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• Vol. 10 • Sept. 22 - 28, 2022
MY TRUTH By Cheryl Smith PUBLISHER
What were you doing? It was a hot Saturday afternoon at the Choctaw Stadium for the Arlington Football Classic and there were plenty of seats available as the Southern University Jaguars faced the Texas Southern University Tigers. We knew who was going to win the contest for having the most fans in attendance. Of course, Southern University is ALWAYS strong and this year TSU did have a stronger showing than the previous two contests. But one thing you can say about Southern University, with a winning or losing season; the support is going to be there and the fans are going to have a good time. The Tigers won the game, never letting up as they coasted to a 24-0 victory over the Jaguars. People will debate for days to come which band took the halftime Battle of the Bands honors and I’ll just say there’s no halftime like an HBCU halftime. Which brings me to my truth. As I walked around the stadium, other than the two competing schools I saw a North Carolina A&T State University shirt and someone from Xavier and Dillard Universities; but I needed to see more. I didn’t have on a Florida A&M University (FAMU) shirt but I was wearing a Beta Alpha-Delta Sigma Theta Sorority face mask and EVERYONE knows that the BADST is FAMU! See MY TRUTH, page 11
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HBCU Football Schedules
that has never won a conference championship, 24-0. “I had to go,” said Lisa Brown See HBCU FOOTBALL SCHEDULES, page 15
See ENLIGHTENING DISCUSSION, page 14
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Texas Southern Tigers dominate Southern Jaguars in Arlington Football Classic.
rassing - for Jags’ fans collective psyche: Southern, a perennial SWAC champion, lost to Texas Southern University, a program
McLeod Prepares to Join Eagle Scouts Helping Homeless is Focus of Service Project By Sylvia Dunnavant Hines
As an Eagle Scout, Thompson Mcleod will join the 2% of African American males in the scouting program to achieve this distinguished honor.
Preparation, persistence, and perseverance are all attributes that are leading African American boys to join the elite group of Eagle Scouts. “Only about two percent of the boys who become Boy Scouts reach the level of being an Eagle Scout. For African American boys that number is much lower,” said Dr. Torrance Earle, former Scoutmaster for Wheeler Ave Troop 242
Proposition A receives stamp of approval
in Houston, which historically holds the record of having the most African Americans to reach Eagle Scout in the country. “I think reaching the level of being an Eagle Scout is awesome. I am an Eagle Scout myself,” said Samuel Sarpong, who now serves as a Scoutmaster, and was mentored in the Wheeler Ave. Troop 242. “I believe that scouting teaches you a lot about being a young
By Norma Adams-Wade
“Memories light the corners of my mind.” From the song “The Way We Were.” Written by Marvin Hamlisch and Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
State Fair Classic kicks off with annual Presser
Can you recall your earliest memory? How soon we forget. At some point in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, a number of people must have known that 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat so a
ALW ENTERTAINMENT and the Dallas Sports Commission has announced the 2022 STATE FAIR CLASSIC KICK OFF PRESS CONFERENCE to welcome back to Dallas Grambling State University (GSU) Tigers and Prairie View A&M (PVAMU) Panthers. Grambling State University and Prairie View A&M University will face off in this historical Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) rivalry Saturday, October 1, 2022, at 6PM in the Dallas-Cotton Bowl Stadium. It is a “New Era” for the STATE FAIR CLASSIC with both universities arriving with new head coaches.
See FADING MEMORIES, page 3
See STATE FAIR CLASSIC, page 14
See EAGLE SCOUTS, page 3
A tear for lost history and fading memories I WAS JUST THINKING...
See PROPOSITION A, page 13
By Cheryl Smith Arlington — Comerica Bank exec Irv Ashford and Arlington Police Chief Al Jones had a candid discussion about leadership, led by moderator, Booker T. Spencer, of Bootstrap Entrepreneurs, Inc., Monday at Choctaw Stadium. The men talked about leading during COVID and serving the community during a time like none other for most during their lifetime, since the last pandemic was in For Chief Jones, the experience was more challenging as he moved to Texas during the pandemic and took on Top Chief
By Valerie Fields Hill There’s Southern University football. Then, there’s everybody else in the Black College athletic universe. That’s a common view of “Jaguar Nation,” the huge following of SWAC football fans that travel week after week to watch the Baton Rouge team take on formidable opponents, both within their conference and outside of it. So, Saturday night was particularly bruising – even embar-
Enlightening discussion!