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“Addressing Current & Historical Realities Affecting Our Community”
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Your vote and your money are the two most powerful things you have. Be careful who you give them to. - Roy Douglas Malonson
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MICHAEL LEE PERRY 1984–2026 By: Family
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By: Roy Douglas Malonson
Every election time, the exact same thing happens. Your campaign buses roll into Sunnyside, the Third Ward, Acres Homes, and Kashmere Gardens. Your workers set up field offices on our streets, and your candidates speak from the pulpits of our historic churches. You look out at the crowd, look into our cameras, and say the exact same words: “We need you. This election is too important. If your community does not vote, we cannot win.” You are right. Black voters are the main group that helps you win. Without our votes, you cannot win city hall, county seats, or national races. You know how important we are when it is time to vote. But when it is time to spend your campaign money, you tell a completely different story. You ask us for free help and community loyalty, but you do not buy
advertisements with us. You want our votes, but you do not buy our ads. This is not a small mistake. It is an economic insult. Even our most powerful federal, county, and city leaders focus their massive ad budgets elsewhere. • At the national and county levels, leaders like Congressman Christian Menefee, Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth, and District Judge Darrell William Jordan raise hundreds of thousands—sometimes millions—of dollars, yet leave the local Black Press out of their paid media plans. • For our major federal districts covering historically Black neighborhoods, leaders like Support on Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia representing the 29th Congressional District pg. 3
Michael Lee Perry, a beloved member of the Houston community, passed away on September 14, 2026, at the age of 41. Born on November 18, 1984, Michael lived a life that was defined by the relationships he developed with family, friends, and others who had the opportunity to know him. He was remembered for the warmth, kindness, and personal connections he shared with those around him. Throughout his life, Michael created memories that remained meaningful to the people who knew him. His presence brought value to the lives of family members, friends, and loved ones, and his passing left a deep sense of loss among those who had shared important moments with him. Michael was remembered not only for the years he lived, but also for the impact he had on the people around him. The memories, stories, and experiences shared with him continued to provide comfort to those who mourned his passing. His death was a profound loss to his family, friends, and community. Although his life ended far too soon, the memories he left behind remained a lasting part of the lives of those who knew and loved him. The family appreciated the prayers, condolences, and support offered by friends, loved ones, and members of the Houston community during their time of mourning. Funeral arrangements were handled by O.W. Wiley Mortuary in Houston, Texas. AA
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Whenever I hear people constantly criticizing, judging and condemning the younger generation, I am reminded of what is written in the Bible wherein Jesus had to rebuke his disciples due to their mishandling of the children. In the 19th Chapter of Matthew, verses 13 and 14 (NIV), it reads, “Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them. Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”” I have never heard any leader speak about the divine value of the younger generation like The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. He said, “We not only have to teach our young people, but we have to give them a sense of their greatness. They are the greatest generation that we have ever produced. They are fearless. They are born warriors. They are not like their parents, or grandparents. They are very, very different…These are wonderful young people. They
just need a chance and right guidance. That’s the premium today: Right guidance.” Every time I am blessed to go out into the community with my Nation of Islam brothers, especially the most violent areas, we never have a problem with young people listening. They are hungry for truth that speaks to the God within themselves and guidance from those who have their best interests at heart. When we ask them, “Have you discovered your purpose in life or the reason why you were born?” it makes them stop and think. We let them know that The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches, “Whatever you love to do and whatever you do best is more than likely what you are born to do. Just from those short yet impactful interactions, we have marveled at how many we have mentored over the years that have done and are doing extraordinary things in their personal lives, schools and neighborhoods. We need young people all around us and at the forefront. They are not the problem. They are the answer. We’ll discuss that next issue, God willing. Let us unite. (Brother Qiyam is a member of The Nation of Islam under the leadership of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. He attends Muhammad Mosque No. 45 in Houston, Texas) AA
A Revival of God Consciousness Bobby Mills, Ph.D.
RIGHTEOUSNESS The way of the righteous is not easy, because the world is spiritually fathered by the devil. Therefore, even though: “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein”. (Psalm 24: 1). The devil is an ungodly worldly influencer and a bold liar, and the truth is not in him. This is why, as human beings, we are charged with the awesome spiritual responsibility to be Godly stewards and caretakers, because this world will pass away, but heaven remains. Therefore: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever”. (1 John 2: 15-17). Therefore, will someone please inform President Trump and his MAGA-Cult GOP Supporters that: “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people”. (Proverbs 14: 34). America all of us should spiritually acknowledge this: individuals that have a Godly understanding concerning life seek spiritual knowledge, but the mouth of a fool loves to feed on foolishness. This is why the Bible declares that: “Fools make a mock at sin:
but among the righteous there is favour”. (Proverbs 14: 9). More importantly, the Bible emphatically declares: “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy: and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand”. (Revelation 1: 3). Righteousness simply means being in right spiritual standing with God, and divine moral law and order. In 2026, in American society, it is difficult to live a life devoted to truth when individuals are surrounded by lying and ungodly thievery leadership mentalities. America, there are over 150 verses in the Bible concerning lying, deceit, and false testimonies. Therefore, there is no such thing as telling a little white lie. All lies are bold declarations against God’s will, and the Two Great Commandments: love God (Truth) and love your neighbor as yourself. America, God does not lie nor change His mind. Therefore, the Bible encourages us to: “let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, the humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross”). Hence, the Bible emphatically declares: “these six things doth the Lord hate: yea seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A witness that speaketh lies,
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come right into the heart of Acres Homes to speak to our people. Yet, her campaign budgets bypass our platforms when it is time to spend paid marketing dollars. • In our local city hall campaigns, leaders like Houston City Council Members Tarsha Jackson, Carolyn Evans-Shabazz, Martha Castex-Tatum, Letitia Plummer, and Willie Davis run hard for every single neighborhood vote. But the neglect goes straight to the very top of our city and county executive offices. The candidates vying for Harris County Judge—including Democratic nominee Letitia Plummer and incumbent Lina Hidalgo—demand our community’s full alignment on their policy battles and executive budgets. Yet, when their teams manage multimillion-dollar communication pipelines, our platforms are frozen out. When election time comes, these candidates talk constantly about the toughest issues facing our neighborhoods. You campaign on fixing broken drainage so our streets stop flooding during storms. You promise to fix deep potholes, clean up illegal dumping, keep local water bills fair, bring grocery stores to food deserts, and stop greedy developers from driving longtime families out of their homes. When you want to talk about these city issues, where do you go? You rush to Black media. You ask African American News&Issues to write long articles about your plans. You want us to take free photos of your ribbon cuttings, publish your press releases, and print voter guides telling our people to vote for you. You come to us because you know exactly how powerful we are. We have a massive, unmatched reach across
October 9, 2026 Houston and Texas: 36,000 print copies weekly delivered directly into the hands of multi-generational households, and over 400,000 followers on Facebook engaging with us online. We hold the attention, the eyeballs, and the trust of the exact voters you need to win. Yet, you bypass this massive audience when it comes time to pay. To see what true partnership looks like, you only have to look at leaders who actually show their respect through their budgets. Congressman Al Green consistently understands that you must invest in the community infrastructure that protects the vote. Even in competitive statewide and local battles, figures like Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, and Harris County Commissioner Adrian Garcia understand that local community outreach requires actual commercial spending. They buy advertising. They invest in our platforms because they know that respect is a twoway street. Local Black newspapers and websites are not free bulletin boards. We are independent businesses. We are the trusted voice of our community. When big television channels ignore our street flooding, our water issues, or our neighborhood safety, we cover it every single day. We do the hard work of informing voters 365 days a year, not just for two weeks before an election. Your campaigns raise millions of dollars by promising economic fairness. So, where does all that money actually go? Campaign finance reports show the painful truth. Almost all of your advertising budget goes to giant, white-owned television stations, outof-town consulting firms, Facebook, and Google. You write huge checks to those
companies without hesitating. You do not ask them for a “community discount.” You do not demand that they show loyalty to our neighborhoods first. You pay them full price because you respect them as real businesses. Yet, when you come to the Black Press, the rules suddenly change. You expect free interviews, free front-page stories, and free digital reach. You tell us it is for “good exposure.” But exposure does not pay our paper bills. Exposure does not pay our local reporters, our delivery drivers, or our printers. Squeezing Black-owned businesses for free work while paying full price to everyone else is wrong. This bad strategy also hurts your own campaigns. Your out-of-town campaign managers think a quick, generic social media ad is enough to get our community out to vote. They do not realize that people tune out those corporate political ads. What they do trust is the local paper sitting on their kitchen table and the verified, trusted community voice on their Facebook feeds. By ignoring our 36,000 weekly print readers and 400,000 online followers, you are neglecting your most dependable voters. The days of the one-way relationship are over. You cannot claim to fight for Black economic justice in City Hall, Acres Homes, and Harris County while refusing to spend campaign dollars with Black-owned businesses. If you want our people to show up at the ballot box, your campaign budget must show up on our ledger. Stop asking for our free labor as some say you pay to play. Stop taking our community for granted. Respect
our business, buy ads in our papers, and put your money where your AA mouth is.
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THE STATE GIVETH AND THE COUNTY TAKETH AWAY By: Bill King
Texans hate property taxes. An August 2025 UT-Texas poll found that 85% of Texans thought further reducing property taxes was either extremely or very important, including 55% who said it was extremely important. More than half of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents said it was either “extremely” or “very’ important. By 2023, voters’ angst over property taxes was reaching a boiling point. In response, the Republican state leadership made reducing property taxes a priority for the 2023 legislative session. The result was a bipartisan bill – SB2. It passed the Texas Senate unanimously and the Texas House133-4. In the Senate, it was co-sponsored by Republican Paul Bettencourt and Democrat Carol Alvarado. Fundamentally, the bill shifted a portion of school funding from local property taxes to state revenues. It accomplished this by increasing the school homestead exemption and requiring school districts to reduce their tax rates according to certain formulas (known as “compression”) and then replacing the lost property tax collections with state revenues. The impact varied based on taxpayers’ circumstances, but a typical Texas homeowner saw a reduction on the order of 25–30% in the school portion of their property-tax bill. By the 2025 legislative session, primarily because of
rising property values, the pressure was on to do more. The Legislature responded with another round of school property-tax relief. It increased the mandatory homestead exemption again and imposed additional tax-rate compression. As in 2023, the state assumed more of the cost of public education so that local school districts could collect less from property owners. These reforms also received widespread bipartisan support, and the final version passed both houses unanimously. A typical Texas homeowner saw an additional 15-20% reduction in their school tax bill as a result. Of course, school property taxes are only a portion of a homeowner’s total property-tax bill, albeit the largest portion for most homeowners. So, when the State reduced the school-tax portion by about 35–40%, that translated into only about a 15–20% reduction in the overall property-tax bill, assuming—and this is important—the taxes imposed by the other local taxing entities remained unchanged. They did not. To the contrary, many counties and cities saw an Read more at opportunity to aframnews.com
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THROUGH THE LENS OF TIME: BLACK HISTORY IS 24/7/365 1955
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December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Her defiant stance prompts a year-long Montgomery bus boycott.
January 10-11, 1957: Sixty Black pastors and civil rights leaders from several southern states— including Martin Luther King Jr.—meet in Atlanta, Georgia to coordinate nonviolent protests against racial discrimination and segregation.
July 2, 1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin.
May 2, 1963: More than 1,000 Black school children march through Birmingham, Alabama in a demonstration against segregation. The goal of the non-violent demonstration, which became known as the “Children’s Crusade,” was to provoke the city’s leaders to desegregate.
February 1, 1960: Four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refuse to leave a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter without being served. The Greensboro Sit-In, as it came to be called, sparks similar “sitins” throughout the city and in other states.
November 14, 1960: Six-year-old Ruby Bridges is escorted by four armed federal marshals as she becomes the first student to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Her actions inspired Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With (1964).
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Monday, October 5, was the final day for Texans to register to vote in the November 3, 2026, general election. Houston-area residents who wanted to participate in the upcoming midterm election had to complete their registration by the deadline. The election was expected to bring significant attention to local, county and statewide races. ________________________________
Dallas officials are looking for new development ideas for roughly 40 acres of Fair Park as the city considers how to make better use of the historic complex. At the same time, the city is facing more than $44 million in deferred maintenance that needs to be addressed. The discussion could shape the future of one of Dallas’ most recognizable cultural and entertainment destinations.
Heavy rain turned parts of Zilker Park into a muddy mess during the first weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival. About two inches of rain fell before and during the festival. Festival organizers are now working to restore the park ahead of the second weekend of ACL Fest, scheduled for October 9–11.
June 11, 1963: Governor George C. Wallace stands in a doorway at the University of Alabama to block two Black students from registering. The standoff continues until President John F. Kennedy sends the National Guard to the campus.
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SAN ANTONIO San Antonio and Bexar County officials are considering legal action to prevent a proposed federal immigration detention facility from opening on the city’s East Side. The facility could accommodate as many as 1,500 people per day, and local officials are questioning whether required environmental reviews were completed.
ESTEVANICO (ESTEBAN) Estevanico (Esteban) was a North African-born enslaved man who became one of the earliest Africans known to travel through what is now Texas. He was part of the Narváez expedition that reached the Gulf Coast in 1528 and later traveled across much of the Southwest with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Estevanico served as a guide, interpreter, and explorer, learning Indigenous languages and customs along the way. His journeys made him an important early figure in the history of African Americans and Africans in Texas and the broader American Southwest.
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NATIONAL BLACK BOOK FESTIVAL CELEBRATES BLACK LITERATURE By: Aisha Robinson
The National Black Book Festival in Houston represents more than a gathering of authors and readers. It is a celebration of African American literature, history, culture, entrepreneurship and the power of storytelling. The 2026 festival will take place October 22–24 at Fallbrook Church, bringing together authors, publishers, readers, book clubs, literary organizations and businesses for three days of programming and community engagement. The festival will feature more than 120 authors representing a wide variety of genres, including fiction, nonfiction, romance, Christian literature, historical works, biographies and children’s books. Visitors will have opportunities to meet authors, purchase books, attend discussions and learn more about the publishing industry. The event also provides independent writers with an important platform to introduce their work to new audiences. Educational programming will be another important part of the festival. Workshops and discussions will address subjects such as selfpublishing, traditional
publishing, social media promotion, artificial intelligence and transforming books into films. These sessions can provide valuable information for aspiring authors and entrepreneurs who want to turn their creativity and personal experiences into published works. Young people will also play an important role in the festival. A Children’s Festival will give young readers an opportunity to meet authors, participate in activities and receive books. The event will also recognize children’s literature through the Black Authors Matter Children’s Book Awards. Reading is particularly important for young African Americans because books can provide both education and representation. Seeing African American characters, families, communities and historical figures reflected in books can help young readers understand that their experiences and stories are important. Books can introduce children to accomplishments and struggles that may not always receive enough attention in traditional classrooms. Reading also helps young people develop vocabulary, writing
skills, critical thinking and the ability to understand different perspectives. For African American children, exposure to books about Black history can provide a deeper understanding of figures who helped shape the United States, from educators and scientists to civil rights leaders, artists, writers and entrepreneurs. Literature can connect young people with previous generations while encouraging them to imagine their own futures. Access to books is especially important because reading can become a lifelong tool for education and personal growth. A young person who develops a love of reading can discover subjects beyond the classroom, explore different careers and learn from people whose experiences may be very different from their own. Events such as the National Black Book Festival can help make reading more exciting by allowing children to meet the people who create the books they read. Beyond literature, the festival creates opportunities for networking and
community building. Authors, publishers, educators, entrepreneurs and readers can connect while supporting independent Black writers and businesses. For Houston, the
National Black Book Festival serves as an important cultural event that places African American voices at the center of literary conversation. By celebrating established
authors while encouraging young readers and emerging writers, the festival helps preserve stories from the past and inspire new stories for future AA generations.
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Suburban Sugar Land Women (SSLW) & Phenomenal Partners recently hosted their 37th empowering and engaging “College Send Off ” for SIX high – achievers, full-time, enrolled, scholarship recipients. Scholarship criteria: January – June, applicants are required to serve in person or virtually via SSLW’s various projects. June 1-30,applicants submit online: complete and accurate application, recent head-shoulder photo,jpeg, unofficial transcript, documentation that an official transcript has been requested, receipt of an official transcript, one letter of reference from university or high school staff, one letter of reference from a community service organization, essay – 200 words or less, bursar’s form, and official documentation of fall, 2026 full – time enrolled at a university. Online application & bursar form accepted June 01-30 annually. Recipients’ attendance required July 18 at College Send Off via recipient’s RSVP, attend, and hand – deliver three written thank you to hosts. USPS mailed and received hand – written thank you to the organization by July 31 or before. Required attendance at Holiday Check In, December 14, 2026, 6:30 – 8:00pm, hosted
by Ms. Jeanie Robins. Checks are USPS mailed to universities in August and January. Recipients confirm. SSLW Follow up. College Send Off Off is a celebration of excellence in service, leadership, and academics! The Amazing Allens were the hosts – Ms. Theresa Allen-Murray, Ms. Belinda Allen & Dr. Margaret Allen. Ms. Alisa Lewis – Laddie was the Mistress of Ceremony. She opened with warm welcome, greetings, introductions, and the importance of giving back; Mable Scott Austin, Founder & Lifetime Partner gave the prayer; Ms. Jeanie Robins, Vice President, Programs shared words of wisdom and presented each scholarship recipient a beautifully wrapped laundry basket filled with personal care items, school supplies, cleaning items, and spiritual literature. Dr. Margaret Allen and Ms. Tomika Laddie each donated gift cards to each recipient. Words of Wisdom were also given by Ms. Belinda Allen, Ms. Theresa Allen-Murray, Ms. Alisa Lewis – Laddie, Dr. Margaret Allen, & Ms. Mable Scott Austin. Jeanie Robins presented three beautiful bouquets of fresh flowers and gift card to hosts. SSLW Phenomenal Partners – Ms. Theresa, Ms. Belinda, and Dr.
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