February 27, 2022
GREATER HOUSTON EDITION
“Addressing Current & Historical Realties Affecting Our Community”
Vol. 27, Issue 06
If you want to destroy a race, destroy their history - Roy Douglas Malonson
By: Omowale Luthuli- Allen
would ever enter the University of Houston. Simultaneously, Black students from East Texas, the inner city Houston, the 44-Acres Homes and Southeastern Louisiana took the fork in the road to UH. Prior to the influx in 1965 and 66, notable was the presence of a handful of star scholarship Black basketball and football players. At the time of Lynn’s entrance, UH had not made any provisions to include Black students into the mainstream of campus life. This deficiency led to the creation of the Committee on Better Race Relations (COBRR) under the leadership of upper-classman Gene L. Locke. Lynn provided more than ample leadership as Vice President and a movement was born. Clusters of Black students from the 44 Acres Homes, Veronica Dorian Becnel, Mary Bowers, Sherra Aguirre, Michelle Barnes, Wilbur Taylor, Calvin Stephens, Doris Jones, Sue Smith and Jackie Wilson were turnkey ready to fight for inclusion and equity at the school. The kinship of Lynn Eusan and these stalwarts would establish a base for lasting change. Faculty members Richard Haynes, Donald Lutz and
As portrayed in the captivating documentary “Summer of Soul,” the 1960’s was a time when the Negro and the colored identifications for Black people died. In 1966, a talent deserving of wider recognition graduated from Phyllis Wheatley High School in San Antonio, Texas. Wilbur Eusan and wife knew about the upside of their elder daughter, Lynn Eusan, while the world awaited her brilliant explosion. This supernova with an Andromeda sized heart decided to enter a public university in Texas. Lynn’s mom had a confidant and lifelong friend in Houston, Richie Dell Moore of the Silk Stocking, Third Ward – Houston Texas. Ms. Richie Dell Moore was the musical north star of the Moore family, talented daughters Anita and Angela Moore, and saxophonist Bernard Moore. Having a family away from home was a reassuring factor in convincing the Eusans to bless Lynn’s decision to attend the University of Houston during the summer of 1966. Lynn was an accomplished high school journalist at Phyllis Wheatley and the University of Houston had an emerging top notch journalism department. The University of Houston had transitioned from a private to public university in 1963. Ezekiel Cullen, trustee of the school, boasted that no Black person
Lynn Eusan
UH FIRST BLACK QUEEN
Lynn cont’d page 3
2 AFRAMNEWS.COM
February 27, 2022
President/Chief Editor
Chelsea Davis-Bibb, Ed.D.: Associate Editor
Tristar
Griselda Ramirez: Production
News:
A Revival of God
Consciousness Bobby E. Mills, PhD
Office: (713) 692-1892 Wednesday – Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Playing The Race Card In Reverse! Race-card playing begins in White families, because White parents are not willing to teach their children the truth concerning the treatment of Blacks (slavery) and other minorities, and their invaluable contributions to the development of American society. Thus, if White parents teach their children the TRUTH, they do not have to worry about schools teaching them so-called lies: critical race theory. Whites invented playing the race card game for white-privilege just ask Native Americans concerning the annihilationhate card that was played against them, because they would not conform to the will of Whites (slavery). Christian Right Evangelicals, The GOP, and White Nationalists in conjunction with their
former habitual lying Presidential Leader have been masters at playing the racecard game. Christian Right Evangelical pastors play the race card across pulpits by teaching/preaching false doctrines concerning race and slavery. The GOP has been playing the race card since the assassination of President Lincoln and the take of the GOP by Southern Dixiecrats. President Johnson boldly declared after the passage of the (1964) Civil Rights Act and the (1965) Voting Rights Act that the Democratic Party just lost the south, and he did not tell a lie. White individuals need to develop a God conscience concerning the TRUTH. Blacks individuals need to reassess their attitudes toward each other, because Black on Black crime is off the charts and absolutely ungodly. Even in many Black families there appears to be no love and respect among family members.
For more visit aframnews.com
GREATER HOUSTON EDITION
EDITORIAL Think About It By Dr. John E. Warren
Black History, Black Print and You Dr. Carter G. Woodson and the work he left behind certainly makes the case today for the study of Black History. Without his work most of us would not know who we are or how many things we have done to contribute not only to this nation but also to mankind. For 195 years, the Black Press has been a guardian and transmitter of our history. When it was against the law to teach a slave to read and write, the Black Press was already telling our story to those who could read or just listen as others read to them. Oh, how far we have come. Today we have the freedom to read, but too few of us are reading. Social media and its abbreviated written language, along with television and the internet, have replaced our desire too often to
even open a book. But now, more than ever, is the time to once again add reading to learning and following our history in the making. The Black Press not only carries our history and stories, continuing the work of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, but our press has extended our stories to the digital world providing news and facts that we can rely on coming from our “trusted messengers”. But none of this works if we don’t take the time to embrace, read and digest the written story of our past and present, as told by us. Our newspapers have survived because of “us” and not because of the large ad accounts we never had. We never had the large grocery store, department stores and automobile dealership accounts. We never had the large newsrooms, printing presses and classifieds accounts that made white papers rich. But we continued to tell our story with the help of so many of us who volunteered services and time to share our stories with those among us.
This Black History Month is probably one of the most important in our history. We are under attack as Jim Crow racism moves on voter suppression in the form of reducing voting sites and equipment, and replacing true election officials with those who have bought The Big Lie that Trump is still President. We must speak truth to power as we remind our brothers and sisters of the racism of voter denial, the counting of jelly beans in a jar as permission to vote, and the push for what White Conservatives are calling “Critical Race Theory” as a means of re-writing our history without racism and lynchings which they imposed upon us. If they pass laws to restrict our voting, then we, as the Black Press and Media, must use “Print” and “electronic” means to remind us of why history says we can’t allow those with such practices to stop us.
For more visit aframnews.com
GREATER HOUSTON EDITION Ban Henderson answered the call and became sponsors for the students. Rev. Bill Lawson and his church weighed in by mentoring the young lions. Esther King, renowned community activist from Acres Homes, supplied his oratory and talents to assist the studentactivists. This movement intersected with a growing tsunami of change in America. The American cauldron consisted of the anti-Vietnam War Movement, the fight for women’s equality, environmental justice, and civil rights. The boiling got hotter with the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, Robert Kennedy and President
Lynn cont’d
John F. Kennedy, Patrice Lumumba and Malcolm X. Overlay this kettle with Black students on the move at San Francisco State, Cornell University and Texas Southern University and the uncompromising brassiness of the Black Panther Party. Add the soundtrack of Nina Simone and Curtis Mayfield and you had the river overflowing its banks on Wheeler Avenue and Cullen Boulevard. During the summer of 1966, Lynn started a summer enrichment program for the kids from the bottoms of the Third Ward. During the enrichment program, she mentored and taught young girls how to sew and swim. Without missing a step, she cut her journalistic teeth and chops at the Voice of Hope newspaper and the Forward Times newspaper. When a young boy
Lynn Eusan and Omowale Luthuli-Allen
The Great Performance
February 27, 2022 drowned at the toxic landfill in Sunnyside, she put her body on the line protesting and landing in jail with Gene Locke and a cadre of activist students from the University of Houston and Sunnyside. Exuberant in jail and exuberant in the classroom. She joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and blurred the distinction between soror and activist but never forgot her quest as a scholar. COBRR transitioned to the African Americans for Black Liberation-AABL. AABL became a community organization with its based on the campus while shunning social integration and focusing on Black empowerment. Central to the AABL legacy was the campaign to elect Lynn as UH homecoming queen. The grand idea was to have the dashing Lynn Eusan as a pillar of fire leading the fight for 10 transformational demands. The 10 demands called for more Black faculty, an African American Studies Department, Black counselors, a brisk and planned recruitment of more Black students, living wages for menial For more visit aframnews.com
AFRAMNEWS.COM 3
a Tip from Gilbert
Talk, Inspiration and Prayer
Mondays 11:00 am to 11:45 am KWWJ 1360 AM/96.9 FM
Call in at: 832-570-8075
www.atipfromgilbert.com
Episodes are also streamed live on my facebook: www.facebook.com/gilbertandrewgarcia1 www.instagram.com/gilbertandrewgarcia
atipfromgilbert@gmail.com
4 AFRAMNEWS.COM
February 27, 2022
BLACK HISTORY
Trophy hunting
Happy 100 birthday!
th
Just one hour from downtown Houston
By: N. L. Preston
Ida Mae Ellison was born on February 22, 1922 in Gonzalez, Texas. She attended Prairie View A&M University when it was just a college and gained her cosmetology license. She moved back to Gonzalez and started her own popular beauty salon - Ida’s Beauty Salon - in her parent’s backyard, in a building that her father - Mr. Elton Porter - built. She later married Willie B. Lott and had her first son, Willie C. Lott, a now retired Major in the Army and retired architectural engineer for DuPont. Later she married Charles Ellison,
GREATER HOUSTON EDITION
also from Gonzalez and gained a “bonus daughter,” Mary Richard, and together they had a son, Carl Ellison, a mortician currently living in San Antonio. Mrs. Ellison moved to Houston to live with her son, Willie, his wife Jereland Lott, after rehabbing from a fall. She now lives independently at Mason Creek Transitional Care of Katy, where she enjoys bingo and talking with her For more visit friends. aframnews.com
Hon. Albert Ely Edwards
By: N. L. Preston
State Representative, Hon. Albert Ely Edwards was born in Houston, Texas on March 19, 1937. Edwards is the sixth child out of the 16 children born to Reverend E. L. Edwards, Sr. and Josephine Radford Edwards. He graduated from Phyllis Wheatley High School and attended Texas Southern University, earning his B.A. degree in 1966. At the age of 31, Edwards entered politics and was elected to the Texas State Legislature from Houston’s House District 146. His first major goal was to ensure the establishment of a holiday that recognized the emancipation of slavery. In 1979, legislation recognizing Juneteenth Day, initiated by Edwards, passed the Texas State Legislature and was signed into law. Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day
or Emancipation Day, is an annual holiday in 14 states of the United States. Celebrated on June 19th, it commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas. While serving in the legislature, Edwards also founded his own real estate company. Though deeply involved with local issues, Edwards remained active in many issues outside the Texas State Legislature. In 1983, Edwards was appointed as a member of the board of Operation PUSH. Edwards also served as the Texas State Director of Reverend Jesse Jackson’s two presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988. For more visit aframnews.com
Roy Douglas & Shirley Ann Malonson malonson@rsdeerranch.com
713-244-4067
28978 FM 1736 Road Hempstead 77445 (Waller County)
GREATER HOUSTON EDITION
February 27, 2022
BLACK HISTORY
Barbara Jordan
By: N. L. Preston
Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston, Texas, on February 21, 1936, one of three daughters of Benjamin M. Jordan and Arlyne Patten Jordan. Barbara was educated in the Houston public schools and graduated from Phyllis Wheatley High School in 1952. She earned a BA from Texas Southern University in 1956 and a law degree from Boston University in 1959. That same year, she was admitted to the Massachusetts and Texas bars, and she began to practice law in Houston in 1960. To supplement her income (she worked temporarily out of her parents’ home), Jordan was employed as an administrative assistant to a county judge. Barbara Jordan’s political turning point occurred when she worked on the John F. Kennedy presidential campaign in 1960. She eventually helped manage a highly organized get-out-the-vote program that served Houston’s 40 African-American precincts. In 1966 she ran for the Texas senate when court-enforced redistricting created a constituency that consisted largely of minority voters. Jordan won, defeating a white liberal and becoming the first African-American state senator in the U.S. since 1883 as well as the first Black woman ever elected to that chamber. In 1971 Jordan entered the race for the Texas congressional seat encompassing downtown Houston.worked on the John F. Kennedy presidential campaign in 1960. She eventually helped manage a highly organized get-
out-the-vote program that served Houston’s 40 African-American precincts. In 1966 she ran for the Texas senate when courtenforced redistricting created a constituency that consisted largely of minority voters. Jordan won, defeating a white liberal and becoming the first African-American state senator in the U.S. since 1883 as well as the first Black woman ever elected to that chamber. In 1971 Jordan entered the race for the Texas congressional seat encompassing downtown Houston. Barbara Jordan emerged as an eloquent and powerful interpreter of the Watergate impeachment investigation at a time when many Americans despaired about the Constitution and the country. As one of the first African Americans elected from the Deep South since 1898 and For more visit the first Black aframnews.com
AFRAMNEWS.COM 5
molly cook runs for texas senate, district 15 My name is Molly Cook, and I am running to be your Senator for Texas Senate, District 15. I was born and raised in the Houston area. I am an ER nurse, and I have been organizing and knocking on doors for a long time. I decided to run for this seat when I saw in the Houston Chronicle last year that the 50 year career incumbent, Senator John Whitmire, announced he was running for Houston Mayor. The last legislative session dealt devastating blows to our democracy: we watched our voting rights, reproductive health, and the rights of teachers to educate our children about our true history stripped away. We cannot afford to have a Senator who is not focused and has one foot out the door for the office he really wants. He will be distracted by a competitive mayoral race. I am focused on fighting to protect our right to vote and will stand up to those dismantling our democracy. I will take on corporate polluters and fight for environmental justice for every Texan, particularly those most vulnerable in minority and fenceline communities. I take care of patients every single day who have chronic illnesses that rob them of daily joy, gainful employment, generational wealth, and years on this planet. For too long, corporate polluters and energy giants have preyed on Texans, poisoning our water and air without consequence. No one’s employer should be their neighborhood’s worst polluter. I will fight for clean air and clean water. My opponent has millions of dollars in his campaign war chest, including money from private prisons and bail bondsmen. These prisons have locked up many young men and women of color, many who could not afford proper legal representation. It’s time for change.
My opponent has been in power for almost fifty years, yet many voters I meet have never heard from him or his team. We will listen to the people to hear their needs. We will fight to keep our electricity on in winter and to invest in our schools and hospitals. Let’s activate the district together. I am a community organizer and fighter. I am ready to be your next State Senator. -Molly Cook (she/her) Nurse, Community Organizer Candidate for Texas Senate, District 15
6 AFRAMNEWS.COM
February 27, 2022
GREATER HOUSTON EDITION
MARKETPLACE arts, gifts
chemical
church
FOR SALE
PRINTING t
OFFICE FURNITURE
OPEN Wed., Thurs., Fri.
FOR SALE
PLEASE WEAR MASKS
FLOWERS
713.244.4067
10am – 4pm
713.692.1195
6130 Wheatley St. Houston, Texas 77091
auto repair Foreign & Domestic
• Free Towing w/Job • Free Diagnostics • Allison Transmission Millitary & First Responders Discount Up to 3 Yrs. 30,000 Mi. • Warranty Avail.
713-236-1307
Willie Wright Jr Ministries, Inc.
PLEASE WEAR MASKS A Ministry Committed to the Worth of the WORD and Energetic Evangelism “Christ-centered, Bible-based, and Prayer-minded”
www.williewrightjr.com
www.facebook.com/wwjrm
2810 Rosedale St. Houston, TX 77004
TERENCE J. REED, OWNER
Facebook: Go Vintage, LLC Instagram: govintagellc 713-489-8905/281-901-4966
Facebook: Go Vintage, LLC Instagram: govintagellc
REAL ESTATE
recy dunn
Broker Associate Director of Commercial
www.homesdunnright.com askrecy@kwcommercial.com
6130 Wheatley St. Houston, Texas 77091
C. 832.541.7466 O. 281.444.3900
LANDSCAPING
ranch
www.shirleyannflowershop.com
Landscaping by the Jelks
Terrence Jelks
6030 Pebble Ln., Houston, TX 77087
Cell:832.713.0102
jamesbond6030pebble@gmail.com
MAILING
E-Z MAIL MANAGEMENT
713-489-8905/281-901-4966
vintage carriage
WE OFFER QUALITY SERVICE AT A COMPETITIVE PRICE
company, llc
Services: Direct Mail Consulting, 1st Class Mail, Standard/NonProfit Mail, Mail Merge, Folding/ Tabbing/Inserting, Mailing Lists, Postcards, Political Mail, Bulk Mailing, Courier Services
terence j. reed, owner
facebook: go vintage, llc instagram: govintagellc
713.489.8905 281.901.4966
mon–fri, 10a–4p
713.857.0094
Services: Mowing, Landscape Renovation, Edging, General Lawn Clean Up, Shrub Trimming and Removal, Brush Clearing, Lawn Fertilization, Flower Bed Installations VINTAGE CARRIAGE COMPANY, LLC
TERENCE J. REED, OWNER
& Design, Inc.
“For All Your Printing Needs”
commercial and residential
Mon-Fri. 8-6pm Sat. 8-1pm
VINTAGE CARRIAGE COMPANY, LLC
OPEN
Wed., Thurs., Fri. 10am – 4pm
713.692.1100
301 Sampson
Carriage Ride
Printing
church
ASTROS TRANSMISSION Bring ad to get $125 Off
RPC
aframnews.com African-American News&Issues
CALL US TODAY
713-780-9804 ezmailhou@aol.com
shoe repair
PUBLIC NOTICE Notice to Proposers Sealed Request for Proposals will be received by Lone Star College for: • RFP # 794 – Sign Language Interpreting Services. Electronic bids due by 11:00AM, Wednesday, March 30th. Online WebEx preproposal meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 8th, 10:00AM; call-in number 1-408-792-6300, Meeting # 2620 943 7902# Contact: Pamela.Johnson@lonestar.edu or (832)813-6782. Must Register to Bid: http://wwwappsdstc.lonestar.edu/ istar/supplier.htm . If registered, please ensure your registration is up to date. For assistance with the on-line registration process, contact vendors@lonestar.edu. Lone Star College: Bid Requests • CSP #800 – Roof Replacement Building 11 University Park Bids due 03/21/22 by 11:00 AM. Mandatory Site Visit, 03/02/22 at 2:00 PM, University Park, Building 11, Room 11.265 (Dallas Room), 20515 TX-249, Houston, Texas 77070. Online WebEx meeting, 03/04/22, 10 AM; Webex.com, Meeting # (access code) 2624 576 3611 Meeting password: UCmfqbK9U28; Michael. Loudis@Lonestar.edu 832-813-6532 For information to register and bid, please visit http://wwwappsdstc. lonestar.edu/istar/supplier.htm. Notice to Proposers Sealed Request for Proposals will be received by Lone Star College for: • RFP #798 – Load and Performance Testing and Real User Monitoring Services. Electronic bids due by 11:00 a.m. CST, Friday, 3/11/2022. WebEx pre-proposal meeting will be held Thursday, 2/24/2022 @ 10:00 a.m. CST, Contact: Sharon.K.Ognowski@lonestar.edu or 832-813-6211. Must Register to Bid: http://wwwappsdstc.lonestar. edu/istar/supplier.htm. If registered, please ensure your registration is up to date. For assistance with the online registration process, contact mcvendors@lonestar.edu Notice to Proposers Sealed Request for Proposals will be received by Lone Star College for: • RFP #799 – Audio Visual Equipment and Installation Services – Extended Classroom Project System Wide. Electronic bids due by 11:00 a.m. CST, Thursday, 3/28/2022. WebEx pre-proposal meeting will be held Thursday, 2/24/2022 @ 1:00 p.m. CST, Contact: Sharon.K.Ognowski@lonestar.edu or 832-813-6211. Must Register to Bid: http://wwwappsdstc.lonestar. edu/istar/supplier.htm. If registered, please ensure your registration is up to date. For assistance with the online registration process, contact mcvendors@lonestar.edu
GREATER HOUSTON EDITION
February 27, 2022
AFRAMNEWS.COM 7
OK, who celebrates fifth? Bank of America does. For the fifth year in a row, Bank of America has shared the success of our company with our employees with a valuable Sharing Success compensation award. To recognize the team’s hard work, this award is over and above regular compensation. And this year, we’re proud to commemorate a first — nearly all these awards are in Bank of America stock.
That means 97% of our employees shared $1 billion worth of Bank of America stock this year, above regular compensation. “I want to thank my teammates here in Houston for their continued hard work and dedication. While other banks might make awards like ours every once in a while, I’m proud to work for an organization that has rewarded our employees for five years in a row. Because success is better when it’s shared.” Hong Ogle President, Bank of America Houston
What would you like the power to do?® Learn more about how we’re investing in our local communities at bankofamerica.com/houston Bank of America, N.A. Member FDIC. Equal Credit Opportunity Lender © 2022 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved.
8 AFRAMNEWS.COM
February 27, 2022
Real
GREATER HOUSTON EDITION
CHANGE IS ROOTED IN
Helping Texans in need has been the cornerstone of H-E-B’s Spirit of Giving. We’re continuing to expand our investment in nonprofit organizations that are doing meaningful work in diversity, equity and inclusion.
Houston Area Urban League (HAUL) – The Houston Area Urban League is dedicated to providing opportunities and resources that enable African Americans and other minorities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power, and civil rights.
UNCF – The UNCF awards more than 10,000 scholarships annually, enabling more African American students to attend and graduate from college. Through their partnerships with historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), they have helped to more than double the number of minorities attending college.
NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc. – The NAACP and the NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc. work to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race, by focusing on training, education, and advocacy that ensures the health and wellbeing of all persons.
Join us in supporting equity, empowerment,
and education in your community when you donate in stores or online at heb.com/bethechange
©2022 HEB, 22-2081