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COMMENTARY ‘I Do Not Believe You Are a Racist’

By Jesse Jackson, National Political Writer In 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation — specifically segregation of schools — violated the Constitution.

Separate but equal was inherently unequal. They ordered communities to integrate their schools. Once again resistance was immediate and widespread.

African Americans were forced to go to court to enforce their rights. One result was court-ordered busing.

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t the Miami Democratic Presidential Debate, Kamala Harris questioned Joe Biden about his opposition to integrating the schools through court-ordered busing. Biden responded: “I did not oppose busing in America.

What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education.” After the debate, Biden spoke at the Rainbow Push Convention in Chicago. He said, “I want to be absolutely clear about my record and position on racial justice, including busing. I never, never, ever opposed voluntary busing.”

As Kamala Harris noted in the debate, Joe Biden is not a racist. He served the country well as a senator and as Barack Obama’s vice president. On this question, however, he has lined up with the

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opposing team.

In the struggle for civil rights, the stakes were clear. After the Civil War brought an end to slavery, the Reconstruction — the effort to integrate the slave states of the South — was resisted widely, and rapidly brought to an end.

The former slave states claimed to have state rights over laws concerning labor, voting rights, education, health care and civil rights. Under the banner of states’ rights, they enforced legal segregation — apartheid, stripping black citizens of their rights. Blacks were banned from restaurants and hotels. Schools were segregated. Voting rights were suppressed. Blacks were forced to sit at the back of the bus.

For Dr. King and the civil rights movement, the claim of states’ rights was always the segregationist dodge.

It took federal intervention to gain the right to public accommodations, to enforce the right to vote, to enforce desegregation of schools. To this day, federal intervention is vital, as Vice President Biden knows, to deal with the structural racism of police forces, voting rights, racially motivated hate crimes and more.

When Ronald Reagan opened his presidential campaign in Mississippi talking about states’ rights, everyone got the message. There were two sides of history and he was on the other side from those seeking equal justice for all.

As a Senator, Biden initially supported busing. Then the white backlash grew. Racially separate communities in the North — often forged with red lining and restrictive covenants that effectively segregated communities — started to get challenged in court. The schools in black communities were often more crowded, shabbier and less well funded than those in the white suburbs. Com-

munities resisted integration — and so courts began to order busing and redistricting to integrate schools.

Communities like Wilmington, Delaware faced the threat of court ordered integration, so the pressure on Biden grew to oppose busing. It was then that he called busing “asinine,” and voted with segregationists like Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond on resolutions designed to prohibit the federal government — specifically the Department of Education -from enforcing court-ordered busing.

The problem wasn’t busing. Children are bused to school across America every day. The problem was where the bus was going. As Matthew Delmont, author of “Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation,” concluded, “Describing opposition to busing as something other than resistance to school desegregation was a move that obscured the histories of racial discrimination and legal contexts for desegregation orders.”

In 1975, Biden offered his own amendment to the education bill, mandating that no funds could be used to “assign teachers or students to schools … for reasons of race.” When the Biden amendment passed, Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, the only African American in the Senate, called it the “greatest symbolic defeat for civil rights since 1964.” It was later stripped from the bill.

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EDUCATION NEWS

GM Exec Touts Chevrolet’s DTU Fellowships and Other Programs That Feature HBCUs

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here are so many great men and women that are being developed and minds that are being cared for, cultivated inside of the schools and they don’t necessarily have the recruitment bandwidth and their career centers don’t have the relationships established to actually open up access to larger Fortune 500 companies,” Lester Booker, Jr., the project manager for communications operations at General Motors.

During a fellowship luncheon and fireside chat at the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) convention in Cincinnati, Lester Booker, Jr., the project manager for communications operations at General Motors explained to publishers and others why it’s important for the automaker and other Fortune 500 companies to invest in historically black colleges and universities (HBCUS).

“There are so many great men and women that are being developed and minds that are being cared for, cultivated inside of the schools and they don’t necessarily have the recruitment bandwidth and their career centers don’t have the relationships established to actually open up access to larger Fortune 500 companies,” Booker said.

“So, I think it is imperative that if we want to grab diverse talent, specifically in the African American community,” he said during the conversation with NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., on Thursday, June 27 at the Cincinnati Westin Hotel.

Chavis and Booker touted the fourth year of the popular Discover the Unexpected Journalism Fellowship program (DTU) that was developed by Chevrolet in 2016 as an HBCU fellowship program.

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“It’s purpose was to create and share optimistic stories while reinforcing the brand’s continued commitment to the African American community,” Booker said.

Chevrolet awards each of the six DTU fellows a $10,000 scholarship and a $5,000 stipend. The students form two teams of three people, and each team has access to an all-new 2019 Chevrolet Blazer during their reporting assignments.

Since 2016, Chevrolet has awarded in excess of $400,000 in scholarships and stipends in the annual program.

This year’s fellows are Elae Hill of North Carolina A&T; Sharon Joy Washington of Florida A&M; Tyla Barnes of Hampton University; Tedarius Abrams of Bethune-Cookman University; Emani Nichols of Morehouse College; and Miana Massey of Howard University.

The fellows will work this summer with NNPA member newspapers the Atlanta Voice, Chicago Crusader, Washington Informer, and Houston Forward Times.

mass media, or visual arts,” he said.

The fireside chat also included a video featuring DJ Envy, the famed disc jockey and music producer whose co-host of the popular syndicated radio show, “The Breakfast Club.’

Musician and author Fonzworth Bentley serves as the fellows’ Road Trip Advisor and both he and Envy are HBCU graduates.

“It’s definitely important for young African Americans to have time with influential leaders that they aspire to be like,” Booker said.

Since the DTU program’s establishment, Chavis said everyone has seen some of the best and brightest students.

Booker noted the success of Jordan Fisher, a 2017 graduate of Clark Atlanta whose began working for the media team on Stacey Abrams’ campaign for Georgia governor.

Fisher is currently a media manager and advisor for CNN political commentator and attorney Angela Rye’s political advocacy firm, IMPACT Strategies.

The program includes a boot camp, which Lester said immerses the fellows in “all things Chevrolet.” They also meet leaders from Chevrolet and NNPA publishers.

The program has also gained recognition by the Mosaic Awards panel which selected DTU as the winner of the Mosaic Award for Multicultural Online/ Interactive Campaign.

“The program started with Howard University in 2016,” Booker said. “We increased the reach of the program in 2017 to Spelman, Morehouse, Clark Atlanta …based on the overwhelming response, the online submission process was opened to all HBCU students in their sophomore through senior years with an interest in journalism, communications,

The award recognizes campaigns that are executed primarily through interactive marketing targeted toward multicultural markets.

Booker said GM has other partnerships that reach HBCU audiences.

“Through our Corporate Giving efforts, we’ve provided financial support

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to both Howard University and North Carolina A&T,” he said.

General Motors also has several other partnerships that will include an AutoDrive Challenge and a Buick Come Up Challenge.

“General Motors is a member of the billion-dollar roundtable, and we have been involved as one of the 28 companies who spend $1 billion with diverse-owned companies,” Booker said.

“We have an HBCU White House partnership … we’ve actually participated in a conference and met with presidents of many HBCUs to talk about how to develop these pipelines of talent to make sure that we’re actually creating a pipeline of talent for entry-level positions,” he said.

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HOUSTON SPOTLIGHT

Houston Symphony Annohopiuunces Performance With Three-Time Grammy Award-Winning Hip-Hop Artist Common Style Magazine Newswire

performance on September 4 at 7:30 p.m.

The multi-talented artist Common will perform selections from his latest albums, including the upcoming album “Let Love” due later this summer, as well as some of his most memorable hits. Since his 1992 album Can I Borrow a Dollar?, Common has remained one of hip-hop’s and popular culture’s most influential figures. In 2015, having starred in the film Selma, Common won the Academy Award alongside John Legend for “Best Original Song in a Motion Picture” for “Glory,” which was featured in the film. His 11th studio album, “Black America Again” on the ARTium/Def Jam label, features a collaboration with Stevie Wonder on the title track, as well as the end-title track to Ava Duvernay’s powerful Oscar-Nominated documentary 13TH, for which he also received the 2017 Emmy for “Best Music and Lyrics.”

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cademy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and three-time Grammy Award-winning actor, activist, and

hip-hop artist Common joins conductor Steven Reineke and the Houston Symphony for an unforgettable one-night-only

Common and Reineke, Houston Symphony Principal POPS Conductor, previously collaborated with symphony orchestras across the nation, beginning with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. where Reineke

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also serves as Principal POPS Conductor─which created this program for Common. Other orchestras include the San Francisco Symphony and the Chicago Symphony—the artist’s hometown Common said of performing with a symphony, “Hip-hop has a spontaneity to it and a freedom to it whereas orchestras and symphonies perform with written music, so you know what bar you’re going to end. It makes me stay on my toes.” (WBEZ Chicago) Common performs with the Houston Symphony September 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, 615 Louisiana Street, in Houston’s Theater District. Tickets are now on sale for Common with the Houston Symphony, as well as for most of the Symphony’s 2019–20 performances via houstonsymphony.org and 713.224.7575. Tickets may also be purchased at the Houston Symphony Patron Services Center in Jones Hall (Monday–Saturday, 12–6 p.m.).

Common with the houston symphony Wednesday, Sept. 4, 7:30 p.m.

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HOUSTON SPOTLIGHT DeQuina Moore Stars as Josephine Baker in Houston Production By: TotallyRandie

a couple of times and she is just fantastic so I would have to say a tie because I love them both.

HSM: You have your biopic coming out, who’s playing you?

DM: I get a lot of Keke Palmer, Nia Long, and yes I can’t think of her name but the girl from girlfriends, Williams’s girlfriend.

HSM: If you could marry your celebrity crush, who would that be?

DM: Oh, thats a good one girl.

Hmmm. I would have to say Jesse Williams. Not only is he beautiful, but also he’s an activist. I just think it’s so sexy that he’s an activist. He’s unapologetic in his activism and thats so hot.

HSM: Speaking of philanthropy, are there any organizations you have or are

a part of?

DM: Yes. I serve on the board of an organization called Bridge the Gap, which is a foundation that helps kids who are having issues at home or just in their personal life thru music.

DeQuina is always working on her music and wants to put out an album eventually as well as own a production company. Follow her on Facebook Twitter and Instagram @DeQuinaMoore The Ensemble Theatre is celebrating the life of Josephine Baker highlighting her childhood, her talent, and her strength as an activist June 27th-July 28th 2019. You do not want to miss this show! You can grab your tickets here www.ensemblehouston.com.

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eQuina Moore Brings the Untold Josephine Baker Story to Houston’s Ensemble Theatre

Other than her famous banana dress or Keri Hilson’s performance in Pretty Girl Rock, today’s younger generations may not know much about the multi-talented Josephine Baker. The fact that Baker spent her youth in poverty before learning how to dance and eventually discovering success on Broadway is definitely an accomplishment to marvel over.

And now thanks to native Houstonian DeQuina Moore, multi-generational audiences can experience Baker’s life story. A graduate of HSPVA, Moore got her start at the Ensemble when she was around 8 or 9 years old. She went on to audition for Spellman and the musical theatre at NYU. As one of three black people out of 65 total that NYU accepts, Moore was chosen in 1998 to study at one of the top musical theatre schools in the nation. Moore is joined by a couple of notable alumni that include: Lady Gaga, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Sidney Poitier, Anne Hathaway and many more.

So at this time in her life, with 9 plus years of hands-on experience of professional training before even stepping into college, Moore was more than ready to go full on star. After graduating and landing national commercials, her first Broadway role would be that of Chiffon in the 2003 production of “Little Shop of Horrors”. Catapulting into the spotlight Moore then goes on to tour with

“Flashdance the Musical”, and her latest tour, The Bodyguard (2016).

This type of training, practice, and experience was the only thing that could help bring Josephine to life. In the play, Moore plays Josephine (age 15 to 23) with 3 other co-stars. “Josephine Tonight” takes the audience through Josephine’s relationship with her mother, her husband, along with the ups and downs with being a black woman in America during the 20’s. Known as the first black super star, Josephine Baker proves herself to be a champion. Director and Musical Director/Choreographer Patdro Harris & Chika Kaba Ma’Atunde knew that they needed a strong, diverse lead that could deliver the vocals and dance moves that the Josephine set the world on fire with.

Moore prepared for the role by working out 4 days a week, going over her lines 100 times before rehearsing, taking a tap class, and researching Josephine to give you a colorfully live show that will keep spectators captivated. Houston Style got the change to ask Moore a few fun questions for our readers.

Houston Style Magazine: Favorite actor/actress to start opposite of?

DeQuina Moore: Denzel Washington/Viola Davis HSM: Would you rather dance for Beyoncé or Janet Jackson?

DM: Well I went to school with Beyoncé (HSPVA) and I’ve met Janet Jackson

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FEATURE

Who Is ‘The Texan’: The Race For The White House Between O’Rourke & Castro By: Brandon Caldwell

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n a more than overly crowded Democratic field in the race for the White House, the believed front-runner, former Vice President Joe Biden has taken a stumble as his record before his eight years in the White House has moved to center stage.

Both Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren have gained ground in recent polls with stellar debate and townhall performances. While younger voters and some far-left Dems are entrenched in their support of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Warren and Harris have made policy and the ability to seemingly outwit and out-smart President Donald Trump in a debate format their top priority.

One of the more striking moments from the first two Democratic debates came when Beto O’Rourke, the former state representative from El Paso turned political darling after he failed to unseat Ted Cruz last November, delivered his opening remarks in both English and Spanish. The move became another touchstone moment for O’Rourke’s attempt to appeal not just to the general voting population but Latino voters in particular. Despite the progress and how he galvanized the public less than nine months ago, he is fading in this race.

Meanwhile, the other Texan who aims to move to the top of the Democratic ticket for 2020 is soaring. Julián Castro recently spoke on how he had to suppress learning to speak Spanish, despite being Latino growing up, the shared feeling of assimilation that isn’t just generational but is common amongst

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non-white families.

“People, I think, internalized this oppression about it, and basically wanted their kids to first be able to speak English,” Castro said in a recent Sunday interview for MSNBC. “And I think that in my family, like a lot of other families, that the residue of that, the impact of that is that there are many folks whose Spanish is not that great.”

So how do Casto and O’Rourke maneuver now when they still lag behind other candidates who are more beloved by certain voting blocs? By attaching themselves to the battles of today, while also remaining optimistic towards their platforms of the future.

If one were to poll the general public about the difference between each of the candidates, they would hone in on the differences in ethnicity and sexuality.

More women are running for the nomination of the Democratic party than ever before, and stalwarts, such as Sanders and Biden are making repeat attempts at securing the party for a November showdown against Trump.

Policy, however, varies and in regards to African-Americans and Latinx voters, specific strategy for their needs and desires have been great talking points on message boards and social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Both Castro and O’Rourke are idealists, one who spent the latter half of the Obama presidency working in Washington and the other believing that Texas could indeed turn blue, or at least fade from a bright red into a hue of purple.

Their names became linked once again earlier this week when Nike, one of the world’s largest sneaker retailers, decided not to release a shoe featuring Besty Ross’ version of the American flag thanks to some input from Colin Kaepernick. Both Castro and O’Rourke highlighted that white nationalist groups had co-opted the Ross flag and that Nike was right to pull the shoe, despite backlash from conservatives and Republicans.

“I was glad to see that and my hope is that that they didn’t just do it to do it, that they understand the significance there,” Castro told CBS News. “And look there are a lot of things in our history that are still very painful.”

He added, “The Confederate flag that still flies in some places and is used as a symbol, and I believe that we need to move toward an inclusive America that understands that pain, that doesn’t wipe it away from history in the sense that still belongs in a museum or we need to read about it and understand the significance because that’s how you learn and make sure that we don’t make the same mistakes in the future, but does not glorify it, does not celebrated it.”

O’Rourke agreed.

“I think its really important to take into account the impression that kind of symbol would have for many of our fellow Americans, respect the decision Nike made and grateful for the conversation,” he said. “The version of the flag that was used on Nike shoes in question has by some extremist/white nationalist groups been appropriated.”

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Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama, has come out chiefly against the current administration in regards to immigration and its process with citizenship. In the eyes of Texans, he’s not O’Rourke. Sure, both men are charming and speak to strong backgrounds, tradition, and a core belief that health care should be for all. But O’Rourke not only won over Texans last year, but he also enamored himself to a voting class that helped usher in the most massive shift in flipped seats in Congress, ever.

During their first appearance on a debate stage together, O’Rourke and Castro battled not to secure the attention of Democratic voters across the country but those, particularly in their home state. Castro was one of the first to announce his candidacy, O’Rourke played coy about running even as celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey attempted to pry an answer from him. To many voters, it’s a battle of star versus known unknown. Voters fell in love with O’Rourke, his impassioned speeches and viral moments speaking in defense of Kaepernick and his protest of police brutality in the country. Knowing Castro takes more digging, which he managed to make a lot easier due to his performance on the Democratic debate stage.

When he was challenged in regards to immigration policy last week, O’Rourke stumbled. Castro pressed on, highlighting what Section 1325, a law that criminalizes unauthorized border crossings, is. Castro primarily wants to end the law as the quickest way to

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Who Is ‘The Texan’: The Race For The White House Between O’Rourke & Castro By: Brandon Caldwell

end the separation of families at the border. O’Rourke hadn’t gone as far as discussing an all-out repeal of the law, something Castro attacked.

“I think anybody who comes out to see this is a great thing,” O’Rourke told The El Paso Times after he stood outside a facility that housed migrants. “So I am grateful that he did that. I do want to make sure, though, that we don’t play politics or try to score points over ensuring that our immigration system reflects our values and our interests. He knows full well that as a member of Congress, we co-sponsored legislation that would end family separation and stop criminal prosecution under [Section] 1325 for anybody seeking asylum or refuge in this country.”

The move worked, at least for one

poll. Castro, a “fringe” candidate in many eyes, managed to leap to fifth in an ABC / Washington Post poll -- well behind the other major named candidates such as Warren, Harris, Biden, and Sanders, but he was there. Amongst Latino voters, he was second only behind Harris.

What is working against O’Rourke in the months since he narrowly lost to Cruz? Time. He was at his hottest in the political eye fresh off defeat with many comparing his loss to Cruz as something equatable to Abraham Lincoln losing a Senate race to Stephen Douglas. In the months following, there have been publicized missteps, including a Vanity Fair piece that made him seem far more distant from the voters Texans and most of the country had fallen for last year.

Now O’Rourke and Castro are doing their best to not only separate their somewhat identical platforms in regards to education, health care, and more.

O’Rourke is fighting for Medicare for America, with the provision that people satisfied with their employer or private based healthcare could stay with their provider. He wants to end the prohibition on marijuana and expunge prior convictions as well as abolishing private prisons.

The two vastly differ on one topic: reparations. Castro has been vocal about paying back American descendants of slaves. In a March interview on CNN, Castro said, “I’ve long believed that this country should address slavery, the original sin of slavery, including by looking at reparations. If I’m president,

then I’m going to appoint a commission other task force to determine the best way to do that.”

Castro and O’Rourke aren’t battling one another just for state bragging rights or the label as “The Texan.” Each wants the nomination, and are facing a more than uphill battle to achieve it. As the primaries begin to approach, Texas and its 228 delegates are going to be highly coveted and sought after. Both Castro and O’Rourke represent something different for voters, youth with bright ideas to take America in a direction that is vastly different from the course set beginning in January 2017.

Who gets there first remains to be seen.

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LOCAL NEWS

Congressman Al Green Brings Deported Constituent Jose Escobar Home Style Magazine Newswire

ban from re-entering the United States.

Congressman Green took up his case and worked in both the United States and in El Salvador for Mr. Escobar’s return. Today that hard work has paid off and Mr. Escobar is now home to continue life in the United States with his wife and their two children.

Jose Escobar came to the United States in 2001 and registered for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) due to an earthquake that hit El Salvador that same year. For numerous years, he was a law-abiding resident who was complying with his Order of Supervision; yet, after reporting to federal immigration offices in Houston, he was detained and deported to El Salvador. Since 2017, Mr. Escobar has been living in El Salvador away from his family.

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n July 1, 2019, Congressman Al Green returned to Houston with his repatriated constituent Jose Escobar and his family.

Congressman Green fought tirelessly for two years to reunite Jose with his family by advocating for him in Con-

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gress as well as through his visits to El Salvador. Mr. Escobar came to the United States when he was 15 years old. He worked, married, became a father and contributed to American society. However, he was deported to El Salvador in 2017 and given a 10-year

I” felt it necessary to travel to El Salvador three times for my constituent and intervene to help reunite Jose with his family. Mr. Escobar’s ban from the United States for 10 years would have denied him the opportunity to rear his children. His son Walter would be an adult and his daughter Carmen would be a teenager upon his return after 10

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years. Today, I am proud and honored to witness this family’s dream become a reality,” declared Congressman Green.

“I must thank U.S. Embassy officials in San Salvador, the lawyers for the Escobars, the media, and the activist community for their assistance, as well as every person and entity that aided the Escobar family and me. I am grateful that this day is finally here. “While, Mr. Escobar has now been afforded the opportunity to rejoin his family, there is still work to be done to reunite the other ‘Escobars’ of our country. Therefore, I am proud to announce that on January 3, 2019 I reintroduced H.R. 168 – the Reentry and Reunification Act. This bill aims to reunite deserving families by providing a verified pathway to U.S. citizenship for individuals who have no criminal history, who were deported, and who have a spouse or children who are currently U.S. citizens. This bill would also provide lawful permanent resident status to previously removed non-U.S. citizen individuals who are the parents and/or spouses of U.S. citizens.

Let us continue to work to ensure that families like the Escobars can no longer be separated.

BOOK REVIEW

& Ben Passmore

© 2019, Fantagraphics Books

$24.99 / $33.50 Canada

300 pages

per-creepy but the rent was good. The place was roomy, but also had room for improvement: as Darla moved in, the electricity kept going out and her friend, Cynthia, messed up the plumbing. Even so, Darla had neighbors: a famous rapper moved in down the hall and she met an elderly lady and her son from downstairs.

Was it the stress of the move, then, or the stress of living in the place itself that made Darla fight with Cynthia soon after Darla spent her first night alone?

Who knows, but they argued and the friendship was over – or Darla thought it was, anyhow, but Cynthia had second thoughts. She snuck back into Darla’s apartment, got totally creeped out, hid in a cabinet, and fell down a tunnel…

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our first place all your own needs to be ah-mazing.

Big-screen TV for gaming.

Fridge for snacks and drinks. Sofa for kicking back, a few good chairs, and places to hold your stuff. Maybe your parents will help out. Maybe the landlord will let you paint. Maybe, as in “BTTM FDRS” by Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passsmore, your new

… and into a creature that wrapped Cynthia into itself and overtook her body.

place will be interesting.

When it came time to finally get her own apartment, Darla didn’t bother to look far. She grew up in Chicago’s Bottomyards and though it still wasn’t the safest place on Earth, the former ghetto was gentrifying. That counted for something, right?

Her father hated the building; he warned her away and yeah, it was su-

Unaware of the deadly organism that her best friend was fighting in the basement of the apartment building, Darla hung out with the famous rapper down the hall until she started noticing a lot of weird things. There were cameras in the apartments, and eerie noises. The building superintendent was super-creepy and the whole place was like a dungeon.

And then she found Cynthia – or, at

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least, what was left of her.

Was there time for Darla to get out alive?

If you’re not familiar with graphic novels – which are basically full-length stories in comic art form – “BTTM FDRS” might take a bit of getting used to. It doesn’t help that this tale starts abruptly, and with racism that feels like a slap.

Keep reading. That slap ultimately turns into a shiver.

With color-blocked panels and not a lot of fluff or dialogue, authors Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore take readers into what could be perceived as commentary on today’s social problems, or sly pokes at gentrification and modern segregation, in the future or now. The story is sly, almost backhanded and, much like the creature in this book, eats its way into your imagination until your hands sweat, your eyes dart wildly, and you realize that you’ve been holding your breath.

Let it go. You’re safe in your chair (for now) but if you’re 15-and-up and you love graphic horror novels, here’s your next scare. For you, “BTTM FDRS” is ah-mazing.

June 4 – July 10, 2019

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SIX PACK – Major League Baseball Selects Six Astros Players To Participate in the 2019 MLB All-Star Game By: Brian Barefield

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ouston, here we are again in the exact same spot as two years ago. Yes, I know our physical appearance has changed some. Actually, speaking for myself, it’s changed quite a bit simply because I love Shipley’s donuts and Whataburger. Hey, I am from Houston and those two establishments fed me through my upbringing. I digress.

What I mean by the exact same spot has nothing to do with eating, but instead, everything to do with how great of a franchise the Houston Astros have become. Major League Baseball announced their starters and reserves for the 2019 All-Star game that will take place on July 9, 2019, in Cleveland and the Astros will once again send six representatives to take part in the festivities.

Right-handed pitchers Gerrit Cole, Ryan Pressly, and Justin Verlander along with third baseman Alex Bregman and outfielders George Springer and Michael Brantley have been named to the 2019 American League All-Star Team.

Houston is the only Major League team with that many players representing one team. This ties their franchise record for most All-Stars in a single season as they had six players make the team in 2017 and 2018.

“It’s very special to go back to a place I broke into the Major Leagues and go back to Cleveland. I’m very excited for it,” said Astros outfielder Michael Brantley who signed a two-year deal this past of -season with Houston. He spent his first 10 years with the Indians and will be making his first career start in the All-Star game. The three previous times he was voted in as a reserve.

er along with Brantley will become the first pair of Astros outfielders ever to start the same All-Star Game.

And the last Astros All-Star selection really needs no introduction as he has made himself a household name throughout the country. Justin Verlander was named to his second-consecutive

All-Star Team, and the eighth of his career. He is joining a historic group of 20 pitchers to be named to at least eight All-Star Teams, a group that features 19 Hall of Famers. This season, Verlander leads the AL in opponent batting average (.162) while ranking inside the top-five in wins (T-1st, 10), strikeouts

Pitcher Gerrit Cole, will make his second consecutive trip and the third of his career. Cole currently leads the American League in strikeouts (151) and strikeouts per 9.0 innings (13.24).

Reliever Ryan Pressly will be making his All-Star debut. Houston acquired him via trade prior to last season’s trade deadline. Earlier this season, Pressly established a new Major League record by posting 40 consecutive scoreless appearances.

Third baseman Alex Bregman was named to his second-career All-Star Game and will be making his first-career All-Star start. Bregman was the game’s MVP on last year and will look to repeat that feat as the first Astros third baseman to start an All-Star Game.

One Astros player who is making the All-Star game a part of his regular routine is outfielder George Springer. The 2017 World Series MVP received his third-career All-Star selection and second-career All-Star start, as he was the AL’s starting left fielder in 2017. Spring-

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(3rd, 147) and ERA (5th, 2.86).

“Impressive,” Verlander said when asked about the number of players the Astros are sending to Cleveland. “I think we could have had a lot more.”

The 90th MLB All-Star Game will be played on Tuesday, July 9 at 6:30 p.m.

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PRIDE HOUSTON 2019

PRIDE HOUSTON 2019

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ouston Style was on the scene at this year’s Pride festivities on June 22, 2019.

Mayor Turner presented a proclamation at the Pride Houston Festival and participated in the Pride Parade. This year’s celebration kicked off Saturday morning with a record attendance of nearly 700,000 people. Pride Houston Parade started at 8 p.m. near Smith and Lamar in downtown Houston.

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MOBILITY

MAYOR TURNER’S 2019 STATE OF MOBILITY

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his year’s 4th Annual State of Mobility hosted by Transportation Advocacy Group - Houston, was held at the Houstonian Hotel on June 25, 2019. Mayor Turner’s infrastructure triumphs and what’s at the top of his list moving forward was presented during the event. Mayor Turner also discussed his vision connecting for communities, investing in infrastructure and building a better quality of life.

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