Volume 24, Issue 27

July 21-27, 2019

Vol. 24, Issue 27

Greater Houston Edition

LIVING LEGEND

OUR STORY July 21

National Association of Colored Women organized. - 1896

Pluria Marshall, Sr. HOUSTON - Civil rights and media activist Pluria W. Marshall, Sr. was born on October 19, 1937 in Houston. After graduating from high school, Marshall enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. He served from 1956 to 1960 and was honorably discharged as an Airman, First Class.

He went on to graduate from Texas Southern University with his B.A. degree in Photography. In 1969, Marshall was instrumental in the creation of Operation Breadbasket of Texas. His civil rights work evolved both in scope and mission when he established the National Black Media Coalition (NBMC) in 1973. The organization’s mission was to increase the presence of African-American media professionals. He later served as national organizer, treasurer and chairman of NBMC. In 1975, Marshall also helped in founding the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). Throughout his career, he worked for and also served as the official photographer for NABJ, the National Association of Radio, Television Announcers (NATRA), mainstream publications including Jet and Ebony magazines. Marshall is a member of the Texas State Advertising Commission and was appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

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Dr. Lawrence Nixon, an El Paso physician, voted in the Democratic primary, the first Black voter in the state to do so. - 1944

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Emperor Haile Selassie, Ethiopia born. - 1891

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Alexander Dumas, the writer was born. - 1802

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Great American inventor, Garret Morgan uses his newly patented gas mask to rescue men trapped as a result of a tunnel explosion 250 ft. beneath Lake Erie. - 1916

By TJ Baker

HOUSTON - There has been much debate going on about the Reparation bill, H.R. 40. Some wonder, whether it should be passed or not; if Black folks should receive any kind of compensation like the Japanese and Jewish people did following World War II. The Japanese, because America held majority of the Japanese people, including

children, living in confinement until World War II was over. Not sure why we paid reparations to Jewish people, since Germany paid out large sums of money to them; and then in 2009, President Obama paid $12 million to them as a form of assistance to survivors living below the poverty line.

Every nationality has received money from the Unit-

ed States, except Black folks. Speaking about Black faces in the White House‌ You may not know, but back in 2009 the White House installed a permanent Black face - the unveiling of a head to shoulder statue of Sojourner Truth. She is the first Black woman to be memorialized at the United States Capitol.

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President Harry Truman issues an executive order desegregating the military. - 1948

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Legal basis established desegregating armed forces.

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State of Black Texas in the Texas Legislature

By Senator Borris Miles

Bringing Home $1 Billion for the Indigent & Uninsured

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his session I brought more healthcare dollars to our community and ensured that the new University of Houston medical school serves the community where it will be located.

The governor signed into law my legislation that would allow Harris County hospitals to draw down $1 billion in federal Medicaid reimbursement funds to go towards the cost of uncompensated care to help care for the indigent and uninsured in our community.

Houston is home to the world’s largest medical center, where we have some of the best facilities and healthcare professionals who specialize in a wide variety of areas.

Many of those hospitals in the Texas Medical Center are also safety-net hospitals that work around the clock, providing primary care services to many low-income and uninsured Houstonians.

Since 2013, Texas hospitals in 20 counties have successfully created a

Local Provider Participation Fund to generate parts of the non-federal share of Medicaid payments.

I sponsored the bill to allow Harris County to have the option to create this fund which will be funded by a fee on private hospitals. The dollars raised by this fee will enable local safety-net hospitals to draw down the additional billion federal dollars for uncompensated care. Without this program, this money would have gone elsewhere.

The new University of Houston medical school provides an additional opportunity to help our communities.

Houston is home to several large medically underserved communities which have the highest numbers of residents with poor health in our city.

That is why I fought to ensure that the new medical school focuses on primary healthcare and has opened up a safety-net clinic to serve the community around the University of Houston campus.

Bridging the health care gap will improve the health of the underserved and a healthier community creates a stronger community. This new billion-dollar reimbursement to our hospitals and the creation of UH’s new medical school and safety-net clinic are huge healthcare wins for Houston and our community.

NATIONAL Rolling Out

By Rashad Richey, Editor-at-large

Injustice in the Justice System

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e want very specific things from our criminal justice system: safe streets, low crime, the correct people in jail and low-level, nonviolent offenders out of jail.

It seems a small request, but even before 14-yearold Emmett Till was lynched for allegedly saying “bye, baby” to a White woman at a store in Mississippi, our trust in the criminal justice system has been shaky, at best.

Till’s open casket funeral displayed not just his mutilated body, but also the hate being bred in America against Black men.

In an effort to appear just, our system put the killers on trial where an all-White jury found them not guilty in less than an hour, despite positive identification as the killers.

And, to make Till’s death more egregious, in 2017, the White woman who lied and directly caused the child’s murder, recanted.

As of yet, no charges have been filed against her. Till’s murder, which allowed fellow citizens to circumvent the system set

up to address criminal behavior was not unique in terms of the horrors visited on those targeted for systemic and government protected violence.

Today, 1.9 million more citizens are in jail than in 1972. It’s not just the tangible punishments we need addressed, but also the invisible punishments of felony disenfranchisement, restrictions on voting, occupational adversity, bans on federal assistance and the elimination of federal financial aid for education due to small marijuana violations.

These too are dynamics of daily injustices in our justice system, but we have become numb to their societal impact.

In 2010, Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, argued “the fate of millions of people — indeed the future of the Black community itself — may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.”

Ignored when published, her work is now celebrated.

After 40 years of neglect and acquiescence in the current system of incarcerating Black, Brown and poor people, our current “jail swells” include more privileged and non-traditional prisoners entering a system set up to warehouse not rehabilitate.

The opioid crisis and the rise of White-collar defendants joining the ranks of “inmate” have caused people of power and influence to figure out how to improve the criminal justice system.

Whether the reform is driven by reducing recidivism, a financial cost-benefit analysis, pure altruism, or focused on justice and human rights, change is required.

While Donald Trump’s First Step Act only teases us with hopes of reform, it’s actually those on the political left who are advocating for banning private prisons, pardoning non-violent drug offenders, legalizing marijuana and increasing accountability courts.

Before you wave the progressive victory flag, remember this sobering thought; neither political party has attempted to resolve the invisible effects of the criminal justice system, which begs the question, when will they?

Rashad Richey, Ph.D., is an Emmy-nominated political analyst, radio personality, national news commentator and editor-at-large for rolling out. Richey was recently named the Best Talk Radio Personality in Atlanta by readers of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. He is a proud member of the Atlanta Press Club, American Assoc. of Univ. Professors, Natl Assoc. and of Black Journalists (NABJ).

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We MUST Understand

By Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher

The Truth About Integration Black Community Part VIII. “The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.”

- Dorothy Day

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n this final piece dealing with the Truth About Integration, I want to address one of the most crucial elements within the Black culture that integration had the most impact on. The Black community as it was known prior to integration has never been the same. While WE gained the right to be able to function and co-mingle with our counterparts, it came with a cost.

We MUST Understand, everything our ancestors worked so hard to build, was destroyed when integration came. When integration came into effect many people do not realize that WE as Blacks just gave it (OUR hard work and sacrifice) away, to our counterparts.

We MUST Understand, when integration came in, it closed all of OUR schools.

You see… OUR schools wasn’t good enough for White folks to attend and WE lost many them and many of their schools became OURS and they ended up leaving, once we got there.

During the times of segregation, Black folks were

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only allowed to be around Black folks, unless they were working for White folks. That was of course, about the only exception.

We MUST Understand, before integration Black folks were dependent on themselves and the Black community. WE did not go out supporting and buying from other races, simply because we couldn’t. There was a time, if a Black person went into certain stores or other segments of the city, they faced the danger of being locked up or killed. I write these statements with no exaggeration either.

Back when I was coming up, there was no need to encourage Blacks to support Blacks because that was damn near the only people WE could support. WE didn’t have any choice but to support the local “mom and pop” stores because WE couldn’t go to nobody else’s stores. WE had no choice but to patronage OUR Black seamstresses, because wasn’t nobody going to sew clothes for Negroes. WE even had our own banks and I’m sure you can figure out why.

My point in stating all of this is because we just threw OUR Black communities into the path of destruction when integration came in.

I guess many people were just so excited to finally be included amongst the majority, that they forgot they were still the minority. As a result, our communities have suffered the cost and the loss. I will conclude with the words of Ed Smith who said, “One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the Black community.”

The Hutchinson Report

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Forget the Presidency, Go For the Senate!

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rump may win.

Though Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer would never in a million years publicly say anything like that. The brutal reality is he might. Schumer not so quietly has done the next worst thing and said that the Democrats need to get some candidates in place who can make a real run at Senate seats in several key states. The stated goal is to finally get a Democratic majority Senate.

The unstated goal is to use a Democratic majority to do everything possible to put the brakes on a Trump rampage through a second term. Yet, there hasn’t been a lot of movement among Democrats in that direction. The sad part is, the Democrats have a solid handful of Democratic Senate contenders. Those contenders are the among the topheavy bunch fighting for the Democratic presidential nomination. Julian Castro, Beto O’Rourke, Pete Buttigieg, John Hickenlooper and Steve Bullock to name a few. So far, they have either flatly said no, or said nothing.

They have no chance for the presidential nomination. But their run has given them greater name identification, the poten-

tial to generate resources and endorsements and solid Democratic party credentials.

True, a mere Senate seat can’t compare with the allure, attention and prestige of being a presidential candidate and being on the big national stage, no matter how fleeting and momentary that might be.

To tell them to forget the presidency and try for the Senate seems for now a waste of breath. Now back to Trump, if he wins, the Senate will be the court of last resort for Democrats against him. There is history to prove what a Senate controlled by the party out of the White House can do. First as Senate Minority Leader and then as Senate Majority leader,

Mitch McConnell made a pledge to make former President Obama a failed president, meaning defeat him at the polls for reelection. That didn’t happen.

Unfazed, McConnell simply changed only one word from that vow from failed president to failed presidency.

During Obama’s first and especially the second term, the GOP used several formidable weapons to hammer him. It had the power to say no in Congress. It did that repeatedly in the Senate on one issue that flew under the public’s radar scope.

It refused to confirm legions of Obama’s judicial appointees. He’s had fewer of his judicial picks confirmed then any first-

term president in the last quarter century.

That included even district court nominees. In years past their confirmation had been routine.

Conservative judges had already shown they can obstruct or torpedo Obama administration policies with their anti-environmental, anti-gun control and pro-corporate rulings.

GOP leaders also showed that they could harass, harangue and try and intimidate Obama on his cabinet picks.

The GOP also dithered, delayed and obstructed implementation and funding of health care reforms, tax and budget proposals, and regulatory reforms that needed bipartisan cooperation to pass.

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BROKEN PROMISES, SEEKING

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee’s generosity

helped with this phenomenal task. We greatly appreciate her remarkable and willing contributions.

She works not only for Black folks, but for all people of Color. And that’s why we are here at the point of, Broken Promises, Seeking Reparations.

Not only that, White folks have received reparations. According to Historynet.com, “In 1862 slavery was abolished in Washington, D.C., and in an effort to keep the local slave owners loyal to the Union. Abraham Lincoln’s administration offered to pay $300 for each slave in compensation. This was paid out to 979 owners for 2,989 slaves…”

That’s right, WHITE FOLKS/SLAVE OWNERS got money, behind slaves being freed. So, how come we keep debating about our 40 acres and a mule, which is what the H.R. 40 bill stands for.

Twelve million dollars is just the beginning resolution for healing. Because as Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee puts it, “The United States Is Not Broke!”

The Interview TJ: You’re in the mainstream fighting this ongoing cause. It appears you’re receiving more support on the Democratic side, but not as much as the Republican side.

Let’s say, you get the measure approved and the

committee is formed to investigate the issues of reparations, what do you think some of the recommendations would be?

Congresswoman Lee: This legislation was filed originally in 1989.

I’m grateful that John Conyers had the courage to do so over the years, with many advocates and it really had advocates, people who were building a record for Reparations. In the meantime, of course, Japanese-Americans and others received reparations.

I was honored when John Conyers retired from Congress. He was the Dean of the Congress at that time and he wanted me to carry his legacy forward, which included among other legislative initiatives, H.R. 40.

I had already worked with him on it while he was in Congress and was pleased to have this leadership challenge.

The bill is for the establishment of a commission to study reparations and proposals, and we base it on the historical perspective, that this country’s wealth, it’s early wealth was based on cotton for 250 years. African slaves came and were in bondage. They had no workman’s comp, no salary, no pension, no insurance, no healthcare and they worked. Sometimes as African-Americans, we look to the negative, we look to the fact this will never happen.

We look to the fact that we buy into the wrong argument that this was a way, a long time ago, who are we going to be able to find to be able to pay?

We’re not focused on payments, but, we are focused on compensation and reform.

We don’t know what the commission is going to do.

But I tell people, this is a commission equal to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Federal Communica-

members who have been engaged in this throughout the United States.

There should be scholars, academicians and activists who know what they’re doing. And we’re going to, as members of Congress, have the oversight, right.

You can be assured, my goal is for this bill to be signed by the President of the United States. The goal is to ensure that this is one of the most effective and constructive commissions.

John Conyers first introduced H.R. 40 (Reparation bill) to Congress in 1989. Since his retirement, Congresswoman Lee has continued to carry his legacy forward with H.R. 40 and other legislative initiatives.

Photo Credit Alex Wong/Getty Images tions Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

If approved, this will be a serious Commission that will have members appointed by the President, Speaker of the House and leader of the United States Senate.

There will be as well,

We need to discern how best to deal with the ailments that I truly believe, have generated from the fact that slaves were freed.

We welcome freedom, but it was without any compensation, including the legitimate 40 acres and a mule.

TJ: In your political experience, and with the

spearheading of this bill now, what exactly is owed to the descendants of the enslaved men and women, after centuries of bondage and legalized discrimination?

Please, if you can give a dollar amount that will satisfy the Black caucus of the Democratic Party?

Congresswoman Lee: Well, first of all, thank you for being a journalist who’s interested in this very important topic. And thank you to the African-American News & Issues, which I consider one of the ‘Star Wars’ historical documents of African-American history, both yesterday, today and tomorrow. And I uniquely thank Mr. & Mrs. Malonson for the vision and their leadership.

I believe there is no doubt that we have, as a people, made great strides. Coco is now in center court. The 15-yearold, is playing tennis and winning, having recently defeated Venus Williams, another great African-American tennis player. We are magnificent in the sports and arts, and academics and science class.

African-Americans, who give people that, are becoming very successful.

Many of you have made it. But, if we look into the poor of our community, we have born the brunt of the wrongness of American policies.

From the time Presi-

dent Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation in1863, until we in Texas heard it in 1865.

And so we have a million African-Americans incarcerated across the nation. Why is that?

We have issues dealing with police relations, where African-American men are shot in the misinterpretation of the law; the likes of Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner, and Sandra Bland, and Walter Scott and Trayvon Martin who was shot by someone operating under the color of law, and so many other names and circumstances.

We have healthcare disparities, educational disparities and HBCU’s, which were founded mostly by freed slaves, which have no reason in the 21st century to doubt whether their doors will stay open.

So frankly, I believe the continuation of racial disparities looking back into our history has played its part…

You remember that we had Reconstruction, but it lasted for only 12 years.

Then, we had the Compromise, which was broken in the 1800s… Excuse me in the 1880s, with the dream of President Lincoln that we would reconstruct, and with the mindset that this country would change and we would be integrated into society.

One of the worst presidents ever, Andrew Johnson came and imploded

“I thought when I took this bill that, I would focus on its rightness, its appropriateness, its historical need and also to give America a constructive roadmap for discussing race.”

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Congresswoman Lee is standing in her office located in the middle of Freedmen’s Town.

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that.

Then we moved into the 1880s, which eliminated that Compromise, took the Union soldiers out of the South. And here we were living in the reign of terror.

Then, the Ku Klux Klan began to reign, that was the law and order, or if you will, the hanging fruit of the early 1900s. Even when we were going to World War I, there were Black men, being hung in trees in the Deep South.

The reign of terror was the worst between 1964 – 1969.

After that, we got rights to go to hotels and rights to vote - somewhat in a comfortable manner. But that means, there is evidence the country never repaired the breach of slavery.

Now the dollar amount is an untenable amount to spew out. The commission will be funded by $12 million and if more is needed, that will be Congress’ decision. That is their job, to take all of what I just said and to be able to calculate how that will best be done.

And for all of those naysayers who want to condemn this process, by

raising questions of who will get it, and how much it will be… I tell them, ‘No one ever is successful without facts.’ I can’t go into a courtroom and win a case without facts. The pastor cannot go into the pulpit and bring in souls without facts. So people need to, in essence, treat this with the dignity of deserving facts.

I just recounted for you documented facts. The commission will have to look at documented facts.

They will have to look at the fact that General Sherman tried to give us 40 acres and a mule and it was blocked. The mule being the mobility element and the 40 acres is our wealth. So, I truly believe we will pass this commission and African-Americans will raise their level of understanding and begin to focus in on that commission.

That could be nothing but goodness, the way that we got to ‘64. Second was ‘65. It was not only facts, but the little girls that were bombed; Bull Connor, the three civil right leaders and boys, as we call them in Mississippi and others whose names sometimes are not raised up. It is because of those facts that we needed to pass laws to let Black folk in the 60s be able to vote.

So, we expect to have facts that can be documented which will be the resources that will need to be given, to provide the reparations to the descendants of slaves.

TJ: Speaking in the future, once this recommendation has been passed, how

will you plan to fund it?

Congresswoman Lee: Well, as I said, first the proposals. And I say to all of those who listen, ‘America is not broke. Again, America is not broke.’ We have many ways to be able to fund legitimate proposals.

Now the Democrats are in the United States House, we have clustered all of the things our Republican friends took down. Education, healthcare, science, climate change and issues dealing with maternal mortality rate, particularly with Black women.

We put money in because we have money to put in. So, the way it would be funded, is that Congress would look at it as a priority and begin to fund it as the proposals might ask us to do. The United States that takes in money all the time, or finds ways to ensure they have dollars to pay for things such as defense. Multi-multibillion dollars in defense are spent, so we’ll find a way through the congressional appropriations process.

TJ: Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey was against reparations at first. Now, he’s for it.

Please share your unbiased political opinion?

Congresswoman Lee: Well, I’m excited Senator Booker is a co-sponsor and has secured almost 20 sponsors in the Senate.

That’s never happened before. He has shown himself with the other presidential goals, to support this for its intellectual capacity and its rightness.

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Mandatory Pre-Qualification Meeting, 8:00 AM , Monday 7/29/2019 LSC University Park Campus, Conf. Room 835, Building 13, 20515 State Highway 249, Houston, Texas 77070. Online WebEx Tuesday, 7/30/2019 @ 10:00 AM. Callin Phone Number, 1-408-792-6300, refer to CSP #678 page 4. Must register to bid: http://wwwappsdstc.lonestar.edu/istar/ supplier.htm. If registered, please ensure your registration is up to date. For assistance with the online registration process, contact: william.m.dodd@lonestar.edu or 281-655-3745.

Lone Star College Bid Requests: CSP # 679: To replace AHU 04 in CE Building & RTU in INED Building – Lone Star College North Harris, electronic bids due by 11:00 AM, Monday, 8/12/2019. Mandatory Pre-Qualification Meeting, 2:00 PM , Monday 7/29/2019 LSC North Harris Campus, Room SB205, Student Service Building , 2700 W.W. Thorne Drive, Houston, Texas 77037.

Online WebEx Tuesday, 7/30/2019 @ 10:00 AM. Call-in Phone Number, 1-408792-6300, refer to CSP #679 page 4.

Must register to bid: http://wwwappsdstc. lonestar.edu/istar/supplier.htm. If registered, please ensure your registration is up to date. For assistance with the online registration process, contact: william.m. dodd@lonestar.edu or 281-655-3745.

WHAT’S HAPPENIN’ THURSDAY, JULY 25 Member Choice Event Interfaith Food Bank/ The Food Basket 1 Wesley Dr Clute, 77531 Free From 4:30-6:30p.m.

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THURSDAY, JULY 25 RBCA Capital Assistance Business Diversity & Development Dept.

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

THURSDAY, JULY 25 WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 Priscilla T. Graham presents The Heroes: The American Soldier Exhibit Buffalo Soldiers National Museum 3816 Caroline St Houston, 77004 FRIDAY, JULY 26 HBCU Meet and Greet Networking Event Bar 9 Rooftop Bar 6633 Travis St (on top of Hilton) Houston, 77030 From 6-8p.m.

FRIDAY, JULY 26 Nearest the Broken & Lions (2-one woman shows in one evening) City Life Church 7120 Grand Blvd Houston, 77054 Tickets: $15 Starting at 7p.m.

FRIDAY, JULY 26 Texas Black Pages & Omai Network Presents DO or DIE Development & Organization: of Diversity, Inclusion & Equity (Dallas area) Microsoft Corporation 7000 State Highway 161, Building LC1 Irving, 75038 From 11a.m.-2p.m.

SATURDAY, JULY 27 Black Annlettered’s 2019 Art Exhibition The Woman’s Earth 2814 Isabella St Houston, 77004 Free

SATURDAY, JULY 27 2019 TWC Back to School Fest The Worship Center 9522 Veterans Memorial Houston, 77038 Free From 1-4p.m.

SATURDAY, JULY 27 The Unmasking: A Fashion Show Revealing the Stigma of Mental Illness Humble Civic Center & Arena Complex 8233 Will Clayton Pkwy Humble, 77338 Free From 5-7p.m.

SATURDAY, JULY 27 Black Cigar Festival Sharespace-Naylor St Houston, 77002 Starting at 6p.m.

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SATURDAY, JULY 27 THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 Houston Museum of Baker Ripley Health & African-American Culture Wellness Senior Services Paint Party Open House 4807 Caroline St Networking Event Houston, 77004 Sheltering Arms Entry: $20 Senior Services From 1-3p.m.

3838 Aberdeen Way Houston, 77025 SATURDAY, JULY 27 Free Emancipation Park ConFrom 2-4p.m. servancy Program SATURDAY,AUGUST 3 Bridging the Gap St. James Episcopal Financial Literacy Church Community First-Time Homebuyers Health Fair Workshop 3129 Southmore Blvd 5260 Griggs Road Houston, 77004 Houston, 77021 From 9a.m.-2p.m.

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(713)-526-9571 tinyurl.com/epcbtg SUNDAY, JULY 28 Family & Friends Day Celebration Mt. Pilgrim AME Church Rev. Harvey McGruder Pastor Guest Speaker Pastor Robert Green Jones AME Church Mt. Pilgrim AME 831 FM 1725 Willis, 77378 Starting at 3p.m.

For more information: (832) 866-2452 SUNDAY, JULY 28 Houston Afrofuturism Book Club Around the Corner 1510 Hutchins St Houston, 77003 Free From 4-6p.m.

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SATURDAY,AUGUST 3 The Ultimate Mommy & Me Event Settegast Park 3000 Garrow St Houston, 77003 Free From 12-3p.m.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 Bayou City Initiative: Flood Resiliency & the State of City Infrastructure SATURDAY,AUGUST 3 SATURDAY,JULY 27 Baker Ripley Leonel 19th Annual Children’s Aldine ISD Castillo Comm.

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FRIDAY, JULY 26 Health Day Back-to-School 2101 South St Greater Zion M.B.C. Almeda Mall Family Engagement Expo Houston, 77009 Celebrating 7 Years 12200 Gulf Fwy M.O. Campbell From 12-2p.m.

Pastoral Appreciation Houston, 77034 Educational Center Celebration Banquet From 10a.m.-2p.m.

1865 Aldine Bender WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 Houston, 77032 JBF Sugar Land Back to THURSDAY, AUGUST 6 From 8a.m.-12p.m.

School Event Houston Small Business & For more information, Fort Bend County Tech Meetup contact Title I Department Fairgrounds Bldg. C Dukessa at (281) 985-7956 4310 Hwy 36 S 2840 Chimney Rock Rd Rosenberg, 77471 Houston, 77056 SATURDAY, JULY 27 From 4-9p.m.

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