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Thousands Crowd District to ‘Reclaim the Dream’ WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative activists rallied Aug.
28 in the nation’s capital on the anniversary and at the same
site of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a
Dream’’ speech. Civil rights leaders countered the event and
held a 3-mile plus march from Dunbar High School to the site
of the planned King Memorial near the Tidal Basin.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington’s delegate to
Congress, said she remembers being at King’s March on
Washington, which she said prompted change and ended
segregation in public places. “Glenn Beck’s march will change
nothing. But you can’t blame Glenn Beck for his March-on-
Washington envy,” she said.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, leading the civil rights march and
rally, spoke to the assembled. “The folks who used to criticize
us for marching are trying to have a march themselves,’’ he
said. “We come because the dream has not been achieved.
We’ve made a lot of progress. But we still have a long way to
go.’’
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He said he wasn’t seeking a confrontation with those at the

Beck rally. During the march his group briefly encountered
participants from a rally on the National Mall. “We wouldn’t
disgrace today by allowing you to provoke us,’’ he said.
Marchers encountered the other crowds near the Washington
Monument. Men in tri-cornered hats and people wearing tea
party T-shirts looked on as marchers chanted “Reclaim the
dream’’ and “MLK, MLK.’’ Some marchers chanted “don’t
drink the tea’’ to people leaving Beck’s rally.
In addition to Sharpton and Congresswoman Norton,
speakers at the event included Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner,
Wade Henderson, District councilman and candidate for mayor
Vincent Gray, Mayor Adrian Fenty, NAACP President Ben
Jealous, National Urban League CEO and President Marc
Photo by JD Howard
Morial, Tom Joyner, the Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy and others.
Thousands gathered at Dunbar High School and marched to the site of the planned Martin Luther King Jr. National
Memorial on Aug. 28, in commemoration of the 47th anniversary of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the first march More photos on A4
on Washington.

Innocence Lost: Student Faces Students Voice Concerns

Listen to “First Edition” Murder, Assault Charges
on First Day of School
By Melissa Jones allegedly approached two Hispanic By Melissa Jones
AFRO Staff Writer males on the 100 block of N. Linwood AFRO Staff Writer
Join Host Sean Yoes Ave., brandished a handgun and
 Sunday @ 8 p.m. on Family members describe 14-year- announced her intent to rob them. José Students at Dr. Rayner Browne
88.9 WEAA FM, the old Arteesha Holt as “loving, joyful, a Coreas and Wilmer Bonilla laughed at Academy began the school year
people person, and very intelligent,” the 135-pound girl because of her age. on Aug. 30 with a lesson in civic
Voice of the Community. although she had some behavioral It was at this point, the documents engagement. City Council President
problems at school. Natasha Wilson, state, that Holt fired the weapon, Bernard Young and Councilman
her aunt, calls her “my twin” and said grazing Bonilla’s head and striking Warren Branch sat down for lunch
the young girl came to live with her Coreas in the center of the forehead. with seven sixth and seventh-
when things got out of hand at her Both men were taken to Johns graders to discuss open letters they
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mother’s house. Hopkins Hospital where Bonilla was wrote to Branch as a part of the
It seemed the Booker T. treated and released. Coreas died Aug. Summer SPLASH program. The
Washington Middle School student 20 after doctors determined he no program was created by Elev8
longer had any brain activity as Baltimore, which helps middle AFRO File Photo/Talibah Chikwendu
a result of his injuries. grade students transition to high Baltimore Council President
Wilson defends her niece’s school. The letters expressed Bernard “Jack” Young heard the
innocence. “Until she tells me concerns the students had about concerns from Rayner Browne
that she did it, I don’t believe it. their schools and surrounding Academy students on Aug. 30.
I don’t allow guns in my home, neighborhoods.
I don’t even like guns. So for “I’m almost embarrassed and school. “We have to find out if most
them to say that she got a gun I’m ashamed. I know first-hand of these houses are owned by the
and shot somebody ... no, no, that these kids are seeing blight and city or whether they are privately
no!” hopelessness,” said Young. “We owned,” said Young in response.
Family members haven’t want to instill in them that there is “We will try to get some torn
spoken to Holt since her arrest hope and that we are working on down but the state and the federal
and they are worried about her solutions.” government cut back demolition
physical and emotional well- The students asked for new trash money, so we’re going to have to be
being. “I really didn’t have too cans on the corner to help curb creative in how we go about doing
many problems with her. She littering in the streets and that the these things.”
came home at a reasonable city increase trash pickup days. One Sixth-grader Jawayne Johnson’s
time. She wasn’t in a gang. She student spoke about the condition biggest concern was how long it
wasn’t homeless. She wasn’t and subsequent lack of recreational would take to see the changes that
Courtesy Photo/Baltimore City Police Department lost in the street. She had her centers, which the Council president Young and Branch addressed. To
Arteesha Holt, 14, was arrested in own problems that she struggled took as an invitation to herald his that, the councilman and council
August for attempted robbery, first- with in her head, like stress, position on funding the Department president did not have a definitive
degree murder and several other but she wasn’t pounding the of Parks and Recreation. Another answer.
charges. streets,” Wilson said. questioned the pair about crime Young closed the event by
According to Wilson, Holt’s prevention and getting guns off the encouraging students to remain
was a typical teen until a life-changing mother asked administrators at Booker streets. engaged in their communities
night on Aug. 13. According to local T. Washington Middle School for help At the top of their lists was and to reach out to other elected
police, Holt became an attempted thief with Holt’s behavioral problems, but their concern for the overwhelming officials like Baltimore City Mayor
and gun-wielding murderer on the 100 her request was denied. “A typical number of vacant and abandoned Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and
block of N. Linwood Ave. houses surrounding their homes and President Obama.
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William P. Foster, the former Florida A&M University
(FAMU) band leader dubbed the “Dean of America’s Band
Directors,” died Aug. 28 at 91. Foster was noted for creating
the FAMU Marching “100” and developing the “high step”
performance style now used at high schools and colleges across
the nation.
James H. Ammons, the school’s president, called Foster a
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techniques. “We are deeply saddened by the loss of Dr. Foster,”
Hispanic Civil Rights Pioneer Dies at 78
Dr. Mario G. Obledo, founder and president of the National
Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and former California
Secretary of Health and Welfare, died of a heart attack at his
home in Sacramento, Calif., on Aug. 18. He was 78.
Often deemed the “godfather of Hispanic Civil Rights,”
Obledo worked to bring justice to the Latin community. In
addition to co-founding the Mexican American Legal Defense
and Educational Fund (MALDEF), he also co-founded the
Hispanic National Bar Association. Additionally, Obledo served
as national president of the League of United Latin American
Citizens. “With Mario’s passing, we have lost a pioneer, a
visionary, a pathfinder,” Antonia Hernandez, former MALDEF
president and current president of the California Community
Foundation, said in a statement. “Mario G. Obledo touched
the lives of countless individuals, my own life included…
MALDEF and the community has lost a gentle giant.”
While serving as a past chairman of the National
Rainbow Coalition, he aspired to politically unite the nation’s
ethnic, racial and religious groups. However, his primary
accomplishment was bringing thousands of Hispanics into
state government during his tenure as Secretary of Health and
Welfare under the leadership of California Gov. Jerry Brown.
National Bar Association Names New President
Demetrius D. Shelton was named 68th president of the
National Bar Association (NBA) at the organization’s annual
convention Aug. 12. In his inaugural address, Shelton stated
that one of his goals was to “expand the pipeline into the legal
field” for minorities. “We will build up the pool of leaders, future
Supreme Court nominees and future members of the NBA who
will help us to maintain our rightful place as the conscious of the
nation,” he said.
Since 1998, Shelton has served on the NBA’s board of
directors. Prior to becoming president, he served as vice
president of the NBA over regions and affiliates. He has also
previously served the association as special advisor to the
president, board member-at-large, member of the executive
committee, regional (IX) director, sergeant at arms and chair of
the government lawyers division. In 2005-2006, he also served
as vice president of the California State Bar Association.
Former FAMU Band Director Dies at 91
Demetrius D. Shelton (center) being sworn in as the 68th
President of the National Bar Association, with Shelton’s
mother Virginia Gulley Shelton (left) and Judge Horace
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that what he created was magical. It was the marching band, at
an Orange Blossom Classic in Miami, that sparked my interest
in attending FAMU. The band was dynamic, larger than life and
something that I wanted to have access to even though I was
not a musician.”
Foster, who was also called “The Law” and “The Maestro,”
served as the band’s director from 1946 to 1998.
His funeral is scheduled for Sept. 4 at 11 a.m. on FAMU’s
campus. In lieu of flowers, his family requests that donations
are made to the “William P. and Mary Ann Foster Endowed
Scholarship Fund” at FAMU in support of FAMU band
scholarships.
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Colorofchange.org began a phone and online campaign to
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Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain NephewA3 September 4, 2010 - September 10, 2010, The Afro-American
By Alan King sport-utility vehicle sought in from a neighbor about a suspi- posted fliers bearing his photo-

Boy’s Summer Challenge Evolves into Movement

AFRO Staff Writer
Jennifer Hudson and other
relatives positively identified
By Stephen D. Riley
AFRO Staff Writer
Encrypted with pictures
and prayers, seven-year-old
Justice Flora’s letter started
out as an innocent request.
After reading an article in
Clubhouse Jr. Magazine,
Flora decided to respond to
the publication’s summer
challenge to collect shoes
for those displaced in Haiti.
Like any child his age, the
second-grader took it one step letter to friends and family
at a time and established a
goal− 500 pairs of shoes, any
kind, any size and any style to What followed next waswho
Jennifer Hudson and her mom,
be
was collected
killed, by
as Aug.
well 15.
as With
her brother,
connection with the murder of cious vehicle. The man noticed graph around the city. On
Hudson’s mother and brother. the vehicle while walking his Sunday, Jennifer Hudson asked
The white, 1994 Chevrolet dog. According to the Chicago for the public’s help in finding
Suburban with Illinois license Tribune, the boy had been shot her nephew. In her MySpace
a little help from his parents, seven-year-old’s
multiple imagination
times in the back seat blog, she thanked fans and sup-
Juan and Pam Flora, Justice couldn’t
of have The
the vehicle. envisioned.
SUV, regis- porters for their prayers and
put his plan into motion, tered
Theto donations
Hudson’s murdered
began to offered a $100,000 reward to
releasing a personalized brother,
trickle inwas toweda with
slowly, the a
few pairs anyone who returned the boy
boy’s body inside and is being alive.
processed by evidence techni- Since the investigation,
“The organization processes 50,000 to cians and workers. The body Hudson – who gained stardom
100,000 pairs of shoes each month and was later removed and taken to
the Cook County Medical
after appearing on “American
Idol,” and then won an
regularly donates them to hospitals, Examiner’s office.
Hudson and other family
Academy Award for her role in
the movie Dreamgirls – has
clinics, shelters and other associations in members arrived at the Medical stayed out of the public eye.
Examiner’s office mid-after- The Chicago Tribune report-
need of footwear.” 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
week
ing until the
directly Floras
at the bodyrevved
or A spokesman for the office the murders but is being held in Monday morning, past the
members in early July up their efforts. Pam handed
viewing it on a wall-mounted told the newspaper that Hudson jail for parole violation after news vans, reporters and curi-
asking for their donations. out letters to co-workers at ous onlookers.
Courtesy Photos
a local hospital. Juan took
Darnell
a movement
Donerson
Jason.that even a
“She held hands with her family. It was obviously a very emotional moment.”
letters to colleagues at the
Neighbors stood
quietly and
reflected on the
video screen, the family chose “remained strong for her fami- being convicted of attempted violence.

Student Looks to Answer

the body of her 7-year-old
nephew Monday, just hours
after his body was found in a
plate X584859 was found on the latter. According to the ly” and was clearly its leader. murder and vehicular hijack- In front of the Hudson’s
Chicago’s West Side after Tribune, Hudson said, “Yes, “She held hands with her fami- ing. Cook County records show home, men in heavy jackets
police received a 7 a.m. call that’s him.” ly,” the spokesman said. “It that he pleaded guilty to both and hooded sweatshirts
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Phototo
was obviously a very emotional charges in 1999. He was also

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ACORN Fights
moment.”
Seven-year-old Justice Flora stands convicted in 1998
on the back forofposses-
his parents’ingpickup
the namestruck ready to and
of Donerson
The boy – the son of Julia sion of
deliver over 1,000 pairs of shoes to Delaware as part a stolen motor vehicle.
of his summer
Jason. challenge.
Hudson, Jennifer’s sister – had He was released from prison in “Everybody is sick of going
By Nicholas C. Stern Each new find reveals not just the object, post office where
sincehe works. give or take,” saidseven
Wampler. “said Pam
been missing Friday, 2006 after serving years stuffFlora. “We’re here
Leader Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’
through like this,” Artisha
The Frederick News-Post but a host of questions waiting for further Justice’s
when older sister,
a relative found Jazmyn,
Julian’s “We’ve
for had a couple
the attempted murderof large
and to help others. Initially, we
West, a former resident of the
exploration, she said. advertised onDarnell Facebook and donations come in [but] didn’t even
grandmother, car hijacking charges. area told the think we “We
Tribune. wouldall
By AlanFREDERICK
King (AP) — Shayla andMonroe
Dallas Cowboys players Monroe, a Howard No wonder University
Obama’ssenior campaign is Donerson, 57, andspread
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word at Hudson, 29, shotmall
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ones.” a long weekend in to show
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and
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the names submitted group,leftsaying,
in 2000 as an Obama
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where they walk for exercise. home in which police
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Organized with ACORN.” the 7000 block of South Yale
Through a family- in 2003, Shoes 2 Share has if given the opportunity.”
Monroe
McCain’s attackis one of six area
on ACORN – university Hurd said thosearound workers,for whoeight But
years between
Obama’s ties various
to ACORN run Avenue.
concentrated effort, Justice’s collected new and like-new
students hired
Associated Communitythis summer through wereadoinggrantthose things
adventureswithoutand interests,
long and deep. honing He in on classes
taught An Amber Alert – a desig-
goal was reached quickly. shoes and distributed them to To learn more about
by the U.S. Department of Interior to
Organization for Reform Now – ACORN’s knowledge or permis- for ACORN.
historical linguistics and texts when she They even endorsed nation for high-risk missing
confirms the success of the sion, were fired. him for President. By the time his cutoff date 18 different countries around Shoes 2 Share or to make
excavate former slave dwellings on what is returned to Howard. children – was issued Friday
arrived, his summer labor had the world. The organization a donation, visit www.
organization, theFarm
head of “The evidence that has sur- But now ACORN is in trouble.
now the Best in the
Monocacy National A student in an anthropology class, after Julian was discovered
translated into 1,120 pairs processes 50,000 to 100,000 shoes2share.com
group says. faced so far shows they faked Reporter: There are at least missing after the murders.
Battlefield. “There are mornings when I Howard realized she needed field experience of donated shoes, more than pairs of shoes each month
“This is testimony to the work forms to get paid for work they 11 investigations across the Police arrested William
can’t wait to get my hands in this dirt,”do,she to do the type ofcountry
work she enjoyed. She of
we’ve done and success we’ve
said, brushing away clumps of
didn’t
soil that
not to stuff
cling is
ballot
majoring in anthropology
involving
and
thousands
English Balfour, the missing boy’s step- and regularly donates them to
doubling his original aim. The
had,” Maude Hurd, president of boxes.” ACORN, she said, is the potentially fraudulent ACORN youngster’s
father contribution
and estranged husbandwas hospitals, clinics, shelters and
to late 18th
ACORN, said century to early 19thvictim
in an interview centuryof fraud, notliterature,
the perpetra- and she plans to graduate in
forms. substantial enough to place other associations in need of
of Julia, at his girlfriend’s
porcine
with the AFRO. jaw bones and bits of ceramic
tor of it. in a December 2011 and then attendMassive
Announcer: graduate voter as the largest donation by a footwear. The ministry was
Southside apartment several
midden the team discovered. school. “I had no idea I would become singleafter
family
“When this attack started, we Hurd said the only things fraud. And the Obama campaign hours theto the Shoes 2
murders. requested by Clubhouse Jr.
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had just midden isthat a sort
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paid morethe thanway that I to an
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Balfour’s mother,the nonprofit
Michele, has Magazine earlier in the year to
outside the
registered 1.3 dwellings
million newwhere vot- theselves.
slavesAnd threw have,”
factcheck. org she said. ACORN front for get out the vote organization
told reporters thatthat sponsored
her son had become the journal’s summer
away
ers,” sheold or “That’s
said. brokenjust items,to say Monroe said.
agrees. Recently, sheefforts.found a fish scale that the challenge.
nothing to do with “It made me
the slayings. challenge for its readers. By
The French-Catholic
that someone’s running scared family thatIt fled the “Neither
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remains about
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success.” ACORN (now in the nearby
nor its employees have Monocacy River. She
loans. Nationwide voterwants
fraud.to
his sizeable donation. Justice’s hands, one picture of
Haiti)
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judgment.
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90 slaves
president onoutside on a 748-acre
the Republican plantation
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for
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just
et, outside
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votes.”the or traded to obtain not just that fish but other
America.
accumulated so much it took for him to say, “That
county’s
final debatesecond-largest
against Barack slave holders. The problem came goods. about “Itpri-
opens up all these possibilities,”
Obama, contending the group “is marily because of the way Since McCain’s comments, footwear, his parents had little boy needs to have shoes
Archaeologists discovered the site in 2003, Monroe said. to take two trucks just to like me.”
SQUARE HIGH
on the verge of maybe perpetrat-
but postponed their work until this summer, ACORN operates. Rather than ACORN’s
By next fall, much of the 87 initial
offices have been
ing one of the greatest frauds in rely on volunteers, it pays peo- bombarded with threats and deliver their contribution to The Floras are not Haitian,
when a Youth Intake Program grant allowed collection, analysis and interpretation of the the ministry’s headquarters in but ethnicity was of no
voter history in this country, ple, many of them poor or unem- racist mail.
the excavation to continue.
maybe destroying the fabric of ployed, to sign up find will be published in a report.
new voters. The day after the presidential Delaware. Rhonda Wampler, importance to Justice, who
Monroe
democracy.” and the others have sifted
The idea was to help both those Still, some questions that nag
debate, vandals broke at her, like
into the founder and CEO of Shoes attends Riverdale Elementary
through broken dishes, wine jug shards,
Factcheck.org, a non-partisan being registered and those doing a how the dozen slaves that accompanied
organization’s Boston and Seattle the 2 Share, is used to seeing School. When it comes to
horse bit, an animal’s
Web site, found those claims to tooth, a large penny
the registration. Vincendiere family who owned the
offices and stole computers. farm large donations but even she donating, Justice says, “I’m
coin
be from 1825 with
“exaggerated,” or 1826,
“no evi- trying to get Maud a sense
explained, interacted
“We havewith a those
After apeople
Cleveland bought locally.
representative was surprised by theBREAD Floras’ going to do it again,” and NOT ON THE LIST
of what daily life
dence of any such democracy- was like for the enslaved That question may never
zero tolerance policy for deliber- appeared on TV, an e-mail was be answered. contribution. “On average, his mother nods her head in
population
destroying that toiled there. Lives
fraud.” ate barely, if of “(But)
falsification we can answer
registration.” sent to some,
the local through time she
office saying through this challenge we get prideful approval.
ever,
Hurdrecorded
believes in thethe public record.Most news account
McCain and neglect
research,” to Monroe
“is goingsaid.to have her life ended.” anywhere up to 100 [pairs] “That’s what it’s all about,
charges were politically motivat- point out that ACORN is A worker in Providence, R.I.,

Innocence Lost: Student Faces Charges

ed. required by law to turn in all reg- received a threatening call say- LEFT RIGHT
She said, “Because it’s low- istration forms. And they also fail ing, “We know you get off work
and moderate-income people, to note that it was the organiza- at 9” and uttered racial epithets.
Continued
and people of from A1I believe the tion, in many instances, that first
color, A caller to one office left a
McCain campaign thinks those brought the phony registrations message on the answering
14-year-old child has their or psychological services. has passed for interventions tears when she heard the news
voters are going to vote to the attention of authorities. machine, saying: “Hi, I was just
ups and downs. One minute It’s critical, especially if and meetings as the middle about her niece’s arrest. “I’m
Democratic, which is not neces- The McCain camp apparently calling to let you know that
they might be happy; the the school system has seen school Obama
studentneeds will nowto getface still waiting for my niece to
sarily true.”
nextACORN
minute isthey might be
isn’t interested in those fine
the behaviors,” said Dorie
Barack MarvaD Events Presents
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A4 The Afro-American, September 4, 2010 - September 10, 2010

Photos by J.D. Howard and Rob Roberts The Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network joined
a variety of groups to coordinate the Reclaim the Dream
March to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington. It
was held Aug. 10.

D.C. Mayor Congresswoman

Adrian Fenty Eleanor Holmes Norton

Executive Director of
the Greater Washington
National Urban League District Council
Maudine Cooper Chairman
Vincent Gray
... and they marched.
NAACP President
Ben Jealous

The “Reclaim the Dream” Members of Delta Sigma Theta showed

march was a day of up in force to help “reclaim the dream.”
The Rev. Al
speeches, fellowship and Sharpton, left,
joy in honor of the service takes a moment
and inspiration of the Rev. during the
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. march with
Bishop Dennis V.
Proctor, African
Methodist
Episcopal Zion
Board of Bishops
from the Western
Episcopal
District.

National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial,

right, stands with Baltimore’s NUL President J. Howard
Henderson during the “Reclaim the Dream” march.
There were a variety of speakers at the
“Reclaim the Dream” march on Washington,
Tom Joyner Aug. 28. Many recounted their memories of
the 1963 march, while others spoke of the
things we still need to accomplish.

U.S. Secretary
of Education
Arne Duncan

Baltimore’s Rev. Harold Carter and others traveled from

The Rev. Al Sharpton, founder all over the United States to participate in this march on
of the National Action Network, Washington, D.C.
joins hands and prays with those
assembled before leaving the
Dunbar High School stadium and
beginning the march.

Marchers travel the route from Dunbar High School to the location of the planned
Martin Luther King Memorial.
 September 4, 2010 - September 10, 2010, The Afro-American A5

AFRO’s Primary Endorsements for Baltimore City and County, and Maryland
By AFRO Staff
Starting Sept. 3, Maryland
voters will be able to cast their
votes in the primary election for
local and statewide candidates.
This is the first time Maryland
has allowed early voting and the
submission of absentee ballots
for convenience, providing more
opportunities to vote and more
access to voting for eligible voters.
This is not, however, the
first time the AFRO has made
endorsements.
During each election season,
the AFRO reaches out to the
candidates in the races of most
interest to the African-American
community and those that most
impact their lives. We start by
sending a questionnaire and then,
based on the answers and any
additional issues or controversy
surrounding the various races,
bring candidates from select races,
that completed the questionnaire, in
for an interview with the publisher,
Jake Oliver, and members of the
editorial department.
Our endorsements are made
based on this information.
This exercise is usually
daunting for us, and this year was
no exception. Without fail, we
enjoy meeting the candidates, find
them interesting and informative,
and leave each meeting liking
something about each one. With
that in mind, please know that we
endorse the candidates we believe
will do the job, to the best of their
ability and for the good of their
constituency.
We then wait to watch what
you, the voters, decide on Election
Day.
The following are the AFRO’s
endorsements for the 2010 Primary
election in Maryland, Baltimore
City and Baltimore County.
U.S. Senate
Barbara Mikulski
Barbara Mikulski has been
serving the state of Maryland in
Washington since 1976 when she
was first elected to the House of
Representatives. After working
there for 10 years, she was elected
to the Senate in 1986 and has been
serving there since.
In 34 years, Maryland has not
had a more committed and tireless
advocate.
She is at the forefront of issues
that impact her constituents from
one end of the state to the other,
using her influence and connections
to improve the quality of life of
Marylanders.
She works hard to provide
work and economic opportunity
in the state and to mitigate the
hardship of her constituents during
this economic downturn. “My
economic purpose is to help those
who are middle class stay there,
and give those who are not middle
class a chance to get there,” she
wrote on her AFRO questionnaire.
“In these tough economic times,
people need someone who gets
what they’re going through and
knows how to fight for them.”
She’s right. We do need this
and she delivers.
The AFRO endorses Barbara
Mikulski to be the Democratic
candidate so she can return to the
Senate and continue to serve us
faithfully.
3nd District, House of
Representatives
John Sarbanes
Maryland’s Third
Congressional District is a
meandering stretch of geography
that includes parts of Howard
County, Arundel County, Baltimore
City and Baltimore County.
With such a convoluted layout
commendable. With a focus on
reducing the shortage of minorities
within the medical profession as
well as primary care physicians,
Sarbanes worked with colleagues
to provide a variety of incentives
and structures designed to close
that gap.
If he is re-elected, he plans to
implement additional programs to
increase the number of available
primary care physicians.
Sarbanes’ sincere focus on
the needs of his constituency has
earned the endorsement of the
AFRO for the Third Congressional
District.
7th District, House of
Representatives
Elijah Cummings
The AFRO endorses Elijah
Cummings as the Democratic
candidate to the House of
Representatives from the 7th
District. We do this without
hesitation or reservation because
since his election to the office in
1996, two important words have
always applied to his work –
tireless and integrity.
Cummings provides wonderful
constituent services and is
constantly looking for ways to
bring those in his jurisdictions,
the state and the country forward
when they are in need. In the last
12 months he worked directly with
the country’s mortgage companies
to bring no less than three
mortgage/foreclosure prevention
seminars
to those in
need. He is
constantly
acting on
ways to bring
added value to
the people of
the state.
As a
legislator,
he is well
versed in the issues and uses that
information to guide him in the
right direction. And he is willing
to explain what is happening, so
everyone understands.
His work for his district and the
state is exemplary and we see no
need to make a change.
MARYLAND
Democrat, Governor
Martin O’Malley
Gov. Martin O’Malley has
grown as a public servant during
his four years in office, developing
into a strong, effective leader for
the state.
O’Malley took office and
immediately addressed the dire
budget issues of the state, just
ahead of the extreme downturn
of the economy. His fast action to
correct the state’s structural deficit
has kept Maryland from falling as
far other states and has positioned
us near the front of the recovery.
Under his administration,
college tuition at state universities
was frozen, health care was
expanded to cover over 200,000
additional Marylanders, and the
investment in public education
has increased. He also worked
tirelessly to implement strategies
and provide assistance for families
facing foreclosure, and worked to
change Maryland law to provide
the help families need to save their
homes.
While we still call on O’Malley
to reinstate the Supreme Court
mandated protections for HBCUs
against “Duplication,” which have
eroded over the last four years, his
effectiveness in a wide variety of
other areas make him the candidate
of choice.
The AFRO endorses Gov.
Martin O’Malley to be the
promises, the AFRO is proud to
again endorse Peter Franchot as the
Democratic candidate for the office
of Comptroller.
Attorney General
Douglas Gansler
Attorney General Douglas
Gansler has been like a breath of
fresh air in the state of Maryland.
He has not shied away from dealing
with issues, both important and
controversial.
Gansler is
running
unopposed.
His
dedication and
involvement
in improving
the quality
of life of
Marylanders
are probably
why no one stepped up to oppose
him. We endorse Gansler as the
Democratic candidate for the office
of Maryland attorney general.
BALTIMORE CITY
State’s Attorney
Patricia Jessamy
In the race for Baltimore City
state’s attorney, Gregg Bernstein
has distinguished himself as the
main opponent of incumbent
Patricia Jessamy. In part, he has
done this by saying the state’s
attorney’s job is “to prosecute
and convict people who commit a
criminal offense.”
We believe this is too narrow a
definition.
Another would be the ways the
state’s attorney’s office impacts
at-risk communities before a court
appearance in needed.
Patricia Jessamy does not have
a narrow definition of the job of
state’s attorney and the community
has benefited from her service. One
of her more impressive projects
is the Youth Development Fund –
funded by donations from various
agencies and individuals – designed
to provide
money to
organizations,
institutions
and
individuals
to assist in
providing
activities and
character/
virtue training
to impact
youth and prevent their getting into
trouble.
This has not diminished her
focus on crime. A look at her
incarceration numbers for each of
the last three years show that better
than 58 percent of the total number
of people incarcerated in the state
have come from Baltimore City.
Her influence is not limited to
Baltimore either. She is working
to build a statewide coalition
on gangs. The goal is to create
standard validation criteria to make
dealing with the problem more
effective.
For these reason, we believe
Patricia Jessamy is better for the
city of Baltimore and endorse her
as the Democratic candidate for the
office of state’s attorney.
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Frank M. Conaway Sr.
Owning a home can be
Maryland Senate
40th District
Catherine Pugh
Catherine Pugh is running
unopposed. She has been elected
chair of the Maryland Legislative
Black Caucus and second vice chair
of the Women’s Caucus. Her track
record and commitment are why
the AFRO endorses Catherine Pugh
as the Democratic candidate for the
40th District Maryland Senate seat.
43rd District
Joan Carter Conway
In an economic climate of
scarcity and a political culture in
which only the strong survive, Sen.
Joan Carter Conway is the best
candidate to represent Baltimore’s
43rd Legislative District in the
Maryland General Assembly.
A former city councilwoman
and state senator since 1997,
Conway has
invaluable
experience
in navigating
the inner
workings of
the state’s
political
system. Over
the years she
has proven
to be a
stalwart, fierce advocate on issues
concerning the Black community
such as Black business growth,
jobs, affordable health care for all
and education, particularly on the
issue of fostering parity between
historically Black colleges and
universities and their traditionally
White counterparts.
Conversely, her opponent
Hector Torres lacks that experience,
a major source of our concern.
Despite Torres’ long record
of public service, this is the time
to sacrifice Conway’s power
and influence – she is the chair
of the Education, Health and
Environmental Affairs Committee –
for a candidate without her tenure.
We endorse Sen. Joan Carter
Conway as the Democratic
candidate for the 43rd District
Maryland Senate seat.
44th District
Verna Jones
Sen. Verna Jones represents
Baltimore’s Legislative District
44, which is majority Black and
has long been labeled one of the
poorest, least educated districts
in the state. Jones is running
unopposed. Her advocacy on issues
of minority business, education,
law and justice and more, justify
the AFRO’s endorsement of Sen.
Verna Jones as the Democratic
candidate for District 44’s Senate
seat.
45th District
Nathaniel McFadden
Sen. Nathaniel McFadden
has long been a champion for the
city and its African-American
community, in particular.
McFadden has served in the
Maryland Senate for four terms,
and is the current president pro
tem, a position of power in that
chamber. McFadden is running
unopposed.
His experience, proven
leadership and demonstrated
sensitivity to the issues that concern
the Black community, is why the
AFRO endorses Sen. Nathaniel
McFadden as the Democratic
candidate for Baltimore’s District
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45 in the Maryland Senate.
Maryland House
of Delegates
40th District, Baltimore City
Shawn Z. Tarrant
Frank M. Conaway Jr.
41st District, Baltimore City
Jill Carter
Samuel Rosenberg
43rd District, Baltimore City
Curt Anderson
Margaret “Maggie” McIntosh
Mary Washington
44th District, Baltimore City
Keith Haynes
Mitchell Keiffer
Melvin Stukes
BALTIMORE COUNTY
County Executive
Kevin Kamenetz
Baltimore County is physically
and demographically diverse and
its county executive needs to be
a sensitive to and an understand
all of those differences to be
effective. Also its proximity to
Baltimore City requires embracing
the connectivity of the two
jurisdictions so that both are
successful.
Kevin Kamenetz has served
on the Baltimore County Council
for 16 years and as council chair
for four terms. During his time on
the council, the jurisdictions of
Baltimore County shifted to make
way for the predominantly Black
4th District, giving Kamenetz
an opportunity to expand his
knowledgebase on the special
needs of a more diverse base of
residents.
We believe Kamenetz to be
the best candidate to address the
complicated challenges facing the
county and endorse him as the
Democratic candidate for the office
of county executive of Baltimore
County.
4th District
Julian Earl Jones Jr.
or Leronia A. Josey
Baltimore County’s 4th District,
the majority minority district, is
floundering. While it’s home to an
affluent population, residents are
complaining about poorly-funded
and low-performing schools, the
unsatisfactory level of service
received, and languishing economic
development.
The district needs a
representative with a focus
on education and economic
development that can deliver
what it requires. It cries out for a
change and the number of people
challenging incumbent Ken
Oliver for the seat confirms that
assessment.
Candidate Julian E. Jones Jr.
has strong views on the state of
education in the 4th District and
detailed ideas about how to get
such change started. He has great
respect for 4th District residents and
wants to hear what residents of the
district have to say. He also has a
‘fire,’ and exhibits a willingness to
go to the mat for the district.
Candidate Leronia A. Josey is
also very committed to improving
education in the 4th District and
she has the experience to make a
difference.
Both Jones and Josey
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understand the need for more
economic development in the
District and for using that engine
to bring jobs and resources into
the areas. Both are knowledgeable
about the District and we believe
would be committed advocates for
the residents.
Our dilemma is we believe
both would provide exemplary
service to district, better than any
of the other candidates. For this
race, we suggest picking either
Jones or Josey as your choice for
the Democratic candidate for the 4th
District in Baltimore County.
Maryland Senate
10th District
Delores Kelley
In Baltimore County’s 10th
Legislative District, incumbent Sen.
Delores Kelley is being challenged
by two contenders – Pat Kelly, 63,
of Randallstown, and Stephanie
Boston, 44, also a Randallstown
resident. Neither has held an
elected office and both charge
that the district’s elected officials
are unresponsive to the estimated
120,000 residents under their care.
With 20 years in the state
Legislature – four as a delegate and
16 as a senator
– there is no
question of
the breadth of
Sen. Kelley’s
experience.
According to
the senator,
she has been
the primary
sponsor on
more than 90
bills, which have been enacted into
law. Her areas of focus have been
seniors; at-risk children, including
those in foster care and group
homes; the criminal justice system;
consumer protection, affordable
health care and public education.
Last year, Kelley – as a member
of the Unemployment Insurance
Oversight Committee – sponsored
successful, groundbreaking
legislation making part-time
workers eligible for unemployment
benefits.
She also sponsored successful
bills geared toward protecting
seniors from fraud and abuse, and
children from sexual predators and
other dangers.
The retired college dean and
Maryland’s representative on the
Education Commission for States
is a keen advocate for K-12 and
higher education. Identifying the
assignment of effective teachers
as an area of disparity, Sen. Kelley
sponsored successful legislation
requiring the State Department of
Education to develop a curriculum
to train fledgling teachers in under-
achieving, hard-to-staff schools.
She is continuing to fight that
battle. And that’s why the AFRO
is endorsing Sen. Kelley as the
Democratic candidate for the 10th
District Senate seat.
Maryland House of
Delegates
10th District, Baltimore
County
Emmett Burns
Adrienne Jones
Shirley Nathan-Pulliam

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and diversity of incomes, races,
environments and backgrounds,
the Third District needs a special
kind of person to represent those
interests in Congress. We believe
that person is U.S. Rep. John P.
Sarbanes.
Sarbanes – a longtime board
member for the Public Justice
Center – has shown sensitivity
to the needs of the working poor
and the unemployed during his
time on Capitol Hill. In addition
to supporting policies to extend
benefits to the unemployed, he has
worked to support small businesses
as part of the solution to the
anemic economic recovery. We
also applaud his recognition of the
importance of including women-
and minority-owned businesses
in the opportunities presented
by BRAC (Base Realignment
and Closure), the U.S. Defense
Department’s plan for reshaping its
infrastructure and workforce.
In addition to his support of
of the governor of Maryland.
Comptroller
Peter Franchot
Peter Franchot has no
Democratic challengers in the
2010 primary. This speaks to his
effectiveness as comptroller.
Franchot took office four
years ago and has stayed true to
his promise to be an independent
advocate for the citizens of the state
and not just a rubber stamp for the
governor on the Board of Public
Works, one of the things the AFRO
found appealing. He has done this
without being an obstructionist,
making him an integral part of the
effectiveness of the Board and the
state.
He has shown his commitment
to protect the middle class of the
state by closing tax loopholes on
businesses and wealthy, ensuring
everyone is paying their fair
share of taxes. He has maintained
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Opinion
The 1963 March on Washington Got Off
to a Rocky Start
The dueling events on
George E. Curry the anniversary of the 1963
NNPA Columnist March on Washington for
Jobs and Freedom have
ended, but astoundingly little is known about the behind-the-
scenes maneuvering that at several times threatened to derail
the march where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered
his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Fortunately, a new book, Nobody Turn Me Around: A
People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington by Charles
Euchner (Beacon Press) fills in some of the blanks. Although
other books have chronicled the March on Washington, none
provide the rich details contained in Euchner’s compelling book.
On May 15, A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood
of Pullman Porters, announced an Emancipation March on
Washington, then scheduled for October. He called a meeting
to enlist the support of other civil rights leaders: Roy Wilkins,
executive secretary of the NAACP; the National Urban
League’s Whitney Young; Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of
SCLC; James Farmer, head of CORE and Jim Forman, the
chief strategist for SNCC. Together, with John Lewis, the new
SNCC president replacing Forman, they were known as the
movement’s Big Six.
President John F. Kennedy urged Randolph to cancel the
march, but he refused. Failing to halt the march, Kennedy
asked Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, to
exert his influence over the gathering. “The White House asked
[Reuther] to infiltrate the march and steer it away from radical
rhetoric and direct action. And so he did,” Euchner wrote.
Randolph wanted Bayard Rustin to serve as director of the
march. However, his detractors gave three reasons why Rustin
would be a poor choice – he had been a communist, he was a
draft dodger and he was a homosexual.
Randolph ended the stalemate by declaring, “I will not
press Bayard on you gentlemen as the leader of the March on
Washington. I will take it.” But Randolph would take it on one
condition – Rustin would serve as his chief deputy. Every one
accepted that arrangement.
Wyclef Jean’s Presidential Candidacy a Distraction
The on-again-off-again
Ezili Danto presidential candidacy of
music star Wyclef Jean is a
distraction for Haiti.
On Friday, Aug. 20, the Haiti Electoral Council ruled that
15 out of the 34 candidates had not met the legal requirements
to run for president of Haiti. Jean was one of the rejected
candidates and he’s chosen to appeal the decision.
That’s his right, but I wish the media would focus less on
this personality-driven story and more on the reality of what’s
going on in Haiti right now.
Almost eight months after the earthquake, the recovery
effort in Haiti is going almost nowhere.
There are two million homeless earthquake victims still on
the streets of Port-au-Prince, the capital. Less than 5 percent
of the rubble has been removed from the streets to make room
for permanent shelters. And roughly 20 percent of those living
in the 1,300 tent camps have, in the past month, been forcibly
evicted with nowhere to go.
There are almost no homes to live in, no jobs to be had.
This is a disgrace, considering all the donations, upward
of $1 billion, that came in to the nongovernmental institutions
after the earthquake. Much of this money is earning interest for
charity executives; it is not reaching the earthquake victims.
The upcoming election seems to have plenty of candidates
but not much of an electorate. How are the two million
Achieving a More Balanced and Effective National Drug Strategy
When President Obama
released his five-year goals
for reducing drug use
and its consequences last
May, he observed that “by
boosting community-based
prevention, expanding
treatment, strengthening law
enforcement, and working
collaboratively with our
global partners, we will
reduce drug use and the
great damage it causes in our
communities.”
Cong. Elijah E. I fully agree.
Cummings Last week, I joined
President Obama’s Director
of the Office of National Drug
Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, for strategic conversations
with drug treatment professionals here in Baltimore.
During those strategy sessions at Tuerk House, Dee’s Place,
the Jericho Re-entry Program and the East Baltimore Drug Free
Community Coalition, Director Kerlikowske made it clear that
he had come to Baltimore to learn.
“The programs we visited in Baltimore today reflect the
National Drug Control Strategy’s holistic approach to reducing
drug abuse and its consequences,” Gil Kerlikowske observed.
“The prevention, treatment, law enforcement and recovery
programs show our national strategy at work on the local level.”
I was heartened by the Director’s visit.
One of my most important responsibilities is congressional
oversight of our National Drug Control Policy. I long have
championed the need for a more balanced and comprehensive
national strategy.
Clearly, there is no single answer to our drug crisis.
Effective drug treatment, as well as equally effective prevention
September 4, 2010 - September 10, 2010, The Afro-American
Even after that tension had been eased,
Martin Luther King’ speech – carried live
on all three TV networks – was in danger
of not being heard.
“Someone sabotaged the $16,000
sound system – state-of-the-art electronic
equipment – to derail the March on
Washington,” the author wrote. The
damage was done on the eve of the
march and Walter Fauntroy, one of
King’s top aides, scrambled at the last
moment, eventually persuading a Justice
Department contact to get the Army
Signal Corps to fix the system on the
morning of the march.
March organizers faced a larger
problem when copies of SNCC Chairman
John Lewis’ speech were circulated. In the
prepared text, Lewis expressed opposition
to an administration backed civil rights
bill, derided those who urged patience and
talked about “the revolution is at hand.”
There was strong objection to this passage: “We will march
through the South, through the heart of Dixie, the way Sherman
did. We shall pursue our own ‘scorched earth’ policy and burn
Jim Crow to the ground – nonviolently. We shall fragment the
South into a thousand pieces and put them back together in the
image of democracy.”
Patrick O’Boyle, the archbishop of Washington, scheduled
to deliver the invocation, objected to Lewis’ speech and
threatened to walk out, taking all Catholics with him, if the
speech was given. John Lewis said he would deliver the speech
as written or not at all.
Walter Reuther of the UAW objected and demanded a vote
on whether the speech would be given as written or changed.
By then, the Big Six had been expanded to a coalition of
10. And nine of the 10 voted with Reuther, only John Lewis
abstained. The speech was toned down an hour before the
homeless, who lost everything, including their identification
cards, going to be able to vote on Nov. 28?
Will the people outside of the capital and surrounding cities
where the earthquake hit be able to vote? Or is the purpose of
these elections that primarily the wealthy, whose houses didn’t
crumble in the earthquake and who all have their identification
cards, be the ones to vote?
If so, how could this be called a representative government?
In every election since 2004, when President Bush ousted
Haiti’s democratically elected leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
Haiti’s most popular political party, the Fanmi Lavalas, has
been excluded from participation.
Again, how can any government, then, be called
representative?
Even if Wyclef Jean wins this appeal, how are his young
constituents, in the crumbled areas without IDs, voter
registrations and addresses, going to vote? Moreover, even
if the masses do vote, who will make sure their votes are not
dumped into garbage bins, as happened in the 2006 presidential
election?
But Jean only puts on the dress of a populist to get votes and
pander to a desperate population. As he’s said, “Don’t worry,
I’m not a populist, I’m a capitalist.”
Haiti is a country that needs the government to lead, not the
private sector that’s failed for 200 years to do so. The Haitian
government must ensure the human rights of the majority to
and policing, must be essential components of our national
strategy.
As Director Kerlikowske noted last week, what I call
the “Baltimore Drug Strategy” can be a model for President
Obama’s new national vision.
Here in Baltimore, where we have developed one of the
most comprehensive drug treatment systems in the nation, we
understand that drug treatment works (a conclusion too often
lost on some of my House colleagues).
The 2002 Steps to Success: Baltimore Drug and Alcohol
Treatment Outcomes Study, conducted by respected research
scientists from Johns Hopkins and Morgan State University,
confirmed this fact in 2002.
One month after participants entered treatment, the use of
cocaine, heroin and alcohol each fell by more than 60 percent – developed here offer the rest of the country important models
and the positive effects of treatment were still evident after one
year.
Heroin use dropped by 69 percent. Cocaine use dropped by
48 percent. Criminal activity declined by 64 percent.
Financially – and in the overall improvement of our public
health and safety – studies like Steps to Success demonstrate
that drug treatment provides a generous return on our
investment of public funds.
That investment must be managed efficiently and
effectively.
The managerial foundation of our Baltimore Strategy is a
quasi-public authority, Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems,
which oversees all of the publically funded drug treatment
programs in our city. Led by our new Baltimore City Health
Commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, “BSAS” brings all of the
major agencies in our city together in
a shared leadership response to the
drug threat. In the Letter to the Editor from the Baltimore City Senate Delegation in support of Patricia
Another significant factor in Jessamy for State’s Attorney submitted on delegation letterhead and published in the Aug.
Baltimore’s progress is an agency 28, 2010 edition of the Baltimore AFRO American Newspaper, the name of District 46 Senator,
for which Director Kerlikowske’s George W. Della Jr., should not be listed among the names of those signing the letter.
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march got underway.
As the last speaker, Martin Luther King’s would define the
march. And he was allotted only seven minutes to do so.
Euchner wrote, “Now King wondered: Should I talk about
the dream? Should the dream provide the emotional conclusion
of the speech? King had spoken about a dream for months. At
a mass meeting in Birmingham, he sketched out a vision of an
integrated society, concluding, “I have a dream tonight.”
“King asked Wyatt Walker and Andrew Young what they
thought,” the author wrote. “’Don’t use the lines about ‘I have
a dream,’ Walker told King. ‘It’s trite, it’s cliche. You’ve used
it too many times already.’ Young agreed. King looked up but
said nothing.”
Not until he gave his rousing speech. .
George E. Curry, is a keynote speaker, moderator and media
coach. He can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com
You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge.
shelter, medicine, food, clean water, justice, inclusion, dignity
and living-wage jobs.
We need to ask whether these rushed elections, scheduled
for Nov. 28, will bring relief if they further destabilize the
country by enraging the Haitian majority, which is likely to see
its voice stifled yet again.
Exacerbating catastrophe to capitalize on catastrophe is a
workable formula for key stakeholders in Haiti affairs, as these
elections may provide fresh reasons to perpetuate the U.N./U.S.
presence in Haiti.
Supposedly the Haitian government, which says it is
bankrupt from the earthquake, has pledged $7 million of the
$29.6 million it will cost to run these elections. The rest of the
election monies will come from mostly foreigners. Will they
use their clout to support a candidate that will put their interests
above those of the Haitian people?
Under the circumstances, there are more important things
for Haitians to do than holding this election. The $29.6 million
could be better used to employ Haitians to remove all the
rubble and erect permanent housing.
Ezili Danto is an award-winning playwright, performance
poet and human rights attorney. She is the founder of the Haitian
Lawyers Leadership Network. She can be reached at pmproj@
progressive.org. This article was reprinted with permission of
“The Progressive” magazine, www.progressive.org.
Office can take much of the credit. The Washington-Baltimore
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program (HIDTA), and
its director, Thomas Carr, have long played a critical role in
integrating our public safety and public health responses to
drug-related crime.
Composed of top professionals and public servants from
throughout our region, our HIDTA teams have learned the lesson
that drug treatment is an essential element of public safety.
A recent analysis demonstrated that no more than 37 percent
of clients who successfully completed HIDTA-funded drug
treatment programs were re-arrested during the following year.
The Baltimore Plan is smart and evidence-based, balanced
and effective. As America moves toward a more comprehensive
national drug control strategy, the initiatives that we have
of success.
Success will also require that America’s drug treatment
programs continue to receive the funding that they need. Even
here in Baltimore, of the more than 60,000 of our neighbors
who needed treatment in 2009, only one-third were able to
receive that help.
We must do better than this. Although funding for drug
treatment must compete with other national priorities, we must
find the way to provide effective treatment to all who are in need.
Lives are in the balance – and we cannot afford to fail.
Congressman Elijah E. Cummings represents Maryland’s
Seventh Congressional District in the United States House of
Representatives.
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Front row: James Boikia, Kiki Kearson, Kahlil Green, Valencia Patterson
and Tosha Bazemore. Back row: Rias William, Breshonia Whitfield, Amber
McMillan, Jaqerra Jackson, DeAndre Harris and Kevin Bazemore
Attendees enjoy
a luncheon.
John Hoey, Dan Cathy
and Jonathan Ware
Photos by Anderson
R. Ward
Miss Black USA Osas Ighodaro
and Miss Black Talented Teen
Raven Green
Shawnta Watson
Walcott, the first Miss
Black USA Legacy
Award recipient
Pageant co-hosts Guy Lambert, news director,
WPGC FM Radio and Deya Smith, senior producer,
“Tom Joyner Morning Show”
September 4, 2010 - September 10, 2010, The Afro-American B1
Mariah Reed, Ashley Bazemore, Dan Cathy,
Photo by A. Lois De Laine, Ed.
COO of Chick-fil-A; Kevin Livingston and
Amber Marshall
Seated: Vivian Perry-Lee, Sandy Aldridge,
Carolyn Wainwright, E. Dean Evans and
Joyce Blue. Kneeling: Caprice Griffin, Barbara
Johnson, Alice Jones, Barbara Brown and
Sylvia Jones. Standing, Gwen Murray and
Shirley Richmond
Jonathan Ware, assistant
to Chick-fil-A’s COO and a To celebrate their 35th anniversary, the Pinochle Pals held a
mentee “Bon Voyage” party for members and friends who will be joining
them on a fabulous cruise to the Caribbean. Cruise coordinator and
Pal Shirley Richmond welcomed the group of 45 voyagers, updating
them with the information needed for a great cruising experience.
Vice President Vivian Perry-Lee offered a traveling prayer and an
original poem about their mascot, the butterfly. President and co-
founder Carolyn Wainwright thanked the guests for joining them
on the anniversary cruise and noted the absence of the group’s co-
founder, the late Deloris Gilliam, who died suddenly this year. John
Gilliam and his daughter Gigi were among the guests at the party.
Card parties, formal dances, bus excursions, civic activities,
annual retreats and anniversary celebrations in Las Vegas, New
York, and the Bahamas have kept the Pals busy. But during each
year, they’ve been hosted monthly at a member’s home for rounds
of competitive double-deck pinochle.
The group remembers the late Georgeanna Cobb and Gwen
Members of the art class Kellum, both original members, and the late Gilda Jones Garrett.
Participants of the New Horizons Camp, an eight-week program for homeless teens sponsored by Baltimore City public
schools and the Y of Central Maryland, recently participated in a luncheon with Chick-fil-A President and Chief Operating Officer
(COO) Dan Cathy. In addition to serving the students lunch, Cathy shared his personal story of success in the business world and
encouraged the teens to develop strong work ethics. Cathy, several business and community leaders participated in a tour of
the Druid Hill Family Center Y and spoke with the teens to learn more about the problems homeless youths face in Baltimore.
The 2010 Miss Black USA contestants
Photos by Danita Delaney
and Nike Ogunsola
By Aundrea “Aunni” Young Payne (D-N.J.).
Special to the AFRO MBUSA contestants, representing nearly 30
2009 Miss
Former Miss Black USA states, enjoyed the nation’s capital while
Black USA
Shayna Rudd crowns “The Next Generation of First Ladies” were getting ready for competition.
Shayna Rudd
Osas Ighodaro. showcased at the 2010 Miss Black USA Pageant Pageant week preliminaries
Finals and the 2010 Miss Black Talented Teen USA included personal takes her
(MBUSA) Pageant in Washington, D.C., and Prince fitness, evening final walk.
George’s County. The pageant opened with an gown, talent and
exciting and celebrity-hosted “Red Dress” VIP question and answer
reception at the W Hotel in Northwest to honor competitions.
the Heart Truth Campaign for the National Miss Black
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The Connecticut, Osas
MBUSA Princesses, girls ages 5 -10, were Ighodaro, was
also presented at the finals pageant in crowned the 2010
beautiful white gowns. Miss Black USA.
Some of the honorary host
committee members for the
reception were Congresswoman
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.),
Miss Black Florida Congressman Elijah E. Cummings
Jennifer Ubiera (D-Md), Congresswoman Barbara
during the Q & A Miss Black Ohio Lee (D-Calif.), Congressman Miss Black USA Fitness Award
segment of the Ashley Miller Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.,) winner Dr. Allison Hill, Miss
pageant and Congressman Donald Black District of Columbia and
2009 Miss Black Talented Teen
Jasmine Alexis
Miss Black USA 2010 and her
mother, Patricia Ighodaro
The Miss Talented Teen
contestants perform a
dance routine.
Angela McCoy, Mrs.
The 2010 Miss Black USA contestants with fashion model Stacey McKenzie
Maryland International
(far right in white)
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Business
Local Woman Spices Up Metro Area with Unique Hot Sauces
By Stephen D. Riley
AFRO Staff Writer
Standing just a half inch over 5 feet, Monica
Sanowar isn’t a very imposing figure. An olive-
skinned woman with a motherly smile and calming
voice, Sanowar gives off the guise of an innocent
bystander incapable of harming a fly. But behind
the profession of an everyday legal secretary is a
burning pyromaniac ready to explode. However,
“D.C.’s Diva of Hot Sauce,” as she likes to be
called, doesn’t start fires with matches and
gasoline − habanero and naga jolokia peppers
are her preferred weapons.
Since 2009, Sanowar has been creeping up
the ranks of the condiment chain. Equipped
with three patented hot sauces − DC Redbone
Hot Sauce, CocoLoco Mango Hot Sauce
and Shak Shak Gourmet Jerk Sauce− the
Washington, D.C., native’s spicy concoctions
were a crowd favorite at last year’s Adams
Morgan Day Festival. Sanowar then set the Big
Apple ablaze, where her DC Redbone sauce
finished third in the habanero category at the
annual Hot Pepper Awards. The Shak Shak Gourmet
sauce took home first place in the specialty sauce category.
Judges were impressed with the tasteful balance of
Sanowar’s sauces. “Not too much and not too little,” as
she would say. Sanowar’s heritage, a mixture of Native
American, African and European cultures, doesn’t allow her
to cater to one specific demographic, so she bases her
sauces on how well they can attract a volume audience.
Her blended hot sauces are designed to be impactful,
but scaled back delicately enough so the flavor can be
appreciated.
“Where I come from with my sauces I’ll burn you
but I won’t kill you; there’s a difference,” Sanowar said.
“When you put a little something on your food you want
something to enhance it but you also want to be able to
taste the food. My thing is flavor.”
Ironically, Sanowar’s “thing” for flavor was
discovered by accident during a trip to Trinidad and
Tobago nearly 30 years ago. A regular fan of Tabasco
sauce, she sampled a friend’s pepper sauce and was
unprepared for the severe flavor. “[The sauce] tried to
kill me, but I loved it,” Sanowar recalled. It was also
on that trip that she discovered her husband Bruce,
a native of the Caribbean, whose love for hot sauce
knows no boundaries. Together, the couple created Sun Courtesy Photos
Pony, the name brand under which her sauces are now DC Redbone Hot Sauce is one of the award-winning
marketed at over 60 independent local grocers. flavorful creations of Monica Sanowar, otherwise known
After her husband fell ill a few years ago, Sanowar as “D.C.’s Diva of Hot Sauce.”
was ready to drop the experimenting and move on goal here is to get into the bigger stores.”
with her life. But with a renewed bill of health, Bruce In the mean time, Sanowar will attend the Adams Morgan
encouraged his wife to give it one more try and D.C.’s Day Festival again this year on Sept. 12 with a Caribbean-
Diva of Hot Sauce has been watering mouths and gaining style platter. As a testament to her “inner pyromaniac,”
recognition ever since. Her sauces received rave reviews this Sanowar said, “I want people to thank me for burning them.”
past March by the now-defunct Chile Pepper Magazine and
she plans on pushing her DC Redbone sauce into iconic status For more information on Sanowar or to place an order for
in the District. “I want it to be the No. 1 hot sauce in this her branded hot sauces, visit www.sunponyinc.com.
city,” Sanowar said. “My

Help Your Child Succeed as a

‘Kid-Preneur ‘
By Dr. Farrah Gray
NNPA Columnist
(NNPA) - At what age
should a child be given
“the facts of life” – not the
birds-and-bees facts, but the
bottom line about what it
will be like for him or her to
make a living and a life?
I don’t think 6 or 7
years of age is too soon to
start. In fact, if we don’t
teach standards and ethics
intelligent talk
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to children early on and
help them establish habits
of “response-ability,” it’s
terribly hard to rein them
in later on. Because as sure
as the sun rises, outside
influences will intrude
soon enough, influences
bent on sidetracking our
kids and running them off
into a ditch. Unless we’ve
already inculcated the
basics of responsibility and
consequences, a child’s
future can be dire later on.
Here are some things to
remember:
You must set the
diligence, the value of
homework/research,
motivation, a commitment to
give back, and the training
required to persevere.
Plant seeds of success.
Make your home a place
where ideas abound. Let your
child know, without having
to guess, his or her value
and potential. Say, “You can
become anything you want
in life if you’re willing to go
all out for it.” Then explain
what that means: “Paying
attention in school; always
doing your best; asking for
help when you need it; doing
your homework; obeying the
rules.” Lay it out, make an
action list.  Help your child
grow up believing hat there
are no limits, that everything
is possible.
Let your children
experiment. They’ll rarely hit
a home run the first time out;
after all, they’re just learning
to swing the bat!  Your child
may make all of $5 on his or
her first “business”, but guess
what? It will likely be the
most important $5 in their
short history and the elation
of winning will stick with
them and encourage their
next “capital” idea.
Invest in good
people. There are good
people everywhere who will
help you guide and inform
your child. Look around;
ask for help. Invest in your
child’s future: find good,
prudent, knowledgeable
people and place your
children within their spheres
of influence. People like
to be mentors, so divest

standard. Married or single,
you are the most powerful
player in your child’s growth
and development. You are the
person your child most wants
to please and the person
yourself of the notion that
you’re being a pill by asking
for help. You’re being a
pro-active parent, a positive
provider dedicated to doing
what’s best for your kids.

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he or she most looks up to. Do the above, then applaud
If your own standards of yourself. Others will, too.

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conduct are high, your child
will want to live up to them. Farrah Gray is the

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Reader’s Corner
By AFRO Staff
Create Dangerously: The
Immigrant Artist at Work
In this personal,
descriptive tome, Haitian-
born writer Edwidge Danticat
shares her thoughts on art,
immigration and living in
exile. The book, inspired
by Albert Camus’ lecture
Courtesy photo
readers the two seemingly dealing with H1N1, autism
disparate nations are in fact, and HIV/AIDS.
more alike than most believe. “I wrote the second
Edwidge’s earlier books edition because there was a
include Krik? Krak! The lot of additional information
Farming of Bones, The Dew that people needed. For
Breaker and Brother, I’m example, I realize that
Dying. one of the reasons people
Final word: An emotional blindly trust vaccines and
look at Haiti’s creative other medications is because
community living abroad. they have religious faith in
Available Oct. 13. For the medical establishment

Local Guitarist
more information visit press. and doctors,” Cost told the
princeton.edu. AFRO in an interview. “One
dignity as they were about of the chapters of my book

Shares Musical ‘TLC’ At the Dark End of the

Street: Black Women, Rape,
and Resistance- A New
racial pride and equality.
Final word: Unique
perspective on 1950s and
By AFRO Staff History of the Civil Rights ‘60s America with women’s
Movement from Rosa Parks rights at the forefront.
In celebration of the release of his second solo album, TLC, to the Rise of Black Power Available Sept. 7. For
indie jazz guitarist Mark Mosley will perform at the Si Salsa According to educator more information visit
Restaurant in Pikesville, Md., on Sept. 11. Mosley developed a Danielle McGuire, famed randomhouse.com.
passion for jazz at a young age. Although he initially pursued civil rights activist Rosa
a career as an Army paratrooper and eventually became an Parks has been completely Vaccines are Dangerous:
elementary school teacher, his musical fire continued to mischaracterized in historical A Warning to the Global
burn. While attending Morgan State University, he got the texts as a quiet, reserved Community
opportunity to tour Spain for 17 days with jazz legends Dr. southern woman. Her book, While vaccines are
Lonnie Smith and Lou Donaldson. At the Dark End of the generally hailed by doctors
Since his initial release, Mosley has received praise from “Create Dangerously,” is Street, looks at Parks’ life of and patients as being the sure
numerous music critics. His latest album is a collection of part essay and part memoir. activism before her legendary way to battle and prevent
smooth jazz pieces complete with new renditions of Anita Danticat shares her own life bus boycott on Dec. 1, 1955, illnesses, author Curtis
Baker’s “Sweet Love” and Errol Garner’s jazz standard story and the lives of other and argues she was a fiery Cost believes otherwise.
“Misty.” For this project, Mosley called on a collection of artists who create various leader with a passion for His 1992 release, Vaccines
talented artists including bassist Stanley Banks, pianist Onaje forms of art because of (or in women’s rights. are Dangerous: a Warning is entitled, “Don’t Trust
Allan Gumbs and drummer Buddy Williams. spite of) the difficulties they McGuire also expounds to the Black Community, Doctors” and I try to help
“Mark Mosley is an excellent guitarist with a clear tone, a faced in their homelands. on the lives of seldom challenged the effectiveness people understand that we
harmonically advanced style and a swinging approach,” jazz She introduces readers to mentioned activists Recy of vaccines and cited them need to apply the same level
critic Scott Yanow said in a statement. “Mosley’s tone and style a cousin who died of AIDS, Taylor and Joan Little while as contributors to death and of skepticism to doctors as we
at various times is reminiscent of Pat Martino, Russell Malone, a thriving Haitian radio discussing women’s rights, a variety of illnesses. With do for anything else.”
Kenny Burrell and others in the modern straight ahead idiom. journalist who is later killed interracial rape and sexual the recent release of Vaccines Final word: Eye-opening
He builds up his solos logically, takes some chances, and yet and the Haitian writers she violence. The book also Are Dangerous: a Warning examination of vaccines’
always sounds relaxed and confident, even at faster tempos.” first read as a child at the argues the Montgomery Bus to the Global Community, (a pros and cons from an author
In addition to his album release performance, Mosley’s Trio Brooklyn Public Library. Boycott and several other revised second edition of his passionate about the state of
and Quintet will kick off a series of events in the Baltimore/ The celebrated author also key moments in the Civil first release), Cost expounds Black health.
D.C. area. parallels the natural disasters Rights Movement were as on the topics discussed in the Available now. For
For more information and a calendar of show events, visit: that have ravaged Haiti and much about Black women original and provides up-to- more information visit
www.guitaristmarkmosley.com. the United States, reminding demanding their personal date information on topics vaccinesaredangerous.com.

historical, interesting and is doing great. He wanted me to tell you that he appreciated
By Rosa fun festivals you have ever all the cards, visits and phone calls he received while in the
Pryor seen. You all are invited to hospital. He can be reached at 410-383-7870.
be a part of this festive event. If you need me call me at 410-833-9474 or e-mail me
The Cadillac parade, which at rosapryor@aol.com. UNTIL THEN, I’M MUSICALLY
will start on Pennsylvania YOURS. I’LL SEE YOU AT THE NEWSSTAND.
and north to Pennsylvania and Lafayette, features all kinds of
Cadillacs, marching bands, organizations like the Masons and
Elks, fraternities, sororities, Arabbers and much more.
Please, don’t forget the Jazz Expressways Foundation is
having their jazz breakfast
on Sept. 11 at the New
Haven Lounge, 10 a.m. until
2 p.m., featuring Gregg
Hatza and The Organization.
For tickets, call Howard Lee Bailey, EURWEB.COM
(Ease) at 410-323-7295. I’ll
see you there.
The Moore Clinic/Jeff
& Pharmacy Fund will
Maria Simms and Walter “Sam” Williams present “Ardyss,” be sponsoring the 2010
a body magic experience with products that reshape your charity fundraiser for the
body, restore your health and will help you look a few Michael Del Bianco Fund
pounds smaller. Available for men and women. For more on Sept. 4, 4-8 p.m., at the
information call Walter at 443-610-8990 or Maria at 443- Belvedere Hotel, 1 East
534-3231. Chase St., in Baltimore. The
ticket includes food, music
LET’S PARTY AND HAVE FUN and lots of fun. For more
Hello everyone. It’s been two weeks and I missed you. I “Jacquel” will release her new information, call Tiger Lil
have a lot to talk about in a very little space. So if I missed you CD at a party at Diamondz at 410-585-4331.
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your press releases, letters, flyers, pictures, and notes, but send Road in Randallstown, on am out of space. But before
them at least three weeks in advance. Saturday, Sept. 11, 8 p.m. I leave, I just want to let
This week I want to talk about a lovely R&B balladeer you all know that Biddy
singer who is new to us, but not new to the music and Wood is home now and
entertainment world. Jacquel’s
voice will remind you of Jill
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Eleanor Janey invites you
I also want to tell you about BY PETER ALLEN & GABRI EL CASSEUS AND JOHN LUESSENHOP & AVERY DUFF
WRITTEN
to come out and help her The dynamic Spindles will be performing at the Black
the First Annual Pennsylvania and White Affair for the 2010 Virgo Birthday on Sunday, BY JOHN LUESSENHOP
DIRECTED
celebrate her 75th birthday
Avenue Historical Festival in Sept. 12, 4-9 p.m., at the Pikesville Community Hall, 40
on Sunday, Sept. 19, 5-9
Baltimore for the Labor Day Sudbrook Lane. B.Y.O.B and B.Y.O.F (bring your own
p.m., at the Arch Social CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR THEATERS AND SHOWTIMES
weekend. It will be one of the bottle and food). For more information, call Carlos
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most exciting, educational, Hutchins at 410-340-2002.
Ave.
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Community
Baltimore’s Underground Railroad
Sites Unveiled in Free Tour
By Kristin Gray
AFRO Managing Editor
Baltimore has long been a major part
of the nation’s Black history legacy and is
home to numerous museums, schools and
other institutions honoring the past. But
many are unaware of Baltimore County’s
participation in the Underground Railroad, a
conglomeration of homes, churches and other
safe havens enslaved Americans navigated on
their journey north.
Bare Hills, Campfield in Pikesville;
Belltown in Owings Mills, Chase and
Goodwood/Hyde Park in Essex are all
historically Black Baltimore County
communities with roots that date back to
slavery-era America. Several areas like these
towns and corridors were also part of the
multi-state Underground Railroad.
To highlight this rich portion of the
county’s history, the Baltimore County
Office of Fair Practices and Community
Affairs is hosting a free bus tour to several
of the known and suspected Underground
Railroad sites in the area. Guide Louis Diggs,
an author and local historian on African-
American communities in Baltimore County,
said the tour includes visits to the home of
Underground Railroad conductor Nicholas
Smith, Emmart UM Church and the Emmart-
Pierpont Safe House, which was built in
1791. Shirley Supik, owner of Emmart-
Pierpont Safe House, will speak about the
location’s history and value to runaway
slaves who hid there.
Depending on the time available,
Youth Vote Campaign
Launches Web Video Contest
In a unique collaboration,
30 youth-serving
organizations and media
partners launched a user-
generated video contest
on Aug. 25 as a part of
voteagain2010.com. Over the
next few months, the website
will serve as a platform
that highlights volunteer
opportunities and creative
campaigns from young
Americans and gives context
on major issues.
The video contest
launched asks participants to
explain why they’re voting
again in 2010 or why young
INVITE YOU AND A GUEST TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF
LOG ONTO
WWW.AFRO.COM
AND REGISTER TO WIN!
No purchase necessary. Supplies are limited. One pass per winner. Each pass admits
two. Seating is NOT guaranteed and on a first-come, first-served basis. Employees of
all promotional partners, Fox Searchlight, and The Afro American are not eligible. All
decisions are final. This film is rated R. No one under 13 will be admitted without a
parent or a legal guardian.
IN THEATRES SEPTEMBER 10
One Maryland One Book Expands
into Middle Schools in 2010
A $25,000 grant awarded by The Comcast committed to improving literacy in our local
Foundation to the Maryland Humanities communities. One Maryland One Book
Council for expansion of its One Maryland
One Book program helped to provide
1,300 copies of Home of the Brave by
provides Comcast with an opportunity to
fund a program that engages a large number
of Marylanders in reading and discussing
participants may also visit a church for Katherine Applegate, for use in libraries, what they read—a proven way to increase
slaves in Granite that is being converted to a classrooms and after-school programs across literacy,” said Riordan in a press
mini museum with photos, memorabilia and Maryland. This young adult r te s y Photo statement. “We are delighted that
Cou
artifacts highlighting the county’s African- novel complements the our Comcast Foundation grant
American life. themes of the 2010 One is bringing a book for younger
While recognized as an expert on Maryland One Book readers to organizations across the
the county’s historic African-American selection, Outcasts United, state.”
communities, Diggs, a lifelong Baltimorean, by Warren St. John. The copies of Home of the
said he learned a number of fascinating facts Initiated in fall 2007, Brave will be used in a One
about the area’s complex race relations. One Maryland One Book Maryland One Book pilot
“I was most pleasantly surprised to learn is a year-long community reading and discussion program
reading project that for the Greater Baltimore
that there were many White persons who took
culminates with two months Urban League’s Freedom
serious gambles by hiding runaway slaves,
of public programs, using Readers program at 10
but on the negative side, I was surprised literature to spur conversations Baltimore City schools, at
that there are numerous very senior African in communities around the 9 PAL centers in Baltimore
Americans who would not share these family state on issues critical to County, at Baltimore County
histories of slavery in Baltimore County,” Marylanders. One Maryland Recreation and Parks
Diggs told the AFRO. “Most indicated that One Book is designed to bring centers, at St. Ignatius
it was too hard for them to remember those diverse groups of Marylanders Loyola Academy, at the
conditions that their ancestors lived under.” together in library, school, or Suitland Community Center in Prince
While some older Black Baltimoreans community settings to share a George’s County and by Maryland Teachers
may have been hesitant to reflect on their common reading experience by discussing a of the Year at elementary and middle schools
ancestors’ hardships, their story is now being work of literature. across the state. Local library systems also
told through excursions like the free bus trip Lori Riordan, regional vice president of received copies of Home of the Brave.
and a host of new programs and museums government affairs for Comcast, presented
highlighting Baltimore’s wealth of Black the books to the recipients and celebrated For more information, visit Comcast.com/
history. the program’s efforts. “Comcast is deeply inthecommunity.
The bus departs just below the National
Guard Armory, 307 Washington Ave.,
at 10 a.m. Sept. 18 and returns to the festival
Maryland Food Bank Seeks
area in Towson around 12:45 p.m. For more
information and required registration, call
the Baltimore County Office of Fair Practices
Donations
and Community Affairs at 410-887-5557. The Maryland Food
Participants will receive confirmation by Bank is facing a near-crisis
phone. situation. According to food
bank officials, donations
have dropped significantly
over the last several weeks,
leaving the food bank’s
Baltimore warehouse with
nearly-bare shelves. 
Americans should cast their including Tay Zonday, To help feed hungry
ballots another year. Once the Brittani Taylor and Joey Marylanders, the center is
videos are submitted on the Anderton. asking volunteers to visit
contest platform, users will be  “This contest asks a www.mdfoodbank.org/
able to vote for their favorite generation wrongly labeled emptyshelves, their virtual
submissions in real time until apathetic, to prove everyone food bank. The virtual food
mid-October, at which point wrong once again, and drive allows the organization
a panel of celebrity judges create great content to to purchase food at wholesale
will award the creator of the support getting involved in prices, resulting in more food
most compelling video with a the political process,” said purchased for each dollar
$5,000 grand prize. Pollock in a press release. spent.
 The contest kicked off “We’re issuing a challenge to Morguefile
“Summers are typically a The Maryland Food Bank now has a virtual food bank
with a video directed by Jason them and we’re confident that
Pollock, director of the film they will not only respond slower time of year for food allowing the organization to purchase food at reduced
The Youngest Candidate. by submitting videos for the donations but the shortage prices.
Pollock recruited some of contest, but also by going to we are experiencing is
Flateman continued, our shelves so that those in
his favorite YouTube stars the polls and voting again in unprecedented for recent
“There is no heavy lifting need do not have to wonder
to participate in the video, 2010.” years,” said Maryland
required through the virtual where they will get their next
The Vote Again 2010 site Food Bank CEO Deborah
food drive.  With the ease meal.”
also highlights digital efforts Flateman in a statement.
to engage young voters of a few clicks of a mouse,
“We are asking Marylanders
including 10questions.com, we will be able to purchase For more information on
to help fill our shelves by
an outlet that allows users more food and distribute it the Maryland Food Bank’s
visiting our virtual food drive
to question select candidates throughout our network of virtual food drive, contact
so that we can continue to
directly, and Visible Vote, a more than 800 soup kitchens, Rebecca Pon at 410-737-
provide food to people in
platform where users vote for food pantries and feeding 8282 ext. 223 or at pon@
need.”
legislation and to compare programs.  Please help fill mdfoodbank.org.
their choices with their
legislators’ decisions. The
site will also highlight
field initiatives leveraging
Rock the Vote’s Live tool,
Whitman-Walker Looks to
an online space that allows
young people to find and plan Community for ‘Courage Award’
election events across the
country.
Nominations
For more information visit For the first time, the for the Courage Award and give the DC area
voteagain2010.com. D.C. community will be presented at AIDS Walk, community a chance to make
able to submit nominations an annual fundraising event their voices heard on who
on Oct. 2. The award is the should be honored.”
most distinguished honor Established in 1978,
given by Whitman-Walker Whitman-Walker Clinic is
Clinic, an HIV advocacy and a non-profit, community-
medical assistance clinic. based provider of health care
Nominations are due Sept. in the Washington, D.C.,
13. metropolitan area. Through
The clinic presents the two sites in the District of
Courage Award annually at Columbia, the clinic offers
AIDS Walk to a person living primary medical and dental
with HIV or AIDS who has care; mental health and
shown remarkable courage addictions counseling and
and leadership in the fight treatment; HIV education,
against the disease. Past prevention, and testing;
recipients include the late legal services; and medical
Bob Hattoy, Patricia Nalls, adherence case management.
Ron Simmons, Brent Minor
and Shawn Decker. Guidelines and
“The Courage Award
has a long tradition with
nomination forms are
available on the AIDS
AIDS Walk,” said Don
Blanchon, executive director
Walk website, www.
aidswalkwashington.org, and
of Whitman-Walker, in a
statement. “In the past, the
the Whitman-Walker Clinic
website, www.wwc.org For
recipient has been chosen
more information on AIDS
without input from the
Walk or to register, call 202-
community. This year, we 332-WALK or visit www.
want to modify the tradition
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First Black F-1 Racing Champion Ready for his Second Title
By Perry Green
AFRO Sports Editor
Tiger Woods, Jackie
Robinson, Bill Russell or
Doug Williams − those are
just a few names most think
of when it comes to Black
athletes who pioneered their
way to championship status.
But an unfamiliar name
Pro Sports Commentary
should be added to that short,
but prominent list.
Meet Lewis Hamilton,
a 25-year-old British
professional race car driver
who not only became the
first Black driver to win
the Formula One World
Championship in 2008, but
also became the youngest to
do so at age 23.
Hamilton, who told The
Associated Press that his father
named him after African-
American track and field
legend Carl Lewis, represents
various cultures. His father
is Black, his mother is White
British, and his grandparents
are natives of Grenada.
But ever since his
father, Anthony Hamilton,
introduced radio –controlled
car racing to him as a youth,
Lewis has had dreams of
representing his race as the
first Black F-1 champ.
“It will show that not
only white people can do
it,” Hamilton said in an
F1Fanatic.co.uk. article in
2007. “But also Black people,
Indians, Japanese and Chinese
can too. It will be good to
mean something.”
As a driver for McLaren

Going Deep: NFL Tinkering

racing team, Hamilton pulled
off the historical feat in just AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert
his second year as an F-1 McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain celebrates on

with 18 Games
By Stephen D. Riley
AFRO Staff Writer
I should be happy right? My favorite sport
is only a handshake away from expanding its
regular season, so why am I donning the sad
face? Sorry, it’s just hard for me to sign off on
bad ideas.
After NFL owners huddled at an Atlanta
hotel last week around the proposal of an 18-
game schedule, the question was officially
posed: Should the NFL really expand from
its already gruesome 16-game schedule?
My answer in two words: Uh, no! Out of all
the professional sports in America, the NFL
should be the last to even be considering
an expanded schedule; it shouldn’t even be
worthy of discussion.
I love football just as much (maybe more)
than the next fan, but do we really need two-
plus games? You’re talking more concussions,
more knee shreds and more contract disputes.
If owners think that guys are going to put
their lives on the line for an extra two games
a season without added incentive, they’re
kidding themselves. With labor talks in the
works and players petitioning for more coin,
the last way to soften up your workers is with
a work increase proposal. But that’s the route
the league is going.
When asked about the expansion in
Atlanta last week, NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell told reporters, “We want to do it the
right way for everyone, including the players,
the fans and the game in general. There’s a
tremendous amount of momentum for it. We
think it’s the right step.”
competitor. Rising to fame
in his country, Hamilton was
honored by Queen Elizabeth
the podium after winning the Belgium Formula One
Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium
on Aug. 29.
Translation: “We want to make more II with a MBE (Member of
Order of the British Empire) co.uk article. “Being black is possibilities of claiming his
money and we’ll jeopardize our players’
award after becoming the first not a negative. It’s a positive, second championship at 25,
health and our fans’ tolerance at any
British F-1 driver to win a if anything, because I’m but is still focused on not
expense.”
championship since 1966. different. In the future I can getting too ahead of himself.
Goodell’s plan is to drop two pre-
But the young elite driver open doors to different cultures “We still have a long way
season games and replace them with two
hasn’t received all praise. and that is what motor sport is to go and there are still many
regular season games to enhance revenue
During some of his races, trying to do anyway.” points to be grabbed by any
and create more “meaningful” games. The
fans heckled Lewis with Hamilton believes he of the drivers who are fighting
problem with that is NFL players already
racial slurs and even wore can accomplish that task by for the title,” Hamilton
work year round as it is and shortening the
black face paint and black adding another championship recently told the AP. “Clearly
pre-season would actually lay more labor
wigs, according to The Times to his resume. He recently for me my closest rival in
down. Off-season and voluntary workouts
in London. But he never let chalked up his third win of the championship is Mark
would legitimately become mandatory and
that discourage him, pulling the season (15th career win) in terms of points, but I still
veterans and undrafted rookies trying to make
motivation from legendary after capturing the Belgium think the championship is
a roster would be operating with a smaller
social activists that he most Grand Prix championship. open.”
window. Additionally, the NFL would have
admires. The win placed him at the Editor’s note: Lewis
to do something about player contracts and
“Outside of Formula One, top of the leader board, three Hamilton is a Formula
potentially shift to guaranteed deals.
my heroes are foremost my points ahead of Mark Webber, One Racing driver, not to
Yes, NFL fans would get more football,
father, then Nelson Mandela who sits at No. 2 with only be mistaken with the Indy
but at what price? Players already enter the
and Martin Luther King,” six races left on schedule. Racing League most famous
post-season with their body parts hanging
Lewis said in an F1Fanatic. He’s excited about the in the U.S.
by a thread; two more games and owners
will have to wheel players onto the field in a
stretcher. Super Bowl teams could be looking
at a possible 21- to 22-game season, making
the tasks of getting there and repeating tall
orders. And just because the league shifts to
18 games does that automatically mean that
fans are going to be doling out the dollars just
because?
It’s a down time financially for everyone,
apparently, from the milkman to the
millionaires. But Goodell, please, the NFL is
not broke, figuratively or literally. So, what
exactly are you trying to do here?

Cornering the Market: Should Jets

Hand Revis $162 Million?
By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley
AFRO Staff Writers
Lockdown cover corners in the NFL are
priceless. The ability to sew up one side of the
field and take a team’s top target completely
out of the game is what football franchises
drool for. So why are the New York Jets
balking at the 10 years, $162 million that
certified top cornerback Darrelle Revis is
asking for? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley
of the AFRO sports desk debate...
PG: If a rookie can get a record deal then
Revis definitely deserves one. He’s earned that
and after you average it out, that’s only slightly
above the 15 million a season mark that the
league’s other top corner, the Oakland Raiders
Nnamdi Asomugha, makes. And in another few
seasons, Revis’ deal will be outdated anyway.
SDR: The Raiders also have one of if not
the worse track record(s) in the league as far
as decision making and free agent deals. Using
the contract that Oakland gave Asomugha
as the basis on what a cornerback should get
paid is recipe for disaster. And keep in mind
Asomugha’s name was inserted into trade
rumors not even a full season after Oakland
gave him that deal. The team knew it was
absurd and what Revis is asking for is absurd,
especially after only one truly great season.
PG: The Washington Redskins also
have one of the worse track records in the
league but you can guarantee that Albert
Haynesworth’s contract will be the basis for
any star defensive tackle up next for a free
agent payday. And how can you say Revis
doesn’t deserve a record deal after only one
great season when it’s record deals given out
annually to rookies that haven’t even taken one
snap in the NFL?
SDR: Considering the circus that has
revolved around him, Haynesworth’s contract
might actually work against defensive
tackles. Historically, guys who get paid that
much money tend to slack off. Teams rarely
see a return on their investment when they
break the bank for these types of players. I
don’t necessarily agree with rookies coming
in and grabbing record deals but you can
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New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers and
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guys on those rosters are quarterbacks and the
difference salary wise between them and their
roster mates isn’t even close. The only teams
who spend franchise quarterback money on
other positions are the Raiders and Redskins,
annual bottom dwellers in their respected
divisions. Revis may very well get his bloated
contract, but if the Jets are smart, it won’t be
with them.
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(”IFB”) for qualified and interested vendors to
submit sealed bids to provide janitorial ser-
vices at various HABC properties.
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Eastern Time on Monday, October 4, 2010.
HABC has established a minimum threshold of
twenty percent (20%) of the total dollar amount
of the proposed contract for Minority Business
Enterprise (”MBE”) utilization, applicable to all
minority and non-minority businesses propos-
ing to provide the requested services as the
prime contractor. No threshold has been
established for participation of Women-owned
businesses (”WBEs”), however, HABC
strongly encourages and affirmatively pro-
motes the use of WBEs in all HABC contracts.
Bidders shall also comply with all applicable
requirements of Section 3 of the Housing and
Urban Development Act of 1968, 12 U.S.C.
Section 1701u.
The IFB may be obtained on or after Tuesday,
September 14, 2010, at the following location:
Housing Authority of Baltimore City
Division of Fiscal Operations,
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417 E. Fayette Street, Room 414
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Attention: John Airey,
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Fax: (410) 962-1586
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indicated above, and must include the refer-
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The Housing Authority of Baltimore City
(”HABC”) will issue a Request for Proposals
(”RFP”) for interested and qualified firms to
submit proposals to provide for the materials
and labor necessary for the modernization of
the distribution system at Westport. This mod-
ernization work will be completed as per de-
sign construction documents which will be fur-
nished by others for this contractors use.
PROPOSALS WILL BE DUE no later than
2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday,
October 6, 2010.
A non-mandatory pre-proposals conference
will be held on Tuesday, September 21, 2010,
at 11:00 a.m., at 417 E. Fayette Street, Room
416, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202.
HABC has established a minimum goal of
twenty percent (20%) of the total dollar amount
of the proposed contract for Minority Business
Enterprise (”MBE”) utilization, applicable to all
minority and non-minority businesses propos-
ing to provide the requested services as the
prime contractor. No goal has been estab-
lished for participation of Women-owned
businesses (”WBEs”), however, HABC
strongly encourages and affirmatively pro-
motes the use of WBEs in all HABC contracts.
Responders shall also comply with all ap-
plicable requirements of Section 3 of the Hous-
ing and Urban Development Act of 1968, 12
U.S.C. Section 1701u.
The RFP may be obtained on or after Monday,
September 13, 2010, at the following location:
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Purchasing Department
417 E. Fayette Street, Room 414
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Attention: John Airey,
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meeting. The following projects will be considered for award during the
meeting:
1. PROJECT#1123 -ON-CALL TRAFFIC ENGINEERING STUDIES,
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
2. PROJECT #1125 - ON-CALL ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SER-
VICES, DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
3. PROJECT #1126 - ON-CALL CIVIL STRUCTURAL SERVICES,
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
4. PROJECT#1134 - ON-CALL TRAFFIC ENGINEERING STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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LEGAL NOTICES
BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND
INVITATION FOR BIDS
CONTRACT NO. 10110 SX0
POWDER MILL INTERCEPTOR REHABILITATION ELIMINATION OF
SSO #22 THRU 24-CONSENT DECREE
LOCHEARN - DISTRICT 3 c 4CONTRACT COST GROUP
”C” ($500,000 to $1,000,000)
WORK CLASSIFICATION: F-6
BID DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 AT 10:30 A.M.
LOCAL TIME
On or after TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2010, the above contract
documents (See Note *) may be inspected and purchased from the
Division of Construction Contracts Administration, Department of
Public Works, Room 300B, County Office Building (COB), 111 W.
Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, upon receipt of payment
of $30.00 (THIRTY DOLLARS) per contract, and if sent by U.S. mail
with an additional $10.00 (TEN Dollars) postage and handling fee. All
checks should be made payable to BALTIMORE COUNTY MD. NO
REFUNDS will be made to anyone. Direct any questions to
410-887-3531. Bidders obtaining documents from another source other
than Baltimore County WILL NOT be allowed to submit proposals to
Baltimore County.
*Note: Contract Documents will consist of One (1) Paper Copy
Proposal Book, one set of eight (8) paper copies of Construction
Drawings and two (2) DVD´s with all of the required drawings. The
DVD´s will be in PDF and/or MPG format. Contractors and Sub-
Contractors can purchase paper copies of the drawings from
Baltimore County - OIT - Central Printing located in the Basement
of the COB, RM G-9 for $1.50 a copy.
The proposed work consists of:
1,755 LF of 15 Sewer Line Rehabilitation
2,714 LF of 18 Sewer Line Rehabilitation
THE PROJECT IS SUBJECT TO A MINORITY BUSINESS ENTER-
PRISE UTILIZATION GOAL AND FEMALE CONTRACTORS UTILIZA-
TION GOALS FOR BIDS IN EXCESS OF $50,000. THESE GOAL
REQUIREMENTS ARE MORE FULLY EXPLAINED IN THE
SPECIFICATIONS. THE MBE/WBE FORMS IN THE PROPOSAL
BOOKLET MUST BE COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED AT THE TIME
OF BID OPENING.
Sealed proposals (the entire book) addressed to Baltimore County,
Maryland for this contract will be received in the Baltimore County
Purchasing Division, Room 148, Old Courthouse, 400 Washington
Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, until the time specified on the contract at
which time they will be publicly opened and read.
ONLY CONTRACTORS WHO HAVE BEEN PREQUALIFIED BY BAL-
TIMORE COUNTY AT LEAST TEN (10) DAYS PRIOR TO THE OPEN-
ING OF BIDS WILL BE ALLOWED TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS.
All proposals must be accompanied by a Bid Bond, on the approved
form provided, in the amount as set forth in the ”Information for Bidders”.
No other form of proposal guaranty is acceptable.
The Purchasing Agent reserves the right to reject any or all proposals
or bids or parts of bids and to waive technicalities as may be deemed
best for the interest of the County.
Keith Dorsey, Director
Office of Budget & Finance
Disability Assistance Outreach Specialist
Health care agency serving Baltimore´s homeless has
immediate opening for a Disability Assistance Outreach
Specialist. The Disability Assistance Outreach Specialist
works throughout Baltimore City with the primary respon-
sibility of submitting federal disability (SSI/SSDI) applica-
tions for severely disabled individuals who are experiencing
homelessness. Position requires experience working in
health care and/or outreach setting, knowledge and exper-
ience of federal disability (SSI/SSDI) application process,
strong communication and interpersonal skills and exper-
ience working with homeless and/or low-income
individuals. Masters degree strongly preferred. Send re-
sume to C. Berry by September 7, 2010, HCH, 421
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Medical Unit Clerk
Comprehensive health care center located in downtown
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equivalent experience; MCO referral experience;
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and good telephone communication skills; legible hand-
writing and good basic typing skills; well-developed or-
ganizational and strong interpersonal skills, ability to main-
tain confidentiality surrounding all information related to
clients; computer skills preferred. Send resume to Ms.
Chiton Berry, HCH, 421 Fallsway, Baltimore, MD 21202 by
9/13/10. Email: hrresumes@hchmd.org, Fax
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Obituaries
John W. Henson Sr., 91
U.S. Postal Service Employee
John Wesley Henson Sr., son of the late Solomon men to benefit from the G.I. Bill of Rights.
and Leila Henson born May 4, 1919, was called Subsequently, John settled in Baltimore and began
home to eternal rest on Aug. 10 after a long ill- his career at the Library of Congress in the
ness. He was predeceased by his wife, the late District. After several years of service there, he
Mildred Odessa Burton Henson (Nov. 8, 2004.) began his career with the U.S. Postal Service,
“Big John,” as he was affectionately where he was honored after 33 years of out-
known, was reared in Lincoln, Del., by his standing service. John retired from the U.S.
uncle, John (for whom he was named) and his Postal Service in 1984.
aunt, Ella. As a child he accepted Jesus Christ In Baltimore, John met and married Mildred
as his Lord and savior. His uncle and aunt Burton. They remained married for 56 years
were devoted Methodists who made sure their and were blessed with four children. Big John
nephew was baptized at an early age. John was was an active, hands-on father, who would
a devout Christian who expressed his love for change their diapers, feed, nurture and discipline
the Lord in his kindness to others and through his all four children on a par equal with his wife
gift for singing. At the time of his passing, he was Mildred, a parenting practice uncommon among
a member of Trinity Presbyterian Church in American fathers during this period.
Baltimore where he served as a deacon. He also loved music and sang with the
After graduating from high school in JOHN W. HENSON SR. choirs at Trinity Presbyterian Church, the
1937, John matriculated to the then Heritage United Church of Christ and
Delaware State College (now University) where he was later with the Olton Singers. He was a vocal scholarship recipient
earn his bachelor’s degree in biology and be inducted in the at the Peabody Preparatory where he learned to sing in Italian
Delaware State University Hall of Fame. While in college and German. In recent years John could be heard singing at
John became active in college life as a charter member of the his home in Owings Mills, especially during birthday cele-
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and continued his high school brations when his friends and family would gather around the
passion for football as the team’s star fullback and running piano.
back. His college career was interrupted by military service John leaves to mourn his children: Arnold Matthew and
and he was drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces during World Terri Jean; siblings Solomon Henson (Shirley) and Antoinette
War II. John went on a tour of duty in the South Pacific Green (Russell); daughter-in-law Dorothy Henson; grandchil-
where he earned the rank of first sergeant. dren Monique Sylla, Marie Sylla-Dixon, Andrew Henson,
Following an honorable discharge from the military, John Ashley Henson; Dana Henson Knighton and a host of other
completed his bachelor’s degree as one of the first service- relatives and friends.
May M. Tyler, 94
Homemaker, Caretaker
May Melzina Tyler, daughter of the two great-great grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and
late Frank and Lilly Crockson, was friends. She was preceded in death by Morris Tyler; son,
born Jan. 29, 1916, in Harford Dane M. Jones; three brothers, Herbert, Frank and Leon
County, Md. She departed this Crockson and one sister, Helen Rogers.
life on Aug. 10 after a brief ill-
ness, surrounded by loving
family and friends at her home.
At an early age, Tyler,
along with her grandmother,
began attending New Shiloh
Baptist Church under the lead-
ership of the late Rev. Boddie.
Thus began her Christian educa-
tion as a lifelong member. She
received her education in the Baltimore
City Public School System.
On Aug. 31, 1938, she was MAY M. TYLER
united in marriage to her beloved Morris and from this union,
four children were born. As the union strengthened in love,
May and her helpmate Morris nurtured numerous children,
three of whom they raised to adulthood. She received numer-
ous awards and citation for her hard work and dedication for
the children in need of foster care and love.
She was homemaker, caretaker and regulator. She instilled
in her children a strict sense of responsibility. Although her
education was limited, she encouraged her children to further
theirs. Her passion was gardening and she enjoyed holiday
times with her family and baking.
She leaves to forever cherish her precious memory one sis-
ter, Myrtle Jones; three sons, Morris G. Tyler, Jerome Tyler
and William Turner; three daughters, Olivia T. Borden, Juanita
L. Tyler and Sakina Ilyas; two grandsons, Michael Dillard and
Monte Hawks; four granddaughters, Nathasa Garmany, Tanika
Gustin, Toni Battle and Alisa Borden; six great-grandchildren,
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