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LIVING LEGEND

June 9

The University Interscholastic League State Executive Committee validated the Legislative Council’s decision to open league membership to all public schools. – 1965

Alvia J. Wardlaw HOUSTON - Alvia J. Wardlaw is an Art historian and curator.

She was born on November 5, 1947 to Virginia Cage and Alvin Wardlaw. She was raised in Houston where she graduated from Jack Yates High School in 1965. Wardlaw earned her B.A. degree in Art History from Wellesley College in 1969, and her M.A. degree in Art History from New York University in 1986.

In 1996, she became the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. degree in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin. From 1972 to 1974, Wardlaw worked as a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (MFAH). In 1974, she was promoted to associate curator of Primitive Art and Education and was also hired as an adjunct professor at Texas Southern University, where she went on to serve as assistant and associate professor of Art History.

From 1973 to 1989, Wardlaw curated a number of exhibitions at various institutions, including: African Tribal Art (1973); Roy DeCarava: Photographs (1975); Ceremonies and Visions: The Art of John Biggers (1980); Homecoming: African-American Family History in Georgia (1982), John Biggers: Bridges (1986) and a host of others.

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Richard Allen birthed the Independent Methodist Movement. - 1794

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Connie Yerwood, the first African-American doctor to work for Texas Public Health Services, died.

– 1991

12 Dr. James Leonard Farmer, Texas’ first Black professor with an earned Ph.D. (Boston University), was born. – 1886

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Oscar Dunn is inaugurated Lt. Governor of Louisiana, becoming the first African-American elected in this position. - 1868

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Dr. D. West appointed President of Meharry Medical College. - 1952 Stephanie Tilley poetizes a Juneteenth piece in memory of Our Culture.

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J. Edgar Hoover never missed an opportunity at trying to slander Dr. King’s name.

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Galilee M.B.C. in Acres Homee has awarded nearly 120 scholarships to area youth.

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Beaumont race riots erupted. - 1943

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From chains to selfpreservation, From enslavement to opportunity.

It’s been a long journey to be recognized, To be acknowledged as human.

Our Black has been bruised... persecuted... and hated!

We have been treated like forbidden fruit, When the taste of injustice, is lethal to our lives.

No, we do not know the fullness of freedom, The peace of unconditional acceptance.

In many ways, we are still enslaved!

Still targets of terrorism, Still products of a broken system.

However, Our Opportunity has been paved, By prayers, cotton and marches!

Our Ancestors have carried us on their backs, Their blood, sweat and tears anoints Our Paths!

We are pushing through Our Trauma!

Our Blood remembers...

All of Our Ancestors before us and their resilience!

We have survived the slave ships!

Today Juneteenth, We claim phenomenal!

Because for too long, we been treated like an unwanted phenomenon!

Today Juneteenth, We honor the power of Our People!

Today Juneteenth, We take ownership of Our Liberty!

Today Juneteenth, We celebrate Our Lineage!

The blood of Our Ancestors’ legacy flows through Our Consciousness, They are Our History!

Living in Our Skin.

They have built Our Present!

With their prayers and strength.

They gave us a future!

Their freedom was the ultimate sacrifice.

Today Juneteenth We honor them.

We honor us.

For Your Consideration

By Oscar H. Blayton

Black Bodies Creating White Power

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lmost every high school student in America knows about the compromise reached during the drafting of the U.S. Constitution resulting in enslaved people being counted as three-fifths of a person during the national census held every ten years.

Even while White Southerners denied enslaved people in those states the rights guaranteed to citizens, they still demanded that the enslaved people’s bodies be counted in the census.

The Southerners made this demand because the size of a state’s population determined how many representatives those states would be granted in Congress.

The more representatives a state had, the greater the state’s power in the federal government.

The Northern states, seeing this ploy for what it was, resisted Southerners’ demand but, eventually, a compromise was reached where each enslaved body would be counted only as three-fifths of a person.

This is just another example of how White supremacists benefited from the use of Black bodies while not providing one drop of benefit to the souls inhabiting those bodies.

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It also helps us to understand how Black bodies currently are being used to enhance White supremacy in America.

Today, significant numbers of prisons-where Brown and Black inmates from urban areas are incarcerated- are located in rural, predominantly White census tracts.

And for years, these Brown and Black bodies have been used to inflate the census figures in order to enhance the political power of those rural White areas.

The practice of counting prisoners in the census tracts where they are

“The year 2020 is coming and we must fight against all attempts to foster White supremacy, including prison gerrymandering.” - OB Photo Credit pjvoice.org

incarcerated decreases the political power of the home communities of those prisoners and transfers that power to an alien community with diametrically opposed interests.

This is what happens when an individual is removed from his urban home in a liberal Democratic district and incarcerated in a district that voted for a White supremacist like Donald Trump.

The body of that inmate,

who by incarceration is ineligible to vote, has now increased the population count in the conservative district while the count of his liberal home district has been reduced.

The body of the inmate of color, like the body of his or her enslaved ancestor, has been stolen in order to enhance the political power of his or her oppressor.

There are approximately 2.3 million Americans in prisons and jails today.

It also has been reported that between 1970 and 2000, more than 1,100 prisons were built in the United States, with roughly 70 percent of those prisons being located in rural communities, mostly in conservative Southern states such as Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas.

Data collected by the Vera Institute of Justice shows that largely rural counties that voted for Donald Trump had a 53 percent higher jail admissions rate than those that voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. The national NAACP has reported that while African-Americans and Hispanics make up approximately 32 percent of the U.S. population, they made up 56 percent of all incarcerated people in 2015.

A slide rule is not necessary to figure out that when you have large numbers of people victimized by the mass incarceration policies of this country, and a significant number of those inmates are used to further empow-

er White supremacists in rural areas, there is little incentive for conservative politicians to correct this injustice that has been dubbed “prison gerrymandering.”

In addition to stealing bodies to gain political power, these rural areas receive increased federal funding based on their inflated population figures.

This takes money from inner cities where many of the inmates had lived and redeposited those funds into the rural, predominantly White areas where the prisons are located. This is a win-win for White supremacy and a significant handicap for urban areas victimized by a lack of services, over-policing and courts that hand down harsh sentences.

The practice of prison gerrymandering is slowly attracting attention. Six states – Delaware, Maryland, Nevada, California, New York and Washington – have outlawed prison gerrymandering and others have started taking steps to reduce or eliminating it.

The year 2020 is coming.

It is not only an election year, but a year when the next census will be taken.

Battles will be fought over racial gerrymandering and voter suppression. Ending prison gerrymandering is a battle that also must be fought. If prison gerrymandering is taking place in your state, organize and act.

Oscar H. Blayton is a former Marine Corps combat pilot and human rights activist who practices law in Virginia.

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We MUST Understand

By Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher

The Truth About Integration Blacks Against Blacks - Part II. “The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being achieved when in reality the artificially integrated circles are a soporfic to the Blacks while salving the consciences of the few guilt-stricken Whites.”

- Steven Biko

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erhaps one of the worst things integration did to the Black community was pitted Blacks against Blacks.

We MUST Understand that although “handkerchief-head Uncle Tom’s” have always existed within our culture; there was a time when majority of Black America stuck together and supported each other. Primarily because we were in a class all by ourselves and Black survival depended on the collective united front of the entire Black community.

We MUST Understand before integration, the only division in America was Black and White.

Back then, it did not mat-

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ter what country a person came from or what type of descent a person extended from; all races outside of the Black race was considered, “White”.

Nevertheless, here we are over half a century away from the abolishment of segregation and some of US have gotten downright out of control.

So much so, that it is devastating the Black community and making some of US look like complete fools.

The most recent example of what I am referring to is occurring right here in Houston in regards to the upcoming mayoral race. As a Black leader, it is one thing to have an agenda, however it takes it to another level when one Black is pitted against the other to accomplish his or her mission.

As it is, Councilmember Dwight Boykins has decided to throw his hat in the ring against Mayor Sylvester Turner. For those who have been following our stories, this shouldn’t come as a surprise.

My point is that things of this sort did not happen prior to integration; because Blacks wasn’t allowed to vote, less known run for public office. As times have changed, Our so-called leaders have gotten so caught up with titles that they have took an eye off of doing what’s in the best interest of the entire Black community.

The Hutchinson Report

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Here We Go Again...

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r. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered more than a half century ago in Memphis. Then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover has been dead almost a half century. Yet, one wouldn’t know it.

King is once again being slammed with the age-old charge that he was a philanderer, a pervert and a hypocrite on sex. These were all the choice epithets that Hoover publicly and privately hurled at King when both were alive.

They are being dredged up and hurled at King again. This time courtesy of respected King biographer, David Garrow who in an article quotes liberally from of all sources, the patently secret, hideous and blatantly illegal mountain of wiretaps Hoover compiled on King.

In the tapes King purports to laugh at a rape, have numerous affairs and sex orgies.

Hoover had a near pathological obsession and hatred of King. He made no secret that he would do any and everything possible to hector, harass, malign and ulti-

mately try to destroy King.

Early in his brutal, no holds barred war against King, Hoover zeroed in on the one thing that he believed would bring King down. That was sex.

Hoover never missed a chance to try and leak King allegedly saying zingers such as: “I’m f*****g for God! I’m not a negro tonight!” Those quotes almost exclusively came from FBI declassified wiretaps and memos or from interviews with exFBI agents who shadowed King. The FBI tried to drive the dagger deeper by sending him one of their tapes anonymously which contained supposed tape ‘highlights’ of his sexual groans and dirty jokes.

The ex-agents could hardly be considered founts of objectivity.

Many were unabashed racists, and like their boss, Hoover, were fiercely hostile to King. The tales they told purportedly based on the tapes of King soliciting and cavorting with White prostitutes, talking dirty and having wild orgies, were concocted probably at the egging on of Hoover. Their authenticity has been repeatedly challenged.

Numerous King associates said that the sexual hijinks that Hoover said he had on the tapes were made up whole cloth and were repeatedly dredged up in the decades since King’s murder to smear him and his legacy. The

truth about what King did or didn’t do in his private life on the road away from wife and family as always lay somewhere in between what accusers and defenders say about King’s private life.

King was a fundamentalist Baptist minister in an era when the role of women, especially wives, were firmly matriarchal and centered in the home.

It was one of the worst kept secrets that many ministers engaged in illicit sex within and without their churches.

There was no real stigma or penalty in that era attached to their philandering. If King did engage in extramarital sexual exploits it would have been no surprise, and no surprise that whatever alleged affairs he may have had would have been winked and nodded at and ignored by friends and associates.

But in the perverse hands of Hoover, King’s real or imagined sexual philandering was simply another weapon in his filthy orchestrated hate and vilification campaign against King. A campaign Hoover continues to orchestrate from the grave today. The goal now as then hasn’t changed.

That’s to destroy King and his legacy.

The thinking went, discredit King and you discredit the civil rights movement. If King was exposed as hypocrite, cheat,

and scumbag on sex, then this would wreak irreparable damage to his reputation as a principled, purer than Caesar’s Wife, moral man.

Hoover’s dirty little scheme to destroy King with sexual dirt flopped then because of King. He was simply too valued a leader of a movement and a cause that touched, energized and mobilized millions. The events around the vicious state trooper assaults on demonstrators in Selma in 1965 was a textbook example of this.

President Johnson not only met with King privately at least twice before and during the bloody assault, but they almost had a tag team partnership in orchestrating and coordinating the street demonstrations and congressional support for passage of the Act. This was not unusual. Johnson and King spoke at least a dozen times by phone at various times during Johnson’s tenure in the White House.

Johnson would hardly have cultivated King as a quasi-ally and informal sounding board on civil rights actions if he thought he was consorting with a sex crazed, two-bit con man and huckster.

Johnson heard the tapes of King’s alleged sexual escapades Hoover giddily supplied to him. Whether he believed any of the rancid stuff or not was irrelevant to him.

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DO BLACK BOYS MATTER???

By Shepherd Manson B. Johnson Holman Street B.C.

HEMPSTEAD - If you don’t know the answer, it is a resounding yes. We need our Black boys to replace us as fathers, community leaders, educators, clergy, sports champions, judges, car dealers/owners, news reporters, attorneys, professionals, dump truck drivers and owners, landscapers, ranchers, role models, land developers, owners, TV/Radio station managers/owners, janitorial cleaners service owners, PTA/PTO members, store managers, and the list goes on and on.

Do you know that 3 out of 5 Black boys in Harris County are picked out by our society to be destined to get their life- education in prison?

The right question concerning this bold issue may be: Do Black men care about our young boys who have been picked out to get their life-education in prison? If you do, write down on paper what you have done to show that you care about statistical data that profile our boys into the future of derogatory mind destroying criminal prison systems.

Busy Black men MUST TAKE TIME to spend with our Black boys to show them a better way to obtain a better education within the larger community’s general experience.

Black boys do matter and deserve to have a better shot at life than prison.

Black boys have less inspiration today to aim high and aspire to achieve high levels of extraordinary

lifestyles in our society.

The many pressures of city life and competing against poverty to survive call for extraordinary steps to be taken to ensure Black boys make it through the city jungle’s prison traps.

Positive alternative mentoring activities can give Black boys exposure to better end result than to be destined for serving time in prison because of teen age crimes.

BLACK BOYS DO MATTER...

And they need Black men’s help to survive the jungle. We must have Black men to TAKE THE TIME TO GIVE TIME to mentoring closely and frequently the exposure, training and development of young Black boys. Other agencies and other people in our society can also help but Black men’s help is primary.

NO ONE CAN RELATE TO A BLACK BOY AS A BLACK MAN CAN. Their life struggles and experiences are mostly the same.

A young age is where real success starts. We must engage them in activities that impact their future while they are young.

Whatever activities Black men engage Black boys in they must be IMPACTFUL. Recently, some of “The Tool Box” men of Holman Street Baptist Church in Houston had an impactful weekend at the RS Deer & Cattle Ranch in Waller County, with a fishing trip.

We had five very busy businessmen and ten boys ranging from ages 12 to 14 to attend. All of these busy men stayed the du-

ration of the trip. No one left five or six hours early to leave the boys alone on their own.

We all stayed until it was over. We did not meet the boys at the ranch. Several of us rode with them together to the ranch. It was a bonding experience just to ride with the boys and hear the excitement of their childish chatter.

This also helped them to warm up to us sooner as we reached the ranch and unloaded the gear.

participated interactively with exceeding great joy.

It was IMPACTFUL to the boys! The rest of the night was spent enjoying a special meal personally prepared by Mr. Malonson.

His preparation of venison gourmet burgers along with venison boudin stole the night with 100% delight from everyone. The meal was served on his private well-lit deck that cantilevered out over the water of the fishing pond.

(Amazingly, not one mos-

with the boys by administering the DISC personality survey to them. WOW! What a real response.

He explained to the boys what each of the letters in the survey meant to them, their character and their future. One of the goals that Brother LaFleur had for this exercise was for each boy to begin to know who he is on the inside. By each boy knowing himself he can govern and control his actions that will keep him on track for becoming who he wants to be in later years.

Again, Brother LaFleur was like a maestro of an orchestra conducting a masterpiece. He collected their minds together as one but address their individual needs. The boys were attentive as he explained how each of the DISC letters can help them choose a lifelong career path for their future.

After we wrapped up

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cifically engineered ranch.

Boy, what a treat! The two hours of touring was well worth the trip by itself.

We specifically found out so much detailed information about deer ranching three species of deer. The exotic Axis deer and the famous Whitetail deer to name a couple.

Riding in a customized RS Deer Ranch people transport trailer, western style with bails of hay to sit on, we moved in tractor-driven comfort around the ranch and its unique nature trail sites.

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P.R.O. participants and mentors enjoying deer boudin hamburgers and links.

We were hosted by Mr. Roy Douglas Malonson, owner of the RS Deer & Cattle Ranch and his ranch hands. Cedrick LaFleur, a prominent Christian millionaire businessman, (CEO & Founder of LaFleur Leadership Institute), started the evening off with a discussion and activity on subjects ranging from integrity, character, goal setting, and mental discipline.

Brother LaFleur’s handling of the subject matter to get engagement from all ten of the boys was like a Mozart symphony concert in motion. The boys

quito bite was experienced while on the ranch during the entire time!!!).

The rest of the night was spent over the vintage pool table and playing cards/dominos on a custom-made game table and talking trash into the wee hours of the morning.

Saturday morning’s breakfast was prepared personally by Mr. Malonson, from scratch: egg and venison sausage tacos. Everyone ate more than three!

After breakfast, “The Tool Box” man Brother LaFleur wrapped up with his training and development

Hey.... Y’all think it’s gon jump up at us??!!?!?

and cleaned up the firstclass and well-furnished lodge facility it was time for the tour of the RS Deer & Cattle Ranch. Mr. Malonson completed a detailed tour of the spectacularly crafted and spe-

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Galilee MBC Awards 60K in Scholarships

Pastor Edwin A. Davis, 2019 GMBC Scholarship recipients and Lady Charlotte Davis.

By Chelsea Davis - Bibb HOUSTON - Since 2010, Empowerment, Networking, and since then has grown PRAIRIE VIEW - In takGalilee Missionary BapTeamwork, Unity and Men- from 2,700 to over 55,000 ing part in National Lemtist Church in Acres torship, all of the words youth. onade Day, Prairie View Homes, has given out 119 This year the Teens and which coincide for sellTop Ladies of Distincscholarships to their grading lemonade. Lemonade Ladies held the event at tion and the Top Teens uating seniors to help give Day is a day about teach- Mount Corinth M.B.C. in of America were able to them a head start on their ing kids the principles of Hempstead where everyfulfill their core mantra, education endeavors. This business and enterprise by body from the surround“M.O.M.E.N.T.U.M.”. year was no exception. helping them start a lem- ing areas was invited to M . O . M . E . N .T. U . M .

Under the leadership of come and partake in the onade stand. stands for Mission, OwnPastor, Dr. Edwin Davis, It was founded in 2007 festivities. ership, Mental Toughness, Galilee was able to award 11 scholarships totaling $60,000. This was the most scholarships awarded since the inception of Signing Day @ Cy Woods H.S. the Scholarship Ministry.

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ance but must continue to school education whether it be the guiding force of as- be two-year, four-year, cersisting young people in their tification or licensure.” educational endeavors. We Taylor Johnson, was continue to give scholar- one of the recipients ships to assist our gradu- who received an $8,000 ates in their college journey scholarship. She was very by giving them a jumpstart. grateful and expressed It is very important that we that, “Being a recipient of help our children with their the Galilee MBC scholarcollege endeavors in these ship has made it easier for times that we live in.” me to reach my goal in edIn addition, First Lady, ucation. I am grateful for Dr. Charlotte J. Davis has the scholarship ministry. worked hard for years with Without them and this inthe help of members of credible blessing, I probably the Scholarship Ministry wouldn’t be able to afford to ensure they can assist most of my classes. I believe as many students possible. this was a true blessing With 25 years in education from God.” under her belt, Dr. Davis After graduation, Taylor truly believes the youth will be moving to Tuscaloare our future and that it is osa, Alabama to pursue a Contact Information important that we contin- degree in Kinesiology with Name: Omobukola Gidado ue to make an investment a minor in Sports MediCompany: METRO in them. cine at the University of Email: Omobukola.Gidado@ridemetro.org She said, “It is imperaPhone: (713)Alabama, 615-6243 Roll Tide!

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FRIDAY, JUNE 14 SUNDAY, JUNE 16 The Well Experience Conference Lighthouse Church 6650 Rankin Rd Humble, 77396 Register at tweconference.com Starting at 7p.m.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 15 The State of Black Houston, 77033 Houston Museum of Entrepreneurship Starting at 6p.m.

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