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MY TRUTH Cheryl Smith Publisher
JOYOUS LIVING
The month of August was filled with answers, especially if you take into consideration an important question, “Why?” I’ve heard people pose the question when someone transitions, even though they don’t want to question “God.” When I first moved to Dallas in 1981, I visited a restaurant called “Smokey John’s Barbecue.” I actually visited weekly, to pick up my Black newspapers, get some fish and on the second Saturday of each month, attend Florida A&M University Alumni meetings. It was also the place where the first meeting of the Dallas Metroplex Council of Black Alumni Associations was held. The owner, John Reaves, was the best, and his restaurant was a fun place, especially on Friday nights when there was entertainment and some of any and everybody came by for a good time, fellowship and great food. Well, Mr. Reaves died last month and many shared their fond memories of him and the Smokey John’s BBQ experience. Meanwhile, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) had a rough month with the John Reaves passing of television anchor Nancy Parker in New Orleans; Mother, son and daughter Marsha Edwards, Christopher Edwards II and Erin Edwards of Atlanta, and former television anchor Donna Davis of Memphis. Then I received a call last week about longtime friend and Warrior, Thelma Youngblood. I met “Youngblood” in the early 1990s and we’ve been friends ever since. I think we were drawn to one another because we respected one Thelma another’s candor. Youngblood Now, she’d probably laugh at that observation, but it was true. There was nothing fake or pretentious about our relationship. Born in Ennis, TX, and an honors graduate from Jackson High School in Corsicana, Youngblood said how she felt and I did the same. We didn’t always agree and we didn’t aways agree to disagree. Instead we respected one another’s opinion and decisions. Youngblood and I didn’t choose our friends based on each other’s likes or dislikes and we knew when to pump the brakes on certain issues. The last time I talked to Youngblood, earlier this summer, I told her how great she sounded. It was good to hear her voice, sounding so strong and vibrant. When I got back into town from the NABJ convention, I called her on August 14 but didn’t get an answer. I then called a mutual friend, and no answer. Youngblood remained on my mind, I even asked a member of our distribution team if she answered the door when he took the paper by. Yes, with over 300 distribution drops, Youngblood’s house was my only home drop and See MY TRUTH, page 4
QUIT PLAYIN’
Them Texas Chickens By Vincent L. Hall
Many historians have tried to dilute the power of Malcolm X’s frankness by comparing him to Martin Luther King. Not only is that an unfair comparison, but it’s a useless argument. When it was all said and done, both men had their own strategies of liberating Black and poor people in America and humankind
around the world. During a time when America was at its absolute worst, shortly after the assassination of the Prince of Camelot, aka President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Malcolm X made an angry analogy that is still heralded as one of the vilest and most contemptuous public statements ever made.
The Minister delivered “vocal tweets” that rivaled Donald Trump. This one created unfathomable fear among the Nation of Islam and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. In the Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley, Malcolm X excitedly See QUIT PLAYIN’, page 5
Celebrating tennis legends WORDZ OF WILSON
By Chelle Luper Wilson “I remember I used to see you guys —I don’t want to cry—I remember I used to see you guys training in the same place as us. And for me, the fact that both of us made it and we’re both still working as hard as we can, I think it’s incredible…I think Coco, you’re amazing.” Naomi Osaka This year’s US Open overfloweth with “aha” moments. My favorite was Naomi Osaka’s post-match conversation to Cori “Coco” Gauff’s parents. That moment when she looked to them and
said, “And for me, the fact that both of us made it…” Osaka couldn’t say more, considering the venue, but we knew what she was saying without saying it. She knew that the odds for them to both be competing at
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the highest level of professional tennis at the same time, were not at all in their favor. What a wonderful time to be alive. We were not
only blessed to witness the greatness of Coco and Naomi but Venus Williams, Madison Keys, Sloane Stephens, Taylor Townsend, Sachia Vickery, Francoise Abanda (CAN), and, of course, the Serena Williams also graced the courts of the US Open with their presence. #blackgirlmagic was in full effect, but it wasn’t by happenstance. What we witnessed was the result of foundational work begun by an organization well over a century ago, one that unfortunately, many have not even heard of—the American Tennis Association (ATA). It may be hard to imagine, but African Americans have been competing in tennis See WORDZ, page 3
Join Us September 21, 2019 Hyatt Place Garland 5101 George Bush Highway Garland, Texas 75040
The NAACP Garland Unit Presents
29th Annual
Freedom Fund Brunch and Silent Auction For more information please call the NAACP Garland Unit at (972) 381-5044, Box #5
Silent Auction 9:00 a.m.
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Rev. Raliegh Jones Pastor of Christ Triumphant Church
Mistress of Ceremony
Lakisha Culpepper, M.Ed. GISD African American Community Liaison
400 Years in Virginia. 500 Years in Slavery. By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Correspondent
In August 2018, the National Newspaper Publishers Association began a series on the transatlantic slave trade. The series started in conjunction with the annual United Nations International Day of Remembrance. With the observance of the first African landing in America, some question whether it’s the 400th or 500th anniversary. Historians point out that the 400th anniversary is the 400th year of the Anglo-centric history of Africans in the Americas. “Dating the history of Africans in North America to 400 years ago reinforces this narrative of English superiority,” Greg Carr, the Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University, told Time. com. “Remembering the Spanish and indigenous sides of the history is more important now than ever as the people are closing the borders to those who are descendants from people who were here when you came,” Carr said. In his 2013 PBS documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., said slavery was always an essential ingredient of the American experiment. Gates called slavery, “The supreme hypocrisy,” and “capitalism gone berserk.” The first African to come to North America was a free man who accompanied Spanish explorers to Florida in 1513 – or 106 years before the 20 Africans who were kidnapped and brought to Point Comfort, Va., in 1619, Gates said. “The father of our country was one of its largest slave owners,” Gates said in the documentary. “Because of the profound disconnect between principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the simultaneous practice of slavery, we’ve had historical amnesia about slavery,” he said. Indeed, the slave trade began in the 15th century, said Boniface Chidyausiku of Zimbabwe. It was driven by colonial expansion, emerging capitalist economies and the insatiable demand for commodities – with racism and discrimination serving to legitimize the trade, Chidyausiku said. Chidyausiku, then the acting president of the United Nations General Assembly, made the remarks in 2007 during the UN’s observance of the 200th anniversary of the end of the transatlantic slave trade. “Fortunes were made, and financial institutions flourished on the back of human bondage…[so] today’s commemoration must encourage everyone to live up to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which says: ‘All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and to redouble efforts to stop human trafficking and all forms of modern slavery,’” said Chidyausiku, who is now 69. Michael Guasco, a historian at Davidson College and author of “Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” suggests it’s the 500th anniversary. “There’s a Hispanic heritage that predates the U.S., and there’s a tendency for people to willingly forget or omit the early history of Florida, Texas, and California, particularly as the politics of today want to push back against Spanish language and immigration from Latin See 400 YEARS, page 5
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR BLACK COLLEGE MONTH YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH Hispanic Heritage Month
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Cool Thursday Concert Series The Purple Madness, Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, 8525 Garland Rd. Dallas. 7p. Cynthia Mickens Party with a Purpose, 1900 Pacific Apartments, 1900 Pacific, Dallas. 6-9p.
Friendship-West Bereavement Community Presents: Thy Will Be Done Seminar 9a-1p. Narthex, 2020 W. Wheatland Rd. Info: www.friendshipwest.org.
NAMC Golden Shovel Awards & Business Expo., By Lowes, 1600 E. Randol Mill Rd. Arlington. 5p.
Hot Sauce Fest, Downtown Irving Heritage District 217 S. St. 12-5p. Register: http://bit.ly/2019Hotsaucefest
Social Media Communication: How to be Authentic, Capital Factory + DEC, 3102 Oak Lawn Ave. 6:309p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.
Par-Tee On the Green, Westridge Golf Course 9055 N. Cotton Ridge Rd. McKinney. 8:30a-3p. Eventbrite.com.
PrayHers 3rd Annual, Sisterhood Call To Unity Conference, Texas Star Golf Course & Conf. Ctr, 1400 Texas Star Pkwy, Euless. 9a-3:30p. Tickets: www.prayhers.com
September 20-22
6th Annual Craft Fair, St Andrew Lutheran Church, 504 w. Bedford Euless Rd., Hurst. 9a-3p. Info: 817-282-3607.
Feeding The Needy, Host: Michael “Hollywood” Hernandez, 1641 Corsicana St, Dallas. 3-5p., Sundays.
Denton Blues Festival, Host Denton Black Chamber of Commerce, Quakertown Park 321 E. McKinney, Denton. Info: Dentonbluesfestival.org.
State Fair of Texas Fall 2019 SAT Math Prep, Cornerstone Baptist Church,1819 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. 9a-12:30. Contact: ucrossroads16@gmail.com
The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection, A. A. M. 3536 Grand Ave. 9-21-19 - 3-1-20.
The 2019 Motivated Mom Retreat, Omni Mandalay Hotel, 221 E. Las Colinas Blvd. Eventbrite.com. 2p. - 1p.
In The Heights, Dee and Charles Wyly, 2400 Flora St. Times vary. Tickets: 214-522-8499. 9-21-2019 -10-29-2109.
The Emotionality of Success, Host: Dr. Stacia Alexander LPC-S Ft. Worth Business Assistance Center, 1150 South Freeway, 7:30-9a. www.staciaalexander.com
2nd Annual Converse & Cocktail Dress Soiree, Omni Mandalay Hotel, 221 E. Las Colinas Blvd. Las Colinas. 7-10p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com/MotivatedMom.
Recurring Events
Single Black Female by: Lisa B. Thompson, Jubilee Theatre 506 Main St., Ft. Worth. Time vary. Tickets: jubileetheatre.org. 9-27-10-27-19.
September 20-23
September 18
Dallas Regional Prayer Encounter, The Ark Church, 701 E. Plano Pkwy., Plano. 7p. & 3p. 918-810-7711.
School Backpack Awareness Day
September 20
North Texas Health Fair & Caregiver Resource Expo, Grapevine Convention Center, 1209 S. Main St. 10a3p. Free tickets: Eventbrite.com.
Employer Conference and Veteran’s Job Fair, Host: GSBCC, Mountain View College 4849 W. Illinois Ave. 3:45-5p. Register: www.gswbcc.org.
Kenny G, Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. 8p. www. attpac.org.
Frame for Frame Presents: The Soul Patrol Tour 2019, Arlington Music Hall, 224 N. Center St. 7p. Tickets: arlingtonmusichall.net.
Happy Hour Networking Mixer with Texas Central, Host: RBCA, The Henry, 2301 N. Akard St. #250. Reg: Eventbrite.com. The Principals Lunch & Learn, Dallas Police Department Community Affairs, 1400 S. Lamar 2fl. 11a-1p.
September 19-21 Strength Conference 2019, Tabernacle Worship Center, 1228 Newsome Rd., Mesquite. Noon Day & Night Services. Reg: www.strengthwc.com.
September 19 North Texas Giving Day
Sisters with Superpowers Awards Reception Honorees Tonya Stafford & Alicia T. Grinage, TBAAL 1309 Canton St., 6:30-9p. Eventbrite.com. IHCC North Texas Giving Day Info: IrvingHCC.com TRI-Cities NAACP Monthly Meeting, Museum of International Cultures, 411 E. Hwy 67, Duncanville. 7-8p. Business Women’s Empowerment Series-Teaching our Children in success business, Friendship-West Baptist Church 2020 Wheatland Rd. 6:30-9p.
All White Roof Top Fling, Host: Miller Title/West & Associates, 320 S. R.L. Thornton Fwy. 7p-11p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com/all-white-everything-roof-top-fling. FWMBCC Annual Scholarship Luncheon & Fashion Show, Jazz Cleopatra, Sheraton Hotel, 1701 Commerce St. Ft. Worth. DBDT Presents: Dance Bound Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. 8p. Tickets: attpac.org.com. PRSA Dallas UnSummit, House of Blues, 2200 N Lamar St. 8a. Tickets: .prsadallas.com Edgefield Auto Sales Grand Opening, Host: Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce, 2003 Edgefield Ave. 4:30-7p.
September 21 1815 Black Troops honored for Battle of New Orleans
IHCC Hora De Poder, Irving Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 135 S. Jefferson St. 9-11a. IrvingHCC.com. 2019 Boss Women of the Year Summit, W Hotel, 2440 Victory Park Ln. 33rd.fl. 4p-8p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.
Dallas Alumni Kappa’s present Kasino Royale 2019, Hyatt Regency 300 Reunion Blvd. E. 8p-1a. mwest@pqc.edu. DBWA 2019 Sparkler, Host: JL Turner Legal Association Paralegal Section, Chandlers Landing, Rockwall. 12-6p. 2019 Boss Women of the Year Summit, W Hotel, 2440 Victory Park Ln. 33rd.fl. 4p-8p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com. The Affirmation Summit, Host: I’sha Gaines, Lofty Spaces, 816 Montgomery St. 9a-2p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com. DFW Literary Soul Fest, The Dock Bookshop & Dock Community, 6637 Meadowbrook Dr. Ft. Worth. 1-5p. Info: thedockbookshop@gmail.com. Arlington Foundation for Excellence in Education 15th Anniversary, Speaker: Honorable Andrew Gillum, UTA 300 W. First St. 6p. Info: arlingtoneducation.org. 29th Annual Freedom Fund Brunch and Silent Auction, Hosted by NAACP Garland, Hyatt Place Garland, 5101 George Bush Hwy. 9am. Tickets: Eventbrite.com. Day of Dignity, Host: Masjid Al-Islam MLK, Jr. Community Center (Building A) 2929 MLK, Jr. Blvd. 10a.-2p. RSVP:
September 23 Ray Charles Composer/R&B Singer DOB 1933 Fall Begins
2019 State Fair Classic Prairie View vs. Grambling State Press Conference, City Hall Flag Room 11:00a. Arm Ministry’s 30th Anniv. Luncheon, Host: Pastor Vincent T. Parker, W Hotel, 2440 Victory Park Ln. Tickets: www.armdallas.org. Nutrition, MLK, Jr. Community Center 2922-B MLK, Jr. Blvd. Info and Registration: 214-426-3645 or email: www. cscottforemostfhc.org Class #3.
September 24 Community Meeting District 3 Casey Thomas & Courtney Pogue Dir. Econ. Dev. Dept., Dallas Entrepreneur Ctr. Red Bird 3662 W. Camp Wisdom Rd. #2044. 6:308p. Info: Yolanda.miller@dallascityhall.com. Power Breakfast Understanding the Power of Networking, KAI Enterprises, 101 Zang Blvd. #100. 7:30-9a. Tickets: Eventbrite.com/Powerbreakfast. Lunch & Learn w/ Shaylon Scott “Financial Services for Social Good,” Frazier House 4600 Spring Ave. 11:30a-1p. Reg: zwhjcoc.org/classes.
September 25 1965 at age 59 “Satchel Page” Pitches 3 innings for the Kansas City A’s
IHCC Bus. Mixer, Westin Las Colinas Mesa Mezcal, 400 W. Las Colinas Blvd. 5:30-7p RSVP: IrvingHCC.com. Women In Business & Leadership, Host: Greater Southwest Chamber of Commerce, 3200 W. Pleasant Run Rd., #320 Lancaster. 9a-1:30p. ARM 30th Anniversary Celebration, Host: Golden Gate Baptist Church, W Hotel, 2440 Victory Park Ln. 12p. “Find Out What Frazier House Has to Offer”, Parkland Health. Frazier House, 4600 Spring Ave. 11a-2p. D’s Young Professional Event, Serendipity Lab, 2323 Ross Ave. 6-8p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.
September 26-29
The Sisterhood Call to Unity Conference, Texas Star Golf Course & Conference Center, 1440 Texas Star Pkwy., Euless. 9a-3:30p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.
Soul Rep Theatre SHINE PLAY FESTIVAL. South Dallas Cultural Center, 3400 S. Fitzhugh Ave. Times vary.
September 22
September 26
Shari Belafonte Harper Actress/Model DOB 1954
Bell Hooks, Writer/Activist DOB 1952
Natural Hair Product Swap, The Social Corner, 1818 W. Pioneer Pkwy., Arlington. 3:30-5:30p. Eventbrite.com. Overcoming Book Discussion, Host: Dr. Stacia Alexander On the Boarder, 4855 Beltline Rd. 3:30-6:30p.
An Evening with Former First Lady Michelle Obama, Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. 7:30p. Tickets: attpac.org.
Frame for Frame Presents: Joe McBride and the Rhythm Club, Arlington Music Hall, 224 N. Center St. 7p. Tickets: arlingtonmusichall.net.
State Fair of Texas Ticket Explosion, Host “Hollywood Hernandez, Allure Jazz and Cigar Lounge, 110 S. Cockrell Hill Rd. 6-9p.
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New pro basketball club makes Dallas home
By Dorothy J. Gentry Sports Editor
The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex is a haven for sports lovers. Pick a sport and there’s bound to be a local professional team to root for; the Dallas Mavericks, Cowboys, Wings, Texas Legends, Texas Rangers, FC Dallas, Dallas Sidekicks and more. Add one more team to that long list; the Dallas Skyline, a new professional basketball team that now calls Dallas home. The owner and general manager is 28-year-old Prescott Mack, a Garland, Texas native and licensed FIBA sports agent who is excited about bringing a team to the D/FW Metroplex. “What we are bringing is the third division of pro basketball in the United States,” he said. “There is the NBA, the G League, and then there is us (TBL). We are a legitimate, professional basketball team and we are excited to be here.”
Dallas Skyline is the 10th team from The Basketball League (TBL), a new professional basketball league with teams throughout the nation. TBL recently acquired the North American Premier Basketball League. Teams include Albany Patroons, Kansas City Tornadoes, Owensboro Thoroughbreds, Raleigh Firebirds, Tampa Bay Titans, San Diego Waves and now the Dallas Skyline. The team was awarded the franchise in March and has spent the past few months building its basketball brand, including strategically bringing in staff, building its market and working to set their basketball foundation. “We are one of the biggest markets in the League. We expect to win,” Mack said. “So we wanted the best of the best. There is so much talent here in Dallas.” Much of the front office staff, including the coaching staff, have been hired. These in-clude assistant
general mana-ger Christian come up with the team name? Prescott Mack: “I’ve Ross-Francis; head coach Chris Terrell; assistant head traveled all over the world coach Finis Craddock; director and every time you drive into of player development Ronnie Black; manager of community relations Sara Parsons, and DJ/community liaison, DJ Queen Agnes. I Messenger Media caught up with both Mack and Ms. Ross Francis during the recent Dallas/ FW Association of Black Journalists’ mixer. They talked about bringing Assistant General Manager Christian Ross-Francis and General Manager Prescott Mack at recent D/FW the team to Association of Black Journalists mixer at the Dallas, what Attache’ Cigar Lounge fans can expect, serving as role models to other young, Black Dallas, especially at night, professionals and more. the best thing you see is our TMN/GJ: How did you Skyline.That’s what we’re
known for. Everywhere you go, people say ‘Oh, you all have the best Skyline.’ “That’s where the name came from. I just wanted something that was Dallas authentic. What we are is artistic, modern, so I chose the name ‘Dallas Skyline.’”
TMN/GJ: How did the team land in Dallas? PM: “David Magley and his wife (Evelyn – president and CEO), had a vision to create this league and I’m really close with them. Being a Dallas native, it was a nobrainer to have the sports franchise here.” TMN/GJ: How did you come on board as assistant GM? Christian Ross-Francis: “I first served as an intern at his sports marketing agency. I thought it (bringing the TBL to Dallas) was a great idea. I loved the fact that they were providing jobs for players. I was all for it.” PM: “(Ross-Francis) has an amazing eye for talent so I
lean on her when it comes to what type of players to sign, what type of culture to bring in, and more. She plays a huge role.” TMN/GJ: How will you recruit players? PM: “Our players are pros; either rookies, straight out of college, D-1, D-2 schools or pros that came from overseas that would rather play at home. The team’s first signee is South Garland High School native Charlie Shorter, who has played professionally here and overseas. TMN/GJ: When does the season start/where is your facility? PM: “Our season will last from February to May, with a pre-season beginning in January. We will play all of our games at Loos Field House (a facility of 7,500 at 3815 Spring Valley Road).” TMN/GJ: What can fans expect when they come to a Dallas Skyline game? CRF: “They can expect an experience. We’re all about See SKYLINE, page 8
Harvard-trained psychiatrists author Mental Health Guide Dr. Carlin Barnes and Dr. Marketa Wills provide information that educates and empowers the more than 40 million people in the U.S. who suffer from mental health conditions Two Harvard trained psychiatrists have authored a practical guide to help people better understand how to deal with the growing crisis in America where more than 40 million people in the US suffer from mental health problems—yet less than half receive adequate care and treatment. In their new book to be released in September, “Understanding Mental Illness: A Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health Disorders for Family and Friends,” Dr. Carlin Barnes and Dr. Marketa Wills say that ignoring mental health illness can have devastating effects on our families and for society at large. The book is available for preorder on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
“Many people living with mental illness go untreated, and as a result, people with untreated mental illnesses make up one third of the nation’s homeless population and can be imprisoned,” said Dr. Wills. “Study after study has shown that the longer one waits to begin treatment, the greater the severity of the mental illness, and the more difficult it may be to effectively treat. Conversely, early treatment is very likely to lead to much more positive outcomes.” Dr. Barnes adds, “Knowledge is power. Being aware and informed is the first step in helping a loved one or family member get the proper treatment they need to begin the road to recovery and emotional wellness.” Each chapter offers insights and wisdom concerning a variety of psychiatric conditions, including: mood disorders, anxiety disorders, substance abuse issues, eating disorders, women’s
WORDZ OF WILSON, tournaments since 1898—y’all, that’s just 35 years post Emancipation Proclamation. Several HBCUs, including Tuskegee and Howard, offered tennis to students from the early 1890s. Now I’m sure it didn’t take long for us to dominate the sport, so around that same time the USLTA did what they do and issued a policy statement formally barring African American tennis players from its competitions. But you know how we do, when one door closes, we build a window. So, in 1916, more than a dozen black tennis clubs met and organized the American Tennis Association (ATA). The ATA held its first tournament in 1917. Lucy Diggs Slowe won the national title and became the first African-American female national champion in any sport. Ora Mae Washington, named the next “Queen of Tennis,” won eight ATA National Crowns from 1929 to 1937. Dr. Hubert Eaton and Dr. Robert Johnson, two ATA champions, attended the national tournament in 1946 and saw an extraordinary young woman play whom they believed had the potential to transform tennis. That young woman was Althea Gibson, who incidentally lost that particular match, but it didn’t matter because God had something bigger in store for her. Dr.’s Eaton and Johnson became her coaches and went on to win the ATA title 10 consecutive times. Now about
mental health issues, geriatric mental health and professional athletes and mental health. “Armed with this knowledge,” Dr. Barnes said, “you and your loved one can better appreciate the real struggles at hand, and as a result, seek the proper care needed.” Carlin Barnes, MD, is a board certified practicing psychiatrist and behavioral health medical director at a Fortune 500 managed care company. For the past eighteen years, she has practiced child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry—she has a thriving, diverse, boutique private practice with patient clientele ranging from working adults to urban children and adolescents. She trained in the specialty of psychiatry at programs affiliated with both Harvard University and Emory University Schools of Medicine and attended Texas A&M University College of
Medicine, where she received a Doctor of Medicine degree. Dr. Barnes is a member of several professional organizations including the National Medical Association, the Black Psychiatrists of America, and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. She is originally from Hillside, New Jersey, and currently resides in Houston, Texas, where she lives with her son. Marketa Wills, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist with a master’s in business administration from the Wharton School of Business and serves as a physician executive at a Fortune 500 health insurance company. She has cared for severely mentally ill patients in inpatient, outpatient, and emergency room clinical settings. As a treatment team leader and medical director, she effectively collaborated
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that something bigger… In 1950, Gibson became the first African American player to compete in the US Nationals. She later became the first Black player to win the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Nationals. By the time she retired in 1958, she was the top-ranked woman in tennis having won more than 50 singles and doubles championships. She appeared on the covers of Sports Illustrated and Time, the first Black woman to do so. In her autobiography, “I Always Wanted to Be Somebody,” she says this in remembering her first Wimbledon win, “Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus.” Now, let me go back to Naomi’s point about “the fact that both of us made it…” I can’t say for sure what all happened to us in tennis after Gibson’s reign, but, another Black woman did not make it to a grand slam final until Zina Garrison did so in 1990. Garrison, coincidentally, also got her tennis start in the ATA. It would take another seven years before the next Black woman, Venus Williams, made it to a final, but in 1999, we finally got another champion. It wasn’t Venus though, it was little sister Serena who won the US Open four score and three years after Gibson’s historic win, making her only the second Black woman to win a
grand slam. There were more Black women playing in just that one grand slam week, than all the Black women whose names are recorded in the history of tennis champions combined. Let that sink in. In an action long, long overdue, a statue of Althea Gibson was recently unveiled in front of Arthur Ashe Stadium, and in case you were wondering, yes, Ashe was also coached and mentored by members of the ATA. Gibson says in her autobiography that she felt as if she “was born too soon.” She did not get to fully enjoy all the spoils normally afforded the victorious. For her, a sense of camaraderie and fellowship among other elite level athletes were outside the grasp of her brown fingers. I can’t imagine how lonely and isolated she must have felt. Perhaps Naomi Osaka did know that feeling, the isolating feeling of being the only one, and that is why she embraced Coco as she did. Perhaps it is the same reason Serena embraced Naomi on the same court the year before. Perhaps we are closer to realizing the vision of Drs. Eaton and Johnson—a transformed tennis, where there is always room for more than one. Chelle Luper Wilson is a writer, speaker and activist. She is also the International Secretary of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Drs. Carlin Barnes and Marketa Wills with other mental health General Hospital/McLean professionals to ensure that Hospital program. In her patients with a variety of last year of the program, ailments—ranging from she served as chief resident. schizophrenia to postpartum She has received numerous depression to substance accolades and awards abuse—were able to live highlighting her clinical and as productively as possible. community achievements. Dr. Wills earned her medical Originally from Dayton, Ohio, degree from the University she currently resides in sunny of Pennsylvania School of Tampa, Florida. Her passions Medicine, and completed a include travel, community residency in adult psychiatry service and the arts. at Harvard’s Massachusetts
TWF seeks nominees for 2020 Maura Awards
Retta Miller (event co-chair), Roslyn Dawson Thompson (TXWF president & CEO), Dee Dee Bates (Maura honoree), Ana Hernandez (Maura honoree), Sally Dunning (Maura honoree), Dr. HaeSung Han (Young Leader honoree), Ana Rodriguez (Young Leader honoree), Ashlee Kleinert (Maura honoree), Nicole Small (Maura honoree), Thear Suzuki (event co-chair), Effie Dennison (Texas Capital Bank, presenter of Maura Award), Brenda L. Jackson (selection committee co-chair), Sallie Krawcheck (keynote speaker)
Texas Women’s Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2020 Maura Award and Young Leader Award, which recognize those who have positively impacted the lives of women and girls. Nominations are open online at https://www.txwf.org/ events/leadership-forum-awards-dinner/. The deadline for submissions is October 25, 2019. Award recipients will be honored at the Leadership Forum & Awards Dinner, sponsored by AT&T, on April 30, 2020, at the Omni Dallas Hotel. Co-chairs for the dinner are community leaders Laura Maxwell of Frito-Lay, and Nina Vaca, a former Maura Award recipient, of Pinnacle Group. https://www.txwf.co/mauraawardnomination For 41 years, the Maura “Women Helping Women” Award has recognized those who have led the way in improving lives for women and girls in Texas. Nominees must meet the following criteria: · Utilizes their role in leadership to advance opportunities to serve the unique needs of women and girls; · Has spent an extended period of time in service helping women and girls; · Former or current Texas resident; and · Must be 40 years of age and older. h t t p s : / / w w w. t x w f . c o / youngleaderawardnomination Texas Women’s Foundation’s Young Leader Award recognizes breakthrough
leadership exhibited by a Texan. Nominees must meet the following criteria: · Achieving success in a field, initiative or sector; · Creating a path of opportunity for others to follow; · Former or current Texas resident; and · Must be between 18 – 39 years of age. Texas Women’s Foundation, formerly Dallas Women’s Foundation, is investing to Transform Texas for Women and Girls, empowering them to build stronger, more equitable communities throughout Texas. One of the world’s largest women’s funds, it is a trusted leader in advocating for and advancing economic security for Texas women, girls and families, and ensuring women and girls are enabled and supported in taking leadership roles in every sector in the state. With more than $35 million in assets, Texas Women’s Foundation raises approximately $9 million a year to underwrite groundbreaking statewide research on issues affecting women and girls – providing decision-makers and lawmakers with critical data to inform policies, practices and programs in the state. For more information, visit www.txwf.org, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram. or donate now youngleaderawardnomination
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Will you answer the call for moral revival? THE LAST WORD
By DR. JULIANNE MALVEAUX I cannot overstate my tremendous admiration for Rev. William Barber. Our connection goes back to North Carolina when I was the President of Bennett College, and he led the state NAACP. His daughter, Sharrelle, graduated from Bennett in the spring before I assumed the Presidency and as student body president, she served on the search committee that selected me. So he’s a friend of long-standing. In the years since our North Carolina time, I’ve watched this brother grow in his profound leadership, galvanizing people all over the nation around a moral agenda for our country. When we see alreadyweak bonds of civility and community, both national and international, fraying, the movement to “build a moral agenda rooted in a framework that uplifts our deepest moral and constitutional values to redeem the heart and soul of our country.� In the past year or so, Rev. Barber has been building national momentum and plans mass action in Washington DC on June 20,
2020. We will be in the heat of the 2020 political election, a time when we must look at our nation’s future and its direction. Barber’s organization (which he co-leads with Rev. Liz Theoharis), is poetically called Repairers of the Breach. Its website is https:// www.breachrepairers.org/, and it is worth checking out regularly, as updates on the 2020 march, along with other activities, will be posted. The Barber movement is optimistic and much needed at a time when an elected leader regularly picks fights with the heads of other nations, triggers a trade war, disrespects people, even his own appointees, with vile name-calling, and drips disdain for women, especially elected Black women and other women of color. We live in a graceless age, but Barber and Theoharis radiate grace. They are optimistic, patient, and movement building. They are inclusive, focused, and, most importantly, kind. They get this economy and its uneven distribution,
Rev. William Barber but they also get race and the many ways it is foundational. The Repairers website says, “Our deepest moral traditions point to equal protection under the law, the desire for peace and among nations, the dignity of all people, and the responsibility to care for our common home.� In embracing and expanding the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Revs. Barber and Theoharis have asked Presidential candidates to consider a debate that focuses exclusively on poverty. Many have agreed, but others have not gone on record. With more than one in five African American families living in poverty, and wages relatively stagnant, a national conversation about poverty is more than overdue. Indeed, the other conversation is one that drills down on what international economic fluctuations mean to the average person. Economic pundits have
high-level discussions about the stock market (when half of all Americans own no stock or bonds), making people think they can make no difference in economic policy. But we can make a difference when we pass laws that provide a living wage, paid sick leave, affordable health care, and more. The Poor People’s Campaign and the Moral Budget give people tools to approach some of these economic issues. With his eloquence and his leadership, Barber has emerged as a national treasure and a lightning rod for economic transformation. What will economic transformation look like? Is it possible for capitalists to make a profit and still pay their workers a living wage? It is possible to dismantle the predatory capitalism that, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “thingifys� people in the name of profit? Do capitalists understand that consumers fuel this system, and paying
consumers translates into more sales for them? And do predatory capitalists understand the ecological devastation they promote when they fail to embrace climate change? Rev. Barber raises all these questions and more. For the next nine months, through June 20, 2020, he is moving around the country, addressing injustice, mobilizing people, and focusing on change. He has offered our nation a fundamental challenge. Will you answer the call for moral revival? Four hundred years after the first Black folks were brought to these shores, a call to deal with systemic racism, economic injustice, the war economy, and ecological devastation is long overdue. Julianne Malveaux is an author and economist. Her latest project MALVEAUX! On UDCTV is available on youtube. com. For booking, wholesale inquiries or for more info visit www.juliannemalveaux.com
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MY TRUTH Continued from page 1 she appreciated the courtesy immensely, at times giving her commentary on what she had read or what was going on in the world. I’m going to miss her. To know her is to love her. I won’t profess to have totally reconciled this thing called death, but I do realize that death is part of life. Which brings me to my truth. As I continued to massage my temples and remember the good memories, in the face of death; I received quite a bit of exciting news that succeeded in easing the pain to a certain extent. You see, two of my children are pregnant; one with a boy and the other with a “to be determined.� Then I got word of two special young ladies, both journalists; who will be giving birth soon. Television anchor Amanda Fitzpatrick had her Gender Reveal event and we celebrated the news, “It’s a girl.� Next radio personality Dareia Tolbert -Jacobs had her Gender Reveal event and we celebrated that news: “It’s a boy.� For me, as I process all the wonderful people in my life who are no longer with me; I will be happy just to hear that mothers and babies are healthy. Just think about the high maternal morbidity rate for Black women. Healthy moms and babes must be the priority. Death and birth can both be stressful. We celebrate the joy of birth. We must also celebrate the joy of living and the lives of those who have transitioned. And, we must make sure we are living joyous lives.
Inside Affordable Housing My Day By Dr. J. Ester Davis
Don’t fall for the illusion that NFL, Jay-Z partnership has anything to do with genuine attempt to raise social, racial justice awareness By Donald Lee As the National Football League’s new season gets under way, I’m challenging NFL fans, particularly those who are black, to quit buying into the illusion the league is trying to make stick that its recently announced partnership with rap mogul Jay-Z is partly a step toward social justice awareness. Many Black fans have said others of us who have quit watching or supporting the NFL since the league’s apparent blackballing of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick — who hasn’t played since 2016 — is pointless, especially since the athletes have not stopped playing. I have often said that I would never tell anybody to walk away from an opportunity to make money (by legal means). That said, I won’t be calling for players to quit playing anytime soon. The profession they’re in right now is how they’re feeding their families. Nor do I have a problem with Jay-Z seizing an opportunity to make more money. And he stands to make money hand over fist in his deal with the nefarious football league. My concern comes in when he’s calling it something it, in my estimation, is not, which is a move to fight for social equality. The NFL announced on Aug. 13 its partnership with Jay-Z’s entertainment company, Roc Nation. In the deal, Jay-Z reportedly will be instrumental in helping to advise
on selecting artists for major NFL performances such as its Super Bowl halftime show. The partnership is also said to be partly about Jay-Z having a hand in the NFL’s “Inspire Change� initiative, reportedly a collaboration between the league and the Players Coalition, a group of NFL players united to advance social and racial justice. Jay-Z has gone on record as having said “we’re past kneeling,� which is an oxymoron. To me, he sounds like a parrot or puppet. He repeats what NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and his fraternity brothers (NFL owners) say. The NFL’s powers that be have asked (and Jay-Z has repeated), “Since when has this been about one man’s (Kaepernick’s) job?� Jay-Z, again, has stated, “we’re past kneeling.� For the record, the “one man’s� job isn’t the issue. And we won’t let them get away with trying to make it the issue. It is, however, about what “the one man� represents: a voice for millions of other men and their families. Number One, let’s not change the narrative and create an illusion of the NFL’s partnership with Jay-Z being an attempt at progress on the equal justice issue that has concerned many of the NFL’s black players. The NFL’s brass and their buddies in the mass media and White House are masters at peeing down folks’ backs and calling it sweat. I don’t care how many people who
look like me on the surface repeat that lie or succumb to that illusion.
If they don’t like it, they should ignore players when they kneel. Sharon Middlebrooks
Jay Z
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I’ll always be a part of that remnant that calls wrong, wrong when I see it. Number two, if we are to take Jay-Z and his new buddies seriously on the equal justice awareness issue, we have to first, and foremost, see “Kaep� signed to an NFL contract. To ban him while advancing his cause is an oxymoron, it’s a joke, an insult of the intelligence of folks who see through the rhetoric. They hate what he stands for. Yet they bring in another Black guy to advance his cause their way. No, we’re not falling for that. Number three, “Past kneeling�: Even if they were to sign Kaep to a contract and it worked out well, it still would not be a matter of us being “past kneeling.� That is a freedom of expression.
Keep the cameras off of them. Easy fix. And that NFL reported pledge of at least $89 million for causes benefiting black communities? Someone means to tell me the NFL has pledged at least that amount of money to be earmarked for a cause they have blackballed “the one man� for? I’ve heard it often said that at least Jay-Z now has “a seat at the table.� To that, I shake my head in pity at anybody fool enough to believe that. That “seat at the table� a number of Black folks commonly reference is reserved for puppets and parrots, a vacancy that has now been filled. Donald Lee is an author and freelance journalist. He may be contacted at (225) 773-2248 or leedonaldj@gmail.com
“All the world is a stage�. . . and front and center on the stage today is McMansions, luxury condos, high rise housing in mixed use developments-- all at unaffordable prices. So, where are the poor people to live? With uncontrollable costs, where do middle class Americans live and raise their families? Sharon Middlebrooks of Middlebrooks Realty, is an insider with high profile credentials. She is familiar with affordable housing and wants to bring it back to center stage. She speaks “affordable language.� For over two decades she has been on the inside of housing, all tiers, as a leader, advocate, teacher, counselor in all stages of the market regardless of the up, down, sideway position of the housing industry or the stock market. Her effectiveness is well documented by the number of top positions she has held, been appointed and elected to on the local, regional and national level. Time and space does not permit me to start a list of her accomplishments, but we can all agree that a national president in these times, male or female, should definitely be a spotlight of expertise where your every move can be watched, emulated, graded and recorded for the advancement of the people you represent. In August, Sharon Middlebrooks’ term ended her national presidency with the Women’s Council of the National See MY DAY, page 6
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Thoughts and Prayers are not enough! FROM THE CAPITOL
U.S., reportsthat there have been 283 such BY CONGRESSWOMAN EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON shootings since the Congresswoman Johnson represents the 30th congressional beginning of 2019. This madness has to stop! district of Texas in the US House of Representatives. The American people are weary and Just one week ago with an assault rifle who disappointed with seven innocent people were said that he wanted to kill elected officials who respond murdered in West Texas by Mexicans. Twenty-six people to these shootings by offering a madman with an assault suffered life-altering injuries “thoughts and prayers.” That weapon. Twenty-two people in the El Paso shooting. will not bring their relatives were injured during the During the thirty-one days backor repair the injuries massacre, including a child of August, fifty-three people suffered by victims. just seventeen months old. throughout our nation lost Recent polls tell us that If this were not enough, their lives in mass shootings, seven out of ten Americans nearly one monthearlier according to data from the support a ban on assault twenty-two people, shopping U.S. Justice Department. The weapons. They realize that in an El Paso Walmart were Gun Violence Archive, which they have no place in the killed by another madman tracks mass shootings in the hands of citizens who are
Everything is political INTERLUDE By Cierra Mayes
Cierra Mayes is a 2019 graduate of the University of North Texas
Wednesday, August 21, 2019, marked the 12th episode of “Cierra’s Interlude.” Cierra’s Interlude is a podcast platform I created to give current college students and former students the opportunity to tell their truth. My show airs on blog talk radio every Wednesday from 2 pm to 4 pm. Every week I talk about different subjects that are related to student experience on and off campus. I am a recent graduate from the University of North Texas with a focus in broadcast Journalism. Recently, I did a Q&A about the NABJ convention I attended in Miami, Florida. I had the opportunity to interview a few people I met at the NABJ convention. The convention had taken place from August 7th-10th. If you’re not aware what NABJ stands for it is the National Association of Black Journalists. NABJ holds a job convention every year for journalists that are seeking to build their resume and gain more experience in their field. I had a pleasure of meeting Ashlee Jones and Courtney Roden at the convention. They are recent graduates from University of Nevada, Reno and Saginaw Valley State University and are looking for job opportunities. Ashlee is interested in being a sports reporter and Courtney is opened to reporting news. It was important that I
asked about them about their experience at the NABJ convention. On this episode, I talked to Kyla Taylor. She attends Clark Atlanta University and is working toward a degree in political science with a minor in psychology. Politics involves our everyday lives. Almost everything we see on the news involves politics. There are many issues we are
Kyla Taylor surrounded by every day that continuously goes unnoticed and we have our politicians who fight what they believe is right for the people. I knew it was only right that I got Kyla on the show to share some information with me that would enlighten me and my thoughts about politics. Here is some of what she had to say... Cierra Mayes: I don’t know how true this is, but I was told that Beto O’Rourke came from money and he had gotten into a lot of trouble when he
was younger. He had gotten three DUI’s and some more situations, do you think that could affect his run? Kyla Taylor: I don’t know if it is true or not, but I have heard it. What I will say is be weary of where and who you hear the information from and when it’s delivered. Say if you saw that on Twitter, look at the timing of which that happened. Beto is running a great campaign and it is looking like he is doing everything right. Sometimes people will manipulate voters with another person’s past and which none of us are perfect. Honestly, you brought up people with power trying to manipulate the middle and lower class to gain more power. One thing that I made sure I don’t do is punish somebody for their privilege. Privilege is not something that someone asks for. Privilege is given to people. CM: I like what you said, and I didn’t even think about that. You bring me to my next question and that is, how do you keep up with politics? KT: It is so hard. So, I don’t get my news off of twitter. I don’t. Most news on Twitter is inaccurate in some type of way. Now, I may see something on Twitter but then I’ll go and find it myself on a credible source because it happens all the time. Twitter will literally be the death of me because a lot of the things they say is inaccurate. NPR, NBC, some news sources online will be accurate.
Tune in to Cierra’s Interlude on blogtalkradio.com/cherylsmith Wednesdays 2-4 pm.
not members of the military where these weapons are used on battlefields. Those who favor a ban such as the one that was in place for ten years between 1994 and 2004 are pleading with elected officials to do something, to reinstate the ban. Members of the Democratic Party are prepared to do as the American people demand. The reason why we do not have an assault weapons ban is that the leadership of the Republic Party and the President of the United States are far more interested in the interests ofthe National Rifle
Association than they are in those of the majority of the American public. Data compiled by the Federal Elections Commissions states that the NRA contributed $30 million towards the election of President Trump in 2016. It spent $54 million in the 2016 campaign, with the overwhelming majority of the money going to Republican candidates who support the NRA and its wishes. Those who oppose an assault weapons ban are quick to point to the Second Amendment of the Constitution which they
interpret as giving all citizens a right to purchase and own assault weapons. Certainly the founders of this country, mentally sane as they were, did not intend the result that we now face in our country, innocent people being gunned down in broad daylight by their fellow citizens. Now is the time to ban all assault weapons. The sane among us believe that we must act to stop more senseless murders. The sane among us do not believe that “thoughts and prayers” are sufficient to ease the pain.
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exegetes his use of a well-known agricultural metaphor: “Chickens coming home to roost.” “It was as I saw it, a case of the chickens coming home to roost. I said that the hate in White men had not stopped with the killing of defenseless black people, but that hate, allowed to spread unchecked, had finally struck down this country’s chief magistrate.” Malcolm X later doubled down on that statement by adding another quintessential quip. “If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. America hasn’t even begun to pull the knife out. They won’t even admit the knife is there.” If Malcolm was alive today, he would tell you that the chickens have come home to roost again. Dallas Texas, specifically the very spot where Kennedy was killed, is a heavily visited landmark. However, the sites at Southerland Springs, El Paso and the Twin Cities of Midland and Odessa will mark the notable gravesites that hate has unearthed. And all the while you have a sitting president who can’t wrap his mind around the notion that the hateful chickens in his own barnyard will eventually come back on him and this nation. No family, no matter how big the name or the signs that bear their
name, can avoid them chickens. Them chickens venture out, but any old farm boy will admit that they always come home to roost. Twenty hours before the law would allow Texans to carry their 22 rifles to Sunday-go-tomeeting worship services, them chickens came back to roost in West Texas for the second time in one calendar month. Everyone acts surprised, but we know we got chickens. Texas has been pimped so well by the National Rifle Association that Governor Greg Abbott once tweeted that he was embarrassed that California had higher gun sales than the Lone Star State. Well, we used to be the Lone Star State, but these fools is shooting up anything that looks like it’s shining now. Texans are learning to take cover. Statistically, Texas has 1.2 million residents holding concealed handgun permits, and there is no prohibition of shotguns and rifles on its books. According to a Dallas Morning News article, Texas regularly receives a failing grade, and we should. “The strong gunrights state predictably gets an “F” from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, primarily because it does not require universal background checks on all gun purchases, including private sales and purchases at gun shows. Meanwhile, the pump-
action pimps at the NRA described the legislature that delivered the September 1, round of laws as “highly successful.” Landlords can no longer ban weapons from their units. I wonder how many poor people would be saved if their run-down tenements banned weapons. Churches have no say. Pastor Robert Jeffress of Dallas’ First Baptist should welcome the “sixshooters” into his regular Sunday misinterpretation of scripture. His members need to fend off them social justice warriors whom he claims Jesus never authorized as an official Christian posse. Foster homes and school parking lots are fair game. The bought-and-paidfor harlots at the 86th Legislative Session were even kind enough to make legal provisions for a carrier who may have “accidentally” carried where they shouldn’t have. In its next session, it will probably pardon licensees who kill accidentally. Them chickens is coming to roost and the only advice Malcolm would give you: DUCK!
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400 YEARS in Virginia, continued from front page America,” Guasco told Time. The fact that slavery was underway for a century in South America before introduction in North America is not widely taught nor commonly understood, Felicia Davis of the HBCU Green Fund told NNPA Newswire. “It is a powerful historical fact missing from our understanding of slavery, its magnitude, and global impact. The knowledge that slavery was underway for a century provides deep insight into how enslaved Africans adapted,” Davis said. Far beyond the horrific “seasoning” description, clearly
generations had been born into slavery long before introduction in North America, Davis said. “This fact deepens the understanding of how vast majorities could be oppressed in such an extreme manner for such a long period. It is also a testament to the strength and drives among people of African descent to live free,” she said. Prior to 1619, “America had a system of discrimination and prejudice against all groups who were not identified as White Anglo-Saxon native,” said Walter D. Palmer, who started a Community Freedom School for children and adult learners in
Philadelphia that would become the platform on which he built his social legacy. “By the mid-1600s, America created the slave codes,” Palmer told NNPA Newswire. During the country’s founding, many settlers learned from and lived close to Native Americans on the east coast, said author Cassie Premo Steele. For example, it wasn’t until resources like silver were found on what was Cherokee land that Andrew Jackson ordered the removal that became known as the “Trail of Tears,” Steele told NNPA Newswire. “Further genocides and re-
movals took place in the West when similar resources and land were desired by white Americans,” Steele said. “Similarly, slavery was primarily an economic system that was based upon the dehumanization of Africans. Dehumanization is in some ways even worse than hate since it is a denial of the humanity of a people.” The observance of the 400th anniversary of the first African landing at Point Comfort, Va., did bring about changes, according to Time. It was the type of race-based chattel slavery system that solidified in the centuries that fol-
lowed was its unique American tragedy. A letter on file at the Library of Congress from early English settler John Rolfe noted that a century before August 1619, the transatlantic slave trade had been active. The letter noted that hundreds of thousands of Africans helped with the establishment and survival of American colonies in the New World. According to History.com, Rolfe was correct. History.com reported that Christopher Columbus likely transported the first Africans to the Americas in the late 1490s
on his expeditions to Hispaniola. “To ignore what had been happening with relative frequency in the broader Atlantic world over the preceding 100 years or so understates the real brutality of the ongoing slave trade, of which the 1619 group were undoubtedly a part, and minimizes the significant African presence in the Atlantic world to that point,” Guasco said in a History.com interview earlier this month. “People of African descent have been ‘here’ longer than the English colonies.”
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Don’t Let Go
From Marva with By Marva Sneed
A REVIEW BY HOLLYWOOD HERNANDEZ afraid to tell anyone that he’s getting calls from his dead niece, for fear of being called crazy, so he has to work alone to help his young niece survive in the past. Is it a movie about alternate
dimensions or time travel? I’ll leave that for you to decide for yourself, but it is a really good crime thriller whatever you decide. The movie will keep you guessing until the very end.
Don’t Let Go is a story about a police detective, played by David Oyelowo (who’s best known for his role as MLK in the movie Selma), who loses his entire extended family to violence. His brother, who is a “Good for Nothing” irresponsible dad who’s a recovering alcoholic, his sister in law and his niece, played by Storm Reid (A Wrinkle In Time), are all killed by gun violence. Obviously distraught by their death, he goes into a downward spiral of drinking and despair. Then he gets a call from his favorite niece who was killed three days earlier. At first, he thinks he’s going crazy, but soon he discovers there is someone on the line and he thinks it is his niece. It becomes apparent to him that he has to save his niece in the past so that she can live again in the present. Of course, he’s
THAT CELEBRITY INTERVIEW
Barbara Edwards on breast cancer BY VALDER BEEBE ValderBeebeShow.com
Every day is a new day and we should be grateful. I am grateful that Barbara Edwards is sharing her story, for us to know the power and the grace that faith entitles for us. VBS: Barbara Edwards, I know that you have a story, we all have a story. Let’s start with your cancer journey. BE: I was visiting Dallas, Texas April 2013 after my PCP doctor’s appointment, he ordered a Diagnostic Mammogram because I had lost a sister (Rose M. Turknett) to Breast Cancer. I undressed and was waiting to be called into the Mammogram Room for the test, but a nurse called me into a private room and asked me was I having problems with my breast or did I have any lumps, I said no. She advised me that they couldn’t give me a Diagnostic Mammogram but I would need to re-schedule. So I asked the nursed to get me the top person in charge because I wasn’t leaving without the test that my doctor had ordered! The manager of the Breast Imaging Center came into the room and asked me the same questions that the nurse had already asked me regarding lumps or discharge etc. my answer was still NO! But I had lumps in my right
breast which were biopsied and did not test positive for cancer. Before I was able to tell her this, she said o.k., sign the forms to receive your Diagnostic Mammogram Test today. The Manager informed me that the insurance I was using only covered a Diagnostic Mammogram when the patient is having problems. The manager performed my Mammogram herself, she discovered there was a white spot, she informed me they would now do an Ultra Sound in the next room and the doctor would look at the results. They did the Ultra Sound, and advised me that I would receive an appointment for a biopsy! I had to advocate for myself the day of the mammogram. Yes, the biopsy proved positive for early stage Breast Cancer, but the most aggressive type, Triple Negative Breast Cancer! VBS: What was the next action to be taken after this news was shared? BE: The doctor’s decided that aggressive actions had to be taken immediately! It started with me having had two surgeries two weeks apart to remove the lump in my breast! Moving rapidly to Chemo Treatment, I received 11 treatment but had to stop them due to complications, the
medication(s) administered I was highly allergic to it! Side effects were burns and blisters from my head to the sole of my feet! The next stage was 33 Treatments of intense Radiation, this too caused numerous side effects! The Chemo and the Radiation Treatments caused me to have eye problems, short-term memory loss, coordination problems, and cognitive thinking challenges. VBS: Barbara I am honored that you shared a part of your journey with me. How can the public connect with you? BE: Barbara Edwards 954-822-0847.
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Once you get started BY ALMA GILL Dear Alma, I recently got married to a man I dated for six years. We have a wonderful relationship – open and trusting – and I couldn’t ask for anything more. However, he likes to go quite often (about once a week) to the club. I’m never invited. He acts as if it would be a sin if I were to go with him. Sometimes, he doesn’t get home until after midnight. I will trust him until he gives me a reason not to. If I were to go out in the same way with my girlfriends, he would get irate, wondering what I’m doing, who we’re with, etc. When he tells me he’s going out, I never get mad (I definitely don’t want him going to a club mad at me!). I just don’t know if I should start “putting my foot down,” so to speak. How can I get him to see things from my perspective? For all I know, he could be in another woman’s bed! All I have to go on is trust. What do you think? Signed, Left at home Hey Now Lefty, What I think is the same thing you think. You just want me to say it. You aren’t doing yourself or your husband any favors by not telling the truth about how you feel. If an issue doesn’t sit well with you, you
should be straightforward. Honesty helps to build a genuine and trustworthy commitment. If simply loving somebody could make a person do or be better, we’d all be doing the right thing, ‘cause we all got somebody who loves us.
First things first: Start telling the truth. I’d suggest you take the time to tell him how you really feel. You asked if you should put your foot down? Hello-o-o, you’re still standing on your tippy toes right now, so you’re not in a position to put your foot down.You lead him to believe that his clubbing is fine with you. To make matter worse, you even send him off with a kiss on the cheek and a smile. Because, like you said, you don’t want to send him to the club mad. Don’t be angry with him for doing what he’s doing when you’ve told him it’s alright to do it. Don’t get me wrong; I understand what you’re saying, and I agree with you.
I wouldn’t want my husband at the club either. But this should have been discussed and clarified early on. First things first: Start telling the truth. I’d suggest you take the time to tell him how you really feel. There’s no need to be hostile. Part of this is your fault, so you need to come clean with patience in one hand and understanding in the other. An old Chaka Khan song comes to mind – Once you get started, snap, snap, Ooooh, it’s hard to stoppppp, yea, you just can’t stop now!!! (Sorry, I lost my train of thought.) Maybe he can go to the club every other week, or maybe you can go with him. The two of you need to decide what’s best. I don’t think he’ll stop right away, but I’m sure there’s a place in the middle that will satisfy both of you. Alma Alma Gill’s newsroom experience spans over 25 years, including various roles at USA Today, Newsday and the Washington Post. Email questions to: alwaysaskalma@yahoo.com. Follow her on Facebook at “Ask Alma” and twitter @ almaaskalma.
On From Marva with Love, I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Cynthia Mickens Ross. Dr. Ross is a speaker, author, teacher, and she is the Senior Pastor of Path~Way to Life Center of Hope Church in Hutchins, Texas. She is also the creator and instructor of the PathWay to Purpose Course. The course is specifically designed to coach women and men to discover and activate the greatness within. Dr. Ross recently authored her first book, Path~Way to Purpose Stories of Victory. She is also serving as Founder and CEO of Cynthia Mickens Ministries, Inc. Dr. Ross is married to the love of her life, David E. Ross III. She is also the mother to Mrs. Sherrell Warren and grandmother to Kennedy, Ragan and Jason Warren. My first meeting with Dr. Ross was at the Chris Howell Foundation’s Mother’s Day Brunch Gala. Dr. Ross and her husband were honored as the most impactful community leaders. I knew that she was someone that I wanted to be around. The next time we met, it was at Rep. Helen Giddings annual Women’s Leadership Summit, in her workshop, “Finding Your North Star.” The class gave me hope and confidence to dream big. MS: What is the Path~Way to Purpose Course? CMR: Path~Way to Purpose started out as a
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12-week course about selfdiscovery. Asking you a series of questions and recording them. By the end you would know more about your authentic self. Then people were asking how they get from where they are to where they want to be. So we developed Phase II to coach them in developing strategic life plan. Path-Way to Purpose is now a Three Phase Program. MS: How does a person know what their natural gifts are? CMR: There are different tests that we use. The Personality Test, The Gift Test. There are things that you are naturally good at. Ask people around you, like your mother, or someone else who loves you. What did they see you do as a child that you were good at? Only ask those who really care about you. Not just any body because everyone can’t believe in your greatness. To get more information about the Path~Way to Purpose visit: www. pathwaytopurpose. org or Facebook @ CynthiaMickensRoss.
Tune in to From Marva with Love on blogtalkradio.com/cherylsmith Fridays 11 am-1 pm. MY DAY, continued from page 4 Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB). She is President of the Texas Association of Real Estate Brokers. As an insider, affordable housing was a brand handed down to Sharon Middlebrooks by a mentor, Dr. I. H. Clayborn, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Prince Hall Masons. From 1968 to 1994, Dr. Clayborn was listed on a prestigious list, Ebony Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Black Americans. A man of great insight, Dr. Clayborn’s legacy is one of affordable and low income housing all over the state; grooming the qualified, building intuitive understanding and generating action.
Middlebrooks worked for this visionary, soaking up mountainous information because Dr. Clayborn entrusted her with a commanding responsibility where she met and exceeded his expectations. Inside affordable housing today is an awareness of the past wrongful acts against African Americans over the years, especially the huge news about predatory lending and the ills recently discovered by banks and brokerage companies and reported to the press. Recently speaking to a group in a seminar, Sharon Middlebrooks reminded the audience of Black wealth, how wealth is built and how it remains in families from generation-to-generation.
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native Charlie Shorter, who has played professionally here and overseas.
TMN/GJ: When does the season start/where is your facility? PM: “Our season will last from February to May, with a pre-season beginning in January. We will play all of our games at Loos Field House (a facility of 7,500 at 3815 Spring Valley Road).” TMN/GJ: What can fans expect when they come to a Dallas Skyline game? CRF: “They can expect an experience. We’re all about the community. We want to get the community involved with nonprofits, schools, organizations and more coming out to games. We look at our fans as family, not fans.” PM: (adding that fans can also expect plenty of affordable, entertainment and family fun.) “We want our
courtside seats to be filled. The facility will also provide an intimate feel for fans. “Our players will be in the schools, serving as mentors, and more. They have a community requirement to be part of the team and the league as a whole. There are specific things they will do in the community to impact lives.” TMN/GJ: What else is forth-coming? PM: “We don’t have a mascot yet but it will possibly be a bald eagle with a Skyline jersey on. We may do a community event to name the mascot. The team will also have a dance team called the Dallas Flygirls. Audition dates will be released soon. TMN/GJ: How will you build your roster? PM: Roster tryouts are Sept. 8 at the Christ Methodist
United Church in Plano from noon to 4 p.m. Those interested can register on-line at www. dallasskylinebc.com Any one can register to try out as long as they are high school graduates. Besides Shorter the roster is empty but will eventually have 12 active players; 20 will be invited to training camp. We’re employing people. They are getting paid to play so this is an opportunity.
TMN/GJ: How do you feel about being role models to other young, Black professionals? CRF: a graduate of Lakeview Centennial, played basketball at Jarvis Christian College. “It’s a blessing. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life. I tried modeling and other things but my heart was always with basketball. That’s my passion, It gave me hope that I’m a young, Black
29-year-old woman that can work in a professional realm.” PM: said he appreciates the opportunity given to him but admits it’s been an eye-opening experience. “To be honest, it is nervewrecking and stressful, but it is also rewarding. I love it. I wouldn’t wake up and do anything else so the fact that I love what I do is great. “When I am mentoring or talking to kids, I tell them I decided a long time ago that someone wouldn’t tell me how much an hour of my time was going to be worth. I decided if I wanted to make $20 an hour it would be because I chose that, or $75 an hour or whatever…so I made up in my mind I wanted to be my own boss and do what I love every single day. “I didn’t want to dread waking up every day.
Basketball has saved my life more times than not. It’s just a blessing to be able to do what you love, no matter how hard it is. When you love it, it doesn’t feel like work.” TMN/GJ: What do you want potential fans to know? PM: “Our hashtag is #skyisthelimit and that’s what I want our fans to know; that the sky is the limit. A 28-year-old Black kid from Garland, Texas owns a professional basketball team. I grew up wanting to play on a professional basketball team but God said no, how about you be an owner? So the sky is the limit. Whatever we think we can see, you can go beyond that. Your vision isn’t God’s vision. For more information on Dallas Skyline, visit their social media sites: @dallasskylinebc on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter or email admin@dallasskylinebc. com or generalmanager@ dallasskylinebc.com.
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