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Right side of history I try to make my vote stand for something. Now everyone I have ever voted for has not been victorious. Still, I have not regretted my vote because I take it seriously and put value in that vote by doing homework and voting my convictions and yes, my heart.

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Now that doesn’t mean that sometimes people elected haven’t let voters down, but for the most part my votes haven’t been an embarrassment.

Which brings me to my truth.

There were 52 members of the United States Senate that cast affirmative votes for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to become a Supreme Court Justice. What will be said about them in the history books?

Let’s not belabor her credentials. Yes, she could be the dean of somebody’s law school, some say; but should she be dealing with the impostor syndrome as she sits in that elite seat with the See MY TRUTH, page 11

New Charmaine and Robert Price Career Institute to host virtual ribbon cutting, 10 a.m., Friday, Oct. 30.

Deputy Mayor Pro-Tem Adam Medrano praises AP Inc. for their efforts

Ahmad Goree addresses the media

Since opening it’s doors, Abounding Prosperity, Inc. (AP Inc.) has had a significant impact on South Dallas, adhering to a mission of providing services that address health, social and economic dispari-

ties among Black Americans.

Saturday was no different as hundreds came through in cars and on foot to get food and participate in the Get Out the Vote Rally and caravan to the nearest polling location

at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center Gym, 2901 Pennsylvania Ave. Dallas Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Adam Medrano, State Rep. Lorraine Birabil (D-100), AP Inc. CEO Kirk Myers, State Rep.-elect Jasmine Crockett (D-100) and AP Inc. Public Affairs Director Ahmad Goree were among the speakers who stressed the importance of voting, being safe during COVID-19 and providing support to the LGBTQ community.

AP Inc. also accepted applications for its rental and utility

Professor Clarence Glover Jr, also known as “Professor Freedom,” wears many hats that include Dallas cultural diversity educator, Black history scholar,

Volunteers distribute food at AP Inc.

Baston makes strong bid for bench Beware the Tortoise and the (Democratic) Hare

Ft. Worth’s Dunbar High Austin and Thurgood Marshall School graduate Valerie Baston School of Law at Texas Southern is one of many names on University has served the public ballots across this country and for most of her adult life and she is making a strong case for that is why she is the recipient why she should be of numerous awards elected to the 342nd including the L. District Court in Clifford Davis Legal Tarrant County.

Excellence Award “I will not be and the Santa Fe bossed, because I Youth Services am committed to try Hometown Hero to get rulings right,” Award for her legal said Atty. Baston. “I work with juvenile Valerie Baston will not rule for the issues. so-called ‘right people’ if the The mother of three is a law is not on their side. I will member of Black Women apply the correct laws in cases Lawyer’s Association, L. Clifford brought before me.”

Davis Legal Association, J.L. The University of Texas at See BASTON, page 11

By Judge Brandon Birmingham Beware the Tortoise and the (Democratic) Hare One of my favorite stories is the one about the Tortoise and the Hare. We’ve all heard it: the overconfident Hare starts the race very strong, builds a big lead, and decides to take a nap before he crosses the finish line.

As the Tortoise crosses the finish line, we learn how he won: “Slow and steady wins the race.”

The Democrats got off to a big

That’s right -- Cotton Pickers Day! I WAS JUST THINKING

By Norma Adams-Wade

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African heritage drummer, libation ritualist, minister, children’s book author, and youth mentor. But one of his proudest hats is the old frayed straw he wears when he’s working the land, tending to his backyard chickens, and caring for his fields of cotton.

Yes, you read correctly: cotton – that vilified crop that has been the bane of Black folk’s

existence for hundreds of years.

Glover long has insisted that his fellow African-Americans have it wrong when they view cotton as the enemy. The Grambling State University and SMU’s Perkins School of Theology graduate is prepared for the pushback he often gets from those who strongly denounce picking cotton. He asserts in lectures that the shame is not

lead here in Dallas County, and it was easy to tell. People lined up gleefully to vote.

For the first time in my voting life, the line not only went out the door, it stretched all the way around the parking lot. Similar stories abound Texas. We got off to a big lead, indeed.

But now we’ve taken a nap.

At least, that’s what the numbers tell us. Democrats are turning out less, losing their lead by 1 point per day since that second day. With a few days left in early voting, and a consistent recent history of being outvoted on election day, we are destined to wake up on election night like See HARE, page 14

Glover picking cotton wearing his old frayed straw hat and “Professor Freedom” garb.

Credit Clarence Glover Jr. Credit: Clarence Glover Jr.

that Black people picked cotton; the shame is that they were not PAID for that honest work, he says.

So, Glover has taken the legal steps and instituted the First African-American Cotton Pickers’ See COTTON, page 6

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FOR TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS PL. 9

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Primary Election:

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November 3, 2020

• Judge of the 292nd Judicial District Court, a felony trial court in Dallas County, Texas • Presiding Judge of AIM Court: a unique second chance court for youthful offenders.

“ This bench does not belong to me, it belongs to the people.”

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• Presiding Judge of Felony Domestic Violence Court: a program designed to protect victims of intimate partner domestic violence.

• Former Presiding Judge of all Felony District Courts in Dallas County.

• Visiting Professor, SMU Dedman School of Law • Frequent Lecturer for Continuing Legal Education courses accredited by the State Bar of Texas • Former Chief Felony Prosecutor and Cold Case Unit Chief, Dallas County District Attorney’s Office • Creator and host of “A Murderous Design”, a true crime podcast about famous trials • Judge Birmingham and his wife Carrie have been together for nearly 25 years, and are the proud parents of two children.

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UTD celebrates LGBTQ+ History Month through Rainbow Story Time The University of Texas at Dallas Galerstein Gender Center is celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month with reading.

Every Friday, in the month of October, the Center will be hosting Rainbow Story Time with readings that consist of a member from the center reading a LGBTQ-inclusive

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children’s book. The goal is to show how important inclusivity and visibility are when it comes to the LGBTQ+ community.

Commissioner John Wiley Price Allana J. Barefield spoke to Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who has been in office since 1985 and was the first African American elected to the Dallas County Commissioner’s Court. On The Bare Truth, they discussed the importance of his reelection and voting.

Question: For everyone who is listening in right now, why should they cast their vote for you?

Answer: Well because, I have the same energy, I have a track record, you want to talk about projects, you want to talk 140 projects, that we call major capital projects. When you look at constructing with regards to the 955 square mile, I have 60 percent of the County geographically.

Question: What is Harris up against in this election because she doesn’t look like the rest of the candidates?

Answer: Well she’s the first person to be nominated. My girl, Shirley Chisholm, she was the first and foremost. It’s real difficult to imagine what Shirley Chisholm, you know, was up against. Now when I ran for office first time in 1984, Pettis Norman, former Dallas Cowboy and businessman… We ran Jesse Jackson’s campaign out of my house on Fifth Street so we ran both campaigns and a number

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Matt Winser-Johns, assistant director of LGBTQ+ programs at UTD, said he is excited about the reading program to celebrate one

another and acknowledge how much more work needs to be done.

“LGBTQ+ History Month serves as a beautiful reminder of why

of us took a position and help to frame the platform so you can be a first…

Question: What does voter suppression look like today?

Answer: Voter suppression takes on a lot of weight but sometimes this stuff is some of our participation too. Let me just tell you, in Dallas County, there’s a million and three hundred thousand people who are registered to vote and in Dallas County there’s a million and eight hundred thousand individuals who are 18 years of age and older.

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visibility is so important and crucial to our survival,” Winser-Johns said.

“It’s so imperative for the younger generations to see themselves represented in our world, no matter how they identify.”

Winster-Johns says identifying as LGBTQ+ in Texas can be difficult, but by having support with the reading program can make a difference.

“We need allies and support, and honoring LGBTQ+ History Month, in whichever way you can, means the absolute world to us.”

Supporters will be able to catch the reading virtually on UTD’s Gender Center social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

Committeewoman Shay Wyrick-Cathey Allana J. Barefield spoke to Shay Wyrick-Cathey, State Democratic Executive Committeewoman, District 23 on The Bare Truth. They discussed how to prepare to vote and what to avoid wearing when voters are heading to the polls.

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Question: Why is early voting important?

Answer: Well, we’re in the middle of a global pandemic so unless someone is from 1918 no one has ever really done this in this type of atmosphere before so to make sure that every vote counts. We have such liberal early voting laws that anyone can vote early, we don’t have to have a reason to vote early in person.

We have to make sure to exercise our right to vote but we are facing a very serious crisis and so we can’t overlook that so if you can stop and make a plan, look at the websites, see where the lines are shorter, and go take your mask.

Question: Talk to me about how voting intimidation is real. It is happening at different polling locations right now, and what can people do to get out of the Shay Wyrick-Cathey situation?

Answer: Well voting intimidation is real, right, as is voting suppression. I think the voter has to know their own rights and they are entitled to vote in a harassment-free setting, so if you’re in line and someone is harassing you then you can walk to the front of the line and ask for the election judge.

Question: What advice can you give to someone when people are wearing certain shirts with slogans and can be turned away?

Answer: So no campaign apparel is allowed inside

a polling place. So it’s really important to distinguish what campaign paraphernalia is, there are certain slogans that are tied to certain candidates so that is clearly campaign paraphernalia. As you know, one of the vice presidential candidates, Kamala Harris, is a member of a sorority, AKA, so lots of AKAs are wearing AKA things to vote.

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ELECTIONS AND VOTING SECURITY FROM THE CAPITOL

By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson As Americans cast our ballots in the 2020 presidential election amid a global pandemic and a divided country, we must not disregard the many ongoing threats to our democratic institutions. And further, we must continue to protect our most sacred right and responsibility as citizens, our vote.

The greatest threats our society faces today are the spread of misinformation and the active disenfranchisement of American citizens. Both are human failures and vulnerabilities that have been amplified by technology.

As technology touches all aspects of our lives and society, it too has become an integral part of the elections process.

Our election system is complicated, and there are many different aspects of it that rely on technology in some form.

As a result, there are numerous challenges to making sure our election system is secure, fair, and accessible.

One such challenge is election security, which has been an active topic of conversation in Congress recently, as it should be. It is an urgent topic for the nation and for the state of Texas.

In the 2018 election, at least 78 counties in Texas saw malfunctioning electronic voting machines that changed some voters’ selections from Dem-

ocrat to Republican and deleted some voters all together.

Cybersecurity experts believe that the voting machine anomalies in Texas can be attributed to old technology and not to hackers, but it is easy to imagine how a bad actor might seek to take advantage of exactly this kind of vulnerability in Texas and across the country.

It is now time that the federal government strengthen our policy, leadership, and funding to ensure free, fair, transparent, and secure elections. I am so proud to have cosponsored Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill’s (NJ-11) Election Technology Research Act. This bill would authorize research and standards development activities to help modernize and secure our election systems, ensuring they are accessible to all. We must take care to not lose sight of the vulnerabilities inherent to the technologies that we use to cast and count our votes. Our very democracy is on the line.

Texans can vote early at any polling location in their home counties on weekdays from Tuesday, October 13, through Friday, October 30. If you would like to deliver a mailin-ballot in person, you can hand-deliver it to an official at your county election office.

Remember that you are not required to remove your masks when presenting your photo ID to a poll worker, and that if you don’t want to risk going into a polling location Texas election law mandates that all locations offer curbside voting.

U.S. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson currently represents Texas’s 30th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

Who Ya With?

OUR VOICES

By Derrick Payne It’s later than ever.. We are at the end of an era…which is actually the beginning of a new one. It’s Election Day, Nation Time, as Jesse Jackson would say.

Whatever it is, the time to do it is now. For those of us living, free, inspired, full of hope but nagged by history, developing our minds, trying dreaming…its code red, flashing lights, emergency time.

Here’s the challenge: if we start the clock at 1619, that’s 400 years plus waiting for America to be great again.

When did the good old days apply to us?

Dr. Ronald Walters said we have always had more of everything bad and less of everything good. 135 years of symbolic freedom. We went from being “My Nigra” to “My Nigga.”

Not a lot of progress. We have to develop a taste for freedom - something we have NEVER had in our hands or mouth.

In 1963 Brother Malcolm said it’s the ballot or the bullet. Time passed-no change.

What would he say about the current political atmosphere?

In 2008, we elected a Black man as President of the United States of America. Game on. Our President is handed the steering wheel of a car

that has already gone over the edge of the cliff. Somehow we managed to survive the crash.

We wanted SOMETHING done about a healthcare system that was not working for anybody...done. We wanted somebody to bring our soldiers home from a pointless war...done. We wanted the people responsible for a terrorist attack on our soil to pay the ultimate price....done.

A tough situation for anybody and a call for extraordinary leadership, answered by Barack Obama.

Has anybody in electoral politics ever dealt with

the level of irrational hatred President Obama tolerated every single day?

Vote or go to hell. Vote or shut up forever. Times up, Black people. We stand on our feet-this time, right nowor we sit down and shut up.

Are you in that sad group of negroes that let “gay marriage”...a line of thinking that has NOTHING to do with governing the country— make your choice for you?

Are you in the long line of misguided under-informed Negroes that make excuses, backstabs, and forms a pow-

erless alliance with the same people that are the reason we are in such bad shape right now?

Imagine explaining to your grandmother, who used to wash floors, and your granddaddy who had to find a way to see himself as a man while being called a boy, that you “don’t do politics”…that “the line’s too long”…that “I didn’t get around to it”…

On our watch entire school districts collapse. On our watch, the Black jail population goes to 41%. On our watch, we turned on CNN and watched people die in New Orleans. On our watch, we give out a trillion dollars in corporate welfare while sneering at Keesha for a $200 welfare check.

We better figure this one out. The stakes are high, and this world will NOT be okay if we allow another election to be stolen.

So what are we going to do? We have marched until our feet have bled and rioted until they called the Feds… and here we are.

As for me, I voted. I wore a Hoody while I voted, because Trayvon Martin’s life can NOT be in vain.

What about you? Are you doing as much as you can for the struggle? Are you sure? Is that ALL you can do?

My name is Derrick Payne.

I was voter #3949 at precinct 1707 in Richardson, TX on October 19 at 3:38 pm. It’s nation time. Who you with?

Derrick Payne is a professor at Dallas College. A proud alumnus of Howard University, he is also a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.

The Blame Game FAITHFUL UTTERANCES

By Dr. Froswa Booker-Drew As a child, my parents took me to Houston to visit relatives. When time permitted, ever so often, we would drive to Galveston. I loved these trips because my dad’s side of the family was huge, and it would be a caravan traveling to the beach.

One time, they decided to take us crabbing. I was a preteen and so the idea of catching crabs to eat was intriguing and at the same time, scary. My family packed large white buckets and nets and as we stood on the rocks, I remember swinging my net down to catch blue crabs.

There were several in the water on this visit making it easy to catch them. I remember the ranges of sizes even small ones and every time one was caught; they were thrown in one of the many buckets. We apparently were successful because everyone was elated and ready to go home to cook. When we were driving back to Houston, I remember sitting in the back seat watching the topless bucket and terrified.

I asked my parents, “Won’t they crawl out?” My dad swiftly replied that as soon as one of them would climb to the top, the others would keep the crab from crawling out. And sure enough, as one was on the verge of crawling out, two or more of the others who were not paying attention, would knock the crab back to the bottom with the rest of the group.

Another interesting story I have heard about are flies in jars. When placed in a jar with a lid, in their attempt for freedom, flies bump the lid repeatedly. After so many times of this, the flies become conditioned to the lid.

Once the lid is removed, the flies do not leave. They have become programmed to be-

lieve the lid is still there.

One could argue that the problem is the lid or that it was the mentality of the crabs that kept the others from living their best life. I think what we have not necessarily considered is the environment that was created in both scenarios. The environment was not the natural habit of the flies or the crabs and when taken out of what they are used to, they behave in ways that are typically not customary or acceptable.

How many times have we heard these analogies applied to human beings to prove a point about the lack of unity or invisible barriers as if they are choices that keep us from aspiring to be our best? I would challenge you to think about two things: 1. There is a difference between unity and uniformity. Many people always talk about we should be united and although that is a wonderful goal, it is not necessarily going to happen 100% of the time.

Unity is about being of the same mind and yet, we can accept differences. Uniformity is defined as everyone believing alike and being the same. The challenge is no one group of people are the same, have the same aspirations or even respond to situations the same and often we are pushing for this to the detriment of our embracing our difference. There is obviously a blessing that happens when we come together in unity: “Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!” (Psalm 133:1). Living in unity does not demand sameness but it does require for us to work together understanding that our environment might be the very cause of keeping us separated than together. Instead of blaming one another for such a mentality, maybe it is time to examine the environment that pits us against one another to see the

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worst in each other instead of the best?

2. O ften what keeps us contained from truly reaching our potential are the invisible barriers, that can be visible: such as race and gender, but there are barriers that keep many of us from soaring that include the perceptions we have of others and even the way we see ourselves. When we see ourselves as less than, we often will have the same regard for others. Leviticus 19:17-18 commands us to ‘love our neighbors as we love ourselves’ but if there is no self-love, how can you love others when you fail to see yourself and others as creations of God? As we prepare for this election, it is time to stop seeing one another in our communities with a deficit-based lens—a view that seeks to believe that we are not willing to work together.

Many of us want uniformity and when people do not see it our way, we confuse it with a lack of willingness to unite. That is not always true. It is also important to note that maybe the problem is the environment instead of blaming those placed in environments that they did not create but are expected to adjust in. Some cannot adjust to make lemons out of lemonade because of the trauma caused by these environments. Instead of blaming them, maybe it is time to deal with the barriers and the environment that create the behavior we often fixate on. It is time to stop blaming one another and start seeing others and ourselves the way God sees us, wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14).

Maybe when we change our perception, our problem will look different.

Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew is the author of three books and the host of the podcast, The Tapestry.

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QUIT PLAYIN’

By Vincent L. Hall It was apropos that James took center stage even in death. He died Christmas Day 2006. His gift was always magnified under the heat of the spotlight, and so was his departure. Wish he was here today.

James Brown is the Godfather of Soul, Disco, Hip Hop, Rap, and whatever music genre comes along in the next generation.

Musicians will be samplin’ this brother for another millennium.

You can’t dream up a Michael Jackson or Prince Rogers Nelson without a mentor like JB. Long before the street was renamed for MLK, there was a place known as Sportsmen’s Rec on Forest Avenue in Sunny South Dallas. It was a shooting range, but all of the hustlers there used a pool cue. I did a lot of growing up there with my daddy, somewhere between “Big Six” and “corner pocket right.” I made a dime a dance doing the James Brown.

The first concert that I attended was in the early ’70s. I can still see that busy, black, and orange marquee placard. It read, “James Brown Hot Pants Tour.” I thought I knew everything about him. But 90 minutes deep into the act, they draped that second cape on James.

No sooner than they walked the weeping “Eighth Wonder of the World” off stage…he was right back.

And this time, he was screaming.

Please, Please, Please!!

But in betwixt all of that, James Brown gave colored folks all over America something that can never be repaid. James Brown took us from Colored and Negro to Black.

And if that wasn’t enough, he made us proud to be Black.

“Say it loud, I’m Black, and I’m Proud” changed America. You may be too young or too Afro-centric to remember, but I can recall when

calling someone “Black” could earn you an ass-whipping. It was as almost as bad as the N-Word is today. James Brown moved “Black” from a pejorative to a privilege.

The only real major blemish that James suffered from Black America was when he decided to support Richard Nixon. Black folks went crazy on James. Richard Nixon was a lightweight racist con-man compared to Donald Trump.

After Nixon drew Sammy Davis in and was told that James had been drafted too, Nixon had some choice words. The full plot was printed under “True Stories” on the Ozy website.

“Nixon pushed back against meeting the icon, saying on tape, “No more Black stuff.” An aide finally had to explain to Nixon that James Brown was hugely influential with Black voters, and Nixon begrudgingly agreed.

“I don’t want nobody to give me nothing, just open up the door, I’ll get it myself,” Brown sang, and though he knew most of the Black community back then despised Nixon, he had hoped Nixon would at least open up the door.”

Brown suffered blows at the box office and on his oversized ego.

“Black folks, to put it kindly, were not impressed. There were protests, and fans called him one of the worst things you could be in 1972: a sellout.” I’m not a sellout artist,” Brown proclaimed in a statement. “I’m not selling out; I’m selling in.”

James went from shows with 13,000 screaming music lovers to less than 2200. There were as many protesters outside as there were fans inside on many occasions.

James Brown gave us pride, selflove, and Chadwick Boseman.

He made us dance, think, and produced a sound that still gets revisited. But if there was one thing he could re-do, Nixon is it. Trump’s “Blacks” will soon understand why!

Somebody call 50-cent, before Black folks make small change of him!

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

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I agree with Ice Cube and I voted for Joe Biden gerously stupid!

Like hearing reactionaries explode like bombs seeing Trump retweet an image of a white man shouting White Power.

Obviously these folks have no clue of our movement’s history as they seek to call every action racist!

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California in 1966 and their chant was “All Power to the People!”

er of the original Black Panther Party of 1965, the Political Party of Lowndes County, Alabama, joined them.

THE Being Racist and practicing STRUGGLE racism are two very different CONTINUES things.

Case in point! US Senator

By Thomas Muhammad Kamala Harris was spot on Here we go again with that about former Vice President Joe “my White man is better than Biden’s white-bigoted history in your White man” crap! not wanting Black children in his Brother Malcolm X cautions white Delaware neighborhoods. us, “Stop talking about the South!

Biden believed letting Black Long as you South of the Canadichildren in his schools meant an border, you South!”

Black families moving Brother Ice Cube has into his neighborhoods! been criticized by some Biden was practicing “I know Blacks better” racism, because he had TV talking heads as a the power to carry out his sellout, as he shopped racist agenda as a voting his Contract With Black US Senator! Racism is America (CWBA) to power plus Prejudice! both presidential canMy late friend, fordidates for the best mer Dallas school board Journalist Roland Martin interviews Ice Cube deal! member Kathlyn Joy GilLet’s be crystal clear.

They’d break it down: All Pow- liam, could truly educate you on I voted for former Vice Presi- er to White People, All Power to America’s bussing bigotry. dent Joe Biden for his national Black People the list went on for People say but Biden’s a Demplan to beat COVID-19, some- Brown, Red and Yellow people. ocrat! Yeah, so was George Walthing President Donald Trump Point is they believed in shar- lace! appears unable to do! ing power with all races, includAnd face it! Trump wouldn’t But, this emotional political ing white folks! be president without White campaign noise to beat Trump The chant, “Black Power,” was Democrats voting for him in at all cost even attacking Broth- only introduced after Brother 2016, right! er Cube in the process is dan- Stokely Carmichael, a co-foundSo, beating up on Cube or any Black person that seems to want more than just a mere pat on DALLAS the head by White folks should COLLEGE of LAW cease.

Black people have benefited greatly from Brother Cube’s contributions for decades. His integrity is unquestionable.

These so-called Black leaders should be examining their own characters.

There’s a movement called Black Business Empowerment Commission at Commission. org that can teach you more, try them!

Brother Malcolm mapped out in his speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” what politics is supposed to produce for your votes and what he said is exactly what Brother Cube is doing.

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Day through the National Day Archives. The day pays homage to Americans of African descent who raised and picked cotton during slavery and Jim Crow, who laid the foundation that formed America’s economic system from the 1830s to 1960. That era made cotton king, but did not share the benefits with those African-Americans who performed the labor and helped produce one of the nation’s vital commodities.

Here are details of the day: African-American Cotton Pickers’ Day will be observed the 4th Monday of each October and also will be known as “Cotton Monday.” Around 10 a.m.

Monday,[Oct26] Glover laid a hand-made wreath of cotton

Glover in other traditional garments and hat, spinning a bracelet from cotton.

Credit: Clarence Glover Jr.

at Freedom Cemetery, 2525 N. Central Expwy at Lemmon Avenue in Dallas, in memory of American descendants of Africa who America neglected to compensate for their cotton labor. The day has its own song (Led Belly’s 1940 Cotton Field) and food (Smoked turkey with “Hoppin’ John”/mainly blackeyed peas and rice).

The date was picked because it represents the height of the cotton-picking season and how that part of the year affected the lives of American descendants of Africa, Glover said.

The day also will recognize the history of West African cotton which long has been a part of that culture. Additionally, the day will encourage all Americans to study and appreciate Black America contribution to the economy’s cotton indus-

Historical photo of Dallas Cotton Exchange formerly in downtown Dallas.

Credit: pinterest.com.

try and its resulting impact on cultural, political, educational, and religious life in America.

“If we had harvested diamonds, would we throw away the diamonds once the institution of slavery was ended?”

Glover asked. “African-Americans must understand and realize that cotton is as valuable as diamonds are to our American economic system. And we played a major role in that... We must understand the central role cotton played in slavery, building our nation, Civil War, Emancipation, and ultimately Juneteenth.”

Reversing misgivings will take deliberate charge of heart, Glover says, reciting his familiar maxim: “Taking the chains off your brain, so you mind can work.” Growing up in his native Shreveport, Louisiana, Glover often picked cotton and tended crops with family elders on his family’s farm land.

He inherited a strong respect for the land and its produce.

He says cotton -- called King Cotton and White Gold -- has a deep southern history. Dallas was the nation’s largest inland cotton market and is where the landmark Dallas Cotton Exchange building was located at St. Paul and San Jacinto streets downtown. Despite efforts to save it, the landmark sadly was imploded in 1994. To learn more, call 214-546-3480, email clarencegloverjr@aol.com.

Norma Adams-Wade, Communities Columnist. Norma is a proud Dallas native, University of Texas at Austin journalism graduate and retired Dallas Morning News senior staff writer. She is a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists and was its first southwest regional director. She became The News’ first Black full-time reporter in 1974. norma_adams_wade@yahoo.com

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Dirk Nowitzki helps kick off Fall Food Drive, Unveils Gardening Program

By Dorothy J. Gentry Sports Editor Dirk Nowitzki retired as the face of the Dallas Mavericks franchise in March of 2019.

Over a year and a half later he is still giving back to the city.

The former Dallas Mavs great surprised families on Thursday as he passed out food boxes and vouchers for complimentary turkeys from Pappas and shared details about a new Plants and Paints program that teaches kids about farm to table nutrition science and healthy eating.

The Dirk Nowitzki Foundation, The Mark Cuban Foundation, The Heroes Foundation and the North Texas Food Bank teamed up to host Center Table Fall Harvest at the Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center.

Nowitzki, his wife Jessica and volunteers from the food bank and the different foundation handed out food boxes to 425 families during the driveup event In addition, Pappas Restaurants provided vouchers for a complimentary turkey for each family, The event was free and open to residents in the Center’s surrounding neighborhoods off of Bonnie View and Illinois.

Kicking off the holidays, Center Table Fall Harvest will continue in November and December.

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“We are here for another food drive. We did one in May for Mothers’ Day and we see that the need is still there, unfortunately,” Nowitzki said. “These are very tough times. These are stressful times for lots of families with jobs and so on and even more so if you don’t know where your next meal is coming from and that’s heartbreaking.

“We want to help out as much as we can,” he continued. “We are just trying to do our part and help out this community that has been great to the Mark Cuban Center here. This is our way of supporting and saying thanks.”

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Nowitzki also announced a new program at the Center called “Plants and Paints” where children and families not only learn to create and grow gardens, but experience entrepreneurship and philanthropy. The children also engage by creatively painting the planter boxes.

Once harvested, they will set up a farmer’s market and give away the foods and flowers to neighborhood families.

Located in the new Cuban Center Organic Garden, the “Plants and Paints” program allows kids to have fun outdoors while socially distancing. The

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“I actually want to be a judge because I love the law and administering justice for the people as a civic duty,” she said. “I will not use this court as just another rung in a personal climb of the political party’s ladder leading to the power of higher office.”

Atty. Baston has served as a prosecutor in the Fort Worth’s City Attorney’s Office and the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office. She’s an adjunct professor teaching at UNT School of Law and is currently in private practice “where I try to help my clients get the justice they deserve.”

other justices whose credentials actually do put her to shame?

I wonder what the other justices are thinking as they plan to welcome her into the “club.”

Well, Texans have an opportunity to be on the right side of history in voting for its first African American female to sit on the Texas Supreme Court.

Currently Judge Staci Williams is a two-term judge of the 101st District Court; having assumed the bench in 2014. Earlier this year she received 65% of the vote in the Democratic primary and faces incumbent Jeffrey Boyd.

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Cuban Center will offer the plant and paint class starting next week and continuing through next summer.

“I’m really excited to help grow the plants and paints program that teaches kids about nutrition, science and the process of farm to table,” Nowitzki said. “The kids have even been able to host a farmers market here at the Center where they give away veggies, herbs and flowers to families in the neighborhood.

We look forward to expanding, getting more kids involved and holding even more farmers markets throughout the season.”

Even critics praise Judge Williams’ bench tenure and some say her experience as a judge and an attorney are just as, if not more impressive than many of the nearly 200 lifetime appointments of the current president; and also his recent Supreme Court nominee.

According to the Pew Research Center, as of July 2020, out of 194 federal judges, the current president appointed eight Blacks.

Recently a local Black preacher told me, in an interview on KHVN-AM, that he didn’t have a problem with the current president’s record on appointing Black people.

Well I do.

And I hope voters will have a problem with the appointments by the current president, as well as the votes by the 52 senators.

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The garden area currently houses a dozen or so plantar boxes with plans to add more in the coming months including raised boxes so nearly senior citizens can garden. The kids grow broccoli, celery, cabbage, beets, kale, carrots, peas, peppers, mustard greens and more.

They also raise flowers, along with herbs including basil, rosemary, parsley and more. The young people work in the garden on the weekends while the Center staff water and maintain the gardens during the week.

“I think it’s a great thing for the kids to learn about fruits and vegetables and how to plant them, when to harvest them,” Nowitzki said. “And they are going to learn some business ideas as well later on. We are in the beginning stages and we have 10 boxes as of now and it’s going so well. The kids are loving it.

“It’s good to teach the kids about nutrition about eating healthy and about learning to take care of themselves. It’s a great project.”

In addition to the neighborhood families, the program also involves students 10-17 years-old, from the UNT Dallas Rising Blazers Community Youth Development Program.

I hope voters will tell the current president and those 52 senators that, in the words of the late-crooner Lou Rawls, their good thing has come to an end; that they hope those strictly partisan votes were worth it because they voted themselves out of office.

You see, impostor syndrome becomes real when folks are not adequately prepared, when they have been given something they know darned well they have not earned nor do they deserve.

We have had a four-year reign of the impostor syndrome, and the perpetrators have no shame.

Hopefully voters will see past the hype, review and vote the entire ballot and voters can level the field of entitlement that has disenfranchised so many.

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TV ONE’S Virtual Town Halls. Hosted by Karen Finney. Ep. 2 - The Intersection of Race and Gender in Politics and the Power of the Black Female Vote. 12 pm/9CST. Streaming on TV One and CLEO TV’s Facebook and YouTube channels. Saturday, October 31 at 12 pm/11CST. Broadcast simulcast on TV One and CLEO TV.

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By Terry Allen The magic of living in Lucille “Big Mama’s” Allen’s house is that you got a front row seat and firsthand lessons on life skills. Years before my adulthood began, I knew of this statement. “You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.”

She flowered us with honey tips all the time.

Big Mama’s Honey Tips gave us a LIFETIME rites of passage.

She blessed her six children, 19 grandchildren, 37 greatgrandchildren, 20 great-great grandchildren and six greatgreat-great grandchildren with wisdoms that set our personalities for life.

Today’s lesson is “You catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar.”

All my siblings knew the value of this lesson!

It meant it is easier to persuade others with kindness and affirmations rather than with criticisms and negativity. I have used that lesson in all my professional and business dealings.

It worked!

When I joined my partners in the small business start-up arena, we did not service the top tier budding entrepreneurs.

We took on a focused client. We took the individuals that the mainstream deemed marginal or outsiders. Our intakes were called fallen citizens. We took on displaced veterans, formerly incarcerated individuals and women on public assistance.

Some of them did not believe they could be entrepreneurs. Immediately we had to infuse Big Mama’s Honey Tips in every encounter as we prepared our team with mentors, business plans, bids

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and business opportunities.

The efforts created 214 small businesses contributing a few million dollars annually in collective revenue to the economy.

I will share those details more but what I wanted to share was a few Honey Tips from Big Mama for our readers.

The two pandemics have created a hyper focus on authentic commerce and businesses now must add a little social consciousness to their services and products.

Here are Big Mama’s Top 3 Honey Tips: • Be transparent and price competitive on your

offerings and inform the consumer how to do business with you.

(Big Mama: Sell what you say you gone sell and have it ready) • There is strength in numbers, get with other business owners, place ads and offer the public a collective shopping experience. (Big Mama: You are stronger with others than by yourself ) • Create communitysupported events that contribute to those who have been affected by the pandemics, both racial and health. (Big Mama: You did not get here by yourself share your success) Are you ready to share your Honey Tips with me? After you VOTE, please email me your tips to Terryallenpr@gmail. com.

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

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By Valder Beebe I love them! As we are all trying to figure out who we are and who we want to be as women, men, husband, wives TLC brings us Doubling Down with the Derrico’s. Karen and Deon Derrico TLC’s new family program showcases an energetic and loving of 14 children [ALL conceived naturally -- Remarkably!]

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Sleepless nights, sibling squabbles and a living room full of toe-tripping toys is the norm for any family with kids.

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that is all heart. The Derrico’s publicists provided text in conjunction with the Valder Beebe Show VBS: You two are such a delight, you make us proud.

You are attractive, smart, patient and loving parents of 14 children comprising; two single births, quintuplets, two sets of triplets, and two sets of twins.

Karen, what does your week look like caring for the kids?

KD: Caring for our 14 children we spend $3,500 a month to feed the entire family — we consume 5 packages of waffles and use 20 rolls of toilet paper a week. Laundry, it takes 18 loads of laundry a week to keep everyone in clean clothes.

VBS: You both have a history of multiples in your family.

You have received abundant blessings from God, how are you going to make these blessings shine?

DD: We use our blessings

from God by showing the world how African American families come together and maintain the family through many upsand-downs. Yet we overcome them with the strength of God and our spirituality.

VBS: Karen as an African American mom of multiples you are breaking stereo types.

What are showing the world through your actions being on television?

KD: Thank you for that.

It’s hopefully showing black women that all of are not the same and there are many paths to choose.

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Dark Tresor DARK TRESOR-The Series is a locally-produced movie from the team of Richard Davis and Jamilia Marie who head up Black Motion Media, a film company whose goal is to bring more minority performers to the big screen. DARK TRESOR will be presented on various PPV movie platforms beginning early in 2021, but I had a chance to see it at the series’ Dallas premiere.

DARK TRESOR stars Nadirah Shakir as Detective Jasmine. She gets involved with the group of vampire call girls while investigating the disappearances of young women in the Dallas area. I can’t recall ever seeing a movie with beautiful African American vampire prostitutes. It’s a wild and outrageous premise that I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed.

Billionnairess Olivia Reyes plays the vampire madame, Ruby, and there are a host of beautiful vampire call girls who are killing the Dallas elite at private parties at Dallas’ hot spots. Detective Jasmine gets into the middle of the fray while investigating the murders. There’s a power struggle between the vampires and a couple of the ladies reveal their true self to the detective, and her partner, who is smitten with Ruby, the vampire madame.

The movie has a great surprise ending that hit me like a ton of bricks.

DARK TRESOR also deals with the issue of human trafficking of young women who are forced into the sex slave industry. (Sidenote: law enforcement statistics report that over 400 women in Dallas go missing every single night.)

Richard Davis and Jamila Marie did a great job with a most unlikely story. They took a wild premise (Black call girl vampires who feast on their clients) and made a wildly creative and entertaining movie.

Be sure and look for it when it comes out on streaming platforms online. On my “Hollywood Popcorn Scale” I rate DARK TRESOR a JUMBO!

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from page 1 the Hare: helplessly watching the tortoise cross the finish line first.

Here’s the thing: the problem is not that we don’t have registered voters. Those who have always

voted did so early, propelling the Hare to the lead.

The problem is the large numbers of registered voters that are staying home. Democrats are slumering on the bench. They’ve voted in the past, but haven’t done so in 2020. If it’s because they’ve heard about record turnout here and there across the country and are thinking victory is a lock, they

are wrong. Just like the Hare.

We can’t afford to sleep on the Tortoise. Remember, not voting for your side is a vote for the other.

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And if we lie dormant, the pandemic will continue to spread, poverty will continue to run rampant, and the movement to bring criminal justice reform will come to a grinding halt.

If you are registered, and haven’t voted, wake up. Run to the polls now. Grab your friends and family along the way. Take them with you. Do not wait until elec-

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Vote for every Democrat up and down the ballot.

We’ve heard this story before.

It’s time to change the ending.

Brandon Birmingham is a judge of the Texas 292nd District Court. He is running for Place 9 judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020.

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