University of Maryland
Medical Center from 2001 –
morning meteorologist and
co-anchor of a two hour
morning news show at
WPMT in York, Pa. “I hold
the belief that if I were given
the opportunity, I would
make the science of weather
come alive for my television
audience” said Charles in a
press statement.
Lynette is a member of
the American Meteorological
Society (AMS) and National
Association of Black
Journalists (NABJ) and is
originally from Silver Spring,
Md. In her spare time she
enjoys spending time with
her family and friends. She
also loves watching and
playing all sports.
Photo by Darryle A. Carter for the
National Bar Association
Judge Marcella Holland
Americans. One of its
founders, the late Charles
Howard Jr., was the father
of former Baltimore City
Circuit Court and federal
judge, the late Joseph C.
Howard, and his brother, the
late Charles Howard Jr., who
was the only president of the
NBA from Baltimore.
2009.
Originally from
Denver, Cunningham
attended medical school
at the George Washington
University. He is a member
of the American College of
Surgeons, the International
Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary
Association, the Society
for Gastrointestinal and
Endoscopic Surgeons and the
Association for Academic
Surgery. He is also the author
of a children’s poetry book,
Dinosaur Name Poems.
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Two Baltimore Schools Receive National Arts
Awards
Each year, the John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts presents its National
Schools of Distinction in Arts Education
Awards to public schools that have “ensured
a creative educational environment for
outstanding student achievement.”
This year, two Baltimore schools were
among the institutions recognized from
Maryland. Roland Park Elementary/Middle
School and Sudbrook Magnet Middle
School will receive a $2,000 award to
Courtesy Photo
support their arts education programs and
Each year organizations such as the
may be invited to perform at the Kennedy
Washington-D.C.-based Kennedy Center
Center in the District. The middle schools
will also be honored during the AEMS
grants awards to deserving schools to support
Alliance Cultural Arts for Education their arts programs.
Conference in spring 2011.
Salvation Army Feeds Local Families
The Salvation Army, Greater Baltimore Command recently announced its participation
in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, which provides meals at no separate charge to
enrolled children at 1114 N. Calvert St., in Baltimore.
The goal of the program is to improve the diets of young children and provide access to
more nutritious foods, namely those meeting standards established by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture. Meals are available to all participants without regard to race, color, national
origin, sex, age, or disability.
The Salvation Army has been part of Baltimore for 130 years. An international movement,
the organization is an evangelical part of the Universal Christian Church. The basic social
services developed by founder William Booth in 1880 “to provide food and shelter for the
hungry and homeless” have remained an outward visible expression of the Army’s strong
religious principles. In addition, new programs that address contemporary needs have been
established. Among these are disaster relief services, day care centers, summer camps, holiday
assistance, emergency and transitional shelters, and alcohol and drug rehabilitation 82 cents of
every dollar spent is used to support those services in 5,000 communities nationwide.
For more information, contact: The Salvation Army Baltimore Area Command at 814 Light
St.
If you’re HIV+ and think you can’t afford the medication you
need, there’s something you should know.
MADAP CAN HELP.
The Maryland AIDS Drug Assistance Program (MADAP) helps cover the
cost of many medications for low to moderate income people in Maryland
who are living with HIV/AIDS.
There are exciting, new drugs in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Don’t miss out
because you can’t afford them.
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AFRO’s NFL Unsung Heroes of the Week Pro Sports Analysis

By Perry Green
AFRO Sports Editor
The AFRO has long been in the business
of shining the spotlight on those who make
positive contributions yet go unrecognized,
so the sports desk decided to extend that
service to our NFL fans. This week we will
honor a player whose performance went
unnoticed by most observers. Here are the
AFRO’s Unsung Heroes of the Week, an
honoree selected from the local favorite
Washington Redskins and another selected
from the entire NFL field.
Enjoy.
AFRO’s Unsung
Redskin of the Week:
Trent Williams –
Offensive Tackle
No doubt, the most
outstanding stars of
Sunday night’s NFL
season opening thriller
were Washington
Redskins’ DeAngelo
Hall and LaRon Landry.
Both defensive players
helped limit the Dallas
Cowboys’ explosive
passing attack to only
277 yards and one
touchdown, while also
putting on a “how to
Trent Williams performed well
make a tackle” clinic.
in his NFL debut, limiting the
Landry led Washington
production of Dallas Cowboys
with an amazing 17
star DeMarcus Ware.
tackles (13 solo), while
Hall finished with seven tackles and a huge
forced fumble that he picked up and ran
back for a 32-yard defensive touchdown.
But both Landry and Hall are high-
profiled players that have already been
recognized by the media on several
occasions for their skillful contributions.
The one player who kicked butt all game
while passing the glory to his teammates
was rookie tackle Trent Williams. The first
round draft pick out of Oklahoma University for 250 yards in the 1973 season opener).
had the responsibilities of blocking
DeMarcus Ware, easily the best pass rusher
in the game, and Williams handled the job
beautifully. Taking on a star like Ware in
your first action ever in the NFL can be a
scary scenario for a rookie, but Williams
passed the test with flying colors. He gave
up one sack to Ware, but that’s not bad at all
considering Ware’s ability to record several
sacks in a single game.
“He got me a couple plays,” Williams
told reporters about DeMarcus Ware after
the game. “Overall, I think I pretty much
held my own [against him]. I think I was
about two or three plays off from nearly
a perfect game, so back to the drawing
board.”
Williams may be
an Unsung Hero for
this week, but with his
incredible talent, it’s
only a matter of time
before he’ll be one of the
biggest stars on the team.
NFL Unsung Hero of
the Week: Arian Foster
– Tailback, Houston
Texans
There were many
stars playing in Sunday’s
matchup between the
Indianapolis Colts
and Houston Texans,
including Peyton
Manning, Andre
Courtesy Photo/OU Johnson, Reggie Wayne,
Bob Sanders and Mario
Williams. But none of
them outshined Texans
running back Arian
Foster.
You might be thinking, “Who the heck
is Arian Foster?” That’s exactly what every
fantasy football owner was asking when
they checked the fantasy stat lines and saw
Foster had rushed for 231 yards and three
touchdowns to help give the Texans a 34-
24 win against Indy. Foster’s performance
ranks second only in NFL history to O.J.
Simpson for the most rushing yards recorded
in a season opening game (Simpson rushed
Not too bad at all for an undrafted free agent
who most experts considered only practice
squad material.
Kevin Durant Shines in the
Backdrop on NFL Sunday
Maryland native Kevin Durant was named the FIBA World
Championship Most Valuable Player after leading USA to
its first world championship since 1994.
By Stephen D. Riley
AFRO Staff Writer
Football and basketball are
never to be mixed. You can
like one or the other or even
both, but you never, I repeat,
never blend the two. So
sports enthusiasts who found
themselves preoccupied with
a weekend slate of gridiron
games probably missed out on
Team USA’s romp to a gold
medal—what a shame. Led
mostly by Kevin Durant (the
new face of the NBA; yes,
you read it right), America
captured its first world
basketball championship since
1994 in an 81-64 win over
Turkey on Sunday (you’re
granted a free pass if you
missed the game for football-
related reasons).
Durant, a budding NBA
phenom, was incredible in
AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
his world championship
debut, dropping 28 points
in the final game to cap a
monster tournament. His
205 points set a FIBA World
Championship record by an
American player and his 22.8
points per game led the U.S.
in scoring in the nine-game
tourney. He singlehandedly
matched Turkey from a three-
point distance with seven
of his own makes en route
to being named tournament
MVP. Unofficial reports
also suggest he cured cancer
and slowed global warming
during his stay in Turkey.
Maybe the latter is a bit
far-fetched but Durant’s three-
week FIBA performance was
nothing short of extraordinary.
Labeled as the “B-Team” due
to the absence of megastars
Kobe Bryant, LeBron James
and Dwyane Wade, Team
USA didn’t feature many
big names. Even before this
year’s tourney, Durant’s name
had often eluded the elite
circle of A-list ballers. But
Durant’s run for the ages not
only qualified the U.S. for a
spot in the 2012 Olympics,
but surely etched his name
across any basketball banter
concerning the best in the
business.
Durant has used the past
year to elevate himself to
uncharted territory. You
won’t find too many guys
this good at his age (21), with
this kind of mindset—the
eye of the tiger, so to speak.
Most 21-year-olds are busy
mapping out cap and gown
orders and storming through
frat parties. Not Durant. He’s
busy mapping out pick and
pop strategies and storming
through FIBA competition.
Launching 13 three pointers
in a championship game is
more Kobe-like than it is
LeBron-like. But Durant’s
insane physical skill set is
more LeBron-like than it is
Kobe-like. It all adds up to
one big problem and if you
were able to catch any of it
this past Sunday, you had to
come away impressed.
But it’s no biggie if you
missed it. Autumn Sundays in
America are usually reserved
for simple things like church,
family and football. But if you
were able to turn away during
that one commercial break
of the first full day of NFL
hoopla, then you got to see
it. You actually had a chance
to see Kevin Durant, the new
face of the NBA.

Bowie State Names Anton Goff as New Athletic Director

By Perry Green
AFRO Sports Editor
The University of Maryland-
College Park isn’t the only school in
Maryland with a new Black athletic
director. Bowie State University
recently named Anton Goff as the
new director of athletics, just a week
after UMD announced the hiring of
Kevin Anderson as its new AD.
BSU managed to steal Goff from
UMD after he previously served as
associate director for the Academic
Support and Career Development
Unit at College Park. Goff brings
15 years of college athletics
administrative experience with him
as he succeeds Interim Athletic
Director Arlene Clark, a BSU
alum who served the university for
more than 30 years. Goff’s résumé
includes duties such as supervising
six of 27 UMD varsity teams, as well
as managing the school’s athletic
budget. Prior to his most recent
tenure at Maryland, Goff served
Michigan State University as an
academic coordinator for the school
football team, where he monitored
student athletes’ classroom efforts
and progress. Before arriving at
Michigan State, he served on the
academic support team for Maryland
from 1998 to 2001. Goff earned both
a bachelor’s and master’s degree
in administration of justice from
Virginia Commonwealth University.
He later earned a doctorate in
education administration from Kent
State. Goff is a member of Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity.
“Mr. Goff brings an array of
experiences that are certain to
enhance the athletic programs
at Bowie State University,” said
Mickey L. Burnim, Bowie president,
in a statement. “His credentials
are impressive and we are indeed
delighted he is joining BSU to help
lead an already thriving Division
II program to the next level of
excellence.”
Goff will officially assume his
new title on Oct. 1 and will be
responsible for overseeing 13 men’s
and women’s athletic teams, all
associated with the NCAA Division
II’s Central Intercollegiate Athletic
Association (CIAA).
“It is a great day to be a
Bulldog,” Goff stated.  “This is
a tremendous opportunity for me
professionally and personally. My
goals and values mirror those of
BSU and I am looking forward to
leading the Athletic Department
in pursuit of academic and athletic
excellence as well as community
participation. I am honored to
be placed in this leadership
position. My family and I are excited
to become contributing members
of the Bowie State University
community.”

Hampton’s Ellis Named MEAC Defensive Player of the Week
By Perry Green tackling machine in
AFRO Sports Editor Washington, D.C., over the
weekend. The Hampton
Redskins star LaRon Pirates visited Washington
Landry wasn’t the only Sept. 11 and left with a 31-21
victory against the Howard
Bison, thanks in large part to
Hampton senior Kenrick Ellis.
The 6-foot-5, 340-pound
defensive lineman out of
West Palm Beach, Fla., was
named Mid-Eastern Athletic
Conference Defensive Player
of the Week after leading the
Pirates with 16 tackles (seven
solo) last Saturday. Ellis also
recorded two sacks a for 16-
yard loss and recovered a
Courtesy Photo/Hampton Sports Information fumble in the Pirates first win
Hampton senior Kenrick of the season.
Ellis recorded 16 tackles “It was great to have Ellis
(seven solo) to help the out here today,” Hampton
Pirates beat Howard on coach Donovan Rose told
Sept. 11. reporters after the game. “He
September 18, 2010 - September 24, 2010, The Afro-American B7
made his presence known to his outstanding performance “I am impressed, overall, need to work on.”
everyone.” against Howard. Hernandez, a with the job that we did,” Hampton will see its next
Meanwhile, fellow freshman kicker from Miami, Rose said. “The offense put action on Sept. 18 when they
Hampton teammate Rodrigo booted in four extra points up 31 points today and the host North Carolina A&T,
Hernandez earned the MEAC and a 36-yard field goal to defense did well also, but while Howard will face
Rookie of the Week honor for help give the Pirates the win. there are a few things that we Florida A&M.
B-W Parkway High School Football Battle
Baltimore’s Calvert Hall Cruises by Dunbar of D.C., 21-6
By Stephen D. Riley between the two teams, at Dunbar High On their first possession of the game,
AFRO Staff Writer School, Calvert Hall (3-0) handed their Calvert Hall cruised down the field with
Baltimore-Washington Parkway rivals a ease, blending a powerful run game with
Matchups between top Baltimore defensive pounding, nearly shutting out a quick-strike passing attack. Calvert
and Washington, D.C. high school the Tide (2-1) at home. Hall’s offense reeled off some big runs
football programs have been an ongoing Billed as one of the best contests of the as their three-man running back platoon
trend this fall. Baltimore’s Calvert Hall weekend with Dunbar (No. 13 in the of C.J. Williams, Brandon Neverdon and
Cardinals’ 21-6 dismantling of the Washington Post Top 25) and Calvert Garrett Keene kept the chains moving
District’s Dunbar Crimson Tide on Sept. Hall (No. 5 by MaxPreps.com) ranked and Dunbar guessing. Neverdon finished
10 continued the season’s other trend: highly in their respective areas, the game a 10-play drive with a 1-yard touchdown
the dominance of Baltimore schools over was anticipated as an inter-conference dive to start a dominant first half for
District opponents. slugfest. But Calvert Hall set the tone Calvert Hall.
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shelter. Tax deduct- NOTICE BY Purchasing Department
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rected in writing to the address and individual Curran, Brian off-premise catering
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acre lots, on the ORDERED, that pub-
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seaside (the mainland) lication be given one
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electric & sewage. 2 Baltimore City on or Vitale, Alessandro
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Chez Joey, LLC Transfer of ownership of liquor 415 E. Baltimore Street ACCOUNTANT
Hatmaker, Ernest and adult entertainment licenses SUPERVISOR
Teresi, Mario Accounts Payable
Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) seeks Accountant Supervisor II to provide
26 E. Cross, LLC Request to add 30 E. Cross Street 26-30 E. Cross Street supervision, planning & controlling of the Grants & Purchase of Care (POC) A/P Section activities &
to ensure accounts are appropriately posted, authorized & processed in accordance w/ GAAPS & guidelines
McFaul, William for business and rooftop deck established by the Comptroller¬s Office & the Maryland State Department of Budget & Management (DBM).
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Panormitis, Inc Request to add live entertainment 719 S. Broadway www.marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/aboutmsde/jobs

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S9 Retailers, Inc. Transfer of ownership 705 E. Patapsco Avenue diverse workforce. Annual salary range: $45,675 - $66,617 & full State benefits.
Mackey, Karla
Perrett, Dannielle QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor¬s in Acct¬ng or Bachelor¬s w/ 30 credits in Acct¬ng & related courses;
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Baker, Gene be considered to have met educ req referenced above.
Baker, Diann
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200 W. Baltimore Street, Balto. MD. 21201. Applications/resumes should be received by October 1, 2010.
RHT, Inc Transfer of ownership from a secured 2239 Essex Street AA/EOE
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DIRECTOR

Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) - The # 1 Ranked Education Program in the
Serie 23 Bar Restaurant, Inc. Transfer of ownership & request to add 5-7 W. Patapsco Avenue
USA - seeks Manager to oversee 7 BILLION $$$$$$$ budget. Will provide direction, leadership, &
Louis, Ana live entertainment and dancing oversee the development, justification, execution, & analysis of Maryland State Government¬s 2nd highest
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the req. exp. 2) 1 yr. of prof. acct¬ng or auditing exp. may subst for 1 yr of req. exp.

To Apply: Reference position #039426 & Send/FAX (410-333-8950) resume to Office of Human Resources,
200 W. Baltimore Street, Balto. MD. 21201. Applications/resumes should be received by September 24,
2010. AA/EOE

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The Resource Development activities include writing grants
and grant reports, grant research, donor recognition, The Baltimore AFRO American News-
production and dissemination of communication vehicles, papers, a weekly newspaper serving
Chief Academic Programs Officer building and managing ad hoc Special Events for fund and
friendraising and cultivating a prospective donor database the Baltimore metropolitan area, is
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with a goal of 5,000 records. Position reports to Director accepting applications for a reporter/
The Universities at Shady Grove (USG), located in Rockville, MD is currently of Resource Development and duties will be assigned as photographer. The successful candidate
seeking a highly-motivated, successful professional for the position of Chief needed. As a member of the Resource Development Team will live in the coverage area and be a
Academic Programs Officer. The Chief Academic Programs Officer (CAPO) at St. Ambrose, primary responsibilities will include: Social self-motivator with a passion for local
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written and oral; Must have moderate skill level with issues related to local government
technology, Microsoft Office proficiency and ability to learn
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