Garland Journal 9-29-22

My Truth

By Cheryl Smith Publisher

What were you doing?

It was a hot Saturday after noon at the Choctaw Stadi um for the Arlington Football Classic and there were plenty of seats available as the South ern University Jaguars faced the Texas Southern University Tigers.

We knew who was going to win the contest for having the most fans in attendance. Of course, Southern University is ALWAYS strong and this year TSU did have a stronger show ing than the previous two con tests.

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But one thing you can say about Southern University, with a winning or losing sea son; the support is going to be there and the fans are going to have a good time.

The Tigers won the game, never letting up as they coast ed to a 24-0 victory over the Jaguars.

People will debate for days to come which band took the halftime Battle of the Bands honors and I’ll just say there’s no halftime like an HBCU half time.

Which brings me to my truth.

As I walked around the sta dium, other than the two com peting schools I saw a North Carolina A&T State University shirt and someone from Xavier and Dillard Universities; but I needed to see more.

I didn’t have on a Florida A&M University (FAMU) shirt but I was wearing a Beta Al pha-Delta Sigma Theta So rority face mask and EVERY ONE knows that the BADST is FAMU!

What I needed to see was an abundance of HBCU shirts at the game, though.

Why?

Because in one week Gram bling State and Prairie View A&M will be playing at the Dallas Cotton Bowl and alums, students and everyone affiliat ed will be wanting folks to pur chase tickets.

And if any other schools happen to be fortunate enough to have a game played in this area, their alums, students, etc., will want folks to show up and fill every seat.

I don’t blame them and I’d like to see every seat filled also.

But guess what?

If FAMU ever shows up on a field in the D/FW Metroplex, you best believe that I won’t be sounding like a hypocrite when I challenge my friends to support the game because I have supported every HBCU that has played in this market for the past 40 years.

NAACP Garland Unit celebrates 31st annual Freedom Fund Brunch

SURVIVING AND THRIVING

His Sister’s Breast Cancer Was A Hard Hit for NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith Story and Photos

By Sylvia Dunnavant Hines

“It was scary, concerning, and shocking,” said National Football League (NFL) Hall of Famer Em mitt Smith, regarding his sister’s breast cancer diagnosis.

Holding the rushing records for the NFL, former running back Smith has taken a lot of hits in his 15-season career as a profession al football player. Yet, nothing prepared him for the impact of the hit upon hearing the news.

By Gwendolyn H. Daniels

COVID 19 sidelined a num ber of programs and activities so it hadn’t been since Septem ber of 2019 that the national award-winning Garland Unit of the NAACP held an in-person event. All activities had been rel egated to virtual presentations but all that changed when close to 300 gathered on Saturday, September 17, 2022, at the Hyatt

Place Hotel in Garland, Texas.

A dynamic duo of keynote speakers in Drs. Latoya and Lato nya Harris, twins who are home grown products of the Garland Independent School District (GISD) and the grandchildren of the late Mr. Gale Fields, who was a pillar in the Garland com munity. They electrified those in attendance with their words of wisdom.

The 2010 valedictorian and

salutatorian graduates of South Garland High School served up a double punch of inspiring words all centered around the NAACP’s Freedom Fund theme: “Coming Out of the Storm, Still Work to Do!”

After carefully explaining the characteristics of storms, how often storms occur in a period of time, and the varied severity of storms, they ended on a positive note by saying “storms are only temporary.”

Graduating top of their 2010 high school class was just the be ginning for these big achievers.

After graduating from the Univer sity of Texas at Austin, obtaining both their bachelors and master’s degrees Summa Cum Laude in sports management; they went on to Parker University where they made history again graduat ing as valedictorian and salutato rian of their class!

GSU’s Dr. Nikole Roebuck joins elite club of female band directors

By Cheryl Smith

When the Grambling State Uni versity (GSU) World Famed Tiger Marching Band takes to the field on Saturday for the State Fair Clas sic in Dallas, many will see some thing they’ve never seen before — a female band director!

Dr. Nikole Roebuck knows she is in an elite club, especially on the collegiate level and she goes about her business with a smile and a resolve that comes with the knowl edge that she is directing one of the premier marching bands in the world.

Music Department, in addition to directing the band and under her leadership, in 2021 Grambling also named its first female drum major in its almost century of existence.

Marsha Hill Smith attributes her success as a survivor to her family’s support. Her family all came together in Tallahassee, FL to make sure she was not alone as she started her breast cancer journey over a decade ago.

“When I first found out that she had breast cancer, I was like most people, a little shocked and con cerned. At first, I was struggling to try to understand the depth of what we had to deal with. We knew that it was immediate, but it was still go ing to be a process,” said Smith.

Smith admits that his emotions ran the gamut from frustration to fear.

Council Honors Former Mayor

The Garland City Council is renaming one of its major facilities to honor Ron Jones, a three-term Mayor and prior to that, a leader of City staff for nearly three decades.

The Ronald E. Jones Municipal Building at 800 Main St. is home to the City’s permitting process es, its planners, engineers, transportation officials and others who are at the heart of Garland’s dayto-day operations. Prior to Council’s unanimous resolution at its Sept. 20 meeting, the facility was the Main Street Municipal Building.

Roebuck has the distinction of being one of only four women to serve as band director at an Histor ically Black College and University (HBCU).

In November 2019, Roebuck and Simon made SWAC history as two female-led HBCU bands performed for the first time. Juliet Boykins of Elizabeth City State and Fayesha Cousins of Virginia Union round out the elite club.

Roebuck chairs the University’s

Tomisha Brock of Clark Atlan ta University and Dr. Kerry Anne Simon of Mississippi Valley State University who were appointed in 2017 and in early 2019 welcomed Roebuck later in 2019.

A graduate of GSU, Roebuck still remembers her days in the band and participating in band camps. There were long nights and intense sessions that helped with develop ing work ethic and building char acter; while also gaining friend ships that last a lifetime.

Roebuck also says she realizes

Black Women Speak

The title of this letter is in spired by a poem, “A Black Woman Speaks,” written by the late poet, activist, and actress, Beah Richards.

We are the descendants of women who breastfed the slave master’s babies, then the babies they nursed be came their abusive masters.

We are the descendants of women who kept their families together, even when our men were systematically taken away. This country was built on our

backs. As the mother of moth ers that have endured violence, sexism, racism and still, we have always been in the strug gle for equality.

We must recognize White Supremacy is real. We must fight for the rights of our children and generations com ing after us.

Our vote is our weapon. We can’t legislate anti-hate, but we can regulate it so that it won’t limit our rights to equality and

Jones told the Council that the tribute cut through his trademark ability to be steadfast and hold things together.

“I began to get the inner nervousness that I’m not known for,” he said. “Garland has a good name, well-respected across the nation. The City Council is thought of highly. And for you to make a decision to place my name on one of the facili ties that you govern and manage gives me great honor.”

Jones joined City staff in April 1977. He led 14 departments and rose to the ranks of Assistant City Manager, a post he held during his final five years as a Garland employee. He then retired to run for Mayor, winning three-way races in 2007 and 2009, taking more than 83% of the vote in his re-election bid. He was unopposed in 2011.

The Council proclamation reads “Garland has been enriched by Mayor Jones’ presence, contribu tions, leadership, and the immense body of work he has performed on the City’s behalf over the course of his career,” then lists the many civic and governmental organizations to which Jones has and continues to contribute.

Mayor Scott LeMay said a dedication ceremony will be held at a yet undetermined time. “We will probably have to close Main and Glenbrook down for the ceremony, for everyone that will want to come and share that with you,” he told Jones.

Nine Scholars with Pres. Ricky C. McNeal, John Washington and Weldon Bradley

David Gibbons, Mayor Pro Tem Deborah Morris, Mayor Scott LeMay

Mayor Ron Jones

Dr. Nikole Roebuck Credit: Cheryl Smith

Debra Peek Haynes

Nikole marched in the World Famed Tiger Marching Band in the 1990s.

A Call for New Leadership - Introducing Faith Johnson

I’m so excited to introduce my self to those of you I haven’t had the privilege to meet yet.

I’m Faith Johnson and I’m run ning for Dallas County District Attorney.

It is my great honor to be fea tured in the Texas Metro News, I Messenger and Garland Journal because these publications are a testament to the longstanding and deeply-rooted talent and thriving nature of the Black com munity.

But there have been great injus tices in our land and it is time for new leadership. This is not about politics, this is about our way of life.

The Black community has so much to offer our society and we cannot thrive and prosper if we are constantly buried under fear, oppression, and crime.

Our county and our nation needs us like never before to rise up and step out to sow our many gifts and abilities into our county.

That’s why I’ve decided to run for Dallas County District Attor ney.

Please see my website at https://faithjohnsonforda.com/

faith-johnson for my extensive qualifications for the position.

But today, I want to speak to you from my heart.

My love for this county and her people runs deep. I long to see justice truly served in this county because when justice, enforce ment, and the rule of law reign, all our people have the opportunity to thrive.

Now, I’m talking about true justice and enforcement of the laws already codified and on the books. Our laws are solid.

There may be a few that need adjusting and I’m committed to that process where it makes sense,

but we need enforcement and to de-incentivize criminal activity.

The current DA has activated and instituted policies that actu ally incentivize criminal activity and we are all feeling the conse quences of that type of leadership.

Our jails are overrun, under staffed, and falling apart. Our streets are plagued with violence and thievery because they know they can get away with it.

Cowardice, corruption, or in competence all yield the same result: more crime, more insecu rity, more fear, which in turn drive higher stress in all of us until we snap or move somewhere else.

Enough is enough. It’s time for bold, strong leadership for all of Dallas County, but especially for our Black communities.

We have too much talent and too many wonderful things to of fer this county to be buried under lawlessness.

None of us want that.

Please take the time to get to know me between now and No vember 8th.

I will absolutely be asking for your vote and asking you to share my message with your friends and family.

But more than that, I’m asking for your help. This county can

be greater than ever—a shining place on a hill—but it will take ev ery one of us.

We must come together around the values we hold dear of safe, prosperous communities, and work together or we’ll never get to where we all long to be.

Don’t take my word for it—talk to your neighbors, the shop own ers, the small business owners— ask them if they feel safer.

Ask your grandparents or your aunts and uncles about how they’ve seen the county change.

Ask them if they feel safe to leave the house once the sun goes down. The policies and lack of enforcement by my opponent are not serving us and our great county -- they’re killing it.

Lawlessness does not bring freedom and it certainly doesn’t bring justice. It brings fear and death to us all.

Join me as we get to work and make this county a safe place for you and your family to truly thrive!

Have a blessed week!

Most sincerely, Faith Johnson, your next Dallas County District Attorney.

Surviving and Thriving cont. from page 1

According to a recent study by Science Direct, the family, not just the patient, experiences the crisis and impact of cancer. This includes emotional strain, uncer tainty, fear of the patient dying, and concern about finances due to medical costs.

“I think the initial surprise was because nobody in our family had breast cancer or any kind of can cer, period,” said Smith. “Then it was a big concern knowing how serious that cancer really is for a lot of people and that cancer has taken out so many people.”

According to breastcancer.org, about 85% of breast cancers oc cur in women who have no fam ily history of breast cancer. These diagnoses occur due to genetic mutations that happen as a re sult of the aging process and life in general, rather than inherited mutations.

“My mind was overwhelmed with questions. Where are we in this process? What stage was she in? What does she have to deal with? Then there was a major concern regarding how we are going to get through this. What is it that I need to do to help and

assist her? What is it that we all can do to help and assist? Who is the best doctor? Can we get her to someone that I may know or peo ple that she knows? These were all things that were going through my mind as I contemplated the next steps that our family needed to take regarding my sister’s care,” recalled Smith.

Marsha Smith Hill had a rou tine that she deviated from.

“Normally my routine is to do my yearly examination with my OB/GYN. The year prior to go ing to her in 2010, I missed my appointment. I was dealing with a hyperactive thyroid issue,” she said. “The following year, I went to her for my annual check-up. She gave me my pink slip to go and get my annual mammogram. I went and got my mammogram, and they noticed that something was there.”

Several tests and follow-up doc tor visits later revealed the one thing that Hill was not prepared to hear – she had breast cancer. Once Hill received the news, she admits the first person she tried to reach was her younger brother.

“When I initially found out what

was going on, Emmitt was the first person that I called,” said Hill. “In the process of trying to hear what the doctor was saying, even though I was listening, I wasn’t

Hill relied on her inner spiritu al strength. With prayer, faith, and the help of her family and co-workers, she successfully came through her surgery and fol low-up treatments. She has now been cancer free for over 10 years.

“I have learned so many valu

example of that fact,” said Hill.

According to recent statistics from the American Cancer So ciety, African American women are 41% more likely to die from breast cancer even though their incidence rates are similar or low er than those of White women. Black women also have a lower five-year survival rate.

Smith, who had been a large fo cus of his family’s attention during his football career, was suddenly forced to be on the sidelines as his family supported his sister during her journey with breast cancer.

hearing what he was saying. I called Emmitt, but I wasn’t able to reach him. Then I called my sis ter-in-law Pat. But I wasn’t able to reach her either. It was then that I heard the voice of the Lord speak to me in a soft voice and say `put up your phone, I am here.’”

Although the next few months would prove to be challenging,

able lessons through this process.

My main word of encouragement to women going through breast cancer is that cancer is not a death sentence – it is a life-calling.

Over the last few decades, there have been a lot of breakthroughs in technology and medicine. Per sonally, I know that breast cancer can be beaten, and I am a prime

“You are watching someone ad dress a major health issue. I have had to address issues in sports, but nothing of this magnitude that could mean life or death,” said Smith. “Life and death sit uations are completely different from a win or lose situation in a ball game. Seeing her not only take courage but walk in that power was encouraging to me.”

Hill will be the Kickoff Coach for the 21st Sister to Sister Fitness Festival on October 1st at the Alan E. Sims Cedar Hill Recreation Center, 310 E. Parkerville Road, Cedar Hill, Texas 75104. Further information regarding this event is available at www.celebratingli fe.org.

Faith Johnson

NFL Hall of Famer, Emmitt Smith did not have a family history of cancer until his sister, Marsha Smith Hill was diagnosed 10 years ago.

McLeod Prepares to Join Eagle Scouts

Helping Homeless is Focus of Service Project

By Sylvia Dunnavant Hines

Preparation, persistence, and perseverance are all attributes that are leading African Ameri can boys to join the elite group of Eagle Scouts.

“Only about two percent of the boys who become Boy Scouts reach the level of be ing an Eagle Scout. For African American boys that number is much lower,” said Dr. Tor rance Earle, former Scoutmas ter for Wheeler Ave Troop 242 in Houston, which historically holds the record of having the most African Americans to reach Eagle Scout in the coun try.

“I think reaching the lev el of being an Eagle Scout is awesome. I am an Eagle Scout myself,” said Samuel Sarpong, who now serves as a Scoutmas ter, and was mentored in the Wheeler Ave. Troop 242. “I be lieve that scouting teaches you a lot about being a young man and being a good citizen of so ciety. It teaches you to be able to survive different things that come up in life. To reach the

shoes. He also set up an Am azon donation page and ar ranged for a local drop-off at his school to collect his donations.

“I came up with the idea for my final project after watching a documentary on the rising rate of homeless in America. I realized that most homeless people keep the same shoes for years. I wanted to help them out by providing them with new or gently used shoes. It has been my desire to help make their lives a little easier,” said McLeod.

Active in basketball, tennis, golf and soccer; the scholar athlete plans to either attend West Point or enter an HBCU ROTC program and he has the full support of his parents, Dr. Lisa K. Thompson McLeod and Rev. Aaron J. McLeod, Esq.

RICH TRADITION

level of an Eagle Scout a ser vice project is required,” he ex plained. “I am currently work ing with Boy Scout Thompson B. McLeod to reach that level. He did a good job researching what he wanted to do for his fi nal project.”

An 11th grader at The Win ston School, a private coedu cational day school in Dallas, McLeod selected a communi ty service project to help the homeless where he is collect ing new socks and gently-used men, women and children’s

The history of African American boys participating in the Boy Scouts extends back to the first “Negro Boy Scout Troop” in 1911, which was in Elizabeth City, NC.

According to recent sta tistics from Zippa, the most common ethnicity of Eagle Scouts is White (67.4%), fol lowed by Hispanic or Latino (13.8%) and Black or African American (9.4%).

In 1919, Hamilton Bradley of New York became the first Black youth to become an Ea gle Scout in the history of Boy Scouts of America (BOA).

“The scouting program is the only program in the coun try that touches on everything

sional basketball Hall of Fam er, Michael Jordan.

Emery Moorehead and Er nest Green also reached the status of Eagle Scouts. Moore head was a wide receiver in the NFL for the New York Gi ants, Denver Broncos, and the Chicago Bears. In 1985 he played as a starting tight end for the Super Bowl for the Chicago Bears, who won the championship that year.

Green also made history as a member of the Little Rock Nine, a name given to the first Black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas.

The scouting experience is open to both boys and girls starting at the age of 11 and continuing until 18. Young people can participate in the Cub Scout program from the age of six. There are also men toring opportunities available for adults as scoutmasters and scout leaders.

A tear for lost history and fading memories

I Was Just Thinking...

By Norma Adams-Wade

“Memories light the corners of my mind.”

From the song “The Way We Were.”

Written by Marvin Hamlisch and Alan and Marilyn Bergman.

Can you recall your earliest memory? How soon we forget.

At some point in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, a number of people must have known that 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat so a White woman could sit down. But instead of Colvin being remembered, the world forgot her, and Rosa Parks earned a place in history for that feat.

Eventually, decades later, Claudette Colvin’s name resurfaced. The world learned that she kept her seat before Mrs. Parks but did not gain notoriety for her boldness.

The point is that we forget. We move on. We do not carry history in our back pockets.

I was just thinking…I know of other situations where we have forgotten too soon.

I forgot that the Rev. Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. was a member of the board of Regents at the University of Texas at Austin, my alma mater back in the day. He was the first African-Ameri can board member and has so many accolades that I forgot that one.

that any program is trying to accomplish. It covers lead ership, it focuses on skills in various areas and expertise, and it focuses on life survivor ship skills as well. Throughout the program boys are looking at over 100 plus merit badges that pertain to every facet of life,” said Dr. Earle.

Many prominent African American athletes and lead ers have come through Scout programming, including Civil Rights leader – Martin Luther King, Jr., and former profes

For more information about becoming a scout or to find a local troop please go to the BOA website www.scout ing.org.

“My goal has always been about the scouting journey; it has never been about the destination. I have made so many lifelong friends over the years,” said McLeod.

As an Eagle Scout, Mc Leod will join over 2.5 mil lion young people that have achieved this status in the his tory of the organization.

Autumn at the Arboretum: A Fall Fairy Tale By the Numbers

I had forgotten stories I grew up hearing about Black Dallas night life in the histor ic Freedmen’s Town of Deep Ellum and the State-Thomas area. Then, I read something about the popular Gypsy Tea Room and Harlem Theatre that jogged my memory. Those sites were staples in the early Black Dallas commu nity and worth remembering.

The world lost the history of so many Afri can-Americans who invented things that be came permanent in our lives – the ironing board (Sarah Boone), automatic elevator doors (Alex ander Miles), the potato chip (George Crum).

And here is one that hits close to home, es pecially in Black Dallas. Spending four years at Lincoln High School in South Dallas, I thought I knew all the stories of the community and high school. But you never get too old to learn more.

When I returned home from college, I later began writing for the local daily newspaper. One column was about my high school choir director, Maurine F. Bailey, who became a leg end at the school and in the community. Some time before she retired, the choir was renamed in her honor. When she finally retired, a street in the community and near the school was named Maurine F. Bailey Way. Further, the Maurine F. Bailey Cultural Foundation that provides stu dent scholarships also bears her name.

DALLAS, Texas – Autumn

2022 – For the 17th year, Autumn at the Arboretum: A Fall Fairy Tale, presented by Reliant, highlights the nationally acclaimed Pumpkin Village featuring pumpkin houses and creative displays utilizing more than 100,000 pumpkins, gourds and squash. This year’s fall festival opens September 17 and runs through October 31, 2022, in Dallas, Texas.

Years and Acres:

1984: year Dallas Arboretum opened as a public botanical garden

66: number of acres at the Dallas Arboretum

17: number of years the Dallas Arboretum has had the Pumpkin Village

Pumpkin Village

100,000: total number of pumpkins, gourds, and

at

80,000: number of pumpkins, gourds and squash used to create Pumpkin Village 1,500: Bales of hay

Types of pumpkins,

and squash

number of pumpkin houses

Garden: 150,000: Fall blooming

flowers and plants* 25,000: number of marigolds planted for the festival  4,000: Chrysanthemums

*Flowers and plants: Marigolds, Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, Pentas, Salvia, Sweet Potato Vine, Sweet Alyssum, Ornamental Peppers, Lantana, Globe Amaranth, Zinnia, Kale, Crotons and more!

Workers and Volunteers: 12: Semi-trucks it took to deliver the pumpkins, squash and gourds over 4 days, and 5 days to get all of them out 28: the number of days it takes to build the Pumpkin Village 40: number of workers and volunteers it takes to build Pumpkin Village 6,000: number of hours it took workers and volunteers to build Pumpkin Village

In the column, I quoted Muriel Reed Bow man, a former Lincoln valedictorian during the 1940s. Bowman cleared up some longstanding misinformation. She said she wanted to clarify in order to honor another individual while not taking away any well-deserved esteem from Mrs. Bailey.

Students and the public long had stated that Mrs. Bailey created and named the choir after noted Black composer Harry T. Burleigh when she became choir director in the mid-1940s. In fact, said Ms. Bowman, Mrs. Bailey’s predeces sor – Alexander Stevens Jackson II – organized and named the choir when the school opened in 1939. Jackson was named after his father who was pastor of the prominent New Hope Baptist church in Dallas. His brother, Maynard Jackson Sr., succeeded his father as New Hope pastor. Maynard Sr.’s son, Maynard Jackson Jr., became mayor of Atlanta, GA.

So many things happened in history that we will never know about and sometimes get wrong. Someone should shed a tear for the his tory we never learned. It happened. It was phe nomenal. No one recorded it. Everyone forgot it. I mourn.

norma_adams_wade@yahoo.com

Norma Adams-Wade, is a proud Dallas native, University of Texas at Austin journalism graduate and retired Dallas Morning News senior staff writer. She is a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists and was its first southwest regional director. She became The News’ first Black full-time reporter in 1974.

The late Lincoln H. S. choir director Maurine F. Bailey.

Photo: the African American Museum in Dallas

Thompson Mcleod was mentored by Scoutmaster, Dr. Torrance Earle, a former Scoutmaster of Wheeler Ave Troop 242 in Houston. This troop historically holds the record of having the most African American boys to reach the high ranking of Eagle Scouts in the country. Photos: Sylvia Dunnavant Hines

Thompson Mcleod started out with Wheeler Ave Troop 242. This troop holds the distinction of producing more Eagle Scouts than any other troop in the United States.

As an Eagle Scout, Thompson Mcleod will join the 2% of African American males in the scouting program to achieve this distinguished honor.

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Seen this Movie Before!

By Vincent L. Hall

As cruel and unusual as it may seem, the dumping of migrants looking to flee oppression is not new. unfortunately, the dingbats

“gubernatorial twins” John Abbott and Ron DeSantis don’t read his tory. Or maybe they do.

You may not know it, but this “forced bussing” is not new in Maya Angelou’s “Yet to be United States.” There was a moment of déjà vu as I read an article recent ly in the Dallas Morning News. We’ve seen this movie before.

“The Bexar County sheriff launched a criminal investigation Monday into the transfer of mi grants by plane from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida’s governor amid rising migration.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Sala zar said he has opened up a crim inal investigation against the indi vidual or individuals who “lured under false pretenses” 48 newly arrived migrants in San Antonio to fly to Martha’s Vineyard last week.

“Here we have 48 people who were already on hard times, and they were here legally in our coun try at that point ... and I believe

To

By Marc Morial

“The qualities that made him our anchor — our rock: a manner and a voice that makes every word believable; the coolest demeanor in the hottest situations; the cut-tothe-quick interviewing style; and, at his core, a powerful combination of journalistic integrity and pure in stinct.” — Judy Woodruff

Representation in media matters. It can shape not only how people perceive one another, but how peo ple perceive themselves.

That’s why the remarkable ca reer of television journalist Bernard Shaw, who passed away this week at the age of 82, was so significant.

When the brand-new 24-hour ca ble news network CNN launched in June 1980, America saw a Black man in the prime-time anchor chair.

He was only the second Black anchor of a network evening news program; Max Robinson had been named co-anchor of ABC News’s “World News Tonight” in 1978 just two years earlier.

While Shaw’s award-winning ca reer may have inspired an entire

they were preyed upon,” said Sala zar in a news conference. “They were just made fools of and were subjected to a video op, a photo op.”

Flashback 60 years to the date, and you will find a sim ilar act of deceit and discrimination in the South. The Reverse Freedom Rides featured Southern segregation ists arranging for free bus rides to the North. See the resemblance?

African Americans were given free oneway bus tickets to “lib eral-leaning” cities like New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia in the North and Los Angeles in the West. These were places known to give opportunities to Blacks at every skill level.

Ask your grandmother from East Texas why y’all have so many people in Michigan and L.A. Not only did leaving the South mean a chance at earning a living, but you would probably enjoy more of the guaranteed civil liberties. You know, the civil liberties they brag

about when they flaunt that Con stitution they love so dearly.

They sold and funded this pro gram through the White Citizens Council to make the plot even more sinister. White Citizen Coun

business leaders” don’t meet un der that name, but they still run Dallas. Have you ever wondered why a majority-minority city has less than 10% minority participa tion in public sector contracts? We pay the taxes; they get the wealth. More about that later.

Wikipedia draws a pretty good picture in its historical synopsis of the Reverse Freedom Rides.

Singelmann stated, “They have been crying the sing-song on be half of the Negroes throughout the nation. And of course, when it comes time for them to put up or shut up, they have shut up.”

cils were functional and successful throughout the South. Read the Accommodation by Jim Schultze. He explains that the Dallas Citi zens Council was among the best. They even employ Negroes to help them oppress y’all!

I would tell you that “Dallas’

“The reverse freedom rides were a parody of the Freedom Rides, which were organized by the Congress of Ra cial Equality(CORE) and the Student Non violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) beginning in 1960. The reverse rides were orga nized by George Singel mann, a New Orleans Greater Citizens’ Council member, in re taliation against Northern liberals.

Singelmann viewed the reverse rides as a way of testing the North and proving white northerners weren’t sincere in their desire for racial equality. In a T.V. interview,

Singelmann also viewed the Rides as an opportunity to steal some of the press coverage which was continuing to be devoted to the Freedom Rides and as a means to remove some African Americans from the state’s wel fare roll as he believed they were draining state resources.”

Singelmann and Citizens Council aimed to send thousands of Black folks away. They tried un successfully to secure $100,000 from the Louisiana legislature. They tricked 200-300 “riders un der the pretense that they would secure good jobs and free hous ing. I’m certain that the prospect of being called “boy, gal or Nig ger” less often was also a drawing card.

None of us should stand idly by and watch blatant discrimination and oppression, especially black folks. Unfortunately, we have seen this movie before.

Trailblazing News Anchor Bernard Shaw Inspired a Generation of Black Journalists

generation of young Black journal ists, Shaw himself had no role mod els of color.

But he knew what he wanted to be from the time he was a teenager growing up in Chicago. CBS News correspondent Edward R. Murrow “was my idol,” Shaw said. “He was the kind of journalist, the kind of in terviewer, the kind of anchorman I wanted to be.”

In 1961, when Walter Cronkite, also of CBS, arrived to report a sto ry on Oahu where Shaw was sta tioned as a Marine, Shaw seized his chance.

“I called the hotel 34 times and left 34 messages,” Shaw said. He waited two hours for Cronkite in the hotel’s lobby.

“He was the most persistent guy I’ve ever met in my life,” Cronkite said. “I was going to give him five begrudging minutes and ended up talking to him for a half-hour. He was just determined to be a jour nalist.”

Shaw downplayed the role of race in his career but said, “There were times when my color did play a role in perceptions, or people’s reac

tions to me.” He recalled a moment as a pool reporter covering a recep tion for President Lyndon Johnson “sumptuous ballroom” at the Plaza Hotel in New York.

Among the guests was National Urban League President Whitney M. Young. “It was clear that this

His status as the only Black re porter in the room took a colder turn when President Richard Nixon unexpectedly announced his nom ination of Clement Haynsworth, who had previously ruled to up hold racial segregation, to the Su preme Court.

“As the president was praising his nominee, professionally, my right hand was copying down every word. But my mind was thinking, ‘Clement Haynsworth? Supreme Court justice?’”

And though Shaw was standing just a few feet away, ” The president never once looked at me. I know what was in the president’s mind — I could not prove it — but I knew it, instinctively.”

as a journalist. It was Shaw who alerted CNN’s headquarters when the first bombs fell on Baghdad.

“He had the microphone first, the instinct to broadcast, to be there,” fellow CNN correspondent Peter Arnett said. “He didn’t hesi tate. He scooped the world.”

Like his idols Murrow and Cronkite, Shaw brought some of the most consequential moments in history into America’s living rooms — the attempted assassina tion of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, the 1989 demonstrations in China’s Tiananmen Square, the 1995 terrorist bombing in Okla homa City. But when he retired in 2001, he expressed regret.

night had a very strong civil rights theme.”

Just before making his entrance, President Johnson reached out to Shaw and touched him on the head and said, “It’s good to see you.”

“I know, as a human being, that he did that — one, because I was Black, and because of the emphasis that night,” Shaw said. “Just a small thing.”

In addition to breaking racial barriers, Shaw played a key role in the transformation of CNN into a media powerhouse during the 1991 Gulf War.

His riveting reporting from un der a desk at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad, as cruise missiles flew past his window, defined both the coverage of the war, and Shaw’s personal courage and skill

“Looking back over my career when I think about all the things that I did, but all the things that I missed within my family because I was out doing — I don’t think it was worth it,” he said. His advice to the next generation was, “Pursue your dreams, but know that it will cost you.”

The Blind Spots

By Dr. Froswa Booker-Drew

I was driving back from Austin after speaking at a conference. As I got in the DFW area, I was about to change lanes and I noticed a lady riding in my blind spot. She moved around me to the left lane and pro ceeded to move into the other blind spot. In frustration, I sped up just to get away. In that moment, I learned a valuable lesson. We all have blind spots not just on the roads but even in our life journey. We need help to see what we can’t.

Objects are a lot closer than you think. Just as much as she was preventing me from seeing to the right, she was also in a position to block me from moving to the next lane. Barriers are inevitable but it’s making the choice to evaluate first before enacting a decision. I could

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have easily just moved over without pausing to see if she was there.

In life, we have to make sure that we examine, evaluate, and if neces sary, wait. So often, our barriers are things that are really close—friends, family, co-workers. At one time, the side mirrors of a car would say, “ob jects in (the) mirror are closer than they appear”. Could some of those things that are blocking your prog ress closer than you want to admit?

The mirrors are a tool. So often, we depend on ourselves and not enact the tools we’ve been given.

God has blessed us with several tools that can be used to help us.

Ephesians 6:10-18 tells us to be strong in God and God’s power. Trusting in our abilities can get us hurt. Had I solely trusted my eye sight, I could have damaged my car and jeopardized our safety. Thank God for the mirrors!!!

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Throughout the Bible, there are examples of God supplying His people tools. Tools can be both physical and spiritual. Moses is an example of God using both spiri tual and physical tools. “Then the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied. The LORD said, “Throw it on the ground.” (Exodus 4:2) You have the tools you need if you would seek God, allow God to show what you have in your possession, make you do something with what’s been giv en, and watch things work out for you!

We have protection even when we don’t see it. God tell us to “Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our strug gle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of

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this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heav enly realms. Therefore, put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”

So much of what we fight against isn’t always seen. We understand systems are at work that create in equity. We see the result of those systems, but we may not neces sarily picture the entire entity that it represents. It is a fact just as we can’t always see evil, but we see its results, we know that it exists. What we fight against is bigger than we are, and we don’t always know what we are up against. Yet, our protection is even GREATER.

Our mirrors reflect back to us. Mirrors work because rays of light bounce back off of the object. If the surface is not smooth, the light

will scatter. What is being reflected in your life? Are people able to see God’s light and love in you? Or is that when God is present, there is so much that is blocking and blinding you from waking up and accepting who God says you are?

Who are the individuals that are around you? Do they show a picture of love, compassion, and generosity? Or do they reflect char acteristics of jealousy, greedy and disdain? Mirrors force us to look at ourselves and our surroundings.

When we don’t check for the blind spots, we can miss a lot when our view is blocked.

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CRISIS IN EDUCATION – THE TEACHER SHORTAGE IS A SYMPTOM OF A GREATER CHALLENGE

The Last Word

This August, you can’t turn on a television or open a newspa per without reading or hearing about the teacher shortage. And it is clear that current shortag es are being highly publicized and politicized, with reasons for shortages ranging from low pay to teacher burnout, to teacher dissatisfaction, to COVID, and the aging of the teacher work force. Some teachers talk about classroom conditions, a decline in respect for teachers, or the challenges of dealing with unruly students with little administrative support. Others are frustrated by the presence of so-called “law enforcement” officers in schools and the ways these officers treat Black and Brown students differ ently than others. A highly pub licized incident in Montgomery County, Maryland, involved po lice officers verbally berating and handcuffing a 5-year-old://www. youtube.com/watch?v=C4Sb

9dzro7U), This incident is just one of the hundreds where outof-control and egomaniacal police officers treat children as adults and administer punish ment, not understanding. Teach ers often feel helpless in these situations. Some use them as a catalyst to leave the classroom.

The classroom has become in creasingly tense when legislators attempt to influence the curric ulum. Some have banned the teaching of “critical race theory,”

a legal concept rarely injected into k-12 education but feared by those who also fear the truth about the flawed foundations of our nation. Other states have forbidden teaching about race or concepts that make students “un comfortable.” In Colleyville, Tex as, a Black principal of a majority white high school was forced to resign because of disputes about critical race theory. The school

Who wants to teach in an en vironment taken over by conser vative truth-deniers who don’t want to have students learn about enslavement, the unequal treat ment of women, or the invisibility of LGBTQ folks? Addressing these issues is not political; it’s factual., but the conservative presence on school boards has made the classroom increasingly uncom fortable for many teachers.

er shortage, including innova tive ways to recruit and support teachers.

Absent from much of this dis cussion is the attack on Black teachers and the extreme short age of Black teachers in many inner city school districts where most students are African Amer ican. Data on the differential dis cipline for Black students, which includes disproportionate sus pensions and expulsions, reflect the cultural biases that too many white teachers bring to the class room. The educational achieve ment gap is partly a function of how academic hierarchies dis criminate against Black students and teachers.

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that the students today are some what “different” with “different” ways of processing information and taking instruction.

Her focus, she said during a re cent interview with Texas Metro News, has been on adapting and pivoting to ensure that the band experience is just as rewarding for students today as it was for her when she stepped into formation with the Marching Tigers.

Coming from the small Louisi ana town, Minden, which is locat ed 28 miles east of Shreveport and about 37 miles west of Grambling, Roebuck has traveled extensively and welcomed the opportunity to represent her alma mater and as sume the director position.

district preferred putting him on paid leave rather than dealing with the truth. If a principal can be forced to resign, what about a teacher? Many teachers feel they are walking on eggshells when teaching our nation’s true history.

Education has become so po liticized that some school boards ban books because the content is considered “objectionable” by some. According to PEN Amer ica, there were at least1560 book bans in 2021-2022.

Many of these books featured characters who were people of color. The Washington Post re ports that books were also re moved from libraries because they had LGBTQ themes or di rectly addressed race and racism.

This contributes to the teacher shortage, which The Economist magazine describes as “neither new nor national.” Indeed, for the past several years, each fall has seen widely publicized scarcity in some areas. There has always been a shortage of teachers in inner-city schools, many forced to use substitute teachers when they can’t find permanent staff.

This year, Texas has about a thousand vacancies. In Mary land, 5500 teachers left the pro fession. Nevada schools opened on August 8 short 1400 teachers. The federal Department of Ed ucation has issued a fact sheet (https://www.ed.gov/coronavi rus/factsheets/teacher-shortage) detailing responses to the teach

In addressing the so-called teacher shortage, it is essential to consider the purpose of edu cation and the fact that too of ten, students are being taught to go along with a structure that oppresses them. Education is often a political tool to force as similation. Consider how Indian boarding schools were often vio lently forced to abandon their In dian and Indigenous identities to access education.

There is a crisis in education, and the teacher shortage is one manifestation of the many ways that teachers and students are devalued as “educators” pursue a false and degrading narrative.

If education were more reflec tive of reality, people would flock to classrooms instead of flee ing from the frustration of being forced to embrace a curriculum that distorts the truth.

Enlightening discussion!

By Cheryl Smith

Arlington — Comerica Bank exec Irv Ashford and Arlington Police Chief Al Jones had a candid discussion about leadership, led by moderator, Booker T. Spencer, of Bootstrap Entrepreneurs, Inc., Monday at Choctaw Stadium.

The men talked about leading during COVID and serving the community during a time like none other for most during their lifetime, since the last pandemic was in

For Chief Jones, the experi ence was more challenging as he moved to Texas during the pandemic and took on Top Chief duties where he was in charge of people he didn’t know and had to work with and lead via ZOOM and other virtual platforms.

Hired in November 2020, he previously served as second highest ranking officer for the Baltimore (MD) County police department.

Truth

So the truth is I have been what I am asking others to be and do.

Support our HBCUs.

Be to others what you’d like them to be to you.

Pull out the calendar, plan early and show some love for these schools. These teams and bands are traveling, some great distances, to put on a show, to entertain, and yes, to recruit for some fine institu tions.

And if you can’t come, heck, make it so someone else can enjoy the experience.

Judge Valencia Nash went to law school at TSU’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law. She attended the game along with her twin daughters (who want to go to FAMU), and her sister. She also purchased tickets and donated them to some folks who were more than grateful.

Then there was TX State Sen. Royce West and his wife, Car ol (a Dillard University alum) who are always supporting HBCU games and encourag

When he came to Arlington, the morale was low, he said.

“I brought new ideas, allowed officer to make decisions and listened to the officers,” he said.

“Officers wanted to be heard.

ing,” he explained. “Transpar ency, respect, engagement, ac countability and training. That spells “TREAT” and we focus on how we treat our community.”

As Chief Community Officer,

However the restrictions of COVID called for increased ef forts in many areas and includ ed helping businesses stay open, volunteering and partnering with organizations to serve commu nities, providing PPE loans and supporting communities wher ever there was a need,

“Our team did a fantastic job of serving,” he noted.

GSU is a place where not only did she meet her future husband and pledged her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta; but it is also where she marched in the band and then returned to teach and serve as as sistant band director.

A graduate of GSU’s Music Edu cation program, she received her Master of Music from the Univer sity of Louisiana-Monroe in 2005 and her Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education from the Univer sity of Memphis in 2009.

And as someone who has achieved academic excellence, Roebuck shares her journey with students as she encourages them to take advantage of any and all opportunities to better themselves and help others.

GSU is known for pouring as much into those students who are not athletes and those student athletes, because, she said, “Gram bling is a school where everybody is somebody.”

Realizing that the band mem bers must feel that they are valued, she explained that when they step out to perform anywhere it is be cause they are students first and they have to perform in the class room in order to keep their schol arships and play in the band.

The motto for the band is “Al ways on time, in the right frame of mind and ready to go to work,” said Roebuck, adding that being in the band helps separate the “strong from the weak.”

She has also established life long relationships and being in the band taught her time manage ment. “I have friends now, 26 years later, and it’s like we are sisters.

They’ve been hearing ‘defund the police’ every day and then they have to go out and ‘protect and serve.’ They needed to hear that they have support.”

There were changes made that the chief said helped to put smiles on the faces of officers.

“I believe in relational polic

ing others to do so. Actually I don’t know a game that the senator does not attend!

And Dallas County Com missioner John Wiley Price is quick to purchase tickets for others to attend the games.

When you think about it, all elected officials, on the bal lot or not, should have been out at the game or had some type of presence especially as we move closer to that oh so important midterm election.

There should have been Get Out the Vote messages played constantly on the Jumbotron and folks should have been out there in potential voters’ faces.

True everyone was not from this area but the message of how important voting is need ed to be spread to everyone because wherever they came from, it’s a battle ground for what is right and best for this country; thus the world.

Now we’re on to the next contest but the battle is never ending.

Don’t be one of those peo ple who never helps others but screams bloody murder when they need help.

Ashford, who moved to Texas af ter Comerica announced it was relocating its headquarters in 2007, it was business as usual as he immediately made his pres ence felt spreading a message of community, financial literacy and helping small businesses de velop and grow.

And just as Ashford was pre pared by his education, experi ence and commitment; and has continued to climb the corporate ladder, so was his team and the thousands of employees who he said transitioned quickly and effi ciently into doing what needed to be done to serve customers and their communities.

There’s so much more to what was shared, including some good books to read, according to Ash ford and Jones, like “The Arsonist in the Organization” by Pete Havel and “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu or the “Autobiography of Malcolm X.”

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Currently they own a private practice (The Blueprint) in chiro practic medicine. It services DFW families and local athletes.

LaKisha Culpepper, Garland ISD’s Community Liaison to the Af rican American community, served as Mistress of Ceremony and mem bers of the Austin Academy A Cap pella Choir led by Director Jona than Coffield presented “Lift Every Voice and Sing” while the Garland NAACP’S 2022 ACT-SO winner, Christina Reid, presented two clas sical piano selections.

Dr. Adrian Leday, GISD principal at Watson Technology Center for Math and Science received the Edu cation Award, Constable Bill Gipson received the Community Service Award, Linda Johnson received the Entrepreneur Award, former Po liceman David Swavey received the Bridge Builder Award; and Harry Hoskins received the 2022 Presi dent’s Award; all presented by Gar land’s NAACP Unit president, Mr. Ricky C. McNeal.

The premier presentations of the morning came when the Garland NAACP announced winners of nine scholarships to deserving seniors

in the Garland ISD. They included Mya Dean, member of the Garland NAACP Youth Council, recipient of the Elaine Bradley Scholarship, the highest awarded for $1,250; Der ek Onyia, recipient of the Goldie Locke Scholarship for $1,000 (Af rican American senior with a 5.13 GPA, the highest in the Garland ISD); and Camray’on Sanders win ner of the John Washington Legacy Scholarship awarded for $500.

Six students received $800 schol arships for being the African Ameri can seniors with the highest GPA on their high school campus: A’Leena Bradley, 4.32 (South Garland High); Prescilla Aniede, 4.47 (Lakeview Centennial High); Yovia Mehretab, 4.70 (Sachse High); Soliyana Ale

According to Roebuck, in addi tion to each band member being assigned a tutor, other measures are taken to ensure student suc cess.

When they are traveling, there’s also a nurse practitioner, a trainer and a sports psychologist part of the group.

“I want to have a positive impact on every student,” she explained, noting that as she instills those traits into students that were in stilled into her, she does have to realize there are clear distinctions.

“I think the teaching methods our band directors had will not work for this new generation,” she said.

But as a parent of a teenager, she uses some of the same princi ples and techniques that she uses at home. “My ultimate goal is for them to come to school and grad uate. Whatever they need, if I don’t have what they need, we get it. That’s my job!”

And as the “World Famed” pre pare for this battle of the Bands, that balance of “fluffy love and tough love” will have them march ing on the field full of confidence and pride.

Proud of their school, proud of their band members and proud of their band director!

mu, 4.31 (Naaman Forest High); Gloria Ukattah, 4.32 (Rowlett High); and Tigest Demelash, 4.58 (North Garland High).

Ruby Adams served as Freedom Fund chair; Carol Blakes, co-chair; Robert Ben, served as silent auc tion chair; Honorable Annie Dick son, co-chair; and Ricky C. McNeal serves as president of the national award-winning NAACP Garland unit.

For more information on the NAACP Garland Unit, visit their website at: www.garlandtx.org.

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author and Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at Cal State LA. Juliannemalveaux.com

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Comerica’s Irv Ashford, moderator Booker T. Spencer and Arlington Chief Al Jones

Drs. Latoya and Latonya HarrisKeynote Speakers

Dallas Wings Fire Head Coach Vickie Johnson

By Dorothy J. Gentry Sports Editor Photo: WNBA

Vickie Johnson has been fired as head coach of the WNBA Dallas Wings, the team an nounced Monday.

A search for the organization’s new head coach will begin immediately.

Johnson just completed her second year as head coach of the Wings. She was one of 4 Black full-time head coaches this past season joining Chicago Sky’s James Wade, Seattle Storm’s Noelle Quinn and Atlanta Dream’s

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equity. We must educate our high school seniors and college students about what they can do about it.

Overturning Roe vs. Wade, championed by mostly white men, is a smoke screen.

Taking away a women’s right to choose and at the same time upholding the right to car ry concealed weapons, is not about life.

It’s about politicians paid by gun manufacturers, encour aging the birth of white babies and Black and Brown people being killed by police and hop ing Black and Brown people kill each other as our communities suffer from trauma, poverty and lack of opportunity.

Since this country is being populated with more people

of color, some frightened and greedy controlling people are restricting our rights just to re main in control.

Overturning Roe vs. Wade is a signal that other civil rights will be eroded if we don’t wake-up. If Roe is about the right of the unborn, why are Black and Na tive American women two or three times more likely to die in pregnancy than white women, according to the CDC? Isn’t a woman’s life important? If it is about life, why don’t all children have access to quality health care and food?

Civil rights are improved or restricted depending on who is in office. Roe vs. Wade and gun laws are all impacted by voting.

No one agrees with any poli tician all the time. Decide if the

Tanisha Wright.

The Los Angeles Sparks and the Indiana Fever had Black interim coaches to close out the season (Fred Williams and Carlos Knox) but neither of them was retained and both teams are now searching for full-time coaches.

In a statement the team revealed it “has opted to not exercise the team option on Head Coach Vickie Johnson’s contract in accordance with the initial terms of the agreement.”

“While our organization has taken steps for ward this season, at this time I believe a change provides our team with the best opportunity to achieve our long-term goals of advancing in the

overall record and plan of the political candidate reflects jus tice and equity for us.

We must be more intention al in educating our children about their power to change the course of history through their collective vote. We cannot get caught up in hopelessness.

We must galvanize our peo ple in the spirit of activists and educators like Fannie Lou Ham er, Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Congresswoman Shir ley Chisholm and so many more Black women that changed his tory.

I implore Black Women of conscious to:

1. Educate ourselves and our children about local, state and federal elections

2. Support politicians with a track record of supporting justice issues

HEALTH AND WELLNESS TOUR

Strengthening the Black Church for the 21st Century (SBC21) is bringing its’ 4-city Health, Wellness and Educa tion Tour to Dallas Sunday, October 2nd at Hamilton Park UMC, 11881 Schroeder Road in Dallas. The Build a Better You Tour is a free event designed for pastors, leaders and community members to commit to healthier living! The event is from 1pm – 3pm.

Organizers say they will welcome 86-year-old Ernestine

Shepherd, the world’s oldest competitive body builder, Mr. Universe Yohnnie Shambourger, who is an advocate for healthy living and physical fitness and Pastor Telley Lynnette Gadson of Hartsville, South Carolina – each will share their health and wellness journey and testimonies of emotional healing. Gadson has lost nearly 200 pounds and credits the weight of the pandemic to her losing the pounds.

The LUNCH EXPERIENCE and OLD SCHOOL DAY PARTY, is FREE and will offer exciting activities and giveaways all to fulfill its’ mission to equip, educate and encourage African Americans to BUILD A BETTER YOU.

“We are creating an experience for leaders and com munity members to make a commitment to themselves, said Rev. Dr. Michael L. Bowie, Jr. National Executive Di rector of SBC21. “I know personally that healthy leaders are more likely to inspire healthy congregations and I also know that Black people are more likely not to prioritize our own health and wellness and much of that has to do with not being health literate. “I am so grateful that God has aligned this mission with the work being done at Hamilton Park Church to ensure that our community and leaders are equipped with information to live healthier lives,” he said.

The Build a Better You Tour is proud to partner with lo cal United Methodist Pastors in each city who are active in

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playoffs and ultimately competing for a WNBA Championship,” Dallas Wings President & CEO Greg Bibb stated. “I would like to thank Vickie for her work on behalf of the organization and wish her the best in her future endeavors.”

In her two years as head coach, Johnson compiled a regular season record of 32-36 while posting a 1-3 mark in the playoffs. She was the WNBA’s Coach of the Month for August 2022 and led the Wings to the playoffs for the first time since 2018 in her first season. She is a former WNBA player who has been a part of the league either as a player or coach for all 26 years of the WNBA’s existence.

3. Encourage all people we connect with to VOTE

4. Do not succumb to hopeless ness

5. Donate to candidates with a clear interest in equity for our community

6. Understand we cannot be a one issue voter. Look at the totality of the issues each candidate represents and if they reflect justice for us

Lovingly, Debra Peek-Haynes

Debra’s Healing Kitchen

DHK Wellness Strategies, Inc.

Visit these sites for information about issues affecting our com munity: www.ncnw.org. https:// actionnetwork.org/groups/ sisters-lead-sisters-vote, www. ColorofChange.org, https:// www.ncbcp.org, www.naacp. org.

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Friday night at Vinettis 14388 Midway, Addison, TX

5 PM until, hosted by Mr. and Mrs. James Price

The Press Club of Dallas 10th Legends of North Texas Journalism at Texas Theatre. LEGENDS: Ed Bark, Karen Blair (posthu mous), Karen Blumenthal (posthumous), Cheryl Hall, Molly Ivins (posthumous), Verne Lundquist, Murphy Martin (posthumous), Scott McCartney, Laura Miller, Liz Oliphant, Bob Schieffer and Brett Shipp.

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21st Sister to Sister Fitness Festival, 5K Walk and Run at the Alan E. Sims Cedar Hill Recreation Center, 310 E. Parkerville Road, Cedar Hill. Featuring KRNB Radio’s Lynne Haze and WFAA-TV’s Tashara Parker. Register on line at www.celebratinglife. com.

PASTORS LUNCHEON

The Pastors Luncheon will be 11:00 a.m. Typically

hosted during the State Fair of Texas, this event was designed to create an environment to celebrate congregations and invites clergy leaders from the community to fellowship.

Join Councilwoman Shaunte L. Allen from 9:00 am –12:00 pm for the “Parenting

Under High Stress: Re sources for Relief” Summit at 1932 S. Hampton Road, Glenn Heights, TX. The Parenting Under High-Stress Summit offers resources for parents and teens. You will receive advice and encouragement from mental health experts and school counselors. And, you can participate in a meditative writing session or a yoga session. Free of charge. Refreshments provided.

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State Fair Classic Grambling State v. Prairie View A&M Universities at the Cotton Bowl. Game time 4p.m.