VOL. XXXIII • OCTOBER 17, 2019
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Dallas to observe Indigenous People Day Keys to Business Success
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New citywide holiday to replace controversial Columbus Day By DIANE XAVIER The Dallas Examiner
Indigenous Peoples’ Day will now be recognized in Dallas. Dallas City Council members approved a resolution during its Oct. 8 meeting, declaring the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the city of Dallas – the day is usually known as Columbus Day across the country. Dallas will join 130 city governments in making the switch to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, including Austin and six states, including South Dakota and New Mexico. Berkley, California, was the first city government to adopt the change. The idea started in 1977
in the United Nations International Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous populations in the Americas in Switzerland. The resolution affirmed the city’s willingness to participate in annual celebration activities and promote the well-being and growth of the city’s American Indian and Indigenous community and in encouraging public schools to include teaching the history of Indigenous people. It also calls for encouraging businesses, organizations and public institutions to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Council member Omar Narvaez of District 6 presented the resolution. “I am really excited about this because this is a day we right a
Leroy Pena, national director of the Red Handed Warrior Society, along with several other members of the Native American community, spoke on behalf of approving the resolution. – Photo by Shelby Knowles/The Texas Tribune
wrong for the folks that started here and made this land possible for protecting the earth so that we could be here today,” he said. Council member Adam Bazaldua of District 7 also supported the resolution. “I think this is a day that is long
overdue,” Bazaldua said. “I was a teacher before being on the City Council, and it is sad to see the lack of knowledge on what the history of our country really looks like. I think it is very disheartening, and it speaks volumes to a lot of the issues we
have in this country and city today – the fight for equality, the fight for equity for all that we see began with Indeginous people. It began with a struggle to continue to fight and struggle with what belonged to them.” Several members of the Native American community spoke on behalf of approving the resolution, including Leroy Pena, national director of the Red Handed Warrior Society. “When you think about the history of this area, my tribe was an occasional visitor here, but other tribes such as the Wichita and Caddo were long time residents of this area,” Pena said. “We are looking to make this an
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By GARY BLEDSOE Texas NAACP
Photos from Pink Glove Dance video. – Top photo courtesy of Parkland Health & Hospital System. Other photos are screenshots from Parkland Dance video
Parkland staff star in national breast cancer video Special to The Dallas Examiner
Shall we dance? Hundreds of Parkland Health & Hospital System staff said ‘yes,’ in support of breast cancer awareness and health, by taking part in the annual Medline Pink Glove Dance video. The project has scored millions of views each year since its launch in 2009 to raise breast cancer awareness by uniting physicians, administrators, nurses, breast cancer survivors and community members through the joy of dancing – while sporting pink exam gloves. This year, Parkland was invited by Medline to join a handful of hospitals across the country in a special anniversary Pink Glove Dance video that was unveiled last week at the 2019 ANCC National Magnet Conference in Orlando, the largest nursing conference in the U.S. Because gloves are the first point of contact between the healthcare worker and patients,
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Medline, a global manufacturer and distributor of healthcare products, introduced the Generation Pink glove line in 2009 to get people talking openly about breast cancer. For the past 10 years, the annual dance video has fueled conversation worldwide about the critical need for breast cancer prevention. The original video featured nearly 200 workers from an Oregon hospital wearing Medline’s pink gloves and dancing in support of breast cancer awareness and prevention. Over the past decade, nearly 700 of the dance videos have been created, garnering 17 million views. Through the video campaign, the Medline Foundation has donated $1.3 million to non-profit organizations that support detection and prevention initiatives. More than 500 Parkland nurses, physicians, therapists, pharmacists, administrators, police officers, housekeepers, medical assistants, food service and other staff took a break
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from their duties to dance to the upbeat notes of singer Tori Kelly’s 2016 rendition of the Stevie Wonder hit Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing at one of seven locations on the Parkland campus. Drone cameras captured dancers in the hospital’s Wellness Garden and on the construction site of Parkland’s new Moody Center for Breast Health, scheduled to open in 2021. Donors who contributed to Parkland Foundation’s $40 million capital campaign for the new center twisted and jived alongside construction workers sporting pink hard hats. One out of every eight women in the United States will develop breast cancer during her lifetime, according to the National Cancer Institute. Each year, Parkland provides breast health services for 30,000 individuals and diagnoses and treats hundreds of patients with breast cancer – volumes that greatly exceed most other area hospitals. Parkland treats 20% of
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all breast cancer cases in Dallas County. “Early diagnosis is a key to survival,” said W. Phil Evans, MD, division chief of breast imaging at Parkland and UT Southwestern and director of the UT Southwestern Center for Breast Care. “We want to ensure that women in Dallas County know their risk factors, recognize early warning signs of the disease and have the opportunity to be screened to find cancer early.” He added that, with advances in screening and treatment, the death rate from breast cancer has decreased by 40% since 1990. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed that most breast cancers are found in women who are 50 or older, but breast cancer also affects younger women. About 20% of all new cases in the U.S. are found in women younger than age 50. Most women should begin yearly screening with mammography at age 40.
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Last month many in our nation celebrated Constitution Day. It is without question that our Constitution has provided an avenue for much of the progress that we in the United States have experienced or achieved, but we must be mindful of the insights provided us by the late Thurgood Marshall in 1987, in reference to the Bicentennial celebration of the Constitution of United States of America. Justice Marshall noted that we must not get taken away like many writers who contend the U.S. Constitution is the greatest document ever written, or that the superior wisdom and propensity for justice of the authors can be clearly seen in its words and its construction. He noted that the document did not permit women to vote, permitted slavery and has been required to be amended on numerous occasions. He thought we should place an emphasis in our celebration on the great individuals who have made it work. Once again, the most important lawyer of the 20th century was right. We see so many who have taken to our court system, many at great personal sacrifices, who have wagered great battles that made a difference to our country, Dred Scott did not win, but the words from the dastardly Supreme Court opinion in his case gave important direction to those crafting The 14th Amendment. Susan B. Anthony voted for Ulysses S. Grant when she knew women could not vote under the existing law, and she was prosecuted for doing so. This was one of those building blocks that years later led to the adoption of The 19th Amendment. Daisy Bates was the head of the NAACP in Arkansas. She owned and ran a community based newspaper. When she had the audacity to join with Marshall to fight for equal educational opportunity for Black children, the banks called in her notes and the business community joined together to oppose her and the NAACP. Bates’ newspaper shut down, but those children in Little Rock joined with children in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia and the District of Columbia to bring about a proper interpretation of our nation’s Constitution. The children who Bates was supporting were screamed at, cursed, assaulted, spit on and harassed in untold ways because they too had the audacity to seek justice through our Constitution. Courage can also be found in the Latino children who sought integration by enforcing California law or the Asian Americans
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