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• Vol. 10 • Dec. 8 - Dec. 14, 2022
MY TRUTH By Cheryl Smith PUBLISHER
Don't Believe me? Just Watch! This was definitely a week of victories and defeats! Black men were dominating the headlines, which gave many an opportunity to witness how low and how high we can go when taking on or taking out a Black man. Last year around this time, we were preparing to announce our Person of the Year. I felt then and still today that we made the right choice in selecting Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders of Jackson State University (JSU). He wasn’t chosen because there was an expectation that he would stay forever, instead it was because during the time he was at that HBCU, he elevated the program and others, addressed a number of systemic issues and called out inequities for the world to see; and he gave many hope and the courage to speak up and do something! If folks said they had no idea about the disparities or double standards when it comes to HBCUs, Coach Prime ensured that ignorance could no longer be used as a defense! Now everyone knows! Years ago someone said gone are the days when coaches would amass the number of victories at one school that Grambling State University’s Coach Eddie Robinson did; and don’t even think that John or Debra will work more than five years in the same job in corporate America or anywhere. If you get one year, you can get mad but you’ve got to get over it! These are definitely different times and add the after effects See MY TRUTH, page 7
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WARNOCK DEFEATS WALKER In a closely watched and expensive race, Sen. Raphael Warnock clinched the victory over challenger Herschel Walker, on Tuesday night, With 98% of the vote counted at 1:32 am EST, Warnock had 1,808,413 votes (51.3%) to 1,714,871 votes (48.7%) for Walker. See more on the election at www. blackstarnetwork. com. Photo: Hon. Jasmine Crockett
Democracy Wins
Trial For Officer Who Killed Atatiana Jefferson Begins It’s been three years since the murder of Atatiana Koquice Jefferson. A jury, void of any Blacks, was seated after the defense filed a second change of venue motion. The shooting of Ms. Jefferson by former Fort Worth, TX police officer Aaron Dean led to protests and calls for his firing, along with a number of other deAtatiana mands, specifically Jefferson coming from the Tarrant County Coalition for Community Oversight. On that fateful night officers went to her home in response to a non-emergency call from a neighbor who said Ms. Jefferson’s front door was open and she had not been seen for hours. Jefferson, 28, who was babysitting her nephew, 8, was playing video games with him in a bedroom around 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 12, 2019. According to reports, the two were enjoying the games when they heard a noise in the backyard. The aunt went to the window. The officer in the back yard did not identify that he was the police but yelled a command and fired through the window, killing the young woman who earned a biology degree from Xavier University in 2014 and was studying Pre-Med, while also caring for her ailing mother.
Like mother, like son By Norma Adams-Wade Malaika Warren unexpectedly became a single mom as a 17-year-old high school senior basketball star. Many who admired her athletic prowess worried that her promising journey toward college basketball stardom was over. It was not. Warren graduated from Lincoln H. S. in Dallas in 1990, earned a four-year basketball scholarship, and went on to set women’s basketball fame on its heels, 1990-1994, at Langston
Malaika Warren
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University, a 125-year-old HBCU in Langston, Oklahoma. Her son, Willie D. Warren, was born five days before her 18th birthday in 1989. While she prac-
Willie D. in No. 32 jersey.
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ticed on the basketball court at Langston, many friends and fellow players took turns babysitting her son in his stroller on the sidelines. They continued to help
when Willie D. became a toddler on the sidelines, gleefully playing with a ball, copycatting his mother’s moves. Mom Warren set such records as a 6’1” center at Langston that after she graduated, the school held a ceremony, retiring her celebrated #44 jersey number. Fast forward more than a decade and see son Willie D. as he follows his mother’s stardom. He became a record-setting basketball celebrity at North Crowley H. S. in Fort Worth while his mother worked as a school See LIKE MOTHER LIKE SON, Page 11