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Beaumont - Beaumont ISD could not agree to cut some 113 jobs from the district. The Board defeated a motion that would have cut the jobs. The Reduction in Force, or RIF, was suppose to relieve pressure on an already strained budget. The district is facing a $25 million shortfall for the next budget year, and is also trying to stave off a takeover attempt being made by the Texas Education Agency. The TEA has already appointed a conservator who has noted that with current spending without cuts, there will not be enough money left to pay teachers come August.

Fort Worth - Two suspects from Fort Worth were arrested Monday night and charged with capital murder in the death of 54-year-old Marion Lee Brown.

Part of Brown’s dead body was discovered burning inside a roll of carpet along a Smith County road in May. Later the rest of his body was found in a lake in the Shreveport area.

Eventually Fort Worth police located the apartment in which they believe he was killed and linked it to 30-year-old Brandon Bernard Daniels and 25-yearold Damonica Laniesha Evans.

Investigators there now believe that Daniels and Evans were running a scam in which they lured victims to the apartment under false pretenses and then robbed them. Specifically, Fort Worth Police Sergeant Raymond Bush cited an alleged arrangement in which Daniels and Evans would post misleading ads on BackPage.com Bush said Daniels and Evans faced additional charges for aggravated robbery, and that further charges could be forthcoming as an investigation continues into the alleged bait-and-switch scheme involving the online escort ads. Daniels is being held on $1,025,000 bond and Evans is being held on $1,010,000 bond. Both are being held at the Florence County, SC jail.

Detectives from Fort Worth were en route to South Carolina Tuesday afternoon. No extradition date has been set.

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Houston - The NAACP National Headquarters, NAACP Texas State Conference and NAACP Houston Branch hosted a joint press conference to discuss the release of its new report, “Just Energy Policies: Reducing Pollution and Creating Jobs Texas Report”. Under the leadership of Jacqui Patterson, Director NAACP National Environmental and Climate Justice Program, the report assesses energy policy in the State of Texas from a civil rights lens. It provides analysis of Texas’ energy sector policies based on environmental, human health and economic impacts and lays a path for preserving the wellbeing of the community while creating economic enterprise opportunities. An excerpt from the report states “Texas has a mandatory renewable energy standard of 10,000 MW (or approximately 8.6% of its current energy mix) by 2025. Texas must raise its 10,000 MW standard – which it has already surpassed in 2009 – to 25% renewable energy by 2025 at a minimum. Texas leads the country in wind energy development and must ensure sustainable growth by insisting upon additional wind, solar, and geothermal build-outs as the cleanest possible resources.” According to NAACP Texas President Gary Bledsoe, “The poisoning of Latino Americans and African Americans living in the shadows of oil refineries and coal fired power plants from Houston to San Antonio; the children who are flooding across our borders sent by hopeful parents who pray that these children will have better lives than their own as their crops dry up and their communities are destroyed by disasters; and the failure and lack of vision some of our own legislators, who opposed the recently released Carbon Pollution Standards that aim to curb pollution and prevent climate change.

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Houston - With high hopes of more to come, Mayor Annise Parker, Council Members Stephen Costello and Dwight Boykins, the Houston Redevelopment Authority (HRA) and others broke ground on the first project to target a Houston food desert.

With financial assistance from the city, Pyburn’s owner John Vuong is building a first-class grocery store to serve South Union and surrounding neighborhoods. The store is scheduled to open the first quarter of 2015. Vuong and his family own and operate 11 stores, nine of which are located in Houston. They have extensive experience operating in low to moderate income areas. The new venture, which must create a minimum of 25 jobs, will be the next generation of the company’s stores, named Pyburn’s Farm Fresh Foods.

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San Antonio - San Antonio native and memoirist Tunette M. Powell appeared on CNN talking about preschool and racial discrimination. Her sons, Jason, 4, and Joah, 3, attend a preschool on the military base where her husband is stationed in Omaha, Neb. The only difference between her sons and the other children was the color of their skin, she said. She said CNN looked at her children’s experience as well as her own experience, having been suspended in preschool herself here in San Antonio. She has written two books, and her family moved from San Antonio to Omaha in 2010 for her husband’s job. She said San Antonio is a special place to her and she’s eager to move back after her husband, Jason Sr., fulfills his military service.

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Leave Your Rights at the Door Rev. Al Sharpton President, National Action Network

Just when we thought the rights of women, workers and minorities faced enough setbacks, it appears the nation’s highest court has done it once again.

In an outrageous decision today, the Supreme Court ruled (Hobby Lobby case) that closely held corporations are not required to provide a full range of contraceptive coverage to their employees as mandated under the Affordable Care Act. In other words, the Court decided that owners of some forprofit businesses can cite religious objections against providing certain contraceptive coverage for their employees. In effect, these bosses will be able to dictate what employees want and need to do concerning their own reproductive decisions.

Removing a woman’s control over her own body is the definition of injustice, and it is yet another devastating blow to equality in this country.

The Supreme Court also ruled against public-sector unions today, limiting their ability to deduct dues from workers. After immeasurable sacrifice, blood, sweat and tears in the civil-rights movement, the women’s-rights movement and the organized-labor movement, how can we ever accept these insults in 2014?

As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon. But that being said, let me also state this loud and clear: No entity should be allowed to force their beliefs onto others.

Yes, we are a nation that cherishes religious freedom, but we are also a nation that cherishes the protection of its citizens -- all its citizens. Just

because the owners of a business hold certain views, that does not allow them to discriminate against employees who don’t believe the same. The fact that we must even highlight this concept is incomprehensible. Despite what some will have you believe, corporations aren’t people; the real people deserve protections under the law.

And the Hobby Lobby decision does the complete opposite.

Let’s delve even deeper into this issue. The provisions under the Affordable Care Act that require private companies to provide insurance that covers birth control are in place so that women can no longer be discriminated against when it comes to health coverage. By effectively removing this protection, women -- specifically those who do not work for a high-powered company -- receive inadequate care. The Hobby Lobby decision is nothing but intrusive, discriminatory and offensive. And on the heels of last week’s ruling striking down buffer zones around clinics that provide abortion services, the Supreme Court is sending a strong signal to women in this country: You are not equally protected under the law.

Today’s decision is a dangerous slippery slope. If companies can refuse to provide coverage for women, what other objections to the Affordable Care Act will we see based on “religious grounds”?

For that matter, will “religious freedom” be used as an excuse to discriminate against other minorities and disenfranchised groups across the board? Where will it end?

The Supreme Court is protecting corporations and employers over employees. And at the same time, in the Harris v. Quinn case, it has delivered a blow to public unions. By limiting their ability to automatically deduct dues, the Court is setting up a scenario where public workers may opt out of these dues and yet still benefit from union bargaining and contracts.

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“We MUST never forget slavery, lynching, Jim Crow Laws, the disrespect of the Black race and the first Black president.”

Unity & Power– Part II

It took a massive March on Washington with the likes of A. Phillip Randolph, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The Hon. John Lewis and many others to organize, develop a plan and get the nation’s attention that Blacks and others who supported the Civil Rights Movement were tired of racist bullying and the denial of rights. They told President John F. Kennedy that enough was enough and came out in mass by the thousands to send the strong message across the land. They simply were not going to take it anymore.

The Civil Rights Movement demonstrated to racist Whites in America what can happen when we unite, register to vote, turnout and cast ballots together as a unit and work together as a people…

We MUST Understand that UNITY IS OUR POWER. It is that POWER that causes the racist to lose countless hours of sleep trying to figure ways to stop us.

POWER OUTAGE CAUSED

BY DIVISION - Not since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, have we seen a resurgence of the massive attacks against Black freedoms, Black leaders, established institutions and our Black youth.

It is critical that we learn to march to the beat of the same drummer and speak with one voice as thousands did during the March on Washington.

It is indeed tragic that the harsh reality that unity has evaded us.

Blacks are moving backward at a breakneck pace.

“Black Rome” is on fire and like Roman Emperor Nero, many affluent Blacks are walking around wearing rose-colored glasses and pretending that no problems even exist.

To make matters worse, Blacks waste a lot of time focusing on nostalgia and “me, myself and I” works, rather than trying to really put a dent in the real problems facing the people, --our schools, --our children and neighborhoods.

The real problems are being ignored and brushed off when it is those same neglected issues that not only threaten our future, but also jeopardizes our very survival as a people.

If you disagree, I suggest you go to any small Texas city or rural community and drive through the Black neighborhoods. There are no banks, businesses, shops or grocers owned by Blacks.

During segregation, Blacks were a united people who took their skills and parlayed them into viable business ventures and services that helped our people in our community.

Today the power outage is due to the money and unity that is absent from the community because the core businesses driving the economic engines are not in the community and mayors, city councils and county commissions are doing little to restore that independence to our neighborhoods.

USE THE POWER WITHIN US - Our power builds and grows when money from our community is turned over in our community with each other. That helps us build a strong power base in our community.

Black sororities, organizations, business groups and religious alliances need to take an honest, hard and serious look in the mirror at what they are doing to the community. Galas, meetings, events, balls, cotillions and banquets do absolutely nothing to change the condition of the Black community if we do not unite enough and come together with active strategies to deal with the issues hurting the community. While we pat each other on the back, praise and reward one another and seek out special “recognition,” inequality in pay and education runs rampant, voting rights and racism continues to grow more popular in practice, children are still killing children with guns, crime and drug dealing continues to expand and crime still plagues

- Roy Douglas Malonson

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By Roy Douglas Malonson, Chairman

the Black community. Black Youth are still dropping out of school at alarming rates and entering the criminal justice system and while we do nothing to change the future.

WAKE UP AND WALK WITH ANCESTORS - We MUST Understand that Unity takes genuine sacrifice, compassion, work and action to make that difference. It is time for high-minded Black folk to come out of their ivory towers and off the mountains, and roll up the sleeves and start working to change our neighborhoods. It is time to take your heads out of the sand.

It is important to remember and not disappoint those great civil right pioneers who worked so hard on behalf of African Americans to reopen the halls of Congress to African Americans after Blacks were systematically thrown out of Congress after Reconstruction.

It is the responsibility of African Americans to not only build on the gains of Randolph, Adam Clayton Power Jr., MLK and Rosa Parks and others, but also prepare the children to be leaders of tomorrow.

We MUST Understand the sacrifices of Frederick Douglas, Dubois, Washington, King, Marshall and Parks and many others need not be in vain or forgotten… if we wake up now!!

Today’s leaders, activists and educators are the vanguard who must lead the charge for freedom forward into the future.

A closer look today into present current events reveals the truth about history repeating itself.

Their strategy is simple. Keep Blacks entertained, dumb, divided and away from the polls.

We MUST Understand and Not be fooled – Unite and Stand Up for Your Rights.

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POWER from pg. 1 “In reality of a White racist America they (cannot) speak to our needs better than they can speak to their own needs. It is not reverse racism to strengthen the Black press. People must speak to their unique needs without fear or cowardice.” - The Honorable Min. Louis Farrakhan HOUSTON - Given the dominance of a “Lily-White” Caucasian media and related opinions in America, who is best to champion and define the Black voice nationwide?

Black Newspapers have consistently played an important role in the social and political uplifting of African-Americans. Writers John B. Russwurm and Samuel Cornish published the Freedom’s Journal for the freed African-American community in New York City in the 18th Century. Frederick Douglass later published the powerfully respected North Star to campaign against slavery.

Like Russwurm, Cornish, Douglass and other journalism ancestors, only true Black press stands up with courage for the people and without fear or favor, fights with the people and beside the community in its struggles against power structures hell bent on disrespecting us, enslaving us, declaring us insignificant and then wiping us out.

“The knowledge papers like African-American News and Issues provides is priceless,” said Pastor and veteran Freedom Fighter Rev. F. N. Williams. “There is no where else where our people can go to get the kind of information you all provide on Black people.”

Too many Black papers lack substance and do nothing more than publish second hand news, reprinted National Black Press copy (NNPA), news releases, entertainment articles, book reviews, sports commentaries, and lofty opinions by national columnists.

Black News must be relevant news the African American community can use.

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tion and others,” said Howard Jefferson, National Board President of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). “African-American media understands the plight of Black people and are sensitive to the needs, issues, problems affecting the Black community.”

A real African American newspaper today provides real words and issues from the real people on the street that addresses and reflects the current and historical realities affecting the community.

• History Supports the Value of Black Press Power In 1905, The Chicago Defender utilized the tactics of yellow journalism to expose racism and oppression that African-Americans faced throughout the United States, according to Femi Lewis of About. com.

Robert S. Abott published the first edition of The Chicago Defender with an investment of twenty-five cents. He used his landlord’s kitchen to print copies of the paper—a collection of news clippings from other publications and Abott’s own reporting. By 1916, The Chicago Defender boasted a circulation of more than 15,000 and was considered one of the best African-American newspapers in the United States. The news publication went on to have a circulation of over 100,000, a health column and a full page of comic strips.

From the outset, Abbott employed yellow journalistic tacticssensational headlines and dramatic news accounts of African-American communities throughout the nation.

The tone of the paper was militant and referred to African-Americans, not as “Black” or “negro” but as “the race.” Graphic images of lynchings, assaults and other acts of violence against African-Americans were published prominently in the paper.

The Norfolk Journal and Guide was established in 1910, it was a four-page weekly news publication. Its circulation was estimated at 500. However, by the 1930s, a national edition and several local editions of the newspaper were published throughout Virginia, Washington D.C., and Baltimore.

C ver St ry By the 1940s, The Guide was one of the best selling African-American news publications in the United States with a circulation of more than 80,000.

One of the biggest differences between The Guide and other African-American newspapers was its philosophy of objective news reporting of events and issues facing African-Americans. In addition, while other African-American newspapers campaigned for the Great Migration, the editorial staff of The Guide argued that the South also offered opportunities for economic growth.

The California Eagle publication in 1910 that was published to help African-American migrants settle in the West by providing housing and job listings. Throughout the Great Migration, the publication focused on challenging injustice and racist practices in the United States.

The Eagle led campaigns against racism in the motion picture industry. In 1914, publishers of The Eagle printed a series of articles and editorials protesting the negative portrayals of African-Americans in D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation.

Other newspapers joined the campaign and as a result, the film was banned in several communities across the nation.

On the local level The Eagle used its printing presses to expose police brutality in Los Angeles. The publication also reported on and discriminatory hiring practices of companies such as the Southern Telephone Company, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Boulder Dam Company, the Los

Angeles General Hospital and the Los Angeles Rapid Transit Company.

• Caucasian Media Attacks Black Media History and Legitimacy Mainstream White media has always played down the power of Black media and capitalized on the modern Black media watering down its Black news.

These Caucasian dominated organizations bombard steady doses and consistent amounts of propaganda into the Black community and public eye using so-called “mainstream” news articles, editorials, and blogs to question and challenge the relevance, power and legitimacy of Black-owned newspapers.

“Black media is needed and is legitimately vital to the life of our people,” Jefferson said. “Any loss or decrease in Black news media or coverage from Black newspapers would devastating to Black people and the community.”

Jefferson said it is time for Black leadership and elected officials to rally around the Black news media and ensure that both businesses and government fairly and equally support and advertise with Black newspapers, like that which is done with the White media groups.

Caucasian media has always demonstrated a bias and strong distaste for Blacks and have sought to discredit and disrespect the community and its leaders by taunting them and ridiculing Blacks in their reporting and writing in every way, using stereotypes and age old racist anecdotes, analogies and stories.

Their motive is to cast doubt and send messages that Blacks are incapable, incompetent and lack solid equitable leadership skills to lead, serve or make decisions for a city council community, school board, county commission, state representative, Congress and or even the presidency of the United States.

White media gets away with its antics, word games and poli-tricks by disrespectful taunts that attack Blacks on every corner of the journalistic, political and socioeconomic spectrum.

Its biases also can be readily seen in daily coverages involving issues from crime, education to

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elections and welfare.

This lack of sensitivity can be seen locally and nationwide with news groups like the Houston Chronicle and FOX News Network.

For example, Fox News Network has news commentators, programming and management that often disrespect and bad mouth Black people in stories. Many deal with President Barack Obama and others issues in the Black community.

It’s coverage is neither equal, fair or balanced when it comes to reporting facts about Black America.

Newspapers also do the same.

The Houston Chronicle recently demonstrated its ignorance and insensitivity by allowing an watermelon anecdote in a column go to press that was extremely off color, offensive and racist to AfricanAmericans. Its editorial department approved the jab without sensitivity or consideration for how it might offend Black people. Either members of the editorial board are ignorant or just plain stupid not to understand history or they just did not care.

Fox News, Houston Chronicle are like so many other media organizations and newsrooms dominated by White conservatives, racists and Caucasians with agendas against the community just don’t care about being respectful, sensitive or inclusive about African-American perspectives.

“Some like to criticize us and think we are the racists for having a Black newspaper focusing on our community,” said Chairman Roy Douglas Malonson. “The constant disrespect of the White news media confirms why we need a Black newspaper. We exist to tell our story and preserve our history. We will have a reason to exist until 100-percent of racism, biases, equal opportunity, police brutality, injustices in criminal justice, inequality and other problems have been solved and they are no longer issues in our society.”

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Community Dinner Shows Appreciation for Firefighters

HOUSTON - It was a time to pay tribute to the ones who hit the streets when the 911 call goes out for everything from cats in trees to car wrecks to four-alarm blazes.

The 7th Annual Fireman’s Appreciation Dinner did just that June 16 with a special dinner held at Station 31 and sponsored by the Independence Heights SuperNeighborhood #13, War on Drugs, East Sunset Heights Association and Sunset Heights.

“This is the community’s way to say thank you to the firefighters who serve and protect us on a daily basis,” said Natasha Johnson, President of Independence Heights Super Neighborhood #13. “We honor them each year in appreciation, but this year we focused on those who have lost their lives in the line of duty.”

This was the second year that we also celebrated the lives of our fallen firefighters: Those named among the fallen were: • Captain EMT Matthew Renaud Station 51

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Engineer Operator EMT Robert Bebee Station 51 • Firefighter EMT Robert Garner Station 68 • Probationary Firefighter Anne Sullivan Station 68 Fire service first came to Independence Heights in the 1940s. The old Station 31 still stands on Cross Timbers in the community, but today houses a museum of art.

“We are glad the building still exists,” Johnson said.

“Its preservation serves a reminder of our history in this community.”

During the ceremony, State Sen. John Whitmire had some words of encouragement for firefighters and the community that supported them.

“Firefighters provide a vital service to this community,” Whitmire told the group. “We join this community is thanking them for putting their lives on the line and being there for us.”

The appreciation dinner for the Fireman also honored firemen from the Fire stations 13, 15, 31, 34, 30 and 58. All stations were in attendance

and we served all the firefighter and community .

The menu for the event included BBQ Chicken and Sausage ( Prepared by Original Burns BBQ), Beans, Potato salad, Tea,Water and many desserts.

Guests included: Senator John Whitmire, State Representative Sylvester Turner, Constable Alan Rosen, Precinct One Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee, Michael Kubosh and Jack Christie The food was blessed by Pastor Keith Desso Douglas, His Way Baptist Church.

The dinner is also supported by Sen. Whitmire, Rep. Sylvester Turner, Councilman C.O. Bradford, Councilman Ed Gonzalez, Constable Alan Rosen Precinct One, Can Do Houston, Neighborhood Center Inc, Krafts by Shelia, Rephlektive Shots, Yale Street Baptist Church and the Independence Heights Real Estate Management LLC. Darwin Campbell, African-American News&Issues Photo Credit: Walter C. Williams, Jr.

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SAN ANTONIO - H-E-B, committed to ensuring the safety of its products, is issuing a precautionary recall of several beef market items in stores throughout Texas due to the possible presence of foreign material in the meat. No illnesses have been reported.

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Redeemed Christian Church of God Restoration Chapel Pastors Kamal and Modupe Sanusi pastor The Restoration chapel of RCCG in Houston Texas – a church where holiness is the key and God restores all. The church is known for her uncompromising stand on God’s word that brings miracles and signs to people who are ready to be doers.

About Pastors Kamal Sanusi and (Mrs.) Modupe Sanusi Pastor Kamal Sanusi was a Chartered Accountant and an Investment Banker who worked for several years in the Banking Industry in Africa. He served in various capacities, rising up to Senior Managerial level. He finally set up a private practice that ran for some years successfully until his relocation the United States. Though he had a Muslim background, he gave his life to Christ while in the College in February 1974. He joined the Redeemed Christian Church of God in 1981. Despite his salvation encounter at the College, he went through every form of Training in the mission, including the post graduate diploma in Theology of The Redeemed Christian Bible College.

He became Parish Pastor and later Area Pastor before his relocation to the United States.

He is a member of the Board of Coordinators of The Redeemed Christian Church of God North America (RCCGNA) and is charged with overseeing churches in Texas Zone 6. He also heads the Men of Valor ministry of RCCGNA Pastor Mrs. Modupe Sanusi graduated in Administration and worked with one of the Biggest four Banks in Nigeria for several years rising to Managerial level before relocating the United States.

She gave her life to Christ while in the College in 1978 through a fervent believer who was her room mate that demonstrated the fruit of the Spirit to a challenging level. Though born of a Muslim father and mother, she could not resist the Holy Spirit.

She joined the Redeemed Christian Church of God in 1981 through a specific instruction from God. She TX-8

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ministers along with her husband.

Fondly called “Mummy Pastor”, she is loved by many because of her simplicity and Godly counsel that has brought a lot of peace to thousands of people not just in the City of Houston but outside of the United States. Her presence radiates the love, presence and glory of our God. No wonder many who love the truth admire and love her.

Pastor Sanusi and his wife are old timers, who believe the old landmark set by our fathers must not be removed. (Pro 22:28.) Both preaches the raw and undiluted word of God. Many have since found out that plain truth of God’s word (and not gimmicks) is the only way out of the present predicaments in the world today.

History The Redeemed Christian Church of God was established in 1952 by the late Pastor Josiah Akindayomi. He was an illiterate. Though he did not know how to read or write, God gave him the name of the church in a vision. Since he was incapable of writing, all he could do was to scribble down what he saw in the vision.

And that was how the church got the name, The Redeemed Christian Church of God. He served God with zeal and fervency. God made a covenant with him, and promised him that He would meet this church on His return and would take the church to all countries of the world. This is being fulfilled in our time. The Church continued to grow under the leadership of this great man of God until 1981, when he passed on to glory.

Then the mantle of leadership fell on the present General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye. God began to fulfill the covenant he made

with the founder, through the present leader. The church has been experiencing phenomenal growth.

RCCG came to Texas in 1995. Today, there are several dozen parishes of RCCG in Texas. Restoration Chapel started on a modest note at the end of 1996. It later moved its meeting place to a hotel. It then moved to a rental space located on a strip mall on Bissonnet Street, Houston in September 1997 with only 11 adults The Church was formally inaugurated by Pastor E A Adeboye, in May 1998.

The rented space became too small for the church due to rapid growth. God being so good, he gave the ministry a new property of about eight Acres on which the current church auditoriums are standing on 13406 Beechnut Street, Houston.

Perhaps it is germane to note that the Church went into Ernest Contract to acquire the land when it was just two years old. To some at that time, the proposal was either presumptuous at worst or ambitious at best. But since the leadership of the Mission is committed to faith it is hardly surprising that the membership is imbued with faith in an unchanging God. The church moved into this property on December 25th, 2000.

A new 1500-seater, ultra modern auditorium was completed early in 2006, and was formally dedicated by Pastor Enoch Adeboye, just before the start of the 2006 North America convention of RCCG, which took place in Houston.

Phenomenal Growth RCCG has now been taken to almost every part of the world. Since 1981, an explosion began with the number of branches growing in leaps and bounds. At the last count, there were at least about 2500 parishes of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria alone.

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Texas Rides on the “Power” of The Wind

HOUSTON - Texas is a leader in wind power technology that produces electricity and is helping drive the economy.

The state is reaching new instantaneous peak outputs surpassing 12,000 megawatts (MW).

In fact, the number of American homes-equivalent that operating wind power capacity can power is about 15.5 million.

Wind Power supplies almost 29% of total electricity load, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the grid’s operator.

The average wind production in that hour was 10,120 MW. “America’s wind energy sector is a success story,” Thomas C. Kiernan CEO, AmericanWind Energy Association said in a letter to Congress about the use of wind technology. “...As a nation, we need to find ways to encourage more production of clean, affordable, homegrown energy that will in turn create more jobs, drive economic development, and provide energy security for America.”

• What is wind power?

According to the American Wind Energy Association, wind power captures the natural wind in our atmosphere and converts it into

mechanical energy then electricity.

People started using wind power centuries ago with windmills, which pumped water, ground grain, and did other work.

Today’s wind turbine is a highly evolved version of a windmill.

Modern wind turbines harness wind’s kinetic energy and convert it into electricity. Most wind turbines have three blades and sit atop a steel tubular tower, and they range in size from 80-foot-tall turbines that can power a single home to utility-scale turbines that are over 260 feet tall and power hundreds of homes. Wind is a type of renewable energy, and there are three major types of wind power.

The major types of wind power are: Utility-scale wind, wind turbines larger than 100 kilowatts are developed with electricity delivered to the power grid and distributed to the end user by electric utilities or power system operators; Distributed or “small” wind, which uses turbines of 100 kilowatts or smaller to directly power a home, farm or small business as it primary use; Offshore wind, which are wind turbines erected in bodies of water around the world, but not yet in the

United States.

• How wind energy works When wind blows past a turbine, the blades capture the energy and rotate. This rotation triggers an internal shaft to spin, which is connected to a gearbox increasing the speed of rotation, which is connect to a generator that ultimately produces electricity.

Most commonly, wind turbines consist of a steel tubular tower, up to 260 feet, which supports both a “hub” securing wind turbine blades and the “nacelle” which houses the turbine’s shaft, gearbox, generator and controls. A wind turbine is equipped with wind assessment equipment and will automatically rotate into the face of the wind, and angle or “pitch” its blades to optimize energy capture.

• How wind energy gets to you Wind turbines often stand together in a windy area that has been through a robust development process in an interconnected group called a wind project or wind farm, which functions like a wind power plant.

These turbines are connected so the electricity can travel from the wind farm to the power grid. Once wind energy is on the main power grid, electric utilities or power operators will deliver the electricity where it is needed. Smaller transmission lines

called distribution lines will collect the electricity generated at the wind project site and transport it to larger “network” transmission lines where the electricity can travel across long distances to the locations where it is needed, when finally the smaller “distribution lines” deliver electricity directly to your town and home.

• How wind projects are developed The current estimate of wind energy potential is 10 times the amount of electricity consumption for the entire country. This strong wind resource varies across the country by region and topography. Wind energy projects are developed by companies that seek out the areas with the strongest wind resource but also review other critical factors like acccess to land, access to the transmission lines, ability to sell the electricity, and public engagement other significant development factors. Once a site is identified, a developer will conduct wind resource assessment, siting and permitting, transmission studies over a period of several years. The majority of wind projects are located on private land, where the developer leases the land from the original landowner providing lease payments.

After early stages of development, a developer will seek out a constract with a purchaser of electricity, raise capital from the finance markets, order wind turbines, and hire a specialized construction company to build the project. Once a project is built and delivering electricity to the power grid, a project owner or operator will maintain the project for its 20 to 30 year life.

• Wind energy in the United States The U.S. is blessed with a strong wind resource across the entire country. The current estimate of wind energy potential is 10 times the amount of electricity consumption for the entire country. This strong wind resource varies across the country by region and topography. By the end of 2012, America had 45,100 operating wind turbines across 39 states as well as Puerto Rico representing 60,009 megawatts (MW) – enough to power over 15.5 million homes (which is roughly the number of homes in six

states). The United States gets 3.5 percent of its electricity from wind overall, but certain states use much more. For instance, Iowa and South Dakota get more than 20 percent of their electricity from wind.

• Wind energy worldwide Wind power has increased exponentially since the dawn of the 21st century. The adoption of wind energy globally has changed dramaically since the 1980’s when California was home to 90% of the world’s installed wind energy capacity. In fact, the amount of operating wind energy capacity has increase more than 16 times between 2000 and 2012, to over 282,000 MW of operating wind capacity. In 2012, the United States represented nearly 22% of the world’s installed wind energy capacity, second only to China, and followed

by Germany, Spain, and India.

• Benefits of wind energy Wind energy is a clean, renewable form of energy that uses virtually no water and pumps billions of dollars into our economy every year. In 2012 alone, wind energy companies invested $25 billion into new wind energy projects in the U.S. Furthermore, wind energy is a drought-resistant cash crop in many parts of the country, providing economic investment to rural communities through lease payments to landowners. Wind energy helps avoid a variety of environmental impacts due to its low impact emitting zero greenhouse gas emissions or conventional pollutants and consuming virtually no water. Wind energy is also insourcing jobs in the manufacturing sector. The wind industry employs 80,000 people across construction, development, engineering, operations with tens of thousands enployed across 550 U.S. manufacturing facilities.

For more information about wind power and how it is changing power production, helping improve our nation’s power and energy grid and the United States role in serving as a major market for wind energy globally, go to awea.org.

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When the doors of Aldine she won awards for: best actress at Independent School District’s the San Jacinto College pre-UIL Benjamin O Davis High School theater workshop, and Honorable opened for the 2012-13 Mention for ALL STAR CAST in school year, Heaven her UIL performance as Mrs. Edmonson was among Dean, in the Robert Shaw play hundreds of students who “Bury the Dead”. Currently, will be the first graduating Heaven is the Theater/Drama class of Davis High Club-Treasurer, a member of in 2015. As a former the JROTC, and a member of student of Aldine the Foreign Language Club Independent School as a French student.

District’s Lewis Middle She is the recipient School, Heaven found of a 2014; YOU’RE her niche there in Choir a S.T.A.R. certificate Heaven Edmonson and LOTC (leadership for Performance, officer, training corps). Then in the Responsibility, Integrity, year 2011- at Chester W. Nimitz 9th Determination, And Excellence grade school she was a dedicated in her Chemistry class. Heaven choir student where she went on to is also the 2014 winner of the perform in UIL where their choir Davis High School Talent Show earned the highly rated sweepstakes where she delivered an electric award under the direction of Lori performance that garnered praise Shownes. She was also in the from her peers for her offering of Naval JROTC. Yet, most of her the poem “Imagine” by Black Ice. time was spent with the “Legacy” She placed 2nd in last year’s Talent a brotherhood / sisterhood program Show by performing “Anger” by where she pledged and crossed over Amir Suleiman. At the 2014 ROTC with Kappa Nu Psi, a high school “Dining Out” ceremony she read sorority at Nimitz, she performed the M.I.A.-P.O.W. speech that in all poetry slam events, as well as deeply touched a former military traveled to Texas A&M University, Chaplain who attended. She recited where she was widely recognized the poem “Imagine” by Black Ice, for her performance in Nimitz’s for the Davis High School’s Special Black History play. In her first Education Department’s - Special year at Benjamin O. Davis High, Education Teacher Appreciation Heaven was a student of choir. She Day. She anxiously awaits for the was also a member of the Davis 2014/2015 school year to begin.

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Report Eyes Community Networking to Encourage Adult Training and Career Preparedness

HOUSTON - With the Houston's northwest corridor lagging in education and job preparedness, Houston Community College is taking on a new challenge of building a strategy to reach the undereducated.

“We want to enlist churches, organizations and others to come together and work with us to build a strategy to improve the education culture in our area,” Dr. Margaret Ford Fisher, HCC President said at a status report meeting with Acres Homes community leaders.“We want education to be affordable and accessible opening the gate of opportunities for a better life to people here.”

The snapshot provided some highlights about the 2013-2014 academic year and an overview of plans for the community and college in coming years.

Houston Community College Northeast has five main instructional sites. They are: Pinemont Campus, Northline Campus, Northeast Campus, North Forest Campus and the Automotive Center.

A new campus has been planned for 2015 for Acres Homes and will focus on skills and workforce development.

In giving her report, Fisher pointed out that the development of the new instructional dynamic, direction, thinking and planning was made possible because of the community and its visionaries who are looking into the future at the needs of the community.

As a result of their work, the college is positioned to meeting the increasing demands of the growing workforce and provide meaningful education programs that will lead to rewarding jobs with great pay.

The Northeast College has grown from a humble beginning with less than 50 students in 1991 to over 30,000 students per year today.

Some of the programs that have garnered national attention and acclaim are the Science Engineering Technologies programs that include petroleum studies, processing, electronics, drafting engineering

and instrumentation engineering.

The programs are bursting at the seams and those completing programs have over a 90-percent placement rate with companies like Chevron, Shell, Exxon, marathon, Schulmberger, G.E., G.E. Oil and Gas, Baker-Hughes, Halliburton, City of Houston, Comcast, Weatherford, Jacobs to name a few.

EMT, Police and fire training programs also have high success rates in excess of 97-98%, when it comes to state testing and licensing.

“We continue to celebrate: from successful bond referenda to annexation and from annexation to enormous growth and student successes in educational attainment – We celebrate... our students and our communities,” she said. “We eagerly look to the future with great pride in accomplishment and with great expectations for continued student success.”

Included in the hope and optimism is finding solutions to improving education enrollment and achievement numbers of residents living in Acres Homes and the Northeast corridor.

Among all the colleges in the HCC system, Northeast has higher than normal numbers when it comes to residents living in low income households, residents unemployed and a higher proportion of young adults over 24 with no college experience.

In 2013, the estimated median household income was $39,346.

That is expected to bump up to $42,071 by the 2018 and the median age in the community will be 35. The number of AfricanAmericans living in Northeast area is projected to decrease slightly, while the number of Hispanics is expected to increase by about 2-percent. The number of Anglo/ Whites is expected to decrease by just under 1-percent.

Voters had previously approved a $150.8 million Capital Improvement Plan. The bond referendum passed by a majority of 56.5 percent of the voters.

In 2003, HCC’s Referendum

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promised to Purchase and Expand (Purchase & Classroom expansion ) the Pinemont campus. Because of a possible environmental hazards, the college did not proceed with project.

Plans are in motion for a new campus to replace the leased Pinemont learning site.

This campus will have a new building to house workforce and academic programs and student support services.

The College and President of Northeast and Chancellor asked for support for their 2012 Bond Referendum and assured the Acres Homes community that $73 million that has been allocated to support expansion of Northeast College and targeted for a new Workforce Building and parking garage, with 600 to 1200 additional parking spaces, for the Northline Campus.

Northeast College will also develop a new campus for the North Forest community. That campus will initially have a Workforce Building and an Early College High School is planned as well.

Residents and supporters want to be sure not only that the college brass keep its promises, but also their input, plans and concerns are heard and fully followed through.

According to Fisher, the goal is to develop a strategy that will seek out a way to changed the demographics by increasing educational opportunities and household incomes while reducing unemployment.

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Black Men Should Not Procrastinate About the Prostrate Early Detection Can Add Years to Your Life

Houston- Prostate cancer is the most common cancer after skin cancer in men in the United States.

It is something AfricanAmerican men should take very seriously giving the current statistics about prostrate cancer in Black men.

African American men have the highest prostate cancer rates of any racial or ethnic group in the United States and are more than twice as likely as Caucasian men to die of the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Houston Family Physician Dr. Demetris Green said men must not fear testing that can save their lives.

“As a primary care physician, I can’s stress enough how important it is to get tested early,”he said.

“Prostrate cancer tends to be more aggressive in African-American men. Testing, monitoring and screening is better than taking no action at all.”

He suggests testing should begin around 40-years of age and repeated yearly. If it runs in a family, the individual needs to start testing at age 35, he said. African Americans also still lag with the highest death rate and shortest survival time for most cancers of any racial and ethnic group in the nation, the latest data available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Many factors could contribute to the onset of prostrate cancer, but for African-Americans it is thought that inequalities that continue to exist among racial groups in a wide variety of areas—including work, income, education, housing and overall standard of living. Studies also have shown that barriers to high-quality health care and racial discrimination may also be to blame.

Giving the startling statistics, African-American men need to learn about the disease, its symptoms and how to be treated for the disease.

What Is Prostate Cancer?

Prostate cancer starts in the prostate, a gland located below the bladder and in front of the rectum.

While the exact cause of prostate cancer is unknown, generally speaking it results from mutations in cell DNA. DNA is the chemical that makes up your genes, which control when your cells grow, divide into new cells, and die. DNA mutations that turn on oncogenes (which help cells grow and divide) or that turn off tumor-suppressor genes (which slow cell division or make cells die when they should) can cause prostate cells to grow abnormally and lead to cancer.

The prostate contains several types of cells, but nearly all prostate cancers develop from glandular cells, which make fluid that becomes part of semen. Cancers that start in glandular cells are known as adenocarcinomas.

All prostate cancers do not behave the same. In some men, prostate cancer is a slow-growing disease that is unlikely to cause serious problems. In others, however, the disease is very aggressive and requires treatment.

Prostate cancer cells can spread by invading nearby organs and tissues, such as the bladder or rectum, or by traveling through the blood or lymph to other parts of the body.

This is known as metastatic prostate cancer.

Other than the lymph nodes near the prostate, the most common site of prostate cancer spread, or metastasis, is the bones, especially in the spine. In some cases, prostate cancer has already metastasized by the time a man learns he has the disease. Also, prostate cancer can recur several years after initial treatment.

Many doctors used to consider prostate cancer in older men to be just part of the normal aging process, and the disease was largely ignored, except when it struck younger men. Now there are newer, better treatments for prostate cancer,

and many men who have or had prostate cancer at any age are leading active, productive lives.

How Common Is Prostate Cancer?

The American Cancer Society estimated that approximately 233,000 new cases of prostate cancer would be diagnosed and nearly 30,000 men would die of the disease in 2014. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death, behind lung cancer, in men in the United States.

The incidence of prostate cancer has nearly doubled over the past 20 years. One possible reason is that, due to a decline in deaths from heart disease, more men are living longer, reaching ages at which the risk of prostate cancer is highest. More than 75 percent of prostate cancers are found in men over age 65.

Understanding the Prostate The prostate makes and stores seminal fluid—a milky liquid that protects and nourishes sperm.

The prostate surrounds part of the urethra, the tube that carries urine and semen out of the body.

If the prostate, which is normally about the size of a walnut, grows too large, it can slow or block the flow of urine. Many men develop a noncancerous condition called benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), or enlargement of the prostate.

BPH typically develops in the zone of the prostate that surrounds the urethra (transition zone). For this reason BPH may cause difficulty with urination. BPH does not lead to or increase the chance of prostate cancer.

Most prostate cancer develops in the zone of the prostate near the rectum (peripheral zone), which is why a digital rectal exam is a useful screening test—and why prostate cancer typically does not interfere with urination as much as BPH does. Even so, because the prostate is close to the urethra and several other important structures, prostate

cancer and its treatment can disrupt normal urinary, bowel, and sexual function.

Early Detection & Prevention The American Cancer Society recommends that African Americans start discussing prostate cancer early detection tests with their doctors beginning at age 45. Men with several close relatives diagnosed with prostate cancer at an early age should have these discussions at age 40.

Due to prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening—which may detect prostate cancer early—as well as improvements in therapy, deaths from prostate cancer have decreased dramatically (40 to 50 percent) since the early 1990s. Screening alone is credited for one-third of the decrease. While there is no perfect test for prostate cancer, PSA screening is the best indicator available.

Doctors may also do more tests to find or diagnose prostate cancer.

Three of those include: Transrectal ultrasound: A probe the size of a finger is inserted into the rectum, and high-energy sound waves (ultrasound) are bounced off the prostate to create a picture of the prostate called a sonogram. This test may be used during a biopsy.

Biopsy: A small piece of tissue is removed from the prostate and looked at under a microscope to see if there are cancer cells.

Gleason score: This score is determined when the biopsy is

looked at under the microscope. If there is a cancer, the score indicates how likely it is to spread. The score ranges from 2–10. The lower the score, the less likely it is that the cancer will spread.

Ultimately, decisions about screening should be individualized based on a man’s level of risk, overall health, and life expectancy, as well as his desire for eventual treatment if he is diagnosed with prostate cancer. A biopsy is the only way to definitively diagnose the disease.

Symptoms & Diagnosis The disease may be slow growing or, in some cases, very aggressive. Many newer treatments allow men with prostate cancer to live active, productive lives.

Early prostate cancer doesn’t typically cause symptoms. In many men, the disease is detected when their doctor finds signs during a routine check-up. Diagnosed early, prostate cancer is curable.

Talk to your doctor.

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