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Vol. 26, Issue 27

who police the police?

“Addressing Current & Historical Realties Affecting Our Community”

AKA “Dr. Sook”

JUANITA L. MALONSON HOLLIMAN, PH.D

BLACK KILLING

By: Roy Douglas Malonson

Don’t we have enough on our hands right now?

You’d think more of us would understand as we are out here battling COVID-19, job loss, failing education standards for our kids negatively impacted by the quarantine, and constantly defending our basic right to vote for our futures.

But these same futures we are fighting for are getting cut short daily because we are attacking and murdering each other, just as the enemy wants us to. What are we missing here? Put down those guns!

Gun violence has been on the rise all through 2021. According to the Gun Violence Archive, shootings that included four or more people killed or injured and shootings of at least one person that wasn’t the gunman increased by 55% in the first half of 2021.

USAFacts reports that violent crimes increased

by 5.8% in large cities, and decreased by 5.2% in cities with a population less than 10,000 people.

Houston has seen a 42% increase in homicides since last year. New HPD Chief Troy Finner has been hard at work trying to lead a city grappling with crime.

Finner says a suspension of social services during the COVID-19 pandemic and a court system backlog stretching back to Hurricane Harvey have contributed to the massive increase in violent crime.

The chief also shared his thoughts during a recent interview on House Bill 1927, which goes into effect on Sept. 1. Finner said during a recent interview that he didn’t think the new legislation, which eliminates a requirement to obtain a license to legally carry handguns, Killing cont’d would help law enforcement. page 4

Dr. Juanita L. Malonson Holliman was born on December 7, 1939 in Spring, Texas. She was the first of nine children born to John Curley Malonson, Sr. and Viola Syon Malonson. At the time of her birth, the Malonson family lived in a two-story home, on a Dairy Farm in the then, Bammel Community near 1960/Kuykendall. As an infant, Juanita was baptized at St Anne De Beaupre Catholic Church in Houston and remained faithful to her religion into her adult life. Juanita attended, Spring Jr. High, a six-room schoolhouse (1st-10th grade), Carver High School, where she was a cheerleader, and finished from Booker T. Washington Night School.

A few years after giving birth to her daughter, Gilda Malonson Holliman Bolton, and at the encouragement of one of her closest cousins, Juanita went on to attend Prairie View (PVAMU) College, School of Nursing. Traveling back and forth to Houston, she fulfilled her Clinical Rotations at Jefferson Davis Hospital. The same day she graduated PV, in 1965, Juanita married her college-sweetheart, Halcolm Holliman in the old St Martin De Porres Catholic Church in Prairie View. Halcolm’s promotions through the Federal Government took them, and their children, across the entire UnitJuanita cont’d ed States. During this time, page 4

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January 6, 2021: The Day when History Rhymed History, like a human life, is benchmarked by watershed-seminal events that either reset the compass of men or nations towards loftier plateaus or into deeper trouble. The election campaign of 1864 was viewed in its time as one of those watersheds in America’s young life...

The United States was split int two, gripped in a monstrous civil war, a war of brothers, the most devasting and murderous in the nation’s history to that point. The election held in the middle of it became the first democratic canvass ever successfully carried out during a civil war anywhere at any time.

It was an election in which the issue was what kind of nation this was going to beunified, however painfully, without slavery: or permanently divided with or without it... and that made it the

most critical election in our history.

Re-electing Lincoln, The Battle for the 1861 Presidency. John C. Waugh 2001 There are some days that events occur that send shockwaves throughout the world.

January 6, 2021 was that day. It was not exactly a day where history repeated itself, but history did rhyme.

Wednesday, January 6 was the statutorily stipulated day

January 6, 2021 chosen to certify the results of November 20 Biden-Harris victory. The election would later be characterized as the most secure national election in American history. The big lie had been gestating for months and now the water broke, and the lie began breathing on its own.

January 6 also became a day of infamy. Not since the British invaded the American capitol in 1814 had a sacrilege took place at 1600 Pennsylvania, Washington D.C. Some events are wa-

tershed events that are inscribed into our brain’s memory networks. I can distinctly remember watching Emmet Till’s funeral on TV in my grandmother’s living room.

Most baby boomers can remember where they were when President Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, Rev. Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers were cut down.

Mama and I were watching the news about 1 p.m. I was channel surfing between MSNBC, post truth-FOX and CNN. As Trump was beginning his insurrectionar y tirade about a mile from the Capitol. I decided to call my patriotic friend, Rep. Al Green9th Congressional District Houston and determine if he was aware of the threatening crowds and impending invasion.

Rep. Green had been a North Star for the emerging movement to Keep the Republic in the face of executive authoritarianism and idiocy. Regrettably, he did not pick up and I left him a discrete, but things look like they

History cont’d page 3

A Revival of God

Consciousness Bobby E. Mills, PhD

THE BIG GOP WALKOUT The Big GOP Walkout is coming just as the sun rises in the East and Sets in the West.

The five GOP members appointed by the minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, voted against the impeach-

ment of President Trump both times when the empirical evidence was clear and convening that he was a chronic habitual liar, and had broken every time-honored established Presidential protocol. Moreover, these five individuals agreed with the Big Lie-Big Steal that the Presidential election of Biden was fraudulent, and they still believed the lie.

Sadly, these five GOP House Representatives voted against a (911) style commis-

sion to investigate the origin and organizers of an overthrow of the U. S. Government.

No doubt about it, they will “walk-out” screaming ungodly accusations that the investigation is a biased witch-hunt designed to discredit former President Trump, and to steal 2022 House and Senate elections. America, get ready, get ready, get ready. The big walk out will be a national fundrais-

ing strategy oriented toward a “Get Out the Vote Campaign”, and at the same time, designed to protect the good name of former 45th President. Question: what good name? It is written: “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour than silver or gold.” At the same time, the world knows that former President Trump has committed despicable

GOP cont’d page 3

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immoral acts for the love of money. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary most individuals believe that money solves all problems and brings happiness, but it is written: “The love of money is the root of all evil:” Christian Right Evangelicals was once called the moral majority.

Now, they have become faithful workers of iniquity seeking to substitute one sin for another sin; when it is all sin, and an abomination to God. Someone please inform GOP Loyalists that: “The house of the wicked shall be over-

thrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.”

There is a way that may seem right to the GOP, and offer different options, but the end thereof will be the demise of the Grand Ole Party. Thus, the GOP must clearly understand that every individual must give an account of himself to God: “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.” When a national political party has no democratic governing strategies or policies,

July 25, 2021 and at the same time, espouses evil conspiracy theories concerning the foundational cornerstone of democracy, which is voting rights. Hence, the constitutional structure of American society is weakened, and the constitution is undermined.

All great nations fall from internal spiritual immoral chaos.

Thus, GOP members of the congressional January 6th, 2021 committee will create a false narrative for staging a “walkout”. Take heed, GOP: “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” (Proverbs 14: 34). - AANI

History cont’d are going wrong fast voice mail.

We settled in on CNN and MSNBC as Trump was parroting the line about if you don’t act, you are going to lose your country.

Finally, Rep. Green calls back and says, Omowale we are hunkering down in a secure area of the capitol. I said, Judge, the capitol has been breached, the mob is inside the chambers, destroying the chamber. Do not leave your secure position. Judge Green (Congressman) told me that communications did not allow them to see what is going on the floor.

Instantly, our cell

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According to MSNBC the national guard has been called but there is no word of when they will arrive.

(I didn’t know that the approval had not been given). I then saw a frame of Rep. Dianne Feinstein faint from nervous anxiety being sheltered and cared for by her colleagues.

Fortunately, brave capitol police staff detoured the insurrectionists away from the sheltered Congressional representatives.

There were casualties, at least four people were dead.

Sadly, Mike Pence was too dumb to react to the news that gallows were constructed

to hang him on January 6, 2021.

Congressman Green found enough grace, luck and favor to escape with his life on January 6, 2021.

Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick suffered a stroke and died amidst the stress of the fake patriots crashing the gates of democracy, It is my view that our understanding of these events will determine what type of nation we will live in for the foreseeable future. If we whitewash the events of January 6, truth decay will rot the organism.

LONG LIVE THE JANUARY 6 COMMISSION..... - AANI

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Juanita cont’d Juanita gave birth to their son, Mark Douglas Holliman in 1967. She also furthered her education with a Masters’ Degree from the University of California, San Francisco and a PhD in Education and Behavioral Sciences from Colorado State University, Denver, all while working full-time and raising her children. This included raising her niece, Regina Milburn Allen, for almost two years. “Gina”, as she called her, became like a second daughter and remained extremely close to her “Aunt Juanita”.

Juanita’s joy of Nursing, teaching and learning was

shared through her extensive employment history: Methodist Hospital School of Nursing, Philadelphia; Community College of Denver; University of Colorado, Denver; Near North Health Corporation, Chicago; Governor’s State University, University Park; DePaul University, Chicago; Malcolm X College, Chicago; Chicago State University, Chicago. Over these many years, Juanita became a published author of Nursing Education textbooks and Curriculum Design, as well as an accomplished speaker (15 years) for the Critical Thinking Institute of Berkeley, California. In addition to pur-

suing her education and careers, Juanita made time to enjoy her favorite hobbies: reading and painting. She gifted many of her artistic creations to her family.

After her retirement in 2015, Juanita continued her life-long pursuit of learning which culminated in the publication of her book: Spiraling Into Hearing Loss and Deafness: A Memoir of a Professors Decent Into Hearing Loss. This book (her joy) was published one week before her passing on June 28, 2021.

Through the loss of “the love of her life” in December 2020, Juanita was encouraged by family members to turn to an even closer walk

with our Lord. She became increasingly aware of The Cross and its significance to her life. She was surrounded by the “peace that passes understanding” and would speak of The Lord comforting her. Her favorite Bible Expositor was her nephew, Pastor David Allen, Jr. Juanita was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 55 years: Halcolm Lawrence Holliman; her brother-in-law, James Parker; her mother, Viola Syon Malonson Dizadare ; her father, John Curley Malonson, Sr. and her brother, Sidney Malonson, Sr. She leaves to cherish her memories: her daughter Gilda Malonson Holliman

Bolton (Charles), her son Mark Douglas Holliman, her one and only granddaughter, Ariana Marie Bolton, eight siblings: Robert Malonson (Wilma), Betty Malonson, Carolyn Parker, Madell Malonson, Minor Paul Malonson (Maggie), Roy Douglas Malonson (Shirley Ann), John Curley Malonson, Jr. and Debbra Dizadare Hunter (Greg), a dear Sister-in-law, Dr. Jimmi Holliman Logan (Thomas), several godchildren, a host of nieces, nephews and other cherished relatives and friends across the country.

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have to come together to fulfill the first responsibility of democracy and to keep each other safe,” Biden said. “That’s what the American people are looking for when it comes to reducing violent crime and gun violence.”

Despite Biden’s plan, violent crime and gun violence continue to increase in cities throughout the country. The question remains, “why are we killing each other?”

The rise in gun violence corresponds to the rise in gun sales. Experts say the rise in gun ownership is due to waves of unemployment because of the pandemic, fear of foreigners, and a fear of a failing economy. Financial hardship, stress over physical health, and harder-to-access mental health services are only some of the reasons why gun violence rates are increasing.

“I think we are very aware that food insecurity, isola-

tion and lack of social services are risk factors for many forms of gun violence,” said Lisa Geller, state affairs manager at the nonprofit organization Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.

No matter what we are going through, we have to focus on what we are here for. Guns should be used to “protect” not to “attack” and kill each other senselessly like dogs in the street.

Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. Stop killing each other. Black people, UNITE! - AANI

“If you have to get (a) drivers license to drive a car…shouldn’t you be able to at least get a permit where you get some type of training?” he said.

“I don’t think it’s a good thing for major cities.”

This country is turning into a war zone, it seems.

President Biden provided a plan after the Fourth of July weekend which produced the second highest number of shootings in the past decade. The plan included targeting illegal gun sales and trafficking, increasing community violence intervention programs and using federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act to support law enforcement.

On the topic of violent crime and gun violence surges, “while there’s no onesize-fits-all approach, we know there are some things that work,” Biden said.

“We recognize that we

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J. MASON BREWER

By: Nevaeh Richardson

When you think of “folklore,” an African American may not initially come to mind. We are about to change that. In this week’s “Know Your History,” we introduce you to scholar and folklorist John Mason Brewer.

Brewer was born in Goliad in 1896. Over his fifty-year career, he almost singlehandedly preserved the African American folklore of his home state.

Brewer’s grandfathers were wagoners who hauled dry goods across Texas. His father worked as a cowboy, traveling to the Indian Ter-

ritories and Kansas. The stories they shared fostered Brewer’s love of folk tales, while his mother, Minnie, a schoolteacher, inspired him to make scholarship his life’s work.

When Brewer graduated from Wiley College in Marshall, Texas in 1917. He went on to teach at various institutions, including Samuel Huston College in Austin, Texas, Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas, Claflin College in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Texas Southern University in

Houston, Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina, and East Texas State University in Commerce, Texas (now Texas A&M University–Commerce).

He also wrote poetry, in addition to collecting the folk tales he heard at schools and churches, in general stores and barbershops—the places of everyday life for black Texans.

While teaching in Austin in the 1930s, Brewer shared some of his tales with folklorist J. Frank Dobie. Impressed, Dobie arranged for

their publication under the title Juneteenth.

Many more books followed, filled with tales that Brewer learned firsthand from Texas’s former slaves and their descendants. Recorded in the dialect of their tellers, the stories revolve around preachers and overseers, husbands and wives, reflecting the hardship and humor of the “coming-up times” after slavery.

He published numerous

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DIANNE WALKER The world was waiting for the birth of Dianne Walker.

She was born December 12, 1945 to the late Charles Walker and the late Ruth Mary Johnson Walker in Houston, Texas.

Dianne received her formal education in the Aldine Independent School District at George Washington Carver High School. As a student, Dianne was very popular serving as captain of the cheerleaders, she was voted ‘most peppiest’. She was a beautiful debutante team.

She also furthered her education at Texas Southern University majoring in Psychology.

Dianne accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior at an early age at Central Gardens Missionary Baptist Church. She later joined Greater Macedonia Baptist Church where she served as an usher. Through all of her sickness, sorrow, and pain, Dianne trusted in God who is the Author and Finisher of her faith. She was united in holy matrimony to Louis LeBlanc in 1966 in Houston, Texas. Their union was blessed with one daughter, Rhonda Monique LeBlanc.

Dianne was employed as a credit account specialist for many years with companies in the banking and credit industries to include — Foley’s, Equifax, and AT&T. She worked hard and played

hard. In her leisure, she enjoyed watching football, especially her beloved Dallas Cowboys; and she enjoyed playing Bingo.

Dianne was a dedicated member of the Carverdale Civics Club.

Dianne Walker departed this life in her home on July 11, 2021. She is preceded in death by her parents, Charles Walker and Ruth Mary Walker, her brothers, Namon Walker and Charles Walker, her adopted sister, Sandra Royers and her adopted parents R. L. and Cora Johnson.

She leaves to cherish her memory her beloved, dedicated and only child, Mrs. Rhonda LeBlanc Bellows; her two loving

sisters, Ms. Freddie Mae Walker, and Mrs. Delaney Kay Walker Frierson (Williams Sr.), Manning, SC; her adorable grandchildren, Taren Bellows, Tarica Bellows, and Trenton Charles Bellows; four precious and handsome great-grandsons, Joshua, Trey, Matthew and Noah; four nieces, Montraie, Ingra, Lula, and Delaney; six nephews, Johnny, William Jr., Jason, Harold, Kelvin, and Peyton; a lifelong friend, Mrs. Joyce Brooks; cousins, Mrs. Sirley Malonson and Ms. JoAnn Grant both of whom she loved and held in highest regard; and a host of other cousins, relatives and friends.

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Brewer cont’d collections of folklore and poetry, most notably The Word on the Brazos (1953), Aunt Dicey Tales (1956), Dog Ghosts and Other Texas Negro Folk Tales (1958), and Worser Days and Better Times (1965).

His books serve as a timeless record of Texas storytelling, and powerful proof of what he called “folklore as a living force.”

Brewer was the first African American to be an active member of the Texas Folklore Society, to be a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, and to serve on the council of the American Folklore Society.

He was also the first African American to deliver a lecture series at the University of Arizona, the University of California, and the University of Colorado, and he broke the color barrier at Austin’s Driskill Hotel. He has been compared to Zora Neale Hurston, Joel Chandler Harris, and Alain Locke. He also published a book on African American legislators in Texas during the Reconstruction era up until their disenfranchisement.

John Mason Brewer died in 1975 at the age of 79. - AANI

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