August 11- 17, 2019
Vol. 24, Issue 30
Greater Houston Edition
OUR STORY
LIVING LEGEND
August 11
Otis Taylor, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver, was born in Houston. – 1942
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Frederick Douglass’ home in Washington, DC is declared a national memorial. - 1922
Hon. Vanessa D. Gilmore
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First issue of “Afro-American” newspaper, published in Baltimore. - 1892
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Alta Vista Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for Colored Youth was established by the Fifteenth Legislature of Texas. – 1876
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters is born. - 1938
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NATIONAL
EDUCATION
WHAT’S HAPPENIN’
Hutchinson Report questions why White mass killers seem to live another day and unarmed Blacks are killed. Page 2
HCC-Northeast Campus recently held its first-ever Black Girls Code offering endless pathways to technology. Page 5
The Acres Home Chamber for Business & Economic Development to host its Back to School Supply drive. Page 7
Austin’s historic Victory Grill opened as a venue for African-American servicemen and soldiers returning from World War II. – 1945
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Marcus Garvey, Black Nationalist was born. - 1887
HOUSTON - United States District Judge Vanessa Gilmore was born in October of 1956 in St. Albans, New York. In 1977, Gilmore received her B.A. degree in Textiles and Marketing from Hampton University, and in 1981, she earned her J.D. degree from the University of Houston Law Center. Upon graduation, Gilmore began a 13-year career at the Houston law firm of Vickery, Kilbride, Gilmore & Vickery, where she specialized in Civil Litigation. In 1984, she was also hired as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston College of Law. Under then-Texas Governor Ann Richards, Gilmore became the first African-American to be appointed to the Texas Department of Commerce Policy Board. She served as Chairperson of that Board until 1994, when then-President Bill Clinton appointed her as a Federal Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. At the time, Gilmore was the youngest sitting Federal Judge in the United States. In 2005, she presided over the high-profile Enron Broadband trial. In 2008, she published her first book, A Boy Named Rocky: A Coloring Book for the Children of Incarcerated Parents. Cont. aframnews.com