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Burnadine “Bunny” Fraser Flanagan Details Life Long Road To Equality/Freedom

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95-year Old Army Vet Calls on African-American Women and Youth to use Freedoms To Be All You Can Be “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” - Aristotle Houston - For 95 years, U.S. Army Veteran Burnadine Fraser Flanagan has witnessed changes in the world from racism to the Great Depression to World War II to the election of Barack Hussein Obama – the first AfricanAmerican President.

Despite being one of the first African-American women to serve in the Women Army Corps in World War II, she remains humble about the way she helped to shape a critical part of African-American history and American history.

“You have to know who you are and where you come from to know where you are going,” Flanagan said in an exclusive interview with the African-American News&Issues. “If you don’t realize what we went through or know what happen to get us here where we are today, then a great void exists that is only filled with fear and pessimism.”

She not only knows life challenges but also its rewards. Flanagan, known lovingly as “Bunny” has been decorated for her dedicated service to this country during World War II from 1943 to 1945.

Flanagan is highly decorated and recognized servicewoman having earned six medals including medals for Good Conduct, American Campaign, World War II Victory and for the European African Middle Eastern Campaigns and being recognized by the National Association of Military Black Women and the Women’s Memorial in Washington, DC. She also been recognized on the Veteran’s Wall of Honor and Fame at

the Michael E. DeBakey V.A. Medical Center in Houston.

Message to African-American Women She believes in African-American women and encourages each towards self discovery and desires to be the best they can be by pushing themselves to the limits, using courage and incentives and doing what it takes to break through the ceilings that were not available before.

“African-American women will carry the torch in the future for our people,” she said. “I want to help them understand what has happened before and encourage them to build on our success and pass that on to future generations.”

Flanagan tapped into some of the inner strength that made her strong and able to withstand the rocks, winds and storms of racism, criticisms and the kinds of stereotypes that held Black people back during the Jim Crow Era. She encourages young women not to give up and overcome opposition.

“Things are not perfect and still much needs to be changed in our country” she said. “However, it has come a long way – now it the best time for women to stay involved and provide leadership that can restore order and make things better than it used to be.”

She hopes that women and youth can learn as she shares her story hoping to shed light on her historic trek through life that helped her overcome fears, challenges and carried her successfully through many different situations.

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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and Harris County Clerk Officials Agree to Re-Open Acres Homes Voting Precinct “Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, Black, Hispanic or White, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.” - Juan Williams ACRES HOMES - Voting rights of more than 2500 voters in Acres Homes has been restored in Acres Homes with the reopening of the polling place they have know for the past 30 years.

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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and The Harris County Clerk worked to secure an agreement to reopen polling place location Precinct 576.

“It is important that all our citizens have easy accessibility to Election Day polls, and that is why I secured the reopening of Precinct 576” said Sheila Jackson Lee, who serves as Senior Member of the House Judiciary. “I contacted the Harris County Clerk’s Office to advocate that it would be too disruptive for such a move this close to Election Day.” The voters, mostly lifelong residents and the elderly, voted in Harris County Precinct # 576 at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church at 2516 Paul Quinn Street.

Jackson Lee said she became involved after members from the The Acres Home community, which is one of Houston’s older neighborhoods, called her out of a concern about the relocation of their precinct for the upcoming election.

Congresswoman Jackson Lee worked along with community leaders Charles Ingram and Edna Griggs to advocate for the reopening of this Acres Home polling location.

Precinct Judge Ingram contended the closure and the failure to set up a proper place for people to go to vote not only unacceptable and the action had upset and angered many longtime Harris County voters who participate in elections there.

According to records, concerns arose about many polling places in Harris County that were considered unfit for service after being surveyed by the justice department during elections in 2013 and 2016.

Many were found to have architectural barriers — such as steep ramps and narrow doors — that make them inaccessible to voters who use wheelchairs.- that caused Precinct 576 to fall under scrutiny.

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This Little Girl Dressed As Ruby Bridges Just Stole Our Hearts

Thornton told The Huffington Post that Jodie’s costume was a last-minute decision. Before school on Monday, Thornton went through her daughters books and asked her if she wanted to be Bridges. They talked about her story and Jodie was so moved by her story that she choose to dress in her likeness.

“Mama, I really do look like Ruby Bridges. I wish she had someone like you to walk her to school,” Thornton recalled her daughter telling her.

Thornton, who said her parents were integrated into all-white schools in 1971, told HuffPost that she didn’t realize how important her daughter’s photo was until people began sharing it, especially for those who experienced the dawn of integration.

“These are people we still live with... this is still relevant now,” she said. “You just never know how an act so simple can mean so much to so many people on so many levels. I just never imagined that this would touch so many people... we’re not forgetting our history.”

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Six-year-old Jodie was so moved by Bridges story, she dressed up like her.

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While other kids flaunted their superhero and cartoon character costumes on Monday (hey, nothing wrong with that!), six-year-old Jodie was paying homage to Black history.

Jodie, who lives in Arkansas, dressed up as 6-year-old Ruby Bridges, the first Black student

to attend an all-White school in the south. Her dad, a U.S. Marshal, posed next to Jodie before going into work that morning. He acted as one of the marshals who escorted Bridges to and from her Louisiana school in November 1960 in the photo.

Jodie’s mom, Brandy Coates Thornton, shared that her daughter’s costume was for her school’s book character parade when she shared a photo on Facebook on Monday. Because of Them We Can reposted the photo on Instagram shortly after and it has gained more than 12,000 likes.

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Vote AGAINST HISD Proposition 1 Jolanda Jones Criminal Defense Attorney

It’s Now or Never Please Vote AGAINST HISD Proposition 1!

They say it’s about purchasing attendance credits. That’s a lie! Don’t be fooled. Proposition 1 is about taking more than $1 billion over four years out of HISD schools and sending the money to Austin. And here’s the catch: There is absolutely no guarantee any of the funds will be used for education.

If you are confused by HISD Proposition 1 on your election ballot, you are not alone. The Republican politicians who wrote the language, more than 20 years ago, required that we put that intentionally misleading language it to be used on the ballot. They knew it was a trick question.

That’s why I’m begging you to vote AGAINST HISD Proposition 1. Be sure to go all the way down your ballot, because for many voters, HISD Proposition 1 is at the bottom.

If Proposition 1 passes, HISD will be forced to make deep deep budget cuts to the classroom, closing neighborhood schools and laying off teachers — more than 1,400 in the first year — resulting in overcrowding and increases to class size. Essential programs that keep kids in school and contribute to healthy learning would be severely cut or eliminated, including tutoring and mentoring programs, mental health resources, college counseling and programs to prevent truancy and dropouts.

If you’re wondering how Proposition 1 got on the ballot in the first place, you’ll need to go back more than two decades to when the State of Texas was sued for not providing equal education funding for Texas children. The legislature agreed to a temporary fix called “recapture,” which came to be known as “Robin Hood.”

It was supposed to take from rich school districts and give to poor ones. Most HISD students are poor.

More specifically 76.4% of HISD students are on free and reduced lunch. This discriminatory system’s death is long overdue! Please help kill it because it isn’t taking from rich districts and giving to the poor. It’s actually robbing from the hood to be spent wherever the Republican legislature wants to spend it except for Houston!

This year, Houston was forced into the recapture system – but voters have to approve the payments.

That’s what this ballot language actually does. The taxpayers will either vote for HISD Trustees to send our HISD tax dollars to Austin to be spent anywhere but HISD or you will vote AGAINST sending our tax dollars to be spent somewhere else. If voters do not approve the payments, the Texas Education Agency can “detach” or reassign property tax revenues from certain HISD properties.

That’s why some wealthy commercial property owners want Proposition 1 to pass. Please also note TEA testified at a legislative hearing that they had no clue how to detach property and called Houston “non-compliant” in not just rolling over and giving them our hard earned tax dollars.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, T.E.A. is the same agency that took over North Forest ISD and closed it and forced HISD to annex it and promised HISD money to cover North Forest ISD’s costs and then turned around and reneged on the deal and didn’t give us the money.

It’s the same TEA that has taken over Kashmere High School and has threatened to take over other HISD schools mostly in minority neighborhoods. Please note that every school that has been taken over by TEA has been closed. It’s also the same TEA that is funding charter schools and giving them more money than our neighborhood schools and is forcing the closure of our schools.

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THE MISUSE OF HISD’S ROBIN HOOD TACTICS - “NO TO PROP.1”

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frican-American News&Issues has always stood for the principle that education is the key to unlocking a bright future for every child, no matter the color of your skin, what part of town you live in, where you were born or how limited your circumstances.

That is why we are urging every voter in the Houston Independent School District to go all the way down to the end of your ballot and VOTE AGAINST HISD PROPOSITION 1.

We agree with Mayor Sylvester Turner, who has aired television ads in which he says, “The people who wrote Prop. 1 say it’s about attendance credits – but it’s not. It’s about taking away a billion dollars from our schools and denying too many kids a quality education.”

That said, it’s worth taking the time to understand Proposition 1. You may have heard of Texas’ statewide school finance system often referred to as Robin Hood.

The technical name is “recapture” and it supposedly began as a noble concept. Wealthy school districts would share a part of their tax revenue with poorer school districts and thereby equalize the amount of funds spent to educate all students across Texas.

Recapture was passed more than 20 years ago as a temporary fix until the legislature could enact a comprehensive and fair school finance system. Unfortunately, it’s still around and it’s not working as intended. It has led to the taking over and closing our schools.

Remember North Forest ISD? There is a complex formula that triggers when a school district falls into the recapture system – and it was just triggered for HISD. Instead of taking from the rich and giving to the poor, recapture will take more than a billion dollars

from low-income and high-need HISD students to be paid to Austin and spent anywhere but on our students. In other words, they are stealing from our poor HISD students and giving to Austin to be spent wherever TEA decides to spend it but one thing is for sure is that it won’t be spent in Houston.

HISD may be in a city with high property values but more than three quarters of its students live in poverty. That’s unacceptable.

So regardless of what the language of Proposition 1 sounds like, here’s what it could lead to if it passes: shutting down neighborhood schools and severe cuts to, or total elimination of early childhood education centers, mentoring and tutoring programs, programs to prevent truancy and reduce dropouts, college counseling and Career & Technical Education opportunities, mental health resources and other resources that help to keep our children healthy and in the classroom.

To be clear, voting against Proposition 1 won’t fix the entire problem; but it will stop HISD from sending our hard earned tax dollars to Austin to not be spent on our kids. The legislature needs to change this system and make school finance fair for us. The failure of Proposition 1 will deprive the legislature of funds and force it to act. Education professionals, our current and former mayors and many others, including HISD trustees, including Jolanda Jones, are certain that HISD will get a better deal in the legislature than going bankrupt under recapture.

Rich downtown business owners want Proposition 1 to pass because they want HISD tax dollars to go to Austin not theirs because if voters reject recapture payments, the Texas Education Agency can take the funds anyway by assigning tax revenue from large properties inside HISD to other school

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districts. First of all, that makes no sense and second of all TEA testified that they have no clue how to detach properties. At the end of the day, the Legislature will change this unfair system if it is rich people that they listen to are demanding that they change this system to keep their downtown and rich property taxes in Houston. For over 20 years they haven’t listened to poor student’s cries for funding public education. We need them crying to the legislature.

Our answer is this: Proposition 1 will essentially bankrupt our schools and the legislature is more likely to act and change the public education finance system if those demanding change are rich white folks rather than our HISD and other school districts that represent poor students.

The Republican-controlled Legislature picked this confusing and misleading language on purpose. They think we’re stupid. This has nothing to do with purchasing attendance credits. It has everything to do with we, tax payers, authorizing the school board to forever give our tax dollars to Austin.

We repeat our bottom line: If you care about HISD schools and about providing our children with a quality education, vote AGAINST HISD Proposition 1.

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Early Challenges Flanagan grew up during the time of the Great Depression when there was a shortage of food, jobs and money. Also, the nation was on the brink of war and racial friction and turbulence and Jim Crow was prevalent throughout the South.

She graduated from high school in Connecticut at a time when the country was in depression and no jobs available to anyone. Also the call had gone out to all Americans to join the military and support the fight for freedom worldwide.

“The nation was about to go to war,” she said. “I had just finished high school and saw that the nation needed help because I saw posters encouraging you to join the army that said “The Army Needs You”, so I looked around and was in a position where I knew I did not have much opportunity for a future.”

Flanagan turned to her parent for career advice and found them split on the idea of joining a military force where racism and segregation was a common practice.

“I told my dad I was going to join the army and he supported me and thought it was a good idea because of the idea of going overseas and seeing and experiencing things that he did not get to see,” she said. “My mother’s reaction was quite different. She had a fit because I was the only child and she did not want the think about the idea of going in the Army and losing me.”

She left home in 1943, joined the Army and started on the long journey that would help her face and conquer her fears and challenges head on.

WAC History According to the Women’s Army Corps Veterans’

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Association website, the Honorable Edith Nourse Rogers, Congresswoman from Massachusetts, introduced the first bill to establish a women’s auxiliary in May 1941.

On 14 May 1942, Congress approved the creation of a Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). Two days later, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby was appointed the first Director of the WAAC. Five training centers were opened within a year. The first at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, the second at Daytona Beach, Florida, the third at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, the fourth at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and the fifth at Camp Ruston, Louisiana. As an auxiliary of the Army, the WAAC had no military status, therefore Mrs. Rogers introduced another bill in 1943 to enlist and appoint women in the Army of the United States. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the bill on 1 July 1943 and 90 days later the WAAC was discontinued and in its place was the Women’s Army Corps (WAC).

Overseas in World War II Six months before women received military status, the first WAAC contingent arrived in Algeria, North Africa.

In July 1943, the first WAAC Separate Battalion arrived in England led by Lt. Col. Mary A. Hallaren. Three WAC’s joined Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten’s Southeast Asia Command in New Delhi, India, in October 1943.

A WAC platoon arrived in Caserta, Italy in November and a month later another arrived in Cairo, Egypt. January 1944 marked the arrival of the first WAC’s in the Pacific at New Caledonia. In May a large group arrived in Sydney, Australia.

Flanagan Discovered – A Segregated America She was dispatched to Iowa to train and discovered that

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America outside of New London, Connecticut was totally different.

The Army was segregated and Black women and men trained separately and had their own mess halls, barracks, classrooms and separate times to be in the training grounds.

“I had no idea the world was segregated the way it was and had no idea that the Army was segregated,” she said. “New London Connecticut was integrated at the time, but this was all set up separate but equal.”

After six months of training in Des Moines to learn the service ways, she went to Camp Clairborne Louisiana and worked as an assistant librarian. Less that a year passed before she got orders overseas.

“My commander told me that I was chosen to go overseas and ready or not I had to go overseas,” she said. “When you in the army, I learned that despite the fears, you don’t question, you just do as your are told.”

She also trained in Georgia and to give you an idea of how bad it was for Blacks in America in 1943, Flanagan said.

“We were told not to leave the post at all in Oglethorope Ga.,” she said. “Our superiors told us we cannot take care of you, protect you or guarantee your safety.”

She said she took that advice as did her fellow recruits and stayed on the fort for the duration of training and service there.

So she went to New York and boarded a ship that carried her across the ocean and for the first time she faced her fears and the unexpected.

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Texas • November 7 - 13, 2016

HOUSTON - Harriet Tubman once said, “Quakers almost as good as Colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.” With that being stated, there are not very many African-Americans that can trace their ancestral heritage back to its origin and find that they did not come from the descent of enslaved Africans. However recently, African-American News&Issues was privileged to interview with 103-year-old, Lawrence Madkins. Through much research and records dating back to the 1700’s, his family has been able to trace their entrance into the United States as bonafide Quakers.

When his progenitors came to the States, they were contracted to help build. Many of them were: carpenters, blacksmiths, farmers, mule trainers, amidst a gallery of other professions.

The Quakers were a very religious sect of people that opposed slavery, when it was the unpopular thing to do. Over time, as they grew they migrated to different parts of the country.

Hence, the genealogy of Mr. Lawrence Madkins!

Lawrence Madkins was born November 20, 1912 in Panola County, Texas. At a young age he was introduced to and taught the art of agriculture. This was contributed to the fact that he was raised on a massive farm. The farm sat on Route 1, in Panola County. During our interview Madkins said, “We raised some of everything that you can raise on a farm – from a guinea on up.” He continued, “Once our harvest was ready and we had more than we could use, we’d sell some and divide the rest with relatives.” Madkins adamantly conveyed that his father taught him and his nine siblings the value of hard work. “My father didn’t like any lazy people around him,” he stated. He expressed that every day there was something to do; even when it rained there was still work to be done. He remembers riding along with his father and being taught how to build houses, churches, chimneys and all manner of

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constructive work. He chuckled and said, “It was heavy work and I didn’t really like it but, he still taught me. I can still do a little jackleg carpenter work myself… I just might hit my finger before I hit a nail.” “My father always told us to learn how to do more than one thing, so we would never be without a job,” he added.

Though majority of his childhood was spent in Panola County, he and his family lost their home to a house fire. This unfortunate incident resulted in his family relocating to the North side of Fort Worth. After graduating from high school, he moved to Nacogdoches to work at an oil mill. He worked there for five years and relocated to Fort Worth. There he secured employment with Fort Worth Stockyard (Cow Town). While there he met his wife, Zeolar Jackson and they married in 1945. Together they raised seven children, six sons and one daughter. After leaving the Stockyard, he went to work for Armour and Company in Fort Worth, until the company moved to Chicago. With Armour relocating, he decided to take an early retirement package, after a dedicated 25 years of service.

Madkins regarded his early days as the, “good life”. His mother was the housekeeper.

She kept a consistent routine throughout the week. Every morning she had breakfast prepared at 5:30am, lunch at noon and supper at 6pm. During that time, he informed that they would only eat meat on Sunday’s when the preacher would come to their home. Although he came from a large family he recalled that they always had something to eat, even if it was no more than bread and syrup. While bringing me up to speed on over a century worth of history, he showed his discontent with the present-day, “Eat Out” expression. He exclaimed, “Back then, women learned how to cook and sew – I saw the time where three women would work on one quilt all day and then sell it for $7 - $10.”

With a joyful demeanor he shared fond memories of things that they would do when he was younger. “I remember when we used to go out in the woods and climb up a ladder; we would find a limb with a lot of leaves on it, tie it to a string and use it as a broom to sweep. We would can preserves, hunt berries to can and rob plum trees, but we only wanted the plums that were still on the tree, not the ones that had fallen off already.” He even took a stroll back to his school days by saying, “When I went to school, I had one pair of pants and shoes… I’d polish those shoes at night and wear them to church on Sunday.” He also noted the major difference in living now, as opposed to his life early on.

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“ The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. HOUSTON - He was a man who not only brought the soul to Houston but also made an immeasurable impact on his community with his kindness and compassion both for his fellowman and the community.

Renowned KWWJ Radio personality Skipper Lee Frazier went home to be with the Lord surrounded by family on October 14, 2016.

Frazier was a fixture on the Houston radio scene since 1954 and well known for being a strong community voice and civil rights activism in the Black community with a show that aired on KWWJ each day at 2 pm. Frazier was also a music act promoter and friend of boxing legend Muhammad Ali. “He became friends with Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali in his heyday would just drop in on his show like he was a regular guest,” KCOH’s Ralph Cooper said. “He would come in and sit for hours with Skipper Lee and in fact he even mentioned Skipper Lee’s name on national TV after one of his fights.”

Constable Ruben Davis Jr.

Community Loses ‘True Blue’ Champion and Man of the Community “Law enforcement officers are never ‘off duty.’ They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get”. - Barbara Boxer For 20 years Fort Bend County, Precinct Two Ruben Davis Jr. focused on God, family, safe communities and helping youth.

Davis, 61, passed away after leading Precinct 2 Constable’s Office for two decades.

The constable was a superb professional, who operated under a simple motto that said, “From this community – For this community, “and he loved his Missouri City/Fort Bend County community.

He also provided services to a community that included Missouri City, the City of Houston within Fort Bend County, Stafford, Fresno, Arcola and other areas within the cities of Sugar Land and Richmond.

Davis faithfully served as Constable of Fort Bend County, Precinct Two since May 10, 1996 and spent his professional career working to empower people and communities— improving their safety, security, and quality of life.

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There were many activities for kids, and even some fun for the adults. In addition to, there were many opportunities for pictures to be taken in the mobile Texans locker room, and even in front of a beautiful wall display that was filled with many different helmets.

People who attended this event also had the chance to meet the Texans cheerleaders, and get their pictures taken as well as autographs. Mayor Sylvester Turner made his arrival at the tour, and addressed the crowd.

According to the Super Bowl Host committee, which is a private non-profit 501(c)(6) Texas corporation, they expressed, “ Super Bowl Ll will be a Super Bowl like no other, because Houston is like no other city…it’s a modern day and dynamic city renowned for its hospitality. The most diverse city in the U.S., Houston is a city with no equal.”

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If you love good music, dancing, and a feeling that will leave your heart wanting more, then you should check out The African Children’s Choir. This choir is filled with African children from Uganda, who range from the ages of 7-10 years old. Many of these kids have lost one or both parents through the devastation of war, famine and disease. They represent all the children of a continent and they demonstrate the potential of African children to become strong leaders for a better future in their land.

The African Children’s Choir is currently on tour in America, and the purpose of the tour, and the primary goal of the choir, is to raise awareness of the need of destitute and orphaned children in Africa and to raise funds for continued development and support of the African Children’s Choir Programs. The choir was created in 1984, in the midst of Uganda’s bloody civil war when human rights activist Ray Barnett, was destined to help many thousands of orphaned and starving children, abandoned and helpless to feed and protect themselves.

This is the 45th African Children’s Choir, and this is the choir’s third time going on tour. Previous choirs have toured Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, and even different parts of Europe.

There are eighteen children in the choir, and they are selected based on the needs of their family, and the kid’s willingness to learn. The children

who are selected are some of the most needy children in Africa, and these kids wouldn’t even be able to go to school back home, and if they could go to school, it wouldn’t be on a consistent basis. This tour means so much to many of these kids. The things they learn and experience on this tour, will set a strong foundation for them to forever grow on. When the children are selected for the tour, they go through a training process from five to six months in Africa, and then they tour on the road for nine months.

Tour leader Heidi Moen expressed, “It’s such an honor…such a blessing to me to be able to travel with them…and you get to see America through a child’s eyes, and its really refreshing. Despite the challenges that many of these kids have been through, they are strong and they don’t let the challenges bring them down.

“The children take things pretty well. It’s a very harsh reality back home in Africa. They can be sad about it, but they don’t dwell on it. They take things day-by-day, hour-byhour, and really live in the moment.

They don’t dwell on what their past circumstances are. While they are on tour, they are enjoying all of these new experiences that they get to have, and see it as a blessing,” expressed Moen. The children also get to go on different field trips to experience and learn new things, and most of all, to have fun. They have already been to Disneyland, the Grand Canyon, and

Mount Rushmore.

Furthermore, the children can only experience the choir once, but after the tour is over, their learning experiences are far from over. Music for Life is the parent organization for the African Children’s Choir, which runs a primary school in Uganda.

After the tour, these kids will have the opportunity to go the primary school where they will be able to further their education. The choir has had many kids who come out the choir, go to college, and become very successful in the long run.

In order to help continue to make this choir a successful one, there are many ways that people can help out.

People can donate, become a friend of the choir, sponsor a child, or even host the choir. For more information on the choir, and on how to help, you can visit their website at https://africanchildrenschoir.com/.

The African Children’s Choir will truly melt your heart. Moen expressed, “Once you see this choir it’s something hard to forget. These children bring hope and joy, and show the potential of the African child. A lot of times we see the devastation and poverty, but they really bring a different story. It’s really neat to see the children touch people’s lives through their dancing and singing.”

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Baby Ocean’s Band Director I think it’s about time we introduce our new band director Mr. Newman! He has been with us for a few months now and I think we’re all confident he is just what Booker T. Washington needed! Mr. Newman is a very relaxed man with strong morals and a high head. He graduated from Prairie View A&M with a degree in music education but has been playing the trumpet since sixth grade. He is originally from Pennsylvania, but now calls Houston his home. He has a deep love and passion for music; it was a good way for him to express himself, and he wants to encourage that in today’s youth. He thinks Booker T. Washington has a lot of potential for great things and describes how he truly enjoys each and every one of his students and the many differences, and sometimes even challenges, they bring. He states, “They are teaching me as much as I am teaching them”, showing that as a young teacher he can learn from all of us too. He thoroughly loves the band and the direction they are going, he says “We are making a lot of positive changes, especially to the culture [of the band] and there are many great things to come”, so stayed tuned for more of the Baby Ocean of Soul! At the start, Of course, we felt that he was definitely an outsider; he embraced that at first, knowing it was going to happen, but he stayed positive. He also says the staff was and is very supportive and have thoroughly worked with him, making him feel appreciated, especially Dr. Phillips who he feels is an incredible inspiration and great mentor. Now how did this man all the way from Pennsylvania hear about us? We can all thank Kappa Kappa Psi Fraternity Incorporated National Honorary Band Fraternity for bringing him into the home of Booker T. Washington. He joined that particular fraternity because he wanted to be a part of the direction the organization was going and seeing as it brought him here, I think it was a great decision on his behalf. He considers his teaching style intrinsic motivation, in other words, have engaging behavior rise from within. Which, being able to witness his classroom, I can agree.

His students always have an interesting assignment with some sort of lesson to come out of it, which we are seeing less and less within music classes. One of his students describes his class as “entertaining and helpful in learning new things” He also says his favorite thing about the class is “learning how to play new instruments; I love new instruments. Plus, Mr. Newman is really chill,” standing true to his calm demeanor. His education, however, doesn’t stop there. If he wasn’t teaching at Booker T. Washington, he would pursuing his masters! Maybe one day we may even have a Dr. Newman on our hands!

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The Booker T. derie among their troops. Last year’s Washington ROTC summer camp was the biggest yet, and cadet class is growing this year will be the event to rememin number, proficiency ber. The program provides multiple and potential. Let’s take opportunities for students to learn funa moment to chat with damental skills. Master Chief FreeCommander Lamar man is in command on the rifle team.

Johnson and Master Although they miss the comfort and Chief Stacy Freeman. space of the old T Buildings in the ON THE NEW back of our school, they are making CADETS: the most of the practice space they Commander Johnhave this year and are excited about son believes that this the amenities they will have in our year’s company of new building. The rifle team draws cadets is on par with quite a lot of interest. “Everyone MASTER CHIEF FREEMAN COMMANDER JOHNSON those of the past even wants to join,” It has the potential to though they are the be a transformative experience because “youngest group he has ever had.” There is only one of the level of discipline and commitment required. “The senior in this class. This group of kids “has proven to be program has the power to change student’s lives, especialcapable but only need more experience. If they stick to it, ly if they are willing to accept positive change,” says Comnext year they will be really great!” In Master Chief’s mander Johnson. opinion, the expectations are high but positive. He knows ON PROGRAM GOALS: the freshmen will struggle a bit but will be able to accomBoth instructors have high expectations for the current plish their goals despite their lack of knowledge. The purschool year. As with anything, you must count the costs. pose of NJROTC, to him, is to help the cadets become betStudent leaders have planned many fundraisers with hopes ter citizens. Students learn about perseverance, self-respect of raising money to fund various activities. The commuand honor. Without the limitations of the block schedule nity is welcomed to join and support our cadets. The stufrom last year, both instructors have high hopes of taking dents plan to sell coupon cards that offer discounts to local advantage of every opportunity to reinforce the skills and vendors such as Burger King, Pep Boys and other favorencouragement needed to make this group of future leaders ites. The money goes to support activities that inspire and the best they can be. encourage our cadets. For the last few years, cadets parON LEARNING GOALS: ticipate in the Fiesta Patriots and Cinco De Mayo Parades.

Master Chief Freeman takes a look back to last year’s Students will also attend a cruise out of the Port of Housboot camp, a team building activity when young cadets ton. come together to learn the basic skills and increase camaraTO CONTINUE READING ONLINE @ AFRAMNEWS.COM | BY: BRIAN DIMAS & JAMES POWELL

The Works of an Outstanding Teacher By: Nytasha King, BTW Student

There is so much to say about the wonder teacher we all know as Ms. Thomas. She is an extraordinary teacher who is balancing school, and all the duties that come along with being a registrar –in-training all at once. She has this quote that she loves so much. “The unexamined life is not worth living”, she loves this quote because it’s the idea that if you don’t continuously question what makes you happy in your life, what’s the point of being alive.

Her passion for teaching goes way beyond the classroom. It’s so strong that she takes it to heart when one of her students doesn’t reach their full potential. She has always had the most righteous attitudes. You will never see her walk the halls without a smile on her face.

She takes learning to the next level with all of

her children engaged and has their full attention. Ms. Thomas has been doing so much with the school. Without her a lot of people say they wouldn’t make it through the school year. She takes everyone’s dreams and makes us soar with them. She makes you see things on a whole new level where you can’t help but see things with a new and better perspective. Ms. Thomas wants all her students to be the best that they can be, and would do everything in her power to make certain that it does happen. Ms. Thomas is the most magnificent, empowering teacher we have ever had, and we want the world to know that. Some may question whether there are still great teachers today, especially amid reports of various accounts of teacher misconduct that flood the news all too often. I can attest that they are out there and at least one graces the halls of Washington High every single day.

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