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Donald Trump’s Symbols and The Substance of Division

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For Trump’s Wall, Mexico Is Out! Government Shutdown Is In!

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COMMENTARY

Donald Trump’s Symbols and The Substance of Division

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By Jesse Jackson, National Writer

ymbols are important. Donald Trump, whose fortune is built upon a brand, and whose presidential campaign brandished symbols far more than reform ideas, knows that well.

gation and white supremacy, of succession and sedition now are under attack. Trump’s decision to tout the symbols of the Confederacy sends a message that is clear to everyone.

deportations back up his purposeful insults to Mexicans and Muslims during the presidential campaign. Symbols and substance go together. There is no confusion about where Trump stands.

When Trump tweets his regret that the removal of “beautiful statues and monuments” commemorating the Confederacy subverts “the history and culture of our great country,” he knows the message he is sending.

What is particularly vicious about the Trump presidency is that his embrace of the symbols of oppression is accompanied by policies that push the substance of oppression. His Justice Department sides with voter suppression, not voting rights.

As Eric Foner, the eminent historian of the Civil War period, writes in the New York Times, statutes to Confederate leaders “say a lot more about the time they were erected than the historical era they evoke.”

The first great surge of Confederate monuments was built in the 1890s as segregation -- legalized apartheid -- was being enforced across the South. The second wave came in the 1920s, marking the height of segregation and of lynching. The third wave came in the 1950 and ‘60s in reaction to the civil rights movement.

It pushes for harsher criminal sentences in drug cases and abandons efforts to reform policing, despite the reality of entrenched, racially biased practices. His “health care reform” was in fact a wealth bill, designed to strip millions of low wage and elderly workers of health care in order to pay for tax breaks for the very few.

Trump’s symbolic posturing has offended conventional opinion. Republican leaders such as Sen. Robert Corker of Tennessee have questioned not only whether Trump has the “competence” but also whether he has the “stability” to be president. Others have criticized Trump’s effort to equate neo-Nazis with those who protest against them.

His budget -- featuring deep cuts in support for public education, for Pell grants for needy students, for food stamps and affordable housing -- savages programs for the vulnerable -- disproportionately people of color -- in order to offer up even more tax breaks for the corporations and the rich. His posturing on the “wall,” his Muslim travel ban and his ramping up of

Foner cites historian Carl Becker, who wrote that “history is what the present choose to remember about the past.” It is not surprising that the symbols of segre-

Addressing the symbols is important.

Drawing the line against neo-Nazi movements is essential. The question, however, is whether the legislators continue to support Trump’s policies even as they express dismay about his divisive comments.

As he departed from the White House, Trump’s “strategist” Steve Bannon exposed what we know is the cynical strategy. Scorning the white supremacists as “clowns,” Bannon revealed their utility: The longer Democrats “talk about identity politics, I got ‘em,” he told Robert Kuttner of the American Prospect. “I want them to

talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.”

Throughout our history, cynical politicians have used race-bait politics -- dividing working and poor people from one another -- to serve the powerful. Now, with inequality at obscene extremes, and the vast majority of Americans understanding that the rules of this economy have been rigged, it isn’t surprising that someone with Trump’s agenda would seek to fan the flames of racial division.

Dr. Martin Luther King argued, “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” That isn’t inevitable. It depends upon the active engagement of people of conscience working to make this a more perfect nation, with liberty and justice for all. Now more than ever, we need a new justice movement, turning back the efforts to divide us in both symbols and substance.

You can write to the Rev. Jesse Jackson in care of this newspaper or by email at jjackson@rainbowpush.org. Follow him on Twitter @RevJJackson.

POLITICAL For Trump’s Wall, Mexico Is Out! Government Shutdown Is In!

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By Z. Byron Wolf, CNN/StyleMagazine.com Newswire

ait a minute. Wasn’t Mexico supposed to pay for the wall?

Mexico didn’t even come up when President Donald Trump vowed yet again to build the wall during a campaign rally (yes, it was an official Trump campaign re-election rally) in Phoenix on Tuesday night.

by threatening a government shutdown that a majority of the public and a fair number of the lawmakers in his own party don’t think is necessary. Let’s also set aside the likelihood that a government shutdown could backfire.

How far we’ve come since the campaign, when then-candidate Trump would invite The crowd, which ate up the red meat crowds into a call-and-response about his Trump threw them during the frenzied, proposed border wall with: “And who’s peripatetic event, didn’t seem to notice. going to pay for it?”

Now, instead of threatening Mexico, Trump “Mexico!!!” they’d respond. is threatening a government shutdown if Congress doesn’t make US taxpayers open Now he’s President, however. And their coffers to build the border wall. building the wall is going to be a bit more “And we are building a wall on the south- difficult than he promised it would be. ern border, which is absolutely necessary,” And quite expensive. Somehow, crowds chanting “Mexico is going to pay for it!” he declared. has turned into his crowds cheering about “Build that wall! Build that wall! Build paying for the wall, if only Democrats will that wall!” the crowd chanted back at let them. him.“Build that wall,” he said back. “Now House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi the obstructionist Democrats would like us not to do it. But believe me, if we have to dismissed the idea that Democrats would close down our government, we’re building cave easily and give their blessing to the that wall. Let me be very clear to Demo- wall and its price tag in a tweet Wednesday. crats in Congress who oppose a border wall “.@POTUS’ attempt to bully taxpayers and stand in the way of border security: You are putting all of America’s safety at into funding his immoral & expensive borrisk. You’re doing that. You’re doing that.” der wall is completely unacceptable,” she said.

Let’s set aside for now the incredible poDemocrats aren’t the only ones who need litical brinksmanship he’s engaging in here

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The Wall to be convinced.

cording to CNN’s report at the time from Deirdre Walsh and Jeremy Herb. (How The House has, it should be said, much will the wall cost? More than $21 bilOKed $1.6 billion to get started on the bor- lion, according to an internal DHS memo.) der wall in a spending bill passed in July.

There’s a good chance Trump never acThat’s a fraction of what will be needed tually believed Mexico would pay for the to build the wall Trump promised and it was wall, by the way. A short-lived proposal a fraction of the spending bill Republicans for a 20% import tax on Mexico caused a slipped it into. It wasn’t just Democrats stir and has since been walked back. Other House GOP leaders had to wheel around proposals, like a tax on remittances or seizto get that funding; they tucked it into an ing money from drug cartels are equally otherwise unrelated defense measure, ac- difficult or impractical.

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LOCAL & STATE BRIEFS

Calhoun Loft

Violence in Charlottesville Prompts New Name for University of Houston Dorms [Houston Public Media]

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he recent violence in Charlottesville has prompted the University of Houston to rename one of its dorms, which shared a name with John C. Calhoun, who advocated for slavery. Technically, the Calhoun Lofts at UH were named for the city street that runs in front of the dorms, which are reserved for upperclassmen. But the University of Houston has decided to change the name to “University Lofts” as soon as it’s practical. Calhoun was a U.S. vice president who promoted slavery and was a white supremacist. UH spokesman Mike Rosen said in a statement that UH decided to change the dorm name because of recent events and “out of sensitivity” to the diverse student body on campus.

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Houston and Texas Central Sign Deal to Develop High-Speed Train [Railway-technology.com]

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he City of Houston and railroad company Texas Central have signed an agreement to develop a new bullet train system. The joint agreement outlined the construction of a high-speed train between Houston and North Texas, including proposed traveller-friendly connections between the new train station and the greater Houston region. It was signed between Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and representatives of Texas Central. Both parties will also finalize Houston’s passenger station site, which is scheduled to be built around the area south of US 290, west of Loop 610 and north of Interstate 10. The project is expected to generate nearly $36bn in direct economic activity over the next 25 years, as well as create around 10,000 direct jobs annually during construction and up to 1,000 jobs after commencing operations.

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Restraining Order Against City of Houston In Homelessness Suit [CW39.com]

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federal court issued a temporary restraining order against the City of Houston Tuesday in an ongoing lawsuit challenging two city ordinances that target the homeless. Specifically, Tuesday’s ruling prevents law enforcement from citing or arresting anyone for using a tent on public property. The ACLU of Texas, the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and Dechert LLP applied for the restraining order following police raids of a Houston homeless encampment.

Attorneys for both sides must now meet to determine a date for a full hearing on the lawsuit. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the city of Houston was disappointed in the order that was released.

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Prairie View A&M University Breaks Records for Freshman Enrollment [PVAMU.edu]

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or the second year in a row, Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) is on pace to again exceed its enrollment goal. The university is currently trending 8% ahead of last year’s certified enrollment of 8,762. That surge is driven in large part by a nearly 15.0 percent increase in the number of first-time, full-time freshmen. Additionally, PVAMU has noted a 2-4% increase in retention for continuing students. While these record enrollment numbers are not yet finalized, as enrollment numbers are not official until after the 20th day of classes, the preliminary results mark extraordinary enrollment growth.

Given last year’s phenomenal growth, the university put several measures in place to accommodate an increased student body.

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Health Care

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Texas Ranks Among the Absolute Worst States for Healthcare [ABC13.com/Houston Culture Map]

hen it comes to healthcare, the Lone Star State is near the bottom of the list. According to a new study from WalletHub, Texas is the 11th worst state for healthcare in 2017. The financial website ranked the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia on metrics in three categories: cost, accessibility, and outcome. In Texas, monthly insurance premiums are $302 on average (the eighth cheapest), and we pay $95 for a medical visit and $88 for a dental visit, also among the cheapest costs. However, our overall cost ranking is No. 44, due in part to the staggering 18.2 percent of adults won’t go to the doctor simply because of the cost.

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James Harden

NBA Star James Harden Donates $100,000 to Texas Southern University [HBCUSports.com]

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BA superstar James Harden is uniquely identified by his long flowing beard and herky-jerky game that has made him one of the game’s best shooting guards. You can now add HBCU donor to his resume.

The NBA Live 18 cover boy recently donated $100,000 to Texas Southern that is expected to be earmarked for scholarships toward assisting students in financial need, FOX 26 Houston reported. TSU President Austin Lane thought Harden’s gift was amazing coming from such as icon as he considering the lowest socioeconomic backgrounds of the TSU student body.

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TAMU Students Fundraise for First African American Statue [KAGSTV.com]

he campus of Texas A&M is filled with many statues that represent the rich history of the University, and now students at A&M are on a mission to add to that history by bringing the first African American statue to the campus. Michael Buse said they are starting the process of trying to get a statue of Mathew Gaines at Texas A&M. Gaines is a former slave turned state senator and was a key part of the creation of Texas A&M University, which is why organizers feel having a statue of Gaines would add to the history of the University. “There is no representation of any people of color who were involved in the creation of Texas A&M, it’s all white men, so we think it’s time for that representation of our narrative to come into fruition,” said Buse.

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Six Flags Brings Down Confederate Flags [Money.CNN.com]

ix Flags is no longer flying the Confederate flag. Six Flags Entertainment Corp (SIX), which owns 20 amusement parks in North America, removed the Confederate flag on Friday from the three parks that were still flying it, two in Texas and one in Georgia.

The Confederate flag was removed from Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington and Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio, and from Six Flags Over Georgia outside Atlanta, the company said. “We’re just choosing to display symbols that everyone can support, that being the American flag,” Six Flags spokeswoman Sandra Daniels told CNNMoney. “We’re flying all American flags.” She said that some parks were flying their state flags, as well.

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JPMorgan Gives $1 Million to Fight Hate Groups After Charlottesville [CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire]

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PMorgan Chase is fighting back against hate groups by donating $1 million to nonprofits that expose extremists. The nation’s largest bank announced on Monday that it is giving $1 million to be split equally by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. The donations are part of an effort to address “deep divisions” in the U.S. following a violent white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia this month, the bank said. JPMorgan said it has previously given to both groups, which the bank praised for “tracking, exposing and fighting hate groups and other extremist organizations across the country.”

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Mary J. Blige

IRS Is Seeking $6.5 Million From Mary J. Blige in Back Taxes [TheGrio.com]

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he ugly details of Mary J. Blige’s divorce proceedings from Martin ‘Kendu’ Isaacs are emerging. The biggest news is the $6.5 million that is owed to the IRS in back taxes. According to the Grio, Blige makes $326,930 a month which helps pays her mortgage on her Los Angeles rental home, two Mercedes-Benz, and a New Jersey mansion that is listed as un-rentable. An order has made for her to pay Issacs $30,000 (originally he requested $130,000 a month) a month. The funds will pay for his monthly spending and the care of his parents and children from a past relationship.

Baby Powder

Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417 Million in Talcum Powder Case [CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire]

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n Monday, a jury awarded a California woman $417 million because she developed ovarian cancer and had used Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder for decades. The award includes $70 million in compensatory damages and $347 million in punitive damages. Eva Echeverria, a 63-year-old from Los Angeles, said she had been using the powder routinely since she was 11 years old and stopped using it in 2016 after developing ovarian cancer.

She would have stopped sooner if their were warning labels on the product. The company has no legal obligation to put such a label on its product.

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Best Buy No Longer Eclipsed by Amazon [CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire]

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mazon’s stock has surged nearly 30% in the past year. If you think that’s impressive (it is), consider this: Best Buy, a company many investors assumed was in big trouble because of the threat from Amazon, is up 55%. The brick and mortar retailer’s remarkable success is all the more impressive because it sells many of the same things you can buy on Amazon. Some retailers appear Amazon-proof. Home Depot comes to mind.

You’re probably a lot more likely to go to Home Depot for plywood than purchase it from Amazon. In the case of Best Buy, there have been plenty of jokes (including ones made by me) about its brick and mortar stores being nothing more than an Amazon showroom.

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Celebrities Going Into the Business of Beauty and Fashion [StyleMagazine.com Newswire]

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abrielle Union and Rhianna are the latest celebrities making dive into the business of beauty and fashion.

Union debut her new fashion line with New York & Co. this month. The cost efficient line is a real eye catcher featuring brightly colored kimono jackets, sweater dresses, jumpsuits and more fashion must-haves in sizes from 0 to 20. Rihanna will launch her makeup line on September 8th with retailers Sephora and Harvey Nichols. With a tagline, “A New Generation of Beauty,” details are still scarce about the product line. It is clear this won’t be the singer last beauty/fashion endeavor as Vanity Fair reports that trademarks for several potential businesses were purchased in her name.

McDonald’s Cancels Franchises for 169 Restaurants in India [CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire]

n Monday, a jury awarded a California woman $417 million because she developed ovarian cancer and had used Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder for decades. The award includes $70 million in compensatory damages and $347 million in punitive damages. Eva Echeverria, a 63-year-old from Los Angeles, said she had been using the powder routinely since she was 11 years old and stopped using it in 2016 after developing ovarian cancer.

She would have stopped sooner if their were warning labels on the product. The company has no legal obligation to put such a label on its product.

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eOne & La Commission Join Forces to Create New Latin Label [Radiofacts.com]

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ntertainment One (eOne), leading global independent studio and music company, has inked a new deal with multi-faceted entertainment company, La Commission to create a new Latin music label. Focused on live music concerts in multiple genres across the United States, La Commission was founded by its CEO, Artie Pabon, a music industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience, who is now joined by Latin urban music powerhouse and La Commission’s Vice-President, Carlos Javier Casillas, a fundamental force behind the development of Latin music’s first urban genre record label, Machete Music. The deal was spearheaded by Pabon and Alan Grunblatt, eOne’s President of Rock & Urban. The first signing under this deal is Latin trap superstar Bryant Myers.

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Walmart Teams Up With Google to Tackle Amazon [CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire]

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f you can’t beat ‘em, partner with Google. Walmart is getting ready to go toe-to-toe with Amazon on voice shopping, teaming up with Google to enable people to order its products through Google Assistant. Walmart is trying “to simplify people’s lives and help them shop in ways they’ve not yet imagined,” Marc Lore, who heads Walmart’s e-commerce efforts, said in a statement Wednesday. The partnership is a direct challenge to Amazon’s voice shopping with Alexa, which the company has been heavily pushing with promotions and discounts.

It’s also the latest example of how online shopping is forcing tech firms and traditional retailers to pool their resources.

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HBCUs Finding Avenues of Help with UNCF

By Jo-Carolyn Goode, Managing Editor

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istorically Black Colleges and Universities are in dire need of help. Their lifeline was promised to them this past February from the Trump administration when he paraded close to 100 HBCUs presidents to Washington, D.C. for that massive photo opp when he signed the new HBCU initiative.

Announcing that the initiative would be a top priority for his administration, he moved it from the Department of Education to the White House with the new name Presidential Executive Order on The White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

The order was to establish an executive director to the new initiative that would focus on enhancing relations with the private sector, enhancing planning and development, and participating in federal programming. This greatly pleased UNCF President and CEO Dr. Michael Lomax who at the time called it a move in the right direction to promote the critical mission of HBCUs. Since that historic

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exas Southern University’s Board of Regents unanimously confirmed Melinda Spaulding Chevalier as the new Vice President of University Advancement. Spaulding, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, will direct the university’s marketing, communications, development and alumni relations departments. The confirmation took place at the board’s quarterly meeting on August 18.

“We are elated to have a dynamic and seasoned professional join our university,” said TSU President Dr. Austin A. Lane.

“Melinda’s experiences across the public spectrum in Houston and the region will help TSU raise its profile on a national and global level. Texas Southern is honored to have her join our dedicated administration and the Tiger family.”

Spaulding was a member of the KRIVTV/Fox 26 news team for 13 years, co-anchoring the prime-time evening and night news broadcasts. She was a reporter and anchored morning updates at WGNO-TV, the ABC news affiliate in New Orleans. She

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day that has been the only real step taken to funding every child possible to go to college. help HBCUs so Dr. Lomax along with HBCUs have felt lied to by the administration.

The message was universal of all those on the program. Mayor Sylvester Turner includHe addressed the issue on a recent trip to ed in his remarks, “If we are expecting help Houston at the annual Mayor’s Luncheon to come around the corner, it’s not going to benefitting UNCF. An impassion Dr. Lomax come. We have to take care of our house.” He said HBCUs presidents were told the Trump continued, “Leadership may not come from administration would support them but the top. It sometimes has to come from the instead they hurt students by cutting work bottom.” He challenged the audience to start study funding by half and decreasing the to hold people accountable when they don’t amount of Pell Grants. Both of these entities teach our children and to not grow weary are essential for students to help fund their in giving. “I want to create living, walking education when they are already financially students and not dead monuments who are strapped. “This is a crisis moment for higher successful despite dead history” (referencing education,” said Dr. Lomax.

Confederate statues honoring dead Confederate soldiers).

Where Trump and his cabinet have failed to step up, Congressional leaders like Al One of those living students spoke about Green and Sheila Jackson Lee have stepped her HBCU experience at Huston-Tillotson in by helping to pass legislation for students University. Now in her senior year, Taleah to be able to use Pell Grants to pay for Moore is the Student Government Associasummer school. Congressman Al Green, tion President and Former Miss UNCF 2016. who was also at the luncheon to present a She said that attending an HBCU was not Congressional Certificate to Dr. Lomax and her original college choice but she is so glad UNCF, promised to continue to help with she attends an HBCU. She has gained expe-

riences like none other and became “woke” in the process. “We are nothing without our education. Students like us are making things happen for tomorrow,” said Moore.

The audience sure became “woke” to the critical needs of HBCUs and responded accordingly filling out pledge cards to put their money behind UNCF and their mission of not wasting minds. UNCF has raised almost $5 billion to send 445,000 students to college.

TSU Regents Confirm Melinda Spaulding As New VP of University Advancement was awarded an Emmy for Best Spot News Coverage and named Best Spot News Reporter for her work at WGNO by the regional Associated Press. Spaulding started her journalism career in New York as a member of the launch team for Entertainment Weekly Online and as the first editor-in-chief of Essence Online. She went on to become a writer and morning news producer at KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, winning the Best News Writing award from the regional Associated Press.

Spaulding, a native of New Jersey, is a graduate of Howard University. She is a former board member of Family Houston and served on the advisory board for Pro Vision, Inc., an open-enrollment charter middle and high school in the Sunnyside community.

She started the Dream Journal Academy to provide journals to area school children so they can write about their passions and dreams to bolster their education and personal aspirations.

Spaulding and her husband, Felix Chevalier, are the proud parents of a daughter, Landon and a son, Felix II. Melinda Spaulding

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FEATURE HBRW: Serving Up Black Businesses as the Main Dish

Boss Kids: Mini Moguls On the Rise in Business

By Jo-Carolyn Goode, Managing Editor

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id jobs were different years ago. Paper routes, cutting neighborhood yards, and the ever popular lemonade stand were the usual. Kids’ goals were fairly simple for raising money. They wanted to buy some toy or game or sometimes even shoes that mom may have said were too expensive. Today’s kids would laugh at yesteryear’s kids as they are taking businesses started in their tiny bedrooms to the bargaining table inside big boardrooms where they are calling the shots and making deals, pulling in cash, and employing more than just mom and dad. Advancements in technology and the use of social media have allowed today’s kids to really develop their business and brand into something big.

“Let’s do this.” In April 2012, the girls were in business with an online store selling suga scrubs and body mists. It was not until they added the mobile spa service component that their business really took off. While their young clients age 5-13 sip on almond water, the suga architects, someone who strategically designs and creates sweet and amazing things, go into the homes of their clients and spoil them with mini manis, pedis, and facials.

The experience is capped off with a toast with their signature beverage, the Sugatini.

Kamryn Johnson and Saniya Symone – Kam & Niya

Kamryn Johnson and Saniya Symone have become a packaged deal. The two friends had their own separate lives and careers in the beginning as models and actresses. Through their work, they began to receive tons of advice and they thought they just had to share it but they also wanted to pay tribute to influential women. Using social media, the girls began a series of videos portraying influential black women. Those videos caught Layla and Mya are doing more than just dishing the eye of producers at the nationally syndicated out some really sweet services; they are changing show “The Real” and the girls found themselves on national TV sharing their message on a much the lives of their clients. “We are grateful to have larger platform.

Before they make their first million, kids have fun and make money with our parties but if we to put in the initial work to build their brand and can inspire other girls to not only dream but take Their brand has another dynamic to it besides business. Houston Style Magazine spotlights a action, we have done what God has called for us empowerment. Kam & Niya are also budding little few of Houston’s kidpreneurs who are well on to do,” the girls said. It does their hearts proud chefs with their own story cookbook, “Cooking in their way as they build brand awareness, call the when they hear about previous clients who they Style.” Of course, there are plenty of kid-friendly shots, form partnerships, and hold it down as a have inspired to start their own business and live recipes but there is unique storytelling piece with out their dreams. boss kid. stories written by the girls to promote literacy, another form of empowerment.

Suga Babes is a true family affair with the Layla and Mya Parish – Suga Babes girls and their mom and have made their bond as Though they are in the business of empowering “Mom, we want to start a sugar scrub busi- mother/daughters even strong. This is why they others, Kam & Niya have to take their own advice ness,” is what a then ten-year-old Layla Parish want to franchise their mobile spa business to to empower themselves. Balancing schoolwork and six-year-old Mya Parish told their mother. other mother/daughter teams. Book your mobile and activities with the demands of their business Her response was that of any supportive parent, spa party through their website, suga-babes.com. can be a struggle but the support of family helps 10 10

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the girls push through. Being taken seriously is also another challenge the girls faced and in the beginning, they tackled by trying to sound like adults. However, they learned to stop trying to be someone that they were not and stay true to themselves by speaking from a kid’s perspective. This is still their ongoing message as they continue to book speaking engagement to empower children to follow their own dreams, develop signature events, and grow their product line. Follow their evolving children’s empowerment network at kamandniya.com.

themselves to accomplish anything that they set their mind to do, just as she has.

Journie credits her success thus far to her supportive family and her sheer drive to be the best at all she does. Her best advice to future kid bosses is to surround yourself with liked minds and just go for it. “Some days will be harder than other days and you have to stay consistent and positive,” said Bell.

Products of Jewel Box by Journie B are being sold at her grandmother’s boutique, My Boutique Journie Bell – Jewel Box By Journie

by Carol and her website, JournieBell.com. She also has had some success at pop up shops and Seven-year-old Journie Bell is new to the busi- plans to continue to develop more opportunities ness world but growing fast in popularity. In the like that. As she continues to work, Journie will beginning, Journie’s focus was only on the busi- stay positive, block out negativity and remain ness of herself as an actress, model, and dancer. humble.

Doing that, however, did not fulfill her desire of wanting to give back. In April of this year, she With all of these kid bosses, there were several added business owner to her resume with the constant messages for their success – supportive launch of Jewel Box by Journie B. Selling brace- families, the belief in themselves, and having a lets, lip balm, and tanks, Journie uses the tagline positive attitude. Keep these elements close and “Just Believe” to encourage others to believe in you too could be a boss kid.

Gregory, Civil Rights Activist and Comedian, Dead at 84 ENTERTAINMENT Dick

By Steve Almasy and Faith Karimi, CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire

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omedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, who broke barriers in the 1960s and became one of the first African-Americans to perform at white clubs, died Saturday. He was 84.

Gregory recently rescheduled an event in Atlanta because he was hospitalized. He died in Washington, his son posted on social media without giving details.“The family appreciates the outpouring of support and love, and respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time,” Christian Gregory said. “More details will be released over the next few days.”

dy albums.When he was not making people laugh, he attended marches and parades to support various issues, including civil rights and the opposition to the Vietnam War. Gregory was also a health and spiritual advocate and a motivational speaker. He wrote several books, including “Murder in Memphis,” which analyzed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Following the news of Gregory’s passing, fellow civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson paid tribute to him.

“He taught us how to laugh. He taught us how to fight. He taught us how to live,” he tweeted. “Dick Gregory was committed to Gregory satirized segregation and racial justice. I miss him already.” injustice in his acts, and was arrested several In a message to fans posted on his Instatimes in the 1960s for joining civil rights rallies. He was relatively unknown until 1961, gram account after he rescheduled the event when the prestigious Playboy Club in Chicago in Atlanta, Gregory talked about the political asked him to fill in for comedian Irwin Corey climate in the US. “I’ve so much to say and one night. can’t wait to get out of here and say it,” he wrote Wednesday.

Until that night, he said in a biography on his website, he had worked at small clubs Musician John Legend, who produced a filled with black audiences. His gig as Corey’s play that focuses on Gregory’s life last year, replacement was successful. After winning took on Twitter to honor Gregory. “Dick over a majority white audience that night, the Gregory lived an amazing, revolutionary life.

Playboy Club offered him a three -year con- A groundbreaker in comedy and a voice for tract, turning him into a headline performer. justice,” Legend tweeted. Fellow comedian DL Hughley paid tribute to Gregory after From there, his fame grew as he appeared news of his death “Heaven just got funnier,” on numerous TV shows and recorded come- Hughley tweeted.

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Lovell’s Food for Thought: Reinventing the Wheel As a Threat to Progress

By Dr. Lovell A. Jones

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s humans, we are always striving to receive credit for creating and/ or doing something new. What I have learned, is that, for most things, they are not new, we are just improving on a concept. But when does improving and/or reinventing something become detrimental to the process? That is the question I am asking, especially in terms of health inequities, where the funds to address this issue is not limitless, but the knowledge brought together is.

I firmly believe that the health of African Americans is dependent on the health of All Americans and that the health of all Americans is dependent on the health of African Americans. One of the strengths of the former Congressionally mandated Center for Research on Minority Health (CRMH), as well as its Achilles Heel, was the fact that it tried to address the health of all American.

Focusing primarily on the underserved, it built its efforts around its Community Relations Coordinators (African Ameri-

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lack All-American Pageant Systems, Inc. announces the 2018 Miss Black America Coed Pageant on Sunday, September 3, 2017 at 3:00pm CST at the Granville Arts Center. The 2018 Miss Black America Coed Competition will allow contestants to showcase their intelligence, love of self, and poise on the national stage while representing their community as they compete for the coveted title of Miss Black America Coed 2018. Roneshia Ray, the reigning Miss Black America Coed and Jayda Dodd, Miss Black American Princess will be special VIP guests.

Over the course of Labor Day Weekend (September 1-3, 2017), contestants from across the country will be engrossed in a number of activities leading up to the final night of competition. As they compete in the traditional areas of pageantry including fitness, evening gown, talent, private interview and question & answer, contestants will show their best self for a panel of distinguished judges.

Newly crowned winners will receive a prize package with a scholarship up to $1,500 and other gifts. Miss Black America Coed 2018 will embark a yearlong full of speaking engagements, community service activities, and other special events. She will serve as a mentor for the Miss Black America Coed signature service program, Charm School.

The national mentoring program is one that

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cans – Kelly Hodges); Asian Americans – Dr. Beverly Gor; Native Americans – Cheryl Downing; and Hispanic Americans – Angelina Esparza). Although we did not have a specific Community Relations Coordinator for the poor or rural Americans, their issues were always front and center.

CRMH was a multi-disciplinary with the community always at the center of what it did. Again, this was our greatest strength and our greatest weakness. Focusing on the community truly allowed us to come up with unique and sustainable solutions. However, by not approaching a specific ethnic group created funding issues.

For example, when we approached one government agency with a grant they clearly wanted to fund, we were given a choice, focus on one population or not be funded. You know what we decided. It was better to have something than nothing. And what we learned, we passed on to those grantees working on other pop-

ulations. And I will let you guess about whether we focused on only one population.

Today, because of the renewed interest in health disparities/inequities, there are many more groups popping up to address this issue. The problem is that there are many more groups popping up to address this issue, creating more and more silos.

To me, this continues to be one of the major threats to addressing the issue health inequities, the continued need to reinvent the wheel. The continued need for someone to be assigned credit.

I just saw another organization being created to hold another meeting to address the issue of health. My first thoughts were, “Why are they doing this? What is the real reason(s) behind this effort?” I am not asking these questions because I have seen or tried everything; I have not.

But being at this for almost forty years, there are very few things I have not seen and/or tried. My next thought was what were they trying that was new? From my review, I can safely say that what they

were trying I have seen this and tried it more than once before.

So, my question to any group addressing this issue or any other issue is, have you surveyed to see what is out there? If so, is the group and/or organization still around?

If they are, find out why have they been successful or not in addressing the issue?

If they have or have not so far, is there a need to form a new organization? If so, why? Can an alliance be formed with the organization(s), bringing your strengths together? If there is a need to create something new after going through this exercise that is great. However, if there is not a real need, forming such new group(s)/organization(s) may do more harm than good.

And finally, think about this, creating more slices to a pie does not necessarily increase the number who can be fed at the table.

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is adopted by all local, state, and national queens of Miss Black America Coed where the queens mentor young ladies by hosting workshops that include but are not limited to the areas of self-love, self-confidence, skincare, vision boarding, proper attire and poise.

Tickets are currently on sale for the 2018 Miss Black America Coed Pageant. Tickets to the talent and question & answer show on Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 6:00pm are $__. Tickets to the final night and crowning of Miss Black America Coed 2018 on Sunday, September 3, 2017 at 3:00pm at the Granville Arts Center are $__. Family and friends are also asked to show their support for their favorite contestants in the People’s Choice Competition where they contribute a $1 per vote per contestant. Money collected will go toward the Miss Black America Coed Scholarship Fund. All tickets and contributions can be made online at www.MissBlackAmericaCoed.org.

Contestants and sponsors are still being seek for the 2018 Miss Black America Coed Pageant. Young ladies ages 18 & up can still register for the pageant at www.MissBlackAmericaCoed.org. For more information, visit www.MissBlackAmericaCoed.org and follow us on Twitter and Instagram @MissBlackAmCoed and like us on facebook.com/ MissBlackAmericaCoed/ Miss Black America Coed Roneshia Ray

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EATFill WITH STYLE Up Your Food Tank Without Emptying Your Wallet at The Oceanaire

By TotallyRandie, Feature Writer

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o, we are well into week 3 of Houston Restaurant Weeks (HRW) and are rounding third bringing it home.

But, before we do let’s recap week two!

Of course, with every #EatingWithStyle segment that I write, I want to bring you something out of the norm. This week I wanted to taste more bang for my buck! It was #SundayFunday and my siblings and I planned to have a sibling dinner.

flavor are exceeded. The menu is based on market availability, therefore our selections change each day,” said Chef Kirkland.

Since I’m always the one picking the restaurants I suggested The Oceanaire Seafood Room. I have perused over the HRW list at least 100 times, and while I could be wrong because so many restaurants are participating and giving back, I believe Oceanaire is the only restaurant that has a Surf & Turf on their menu (that doesn’t include a surcharge).

It wet my appetite for my second course.

My five siblings choose, the Shrimp Diablo (large bacon wrapped shrimp with cream cheese and jalapeno), Seafood Gumbo (shrimp, crab, and andouille sausage), which comes in a cute teacup with just the right amount of rice, and Salmon smoked to perfection with capers, pickled shallots and whole grain mustard mayonnaise.

The Oceanaire Seafood Room is tucked in a corner of the Galleria Mall located in Houston, TX, nestled next to Peli Peli and Kona Grill. With their seafood being imported every 24 hours, their commitment to freshness sets them apart from the rest.

Their culinary team is headed by Executive Chef Lawrence Kirkland.

For my second course, I surfed & turfed with a 5oz Prime Flat Iron Medium Rare Steak, and a fresh 5oz Lobster Tail. Add garlic butter sauce and a shared a ’la carte side order and I was reaching full on my food tank! My siblings rode my wave and surfed right along with me, with the exception of my baby sister who choose the cheesy Shrimp & Grits (5 sautéed shrimp with Cajun butter sauce & white cheddar grits).

“Only top-of-the-catch fish from the world’s most reputable suppliers is served, and each dish is carefully crafted to ensure the restaurant’s high standards of quality and

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But enough of the big talk WHAT DID I EAT? For our first course, I had the Mini Crab Cake. Yes, it is mini and there is only one, but it’s packed with flavor! The creamy mustard mayo opened up the flavor of the fresh crab and onion.

By this time, we were so full that we forgot that we had dessert coming. I choose

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the Cheesecake, which is your traditionally made cheesecake with a graham cracker crust, caramel and chocolate drizzle, topped with chopped nuts. My siblings choose the same thing with the exception of my younger sister who went with the Key Lime Pie. If you are thinking that you are not getting enough food when you go dine, maybe you are visiting the wrong restaurant.

As if this amazing meal wasn’t enough, The Oceanaire Seafood Room also gives

you the option to choose a bottle of wine (Chardonnay or Cabernet) for an additional 35 dollars. The service was amazing and the atmosphere gave my siblings the perfect dinner we needed before we sent off our baby sister to Texas A&M to start her sophomore year. If you visit them tell them TotallyRandie sent you!

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BOOKS

“Truth Doesn’t Have a Side”

by Dr. Bennet Omalu (with Mark Tabb)

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By Terri Schlichenmeyer, Book Reviewer

veryone you meet has an effect on your life. Somehow, in some way, others change you: a stranger’s smile lifts your mood. Kindness makes you happy. An injustice spurs you to action, making you someone else’s change.

Clearly, as in the new memoir “Truth Doesn’t Have a Side” by Dr. Bennet Omalu (with Mark Tabb), a chance meeting could alter your path.

Sometime toward the end of 2002, Bennett Omalu met Mike Webster. More specifically, Omalu met Autopsy A02-5214.

That was Webster. It was a meeting that Omalu later said he wished had never happened…

Omalu was born in the midst of a bombing raid on the small Nigerian town in which his parents had taken refuge.

Civil war didn’t last long but it left its mark: Omalu says he was always physically small for his age, due to wartime malnutrition, but it didn’t affect his mental abilities. Omalu’s father, a self-made man with a college degree, insisted that his children become educated; Omalu started school at age three.

He was an introverted child, a dreamer, and “lazy,” but Omalu knew he could get good grades if he wanted them. The problem was, he didn’t want them, until an older sister enticed him with money. His grades rose and he became a star student who dreamed of becoming a pilot – but Omalu’s father had other ideas. He wanted another doctor in the family.

Unwilling to disappoint his father, Omalu entered medical school at age sixteen, with an eye toward going to America. Med school revealed to him that he was uncomfortable with caring for living patients so, by the time he emigrated, he’d shifted his focus to a career in research.

Later, he reached for a fellowship in pathology.

His first autopsy was unsettling, he says, until he recognized the humanity of the remains before him. As he does even today, he asked the deceased to help him understand.

And then he met Mike Webster…So you’ve seen the movie, Concussion. You may’ve even read the book. So why read

this one, written by the guy the other book and film are about?

If you’ve always felt that the book is better than the movie, you know why: in “Truth Doesn’t Have a Side,” author Bennet Omalu (with Mark Tabb) offers his own tale, first-hand, with a different focus. Omalu tells readers more about himself, explaining how faith protects and drives him, and laying his success at God’s feet. This, along with his detailed story, gives a clearer picture of the man who confronted the NFL. And that’s where the second half of this book takes you: to Omalu’s discovery, uncovery, his opinions and conclusions, and his battle for recognition, both in findings

and out. It’s this second half that may disturb football fans. It may shock parents.

It could change your weekends. If you can handle that, then grab this elegantly graceful, informative bio-wrapped-in-science and have a seat. “Truth Doesn’t Have a Side” is good, so settle in and meet your next favorite book.

For another side of the subject, check out “Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope” by John Saunders. It’s a story of football and depression – something, coincidentally, that Omalu says he suffered from, too. Together, these books will have you glued to your seat.

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August 25-27 “Say That He Had More Than A Dream” Houston Museum of African American Culture, 4807 Caroline St 8:00pm (8/25-26) 3:00pm (8/27)

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August 26 Fall Fashion and Philanthropy Unite at The Woman’s Hospital of Texas 14th Annual Labor Day Luncheon & Style Show Royal Sonesta Houston Hotel, 2222 West Loop South 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Texas Southern University BBVA Compass Stadium, 2200 Texas Street 8:00pm

September 3 All White Charity Fashion Show Hobby Center, 800 Bagby Street 7 p.m.-11p.m.

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Congressman Al Green’s Health Fair

Photography by Vicky Pink ongressman Al Green partnered with Community Health Choice and HISD for the Green Light to Healthy Living Health Fair. Free was the word of the day as attendees could take advantage of free immunizations, flu shots, dental screenings, mobility screenings, and health screenings. In addition, there were reps to help with WIC registration and give information on Medicaid and CHIP. There was even a drawing for free bikes and other prizes. Plus, 200 kids got free backpacks filled with school supplies. It was the perfect way to jumpstart the new school year.

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Ensemble Theatre’s 2017 Black Tie Gala Photography by Vicky Pink he Ensemble Theatre celebrated the Grand Finale of its 4oth Anniversary at the 2017 Annual Black Tie Gala: Live It! Love It! Celebrate! This event was held to honor the artists, companies, organizations, and individuals whose unparalleled support enables The Ensemble Theatre to be one of Houston’s most esteemed cultural institutional treasures. This year’s honorees included S. Epatha Merkerson, Renee Goldsberry, Nkrumah Gatling, Reginald Van Lee, Lauren Anderson, Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, and Energy Software Consultants.

Gala chairs were The Honorable Rodney Ellis and Licia Green-Ellis, Martin Fein and Kelli Cohen Fein, Merele Yarborough and Jane-Page Crump. Some in attendance were Janette Cosley, Eileen J. Morris, Robert Ross, Mayor Sylvester Turner, James Harris, Terry Williams, Khambrel Marshall, Argentina James, Rhonda Arnold, Samica Knight, City Councilman Jerry Davis, and Rep. Shawn Thierry.

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