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Fred Sanders, Jr., noted for his leadership, dedication and as the past Grand Master of the Regular Grand Lodge of Texas, retired from Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center after 35 years.

HOUSTON- According to the Houston National Cemetery, 10410 Veterans Memorial Drive, Houston National Cemetery, “The most renowned veteran buried in the cemetery is the late Honorable Albert Thomas, United States Congressman from Texas. Congressman Thomas served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War I, and served almost 30 years See SANDERS page 6

Is oil a WMD? New world timeline portends a conspiracy BUD JOHNSON

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The modern use of the phrase “New World Order” (NWO), according to conspiracy theorists, originated in the early 1900s with Cecil Rhodes, who advocated that the British Empire and the United States should jointly impose a Federal World Government (with

Black bear kill, a hunter’s dream come true for Game Warden Kevin Malonson New World Order conspiracy theorists claim Blair and Bush are pawns.

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HOUSTON- On May 14, Kevin Malonson bagged a black bear in Saskatchewan, Canada. An eight-year Texas Parks & Wildlife game warden and avid hunter stationed in Harris County, Kevin, 35, stated, “One of my greatest hunting adventure dreams came

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true when I took an awesome trophy black bear which was approximately 6 feet. The spring body weight of this bear was approximately 450-500 lbs which would put him weighing in at approximately 650-700 lbs. in the fall.”

The bear was taken with a Ruger all-weather .300 Winchester Magnum, using a 200 grain Trophy Bonded Bear Claw bullet.

Although Kevin plays hard, he takes his job seriously as evidenced

by the many awards and citations he has received. Along with fellow game warden Susan Webb, he received the Humanitarian Award, which is awarded to those who give their time to comfort and support a fellow employee during a crisis. They both helped the family of Michael Pauling, a game warden who was killed in the line of duty on Aug. 2, 2001.

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The significance of African American News&Issues’ unique Black History feature (sponsored

by Shirley Ann’s Black Arts & Kollectibles Showroom, 6130 Wheatley), is relevant when we offer a complimentary memoriam to the family and love ones of a true history maker, who has been overlooked by chroniclers of descendants of slaves’ contributions to their nation. Thus, we proudly salute Howard Gordon, who proudly history during World War II, although his accomplishments went virtually unheralded until the celebration of his life at Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church, 4000 Sumpter Street, on June 9, 2007.

Father Lowell Case, S. S. J. officiated an order of Christian Mass and Michael Broussard, John Young, Paul Christie, Darrell Matthews, Kenneth Morris, David Gordon, Stephan Whitaker and Anthony Gordon were active pallbearers for Howard, the first of Philip and Estella Gordon’s four children, who was born on December 14, 1916, in Cecilia, Louisiana.

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munity located in St. Martin Parish, which gave Howard a birthright that positioned him to make history.

In 1923, Howard’s parents became a part of The Great Migration, and joined the wave of Louisianans who moved to Houston, Texas’ Fifth Ward community and founded what became known as “Frenchtown.” The family prospered and Howard, being eager to learn, took full advantage of the HISD schools and became

English as the official language) to bring about lasting world “peace.”

Conspiracy theorists see a sinister motive in the fact that Rhodes founded the Rhodes scholarship as a global brotherhood of future leaders. Lionel Curtis, a Rhodes disciple, later founded the Rhodes-Milner Round Table Groups in 1909, which led to the establishment of the British-based Royal Institute for International Affairs in 1919 and the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations in 1921.

Inexplicably, President Gerald Ford concluded his Oct. 24, 1975, “Declaration of Interdependence,” by saying, “We must join with others to bring forth a new world order....Narrow notions of national sovereignty must not be permitted to curtail that obligation.” In present form, this can be traced to the collapse of the Soviet Union and President George H.W. Bush’s Sept.

11, 1990, NWO speech. In it he described the United States’ objectives for post-cold-war cooperation with the former Soviet Union, using the phrase “new world order.”

Skull & Crossbones notwithstanding, there’s no denying that George W’s rise to power (from a baseball a proud grad of Phillis Wheatley High School. After high school, he continued to the military. History records that while in the military during World War II, Howard happened to speak a version of French that was used in Cecilia, while an officer was walking close by. The officer immediately, after hearing Howard speak, recommended him to the company commander who was in dire need of a translator. Howard was most likely one of the first Wheatley grads to become a translator for the US Army. However, his mind wasn’t on making history.

Instead his immediate goal was to woo a beautiful young lady named Elizabeth Arceneaux, who he had met before he left for his tour of duty. Fortunately, she agreed to correspond with him, and a romance blossomed. As soon as he returned from the war, the two love birds decided to make their love official on October 11, 1944 and were married for 62 years.

During his marriage Howard, who worked at Stewart and Stevenson for 38 years, participated in

mogul to president, and his flawed re-election following a preempted strike on Iraq), certainly gives credence to the NWO conspiracy.

Hence, African-American News&Issues (Black America’s strongest editorial voice), as usual must speak from an uncompromised Black perspective, insofar as many made in America Africans still believe that it was essential for Bush to finish what his father started in Iraq, and/or the oil rich middle eastern nations. Especially when they factor England’s Tony Blair’s role into Rhode’s equation. Thus, we must explore the NWO that was introduced to them in a 1970’s edition of Muhammad Speaks, when the Honorable Elijah Muhammad warned America that oil would one day wreak havoc on our privileged lifestyles in the land of the free.

Accordingly, one has cause to pause and ponder if oil truly is the NWO’s weapon of mass destruction? Conspiracy, or not, nothing has negatively impacted Americans more than skyrocketing gas prices.

Undeniably, inflated oil prices trickle down to inflate prices of basic necessities of life, liberSee WMD page 3

activities like becoming a founding member of Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church, and taking trips to the beach with his children. Howard also loved sports, and became a die-hard Rockets fan, but basketball had to take a back seat when it came to barbequing with the family. Along with his five children, Howard was also able to enjoy six grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Howard will always be remembered for his courage and will to succeed. He leaves behind: his loving wife, Elizabeth; children, Frances Whitaker, Phillip Gordon, David Gordon, Annette Brock, and Anthony Gordon; grandchildren, Lydia Brock, Allyson Brock, Stephen Whitaker, Anissa Gordon, Phillip Gordon, Jr., and Cecily Gordon; great grandchildren, Phillip Gordon III, Patrick Gordon, Myles Gordon Smith, and Marley GordonSmith; sibling, Nora Bowman; a host of nieces and nephews on both sides of the family. Howard is going home to be with his parents, and his brother Robert, and sister, Ann. TX-1

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HCSD’s Thomas is history Roy Douglas Malonson

here is no shame in my game when it comes to being pro Black, therefore Sen. Barack Obama has my unconditional support because he’s a Black man (with fewer character flaws that any of the other presidential candidates), but I still have empathy for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, if only because I understand her win at any cost attitude. Self-aggrandizement notwithstanding, those familiar with my community activism know where I’m coming from, so I won’t dwell on it. But, suffice it to say, been there. Done that.

Meanwhile, the tenor of e-mails (from history illiterate supporters of Texas Southern University President John Rudley) gives me the impression that our detractors ire has more to do with discrediting African-American News&Issues’s common sense Black perspectives than logic. Connecting the dots aside, for over a decade we’ve been explaining that, if one fails to include history in deductive reasoning, ongoing issues become isolated incidents. Accordingly, we not only report all news without fear or favor as a free press mandates, but we tell it like it is, because if we don’t tell it, it won’t be told.

And if it’s not recorded, it can’t be regarded. In the interim, I invite you to access our archives at www. aframnews.com and peruse articles that predate mainstream media reports by years. Perish the thought it’s about outdoing other media, or being able to tell our friends and foes that we told you so.

It’s about having an informed public that will be able to ask informed questions when new

t should be obvious to thoughtful people, not to mention welleducated made in America Africans’ (anointed, appointed, selected, and real, or imagined leaders), memorials are, in essence, history.

Nevertheless, the editor of African -American News&Issues’ unique Black History 24-7-365 is Everyday feature, is often criticized, or even chastised by readers who fail to grasp the concept of using obituaries-- of ordinary descendants of slaves-- who were born before 1930. Thus, many take it personal when we don’t use their relative’s funeral program (in the coveted space at the bottom of our front page) forthwith.

We Must Understand, an inability to objectively grasp a concept, is why mankind’s biggest problem has always been a failure to communicate. Yet, it’s a safe bet that supposedly intelligent people reading this editorial have misconstrued what we’re saying simply because they can’t separate a newspaper’s business from petty, personal b.s. Accordingly, they’re crafting an angry e-mail, or have their cell phones in their hands as we speak.

If you’re wondering where we’re coming from, perhaps, you don’t know the history of Memorial Day. Then again, when it comes to honoring soldiers that gave their lives for their country, civil rights heroes don’t make the cut. Denial notwithstanding, many Black Americans have no shame in their game when they consider Memorial Day a “White thing.”

public servants introduce themselves with the same old, tired, “igno-ranting” political rhetoric that their predecessors espoused.

And that’s how it is, whether we tell it like it is, or not. Accordingly, we don’t need a crystal ball, or prophetic foresight to know that Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas is history.

The man has become a liability for the Republican Party. The handwriting is on the wall, and although the mainstream media don’t interpret it for their readers, it’s interesting than the “Off The Kuff” blog that can be accessed from the Houston Chronicle’s Web site. Naturally there’s a disclaimer disavowing Charles Kuffer’s opinions.

Yet, it’s more interesting that on May 1, 2008 the blog revealed: “Unlike the DA race and the County Judge race, both of which feature candidates that have a number of similarities, the race for Harris County Sheriff has two contenders with vast differences. Incumbent Sheriff Tommy Thomas has been around forever, while his Democratic opponent, Adrian Garcia, is a part of the new generation in county politics. In style and substance, it’s the good old boy versus the new kid.

“This race also has the clearest roadmap for a challenger to wage his campaign, as the incumbent’s record has a lot of targets at which to aim. While most Democrats running will be talking in broader and more general terms about a change of direction, Garcia can home in on a bunch of specifics from Thomas’s career.”

For sure, they relish a day off from work, or any excuse to fire up the barbecue pit and “throw-down” with family and friends. This is especially true for disenfranchised denizens trapped in underserved, crime and drug-infested urban jungles (indigenous to the land of the free), who blame the Iraq war for making their already miserable existence, even more miserable. Then again, history does, indeed, record that Memorable Day is a White thing. (FYI: Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of former Union soldiers and sailors - the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) - established Decoration Day. It was to be a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan declared it should be May 30.

By the end of the 19th century, Memorial Day ceremonies were being held on May 30 throughout the nation. State legislatures passed proclamations designating the day.

The Army and Navy adopted regulations for proper observance at their facilities. It was not until after World War I, however, that the day was expanded to honor those who have died in all American wars.

In 1971, Memorial Day was declared a national holiday by an act of Congress, and designated as the last Monday in May. –About. com.) Meanwhile, there’s a preponderance of evidence that suggests that militant Black soldiers’ lives aren’t valued as much as their White counterparts who sacrificed

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Bud Johnson: The Old African Warrior

oebeit I wanted to pay homage to my mentor Robert Powell who named me the African warrior, I must defer to an edited (to fit) cop’s e-mail: “Mr. Johnson, I’m not usually the type of person to take the time out to e-mail an editor about an opinion that’s voiced in a newspaper.

But your article about police officers (“Cops Gone Wild”), and specifically Black police officers is a slap in the face to anyone that puts on the uniform. As a Black officer, or “house n_” as you so eloquently put it, I am on the front lines every day fighting this war on crime. It’s a war that happening right beneath our noses and the public has little knowledge of.

“I am faced with the reality that there are many people out there that would love to see me dead simply because of the profession that I chose. My affiliation with my department does not dictate my personality nor does it make me who I am. It’s simply a job, nothing more, nothing less. I’m sorry to disappoint you but there is no ‘code of silence’ among officers. It just isn’t there anymore. It may have been at one time but those days are long gone and will never come back.

The ‘good ‘ol boys’ are retiring and dying off and you are now getting a younger, more trained, highly-educated police force. Almost every officer I know has a bachelor’s degree and about half of them also have a master’s degree. Although

the media portrays us all as dumb cops, but we are nothing of the sort.

The repercussions are just too high to allow yourself to participate in any misconduct.

“Why would I risk losing my job just to cover other officers’ backs? If I see wrong, I call it as such, and the guys I work with do the same. In a war you begin to take on a certain attitude when you know that you are in an environment where your enemies are out to take your life.

Your awareness is heightened; you are constantly evaluating and then re-evaluating situations that a normal person would not think twice about. I have been witness to some of the most evil things that humans can do to each other. It’s amazing how departments all across the country are hurting to fill jobs. Yet we are still understaffed and over worked. Everybody wants to talk about the police but don’t want to be the police. I grew up in Acres Homes, and went to Aldine High School, graduating 28 out of 475 in my class.

“I graduated from UH, and will be entering the Thurgood Marshall School of Law this fall. Throughout my life I avoided drugs and gangs, kept a job and paid my way through school. Many of my friends did the same things I did. After having said that I think I can emphatically say that it’s pretty easy to avoid being arrested for a crime. It’s pretty easy to avoid getting a beat down by the police. I can even say that it

The blog further says Thomas is under fire for incidents, “Including but not limited to: The Ibarra lawsuit, and the millions of dollars it has cost the county; the newly-instituted email deletion policy, which was announced at a time when former DA Chuck Rosenthal’s emails were being closely examined. The continuing problem of jail overcrowd-

ing, which is partly to blame for the jails failing to meet state standards.

A high rate of inmate deaths going back numerous years. Admitted negligence in allowing a death row inmate to escape. Trigger-happy deputies. And a sweetheart deal for Sheriff Thomas on his ranch house construction, which was designed by the guy whose architecture firm

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their lives fighting for freedom and equality for their people. Hence, following that logic, Black America should ponder a special Memorial Day for our civil, and/or human rights soldiers.

We Must Understand, if Andrew Hacker’s book (Two Nations Black and White: Separate, Hostile, Unequal) has merit, it should behoove politicallyastute, Black and proud leaders to take care of our own dead. Especially, those who sacrificed their lives in the civil rights wars that are still going on. Black History Month aside, African-American News&Issues has lamented for years that “The Uncle Tom Bible,” that only become relevant for Black children in February, should ideally be exposed to Black History-illiterate White kids. On the other hand, Black America’s elders should teach our children about their heroic soldiers , i.e., Elijah Muhammad, Denmark Veasey, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, at al, who are despised by mainstream America, the same as we despise those who fought for the Confederacy. Self-aggrandizement aside, lest we forget, Black publishers and reporters were considered “Soldiers without swords,” therefore they should be included in the Black nation’s Memorial Day. After all, a memorial is actually history. Thus, if America is, indeed, two nations, Black America’s real soldiers fight a much different war than those who’re honored on mainstream America’s Memorial Day.

is even easier to avoid getting shot by the police. Millions of people go through life every day with little to no interaction with law enforcement. I spent my whole youth without ever coming into contact with a police officer. I’m sure by now you think that I’m some ‘whitewashed’ house Negro. You can think whatever you want but blaming the police for the Black community’s problems ain’t gonna solve a thing.

“Instead write an article about teaching your Black kids to speak proper English, how to turn off the television and take away the video games. Encourage your children to read one book per week. Write an op-ed about Black parents teaching their children to save money and avoid credit at all costs. Write an article about Black parents teaching their kids that it’s ok to not have sex until they are married. Write an article about how Black men need to deal with the police when they come into contact with an officer.

Write an article about how Black parents need to take an active role in their children’s education from pre-school all the way to college. I could go on and on but it’s just so much easier to blame someone else for your problems.

Sincerely, ‘a house n.’”

Hey, don’t kill the messenger, I didn’t say it. As clearly stated, I was quoting a blog text protesting the acquittal of New York cops that killed Sean Bell. I wonder if anybody knows where I’m coming from?

To contact Bud Johnson, please call 281- 847-9929 (8-5- Wednesday -Thursday) or via e-mail at Africanwarrior@aol.com

is now designing a new jail.”

There’s more, but you get the idea, and surely Hispanic voters who are looking for “Change We Can Believe In” get the idea, too.

But, of course, Thomas’s woes are history to our readers, who read our 1999 article (Will Right Prevail?

HSCD’s alleged racism under public See HCSD page 3

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ty and the pursuit of happiness.

Even more frightening, is a chilling timeline forecasting the NWO: These are events that some conspiracy theorists claim are pivotal in and related to the establishment of the New World Order. In 1903, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were published in Russia.

Scholars generally agree that the Okhrana, the secret police of the Russian Empire, fabricated the text in the late 1890s or early 1900s...

In 1913 the Federal Reserve Act was passed, creating the Federal Reserve System…In 1935, the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States with the Eye of Providence above the pyramid appeared for the first time on the back of the US. one dollar bill.

In 1944, the Bretton Woods Agreement outlined a regime for the post WW II world economy…

In 1945, the United Nations was founded…In 1954, the Bilderberg Group was founded… In 1957 the European Economic Community (European Common Market) was formed, which in 1992 changed its name to the European Union.

Currently, the EU has 27 member states, 15 of which now use a common currency, the Euro…

In1963, the Codex Alimentarius Commission was established by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization, later to be backed by the World Trade Organiza-

tion…In 1973, David Rockefeller organized the Trilateral Commission. The Club of Rome issued a report entitled the “Regionalized and Adaptive Model of the Global World System,” which proposes that the world be divided into ten regions.

In 1995, the United Nations’ International Trade Organization’s (ITO) General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) group was renamed the World Trade Organization (WTO)…In 2001 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked airliners and attacked the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, killing thousands of people. The attacks have been linked to ideas about the NWO, sometimes presented as a conspiratorial media-orchestrated plot to frighten Americans into giving up their basic liberties to a “Homeland Security” authority that will eventually turn control of the United States over to a multinational “coalition government.” …In 2002, the FDA approved the manufacture of the VeriChip microchip implant. Much more intrusive than the UPC, this aroused people’s fears.

They feared some future totalitarian governments could enforce the implanting of these chips and thus fulfill the Book of Revelation prophecy regarding the Mark of the Beast. See Revelation 13:1613:1…In 2004, the Independent Task Force on North America, a project organized by the Council

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Rice Can’t Change Stripes Mario Marcel Salas

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ften times when people have made a career out of selling out, they try to paint a different picture of themselves on the way out the door. This is what U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has attempted to do when she said that the United States has a racial “birth defect.” I can’t take anything away from the comment because the United States was not founded on freedom, justice, and equality, but on racism, genocide, murder, and slavery.

Ms. “Conde” is absolutely correct on that score, but the fact that she waited until her term is almost over to say it, is a bit hypocritical and insincere, especially since she supported the most foolish war in the history of the United States. With this “birth defect,” America has gone on to oppress another country of nonWhites, namely Iraq. She said that the country has made great strides because she was the first Black Secretary of State, but one must keep in mind that her acceptance for the po-

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sition was a result of being a Republican, which is still mainly a “White man’s political party.”

“What happened to the racial birth defect hypothesis when the mostly Black population of New Orleans was being hit

by Hurricane Katrina?”

She accepted the position from an administration that was totally against civil and human rights across the globe, not to mention the fact that the Bush administration created a world-wide chaos with his war in Iraq. The war in Iraq did nothing for international peace and has helped to make oil prices soar.

The war in Iraq has helped to cause events to spiral out of control in Sudan, Egypt, Chad, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, and elsewhere.

Thanks to her “go along to get along” philosophy, the world is in worse shape than it ever has been.

Becoming “Black” overnight is what she has done. She never claimed the country had any kind of major defect as long as she was doing Bush’s bidding, but now that she is on her way out she finds the leisure time to talk about what we all have known to be true for years.

If the nation has a racial birth defect then why didn’t she say so when President Bush refused to speak before the NAACP? What happened to the racial birth defect hypothesis when the mostly Black population of New Orleans was being hit by Hurricane Katrina? I wonder how she found the courage to say that America has a racial birth defect?

Real easy! When Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima are leaving the confines of the plantation, they recognize that they will be back in the field with the common folk, so what better thing to do than come across as a born again radical? Rice’s comments were correct, but they are disingenuous and ring hollow when she has been at the calling of one of the worst presidents the United States has ever had.

Rice said, “Black Americans loved and had faith in this country when the country didn’t love and have faith in them.” True, but let’s examine that comment with a little more analysis. Black Americans

African-American News&Issues • Texas • June 4-10, 2008 • 3 on Foreign Relations, proposed the establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community, generally referred to as the North American Union. It has been proposed by Robert Pastor, a vice-chairman of the task force, that the North American Union would have a common currency, the amero. New World Order (Novus Ordo Mundi) aside, religious-oriented Black Americans tend to believe in signs exposed in conspiracy theorist David Icke’s 1998 book (The Biggest Secret) that dissects the conspiracy.

The signs, in essence, portend that there’s an on-going plot to rule the world primarily through a combination of political finance, social engineering, mind control, and fear-based propaganda.

For example, the strange murals in the Denver International Airport, the Illuminati symbol on the Great Seal of the United States with the words “Novus Ordo Seclorum” meaning “New Order of the Ages”, Masonic signs on buildings (particularly in Washington DC) and pentagrams worked into city plans. In Mathematics, the universal symbol that represents change, the triangle, is shown; In the Great Seal of the United States the eye completes the triangle inferring change. A DVD entitled “Riddles In Stone” investigates the peculiarities in Washington, D.C.’s streets and buildings. God bless America. when they first came here in chains, as slaves, didn’t love a single thing about this foreign land headed by racists and murderers.

Rice’s comment is cute, but devoid of historical content. A society based on racism cannot and will not have faith or love in the people that they oppress, unless you are willing to do their bidding. Rice has done the bidding of the Bush administration, a regime that cared little for Black Americans.

She cannot divorce herself from whom she was in service for. It is not enormous progress when African-Americans are placed in important positions if they are doing the bidding of a group that is doing all it can to subvert democracy and civil rights. Under the Bush regime, we have endured illegal searches justified by a so-called Patriot Act. We have had innocent people tortured and brutalized by a regime that claims it’s for human rights.

We have had African-Americans shot 50 times by rogue police officers and the Justice Department do nothing. It is apparent that these individuals, put in place by a continuing racist regime, will make selfserving comments on their way out the door, because the “master” gave them a pass.

I wonder what Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will have to say when he decides to leave?

Rice’s comments mean little and are as hollow as a log in Mississippi. She cannot become a progressive overnight with this type of rhetoric that is insincere at best and an attempt to clean up an ugly record at worst.

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scrutiny), that revealed: “Surely anybody perusing the report prepared

by HSCD’s Heike C. Coons, was enlightened inasmuch as it reflects a clear pattern of using females as a majority to the detriment of Black and Hispanic males.

The report further revealed that HSCD-- like most everything coveted by Americans-- is a White male dominated agency. It’s not surprising that the largest numbers of positions held by minority males are on the lower echelon, i.e., patrolmen and jailers. There are 583 minority males among 2144 deputies and 119 minority male jailers making up a staff of 338.

First, however, it should be stated that among HSCD’s 3477 workforce, there are only 531 Black and 295 Hispanic males. You may recall that history was written at the behest of Harris County Sher-

iff’s Department’s Detective Godfrey Tambe Eta, who AAN&I gave a forum when no other media would, inspite of a preponderance of evidence of Thomas’s racist regime.

But you’ll have to visit our archives if you want more of that history.

In the meantime, we’re researching for a future article on the County Commissioner’s that failed to hold Thomas accountable, and perhaps voters will make them history too.

Correction!

In our May 21-27, 2008 edition, we incorrectly identified Councilmember Wanda Adams as Dr. Rhea Brown Lawson. We regret the error and apologize for any inconvenience.

Everyday People with Jesse Simon

HOUSTON- Congratulations Mary Edwards Ross-Bonham who along with family and friends, celebrated her youthful 65th birthday at The Maggiano’s “Little Italy” Restaurant, 2019 Post Oak Rd, Houston. Mary is a hometown girl from the popular Edwards family, a graduate of Kashmere High School, Texas Southern University and a Retired Educator in the H.I.S.D. Happy Birthday Mary, wishing you many more.

Geraldine (Gerrie) ClevelandMorris, of Galena Park, Texas, celebrated her 74th birthday, in a “Tropical Luau” setting, at the beautiful home of her daughter and son-in-law, Dale and Rev. Robert Staggers. Over 100 family, friends, church members and ex co-workers, helped to celebrate this joyous occasion. Gerrie is the widow of Clarence (CM) Morris, and is the mother of two sons, Danny and Von Morris, one daughter Dale and two grandsons, Zachary Boston and Rance Morris. She is a graduate of Phillis Wheatley High School and

she retired from Anchor Hocking Glass (Longhorn) Corp. She is also a member of North Side Antioch Baptist Church, 1814 Carr St., 77026, under the leadership of Rev. Tremel Prudhomme where she has served as musician for more than 60 years.

Photo 1: Russell Rose (son), Reginald L Ross (son), Robert Ross (son), Kara Guillory (friend), Roland Bonham, Mary Bonham, Jasper Ross (granddaughter) and Ivy Ross (daughter-in-law).

Photos 2: Geo McAfee, Von Morris, Kenneth Morris, Willie O. Morris, Rev. John Morris, Fred Morris, James Morris, Howard Morris, Marcei Jackson, Bobbie Mayo, Eric Jackson, Robert Staggers, Debbie Rice, Cheryl Butler, Joyce H. Jackson, Helen Morris, Robin Morris, Agusta Morris, Dramadene Gilford, Geraldine Morris, Rhonita Scott, Robert Morris, Valerie Savoie and Dale D. Staggers.

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Thomas Jones receives Community Achievement Award

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Suspended Driver’s Call Your Hometown RealtorHayden Now! HOUSTON- The Houston Metropolitan Chapter of the National Association of Black Name: Ricky License Because of an Frances Campbell 281-414-2211 Accountants (NABA) has selected McConnell & Jones LLP Partner, Thomas Jones, as the P.O.#: Alcohol or Drug Charge? CCD Ventures, Realtors recipient of the 2008 Award for Community Achievement. Each year the Houston MetropolCompany: Adult Learning Center HUD/RESALE AND NEW HOME SALESInformation Contact

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www.WeTCB.com Address for tearsheets:Gala for his commitment to the community and for embracing the organization’s motto of “lifting as we climb.”

713-882-8262 9322 Eastex Frwy The Houston Metropolitan Chapter of NABA is part of a nationwide professional associaHouston, Tx 77093 Lloyd George Enterprises tion with the primary purpose of developing, encouraging and serving as a resource for great“Fair Market Value” er participation by African-Americans and other minorities in the accounting and finance Appraiser@WeTCB.com professions.

“I am proud that Thomas has been honored by the Houston Metropolitan Chapter,” said RESTAURANTS McConnell & Jones Managing Partner, Wayne McConnell. “This recognition is a tribute to his outstanding community service and outreach within the accounting industry.”

Josie’s Place 7473 N. Shepherd Dr. McConnell & Jones LLP is a certified public accounting firm registered with the Texas Houston 77091 State Board of Public Accountancy. The organization offers a complete spectrum of tax, (713) 695-7711 assurance and small-business accounting services to individuals, private companies and nonThomas Jones profit agencies. McConnell & Jones is an affiliate of McConnell Jones Lanier & Murphy LLP, Lacy’s Restaurant a full-service professional services firm providing accounting, financial planning, management consulting, engineering and 9606 Mesa Dr technical services. According to a recent survey by the Houston Business Journal, McConnell and Jones is the 12th largest Houston, TX 77078 (713) 631-3962 CPA firm in Houston.

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The Heart of a Warrior Charitable Foundation funds 8-week Summer Learning Program

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DALLAS- A year ago, Gail Warrior-Lawrence, president and CEO of Warrior Group along with Ad to run in AAN&I’s Marketplacehusband, Wayne Lawrence, created and initially funded the Heart of a Warrior Charitable Founda713/734-1442 tion.

Her goal was to stem the spiraling education decline of economically challenged students at SCHOOL/CLASSES ning Edition Date: December 12-18, 2007 to run in AAN&I’s Houston/Galveston edition. the primary school level by supplementing their education. Ms. Warrior challenges other compaNew Direction Job Service 4925 Richfield nies to step up to help provide much needed funding to support additional students.

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1126 W. Tidwell Heading Title: or approval and fax back to77088 713-692-1183 lost over the summer vacation. The Summer Learning Program, which kicks off on June 9, 2008 Houston Child Carewith opening Comments at 8:30am, will focus on math, chemistry, biology, health and nutrition.

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Group Excellence, a company dedicated to the mission of motivating and inspiring 8222 Antoine Dr. Suite #250 JonesName: Raynard Rayco Pest Control students, will provide teachers and curriculum for the program. The Hamilton Park Youth Devel- Gail Warrior-Lawrence Houston 77088 (281)447-3517 opment Corporation (HPYDC) will supply five (5) classrooms at the Hamilton Park United Methodist Church (HPUMC).

Phone: 281-444-3525 Contact Information “This is truly a collaborative effort with true friends of the community coming forward to make the Summer Learning ProName: Mr. Robert Leday SHOE REPAIR gram a success,” says Wendell Hall, executive director of the Heart of a Warrior Charitable Foundation.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

INVITATION FOR BIDS MANHATTAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY is bidding on the AUTOMATED PEOPLE MOVER PHASE 3 – PACKAGE 3 – APM STATION & NORTH SECURE CORRIDOR CONNECTOR PROJECT at Bush Intercontinental Airport / Houston (Project No.: 536L) as a General Contractor and is soliciting subcontractor/supplier bids from qualified Minority Business Enterprises, Woman-Owned Business Enterprises, and Small Business Enterprises, for this project. The bid date is June 19, 2008 at 10:30 A.M. The criteria for evaluation and selection of successful proposals will include the following: Competitive pricing, demonstrated capability on work of similar size and complexity, financial resources to satisfactorily perform the work within the time schedule projected, favorable references from past customers, verifiable safety record, ability to furnish the required insurance and, if required, the ability to provide acceptable bonding.

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Support Black (Photo 1:)Dewey Jefferson, Capital Financial Network; Tanya Harris, Palet 3D Shipping Services; Winston Businesses AD COST Labbe, Sr. Vice President, Unity National Bank; Sharone Mayberry, Mayberry Homes, Inc. and your local (Photo 2:) John Scroggins, President, Unity National Bank; Len Goff, Golf Land Realtors; Chuck Cowell, CEO, Net Rate: $90 x 5.5’’= $495.00 Black Organizations!

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U.S. Step Team Association

North Forest student sign for approval and fax back to 713-692-1183 or approval and fax back to 713-692-1183 and Dallas Desperados selected toNOON tour Israel oved and payment received by 12 Friday the week ore for Wednesday publication or the ad will not run. host The Ultimate Battle HOUSTONSmiley Junior Glenn Nicke Wednesday publication or theM.B. adelson will not run.

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dents citywide selected to tour Israel this summer as part of the Mickey Leland Kibbutzim Internship Date Program. Glenn, who has been honored as a North Forest ISD Student of the Month, was selected for the internship based on Glenn Nickelson his academic and leadership skills. For six weeks, he will work and travel throughout Israel, participate in archeological digs; tour holy sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam; and spend time with an Israeli family. The program was created in 1980, three years after the late U.S. Rep. Mickey Leland visited an Israeli collective community or kibbutz. Leland created the Mickey Leland Kibbutzim Internship Foundation to give students attending school or living in the 18th Congressional district of Texas the opportunity to experience life on a kibbutz.

partnership with the Dallas Desperados will focus on “Building a Healthy America...….One Step at a Time” through the community event, “The Ultimate Battle.”

It will be held on Saturday, June 14, 2008, beginning at 9:00 a.m., at the American Airlines Center, 2500 Victory Avenue, Dallas. Ticket price is only $20.00 for an all-day ticket.

This event presents a health education platform bringing awareness to serious health issues facing our youth and the consequences of not implementing healthy prevention.

With the support of the Dallas Desperados, Victory Park will be the vehicle for 3-hours of interactive, family fun for everyone. Young people will be directly exposed to the benefits of a healthy and active life.

The Ultimate Battle features a Step Team Competition for middle and high school students and an All Star Battle of the Bands that will culminate in the final regular home game by the 2007 National Conference Arena Football Champions, and presently undefeated Dallas Desperados.

For more information, please call (214)837-0740.

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CITGO hosts Supplier Diversity event

HOUSTON- A special networking event will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, June 3-4, 2008.

Hosted by CITGO provides the perfect opportunity for minority and/or women Enterprises to learn how to become part of the CITGO corporate supply chain. At the event, participants will meet face-to-face with decision makers; receive information about the materials and services CITGO purchases; and learn how to do business with CITGO. Network with company representatives and learn how to register for the opportunity to become a CITGO supplier. On June 3, the Keynote Speaker is Cheryl Stevens, Women’s Business Enterprise National Council Chairwoman. On June 4, the Keynote Speaker is Richard H. Huebner, Houston Minority Business Council President. Attendees will be able to meet with company representatives to learn how to register for the opportunity to become a CITGO supplier.

The event will be 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. on both days. at the Marriott Westchase, Grand Pavilion, 2900 Briarpark Dr. For more information call (713)978-7400.

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CHURCH ADS and LISTINGS

Baptist

Blessed Hope MBC 3741 Colvin Houston 77013 (713) 673-6309 Cliffdale BC 854 Enterprise Houston 77088 (281) 447-8850 Ebenezer MBC 1814 Jensen Houston 77026 (713) 222-0838 Fidelity BC 9735 Nedwald St. Houston 77029 (713) 671-0095

SUNDAY SERVICE

8 AM and 11 AM BIBLE STUDIES Wednesday 7:30PM Leonard N. Barksdale, Pastor

Fifth Ward Missionary Baptist Church 4300 Noble Street, Houston TX 77020 Ph: 713/675-5111 • Fx: 713/675-1522

Website: www.fwmbc.org

Fifth Ward Missionary Baptist Church members will endeavor to provide a strong foundation of love; we will stand on Biblical Truths; and we will equip one another to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our community and in our world.

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in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was instrumental in getting this cemetery established by Congress.

‘Congressman Albert,’ as his many friends knew him, died in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 15, 1966, and was buried in the mall area of the Houston National Cemetery, on Feb. 18, 1966.”

However, if you ask the family, and friends of Fred Sanders, Jr., he is the most important person interred there. Sanders, Jr., who served in the United States army before being honorably discharged, was born in Houston on January 10, 1944 to Fred Sanders, Sr. and Theresa Sanders. He accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior and was baptized at Galilee Missionary Baptist Church by Pastor E.J. Booker. He remained a faithful member until death under the leadership of Dr. Edwin A. Davis.

Sanders, Jr., retired from the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, 2002 Holcombe Boulevard, in 2005 as a rehabilitation technician after 35 years of service. At the VA hospital, he worked hard to improve the lives of people with severe illness or injury with skill and compassion. His life of service continued with the Regular Grand Lodge of Texas, where he served as a past Grand Master 33/43 degree.

After retirement, he became employed as a newspaper carrier for the AfricanAmerican News&Issues, where he impressed the owners and other employees with his dedication and attention to detail. Roy D. Malonson, publisher of AAN&I stated, “He was from the old school.

He didn’t mind working. He wanted to work. It didn’t matter what he was doing, he was going to be the best at it. I’m happy he worked with us. His family has suffered a tremendous loss.”

Sanders, Jr. died on May 19 and was preceded in death by his grandparents, Jackie & Florence Sanders, Sammy & Hazel Johnson and Jef-

Greater Progressive MBC 840 Ringold Houston 77088 (281) 445-8603

Worship throughout our Communities

Greater True Vine MBC 3010 Fontinot Houston 77026 (713) 672-9086 Green Meadow MBC 777 Green Meadow Lane Houston 77091 (713) 694-7624 Jerusalem MBC 2835 Fidelity Rd. Houston 77029 (713) 674-3794 Mt. Ararat BC 5801 W. Montgomery Houston 77073 (713) 692-9954 Mt. Ararat Community BC 9313 Lockwood Houston 77016 (713)858-9801 Mt. Olive BC 3239 Areba St. Houston 77091 (713)812-9061 New Pleasant Grove MBC 3221 Bain St. Houston 77021 (713) 672-7419 Olivet MBC 3115 Lyons Ave. Houston 77020 (713) 224-1515

fie & Lena Waterhouse; and his children, Sammy, John and Lena; grandson; Durale, and brother Thomas Wayne. He leaves to treasure his memories a very devoted friend, Brenda McKinney; eight daughters, Annie (Earl), Trina (Leslie), Shelia (Eric), Elnita (Rodney), Angela (Charles), Sabrina (Tyrone), Simone, and Katina (Lonnie). Five sons, Fred III (Deborah), Fredrick (Lashawna), Sharichael (Tatritia), Brandon, Christopher (Leona), brothers Willie Sanders (Velma), Lonnie B. Johnson, Sr. (Sharon), John Earl Johnson (Jackie), Kenneth Scott, Sr., Holland Lott, (Trina), Gayland Lott and Xavier Long; sisters Freddie Sanders Frinney, Peggy Sanders McDaniel, Margaret Smith (John), Mary Richmond (Charles) Alice Wright, Mary Peavy (Thomas), Rosie Williams, Betty Jackson (Johnny), Bobbie Shoemaker (Robert), Elmira Boatright (Reginald), Venessa Lott Johnson (Carl), Valorie Lott Grant (Christopher), Patricia Lott; 35 grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren, one uncle, five aunts and many other nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

At a packed service on May 24, at Galilee, 6616 D.S. Bailey Lane, pastors and ministers from in and out of town came to show their respect for Sanders, Jr., including Bishop L.J. Leonard (Old Testament scripture), Pastor Chris Wright (New Testament Scripture) and Pastor F.N. Williams (prayer). A congregational song and musical selection were performed by the Galilee Music Ministry and the Masonic Funeral service was performed by the Regular Grand Lodge of Texas. Led

by Wallace Tarleton, other participants included Lonnie B. Johnson, Sr., Norman Booker, Tommy Lee Humphrey, Jr., Sonny Crooks, Ray Charles Humphrey, Robert Sampson and Wilbert Atkinson, Sr. A special tribute of love was presented by the Cliffdale Missionary Baptist

Progressive MBC 944 Reverend B.J. Lewis Dr. Houston 77088 (281) 447-2342

FIDELITY CHURCH OF CHRIST “The Church That Cares” Sunday

730 West 26th St, Houston, TX 77008

Morning Bible Class 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship 10:45 a.m.

Evening Bible Class 5:00 p.m.

Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.

Chorus Group Rehearsal 7:30 p.m.

Starlight MBC 9202 Willow St. Houston 77088 (281) 447-8788

St. Matthew’s MBC 870 Paul Quinn Houston 77091 (713) 695-2288

713/861-6625

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MINISTER: Mid-Week Bible Class Theaster Maloy, Sr. 7:00 p.m.

OFFICE: 713/674-5131

Catholic

140 Fidelity Rd. Houston Tx 77029

St. Monica Catholic Church 8421 West Montgomery Rd. Houston 77088 (281) 447-5837

Church of Christ

Brookhaven COC 8630 Southview Houston 77051 (713) 733-5664

East Houston COC 7515 E. Houston Houston 77028 (713) 631-7435

FIFTH WARD CHURCH OF CHRIST SUNDAY 8:00 a.m. Worship 10:00 a.m. Bible Class 11:15 a.m. Worship 6:00 p.m. Worship MONDAY 10:00 a.m.

Gary Smith Ladies Bible Class Minister WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m. Bible Class for all

“GIVING, GROWING, & GAINING” 4308 Stonewall St. Hou. Tx 77020

713-672-2654

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Church, where Fred Sanders, III, is pastor. The moving tribute, a rendition of “Never Could Have Made It,” led by Kevin Stewart, had nearly the entire church on

Early Worship 6 am Minister Frank Melton Jr. Sunday School 9:30 am Regular Worship Res.713/733-0868 10:30 am Off. 713/861-9249 Evening Worship 6 pm FX 713/861-2744 Wednesday Assoc. Minister General Song Practice Glen Burgess, Sr. 7:00 pm Bible Study 7:30 pm Res.713/734-8983

Church of God in Christ DUNCAN MEMORIAL

CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST Sr. Pastor Elder Greg Edwards (713) 674-5466

In addition to their other activities, the Fifth Ward COC also holds a Bible Class for non-members on Thursday nights at 7:30 PM. For more information on the various special events or activities you really should visit their website, it is very well done, informative and worth a visit even if you have another church home.

Homestead Rd. Church of Christ 7211 Homestead Rd. Houston 77028 (713) 633-1540

its feet before Pastor Edwin M. Davis eulogized Sanders Jr. The Committal service was held on May 27 at the Houston National Cemetery.

Houston, Tx 77020 Morning Prayer: 9:15 am Sunday School: 9:30 am Church Services: 11 am Duncan’s Vision Statement: “To train, educate, empower, evangelize, and to insipre the body of Christ by developing GODLY character through the word of GOD (2:Timothy 2:15).

Please support your local African- American Historical Churches !

Non-Denominational

Christian Life Community Church 8146 E. Houston Rd. Houston 77028 (713)631-4851 Hope In Christ Church 10310 Antoine Drive Suite A Houston 77086 (832) 882-7925

United Methodist Wesley UMC 7225 Homestead Houston 77028 (713)635- 3191

Support Your Local Churches and Religious Organizations!

Duncan Memorial holds Morning worship on Tuesday mornings at 11 am and Bible Band & Mission from 12-1 p.m. Choir Rehearsals are held every 2nd and 4th Wednesday night. They also have Friday night Bible Study at 7:30p.m.

Men & Women’s Conference 2008

DICKINSON- Journeying Beyond the Veil Ministries hosts the 2008 “My Soul Is Thirsty” Men and Women’s Conference at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, 2920 Hwy 3, in Dickinson, where Jonathan Taylor, is pastor. The conference will be held on June 13-14, 2008. Sponsored

by Sister Jackie Hill, this year’s event is designed for both men and women.

Keynote Bishop speaker will Samuel McGill be Bish-

op Samuel McGill, of Atlanta, GA. Other guests will include: Dr. Marvin Sapp, Jackie Hill Dr. Angela Williams, of Miami, FL, Rhonda McClemore, Minister Shawn McClemore & New Image, Stacey Joseph, and Nakitta Clegg-Foxx.

General seating for the conference is $20.00, and VIP seating for $30.00. You may register online at www.jackiehill.org. For more information, please call (832) 6892949.

ROOTS Academy launches enrichment program

FORT WORTH– The Rearing Our Own To Succeed Academy (ROOTS Academy) is teaming up with the LS Wilson Empowerment Center and Operation Hope, Inc., to launch a new summer academic enrichment program on two local

Church campuses in Tarrant County. The program will consist of a “Reading and Writing” component for students ages 5-8 and the “Banking on Our Future” program component for students ages 9-18. For more information call (817) 690-7362.

Family members watch as the Regular Grand Lodge of Texas marches in.

Photos by Roger Jackson

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Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church 1055 W. Tidwell Rd. Houston 77091 (713) 680-1419

2222 Lockwood Dr. SUNDAY

Website

www.fthwardcoc.org

Lutheran

SHADY ACRES

CHURCH OF CHRIST

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Wiley College host Summer 2008 Upward Bound Program

TYLER – Wiley College will host its Upward Bound Summer Program beginning June 14, 2008 until July 24. 2008. The program will serve 50 eight, ninth and tenth grade students from Marshall Junior and Senior High School, Karnack High School, Waskom High School and Elysian Fields High School.

Upward Bound is a federally funded TRIO Program through the Department of Education. The program’s primary mission is to assist college-bound high school students develop the skills required to pur-

sue and complete a postsecondary education.

Upward Bound with its sibling programs are funded through the Higher Education Act of 1965. For more than 35 years, TRIO Programs have been helping students complete high school, enter postsecondary programs, and successfully graduate.

The Wiley College Upward Bound Program consists of an academic year component which includes, postsecondary planning and a six-week summer program

where participants reside in the Residence Halls and enroll in classes to improve their skills and participate in career exploration/self-development exercises. Additionally, a multitude of cultural and recreational activities are offered. Students receive a weekly stipend contingent upon attendance, academic performance and effort, and a positive attitude.

For more information about Upward Bound, contact Shawntell Phillips at (903)927-3365 or sphillips@wileyc.edu.

Jarvis Christian College 2008 STEM Scholar Program Step Rideaux & The Zydeco Outlaws

June 14, 2008 “Celebrating Freedom and Unity”

Prairie View A&M Awarded $100,000 Grant from Tom Joyner Foundation and NEA Jarvis Christian College 2008 STEM Scholar Program participants HAWKINS- Jarvis Christian College implemented “Creating Windows of Opportunity for Success in the Sciences” as its Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) initiative to address the historical under-representation of minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines of study at the undergraduate levels. The HBCU-UP program for the STEM Scholars has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) since 2000 and operates on the proven thesis that the scope, depth, and quality of undergraduate training have a strong bearing on the desire and the ability of an undergraduate student to attend and to succeed in graduate school. It further believes that student participation in undergraduate research positively correlates with their successful pursuit of the Ph.D. degree in STEM disciplines. This program affords 20 undergraduate students the opportunity to participate in research under the guidance of experienced faculty mentors in each of the targeted STEM disciplines on the campus.

St. Phillip’s College President nominated for Educators’ Hall of Fame

SAN ANTONIO- St. Philip’s College President Dr. Adena Williams Loston has been nominated for induction into the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa Inc., Educator’s Hall of Fame. The 16th annual banquet sponsored by the sorority took place on Friday, May 23 at the San Antonio Airport Hilton Hotel at 611 N.W. Loop 410 in San Antonio. “I am so pleased to be honored,” said Dr. Loston, who has more than 30 years of qualified educational experience. “My contributions to education and my leadership experience have always been focused on expanding opportunities for student success.”

Dr. Adena Williams Loston serves as the 14th President of St. Philip’s College---our nation’s only Historically Black College and Hispanic Serving Institution. She previously served as the Director of Education and Special Assistant for Suborbital and Special Orbital Projects Directorate for the Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility and Chief Education Officer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at its Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Before joining NASA, she served as president of San Jacinto College South in Houston for five years. Dr. Loston was the second president of the colDr. Adena Williams Loston, lege and the first African-American president in the District. During her leaderpresident, St. Phillip College ship, the college increased in enrollment by 42 percent.

The National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa Inc., is a professional organization of 3,500 teachers dedicated to ensuring student success. It supports student success by providing tutoring, mentoring, and scholarships for students seeking careers in education. Nationally the sorority awards more than $250,000 to high school graduates each year. To that end, the local banquet also raises money for sorority scholarship programs. As leader of the nation’s only college to hold the Historically Black College and Hispanic Serving Institution designations, Dr. Loston is among San Antonio’s most visible figures ensuring an exemplary education is available to people from all walks of life. St. Philip’s College under Dr. Loston’s leadership offers an education curriculum and many progressive programs to ensure student success.

Earning by Learning instills love of reading through incentives

DALLAS- Elementary school students at Dallas ISD are catching the reading bug through the district’s reading incentive program, Earning by Learning. The program seeks not only to instill a love of reading in children, but also to improve their reading level, which affects their overall academic achievement. For every book up to 20 that students in the program read during the 15-week program, each student receives $2. Students take an electronic reading comprehension test about the book they read to receive the bonus. Sixty-four Dallas ISD schools now take part in Earning by Learning. One of the Dallas ISD schools with highest participation rates in the reading program is B.H. Macon Elementary School. Since Earning by Learning began in 1996, almost 70,000 Dallas ISD students have read about 657,000 books and earned $1.3 million. Program sponsors, such as Washington Mutual, provide the funding for the incentives. According to recent studies, incentives are a proven method to get children to read.

The Earning by Learning program is sponsored by Harvard University, the Richard A. Rudine Memorial Fund of the Communities Foundation of Texas, the New Car Dealers Association of Metropolitan Dallas, and Washington Mutual.

PRAIRIE VIEW- Prairie View A&M University has been selected to receive a $100,000 grant from the Tom Joyner Foundation and the National Education Association (NEA) to help increase the number of fully certified teachers in minority and hard-to-staff schools. PVAM is one of several Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) awarded funding from the Tom Joyner Foundation and the NEA. The PVAMU Teacher Certification Program, housed in the university’s Whitlowe R. Green College of Education, will facilitate the university’s scholarship award process. The program will focus on certification in the areas of Science, Mathematics and Special Education.

The university plans to distribute funds for the program beginning summer 2008. To apply for funds for assistance with teacher certification, teachers must be employed by a K-12 public school and currently teaching without certification.

Scholarship winners must commit

to teach for a minimum of three years in identified communities.

Eligible teachers can access scholarship applications from the Tom Joyner Foundation Web site.

NEA will review all submitted applications and will refer award candidates to the certification program at the nearest HBCU. The award grant will provide financial and professional development assistance to aid teachers working under provisional certification. Assistance will be offered in the following areas: tuition, books and support in preparing to take state teacher certification examinations.

In 2005, the Tom Joyner Foundation distributed $700,000 to seed the scholarship program. Over the last three years, the partnership has provided hundreds of minority teachers with funding and technical support for workshops, coursework, materials, individual tutoring and examination fees to prepare them to pass state licensing examinations.

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for dinner that evening. I soon figured out that there was work that went along with all this fun when it came time to clean my catch of the day. My mother was the fish cleaning instructor as well as the chef that taught me how to prepare such a meal.”

Kevin continued, “My outdoor experiences expanded into hunting as my father introduced me to air rifles and firearm safety as a youth.

These experiences later led into the sport of small-game hunting, migratory bird hunting, and eventually more challenging hunting experiences which included whitetailed deer, feral hogs, exotics and dangerous game (black bears and alligators). I chose a career in law enforcement as a State Game Warden and Peace Officer for the State of Texas so that I could be a part of the process of conserving the natural resources of our State while at the same time serving the citizens, educating the public, and promoting an outdoor alternative for children. I believe that if we keep our youth conscientious, through outdoor adventures and experiences, a legacy and mind-set towards conservation can be born to be passed on for generations to come.

dren to Robert and Wilma Malonson of Houston, Kevin displayed a passion for a career in law enforcement early in life and attended Houston ISD’s Magnet School-The High School for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. He is also an Honorably Discharged Veteran of The United States Navy-National Defense Medal recipient and Overseas Service Award recipient; Graduate of Lamar University in Beaumont, TX (Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice) in May 2000 and recipient of one of Lamar University’s highest honors-C. Robert Kemble Award (For Exemplary Character, and Distinguished Achievement, Leadership and Contribution).

Kevin stated, “My interest and passion for the great outdoors began as a young child with my first fishing trip taking place at Huntsville State Park (ironically, a State Park under the direction of my current employer). I was around the age of 8-years-old at a family gathering and my father purchased a cane pole for me which turned out to be my magic wand that filled a cooler with tasty, freshwater perch

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