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My Truth

By Cheryl Smith Publisher

Who’s responsible for repressive voter laws?

Getting out the vote is in the best interest of all elected officials, especially those in the Democratic Party.

During a recent voter education and mobilization forum, sponsored by the Dallas Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., it was pointed out that when there is a huge voter turnout at the polls, Democratic candidates have a better chance of securing victories.

Which brings me to my truth!

If you weren’t registered to vote by January 31, 2022; then you can’t vote in the March 1, 2022 primary election.

Please don’t think I am letting you off the hook, though!

Just because you don’t have a voter registration card does not mean you can’t work campaigns, polls or voter education programs; Just because you may have a criminal background, does not mean you can’t participate by enSee MY TRUTH, page 7

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CMS Administrator Makes History

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire

A White House photo featuring dozens of African American members of the Biden-Harris administration circulated the internet during the opening days of Black History Month, and one would be hard-pressed to find anyone as proud as Chiquita Brooks-LaSure.

The first Black woman to

lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Brooks-LaSure offered the brightest smile when mentioning the historic photo that featured Vice President Kamala Harris and a host of Black staffers who help push the administration’s work forward.

“I’m so proud and really moved,” the Philadelphia-born Brooks-LaSure asserted.

See CMS ADMINISTRATOR, page 4

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Tarrant County student wins NAACP Image Award Youth advocate to be recognized for sit-in on Howard campus

By Rebecca Aguilar Texas Metro News

When Channing Hill graduates from Howard University in 2023, she knows she will leave the campus a better place for future students.

Hill, along with three other coeds, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the first Black woman to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Broncos’ Sale to Robert F. Smith Could Help NFL Begin to Solve Race Problem OUR VOICES

Channing Hill

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. Even before Coach Brian Flores filed a class-action lawsuit against the National Football League claiming the league discriminated against Black coaches in See BRONCOS’ SALE, page 4

When considering potential buyers of the Denver Broncos, one name continually rises above the rest: Robert F. Smith

led #BlackburnTakeover, a 34-day sitin in which more than 100 Howard students occupied the Washington, D.C. campus’ Blackburn University Center from Oct. 12 through Nov. 14, 2021.

The students complained that Howard’s dorms were unlivable, inSee TARRANT COUNTY STUDENT, page 7

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Black History Real and Imagined Black Culture or The Last Word

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux

How should we commemorate Black History Month?

Should corporations, universities, and nonprofit organizations bring in speakers, beat drums, and eat soul food?

Should folks take out ads in the media lifting up Black accomplishments? Should there be moments of silence, should folks lift up the special folks in their organizations who commemorated history?

Or should we keep it real and call our nation out on the ways that Black history has been manipulated, distorted, and ignored?

In the name of Carter G. Woodson, the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), can we firmly support the teaching of truth in educational institutions?

I’m not talking about critical race theory, a legal concept that is only occasionally taught in undergraduate schools, but mostly presented in our nation’s law schools.

Somehow the history deniers have managed to propose laws in the majority of states to regulate the way race is taught in schools.

These laws would prevent

Faithful Utterances

By Dr. Froswa Booker-Drew

Flipping through the channels, I caught a glimpse of one of the court dramas. This young lady was devastated because she loved a man who didn’t love her in the same way.

This isn’t a new story and it’s one that many experience. You give, hoping that the person will reciprocate. Sometimes relationships don’t work out, but the problem is when we stay with someone at the detriment of our emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical health.

It’s knowing when enough is enough. Trying to make someone love you doesn’t work out well especially if the person doesn’t see and value what they have in you.

The Bible has so many amazing real-life stories that are relevant even now. Jacob worked for Laban. He saw his daughter, Rachel, and wanted to marry her. The agreement was that he would work for seven years and at the end of his service, he would be given Rachel in marriage. Laban tricked him and gave him, Leah, the oldest daughter. He served Laban

teaching content that would make students “uncomfortable” or “guilty.” In other words, legislators are saying that teachers can’t tell the truth.

I understand discomfort. I understand it personally.

I’ll never forget my seventh-grade Catholic school classroom when a sister who looked like she had jumped off an Aunt Jemima’s pancake box was pictured in the textbook and the nun looked at me, directly, before saying that enslavement “wasn’t that bad.”

It might have been my mom’s eighth or ninth bus trip to the school to tell them about history.

Uncomfortable? Tell me about it.

For the next week or so, I was hazed by classmates who told me that I used to be a slave.

No matter. I gave as good as I got, and the truth was that my foremothers and forefathers were enslaved.

Nobody cared about my discomfort nor the distorted version of history my classmates and I were force-fed.

And nobody cared that white children were also being fed a distortion that allowed them to feel superior to me and to incorporate racism into the way they saw the world.

So I have a message to those corporations who are doing these Black History Commemorations, ads and sales. Stop it! We ain’t stupid. We aren’t

buying your stuff because you genuflected to a moment.

If you are really about Black History, why not support Black people, on the real? Why not put your corporate weight into the fight for voting rights? Why not treat your employees fairly. We don’t need to see your ads, we need to see your action.

That’s the hard part, though.

It means changing your mind and shifting your consciousness. It means understanding the way that racism is baked into the cake we call America.

It means calling it out, it means investigating the many ways your corporation benefitted from racism. If you are an insurance company, did your company insure enslaved people? Did you pay when they were murdered, because they were the property that you insured?

If you are a bank, did you issue bonds to corrupt and vicious enslavers? What were the profits and how do they manifest to this day?

If you don’t want to deal with these issues, perhaps you can hire an historian or empower

your employees to go through your archives. Or do you think that these questions are going to go away.

We are living in a moment of reckoning. The murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have reminded us that Black Lives Matter because heretofore Black Life has been considered cheap.

We must call their names, sing their song, this month.

The singing and swaying, the renditions of Lift Every Voice and We Shall Overcome are poetic and powerful, but action is even more powerful.

Corporate America could change public opinion if it chose to own its role in our nation’s ugly history.

It’s an ugly history, but it also a powerful one.

As Dr. Martin Luther King often said, “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”

Corporate America can accelerate the slope of the arc if they are willing to share their role in the exploitation of Black people. I’m not expecting corporate America to do the right thing.

I’m just offering a possibility that makes sense and can make a difference.

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author, media contributor and educator. Her latest project MALVEAUX! On UDCTV is available on youtube. com. For booking, wholesale inquiries or for more info visit www.juliannemalveaux.com.

Love Don’t Live Here

another seven years to have Rachel. The Bible says he loved Rachel more than Leah.

You can only imagine the hurt of Leah to know that her husband loved another woman more than her and that woman was her sister. Genesis 29: 31-35 shares the pain Leah experienced: “When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, “Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.” She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also.” And she called his name Simeon.

Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.

And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she called his name Judah.

Then she ceased bearing.” She ultimately had six children for Jacob—5 boys and 1 girl. God was not pleased about Jacob

dealing with two sisters (Genesis 30:1, Leviticus 18:18). His decision had ramifications for generations to come.

Leah really wanted Jacob’s love. The name of each of her children illustrates her belief that if she continues to give him children, he’ll change. Leah’s story isn’t unusual. We stay in relationships that do not serve us well. We stay in jobs hoping that things will get better. We hope that if we do more, maybe this friend will see how committed we are to them.

There are many examples of giving more, hoping that things will change when the other person/situation has demonstrated who they are and what they value. In addition to desiring Jacob’s love, there was a significant rivalry with her sister.

They even traded time with the other for Jacob. Instead of recognizing the trickster ways of Jacob, they saw the other as a target blocking the affection they wanted to receive. Blame can hide the real issue and instead of dealing with the source of the pain, we only address the symptom.

Instead of looking to God and within for solutions, we seek happiness outside of ourselves.

When we don’t deal with the issues that we face, they deal with us. The issues of Jacob, Leah, and Rachel impacted their children as well. Joseph (Rachel’s son) was sold into slavery by his brothers (Leah’s sons) because of jealousy.

Leah didn’t walk away for whatever reason. She was committed to a man who did not feel the same way about her.

She passed on her frustration to her children.

What are you passing on to those who do love you because of the pain someone else caused? What issue is in your life that you hope will change?

What is it that you keep pouring into but doesn’t do the same for you? Leah’s story is one that should remind us that when we understand God’s love for us, we don’t have to accept anything that doesn’t love or treat us the way we deserve.

Seek God’s love first. Love you and leave those alone who are willing to see you reproduce pain over and over.

Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew is an author of three books and the host of The Tapestry podcast. To listen to episodes of the podcast, visit https://www.spreaker.com/ show/the-tapestry_1 and to learn more about her work, go to https://drfroswa.com/

BIG MAMA TAUGHT ME:

TRY ME AND YOU WILL REAP WHAT YOU SOW Black Card

By Terry Allen When Lucille “Big Mama” Allen stood in the doorway between the kitchen and the “big room” and spoke from her playbook, this particular

advisory, “TRY ME” turned our usually loud, noisy house immediately into an extremely quiet refuge. “TRY ME” was one of the few statements in Big Mama’s roster that was used by many women along my life journey.

When “Try me” was used, it was an automatic stance that meant you have tested me in the worst way and now you will see how that will affect you

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and your situation now and, also, in your immediate future.

NOW! What was lesson?

Lucille “Big Mama” Allen clearly let us know what try me meant- To try someone is to test my patience, home, children, money, intelligence, and/or worth. In other words, you’re testing my limitations in a way that’s determined to be insulting, offensive and/or antagonizing.

Lucille “Big Mama” Allen platform was always steeped in the Biblical word. The reference, “Try me” always came with a Come-to-Jesus’ reference. She referred us to Hebrews 13:6 “So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”.

Now let me expand on how this enlightens others. For one, See WHAT YOU SOW, Page 5

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Black History?

Quit Playin’

By Vincent L. Hall

This year, this annual commemoration of Black History Month, pledge to do something you never have before.

As you celebrate the honorable handiwork and intellectual inventiveness of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, attempt the extraordinary.

In 2022, find a book or two that you haven’t read and commit to learning something new about Black history.

And Quit Playin’ like you’re a scholar on the subject.

and griot, Donald Payton.

Payton can wax bold and eloquent on Dallas’ Black history, including all the white people who helped or tortured us. Additionally, Peyton can serve up a side order of city and statewide Black history that will leave you longing for more.

And then there are books and seminal works that you haven’t read, like “Big D” by Darwin Payne. A professor Emeritus from SMU, his work almost fits glove-inglove with Jim Schultze’s “The Accommodation.”

Buy both books.

Listen to one passage of Big D related to Texas’s State Fair.

“One special target had been the State Fair of Texas whose president was May-

Marion Butts Collection Dallas Public Library. Leave it on the photo, they need the advertisement. We got lots of Black history just dying over there.

My grandfather, Ed Hall, used to say something that pushes me daily, and it could probably help you too. He would say that they could take all the knowledge in my possession out of this world, and the world wouldn’t miss much.

Don’t get it twisted.

Papa wasn’t implying that we lack intellect or ability. He meant that there could be no exhaustion of learning and searching.

You should never be satisfied with the small amount of knowledge that you can consume, comprehend or contain. There is no room for complacency in education, formal or otherwise.

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, a college dean, preacher, and one of the ten most intelligent and spherically learned people in America delivered a sermon that will never leave me. Along the length of a virulent diatribe, he declared that one of his misgivings was having Black students in his African American studies class who thought they were exempt. They made the erroneous assumption that being Black made them experts at Black history.

Quit Playin like you don’t think so too!! We confuse knowing our culture with knowledge of our history.

The two are far more than a stone’s throw removed from one another.

Some of you deem yourself too old to learn or too smart to study. But we must encourage our young people to do a deep dive into Woodson, W.E.B. DuBois, Mary McLeod Bethune, and others. Then, if they know all the trademark folk, have them read to Marcus Garvey, Shirley Chisholm, or H. Rap Brown.

Call on our local historian

or Thornton himself and which had been integrated only through pressure. A significant battle had been won in May 1953 when the State Fair’s board of directors voted to integrate the Midway rides for all 16 days of the Fair rather than only on Negro Achievement Day. This applied only to rides where no contact was involved among the riders.

It turned out that at least two rides did not qualify for integration under these terms, and in 1955 the Youth Council of the NAACP under the leadership of Juanita Craft announced intentions to picket the entrances of the Fair on Negro Achievement Day.” We search worldwide to find Black historical figures, and that is worthwhile. But just like politics, all history is local too! You gotta know the roots in order to understand the tree!

The African American Museum, in Fair Park, rotates a litany of local and national artifacts that point to movers and movements that shaped this city.

If you think Dallas is a hot political mess now, you have no idea how bad it was.

Education and especially one of social relevance, is like progress. It is neither a monument nor a mosaic.

It’s a movement. It is neither static nor stationary.

It’s slippery. We behave as if there is nothing left to grasp.

Ebonics and Soul Food are cultural and rooted in history. However, African American history is much deeper than slang and sweet potato pie!

Papa Hall was right; we need to learn a lot more!

Vincent L. Hall is an author, activist, and award-winning columnist.

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CMS Administrator Makes History “When I got nominated, I heard from women across the country, and I didn’t realize how meaningful it would be for so many people for me to sit in this chair,” she continued.

“I have older women and younger women come up to me and say how proud they are. That really fuels me to want to use this role in a way to change people’s lives, and I feel so grateful for that opportunity.”

“The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) resolutely salutes and congratulates Chiquita Brooks-LaSure for her outstanding leadership at Health and Human Services (HHS) CMS. We look forward to expanding the partnership between CMS and the NNPA. Medicare and Medicaid are vital to the present and future of African Americans and other communities of color,” affirmed Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr, NNPA President and CEO. A former policy official who played a crucial role in guiding the Affordable Care Act – or Obamacare – through passage and implementation, Brooks-LaSure enjoys decades of experi-

ence working in government and the private sector.

As deputy director for policy at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, and earlier at the Department of Health & Human Services as director of coverage policy, Brooks-LaSure led the agency’s implementation of Obamacare coverage and insurance policy provisions.

She assisted the House of Representatives leaders in passing several healthcare laws, including the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, as part of the Democratic staff for the House’s Ways and Means Committee.

As administrator for CMS, Brooks-LaSure oversees programs that include Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the HealthCare.gov health insurance marketplace.

“I was born in Philadelphia, raised in New Jersey, and have been living in Virginia for a big chunk of my life,” said LaSure, who’s married with a young daughter.

“I was always interested in policy from a young age,” she explained.

“When I was in graduate school, I had a friend who I took health policy and social policy, and she really got me on the healthcare policy track. I always said, ‘once you start on health, you never look back because there’s no policy area that has the ability to touch so many lives, especially in the federal government.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has upped the pressure on CMS and other agencies, but Brooks-LaSure recalled similarities to when the ACA became law.

“The ACA was born out of a difficult time,” she recalled.

“Before we passed the law, not everyone thought we should focus on health policy. We had the Great Recession, and one of the pieces of people’s financial security was healthcare because one out of every three bankruptcies resulted from medical costs.

“So, it became imperative to pass the ACA, and I think we’re at the same moment today. The pandemic has made it more difficult in terms of wanting to do

so many things with healthcare policy.”

Brooks-LaSure asserted that Americans now have a greater appreciation of why healthcare is vital and why the uninsured and those not having access to vaccines and drug treatments affect everyone.

“I think people have seen health disparities at a different level,” she stated.

“I think we now have an opportunity to address those [disparities] if we seize this moment.”

She told NNPA Newswire that a record 14.5 million signed up for 2022 health care coverage during the enrollment period.

“Investing in financial assistance and outreach allows more people to have access to the care that they need,” Brooks-LaSure stated.

As part of Vice President Kamala Harris’s Call to Action to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Morbidity, HHS, through CMS, has taken steps to improve maternal health and support the delivery of equitable, high-quality care for pregnancy and postpartum care.

CMS has proposed a “Birthing-Friendly” designation to drive perinatal health outcomes and maternal health equity improvements.

According to a release, the designation would initially identify hospitals that provide perinatal care, participate in a maternity care quality improvement collaborative, and implement recommended patient safety practices.

CMS has also encouraged states to take advantage of the American Rescue Plan’s option to provide 12 months of postpartum coverage to pregnant individuals enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP. Brooks-LaSure said history would ultimately smile upon the unprecedented diversity.

“I think that representation matters so much, and we will have changed this country because so many of us are in these roles with our diverse perspectives strengthen policymaking,” Brooks-LaSure said. “The more you have people who come from different experiences, you make stronger and better policies and making sure the next generation see they can sit in these roles.”

Broncos’ Sale to Robert F. Smith

their hiring practices, it was pretty clear that professional football has a race issue.

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida recently found that, in 2021, around 71 percent of the players in the NFL were people of color, while only a quarter were white. Yet of the league’s 32 teams, only three head coaches are people of color. And only two team owners are non-white: Jacksonville Jaguars’ owner Shahid Kahn is a Pakistani-American and Kim Pegula, a Korean American, is a co-owner of the Buffalo Bills.

In a league whose players are overwhelmingly Black, there needs to be more representation in the front office of people who look like the athletes that take the gridiron each Sunday.

With the Denver Broncos expected to hit the market sometime this off-season, now is probably the best time in the 101-year history of the NFL for the league to have its first Black team owner and to begin to change the plantation mentality that has plagued professional football for decades.

When considering potential buyers of the team, one name continually rises above the rest: Robert F. Smith.

Smith, the 59-year-old founder of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, whose net

worth is estimated to be around $6.7 billion, may not have the star power that other potential buyers do (i.e., former Broncos quarterbacks Peyton Manning and John Elway or Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos). But what he does have is a long track record of success in the largely white world of investment. He has an ability to see value where others do not, successfully investing in emerging enterprises and quickly making them profitable. Consider, for example, that Vista currently has $86 billion in assets under management.

And the Broncos could certainly use some of Smith’s magic given that the team hasn’t had a winning record since the 201516 season when they won the Super Bowl.

Putting aside Smith’s investing acumen and ability to grow emerging businesses, his up-from-the-bootstraps story and expansive philanthropic work in the Black community would go a long way to changing the make-up of a NFL ownership from its traditional purview of stodgy, old white men.

For one, Smith is a Denver native whose curiosity, intelligence and drive led him to a job with Bell Laboratories when he was just in high school. From there, Smith went on to Cornell and Columbia universities and jobs with Goodyear, Kraft, and Gold-

man Sachs before founding Vista Equity in 2000.

What his resume shows is that Smith is not afraid of breaking down walls and inserting himself into traditional bastions of whiteness like the Ivy Leagues and private equity. If there is any Black man in America who could take on the lily-white structure of NFL ownership, it’s Robert Smith.

If the NFL is serious about changing not just its image, but its relationships with its players and fan base, then Smith would also be an ideal partner for the league. He not only talks a big game about racial equity, but he backs it up by putting money where his mouth is.

In 2019, Smith spent $34 million of his own money to settle the loan debt for the nearly 400 students who graduated that spring from Morehouse College.

He also donated $20 million to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the largest by an individual donor to the museum at the time, and he helped found and donated $50 million to the Student Freedom Initiative, which aims to relieve the financial burdens on minority college students.

Through Vista, Smith has also spearheaded the Southern Communities Initiative, a consortium of companies working to address problems facing commu-

nities of color in the South, where almost 60 percent of all Black Americans live. Through the SCI, Smith hopes to tackle pressing issues like substandard education and workforce development opportunities, housing and healthcare inequalities, the digital divide, limited access to capital, and physical infrastructure failures in these communities.

In an argument about integrating professional football, Black activist and journalist Halley Harding wrote in the Los Angeles Tribune in 1941 that “most persons, corporations or businesses almost always forget the people or incidents that made them big.”

Harding added: “This story is about a great American sport

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[football] that took all the aid the colored American could give and then as soon as it became ‘big league,’ promptly put a bar up against the very backbone of its existence.”

These words could just as aptly be applied to the NFL today as they did back in the 1940s.

But now, as America once again reexamines its turbulent past when it comes to race, the NFL probably has its best chance in years to right a glaring gap in its leadership when it comes to the Broncos. And if there is anyone who can fill that gap, it’s Robert Smith.

Dr. Benjamin Chavis is president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and can be reached at dr.bchavis@nnpa.org.

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What You Sow cont. from page 2

When Lucille “Big Mama” Allen stood in the doorway between the kitchen and the “big room” and spoke from her playbook. This particular advisory, TRY ME” turned the usually loud, noisy house immediately became extremely quiet. “TRY ME” was one of the few statements in Big Mama’s roster that was used by many women along my life journey. When “Try me” was used, it was an automatic stance that meant you have tested me in the worst way and now you will see how that will affect you and your situation now and in your immediate future.

Now let me expand on how this enlightens others. For one, “Try me” says, “I am stronger than ever and stronger than you ever will be” and “Touch my friends and family and I will rip you a new one” In these times of disinformation and emotional upheaval, I see all of us showcasing our “Try Me” moments when we hear untruths being said about us.

Just a few days ago, I received a note of feedback that I was entirely responsible for something that I could not have influenced nor was I in the room when it happened. The good part is, I was Big Mama’s child and I had my tribe and my proof. The tribe and proof shut down the attack and my ‘Try Me” stance faded back into the background. The extended portion of the lesson is having a tribe and producing proof, so those purveyors of the lie will lose, email me your best “Try Me” moment at terryallenpr@gmail.com. Family, I need you.

Thank you, publisher Cheryl Smith, for my platform. Big Mama because of you, I have a tribe.

Terry Allen is an award-winning multi-media journalist and owner of 1016 media

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"Buy Black"

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When Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III, of Friendship-West Baptist Church, an- Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III nounced 100 Days of Buying Black in acknowledging the 100th Commemoration of the Tulsa Race Massacre, we joined the movement. December 31, 2021 marked 100 days of featuring Black Businesses. and we decided that the struggle continues and we must also. So enjoy reading about more Black-owned businesses and please support.

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UNIQUE NEW VISIONS, INC

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During the protest, dozens of students abandoned their dorm rooms and camped outside in tents on the grounds of the Blackburn Center.

Channing said the students’ protest was born of necessity.

“Protests have a role and create change,” said Channing, 20, who is president of Howard’s NAACP student chapter. “Protests serve as something that shine a light in the dark; but to keep that light on, you have to continue the work.”

the university’s president, Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick, regarding their concerns over mold growing in student dormitories.

The complaint was a decades-old one: Howard students had protested similar concerns in 2001 and again in 2017.

When Dr. Frederick agreed to meet with some campus leaders, whom protesters claimed he had hand-picked, but refused to meet with others, Hill and her peers staged the “Blackburn Takeover” sit-in, the longest student protest in Howard’s history.

The sit-in was a rallying call

Attorney and Howard students prepare for a media briefing with Roland Martin Unfiltered, announcing the ending of the protest.

Channing’s work with the protest is being recognized later this month during the 53rd NAACP Image Awards, which will broadcast live at 6 p.m. Central time on BET. She will be honored with the “Youth Activist of the Year” award.

The award recognizes all Howard University students who dared do something about their on-campus living conditions, Channing said.

“This is not just an award for me. This is an award for us. It’s our achievement, our sacrifice,” she said. “The 34 days that we went and struggled, and for all of us who took a failing grade last semester.”

Channing’s father, Clarence E. Hill, Jr., said his daughter is his hero.

“It’s humbling, inspiring and invigorating when your children can become your heroes,” he said.

“I’m proud and thankful because I know the commitment she has to the cause and the work she put in.

“I’ve always admired Channing’s will and determination to fight for what she thinks is right and to speak her truth to power.”

The Howard University protest began last fall when a handful of students requested to meet with

heard across the country and around the world: Daily updates on the sit-in went viral on social media under its own hashtag.

The movement sparked similar protests for quality housing on other historically Black college and university campuses across the nation.

Meanwhile, national news media outlets covered the students’ concerns. Civil rights leaders visited the campus. Politicians on Capitol Hill joined the conversation. Rapper Gucci Mane declined to perform during Howard’s storied homecoming week, in solidarity with the protesting students.

Initially, it did not appear that university administrators would address the students’ concerns, Channing said.

“Jesse Jackson came and went.

Cory Booker came and went. Elizabeth Warren tweeted; and the news cycle came and went,” said Channing, a junior who graduated from Euless’ Trinity High School. “Still, the school was stagnant.”

On Day 34 of the protest, however, the school’s administrators signed an agreement effectively meeting the students’ demands – and promising them they would not be expelled from school or otherwise disciplined for their

organization and participation in the sit-in.

Still, Channing, said she is unsatisfied that housing problems continue to arise at Howard, despite the students’ protest. On the day she spoke with Texas Metro News, she said a Howard dorm flooded.

“Did we get everything we wanted? Absolutely not. Are we satisfied with what we got? Absolutely not,” Channing said. “Do we feel that students are safer in the immediate meantime? Yes.” Valerie Fields Hill, is not surprised by her daughter’s tenacity and courage to speak out on issues she feels are unfair.

Her mother remembers Channing finding her voice as a child when she was often among the few Black girls in her classroom - and was bullied.

“She became tired of having to explain herself,” her mother said.

“She was tired of being called names.”

According to her mother, by the time Channing reached high school, she had found her purpose. “By then, she had well developed a strong sense of advocacy.”

Channing said she gained strength and determination from her mother, and she hopes to have the same inner peace someday.

“Even in really hard times, she has this unyielding faith that it will be okay,” Channing said. “I try to emulate that, but I have not mastered it.”

It was her father who she learned confidence from.

“My dad is the type of person that can talk to anybody. He walks into a room with confidence,” she said, adding that she got charisma from both her parents.

Channing plans to travel to Los Angeles to accept the NAACP Image Award later this month and she is glad her parents will be at her side.

When she accepts the award, she said she’ll make sure the world knows she and her peers are proud to be Howard students and for what they accomplished for future generations of coeds.

“This is us being recognized (and them) saying ‘You did a good job and you did the right thing’.”

After graduation, Channing plans to attend Howard University Law School. She wants to become a defense attorney for juvenile offenders.

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17 Women, Words, and Wisdom: Songs by Black Female Composers - Fort Worth Opera. Fort Worth Opera’s smash-hit Black History Month concert, A Night of Black Excellence: Say It Loud - Songs of a Revolution. 2 to 3:30 pm at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St. Tickets: https://bit.ly/3AunwMn

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