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• Vol. 10 • Jan. 20 - 26, 2022
MY TRUTH By Cheryl Smith PUBLISHER
If it was meant for you… I am feeling a certain way about Odinga Kambui. In a letter, Odinga wrote: Open letter to the person(s) who found my lost tan leather shoulder bag The bag fell from my bike on September 29, 2021, while traveling west on Elsie Faye Heggins Blvd, around 4:30pm. It included my phone, drivers license, two bank debit cards, $55 cash, library card, Black heritage stamp collection, Ghananian currency in my day planner. There being no pay phones to call the bank, it would be the following day when the debit card accounts were changed; of course this was after the fraudulent use for a shopping spree had commence, by the person(s) residing at 1718 Driskell St. 75215. At least know that where the online orders were sent to. I left several voicemails at 214298-0762, when the number was active. Never received any response. I would very much the appreciate the bag and contents being returned to the address on the drivers license. No questions asked. I feel the pain and frustration. Which brings me to my truth. I have not reached out to Odinga but I hope the bag has been returned. If you’ve ever had something taken from you or if you’ve ever lost anything; you know the feeling. It would be different if it was only money but here you have a situation where the person who recovered the bag had an opportunity to return it, instead they opted to be dishonest and unethical. They decided to be a See MY TRUTH, page 6
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Elected officials, community leaders and residents of South Dallas celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday with the Kirkunveiling Myers andof other dignitaries cut ribbon during ceremony an All Black Lives Matter Crosswalk. The event, hosted by Kirk Myers, CEO, Abounding Prosperity Inc. and District 7 Dallas City Councilman Adam Bazaldua, was held at the intersection of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevards. See photos and locations at www. Kirk Myers and other dignitaries cut ribbon during ceremony texasmetronews.com.
At the 5th Realizing the Dream Healthy Living Expo, where Dr Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is celebrated annually at the African American Museum, there was steady flow as everyone adhered to safety precautions while enjoying good food, entertainment, sessions dedicated to healthy living, financial literacy, voter education and registration.
Legendary Basketball Hall of Famer Lusia Harris Dies
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To many, Lusia “Lucy” Harris was the original “Hidden Figure,” her contributions to the sport of basketball largely unnoticed for decades. She scored the first Lusia Harris points in Olympic women’s basketball history in the 1970s and was drafted by the NBA’s New Orleans Jazz in 1977 (the first and only woman to be officially drafted by an NBA team). In 1992, she became the first Black woman inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. And finally, after decades of relative anonymity, she was finally getting the recognition she deserved for her pioneering efforts in basketball. She was finally receiving her flowers thanks to publicity surrounding a popular documentary about her life. And now she’s gone. Harris, whose story is told in this year’s docSee LUSIA HARRIS, page 6
Was I a local Hidden Figure? I WAS JUST THINKING... By Norma Adams-Wade Ran across an old newspaper article the other day that took me back to my first job after college in the late 1960s. Anybody who knows me well, knows that I do not tell my age – but you can do the math. Special Contributor Teri Webster wrote the article that ran May 23, 2021 on page 10B in The Dallas Morning News. The kicker state: RICHARDSON. The headline stated: Documentary details city’s NASA project impact via Collins Radio. The lead stated: “Richardson
has a connection to space ex- mathematical calculations helped ploration dating back to NASA’s put a man on the moon and admanned missions in the 1960s vance other space-age achievethrough communication tech- ments. nology that was pioneered by the My mind flipped back more former Collins Radio Co. that was pages and landed on that first job located in the city.” at Collins Radio Co. The article was in Richardson, after about Collins’ role in earning a JournalNASA’s early space ism degree from The efforts and how that University of Texas at story is told in the Austin. Collins was documentary series, not far from Texas InThe Collins Story: struments (TI) also in Connecting the Moon Richardson. Later, I to the Earth. The seworked at Bloom AdDorothy Vaughan ries was released in vertising Agency, the Credit: nasa.gov December 2018 and Black-owned Dallas shown more recently on May 5, Post Tribune weekly, and The 2021 during an anniversary of one Dallas Morning News daily. of the space flights. After reading Webster’s article, I I thought of the popular movie was just thinking… Am I a hidden Hidden Figures, about three Af- figure in Dallas? I say that a bit rican-American women whose tongue-in-cheek. But when you
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look at the similar circumstances, it could make you wonder. At Collins, I was part of a small team of copyeditors who mainly See LOCAL HIDDEN FIGURE, page 6