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VOL IX ISSUE 23

“KLAN” RALLY IN DALLAS

My Truth Publisher Cheryl Smith

COMMUNITY COMES OUT TO SUPPORT CHURCH AFTER “INTIMIDATION “ RALLY

Time to stop punishing Selma

Friendship-West Baptist Church supporters drove miles to say “you messed with the wrong church!”

By Ashley Moss Staff Writer

The likes of Dick Gregory, Harry Belafonte, Hon. John Lewis, Xernona Clayton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Hon Maxine Waters, George Curry, Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson, Amanda Fitzpatrick, Dareia Tolbert, Danny Glover, Santita Jackson and the Obamas were all there. Ten years earlier I visited Selma and was awarded the “Invisible Giant” Award from the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute. Talk about honored. I can’t thank board member Thomas Muhammad enough for the role he played in not only sharing Selma with me, but also the naming of me, as an “Invisible Giant.” The original “Invisible Giants” served as foot-soldiers of the struggle for voting rights and marched in the Selma to Montgomery Marches of 1965, the “Bloody Sunday March,” and the “Turn Around Tuesday March.” Thomas, who I have known for decades, praised my work as a journalist in dealing with and fighting for those issues impacting Black people; as did those valiant men and women who came before me. As they introduced me at the awards program, they compared my journalistic contributions to Ms. Oprah Winfrey! The Invisible Giant award is an honor I cherish because in addition to those from Selma and around the world, I joined the ranks of other “giants” who have been recognized from right here in Dallas County, Texas: the Rev. Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr., Dr. Frederick D. Holmes III, Hon. Diane Ragsdale, Judge Marylellen Hicks, Hon. Kathlyn Gilliam and Ghulam Warriciah. The year I was honored, which was at the 40th anniversary commemoration, I was also with civil rights notables

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Thinking Norma Adams-Wade

Natural hair/ ancestral guru cleanses South Dallas confederate cemetery

It was at the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in March 2015 when I last visited Selma, Alabama. Full disclosure: I was brought into Selma to handle the media (local and national). Still, I was excited about being involved with such a historic commemoration of that 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

On Edmund Pettus Bridge during 40th Bloody Sunday commemoration

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It was a tale of two protests on Sunday in southern Dallas County as more than 1,000 vehicles descended on Friendship-West Baptist Church on Sunday. Ahead of what was to be a planned Black Lives Matter Rally at the church’s cam-

pus, supporters of a Blue Lives Matter group rapidly gathered at the church, later saying they were taking a rest. According to bystanders and church officials, an estimated more than 1,000 vehicles filled the church parking lot, many brandishing Trump 2020 and confederate flags. Many know Friendship-West

from the leadership of its senior pastor, Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III. The Bishop College graduate has been on the forefront calling for social justice and reform. The church bears a huge sign that explains its position, “Black Lives Matter!” So when a large caravan of

Isis Brantley is better known for blazing trails with natural hair than engaging the moon to bring peace in a South Dallas/ Fair Park Confederate cemetery. But Brantley –one of, if not, Dallas’ leading natural hair care salon and training school owners -- is not known for walking away from a challenge with good cause.

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U.S. Surgeon General: Debate is Over — We All Should Be Wearing Face Coverings to Prevent Spread of COVID-19 By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia It was only recently that U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams suggested that a national mask mandate wasn’t necessary for the American public to combat the coronavirus pandemic. However, the surgeon general told BlackPressUSA lastweek that wearing face coverings could help speed up a safe recovery, school re-openings, and save lives. “The best science we have available right now tells us the debate is over we all should be wearing a face-covering to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” Dr. Adams told NNPA President and CEO, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.,

Dr. Jerome Adams

during the interview streamed over BlackPressUSA’s Facebook and YouTube channels. “Science is all about making the best recommendations you can with the best information you have and then having the humility and vigilance to continue to look at data,” Dr. Adams submitted. “As data change, the recommendations change.” Dr. Adams added that Amer-

icans should follow what he called are the three W’s: Wear facemasks, wash your hands, and watch your distance.” “We know if you do these things, we can turn around this epidemic very quickly,” Dr. Adams declared. “Italy is now open for tourism again, playing soccer games and opening schools. So, we can do it even without a vaccine. This [wearing a facemask] is a small inconvenience that will provide big benefits for you, the one you love, and your communities.” To view the full interview, which aired July 27, 2020 at 7pm ET, visit http://www.facebook. com/blackpressusa/live_videos and http://www.youtube.com/c/ blackpressusatv.

rus, experts repeat, is most easily spread from person-to-person when within six feet of another. It makes sense that if you are not in close proximity to others, you are less likely to be contacted by spraying saliva droplets that could transmit COVID. So keep apart. DO IT.

The hair care and African ancestral guru has taken on the task of informing a South Dallas community and the public about what she sees as the need to cleanse and transform any negativity that may still linger in a small, overlooked confederate cemetery in the predominately African-American area. The long-standing but little-known site is the Confederate Cemetery at 4225 Electra St. between Reed Lane and Pine Street in this South Dallas/Fair Park neighborhood. With no identifying nameplate for years, many locals speculated that it was a pet cemetery. The site’s origin is linked to the Dallas Chapter of the United Daughters of the confederacy, a women’s organization that helped wounded and needy Confederate soldiers during the Civil War and whose parent body formerly organized in 1894. Currently and in recent years, the Daughters group has spoken against racist acts and rhetoric and attempted to set a conciliatory tone while sustaining its purpose to honor their Southern ancestors who members say bravely fought to preserve their land and economy during the war. Brantley said she would welcome a public conversation with group members. Meanwhile, she said she plans to do a cleansing rite at other Confederate cemeteries in traditionally African American neighborhoods once she completes researching their locations. “I accidentally ran across it (the cemetery) while in the neighborhood visiting my aunt,” Brantley said. “I really never noticed it before but it caught my eye this time.” Brantley, aside from using her innate natural hair skills, has studied and trained in African ancestral ceremonies and spiritual rites. She said the cleansing idea came after she and a friend walked over and looked at the cemetery. Various headstones showed that some of the confederate soldiers and their families who were buried there had been born as early as the 1820s and were buried there in the early 1900s. She said she thought about the irony of a confederate cem-

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Garland ISD’s free and reduced-price meal benefit In an effort to meet the needs of district students, Garland ISD has announced an update to free and reduced-price meals served under the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program for 2020-21. Twenty-four schools qualifying for the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) will provide breakfast and lunch to all students at no charge, eliminating the collection of free and reduced-price meal applications, as well as paid student meals. This new approach reduces burdens for both families and staff and ensures all students receive nutritious meals at CEP campuses. Learn more about CEP and see a complete list of

Eligibility criteria includes: • Household income that is at or below the income eligibility levels. View these on the Student Nutrition Services webpage or at any district school. • Receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR). • Status as a foster child, runaway, migrant, homeless, or displaced by a declared disaster. • Enrollment in Head Start or Even Start.

Non-CEP schools will continue to provide free and reduced-price meals for students who qualify. Starting Aug. 1, Student Nutrition Services will begin distributing letters to district families detailing eligibility benefits and how to apply. Applications can be submitted online at mealapp.garlandisd. net or via paper at 701 N. 1st St., Garland, TX 75040. To apply for free and reduced-price meals, families should submit just one application per household listing: • Names of all household members. • Amount, frequency, and

participating schools on the school meals page of the dissee GARLAND ISD’S, page 7 trict website.

To fight COVID-19, generously apply common sense! By ROYCE WEST Texas Senate For how many of us did it take more than one experience to learn the simple lesson of ‘don’t stick your hand in the fire?’ Maybe you took your parents word, or saw what happened to others who did not heed the warning. But five months into a deadly virus that’s claimed more than 637,000 lives worldwide, there remain too many who still do not believe that the incendiary spread of the coronavirus is tragically real. To hasten efforts to bring the virus under control, I offer a simple standard. If instruc-

tions offered to combat COVID make sense, DO IT! If you hear something that doesn’t, DON’T DO IT! For example, wearing a mask helps slow the spread of the virus. Since a cure has yet to be discovered and we know the disease is highly contagious, DO IT! Wear a mask! On the other hand, most Americans were dumbfounded by ramblings from a White House podium which pondered ingesting bleach or other toxic disinfectants as a COVID remedy. Please, DON’T DO IT! Worldwide, we have been given the message to avoid large crowds and have learned the term “social distancing.” The vi-

Isis Brantley, owner/operator of Naturally Isis hair salon and a braiding school

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COLLABORATION AUGUST 5, 2020

The Dallas Morning News partners with Black-owned Texas Metro News for content, events and training The partnership will allow Texas Metro News to publish stories free of charge, while helping boostThe Dallas Morning News’ coverage of communities of color.

Mike Wilson, editor of The Dallas Morning News, photographed on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, in Dallas. Credit: Smiley N. Pool:The Dallas Morning News Smiley N. Pool:Staff Photographer

Copies of The Dallas Morning News roll off the presses at the company’s printing plant in Plano. Under a new partnership, The Morning News will pay a consulting fee for Texas Metro News journalists to help with sourcing, story idea generation and more. Credit: Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer

By CHARLES SCUDDER The Dallas Morning News Special to Texas Metro News In an effort to boost coverage of Dallas’ communities of color, particularly in southern Dallas, The Dallas Morning News is partnering with Texas Metro News, a Blackowned publication that covers news and issues in Dallas’ Black community. The agreement will allow Texas Metro News to publish articles from The Dallas Morning News at no charge, while The Morning News will pay a consulting fee for Texas Metro News journalists to help with sourcing, story idea generation and more. “They don’t and won’t ever pay us anything,” said Mike Wilson, editor of The Dallas Morning News. The partnership comes as The Morning News expands community-based coverage through its web-

site and local newsletters, targeted for specific geographic communities across North Texas. Currently, the initiative serves Allen, Arlington, Colleyville, Frisco, Garland, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Irving, McKinney, Mesquite, Oak Cliff, Plano, Richardson and Southlake. Wilson and North Texas editor Jamie Hancock, who oversees the local initiative at The Dallas Morning News, said they recognized that coverage from the newspaper had not been as strong in some of those communities, which is why they reached out to Texas Metro News. “We came to that with a full awareness that we haven’t been around those communities as well as we could have through the years,” Wilson said. “We’re coming into it humbly.”

Cheryl Smith, the editor and publisher of Texas Metro News, said she appreciated that editors from The Dallas Morning News approached the relationship as an opportunity for both publications to improve their journalism. It would not be just about checking a box for diversity, she said. “Our team knew it wasn’t a light decision; it wasn’t tokenism,” Smith said. “The Morning News wanted journalism.” Smith started Texas Metro News in 2012. The printed newspaper has a weekly circulation of 5,000, and the staff also reports daily in newsletters and podcasts online. She said the partnership with The Dallas Morning News will help her staff better serve its readers. “If you want good, solid journalism, collaboration is key,” Smith said. “We’re trying to shed light and

show the Black experience, but we’re also saying you don’t have to be Black to appreciate it.” The two staffs are already meeting weekly to discuss stories and opportunities for collaboration. Readers of columnist Norma Adams Wade, for example, can see her columns monthly in The Dallas Morning News and weekly in Texas Metro News. Hancock said Smith has helped Dallas Morning News reporters cover important topics in southern Dallas such as “shingle mountain” in southeast Oak Cliff and a recent story about how a Black-owned business is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. “She knows everybody in the community and has relationships with everybody,” Hancock said, “and we want to leverage that and do whatever we can

to help them grow their business.” Smith is also an officer in local and national journalism organizations, including the National Association of Black Journalists. Editors at The Dallas Morning News first connected with Smith through local NABJ programs, including training sessions for early-career journalists at Paul Quinn College, Wilson said. Journalists from Texas Metro News are participating in professional development and training programs offered for Dallas Morning News reporters. Wilson said that when it is safe for public gatherings to resume, he hopes to work with Texas Metro News to plan in-person events for readers and subscribers. As part of the national conversation about racial equity in America, newsrooms across the country are finding new ways to boost coverage of communities that previously have been overlooked. For some, that has meant creating new positions for

diversity reporting, or devoting other resources to covering Black issues. Wilson said the partnership with Texas Metro News will help The Dallas Morning News meet its own goals for improving the diversity of its coverage. “It’s something here that it was time to do,” Wilson said. “The Black press in Dallas has always been an important news source.” The Dallas Morning News has a similar reporting partnership with KXAS-TV (NBC 5), wherein the newspaper’s journalists appear on the TV station to promote articles. The TV station also provides video for stories on dallasnews.com. The newspaper is also expanding its coverage of southern Dallas. Report for America fellow Brooklynn Cooper joined the newsroom in June; Report for America places young reporters in local newsrooms across the country. Carrington Tatum also currently reports on southern Dallas.

Charles Scudder, Staff writer. Charlie Scudder is a general assignment reporter and has worked on the features and news desks for five years. He’s also an adjunct professor at UNT’s Mayborn School of Journalism. Raised in Colleyville, he is a graduate of both Southern Methodist University and Indiana University. cscudder@dallasnews.com @cscudder

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Adding fuel to the fire of our pandemics THE LAST WORD Dr. Julianne Malveaux Nero, the Roman Emperor who legendarily fiddled while Rome burned is a symbol for an irresponsible, ineffective, and callous leader who shows indifference to people in crisis. The great Rome fire took place in the first century AD. The fiddle wasn’t invented until the 11th century, so it is unlikely that the hedonistic emperor played the fiddle while his city was burning. More likely, he was engaged in some trivial or sybaritic act, regardless of the crisis. Our 45th President puts Nero to shame. Our country is burning, with COVID cases rising, racial tensions rising. The President is pouring fuel on an already-flaming fire with his callous indifference, ineffective leadership, and irresponsible proclamations. He has so utterly failed to provide a national plan to combat corona that Republican governors have called him out. Notably, Maryland governor Larry Hogan, who chairs the National Governor’s Association, excoriated Mr. Trump in a July 16 Washington Post op-ed noting that our president seemed “more

QUIT PLAYIN’ Vincent Hall History has a way of enveloping lives and legacies. How we live our lives has a direct bearing on what history has to say about us. United States Representative John Lewis and lifelong activist Reverend Cordy Tindell “C.T.” Vivian left more than we can say grace over. The fact that the two men died so closely is enriched by the reality that their sojourns were even more closely aligned. Ernie Suggs of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution painted the portrait of their tethering. “In 1963, they were famously arrested and sent to one of the most brutal prisons in Mississippi for daring to use a “whites only” bathroom. In 1965 in Selma, they were each brutally beaten just a month apart while trying to register Black voters and bring attention to the generational plight of disenfranchised Blacks.

concerned about boosting the stock market or his reelection plans.” That’s fiddling while Rome burns. Forty-five fanned the flames of fear and uncertainty about COVID 19 with false comments about the virus. First, he said it was going to go away, and that it was no more severe than the flu. Then he suggested a drug, hydroxychloroquine, that has proven to be ineffective. Then he “jokingly” suggested Lysol or bleach to cure the virus. He has prioritized the economy over human lives, urging governors to open their states up for commerce, even as the number of COVID cases has risen. Still, he and his Education Secretary are urging the full reopening of schools for full-time in-person instruction, even though the numbers suggest otherwise. They are saying they schools that fail to meet their demands will forfeit federal dollars—fuel to the fire. Since the economy closed in late March, there has been plenty of time to develop a coordinated response to COVID 19, develop a back-to-school plan, and get school districts the additional resources they need to serve our nation’s young people effectively. Instead, he says he is leaving it to the states, just like he left the acquisition of personal

protective equipment to the states. Why doesn’t he do his job instead of playing golf? Fiddling while Rome burns, the President and his daughter Ivanka, are auditioning

The President’s comments on both masks and race are incendiary. It is irresponsible to making face coverings a matter of individual choice while COVID infections are rising..

as shills for Goya Foods. The president photographed in the Oval Office with an assortment of Goya Foods and a maniacal grin. The First daughter posted a picture of herself, holding a can of black beans. More than 135,000 people are dead, and the first family is hawking beans!

Politicizing masks causes tension among citizens who share public space. In Tulsa, Rev. Robert Turner has rallied for reparations every Wednesday for the past two years. On July 15, a rabid anti-mask white mob surrounded him, poured water on him, called him “boy,” and assaulted

him. Confederate flag-loving Trump has empowered these racists to behave horribly. And the president’s idiocy on the Confederate flag suggests he does not know history. His refusal to utter the words “Black Lives Matter” reminds us (but we already knew) that he doesn’t think Black Lives Matter. His request that NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace apologize for reacting when he found a noose in his area was spacious. His response to a CBS interviewer who asked him about Black people’s police shooting was to note that white people are shot by police, too. “More white people, by the way,” the deflector-in-chief said. Black people are 2.8 times as likely to be killed as whites, but perhaps the president does not understand the concept of dis-proportionality. Since the president refuses to develop a national plan to address the corona pandemic, even as the death toll increases, deaths increase, let him hawk beans. He is far more adept at that task than he is at running the country. Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author, media contributor and educator. Her latest project MALVEAUX! On UDCTV is available on youtube.com. For booking wholesale inquiries or for more info visit www.juliannemalveaux.com

Too much to Say! And last Friday, the Rev. C.T. Vivian and Congressman John Lewis died within hours of each other. “They walked together, talked together and strategized together,” Willie A. Watkins said. “They took the beatings that others didn’t and survived unafraid. God took them at the ages of 95 and 80. And now here they are in the same room — together!” C.T. Vivian, who was once called the “Greatest preacher to ever live” by his cohort, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was on the road to legacy early. At age 23, on his first professional job, he began a litany of civil rights actions worthy of being chronicled. The target in 1947 was to sit-in at Barton’s Cafeteria in Peoria, Illinois. By 1960 Vivian had teamed up with future leaders at Nashville’s American Baptist College to convince the city that its racial policies were wrongheaded. Flanked by Diane Nash, Bernard Lafayette, James Bevel, James Forman, and John Lewis; they were suc-

cessful in getting the mayor to issue a public statement admitting that racial discrimination was a moral failing. In a book, he would later write, “Black Power and the American Myth,” Vivian expounded on the strength of Dr. King’s strategy. “It was Martin Luther King who removed the Black struggle from the economic realm and placed it in a moral and spiritual context,” Vivian wrote in his book. “It was on this plane that The Movement first confronted the conscience of the nation.” John Lewis is widely known

for the beating that he suffered on Bloody Sunday. He was one of the worst among 58 people treated for injuries after police were unleashed on Montgomery, Alabama’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. However, historians will note that Lewis spent his life beating up on racism, sexism, ignorance, and hatred. In 1961, Lewis was one of 13 Freedom Riders who were assaulted four years before Bloody Sunday. On May 9, in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Lewis was beaten viciously. One of the Klansmen later admitted what happened.

“The bus pulled in. He (Lewis) got out and started over there to the door,” said former Klansman Elwin Wilson in 2010, adding that he started beating Lewis when he opened the door to a “whites only” waiting room. “I remember him laying there, and it was blood on the ground, and somebody done called the police.” In 2009, Wilson found Lewis and apologized. Lewis accepted it. The 1961 picture that shows both Lewis and Vivian jailed at the same venue was a prophetic foretelling of their paralleled existences. Both would go on to receive the Presidential Medal of Honor. Both of them would die within hours and be buried within days of one another. History has a way of enveloping lives and legacies, and there is more of Lewis and Vivian than these dedicated column inches will allow me to say. Vincent L. Hall is an author, activist, and award-winning columnist.

Our babies are dying, where are our friends? OUR VOICES Naba’a Muhammad The governor of Georgia has called in the National Guard. Tears are flowing in Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore and other cities as pain over the deaths of Black children lost to gun violence burns deep in the hearts and souls of Black folk. Despite the pain, questions must be asked, like where are the police? In Chicago, cops decided not to come to work or not work during recent bloody spikes of violence. Upset with calls for greater accountability, the boys in blue decided they would show the city by not showing up. Police officers in New York and Chicago, cities with long histories of torturing Black people and records of killing Black children, women and men, threatened to abandon their posts over the July 4 weekend. Heavy violence in Chicago made national headlines, calls for “blue flu” over the July 4 weekend did not. A reporter for

the CBS News affiliate reported June 22 about “a new push by members of the police union to get officers on the street to stand down—and even stay home.” The police union president supported the officers’ actions—or rather inaction. “In the first 28 days in June, the number of murders was up 83% compared with numbers from the same period in 2019, Chicago Police Department statistics show. And the number of arrests was down 55%, street stops fell by 74% and traffic stops dropped by 86%,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported July 1. John Catanzara, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, told the Sun-Times, “I’m not telling them not to do police work … But I hope they just slow down and decide ‘Is this necessary?’ before they do it.” “Citywide, the number killed or wounded in shootings in June rose 110% — to 541 victims — compared with June 2019. Meanwhile, there were about 3,330 arrests, a 55% decline, and about 3,800 people were stopped on the street, a 74% drop. Gun arrests, though, were up 45%,” the Sun-Times noted.

While the conduct of cops in this crisis ought to be questioned, the real question is where are our Jewish friends? Why? Because every effort by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam to stop Black people from killing one another has been met with vicious, deliberate Jewish assault and sabotage. Eight years ago, when the Minister led the men of the Nation into streets to promote peace and lessen tension it was Jewish groups who fought against the peacemaking. Even then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who is Jewish, said Nation of Islam efforts to bring peace were welcome in a city with a 40 percent spike in homicides in 2012. But Jewish groups’ nonstop smear campaigns push the anti-Semitic lie and try to put a hate jacket on a man trying to save lives. And, they can’t prove their lies. It is not unexpected; the Jewish groups have tried to paint Min. Farrakhan with the anti-Semitic tag since 1984. It started with Zionist groups opposed to the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s call for a balanced Middle East policy during his historic first

run for the White House. It was also Jewish organizations that forced security companies owned by individual Muslims out of public housing in the 1990s at the expense of Black life. They literally forced congressional hearings where the companies like N.O.I. Security were shown doing good jobs. But the American Jewish Committee and others pressed federal lawmakers to withhold federal money from local public housing authorities. The local agencies, unable to survive without federal funds, killed the contracts. The killing of Blacks in public housing complexes soared and our Jewish friends said and did nothing. No matter what, the Anti-Defamation League, Alan Dershowitz, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Jewish organizations dredge up these false and scurrilous charges. They don’t care if Black children die—and they don’t care if they are lying. We should. Black folks should care enough about our own suffering, our own children, our own future to reject this constant

interference that leads to the loss of Black lives. What would our neighborhoods look like had the Minister and the Muslims been left alone to pursue peace in public housing since the 1990s? What would Chicago and other cities look like if the Minister had been left alone to teach and raise our people, dispensing wisdom and promoting peace? Jewish friends? No. These individuals and organizations are our enemies intent on pursuing their agenda and forcing their views and beliefs down their throats. That is to be expected. But there are final questions for Black America: Do you really love your children? Do you really love yourself? Are you still slave-like in your desires to be accepted by people who care nothing for you? Do Black Lives Matter to you? If so, why would you allow others to stop a man who has devoted his life to stopping us from killing us? Naba’a Muhammad is editor in chief for The Final Call newspaper. Find him on Facebook and follow @ RMfinalcall on Twitter.

What’s in Your Hand? FAITHFUL UTTERANCES Dr. Froswa Booker-Drew There is a television commercial with actor Samuel Jackson asking, “What’s in Your Wallet?” The ad is informing viewers that when you spend your money, you will receive cash back from the company. The goal is to encourage you to not only get the card, spend money but expect something in return. Although there may be some benefit, the impact could be significant. “According to Experian’s 2019 Consumer Debt Study, total consumer debt in the U.S. is at $14.1 trillion, with Americans carrying an average personal debt of $90,460.” Having debt not only keeps

us in bondage to those we owe but we have been told that our needs can be solved outside of us. We have been sold an idea that if we only get stuff, we will find happiness, peace, and joy from our material possessions. There is nothing wrong with the desire to have nice things, but when our identities are tied to the stuff, we have placed our trust in something outside of ourselves---when what we have been seeking has been there all along. We often doubt ourselves believing that if only we had that type of car, house, or job, our problems would be over. We believe that if we only got “it”, (whatever your “it” is), things would change. We fail to recognize what we already have. In Exodus 4, Moses was doubting his ability because

he stuttered. He did not believe that people would listen to him not recognizing what he had was much bigger than what he believed he lacked. “Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’”2 And the LORD asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied. 3“Throw it on the ground,” said the LORD. So, Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and he ran from it. 4“Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand. 5“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,

AUGUST 5, 2020 and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.” God has given you dreams and a purpose despite what might be visible to others. God reminds Moses in this passage that what he needed for success was already there. He had a staff, something that he did not regard as necessarily important to his purpose. What is it that you are disregarding because it is so common to you? What is already in your possession that has been dismissed as insignificant? Is there a talent, a dream, a gift that you have neglected? When you take what you have and believe God for multiplying it, watch how He will turn what is in your hand into something mighty and powerful. Many of you have gifts of gold that could be the key or solution to a problem but because you don’t feel you are smart enough, make enough money, or know the right people, you are dismissing

what you do have...a God that is all powerful who can take your gifts and turn what you see as irrelevant into something that will make people listen and change those around you. Scripture tells us in Deuteronomy 28:13 “And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them.” When you trust God for what you already have, you will not need to worry about what’s in your wallet. He will provide as soon as you take advantage of what is in your hand. Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew is the Founder and CEO of Soulstice Consultancy, specializing as a Partnership Broker and Leadership Expert for companies and organizations to thrive with measurable and meaningful impact. She also is the VP of Community Affairs and Strategic Alliances for the State Fair of Texas.

What’s on Miles’ Mind? “TROOPS” OUR VOICES Miles Jaye You wake up, say your prayers, and make your bed. You brush your teeth, shower, and get dressed. You Keurig a coffee into your favorite travel mug, grab your keys and purse and leave the house. Start the car, start your morning praise music, and pull out from the driveway. You’re heading down the street toward the main road; but off in the distance… long before you reach the intersection, you notice something strange. The traffic leading toward the intersection is backed up and traffic on the main drag seems a bit unusual. What’s going on-- an accident? As you get closer, it appears someone is directing traffic-- someone in uniform, looks like Army fatigues. All traffic is diverted to the right. When you reach the intersection, you’re directed to make a right turn, just as the cars before you did-- but you can’t seem to make sense of what you’re witnessing. First of all; why is a uniformed soldier posted at this intersection? More importantly, why is a convoy of military vehicles stretched along your otherwise familiar road-

way, as far as the eye can see? You’re halfway to the next intersection where you see another soldier directing traffic, but before you reach the corner, a soldier runs to your driver side window, directing you to make a sharp right into the service station. Okay now, what’s going on? Startled by the abrupt appearance of someone at your window, you turn in and pull up to what looks like a checkpoint. “Roll your window down please ma’am. License and registration please.” The young soldier spoke with feigned authority-- the lack of experience was noticeable, it was obvious. You detect a bit of nerves, coupled with the high pitch of his rushed command, what you do not notice is military insignia. This is a military town. Everyone here is familiar with uniforms. You may not know all of the ranks, but you know the basics, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines, Army, or Air Force on one pocket flap, last name over the other, but these uniforms had no identifiers, no insignia. Who were these soldiers dressed in combat gear, riot gear-- camouflage fatigues, face masks, the whole nine? They were dressed for business. You lower your window, but before handing over your ID, you ask for his. “Who are you? What’s going on?” You

know you asked politely, but you could hear the anxiety, the nervousness in your own voice. Ignoring your request for an explanation, he barks, “Ma’am. license and registration please.” Nervous tension turns into indignance, attitude, “Sir, I simply asked you what’s going on? Why did you pull me over? Why are you checking IDs? Are y’all looking for somebody? Who are you?” “Ma’am, I’ll have to ask you to exit your vehicle.” He pulls on the driver’s door but luckily it was locked. Now your anxiety has turned to cold fear. You should have called someone as soon as you saw something going on. You should have made a U-turn before reaching the main road. Now it’s too late! Just give him the ID, you haven’t done anything wrong. “Here! Take it, here’s my license, registration and my insurance card, but I still don’t know what’s going on. I know I haven’t done anything…” You lowered your window to pass him the ID, but he reached in to unlock the door. He pulls it open and grabs you by the arm to snatch you out of your car. “Wait! Wait a minute! What are you doing? Let go of me! Take your hands off of me. Help! Somebody, help me!” Thank God, you see someone rushing toward you to put a stop to this foolishness, this madness. You’re

Entry to Confederate Cemetery, Pine St., Electra St., Reed Ln. in South Dallas/Fair Park

value for the nation in Brantley’s spiritual cleansing –and prayer -- to change hearts and minds? This while we also make -- as the late iconic Congressman and civil rights warrior John Lewis said -- “good trouble” in our peaceful protests and challenges to seats of power. Can we combine open-minded elements to make a powerful potion that allows us to see common humanity behind the façade of our perceived enemies? You can’t dig up the dead in a sacred cemetery. But maybe, just maybe, you can cleanse the air around it.

night of the July new moon – when the moon is invisible from earth and cleansing energy is strong. The age-old practice is kin to burning incense and traced back to various cultures and religions including Native Americans and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Elements of the rituals may encompass fire, water, air, and earth. Brantley added a prayer for peace to her ceremony. I was just thinking...is there

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etery in a now predominately African-American community considered to be middleto-low-income. She said she thought about how society currently is awakening to the injustices that still linger from the Civil War and the South’s attempt to break away from the Union to preserve the Southern way of life that included the institution of slavery. She said the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man by an Anglo police officer in Minneapolis was an example of a lingering aftermath of slavery and oppression. So, she took it upon herself to rally a small group of friends and relatives for a spiritual cleansing ceremony, called “smudging,” designed to rid a space of negative energy and bring peace and healing. She chose the date and time of 8:30 p.m. Sunday, July 19 because, as part of the ritual, it was the

thinking, ‘thank God!’ Coming to your rescue is someone dressed exactly like the first guard, but he’s not coming to save you. They forcibly remove you from your vehicle, with the car still running, purse and cell phone still on the front passenger seat, radio still playing gospel music, and whisk you off to an unmarked van across the parking lot. The door slides open, the only words you’ve heard were, “Stop resisting, you’re being detained.” No explanations, no answers to your barrage of questions, just the sound of the van starting, shifting into gear, then pulling off. It’s daytime, but it’s dark inside the van. Your eyesight is blurred from tears. Your heart is racing, and your mind can only process one thought-God please let this all be a bad

dream, but it’s not a dream… it’s a nightmare! Trump’s Troops have descended on your city, your neighborhood to restore order. Who are they, where are they taking you? Who will know how to find you? Will they find you? What’s going to happen to you? This is America! Portland today! Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, tomorrow. Maybe your town will be next. Ready? That’s what’s on my mind!

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see their city remain the same. It seems as though America said that despite all the pain and suffering inflicted previously, with change, there was more paying to do, “OK, we’ll give you concessions, but somebody is going to pay in a big way.” Selma, Dear Selma! Sadly, what I have seen with Selma is that in a city with, according to the 2010 Census, a population of just under 21,000 has today an African American population that is 80%, but back in the 1960s it was 50%. In Selma, about one in six live below the federal poverty line; school dropout rates teeter around 30 to 40 percent; and less than 20% of residents have a bachelor’s degree. With an overall poverty rate of almost 30%, at least 39.1% of African Americans in Dallas County (AL) are living in poverty with 33.5% receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, or food stamps, and 43% of children living in poverty. What the heck happened or didn’t happen. I’m not airing dirty laundry. I’m making a plea. On this Black Agenda I keep hearing about, we need to include: “HELP SELMA.” Let’s face it. Selma helped make this country better, and the only time we look to Selma is for annual commemorations or as we did this past weekend, to honor giants like Rep.Lewis. We owe Selma. Shame on us.

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and honorees Amelia Boynton Robinson, Claudette Colvin and Susan L. Taylor. During that first trip to Selma, I even ran into old friend, Chuck D of Public Enemy, who was visiting the museum! I have learned so much about Selma and the struggle. I am so thankful to Thomas, Selma, those who fought for US then and those who continue to fight today. Which brings me to my truth. America has never thanked Dallas County, Selma, Alabama. Instead, the city of what was then a revolution has actually been punished! Yes, significant strides were made because of what happened in Selma. The world saw, just as they did with the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the savagery of racism. I can just imagine what people think of when they hear someone talking about Selma, Alabama. Usually, since I have visited, I think of Lainnie’s. Talk about good food! I also think about good folks who have come from there, like LaWonda Peoples and Judge Remeko Edwards. But what I have noticed during my visits was a city stuck in time. This is not an attempt to throw shade. I toured the city and viewed a city that helped cities across the country grow, only to

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Dr. Richard Besser THE CELEBRITY INTERVIEW Valder Beebe The world-wide pandemic continues to be the central focus as the Valder Beebe Show invited Dr. Richard Besser, into the studio to clarify aspects of COVID19, how public health is the roadmap to a safe and equitable economic recovery, and why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important that Americans hear from public health officials daily during a pandemic. The United States is experiencing a massive surge in coronavirus cases and deaths, overwhelming local healthcare systems and forcing several states to delay their economic recovery efforts. Compounding the problem is the politicization of the pandemic. Public health officials have been harassed and threatened, and some policymakers have based reopening decisions on political whims rather than sound science. It is more critical than ever that government and community leaders follow a public health roadmap to economic recovery. To do this, we must understand how the pandemic is playing out at the neighborhood level, en-

suring that all people are considered and cared forâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;particularly people of color and essential workers who continue to die at disproportionately higher rates. Today, data collection efforts are woefully inadequate, and as a result, communities across the nation remain in the dark about how this pandemic is truly playing out; complicating efforts to contain the spread of the virus. Dr. Besser, who is also president & CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;explains that â&#x20AC;&#x153;data deficits that vary greatly state to state and locality to locality will lock in our disturbing status quo,â&#x20AC;? which will further exacerbate reopening efforts that have been â&#x20AC;&#x153;erratic, unsafe and profoundly unjust.â&#x20AC;? He urges data collection efforts by race, ethnicity, age, sex, and ZIP code, and he calls for federal funding for states and localities so they have the resources to implement the stronger collection protocols. Dr. Besser notes that the CDC and local health departments need adequate funding and support to use their public platforms to share timely and critical information to keep Americans safe and guide ongoing recovery efforts. Dr. Richard

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Besser - publicists provided text in conjunction with the Valder Beebe Show VEB: Dr. Besser can you give us an update on COVID-19? RB: Valder, I think we are in a really good situation right now with COVID19. The reason I say this, we are seeing a clash in public health messages. Some officials are saying this is a critical time. You will hear other leaders saying this is going to go away. This is not going to go away. I like to refer citizens to local public health officials, this will tell us what is going on in our own communities. I like also, going to the CDC web site. VEB: What kind of local information can we find? RB: Information about current polices, about business, school and work place statusâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;Ś Complete interview: soundcloud.com/valderbeebeshow ValdeBeebeShow.com broadcasting to a national audience on KKVI FM Radio, Streaming TV, Social Media, Print Publications.

WE NEED TO MAKE THIS MOMENT A MOVEMENT BY MAINTAINING MOMENTUM THE BLACK CARD Terry Allen My good friend, Jewel Diamond Taylor says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your main thing is to make sure your main thing stays your thing.â&#x20AC;? So, the point of my column and Jewelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quote is to keep the main thing front and center. ... In short, the quote is about staying focused on the main thing, and not be distracted by all the other things popping up around you. I am excited about the chants for remove, reform and defund but those shouts signify our collective response to this moment sparked by the eight minutes forty-six (8:46) second death of George Floyd. We must now make this moment a movement so we will not have to revisit this again. We can applaud all those corporations that have symbolically denounced systemic racism as well as stepped up to pledge huge dollar amounts aimed at racial equity. Yet, WE must con-

trol the narrative. We must invest in our wealth creation. We must save ourselves to make this moment a movement. Many of those dollars will be difficult to obtain and we will give up. When we do not obtain the dollars set aside by enlightened institutions then it will be perceived as a buffer response to our moment. We will never get to a movement unless we own this moment. We cannot allow for our Diaspora to get back to â&#x20AC;&#x153;racismâ&#x20AC;? as usual status. In the words of my mentor, George Fraser, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black people have to save Black people.â&#x20AC;? Our success will never stay top-ofmind by any other race than us. We must maintain this global momentum. Donating money to nonprofits, establishing unattainable loan funds and creating diversity & inclusion departments will not make up for our missing 40 acres and a mule. It will not rebuild our Wall Streets. Home ownership (40 acres) is the first step American families took to build wealth. Business ownership (the Mule) is the second step Americans use to build

wealth. We must mandate that these corporations create revenues infused line items for multiple years not just one. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s create opportunities for us. How about technology and entrepreneurial development for young Black men? Can we make a sizable dent in the income/wealth gap in Black communities thereby creating Black prosperity while simultaneously reducing the pipeline to prison paths in our neighborhoods. We must make investments in ourselves and our businesses. So, join me and my Good Trouble Mentoring Program for young Black men and women. Those are my thoughts. Now yours? In closing, please if we use our collective faith to guide our steps, we will have a movement from this moment. We can then give ourselves a High Five! Please email me at the paper and tell me you are with me. Terryallenpr@gmail.com Terry Allen is a multi-media journalist and board member of the National Association of Black Journalists.

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when another company released products that clearly resemble her brand. She wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am so sick and tired of companies trying to RIP OFF of successful black brands.â&#x20AC;? She also posted three pictures of her products CURLS and Marc Anthony products side-by-side. Both of the products have similar colors, bright yellow and light blue intertwining. If a shopper did not focus on the names and went into the store wanting CURLS then they could easily pick up Marc Anthony products instead.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look at this mess! Yet your people claim it looks â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nothing alikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and that you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who we were,â&#x20AC;? continued Dellinger. Facebook users commented on Dellingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s post expressing their displeasure of the clear infringement and their support for CURLS. For user Ayingi Jones-Kimble she wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;wow despicable, I love your product. Those look ugly they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trick me.â&#x20AC;? Dellinger is not only in the hair care business. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bestselling author and TV host on Oprah Winfrey Network where she focuses on helping female entrepreneurs take their business to the next level. Stay tuned for updates.

ASK ALMA ASK ALMA Alma Gill Dear Alma, I am 35 and my sweet lady is 57. I love her and she loves me. Although we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go out much, we show our affection to each other in many ways. She and I both are homebodies. We live in different states, so our time together is special. She has a beautiful, spacious home. We have dinner, dance and watch movies. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a great cook, and I fix things around the house. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re both avid readers and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real nice relationship. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the problem. We were at the bank and she was taking care of some business. At first I was in the car but noticed she forgot something, so I took it to her. As I was walking away, I overheard her tell the teller that I was like a son to her. When I asked her about it, she said she lives in a small town and she really didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want the woman in her business. She said she really didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean anything by it and asked me to drop it. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get it off my mind. How do I confront her about this again? Youngster Dear youngster, Dang! That was wrongâ&#x20AC;Śand kinda creepy. Maybe she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean it. Ok â&#x20AC;&#x201C; aaah, maybe she did. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worse than calling your second husband by your first husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name. Ok, that was me, LOL. She owes you an apology and a decent conversation at the very least. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure hearing her describe you that way was

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But last month, there was a rally in Tulsa and a Sunday church service in Downtown Dallas where social distancing was not observed; few wore masks, and one even had a packed choir stand from where days later, positive tests were reported. Indoor crowds, no masks, medical officials say loudly, “DON’T DO IT!” Here are the facts. During the early weeks of the virus when national and state stay at home orders were in place and even grudgingly adhered to by most Americans, the spread of the virus appeared to be reasonably under control. When those lockdowns were lifted, the raging wildfire that is the coronavirus began to engulf the country city-by-city, state-by-state and region-by-region. In Dallas County, on April 28, just days before the expiration of the stay at home order, the number of positive cases reported

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The pastor, who was on vacation, said he began receiving calls as members reached out to him at home following the airing of the church service. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 the church has held virtual services so a small crew has been on hand at the facility. Talking on Roland Martin Unfiltered, Pastor Haynes said the Dodge Ram Club asked to use the parking lot as a pit stop for 30 vehicles. Those 30 vehicles increased to 1000, with over 3000 people flooding the premises. While he said he has heard from some participants who have decried the entire gathering, saying they were misled, Pastor Haynes acknowledged that the incident “enraged” him. But something good will come out of the incident, he said, adding that there’s a “reckoning going on” and even white allies of the Black Lives Matter movement joined others who gathered at the church, after hearing of the “intimidation tactics.” The pastor, who talked about a Black Lives Matter theology, assured members that they would continue supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement, focusing on racial injustice, police misconduct and police brutality.

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