GREATER HOUSTON EDITION African-American News&Issues
February 23, 2024
Vol. 29, Issue 06
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History is His Story, not the Truth or Our Story. Black History is 24/7/365, not just 4 weeks
- Roy Douglas Malonson
“Addressing Current & Historical Realities Affecting Our Community”
All knowledgeable black smust have mused at one time or another. i.e. Church leaders must surely know that Hebrews were Black people, thus Jesus was Black, so how can they in good conscience allow them to be depicted as Whites? The reasons for that are of course complicated and racist, but here is now the Popes deal with it in private. German Pope Benedict XVI, and Italian (by way of Argentina), Pope Francis I, pray to the Black Madonna in a Vatican Chapel (2013)
Daniel Cardinal DiNardo
Donna Blackshear-Reynolds
This Jesus is out front of all the Catholic Churches in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Diocese
MAINTAINING EXCELLENCE
By Shelley McKinley
Donna Blackshear-Reynolds is a federal treasure, currently serving as the Associate CFO for Organizational Development within the Office of the Chief Financial Officer at NASA, Johnson Space Center (JSC), an organization of approximately 180 civil servants. Donna also serves as the senior JSC Ombudsman, appointed by the JSC Center Director and Lead for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility for the Agency OCFO organization of over 1200 civil servants at 10 NASA Centers. Donna Blackshear-Reynolds is also a local treasure,
having graduated from Phillis Wheatley High School, grown up in the Fifth Ward Community, and raised by Hubert and Mattie Blackshear. Her mother, Mrs. Mattie Blackshear, a teacher for 41 years with the Houston Independent School District and founder of the Scattergood Club of Houston, is included on a mural at the corner of Lyons Ave. and Lockwood in honor of the work she did in the community alongside others. While a student at Wheatley HS, Blackshear-Reynolds petitioned to get Calculus as a course offering, knowing that she and others needed it for
Excellence on pg. 3
Constable Alan Rosen and Robert Curley Malonson, Detective Sgt.
Malonson on pg. 7