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On the Friday before Labor Day, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly report, The Employment Situation.

It reported good news – the unemployment rate dropped to 8.4 percent, higher than in February, before the pandemic hit. We added 1.4 million jobs last month, the highest gain since the corona recession began.

But while this is progress, it is no cause for celebration. The Black unemployment rate remains double-digit and has not dropped as rapidly as either the overall rate or the white rate, 7.3 percent. Eleven million fewer people held jobs in August than in March.

And the “rebound� is not spread evenly across populations. The top 10 percent have already recovered. The bottom 40 or 50 percent are still struggling.

D e m o c r a t i c Vice-Presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris told CNN that, “one in five mothers is describing her children as hungry.� The lines at the food banks have not gone down, and

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in some communities, they are getting longer.

Once thought to be relatively immune to the virus, small-town America is now being hit, and forcefully.

The challenge is that there are fewer hospitals or health care facilities in rural areas. Economic recovery is dependent on the development of a COVID vaccine, which the current President says will be ready in October or November.

More realistic, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, say a vaccine might not be ready until next summer or even later.

The bottom line is that the macro indicators may show some progress, but a deeper dive is far less optimistic.

Hundreds of thousands of small businesses, including 40 percent of Black-owned companies, have closed, resulting in permanent job loss. Some of the hardest-hit industries include the leisure industries -- travel, dining, and more.

Women, especially women of color, heavily populate some of these industries. While COVID hit women of color harder than others, recovery will not make these women whole.

The economy will not

regain its position from early March. Indeed, the slight comeback in leisure industries has been partly a function of people enjoying safer, outdoor dining. The colder it gets, the more likely it is that people will choose to pass up dining out in favor of eating at home. People bought more groceries between March and August, not wanting to risk the possibility of contagion. Many have cautiously begun to eat out again, but restaurants lose money when they reduce seating because of social distancing.

By mid-September, we will know whether the Labor Day weekend will spark another COVID outbreak. And if there is another outbreak, count on the economy to slow again.

Congress could at least prevent some of this if the Senate passed the HEROES (Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions) Act, which would extend unemployment insurance, provide relief for cities and states, and provide money for schools.

The HEROES legislation has been caught in partisan drama, with a see ECONOMY REBOUNDING, page 17

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Quarantining has allowed me to catch up on a lot of shows that I have missed. My mom and I have been watching Iyanla Vanzant’s show, Fix My Life. It is heartbreaking to watch the pain that people go through because of what others have said to them.

Bill Barr, America’s top cop and Donald Trump’s faithful Saint Bernard, is a greater threat to the “American Experiment” as his boss. Everyone knows that Trump is two floors short of being out of his mind, but the more reserved and refined Barr makes Trump appear credible.

Author, filmmaker, poet, rapper, and professor M. K. Asante Jr., had it right when he said “Black students, (should) always take two sets of notes.” I spent some time researching this “woke” young tenured professor the other day.

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MY TRUTH

by Cheryl Smith, Publisher

I know what it’s like to be stubborn. There were times, as a child, that no matter how much I wanted to do something, if you yelled at me or ordered me to do it, I’d probably defy you.

Just the idea of someone bossing me around was enough for me to rebel.

There’s also my rational side. Ask me and I’m easy. No big deal. Explain why, and I’m good.

If I ask questions, answer, and if you make sense, we’re cool.

Prove me wrong. State your case. Provide a historical perspective.

Which brings me to my truth.

Every year of my adult life, someone has asked me a variation of the question, “how can we get more people to vote?”

Now I’ve been known to have a vivid imagination and some of the gimmicks I came up with went from intellectual to illegal. This is after explaining, lecturing, begging, cussing, threatening, bribing and shaming; all to no avail.

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There was no persuading those who had their minds made up that their vote didn’t matter.

Save the many stories of those who died for this precious right, because naysayers didn’t care.

So as we move forward, the billion dollar question still looms, “how?”

I know what it takes to get me to do something.

I know I want a better world, not just for my descendants; but for me too!

There are things that I do today that I will not benefit from and that’s okay. It’s not okay for me to not care about future generations. It’s just not right.

As I shake my head, I just have to keep talking about the value of a vote and provide encouragement.

I can’t help but think about all the negative things we do in life, and without encouragement.

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Breaking Patterns FAITHFUL UTTERANCES

BY DR. FROSWA BOOKER-DREW

Quarantining has allowed me to catch up on a lot of shows that I have missed.

My mom and I have been watching Iyanla Vanzant’s show, Fix My Life. It is heartbreaking to watch the pain that people go through because of what others have said to them. A young man on the show who was not aware he had siblings recanted a story that his father called him a ‘bastard’ when he was a child. Decades later, those words hung over his life and had such an impact on his decisions as an

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adult. The father made multiple excuses and refused to take responsibility for his actions. He said to his sons that “you can’t understand me through words.” I disagree. Our words tell a story about who we are, what we believe, and how we see the world. We see one another through both our words and our actions, and they are both powerful. Our words are the starting place for what we do. The pain we experience if not resolved begins to impact those around us. At some point, we must own what we have done and eliminate excuses for behavior that prevent us from being our best selves.

I will never forget meeting a lady at a training. She was

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late and came in with such a bitter spirit. There was nothing I could do or say to please her. A friend pulled me aside and said that since her divorce, she lashes out at others. In her own pain, she was dedicated to punishing others. Her ex had moved on and yet, she was carrying a weight that would not allow her to be free to truly live.

Life hurts and at some point, we must make decisions that break patterns that ultimately become generational curses. If we do not deal with our past, it has a way of creeping up in our present and possibly destroying our future.

• It starts with what we say: “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” (Proverbs 18:21 NIV) It isn’t that you lie about the reality of a situation but decide what you want your life to look like moving forward and deal with those issues that prevent you from doing so. A lot of our lives and the lives of those around us are crushed because of what we say about ourselves and others. This is a pattern that must be broken.

• Secondly, the Bible encourages us to change our thinking.

Romans 12:2 says, “Don’t become like the people of this world.

Instead, change the way you think. Then you will always be able to determine what God really wants-what is good, pleasing, and perfect.” (GWT).

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We must decide what we will focus on, making the necessary changes we need or choose to remain immobilized, imprisoned by our pain. Renewing our minds is a process. It is not something that happens overnight, but it is a daily commitment to breaking patterns that do not serve us well.

• Lastly, Forgive yourself.

Forgive those who have wounded you “Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” (Colossians 3:13) Forgiveness is for you to reclaim your power so that you can live. Otherwise, the person who has hurt you continues to have control.

Many of us are in spiritual bondage because of these patterns that keep us enslaved to these issues. What is not serving you well?

What are the thoughts, the pain, the problems that keep you from fulfilling God’s purpose for your life? Recognize it, let it go, find the healing you need and become dedicated to seeking God’s plan for your life.

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.

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A Low Barr!

QUIT PLAYIN’ VINCENT L. HALL Bill Barr, America’s top cop and Donald Trump’s faithful Saint Bernard, is a greater threat to the “American Experiment” as his boss. Everyone knows that Trump is two floors short of being out of his mind, but the more reserved and refined Barr makes Trump appear credible.

But rewind the tape and listen to his bullshit comments and innuendo. He’s about as ignorant as Donald Trump. Barr just looks, sounds, and portrays a more intellectually steeped racist and power monger.

This week he inferred that the economic shutdowns meant to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus were the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties” in U.S. history “other than slavery.”

If White folks can’t find any more heinous comparison than slavery, how can they spout “Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny within the same sentence? Slavery was the vilest and most vicious form of humanity known to mankind. In other words, Kim Jung Un ain’t got nothing on America.

An article on the CNN website puts slavery in terms that most Americans have rarely considered. She brought slavery to terms that money-grubbers like Trump should comprehend.

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“Isabel Wilkerson puts it in her new book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” “The institution of slavery was, for a quarter of a millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines which existed solely for the profit of their owners, to be worked as long as the owners desired, who had no

America suffers from spells of amnesia and dementia, but she will never outlive the stain she put on all of humanity.

Barr’s comments on the recent police killings of Black men prove that he suffers from historical Alzheimer’s.

“No, I don’t think there are two justice systems.

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rights over their bodies or loved ones.”

In this system, African captives “could be mortgaged, bred, won in a bet, given as wedding presents, bequeathed to heirs, sold away from spouses or children to cover an owner’s debt or to spite a rival or to settle an estate.”

She didn’t even get to the physical, mental, and spiritual horrors that America slaves endured.

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You know, I think the narrative that the police are on some, you know, epidemic of shooting unarmed Black men is simply a false narrative and also the narrative that’s based on race.”

The false narrative is Barr’s recital of statements that have no basis in fact. If the statistics don’t bear out the epidemic, the camera phone and bodycam video indeed do.

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White folks who fight with the police and live to make bail. Meanwhile, a disproportionate number of Black families are forced to make burial arrangements.

Espousing that the “lockdown” was an encumbrance to civil liberties mirror Trump’s demonization of masks. Rather than regarding science and valuing lives, Barr and Trump’s only value is political gain and the extension of White privilege.

CBS News posted a counter to Barr’s lie.

“Since the coronavirus first slammed the brakes on the U.S. economy in March, policymakers have tried to weigh the cost of keeping people safe.

A group of economists has compared these scenarios in a working paper issued earlier this month and come down squarely on the side of the shutdown: Closing down the economy saved between 900,000 and 2.7 million U.S. lives.”

Barr and Trump don’t care that the shutdown saved three million funerals, cremations, or interments. They have no respect for the descendants of four million slaves that were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

Distorting history to gain the confidence of Donald Trump is a low bar, but Bill is up to that job!

Vincent L. Hall is an author, activist, and award-winning columnist.

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New Guidelines for Coronavirus Reopenings

By ASHLEY MOSS Staff Writer During an update from the Texas Capitol in Austin on Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott announced that most regions in Texas can loosen their current coronavirus restrictions, meaning many businesses and services can increase their capacity to 75% from 50%. Several Executive Orders were issued, expanding occupancy levels for restaurants, retail stores, office buildings, manufacturing facilities, gyms and exercise facilities and classes, museums, and libraries.

As part of the criteria for the expanded reopening, COVID-19 patients must make up less than 15% of all hospitalizations for at least seven days in their hospital region.

Abbott also announced new guidelines related to nursing homes and long-term care facilities across the state. Those facilities can reopen for visits beginning September 24 for essential caregiver visits as long as there are no cases of the vi-

rus present at the facility.

Under the reopening measures hospitals can also immediately return to elective procedures. Three hospital regions are excluded from the new reopening stage, including the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo and Victoria. Abbott said those regions’ hospitalizations are still “in the danger zone.”

“With the medical advancements we have made and the personal hygiene practices we have adopted, Texans have shown that we can address both the health and safety concerns of COVID-19 while also taking careful, measured steps to restore the livelihoods that Texans depend on,” said Gov. Abbott. “Achieving both goals requires safe standards that contain COVID-19, emphasize protecting the most vulnerable, and establish clear metrics that the public can depend on.”

With the news of the reopening, Gov. Abbott also cautioned Texans to continue practicing safe methods to slow the spread of COVID-19 cases across the state.

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“Texans must continue to heed the guidance of medical experts by wearing a mask, social distancing, and practicing proper sanitation strategies,” said Gov. Abbott. “By maintaining health and safety standards that are proven to mitigate COVID-19, we can continue to slow the spread while opening up the Texas economy.”

This news on the reopening comes as the latest COVID-19 numbers were also released. As of Thursday, new data from the Texas Department of Health recorded more than 674,000 cases of Coronavirus, including 69,000 active cases. More than 14,000 deaths have been recorded in addition to almost 600,000 recoveries.

“The most important takeaway today is that the precautions we have been taking to slow the spread of COVID-19 have been working,” said Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, adding that the virus is still “spreading in our community, and people’s lives remain at risk.”

He continued, “We must continue to wear masks, practice social distancing, and use good hygiene. If we don’t stay on guard, especially as schools reopen and flu season begins, we will cause great harm to our residents’ health and to the economy.”

In response to the ongoing

pandemic, Gov. Abbott has also appointed 11 members to a Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response. The task force provides expert, evidence-based assessments, protocols, and recommendations related to state responses to infectious diseases, and to serve as a reliable and transparent source of information and education for Texas leadership and citizens.

The group is composed of a variety of community and health leaders, including Sheila Haley, Ph.D. of Lantana, who recently retired as an assistant clinical professor for the College of Nursing at Texas Women’s University. Ms. Haley received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Chicago State University, Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Phoenix, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing from Hampton University.

The Executive Order related to the expanded capacity of certain services can be viewed here: https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/EO-GA-30_ expanded_openings_COVID-19.pdf

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Black students, always take two sets of notes I WAS JUST THINKING...

By Norma Adams-Wade

Texas Metro News

Author, filmmaker, poet, rapper, and professor M. K. Asante Jr., had it right when he said “Black students, (should) always take two sets of notes.”

I spent some time researching this “woke” young tenured professor the other day. His life story – even though comparatively young – is an impressive example of how learning and education can transform a life.

Asante recalls his troubled youth in the wildly popular book Buck: A Memoir.

The award-winning coming-of-age remembrance was published in 2013 when the author was 31 and realizing that his over-comer journey could and should help redirect other misguided youths.

Later, he helped make the book a film.

Conflicts with his college professor father; concern for his mother, a choreographer struggling with self-destructive depression; a brother in prison; being sent to alternative schools, and an attraction to

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bad influences on the wild streets of Philadelphia combined to take young Asante swiftly down wrong paths as a teenager.

But he found his salvation in writing and ultimately, at age 26, became the nation’s youngest tenured professor at historically-Black Morgan State University in Baltimore where he teaches creative writing and film-making. During one part of his journey, the legendary Maya Angelou was his mentor.

Today, at age 37, Asante has written several books, made various films, recorded rap music, lectured and given commencement addresses at distinguished universities including Southern Methodist University, Vassar, and Harvard. For many years, his signature appearance in the classroom was t-shirts and long dreadlocks. His teaching style has been described as freewheeling, promoting discussion and pushback from his students, provoking thought and examination at every turn.

“Two sets of notes” is one of his most quoted utterances.

The poem by that same title is in the professor’s book entitled It’s Bigger than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post Hip Hop Generation.

In the poem, he deftly castigates American text books and robot teachers who only regurgitate what’s on the page. He says because of long-standing, bureaucratic policies, these educators and the books they use teach students supposed “facts” that under scrutiny are mostly myths or devised imaginings. He says these portrayals come from the minds of mainly white history writers who record the past only the way they interpret it, not the way it really happened.

Asante Jr. offered the perfect formula for how students can succeed in the classroom – even while knowing that much of what they are hearing is only one person’s likely distorted view of the world in which we all live.

“I always take two sets of notes,” he declares, “– one set to ace the test and one set I call the truth, and when I find historical contradictions, I used the first set as proof.”

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life does one really begin to think for himself or herself? When does an individual begin to question what they hear? And when does a student in school begin to say, ‘I think I need to research that for myself,’ instead of mindlessly swallowing what they hear.

There already are a number of familiar school lessons that recent decades have debunked. Some include George Washington and the cherry tree and that he wore dentures made of wood, that Columbus “discovering” America, that Marie Antoinette said, “Let them eat cake,” that enslaved Africans had no substantial history when they were brought to America in chains, and that the message of July 4th celebrations truthfully meant equality and independence for all people.

I leave you with Asante Jr.’s counsel for young Black minds in classrooms: Black children look in the mirror you are the reflection of divinity don’t let them fool you with selective memory walk high, listen to the elder who spoke Black students, Always take two sets of notes.

Norma Adams-Wade is a veteran, award-winning journalist, Graduate of UT- Austin and Dallas native. One of the founders of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), she was inducted into the NABJ Hall of Fame

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Grand Jury ruling in shooting of Breonna Taylor leads to more protests

By ASHLEY MOSS Texas Metro News September 23, 2020 Hours after a Kentucky grand jury indicted a former police officer on charges related to the shooting of Breonna Taylor, protesters in Dallas took to the streets, expressing outrage and dismay that the charges did not go far enough.

Wednesday afternoon, a Jefferson County (Ky.) grand jury indicted former Louisville Metropolitan Police detective Brett Hankison on three counts of first degree “wanton endangerment” in the Breonna Taylor case.

According to the grand jury, Hankison wantonly fired shots into an occupied apartment next door to Taylor’s on the night she was shot and killed.

Wanton endangerment is a Class D felony in Kentucky and carries a sentence of up to five years, if convicted.

The grand jury chose not to indict two other officers involved in Taylor’s shooting, Louisville Police Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and Det. Myles Cosgrove. The jury found that the two officers were not criminally liable in Taylor’s death because they shot the young woman after a companion who was in her home fired on them first.

Meanwhile, protests were held in New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia and in other cities across the nation in response to the Kentucky grand jury decisions.

In Louisville, two officers were shot during protests. The city’s police chief said he expected the two to recover.

In Texas, Pamela Grayson, told a crowd gathered in front of Dallas Police Department’s downtown headquarters that, despite Taylor’s achievements, the young woman’s life appears to have had little value.

“Breonna faced challenges to

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become a successful, award-winning EMT (emergency medical technician),” Grayson said. “She had to have a heart for people and she had to be smart.

“And yet and still,” she said. “I’m in pain.”

Grayson questioned whether the indictments of “wanton endangerment” against Hankison - and no indictment of murder - meant the legal system is indifferent to police officers shooting unarmed African Americans.

“I’m heartbroken because America does not like me,” said Grayson, who is African American.

“When is my life going to matter?”

Taylor, 26, was shot and killed on March 13 after Louisville police officers stormed into her apartment in an attempt to serve a warrant.

Taylor’s companion shot at the officers saying he believed they were intruders.

Local activists said they were not surprised that murder charges were not brought against the Louisville officers.

“It is very difficult to get an indictment or a conviction of a police officer,” said John Fullinwider, co-founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality.

“This is the fight of our lives and, sometimes, it takes a lifetime to win,” Fullinwider said.

In Fort Worth, attorney Valerie D. Baston agreed.

“I’m not surprised,” she said.

“It’s only been within the last seven years that we’ve even seen police officers being prosecuted for crimes that they do.”

Baston speculated that higher charges against the officers were not brought because of Taylor’s companion’s actions. “He just thought someone was breaking into the house,” Baston said.

She said the wanton endangerment charge could be confusing to many Texans because the state

does not have such a charge.

“The closest thing that we have to it would be unlawfully discharging a firearm in public, which would carry a punishment of up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine,” Baston said.

Still, the attorney said she, too, was as disappointed as others at Wednesday’s protest.

“Being an African American woman, it’s very disheartening and upsetting that this is what was brought to the grand jury,” said Baston. “They need to bring a higher charge than this Class D felony - maybe more along the lines of a manslaughter charge. ““What gets me is the unfairness of it all,” she said. “It seems like we make some progress but never really get past the finish line.”

In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said examination of the case was hindered by a lack of video footage.

“There is no video or body camera footage of the officers attempted execution of a search warrant at Ms. Taylor’s residence. Video footage begins when patrol officers arrive at the location,” the attorney general said. He said the sequence of events on the night Taylor was shot was pieced together from ballistics evidence, 911 calls, police radio traffic and interviews.

Across the nation, civil rights activists expressed dismay at the indictments.

“Jefferson County grand jury indicts former officer Brett Hankison with three counts of wanton endangerment in first-degree for bullets that went into other apartments but nothing for the murder of Breonna Taylor,” civil rights attorney Ben Crump tweeted Wednesday. “This is outrageous and offensive.”

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people in neighboring apartments, then it should have been wanton endangerment in Breonna Taylor’s apartment too,” said Crump, who has served as the Taylor family’s attorney.

“In fact, it should have been ruled wanton murder!”

The national NAACP denounced the Kentucky attorney general’s decision calling it a “devastating blow to the community of Louisville and the nation.”

In a statement posted Wednesday on the nation’s oldest civil rights organization’s website, NAACP officials said the country’s judicial system is a “faulty and burdensome justice system that compromises our society’s moral and humane fabric.”

The NAACP called on voters to make their disdain for the decision heard at the polls.

“Our course of action is to vote and make it abundantly clear that we will not tolerate the injustice we’re observing,” the statement read. “Far too many Black lives have been lost due to the egregious malpractice of police officers, elected officials and the justice system as a whole.

“We must press forward in our pursuit of dismantling oppressive ideologies that plague our country so we can reach parity and equity on all fronts.”

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bipartisan group of Congressional representatives passing it, but with Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell failing to even put the legislation up to a vote.

Some Republicans dispute the need for the HEROES Act because of the latest unemployment rate data. But many states and local jurisdictions will lay off public servants – teachers, police officers, sanitation workers, transportation workers, health care workers, and others, pushing the unemployment rate back up.

The August Employment Situation report has more good news than bad. It indicates that for the fourth month in a row, things are improving.

But this improvement is not enough, and it could be much better if our legislators would offer some assistance, especially to those at the bottom.

Even though 45 has made the economy his issue, repeatedly proclaiming that he created “the best economy in the world” until COVID, his inability to grasp the many ways that COVID will continue to plague the economy raises issues about his sagacity and discernment.

Don’t celebrate the rebound yet. Don’t stop the pressure either. The Senate must pass the HEROES Act or face the consequences. If we want economic recovery AND economic justice, we must vote.

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Like so many things in 2020, the upcoming general election will be one of a kind. Even before the pandemic, the election was going to be different than prior years due to a series of changes at the state and local level.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death a reminder that elections matter “This story is being reprinted in Texas Metro News as part of a partnership with The Dallas Morning News.”

By GROMER JEFFERS JR. The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has crystallized what should be apparent to all Americans.

Elections matter.

Ginsburg was a remarkable justice whose career was defined by her fight for women’s rights and other progressive issues. Known in her later years of The Notorious RBG, Ginsburg was a mentor to numerous women in the legal field, and an inspiration — at age 87 — to a legion of younger Americans that were captivated by her grit and grace.

Since 2016, Ginsburg has also been a character in the political struggle to con-

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trol the Supreme Court, and she’s a reminder of how progressives and Democrats bungled the 2016 election, paving the way for President Donald Trump to make two — and now likely three — Supreme Court appointments.

“It’s going to be the lasting legacy of Donald Trump.

He’ll probably appoint three Supreme Court justices,” said Dallas immigration lawyer Eric Cedillo. “That’s scary for a lot of people and it could impact issues related to health care, abortion rights and the LGBTQ community. It’s a proposition that will hopefully keep the minds of people open to other reasons why presidential elections are so important.”

Cedillo said the hypocri-

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sy of some Republicans on whether Trump should nominate someone to replace Ginsburg or wait until the term of the next president begins is not lost on him, and perhaps other Americans.

When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in Texas, then President Barack

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Obama nominated Merrick Garland to replace him 11 months before the November 2016 election. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to give Garland’s nomination a hearing, insisting that the American people should decide the matter by electing Trump or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Other Republicans sang the same song, including Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, as well as South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, who is now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“There should not be a hearing in the Judiciary Committee for anyone that the president nominates,” Cornyn said in 2016, following the committee’s vote to deny hearings. “It’s not about the personality, it’s about the principle ... that it’s up to the American people in this next election, no matter who they choose, to make the nomination for this important seat on the Supreme Court.”

Cornyn is running for re-election against former Air Force combat veteran MJ Hegar, and she’s already using his words against him in emails to supporters.

Graham said at the time on CSPAN: “I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the myimessenger.com

last year of the first term, you can say ‘Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.’”

Now Graham says he’ll support Trump’s nominee because “liberals conspired to destroy” Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his nomination process, and former House Majority Leader Harry Reid pushed through a rules change to allow a simple majority for approval of Circuit Court nominees.

Cruz, who is on Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees, has also changed his tune from 2016, when he supported McConnell’s decision not to fill the Supreme Court vacancy until the next president was inaugurated.

“The court — we are one vote away from losing our fundamental constitutional liberties, and I believe that the president should next week nominate a successor to the court, and I think it is critical that the Senate takes up and confirms that successor before Election Day,” Cruz told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “This nomination is why Donald Trump was elected. This confirmation is why the voters voted for a Republican majority in the Senate.”

McConnell has vowed to push through Trump’s nominee, which the president says he’ll make to replace Ginsburg.

Sadly, hypocrisy is part of doing business for many politicians. What they say during one election cycle is designed to win that victory.

They worry about the consequences later.

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distortions and misdeeds.

But the politics in the era of Trump is largely designed by a public that’s in on the game. The nation is so polarized that voters are no longer independent referees, but team members who want their squad to win — even if it involves unsportsmanlike conduct.

In the political game, Republicans have had much more discipline than Democrats, and they have embraced the notion of picking a president to shape the Supreme Court better than Democrats.

In 2016, Trump produced a list of potential Supreme Court nominees, should he beat Clinton, that helped him unite the GOP and energize the party’s base. Old Trump rivals like Cruz joined the pro-Trump team.

In contrast, Democrats, especially some progressives, were not enthusiastic about Clinton and apparently didn’t care that her loss would result in Trump re-

shaping the high court. Ginsburg wanted to retired after the 2016 election and watch with pride as Clinton picked her appointment. Instead, Trump was elected and she soldiered on in her post. She never intended to be the focus of the political fight that will ensue after her death.

The squabbles among Democrats about Clinton, mostly advanced by supporters of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, must seem petty now that conservatives have secured a strong presence on the Supreme Court for another generation.

Now Democrats have another reason to wave 2016’s blood-stained banner. With Ginsburg in mind, they are fired up about the November elections and appear to be more unified behind former Vice President Joe Biden, their nominee against Trump.

With Democrats now focused on the Supreme Court issues, Republicans in swing districts could pay a steep

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price in November. In the Dallas suburbs, GOP candidates for Congress and the Texas House are already at risk of being swept away by a huge Democratic Party turnout. The Republicans with power in safe districts will be fine, but the at-risk GOP candidates are now in more trouble.

While winning the White House, some congressional and statehouse seats, and possibly the Senate in November will be a balm for those hurting after Ginsburg’s death, it could take years for progressives who sat out the 2016 election to undo their inexplicable apathy.

Gromer Jeffers Jr., political writer. The Howard University graduate and Chicago native has covered four presidential campaigns and written extensively about local, state and national politics. Before The News, he was a reporter at The Kansas City Star and The Chicago Defender. You can catch Gromer every Sunday at 8:30 a.m. on NBC 5’s Lone Star Politics.

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Big Mama said you cannot think BIG when LITTLE gotcha THE BLACK CARD BY TERRY ALLEN

“You can’t think big when little gotcha,” is a statement that Big Mama, my maternal grandmother, shared with me and my siblings all throughout our childhood.

She and my mom used her 6th grade readers to teach me how to read and write “cursive” at age 4. She would get books from her employer to share with me all until I left for college.

The rule was she read the book first then I read the book next, then she would take her notes and ask me questions. Then she would ask me to write 10 of the best things I liked about each book.

Sometimes I would write just five things thinking that would be ok.

Well, I got that wrong.

Whenever I wrote less than 10 takeaways from each book she shared with me, it opened the door for the “back porch” conversation. Her backporch invitation consisted of ice cream, chocolate cake and/or peach cobbler. I accepted each back-porch conversation with an eagerness.

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She would identify a passage in the book then ask me if I remembered that point in the book. I confirmed each time that I had read it. Yes! Her next move was to say, “then why did you not include in your list to make the list a full 10?

She would show me how each point I “missed” or I was “too lazy” to write down could have given me a bigger lesson.

She and my mother gave me books like Narrative of Life - Frederick Douglass, Annie Allen – Gwendolyn Brooks, Notes of a Native Son/ Fire Next Time – James Baldwin and the Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley. I was truly unaware that she and my mom, Ms. Betty, were preparing me with the armor, I would need to be the BIG man she envisioned in me.

At the end of the week, she would do a recap of my missed points and then remind me that she expected me to be the first President of the United States to come from this family and I have to think larger than my current self.

She said you must “see yourself as big as I see you.” Later in life she

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stood in the office of the business I created. She read the letters from two US presidents given to me. She said I am so proud of what you have become. My tears flowed that day.

Now during the Racial and COVID-19 Pandemics, Big mamaism is top of mind for me. I am forever grateful for what she did for me. I didn’t become President but one US Senator who became a US President, a Black man, wrote the foreword to a best-selling book of

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which I am a co-author; sharing her chocolate cake recipe.

Thanks to her and my mom, I have had a great passage to manhood.

I hope Big Mama is still proud of me because I am proud of her.

What greatness did your Big Mama say about you? Email your answer to Terryallenpr@gmail. com

Terry Allen is a multi-media journalist and board member of the National Association of Black Journalists.

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KAMALA WATCH

Kamala Harris Outlines Plan to Forgive Student Loan Debt for HBCU Graduates Sen. Kamala Harris (DCA), the Democratic nominee for vice president, said that a Biden-Harris administration would cancel student loan debt for some students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HCBU’s) during a recent roundtable.

“In relation to the history of HBCUs, [students] decide to take on a profession of service, which often does not pay as well as if they go into the private sector and do other things,” Harris said at the roundtable discussion held at Florida Memorial University, a historically Black private university. “So for those students who come out and have jobs that pay less than $125,000, student-loan debt will also be forgiven.”Harris also promised to invest $70 billion in historically Black colleges and universities.

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by the pandemic that has forced many students to reconsider attending college. Biden and Harris support student loan forgiveness. However, neither candidate supports wide-scale student loan

forgiveness that would forgive all student loan debt.

“We want to support our young people for whatever they pursue by way of education after high school,” Harris said. “For some

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that will be a college and university, for some it will be a two-year program, or an apprenticeship, or something of that nature, and we want to make sure that we support them in that quest.”

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Community Fridge opens in Dallas A new community fridge is now open in Oak Cliff to meet the needs of local residents in need. The People’s Fridge, part of a national trend that has become popular during the Coronavirus pandemic, is located inside the Pan-African Connection bookstore at 4466 South Marsalis Avenue in Oak Cliff and comes packed with food available by donations. Donations include pre-packaged foods and meals, including bottled water, soups and canned goods.

The People’s Fridge is currently accepting donations in-person in

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Oak Cliff, and donation pick-up is also available. Follow the group on Instagram, @thepeoplesfridge for more information, to donate or volunteer.

Dallas Museums are Open Again

Six area museums are reopening downtown and in the Dallas Arts District after being closed for several months. The museums closely collaborated over several months to determine appropriate reopening dates and new measures to ensure the health and safety of their staff and all visitors.

In a group statement, the museums said, “We have all been working

together since our closures in March to prepare for the days when we can safely welcome visitors again. The past five months have been times of significant change. As cultural institutions, we each recognize our unique roles as places for visitors to find solace, joy, and connection.

We are excited to finally reopen our spaces to the community.”

Under the Dallas Arts and Culture Reopening Guidelines, all staff and visitors are required to wear face masks and each facility has added sanitizing stations, among other safety protocols.

For More Information: https:// www.dallasartsdistrict.org/ dallas-arts-and-culture-reopening-guidelines-established/

Rising and leading Saluting educators Barbara Batteast Brown was recently promoted to Assistant Principal at Jimmie Tyler Brashear Elementary School in the Dallas Independent School District.

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It was a community effort in Midlothian as Kelcie Davis celebrated her 11th birthday.

She has had a rough life, with multiple surgeries, and the loss of her mom and grandmother in the past two years.

She always has a smile on her face and you can see it when she is featured in UnitedHealth’s 2021 calendar.

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Royle King, Jr. re-elected At the 46th Florida Statewide Organization - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. State Workshop, Dallas’ Lincoln Humanities and Communications Magnet High School and FAMU journalism school graduate Royle King, Jr. was re-elected Keeper of Records & Seal. Royle is a past president of the Upsilon Psi Chapter and Chi Omega Chapters of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.

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ANTEBELLUM AT THE MOVIES BY HOLLYWOOD HERNANDEZ

ANTEBELLUM, now showing on Prime Video, is a little bit uneven and works a little too hard at keeping the movie viewer off balance.

Is it a Thriller/Horror film or a movie that shines the spotlight on social injustice by showing us the horrific images that happened on a slave plantation? The movie is kind of a cross between GET OUT and 12 YEARS A SLAVE. The first act of the movie shows Janelle Monae working on a slave plantation and then about 30 minutes into the film the phone rings and Janelle Monae’s character Veronica, wakes up from a nightmare and we realize the slavery scenes were all just a dream.

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Veronica Henley and does an excellent job of portraying a successful author and advocate for social justice.

Gabby Sidibe is one of her best girlfriends and her part, while a small one, gives a really fun break in this harsh and violent movie about slavery. The best part of the film is how it opens up a dialogue on white supremacy and racism. The scenes on the plantation make us think about what the United States would be like today if the South had won The Civil War. The current day systematic racism and police brutality are all thrown into the mix in this thought-provoking movie. It is most definitely a timely tale about what is happening today in this country. Veronica is kidnapped and taken to an alternate world where we realize what’s going on as the movie unfolds. Again, what we think happened is totally different from what the story tells us to believe. That kind of ticked me off. However, there were enough good things in the movie that made me like it.

ANTEBELLUM is rated R for violence, cruelty and sexual situations. It has a run time of 1 hour and 45 minutes.

On my “Hollywood Popcorn Scale” I rate this movie a LARGE.

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WNBA Honors players for Dedication to Social Justice

By DOROTHY J. GENTRY Sports Editor A’ja Wilson and other WNBA players were determined to play this season for something bigger than themselves.

“You take the basketball ability away, you take the uniform away - we are Black women. When we got the call to be a part of the Council I did not hesitate at all because I knew I wanted to be a voice for the voiceless and that’s what our Council is,” the Las Vegas Aces star said of the WNBA’s newly formed Social Justice Council.

“It hits home,” Wilson said of the realities of racial injustice. “Yeah, it could be my dad or my brotheror my boyfriend but it could also be me, or my mom or any of us, and when it hits raw I think that’s what makes you want to fight and that’s what we’re about.”

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voices to take a stand and push forth social justice activism, with specific efforts to spotlight and raise awareness of Black women who have been victims of police brutality.

As a result of their efforts and for the first time ever, the WNBA has named all the WNBA players as the recipients of the 2020 season-long WNBA Community Assist Award for their continued commitment, leadership and collaborative efforts to promote racial equality and create systemic change.

The WNBA Cares Community Assist Award was previously awarded to one player each month of the season, traditionally recognizing an individual who best reflected the WNBA’s passion for making a difference in the community.

The players are being recognized for their collective passion and dedication to social justice and working as a unified community to

bring awareness to and fight against systemic racism.

As part of the award, the WNBA and State Farm will donate $50,000 to the African American Policy Forum, in recognition of the WNBA players’ commitment to the WNBA Justice Movement and the #SayHerName campaign, while bringing awareness to inequality and systemic racism, lifting up marginalized communities, and pushing for change.

“Black women’s leadership in sports has often been unwritten as soon as they do it,” said Professor Kimberle Crenshaw, founder of the AAPF and the creator of the #SayHerName initiative.

“The WNBA players are standing collectively to make their leadership obvious, apparent and uncompromised.

These players are not going to allow their voices to be muted.

“They will not allow the issues they are talking about to be forgotten. This is a new

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moment in the history of racial justice and in the history of athletes speaking for racial justice.”

Throughout the 2020 season, in addition to having “Black Lives Matter” featured prominently on the floor of the basketball court, Breonna Taylor’s name on the uniforms, and “Say Her Name” on warmup shirts, WNBA players have worked with AAPF to have on-court moments of recognition to raise awareness of the female victims of police brutality -women like Sandra Bland, Michelle Cusseaux, Kayla Moore, Tanisha Anderson, and many others.

Through the leadership of the Social Justice Council, the players have called for action to address the policy issues highlighted by AAPF, convened activists, organizers, and elected officials in powerful forums, and promoted community education on the census and voting rights.

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“Closet of Care at Eddie Bernice Johnson Elementary School.”

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By ALLANA J. BAREFIELD Texas Metro News Wilmer - Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Southwest Suburban Dallas Chapter is partnering with Eddie Bernice Johnson Elementary School to help children who are in need by providing clothes hygiene products and supplies.

The Closet of Care ribbon cutting was held Friday at the school and principal Umoja S. Turner praised the chapter

for its community involvement and support of the students.

“I am always grateful whenever someone takes the time and the effort to be generous to our campus and our students,” he said.

According to president Natasha Harris, the chapter always strives to help their community and thought the elementary school was the perfect fit for the level of support they wanted to provide.

“There will be uniforms,

Natasha Harris, president of the Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Southwest Suburban Dallas cuts the ribbon at the Eddie Bernice Johnson Elementary School Closet of Care.

toiletries, shoes, you name it, we’re going to try to put as much as we can in that closet,” Harris said, adding that the members are excited about having all the necessities in one place.

Event: Members of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Southwest Suburban Dallas Chapter and Principal Umoja S. Turner of the Eddie Bernice Johnson Elementary School gathered on Sept. 18 for the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Closet of Care.

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Items in the Closet for Care at Eddie Bernice Johnson Elementary School

Members of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Southwest Suburban Dallas gathered with the school’s principal, Umoja S. Turner, to see the items in the Closet of Care.

Jack and Jill Members with Principal Umoja S. Turner, President Natasha Harris, Judge Valencia Nash and Texas State Representative Carl Sherman’s Chief of Staff Melissa Bradford.

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September 23 2020 Census Day Hollywood Live! With Michael “Hollywood” Hernandez and Co-host Shavonda with a “V” Fields, on Hollywoodlive. com. From 2 pm – 4 pm.

Job Readiness Sessions & Hiring Events, Online Application Assistance, with Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. Community Outreach Center. Beginning Sept.9-Nov. 4 Zoom. Info: Jasmine Anderson at jasmine.anderson@zwhjcoc.org Salsa Wednesday at Vidorra by DJ Wander at Vidorra Dallas 2642 Main St. 7-10 pm.

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Twilight Thursdays host Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. 8525 Garland Rd. 9 am-8 pm. Hours are extended. Tickets must be reserved in advance at: https://bit.ly/33DXaHG.

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Big Tex Fair Food Drive-Thru at Fair Park, 3809 Grand Ave. 10 am-6 pm. This is a one-of-a-kind drive-thru experience.

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Austin Street Center 20th Annual Humble Beginnings Luncheon featuring: Tony and Grammy Award-Winning performer, Leslie Odom, Jr. at 11:30 a.m. at Omni Hotel 555 S. Lamar St, Dallas. For Info: www.austinstreet.org/humblebeginnings.

DeSoto Fourth Friday Concert - DeSoto Gospel Live Featuring: Adrion Butler hosted by Arts DeSoto and City of DeSoto. The City of DeSoto is going VIRTUAL! DeSoto Fourth Friday Music Series online!

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Monday Night Politics: Meet The Candidates. Host Dallas Examiner. Judge of 14 Judicial District, Judge of 95 Judicial District, Judge of 162 Judicial District, and Judge of 254 Judicial District. Online Event: https://bit.ly/3is39Wh 6–8 pm.

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September 29 Texas Woman’s Foundation 35th Annual Luncheon Virtual Event. Speaker America Ferrera. 11:30 am CDT - Virtual Lobby and Sponsor Activations Open 12:00 pm CDT - Luncheon Program Begins. Tickets: www.txwfluncheon.org

Friendship-West Presents Spiritual Care.

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Spiritual Care encouraging us through difficult times.1:00 pm CDT via Zoom: https://bit. ly/2FhHYYY Access Code: 856 703 6848.

Building A More Equitable Future For African American in Dallas at Bill J. Priest Institute A Campus of El Centro College 1402 S. Corinth St. 6- 7:15 pm. Free Reg: Eventbrite.com.

Infant Mortality Awareness Webinar. Morning and afternoon sessions held. Sponsors: Dallas Health Start & Parkland.

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Hollywood Live! With Michael “Hollywood” Hernandez and Co-host Shavonda with a “V” Fields, on Hollywoodlive.com.

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9th Annual Dallas Hunger Summit (on-line) 10–11:30 am.

Free. Malik Yakini, Director, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.. A Zoom link will be sent after you register.

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75th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA.) Innovative Finance Strategies for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for all persons of African descent. Hosts HBCU and UNDP. 8-11 am. Reg: https://bit.ly/3ksyA3h. Info: Dr. Farid I. Muhammad (773) 756-5722.

September 26 Positive Reflections Ministry Free Groceries (Includes meat, non-perishables goods & produce while supplies last) Pick up location: Pleasant Zion Missionary Baptist Church 1910 N. St Augustine Rd. Dallas from 9 am to 1 pm. Info call 214-208-5536.

Virtual Community Engagement.

Keynote Speaker: State Representative Lorraine Birabil. Reg: big.tex.com/community-engagement-luncheon. 11:30 am-1 pm.

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Sunday Happy Hour, NABJ Media Related Task Force, host Terry Allen, Guests: Ron Carter, CEO Carter Agency and Karen Wilson Cheif PR Sytategist. 5:30 pm. CST. Reg: https://bit. ly/2FOlwGG bring your drink and enjoy the best online networking!

September 27 Big Tex Fair Food Drive-Thru Concert Series. Presented by Chevrolet: Big Tex Fair Food Drive-Thru Concert Series feat: Fort Worth band, Squeezebox Bandits at Fair Park. Tickets: bigtex. com/big-tex-fair-food-drive-thru. 11 am-6 pm.

Andrew’s World with host Andrew Whigham III on BlogTalkRadio.com 8 am.-10 am. Sundays Tune in for thought-provoking, enlightening, informative, and entertaining news and commentary. Join the call at 646-200-0459 In The Middle with Ashley Moss.

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AARP Online Career Expo Navigating The Job Market During Times of Uncertainty. 12 pm. CT. Register: https://onlinexperiences.com/scripts/Server.nxp?

Live Music Feat: David Whiteman Band at The Warehouse Lounge 1125 E. Berry St. Ft. Worth. Virtually or in Person 7:30 pm. Tickets: www.Eventbrite.com

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month First Saturday Harvest Project Food Rescue, Free Fruits and Veggies, at Pan African Connection 4466 S. Marsalis Ave. 10:00 am-3:00 pm. Free Fruits and Veggies until their gone. Call 214943-8262.

Brem For the Bust. A kick off start for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Feat: Dr. Rachel Brem and Dr. Angela Marshall. Reg: www.Eventbrite.com/brem-for-the-bust

Doc Shep Speaks Show! A fresh perspective, but still entertaining!

Welcome to The Doc Shep Speaks Show!!!. Tuesdays at 11 am Live on Facebook/@TexasMetroNews & Blog Talk Radio.com Join the conversation 646-200-0459.

I Was Just Thinking with Norma Adams-Wade “History Class is in Session” Join in on Facebook/@TexasMetroNews and BlogTalkRadio.com at 11 am -1 pm Wednesdays. Join the conversation call 646-200-0459.

The Bare Truth with Allana J. Barefield. “Always Audacious, Accurate and Authentic” On Facebook/@TexasMetroNews & BlogTalkRadio. at 11 am-1 pm.

Thursdays. Join the call at 646200-0459.

From Marva with Love with Marva Sneed from11 am -1 pm. CST, Fridays on Facebook Live/@TexasMetroNews, and BlogTalkRadio.com.

Call in and join the conversation at 646-200-0459.

October 5 November General Elections Voter Registration Deadline Mon., Oct. 5, 2020, is the deadline to register to vote in the November 2020 Presidential and General Election.

To register, find your precinct, change your name or address, etc. at: https://www.dallascountyvotes.org/

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Do you know this man?

POLICE have not apprehended “Pookie” the serial rapist.

We know he has attacked members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and there is a $5,000 reward offered by Crime Stoppers.

HE IS A SERIAL RAPIST

He targeted members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. but this is more than about a sorority. We’re talking about a community.

Come on PEOPLE! Don’t you CARE? Will it matter when it is your sister, mother, aunt or grandmother or maybe YOU?

877-373-8477 September 25, 2020

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