Volume 25 Issue 25

July 12, 2020

GREATER HOUSTON EDITION

Vol. 25, Issue 25

BLACK VOTES MATTER

‘THE VIRUS LIKES A WEAK HOST’

By: N.L. Preston

3 MOST POWERFUL SIGNS

One hand, one sign, one message and a million different meanings depending on who you are or what stage of WOKE you’re in, but SIGNS we silently “throw

up” give a glimpse into the windows of our souls. So, are you paying attention? PEACE ...two fingers, shaped like a “V.” It’s part of the phrase of “Love, PEACE

and Soul,” shouted by the late, great Don Cornelius at the end of Soul Train. It was the symbol of the Flower Child in the Hippy Era and has evolved into a Hip-

Hop Era “Chunk up the Deuce,” meaning “Stay well, good wishes and I’m out!” But did you know, its origins, according Signs cont’d on page 3

HOUSTON - H-E-B Vice President of Operations Terry Williams had double pneumonia, was extremely tired and hallucinating from drugs and fever when his father came into his room and told him two simple words, “Get up.” And just like any obedient son, he did. Williams heeded his father’s words and he started walking around his room, determined to not die from Coronavirus/ COVID-19. If it wasn’t for his father, who was also a fellow “Que-Dog” as they were both Omega Psi Phi Fraternity “bruhs,” he believes he would

not have made it. “My best friend, who was my dad, came and visited me, he said ‘get up and keep going, you can do this,’” Williams shared. But there’s just one thing to mention; his father has been dead for two decades. “He’d been dead for 20 years and told me to get up and before I knew it, I was up walking around the room. I looked back at him, I didn’t know if I was hallucinating or not, but it looked real, then he was gone. Every day after that, I would get 10 percent better,” Williams said. Survival cont’d on page 4

WASH YOUR HANDS FREQUENTLY • AVOID PUBLIC SPACES OR EVENTS WITH MORE THAN 10 PATRONS • SANITIZE AND STOCK UP • AVOID TOUCHING YOUR EYES, NOSE AND MOUTH • PRACTICE GOOD HYGIENE