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MY TRUTH

BY CHERYL SMITH Publisher

DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE!

Cheryl Smith Publisher

ATTACK ISSUES NOT INDIVIDUALS Social Media School of Law

I was so looking forward to returning to the highest of seven hills in Tallahassee.

It was Homecoming and while many were excited about the football matchup between Florida A&M University and North Carolina Central University; I had so many other things to look forward to.

I was going to get a much-needed break after spending a week and a half covering a murder trial; I would get to celebrate anniversaries with sorority sisters, classmates, alumni and friends; there would be a show of all shows from the baddest band in the land, the Marching 100; I’d get to enjoy some really good cooking; and, I’d get to act like I was 21 again!

Well, guess what? Folks in Tallahassee wanted to talk about the Amber Guyger Murder Trial in Dallas, TX. And boy, did I get an earful.

I was practically overwhelmed by the conversations at the airport, on the plane, in the Uber, at restaurants, at the tailgates, waiting in line for the ladies room, at the game, and even parties, especially when people found out I was from Dallas.

This was not what my 21-year-old self was in the mood for.

And yes, I received phone calls, emails and text messages to add to the drama of social media platforms.

Which brings me to my truth.

I was determined to not let the trial or the commentary from the peanut gallery destroy my homecoming.

I learned at a young age that your mouth can get you into trouble and you need to know what you are talking about or just shut up!

Well, that wasn’t happening, at least not on social media. I know.

It was the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey who said, “Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own.”

Opinions are great, they become profound when backed up by facts, research and substantive analysis.

I heard erroneous information from usually credible sources and I witnessed a lot of people passing along opinion as fact. You also had people miserable with their own lives, armed and ready to attack others.

Now you can disagree without all the filth and name calling. People didn’t speak out as much about all the lynchings and wrongfully incarcerated, nor have many found a cause they would champion.

They couldn’t tell you of any improprieties in other cases and couldn’t name the judges in cases that involved the murders of Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, shall I continue?

And interestingly those talking about what the judge wouldn’t have done, never heard of the judge until the Amber Guyger case.

These graduates of FaceBook School of Law, the University of I’m Bad Because I’m on Social Media, and The Who is a Coon University are laughable.

The UNCF says “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

Well, a mind without research, knowledge, See MY TRUTH, page 4

QUIT PLAYIN’ By Vincent L. Hall “Strength to Love” debuted in 1963 as a book of sermons, principally centered on the topic of segregation. Its author was the social justice activists’ mentor; the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It went past separation of the races and juxtaposed what

STRENGTH TO LOVE Lessons to be learned A letter to Jerry Jones

love would look like, if fully integrated.

Pastor Stephen Bedard is the pastor of Queen Street Baptist Church in St. Catharines, Ontario, and I hate to mention it, but he is a White brother. Bedard snapshots his love for King’s book in a few

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persuasive paragraphs.

“His sermons are intellectually satisfying.

CHERYL SMITH, PHe UBLISHER PROUD FAMU GRADUATE often quotes philosophers, historical figures, and classic authors. He is very thoughtful in putting together his arguments.

See QUIT, page 5

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MY TRUTH

By Cheryl Smith Publisher

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

BY BETHENY SARGENT

help but to wonder what kind of principal she was? It seems Millennials can never catch a break from being the source of every generation (before us) complaints.

Millennials do what make sense!

If what we are involved in does not make sense, we move on until it does…Makes sense? While I’ll admit, our work ethic could use a little fine tuning, we work hard just the same.

The majority of my educational career has been teaching in charter schools that serve underprivileged students coming from impoverished and low-socioeconomic backgrounds.

My very first year of teaching was a test of faith. I was a 4th grade English Language Arts and Reading teacher.

For those who are not aware this is a STAAR testing grade and subject. I remember feeling overwhelmed and overworked to say the least. Feeling these things made me want to give in but I knew I had pupils relying on me.

What I found most baffling was how rare it was for those to ask questions and challenge the status quo. I knew there were complain-

By Hollywood Hernandez Entertainment Critic

October 16, 2019

Millennials and the Classroom: What we Face and Fear as Educators

felt the same as I did. I surveyed other millennial educators in the surrounding Dallas area, here is what I learned.

Cameron Burwell, 26, a second year high school Chemistry teacher at R.L. Turner in Carrollton - Farmer Branch District, says one of his biggest challenges he faces in the classroom is that he is treated as an older peer. “I am relatively close in age to my students. What I ask my students to do is almost a suggestion.”

Even when asked about classroom management and support Burwell holds the students accountable and says that ownership falls on the student when it comes to education. Another challenge Burwell mentions is student engagement.

“I actively feel I am competing with my students’ phones.”

Burwell mentions that most of the games/social media platforms students are interested in compete for their attention. When students come into the classroom, they expect the educator to compete as well.

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Recently, I was challenged by a young lady. She was about 40 years old and enjoying a successful career in corporate America. She wanted me to tell her about Black leadership, specifically, what were the elders doing to train, mold and grow future leaders?

Unfortunately her question was framed in a way that could have seemed like an indictment because clearly she felt that we weren’t doing enough.

Now there’s quite a bit of blame to go around but I am hopeful that by having candid discussions we can move forward and build a stronger foundation.

It begins with respect.

The foundation in our communities has a crack that continues to widen and with the further erosion of our families and institutions that crack will never be repaired unless we bring respect back as the basis for all interactions.

I asked some students if they cussed in front of their parents and I was amazed at the many who answered in the affirmative.

Talk about shocked!

I cussed in front of my mother twice and both times I was in my 50s.

The first time, I said “Hell.”

I was so shocked I couldn’t talk to her for about two days. It was only after I talked to my good- tithing friend Debra, from Concord Church in Dallas, and she assured me that Hell wasn’t a bad word.

The next time, about a year later, I said “Dammit!”

And as soon as the word slipped out of my mouth, I threw my siblings under the

Actress Ptosha Storey is a Dallas,Texas native who's making it big in Hollywood. She'll appear in Tyler Perry's feature film, ACRIMONY, alongside Oscar nominee, Taraji P. Henson. The movie opens March 30, 2018 in theaters nationwide.

She can also be seen in the upcoming season of Fox's hit series EMPIRE starting March 28, in her recurring role as Chyna. And she is also in Tyler Perry's popular television series "If Loving You is Wrong" on The OWN Network.

So how did this young girl from the projects of Dallas make it to the big time? The answer is an inspiring story that actually reads more like a Hollywood movie script than real life.

In high school Ptosha auditioned and was

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ing, helicopter parents and micromanaging administrators waiting on my demise, but I could not afford to let them see me sweat.

My principal at the time definitely had a part to play in that. For the record, I am not bashing my former principal or any other principal for that matter. This is a true testament of my experience in the classroom as a millennial educator.

Wanting to know if there were any other millennial educators that

See EDUCATION, page 5

See TRUTH, page 11

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Panel talks increasing diversity in the media and understanding of different cultures

By Dorothy J Gentry Contributing Editor

A perpetual lack of awareness of different cultures, letting “laziness creep in” when understanding and dealing with different ethnicities and the on-going absence of nonwhites in the newsroom were all cited as reasons the media continues to have challenges with fair and balanced coverage of diverse communities.

“There are huge misunderstandings of other people, other cultures, of people who are

Panelists discuss diversity at Society of Professional Journalists forum, moderated by veteran journalist Rebecca Aguilar

not like us,” said UNT Associate Journalism Professor Tracy Everbach, a former The Dallas Morning News reporter. “We need to open our minds and

infuse this (other cultures) into the newsroom and this is still not happening.

“Naturally we gravitate to peoSee JOURNALISM, page 9

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Garland NAACP Scholars with President McNeal State Rep. Andrews Bowers

By Gwendolyn H. Daniels, Unit Historian Photos by HRB Photography It was a packed ballroom at the Hyatt Place Garland Hotel on George Bush State Highway 190 for the NAACP Garland Unit’s 29th year of Freedom Fund events.

National recording artist Reuben Lael led the audience in “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” Bennye Bryant served as Mistress of Ceremonies, Shealeigh Rooks served as soloist, and Rev. Raliegh Jones, Jr., Sr., Pastor of Christ

Triumphant Church in Garland, brought the keynote address. The morning was filled with shoppers visiting an array of items up for bid at the ever-popular NAACP Garland Unit’s silent auction.

The Garland Unit was backed by corporate sponsorship from Dallas Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram, Garland Power & Light, Randall Reed’s Prestige Ford, First Guaranty Bank, scholarship sponsors Weldon Bradley, and Elrie and Kelly Freeman.

See NAACP, page 7

I Messenger Media (Texas Metro News/Garland Journal/I Messenger) sat down recently with Judge Tammy Kemp to discuss criticism she has received as a result of her actions following the conclusion of the Amber Guyger murder trial last week.

On October 1, 2019, Ms. Guyger, a former Dallas police officer, was convicted by a Dallas County jury of murder for fatally shooting 26-year-old Botham Shem Jean, in his apartment at the Southside Flats on September 6, 2018.

Ms. Guyger claimed self-defense as she said she thought she was in her apartment and that Mr. Jean was an intruder.

Mr. Jean’s apartment, #1478, was located on the fourth floor and Guyger’s apartment, #1378, was located directly beneath his on the third floor. The jury found her guilty of murder and sentenced Ms. Guyger to serve 10 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

After Judge Kemp read the jury’s punishment verdict, she thanked the jury for their service, released them from the court’s previous restrictions regarding reading or watching coverage or engaging in/consuming social media content about the trial and offered contact information for counseling services should they find themselves in need of assistance following the trial. The jury exited the courtroom, the trial was over and the court was officially off the record.

However, as is customary in any case where there is a victim of a crime, the victim’s family has a right to make a victim impact statement to the defendant before he/she is transported from the courtroom.

In this case, Brandt Jean, the 18-year-old brother of Botham Jean, took the witness stand to address Amber Guyger directly and delivered an undoubtedly unexpected, yet powerful message of forgiveness and love to the woman who took his brother’s life.

Then in a stunning turn of events, the victim’s brother asked Judge Kemp if he could “give her a hug.”

He pleaded with Judge Kemp, “Please.”

There was a brief pause of silence before Judge Kemp responded, “Yes.” Mr. Brandt See KEMP, page 3

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I was just thinking....

I have been traveling the streets of my native Dallas for more years than I care to recall.

While traveling, I often recall conversations I’ve had about footprints.

There are a lot of deep African American footprints around this tinsel town.

Historic footprints are all over the 8th and 10th streets area near Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center. Let’s save Yvonne A. Ewell for another time and just talk about the streets across from the popular school.

I call this small section of

Oak Cliff my personal Catfish Row, referring to the setting in George Gershwin’s world-famous 1935 folk opera Porgy and Bess.

The production -- starring a trailblazing all-African American cast that wrestled with life in a staged Charleston, South Carolina shantytown -- later became a 1959 movie and featured stars including Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr. But I digress.

I was just thinking about how this enduring Dallas area figuratively has so many African American footprints and is rife with the spirits of early Dallas

See DOC SHEP, page 9

CHERYL’S WORLD

By Cheryl Smith

Garland NAACP honors

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, has once again shined a light on the lack of gun control legislation in the United States.

Congress has presented numerous proposals and counter proposals of gun bills -- that the bills should have been written in pencil.

Years later no resolution has transpired on the regulating of guns that would possibly prevent school shootings.

No worries Americans, President Trump has provided Dr. Felicia Shepherd a solution to this ongoing debate. President Trump’s solution is to permit teachers to carry guns inside their classrooms.

As I reflect on my time as a former classroom teacher and school counselor, I feel I can honestly say if the current educators are anything like me it would not be wise to allow them to carry weapons into the classroom.

As a classroom teacher, my organizational skills were not very good. So, because I would not feel comfortable keeping a loaded gun in my classroom, the bullets would have been kept in a locked box with the gun.

Now where I placed the box, and key for

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Judge Tammy Kemp

Atatiana Koquice Jefferson

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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and Artillery!

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WOMEN’S HISTORY

Doc Shep speaks

One on One with Judge I MESSENGER MEDIA L.L.C. NEWS GARLAND JOURNAL TEXAS METRO Tammy Kemp ple to support my efforts.

Along with rap group Public Ene-

In an article by former Principal, Kristen Barker, she talks about how she hired six brand new, straight from college educators for the upcoming academic school year. She mentions how they were Millennial and Generation Y teachers who were basically needy, required attention and expected much.

Mrs. Barker gave some imperative feedback, but I just could not

ANOTHER SHOOTING Several hundred citizens from across the state, and some who flew in from the Bahamas, gathered in Fort Worth on Sunday night to show their support for the family of Atatiana Jefferson (28), who was murdered Saturday morning by a Fort Worth police officer.

Aaron Dean (35) tendered his resignation on Monday morning and was later arrested around 6:00p.m., charged with murder. He was being held on a $200,000 bond at the Tarrant County Correction Center, before bonding out, late Monday.

While the gathering was peaceful and organized, it was clear that emotions were high as many expressed being “tired” of the constant “assaults.”

City leaders issued apologies to the family and civil rights Atty. Lee Merritt spoke about the senseless murder of Ms. Jefferson as he blasted the Fort Worth Police Department for a history of injustices.

A multi-ethnic gathering of men, women and children; that included

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JOURNALVOL IX ISSUE Dallas’ 4 Star A perspective on education

Betheny Sargent

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When you have a good thing, you’d better hold on to it and treat it right.

Isn’t that the recurring theme in a number of “love” songs?

In preparation for the 24th annual Cheryl Smith’s Don’t Believe the Hype Celebrity Bowl-a-thon there were some moments of hesitancy.

You see, in 1995 at the first scholarship fundraisers, comedian/activist/ humanitarian/nutritionist and all around good person Dick Gregory stood by my side encouraging peo-

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OUR HBCUs!

African Americans who deserve to be remembered.

The design of the modest structures – some up on tiny hills and jammed into miniature spaces where residents sit high up on thumbnail porches – reminds me of a Catfish Row movie set.

I want to blurt out the timeless songs “Summertime” or “It Ain’t Necessarily So” from Gershwin’s folk opera.

I cannot drive by the 8th or 10th streets area without emotions tugging at my heart when I see all the “streets” with names that include Boswell, Anthony, Noah

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and Moore. Their histories scream as if through a megaphone, because the African Americans whose names these streets honor were larger than life when they lived. ...But we don’t remember them.

I was just thinking of a time decades ago when I researched the origin of these street names and See THINKING, page 5

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR Minority Business Month Breast Cancer Awareness Month Recurring Events Feeding The Needy, Host: Michael “Hollywood” Hernandez, 1641 Corsicana St, Dallas. 3-5p., Sundays.

The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection, A. A. M. 3536 Grand Ave. 9-21-19 - 3-1-20.

Sliver Stories Storytelling Circle, Bishop Arts Theatre 215 S. Tyler St.10-11a. Free Interactive Workshops.

Contact Tiffany Jackson: 214-948-0716 ext.307. Tuesdays.

West African Drumming and Dance Class, South Dallas Culture Center, 3400 Fitzhugh Ave. 11a-1p. 10-26-127, Ages 5-18. Info: Marilyn Clark, 214-671-1998.

Arthello Beck Gallery Presents: Nitashia Johnson The Self Publication, South Dallas Culture Center, 3400 Fitzhugh Ave.

October 16 105.7 Rudy Rush Comedy Hour, Arlington Improv 309 Curtis Mathis Way, #147, 6-11:59p. Improvarlington.com Fireside Chat with Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall, Dallas Bar Association 2101 Ross Ave. 12-1p.

Pop Up Bowling Series with 50 Cent & Friends, Scout, 1914 Commerce St. 7-9p. Tickets: popupbowling. seatengine.com.

Jamrok Wednesdays, A Night of Jamaican Music, Art & Culture, Hero’s Lounge, 3094 N. Stemmons Fwy. 7p-2a. Tickets Eventbrite.com.

October 17-19 Women of the West Sisters United Conference, Host: Sis. Debra Haynes & W.O.W. Friendship-West Baptist Church, 2020 Wheatland Rd. Register: Eventbrite.com.

October 17

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Nosh Culinary Showcase, Dallas 2019, The Empire Room, 1225 N. Riverfront Blvd. 6-10p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.

Breast Health Education, Mammogram Screening, Binational Health Fair Mountain View College, 4849 W. Illinois Ave. 8a-1p. Contact: Monica Moran 214-266-3059.

State of Precinct Presentation-Cedar Hill, Community M. B. Church, 820 E. Wintergreen Rd. 6-8p.

The Relief Session Spoken Word, The Attaché Cigar, 4099 W. Camp Wisdom Rd. #101. 7p. Eventbrite.com.

Mental Health Awareness Dinner, George W. Hawkes Library,100 South Center Street, Arlington. 6:308:30p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.

Bigger Than Hip Hop – DFW Poetic Showcase, Soar Creative Studios, 1337 Chemical St. 7-10p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.

Mill City Association Meeting, Juanita Craft Rec. Center, 4500 Spring St. 6:30-8p. Contact: Ms. Lyons, millcityassociation@gmail.com.

Rally Against Fear, Host: Beto O’Rourke, The Theater at Grand Prairie, 1001 Performance Pl. 6-8p. Tickets: act.betoorourke.com.

October 18 Edward Anderson “Chuck” Berry D.O.B. 1926 a pioneer of rock-n-roll music.

Exclusive Film Screening of Dear Frank w/ Brian White & Claudia Jordan, Bruton Theatre 650 S. Griffin St. 7p.

Tickets: via Ticketmaster.com.

Shinning Start A Tribute to Earth Wind and Fire, Chevy Main Stage Fair Park. 5:30-9:30p. Tickets: www.bigtex.com.

“Daniel on Piano” Concert, Clarence Muse Café 1309 Canton St. 9p.

Tickets: Ticketmaster.

Up Town Happy Hour Friday’s, Tate’s, 2723 Mc Kinney Ave. 4.-10p. Evenbrite.com.

2nd Evelyn F. Brown Memorial Building Fund Banquet, The Church Within International Ministries, American Legion Hall Post 838, 1250 Mansfield Ave. Ft. Worth. 7:30-9:30p.

October 19 An Evening Of Film & Conversation Illegal Rose & Olympic Pride-American Justice with Deborah Riley Draper, Bruton Theater, 1309 Canton.

7-9p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.

2nd Annual Survivors Ball, Speaker: Piper Dellums Sheraton Hotel, 400 N. Olive St. 7p. Tickets: survivorsball.com.

Masquerade & Art Fashion Show at Embassy Suites Hotel 2727 Stemmons Fwy. 10pm.-2am. Eventbrite.

TRI-Cities NAACP Monthly Meeting, Museum of International Cultures, 411 E. Hwy 67, Duncanville. 7-8p.

Tri-Cities NAACP Presents: Freedom Fund & Scholarship Banquet, Speaker Dr. Samone, Hilton Garden Inn 800 Main St. Duncanville. 7p. Tickets; www.tricitiesnaacp.org.

Community Engagement Day Luncheon, Briscoe Carpenter Livestock Center, 1403 Washington St. 11:30a-1p.

State Fair Showdown, Southern University Jaguars VS Texas Southern Tigers, Cotton Bowl Stadium, 3750 The Midway. 2-6p. Tickets Eventbrite.com.

State Fair Football Showdown College Fair, Cedar Valley College Gymnasium 3030 N. Dallas Ave. 8:30a-1:30p. Info: cfannin@lonestar-sports.com

College Prep Workshop, Durham Middle School, 2075 S. Edmonds Ln. Lewisville. 10a-12p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.

Jupiter Hammon D.O.B. in 1711 was the 1st African American published writer in America in 1760.

The Harvest Project, Friendship-West Baptist Church 2020 W. Wheatland Rd.10a-12p.

Trunk O’ Treats at St Luke Community UMC 5710 E. R.L. Thornton Fwy. 5-8p.

Men’s Wellness Symposium, Host: United Methodist Men of St Luke Community UMC, 5710, R.L.Thornton Fwy. 8a-5p.

Funky Town Zydeco Party, Warehouse, 1125 E. Berry St. Ft. Worth, 8p. Tickets: JimAustinOnline.com.

Ronald Ervin McNair, physicist and NASA astronaut born in 1950 in Lake City S. Carolina.

Council for Life, Celebrating Life Luncheon, Feat: Nicole C. Mullen, , Omni Dallas Hotel, 555 S. Lamar St. 11a-1:30p. Tickets: www.councilforlife.org.

Black Women + ACA Town Hall, Pan African Connection 4466 S. Marsalis Ave. 7:00-8:30p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.

Start Up Success for new Entrepreneurs-Share your Business with Confidence, Business Lounge Dallas, 13740 Midway Rd. # 528. 7-9p. Tickets: Eventbrite.

October 22 Robert George “Bobby” Seale was the co-founder of the Black Panther Party & Author DOB in 1936.

Re-Election Reception, Host: Judge Dominique Collins St. Pete’s Dancing Marlin, 2730 Commerce St. 5-7p. Tickets: donorbox.org.

It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop DFW Poetic Showcase, Soar Creative Studios, 1337 Chemical St. 7-10p.

Tickets: Eventbrite.com.

Meeting with Community Prosecution, Host: Adam Bazaldua District 7, Turney W. Leonard Governance & Training Center, 5151 Samuell Blvd.

6:30-8p.

Neo Soul Saturdays, DFW Social 40, Dallas Communications Complex-Mercury Studios, 6301 Riverside Dr., Irving. 7p-12a. Tickets: www.dfwsocial40.com.

Free Skill Quest Career Readiness, MLK, Jr. Community Center, 2922 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Info: 214879-9950. 9a-11a.

Heels On The Move To Heal Shoe Fashion Show, Lincoln Experience Center, 3620 The Star Blvd. #1205, Frisco. 5:30-8:30p. Tickets; Eventbrite.com.

Free Dance Classes, Ballet Classes South Dallas Culture Center, 3400 Fitzhugh Ave. 6-6:55p. Tuesdays, 11 & up. Register: www.becklesdancingco.org.

Masquerade & Anti Bullying Fashion Show, Holiday Inn Express, 1310 E. Wintergreen Rd., DeSoto. 10a2p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.

October 20 Snoop Dogg 1971 Rapper/Music Producer-birth name Cordozar Broadus.

Happy Birthday to Team Member Mo’Ka of I Messenger Media’s Mo’Ka n Co’Ka Nina Garcia.

Casa De Chocolate at the Women’s Museum, Mundo Latino, State Fair of Texas, 3800 Parry Ave. 10a-7p.

Tickets: bigtex.com.

Community Screening Natural Hair The Movie, Pan

African Connection, 4466 S. Marsalis Ave. 4-7p.

October 23 Irving Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Business Mixer, 5:30-7p. www.IrvingHCC.com.

UT Dallas Women’s Summit, Speaker: Leah Frazier, UT Dallas Campus, 800 W Campbell Rd., Richardson. 9a-4p.

Dallas Mavs vs. Washington Wizards, American Airlines Center, 2500 Victory Ave. 7:30p. Tickets: Ticketmaster.com.

The MLK Fresh Produce Distribution Center, (Building A) 2929 MLK, Jr. Blvd. Wednesday’s 10:30a-1:30p.

October 24 Happy Birthday to Team Member and Fashion Queen Nena Bradford Hayden.

New Light Church 16th Pastor and Wife’s Anniversary Honors Pastor Shaun & Marian Rabb, New Light Church 9314 Elam Rd. 11a.

Emmett W. Chappelle, Scientist and research, born in 1925 in Phoenix Arizona.

Bread For The World Sunday, Friendship-West Baptist Church, 2020 Wheatland Rd. 8a-1p.

African Diaspora–New Dialogues with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, South Dallas Culture Center, 3400 Fitzhugh Ave. 7:30p. Free.

Soul’d Out Sunday, Pan African Connection Bookstore, 4466 S. Marsalis Ave. 11a-1p. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.

October 21

The Exchange Halloween Party Networking Event ,Norma’s Café The Turner House 401 N. Rosemount Ave. 6p. Free. Register: events.r20.constantcontact.com.

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Judge Tammy Kemp and Mrs. Allison Jean (Botham’s mom) hug

KEMP,

CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE descended from the witness stand and approached Ms. Guyger, who ran to him and they embraced and whispered to each other for a couple of minutes before releasing from the embrace and returning to their respective seats.

Next Judge Kemp walked over to the Jean Family and after a short conversation, there were embraces.

The next exchange was between Judge Kemp and Ms. Guyger and also ended in an unexpected hug; one that not only sent shock waves across the nation but has drawn fire from the African American community in particular as well as a formal complaint filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

I Messenger reached out to Judge Kemp to provide the facts and set the record straight on several issues that were raised during and after the trial.

I Messenger: Explain the difference between a jury trial and a trial before the court.

Judge Kemp: In the State of Texas, a jury trial is when the accused has his or her case argued before a jury of 12 citizens. Jurors are selected by prosecutors (the State) and defense attorneys prior to the trial during the jury selection process.

In a jury trial, the defendant has two decisions to make — who will decide guilt/innocence, the judge or a jury, and if convicted, who will decide punishment, again the judge or a jury.

In contrast, a trial before the court or TBC, is when a defendant has his or her case presented to the judge of a specific court and the judge decides both guilt/innocence and any associated punishment for that individual. Both the State and the defense have to agree to a trial before the Court.

Just to be clear, the State vs. Amber Guyger was a jury trial in which the defendant, Ms. Guyger, decided to have both guilt/innocence and punishment decided by a jury.

I Messenger: One source of contention was your ruling to allow the jury to consider the Castle Doctrine during their deliberation on guilt/ innocence. Considering that the law was actually intended for homeowners, like Botham Jean, to protect themselves and their homes against intruders, in this case, like Amber Guyger, why did you allow the Castle Doctrine in as a self-defense theory in the jury’s instructions on deliberation during the guilt/innocence phase of the trial?

Judge Kemp: While I do not comment on my rulings in any case, I would like to take this opportunity to educate people on the Castle Doctrine in general terms. As it pertains to self-defense and deadly force, the Texas Penal Code states a defendant is entitled to a jury instruction on self-defense if the issue is raised by the evidence, whether that evidence is strong or weak, unimpeached or contradicted, and regardless of what the trial court may think about the credibility of the defense. If you deny a defendant their defense, the case will be reversed and then have to be retried.

I Messenger: What went through your mind in those brief seconds immediately after Brandt Jean asked you

if he could give Amber Guyger a hug?

Judge Kemp: My first thought was the security risk. I quickly connected non-verbally with the deputies standing post inside the courtroom and made a split decision that Brandt Jean was sincere in his remarks to Ms. Guyger and that neither he nor Ms. Guyger intended any physical harm towards one another and allowed the contact between them to take place, and I knew I was going to have to explain my decision to Sheriff Brown.

here’s what ran through my mind in that instant. That Sunday, September 29th, which would have been Botham Jean’s 28th birthday, the sermon I heard at church was, The One is Greater Than the 99, which talked about if you are going to attract the lost, you must show love and compassion.

Additionally, I thought about my job responsibilities as it pertains to my faith, and I have a duty to act justly, love mercy and to walk humbly. Ms. Guyger asked me a second time for a hug and I agreed. As she was hugging me, she was telling me that I was such a good person and I was fair and good.

Contrary to speculation, I was not praying with her.

the defense workroom, the courtroom and the restroom. Typically, once a defendant has been convicted, they are transported to the county jail to be booked and processed - a process that can take up to three hours. Instead, I asked that they detain her in the courtroom to ensure we did not experience any delays in the trial. What people saw in that moment was actually the bailiff doing a moderate pat down of the defendant and discreetly checking her hair for contraband.

I Messenger: You have been accused by some media outlets and the I Messenger: After the trial there court of public opinion, particularly were protests and criticism by those in the African American community, who believed 10 years was not enough of disrespecting the victim’s family time for the fatal shooting of Botham by coming off the bench to hug the I Messenger: Have you ever Jean. Do you believe the sentence was woman who murdered Botham Jean hugged any other defendants in your fair given the testimony in this case? and giving her a bible. Let’s set the court following the conclusion of a record straight on the facts and what trial or plea in your court?

Judge Kemp: That is a question led up to the exchange and ultimate Judge Kemp: I have hugged a for the jurors. As with any case, I hug between you and respect the jury’s verdict.

Amber Guyger.

I never question or Judge Kemp: Like comment on a jury’s everyone else in the decision. courtroom after witnessing the moving, emotional I Messenger: Could moment between Brandt you as the judge, have Jean and Amber Guyger, I overturned the jury’s wiped my eyes, then came sentence and given off the bench and went the defendant a longer directly over to talk to sentence?

Botham Jean’s family first.

Judge Kemp: No, by I offered my law I could not overturn condolences to Mr. the jury’s verdict. Again, Jean’s parents and shared once a defendant decides words of comfort and to go before the jury to encouragement with them decide guilt/innocence before asking them if I and punishment, the could hug them, which jury’s verdicts in both Brandt Jean and Amber Guyger embrace they agreed to and I hugged phases of a trial are the each family member, father, mother, lot of defendants, but I have never final decisions. grandmother, sister and brother one been asked for a hug by a defendant by one. convicted of a violent offense I Messenger: A photo of your After I spent time with the victim’s before and I have never hugged one political endorsement from the Dallas family, I went over to the defense’s defendant who did not ask me for a Police Association (DPA) Political table and addressed Ms. Guyger. hug. On any given day in the 204th Action Committee has been circulating I told her, ‘Brandt has forgiven you. District Court, however, I routinely on social media and many voiced You have to forgive yourself.’ To which counsel defendants on forgiveness and disapproval of the endorsement. In Ms. Guyger responded, ‘Do you think second chances. terms of the timeline, when did you God will forgive me?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ As a matter of fact, a lot of the receive the DPA’s endorsement relative Important to note, it was Ms. Guyger defendants that I have ended up to when Mr. Jean was killed? who first mentioned anything about hugging were initially angry with me Judge Kemp: The Dallas religion. Then and only then, did I because I would not just give them Police Association’s Political Action respond to her faith-based inquiry. their time. Instead, when necessary, I Committee endorsed both my first Although I am a Christian, because required them to go to treatment and campaign in 2014 and my campaign of an individual’s religious freedom after they completed treatment they for re-election in 2018, just as they rights, I never discuss anything would come back and thank me. endorse multiple judicial candidates in religious during the performance of every election cycle. my duties as a judge unless a victim I Messenger: Continuing on that During my last election, DPA or defendant mentions it to me first note of second chances, tell us about announced their endorsement of my and again only after a trial or plea is Project Phoenix. campaign for re-election in the fall of officially completed. I continued, ‘He Judge Kemp: In my first year on 2017. Amber Guyger shot and killed has a purpose for you.’ She said, ‘You the bench in 2014, I founded Project Mr. Botham Jean on September 6, think I can have a purpose for my life?’ Phoenix in partnership with the Dallas 2018. Obviously, no one could have I said, ‘Yes’ and she said, ‘I don’t know AFL-CIO to provide marketable predicted this horrific tragedy would where to start. I don’t own a bible.’ skills through apprenticeships in the occur a year later, long after the Her response prompted me to go to various trade industries to first-time, organization endorsed my campaign. my chambers and retrieve the bible I non-violent low-level offenders. Upon keep in my office. I returned to the successful completion of the program, I Messenger: On October 3, courtroom and told Ms. Guyger, ‘You offenders’ cases are dismissed and later 2019, the Freedom from Religion can have this one. I have three or four expunged from their records. My Foundation filed a complaint with more at home. This is the one I use at primary goal in creating this program the Texas Ethics Commission, against work everyday.’ I turned to John 3:16 was to make sure participants could you for the now ‘infamous hug.’ and read the scripture to her. I told earn a living wage and have a true Do you believe your actions were her when you read this and you get second chance. inappropriate? to the ‘whosoever,’ you say ‘Amber.’ I Judge Kemp: Obviously, I do told her she needs to read John 3:16 I Messenger: One of the female not think it was inappropriate, but I for the next month so it could sink in bailiffs has also come under fire for will leave that decision to the Ethics and then to start with the Gospels. I what appears as if the bailiff is fixing Commission. also told her that the translation that I or caressing Amber Guyger’s hair. gave her was difficult for new believers What was happening?

I Messenger: On October 4, and she probably needed a study bible.

Judge Tammy Kemp: The jury 2019, you summoned Dallas County I told her, ‘If you like, I will get one for returned a verdict of guilty and I Criminal District Attorney John you and get it to your defense team.’ held Ms. Guyger’s bond insufficient. Creuzot to appear before the 204th She said, ‘yes’ and told me she would At that point, she was in the custody Judicial District Court for a contempt bring my bible back in 10 years. of the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office of court hearing that is scheduled to It was at that point, she asked, ‘Can and no longer free to move about. I take place on October 31st. What is I give you a hug?’ instructed the Sheriff’s deputies to the purpose of this hearing and why Honestly, I hesitated initially and restrict Ms. Guyger’s movement to do you believe it is necessary?

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Judge Kemp: On September 23, the very first day of trial, as the attorneys and I were wrapping up preliminary matters outside the presence of the jury, Amber Guyger’s defense team informed the court that our elected DA had appeared in a new television interview alleging that it was in direct violation of the court’s gag order prohibiting both the prosecutors and defense lawyers from speaking publicly about the case and/or trial in any way.

It was determined and confirmed that the DA’s interview on FOX 4 News was not taped the night before the beginning of trial, but in fact had been taped on September 20, 2019, which was three days before the trial was set to begin.

Due to the high volume of media coverage on this case, I had put a gag order in place in January of this year for all parties involved in the case. In general, the purpose of a court’s gag order on any case is to prohibit the parties from trying their case in the public. A contempt of court hearing, also known as a show cause hearing, requires the alleged violator to appear before the court and explain why he/she did not adhere to the court’s order(s).

I believe it is necessary in this case, just as it would be with any case, because court orders are meant to be followed, no exceptions.

Additionally, with all of the hard work that went into this case on both sides, it was pretty shocking to learn that the order had allegedly been violated, a decision that technically could have resulted in a mistrial before the trial even started, had any of the jurors seen the interview.

However, after I watched the interview, I polled each juror individually and confirmed that none of them had seen it and the trial proceeded accordingly.

I Messenger: What would you like for people to know about Court 204?

Judge Kemp: I want people to know that we treat everyone with compassionate accountability in our court. My principles for running were to be accountable to the public, compassionate towards victims and fair to the accused, and we’ve made those principles the bedrock of everything we do in court.

Tammy Kemp is the presiding Judge of the 204th Judicial District Court. There has been a transformation and many successes since she took the bench. Judge Kemp is a native of Wewoka, OK and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and a Juris Doctorate degree from OU. After graduating law school, she worked as an Assistant Attorney General and an Assistant Secretary of State for the State of Oklahoma, before relocating to the Dallas area. She has been practicing law since 1988 and her areas of expertise include criminal, corporate and retirement law. In her previous role of Administrative Chief of the Family Violence and Child Abuse Divisions at the Dallas County District Attorney’s (DA) Office, she supervised 28 attorneys, 21 investigators, and 18 support staff. Her duties included the investigation and prosecution of criminal offenses, including death penalty capital murders. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the State Bar of Oklahoma and has been a member of Concord Church for more than 26 years, where she serves as a Deaconess. A member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Judge Kemp is married to a wonderful, supportive husband and they have three amazing children.

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Hamer died of untreated breast cancer THE LAST WORD

women’s breast cancer network group. Sister’s Network, describes itself as a

By DR. JULIANNE MALVEAUX “survivorship organization� that provides October is Breast Cancer support for Black women who are Awareness Month, and the diagnosed with breast cancer.

Ricki proliferation of pink ribbons is only recently joined the organization about to start. Predatory capitalists will make breast cancer their cause, as its Vice President for Strategic producing pink t-shirts, pocketbooks, Partnerships and National Programs, everything. It’s a mixed blessing, this and she is on a mission to raise awareness, because too many will awareness about breast cancer in the make this both a marketing and a African American community.

Propelled by her own survivorship profit-making opportunity, while story, but also by the many women others will wonder how they can she has provided support for, she is use their health insurance to afford passionate about the reasons that a mammogram. Health equity is African American women must be a major issue, and there is a gap in informed and engaged around breast health care and health access. It is cancer issues. especially sharp when we address the Our civil rights icon, Fannie Lou issue of breast cancer.

Hamer, died of untreated breast While Black women get breast cancer.

She was just 59 when she cancer at a lower rate than white made her transition, and one can women, we are 42 percent more only speculate about why this fearless likely to die from it. And young Black leader had an untreated disease.

Her women, those under 35, are twice as untreated breast cancer was not the likely as white women to get breast first collision she experienced with cancer, and three times as likely to die from it. Black women are also three our racist health care system. At 44, times as likely as white women to she had surgery to remove a tumor, get triple-negative breast cancer, an and the hospital also gave her a especially aggressive form of breast hysterectomy without her consent.

These unconsented sterilizations cancer. happened to lots of Black women in I am privileged to know Ricki southern states.

It eroded the trust Fairley, a triple-negative breast cancer that many Black women had in our survivor, and marketing maven who health care system.

Had Fannie Lou now holds a leadership role at the Hamer noticed a lump, would she be nation’s oldest and largest Black

inclined to return to the health care system that had already oppressed her? Probably not.

Fannie Lou Hamer was poor and vocally Black in the South. Serena Williams is wealthy, Black and an international superstar. Despite her privilege, Williams also experienced the differential way the health care system treats Black women. Serena might have died giving birth to her daughter, Alexandra. Because

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Williams was gracious enough to share her story, we are reminded that Black women are all too often ignored or dismissed by health care providers.

Racial bias in the medical field is not only real, but also life-threatening.

Reference Fannie Lou Hamer. Ask Serena Williams.

Consider the thousands of Black women that are being sidelined by a health care system that does not hear our voices.

What must we do to ensure that Black women don’t carry the heavy burden of health disparities? We must be mindful and aware of the risks of breast cancer. We must talk about breast care with our sisters and our young ‘uns. We must engage

in a policy conversation about the ways health insurance can support our breast health. Too often, health insurance covers some, but not all, of the cost of screening. We must engage our civic organizations in breast health education.

We must remember Fannie Lou Hamer, who said she was “sick and tired of being sick and tired.� That means as tired as we are of being tired, we must also be committed to taking care of ourselves. Too many studies say that Black women ignore self-care for the care of others.

Fannie Lou Hamer was a leader and an icon. She was also a Black woman who gave voice to her tiredness and the way it impacted her. In saying that she was “sick and tired of being sick and tired�, she challenged us all to be less sick, less tired, and more self-aware. If we celebrate her, we must hear her. The health care system is biased against Black women, and we must take our health care in our own hands. Neither sick, nor tired, just empowered. And in October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, be supportive of organizations like the Sister’s Network, an organization that provides opportunities and services for the Black women who are diagnosed with breast cancer. We must do this in the name of Fannie Lou Hamer.

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The Dichotomy of Black Rage

By Betheny Alphonso Special to Texas Metro News The trial of the Amber Guyger has finally concluded after six days.

Amber Guyger has been found guilty of murdering Botham Jean, an unarmed Black man fatally shot in his own apartment.

Six days, multiple streams of evidence, testimonies, crossexaminations, body examinations and several witnesses later the imposing of a 10-year prison sentence became the verdict.

Botham Jean’s brother, Brandt, on the witness stand asks permission from Judge Tammy Kemp (presiding judge) to hug Amber Guyger. He embraces her and tells her that he

forgives her. “I don’t even want you to go to jail‌‌ I want the best for you because I know that is what Botham would want.â€?

After the trial hugs and warm embraces are exchanged between the convicted, the victim’s family and the judge.

While tuning into the trial and keeping up with commentary on various social media platforms.

I observe that Brandt’s concluding statements inspired so many of my colleagues, peers and acquaintances to indulge in forgiveness also.

I however, cannot. I am not able to partake in on this pivotal moment of bliss and clemency. Nor do I want to, to be honest. I cannot help but to think that if the roles were reversed, how the very logical,

repetitive outcome of this trial would be. Pictures of the trial surfaced as the bailiff fixed Guyger’s hair, Judge Kemp embracing her as well.

Why are we not allowed to be angry? How is it instead, Black women are playing mammy to a guilty white woman? A Black woman would never receive such treatment and pardon. It was almost as if they were comforting her in her struggle as if to say welcome sister, you’re one of us.

The Black community is one of the most forgiving, understanding and tolerable communities when it comes to injustices. The 2015 Charleston Church massacre left 13 innocent lives dead. The Black communities’ response, peacefully protest to illustrate that hate won’t win.

In 2012 Trayvon Martin was murdered in cold blood by a wannabe police officer, George Zimmerman,

the Black communities’ response; was quick and angry.

I think it is fair to assume, based on the history of this country that if Botham was the intruding police officer and Guyger the innocent bystander, how the trial would end and there would be no doubt that he would serve time for two men convicted.

As a Black woman I am angry on behalf of my community. Every time there is an injustice we are prompted over and over to forgive and to express remorse.

I am tired of my community being demonized and policed by the American society.

I do not believe it is healthy for the Black community to be so tolerable. The relationship between Black Americans and the rest of the American society is I believe extremely toxic.

A Letter to President Barack Obama – We Miss You #NNPA BLACKPRESS

By Reggie Fullwood

Dear President Obama, First, let me thank you for being a true statesman and such an exceptional role model. You have been an inspiration to so many people around the world.

Thank you for your passion, intelligence, commitment, aptitude and swagger. You are one the coolest brothers that I have ever seen – you, Samuel L. Jackson, John Shaft, Avon Barksdale (The Wire) and Ghost (Power). You are cool as the other side of the pillow.

Not only are you my favorite President of all time, you are my favorite light-skinned guy of all time. Forget Tom Joyner, Terrance Howard and Steph Curry, you have single handedly brought light skinned back. Us dark skinned brothers had taken over, but you Sir were like Luke Skywalker in “Return of the Jedi� – you brought balance to the Force.

So thank you Mr. Obama for being an awesome world leader, husband and father.

Thanks for leading us out of the

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Great Recession and helping our country and economy rebound. You were professional and committed despite some of the unprofessional politicians that you faced in Congress.

Cheers, Mr. Real President for not being a sexist, bigot or an egomaniac.

Thanks for showing us that you were both the ideal professional, but very human at the same time. Although your rendition of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together� sucked – you got cool points for trying and the effort being funny as hell.

And I just have to acknowledge the fact that you and your administration used social media responsibly, versus just tweeting or posting nonsense anytime you got in a bad mood or were craving attention. Thank you Mr. Obama for never calling someone “a dog� via Twitter and debasing the office of the President of the United States.

I loved your comments last July in South Africa at a speech commemorating the 100th birthday of Nelson Mandela. Obama said, “People just make stuff up. They

just make stuff up. We see it in the growth of state-sponsored propaganda. We see it in internet fabrications.� He added, “We see it in the blurring of lines between news and entertainment. We see the utter loss of shame among political leaders where they’re caught in a lie and they just double down and they lie some more.�

And thank you Barack, if I can call you Barack, for your passion for helping those Americans in great need. The My Brother’s Keeper initiative that you launched has made a difference and we thank you and Michelle for continuing to fight for youth around the country.

And how can we not thank you for actually hiring well-qualified competent people to help you run the country.

You know like actually hiring a Secretary of Education that has a college degree or has actually been inside of a public school.

I have to give you major props for being a good human being and not stereotyping people from difference races and backgrounds. You didn’t target Mexicans and Muslims, but you attempted to create policies that dealt promoted inclusion versus exclusion.

By the way, the last I checked we haven’t had any Mexican or Muslim mass murders in a while, but we

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certainly have had numerous white extremist or supremist (however you want to classify them) that have killed dozens of unsuspecting people.

And Mr. Obama you are way too smart to ever think that we could make Mexico or anyone else pay for a wall. It’s hard enough to make us Americans pay for anything extra.

How can I not thank you for being you without acknowledging your lovely bride.

You married the best first lady ever and if she’s not the best she is at least in the top three. And I am not just saying this because of my 10year crush on Michelle.

I am saying it because she’s been transformative. We have never seen a first lady draw the types of crowds Mrs. Obama attracts for speaking engagements and book signing events?

Finally Mr. President, I must end my man crush letter by again thanking you for the sacrifice and exceptional service. You and Michelle deserve to finally have some fun and actually relax. By the way, don’t forget to invite me to housing warming for that new gigantic house you are buying.

Signing off from Martha’s Vineyards hanging with the Obamas (not really),

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MY TRUTH Continued from page 1 information or discernment is a terrible thing.

Just as I thought things couldn’t get more incredulous, someone else would opine.

So I wondered a few things‌ For those who admit that we have a broken, unfair justice system; why would you uphold that system by offering the defense: “Never have I heard of a judge doing anything like that!â€?

Well, it’s kind of like punishing your new wife because she is different from the ex-wife who made your life miserable for years. You know the one who was trifling, deceptive, nagging, all of that!

Do you remember the feeling you had when you posted, shared or liked something on Facebook that you shouldn’t have? Did it make you stop and think and become more responsible?

I still remember the day I shared a post that was actually wishful thinking.

Someone posted that Allen Iverson was joining LeBron James in Cleveland.

Just a minute of thought and I would have realized the numbers didn’t add up.

On that day, I said, “Never again! Don’t be guilty of false narratives, no matter how much you wish they were true. And check info before you speak and share!�

Then there are those who have weighed in on who is a sellout, a coon, Aunt Jemima, et al.

Really?

Some of those same name callers sit quietly in boardrooms, newsrooms, classrooms, and everywhere in the workplace and allow people to be joked about, mistreated, disenfranchised, marginalized and worse, fired.

Would you call them sell-outs and all the other names being used to verbally assault Judge Kemp?

Or what about you? Has there ever been a time when you should have spoken up and didn’t, but later you realized you were wrong? Should folks call you names or disparage your character?�

And what about those who say the judge acted “unprofessionally?� What standard is being used, from the person whose coworkers want to call them out but won’t for fear of being called a bully?

Why is it so easy to turn on people and begin character assassinations, especially when you’re talking about people you don’t know.

And then. You have the people who say, “If it was me...�

What the heck!

It is NOT you and it’s easy to say what you would do when you are not in a situation -- that’s when you’re biggest and baddest!

I daresay there will be people who later will admit they spoke out of order while others will die on the sword before any admission. I guess it’s more noble to be wrong and stay wrong, and it’s easier to rationalize your way out of an embarrassing situation by deflecting.

Whatever the case, and everyone should know that when you put stuff out there, folks see you for who you are. They will smile in your face, but behind your back they will do just as many do on social media — make punk moves.

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Stop punishing the homeless

One of the cruelest polices of the current administration is the demonization of homeless people simply because they find themselves on the margins of life.

With growing income inequality and increasing prices for food and transportation, many of our fellow citizens find themselves being victimized.

According to the federal government’s annual homeless statistics approximately 540,000 peopl , including children and military service veterans, sleep on the streets of our nation’s cities and towns each night, or in automobiles, wooden crates and in cardboard boxes.

This is unacceptable, and

we must do better.

Homeless people are being violently attacked on the streets of our cities as they simply attempt to find shelter, rest or sleep.

Most recently in one of our major cities four people were slain within blocks and hours of one another.

They bothered no one, and posed no threat. Yet they became targets.

With the federal government making it more and more difficult for people to find affordable housing, the number of homeless people continues to rise.

Instead of providing for the homeless, the Trump

FROM THE CAPITOL

BY CONGRESSWOMAN EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

Violent acts against the homeless should be regarded as hate crimes. In our nation’s public schools, the number of children who live in homeless families has increased during the past decade. administration persists in demonizing them, making their activities unlawful, encouraging

their arrests and sending them down a spiral of hopelessness.

Violent acts against the

homeless should be regarded as hate crimes. In our nation’s public schools, the number of children who live in homeless families has increased during the past decade.

It is as if we care very little about these children and their attempts to learn and secure a safe a safe place for themselves in this the richest country on earth.

As the co-chair of the Congressional Homelessness Caucus, I witness firsthand the problems that homeless people face, and I am committed, as are many of my colleagues in Congress, to compassionate, reasonable and immediate action that will end

homelessness.

I am also committed to the restoration of full civil rights for those who are homeless, and to promulgating policies that will end their plight as they deserve better than they are being offered.

We must provide them with housing, and other social, health and economic programs that will halt their criminalization and demonization.

They, like the rest of us, deserve the best that this country has to offer.

Congresswoman Johnson represents the 30th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. She also chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

POWER X – “SONS”

WHAT’S ON MILES’ MIND

BY MILES JAYE

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.” John 3:16

It was clearly established and stated unequivocally in the Word that no greater gift to mankind could ever have been given by God Himself then salvation through a Son who possessed the power to carry on His shoulders the sins, flaws, and transgressions of all mankind. That’s Power!

If daughters are the jewels in a crown, then sons are the metal, the gold. If daughters are tiaras, beautiful, regal, ornamental, then our sons must be swords, impressive, capable, formidable-- powerful.

Sons are arguably among a communities most valuable assets and most powerful resources. This is true of communities of all ethnicities and

nationalities. Why else would our sons, throughout history, remain under siege, targets of forces that know and quite frankly, fear their physical, mental, and intellectual, potential, as well as the consequences of their spiritual might, if allowed to fully develop? Powerful!

Our sons were born to lead! Your son was born to lead… if not nations as a head of state, then battalions; if not battalions as a commander, then communities; if not communities as a civic leader or clergyman, then families, as a husband and father.

Every son was not born to rise to the heights of a Mandela, Obama, Colin Powell, or Othello, but every son was born to lead. Tell him he was born to lead!

Sons were born to teach… if not sons of their own, then sons of other family members, or of their neighbors. Fathers must teach sons to be men. Mothers love, and in doing so they teach. However, it is virtually

impossible to teach intimately and effectively, that which you are not and that which you have never experienced. Doctors teach medical students. Black belts teach white belts.

Stallions teach colts.

Lauren Hill said: “That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, toughen up, this is reality we’re living in.” That may be true, but doesn’t it take a father or another older male to toughen up the son through instruction to teach terrain, tactics and strategy and sparring to test strength and agility?

Tell your son he was born to teach!

Sons were born to heal… if not physical conditions or illnesses, then wounds of the heart and mind. Young Aikido students learn that healing techniques will be part of their training and that they bear a responsibility to care for themselves when wounded, as well as an ally or opponent when needed. Perhaps more importantly, sons must learn the power

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“Although I have always known King was a preacher, he is often portrayed as more of a social activist.

I got the impression from popular sources that he used the Bible just to illustrate the need for social change.

However, in these sermons, he preaches Christ. He makes it clear that it is only by the power of God that anything will get done. In some of his sermons, he reveals how his faith in Christ got him through difficult times.”

After recalling reading this blog post a few years ago, I attached it to the recent trial of Amber Guyger. I have never mentioned the name of her victim in a column. I never will…

It hurts too much. My then 14-yearold daughter and I live one block across the street from the incident. I witnessed the sudden loss of the last moments of her childhood innocence.

I can’t say his name.

Dr. King makes any of his critical thinking readers shudder. His nonviolent resistance revolution was always meant to be bloodless.

Nevertheless, the truth, when applied with the power of believed scripture, cuts like a two-edged sword.

King was never brutal or barbaric; the truth just seems that way when you are on the opposite side of it.

“One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.” Even in the simplest terms, King causes the rational among us to think introspectively.

In 20 words or less, King implies that all of us must ask ourselves that needling but necessary question; “Am I wrong?”

Once you take a position, King advances that you must follow right to

its fullest course. A half-right is wrong.

King realized that Christians are generally more subject to this malady

of building self-esteem, and positive morale as they are at the core, essence and foundation of achievement and accomplishment. Sons must believe in themselves and possess the power to

God. Your son will know instinctively and intuitively that he is endowed with deep and powerful love and affection, however, he has to learn how, when and where to express it. Your boy may not be NFL strong, NBA tall or Olympic fast, but he is, without any doubt whatsoever, filled with an abiding love that God supplied before your child ever drew his first breath.

Tell him he was born to love… then surround him with it!

Tell your son he was born a sword, not a flower, in fact, he was born a warrior, but real warriors do not seek war and conflict, but cherish peace.

Real warriors learn to follow with honor on the path to leadership.

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“And behold, a voice from heaven said, instill confidence in others. Tell your “This is my Son, with whom I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:17 boy he was born to heal!

That’s what’s on my mind!

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than all others.

“One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves.

On the one hand, we proudly profess certain sublime and noble principles, but on the other hand, we sadly practice the very antithesis of these principles.”

How often are our lives characterized by a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds!

We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism.

We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.

We talk passionately about peace, and at the same time we assiduously

I WAS JUST THINKING, by Norma Adams-Wade,

interviewed a number of the proud descendants of the ancestors these names honor. Their stories were so full of life and pathos, glory and grief.

They were early Black settlers who purchased land in the Oak Cliff wilderness along the Trinity River west bank during Reconstruction, the decade following the Civil War and generations before Trinity River levees were built to hold back threatening

flood waters that often covered the settlement, known as Dallas’ oldest Freeman’s Town, even before the StateThomas area.

Most of these African American pioneers are buried in the old and forgotten Oak Cliff Cemetery that still stands and extends back from 8th to 10th streets along that end of Moore Street.

Boswell and Anthony streets only scratch the surface in honoring Anthony Boswell for whom two of the streets are named. Boswell was a former enslaved African American who purchased his freedom in Alabama before arriving in Dallas with his family in the 1860s. He worked his way here as a teamster and purchased the large track of land where my

Catfish Row sets.

He also founded the once glorious Sunshine Elizabeth Chapel CME Church, a historic landmark that was at 1026 E. 10th Street for more than a century before it gave way to deterioration and was demolished in the late 1990s.

That’s a whole separate tear-stained story. The church was named for Anthony Boswell’s wife, Elizabeth.

In the late 1980s, I was privileged to talk to Boswell’s granddaughter, Ruby Boswell Johnson of Dallas, who was then in her 80s.

She said Anthony Boswell and his son/her father George Boswell opened and operated the first Black-owned grocery store on 10th Street in the late 1880s.

I also talked many times with Anthony Boswell’s great-greatgrandson, the late David Perry. He was Plano’s first Black city council member in 1990 and a leading businessman and political operative who died in 2013.

prepare for war.

We make our fervent pleas for the high road of justice, and then we tread unflinchingly the low road of injustice.

This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man’s earthly pilgrimage.”

This week, this nation was presented with the most moving example of “the ought” and “the is.” It happened in a courtroom of all places, and a young man, rooted in the spirit that King lived and died in, defied his agony and embraced the executioner of his much-beloved sibling.

I realize that all of us are conflicted in our emotions, but the embrace he offered was the Christ-like thing to do.

We were all in tears, but Dr. King must have looked down from Heaven to see that not all of his work was in vain.

There continues to be some among us who possess the “Strength to Love.”

Blessed are they!

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I was just thinking. The persons who inspired the naming of Noah and Moore streets in my figurative folk opera community would be interesting to explore next time we get together.

How ‘bout let’s do that, ok?

I Messenger Media is proud to welcome veteran journalist Norma Adams-Wade. Interviewed by History Makers, the longtime Dallas Morning News columnist was born in Dallas, Texas to Frank and Nettie Adams. She attended public schools and graduated from Lincoln High School in South Dallas, Texas.

She went on to graduate from the University of Texas at Austin in 1966 with her B.S. degree in journalism. She also pursued graduate studies at Amber University and completed the Institute for Journalism Education’s summer editor training program at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

In 1966, Adams-Wade was hired by Collins Radio Company as a copy editor for technical equipment manuals in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Apollo Space Program.

From 1968 to 1972, she worked for Bloom Advertising Agency as an advertising copywriter and production assistant. From 1972 until 1974, she served as a reporter and editor’s assistant at The Dallas Post Tribune. Then, in 1974, Adams-Wade was hired as the first African American full-time general reporter for The Dallas Morning News, where she has served as a senior staff writer and columnist. As a senior staff writer, she covered general assignments, federal courts, consumer affairs, ethnic affairs, and neighborhood news. Adams-Wade created The Dallas Morning News’ Black History Month series in 1985, and,

in 1988, helped launch The News’ Metro South Bureau. She retired from her position in 2002, but has continued to work as a contract columnist.

Adams-Wade was a founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in 1975. She was also the founding director of NABJ’s Region VII, a founding coordinator of Blacks in Mass Media of Dallas and Fort Worth, and served as scholarship chair for the Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Communicators. Adams-Wade is a lifelong member of Mt. Horeb Missionary Baptist Church in South Dallas, where she has served as a chair soloist, Sunday School and Baptist Training Union pianist, Junior Church director, and member of the church Scholarship Committee. She also founded the church’s Save the Children family organization that offers parent training seminars.

Adams-Wade’s many awards and honors include the DallasFort Worth Association of Black Communicators’ Lifetime Achievement Award, the Bronze Heritage Award for preservation of African American history, Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas’ “She Knows Where She’s Going” Award, the NAACP Dallas Chapter’s Juanita Craft Award, the Dallas Urban League’s Legacy Award, The Dallas Morning News Joe Dealey Publisher’s Award, the Southeast Dallas Business and Professional Women’s Club’s “Dreammaker” Award, the Top Ladies of Distinction’s Humanitarian Award, the St. Phillip’s School and Community Center’s Destiny Award, and the Maurine F. Bailey Cultural Foundation’s first outstanding community service award. She was also inducted into the NABJ Hall of Fame.

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Hollywood’s Review: Joker

BY HOLLYWOOD

HERNANDEZ

JOKER is a masterpiece!

This Joker is far-flung from Heath Ledger’s Joker and even more distant from the early Joker played by Jack Nicholson.

Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker is a journey into the darkest places of the human mind.

He’s violent, he’s withdrawn and he’s downright crazy. JOKER has the same intensity as the movie TAXI DRIVER. The movie is very disturbing and parents are warned not to bring small children, thinking this is a BATMAN movie. As a matter of fact, Batman doesn’t even

appear in this movie.

Phoenix plays a clown who is taking seven different prescription medications for a slew of various mental conditions. He was previously committed to a mental institution and now that he’s been released he continues to receive mental counseling. He frequently tells his doctor that he has never been happy a day

in his life.

This is the man who works at cheering people up in his capacity as a clown for hire.

After several complaints from clients, he’s finally released from his job when a pistol falls out of his pants while he’s entertaining sick children in a hospital.

He’s depression and anger push him over the edge when three yuppie businessmen attack him on the subway and he pulls out his pistol and kills all three of them Brett Cullen plays Thomas Wayne, Batman’s father, and he pushes The Joker, Authur Fleek, all the way off the ledge when he says anyone without a job and who’s poor and who would commit such a crime is “a clown.” His comment angers the lower class citizens of Gotham City and suddenly JOKER becomes a cult hero.

While violent, the character study of a mentally ill man who is driven to madness is a fascinating story. The movie will make you squirm with its ruthless acts of violence. Joker is rated R and has a runtime of 2 hours and 1 minute. This is a movie that you will either hate or will love. There’s no grey area in this movie. I loved it and on my “Hollywood Popcorn Scale” I rate JOKER a JUMBO.

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Rachel Lindsey gets married University of Texas at Austin graduate.

Rachel and Bryan Abesolo lived in Dallas while engaged and moved to Miami in early 2019. .-Text provided by Rachel Lindsay’s

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Rachel Lindsay, the historic star of the Bachelorette’s 2017 cycle, got engaged to winner Miami chiropractor, Bryan Abesolo on her season 13 finale. Now, however, she is opening up to say, “I was denied my on-camera happy ending” and “labeled an angry Black female.”

Lindsay was the first African American lead of the long-running franchise, which just wrapped its 14th season.

Lindsay remains the only African American star in the franchise’s combined 36 seasons, and through her long overdue casting was praised and her season was initially celebrated for its diversity, the cycle ended up being criticized for race-baiting for drama.

Lindsay first appeared on The Bachelor during Nick Viall’s season. She received the first impression rose on night one, and was in contention for the last. She chose Miami Chiropractor. She is a bright and beautiful attorney from Dallas and a

VBS: Rachel and Bryan, first congratulations on your marriage. Over the years I have spoken to former bachelorette contestants Trista & Ryan Sutter. What makes Tristian & Ryan so special, like you and Bryan is that reality show contestants from the Bachelor or Bachelorette seldom get married.

BA: Thank you for the congratulations.

We want to mention that Trista & Ryan’s season will be on Tubi TV just as ours will be.

VBS: Rachel you are from Dallas and you are making us Dallas proud. What will we see when we watch for the first time or rewatch your season of the Bachelorette?

RL: You will definitely see that I was definitely attracted to Bryan and I put him through the wringer. A lot of women will relate to me as a woman and as a professional Black woman in her 30s who has a career. They won’t have to

be an attorney to understand the career challenge either. It was a struggle. It was a journey.

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By Marva Sneed On From Marva with Love I had the pleasure of interviewing Melissa R. Hibbert Celebrity Make-Up Artist/Influencer/ Entrepreneur. Jamaican born Beauty Expert Melissa R. Hibbert’s love affair with all things glam has earned her the title of being the “go to” Beauty Expert and Professional MakeUp Artist for both celebrity, corporate and private clients a like.

She is a frequent guest Beauty Expert on the, “The Real,” Melissa R Hibbert is the CEO of The Glam Agency: the premier multicultural talent management firm represents leading Make-Up Artist, Hair Stylists, Fashion Stylists, Manicurists, Beauty Bloggers and Lifestyle Experts. She is also the Founder of SHEEQ Cosmetics, a Luxury MakeUp and Skincare brand for the Discerning Women.

MS: Tell us a little about your background?

MRH: My background in beauty started at a very early age when I about 11 or 12 when I discovered my very first tube of lipstick and it inspired me to really understand and pursue my fascination in beauty.

So I decided to go to beauty school while I was in high school. I got my diploma and my beauty certificate at the same time. But I also had a desire to go to college.

I went to Fisk University, a HBCU. All throughout college I did hair and makeup. After college I moved to New York and worked in corporate America.

I worked my way up to working for some the o biggest brands in the Country. I was still moonlighting doing hair and makeup.

Beauty has always been a part of my life. When I decided

it was time to step away from the boardroom in corporate life. I had to take a step back and realize that my real passion was in beauty.

So I took a little bit of a vacation I call it my sabbatical and focused on the transition from working in corporate world to Beauty Entrepreneurship and within a month I was able to transition taking what I had in savings and my 401k to start my business.

MS: When you were working in corporate America were you with the beauty industry?

MRH: No when I was in corporate America I was working primarily in Brand Marketing, promotions and entertainment marketing. I concentrated on branding promotions and events.

Melissa R. Hibbert has gone on to expanding her businesses and she has now written her first book, Face Your Beauty.

She will be touring with her new book and will in Dallas, TX in November. There is so much more to my interview with Melissa R. Hibbert.

You can follow her on You Tube “The GLAM Life,” Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Visit her website: www. melissahibbert.com. for her products and more.

ASK ALMA

Running buddy

Dear Alma, A couple of months ago a real friendly woman moved into the condo across the hall. She and I hit it off right away. We went shopping and to lunch together.

We even went to a music concert and had a real fun time, or so I thought.

All of a sudden, she just stopped calling, texting, visiting and really just being my friend.

I don’t know what happen. We still speak.

She’ll give me a big wave across the parking lot or when I see her in the hall, she seems generally glad to see me, but we just don’t hang out anymore.

I’m not sure what happened. I really like her and I want to be her friend. What do you think I should do to get her to talk to me and hang out again?

Lost My Running Buddy Dear Lost My Running Buddy, Well, hmmm Sugar Plum, did you do something to piss her off or hurt her feelings? Could you possibly have said something that was a bit harsh?

Maybe you gave your opinion on a particular subject that didn’t sit well with her. Or, could it be, she just don’t like you?

Have you ever started a new friendship and partway down the loop you think, “you know what, I don’t really like this person all that much?”

Usually it takes a run around the romper room to learn the true personality of a person.

Most folks start out sane and with good intentions, spoon feeding you what’s whole and wholesome about them.

They seem to be on the up and up, until, Lord have mercy, six months later, here she comes outta nowhere, drowning in red wine, Missy Super Rachet.

You’re totally blindsided like when you innocently pick up a hitchhiker who has an ax, or a hatchet, LOL, I couldn’t resist.

This woman could be Lucy Looneybird relocating from Louisiana, you don’t know.

Anyhow, let it go. Evidently, ya’ll ain’t got the same flow!

You can’t make somebody like you nor should you try.

If she decided you were not

Murder in Fort Worth, activists Rev. Michael Bell, Democratic Party Chair Deborah Peoples, Min. Lee Muhammad and Brother Malikk of the Brotherhood Movement, called on Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price and Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus, to seek justice for the Xavier University alum.

“We are demanding justice,” said Min. Muhammad of Muhammad’s Mosque #52. “We know what murder looks like and we expect justice.”

Mayor Price, as did other council members Kelly Gray and Gyna Bivens, attended the prayer vigil and listened as speaker after speaker expressed their anger, frustration and pain over yet another shooting of an unarmed Black person in their home.

There were tears and shouts as people shared their feelings about the Fort Worth Police Department.

Tarrant County Commissioner Roy Brooks joined in with the chants for justice, led by Rev. Bell, who asked, “What do we want?” The crowd responded, “Justice!” He then asked, “When do we want it?” They replied, “Now!” At times the chanting drowned out the speakers and as the hour grew late, they waited patiently for members of Ms. Jefferson’s family to arrive.

As members made their way to the steps of Masjid Hassan in Fort Worth, where the vigil was held, one woman leaned on a car and cried. She didn’t want to talk, except to say she was “sad and angry.”

“We’re not going to be calm on this one,” said activist Brother Malikk.

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“There’s no respect for human life. It’s time to clean house!”

With less than two weeks since a jury found former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger guilty of murder and sentenced her to 10 years in prison for the murder of business exec Botham Jean, who was in his apartment eating ice cream when Ms. Guyger said she “mistakenly” entered the wrong apartment and killed him.

Ms. Jefferson was babysitting her 8-year-old nephew, Zion, when she was shot.

According to James Smith, he called the non-emergency line for a welfare check after witnessing the door ajar at the home of his neighbor. He made the call at 2:30a.m.

When police arrived, Ms. Jefferson and her nephew were playing video games and had the door open, letting fresh air in.

Officer Dean fired into the window, an action that his superiors admitted was not the right protocol. Mr. Dean graduated from the police academy in April 2018. Chief Kraus said he had already intended to fire the officer, for at least three infractions.

“We are all heartbroken today. There is nothing that could justify what happened on Saturday morning,” said Mayor Price. “On behalf of the entire City of Fort Worth, I am sorry.”

Chief Kraus and Sgt. Chris Daniels expressed condolences to the Jefferson Family. “We’ll continue to be transparent,” said Daniels, adding

someone she’d like to add to her friends list, so be it, trust her judgment. She knows herself better than you and she’s had time to peep your hold card.

Trust me when I say you’re all the better for it. It’s best to find out up front who’s not friend material, than to waste time cooking in a frying pan of foolishness.

Great friendships that are worthwhile grow like a beautiful wisteria vine, you couldn’t stop it if you tried, nor would you want to.

Alma

Always there when you need us!

Alma Gill’s newsroom experience spans over 25 years, including various roles at USA Today, Newsday and the Washington Post. Email questions to: alwaysaskalma@ yahoo.com. Follow her on Facebook at “Ask Alma” and twitter @almaaskalma.

they are working with the district attorney and others as part of their investigation.

Also joining in, along with several organizations, expressing support for the family and concern over actions taken or not taken against Mr. Dean, were several chapters of the NAACP, including Fort Worth, Dallas, and Collin County; as well as national board member - 1st Vice President of the Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches and Region VI National Board of Directors.

In a letter to the Xavier University family, President Reynold Verret wrote,” We should expect safety when we call on our police, whose mission is to protect and serve. Sadly our fathers and mothers must caution daughters and sons on their interactions with officers. Families in our communities hesitate to call on their protectors out of fear that they’ll be killed. This should not be.

“We know that many officers live out their callings and duty to their communities. Despite this, recent events demonstrate clearly that there is an urgent need to fix a law enforcement system and philosophy that is broken…Our communities should not fear the police.”

Located in New Orleans, Xavier University of Louisiana, founded by Saint Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, is Catholic and historically Black. The ultimate purpose of the University is to contribute to the promotion of a more just and humane society by preparing its students to assume roles of leadership and service in a global society.

Ms. Jefferson graduated from Xavier with a B.S. degree in Biology in 2014.

Relatives described her as a “smart, ambitious and kind person” who really cared for her family, which was evident by her decision to move in to help her ailing mother, but also spent a lot of time with her sister’s children.

Manny Ramirez, Fort Worth Police Officers Association president expressed concern about the shooting.

“We have to find a way to unify,” he said. “This cannot happen again.”

Activist Kyev Tatum wrote on social media that, “one ring of the doorbell would have saved her life.”

It was pointed out that never once did the officer, or any other officer, identify themselves at the Jefferson household.

Calling for an independent investigation, Pastor Tatum said there will be a gathering in downtown Fort Worth, Saturday, October 19 at 5:00p.m., next to the JFK Tribute Statue. He, as did former police chief Joel F. Fitzgerald, called for mandatory training in “de-escalation, procedural justice and implicit bias.”

There was also a call for concerned citizens to keep the pressure on for an oversight committee by gathering at Fort Worth City Council meetings on Tuesday evenings at 7p.m. at City Council Chambers, Second Floor, City Hall, 200 Texas St. Although Mayor Price said the presence of a gun in the home, which Ms. Jefferson had a license for, was a non-issue; in the arrest-warrant affidavit, Ms. Jefferson’s nephew said she removed the firearm from her purse and aimed “toward” the window.

Stay tuned for more coverage on this tragic story.

NAACP,

The spotlight of the morning came when NAACP scholarships were presented to nine seniors: Tiatyana Campbell, president of the Garland Youth Council received the prestigious Elaine Bradley Scholarship for $1,000; Aria Morgan received the $750 Goldie Locke Scholarship for having the highest grade point average of all African American seniors in the Garland ISD, and Emmanuela Bozor received the $500 John W. Washington Legacy Scholarship. The remaining six seniors each received a $500 scholarship for having the highest-grade point average of other African American seniors at their respective high school campuses. These scholars were Tianna Strong, South Garland High School; Rebecca Workalemahu, North Garland High School; Ciara Beane, Lakeview Centennial High School; Reagan Warren, Rowlett High School; Micheal Alemayehu, Naaman Forest High School; and Rachel Mashambanhaka, Sachse High School.

The Unit recognized Rev. Larry G. Walker as the 2019 Community Service Honoree; Calvin Simmons as the 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year; Dana Smith-Page as the Educator of the Year; and The North Dallas Gazette received the 2019 Online and Print Media Award. A special award for 50 years as an outstanding educator/administrator in the Garland ISD was presented to Ruby Armstrong. After

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recognizing the keynote speaker, soloist and MC of the morning, President Ricky C. McNeal announced that Corsharra Jackson was the recipient of the 2019 NAACP Garland Unit President’s Award.

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Officers of the NAACP Garland Youth Council played a major role in the event. MarcAnthony Abernathy, treasurer, delivered the welcome and occasion; Enouch Ellis, first vice president, introduced the dais and Tiatyana Campbell, president, introduced the keynote speaker.

Ruby Adams serves as chair lady and Carol Blakes is vice chair of the Garland NAACP Freedom Fund Committee, Robert Ben chairs the ever-popular silent auction, Gwendolyn Daniels chairs corporate sponsorships and President Ricky C. McNeal chairs the program booklet sub-committee.

The NAACP Garland Unit was chartered In July of 1984 and remains a viable entity in the Garland community.

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Lincoln University (Missouri) Visitor: Northeastern State University Dwight T. Reed Stadium, Jefferson City, MO Date: Oct. 19, 2019 | 2 PM

Albany State University Visitor: Lane College Albany State University Coliseum, Albany, GA Date: Oct. 12, 2019 | 2 PM

Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Visitor: Virginia Union University LU Football Stadium, Lincoln University, PA Date: Oct. 12, 2019 | 1 PM

Alcorn State University Visitor: Savannah State University Spinks-Casem Stadium, Lorman, MS Date: Oct. 12, 2019 | 2 PM

Livingstone College Visitor: Fayetteville State University Alumni Memorial Football Stadium, Salisbury, NC Date: Nov. 2, 2019 | 1:30 PM

Benedict College Visitor: Miles College Charlie W. Johnson Stadium, Columbia, SC Date: Oct. 12, 2019 | 2 PM Bethune-Cookman University Visitor: South Carolina State University Municipal Stadium, Daytona Beach, FL Date: Oct. 26, 2019 | 4 PM Bowie State University Visitor: Chowan University Bulldog Football Stadium, Bowie, MD Date: Oct. 12, 2019 | 1 PM Central State University Visitor: Fort Valley State University McPherson Stadium, Wilberforce, OH Date: Oct 12, 2019 | 1 PM Clark Atlanta University Visitor: Savannah State University CAU Panther Stadium, Atlanta, GA Date: Oct. 19, 2019 | 2 PM Delaware State University Visitor: South Carolina State University Alumni Stadium, Dover, DE Date: Oct. 10, 2019 | 1:30 PM Edward Waters College Visitor: Allen University Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, FL Date: Oct. 12, 2019 | 3 PM Elizabeth City State University Visitor: Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Roebuck Stadium, Elizabeth City, NC Date: Oct. 19, 2019 | 1:30 PM Fort Valley State University Visitor: Morehouse College Wildcat Stadium, Fort Valley, GA Date: Oct. 19, 2019 | 2 PM Grambling State University Visitor: Texas Southern University Robinson Stadium, Grambling, LA Date: Nov. 2, 2019 | 2 PM Hampton University Visitor: Virginia University of Lynchburg Armstrong Stadium, Hampton, VA Date: Oct. 26, 2019 | 2 PM Howard University Visitor: Norfolk State University William H. Greene Stadium, Washington, DC Date: Oct. 12, 2019 | 1 PM Jackson State University Visitor: Alabama State University Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, Jackson, MS Date: Oct. 12, 2019 | 2 PM Johnson C. Smith University Visitor: Shaw University Irwin Belk Complex, Charlotte, NC Date: Oct. 26, 2019 | 1 PM Kentucky State University Visitor: Clark Atlanta University Alumni Stadium, Frankfort, KY Date: Oct. 12, 2019 | 1 PM Lane College Visitor: Kentucky State University Lane Field, Jackson, TN Date: Oct. 19, 2019 | 2 PM Langston University Visitor: Texas Wesleyan University W.E. Anderson Stadium, Langston, OK Date: Oct. 26, 2019 | 2 PM

Morehouse College Visitor: Benedict College B.T. Harvey Stadium, Atlanta, GA Date: Oct. 26 2019 | 2 PM Morgan State University Visitor: Delaware State University Hughes Stadium, Baltimore, MD Date: Oct. 12, 2019 | 2 PM Norfolk State University Visitor: Morgan State University William “Dick” Price Stadium, Norfolk, VA Date: Nov. 2, 2019 | 2 PM North Carolina A&T State University Visitor: Howard University Aggie Stadium, Greensboro, NC Date: Oct. 26, 2019 | 1 PM North Carolina Central University Visitor: Norfolk State University O’Kelly–Riddick Stadium, Durham, NC Date: Nov. 9, 2019 | 2 PM Prairie View A&M University Visitor: Virginia University of Lynchburg Panther Stadium, Prairie View, TX Date: Oct. 19, 2019 | 2 PM Saint Augustine’s University Visitor: Johnson C. Smith University George Williams Athletic Complex, Raleigh, NC Date: Nov. 2, 2019 | 1 PM Savannah State University Visitor: Albany State University Theodore A. Wright Stadium, Savannah, GA Date: Oct. 26, 2019 | 3 PM Shaw University Visitor: Livingstone College Durham County Stadium, Durham, NC Date: Oct. 19, 2019 | 12 PM

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South Carolina State University Visitor: Morgan State University Oliver C. Dawson Stadium, Orangeburg, SC Date: Oct. 19, 2019 | 1:30 PM Southern University and A&M College Visitor: Alabama A&M University A.W. Mumford Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA Date: Nov. 2, 2019 | 4 PM Tennessee State University Visitor: Austin Peay State University Nissan Stadium, Nashville, TN Date: Oct. 19, 2019 | 4:30 PM Texas Southern University Visitor: Missouri S&T BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston, TX Date: Oct. 12, 2019 | 2 PM Tuskegee University Visitor: Miles College Abbott Memorial Alumni Stadium, Tuskegee, AL Date: Nov. 9, 2019 | 1 PM Virginia State University Visitor: Bowie State University Rogers Stadium, Ettrick, VA Date: Oct. 19, 2019 | 2 PM Virginia Union University Visitor: Chowan University Location: Hovey Field, Richmond, VA Date: Oct. 19, 2019 | 1 PM Winston Salem State University Visitor: Shaw University Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, NC Date: Nov 2, 2019 | 1:30 PM

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