Volume 24 Issue 36

September 22 - 28, 2019

Vol. 24, Issue 36

Greater Houston Edition

OUR STORY

Sadie Ruth Moore Session

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The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation on buses and in waiting rooms used for interstate travel. - 1961

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Thurgood Marshall nominated to the U.S. Circuity Court of Appeals. - 1961

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Smithsonian National African-American Museum of History and Culture opens.

- 2016

Sunrise May 12, 1936

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Barbara W. Hancock becomes the first African-American female White House Fellow. - 1974

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Xavier University, first (and, to date, only) Black Catholic College in US, opens in New Orleans, LA. - 1915

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Poet James Weldon Johnson speaks at NYU. - 1935

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Muhammad Ali defeats Earnie Shavers. - 1977

OP-ED

EDUCATION

WHAT’S HAPPENIN’

For Your Consideration sheds light on a textbook example of the type of greed that underpins White supremacy.

Broken Chains ADG awards local students scholarships at their Annual Scholarship Gala.

National Women of Achievement, Inc. to host the Annual Scholarship Luncheon at DoubleTree Hilton.

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Sunset September 15, 2019

Sadie Ruth Moore Session departed this life on Sunday, September 15. She was born on May 12, 1936 in Houston, she graduated from Jack Yates High School (Class of 1954) and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Education from Texas Southern University (Class of 1961).

Sadie moved to California in 1961 while her husband was stationed in the U.S. Army.

She retired after working for over twenty-years in numerous administrative support roles in the Folsom/Cordova School District.

She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Jesse Session, Jr., son Jesse, III, daughter Cheryl, daughter-in-law Gina, granddaughter Sara, grandson Jesse, IV (Jay) and numerous relatives and friends.

Visitation will be on Friday, September 27 from 4 to 7 pm, Morgan Jones Funeral Home. Services will be held on Saturday, September 28 at 11 am, St. Andrews AME Church, 2131 8th St., Sacramento, CA. In her honor, the public is encouraged to contribute to your local branch of the American Diabetes Association or the American Heart Association.

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State of Black Texas in the Texas Legislature

By Senator Borris Miles

Prostate Awareness

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arlier this year, I passed Senate Resolution 453 to designate September as Prostate Cancer Awareness month to educate the public on early detection of this disease. This year, over 174,000 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in the US, making prostate cancer the most frequently diagnosed cancer among men. The disease will kill about 1900 men in Texas this year. In Harris County, about 102 of every 100,000 males test positive for prostate cancer, a rate significantly higher than the state-wide average.

But what hits home is that this cancer disproportionately affects Black men at rates that are 60% higher than White males for reasons unclear to researchers. Statistical data shows Black men in the United States have the highest rates of prostate cancer in the world. Age and race are the two greatest risk factors for prostate cancer, with Black men over the age of 65 being at the highest risk.

While this data paints a frightening picture, there are ways to be proactive and protect yourself and

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our community: 1. Talk to your doctor and get screened 2. Know your family history and risk factors.

3. Help raise awareness in your community.

Early detection is vital.

Catching prostate cancer in its earliest stage is the best way to ensure a swift recovery. However, prostate cancer is slow-growing and usually does not show symptoms until it reaches the advanced stage, making proactive screenings even more important.

The American Cancer Society recommends men should start speaking to their healthcare provider about prostate cancer beginning at the age of 50.

The discussion should include reviewing family history, understanding the risk factors and getting screened.

Knowledge is power and early detection is essential. Black men are considered high risk for developing prostate cancer if they have close relatives diagnosed with prostate cancer before the age of 65. Men are considered very high risk if they have had several close relatives diagnosed with prostate cancer before the age of 50. Additionally, the presence of certain inherited genetic conditions like Lynch Syndrome can also lead to a greater likelihood of developing the disease.

Therefore, it is vital to know your family medical

For Your Consideration

By Oscar H. Blayton

A Fair Shot In America

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elicity Huffman says she just wanted to give her daughter “a fair shot” at getting into the college of her choice. That is the reason the Emmy Award-winning actress paid someone to cheat on her daughter’s college entrance exam.

Huffman pled guilty in federal court to paying $15,000 to have her daughter’s SAT exam answers illicitly corrected by a test proctor. Huffman, who, along with her celebrity husband, William H. Macy, reportedly has a net worth of $45 million, believed that her daughter, Sophia Macy, was educationally disadvantaged because of a learning disability. Huffman tried to rationalize her cheating by saying that she only wanted to use her wealth to level the playing field for her daughter.

Most parents want what’s best for their children and Felicity Huffman is no exception. But it is likely that her daughter already had an abundance of the best.

Her parents were able to provide her with the advantages in life that wealth brings. In this sense, Sophia lived a life

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of privilege.

The absurdity of Huffman’s belief that her daughter has lived a life of disadvantage warranting short-circuiting the normal college admissions process is breathtaking.

Are we expected to believe that Sophia did not have the opportunity to attend the best schools for her learning disability and to have the most appropriate support systems?

Sophia was even allowed six hours to take the threehour SAT exam when she produced documentation stating she had a learning disability.

Sophia’ s mother is a textbook example of the type of greed that underpins White supremacy.

She exemplifies the people who have so much more than most people but who want even more.

Why? Because they believe they deserve it.

And that is what, in their minds, makes it “fair” to cheat.

Deservedness is based upon merit in some cases and upon status in others.

While we all deserve respect because of our status as human beings, a student deserves a promotion because of her meritorious work. A problem arises whe n social wires get crossed by wealth, racism or other factors and status is seen as merit. There is no merit in being born into a wealthy family, just as there is no merit in being born White. But racism

and classism assign merit to both. And this leads to a false sense of deservedness.

For her crime, Felicity Huffman received only 14 days in jail at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif., where at least one hour of recreational sunbathing is allowed from 4 p.m. Friday until 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

She also is required to pay a $30,000 fine out of her $45 million in assets and perform 250 hours of community service.

During her trial, prosecutors argued that Huffman should go to prison, pointing out that a jury in Akron, Ohio, sentenced a single Black mom to five years in prison for using her father’s address to get her children into a nearby suburban school district.

Prosecutors also pointed out cases in Atlanta where some Black public school teachers and administrators received as much as three years in prison for bolstering school rankings by cheating on students’ state exams.

By understanding the false sense of deservedness that attaches to Whiteness and wealth we can explain why judicial outcomes vary so greatly. This also explains the differing outcomes in employment, education, housing and health care.

“A fair shot” to some Americans means greater advantage for them at the expense of others.

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OPINION & EDITORIAL

We MUST Understand

By Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher

We Have No Voice!

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.”

- Frederick Douglass s it is, we have had numerous Black leaders who have come before US and paved the way. They taught us, encouraged and motivated us to look forward to a better day in America for Our race overall. In most instances, those leaders, who truly were prophetic in their teachings, tirelessly and unselfishly fought for US. However, many of them never got a chance to see their dreams’, words’ and prophecies to US come to fruition. Some even laid down their own lives, faced imprisonment or became martyrs in the fight for equality for Blacks.

Yet, it is from standing on their shoulders, that many of our Black professionals, executives, elected officials and others have attained positions of power and authority.

So why then is the Black community in such a dire need for a genuine voice to speak out and speak

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up about the issues which continue to plague Our culture?

From the East to the West and North to South, we hear Black folks around the country screaming, “Black Lives Matter” - a rallying cry for help in the face of unjustified police shootings and killings. On a daily basis many African-Americans have to contend with acts of discrimination and other injustices, to state the least. But who can we really turn to? We have no voice!

And it’s senseless, because we have so many of US who have the platform to do what needs to be done, but everybody is passing the buck. Either that or We have just gotten downright selfish and don’t care about the future of Black America. We MUST Understand nobody is going to ever give a damn about Our struggle, so We need people from within who do and are not afraid to be a voice for us. We MUST find a voice who will agitate and get the message out.

So, in the words of Marcus Garvey, “Rise up Black men, and take your stand. Reach up Black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West. And then when you have wrought well, you will have merited God’s blessing, you will become God’s chosen people and naturally you’ll become leaders of - AANI the world.

Parting the Waters

By Omowale Lithuli-Allen

The Democratic Debate at TSU Barely Hit the Target…

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SU Alumni and NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan ignited the debate via a Video hook-up that

Jorge Ramos and David Muir had a set of questions designed to narrow the field.

I was fortunate to have a prime seat, but I could not help to notice that the further that you were away from VP Biden, Senator Sanders and Warren indicated that you have failed to gain significant national traction and that your donors would soon divorce you. Evidently someone had gotten the message to almost all the candidates to cease and desist with the criticism

were Senator Kamala Harris and Senator Booker. Senator Klobuchar, A house divided against itself cannot stand, can be classified between the Independents and High Loyalists. The Independents are comprised of Buttigieg, Andrew Yang.

Julian Castro reserves the freedom to be with or between all three groups the same time.

Beto was a big winner because he was a favorite son of Texas and the DNC had stuffed the audience with a cluster of pro

Senator Booker, fluent in Spanish used one-liners to illustrate that he is just a major speech away from prominence.

The other two issues that must be addressed are Medicare for all and the power of Congress to prevent needless and endless unjust war.

No one, including Bernie Sanders has had the guts to say that Medicare for All essentially means the death of private insurance companies in America. This also means that 160 million of Americans

Featured Democratic Candidates: Senator Cory Booker, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Bernie Sanders, Former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Senator Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang & Former Rep. Photo Credit ABC News Beto O’Rourke. focused on unleashing of the only rock star in dreamer and anti-assault would eventually lose the power of millennials the party, ex-President weapons advocates from their existing coverage. and HBCU’s to improve Barack Obama.

South and West Texas. Many citizens are satisfied well-being of People of Vice President Joe Castro was a favorite son, with their existing coverColor and the nation. In Biden carved out his high but he came across as a age that is often the result the absence of babies to standing with Black voters provocateur due to his at- of employer-labor colleckiss, Strahan’s comments by engraving in granite the tempts to kneecap VP Joe tive bargaining. set the stage for a pattern assertion that he stood by Biden.

When Trump is defeatof pandering to HBCU’s the Obama legacy, good, The next debate will ed, the forensics will show for the remaining of the bad and indifferent. have a starting point from that the Black female, edevening.

One should be mindful the position staked out by ucated and non-educated Tellez DNC Chair gave that there were 3 classi- Beto that he would seize suburban White women a warm-up speech that fications of Democrats the guns of those who re- and surging People of Coltouched all the issues that on the debate state. Each fused to participate in a or from a diverse Ameriwould lead to a Democrat- group had loosely en- mandatory buyback pro- can was his undoing. It is ic victory against Donald dorsed a non- aggression gram. a mystery to me as to why Trump and the fossils in pact. High Loyalists were Kamala Harris at- no one really spoke to 2020. He set the table, VP Biden, Senator War- tempted to vault out of a the war and disrespect on but moderators Stepha- ren, Beto O Rourke and slump by clever one-lin- women by the President of nopoulos, Lindsey Davis, Sanders. Low loyalists ers against Donald Trump. the United States. - AANI

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- as one the longest consecutively played gospel songs in national radio history. But that is just one feat attributed to the talented gospel music icon, who started playing the piano with no formal training.

For half a century, Dr. Darrell L. Rushing has been on the scene com-

COVER STORY became enthralled with the sound of gospel music as he would listen to the late Dr. Gideon Sanders, “tickle the keys” at Fifth Ward Missionary Baptist Church. Rushing said, “Gideon was a wellknown musician back in the day. I remember going to church hearing him play Amazing Grace and

time Rushing reached the age of 13, he could not deny the underlying passion within.

As such, he went to aunt’s house and sorted through a cluttered garage to get to her piano. Having never played a complete song before, he began practicing and mastered, Pass Me Not O’ Gentle Savior.

A couple years later, he went to visit his grandmother, Essie Rushing in Minden, Louisiana.

While there he attended her church, where he met Sis. Gatha Smith, who begin teaching him some of the basic fundamentals of music. Before the end of summer, Rushing had experienced his first round playing an organ.

His first song was, “Kept On Searching Til I Found Him.” Shortly thereafter, while in the barbershop his mother approached Pastor Ira Bostic, who happened to be in the barbershop with them. She informed him that her son was a musician. Rushing said, “I was embarrassed, because I didn’t think I played well enough to play for a church.”

Nevertheless, Pastor Bostic extended the invitation for him to come and play at his church, Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. In doing so, Rushing was trained on more fundamentals of playing gospel music by Sis. White.

Dr. Rushing & Evangelist Brenda Harland.

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Dr. Rushing & Pastor Mark C. Davis.

Racist tweets, outrageous claims, divisive rhetoric.

TONY BUZBEE is taking a page out of Donald Dr. Darrell L. Rushing & the late Angie Williams.

His aunt recognized his anointing at the age of 13. posing, producing, publishing and copywriting some of the best in gospel music.

The Forming of a Gospel Music Legend Darrell L. Rushing is the only son born to Dexter and Devora Rushing.

Raised in Houston’s Fifth Ward, he was educated in the public-school system attending, Nat Q. Henderson Elementary, McReynolds Middle School and ultimately graduating from Phillis Wheatley High School in 1974.

At an early age, Rushing

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that was just all she wrote; when he got through playing, there was no one left in the church.”

Inspired by his experience, Rushing would often play on the piano while visiting his aunt, Angie Williams house on the weekends and during the summer. Back then, he had cousins who took music lessons and he would watch them and imitate what he heard them playing. It was Aunt Angie who first recognized the gift brewing inside him and shared the insight with his mother. By the

Trump’s playbook – and it’s all noise. Buzbee is one of Trump’s biggest Texas supporters, hosting Trump at his home and giving more than $500,000 to his PACs.

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HOUSTON - While at a resale shop in 1989, Marilyn Bolden Grant of KTSU (90.9 FM) found an album she fell in love with. She began playing the song on air every Sunday morning at 10a.m.

Fast forward three decades later, and Dr. Darrell L. Rushing’s, “I Owe it All to God” has proven to be a song which has transcended the times.

Today, if you were to search, “I Owe it All to God” on YouTube; you will find a posting by Carl Lewis. His tagline reads, “I Owe it All to God, by Darrell L. Rushing. Every Sunday morning at 10am on the Marylin Bolden Tyrone gospel show on KTSU. Best memories of riding through Third Ward to church with my Dad!” A few of the comments below the song read: “Omg, We listened to this on KTSU every Sunday on the way to NW Community BC. I was in my teens, but it got me in the right frame of mind for church!” (Amber Luv); “LMBO every Sunday @ 10am... That’s how you knew you were late to church!!” (Keisha Rochelle) and “I spent many years singing under Dr. Rushing’s impeccable tutelage. I consider him a dear friend, but if he NEVAH WRITES ANOTHER WORD OR NOTE OF MUSIC THIS SONG RIGHT HERE SAYS IT ALL FOR ME!!!!” (Faye Melancon).

This year, the 2009 Grammy-nominated song “I Owe It All”, was submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records

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HOUSTON- The Broken Chains Awareness Development Group (BCADG) recently held its annual Scholarship Gala at the National Buffalo Soldier’s Museum.

Demetrus Johnson served as the Master of Ceremony. The Keynote Speaker, Dr. Bennie Lambert, affectionally known as Dr. Yes, is the current Vice President at Lone Star College. As a leader, educator, author and motivator, he is determined to help people reach their full potential and inspire individuals from all backgrounds to pursue their professional and personal goal. He stated “you can grow from NO.” Hundreds attended to congratulate the scholarship honorees. They were;

Katelyn A. Bush, B.T. Washington, attending Texas A&M University as a Bio Chemistry major; Kheang Pinchpoanraingsey, Manvel High, attending the University of Houston, majoring in Business-Supply Chain Management; Kendrick A. Leggins, Jr., Seven Lake, attending Texas State University, majoring in Industrial Engineering and Patrice L. Stubblefield, Houston Academy, attending University of Texas Dallas, majoring in Speech Pathology.

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Gary Jedkins is the founder of BCADG, a business owner and a proud productive graduate of Houston’s only HBCU, Texas Southern University celebrating 92 years and is under the dynamite leadership of Dr. Austin A. Lane, the 12th president.

The BCADG board members are: Gary Jedkins, Chair and Founder; Georgia Provost, Secretary and Cedrick Johnson, Treasurer. Tarla Crumb serves as the executive director and Theresa Jedkins an advisory board member.

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26 A Conversation with Michael Eric Dyson

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Texas Southern University’s Granville M. Sawyer Auditorium 3100 Cleburne St Houston, 77004 From 6-p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 National Black MBA Association NBMBAA Membership Meeting George R. Brown Convention Center 1001 Avenida De Las Americas General Assembly Houston, 77010 From 9a.m. - 10:30a.m.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 King’s Word Search Contest “SOPAS de Letras” Crespo Elementary 7500 Office City Drive Houston, 77012 9:30a.m. - 11:30a.m.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 McDonald’s Workshop Taylor High School 7555 Howell Sugar Land, 77083 8:30a.m. - 3:30p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Black University Presents Know Thyself Series Part 2 Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural and Event Center 5309 Martin Luther King Blvd Houston, 77021 From 2-5p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 National Women of Achievement, Inc. Missour City/ Houston Metro Chapter Annual Profiles of Prominence Scholarship Luncheon DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel 8181 Airport Blvd Houston, 77061 Tickets: $60 Starting at 11a.m.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2 Speaking of Social Justice Distinguished Lecture Hilton Hilton University of Houston-Waldorf Astoria Ballroom 4800 Calhoun Rd Houston, 77004 From 6-8p.m.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2 Collaborative for Children Give a Child a Chance Luncheon Junior League of Houston 1811 Briar Oaks Lane Houston, 77027 11:30a.m.-1p.m.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 AHCBED cordially invites you to attend their Monthly Business Networking Luncheon from 11 - 12:30p 6112 Wheatley Street Houston, 77091

Speaker: Jimmie Jones Vice President Community Development BB&T UPDATED TICKET PRICES Member Price $30.00 Non Member Price $45.00 For more information contact Anthony Stewart (713) 692-7161

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2 Houston Community College 2019 Passion for Fashion Runway Show Neiman Marcus, Houston Galleria-Level II 2600 Post Oak Blvd Houston, 77056 1-3p.m.

For more information contact Andrea Bonner at (713) 718-6150

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 27th Annual Nursing Conference MD Anderson South Campus Research Building 7455 Fannin St Houston, 77054 For more information (713) 797-0600 7:30a.m.- 3:30p.m.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 Career Job Placement Services Houston Community College Career Fair Community College West Houston Institute 2811 Hayes Rd Houston, 77082 From 10a.m. - 1p.m.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 Super Neighborhood Alliance (SNA) Mayoral Candidate Forum HCC-Central Campus 1300 Holman St Houston, 77004 From 11a.m. - 2p.m.

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 5 National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer (NBLIC) Brentwood Baptist Church 13033 Landmark St Houston, 77045 10a.m. - 12:30p.m.

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 5 BIRTH Fair 2019 United Way of Greater Houston 50 Waugh Drive Houston, 77007 From 10:30a.m. - 4p.m.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8 Dallas ISD Construction Networking Event Turney W. Leonard Governance Training Center 5151 Samuel Blvd Dallas, 75228 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 Coalition for the Homeless hosts Annual Event for World Homeless “Pancakes & Solutions” Junior League of Houston 1811 Briar Oaks Lane Houston, 77027 From 7-9a.m.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 12 Building Black Legacy: An Empowerment Tour Richland College-Sabine Hall #118 2800 Abrams Rd. Dallas, 75243 Justin O. Cooper (404) 803-3006 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 Con Funk Shun Fall Dance Saint Mary of the Purification Catholic Church Tickets $45 Presale $50 at the door From 9p.m. - 1a.m.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, Gumbo Cookoff J Paul Jr., Chris Ardoin, Nooney, DJ Jammin J, Super Bingo, $2500 Prize Giveaway From 11a.m. - 10p.m.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, Fall Festival Keith Frank, Gumbo, Creole Favorites, BBQ, Boudain, Kiddie Land, King & Queen Contest From 11a.m. - 8:30p.m.

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