Vol. 24, Issue 25

July 7-13, 2019

Vol. 24, Issue 25

Greater Houston Edition

OUR STORY

LIVING LEGEND

July 7

Ntozake Shange’s celebrated play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, debuts in New York. - 1976

Hon. John W. Peavy, Jr. HOUSTON - Judge John W. Peavy, Jr. was born on April 28, 1942 in Houston to Malinda Terrell and John W. Peavy, Sr. He graduated from Phillis Wheatley High School in 1960, where he began his lifelong engagement in local politics as a member of the Young Democrats of Harris County.

He then enrolled at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he earned his B.A. degree in Business Administration. Peavy worked for Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson’s office as an undergraduate student and later as a White House staffer during Johnson’s presidency. In 1967, Peavy received his J.D. degree from the Howard University School of Law. Upon graduating law school, Peavy returned home and opened a private law practice focused on criminal and civil cases. The same year, he joined the Harris County Community Action Association as an Associate Senior Coordinator.

In 1969, he became an executive assistant to Harris County Judge William Elliot. He then worked as an expert for the American Bar Association’s Project Home, where he handled real estate cases for the NAACP. Funded by the Ford Foundation, the program provided legal and technical assistance to federal housing programs.

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DeHart Hubbard wins the 1924 Olympics broadjump. - 1924

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NAACP rejects a “Black Power” doctrine. - 1966

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YOUTH SPOTLIGHT

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African-American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, founder and civil rights activist, Mary McLeod Bethune was born. - 1875

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The Longview Race Riot occurred. - 1919

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Cornelius Johnson, highjumper, sets a new world record. - 1936

WOW, WHAT a CATCH! Way to go Kory Lavalais!!

Claude Cummings explores why first responders need a dedicated communications network.

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Houston Community College hosts Stem Summer Camp for Teens/Young Adults with disabilities.

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Slavery banned in the Northwest Territory.

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s one of the most devastating storms to ever hit Texas, Hurricane Harvey taught us many lessons.

One of the clearest is that we need to equip Houston’s first responders and public servants with the strongest communications platform available — and now we can.

First responders are the brave men and women who worked around the clock before, during and after Harvey made landfall, making quick decisions to keep our families safe and our city running.

Since the storm was so severe, public employees

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The Governor’s Veto: Retaliation or Racism? ic development, my legislative package was about improving Senate District 13. I authored Senate Bill 390 to create the Northeast Houston Redevelopment District. This bill was one of the most critical bills in my legislative package.

Like many parts of low-income and economically challenged areas, there are a lack of grocery stores and abandoned shopping centers and major retailers plagued around the area.

After meetings with local Northeast community leaders and local elected officials, we crafted SB

390 to give this area the help it needed to attract new businesses and jobs and breathe life back into the community.

I carefully moved this bill through the Senate Chamber and throughout the session, the governor did not indicate any problem with the bill until May 20th, one week before the end of the session. After working with the governor’s staff and making the requested changes, his staff even provided assistance in clearing procedural hurdles to help the bill pass. After the session ended, he vetoed the bill, which made little to no

sense to me.

The governor’s veto said SB 390 “goes too far.”

How?! Communities like the Galleria, Upper Kirby, Midtown, Memorial City and other more affluent areas have been able to reap the benefits of these redevelopment districts for years.

If the governor believed these districts went to far, then why didn’t he veto all of the special district bills that passed this session, not just the bills from three Democratic legislators.

I sent a letter to the governor detailing my thoughts and my suspi-

cions behind his veto. I want to know if his veto was an act of retaliation because I refused to sell out my community and support his nominee for TX Secretary of State, who earlier this year attempted to purge more than 95,000 voters from the Texas voter rolls, or one of racism. I want to know it is neither or BOTH. I am awaiting his response.

While this veto eliminates a tool to help revitalize this area, it will not stop my efforts to continue working with the community to bring businesses and jobs for the people in these neighborhoods.

LOCAL Why First Responders Need a Dedicated Communications Network were also tasked with performing critical support functions so first responders could effectively coordinate recovery efforts and relay emergency updates.

With the start of hurricane season approaching soon, we should assess the wireless communication needs of our first responders and public servants.

The City of Houston’s wireless services contract expires early in 2020 and wireless networks have improved tremendously since the city last solicited these services back in 2014.

Last year saw the launch of FirstNet — the first nationwide interoperable broadband network specifically dedicated to first responders and the agencies

and personnel who support them.

The network grew out of a 9/11 Commission recommendation, and last month, the network was adopted by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.

FirstNet’s features guarantee that our first responders will always be able to communicate when a disaster strikes.

The network equips first responders with priority and preemption across all of the network’s spectrum bands, including Band 14, which Congress dedicated specifically to public safety and no other platform has access to.

The network core is built on physically separate hardware, ensuring that sensitive public safety communications are

separate from consumer traffic and protected by end-to-end encryption.

And importantly, FirstNet eliminates the risk of throttling that notoriously hampered firefighting efforts by the Santa Clara County Fire Department in last year’s Mendocino Complex Fire.

Additionally, FirstNet offers first-of-its-kind interoperability for coordinating city agencies and personnel. This means first responders can choose to raise the priority status of certain agencies during emergencies making communication and coordination seamless across departments.

In 2019 and going forward, Houston first responders and public employees need the best.

Since there are many service provider options before us, we must make sure we’re evaluating them against the most robust, relevant and up-todate criteria.

The State of Texas understood that, which is why, two years ago it decided to opt-in to the FirstNet state plan along with every other state in the union.

Houston is also not the first area in Texas to consider FirstNet. Last month, in an interview with StateTech Magazine, Brazos County Sheriff Chris Kirk raved about FirstNet and the network’s functionality. Spring Fire Department, 25 minutes north of downtown Houston, is an early adopter of the platform as well.

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We MUST Understand

By Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher

The Truth About Integration Respect Part VI. “We all require and want respect, man or woman, Black or White. It’s our basic human right.”

-Aretha Franklin

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espect is something most people want, but not everyone is willing to give.

In these modern times we live in, respect appears to be a rare commodity.

However, this hasn’t always been the case.

There was once a time in the Black culture when respect was an automatic-given. Black folks didn’t just respect White folks because it was basically unlawful to do otherwise; but, there was a great level of respect from one to the other as well.

Back when I was coming up, we were taught to respect everybody. Although our parents placed a special emphasis on respecting our elders, leaders in the community and those in authority positions; we knew that we had better not been caught disrespecting anyone regardless of who they were. One of the going mantras in my day was, “Don’t go out and

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shame the family name.”

Statements such as these are seldom heard now and if they are heard, obviously it must be going in one ear and out the other.

So, the question becomes when did it all change???

If you really want to know the truth, it started with integration.

We MUST Understand when Black folks startedmixing and mingling with other races, we began to dilute our values at an attempt to fit in and mimic the majority. Many of us got beside ourselves and started talking back and sassing our parents like we saw our counterparts do. Many of us decided we didn’t want to raise our children the way we were raised. These factors in connection with many others led to Black folks losing the level of respect we once had.

Now, here we are several decades past integration and there are those we can’t pay to respect others or themselves. Nowadays, everybody wants to lead, but everybody can’t.

Nobody wants to follow.

Nobody wants to respect, he or she that does best and that is crippling us as a people.

Because when many of our youth display the same attitudes as other races, they find themselves in a heap of trouble.

In many cases this trouble has proven fatal. The list goes on... But, at the root of it all lies integration.

The Hutchinson Report

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Lacey Question

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wo significant news reports within days of each other tossed a dubious glare back on L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey. One was the announcement by San Francisco DA George Gascon, that he might mount an election challenge to her.

Gascon would be formidable. He was a one-time ranking LAPD officer and is highly touted as a firstrate criminal justice reformer.

The other news of note, was a headline story that Lacey in the nearly two dozen cases in which she has sought the death penalty not one of the defendants was White. The two pieces of news about Lacey can’t be separated. She has ticked off a lot of activists in Los Angeles over the past few years because of her unabashed tough enforcement stance.

She has bucked a growing nationwide trend among DAs and prosecutors to back off the death penalty except in the most heinous cases and to find more ways to fund and push rehab, treatment and alternative sentencing to prevent packing the

jails with drug and petty non-violent crime offenders.

Gascon correctly sniffs political vulnerability with Lacey. He banks that with the right push and the right pitch that effectively fighting crime and reform are not mutually exclusive, he could oust her. Lacey will get the usual suspects in the L.A. political establishment behind her; the Mayor, the Supervisors and a handful of congresspersons.

But this time around that may not be enough.

And it shouldn’t be. Because Lacey has been a huge disaster in the one area that above all has been one of the most painful, sensitive and contentious. That’s the issue of police abuse and the overuse of deadly force by officers.

Lacey’s record on this has been abominable.

She won’t prosecute police abuse cases. In interviews with her on my radio talk show, I asked Lacey ‘Whether she’d back the creation of an independent investigator at the state level to review questionable police shootings.’

She flatly said “No,” gave a variety of reasons that boiled down to her office was perfectly capable of making an objective and legally sound determination of whether these shootings merited prosecution without any outside interference.

But the issue is a major

point of friction precisely because she doggedly refuses to prosecute cops who kill or commit acts of misconduct no matter how seemingly outrageous. Lacey has been unshakeable on this even when police officials request or indicate they will not oppose a prosecution.

This was the case when former LAPD Chief Charlie Beck recommended the prosecution of the cop who gunned down Brendon Glenn, an unarmed homeless man in Venice.

In the beating of Marlene Pinnock by a CHP officer, CHP officials turned over the report on their investigation to Lacey with the apparent indication that they would not oppose a prosecution.

No go with Lacey in either case.

Lacey enjoys a cozy relationship with LA politicians and police brass, rakes in lots of campaign dollars from the police unions and apparently sees herself as the top legal bulwark against violent crime in L.A. county.

The slightest deviation from this play it close to the legal and official vest she apparently regards as fraught with political peril.

What makes Lacey’s unyielding stance even more infuriating is that many DAs around the country have shown that they can be tough on crime, yet still hold cops accountable when they break the law.

They can at the same time back effective alternative programs to put the brakes on the continued mass incarceration of mostly poor Blacks and Hispanics.

Lacey instead has turned the DAs office into a zero-sum game with her hard-line stance on crime versus reform. The result: the DA’s office has become a virtual war zone, with groups such as Black Lives Matter and other police and criminal justice reform groups practically laying siege to her office.

They denounce her for her refusal to prosecute cops who overuse deadly force. Her refusal has even prompted a call from civil rights groups for a recall campaign against her.

In her re-election bid, Lacey will be asked these brutal questions. Why L.A. has consistently on her watch locked up far more people proportionally than any other county in the state? Why she defied even police officials who backed prosecution of officers who used excessive force, and refused?

Why she fought hard against the release of prisoners convicted of murder who hadn’t actually committed the murder though they were involved in a felony? Why she still vigorously pushes the death penalty and why she has demanded it only for blacks and Hispanics? And of course, why she has repeatedly turned a deaf ear to calls for prosecutions of abusive cops?

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By TJ Baker

HOUSTON - Let’s go back and look at the historical perspective of Precinct One - community centers in the Black inner city neighborhoods leading to the 21st century.

It was 1951 when W. Kyle Chapman won the Precinct One commissioner’s seat, the #1 hit song back then was Tony Bennett’s, “Because Of You.” Precinct One was a

better than good; life back then was great! That is, until Blacks started slowly moving in and the concern of real estate property values decreasing.

For those that remember the scare of having Black folks moving into Lilly-White neighborhoods, not because they were Black; the skin color really had nothing to do with it. The scare then and it still is until this day, that

W. Kyle Chapman of Precinct One. 1951-1972 “good-ole’ Lilly-White” district with connecting Lilly-White neighborhoods.

You saw homes surrounded by little white picket fences, apple pies being cooled on the open kitchen window seals; White children riding their bicycles with no fear of anyone accidentally running them over. You saw White fathers smoking their tobacco pipes, sitting in their favorite chair with their cocktail waiting from a hard day of white collar employment. Life was

the majority of Black folks don’t know how to take care of their property and show little concern once they purchased a house.

Back to the matter at hand, Precinct One slowly but surely started turning into Black communities in every area and the Commissioner at that time, Kyle Chapman, wanted to keep it White as much as possible by keeping the district zoned the way it was. But God has a way of slapping reality in people’s faces!

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COVER STORY The history, the gossip, the drama and the nasty political uproar were all about re-districting all four precincts. See, there was a big southern-boys nasty political fight back in the 1973–1980 census between the GOP and Democrats, and when the redistrict of these four precincts went down, a lot of the GOP’s Judges, Constables, and Representatives etc., lost their seat - they called it political rape!

And after the census in 2010, Precinct One had taken some of Precinct Two’s area and Precinct Two had taken some of Precinct Four’s area. This is how Adrian Garcia won his recent seat, because that area has more of the Hispanic population - but that’s another story.

Here comes Thomas Hutcheson Bass (Tom Bass)… According to info taken from Tom’s bio websites…

During the 1971 legislative session Tom was a founding member of the “Dirty Thirty” House of Representatives, who put aside party loyalty to successfully force out the presiding Speaker of the House, who ruled the chamber and had become entangled in the infamous Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal. Tom was that rare animal, a politician who put service before ego and self-interest.

He worked tirelessly for the promulgation of Civil Rights, leaving the State Legislature only after ensuring that the state’s redistricting was done to give a voice to all voters—

particularly the previously disenfranchised Black and Latino voters.

After ten years in the State Legislature, Tom Bass ran successfully against incumbent Kyle Chapman, for the position of Harris County Commissioner for Precinct One and was elected in 1972 to the Harris County Commissioner’s Court. During his tenure as County Commissioner, he created many programs for minorities.

Tom led the County in the acquisition of land for parks and green belts. The current Braes Heights Hike and Bike Trail was one result of Tom’s efforts during that time. In 1984, in recognition of his flood control efforts while

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County Commissioner, 115 acres of parkland on 288 South was named the Tom Bass Regional Park and Tom then worked to bring the first 9-1-1 District in Texas to Harris County.

Tom left the Commissioners’ Court in 1985 because he saw the county’s elected leaders increasingly failed to resemble the demographics of the rapidly growing, diverse region.

Recently on the Ben Hall Legal Hour – KPRC TV the Boost, mayoral candidate Bill King, quoted what has been said in the Black churches for years, “You Learn; You Earned; You Return”.

That’s why Tom Bass furiously and determinedly

pushed to redistrict Precinct One, since he took classes at Texas Southern University where he received the majority of first-hand understanding about ‘Grass Roots’ in the Black communities and the effect of why and what should change; upon making it viable and valuable on their own.

Rather than run for a fourth term as Commissioner, Bass stepped down and El Franco Lee was elected as Harris County’s first minority commissioner. And that’s why we need to always honor Thomas Hutcheson Bass (January 11, 1927 – March 3, 2019) who passed away at the age of ninety-two years old earlier this year.

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Helping Kids Through Education

Independence Day is complicated for many African Americans.

T H E S TAT E M E N T in the Declaration of

By Chelsea Davis-Bibb Contributing Writer

HOUSTON - Born and raised in the Acres Homes community, Ms. Willie Elaine Hubbard Brooks wanted a way to give back to where she grew up. Inspired by her mother’s community activism and outstanding leadership in the Acres Homes community, Brooks founded the BenCheri’ Educational Center. It was her mother who encouraged her to become an entrepreneur, as she instilled in her the importance of helping the community and those in it.

After spending time subbing, tutoring and mentoring students in the local school districts, Brooks felt the desire pronging her even stronger to give back to the community. The best way she knew how was through education.

Consequently, Bencheri Educational Center was

formed. The unique part about the center is that its’ named derived from her children’s names’, Benjamin and Sheree Brooks.

Bencheri Educational Center’s mission is, “to narrow the gap of illiteracy in the community and surrounding areas.”

The center tutors students from Pre-K all the way thru college. Bencheri provides academic coursework in math, reading, STEM classes, debate, public speaking and writing classes. They also teach art, health education, playwriting classes and manufacturing classes that will lead to a career pathway for students to attend a community college or university.

The center also provides classes that are focused on robotics, entrepreneurship and financial literacy.

The beautiful part about this center is that their curriculum is designed for each student based on

their individual needs.

The BenCheri’ Center strives to help as many kids as possible. They are not only teaching them educational skills, but skills that will help them when they enter the real world. Brooks says, “We are trying to make sure these kids not just get a job, but a career.”

Furthermore she stated, “Our students will get the best skills, training, mentorship and will be accountable for making their community sustainable.”

If you are interested in learning more about the BenCheri’ Educational Center, you can visit their website at http:// bencheri-educationalcenter.org/ or call (713) 598-1646 for more information.

Independence that “all men are created equal” did not apply to our ancestors. The institution of slavery has since been abolished, but the struggle continues.

I A M O P T I M I S T I C . I believe in the ideals of life,

liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I believe the struggle is worth it, and that America is worth it. I am grateful to be here in Houston, with you, working for a better future for all our residents.

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Nurse 2 Fitness & SATURDAY, JULY 13 My Wellness Womb Beyond Great 1220 Blalock Rd Empowerment Academy Houston, 77055 Team Work Tickets: $18 Marilyn Davies From 1-3:30 p.m.

College of Business SATURDAY, JULY 13 Room B140 KidsZone 320 North Main St Free Fun for All Houston, 77002 JCPenney Free 730 Meyer Land Plaza Mall From 9-11a.m.

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SUNDAY, JULY 14 The Strong Black Superwoman Syndrome Gite Gallery 2024 Alabama St Houston, 77004 Tickets: $20-$25 From 2-6p.m.

SATURDAY, JULY 20 Back to School Event 2019 Crossover Bible Fellowship 12332 Perry Rd Houston, 77070 Free From 10a.m.-2p.m.

SUNDAY, JULY 14 FSU Black Alumni Brunch/FSUBAA Doberman’s Bar and Grill 519 Shepherd Dr Houston, 77007 Free From 12-2 p.m.

THURSDAY, JULY 25 OST/South Union Movie Night Yellowstone Park 6900 LaSalette St Houston, 77021 Free From 5-8 p.m.

SUNDAY, JULY 14 Taste of Pan Africa-Houston Ayva Events Center 9371 Richmond Ave Houston, 77063 For tickets and more info: Tasteof PanAfrica.com From 1-7p.m.

FRIDAY, JULY 26 Greater Zion M.B.C. Celebrating 7 Years Pastoral Appreciation Celebration Banquet

MONDAY, JULY 15 2nd Annual Career Opportunity Fair SER Jobs for Progress 1710 Telephone Rd Houston, 77023 Free From 9:30a.m.-2:30p.m.

MONDAY, JULY 15FRIDAY, JULY 19 HCC Stem Summer Camp for Teens/Young Adults with Disabilities HCC West Houston Institute 2811 Hayes Rd Houston, 77082 From 9a.m.-3p.m.

Honoring Pastor Dayle & Lady Brenda Perry S.B. Parker Fellowship Hall 1620 Dolly Wright St Houston, 77088 Tickets: $35/person or $350/Table for 10 For more information: Contact: Sis Lashawn Baines at (832) 829-7992 Starting at 7p.m.

FRIDAY, JULY 26 Texas Black Pages & Omai Network Presents DO or DIE TUESDAY, JULY 16 Development & THURSDAY, JULY 18 Organization: of DiversiHISD’s Sixth Annual ty, Inclusion & Equity Special Education Conf.

(Dallas area) Kingdom Builders’ Center Microsoft Corporation 6011 W. Orem Dr 7000 State Highway Houston, 77085 161, Building LC1 From 7:45a.m.-3:45p.m.

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THURSDAY, JULY 18 SATURDAY, JULY 27 HCC & MBDA Black Cigar Festival 5th Annual Salute to Sharespace-Naylor St Minorities in Construction Houston, 77002 The Junior League of Houston SUNDAY, JULY 28 1811 Briar Oaks Lane Family & Friends Houston, 77027 Day Celebration For more information Mt. Pilgrim AME Church (713) 718-8974 Rev. Harvey McGruder Starting at 11:30a.m.

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