GREATER HOUSTON EDITION African-American News&Issues
March 1, 2024
Vol. 29, Issue 07
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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”
LOST GENERATIONS By Bobby E. Mills, PhD
Adah and Ned E. Williams
PIONEERS IN EDUCATION
By Shelley McKinley
There are currently at least seven school districts being led by superintendents of African American decent in the Greater Houston area: Aldine, Channelview, Crosby, Fort Bend, Houston, Lamar Consolidated, and Sheldon ISD. There are other African Americans leading the school districts state-wide. Whether they know it or not, they all stand on the shoulders of Ned .E. (N.E.) Williams and his son, Elzie R. (E.R.) Williams. James N.E. Williams, the son of E.R. and the grandson of N.E., along with his daughters have worked to document their history so that both men continue to inspire future generations.
N.E. Williams, who was born a slave on September 4, 1864, to Ms. Partha Williams. Being a slave, his father was unknown. His mother had three other children; Jake, Della and Ludie. The family moved to Kansas for a short while but returned to Texas, stopping at a farm in the Elderville, Gregg County. They worked on the farm for a while and decided to stay in the area instead of returning to Shelby County. During this time N.E. Williams kept studying the books he acquired along the way after he finished his chores.
Education on pg. 3
America is spiritually losing generation after generation, because we have forgotten that: “Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.” (Psalm 90:1). In the Black community we are experiencing generational curses without spiritually understanding that God will never break faith with us, even though we sin against His Commandments and ourselves. Thus, there are many curses, but the number one curse in the Black community is family disintegration. Seventy-five percent of all families in the Black community are without a male father figure. Family spiritual brokenness is the overriding problem in the Black community. Family brokenness produces spiritual brokenness from God, because individuals are attempting to live apart from the reality of God. God is LOVE, and apart from God is spiritual brokenness. If individuals attempt to live apart from God, they invariably live in the reality of the devil. God created family as the foundational institution of society. In so doing, God spiritually required that husbands be obedient to their wives by loving and protecting them. Likewise, wives are to be spiritually obedient, and love and comfort their husbands. Children are to obey their parents, by understanding that to spare the rod is to spoil the child. More importantly, parents must train up children in the spiritual way of the Lord. As a result, none of this is spiritually taking root in Black families nor American society in general. Love child gone wild, and babies having babies.
Generations on pg. 7