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Bishop Long has Accusers and Defenders among ‘Spiritual Sons’

By AFRO Staff according to the station. give and that’s all I’ve known
Parris’ comments were him to do, is be a giver.”
Conflicting images eye-opening. “We would have According to Fox 5 News,
are emerging of Bishop to be the craziest kids in the Cannon said Long provided
Eddie Long in the wake world to want to come out and financial support to him until
of a firestorm erupting admit to another man touching his behavior worsened, then
from allegations of sexual us, publicly. To really believe he withdrew the money to
impropriety and abuse of this is about money would be keep from enabling him on
authority by four young men absolutely ludicrous,” Parris the wrong path. “Everybody
formerly of Long’s New Birth said. “We don’t have a reason reacts differently when Bishop
Missionary Baptist Church. to lie about this man. cuts them off when they don’t
Saint or sinner? Interviews “How he loved us hurt behave right,” Cannon said.
with two young men, who worse than anything I ever felt “Being around him,” said
describe themselves as in my life. ... I cannot get the Courtesy Photo/Atlanta Inquirer Parris, “it’s almost like a drug.
“spiritual sons” of the Atlanta- sound of his voice out of my Anthony Flagg, left, Maurice Robinson, Jamal Parris and Spencer LeGrande have all filed You can’t believe the places
area minister, produced head. And I cannot forget the civil lawsuits in Georgia alleging Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of the New Birth Missionary you’re at in your life and the
pictures of a predator and a smell of his cologne. And I Baptist Church, coerced them into sexual relationships using his influence as their things that you’re doing and
benefactor. cannot forget the way he made pastor and spiritual advisor. the cars that you’re driving
Fox 5 News in Atlanta, me cry many nights when I and the people that you’re
a media outlet pursuing the drove in his cars on the way private. And we know Eddie support during the athletic son that hasn’t experienced meeting. So it becomes, if I
Bishop Eddie Long story, home, not able to take enough Long. That’s a whole other injuries and drunk driving that [the gifts and other want to continue to feel this
interviewed the men. The showers to wipe the smell of man.” problems that ended his NFL assistance],” Cannon said. “I love and this power, I’ll do
entity’s aggressiveness him off my body. Cannon - who said Long career -pledged his support to don’t feel like that’s a ploy to whatever my dad wants me to.
in pursuing this story has “Bishop Long is in the treated him like a son, giving Long. pull people in; that’s his heart.
provided some compelling pulpit. Eddie Long is in the him cars, gifts and emotional “I can’t name one spiritual He wants to give and give and Continued on A3
interviews related to this case.
Sept. 29, Fox 5 News
aired interviews with two of
Long’s “spiritual sons”-one of
Long’s accusers, Jamal Parris
Holton Pleads ‘No Contest,’ Removed as Finance Chair
By Melissa Jones campaign finance entity.
and one supporter, former
AFRO Staff Writer According to documents from the state
Detroit Lions linebacker
prosecutor’s office, during her 2007 re-election bid
Anthony Cannon-that painted
Councilwoman Helen Holton, who represents Holton wanted a political survey to be conducted by
conflicting pictures of life
Baltimore’s Eighth District, has been removed as professional polling company Lester & Associates.
with Long.
chair of the City Council’s Taxation and Finance The councilwoman then met privately with
Fox’s Dale Russell flew
Committee. Lester Davis, a spokesman for developers Ronald Lipscomb and John Paterakis in
to Colorado, tracked down
Council President Bernard “Jack” Young, said the July 2007 and asked them to split the $12,500 bill.
and confronted Parris during
announcement was made on Oct. 4 at a scheduled Upon agreement payment was issued to
a late night visit to a 24-hour
council meeting. the polling company for the full amount from
convenience store, keeping at
Earlier in the day, Holton pleaded no contest to Lipscomb’s company Doracon Contracting. In
him until he gave an interview,
charges that she violated state campaign finance and August 2007 J&B Associates, controlled by
election regulations in 2007. For the misdemeanor Paterakis, issued a check to Doracon for $6,000 as
Listen to “First Edition” offense, Holton received one year of unsupervised payment for Paterakis’ portion of the survey.
probation and was ordered to pay a $2,500 fine. By law, the documents state, payments should
“Today ends this case,” Holton, a certified have been made to the councilwoman’s campaign
public accountant by trade, told local media outlets finance entity “Citizens for Helen Holton” and
as she left the courthouse. “I will continue to serve reported to the Maryland State Board of Elections.
Join Host Sean Yoes on the City Council and to serve my community Any attempts to circumvent that process are illegal.
 Sunday @ 8 p.m. on to the best of my ability to help make Baltimore a Also, Maryland campaign finance laws limit
88.9 WEAA FM, the safer, healthier, and more prosperous city.” campaign contributions by an individual to $4,000
Voice of the Community. Legal trouble for the councilwoman began with during a four-year election cycle.
2009 court proceedings in a Baltimore City Circuit Paterakis and Lipscomb were indicted on
Court. A grand jury indicted Holton for conspiracy charges of conspiracy to violate campaign finance
to violate campaign finance laws and conducting Photo by Bill Tabron laws and making an illegal campaign finance
campaign finance activity other than through a Councilwoman Helen Holton, D-8 Continued on A3
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Education Officials Fake Marijuana Now Illegal

Visit Baltimore in Baltimore County
By Melissa Jones substance can do to people,” said
By Melissa Jones AFRO Staff Writer Councilman Kenneth Oliver, who
AFRO Staff Writer recently won re-election to represent
On Oct. 4 Baltimore County the county’s fourth legislative district
President Obama set a goal for the United States to have the most legislators passed a unanimous ban on by a slim margin. “It’s just like
educated workforce in the world by 2020. Over the years, America’s No. 1 the sale, possession and distribution of marijuana, crack, and cocaine. I hope
rank among countries with the most college graduates has diminished to No. the synthetic marijuana-like substance people are smart enough to stay away
9 with countries like Japan, Russia, South Korea and Canada leading the sold as “Spice” or “K2.” Violators of from it, but we had to do something to
way. The Department of Labor projects that jobs related to math and science the new law, which takes effect 45 stop the sale of drug paraphernalia in
are among the fastest growing industries in the country, yet the U.S. ranks 25 days after the resolution was adopted, our neighborhoods.”
and 26 respectively worldwide in these areas. could face a misdemeanor charge Oliver said though he only knew
During a two-day trip, Alberto Retana, director of community along with a $500 fine and 60 days of one or two establishments in
development for the U.S. Department of Education, visited schools in in jail. Ocean City, Md., already has the county that actually sold the
Baltimore to determine what’s needed to meet the president’s goal. The visit a similar ban in place, along with Continued on A5
was a part of a “National Youth Listening Tour” created by DOE officials 13 other jurisdictions in the United
to “open a dialogue with youth from diverse experiences and backgrounds States.
to discuss what it means to create a college-going culture at the family, “We don’t
community and school level.” know what
DOE officials made nine stops on the tour, visiting schools in Boston, this
Philadelphia, New Mexico, Los Angeles, Chicago, Newark, Seattle, Oakland
and Jackson, Miss.
“Some interesting themes have come out so far,” said Retana of the
Baltimore leg of his tour. “A lot of young people of talked about college
affordability and where the money for their education is going to come
from. They have also emphasized the importance of adults that care, quality
teaching and high expectations.”
Baltimore County legislators have
Though geographically diverse, his destinations have some similarities.
passed a unanimous ban on “Spice” or
Join the AFRO on
Twitter and Facebook Continued on A3 “K2,” a synthetic form of marijuana. AP Photo/Kelley McCall, File

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A2 The Afro-American, October 9, 2010 - October 15, 2010

AFRO National Briefs

encourage, enlighten and empower our listeners together.”
The hour-long program began with the duo discussing current
affairs in politics and culture. They plan to focus on subjects
Survey: Most Renters Live in Unaffordable Housing that are not currently being covered by the media, but still
A majority of U.S. renters lived in unaffordable housing deserved to be addressed.
Your History • Your Community • Your News in 2009, according to new data from the 2009 American
The Afro-American Newspapers Community Survey (ACS) released by the Census Bureau on Teenage Whiz Kid Chooses FAMU over Ivy League
Baltimore Office • Corporate Headquarters Sept. 28. The study results also found most Americans faced With near-perfect SAT scores and stellar grades, Ralph
2519 N. Charles Street unaffordable living expenses as a result of increased rents and Jones Jr., a 16-year-old Atlanta, Ga. native and freshman at
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4602 a decline in incomes on the other. This trend has hit the lowest- Florida A&M University (FAMU), had the opportunity to
410-554-8200 • Fax: 1-877-570-9297 income renters the hardest, with more Americans opting to rent attend almost any college in the world.
www.afro.com instead of owning homes. But the award-winning student turned down Ivy League
The total number of all renters experiencing a housing cost schools like Harvard and other HBCUs Howard and Morehouse
Founded by John Henry Murphy Sr., August 13, 1892 burden – defined as spending more than 30 percent of their to attend the Tallahassee institution.
Washington Publisher Emerita - Frances L. Murphy II income on rent and utilities – increased to 18.5 million from “You could never forget a kid like Ralph,” Jones’ former
17.4 million in 2008. This translates to more than half, 51.6 SAT math prep teacher and FAMU alumnae Kemberlee Pugh
Chairman of the Board/Publisher - John J. Oliver, Jr. Bingham told Florida’s WCTV. “He is a child prodigy and has
Executive Assistant - Takiea Hinton - 410-554-8222
percent of all renter households facing a housing cost burden,
up from 50 percent in 2008. Median rents rose from $818 in always been different from his peers. He would often provide a
Receptionist - Wanda Pearson - 410-554-8200 2008 to $842 in 2009, while median renter incomes decreased challenge. One day, we went toe-to-toe and he strongly argued
from $31,891 to $30,576. his point. I appreciate a kid who thinks critically; it shows that
Director of Advertising/Sponsorship Development & Sales
Susan Gould - 410-554-8289 “The numbers from the most recent ACS are not too they care.”
susangould@afro.com surprising given the high unemployment rates and rising rents Education has always been an integral part of Jones’ life,
Advertising Manager - Robert Blount - 410-554-8246 across the country,” said Danilo Pelletiere, research director as his parents were both educators. According to WCTV, the
Sr. Advertising Account Executive - Annie Russ - 410-554-8235 for the National Low Income Housing Coalition, in a press young scholar was reading at the ninth-grade level, doing basic
Advertising Account Executive statement. “We expected to see another year of increases in algebra, subtracting and dividing by age 4.
Marquise Goodwin - 410-554-8274
the number of households struggling to stay in their homes Jones received the Life-Gets-Better Scholarship and was
Director of Finance - Jack Leister - 410-554-8242 and make ends meet, but what is unfortunate is that Congress a National Achievement finalist. He received $120,000 in
has yet to take the necessary action to provide more affordable scholarships, which includes a stipend, tuition and fees, room
Archivist - John Gartrell - 410-554-8265
rental housing options to low income Americans in these and board, books and a laptop, from FAMU. “Everything that I
Community & Public Relations Manager have worked for has helped me earn my place here,” said Jones.
Diane W. Hocker - 410-554-8243 difficult times.”
“I am going to earn my right to stay here and when I graduate, I
Editorial
Tavis Smiley and Cornel West Premiere Radio Show am going to have earned my degree.”
Executive Editor - Talibah Chikwendu
E-mail: editor@afro.com Talk show host and political commentator Tavis Smiley has
joined forces with Princeton professor Cornel West to co-host Rutgers, Gay Community Mourn Loss of Student at
Managing Editor - Kristin Gray - 410-554-8277
Washington Bureau Chief - Zenitha Prince - 202-332-0080, ext. 119 a new radio program entitled Vigil
E-mail: dceditor@afro.com “Smiley & West.” The show Almost two weeks after Tyler Clementi, 18, killed himself
premiered Oct. 1. on Public by diving into New York’s Hudson River, hundreds of New
Global Markets Jersey students and activists gathered at Rutgers University to
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Expanding on Smiley’s honor the life of a college freshman called a “fine musician” by
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Edgar Brookins - 202-332-0080, ext. 116 Smiley Show,” this new “Tonight begins the process of healing,” Jenny Kurtz, acting
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Sammy Graham - 410-554-8266 and professional relationship organizations, told nearly 1,000 people who’d gathered.
Production Department - 410-554-8288 between the two men to The teen gave notice of his intention on his Facebook page
address contemporary issues. by posting: “Jumping off the [George Washington] bridge
“Dr. West is a long-time sorry.” Though his body has not been recovered, authorities
Washington Office friend and I am honored that found his wallet, including his driver’s license and freshman ID
1917 Benning Road, N.E. • Washington, D.C. 20002-4723 he has agreed to go on with card near the bridge.
202-332-0080 Fax: 1-877-570-9297 his journey with me,” Smiley Police believe Clementi committed suicide after fellow
General Manager said in a statement. “This Rutgers students Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei streamed online
Edgar Brookins - ext. 116 new venture, Smiley & West, video of his romantic encounter with another man. His death
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Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain NephewA3 October 9, 2010 - October 15, 2010, The Afro-American
By Alan King sport-utility vehicle sought in from a neighbor about a suspi- posted fliers bearing his photo-
AFRO Staff Writer connection with the murder of cious vehicle. The man noticed graph around the city. On

Metro Area Urges Domestic Violence Awareness

Jennifer Hudson and other
relatives positively identified
Hudson’s mother and brother.
The white, 1994 Chevrolet
Suburban with Illinois license
the vehicle while walking his
dog. According to the Chicago
Tribune, the boy had been shot
multiple times in the back seat
Sunday, Jennifer Hudson asked
for the public’s help in finding
her nephew. In her MySpace
blog, she thanked fans and sup-
By George Barnette up call for all ofofusthe who work The
vehicle. withSUV, young regis- porters for their prayers and
AFRO Staff Writer people,” said Barbara tered toGriffin,
Hudson’s vice president
murdered offered a $100,000 reward to
for student affairs at Howard
brother, was towedUniversity,
with thein anyone who returned the boy
With Domestic Violence Month already a statement. “What boy’swebodylikeinside
so much and about
is being alive.
underway, there’s a push locally to bring the Red Flag Campaign processedisby that it challenges
evidence techni- Since the investigation,
light to one of the most overlooked issues in students to watch outand
cians for workers.
friends who The may bodybe Hudson – who gained stardom
the African-American community. Howard involved in an unhealthy relationship.
was later removed and taken Our to after appearing on “American
University and Prince George’s County are message is: ‘When you see
the Cook a redMedical
County flag, speak Idol,” and then won an
both using different events to address this up.’ “ Examiner’s office. Academy Award for her role in
silent nightmare. The university also Hudson aired anda special
other family the movie Dreamgirls – has
In conjunction with Verizon Wireless screening of themembers Penn State Public
arrived at the Medical stayed out of the public eye.
and the Verizon Foundation, the university Broadcasting-produced Examiner’s Telling
office Amy’s Story,
mid-after- The Chicago Tribune report-
helped launch the Red Flag campaign a documentary about Amy Homan McGee, a
noon to identify the body. Julian King, Jennnifer Hudson’s nephew. ed that a parade of cars moved
on Oct. 1 to address dating violence and former Verizon Wireless employee who was
Given the choice between look- slowly past her family’s home
A spokesman for the office the murders but is being held in Monday morning, past the
promote prevention. The campus was murdered by her husband in 2001.
ing directly at the body or
told the newspaper that Hudson jail for parole violation after
littered with warning signs or “red flags” of viewingCounty,
In Prince George’s it on a wall-mounted
the state’s news vans, reporters and curi-
abusive relationships in addition to posters attorney’s
Courtesy Photosoffice is kicking off the awareness ous onlookers.
highlighting
Jennifer
wasThe
Hudson
campaign
killed,
the issue.
and her mom, Darnell Donerson
as welltargets
as her thebrother,
16-24 age
monthwho “She held hands with her family. It was obviously a very emotional moment.”
with Project Safe Sunday on Oct. 10,
group, which is a partnership with the county’s faith-
Jason.
Neighbors stood
quietly and
reflected on the
mostly because of the alarming numbers of based community to address the issue. The “remained strong for her fami- being convicted of attempted
video screen, the family chose violence.
young people involved in domestic violence. initiative started after Ernestine Bunn-Dyson ly” and was clearly its leader. murder and vehicularCourtesy hijack-Photo/JustinInD.front
Knight/HU Communications
the body of her 7-year-old plate X584859 was found on the latter. According to the of the 1. Hudson’s
According to the campaign, young womenWest Side
Chicago’s wasaftertragically killed by her
Tribune, husband
Hudson said, Tyrone
“Yes, “She held hands with her fami- ing. Cook County records show home, on
Howard University and Verizon launched the Red Flag Campaign
men
Oct.
in heavy
The upper
jackets
nephew Monday, just hours
between
after his body the wasagesfound
of 16-24in a have police
the highest
received a 7Dyson a.m. callin a murder-suicide.
that’s him.” It prompted
quadrangle of Howard’s
ly,” the spokesman said. “It main campus was blanketed
that he pleaded guilty to both with red flags to help raise
and hooded sweatshirts came to
per capita rate of intimate partner violence action by officials in a county that already has was awareness
obviouslyabout
a very domestic
emotional violence charges andin 1999.urge Hestudents
was also to take action when they see
kiss the twin white crosses bar-

ACORN Fights Back

while one-fifth of all college women in a special prosecutor specifically for domestic friends
moment.” in abusive relationships. convicted in 1998 for posses- ing the names of Donerson and
relationships are being abused. violence cases. In Prince George’s County, The boy – the son of Julia sion of a stolen motor vehicle. Jason.
The issue became highly publicized this issue is no laughing matter. community
Hudson, could be
Jennifer’s a perfect
sister – had vehicleHe was forreleased from who to turninto and how
prison to reportistrouble.
“Everybody sick of going
on a national level when Yeardley Love, a “It’s a huge problem. Prince George‘s raising
been this kind
missing sinceofFriday,
issue.” 2006 after serving seven “Foryears
a lot of people,
throughwhen they’re
this,”inArtisha
Leader Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’
stuff like
University of Virginia women’s lacrosse County certainly has major challenges when Ivey said hefound
a relative wantsJulian’s
to make sure for that
the attemptedcrisis, murdertheandfirst place
West, they turn isresident
a former to theirof the
player, was murdered by her boyfriend with that,” State’s Attorney Glenn Ivey people are receiving the proper guidance in
grandmother, Darnell car hijacking place of worship,”
charges. areaIveytoldsaid. “We want
the Tribune. “We toall
By Alanthis
earlier King and Dallas Cowboys players
year. Howard officials hope this
No wonder Obama’s campaign is Donerson,
said. “It clearly was a problem when I was their houses 57,ofand his uncle,
worship, whether theThe boy remained
person is makemissing sure that thosehaveplaces
to stickare prepared
together. Alltothese
AFRO Staff Writer Tony Romo and Terrell Owens, trying to distance him from the Jason Hudson,
Christian, 29, shot
Jewish to death Hethrough
or Muslim. knows athat long weekenddeal within them and point them in arethe rightand
campaign will help to prevent a similar a prosecutor and it’s a problem across the young children dying,
among the names submitted to group, saying, “Barack Obama in his grandmother’s home in which police and volunteers
tragedy on its campus. people often turn to God for answers when direction to get help in respect to referrals,
election officials. country. It’s an Never issue Organized
that we need withtoACORN.”
try to for what?”
Presidential candidate John the 7000 block of South Yale
“The Yeardley
McCain’s attack on ACORN – Love tragedy was a wake- get on everybody’s radar
Hurd said those workers, who But Obama’s ties to ACORN run screen and the faith they’re in trouble and he wants them to know social service or the police.”
Avenue.
Associated Community were doing those things without long and deep. He taught classes An Amber Alert – a desig-

Bishop Long Education Officials Visit Baltimore

Organization for Reform Now – ACORN’s knowledge or permis- for ACORN. They even endorsed nation for high-risk missing
confirms the success of the sion, were fired. him for President. children – was issued Friday
organization, the head of the “The evidence that has sur- But now ACORN is in trouble. after Julian was discovered
group says. from A1
Continued faced so far shows they faked Reporter: There arefrom
Continued at leastA1 missing after the murders.
“This is testimony to the work forms to get paid for work they 11 investigations across the Police arrested William
“This
we’ve done man andturned
successhiswe’ve
back on didn’t however,
do, not tothat their
stuff ballotspeaking out country “Most of
is involving these cities
thousands of areBalfour,
struggling The key Murphy said, was getting said Murphy.
the missing boy’s step-
us when he had no
had,” Maude Hurd, president of more need for an
boxes.” attempt
ACORN, to move
she said, on
is with
the their
potentially to provide
fraudulent a high-quality
ACORN educational residents
father and estranged husband to view the school as an “Not parental involvement just
us. That’s said
ACORN, not in a father, that’s a
an interview lives
victim and tonot
of fraud, helptheother youth informs.
perpetra- the system for their residents. We visited asset
of Julia, at his girlfriend’s to the community. “We’ve until kids are done with fourth grade
predator.
with the AFRO. tor ofposition
it. they were in. She warned, Announcer:cities Massive
that have voterhad highSouthside
drop-out apartment increased
several enrollment which has but parental involvement through
“That
“Whenman cannotstarted,
this attack look me we in “There
Hurd saidarethekidsonlyright
thingsnow at risk fraud. Andrates and low
the Obama college going
campaign rates for substantially
hours after the murders. increased our funding,” someone’s teens. A 14-year-old
my
hadeyes and tell methat
just announced wewe didhadnot bogus [atare
New the Birth].”
charges them- paid moresome time. What
than $800,000 to anI have Balfour’s
found in all he said,
mother, Michele, has “and improved our reputation needs to hear the same message as a
live this pain.
registered ... [he]new
1.3 million can’tvot-say thatselves. AndIn contrast,
factcheck. social
org media ACORN front of these
for getcities
out the is that
vote there
toldisreporters
some that so herthat
sonwhen
had homebuyers are looking kindergartner, that we believe in you
to ourshe
ers,” faces.”
said. “That’s just to say agrees. postings by Long’s children paint efforts. community effort in partnership nothing towithdo withatthetheslayings.
neighborhood they can say and your potential to succeed. That
thatParris
someone’scontinued, “All we
running scared a different picture. “...[We arePressuringthe
It concluded, “Neither district
banks to issueto really
risky addressBalfour
these remainsthere is an in
a suspect excellent
Jason school.”
Hudson we care about you, and that your
wanted
becauseto of do was talksuccess.”
ACORN’s and say, ACORN doingnor great; keep my have
its employees pops lifted challenges.”
loans. Nationwide voter fraud. Students at Hamilton told Retana parents and your school are working
‘Help me deal
McCain, whowith this hurt
is running forthat beenup found guilty of,the
in prayer!” or Atlanta
even Inquirer Barack Obama. AtBad judgment.
Hamilton Elementary and that having adults invested in their together to move you forward. Both
president
you caused’ on the
andRepublican
he had no tick-sense charged with, Edward
reported casting fraudulent
Long as posting Blind ambition.
Middle TooSchool
risky forRenata met principal success and parental involvement will be present if you need assistance,
et,reverence,
of lashed out atguilt ACORN in the so votes.”
or remorse, to Twitter Sept. 23. The paper
America. Bill Murphy, teachers and students. ranked high among the factors needed if you need guidance, if you make a
final debate against Barack The problem came about pri-
if you’re not going to deal with indicated on the same day Long’s Murphy showcased the for their continued success. “It was mistake, and to make sure that you’re
Obama, contending the group “is marily because of the way Since McCain’s comments,
us privately, then you are going to ACORN daughter Taylor Long
operates. Rather than tweeted, improvements
ACORN’s 87 offices have been made at Hamilton pretty loud and clear
SQUARE from all the making
HIGH the choices that are going to
on the verge of maybe perpetrat-
have to sit down publicly
ing one of the greatest frauds in one way “Man, my dad
rely on volunteers, it pays peo-does NOT deserve – made
bombarded with threats and possible through major kids that no matter what package prepare you for college. In a lot of
or the other.
voter history in this country, this!”
ple, many of them poor or unem- racist mail. community partnerships with you put it in, what they want is to be ways the kids are saying ‘we need
“But you are not
maybe destroying the fabric of going to hurt By Sept. 24,
ployed, to sign up new voters. Bernstein had parents and
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voters are going to vote to the attention of authorities. machine, saying: “Hi, I was just 9:00 a.m.

Campaign
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move. Just let your children die. Fun learning opportunities are everywhere. Simple things treatment!like
organization has engaged in mas- banks to issue risky home loans. Forget about paying for hospital
a criminal indictment for that’s up
sive voter registration fraud after The same types of loans that
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A4 The Afro-American, October 9, 2010 - October 15, 2010

Freedom Sisters Exhibit to Open

Reginald Lewis Museum hosts last stop on tour
By AFRO Staff
Sometimes the contributions of women get
lost. In the retelling of history, things men have
done are allowed to overshadow the things
women did, especially African-American women.
But on Oct. 23, when the ninth and final stop
of the Freedom Sisters traveling exhibit opens
at the Reginald Lewis Museum, there will be
an opportunity for people around the region to
change that.
The Freedom Sisters Exhibit – a collaboration
between the Cincinnati Museum Center and the
Smithsonian Institution made possible by a grant
from the Ford Motor Company Fund – highlights
the lives of 20 African-American women. The
life stories of these women, from historical figures
to contemporary role models, show their strength
and courage as each fought for equality for all
people.
From Harriet Tubman and Mary Church Terrell
to Constance Baker Motley and Sonia Sanchez,
this multimedia exhibit tells a story that is sure to
captivate people of all ages, genders and races.
But this isn’t only an exhibit. Freedom Sisters
is a movement that includes community outreach
and educational activities. It is designed not only
for people to come and see it, but to learn from it
in ways they can live going forward.
For students in grades four through eight,
there is an essay contest. Students are asked to
write 250-500 words on the subject: Who is your
favorite Freedom Sister and why? What are you
doing to continue her legacy? The contest opens
on Oct. 23 and ends Nov. 22 and prizes for first,
second and third place along with three runner-up
prizes will be awarded. The contest is designed
for student to not only reflect on the contributions
of the honorees but also on the women they see
around them every day. Courtesy Image
Many of the living legends included in the
exhibit, have participated at the various stops and The Reginald Lewis Museum has Film series, of African-American women
this time is no different. Dr. Dorothy I. Height, scheduled related activities. A two-part educators, activists and politicians.
until her illness and death this summer, was a series – “Life Stories, Maryland Freedom For more information about the
fixture at every stop on the tour. Others that have Sisters” – is scheduled, which features exhibit, events and museum times,
participated include Sonia Sanchez, Charlayne the contributions of Maryland women in please visit them on the web at www.
Hunter-Gault, Kathleen Cleaver and Myrlie health and politics. They are also showing africanamericanculture.org or call 443-
Evers-Williams. documentaries, as part of the Sundays @ 2 263-1800.

Science Brought to Life for Minority Students

By Dorothy Rowley
AFRO Staff Writer
In keeping with its annual
tradition of helping minority
students and their parents
learn more about health,
science and the medical field,
SciLife is gearing up for its
fifth daylong presentation
Oct. 16 at the L’Enfant Plaza
Hotel.
Event coordinator
Cassandra Isom told the
AFRO that the SciLife
program – which is modeled
after a 21-year-old project
at Harvard University –
encompasses a series of
workshops and is free for
attendees.
Since the workshops were
launched in 2006 with about
90 participants, Isom said
attendance has averaged 300
people each year.
The program targets
students in grades nine
through 12 who get inside
information and advice from
area leaders in the health and
biomedical fields. Students
also find out which high
school classes can improve
their chances for college entry,
as well as how to finance their
post high school education.
“They come to learn more
about careers in science,
health and medicine and to
learn more about what their
options are,” said Isom of the
workshops. “It’s basically
career and college exploration
where we bring in nationally-
known speakers who are
interested in sharing their time
and talents with our young
people.”
While the National
Institutes of Health-sponsored
program is unique to the
District, Isom said what
makes it special is that it
specifically reaches out to
minority students in public
schools.
“In the past, we’ve had
other states contact us about
the possibility of doing the
program for their particular
jurisdiction,” Isom said.
“Obviously, because of
resources, we can’t.”
But Isom said that she
subsequently received a
phone call a couple of years
ago from a woman who
works for the Centers for
Disease Control in Atlanta.
The woman came up, talked
with her about the particulars
of the program, attended the
SciLife expo and went back to
Atlanta, where she initiated a
similar project.
Some of the workshops
have been held at NIH in
Montgomery County, but
Isom said they chose to return
to the District this year to
attract as many of its public
school students as possible.
As far as recruiting
students, Isom said the
process takes place twice a
year – in the spring and fall.
In doing so, the organization
distributes posters and
announcements that alert
students that the workshops
are coming and to visit
SciLife’s website to register.
Advocacy organizations such
as 100 Black Men have also
been instrumental in getting
students signed up, Isom said.
Cindy Montgomery and
her 15 year-old daughter
Katelin participated in the
2009 event. According to
Montgomery, the workshops
provided Katelin a glimpse
into the “real world” of
science and an opportunity
to dialogue with people who
Continued on A5

The Maryland Black Caucus Foundation

Invites you to join
The Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland
For its
2010 Annual Weekend Photo courtesy of SciLIfe 2009
November 4 - 6, 2010 At SciLife minority students get exposed to career fields that are sometimes beyond
their imagination.

In Annapolis
Thursday — Prayer Breakfast
featuring Bishop Vashti McKenzie.

• Roundtable: Church Leaders and LBCM

discuss the church’s role in building wealth and reducing
poverty in the African American Community.

• Youth Summit — $25,000 In Scholarships to be Awarded.

• Advocacy Day — Community groups and organizations invited
to learn how to advocate for issues in Annapolis.
• Friday — Workshops featuring National and local leaders, topics
ranging from wealth building, education, health disparities to
social justice.
In Baltimore — Downtown Hilton
• Saturday — Business Over Breakfast hosted
by Ed Gordon, NBC Dateline and Today Show
Contributor, BET Talk Show Host featuring
Business Leaders.
• JOBS AND BUSINESS FAIR - Come Dressed
for Success job opportunities and business opportunities.
• VIP Reception — Installation of New Officers
for the LBCM.
• Evening of Celebration featuring
Anthony Anderson, comedian and actor.

For further information call 410-841-3185

or register online
www.marylandblackcaucusfoundation.org.
 October 9, 2010 - October 15, 2010, The Afro-American A5

International Briefs
Nigeria ex-militant leader fears officials have expressed the view that they
for his life should have killed him when they had him
incarcerated during the course of 2008-2009.’’
By Donna Bryson Nigeria’s national police spokesman,
Associated Press Writer Emmanuel Ojukwu, dismissed the accusation.
“No government will kill its citizens,’’ he told
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A Nigerian The Associated Press.
militant suspect being held on terror charges in Okah is widely known as the former leader
South Africa fears for his life because Nigerian of the Movement for the Emancipation of the
government officials have made threatening Niger Delta, though his lawyer denied that
statements, the man’s lawyer said Tuesday. Tuesday. The group, also known as MEND,
Henry Okah was arrested in Johannesburg claimed responsibility for Friday’s bombing.
over the weekend and accused in the bombings Okah has not recently been seen as a
that killed at least 12 people in Nigeria’s key figure in MEND, though South African
capital Abuja on Friday. At a court hearing prosecutors on Monday called him a “senior
Tuesday, a judge trying to allay Okah’s MEND member’’ and accused him of helping
security concerns ordered him held pending carry out or plot the Abuja bombings.
trial alone in a cell and given a special escort Tuesday, his lawyer said Okah had never
to and from court. been a MEND member, let alone a senior
Defense lawyer Rudi Krause told reporters one. “Mr. Okah simply strives for a peaceful
after the hearing that Okah “has received solution to the problems in the Niger Delta,’’
information that senior Nigerian government Krause said.
AP Photo/Tawanda Mudimu
Henry Okah, right, a South Africa-based
Nigerian ex-militant leader, appears
for the second day at the court in
Johannesburg Tuesday Oct. 5. Okah was
directly involved in deadly bombings
that struck his homeland’s capital during
independence celebrations, according to
and wheeled out hours later after a risky but
successful operation to repair her heart valve.
“We weren’t certain we could repair it,’’
said Dr. Erle Austin, a pediatric heart surgeon
who led the effort. “But it was about the best
outcome we could have hoped for.’’
Yet while doctors say Stephanie’s long-
term physical prognosis is good, she faces an
uncertain future. She’s lived with two host
families in Louisville during her recovery but
is due to return in December to Haiti, where
her family still lives in a tent outside their
destroyed home.
“I’m worried she won’t have a proper place
to live and good doctors won’t be available,’’
Stephanie’s father, Smith Privert, 51, said in a
telephone interview from Port-au-Prince.
In response, Kosair Children’s and Healing
the Children are launching a drive to raise
$20,000 to build a new house for the family.
And on Tuesday, the hospital will hold a
celebration of Stephanie’s success story with
physicians, staff, host families and charity

Fake Marijuana
South African prosecutors who charged
him with terrorism Monday. Dual car
bombing killed at least 12 people in
Continued from A1 Nigeria’s capital Abuja.
workers involved in her case.
“We’ve been blessed to help,’’ said
Tom Kmetz, president of Kosair Children’s
Hospital.

substance, the Council had when government can help only putting the pedal half-
South Sudan official says vote
conversations with Baltimore with things of this nature, way down,” he said. “We at
County law enforcement and it makes sense. However, it least know that marijuana Heart surgery grants Haitian will happen on time
the health department while does not take the place of does not have a risk of teen new life
drafting the legislation and supervision.” lethal overdose. That may JUBA, Sudan (AP) — A top official on
had their full support. In a recent interview with or may not be true for these By Chris Kenning the commission charged with carrying out
One store is located the AFRO, Dr. Matthew substances.” The Courier-Journal Southern Sudan’s upcoming independence
in Catonsville, a district Johnson, who specializes Councilman Kevin referendum says he is optimistic the vote will
represented by Councilman in psychopharmacology at Kamenetz introduced the LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Stephanie take place on time.
Samuel Moxley, who said Johns Hopkins University, legislation in September Privert’s faulty heart had been slowly killing Chan Reec Madut, deputy chairman of the
his support of the legislation said very little is known and said he hopes the bill’s her for years, but it took a massive earthquake Southern Sudan Referendum Commission,
stems from concerns that the about these compounds and passage will send a message to get her any medical attention. said Tuesday that the voter registration drive
higher cost of the synthetic how they affect the human to retailers in Baltimore Doctors responding to Haiti’s will have to be completed between Nov.
substance will drive users to brain. The compounds County. “Baltimore County 7.0-magnitude earthquake came upon 14 and Dec. 14 for the vote to happen as
acquire its cheaper, illegal found in Spice and similar is no place for head shops,” Stephanie and her family in Port-au-Prince, scheduled in January.
alternative, marijuana. products – JWH-018 and he said. “It was brought to where their home had been destroyed. “This Southern Sudan President Salva Kiir
“Because it [Spice] is a JWH-073 – affect the same my attention that the store little girl’s heart was failing, and her seven warned last week that a delay in the
synthetic product and not brain receptors as the active in Catonsville was earning other siblings and parents were living in a referendum could cause a return to violence
a drug, it’s not regulated ingredient in marijuana, thousands of dollars a tent,’’ said Steve Diamond, director of Healing “on a massive scale’’ in Sudan.
by the Food and Drug THC. However, the effects week from the sale of this the Children, a Louisville nonprofit working in Madut’s comments came one day before
Administration or any other of JWH-018 are stronger substance and anyone, adult Haiti. “We had to get her out.’’ the United Nations Security Council was
government group,” he than marijuana because “they or juvenile, could walk It took months of delays and complications, scheduled to visit Juba, the south’s capital. The
said. “Parents have so many are hitting the receptors at into the store and make a but on Aug. 3, Stephanie was wheeled into an U.N. team is checking on preparations for the
concerns these days, that full throttle and marijuana is purchase. That is not an operating room at Kosair Children’s Hospital referendum.
appropriate message to send

Science
Continued from A4
to children.”
The councilman, who is
seeking election to the county

work as scientists. gleaned about [launching]

executive seat in November,
said parents alerted him to
Choose
“Katelin’s whole life
changed after attending
the workshops and she
a career in science was
extremely valuable.”
the activity in the store and
requested an intervention.
“I spoke with Police Chief
The Quality of Mercy...
became more motivated For more information Jim Johnson and he fully
about school,” Montgomery about SciLife and the Oct. supported this bill,” he said. for your personal OB/GYN
said. “We were at NIH 16 workshops, visit www. “This is one less negative
seeing the scientists, and the science.education.nih.gov/ influence on children and that
information both she and I scilife.nsf. is a good thing for parents.”
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A6 The Afro-American, October 9, 2010 - October 15, 2010

Community Calendar
at Dress Barn and receive group of musicians and legend Donny Hathaway. $25.
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Cathedral St., Baltimore. 10 Plant, Baltimore. 5 p.m. Two Barn Very Indulgent Party The Park School of Best Western Hotel Reisterstown Road,
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will give free flu shots to Power Plant and Power Plant Shopping Center, 332 Domer Road, Baltimore. 4-8:30 Ave., Baltimore. 8 p.m. this cultural and visual
adults and seniors. For more Live will be lined with artists Ave., Laurel, Md. 2-5 p.m. p.m. Experience this concert Charm City Jazz is featuring showcase of the African
information: 410-396-3048. displaying their sculptures, Join Cookie Lee Jewelry of traditional contemporary this tribute concert series Diaspora in Baltimore. For
paintings, clothing and more. for a fall shopping event African rhythms by a talented performing the music of soul more information: www.
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The Colored Museum

Morgan State University,
Murphy Fine Arts Center,
2201 Argonne Drive,
Baltimore. 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Theatre Morgan presents this
moving production exploring
what it means to be Black in
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A Conversation With
Eugene Robinson
Enoch Pratt Free Central
Library, Wheeler Auditorium,
400 Cathedral St., Baltimore.
7 p.m. Author Eugene
Robinson will discuss his new
book, Disintegration: The
Splintering of Black America,
a gripping account of the
concept of race in America
today. For more information:
410-396-5430.

Oct. 13
Warm Wednesdays
5 Seasons, 830 Guilford
Ave., Baltimore. 8:30
p.m.-2 a.m. Experience the
ultimate venue in spoken
word featuring many poets
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 October 9, 2010 - October 15, 2010, The Afro-American A7

Health
GE Foundation Awards $500,000 to Local Community Health Centers
By Melissa Jones
AFRO Staff Writer
The General Electric Foundation, the philanthropic
organization of GE, awarded two grants totaling $500,000 to
two community health centers in Baltimore on Sept. 21. The
grants, $250,000 each to Chase Brexton Health Services and
People’s Community Health Centers, are a part of GE’s three-
year, $50 million commitment to non-profit health centers
across the United States. Nationwide, roughly nine million
children are uninsured and lack access to quality, affordable
healthcare. The aim of this program is to increase access to
primary medical care in underserved communities.
Other cities that received grants from the foundation include
Atlanta, Cincinnati, Houston, Louisville, Milwaukee, New
Orleans and New York.
For those who lack access to health care or cannot afford the
associated costs, the benefits of health care reform have not yet
translated into savings or better care. In Baltimore City roughly
17 percent of adults have no access to medical care. That is
slightly higher than the 13 percent of adults across the state
of Maryland that lack medical access according to the latest
statistics from the Baltimore City Health Department.
The People’s Community Health Centers was started by
community activists and began its operation in 1970 in a
rowhouse on Greenmount Avenue. It has since expanded its
services to six centers in and around the Baltimore metropolitan
area. In recognition of the service the facilities provide, Sept.
19 to 25 was dedicated as “People’s Community Health Centers
Week” in Baltimore by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
The two-year grant also allows the health centers to access
GE employees for volunteer projects over the next three years.
“We are honored to be recognized by the GE Foundation for
our efforts, and are excited about the prospect of providing
increased access to care with the help of the Developing Health
program,” said Patricia Cassatt, CEO of People’s Community
Health Centers in a statement. “Coupled with the GE employee
volunteerism that this grant provides, we are confident that our
communities will benefit greatly from all the resources that the
GE Foundation can offer.”
Chase Brexton, which operates four locations in Maryland,
opened in 1978 primarily to serve the gay, lesbian, and
transgender population. Today the federally qualified health
center serves about 15,000 clients and offers services for adult
medicine and pediatrics, dental services, HIV/AIDS testing
and treatment, mental health and women’s health services to
patients regardless of their ability to pay.
“We are optimistic that this is an opportunity for us to
provide our patients with quicker access to the medical care
that they need,” said Chase Brexton’s CEO David Shippee.
“The focus will be on expanding our medication support team
for patients with chronic diseases like diabetes and HIV.”
Medical professionals will also work with patients on
behavioral and lifestyle changes in addition to medication
management for chronic illnesses.
Perhaps the most immediate benefit for the uninsured
in Baltimore City and other Chase Brexton sites will be
a reduction in wait time from the first appointment to
implementing a treatment plan. “Typically after an initial
diagnosis a patient could wait four to five months to see a
clinical pharmacist,’ said Shippee. “We’re hoping to take that
waiting time down to two weeks, which allows patients to get a
treatment plan developed and managed sooner.”

Former Engineer Turned Fitness Trainer Embarks on Charity Walk for Diabetes
By Stephen D. Riley
AFRO Staff Writer
Health nuts and gym rats can be quite annoying—critiquing
everything you eat, flashing their firm physiques at every
opportunity, devouring food you wouldn’t touch even if you
were starving—the nerve of them. But Kenneth Clarke isn’t like
that. The physical trainer doesn’t want you to envy, he simply
wants you to enjoy and live life. And that’s why Clarke’s Fitness
Together studio, the largest personal training franchise in the
nation, will, on Oct. 23, be raising money for a cure for diabetes.
Clarke’s studio, based in Silver Spring, Md., was recently
named the official health and fitness sponsor for Washington,
D.C.’s upcoming “Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes,” an event
organized by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). The
charity trek will feature a 2-mile walk around Nationals Park
and a 5-mile hike through nearby Eastern Market and Capitol
Hill. For the public, it’ll be a chance to help give back and raise
money for a good cause, but for Clarke, it’ll be a chance to
continue a personal vendetta.
Clarke’s mother fought obesity for years, a battle he helped
her fight off and on. But 12 years ago she had a stroke and
developed diabetes as a result of her condition. With a family
history of the disease, Clarke was motivated to partner with
a few other colleagues in the area to lend a hand. Now, he’s
walking in search of a cure.
“We were looking for a cause to partner with and to help
raise money and hopefully find a cure for, and diabetes was
kind of the one medical condition that we found that was
common among our clientele,” Clarke said. “Black, White,
young, old, [it] didn’t matter. We all had a percentage of our
Courtesy Photo
Kenneth Clarke, owner of Fitness Together in Silver
Spring, Md., will help sponsor “Step Out: Walk to Fight
Diabetes,” a charity event designed to raise money
to fight the disease on Oct. 23 at Nationals Park in
Washington, D.C.
clientele who had diabetes because of being overweight, family
history or whatever else. We’ve been working to raise money.
So far, we’ve raised almost $12,000 and we’re looking to raise
$15,000 by [Oct. 23].”
Coming from an engineering background, Clarke wasn’t
predestined to be a fitness guru. He was always active in sports
and fitness, but he spent 15 years doing information technology
work for the government and private companies before settling
in on his current occupation. After assisting a few friends and
family members with their weight and diet to some success,
Clarke decided to make a career out of it and took over his
current facility in 2006. The former engineer has been changing
pants sizes and lifestyles ever since.
“What we do is we focus on three areas: weight resistance
training, cardiovascular conditioning and nutrition,” Clarke
says. “We work one-on-one with folks because we can actually
develop relationships with our clients and they take our advice
and respect our advice. When they follow our suggestions, they
get results. There’s a lot of diets that promise you results in
10 days, 15 days, 21 days, whatever. We’re actually trying to
change lifestyles.”
And save lives in the process.
To find out how you can support Fitness Together’s efforts
in “Step Out:Walk to Fight Diabetes,” please visit www.
ftcustomfitness.com.

Md. Girl Tells Congress of The Pursuit of Fitness

One woman’s journey to a fitness modeling career
Textbook Concussion Case By AFRO Staff
By Richard Adbill Baltimore native Tavian
Capital News Service Quinn is passionate about
fitness and healthy living,
WASHINGTON - Centennial High School’s Alison Conca-Cheng is a best-case scenario: a lifestyle more people are
After suffering a concussion while playing soccer last month, she was diagnosed, put on a adopting as obesity wages an
“care plan” and started on her path to recovery. unprecedented war against
Her school in Ellicott City was accommodating and her doctors knowledgeable, she told against Americans’ waistlines
the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor recently, and she’s making progress. and longevity.
Conca-Cheng’s testimony was part of a hearing on the Protecting Student Athletes from As the fitness model
Concussions Act, introduced this week by Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., and designed to protect studied to become a nurse, she
young athletes from the permanent neurological effects of concussions. It would require school unknowingly forged a new
districts to implement a concussion safety plan and to better educate students on the dangers of career path. Quinn hungered
the brain-bruising injury. for more knowledge about the
“Concussions have always been a part of the conversation about student athletes,” Miller science of body structure and
said. “But for far too long, we’ve talked about what has happened without taking any action its functions, quickly learning
to help students manage these dangerous habits.” that a misshapen body was
Conca-Cheng, 17, an honors student from Ellicott City, said it took several weeks to detrimental to her health.
be definitively diagnosed, and in the interim she started to notice headaches and a lack of Quinn’s good looks and
concentration that made class work in her five advanced placement classes nearly impossible. toned physique landed her
“I began to forget things. Not just day to day, but morning to evening, or even moment to in Los Angeles where she
moment,” she said. “(Homework) would take me twice as long, and it would be a constant pursued a career in acting
battle with my concentration.” and modeling. Despite the
The danger of long-term, concussion-related problems has slowly worked its way into the stress of a fickle, competitive
public eye as more sufferers, either undiagnosed or mistreated, begin to exhibit debilitating industry, Quinn said she
cognitive problems that are now being linked to concussions. exercised daily to remain
Experts said Owen Thomas was one of these cases. The University of Pennsylvania marketable. Fate, however,
defensive end led the team in sacks in 2009 and was named second-team All-Ivy League. would dictate otherwise
He killed himself in April and was found to have early signs of chronic traumatic and the budding entertainer
encephalopathy, or CTE, a variant of boxer’s dementia that makes some aging fighters seem decided to redirect her path.
“punchy.” Back in Baltimore, Quinn
His mother, the Rev. Katherine Brearley, said at the hearing that her son had no history struggled to establish a
of depression.”Clearly changes are needed in the medical community as well as the sports vocation that would satisfy
community,” Brearley said. her modeling, acting and
The National Football League has also been getting attention for its treatment of players fitness dreams while also
with brain injuries, especially after Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry died under affording her financial
unclear circumstances last year. An autopsy revealed Henry had CTE, according to ESPN. success. But it wasn’t
Former Pittsburgh Steelers player Sean Morey told the committee he’d “suffered more until she began working
concussions than I care to admit” and was forced to retire just before the start of 2010 with personal trainer and
training camp because of chronic neurological symptoms. motivational speaker Pierre
Morey, 34, has been working with the NFL to increase player awareness of the dangers Parker, owner of Oasis
of concussions, a difficult task when a player getting sidelined could mean the difference Specialized Private Fitness,
between a crucial win and a loss. Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten, for example, that fitness modeling became
could be seen berating doctors on the sidelines of the Sept. 19 game in which he was pulled Quinn’s ultimate aspiration.
because trainers suspected a concussion. The certified nurse and
Former NFL head coach Steve Mariucci said last November that there seemed to be an cosmetologist, who has
“epidemic” of concussions in the NFL but that they had always been present. Hall of Fame appeared in a number of
quarterback Steve Young, he added, could have played “three or four more years” if it hadn’t video and print campaigns,
been for his chronic concussions, including one Young received on what would be the last said coming back to
play of his career. “Even back when we played there were concussions – that’s maybe why Baltimore was a difficult, but
we’re a little dingy right now. It’s just more media awareness and attention to it,” Mariucci necessary transition.
said. “We’re headed into some uncharted waters.” “It was hard to make the
adjustment, but what dream
ever comes easy?” said
Quinn. “I had to make this my
hob and my life. This is how
I did learn to accomplish my
love to be fit.”
Here, Quinn shares her
personal fitness tips and
explains why the road to
fitness may not be simple.
• Have a goal. Make the
goal your own and no one
else’s.
• Know your body inside
and out. Experience what
your mind and body needs to
be successful.
• Choose healthy lifestyle
habits. When you’re healthy,
your body is ready to do what
you want and need it to do.
• Be consistent. Make
your life easy and predictable,
keep schedules and ritual a
part of your life daily and
consistently so there’s no
room for guessing or last
Tavian Quinn
minute choices.
• Find a safe haven or a
special place like the gym,
yoga studio, home, park, etc.
• Surround yourself
with positive energy. If not,
you’re not feeling a situation,
leave it. You can’t afford
interruptions.
• Get educated. Learn
about your craft.
• Preparation is essential.
Be ready to eat properly,
prepare for photo shoots and
auditions. Make your food the
night before, learn to market
yourself and be prepared for
any and everything.
• Have a support group.
Family, friends and trainers
can always keep you
motivated, but be mindful
of the ones that may impede
your success. Don’t dismiss
them, but temporarily remove
them from the equation.
• Interact with others in
your field. Get to know other
trainers and fitness models.
• Stay focused. This is the
most important, but it won’t
be hard if you do the above.
Courtesy Photo
Tavian Quinn is always
training for her next show
or appearance. Learn more
about her at TavianQuinn.
com.
A8 The Afro-American, October 9, 2010 - October 15, 2010

Community
Showcase Honors, Entertains Learn the Secrets of a
Baltimore’s Grandparents Sparkling Smile On Sept. 12, Baltimore’s
most mature residents
visited the Delta Community
Center for “Great Blessings:
A Grandparents Day
Celebration” hosted by
MarvaD Events. The
program, hosted by ABC 2
News anchor Sherrie Johnson,
included a dance performance
from The Ava Fields Dancers
of Cahill Recreation Center,
a musical tribute from The
Redeemers of Church of the
Redeemed of the Lord, a
praise dance selection from
Stephanie Graham, a “Sunday
hat” fashion show, dinner and
an inspirational message from
LaMar Shields of the Urban
Leadership Institute.
Children of all ages
will sink their teeth into
information provided at
MouthPower Day, a daylong
festival spotlighting healthy
eating and dental care.
The event takes place at
the National Museum of
Dentistry and offers kids an
opportunity to paint pictures
with a toothbrush, hula hoop
and maintain a home garden.
In addition, dentists teach
children how cavities begin
and how to prevent them.
The program, which
takes place during Oral Courtesy Photo
Hygiene Month, is part
of Free Fall Baltimore, a
month-long, city-wide arts extravaganza. MouthPower Day takes place Oct. 9, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.,
at the National Museum of Dentistry, 31 S. Greene St., Baltimore. Free. For more information,
call 410-706-0600 or visit smile-museum.org.

Local Boy Scouts Converge at Fort

McHenry, Celebrate 100th Year
Photos by James Pack
James Joynes, 87, was
Cynthia Gray models a hat for the seniors. the oldest grandfather in
attendance.

Community Leaders Come Out for

Lyric Renaming Ceremony
On Sept. 21, The Lyric
Foundation Board Chair
Edward J. Brody announced
The Lyric’s naming in a
formal ceremony at the
theater’s West Mount Royal
Avenue entrance. The
Patricia & Arthur Modell
Performing Arts Center Photo by Bill Tabron
at The Lyric is named in Boy Scouts Malcolm Dirton, Marquise Dunlat, Malcolm Bettis, Shawn Wright and
acknowledgement of the Christopher Griggs
couple’s generous support Local officials, community leaders and volunteers joined several thousand Boy Scouts at Fort
of The Lyric’s stage-house McHenry to celebrate the organization’s 100th anniversary. The event was touted as the largest
expansion project. Arthur single Boy Scouts event in the Baltimore metro area and included participants from Baltimore,
Modell, former owner of
Harford, Carroll, Howard and Anne Arundel counties.
the Baltimore Ravens, and
Baltimore City Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld was in attendance, along with Mayor
his wife Pat, contributed
$3.5 million to The Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, U.S. Secretary of Defense and Eagle Scout Donald Rumsfeld and
Lyric’s capital project. An musician Aaron Tippin.
invitation-only followed the
ceremony.
“The Modell’s generosity
completes the final phase of
Maryland HBCU Digitizes Half-
The Lyric’s $12.5 million
capital campaign. On behalf
Photo by Bill Tabron
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake speaks at The
Century of Memories
of the Board of Directors and Lyric’s renaming ceremony.
The University of Maryland Eastern Eastern Shore.”
staff, I wish to express our deep
Shore’s Frederick Douglass Library has The first yearbook appeared in 1959
appreciation to them for their
recognition of The Lyric’s importance to the Baltimore region,” said Brody in a statement. digitized a half-century of The Hawk when the institution was known as Maryland
“With a larger stage and modern stage technology, we will be able to bring to Baltimore yearbooks – from the first volume in 1959 State College. Altogether, 44 yearbooks
bigger, more sophisticated productions in a safer and more economically efficient manner.” through 2009 – making it the first Maryland – including some years that are combined –
HBCU to accomplish this feat. The have been converted to a digital format.
conversion was made possible through the The university’s Division of Institutional
LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative, Advancement, Office of Alumni Affairs and

Baltimore Book Festival Enjoys a project supported by a Sloan Foundation

grant that makes digitization easy and
Planned Giving underwrote the conversion
project. Bailey notes many yearbook images

15th Anniversary affordable for the nation’s libraries and

Photos by DeVone Marshall
Latrese N. Carter, author of Before It’s Too
Late, at the 2010 Baltimore Book Festival.
cultural institutions.
Through the Collaborative’s partnership
are the work of Thomas Wiles, the campus
photographer from 1951 to 1989. Online
viewers, she said, should also “remember
with the Internet Archive, UMES yearbooks … all of the yearbook committees (that)
For three days, literature were scanned cover- to-cover and in full chronicled their time here for generations to
lovers and authors descended color. A variety of format options exist, enjoy.”
which allow online visitors to page through a
on Baltimore for the annual For more information and to view the
book, download a PDF version or search the collections, visit www.umes.edu/FDL. 
Baltimore Book Festival. The full text version.
event included appearances by “We are truly excited to have this archive
celebrity authors like actress resource online and
available to the world,”
Holly Robinson Peete, TV host
Judge Glenda Hatchett and
interim library dean Sheila
Bailey said in a statement. Correction
photographer Nigel Barker, “We would like to thank the
In last week’s
FDL Special Collections/
while also providing a venue for edition of the AFRO,
Outreach Department for
new writers to showcase their its research to prepare the
Oppenheimer Funds/
NFTE National Youth
works. The 15th annual event collection for digitization Entrepreneurship
included a Children’s Bookstore and FDL Archive Team for Challenge participants
its support. This project Alexander Hobbs, left,
Stage, musical performances, was undertaken to allow and Shawn Curtis were
panel discussions and more. complete access to the incorrectly identified.
yearbook collection of the The AFRO apologizes
University of Maryland for the error.
 October 9, 2010 - October 15, 2010, The Afro-American A9

Our Voice
Opinion
The ‘Wall Street Journal’ is Wrong
Support, Commend, Don’t Condemn HBCUs
Once again historically Black post-secondary institutions
find themselves the target of an unwarranted and deceitful
attack. This rhetoric marginalizes and mischaracterizes the
vital role these public and private schools play to spur the
growth and development of individual Black students, their
communities and the nation at large.
A Wall Street Journal editorial written by Jason L. Riley
states that historically Black institutions are failing so miserably,
they should either be reconstituted as community colleges, taken
over by for-profit colleges or shuttered. Worse, WSJ argues
President Obama should withhold the $850 million investment,
pledged over 10 years, to help fund the unique mission of 105
historically Black universities and colleges (HBCUs).
The WSJ bases its hypothesis in part on outdated data and
debatable sources, including a 1974 article by conservative
Thomas Sowell, who is not an educational scholar. The WSJ
also uses an imbalanced comparison of the second-year
retention and graduation rates between predominantly Black
schools and predominantly White schools. We’ve seen this
insulting prejudicial ploy before.
All things are still not equal in America. Without HBCUs,
Black students, particularly with
low SAT scores, would not get
a higher education. Common “...HBCUs actually awarded a higher percentage of African
sense recognizes that if those
same HBCU students, dependent
Americans baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees –
on limited Pell grants, often notably in more fields considered critical to the future – than
drop out in the critical second
year mainly due to economic any other institutions.”
pressures, then HBCUs will have
lower graduation rates.
All schools must meet high academic standards. However
HBCUs are not struggling alone. The Obama administration
is attempting to improve underperforming American post-
secondary schools above their 57 percent overall graduation
rate and ranking of 20th among world nations. “We cannot
reach our goal without HBCUs,” Obama said during a White
House National HBCU Week reception.
The president’s proclamation states HBCUs have made
“immeasurable contributions,” have a legacy of “graduates
whose achievements adorn the pages of American history,” and
are “important engines of economic growth and community
service.”
As a refresher, the traditional mission of HBCUs,
for the past 150 years, has been providing educational
opportunities in a nurturing environment for poor,
Black students when no one else would or could
address their unique needs. These students generally
have extraordinary financial stresses and are ill-
prepared for college-level courses, as evidenced by
their comparatively low SAT scores. The majority
would be unable to gain acceptance to mainstream
colleges, let alone graduate from one. The cost is
prohibitive and the culture unfamiliar – sometimes
hostile.
The HBCUs’ laudable mission has never been
easy. The schools are perpetually underfunded and
have low endowments, but must spend vast amounts
of their limited resources on remedial programs for freshman
and sophomores often ill-prepared for college after graduating
from teetering public school districts.
The poor economy and state cutbacks are particularly
harsh for HBCUs with far more to do with far fewer dollars.
Nonetheless, HBCUs continue graduating stellar students able
to tap into strong alumni networks as they go forward.
Had WSJ bothered to drill down beyond surface statistics they
would not have found such a dismal situation at all HBCUs.
In Maryland, when the absolute number of degrees awarded
African-American students at HBCUs are compared with that
number at other institutions, the public and private HBCUs
actually awarded a higher percentage of African Americans
baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees – notably in
more fields considered critical to the future – than any other
institutions. These results, in an Urban League Report on
Higher Education, are based on 2006 findings of the Maryland
Higher Education Commission, latest year of a source used in
Riley’s WSJ piece.
“The measure of the value and success of Maryland’s
traditionally Black 4-year institutions should be the absolute
number of their productivity, not the measure of their fallout
from environmental and socio-economic barriers the students
they accept in greatest numbers bring in pursuit of their
educational goals,” the UL report suggests.
Contrary to the WSJ’s report, thousands of African
Americans, as well as some Whites, are still choosing to attend
HBCUs. After reading the WSJ editorial, a Black Silver Spring,
Md. father pointed out it would cost him $300,000 to send
his three daughters to the University of Maryland. An HBCU
graduate, he has no qualms sending his children to Morgan State,
which he will be able to afford and where he is confident they
will receive the guidance and quality education they deserve.
Maybe WSJ should have spoke to this father before using
outdated and misleading data for its questionable agenda. It is
no secret Wall Street is enamored of for-profit colleges, in spite
of concerns being raised that too many are more interested in
tuition than in training. Some are being scrutinized for issuing
meaningless diplomas while leaving minority students with
mountains of debt in student loans.
America will not witness full economic recovery without a
highly-educated and trained workforce. This means all students,
particularly African-American students, must have a wide range
of learning environments available to them. Historically Black
institutions continue to serve this unique population better
than any other. These schools should be commended for their
achievements despite the odds, not condemned as convenient
scapegoats.

Hate Crimes against the Homeless

Last week, I chaired
an important judiciary
subcommittee hearing that
I found extremely upsetting
and troubling. It focused on
the increasing number of
violent attacks on individuals
who are homeless, a
population that is often our
most vulnerable. From being
beaten to death by a baseball
bat to being doused with
gasoline and set ablaze, the
number of brutal attacks on
people who are homeless
Sen. Benjamin L.
– simply because they are
Cardin
homeless – is frightening and
growing.
Last year, I introduced the Hate Crimes Against the
Homeless Statistics Act, S. 1765, a bipartisan bill co-sponsored
by Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins that would require
the FBI to add homeless status to the data it collects on hate
crimes. Current law requires that data be collected from law
enforcement agencies about hate crimes that are based on race,
religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability and gender
or gender identity. My legislation would expand that data
collection classification to hate crimes against the homeless.
Homelessness is a growing problem in our nation,
particularly as poverty rates have increased. According to the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, in 2009
approximately 643,000 individuals were homeless on any given
night, and approximately 1.56 million people – one out of every
200 Americans – spent at least one night in a homeless shelter.
Veterans comprise 20 percent of our homeless population
“In 2009, 43 homeless individuals were killed from vicious
attacks that included bottles, bats, pipes, gasoline and other
objects.”
and families displaced because of domestic violence make up
another 28 percent. According to the Maryland Department of
Human Resources, the number of homeless parents seeking
emergency shelter has more than doubled in the last five years.
While there is currently no official accounting of hate crimes
against the homeless, for 11 years the National Coalition for the
Homeless has documented attacks on homeless individuals and
the information is alarming. In 2009, 43 homeless individuals
were killed from vicious attacks that included bottles, bats,
pipes, gasoline and other objects. To illustrate how serious a
problem these biased-based attacks are on the homeless, we
can compare statistics from the National Coalition and the FBI
in 2008. According to the FBI crime statistics, in 2008 seven
homicides were classified as hate crimes under the current
definition, which does not include the homeless. The National
Coalition for the Homeless, however, reported 27 fatal attacks
for the same year, pointing to an alarming increase in the number
of hate crimes committed against
homeless persons. It is time that
we establish accurate and reliable
data collection on these types of
hate crimes and my bill would
accomplish that goal.
Homeless people are part
of America. Every day we see
veterans, fathers, mothers and families with children who have
been forced by circumstances to live on the streets. They are
among our nation’s most vulnerable citizens and too often they
find themselves the target of violent crime. America’s homeless
deserve the same respect and dignity afforded all Americans.
Democratic Sen. Benjamin Cardin represents Maryland in
the U.S. Senate.

Our Father, Who Aren’t in Washington

Conservatives argue that
the liberal social programs of
the 1960s destroyed the Black
family as the notion of the
Black man as the patriarch of
his family took a beating.
In just a few generations,
an intact Black family
became so hard to recognize
that Blacks ridiculed the
1980s family sitcom “The
Cosby Show” as unrealistic.
Today, however, we have
flesh-and-blood proof of the
existence and the benefits that
Lisa Fritsch come from a strong Black
family—America’s first Black
president.
President Obama can help Black Americans succeed by
asking them to follow his example when it comes to fatherhood
and family. Obama should embark on a national campaign to
bring fathers back into their homes. A family with two working
parents, with the father in the home, is less likely to live in
poverty. Thus far, however, President Obama has not answered
this call.
Unless our families can be saved and we can get back on
track, Black America is doomed to recycle mistakes. But is that
the plan? It sometimes seems this destruction is intentional
rather than a byproduct of misguided policies. After all, if
the family remains in a constant state of dissolution, there
will never be a change of opinion with regard to the size of
government, since Blacks form a loyal voting bloc.
There’s also a historical precedent. Family devastation was
one of the most damning aspects of slave-owning society. A
constant pain to the slave was not having “relations.” This
broken human link weakened the resolve of slaves to fight for
freedom, giving slave masters greater power.
Today our very own government plays the role of master.
The advent of public housing and public assistance programs
landed our community in peril. As the government replaced
fathers with welfare checks and food stamps, out-of-wedlock
births in the U.S. went from 5 percent in 1960 to 38.5 percent
as of 2005 among the entire population. For the Black
community, the statistics are worse — up 70 percent today.
It gets worse as government seeks to expand its grip on
society and render the family obsolete and insignificant in
every racial, social and economic demographic. Every recent
legislative arrow seems aimed at the family: same-sex marriage
legislation, publicly funded abortion and health care reform.
Even climate change is about having Americans identify with a
global family rather than their God-given one.
Unfortunately, despite all this interest in defining itself
as America’s overarching head-of-household, government
is a lazy parent. Government-as-parent doesn’t care for the
health of the soul of its children. It craves only submission,
homogenous obedience and dependency.
Family structure is vital to an individual’s prosperity and
success. Government will have people believe that those 70
percent of Black children born out of wedlock are safe as long
as there are enough food stamps, public schools and universal
health care to go around. But some of us know better.
We know that a government and a president is no substitute
for one’s very own father, mother, sister and brother — united
as a family under God’s guiding hand.
History confirms that blood is thicker than water. The first
order of business in destroying a people or insuring their rapid
decline and submission to the government is to break down the
family.
Survivors of the Great Depression survived not because
of the New Deal as much as their reliance on family.
Immigrants survived by coming over in families or by forming
communities in which family was the nucleus. The first order
of business for a slave or immigrant gained stability or freedom
was to find or send for family. The strength and love of family
dilutes the power of failure and setback.
Our government master knows that without family, the
individual motivation is weakened.
The God-given father is a protection against falling prey to
the master. In our God-given fathers rest our dignity, tradition
of heritage and the glorification of our heavenly one. The
government-as-master has neither the desire nor the capacity to
support this. In fact, it is in master’s best interest to abate these
traditions of generational influence on the individual self.
Our first family is a beautiful example of a strong Black
family. Don’t the 70 percent of Black children deserve the same
chance as the Obama’s own children?
All children require this fertile place, their father’s, to dwell.
Lisa Fritsch is a member of the national advisory council for
the Project 21 Black leadership network and a writer and radio talk
show host in Austin, Texas. Comments may be sent to Project21@
nationalcenter.org. This New Visions commentary was republished
with permission from The National Center for Public Policy Research.
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Bluford Scholars Jordan Brown

and Khalil Clash
Eugene Freeman presents roses to his wife and award
recipient, Pearlie Freeman, as past President Dr. Thelma
Daley and President Laura Knight look on

Mayor Stephanie
Harry Evans III of Mano Rawlings-Blake and
Swartz and Stephanie Theresa Rogers
Pettaway, winner of the
Photos by Bill Tabron mink coat raffle Victor Franklin, Carla A. Harris and Arnold Williams

On Sept. 25, the Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter of the National Council of Black Women
(NCBW) held its 21st annual Torchbearers Awards Breakfast honoring leaders in various vocations.
The event, held at Martin’s West, featured speaker Carla A. Harris, managing director in the
Institutional Advisory Group at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. The program also
included musical presentations and prize giveaways.
NCBW was founded in 1971 to mobilize Black women from various backgrounds into one
influential force. The Baltimore chapter was chartered in1989 and is currently led by Laura Knight. President Emerita Dr. Anne O.
Emery and Sen. Delores Kelly

City Councilwoman Helen Holton, Roslyn Smith

and Christine Moore

Photos by Bill Tabron

Sojourner-Douglass College recently celebrated their fourth

C. Jumoke Boston unveils the tribute annual scholarship banquet, “An Evening of Firsts,” which
to Dr. Charles W. Simmons included a VIP reception, program and dinner. The school is
also celebrating its 38th anniversary this year.
The program recognized outstanding individuals
and institutions in Baltimore who are “firsts” in their
Evelyn Williams and areas of accomplishment, who symbolize self-
determination and have created opportunities Deidra Bishop, Matthew Palmer,
Tacuma Simmons
for individuals and communities to become self- Marshear Morris and Ed Roulhac
sufficient.

Sheila Dixon, second from left, her son

Joshua, Ed Roulhac and Dr. Reginald
S. Avery, president of Coppin State
University

Maxine Winbush and

Dr. Theresa Cooper W. Paul Coates accepts his award
from the Rev. Dr. Sandra Connor Gerald Griffin
and Jewel Wells

Photos by J.D. Howard

The Metro Delta Torchbearers Foundation recently held its
22nd annual crab feast at Martin’s West. The foundation
supports the activities of the Baltimore Metropolitan
Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

Attendees
have fun on
the dance
floor

Tonya Blue and

Barbara Peeples, Stephanie
Sonja Hill enjoy
Lee, Kimberly Robinson and
the crabs and
President Louise Green,
festivities
Skylar and Sky Cosby event chairwoman

Tillenna Bullock, David Hamilton, Tashea Hamilton,

David Hamilton and Linda Hamilton. Standing Nikki Taylor, Tennelia Engram, Linnea
Kevin Bullock, Victoria Lyons, Roger Lyons and Green, Marcia Wagner and Kristie Pratt
Ernest Davis
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‘Roger Goodell must have
bumped his head’
I must admit when it comes to sports, this acorn has fallen
far from the tree. Pop was a baseball fan from the top of his
head to the bottom of his soul. I, on the other hand, am a
follower of football. Although sitting at this desk requires that I
report on all sports, it always gives me pleasure to have football
as my topic du jour.
Sometimes my subject leaves me with a queasy feeling in
my stomach and a sour taste in my mouth. Today is such a time.
The latest news from the hierarchy of football is that NFL
Commissioner Roger Godell is planning to change the format
to an 18-game season. When I heard that, I thought, “This man
must have bumped his head.”
It is interesting to hear your thoughts being broadcast from
your TV just as you have thought them. I watched an interview
of Baltimore Ravens star Ray Lewis a few days ago, and since
the subject was on the 18-game proposal, I was very attentive.
I have spoken my thoughts on the fact that it is easy for some
suits in an office to send players in harm’s way while they
enjoy a scotch and soda in the luxury owner’s box. Ray’s
words were a little different, but his message was the same.
My first question concerns the need for an extra two games.
This can only be attributed to greed, because the fans certainly
haven’t demanded it. Last season, 22 games didn’t sell out.
This resulted in a TV blackout in some areas. This season, four
games haven’t sold out. So my point is why add more games
when your product must need help in other areas.
My next concern addresses the seeming disinterest of the
“My first question concerns the need for an
extra two games. This can only be attrib-
uted to greed, because the fans certainly
haven’t demanded it.”
commissioner of the health of the players. As you read this,
the House Judiciary Committee is addressing head injuries in
football since so many result in concussions. And concussions
in so many cases have long-term consequences.
Many of you readers are still in mourning over the midnight
exodus of the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis. You cheered
with them during the glory days and you lamented with them
during the hard times.
During those glory days, the stadium rang with the
announcer’s words, “Unitas to Mackey for the touchdown.”
John Mackey was one of the heroes of the old Baltimore Colts
team, and he had his share of concussions. Now he is suffering
from dementia. His wife doesn’t know from day to day when
John is going to exhibit all of his faculties. The sound of his
name once brought smiles to the faces of fans, but now there is
sorrow where the smiles once were.
Concussions aren’t the only concern when it comes to the
health of players. There is damage to joints, ligaments, bones
and vision that plague players after they are forced to hang up
the cleats.
Most of us over 35 remember Earl Campbell “The Tyler
Rose.” Campbell in his first year not only won the Rookie of
the Year award, but won the award for most rushing yardage.
He carried the team on his back, now he needs a walker to carry
his war torn body from place to place.
Darryl Stingley had a successful career on the march when
everything was cut short by Raiders hit man Jack Tatum. The
hit was clean, but Stingley spent his remaining years in a
wheelchair.
Followers of the game remember Buffalo Bills tight end
Kevin Everett’s unfortunate collision with a Denver player.
Everett was taken from the field on a stretcher and it was later
reported that he had a spinal injury. His surgery and rehab were
successful, and he is able to walk though he will never play
football again.
There are too many of these horror stories to fit in this
space, but it is noteworthy that at the moment there are more
than 60 NFL players on the injured list.
Can you imagine the carnage that will come out of a game
in Green Bay during the middle of February? Maybe Roger
Godell should examine this issue from an angle that focuses on
the health and wellbeing of his players.

Sports Commentary Morgan State’s Tate Named

All Hail, Leonsis , the New King of D.C. MEAC Defensive Player of Week
By Stephen D. Riley
AFRO Staff Writer
Football is alive and
well in the District, but
new Washington Wizards’
owner Ted Leonsis did his
best to steal a little bit of
the thunder last week. The
Wizards held their Midnight
Madness Tuesday morning
and open scrimmage on
Sunday’s Fan Fest at the
George Mason Patriot Center
with surprising turnouts.
Over 3,000 fans showed up
for the NBA’s first Midnight
Madness event, but Sunday’s
scrimmage drew even more.
As I sat in the stands at
the Patriot Center for both
events last week, the massive
fan support over a pair of
practices was eye-opening.
Basketball is apparently back
again in the city, and fans,
kids and courtesy watchers
wasted no time jumping at
the chance to see this new
Wizards team.
Everyone’s favorite
rookie, John Wall, hasn’t
even played an NBA game
yet, but the city treats him
like a star. Jerseys, signs and
children’s chants of “sign
my poster” filled the Patriot
Center on Sunday. But don’t
blame it all on hype, Wall
helped continue the love fest
with some moves that you’ll
only see on a PlayStation
video game. If you’ve never
seen love or infatuation
before, the Patriot Center
would’ve blown you away.
Fans absolutely adore this
team and it’s evident when
“Leonsis’ decision...to host a series of
free events—when he could’ve easily
charged for admission— already ranks
him above some of the other coin-hungry
owners in the area...”
they fill a gymnasium on a
nice Sunday morning to see a
group of millionaires stretch,
jog and joke around.
But don’t credit the
players, credit Leonsis: he’s
doing things his way and his
way is catered directly to the
fans. Never underestimate
the power of giving back.
Leonsis’ decision to draft
Wall and to host a series
of free events—when he
could’ve easily charged for
admission— already ranks
him above some of the other
coin-hungry owners in the
area in my book. So far this
summer, I’ve been to John
Wall Day, Midnight Madness
and Sunday’s Fan Fest,
all of which have churned
out amazing numbers and
support. Again, credit Leonis.
When longtime owner
Abe Pollin died last
November, it opened the
door for the Washington
Capitals owner and former
AOL mogul to take over—
and he’s ruled like a kind-
hearted king thus far. You
probably would’ve frowned
at the prospect of attending a
Wizards game a few seasons
ago even if you found tickets
at the bottom of a cereal box.
But frown no more, times
have changed. There’s a
new belief, new players and
a new owner that’s making
everything Wizard-related
the hottest ticket in town. All
hail, Leonsis, the new king
of D.C. basketball.
Scarlett, Okakpu also honored
By Perry Green
AFRO Sports Editor
Morgan State’s beatdown
on Howard didn’t go
unnoticed by the Mid-Eastern
Athletic Conference’s weekly
honors committee. Three MSU
players were honored by the
MEAC Monday following
a impressive defensive and
special teams showing that
led to a 20-3 win in the N.Y.
Urban League Classic.
Bears senior defensive
end Bricen Tate was named
the MEAC Defensive Player
of the Week, while teammate
Kemar Scarlett was honored
as MEAC Specialist of the
Week. Freshman receiver
Chuka Okakpu was named
the conference Rookie of the
Week.
Tate, a Beaumont, Texas
MSU’s Scarlett Recognized with Fred Mitchell Award
By AFRO Staff
Morgan State’s Kemar
Scarlett has already been
honored twice by the Mid-
Eastern Athletic Conference
for his stellar play so far
this season. Now he’s being
recognized by the athletic
award committees in the
nation.
Scarlett, a Temple Hills,
Md., native, is one of 32
players recognized with the
inaugural Fred Mitchell Award
for excellence on the football
field and community during
the month of September.
The senior place-kicker
currently leads both Morgan
State and the MEAC in
scoring with 32 points scored
on 10 field goals made and
2-of-2 point-after-touchdown
attempts. Scarlett is also an
active leader off the field as a
member of the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes Leadership
Team.
Scarlett set a new MSU
record for most field goals in
a game with four during the
season-opener against Bowie
State on Sept. 4. He averaged
61 yards in 16 kickoffs so far
this season.
“Anytime you have a
kicker making 50-yard field
goals, it makes it easier for
the offense and brings the
native, finished with seven
tackles (four solo), a sack and
also snatched his first career
interception. He leads a Bears
defensive unit that ranks
second in the entire Football
Championship Subdivision
in yards allowed per game
(205.7)
“It’s good to see our
defense still continuing to
play well, along with our
special teams unit,” said MSU
coach Donald Hill-Eley to the
AFRO after the Classic. “A
lot of players did a lot of good
things to bring us through
tonight. Kevin Myrie did a
good job of stopping the mid-
line run option, and Reshaude
Miller did a good job in the
secondary by making stops
and protecting against the
passing game.”
Scarlett was honored for
opportunity for points,” MSU
head coach Donald Hill-Eley
said. “It’s good to be able to
have a guy that you know
from 35 and sometimes 40
yards away, he’s going to
make the play for you.”
Courtesy Photo/MSU Sports Information
Senior placekicker Kemar Scarlett is one of 32 players
recognized by the Fred Mitchell Award for excellence
displayed both on and off the football field during the
month of September.
The Fred Mitchell Award
honoree will be announced in
mid-December, and nominees
will be assessed based on
performance on the field and
in the community.
There are 11 kickers
from the NCAA’s Football
Championship Subdivision
(formerly known as Division
I-AA), eight kickers from
his second time this season
for converting two of three
field goal attempts, both
at least 45 yards long. The
Temple Hills, Md. native
has scored 32 of the team’s
46 total points so far this
season. Meanwhile, Okakpu,
a 6-foot-4-inch native of
Georgia, scored Morgan
State’s first touchdown of
the season on a 16-yard pass
from quarterback Donovan
Dickerson.
“We’ll take the win, but
we have a lot of things we
need to fix offensively,”
Coach Hill-Eley said.
“Offensively, we just didn’t
have a lot happening.”
Despite the win at the N.Y.
Urban League Classic and
the MEAC honors, the Bears
were trampled Oct. 2 by
Bethune-Cookman 69-32.
Division II teams, 10 from
Division III schools and three
selected from NAIA teams.
“Place-kickers played a
pivotal role in many games
during the first month of the
college football season,” Fred
Mitchell said. “There were
extraordinary performances,
and we are delighted to honor
these fine young men that
were nominated by their
schools, several of which are
also nationally ranked.”
Find out more about
the award at www.
fredmitchellaward.com.
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Baltimore Actor Stars in ‘The Wiz’ At 72, Local Poet Retains

By Bobby Marvin
Special to the AFRO
When actor Eric Anthony was a kid, he
enjoyed having everyone’s attention. His mom
enrolled him in the historic Arena Players’
youth theatre program, where his passion for
performing grew. Now, that rambunctious pre-
teen is grown up with a professional career
that has led him to star on Broadway in The
Lion King, Hairspray and Mary Poppins.
Anthony has returned home to Baltimore
for a month-long staging of popular Wizard
of Oz adaptation, The Wiz, and can be seen
performing as Scarecrow at Centerstage
through Nov. 7.
AFRO: How did you become interested in
acting?
Eric Anthony: I think it’s a
combination of a lot of stuff. The
story goes, when I was 18 months
old, my grandfather, Baxter “Peanut”
fun that I was at a program with a whole bunch
of other people singing, dancing and acting.
At the end of the summer we would put on
a show…The woman who runs the theater’s
name is Catherine Orange… I love her so
much because she always encouraged me.
Even when I first started there I felt like she
noticed me from the very beginning.
AFRO: You also played Scarecrow when
you were 15. What it different now compared
to then?
EA: When I was Scarecrow at Arena
Players my dog played Toto, which was
really cool…[At the time] I had a crush on
Dorothy…It was just so much fun and here
we were doing this show that like sold out the
Arena Players. Everybody came to see
it and really for me, I think that’s
when I knew I was good
at what I did. [I] made a
character and it wasn’t me
and really discovered that
Unblinking ‘Eye’
By Gregory Dale
AFRO Staff Writer
It’s been eight years since the
release of Robert “Sonny” Wood’s
first book The Eye of the Poet,
yet the 72-year-old’s keen eye for
transforming life stories into moving
poetry still hasn’t lost focus.
Wood has endured enough life
experiences to span two lifetimes.
In addition to going to prison,
he’s also battled drug and alcohol
addiction. But at the peak of his
tribulations, he vied for a change.
“I really [wanted] to make an extra
effort to get my life on track and go
in the [right] direction,” Wood told
the AFRO during a recent interview.
In an attempt to curb his desire Courtesy Photo

Jones, use to own a candy store on I was an actor. for the “street life,” he honed his passion for writing poetry, which he says he garnered at a
Edmonson Avenue and at 18 months, young age. Born in North Carolina, Wood became captivated when his mother would often
I would be at the candy store dancing AFRO: How recite a particular poem to him before bed. “I grew very attracted to that melodic sound,”
and singing on the counter top. The does it feel to come Wood said. “I used to run to the bed at night and ask her to recite it. I guess that seed was
customers would come in and back to Baltimore planted from that time on.”
pay me change to perform. This and reprise the role at Wood moved to Baltimore when he was 13 and had his first child at 17. By this time, his
is the story from my mother, CENTERSTAGE? fondness for poetry had been buried by life situations and the lyrics to his mother’s poem had
my grandfather and my EA: To this day, [it] still begun to fade from his memory.
family…Definitely is my favorite part in any But in 1958, during a trip to the bohemian Mecca, Greenwich Village, N.Y., his passion
before I knew I was play I ever played and wanted was rekindled after listening to a man’s poetry at a nightclub. “I concentrated on it and it all
performing or making to be in. So the fact that I get came back,” Wood said. “I was shocked that I could remember it after hearing it at such a
a choice to be a to see my dream come true in young age.”
performer, I was Baltimore, it’s kind of mind His experiences with love, hate, violence and life in the streets fueled his debut release in
already doing it. boggling…It feels like the 2002. The book received critical praise from many prominent people in Baltimore and even
biggest blessing in the world. included a synopsis by former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume.
AFRO: What Today, Wood serves as a writer, a foster grandparent for Baltimore’s Department of
was is like to For more information Juvenile Justice Detention Center and a photographer. He also developed a passion for acting
perform at the about the play, visit along the way, first appearing in productions at the local theater company the Arena Players
Arena Players centerstage.org. Follow and later garnering a role in the HBO series “The Wire” in 2002.
when you were 8? Anthony at Twitter.com/ Though it’s been nearly a decade since the Eye of the Poet’s release, Wood is still zealously
EA: I ericbanthony. at work developing his second book. He explained that finances have slowed its production,
remember all the but he remains passionate about getting it released. “I have just about all of the material
kids. I remember together,” Wood said. “But quite frankly, it’s the financial thing. But it’s difficult when you’re
Eric Anthony
being in heaven. dealing with everyday situations and you still have to make that dollar to pay bills and take
It was so much care of your family. But all-in-all, I’m truly committed to completing it.”
Courtesy Photo

“I would like to recapture that freshness of vision, which is grandsons Damien Lee and Gregory Packer Jr., Susan
characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.” Smallwood, Tobi Pulley, Ralph Askins, Damien Pulley, Angie
- Henri Matisse Burnett, Lyberia Libby Massey and Stephanie Covington.
“Living the Champagne Life” at the “Saturday Night Happy 40th Nevie Gray, Karen Brown, Marilyn Benaderet ,
Fish Fry” was the theme for my “one-night-only” birthday Sam Benaderet and Liston George.
celebration at Maceo’s Lounge. We drank Moet champagne, ate “The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the
fried fish, pig feet, fried chicken, bread pudding and more as at a time.” - Leo F Buscaglia artist himself”- Paul Cezanne
we partied till “round midnight” the old school way. Friends Located in the historic Carroll Park, Mount Clare Museum Congratulations to artist Larry Poncho Brown, recipient
started arriving around 2 p.m., Saturday afternoon as dee jay House was Charles Carroll’s summer home and the home of of The Museums Choice Award; other award recipients were
Little Joe had Ne-Yo’s “Champagne Life” pumping throughout. indentured servants and enslaved African Americans working artists Charles Bibbs and Leo Rucker; artist Annie Lee received
“I’m growing old, I delight in the past.” - Henri Matisse for Baltimore Irons Work. Recently, Sen. Verna Jones hosted the Lifetime Achievement award. Poncho’s new studio grand
Partiers were shocked when he played “Saturday Night Fish a reception at the mansion honoring Pamela Charshee, Dr. opening, The Art of Poncho, 1100 Wicomico St., is Oct. 23- 24.
Fry,” thinking it was just an old saying. Raymond Winbush and Dr. Glen Phillips for their community For more information email poncho@larryponchobrown.com.
“Ain’t nothing but a party y’all.” Celebrating the service. “Early detection is key, and if I hadn’t found my lump early,
“champagne life” with me were Council President Bernard “Of course, one should not drink much, but often.” - Henri I don’t know what would have been. I am still here and I want
Jack Young, Marsha Jews, Sen. Cathy Pugh, Dr. Barney Wilson, de Toulouse-Lautrec to encourage women to do that on a regular basis.” - Olivia
Mildred Harper, “Rambling” Rosa Pryor, Sara Smalley, Tobi Guests enjoyed wine tasting provided by the Spirit Shoppe Newton-John
Pulley, Rosemary Duchess Atkinson, David Scott, Brenda Baker, and scrumptious foods prepared by urban farmer Chef Bernard October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. When you see
Brenda Sykes, Tessa Hill Aston, Herb Brown, Michelle Epps, Parks, while listening to the sounds of jazz played by the your wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, co-worker, neighbor,
Harold Haley, Lorenzo, Shirley Belton, Toni Greene, Dr. and Four Corners Jazz Band. Guests at the event were State’s friend, the special person that makes you smile when you
Mrs. Raymond Bowen, Susan Parker, Reggie Thomas, Michael Attorney Pat Jessamy, Del. Melvin Stukes, Judge Joyce Baylor think of them or someone who has been there for you when no
Guye, Everene Turner Johnson, Dr. Everett Garnett, Sarita Thompson, Judge Lewyn Garrett, Delegate Nathaniel Oaks, one else was there, do one thing: Step out of your zone, look
Murray, Michael Grant, Kim, Nick, Linda James, Kay Curry, Brenda Baker, Susan Parker, Deborah Courtney, Aldonna them dead in the eyes and when they least expect it ask, “Have
Patricia Miller, Harold Darden, Libby Massey, Ralph Askins, Wylie, Laverne Naesea’, Veris Lee, and Alice Torriente. you had your mammogram?” The look on their face and the
St. Louis, Ora Washington and my daughter Lisa Lee Packer, “Let’s toast it up” “it’s your birthday make some laughter you’ll share will be invaluable.
who drove in from Fairfax Station, Va., to spend the afternoon. noise!” Happy birthday to Frank “The Executive” Coakley, I’ll be seeing you.
I’m remembering these names off the top of my head; there Karen Hill, Jeanne Jones, Jeff Jones, my sister Karen Chase, -Valerie & the Friday Night Bunch
were so many people, they just kept coming. Finally, “round
midnight,” “time to go” “the party’s over.” I get a call from
Patrease Nicholson and Damon Hughes, coordinators of the
Baltimore County African American Heritage Festival and it had
just ended. They were en route to Maceo’s.
I met them at the beautifully renovated Five Mile House.
Word had spread that I would be at the Five when I left
Maceo’s and people were there waiting. To quote singer Millie
Jackson, when disco arrived on the scene she said, “Disco will
kill an old woman like me.” OK, Millie used the B word, but
the meaning is the same as she continued dancing. Now you
see why the party was “one night only.” Thanks to all that
made it special from last year’s one-year celebration, to the
one-night-only party. “To GOD be the glory”
“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man
has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have
some.” - Charles Dickens
I was among the thousands that travelled to Hollywood
Casino the first day they opened. I was listening to the radio
Monday when I heard it was opening ahead of schedule. Since
I was in the Towson area and minutes from the Beltway, I
couldn’t resist the urge to make history on opening day. I
called my favorite Aunt Sis, who lives in Havre de Grace, a
five-minute ride from Perryville to see if she wanted to go.
I laughed when she said, “I’m already here.” “Hold on I’m
coming,” I told her as I was passing the Maryland House. “It
should‘ve been me.” The screams from the woman winning
$10,000 on a penny progressive machine was priceless.
“Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment
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Obituaries
Pauline H. Saunders, 68 James Stovall, 52
Caretaker Actor, Producer
Pauline Hopewell on her. James Stovall, an actor, of Full Gospel Baptist
Saunders died peacefully Pauline was the glue director and producer, Church of Cooksville, Md.
in her sleep on Aug. 14, that kept the Hopewell died in New York City At the time of his
at Northwest Hospice family connected. The Sept. 25. He was 52. The death, he worked as
Hospital in Baltimore family could count on Baltimore native was a artistic director on a
County. Pauline was the her for summer cookouts, 27-year veteran Broadway project based on Lorraine
third daughter born to Paul weddings, birthday parties, performer and appeared in Hansberry’s Young
and Cecelia Hopewell holiday activities, bus trips the original cast of Ragtime. Gifted & Black. He was
in Baltimore. She was and any activity that would Stovall was also involved prepared to appear in
preceded in death by her bring the family together. in numerous community the New York Theatre
parents and seven siblings: Pauline was formerly affairs such as the African Company’s staging
Saul, James, Paul, Agnes, married to James Burial Ground National JAMES STOVALL of musical Woulda,
Francis, Jerome and Joseph. McNeely and from this Monument, the American
Coulda, Shoulda: A Jazz
In June she buried her son union two children were Museum of National
Musical Comedy. He has also participated in
Harold “Blue” Hopewell. born, Pina and James. History’s Kwanzaa and Black History Month
numerous productions, including the 2009
The death of her son took the She later married James celebrations and the Ministry of the Arts
PAULINE H. SAUNDERS Broadway revival of Finian’s Rainbow, The
wind from under her wings. (Winkie) Saunders, her & Culture at the United Palace Theatre in
Harlem. Life, Rocky Horror, Dreamgirls, Once on this
Pauline was educated in knight in shining armor. Island, Sweet Charity and Big Deal
the Baltimore City Public School System. All She is survived by her husband, James; Stovall graduated from Morehouse
College in 1981 and counted director Stovall leaves to mourn his father, sister
of her adult life she worked in public health five children, Donnell McQueen, Charles
Spike Lee and actor Samuel L. Jackson as Donna Stovall Jeffress and numerous friends
taking care of the sick and elderly. She loved Hopewell, Robert Hopewell, Pina and
classmates. He was an ordained minister and and relatives. He was preceded in death by
taking care of the elderly and even after her James McNeely; seven grandchildren and
son of the Rev. James J. Stovall Sr., pastor mother, Ella.
retirement she continued to care for her “little 10 great-grandchildren. Survivors also
old lady” and “little old man.” She loved include brothers, Harold Hopewell and Bert

Faithbytes
taking care of her patients and as faith would Hopewell, sister Bernice Hopewell and a
have it, she and her last “little old lady” were host of sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law and
in the hospital together and she was checking extended family.

Oct. 10 Holiday Inn Hotel Baltimore- an invitation to the inaugural

Elsie H. Hicks, 77 Worship with Bishop
Douglas Miles and Koinonia
Inner Harbor. God’s Amazing
Grace Fellowship Ministry is
concert of the Community
Concert Choir of Baltimore,
Baltimore City School System Employee Baptist Church, 3:30 p.m., at the sponsoring ministry. To 5 p.m. at Union Baptist
Hope Community Church, register, visit gatetothecity. Church, 1219 Druid Hill Ave.
Elsie H. Hicks, daughter her grandchildren and 719 Poplar Grove St., where com or call 443-453-7080 or The mission of the choir is
of the late Harry and Bertha great-grandchildren. She the Rev. Ronald Covington is 410-340-4570. to “preserve and promote the
Hicks, was born June 4, enjoyed laying back on pastor. For more information sacred music tradition of the
1933, in Baltimore. She her “throne,” watching call the church at 443-869- Oct. 27 African-American Church.”
departed life after a lengthy football, the “Jerry Spring 6061. The Rev. Dr. Charles Its repertoire includes
illness on Aug. 29. Show” and “Judge Mathis.” Booth, Mt. Olivet Baptist spirituals, anthems, hymns
Elsie received her She loved to cook and was Oct. 17 Church, Columbus, Ohio, and gospel music. Dr. Marco
education at Frederick an avid sports fan of the The Rev. Willie Hilton Jr., will preach the Annual Fall K. Merrick is the founding
Douglass High School and old Baltimore Colts and New Antioch Baptist Church Revival, 7 p.m., Oct. 27-29, director.
attended the University Baltimore Ravens. of Randallstown and the Rev. at New Metropolitan Baptist
of Maryland. She was a Those who remain Ben Long, Rehoboth Light Church, 1501 McCulloh St. Nov. 13
member of Saint Gregory to cherish her beautiful of the World Church are For more information call Agape Love, a cabaret
the Great church. She memory and love are her respectively 11 a.m. and 3:30 410-669-6083 or 410-728- style gospel show, featuring
worked many years for five sons, Ronald, Reginald, p.m. preachers for Youth 9657. The Rev. Richard The Wise Men Ministry, will
Emily Price Jones Headstart Garry, Clarence and Doron and Young Adult Day at Mt. Dickens is the pastor of New be held, 8-11:30 p.m. at the
Center and later became ELSIE H. HICKS Hicks; daughter Valerie Moriah Baptist Church, 2201 Metropolitan Baptist Church. Lithuanian Hall Association,
employed with the Baltimore Hicks Price; sisters Marian Garrison Blvd. For more 853 Hollins St. With more
City Public School System, and Ernestine Hicks, Gladys information contact min. Oct. 31 guests to be added, the event
where she later retired. Watkins and Catherine Thomas; brothers, kobi@tmmbc.org or call 410- The 2nd Anniversary of offers free food and door
Elsie was a very outgoing person and Leroy and Clarence Hicks; 16 grandchildren, 499-0043. The Rev. Stephen The Soul Messengerz will prizes. For more information
had many friends. She was loved and two special granddaughters she raised as her M. Smith is pastor of Mt. be held 5 to 10:30 p.m. at call 410-209-9045.
admired wherever she went. Elsie loved daughters and a host of in-laws, godchildren Moriah. Providence St. John, 5607
Old Crain Highway. Featured Nov. 13
Oct. 23 artists are Kenny Davis and The Third Masonic
Free Service The Gate to the City The Melody Aires, Chevela District of the MWPHGL of
Obituaries are printed for free by the AFRO-American Newspapers. Send funeral Prophetic Conference will be & The Spiritual Voices, Maryland is partnering with
program and picture to: Obituaries, Baltimore AFRO-American Newspaper, 2519 N. held, noon to 9 p.m., at the Salvation Music Ministry, Impressive Women to present
Charles St. , Baltimore, Md. 21218, Or fax to: 1-877-570-9297
Faith, The Spiritual Lights a Gospel Jubilee and Dinner,
and the 2nd New St. Paul 5 to 9 p.m. at Franklin
RISING ZION BAPTIST CHURCH “Annual Revival 2010” Praise Singers. For ticket Square Elementary School,
2300 Llewelyn Avenue • Baltimore, Maryland 21213 information call 240-353- 1400 W. Lexington St. For
featuring 8764. more information call 443-
You Are Cordially Invited Bishop John R. Bryant, 762-0053. No tickets sold at
To Join Us For Our Nov. 7 the door.

32nd Pastoral Anniversary

Evangelist Looking to celebrate
Senior Bishop - African Methodist Episcopal Church Black love? Attend Marriage  Nov. 14
Celebration Monday, October 11th thru
Nectar’s first official event,
Why Knot Marriage?, 3 to 7
Group One Officials’
Annual Day of Faith Baptist
Honoring Friday, October 15th, 2010 p.m., at Annie’s Art Gallery, Church begins with Bishop
“A Servant Of God With A 5418 Allentown Way, Camp Clifford M. Johnson Jr. as
Christ Centered Purpose And Rev. Theodore D. 7:00 P.M. Nightly Springs, Md. Cheryl Jackson guest preacher for the 10:45
Addison, Sr. Music Featuring of Praise 104.1 will serve as a.m. worship service and
Plan Still Standing Boldly, emcee and guide through an continues with a 3:30 p.m.
The Combined Choirs of Sharon
Rooted In The Past, Growing In The Future” Musicians afternoon of fun, fellowship, Gospel “Love Offering”
Dr. Robert D. Everett and Dr. Warren D. Hood food and continued faith Concert featuring Winfield
REV. THEODORE D. ADDISON, SR., The Wind Ensemble of Sharon, Dr. Kelvin O’Neal, Director in Black love. For ticket Parker and Praise. For
PASTOR Guest Soloists and Choirs from Sister Churches purchase, visit eventbrite. more information, contact
com/event/851257133. the “praying church,”
“Remember them which have the rule over you, who
have spoken unto you the world of God: whose faith follow,
Sharon Baptist Church For more information visit 833 N. Bond St., at
Stricker and Presstman Streets at Sharon Baptist Way marriagenectar.com. faithbaptistbaltimore.org
considering the end of their conversation.” Baltimore, Maryland 21217 or call 410-732-0389. The
Hebrews 13:7 Dr. Alfred C. D. Vaughn, Senior Pastor The Brothers of the Delta Rev. Greggory R. Maddox is
Dr. William E. Johnson, Jr., Pastor
Services Lambda Chapter of Alpha pastor of the church.
“The Church That Cares About You” Phi Alpha Fraternity extend  
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 - 7:30 p.m.
Reverend Dr. Ernest Flowers, Pastor
Open Bible Baptist Church - Baltimore, MD
Oct. 21 - Nov. 14
Thursday, October 14th, 2010 - 7:30 p.m. Lincoln Theatre
Reverend Franklin Peterson, Jr., Pastor
Faith United Baptist Church - Baltimore, MD

Friday, October 15th, 2010 - 7:30 p.m.

Reverend Dr. Milton N. Lemon, Pastor A Musical Comedy
Community Baptist Church - Patapsco Park, MD

Sunday, October 17th, 2010 - 11:00 a.m. May we all leave

Reverend Dr. Ernest Gillespie, Pastor the theatre a little
Pearly Gate Missionary Baptist Church - Memphis, TN more Sanctified!
Chairpersons
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Brother Gregory Wilkes • Sister Ashley Banks Go to ticketmaster.com Starring
Assistant Chairpersons or call 202.397.SEAT (7328). John McClure
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Brother Donald Grant • Sister Tatianna Joyner For more about the show visit letsgetsanctified.com Sundays Best
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be automatically reduced. In determining the application of such
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pose. Surplus funds exceeding the amount used in the revenue
estimates for the succeeding year but not in excess of 1% of the
current General Fund operating budget may be utilized by the
Board of Estimates to reduce the tax rate requirements for the
next fiscal year or to constitute a source of funds for supplemen-
tal appropriations recommended to the City Council pursuant to
the provisions of this subsection.]
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That
this proposed amendment to the City Charter be submitted to
the legal and qualified voters of Baltimore City, for adoption or
rejection, in accordance with Article XI-A, § 5 of the Maryland
Constitution, in the form specified by the City Solicitor.
FOR CHARTER AMENDMENT
AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT
Resolution No. 10-21
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
CONCERNING
Charter Amendment – Sustainability and Related Funds
FOR the purpose of expressly authorizing the establishment of 1
or more continuing, nonlapsing funds to be used for promoting
sustainability and a clean and safe, maintaining and establishing
parks and other open spaces, and cleaning and preserving the
natural environment in the City and for related purposes; and
submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for
adoption or rejection.
BY proposing an amendment to
Article I - General Provisions
Section(s) 11 Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition)
SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND
CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the
City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows:
Baltimore City Charter
Article I. General Provisions
§ 11. SUSTAINABILITY AND RELATED FUNDS.
October 9, 2010 - October 15, 2010, The Afro-American B7
LEGAL NOTICES
(A) AUTHORIZATION.
BY ORDINANCE, THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF
BALTIMORE MAY ESTABLISH 1 OR MORE CONTINU-
ING, NONLAPSING FUNDS FOR PURPOSES OF PRO-
MOTING SUSTAINABILITY AND A CLEAN AND SAFE,
MAINTAINING AND ESTABLISHING PARKS AND OTHER
OPEN SPACES, AND CLEANING AND PRESERVING THE
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT WITHIN THE CITY OF BAL-
TIMORE, INCLUDING:
(1) ADMINISTERING SUPPORTING THE ACTIVITIES OF
A CITY OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND OF OTHER
OFFICES NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE FOR THESE 25
PURPOSES AND GOALS;
(2) PERFORMING EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH ON SUS-
TAINABILITY ISSUES THESE PURPOSES AND GOALS;
(3) PROVIDING ASSISTANCE BY LOAN, GRANT, OR
OTHERWISE TO INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS
UNDERTAKING ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE SUSTAIN-
ABILITY FURTHER THESE PURPOSES AND GOALS;
AND
(4) CONDUCTING RESEARCH FOR THE PURPOSE OF
PROMOTING SUSTAINABILITY TO ADVANCE THESES
PURPOSES AND GOALS; AND
(5) FUNDING RELATED CITY PROGRAMS.
(B) REVENUE SOURCES.
A FUND ESTABLISHED UNDER THIS SECTION MAY
COMPRISE:
(1) MONEY APPROPRIATED TO THE FUND IN THE AN-
NUAL ORDINANCES OF ESTIMATES; AND
(2) GRANTS OR DONATIONS MADE TO THE FUND; AND
(3) PROCEEDS FROM FINES, FEES, AND PROGRAMS
DEDICATED TO THE FUND BY ORDINANCE.
(C) CONTINUING NATURE OF FUND.
NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS
CHARTER, UNSPENT PORTIONS OF A FUND ESTAB-
LISHED UNDER THIS SECTION:
(1) REMAIN IN THE FUND, TO BE USED EXCLUSIVELY
FOR THEIR ORDAINED PURPOSES;
(2) DO NOT REVERT TO THE GENERAL REVENUES OF
THE CITY; AND
(3) THEIR APPROPRIATIONS DO NOT LAPSE.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That
this proposed amendment to the City Charter be submitted to
the legal and qualified voters of Baltimore City, for adoption or
rejection, in accordance with Article XI-A, § 5 of the Maryland
Constitution, in the form specified by the City Solicitor.
FOR CHARTER AMENDMENT
AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT
Resolution No. 10-24
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL of subsection [(g)] (h) of this section, made by any municipal
CONCERNING
Charter Amendment – Procurement
FOR the purpose of establishing new procedures for estab-
lishing and modifying certain bid threshold amounts, bid and
performance requirements, advertising requirements, award cri- other contracts involving an expenditure [of less than $25,000]
teria, and other matters governing procurement; and submitting that does not require formal advertising under subsection (c) of
this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption this section.
or rejection.
By proposing to amend
Article VI - Board of Estimates
Section(s) 11
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)
By proposing to amend
Article VII - Executive Departments
Section(s) 17(d)
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to opened by the Board of Estimates.
read as follows:
Baltimore City Charter
Article VI. Board of Estimates
§ 11. Procurement.
(a) Board of Estimates responsible.
The Board of Estimates shall be responsible for awarding con-
tracts and supervising all purchasing by the City as provided in responsive and responsible bidder or in the case of Requests for
this section and elsewhere in the Charter.
(b) Authority of City Council.
(1) By ordinance passed by two-thirds of the City Council
members, the Mayor and City Council shall set the dollar
thresholds for:
(i) contracts that must be formally advertised; and
(ii) contracts that must be approved by the Board of Estimates. the amount of the tie bid.
(2) Pending enactment of an Ordinance under this subsec-
tion, the Board of Estimates shall set initial threshold amounts.
Those initial amounts shall remain in effect until different
amounts have been set by Ordinance under this subsection.
(c) [(b) Contracts of $25,000 or more] Formal advertisement.
[(i)] In contracting for any public work, or the purchase of any
supplies (unless otherwise provided by ordinance for foodstuffs
and related perishables), materials, equipment, or services other
than professional services, for the City or by any municipal
agency, involving an expenditure [of twenty five thousand dol-
lars or more, for the City or by any municipal agency] greater
than the threshold set under subsection (b) of this section, ad-
vertisements for proposals shall first be published at least twice
in [two] one or more [daily] newspapers of general circulation
published in Baltimore City, and published electronically to
the public, unless otherwise provided by the Charter. The first
publication shall be made not less than ten nor more than ninety
LEGAL NOTICES
days prior to the day set for opening the bids.
[(ii) The City Council, by ordinance adopted by a majority
of the members, may increase or decrease the dollar amounts
provided in this subsection (b) for contracts requiring published
advertisements.]
[(iii) The contract for any public work or the purchase of any
supplies (unless otherwise provided by ordinance for foodstuffs
and related perishables), materials, equipment, or services other
than professional services, involving an expenditure of five
thousand dollars or more shall be made by the Board of Esti-
mates in the manner provided in subsection (g).]
(d) [(c)] Professional services.
All professional services contracted for by the City shall be
engaged in the manner prescribed by resolution of the Board of
Estimates.
(e) [(d)] Emergencies, etc.
(i) When any supplies, materials, equipment, services, or
public works are of such a nature that no advantage will result
in seeking, or it is not practicable to obtain, competitive bids,
or when the need for [such] supplies, materials, equipment,
services, or public works is of an emergency nature[,] and the
using agency certifies this in writing to the Board of Estimates,
with written notice to the Department of Finance, the provisions
of subsection [(b)] (c) of this section may be dispensed with[,
but]. However, [such] the purchase [shall] may not be made,
nor [shall] may the City incur any obligation [therefor] for it,
until approved by the Board of Estimates after considering the
recommendation of the Department of Finance. When practi-
cable, the City’s intent to make a purchase under this exception
shall be posted electronically to the public for comment prior to
the approval of the purchase by the Board of Estimates.
(ii) In the event of an emergency of such a nature that the public
welfare would be adversely affected by awaiting the approval
of the Board of Estimates, the Department of Finance, upon
application by the head of the municipal agency involved, may
proceed to obtain the supplies, materials, equipment, services,
or public works required without reference to the provisions of
subsection [(b)] (c) of this section[;]. A [a] full report of [any
such] this action shall be promptly submitted to the Board of
Estimates.
(f) [(e)] Contracts [of $5,000 - $25,000] subject to Board of
Estimates approval.
All purchases of services other than professional services, of
property other than real estate or interests therein (except as
may be otherwise provided by ordinance for foodstuffs and
related perishables), and all other contracts involving an expen-
diture [of more than $5,000 and less than $25,000] greater than
an amount set under subsection (b) of this section, except those
awarded by the Board of Estimates pursuant to the provisions
agency, in addition to compliance with other applicable provi-
sions of the Charter, shall be submitted to the Board of Esti-
mates for its approval and shall be binding upon the City only
when so approved. The Board of Estimates may adopt rules
and regulations governing the procedures and requirements to
be followed by any municipal agency in making purchases or
(g) [(f)] Prequalification of bidders.
In contracting for any public work or the purchase of any
supplies, materials, equipment, or services for the City or by
any municipal agency, the Board of Estimates may establish,
maintain, and modify rules, regulations, and standards for the
prequalification of bidders.
(h) [(g)] Bid awards.
(1) (i) All bids made to the City in response to the formal
advertising procedures contained in this section, for materi-
als, supplies, equipment, services, or public works, or for any
other purpose, unless otherwise provided in the Charter, shall be
(ii) After opening the bids, the Board of Estimates shall award
the contract, as an entirety to the lowest responsive and respon-
sible bidder, or by items to the respective lowest responsive and
responsible bidders, or in the case of Requests for Proposals to
the highest scoring responsive and responsible bidder, or shall
reject all bids. However, whenever alternative bids are invited
for two or more different things, then, after all bids have been
opened, the Board may select the particular [thing] item that
will be procured, and shall award the contract to the lowest
Proposals to the highest scoring responsive and responsible bid-
der for that particular [thing] item.
(iii) In the event of tie bids, the using agency, with written
notice to the Department of Finance, shall make a written rec-
ommendation and report to the Board of Estimates setting forth
all pertinent considerations and the reasons for its recommenda-
tion. The Board, after also considering the recommendation of
the Department of Finance, may then award the contract in its
discretion, as long as the total cost to the City does not exceed
(iv) Once filed, bids are irrevocable.
(v) Any recommendation that is made by any municipal agency
to the Board of Estimates as to the appropriate award to be
made by the Board is advisory only and not binding on the
Board.
(vi) Notwithstanding the competitive bid provisions of this
Charter, the Board of Estimates may adopt rules and regulations
that establish uniform procedures for providing, on a neigh-
borhood service, neighborhood public work, or neighborhood
public improvement contract, limited bid preferences to respon-
sive and responsible bidders who are residents of, or have their
principal places of business in, that neighborhood.
(2)(i) All bids for construction contracts let for the Department
of Public Works, the Department of General Services, and the
Department of Transportation and any other contracts for public
works shall be accompanied by a check or [a] bid bond. For all
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LEGAL NOTICES
other contracts, the Director of Finance shall implement policies
and procedures to determine whether a bid bond is required for § 17. Department of Finance: purchasing.
a contract, the term and face value of the bond, and the manner
in which the bond shall be provided and refunded.
(ii) Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph (2), the
check shall be a certified check of the bidder, a bank cashier’s
check, or a bank treasurer’s check, drawn on a clearing house
bank. The check shall be in an amount provided by ordinance,
by the bid specifications, or by an order or regulation of the
using agency. In the case of bid checks of $5,000 or less, the
check may be of any type drawn on any banking institution of
the United States.
(iii) The bid bond shall be in the form and amount provided by
the rules and regulations of the Board of Estimates, and shall be qualified voters of Baltimore City, for adoption or rejection, in
filed by the bidder with the Department of Finance.
(3) (i) The successful bidder promptly shall execute a formal
contract, to be approved as to its form, terms, and conditions by
the City Solicitor[, and].
(ii) For all construction contracts let for the Department of Pub-
lic Works, the Department of General Services, and the Depart- also participates in the marketing of a planned giving program, and an active cultivation and
ment of Transportation and any other contracts for public works
, the bidder shall [also] execute and deliver to the Mayor a good
and sufficient performance bond, irrevocable letter of credit,
or certification that the successful bidder meets the require-
ments under the City’s self insurance program for performance
coverage. For all other contracts, the Director of Finance shall
implement policies and procedures to determine whether a
performance bond is required for a contract, the term and face
value of the bond, and the manner in which the bond shall be
provided.
(iii) [(ii)] The bond, letter of credit, or certification shall be: matter deleted from existing law.
1. in an amount equal to the full contract price; or
2. for each year in a multi-year contract (other than a construc-
tion contract), in an amount equal to the estimated contract price
for that year, as determined by the Director of Finance.
(iv) [(iii)] Any successful bidder who fails to execute promptly
and properly the required contract, performance bond, irrevo-
cable letter of credit, or certification, as applicable, shall forfeit
the amount deposited, or an equivalent amount under the bid
bond. This amount shall be taken and considered as liquidated
damages and not as penalty for the bidder’s failure.
(4) [On execution of] When the successful bidder executes the
contract and, if required, the performance bond [by the suc-
cessful bidder], the bid checks shall be returned to all bidders[,]
or the equivalent amounts charged against their bid bond shall
be released. If the City has deposited bid checks [of $5,000 or
less], the City shall reimburse these bidders in the amounts of
the bid checks.
(5) [(i) The Director of Finance, with the approval of the Board
of Estimates, may exempt from the bid bond and performance
bond requirements of paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsec-
tion the procurement of any standard items of commerce and
services that are from standard trades and professions and not
altered or customized to unique City specifications.]
[(ii)] If a bidder [exempted under this Paragraph] is not
required to file a bid bond under the policies and procedures ad-
opted by the Director of Finance and the bidder fails to execute
and perform any contract awarded to that bidder, the exempted
bidder shall forfeit the right to bid on any future City contract
for a period of time determined by the Board of Estimates, and
shall be liable for any costs incurred by the City as a result of
the default.
[(h) Performance bonds.
(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a bidder
on a contract for any public work or the purchase of any sup-
plies, materials, equipment, or services for the City or by any
municipal agency, is not required to post a bid bond if the bid is
equal to or less than the amount authorized by ordinance.
(ii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a
contractor on a contract for any public work or the purchase of
any supplies, materials, equipment, or services for the City or
by any municipal agency, is not required to post a performance
bond if such contract is for an amount equal to or less than the
amount authorized by ordinance.
(iii) At such time as the value of the contract, through amend-
ment or adjustment, including changes in scope or in estimated
quantities, exceeds the authorized amount, the contractor shall
be required to post a performance bond in the amount of 100%
of the value of the contract in excess of the authorized amount.
(iv) Upon a finding that one or more of the following conditions
exist, the Board of Estimates may require bidders to post bid
bonds with their bids and performance bonds with the execution
of contracts otherwise exempt from such requirements:
the contract is for the purchase of goods to be specially manu-
factured or assembled or which are otherwise not normally
available in suppliers’ inventories; the contract involves services
which, if improperly or inadequately performed, pose a substan-
tial risk of injury to persons or damage to property, with poten-
tial liability or loss in excess of $100,000; the contractor and/or
bidder has no prior record of performance by which the Board
of Estimates may use to determine the contractor’s or bidder’s
ability to perform.
(v) Where any condition listed above is found to exist
prior to advertising, the advertisements and specifications shall
state the bond requirements.
(vi) No payment or partial payment shall be made to a contrac-
tor proceeding without a bond under this section unless and
until evidence satisfactory to the Director of Finance is pre-
sented showing that the contractor has completed the contract or
portion thereof for which payment or partial payment is sought,
in accordance with the terms of the contract and satisfactory
to the Contract Compliance Officer and either the Purchasing
Agent or City Engineer, and that the contractor is entitled to the
payment or partial payment.]
Article VII. Executive Departments
Department of Finance
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Administrator II. Additional information Today
may be obtained at www.carrollcc.edu.
accordance with Article XI-A, § 5 of the Maryland Constitution,
EOE/M/F
in the form specified by the City Solicitor. FUNDRAISING
ANNUAL FUND DIRECTOR
The Annual Fund Director reports directly to the Director, Institutional Advancement, and is
FOR CHARTER AMENDMENT responsible for creating, implementing and executing a comprehensive Annual Fund plan and
AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT
solicitation calendar. This includes overseeing production of all solicitation materials,
coordinating direct mail, e-mail and e-fundraising strategies, phonathons and planning and
staffing of donor events. The Director analyzes the donor base and creates special donor
campaigns for lapsed donors and tracks financial progress and effectiveness of appeals. S/he
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor solicitation of donors is required. The incumbent also plans and implements smaller events and
is responsible for staffing Pratt Contemporaries activities for the Library’s young leadership group.
QUALIFICATIONS: A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university and five (5)
years of progressively more responsible experience in institutional advancement, focusing on
A TRUE COPY
annual appeals, is required. Demonstrated success in strategically devising and coordinating
direct mail campaigns is required as is success in solicitation. The candidate must be able to
Stephen M. Kraus, Chief excel in a team environment. Experience with Microsoft Office, including Excel and Raiser’s
Edge is a plus. Experience in maintaining an effective prospect management system. The
Bureau of Treasury Management ability to passionately represent our mission, to build strong relationships with donors, to take
Custodian of the City Seal initiative and think creatively, and to maintain the confidentiality of privileged and sensitive
information are essential.
Deadline: POSITION IS OPEN UNTIL FILLED.
EXPLANATION: Underlining indicates matter added by APPLICATION: For full consideration, submit resume and cover letter with salary requirement
amendment. Strike out indicates matter stricken by amendment.
and position title CLEARLY indicated by to:
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Office of Human Resources, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore,
Capitals indicate matter added to existing law. Brackets indicate Maryland 21201-4484, Attn: Annual Fund Director; Or Email: hr@prattlibrary.org.
Strictly Personal
For Full Details Visit www.prattlibrary.org EOE/AA/ADA
Pen Pals Certified Medical Assistant - Pediatric and Adult
Comprehensive health care center located in downtown
Caucasian, single man, 6’31/2”, love dancing, going to the movies Baltimore has an opening for a Certified Medical Assistant
and telling jokes. Interested in a female 5.5’ and up, open-minded, on the Medical (Pediatric and Adult) team. Requirements
include H.S. diploma, GED or equivalent experience;
who loves cats and don’t mind me smoking, compassion is more
pediatric phlebotomy experience a plus; certification as a
important than figure (looking for a relationship). If interested Medical Assistant; good telephone communication skills;
please call Harry at 410-833-4516 or cell (410-935-9001). legible handwriting and good basic typing skills; well-
--- developed organizational and strong interpersonal skills,
ability to maintain confidentiality surrounding all information
Truthful man seeking spiritual pen pals. Womb my emanation. Law related to clients; computer skills preferred. Send resume
is unification. Breath, knowledge and consciousness! William Pig- to Ms. C. Berry, HCH, 421 Fallsway, Baltimore, MD 21202
by 10/19/10. Email: hrresumes@hchmd.org, Fax
gie, P.O. Box 565, Pittsboro, N.C. 27312
410-837-8020. No Phone calls. EOE
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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Lonesome Hearts - Pen Pals
To have a notice published in the Strictly Personal Section, write the Automotive Mechanic II
message you want printed in the space below. Enclose ten dollars Detention Officer
($10.00), check or money order for 25 words. NO CASH PLEASE. Electrical Technician I, II & III
Additional words will cost 50 cents each. Office Support Assistant I
Police Officer - Entry Level
Police Officer - Lateral Entry
Senior Traffic Signal Technician
Utilities Team Manager (Water Operations)
Visit our website at www.aacounty.org for additional in-
To answer a Lonesome Heart notice, enclose a check or money or- formation and to apply on-line. You may use the Internet
der for $2.00 for each letter you wish to have forwarded. NO CASH at any Anne Arundel County library, or visit our office at
2660 Riva Road in Annapolis. Deadlines to apply on
PLEASE. Be sure to include the fox number of the person you wish
website.
to contact.
AEO/DF/SFE
All letters, queries and notices should be sent to:
STRICTLY PERSONAL
CIVILIAN REVIEW BOARD
2519 N. Charles Street CITY OF BALTIMORE
Baltimore, MD 21218
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake seeks to fill vacant or
expired positions of Board Members for all nine Police
Districts for the Civilian Review Board of Baltimore City.
Support Our This Board meets on a monthly basis to review complaints
and completed investigations of alleged law enforcement
Advertisers misconduct and make necessary recommendations to the
Head of the Law Enforcement Unit in question. This
VOLUNTEER position requires a substantial amount of
reading. Interested Baltimore City residents can apply by
CAREER CORNER
submitting a resume and cover letter to Alvin O. Gillard,
Civilian Review Board of Baltimore City, 10 N. Calvert
Street, Suite 915, Baltimore, MD 21202, postmarked no
later than October 31, 2010. Please indicate the Police
District you are seeking to represent.
Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc. is seeking a full time Compli-
Bioprocessing ance Officer with program management responsibilities,
Laboratory Manager including processing of grant and loan disbursements,
construction draws and inspections, compliance with fed-
(Position #116782) eral property regulations, & environmental review process.
Familiarity with HUD program reporting and government
The Maryland Technology Enterprise contracts preferred. Equal Opportunity Employer. Mail or
Institute (Mtech) is seeking a laboratory e-mail resume and required cover letter by October 15,
manager for the new bioprocessing training 2010 to: Kim O'Haro, HR Specialist; BCF; 2 East Read
and contract services in the Shady Grove Street, Baltimore, MD 21202; koharo@bcf.org
Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology
Research (IBBR) facility.
Regional Director of Finance
Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology,
This position is responsible for providing leadership, guidance, tech-
Bioengineering, Cell Biology, Cell and
nical expertise and team coordination to support operation of 5 to 8
Molecular Biology, Biochemistry or related regional stations. This position contributes to the achievement of
field and 2 years of direct biotechnology company objectives by providing strategic guidance on financial results
related work experience are required. as well as directing overall initiatives in the areas of fiscal management,
Candidates must have cell culture budget analysis, financial reporting along with providing information
experience. Mid-large scale fermentation, and advice to stations¬ management teams
protein purification and/or molecular
The position will be located at the Hearst Television, Inc Business
biology experience and a Master’s degree Office Hub in Baltimore, Maryland.
are a plus. For a complete job description
and to apply, visit: jobs.umd.edu. For best Requirements:
consideration, please apply by October 20,
2010. Mature leader with at least 10+ years of broadcast experience in a
management position that required participation as station manage-
ment
The University of Maryland, College Park is
an equal opportunity employer. Minorities CPA or MBA a plus but not required
and women are encouraged to apply.
Education: Bachelor¬s or higher degree in Accounting or Finance.
To apply: Email resume to: HTV.Careers@hearst.com
EOE/M/F/D/V
To Advertise call 410-554-8200
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