July 5, 2024
GREATER HOUSTON EDITION African-American News&Issues
“Addressing Current & Historical Realities Affecting Our Community”
Vol. 29, Issue 25
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We the People It would be very powerful if the Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Indians would come together as a voting block. They can control the democracy of this country.
(Now that’s power)
- Roy Douglas Malonson
Members of the BWI Staff (L to R: Madame Louise Siaway (black and gold garment), Dr. Nancy Freeman, Dr. Carlos Phillips II, Dr. Tyechia Phillips and Jacob Swee)
LEARNING EXCHANGE COLLABORATION By: Carlos R. Phillips II, Ed.D.
On June 17, 2024, Dr. Carlos R. Phillips II, Principal of Booker T. Washington High School and the High School for the Engineering Professions (BTWHS/ HSEP), visited Booker Washington Institute (BWI) in Kakata, Liberia for a formal campus assessment and collaboration of the Global Learning Exchange STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture and Mathematics). This will be the second international Global Learning Exchange collaboration between the students of BTWHS/HSEP and students from another country, the first collaboration was with the students of Rydings College, which is located in Karoi, Zimbabwe. Dr. Phillips was invited to visit BWI by Madam Louise McMillan Siaway and Mr. Jonathan Paye-
Layleh. Madam Louise Siaway is the CEO of Sehwah Liberia Incorporated, a non-for-profit organization that promotes education through networking and she is a graduate of Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Jonathan Paye-Layleh served as president of the BWI Alumni Association for five years and he represents the President of Liberia (Joseph Boakai) on the institute’s board of governors. BWI is known as one of the most notable and premiere vocational high school and technical institutions in Liberia, which was founded in 1929. During the visit, Dr. Phillips was able to meet Dr. Nancy Freeman, who is the first female principal of BWI to discuss the school’s rich history and next Learning on pg. 3
KING DONALD By: Bobby E. Mills, Ph.D.
It is an historical fact that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is precisely why God told the Israelites you do not want a King. The Israelites refused to take God’s advice that came through the Prophet Samuel, and they chose Saul as their King and suffered the consequences thereof. America, we do not need a King, because there is only one King, the King of glory, honor, and power: “Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory, honour and power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” (Revelation 4: 11). On July 1, 2024, the not so Supreme Court of the United States set in motion legal principles that potentially will allow Donald J. Trump to become King Trump validating Trump’s claim that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. Trump believed this when he was not President, and if Trump Trump on pg.7 becomes President on Novem-