“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” – William Penn Edelman Examines Hidden Leaders of Social Change See Page 27 • Celebrating 49 Years of Service • Serving More Than 50,000 African American Readers Throughout The Metropolitan Area / Vol. 49, No.24 Mar. 27 - Apr. 2, 2014 Events Around Town for the Festival! District residents and tourists alike, are looking forward to the upcoming National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade which will take place on Saturday, April 12 along Constitution Avenue in Northwest. Meanwhile, a number of events throughout the festival will provide an opportunity to enjoy various cuisines, music and art. See Story on Page 28. /Photo by Ron Engle for the National Cherry Blossom Festival Deadline Nears for Health Care Enrollment for insurance under President as many individuals as possible Benefit Exchange Authority in The president and officials in Signup Drive Barack Obama’s signature health before the Monday, March 31, Northwest. his administration said they’re Locations Include care law, recruiters in the District cut off date. “The young people, the seeking as many as seven million Laundromats, Lounges are leaving no stone unturned. “Our philosophy is to take it young invincibles, we are taking individuals to sign up for insur- Workers and volunteers are to the streets, take it to places of it to them at the nightclubs, at ance under the Affordable Care By Stacy M. Brown targeting young people, partic- work, where people eat, drink, the sports bars and where they Act, or ACA. WI Contributing Writer ularly those between the ages and pray,” said Dr. Linda Whar- go after they leave the clubs,” Obama has recruited bas- of 18 and 34, by going to Laun- ton-Boyd, Ph.D., the director of Wharton-Boyd said. “We feel ketball greats Magic Johnson, With just days remaining be- dromats, college campuses and External Affairs and Stakeholder pretty good about our outreach fore the deadline to sign up even bars in an effort to enroll Engagement at the DC Health methods.” See INSURANCE on Page 9 and on Visit us online for daily updates and much more @ www.washingtoninformer.com Follow DCTV us on 95 & 96 Family, Friends Fundraiser GWUL Gala Celebrate D.C.’s Highlights Youth Showcases First Mother Homelessess Leadership Page 4 Page 18 Page 32 Is Everywhere! 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Patricia Roberts Harris, who served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and RELIGION Community Development and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare under President Jimmy Carter, also ran an Lyndia Grant’s Religion Column unsuccessful bid for D.C. mayor in 1982 against incumbent Mayor Marion Barry. Harris, who also served as Dean of Howard Page 39 University Law School and professor at GW National Law Center, died from breast cancer on March 23, 1985. A school in Ward 8 is named in her honor. /WI Archives www.washingtoninformer.com The Washington Informer March 27, - April 2, 2014 3 AROUND THE REGION around the region AROUND THE REGION SOMETHING Women Break the Cycle of NEW EVERYDAY Family,Domestic Friends Violence Celebrate By Tia Carol Jones law enforcement. She said they threat,” she said. www.washingtoninformer.com WI Staff Writer had come together to bring a Among the programs Marlow D.C.’s Firstsense of uniformityMother in the way wants to see implemented are Visit our updated Web site ByWhen Sam P.K.L.Y. Marlow's Collins 23-year- domestic violence victims and stricter restraining order policies, old daughter told her the father and give us your comments WI Contributing Writer survivors are treated. more rights for victim's families of her daughter threatened her “She's using her own personal @sampkcollins to intervene on behalf of a vic- for a chance to win a gift from life, and the life of their child, story, her own personal pain to tim, a domestic violence assess- The Washington Informer she knew something had to be push forward,” Davis-Nickens ment unit coupled with further Friends, family, colleagues, and done. Out of her frustration said about Marlow. training for law enforcement communitywith law enforcement's members honored handling the life Email comments to: Davis-Nickens said anyone agencies, a Child's Life Protec- andof thelegacy situation, of Virginia she E. decidedHayes Wil to- who reads Marlow's book will tion Act and mandatory counsel- rburke@ liams,start knownthe Saving as D.C.’s Promise First Mother, cam- “get it.” She said she “puts the ing for batterers. washingtoninformer.com duringpaign. a celebration of her life at a case in such a way, the average “If we are ever going to eradi- local“It high seems school. to be a vicious cycle person can get it.” She said at the cate domestic violence, we must thatVirginia won't Williams, turn singer my and family moth- end of the day, the book will look at both sides of the coin. erloose,” of former Marlow D.C. Mayor said. Anthony Marlow A. help people begin to have a dia- We need to address both the vic- Williams,shared herdied story in Los with Angeles the inaudi- Jan- logue about domestic violence. tim and the batterer,” Marlow uaryence after at a briefthe illness.District She wasHeights 87. Also present at the event was said. Domestic“She was aViolence great performer Symposium in ev- Mildred Muhammad, the ex- Marlow would also like to see eryon senseMay of7 atthe the word,” District said AnthonyHeights wife of John Allen Muhammad, programs designed to raise Williams,Municipal 62. Center.“When she The was sympo- not on who was sentenced to six consec- awareness among children in thesium platform was orsponsored in front of byan audithe- utive life terms without parole public and private schools. 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Six the cycle of abuse in her family, whichinspired included by her performances own experiences, by the years in fear is a long time. It is and is confident the policies she Washingtonand those Performingof her grandmother, Arts Society not an easy thing to come out is pushing for will start that Childrenher mother of the and Gospel her Choirdaughter. and of,” she said. process. ChristianShe said Pickett every and time Erika she Williams, reads Mildred Muhammad said “I plan to take these policies to excerpts from her book, she still In Memoriam granddaughters of the late matriarch.