Vol 27 Issue 08

March 13, 2022

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African-American News&Issues

“Addressing Current & Historical Realties Affecting Our Community”

Vol. 27, Issue 08

If you want to destroy a race, destroy their history - Roy Douglas Malonson

Rose Howard

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Ukraine: A Strategic Nation

The devil must deceive individuals before he can destroy them.

All problems cannot be solved with guns, bombs, and militarism. All international problems can be solved through spiritual understanding and diplomatic channels and roundtable discussions; whereby there are no heads, because God is the Spiritual Head: “As it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” Because: “God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.”

Take heed, world community: “The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.”

Someone please fly with haste and inform Putin and his Oligarchs that if you live by guns and bombs, you die by guns and bombs. Heed these words of Jesus to his beloved disciple Peter: “Put up again thy

sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.” For we all know, and if you do not know, you definitely ought to know, because there is no excuse for not knowing: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Every peace-loving individual ought to shout this from the highest mountain tops around the world, because: “There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord.”

America, on January 6th, 2021, we were spiritually and physically undressed before the world because of our ungodly hypocrisy.

To be a good leader an individual must know how to spiritually follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Thus, effective leaders are wise in the spiritual precepts of GOD. Will somebody please tell these spiritual precepts to Christian Right Evangelicals, The GOP, and White Nationalists and reiterate to them that the constitution is inclusive; not exclusive that is only for White Privilege: something for nothing simply because of skin-color.

Ukraine from 19181920 experienced a brief period of independence. At one

point, portions of Ukraine were ruled

by Poland, Romania, the Czechoslovakian Republic, in-between World Wars I and II, and thereafter Ukraine became a part of The Soviet Socialist Republic. Thus, we know that Putin’s war in Ukraine will profoundly alter Geopolitics and world stability. Threats of nuclear war are clear indicators of what was wrong with Putin’s unwise choice invasion of Ukraine. Nuclear weapons are simply for deterrence; not for military use, unless a leader is suicidal (MAD-MAN). Unfortunately, Putin is both. Thus, too many leaders and influential individuals believe that everything must be solved utilizing guns, bombs, violence and death. On the other hand, Ukrainians are telling the world-community that no physical weapons of war formed against them will make them submit to White Privilege Autocracy, and we know that we are engaged in spiritual warfare.

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NEWS LOCAL

BARBARA JORDAN IS HONORED Houston- A section of Highway 288 was renamed to the Barbara Jordan Memorial Parkway on International Women’s Day to honor the late Congresswoman.

Jordan was the first

Black woman to be elected to the Texas Senate. She also became the first woman and the first African American keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in 1976.

State

Help for homeowners

Texas is launching an $842 million fund aimed at helping homeowners avoid foreclosure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The program — called the Texas Homeowner Assistance Fund — is

aimed at homeowners who have struggled to pay their mortgage, property taxes, home insurance and home-related fees because of economic hardships caused by the covid crisis.

National

Emmett Till Bill

The Emmett Till AntiLynching Act, which is named for the Black teenager who was brutally killed in Mississippi in 1955, is among at least 200 bills that have been introduced over the past century in an effort to ban lynching in America.

The bill, which has now been sent to President Joe Biden to sign into law, would make it possible to prosecute a crime as a lynching when a conspiracy to commit a hate crime results in death or serious bodily injury.

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rowing up, Rose Howard moved from Third Ward to the Acreage Home community in 1948. She said that the Acreage Home community was “different than Third Ward,” but they learned to adapt. Third Ward had streetlights and plumbing, but the Acreage Home community did not have any streetlights nor plumbing, and families had their individual wells. “I don’t know what decisions they made to move out here, but I do know my father owned a few pieces of land for ten dollars a month,” she expressed.

Howard mentioned that her father and his brothers built their two-bedroom home, that she shared with her sisters and brother.

Her parents were very religious and very concerned about their children receiving a quality education. Her father was a rice mill worker, and her mother was a domestic worker. Her father was also a carpenter and did all the carpentry work for Boyd Funeral Home during that time.

She attended A.B. Anderson Elementary for grades first through eighth and graduated from George Washington Carver High School in 1959. Going to school at Anderson, Howard described that there were so many kids attending the school, that some kids went to school in the morning and some in the afternoon. As a child, she enjoyed playing Hopscotch, Jacks, and even making her own dolls to play with.

After she finished high school, she went to nursing school and graduated in 1962. She did not pursue nursing after one bad encounter with a white woman who spit on her. “She did not like black people waiting on her,” expressed Howard.

She felt terrible as this was her first racial encounter. This left a mark on her, as she has never forgotten this experience. Howard then started working downtown at the LC Caf-

March 13, 2022 eteria for the next six years. After her time there, she started working at Garden City Food Store as a cashier. She enjoyed her time there but started a new job opportunity at Paradise Cemetery as a clerk. In 1966, she married the love of her life, and stopped working at Paradise Cemetery in 1970, due to her being pregnant with her son.

After the birth of her son, she started working at Garden City

Isiah Carey, Roy Douglas Malonson and Rose Howard Apartments. She enjoyed working there as she “learned about welfare, and a lot of information regarding government housing.” She quit because the manager was given a big raise, but he did not want to give Howard even half of the money she was owed. “I had never quit a job before, but I gave him a two weeks’ notice.”

She was so loved at Garden City Apartments that the tenants formed a petition to try and get her the money she was due.

She then received a call from Paradise Cemetery to come back and work a position in sales. She accepted their offer and stayed there until her retirement in 2008. Dur-

ing her time at Paradise Cemetery, she also was a substitute teacher in Aldine Independent School District. After speaking with a counselor she worked with, she told Howard to go back and “buy those years you have subbed, so you can have twenty years when you retire.” That is what she did, and she retired from Aldine in 2008.

Over the course of her life, Howard has taken great pride in giving back to her community as she has volunteered for many different things.

She was a hostess for the chamber for 18 years.

She volunteered as a Den Mother and worked with little scouts to be good citizens and earn their merit badge (1980) She volunteered for War on Drugs when President Bush came down to visit the Acreage Home Community (1989) Through the Acreage Home’s Chamber, she volunteered for one of the censuses and set up offices for the census at the Acreage Home Library.

She volunteered for the election of Lee Brown for mayor. Howard helped passed out literature and other campaign materials.

Howard volunteered for the America Cancer Organization and collected donations She was recognized by the Old Acreage Home Citizen Council at their banquet for the work she did as President of Garden City Civic Club. She worked hard to get 21 fire hydrants for Garden City as there were only eight.

She was President of Garden City Civic Club (2003) A member of the Acreage Home PIP (2007) President of the Acreage Home HistoriFor more visit cal Society (2008-2020). aframnews.com

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POLITICS

Freedom costs – be a hero By: Black Pepper

Our prophet taught us that we can’t be neutral.

“Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.” “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” – Martin Luther King, If the crow is eating your neighbors’ corn, you had better stop him for your corn is next. - African Proverb Freedom costs – be a hero We are at an intersection of climate justice and the quest for a global humanitarian social order.

The test of civilization is when you can plant a shade tree for future generations. We have already been to the moon, now we must make an inner journey and climb the highest mountain to the summit of our potential.

In a moment of clarity, we know what is at stake. As the bad actors are winning, history demands that we forge a new readiness and mindset to defeat tyranny at home and abroad. Remember that the dictator would not have been emboldened if our parliament had not yielded to President Trump’s seditious attempts to bribe President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (white Nelson Mandela) of Ukraine. He held up strategic weapons that had been approved by our Congress through a devil’s bargain of exchanging dirt on challenger President Joe Biden.

Ukrainians are facing an end of history event and the world is 10 minutes closer to midnight. Many of us remember the Cuban Missile Crisis and daily bomb drills at school. From that day forward,

the world spoke to us- non-viostation with nuclear weapons lent conflict resolution or nonwould be unable to fund the existence. military and the ruble continues Today, North Korea boasts of to plummet to Zimbabwean value a hypersonic missile carrying levels. Today, one ruble is worth multiple nuclear warheads that one “Bobby Bland red copper can cross the Sea of Japan and cent,” atrophying and weakening reach Californian west coast cities the Russian economy. in one hour. Response time is a As of today, we are a bunch of matter of minutes before millions cream cakes, wilting from $4 to perish. $6 per gallon gas. The 70’s and How did we get here? Consider 80’s signaled that we had to break this example of national prostitu- our addiction to 6,000-pound intion and violation. A few years ternal combustion engines on the ago, Jamal freeways.

KhashogOne of gi, CNN my chiljournaldren did ist based a research in UK, paper a lured to a few delocation cades ago. in Turkey, This paper murdered, led me to body parts Putin MLK Zelenskyy the intersawed off section of by our humanially and shipped to Saudi Arabia. tarian justice and climate justice.

The charges against the assailThe paper stated that a piece of ants were “premediated murder ice fell off the Antarctica ice shelf. with monstrous intent.” Germany, Not fazed by a piece of ice, enviDenmark and Finland suspended sion that it was the size of the arms deals with the desert dicstate of Maine. tatorship of Peter Pan boys. We Black people and people of color couldn’t find a way to apologize from Madagascar to Miami hurt for our shameless behavior and the most, drought and famine in therefore we capitulated to AraMadagascar to rising sea waters in bian tyrants.

Miami. Unprecedented infernos We now plant the shade tree by in California and Florida. This making a deposit on the meanmeans more starvation, suffering ingful futures for our children. and war.

In our country, 3 to 4% of our Our course is not sustainable; oil comes from Russia. Shut90 percent of scientists agree ting down a tiny but significant that an increase of global temamount of Russian oil would perature above 2 degrees cenmarry the sanctions and cut tigrade is a redline that should revenue to the war machine. The not be crossed. goal is attainable, that is, the gas We will have to suck the morale

out of the Ukraine invaders. To do this we must endure pain at the pump. We have gotten too fat and gluttonous. Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins. Americans and the Europeans must layer their clothes and shiver the winter through. Our leaders must first prepare us to sacrifice by explaining that our belt tightening will save lives and bring the expanding war to a close.

Remember that our prophet explained that the Vietnam War would eviscerate and destroy the budget for food, safety and security at home. That is why I refer to Rev. Dr. King and Mickey Leland as our prophets in this “Land of Plenty.”

Vice President Kamala Harris, who is perhaps the next President of the United States, is on the way to Europe to strengthen our NATO alliance and make the case for the “boa constrictor sanctions.” Before she departed, Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman said, “standing up to aggression doesn’t come free.”

Yes, this is our fight for I am watching black and American boys of color being shipped to the frontline.

Do it. Oil based sanctions will hurt but they will hurt so good.

Let us put on our big boy britches and let’s start ride share. Let’s build a 21st century rail corridor to Hobby and Bush Intercontinental Airports. Let us start thinking about preventing WWIII. Let’s field the freeways with Mini-Coopers and deal a fatal blow to the dictator and fossil fuels. Let’s plant a garden at home for food security. - AANI

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SPORTS

Detained in Russia By: N.L. Preston

Prayers across the nation are going out to Houston native Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia since last month. Griner is very known in the Houston community as she graduated from Nimitz High School in the Aldine Independent School District.

The WNBA Phoenix Mercury star was taken into custody after Russian officials said they found vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis in her luggage at an airport near Moscow.

Her wife posted a message to Instagram, expressing gratitude to fans and supporters.

Griner’s wife, Cherelle Griner, posted an image of her and Brittney on Instagram, thanking

everyone and asking for privacy.

“Thank you to everyone who has reached out to me regarding my wife’s safe return from Russia. Your prayers and support are greatly appreciated. I love my wife wholeheartedly, so this message comes during one of the weakest moments of my life,” the post read. “I understand that many of you have grown to love BG over the years and have concerns and want details. Please honor our privacy as we continue to work on getting my wife home safely.”

If convicted, the offense could carry up to 10 years in prison. Many are hoping that U.S. officials can help bring her home because she could possibly become a political pawn used during these tense times with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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EDUCATION

Worthing Educator Impacts Sunnyside Community

By: Courtney Riley, M.A.

Louisiana native, D’Andre Edwards came to Houston, TX with a distinct goal in mind: to become one of Houston’s premier educators. Securing a high school social studies teaching position was not only a goal of his, but a passion he has fed and quickly became stellar in.

Edwards has taught at Worthing Early College High School in one of Houston’s historically African-American neighborhoods, Sunnyside, after receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in History from Southern University in 2017. Worthing’ s motto for the school year has been “blazing a trail of instructional excellence,” which has resonated with many staff members who embarked upon the responsibility of teaching excellence at the high school in South Houston. Upon interviewing and touring the campus, Edwards quickly knew Worthing Early College High School was the place to grow as an educator and leader. Edwards stated, “Attending an HBCU enhanced the path of the standards that I set forth for my career path and journey.”

Edwards continued his educational journey by pursuing his Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from Lamar University. Edwards mentioned his desire to pursue a master’s degree was inspired by his family who supported his entire journey. “I knew gaining a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration would not only leverage my career and goals but would make my mom and family incredibly proud,” stated Edwards.

Edwards has had educational experiences that have provided him the opportunity to develop and support teachers and impact the culture and climate of the Sunnyside Community.

“The Sunnyside Community deserves schools that are committed to building the future of the neighborhood,” specified Edwards. “Being at Worthing Early College High School has been a tremendous place for me to grow into leadership.”

As a campus teacher leader, he was able to impact the effective practices utilized on the campus by inspiration from campus leaders. These practices impact student learning and Edwards ensured he implemented many practices that would create sustainable systems for the campus.

As an educator, Edwards was mentored by former principal Dr. Khalilah Camp-

bell-Rhone, who was integral in increasing Worthing High School’s state rating from Improvement Required to a more favorable rating. Edward’s style of teaching has been sought after by many of the departments on his campus because of his determination and the heart and soul he puts into the craft of education and making history relevant for his students and the campus.

“History has always been a passion for Mr. Edwards, and he has learned to adapt to many roles on campus including the responsibility of national and state testing are ran without any issues, lesson execution and effective practices are exemplified from his team and the campus, and supporting students and staff in carrying out the vision set forth by campus leadership.

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Mr. Edwards impact teachers on campus, but he also builds solid relationships with students in and out of the classroom. Edwards holds students and teachers to high expectations and constantly proves obstacles are no feat for him or any students.

Edwards has helped lead students in candid conversations that lead to connections on enhancing their overall well-being. He has also planned many events for the students and the community. Edwards has advised several students and organizations on and off campus, further displaying his ability to serve and make a difference in the community.

Edwards is a natural leader who champions the attributes to impact student learning daily. Current Principal Everett Hare, who has seen success as a principal of various Houston ISD schools, has been an impact on Mr. Edwards and his influence on the campus. Principal Hare’s commitment to building campus leaders has driven Edwards to seek opportunities to do the same.

Edwards tenure in education is preparing future generations of African American male teachers dedicated to serving students across Houston and the nation. With the nation’s black male teacher population being two percent, educators like Mr. Edwards are rare gems. The legacy of African American educators committed to demonstrating excellency is being continued with D’Andre Edwards.

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