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LIVING LEGEND

OUR STORY June 23

80 African-American men reported to a Pennsylvania army camp. - 1863

24 L. Natalie Carroll HOUSTON - Obstetrician and gynecologist L. Natalie Carroll was born on January 26, 1950 in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father, Dr. Carl Mark Carroll, was a physician; her mother, Ruth (Carter) Carroll, a librarian. Carroll studied psychology at Lake Forest College, in Lake Forest, Illinois, for three years, then continued her education at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN, where she earned her M.D. degree in 1974.

While at Meharry, Carroll completed an externship at Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, D.C. in pediatrics, and an externship at Baylor College of Medicine and Jefferson Davis Hospital in obstetrics and gynecology.

She also completed her surgery rotation at Harvard University School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard-Meharry Exchange Program.

In 1975, Carroll became the first woman to complete a surgery internship at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. In 1978, she became the first African-American woman to complete an obstetrics/gynecology residency at the same facility.

From 1978 to 1980, she served as chair of the Quality Assurance Review for Women’s Clinic at Darnall Army Hospital in Fort Hood.

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U.S. Army merited Clinton Freaves for bravery.

- 1877

25 President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802, the Fair Employment Act. The act banned discrimination in the government and defense industries.

- 1941

26 Public school system rejected by Prince Edward County, Virginia. - 1959

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WHAT’S HAPPENIN’

27 Ronald Kirk, the first Black mayor of Dallas, was born in Austin. - 1954

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Samuel J. Battle becomes the first African-American policeman in New York City. - 1911 For Your Consideration discusses Black women being incarcerated simply because they are poor.

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Jermaine Hayter reports on native Houstonian, Xavien Howard’s recent signing with the Dolphins.

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Stokely Carmichael, Civil Rights activist was born.

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NATIONAL

POLITICS State of Black Texas in the Texas Legislature

By Senator Borris Miles

Republican-led Property Tax Relief or Deceit?

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T

he 86th Legislative Session has come to an end, and one of the most significant issues discussed was property tax reform.

The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Texas Speaker joined together, and they made it very clear, they were going to pass property tax reform.

For the past few years, constituents from across the state voiced their concern about the skyrocketing property taxes. This issue had come before the Texas Legislature several times but failed.

The problem is that our state is growing, the cost to provide services is not going down, and Republican leaders have been cutting services so much that local municipalities, counties, school districts and other government entities have been picking up the tab to ensure the public is served.

To keep up with the costs, some local government entities had to increase tax rates to fund public services. Republicans began filing legis-

lation targeting property taxes reform to limit local jurisdictions ability to collect taxes and giving property owners a tax break.

Multiple proposals were on the table, including raising the sales tax to the highest in the US. Republicans were willing to increase a regressive tax, just to give the rich of the rich a tax break.

After much push back, Republicans eventually settled on Senate Bill 2, which combined with House Bill 3, the public education finance bill would provide over $5 billion in statewide property tax relief.

The new law lowers the property tax rollback rate to 3.5% for cities and counties, and any increase to the rollback rate would require voter approval.

Your actual property tax bill will not go down significantly and your local governments will have a more difficult time providing services.

In addition, this “relief” Republicans are promising is just a house of cards waiting to fall. If the price for oil drops, that relief will dissipate very quickly.

Local governments are the backbone of a community. Republicans need to let local jurisdictions decide what is best for their community. If the community has a problem with their local leaders, they can voice that in the election booth. Let us keep local governments local.

For Your Consideration

By Oscar H. Blayton

Black Women Incarcerated Due to Poverty

I

t seems like every day we learn about another facet of the cruelty of the American criminal justice system.

Ava DuVernay’s blockbuster documentary on Netflix, When They See Us, has heightened the furor over the fact that, in America, law enforcement means “control” rather than “justice” for people of color.

And while the story of how the American legal system failed the Central Park Five is horrific – and for some, hard to watch – it is only one of many chapters in the saga of how this country lashes people of color with judicial oppression.

Just as we should not avert our eyes from the tragedy suffered by the Central Park Five, we should not avert our eyes from the plight of poor women of color who remain behind bars simply because they are poor.

The nonprofit organization, Prison Policy Initiative has reported that almost two out of every three women in jail have not been convicted of a crime. They are incarcer-

ated awaiting resolution of their cases.

The main reason for this startling fact is that many women are unable to raise the necessary funds for a cash bail. And this, simply put, is punishment for the “crime of poverty.”

The Prison Policy Initiative has reported that in 2015, the median income for Black women incarcerated prior to trial was $9,083, while the typical amount of bail in those instances was $10,000. It is obscene that too often bail is set at an amount greater than the annual income of a person facing a minor charge.

It is not uncommon for people of color to be sent to jail for not paying fines.

And it is outrageous when those people are incarcerated for not paying fines and fees for violations that are not jailable offenses. The threat of incarceration and, ultimately, incarceration has been used by some cities and towns strapped for money to squeeze dollars out of the most vulnerable members of their communities.

In 2015, CNN reported how the U.S. Justice Department revealed a pattern and practice of racial discrimination within Ferguson, Missouri, that targeted African-American residents for tickets and fines. And when these tickets and fines went unpaid, those residents often went to jail.

Not only is this practice

a grave injustice, but it inflicts wounds upon our society. The New York Review of Books reports, eight out of 10 women in jail are mothers, and most of them are single parents.

There should be no need to explain how parental incarceration impacts negatively on a child.

Studies by the Prison Policy Initiative have linked parental incarceration to that child’s risk of violence and victimization, as well as chronic health problems.

Incarceration can cause a woman to lose her job, lose her housing and even lose her child. Incarceration of the poor is a public policy that creates and maintains a cycle of poverty.

It is well known that incarceration usually results in the loss of a job. It is less well known that incarceration often results in the loss of stable housing.

In his 2016 book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, sociologist and Princeton University professor Matthew Desmond set out that, “Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.”

And Princeton University’s Eviction Lab published an online report in 2018 titled, Why Eviction Matters stating that evictions “disproportionately affect low-income women, in particular women of color.”

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OPINION & EDITORIAL

We MUST Understand

By Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher

The Truth About Integration Schools Part IV. “It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too Black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.”

-Malcolm X

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alcolm X simple analogy about coffee as it relates to integration, reflects the very idea I have been trying to convey in reference to the Truth About Integration. Some people tend to disagree with my views regarding integration and they are entitled to do so. Nevertheless, the fact remains that integration did more to destroy Our Black fortress rather than preserving and sustaining it.

I witnessed the firsthand affects integration had on America’s public-school system. In 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren ruled on the civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas. This ruling state-sanctioned segregation of public schools as a violation of the 14th

amendment and was deemed unconstitutional.

We MUST Understand, although it was some time afterwards when schools officially began to integrate, this measure gradually destroyed historically Black institutions and facilities.

Primarily because, while there were some Blacks who were ecstatic to integrate White schools, the truth is none of our White counterparts would ever sign up to send their children to Our Black schools.

The conclusion, scores of Black institutions were closed.

When this happened, it began to diminish part of Our History in education. To this day, we will never know some of the advancements Our forefathers made in education because some of that history was lost.

We went to their schools and most of ours eventually closed and were never re-opened. But the kicker was that, even though schools were no longer segregated, there was still SEGREGATION within INTEGRATION. The mode had already been set. We were used to being amongst our own and so were they. The only thing that changed - we were all going to the same schools.

Black students were still discriminated against in every aspect. We were still not equal. It took decades before Blacks could compete in schools with Whites and even in that, competitions were impartial amongst many other things.

The Hutchinson Report

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Hardly a National Election...

L

et’s crunch some numbers in the 2016 presidential election. Trump and rival Hillary Clinton made a combined 250 plus official campaign vote trips to Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.

This was exactly 250 plus more visits than they made to California and New York, the nation’s most populist states.

Eighteen states got no visits from either of them.

There was no need.

Long before the first vote was cast, voters in the eighteen states and their Electoral College votes had already been earmarked for either Clinton or Trump. They were rock solid, unshakeable either GOP or Democratic majority states that were safely in the candidate’s respective bags.

The Electoral College isn’t the only reason national elections aren’t really national. And why a handful of states determine the national winner out of all proportion to their population and location.

Wisconsin and Michigan have a combined 36 electoral votes, while New York and California dwarf them with their massive number of electoral votes.

Yet, California and New York got a paltry two presidential visits, and both were from Clinton.

The six presidential maker states also have a fairly even sized mix of Democrat, Republican, and Independents. However, that must be finetuned, and Trump showed how.

He pitched a relatively small narrow base of voters in the suburbs and rural parts of the six states with his quasi-economic populist, full throated race and immigrant bashing, America first, demagogic campaign.

This was just enough to ensure that these voters stormed the polls and gave him the razor edge he needed win several of these states. This tact would not have worked if these voters were in any of the other states that were either reliably Democrat or Republican.

Trump will do the same thing again in the 2020 presidential campaign.

The difference this time is that his Democratic presidential rival will do the same and try to peel off some of the Trump base while trying to ramp up the vote among blacks, Hispanics, young persons, and suburban college educated women, to offset the Trump crowd. The problem with this is that it still gives outsize power to these six states and effectively marginalizes the other forty-four.

This has dire consequences. It makes eligible voters even less inclined to make any effort to go to the polls. The thinking be-

ing what difference does it make, the game is already rigged, and my vote doesn’t count.

Appeals that there’s more at stake in a presidential election than just the presidency, but that lots of local and state offices and ballot initiatives are just as important, and votes for them count too flop when the mass media and public fixate on the race to the White House.

This malaise hurts Democrats far more than Republicans because their voter base is far more diverse, eclectic, and with many younger voters, fickle.

It stokes resentment.

It’s repeatedly said that it’s outrageous that six states are the shot callers in a national election.

This makes a mockery of the pretense that the popular vote is what elections should be about.

If a less educated White rural or blue-collar voter can get all the attention from Trump and even a Democratic presidential candidate, the message is that their vote in six states means everything, while a vote in the other forty-four states is means nothing.

The other problem is race. It’s not that the six states are the whitest states in the union. That distinction goes to states such as Vermont or Idaho. But both states are either lock down GOP or Democratic states. It’s the sometime subtle, sometimes blatant, racial pandering to certain voters in the six states that’s the problem.

The hard reality is that

the GOP could not have been competitive during the 2008, 2012 and the 2016 presidential campaigns without the bail out from less educated white male voters.

Much has been made since then that they are a dwindling percent of the electorate, and that Hispanics, Asian, Black, young and women voters will permanently tip the balance of political power to the Democrats in coming national elections. It’s true that blue collar white voters have shrunk from more than half of the nation’s voters to less than forty percent.

The assumption based solely on this slide and the increased minority population numbers and regional demographic changes is that the GOP’s white vote strategy is doomed to fail.

This ignores three major factors in voting patterns. Elections are usually won by candidates with a solid, and impassioned core of bloc voters. White males, particularly older white males, vote consistently and faithfully. And they vote in a far greater percentage than Hispanics and Blacks.

This tells much why six states with larger than life numbers of these voters are the undisputed kingmakers in national politics. That won’t change in 2020.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is the author of Who Can Beat Trump?

He is a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton Show on Radio One.

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By TJ Baker

HOUSTON - “Without Favor or Fear” is the journalist creed. So, Mr. Paris Eley, this is especially for you, because you asked that African-American News & Issues, print professionally and not bullsh-t!!

A f r i c a n -A m e r i c a n News & Issues’ readers, I’m going to try my best to unconfuse you in plain language on what happened, why it happened, and when it happened.

Why does KCOH ‘now’ have two radio sites; each one owned by a different company?

You may or may not know it, but the original owner of KCOH – Mr. Michael Petrizzo, died back in January of 2012. KCOH was sold, and then almost bankrupted because of stolen money. It was then re-sold again, and then the KCOH family split– keeping the past intact because the future didn’t look so bright. That’s when KCOH – 1430 AM back in 2013, went off the air and re-launched on different radio airwaves. So what’s the update and honest storyline when it comes to KCOH? Glad you asked... {Stepchild} KCOH–The Source AM 1230 [owned by] Pueblo de Galilea, LLC; under the name of Spotlight Media is being radio-aired in small incubator rooms from the address of 2616, Suite 335 Southwest Freeway, 77054.

Then you have the Legendary KCOH {New Parents} which has been renamed… KCOH TV the Boost [owned for the past 4 – 5 years] by ‘SUPER’ At-

torney Ben Hall and his lovely wife, Mrs. Sandra Hall. This station is currently ‘internet’ aired from the legendary landmark, KCOH building, which still sits on Almeda Road.

For Clarity

KCOH – AM 1230, you can still listen to on the radio with snap, crackle, and popping noises in the background most of the time. KCOH TV the Boost you can only listen to if you have internet capabilities, which gives a much smoother listening experience like you’re on your smart-phone, laptop, tablet or home computer.

Back to the story. Reminiscing, most likely you heard about the legendary radio host, Michael Harris, who several years ago took out personal loans – yes, he used his own money; trying to save the original glory of KCOH! But Michael Harris got the shortend of the stick, because of the owner back then… which I will not give that Negro any media press, because the word on the street is that he is in jail for numerous things, and one is the embezzlement of money into his own pockets.

Continuing, did the original KCOH go off air?

Well, technically it really went into hibernation for some months and some said for some years. That was because a lot of loyal listeners didn’t know the radio dials were switched from AM-1430 to AM1230, which is what listeners are listening on now.

In the midst of it all of that heartache, headache and nightmare sweats of

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COVER STORY what’s going to happen to KCOH, because rumors had it – it was going to be a Spanish station. Or if not a Spanish Station, then the old KCOH legacy building was going to be changed into a church or torn down altogether. Whatever the case might be, it was not going to be the same as having KCOH radio station, that’s been sitting on Almeda since 1953.

Back in 2016, Attorney

But as Yolanda Adams sings ‘In The Midst of It All’, a delight and powerful Christian song the Almighty had Attorney Ben Hall and his wife lean on Jerri P. Beasley for visionary guidance, while they’re staying the provisionary – meaning they are providing the money belt in this ongoing KCOH TV the Boost project. But, let me repeat, it’s not on AM or FM radio waves yet.

Jerri P. Beasley, General Manager of KCOH TV, The Boost.

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Ben and wife Sandra Hall purchased KCOH’s building and decided to end the AM station and transition to the internet.

Well, when that idea was brought up, a lot of KCOH radio host legendaries jumped up and left; now who’s [Crying & Crushed Egos] followed who out the door first?

Don’t know, but I do know that Michael Harris, Wash Allen, Ralph Cooper, Lisa Berry Dockery, Paris Eley and Don Samuel all left, which put KCOH scrambling and hearing misfortunate things about the fate and future of KCOH.

However, listeners from the ages of five-years-old to 45-years-old rarely listen to AM radio stations. I know about this firsthand because my Eagle Scout son doesn’t even listen to any kind of radio stations – if they are not on apps.

When I’m driving and turn on the car radio, my son immediately sticks his earbuds in his ears.

Readers understand the current movement - new and exciting generation is into ‘Podcast, Facebook-live streaming, Twitch, iTunes, Pandora, Audion-Social Music Player and YouTube and so much other variety of

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apps.

Therefore, KCOH TV the Boost is unbelievably reaching enormous numbers of 375,000 internet viewers, just on apps alone. Amazing! And the numbers of listeners will sky-rocket even higher when The Boost gets on the FM HD-Internet radio air. Trust, me a lot more of the AM [silver hairs] radio listeners will automatically change over, because the frequent sounds will be better and clearer; and being online, listeners will have the option, on their mobile apps or computers to watch their favorite disc jockies and talk radio host’s in action.

Readers of African-American News & Issues, I must love you; I must greatly appreciate your dedication that you read our publication, week after week, month after month and year after year in print as well as online. Because of that love, I went out in the stormy rain to get the nitty-gritty scoop of what went down at the KCOH radio station.

And with more love on top of my love, this is what Jerri P. Beasley the general manager of KCOH TV the Boost and Keep The Morning Moving Show had to say.

“Giving God the Glory, the guys that were here and don’t get it twisted, because I am very respectful, of all of them. They were great guys, they are what you call… Radio – they have been in this game a long time, but at the end of the day, when you have that kind of talent – who likes the old way of doing things, are comfortable

in that mindset.

Even though they know and see and acknowledge the world is changing, they are not ready to give their 100% effort over to the new technology – not just yet.

However, we on this end need to keep on moving, and the vision is not solely in the traditional radio anymore!

The vision is the fast pace of the ever-changing internet technology, what’s being done today, may not be done next month or next year, that’s the fast bolt of the internet. And you’re going to look up and those listeners that you have – who are committed to traditional radio are dying out!

So you have to keep building upward and towards technology. That’s why, I always have younger people around me; because I have to be able to pass this to somebody else when I’m no longer able to do it. I can work behind the scenes and put the fresh younger faces out there in the front and this does not intimidate me at all.

What it does do, is bring me the sheer delightfulness of the new innovations coming our way. This is a big spacious building here on Almeda, and we now have three offices in this building, that we rent out to people who host their own podcasts. We also have a club called, Escape Lounge.

Doors should be opening in November. We are smack down in the middle of Almeda and where there’s positive traffic with enthusiastic energy – there’s money to be made!”

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Booker T. Washington High School RS Deer Ranch Retreat

Booker T. Washington 2019 Senior Class and Administrative Chaperones, Representatives from Carver Alumni Association C/O 1968, Texas Parks & Wildlife, Foston Photo Credit Jennifer Charles International, Stuffed Baked Potato Factory and RS Deer Ranch.

By Jennifer Charles, B.T.W. HS, Teacher Specialist

HEMPSTEAD Students and staff at Booker T. Washington High School recently chose to partake in an experiential learning exercise offered

by RS Deer Ranch. Roy Douglas and Shirley Ann Malonson, the owners, did not disappoint; providing real life lessons in entrepreneurship, community reinvestment, philanthropy, and practical application of the

agricultural, construction and engineering curriculum taught at Washington High.

When asked for comment, Mr. Vincent Branch, one of the school’s history teachers, stated he believed, “the trip was an awesome experience and found that [Malonson’s] talk about entrepreneurship and management stood out and could be valuable across curriculum.” He continued to say the trip should be,

Houston Proud!

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Xavien Howard

HOUSTON - Xavien Howard has become the highest paid player in the National Football League (NFL). He had a breakout year last year, he was tied for first in the NFL history for interceptions.

What a proud moment for this native Houstonian!

“open to more students” as a guide towards life lessons.

Through the leadership of Dr. Carlos R. Phillips, II and with the assistance of Mr. Roy Douglas and Mrs. Shirley Ann Malonson, senior students and teachers were afforded the opportunity to tour the RS Deer Ranch and learn about its inner workings first-hand from those that work the land daily.

Many practical lessons emerged, including

knowledge of how deer, cattle and other animals are born, bred and sold, as a part of the ranch’s primary income. Additionally, attendees were able to fish from a man-made lake created by Mr. Malonson himself.

Erika Austin, the school’s data-driven instructional specialist stated, “This was an amazing opportunity to engage with teachers and staff outside of the typical school setting and celebrate the year’s ac-

complishments.”

Erica Encalade expressed, “The difference in environment and interaction with coworkers was nice and should be duplicated for years to come.”

Towards the end of the field experience, tour guide and owner Roy Malonson shared several personal accomplishments and triumphs with the group.

His testimony served as a lesson to onlookers that despite perceived

setbacks, he has used his life and livelihood to build himself up and takes time to teach others to do the same.

Class president, Cleveland Shepard IV, thoroughly enjoyed his time at the ranch and stated that other students appreciated the time they had to, “unplug and enjoy nature.”

He later added “holding conversations with Mr. Malonson inspired [them] to want to become millionaires.”

camp he suffered a knee injury and was placed on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP), list and it was discovered he needed surgery. He came back for the training camp where he took over the number 2 standing corner spots.

Howard had his breakout year in 2017, when he became the number one cornerback on his team. In 2018 he became the best

corner in the League.

Today, he has become the highest paid cornerback in the industry. Just last month, he signed a 5-year $76.5 million contract extension with the Dolphins; with $46 million guaranteed - not bad for a youngster that came from one of the roughest hoods in America. Keep balling and making Houston proud!

SPORTS Xavien Howard is from one of the toughest neighborhoods in the city, Fifth Ward. He attended Phillis Wheatley High School where he played cornerback. He was later recruited by Baylor University to play college football.

He played there for three years with a record of 98 tackles, 10 interceptions and a touchdown.

The Miami Dolphins

picked Howard with the 38th pick of the second round of the NFL draft.

He signed a $6.12 million contract with $3.83 million guaranteed and a signing bonus for $2.65 million. His start wasn’t good for the Dolphins, he was in competition to be the number 2 corner on the team against Tony Lippett.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 27 Reception for LSC-Houston North Founding President Dr. Quentin Wright White Oak Conference 7603 Antoine Dr Houston, 77088 From 6:30-8:30p.m.

THURSDAY, JUNE 27 Meet the Authour Michael Hurd Book Signing/Q&A Brazoria County Historical Museum 100 East Cedar Angleton, 77515 THURSDAY, JUNE 27 Regional Black Contractors Association Capacity Building Program Series DFW Audits & Site Visits DFW Airport Headquarters Multi-Purpose Room 2400 Aviation Dr Dallas, 75261

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FRIDAY, JUNE 28 Just Lena!

Midtown Art Center 3414 LaBranch St Houston, 77004 Tickets: $25 Starting at 8p.m.

SATURDAY, JUNE 29 Gospel Concert Pearly Gate Baptist Church 6021 University Hills Dr Dallas, 75241 Free Starting at 4:30p.m.

FRIDAY, JUNE 28 Preparing for a Job Fair The Select Center-JS101 3300 Chimney Rock Suite #102 Houston, 77056 Free From 10a.m.-1p.m.

FRIDAY, JUNE 28 Regional Black Contractors Association (RBCA) DFW Minority Supplier Development Council 8828 N Stemmons Fwy Dallas, 75247 For additional information: Danetta Harris (214)-5999766 Starting at 10a.m.

FRIDAY, JUNE 28 “Gospel Mic” Nights: A Summer Series The Houston Gospel Music Coalition MYE Place Banquet and Event Hall 461 W Parker Rd Houston, 77091 Tickets: $5-$10 For more information call (832)-731-6208 Starting at 7:30p.m.

SATURDAY, JUNE 29 Redeemed Prison Ministry ReEntry Summit 2019 Fountain Life Center 14083 South Main St Houston, 77035 From 9a.m.-12p.m.

SATURDAY, JUNE 29 State of Black Houston Texas Southern University 3100 Cleburne St Rm 114A: School of Public Affairs Houston, 77004 SATURDAY, JUNE 29 Black to the Future Dance Competition E Ann Arbor Ave Dallas, 75216 Tickets: $10 From 1-5p.m.

SATURDAY, JUNE 29 5K Wellness Walk Memorial Park Tennis Ctr. 1500 East Memorial Loop Houston, 77007 Free Starting at 9a.m.

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THURSDAY, JULY 4 Independence Day Fireworks Spectacular CityCentre 800 West Sam Houston Tollway N. Houston, 77024 Free From 7-11p.m.

THURSDAY, JULY 11 2019 Houston HBCU At Ease Buffalo Soldier National Museum 3816 Caroline St Houston, 77004 Free

SATURDAY, JUNE 29 SATURDAY, JULY 13 National Coalition of 100 Black Love Matters THURSDAY, JULY 4 Black Women-Houston Summer Speed Meditation & Conversation Interest Group Dating Event Shrine of the Membership Mixer Club 3710 Black Madonna The African-American 3710 Emancipation Ave. Cultural and Event Library at Gregory School Houston, 77004 Center 1300 Victor St Free 5309 MLK Blvd Houston, 77019 From 6:30-8:30p.m.

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Buffalo Soldiers National SATURDAY, JUNE 29 SATURDAY, JULY 13 Museum Community Service Day IGBO Festival-Houston 3816 Caroline St (Volunteers Needed) Discovery Green Houston, 77004 2627 MLK Jr. Blvd 1500 McKinney St Tickets: $0-$40 Dallas, 75215 Houston, 77010 From 5-8p.m.

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FRIDAY, JULY 5 Josephine Tonight SATURDAY, JUNE 29 SUNDAY, JULY 14 at the Mind, Body, & Taste of Pan-AfricaEnsemble Theatre Soul Explosion Houston 3535 Main St 11050 W Little York Rd Ayva Events Center Houston, 77002 Houston, 77041 9371 Richmond Ave Tickets: $30 From 4-8p.m.

Houston, 77063 Starting at 7:30p.m.

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Daddy’s Girl Paint Night com Tickets: $15-$75 From 1-7p.m.

5820 Katy Freeway Houston, 77007 SUNDAY, JULY 14 THURSDAY, JULY 11 From 3-7:30p.m.

The Strong Black AHCBED Superwoman Syndrome cordially invites you to TUESDAY, JULY 2 attend their Gite Gallery Healing Youth Alliance: Monthly Business 2024 Alabama St Trauma-Informed Training Networking Luncheon Houston, 77004 from 11 - 12:30p Missouri City B.C. Tickets: $20-$25 6112 Wheatley Street 16816 Quail Park Dr From 2-6p.m.

Houston, 77091 Missour City, 77489 MONDAY, JULY 15 Free 2nd Annual Career From 9a.m.-5p.m.

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1500 Binz Houston, 77004 TUESDAY, JULY 16 From 11a.m.-3p.m.

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