MY TRUTH
TOUGH DECISION By Cheryl Smith, Publisher
It was a tough decision to make for some, and not so tough for others. But a decision had to be made. The leadership of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority had about 16,000 registered attendees expected in New Orleans for the public service organization’s 54th National Convention.
Beverly E. Smith President/CEO Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
The weather looked like it could take a turn for the worse. Although Deltas have been to New Orleans since and everything was fine, many remember Hurricane Katrina 14 years ago. When reports from the Weather Channel and meteorologists across the country focused on the threat of Tropical Storm Barry, sorority sisters, speakers, honorees, vendors, family members and loved ones begin rethinking their travel plans. Some canceled their trips altogether, while others who were already in route or had arrived, were faced with decisions. New Orleans was ready for the Deltas, who were going to paint the town red. But New Orleans is always ready. It’s a beautiful destination and combine good food, good people, great See MY TRUTH, page 4
SLAVERY TIES
Former Dallas City Councilwoman Carolyn Davis killed, daughter in critical condition, in wreck involving suspected drunk driver
Presidential candidate shares information he received
According to U.S. Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, he recently came into possession of documents “showing that both Amy and I are descended from people who owned slaves.” Those descendants, said Mr. O’Rourke, along with other possessions, listed in their property log two human beings, Rose and Eliza. A paternal great-great-great grandfather of mine, Andrew Cowan Jasper, owned these two women in the 1850s. There are also records showing that a maternal great-great-great grandfather, Frederick Williams, most likely owned slaves in the 1860s (“most likely,” because we are not certain that the Frederick Williams who is my ancestor and the Frederick Williams
Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke Photo: PQC Commencement 2019
who owned slaves are the same person, but there’s enough circumstantial data to lead me to conclude that it’s likely). Records also showed that Amy had an ancestor who owned slaves and another who was a member of the
Confederate Army. Something that we’ve been thinking about and talking about in town hall meetings and out on the campaign — the legacy of slavery in the United States — now has a much more personal connection. Ownership of other human beings conferred advantages not just to Andrew Jasper and Frederick Williams, but to Jasper’s and Williams’ descendants as well. They were able to build wealth on the backs and off the sweat of others, wealth that they would then be able to pass down to their children and their children’s children. In some way, and in some form, that advantage would pass through to me and my children. See SLAVERY, page 10
Reparations Hearing puts debate in national spotlight By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA News Contributor
Noted author, economist, and former president of Bennett College, Dr. Julianne Malveaux, makes case for reparations.
“These are the vestiges of enslavement that people don’t want to deal with,” said Dr. Julianne Malveaux, the former President of Bennett College. Dr. Malveaux testified at a House hearing on legislation that would set up a commission to study reparations for the ancestors of enslaved Africans kidnapped and brought to America. The economist, and others testified on H.R. 40, the See REPARATIONS, page 7
VOL. 7 NO. 45 JULY 17, 2019
Power in Obama’s story By Defender News Service
Former First Lady Michelle Obama
Former First Lady Michelle Obama says dealing with public scrutiny when her husband was campaigning to be president wasn’t as easy as it looked. The New York Times best-selling See OBAMA, page 5
Uber Attack From Staff Reports
Seated with her attorney Larry Taylor of the Cochran Firm, Uber driver Zonya Robinson recently recounted the attack she suffered at the hands of passengers she picked up from a strip club in Haltom City in early March. A driver for the ride share service for the past two years, Ms. Robinson said she has never encountered the type of customers she did that night and she is disappointed that she didn’t get support from a company she actually enjoyed working for. According to Ms. Robinson, she picked up four passengers (three male, one female) shortly after midnigh. A male passenger in the front seat made sexually
Zonya Robinson with her attorney, Larry Taylor inappropriate comments toward her and after he continued even though she warned him to stop, she pulled over to conclude the ride. The male passengers when confronted about their behavior began to shout racial slurs. She said she got out of the car See UBER, page 15
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JULY 17, 2019
A Fool’s Folly!
FROM THE CAPITOL
BY CONGRESSWOMAN EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON Congresswoman Johnson represents the 30th congressional district of Texas in the US House of Representatives.
This country does not need to be fighting another senseless war in the Middle East such as the one that has kept our military forces in Iraq for the past 16 years. That is precisely why my colleagues and I in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives recently voted to limit the president’s ability to unilaterally declare military action against a country such as Iran. One which the president recently ordered American forces to attack, and then rescinded his command. Diplomats and military officials with expertise in Middle East policy believe that a conflict with Iran would create a regional disaster, with serious disruptive economic and social consequences for
American allies in the arena, Along with neighboring areas such as Africa and Europe. These experts also believe that countless American lives would be lost needlessly. While passing the National Defense Authorization Act, a $733 billion bill, members of the House specifically included a provision that would restrain the president’s ability to order an attack on the Iranian people and their government without first receiving permission from Congress. Twenty seven Republican members of the House voted to approve the provision along with the overwhelming majority of Democrats. One only has to recall the invasion of Iraq by a war-hungry Republican administration some years ago, only
later discovering that the evidence that it replied upon to go to war was false. Notably, the legislation won the enthusiastic support of left of center, center and right of center elected officials and influential advocacy groups. Conservative oriented groups such as Concerned Veterans for America and FreedomWorks were among its backers, as was the fiercely left of center organization Indivisible. Additionally, the legislation included an amendment denying the administration’s wish to use military funds in support of Saudi Arabia which has been engaged in a three-year-old war in Yemen which institutions such as the United Nations have characterized as immoral. The bill also includes an amendment that would allow transgender military men and
women to serve as members of our armed services. It directly challenges the Trump administration‘s policy of barring these brave men and women from serving their country. Also included in the bill is a three percent pay increase for members of the military. Those of you who have followed my programs in the 30th congressional district are aware of my Women for World Peace Conference that I convene annually. There, women from around the world gather to profess the importance of working towards a peaceful world, understanding that war only leads to horrific pain and suffering. Our recent action in the House of Representatives is an attempt to create a more peaceful world, one in which conflict is resolved through dialogue, mutual understanding and respect.
Soaring into the Next Generation YOUNG PERSPECTIVES BY KORBIN HALL
Korbin Hall is a resident of Glenn Heights, Texas. He attends Life High School. After high school Korbin hopes to attend Stanford University. He plans to have a double major in Finance and Computer Science.
“Soaring into the next generation,” a simple, but yet an eloquent phrase. Within the past six weeks, I have had the opportunity to observe a wide variety of ways that we can achieve our goals and dreams. Michelle Obama, as we know, coined the term, “When they go low, we go high,” saying that going high is a longterm strategy. The thing that I find noticeable throughout history is the effect the previous generations have had on the success that we live within. The sacrifices that people have made in order to provide future generations with a leverage can be considered as stepping stones, and that is exactly what the African American Museum’s
Summer Camp provided this year. While enabling the option to enhance or “find” one’s gift, the camp also teaches about history, and the many sacrifices and paths people have taken in order to provide a better future, or trail for upcoming generations. The African American Museum has proven to be a pathway to history. Started in 1974 and individually owned, it is the only institution of its kind in the Southwest, featuring one of the largest folk art collections in the nation. It allows us to keep a vital part of our Black heritage. The African American Museum is also a place that organizes summer camps for youth ranging from ages 6-15 years of age.
My mentors this summer challenged us to look beyond our years to appreciate those who have soared and returned back to the nest to feed into us the bread of educational equity. Cognitive to both school and college, the African American Museum’s Summer Camp is essentially a stepping stone to the next grade of higher learning. Its main purpose is to allow individuals to find their gift, by providing a handful of courses which vary from a broad range of subjects, such as Computer Science to Acting. While enabling the option to enhance and unfold our individual gifts, the camp also teaches us to have pride for our heritage, and that the contributions we have made allowed us, and everyone else to live within a better America. One of the main issues, going on year after year, that the Museum’s Camp tries to address is to put an end to present day issues within schools and the education system.
The Camp provided a literacy program that allowed us to not only talk about the issues at school, but write about them as well. Our job is to make sure we finish school fully educated and not individually devastated. I believe that the greater danger that younger people within modern society are dealing with today is that they are not aiming high enough in believing in and appreciating themselves. Instead, they are aiming too low, and deprecating themselves. School is a place where curriculums are developed and tasks are assigned, but I believe that our individual talents cannot fall into the hands of an inequitable system. We held forums to talk and express our concerns, and we found that our concerns were almost identical. Campers admitted during the forum that school can sometimes be depressing, and is usually lacking a lot of things in which could both allow us to express
ourselves more and to find our identity within the things we enjoy doing. Summer is a safe environment of social networking without a failing grade. It’s a wonderful resource to bring attention to issues in a learning atmosphere. Another prevalent issue that the teenagers within the camp attempted to neutralize and/or discuss is the modern day rise of both mental illnesses and depression. According to the 2018 APA Stress in America study conducted by the American Psychology Association, Generation Z, or people born between the years 1995 and 2015, are the least likely to report having good health, making this one of the more important issues within today’s society. If we plan to soar to the next generation, we will need a runway without the potholes of hopelessness and doubt. Summer camp is a place where our dreams have become more evolutionary than revolutionary.
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EDITORIAL
QUIT PLAYIN By VINCENT L. HALL Vincent L. Hall is
an author, activist
and award-winning columnist
“Black” in the day, or as Dr. Jeremiah Wright would call it; B.C. (before cable), Black people were the Mexicans of their era. We say now that Mexicans and immigrants will do the dirty jobs that no one else will. Well, there was a time when Black folk labored below a fair wage and were damn good at it. Ask Big Mama or Granny. These women washed, ironed, cleaned, cooked and nannied for America’s most prestigious families. There are still prominent White families who pile up in their cars to pay their respects to some of our grandmothers on Thanksgiving, Christmas and Mother’s Day. These “domestics” returned to their modest homes and worked and cleaned with the same intensity and pride. The work we did set the standard for our parenting. And then cable TV
MY TRUTH Continued from pg 1 entertainment, great customer service with a smile, good food, wonderful attractions, good people, serious programming, and, I might add, good food; well you have a formula for a successful gathering. Just ask Essence Festival-goers who were there just a week prior. I smile just thinking of the wonderful times I have had in New Orleans, the city in the state with so many great HBCUs, and folks who act like they are glad, well actually honored, to have you there. But if you will recall, during Hurricane Katrina, folks asked, “Why, when the threat was issued, didn’t many citizens leave New Orleans?” Truth is yes, there were many who thought things would blow over as they did in the past, and others, simply didn’t have anywhere to go. New
John Henry and the Statesman!
East Oak Cliff. We knew where the single women were and always underbid our competition. These days I watch moms walk by their heavyweight sons, some of them six-foot and over 200 pounds, to pay a lightweight Mexican brother with an accent for what we used
to beg to do. I’m sorry, but some of our children are just sorry. Or trifling as my mama would say. But that’s not their fault… It’s ours! You can’t keep a job mopping floors when you have to keep pulling your pants to cover the crack of your ass. And those expensive nails won’t last a week when you have to bust suds two or three times a day. But I guess dishes don’t pile up when there ain’t no turnip greens and cornbread in the stove. Has cooking become antiquarian too? Teach your children the folklore of John Henry; “The Steel Driving Man.” He worked himself to death, but as a people we wore his example as an aegis of honor. The muscular John Henry became famous for winning a race against a steam powered hammer, before dying of exhaustion. Nowadays we are often seen as lazy, listless, shiftless and shallow. And that ain’t just what White folk think of you.
We need to revisit the yesteryears before PlayStations and social media. Black parents demanded that their children perform superior grade work before they were rewarded with leisurely exploits. There is no more honorable man or woman than those who earn their keep in honest labor. Every Black child needs to master a trade and a profession. PERIOD! Dr Martin Luther King put it this way; “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” Netflix will soon release a movie about John Henry starring Dewayne (The Rock) Johnson. Watch it with your kids, but share the story of John Henry in print first. Oh, and after the movie is over; find some work for them to do! #teachunclevinny #QuitPlayin
was a decision we did not anticipate making, I am confident that the best choice was made to not only protect our members but also all those who have helped to make our time in New Orleans a success. Notwithstanding an abbreviated agenda we were able to handle the business of Delta; and our members are returning to their communities energized and committed to implementing programs to uplift their communities.” And if one lesson was learned for many, especially the vendors; you must invest in an insurance policy. Also this is not the first time the sorority has faced challenges during convention time. In 1985, Delta Airlines Flight #191, crashed in Dallas, TX, killing 137, including passengers, flight crew and a motorist on the ground. Members of Delta Sigma Theta were among the fatalities. I still remember the tears, the praying, the spirit of family as people
from all walks of life came together, donating blood, food, and a shoulder; helping out, everywhere. Although Barry did not do the anticipated damage to New Orleans, precautions needed to be taken. Last week what was also appropriately lauded was the decision to donate to local charities the food which had been purchased by the Sorority through the convention center’s in-house catering service, Centerplate. The food, according to President Smith, would have been used for two food functions, the Sisterhood Luncheon and closing Soiree Celebration. Imagine the thousands who will benefit from that one decision. And these are the stories I like to hear and spread. But guess what? Sorority and fraternities are always doing positive deeds. There are so many dedicated men and women who are committed to public service and making a difference
in their communities. I’m committed to sharing those stories of the great members of the Divine 9 (Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority and Iota Phi Theta Fraternity). We must work together and I urge those charged with telling the stories of the great works of their organizations to step up. If they need help, I’m more than happy to assist. Just like with the Black Press, our organizations have to tell our own stories. We have to shape the narrative, or others will do the developing and many times we won’t like the results. Thanks President Smith for doing the right thing. I’m proud of you as the leader of our great sorority! This too, shall pass.
took over. Work and thrift were still the order of the day in my generation and 85% of my peers lived a similar experience. On Saturday morning our mamas would slap the taste buds out of our mouths if we had the audacity to turn on a television before the chores were done. Those chores included; sweeping, mopping, a proper scrubbing of the latrines and all areas therewith and encompassing. We hung the laundry on clotheslines to dry and mowed the yard with a nonmotorized push instrument with blades that looked like they came off the water fans that cooled our homes. It was work, it was expected, and it was an illuminating introduction to honest living. Somewhere we compromised our collective will to distinguish our race by the honor of our toil, thrift and tenacity. There was no dishonor in picking cotton. The
dishonor came in the exploitation of child labor and the slave wage scale that plantation owners got rich on! At the age of 10 or 11, me and my bestie; Marqueis Scott, would drag a lawnmower and a can of gas all over
Orleans was their home! Which brings me to my truth. Doing the right thing can be challenging. Everyone can second guess, talk about what should have happened or what they would have done. You see, it’s difficult to make decisions that impact thousands, but that’s what leaders have to do. That’s what Delta Sigma Theta Sorority president Beverly E. Smith did when she announced that the convention would come to an end at noon on the third day of the five day convention. “The safety and wellbeing of our members and friends is our top priority,” she said. “We have been in regular communication throughout the week with Mayor LaToya Cantrell, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center leadership and a host of other local organizations who contributed to the production of the 54th National Convention. While the decision to conclude our convention
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JULY 17, 2019
Running for Exposure
THE LAST WORD
BY DR. JULIANNE MALVEAUX
Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an author, economist, and social commentator.
Twenty-four people are running for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. From where I sit, at least half of them are only running for exposure, for the Vice-Presidential nod, for Cabinet secretary, to push a platform, or to simply be seen. Their ambitions have made the process turgid and impractical, often amusing and only sometimes illuminating. The candidates do best when they have time to expound on their ideas, as they did at Rev. William Barber’s Poor People’s Congress on June 17, or at Rev. Jesse Jackson’s National Rainbow Coalition International Convention June 28-July 2. Barber’s meeting drew nine candidates, each who had the opportunity to give a four-minute speech and 26 minutes of questioning from Rev. Barber. The Rainbow PUSH gathering drew seven candidates who had about 15 minutes to address those assembled.
Vice-President Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Mayors Bill Di Blasio and Pete Buttigieg had press conferences with Rev. Jackson. Senators Harris and Booker did not attend Rev. Jackson’s meeting, although Harris did get to Rev. Barber’s and pledged to support a debate dedicated to poverty issues. With a crowded field and calendar, it is clear that everybody can’t be everywhere, but I’d like the two African American Senators to explain why they snubbed Rev Jackson, a leader who provided the very foundation for them to run for office. Memo to Andrew Yang, Marianne Williamson, Montana Governor Steve Bullock, Miramar, FL Mayor Wayne Messam, and a few others, what are you running for, really? You’ve got ideas – doesn’t everybody? But you have about as good a chance of being President as the proverbial snowball has a chance of surviving Hades. You’ve raised a
OBAMA AT ESSENCE Continued from front page
“Becoming” author sat down for an interview with journalist Gayle King at the 25th Essence Music Festival Saturday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. Sporting a curly hairdo that won her social media praise, Mrs. Obama talked about a portion of her book that explains her journey from being a lawyer to a first lady. “So now I’m Michelle Obama and beloved,” she said. “But for a minute there, I was an angry Black woman who was emasculating her husband, who was somebody to be feared
because that was part of the political game.” Before diving into criticism the former first lady faced, Ms. King opened the interview by asking the Chicago native if she had any idea how much she was missed. “Look, I miss us too,” Ms. Obama said, sending the crowd into roaring applause. She went on to answer questions about her book and how readers are receiving it. “Whether it’s in Copenhagen, or Paris or London, people have found
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Memo to Beto O’Rourke. Just like the South lost the Civil War, you lost the Senate race in 2018. Losing a statewide competition is hardly the foundation for a successful Presidential run. You were a nondescript Congressman that sponsored little legislation, a Democratic sensation mainly because you came close to toppling the odious Senator Cruz. But what do you stand for other than white male exuberance, jumping up on tables with the wild hand gestures?
Memo to Vice-President Biden. You’re better than your act, better than your debate performance, better than your wandering, longwinded speeches. I know you’ve been doing you for a long time, and the wordy gaffes seem to work for you. Actually, they don’t. There’s nothing wrong with saying you made a mistake, nothing wrong with apologizing to Anita Hill, which you haven’t done yet, nothing wrong with talking about busing unapologetically. If you don’t get your act together, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are going to make mincemeat out of you. It’s only July, seven long months before the February 3, 2020, Iowa caucuses. Only July, eight months
before the delegate-rich Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020, when at least 15 states, including Texas and California, will hold primaries, and 1321 Democratic delegates will be up for grabs. It’s the beginning of July, and by month’s end, there will be yet another debate with 20 people on the stage in two clumps. We won’t learn much at these debates, because they are less debate than guided conversation with interruptions and outbursts. What we must know, even at this point in July, is that all twentyfour candidates aren’t running for President. At least half of them are simply running for exposure, and most of the nation is not paying attention. Can you name all 24 candidates without the use of Google? Probably not. I got to 21 before I had to check. I left out Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton, former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, and Montana Governor Steve Bullock. They’ve made quite an impression! Running for exposure is a costly venture and a Constitutionally guaranteed right. I’m not so sure it’s a good idea, at least where some of these candidates are concerned.
and recognized themselves in the story of this little Black girl who grew up on the Southside of Chicago,” Ms. Obama said. “So what it reminds me is that our stories as Black people and as Black women have power. “The only thing is we don’t often get to see ourselves. We don’t hear ourselves because we don’t get to control the narrative.” Obama said she understands how rare it is for a Black woman to be able to tell her own story and have it shared by millions. Ms. King then directed the conversation to the 17th chapter of “Becoming,” when Ms. Obama talked about criticism she’s faced while
helping her husband campaign for the presidency. “Well it was important for me to tell that part of my story because I know there are a lot of young kids out there who see me and Barack now,” she said. “They see us as the former first. They see us when we were walking out of the White House, but they don’t remember how many punches we took to get there.” As her popularity increased so did negative criticism of her. “Democrats and Republicans tried to take me out by the knees,” Ms. Obama said. “And the best way to do it was to focus on the one thing they knew people were afraid of was the
strength of a Black woman, so they turned that into a caricature.” Ms. Obama said at one point, she considered stepping off of the campaign trail with her husband, but he never wanted her to leave. “Well, that was the beauty of Barack. Barack knew how to take punches,” she said. “Look, we grew up in Chicago politics y’all. So Chicago politics is rough and tumble, but I had never been at the center of it.” The mother of Sasha and Malia she thought about quitting, but she didn’t. Instead, she went on to help her husband become the first Black U.S. president, and she talked about her inner struggle in her book.
little money, and you’ve got a skeleton staff. Why not sit home and write opeds about your good ideas? Somebody will publish them. Memo to California Congressman Eric Swalwell – age baiting is neither thoughtful nor cute. It’s fine to tell Vice-President Joe Biden to “pass the torch” once, but to say it more than once seems like badgering and makes you look like a junior high school heckler. Biden should have come back at you for hedging your bets. You told the San Francisco Chronicle that, while you are running for President, you haven’t closed the door on keeping your congressional seat. You have until December to decide, you say. Do us all a favor. Decide now!
Run for Senate in Texas again. Maybe you’d win and really make a difference!
Memo to Julian Castro. Don’t patronize your own community by speaking Spanish poorly. I think Latino people care more about your policy positions than your Spanish language ability. Good move in going after Beto O’Rourke in the debates on immigration issues. Wrong move in missing the Poor People’s Congress after confirming that you’d be there.
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Women’s Leadership Summit a success
Texas Health and Human Services Commissioner Dr. Courtney Phillips, Rosilyn Houston, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Talent and Culture Executive for BBVA Compass Bank and one of the highest ranking African American women in financial services, and two NASA Astronauts, Joan Higginbotham and Stephanie Wilson led an influential and impressive list of speakers for The Women’s Leadership Summit (WLS), a two-day personal and professional development program sponsored by Toyota and presented by the Univer-
From Marva with By Marva Sneed
Meet the Esthetician: Tomorrow Leigh
Women’s Leadership Summit Team
sity of North Texas. A special tribute to Congresswoman Eddie
Dallas County Justice of the Peace Valencia Nash, DISD School Board Trustee Joyce Foreman and Judge Audrey Moorehead in intense discussion at Women’s Leadership Summit.
Bernice Johnson and 100-year-old Mary Factory, (our own Hidden Figure),
Women’s Leadership Summit honoree, U.S. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) with former Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson.
who has been cited by NASA for her work, all took place during the Summit.
Do you know what’s important?... Dr. Brenda Wall led an important interactive and learning session at the Women’s Leadership Summit.
On From Marva with Love, I had the pleasure of interviewing esthetician Tomorrow Leigh. Tomorrow Leigh is from Glendora, California and has over 20 years of experience as a skin care specialist. She has a passion for helping people to cultivate their best skin. As a prominent melanin authority, she focuses on treatments that deliver effective results without compromising the skins health or integrity. Tomorrow tailors each facial to the client’s individual needs through education and customized personal skin care treatments and regimes. Tomorrow says, loving the skin you #Dwell in for her is “not letting age change her but changing the way she ages.” Her translation is: feeding, nourishing and protecting her skin from the inside out. MS: You are an authority on melanin. Melanin what is the simplest way to explain what it is?
Police Chief Renee Hall(c) with Retired Justice Carolyn Wright and former Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson.
Police Chief Renee Hall and Women’s Leadership Summit chair Helen Giddings share a moment. Giddings founded the summit. Photos by Chellshock Photography.
Retired NASA Astronaut Renee Higginbotham shows her appreciation to Hidden Figure Mary Factory, a 100 year-old behind the scenes worker at NASA who helped with assembling of space crafts.
TL: Melanin is what we see in people of color; also people with sun damage causing hyperpigmentation of the skin. I like to focus on treatments that can help with the melanin using products like the, Kojic Acid, but there are many, many more natural skin care products that even out the skin tone and give you a glowing and radiant skin.
MS: So Melanin means color? TL: Melanin is melanocytes cells which distributes color to the skin. Don’t let your Melanin fool you! Oftentimes women of color believe your gorgeous melanated hue will protect your skin from the Sun’s harmful rays. We all burn when our skin is not protected. Not to mention prematurely aging from the Sun’s damaging rays. MS: Why is skin care and facials so important? TL: The benefits are so important. Like I have stated I’ve been an esthetician for over 20 yrs. Most people think of facials as just washing your face, but it is so much more than that. Actually what we do is access the skin. We are able to tell them what type of skin they have. There are several types of skin, oily, acne, mature, dry mature, dehydrated and combination skin types. People are using products that are not quite right for the skin. Estheticians can tell you what type of skin you have and what products are best suited for them, products that won’t cause inflammation and cause more damage to the skin.
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Reparations, continued from front page
Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for AfricanAmericans Act which would seek to analyze the legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its continuing impact on communities. The hearing was held by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties on June 19th. Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Americans, in part, made up for slavery by electing Barack Obama. “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea. We’ve tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We elected an African American president,” Sen. McConnell added. “I think we’re always a work in progress in this country… No, I don’t think reparations are a good idea,” the Republican from Kentucky concluded. Another view was heard at the Juneteenth hearing on the House side of Capitol Hill. “Enslavement reigned for 250 years on these shores. When it ended, this country could’ve extended its hallowed principles — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — to all, regardless of color. But America had other principles in mind,” writer TaNehisi Coates said at the hearing. In 2014, Coates wrote “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic. The lengthy article reignited a national discussion on the issue. “Victims of that plunder are very much alive today,” Mr. Coates said. “We recognize our lineage as a generational trust, as inheritance, and the real dilemma posed by reparations is just that: a dilemma of inheritance. It is impossible to imagine America without the
inheritance of slavery.” The congressional discussion on reparations was the first of its kind, although former Congressman John Conyers authored legislation to study reparations for many consecutive years. Rep. Sheila Lee Jackson (D-TX) a sponsor of H.R. 40, said, “It is only [African Americans] that can singularly claim to have been slaves under the institution and leadership of the government. H.R. 40 is, in fact, the response of the United States of America long overdue.” Commenting on social media on the hearing, Howard University African American Studies Department Chairman, Dr. Greg Carr wrote, ‘A couple of things #HR40 hearing is reinforcing: 1. The need to study the long #Reparations movement and it’s well-established objectives is greater now than ever; 2. Supporters of White American nationalism can find an American Negro to say anything they need them to.” Though the hearing was discussed widely on social media, both CNN and MSNBC spent most of June 19th running footage of former White House staffer Hope Hicks walking down a hallway in the Rayburn House Office Building while saying nothing to reporters before and after refusing to contribute testimony on alleged White House misconduct Capitol Hill. ‘Imagine if we had cable news networks that treated the #Reparations hearing as important as the #HopeHicks hearing… whew! I’m Beat!,” wrote DCBeat founder Tiffany Cross on twitter. South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott said reparations are a “non-starter” when asked about the issue.
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Texas Women’s Foundation launches “Count Her In,” a Campaign to celebrate the 2020 Women’s Suffrage 2020 marks the 100 year anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote. To mark this milestone, Texas Women’s Foundation is launching “Count Her In,” a social media campaign celebrating 100 people, organizations and milestones that have advanced voting rights for Texas women from the earliest days of the suffrage movement through the present day. The campaign runs for 62 weeks, from June 28, 2019, the same day that Texas ratified the 19th Amendment in 1919, to August 26, 2020, celebrated as Women’s Equality Day. The campaign tells stories of women and men in Texas who were leaders in voters’ rights, with the goal to educate and activate more people, particularly women, to register and exercise their right to vote. Roslyn Dawson Thompson, Texas Women’s Foundation president and CEO, said, “With our goal to transform Texas for women and girls, Texas Women’s Foundation believes that can only take place when women are full participants, and a critical way to achieve that is by motivating more women to exercise their right to vote. This project can be a catalyst for women across the state to understand their rights and use them.” The “Count Her In” campaign aims to influence 300,000 Texas women citizens to register to vote, seeking to increase by 3 percent the number of Texas women who are registered. There will be a link to register to vote on each campaign social media post and on the campaign’s web page. According to Dawson Thompson, “This campaign will be true reflection of our Texas Women’s Foundation’s history, focus and practices that center on diversity, equity and inclusion.” To follow the “Count Her
In” campaign, visit https://www.txwf.org/ countherin, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram. Examples of trailblazers highlighted in the campaign include:
The Texas Association of Women’s Clubs Founded: In 1905 as the Texas Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs. In 1906, they affiliated with the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, and in 1956 the organization converted into the Texas Association of Women’s Clubs. Noted For: Suffrage promotion, community service, issue awareness, and cultural and educational programming. Women’s clubs (sometimes called “women’s circles”) were an important aspect of life in AfricanAmerican communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Not only did these organizations provide women with social and intellectual outlets, they served as resources— and sometimes change agents—for issues that were important to AfricanAmerican women, including health care, education, home economics, poverty, and social reform. The most prominent network of black women’s clubs in Texas was the Texas Association of Women’s Clubs* (TAWC), which began life as the Texas Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs (TFCWC) in 1905. Organized by Mrs. M.E.Y. Moore of Gainesville, TX, the
TFCWC sought to improve the lives of black families and communities, drawing inspiration from the organization’s motto, “Lifting As We Climb.” The club sponsored educational and cultural programs for both members and the larger community, and provided speakers for other community events. During World War I, members supported the Red Cross, led supply drives, and organized recreational activities for servicemen, in addition to other wartime efforts. In 1917, African-American women in Galveston, TX formed a women’s suffrage organization. That same year, the TFCWC also formally endorsed votes for women. In fact, black women’s clubs across Texas were eager to take up arms in the battle for votes for women, but the entrenched racism
of the era thwarted most of their efforts to join their white women’s clubs counterparts in the statewide suffrage campaign. After the Texas Legislature opened up the 1918 primary to allow women to vote, black women were permitted to register. But come election day, most were turned away by polling place officials on the “legal” basis that the primary was open to whites only. Conditions unfavorable to black suffrage would persist for the next several decades, in the form of segregated primary elections, poll taxes, election “literacy tests”, and Klan-sponsored intimidation. Despite these barriers, black women in Texas did manage to achieve a few milestones in civic enfranchisement during the suffrage era. Three African-American women from Houston were named as candidates for state and county office
on the 1920 Republican ticket, and when the election was held later that year, the Houston Post reported that black women were able to vote in “considerable numbers”. These early victories were outcomes of the infrastructure for civic involvement created by early 20th century women clubs, a foundation that would lead to later gains in both voting access and increased political leadership for all Texas women during the civil rights era.
SOPHIA ALICE CALLAHAN
Born: 1868 in Sulphur Springs, TX Died: 1894 in Muskogee, Oklahoma Noted For: Sophia Callahan is noted as the author of “Wynema, A Child of the Forest” (1891), thought to be the first novel written by a Native American woman. The book includes
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JULY 17, 2019 content related to women’s rights and suffrage. When the 19th Amendment became law in 1920, Native American women still did not have the right to vote—they weren’t considered citizens until the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act (also known as the Snyder Act) four years later. Even then, states still found ways to deny Native Americans access to the ballot for decades to come, employing many of the same suppressive policies used to deny voting rights to other minorities. Because of these conditions, there is little to no historical documentation of Native American involvement in the Texas suffrage era, with one interesting exception: Sophia Callahan, a Sulphur Springs native and suffrage supporter who is believed to be the first Native American woman to publish a novel. Teacher and writer…. Sophia was the daughter of a white mother and Native American father, a rancher and politician who also edited the Indian Journal, a regional periodical for Native Americans. While teaching school in Muskogee, Oklahoma (known at the time as “Indian territory”), Sophia became a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, which may have influenced her interest in suffrage. (Many suffragists were also supporters of the turn-of-the-century movement against alcohol use.)
In 1891, Sophia wrote “Wynema, A Child of the Forest”, the fictional story of a young Native American woman who enters into a mixedrace marriage and becomes a teacher. From the University of Nebraska Press. While the book was constructed in the romantic novel form popular at the time, Sophia used the story to explore important themes of social justice and reform, such as voting rights, temperance, and the conditions faced by Native Americans during Sophia’s era, including massacres, loss of land, and forced assimilation. In one scene, a primary character named Genevieve, is troubled—and offended— by a male acquaintance’s “indifferent and slighting manner” of referring to the social issues that Genevieve sup-ported, including suffrage. When he describes the cause of suffrage as “unwomanly”, and “out of a woman’s sphere”, she points out that his way of thinking is “absurd” and going out of style, and that “sensible men are beginning to open their eyes and see things in a different light from what their ancestors saw them.” Sadly, Sophia fell ill and died at the age of 26, just three years after the book’s publication. However, her novel was re-discovered and reprinted in the late 20th century, and continues to be the subject of scholarly study today.
*SARA ISADORE SUTHERLAND CALLAWAY MINER
(PEN NAME PAULINE PERIWINKLE) Born: 1863 in Battle Creek, Michigan Died: 1916 in Dallas Noted For: Pauline Periwinkle is noted for her pro-suffrage column appearing in the Dallas Morning News, as well as for her coverage of other social issues and her leadership in a number of community organizations. The woman who would eventually become the famous journalist Pauline Periwinkle began preparing for her career quite early in life. Not only did Pauline publish her first story at the age of nine, she was also the daughter of a suffragist. When Pauline joined the Dallas Morning News in 1893 as the paper’s society and woman’s page editor, she had already authored or edited a number of children’s books and worked as a journalist and teacher in other states. Over the next two decades, Pauline published a popular weekly column noted for its humorous and often biting observations about life in Dallas, taking on everything from local gossip to juvenile delinquency to panhandling ordinances. (More than 100 years later, D Magazine would describe Pauline as the Dallas “Dear Abby” of her era.) Her work also appeared in the Galveston News, which was then under the same management as the Dallas paper.
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Pauline’s influence and activism was not confined to her newspaper column. In addition to organizing first suffrage club in Dallas, she was a leader in a number of organizations and initiatives, including the Dallas Free Kindergarten Program, the Dallas Woman’s Forum, the Dallas Humane Society, and the employment of a prison matron and woman probation officer to supervise the needs of incarcerated women in Dallas County. She was also a founding member of the Texas Women’s Press Association (today the Press Women of Texas). Through her column, Pauline urged women to likewise become involved in civic leadership and reform, and she wrote frequently about the cause of suffrage. “Yes, Liberty is cracked whenever American women gaze at that bell and know they are not free…free in exactly the same sense that men are, free to participate in citizenship,” she wrote in 1915 in a column covering the arrival of the Liberty Bell in Dallas. Sadly, Pauline passed away the next year, three years before the 19th Amendment was ratified in Texas. But her pioneering legacy lives on in the spirit of the thousands of Texas women who have written or spoken out about voting and women’s rights and continue to do so today. Additional Reading: “Pauline Periwinkle and Progressive Reform in Dallas” by Jacquelyn Masur McElhaney *The woman who later became known as Pauline Periwinkle was born Sara Isadore Sutherland. Her stepfather was named Calloway, and her husband was named Miner (sometimes indicated as Minor).
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What’s on Miles’ Mind? Difficult Relations MILES’ MUSINGS BY MILES JAYE DAVIS www.milesjaye.net
If success in life demanded our enduring uncomfortable relations, most of us would fail. In fact, success does require us to endure, suffer, bear, and tolerate uncomfortable relations. Most folks, however, are unwilling to do so-- others do so grudgingly. Therefore, few of us actually reach our full potential. Few of us are willing to draw the arrow back far enough in the bow to reach the target, much less hit the bullseye. We want the gain, but not the pain. A famously ironic Al Pacino line in “Ocean’s Thirteen” was, “I don’t want the labor pains, I just want the baby.” Successful people say, bring on the pain. I enjoy reading biographical
accounts of highly successful people who learned to navigate their way around difficult relations. The Steve Jobs story was one of my favorites. Interestingly, how difficult was he? Also, quite interestingly, according to my reading, most successful people are themselves difficult-- demanding, picky, particular, peculiar, perfectionists. No one in their right mind wants to deal with difficult people. Right? I can hear you now, I don’t put up with difficult people. No? Ever have a difficult boss or supervisor? How often did you give him or her a piece of your mind? Really? Did you quit, or did you get fired? Ever have a teacher or professor you thought was the worst,
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That those enslaved Americans owned by my ancestors were denied their freedom, denied the ability to amass wealth, denied full civil rights in America after slavery also had long term repercussions for them and their descendants. The way that fortune was passed through the generations from Andrew to me, misfortune was passed through the generations from Rose and Eliza to their descendants who are alive today. Rose and Eliza were denied their freedom and the benefits that their labor produced; they and their children were then denied their civil rights after the end of Reconstruction; and their descendants endured open terrorism, economic exclusion and racism in the form of Jim Crow, lynchings, convict leasing, voter suppression, red lining, predatory lending, and mass incarceration. Everything their descendants have accomplished in their lives is despite having all of these odds stacked against them.
but you needed the grade, so you did what? You completed the course, got the grade, graduated and haven’t looked back-- you succeeded! The list could go on and on. We’ve listened Sunday after Sunday, for years, to ministers preaching prosperity and increased territory, but somehow omitting the difficult relations Christ endured. Each Apostle had a personality loaded with idiosyncrasies. It’s easy to focus on Judas’ betrayal, however, it doesn’t speak to the disappointment or aggravation wrapped up in the simple line, “Oh ye of little faith.” Yes, there were moments when even the Apostles got on Christ’s nerves. Here’s is some of what the Bible says about dealing with difficult people: “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Proverbs 15:1 “The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.” Proverbs 12:16 “For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” “But if you bite and devour one another,
In the aggregate, slavery, its legacy and the ensuing forms of institutionalized racism have produced an America with stark differences in opportunities and outcomes, depending on race. For example, there is 10 times the wealth in white American than there is in black America. Black men are six times more likely to be incarcerated than white men. The disparity in infant mortality between black families and white families is greater today than it was in 1850. Whether it’s the economy, healthcare, education, criminal justice or even in the inherent biases revealed by technology, there really are two Americas. I benefit from a system that my ancestors built to favor themselves at the expense of others. That only increases the urgency I feel to help change this country so that it works for those who have been locked-out of — or locked-up in — this system. As a person, as a candidate for the office
watch out that you are not consumed by one another.’” Galatians 5:14-14 “If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.” Romans 12:18 “Judge not, that you be not judged.” Matthew 7:1 “For whatever you wish that others do to you, do also to them…” Matthew 7:12 Here are a few quotes about dealing with difficult relations. “I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.” - Unknown “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” - Carl Jung “If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.” - John W. Gardner “If it were necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.” - George Courteline “We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.” - Terry Brooks “When dealing with people, remember, you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but
of the Presidency, I will do everything I can to deliver on this responsibility. In addition to making significant changes to education policy (immediately address $23 billion in underfunding for minority-majority public schools), economic policy (ensuring equal pay, deploying capital to minority- and women-owned businesses, $25 billion in government procurement to these same businesses), healthcare (universal healthcare and home health visits to women of color to reverse trend in maternal and infant mortality) and criminal justice (police accountability, ending the drug war, and expunging arrest records for nonviolent drug crimes), I will continue to support reparations, beginning with an important national conversation on slavery and racial injustice. We all need to know our own story as it relates to the national story, much as I am learning mine. It is only then, I believe, that we can take the necessary steps to repair the damage done and stop visiting this injustice on the generations that follow ours.
with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity. -Dale Carnegie “Seek the best in everyone that you meet. Seek the worst in dealing with yourself.” -Sasha Azevedo Here’s one more, “Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.” - Eminem If you’re the type who handles difficult relations by constant complaining, consider this, you are subjecting yourself to a constant state of frustration and at its extreme, even poor health. You ever hear someone say, “Y’all gone worry me to death?” You will never be happy, or at peace in this state of mind. You can never ever succeed in this state of mind. Live and let live, and remember this little prayer, you may have heard it, “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” That’s what’s on my mind!
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR Minority Mental Health Month UV Safety Month Recurring Events Feeding The Needy Hosted by: Michael “Hollywood” Hernandez Live 834 S. Ervay St. Dallas. 3pm5pm. Sundays. Marvelous Marriage Monday’s, Friendship-West Baptist Church 2020 W. Wheatland Rd. 7-8:30p. In the Memory of Mrs. Roberta A. Johnson of Hamilton Park UMC a Library was established. Donate a Book in the name of your Loved One, R.A.J. Library in Garland, Contact Valder Beebe 214-274-1719.
July 17 Neighborhood Legal Clinic at Friendship-West Baptist Church 2020 W Wheatland Rd. Dallas 5:30pm-7:30pm. 105.7 Rudy Rush Comedy Hour, Arlington Improv 309 Curtis Mathis Way, #147, 6p. Improvarlington.com. AAA Career Fair, 1225 Freeport Pkwy, Coppell. 3p-6p. Visit AAA.com/Careers RSVP to our Career Fair!
Mark Twain School for Talented & Gifted Admission Previews, Mark twain Leadership Vanguard 724 Green Cove Ln. 5:30-7p. Info: https://www.dallasisd.org. 2019 “Hotter Than July” Happy Hour, Tarrant County Bar Association-Ft. Worth, 1315 Calhoun St. 5-7p. Info: Karmen Johnson @ karmieatlaw@aol.com.
July 19-21 A Make Up Blow Out Sale Event, Hilton Garden Inn, 912 Northton St. Ft. Worth. 10a-5p. Tickets: www.themmakeupblowoutsale-group.com.
July 19
Ole School Party Fish Fry Hole in the Wall Edition at Trinity Elk Lodge #480 2607 MLK, Jr. Blvd. 8-2am. Black Marriage Society Meet Up, Don’t Tell Supper Club 2026 Commerce St. 6p. Love & Laugh Hour, Disciple Central, 901 N. Polk St. 6p-10p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com KevOnStage. King Davis Whiteman Band, The Oasis at Joe Pool Lake, 5700 Lake Ridge Pkwy. Grand Prairie, 7-11p. The Health - Wealth Connection w/ Robert Selders, Jr., Meadows Conference Center, 2900 Live Oak St. 11:30a.
July 20 Happy Birthday to Team Member and Special Lady L. Diane Evans
Neighborhood Legal Clinic, Friendship-West Baptist Church, 2020 Wheatland Rd. 5:30p-7:30p.
Black Women’s Appreciation Event Dallas Edition a The City of DeSoto Civic Center 211 E. Pleasant Run Rd. 1:30-5:30pm. Antoine White at 314 630 4465.
Free Job Training in Low-Voltage Field: Class Orientation, Frazier House, 4600 Spring Ave. 9:30a-12:30p. Register: www.zwhjcoc.org.
Boney James Live! House of Blues 2200 Lamar, Dallas St. 8-10p. www.houseofblues.com
July 18 - Aug. 3 Father Comes Home From The Wars, MVC Performance Hall Mountain View College, 4849 W. Illinois Ave. 2p & 7p. Shows Info: 972-572-0998.
July 18 Music under the Dome Summer 2019 Feat: Ruben, AAM 3536 Grand Ave. 7:30 &10:30p. Sharon BeeChum 214-414-8893. Open House Networking Lunch Event, KB Studios, 1373 W. Campbell Rd. Richardson 11a-2p. Dinner and Dialogue, Belo Mansion, 2101 Ross Ave. 6p-8:30pm. Credit Score Empowerment Networking Social, GLo Best Western, 1215 N. I-35E, DeSoto. 5-8p.
Battle of 1911 Charity Basketball Game, Presented by: The Winners Club Duncanville Fieldhouse 1700 Main St. 6:30-9:30p. Eventbrite.com. Women Empowering One Another, Church of the Disciple United Methodist, 220 S. Cockrell Hill, DeSoto. 10a.
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July 25-28
Ladies First Vendor and Networking Event at Duncanville Rec. Center, 201 James Collins Blvd. 3:30pm7:30pm. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.
Alive Dance Conference 2019, Potters House 6777 W. Kiest Blvd. Register: ThePotterHouse.org/Alive.
WAYO Presents 2nd Annual King & Queen Servant Gala 2019 at Villa Luxe Event Hall 5318 Duncanville Rd. Dallas. 6-10pm. Tickets: www.whereareyououtreach.org Brown Girl Brunch, Brown Girl Shop, 324 E. Beltline Rd. #316 DeSoto.1-3p. Eventbrite.com. Ft. Worth BBQ & Brews Tours, Panther City BBQ, 201 E. Hattie St. 1-4p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.
July 22 Happy Birthday to Team Member Jihad Muhammad Cardio Hip Hop with JessieMae at LC Fitness 901 N. Polk St. Ste. #370. DeSoto. 6:30pm. Every Mon. & Wed. Info: www.jcfitness.info. Monday Jazz Happy Hour w/ The Willis Duo at The Balcony Club 1825 Abrams Rd. Ste. #B, Dallas 6pm8pm. Free Tickets: eventbrite.com
July23 Small Business Training 2019, Dallas Metropolitan S.B.D.C, Credit Counseling, Bill J. Priest SBI Center 1402 Corinth St. #1534. 6-8p. Register by 7-19, 4p. Eventbrite. The Jazz Jam at Jazz BeCuzz Art Center 9319 LBJ Fwy. Ste. #120. Tickets: via Eventbrite.com. Karaoke Night $2 Tuesday’s at Hero’s Lounge 3094 N. 35 Fwy. Dallas. 7pm-2am. Tickets: eventbrite.com. Love and Miracles Tour, River of Life Church, 335 S. Parks Dr. DeSoto, 7-10p. Tickets: www.ticketslocity.com.
July 24-26
When Women Pray “Prayer Brunch”, NaKayshions Wedding and Event Center, 432 S. Clark Rd. Cedar Hill, 11a-2p. Tickets www.dearfemalepreacher.com.
Preparation for Elevation Conference 2019, Turning Point Church of God, 1020 E. Pleasant Run Rd., DeSoto. 9am & 7pm. www.metanoyadallas.org
All You Can Eat Catfish, Rockfish Sea Food Grill, 3785 S. Cooper St. 4-10p. $15.99.
July 24
Texas Health “On the Go” Mobile Unit, Inspired House Of Prayer C.O.G.I.C. 3354 Balomeade, Lancaster. Call for Appt.: 855-318-7696 Mon.-Fri. 8a-4:30p. The Health - Wellness Connection w/ Robert Selders,Jr., Highland Hills Library 6200 Bonnieview Rd. 10:30a-12p.
July 21-23
Prophetic Summit “Summer Slam”, Christ Cathedral Church, 3201 Purington Ave. Ft. Worth. 10a. & 7p. Info: 817-708-2703.
$9.99 Catfish Wednesday’s, Shell Sack, 770 E. Road to Six Flags St. #100 Arlington. 11a-2p. For locations: www. ShellShack.com Karaoke Night $2 Tuesday’s at Hero’s Lounge 3094 N. 35 Fwy. Dallas. 7pm-2am. Tickets: eventbrite.com. Wednesdays Swing Dance Class at Allure Jazz & Cigar Lounge 110 S. Cockrell Hill, DeSoto. 7:30pm-9:30pm. Instructor: Lady Champagne. Free before 8pm. Women of the West Bible Study, Friendship West Baptist Church 2020 W. Wheatland Rd. Wednesdays at 7p.
July 25 Happy Birthday to our Newest Team Member Cierra Mayes Senior Line Dancing at Latino Cultural Center 2600 Live Oak St. 10am. Free DCDP is on the move Grand Opening Party, 1414 N. Washington Ave. 5:30-7p. How To Build a Powerful Personal Brand Book Launch Event, Addison Treehouse 14681 Midway Rd. #200. 6-8p. Register: www.MakinganImpactBookLaunch. Small Business Training 2019, Dallas MSBDC, Legal Preparation for Sm. Bus., Bill J. Priest SBI Center 1402 Corinth St. #1534. 8-10a. Register by 7-22, 4p. Eventbrite. Mark Twain School for Talented & Gifted Admission Previews, Mark twain Leadership Vanguard 724 Green Cove Ln., 5:30-7p. Info:www.dallasisd.org/twain.
July 26-27 Verna’s H.E.L.P. Foundation Job Fair & Legal Clinic at 680 Hwy 80 E. Mesquite. Both days 10am-1pm.
July 26
Hall of Fame Rodeo, Cowtown Coliseum 121 E. Exchange Ave. Ft Worth. 8p. Eventbrite.com. Latin History for Morons: Starring John Leguizamo, Winspear Opera House 2403 Flora St. 8p. www.attpac.org
July 27 Iyanla Vanzant Acts of Faith Remix, Winspear Opera House 2403 Flora St. 8pm-10pm. Tickets: www.attpac. YOUth Explosion 2019 Back2-School Fundraiser at Grace Community Baptist Church 310 S. Clark Rd. Cedar Hill. 5-8pm. Tickets: Eventbrite.com An Evening of Jazz with Norman Brown and Tom Braxton at Radisson Hotel 2540 Meacham Blvd. Ft. Worth. 9pm. Tickets: Eventbrite.com. Breeze Fashion Statement, Pon The Corners 7600 Great Trinity Forest Way, Dallas. 7p. Black Women and Mental Health, Regal Center 8828 N. Stemmons Fwy. #225. 8:30a-12p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com. Desperate for Jesus Ignite The Spirit of Power, Love & Self-Control, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, 8a-4p. Register: ocbfchurch.org/dfj.
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THE FAREWELL BY HOLLYWOOD HERNANDEZ
The Farewell is a very interesting film about the differences in culture between a Chinese family and a Chinese American family. The Chinese family is more interested in the family as a group while the American Chinese family seems to care more about each family member. While it’s a “Chinese story,” the movie contrasts native families with families who have immigrated to the United States. It’s a universal theme with both groups of families showing the trials and triumphs of both generations. The movie, which is partially true, is about a grandmother who has been diagnosed with a terminal disease. The Chinese family, even the old woman’s doctor, are opposed to telling the woman she is terminally ill. Instead, the family gets together so she can celebrate with her family, just one more time. The family gathers in China for a big wedding and the grandmother thinks that the bride is “stupid,” an opinion that the grandmother
expresses frequently to her granddaughter. By the way, it’s the granddaughter who is the closest to the grandmother. She desperately wants to tell her grandmother about her terminal cancer
diagnosis, just so that she can say good-bye. It’s something that her family is vehemently opposed to. The Farewell is a very poignant movie. The sense of sadness in the movie will leave you feeling melancholy at the end of the film, but still hopeful and optimistic. Those are complicated emotions for a very complicated film. The movie runs 1 hour and 38 minutes and it’s rated PG. On my “HOLLYWOOD POPCORN SCALE” I rate The Farewell a MEDIUM.
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Season 8 of the Drama-Filled VH1 Series won’t disappoint. The Valder Beebe Show catches up with popular star of the show, Jackie Christie. Jackie Christie star of VH1’s Basketball Wives, franchise is a fashion designer, author of six popular books on Sexual Relations, No ordinary Love, Woman, Proud to be a Colored Girl, Luv Pons, And In The Land of Sex & Money. And a devoted philanthropist. Jackie prides herself on being a high achiever she is also the wife of retired NBA Star Doug Christie. Season 8, the new season, the ladies are tested like never before while balancing life’s unexpected turns, career endeavors and strained relationships. The 16-episode installment welcomes back series veterans and a fresh newcomer to the group. Jackie is experiencing empty nest syndrome as she prepares for her son to go off to college. Newcomer Feby Torres, is tired of being associated with her famous ex and is determined to make a new name for herself, even if that means making enemies. – Text is provided by Jackie Christie’s publicist. VEB: Jackie Christie what can we look forward to season 8 of VH1 Basketball wives? JC: The audience can look forward to more Jackie Christie
in a very surprising, explosive and intense way. I feel like season 8 is going to be our biggest season yet. VEB: You say explosive? What viewers seem to think of you, you are views as very normal , calm and successful, also happy, being married to retired NBA star, Doug Christie.
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To get or not get boob job Dear Alma, I love my husband and he loves me. We have a very, very happy marriage. We have been married 15 years, and we don’t have kids by choice. He and I work out and we’re in great shape. We work hard at being physically attractive for each other. Lately, my husband has asked
may consider that proposition as well.) Back to the subject at hand: Truthfully speaking, as we age, there are many parts that don’t hang like they once did…on a woman as well as on a man. You feel me? Yea, I know. Both of you should be able to live with each other’s agerelated transitions. You’re not asking that he make some type
Truthfully speaking, as we age, there are many parts that don’t hang like they once did…on a woman as well as on a man.
JC: When I say explosive I’m speaking of being very passionate. I won’t give away the show everyone tune in to the new season of VH1 Basketball Wives. VEB: I’m going to take this post direct from Facebook for you Jackie. I have a nagging question…..are there really “Hoochies” that plague NBA players (not my words, just from Facebook). JC: I would say yes there are loose women who carry themselves loose around the life of basketball and the players. These women go to the extremes at times, the culture is there and ………Complete video interview ValderBeebeShow.com
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me to do something I oppose. He wants me to get breast implants. He is a great husband, and I want to make sure I do everything to look good for him, but I’m scared. Should I have the surgery even if I don’t want to? Love my boobs Dear Love my boobs, No! There should be no compromise or second-guessing about this; the answer is no. Silence! Do you hear crickets? I can appreciate that you and your husband are practicing to bring each other happiness, but one should never have elective surgery for someone else. Neither should you get a tattoo for someone else, but that’s not what we’re talking about. LOL. (I do, however, want to throw that out for those who
of surgical enhancement, and neither should he. Ta-ta terrorism; that’s what it is. Don’t you stand for it, and don’t feel guilty. While you’re successfully working on your body, start working on your mind, building up your self-esteem. You need a strong mind to partner with your strong body. A strong mind can make tough decisions and not allow outside intimidation from anyone. A strong mind plus a strong body equals a strong heart. You have to live your truth or you’ll be exhausted by hypocrisy and start to blame your husband. Be confident in your truth and what’s best for you. You knew the answer to this question before you emailed me. I think you’re just looking for confirmation. Ok, now you have it. Alma
Alma Gill’s newsroom experience spans over 25 years, including various roles at USA Today, Newsday and the Washington Post. Email questions to: alwaysaskalma@ yahoo.com. Follow her on Facebook at “Ask Alma” and twitter @almaaskalma.
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Cierra’s Interlude by Cierra Mayes
Are you budgeting your money? Cierra’s Interlude is a podcast I created to give current college students and former students the opportunity to tell their truth. Cierra Mayes My show airs on Blog Talk Radio every Wednesday from 2p.m. to 4p.m. Every week I talk about different subjects that are related to life after college. The show also talks about the importance of adulting and time management. I am a recent broadcast journalism graduate from the University of North Texas. Recently, I wrote an article, “If I would’ve known, what I know now,” in Texas Metro News, about my personal experiences in college and growth over the years. This is one of the many reasons why I chose to create a podcast that would help out the student community. On a recent episode, I interviewed Aneaise Dorsey, also known as my mother. She’s a registered nurse, who’s had a passion for nursing since high school. Aside from her career path, she shared her trials and triumphs with financial issues, budgeting, and credit history. With that being said, are you budgeting your money? In conversation, we talked about how to save money and knowing the importance about gaining credit: Cierra Mayes: Can you tell me about the nursing home you and your friends tried to open a few years ago? Aneaise Dorsey: Actually, it was a home health care agency we tried to open around 1995. We were open for about five years and it was me and three others that split the home health care agency. They ended up having substantial budget cuts and the way the allocated funding to take of the patients, it dropped our reimbursement rate and we couldn’t continue to take care of the patients. Cierra Mayes: I know a few years ago you ran into some financial issues that affected you in the long run. Can you
share a little bit about that? Aneiase Dorsey: Seven years ago, I ran into a financial difficulty and it was due to over extending myself. I was just buying a lot of stuff and not necessarily saving. What brought on the financial difficulty was because my hours were getting cut and it happened so quick. I always tell someone that if you can have a side hustle or perhaps a second job, not where you have one stream of income but two, it would help. Cierra Mayes: What did that situation teach you? Aneaise Dorsey: Aneaise Dorsey It taught me a whole lot. Now I save more, and I budget much better. I tell anybody to save because you never know when it is going to be a rainy day. Before I got into financial difficulties. I had every credit card you could name. I got my credit card when I was in nursing school and like I say, you’ll have good credit and then they’ll send you preapproved credit cards that you would think you would have to open. Cierra Mayes: Did your parents ever explain that to you? Aneaise Dorsey: High school and my parents did not explain that to me. Due to President Obama being in office with the financial crisis that happened when he got in office, he put in regulations that now credit card companies have to tell you that if you owe on a balance and don’t swipe the card anymore you may owe more than the balance you had to pay off because of interest. It was a pleasure talking to Ms. Dorsey and hearing her advice on credit, how to maintain your credit, and for college students to save no matter how much money you get to always put back. It is important for college students to know how to save properly and avoid financial problems during or before graduating from college.
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