November 17 - 23, 2019
Vol. 24, Issue 44
Greater Houston Edition
BLACK CHILDREN MATTER
“Your money and your vote are two of the most powerful tools you have. Be careful who you give them to.”
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OUR STORY
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LIVING LEGEND
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Omega Psi Phi, Fraternity Inc., founded on the campus of Howard University. - 1911
Darren Walker
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Born on this day, Michael B. Coleman became the first African-American Mayor of Columbus, Ohio. - 1954
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HOUSTON - Non-profit executive and foundation president Darren Walker was born in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1959, and raised in Ames and Goose Creek, Texas. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1982, and received his J.D. degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1986. Walker was hired at the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in 1986. In 1988, he joined the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), where he spent seven years in the capital markets division. He left UBS in 1995 and worked for a year as a full-time volunteer at The Children’s Storefront, an elementary school serving low-income families in Harlem. Walker then entered the nonprofit sector as chief operating officer for the Abyssinian Development Corporation, a community development organization in Harlem, where he guided efforts to develop housing for low and moderate-income families. Cont. aframnews.com
Women’s rights advocate and abolitionist, Sojourner Truth was born. - 1797
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Garrett Augustus Morgan receives patent for his traffic light. - 1923
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Shaw University founded. - 1865
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad founds the Nation of Islam in Detroit. - 1930
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The Hutchinson Report reveals barriers for Elizabeth Warren.
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Interactive Workshop helps residents trace ancestral heritage.
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Christ Temple the People’s Church to host Thanksgiving Fest.
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American television broadcaster, Robin Rene Roberts, the anchor of Good Morning America is born. – 1960
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The Woman Hurdle for Warren
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f Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren bags the Democratic presidential nomination, there are two certainties. One is that the overwhelming majority of Democratic women voters will vote for her. The other is that a lot of other women won’t. This is one hurdle facing Warren. She’ll need to have as many women as possible backing her in the five states that will decide the White House to win. Trump’s coup in snagging tens of thousands of women voters in the 2016 presidential election made the difference in his win against a woman, Hillary Clinton. While Democratic women voted loyally for Clinton, they voted for her because she was a Democrat. It was a case of party loyalty first. They would have voted for whomever the Democratic candidate had been. Early polls and surveys show that not much has changed. Many of the same women who backed in 2016 will do it again.
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They’ll do it in part out of party loyalty, and in part out of the old notion still deeply ingrained in many women that the Oval Office is a man’s office. The idea is that the president must be tough, aggressive, and decisive, and that takes a man. Yes, as repeatedly said, hundreds of women have won seats in Congress and in legions of local elections over men. And yes, at that level it’s the long needed and awaited sea change in how many women see women candidates in head to head challenges versus men candidates. But there are thousands of Congressional and state offices, but only one president. This is where the old thinking still rears up about the presidential office being a man’s office. In one poll nearly 70 percent of men and women were lukewarm at best in answering the question whether they thought women were “respected” in politics. One out of four respondents flatly said that there would never be a woman president, and the most optimistic thought it would take at least another five years before that happened. Trump exploited that sentiment to the hilt. He may be the biggest sexist, misogynist, female abuser that ever sat in the White House. But he’s still seen as brash, tough and out-
spoken. For many women, that seems to mark him as having the right stuff to be President. Warren will have to find a way to crack this deep engrained gender silliness. There’s another hurdle. That’s the women who ultimately voted for Trump. Nearly half of the women who backed him didn’t fit the small town, small mind branding. They were college educated, middle class women who lived in the suburbs. They not only didn’t like Hillary, but also didn’t like the idea of a woman sitting in the Oval Office. The brutal reality is that Clinton turned off many women in the must win states not because she was a woman. They bought the hit attack lines from Trump and the GOP that she was aloof, corrupt, untrustworthy and practically one step away from an indictment. One media investigative team even compiled hundreds of the most outrageous digs about Clinton from the 2008 campaign from assorted commentators, male and female. As Trump pathetically showed, not much changed eight years after that. Warren has laid out policy position after policy position on education, health care, taxing the wealthy, wealth inequality, climate control and much more. Cont. aframnews.com
State of Black Texas in the Texas Legislature By Senator Borris Miles
Texas Voters Approve $3 Billion More for Cancer Research
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he 2019 November Election brought many surprises, including several run-off elections in the City of Houston. But, in addition to the run-offs, Texas voters passed nine out of the ten State of Texas propositions. One, in particular, will have a significant impact on Texas and our region. Texas Proposition 6 allows the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to increase its authorized bonds from $3 billion to $6 billion, doubling its initial bonding authority since its creation in 2007. The work CPRIT has done to prevent and fight cancer since voters approved its initial funding in 2007 has been nothing short of incredible. We are fortunate to have the Texas Medical Center, the world’s largest medical center in our backyard, which includes many cancer research institutions that make strides every day to finding a cure and preventing cancer us-
ing CPRIT funding. More than 18,000 Texans have had cancer or cancer precursors detected by screenings funded by CPRIT— which is pivotal for a disease in which early diagnosis can make all the difference. And CPRIT is funding groundbreaking research. It’s also helping us build the infrastructure for future discovery. We all know someone or are related to someone who has been touched by cancer. We see the pain, the struggle, and the toll that it takes on their bodies. But we also see the determination to fight this deadly disease and prevent it. Like many Texans, this is personal to me. It makes me happy that from 20112016, the cancer mortality rate in our state has fallen 8 percent due to CPRIT and other good work. So, in honor of the passage of this extraordinary life-saving state proposition, I am asking men to join me for Movember, an annual event where men grow out their mustaches during November to raise awareness of men’s health issues, like anxiety, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. The goal is to encourage men to visit their doctor for an annual check-up to increase early cancer detection, diagnosis and effective treatments. Let’s save some lives and reduce the number of preventable deaths. - AANI
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We MUST Understand By Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher
War Zone
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to the next.” - G.K. Chesterton
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e MUST Understand the value the community has when speaking about public education. Unfortunately, these days there is no community. Back in the day, although we were segregated, we were privileged to witness and experience a total sense of community. There was very little room for us to go astray, because everything was kept right in the community. But nowadays, the public-school system has undergone many dramatic changes – some for the better and some not as much. We MUST Understand anything that is not helping Our Communities, is hurting it. For an example, when I was growing up, George Washington Carver was one of two high schools’ students from the Acreage Home community attended – the other, M.C. Williams. All of the children from Carver lived in the community and went to the same high school, same with M.C. Williams.
Some students may have gone to different elementary schools, but we all ended up at either Carver or M.C. Williams. We all knew one other; our parents knew each other; and the teachers and administrators knew the community, and most likely lived in it. So, it was a total sense of community back then. Now, in 2019 we have two of the largest school districts in the country (Houston Independent School District & Aldine Independent School District) and there are high schools all over the city. In most cases, students are able to travel to the school of their choice and return to their respective neighborhood’s. This formula has the tendency to create a War Zone between Our Children. Because you have all these children leaving the community, going to various schools and coming back fighting each other in the community. They do not know to hold allegiance to their peers who live in the community with them, because they don’t know them. So, it’s almost like it’s a “process of elimination”; because the end result often leads to legal consequences. However, I believe one of the best options to combat this issue is to go back to community-based schools. Because with the current system in place, we are doing ourselves and Our Future an injustice by creating War Zones for Our Children. - AANI
Partin the Waters
By Omowale Lithuli-Allen
Reversal of Fortune: What happens when things are not decent and in order...
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hen things are not decent and in order the fun is in bold capitalsdysFUNctional. Family dynamics act like rivers flowing uphill. When parents yield to overbearing children because they feel guilty about saying NO, chaos and destruction take their place on the stage. In high school English literature, Shakespeare through the drama Julius Caesar leads the reader to take a deep dive into the themes of fate and destiny. The gripping line spoken by Cassius to Brutus- The fault My Dear Brutus, is not in our stars, it is in us …slapped us in the face. Another illuminating deep dive reveals what happens when a land is caught between a dragon and his wrath. King Lear decided to let two of his flattering and conniving daughters take power. The third daughter decided not to play the kiss up game and was disinherited. She told her Dad
that she only loved him as much as a daughter should, no more, no less. Chaos and destruction enter the room when unelected children and immoral dwarfs are given power without having the competencies to govern. They then become unaccountable and big-headed. Meanwhile fools and crazy subjects see clearly that the rulers are unhinged and trending towards madness. The late Curtis Mayfield, America’s Gershwin of soul and popular music referred to them as uneducated fools from uneducated schools. Before King Lear is abandoned and banished into the storm, he had
become a worse king because his delusion led him to think that because unemployment was down, and the stock market was strong his base supporters regarded him as a good king. Just over 200 years ago, George Washington and Crispus Attucks decided that King George had struck out and had to leave the game. These men were the adults in the room and could not live under a power drunk king that could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with the crime. Reversal of fortune happens when there is reversal of proper and decent order. Did King Lear make his daughters his
mother? Back to Shakespeare. Shakespeare is only talking about thug life. If you understand Thug life you will appreciate and understand King Lear. When the shoe fits, wear it. Checks and balances are needed to counter egomaniacs. Co-equal branches are needed to counter rogue superstars. David Ruffin’s gravel and soulful melodic voice will live forever through My Girl, but in the eyes of the people he will never outrank the Temptations. By the time David understood this truth, it was too late to unring the bell or put the genie back into the bottle. - AANI
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THE FALL REPORT
HOUSTON – Last summer, the Aldine Independent School District was blessed with the remarkable Dr. LaTonya Goffney, who became Superintendent. Dr. Goffney has a strong history in education. Throughout her tenure in the industry, she has “increased student achievement through a focus on literacy, targeted professional development for teachers, and collaboration across the community, including developing business and school partnerships, parent engagement as well as increasing transparent and timely communication.” Dr. Goffney believes it is her ultimate duty to, “ensure that students receive a dynamic and unparalleled education that guarantees choices and opportunities today and in the future.” Thus, within a short time, the esteemed leader has transitioned the Aldine ISD insomuch that it has already seen tremendous success. Leading more than 67,000 students and more than 9,000 employees of the district, Dr. Goffney has developed new initiatives to offer parents and students more options, while maintaining her commitment to equity and increasing student access to high-quality schools. Recently, Dr. Goffney served as the Keynote Speaker for the Acres Home Chamber for Business & Economic Development. During her delivery, she expounded on the “Past, Present & Promise of Aldine ISD.”
From that, we have withdrawn details to provide our readers with the Fall Report of the District. Improved Rating: 2019 TEA Accountability Report With Superintendent Goffney at the helm and through the efforts of hard-working and dedicated district administrators, campus principals, teachers and aides; Aldine moved from a ‘C’ rated school district to a ‘B’ rated school district based on the State of Texas’ academic accountability
school students to engage in college curriculum without the added financial cost; Aldine developed a partnership with Lone Star College (LSC), BakerRipley and industry partners. Through this initiative Rose M. Avalos Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) opened in August. Located at 2430 Aldine Mail Route, Houston, 77039, the 80,000-squarefoot-school shares a space with Lone Star College-East Aldine Campus. Freshmen who attend
Thank you! WORDS ARE NOT ENOUGH to express my gratitude for the support of our community that propelled me to a first-place finish in the November election — nearly 20 points ahead of my nearest challenger. NOW WE MUST FINISH THE JOB by coming back and voting one more time in the runoff election on Saturday, December 14. WE HAVE A SIMPLE CHOICE: An experienced leader who has delivered results for more than 30 years or a Donald Trump imitator who will say, do, or spend anything to get elected. I PUT MY TRUST IN YOU.
With gratitude, ratings. Overall, the District increased its prior grade of 76 during the 2017-2018 school year, by six points for the 2018-2019 school year. Although the Superintendent remains proud of the accomplishment, she says, “there is more work to be done”. Rose M. Avalos Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) In an effort to multiply opportunities for high
the campus are enrolled in both high school and college courses. By the end of their senior year, students will have the opportunity to graduate with a high school diploma, an associate degree and workforce certificates. Furthermore, through this program students have access to mentors, internships, workforce skill workshops and job shadowing from across their industry of interest. Cont. aframnews.com
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l-r Zaire Livingston, Taila Cook, MaKenzie & Carrington Woolridge, Leah Elliott, Tania Livingston & Kiera Hines. (Back) Keshawn Hawkins, Justin Lewis, Esaiyah Jones, Mahaley Smith, Nylah Gray, Milan Semien, Octavia Dawson-Scott, Keshanna Hawkins, Robert Watson, Jarius Turner & Tommy Cook, Jr. By Burnest Carter
PRAIRIE VIEW - In an effort to increase membership, the Top Teens of America-Prairie View Chapter recentlty embraced a new group of energetic young people. There was a ritualistic
ceremony followed by a pinning ceremony. For the pinning ceremony, Teen members and Ladies pinned prospective new members. At the conclusion of the event, Lady Gwendolyn Carter, the 1st Vice Pres. of
the Prairie View Chapter of Top Ladies and Teen Keshawn Hawkins, the Chapter Pres. of Top Teens gave remarks welcoming the new members. Immediately following remarks, refreshments were served. - AANI
Buffalo Soldiers, DNA Talk
Becky Lao, Archaeology Now; Clayton Candor and Sherman McRae, Family Tree DNA and Ed Udell, Buffalo Soldiers National Museum. By Laura Frnka-Davis
HOUSTON - Archaeology Now, the Archaeological Institute of America – Houston Society, in collaboration with the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum and Family Tree DNA, recently, helped individuals trace the story of their ancestries through an interactive workshop about the power
of DNA and genealogy at the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum. Sherman McRae of Family Tree DNA, a genealogist and the great-great grandson of a man born into slavery, presented information about how a search in archival records combined with DNA research was used in the discovery of stories that might have
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NOW - MARCH 1, 2020, SUNDAY - SUNDAY Presented by Toyota Motor-North America The Kinsey African-American Art & History Collection The African-American Museum, Dallas in Fair Park 3536 Grand Ave. Dallas, 75210 Becky Mayad (214) 352-1881 NOW - SUNDAY,
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Vicki Meek: 30 Years of Social Commentary Houston Museum of African-Ameircan Culture 4807 Caroline St. Houston, 77004 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 - 24 2019 Pecan Harold J. Trotter to present The Messiah of OZ “A gospel remake of the Wizard of Oz and the Wiz” MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St. Houston, 77002 For more information contact Harold Trotter (832) 356-9363 or email htrotter@1989dreams.com SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 State Representative Ron Reynolds & Christ Temple, The People’s Church under the leadership of Bishop Destry C. Bell, Sr. presents Thanksgiving Fest Christ Temple The People’s Church 3710 McHard Rd. Missouri City, 77489 *Turkey Distribution * Free Food (Hot Dogs and Nachos) * Youth Activities and Entertainment 10a.m. - 1p.m. For more information contact (281) 208-3574 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Holiday Sidewalk Art Sale Houston Museum of African-American Culture 4807 Caroline St. Houston, 77004 A day full of art, culture, food, crafts and family fun. Santa will be in town!!! 11a.m. - 3p.m. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Palm Center Farmers Market 5997 Beekman Rd. Houston, 77021 9a.m. - 1p.m.
Speaker: Roy Douglas Malonson Chairman Emeritus AHCBED FRIDAY - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 DECEMBER 1 Vitacca Dance Woodlands presents The Nutcracker The Woodlands College Park High School 3701 College Park Dr. The Woodlands, 77384 For more information (281) 367-7185 or WoodlandsAdmin@VitaccaDance. com SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 The DC vs Marvel Art Show & Toy Drive Saint Arnold Brewery 2000 Lyons Ave Houston, 77020 $5 admission or Admission with an unwrapped toy. For more information SuperHappyToys@att.net SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Holiday Sidewalk Art Sale Houston Museum of African-American Culture 4807 Caroline St. Houston, 77004 A day full of art, culture, food, crafts and family fun. Santa will be in town!!! 11a.m. - 3p.m. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Mayor Sylvester Turner to host Reliant Lights Mayor’s Holiday Spectacular Hermann Square @ City Hall 901 Bagby St. Houston, 77002 5-8p.m.
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