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• Vol. 10 • Oct. 6 - Oct. 12, 2022
MY TRUTH By Cheryl Smith PUBLISHER
What are the adults doing?
Looking back, I now realize how many rituals our family had and how we were expected to conduct ourselves during each one. We didn’t get to question nor dissent. Parents were there to guide and direct because they knew better. They had been there and done almost everything and we children needed to let experience speak! I know it’s a new day and I am adapting to a different way of living but I must caution folks younger than I am: There are some things I feel “entitled” to because I had to give it, and you are not going to rob me; namely respect! For example, as a child, growing up the pieces of the chicken relegated to the children in my house, were everything but the breasts, followed closely by the wings. I waited in anticipation for the day when I would get to choose; when I would earn, that forbidden piece of chicken. Then there was that Saturday dose of castor oil. My mother felt we needed to be “cleaned out” so we could start the new week off on the right foot. So cleaning out was what happened and today when I compare what we ate then with what folks are eating today; a lot of cleaning out needs to be happening! I encountered the long list where every entry began with: “Wait until you are an adult or 18!” Children like to do what they see adults doing, including: See MY TRUTH, page 2
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Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson feted at D.C. events before retirement
By Cheryl Smith WASHINGTON — At several events during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Leadership Conference in the nation’s capital last week, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson was feted for her three decades of service. It was a festive but somewhat emotional afternoon as longtime friends, family, supporters, colleagues and employees, past and present, shared stories as Johnson (D-Dallas) held her last Texas Barbecue on Saturday. See EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON, page 2
Wiley College Head Basketball Coach, former Duncanville Standout Tiffany Jackson Passes Away from Cancer By Dorothy J. Gentry Sports Editor
Former teammates, players, coaches, and WNBA players took to social media to mourn Tiffany Jackson who passed away on Monday evening at the age of 37 from cancer.
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (left) with Congressman Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), and former Congresswoman and current Secretary of HUD Marcia Fudge at the barbecue on Saturday in Washington. Photo: cus / Cheryl Smith/Texas Metro News
Prairie View A&M makes most of Grambling State’s first half woes in State Fair Classic win Prairie View A&M built up a 27-0 lead by halftime to grab its fifth straight victory over Grambling State.
Prairie View head coach Bubba McDowell lifts the State Fair Classic trophy after a victory over Grambling in an NCAA football game at the Cotton Bowl on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, in Dallas. Photo: Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer
By Myah Taylor
Jackson was named head coach of Wiley College’s women’s basketball team earlier this year in April. She is a former assistant coach and standout player at the University of Texas in Austin and was a member of Duncanville High School’s 2003 State Championship Team. Jackson finished with 16 points to earn game Most Valuable Player honors for Duncanville, which went 39-1 that season.
See PRAIRIE VIEW A&M, page 14
See TIFFANY JACKSON PASSES, page 3
Dallas-based non-profit to offer ‘on-the-job’ training to marginalized filmmaking communities Reel Shot Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization providing opportunities to inspire underrepresented filmmakers through job shadowing and training with industry professionals on feature and short films. Reel Shot, Inc. kicks off its second motion picture project in November. Reel Shot will offer participants access to industry professionals to learn handson principles regarding motion picture development. This includes produc-
Coach Tiffany Jackson
For the fifth time since 2018, it wasn’t Grambling State’s year. Grambling, the historically Black university in Louisiana, has not topped Houston-area HBCU Prairie View A&M in the annual State Fair Classic football game since 2017. That losing streak continued on Saturday night when Prairie View A&M left Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas with a 34-14 win. Of the 53,971 people who traveled to the game about four
tion management, technical execution and the initial development process of film-making. Participants in the program will work side-by-side with professional mentors to help further their development. “Our focus and goal is to give underrepresented storytellers a platform to dive into the world of filmmaking with a level of on-the-job training from those already working in the field,” explains See FILMMAKING COMMUNITIES , page 2