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By Cheryl Smith Publisher

Spread LOVE Speak the truth. Share your feelings. Show love.

I have known Curtistene McCowan for over 30 years. Reflecting on many of our conversations, I realized we always expressed our feelings for and about each other.

For that I am grateful because she is no longer here to hear me say how much love and respect I had for her.

Which brings me to my truth.

Last weekend citizens, friends

Mayor Curtistene McCowan

and loved ones participated in a service honoring DeSoto first female Mayor Curtistene Smith McCowan, who died Wednesday, October 28.

In early October she announced her lung cancer diagnosis during a City Council meeting on Zoom, she said. “Those of you who know me are also aware that I have an unusual amount of energy,” she said at the time.

“So when I get tired or don’t put in the time and energy that I normally do on an issue, something’s up.”

Her death came as a shock to many.

“We’ve lost a great committed leader,” said U.S. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (DTX), whose district includes DeSoto. The two were the only living African American females in the district to have schools named in See MY TRUTH, page 9

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Democrats came close, but were unable to break the GOP’s lock on power in the state.

Judge Monica Purdy

State Rep. Rhetta Bowers

Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price

Congressman Colin Allred

Congresswoman Eddie Dallas County Commissioner Bernice Johnson Theresa Daniel

Dallas Sheriff Marian Brown

State Rep. Yvonne Davis

Frisco ISD Trustee Dynette A. Davis

State Rep. Toni Rose

State Rep. Carl Sherman, Sr.

Sen. John Cornyn

EDITOR’S NOTE - This article appears as part of a collaborative partnership between Texas Metro News and The Dallas Morning News, that seeks to boost coverage of communities of color, particularly in southern Dallas.

By Gromer Jeffers Jr. Special to the Texas Metro News Republicans on Tuesday sent Democrats a resounding message: Texas is still red and Democrats would still have to get stronger to wrestle control from the GOP. Republicans staved off

Democratic attempts to seize the Texas House, returned John Cornyn to the U.S. Senate and appeared to boost President Donald Trump to a Lone Star victory over former Vice President Joe Biden.

The results were a setback for Democrats who had hoped antiTrump sentiment and a strong

grassroots organization would give them victories across the board, including controlling the House for the first time since 2001.

“We had great candidates and a good message and they worked hard as a team,” said Dave Carney, Gov. Greg Abbott’s chief consultant.

“They talked and talked about winning. We just made sure our candidates won.”

Democratic candidates up and down the ballot were wellfunded even outspending many of their GOP counterparts. But the GOP appeared to learn a lesson from the close races of See ELECTION, page 11

School desegregation, busing left their good and bad marks I WAS JUST THINKING

By Norma Adams-Wade I ran across a 1976 news articles that described how Dallas prepared for one of the early chapters of school busing during the 1970s.

1976 was a pivotal year because of court orders that Dallas

get really serious – this true mandated order. time – about desegreFrom 1954 into gating its school systhe 1970s, cities and tem. school districts across Remember, the fedthe land pretty much eral Supreme Court made their own decisome 22 years earlier sions about whether in 1954 had ordered to desegregate. Disthat all U. S. schools Linda Brown of the tricts dragged their end the sham “sepa- Brown v. Board of feet, putting up creEducation case. rate but equal” methative road blocks or od of educating Black and White just out-and-out ignoring the students. The 1970s, this time, Supreme Court order. Then were to make racial integration a slowly, school authorities began

to comply because of the power and might of federal government oversight and intervention.

I was just thinking about the human toll of that desegregation fight and the life-changing impact – good and bad – on young people who went through those struggles.

I was just thinking of Linda Brown. In 1954, she was the 11-year-old youth at the center of the landmark case, Brown v.

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CREDO OF THE BLACK PRESS The Black Press believes that America can best lead the world away from racial and national antagonisms when it accords to every person, regardless of race, color or creed, full human and legal rights. Hating no person, fearing no person, the Black Press strives to help every person in the firm belief that all are hurt as long as anyone is held back.

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Texans piled into polling sites across North Texas and the state, many expecting lengthy lines, warmer temperatures and potential voting challenges.

Instead, voters walked into several North Texas polling sites, cast their ballots and walked out - all within minutes -- and with an added bonus, a meal; courtesy of Win with Black Women.

The group of women from all industries, ages, and types of life experiences came together with a common goal focusing on trying to eliminate and reduce the impact of racism and sexism on Black women, particularly towards Senator Harris.

Then, Win with Black Women became about securing victory, not just for the Biden-Harris Campaign but for Black women up and down the ballot.

“This was part of elevating the power and agenda of Black women, fostering the power of this collective and working together,” said LeShawnda Larkin, of Dallas. “We’re not just supporting Senator Harris, but also women running in key markets (around the country).

“We asked ourselves, ‘What else can we do,’ and the food truck idea came together just one weekend before Election Day. According to Larkin, feeding voters was not planned.

“It was a way to encourage people to stay and vote if there were long lines. It was also a way to put money back into the (Black community).”

At Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas’ Oak Cliff neighborhood, voters were welcomed by food vendors, one serving free grilled Texas hot links, another serving barbecue sandwiches and a third serving hamburgers, chicken fingers, nachos and a flurry of fixings.

“This was very hospitable,” voter KaDeidra Weatherall said, while standing in line at The ITIS food truck with her son Cedric and partner Chris Washington, all of Dallas.

“It’s like they are giving back to us, while we are giving back to the world,” she said. “I appreciate it.”

Voter Melvin Boyd, said he came to the polls Tuesday afternoon after receiving a call from a friend who

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ment Public Information Officer David Tiley, said that by 4 p.m Tuesday, the department had fielded no calls from election sites.

He described the day as “very peaceful.”

In Houston, members of grassroots organizations in the city’s 5th Ward, including the Black Panthers, supported community residents who were casting ballots by “patrolling” those sites.

Some voters appreciated the extra security.

“The Black Panthers were on their motorcycles near the polls to make sure the 5th Ward community was able to vote,” said Lena Jones. “I felt that it was for the safety of the people and to keep the peace.”

Back at Friendship West, Tamera and Jerry Jacob, owners of Holy Smokes!!! Barbecue, a Lewisville catering company, pulled a super-sized grill behind their pickup truck to the Oak Cliff church and parked it several hundred feet from the entrance.

The waft of grilled meat could be smelled an eighth of a mile away.

Jerry Jacob said he had watched television news accounts of voters waiting hours in line and anticipated waits at Friendship-West. He hoped to encourage voters to cast ballots despite potential waits. So, he and his wife determined they would offer ballot casters free, smoked hotlink sandwiches.

“I was expecting on Nov. 3 it to be pretty crowded,” said Jacob, a U.S. Navy veteran. “(I thought) these people are going to be waiting two or three hours. I said, ‘OK, let’s do it.’”

The caterers served about 500

smoked hotlink sandwiches Tuesday by 2 p.m.

Another vendor, caterer Dana Jackson, who owns Grand Prairie-based KC’s Experience, also served barbecue sandwiches to voters at Friendship-West.

“I want everyone to get out and vote,” she said. “Early voting was great, but success for me is (everyone else) getting out to vote.”

Dallas-area organizer Dr. Vivian Bradley Johnson said she and a coalition of peers from across the country raised nearly $40,000 to cater meals to be distributed at polling sites around the country, including in Dallas, Atlanta, New Orleans, DC., Detroit, Milwaukee, Wis. and Tallahassee, Fla. Johnson’s group, Win With Black Women, contracted The ITIS food truck to offer nachos, hamburgers and chicken tender meals to voters casting ballots at Friendship-West.

“I wanted to help make an impact and I joined the group six weeks ago,” said Johnson, of Dallas.

“We pulled this together in about 24 hours and raised close to $40,000.”

“We wanted to do something so people would not have to worry about food while they were at the polls,” Tuesday, The ITIS food truck parked alongside the church and fielded a steady stream of orders.

By 2 p.m., the chef said she had served nearly 200 orders when she had expected to serve that many throughout the entire day.

Texas Metro News team members, led by news editor Valerie Fields Hill, contributed to this report.

told him food trucks were on site at Friendship-West.

Had it not been for the meal, he would not have come to vote, he said.

“I figured, if I’m going to come out here and wait, I might as well get something to eat,” said Boyd, 60, who said he was a first-time voter.

“This encouraged me to come.”

Other polling sites were not so fortunate.

Arlington Police Department Media Relations Coordinator Tim Siesco said far fewer voters than expected showed up at polling sites there.

The department fielded no calls Tuesday from election employees.

“It has been quiet,” he said. “We think that’s because there was such large early voting turnouts that the polls were not that busy.”

At the Junior League polling site in Southwest Arlington, House District 94 candidate Alisa Simmons stood outside greeting voters as they parked and walked across the lawn into the polls.

“I think turnout is a little lighter today,” she said shortly after 4 p.m. “People heeded our request to take advantage of early voting.”

Simmons said she had visited multiple polling sites in the city, beginning shortly after polls opened at 7 a.m. in Tarrant County. She noticed far fewer voters, she said, than the numbers she and other candidates had encountered at the polls during early voting.

In Plano, police depart- Rev. Danielle Ayers, Cecelia Criner, State Rep. Toni Rose and Dr. Vivian Bradley Johnson

For Oak Cliff Acknowledges young artist For Oak Cliff, (FOC) a nonprofit organization founded in 2015 by school teacher Taylor Toynes, is on a mission to grow and inspire the Oak Cliff community by hosting events and programs

even though people aren’t able to see it all the time due to COVID-19. He said he fell in love with art because of his dad who is also an artist.

Krystal Hills, creative genius at FOC, said she was

to unite citizens.

The Trust For Public Land Art contest was just one of many projects that For Oak Cliff engaged area youth by encouraging students to submit artwork.

Zaiden Nash, a sixth grader at Katherine Johnson Tech Magnet Academy was selected as the winner with his picture of the Dallas Skyline, which he said reminds everyone of the beauty that Dallas holds

amazed when she first saw Nash’s artwork.

“It’s beautiful to have a young leader to display his talent and gift for the community,” she said.

Hills inspires children to be creative at FOC and hopes that Nash’s work will motivate others.

“He has such a beautiful spirit, he said that, ‘he wants to inspire other artists to continue to practice their craft,’” Hills said.

New Montessori School coming to DISD A new elementary school is on the horizon for Dallas ISD and educators are strategizing to open the school in the 2021-2022 academic year. The school will be under the Montessori model since E.E. Walker Middle School is expanding to house more of their students.

“If you look at the data, you’ll see that Dealey, one magnet school that is downthe-street from Walker, has a significant number

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of applications,” said Brian Lusk, DISD chief of strategic initiatives. “This opportunity of a school that is applicationrequired, but doesn’t have entrance criteria, will allow for the families who are seeking this opportunity to have it in their community.”

North Dallas communities have high interest to see more Montessori opportunities in addition to the five schools presently existing: George Bannerman Dealey, Downtown Montessori, Eduardo Mata, Onesimo Hernandez, and Harry Stone.

The Montessori school method has been used for more than 100 years and focuses on human development.

According to Nash, he sees himself playing in the NBA one day or becoming an architectural engineer.

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“If you look at the data, you’ll see that Dealey, one magnet school that is down-the-street from Walker, has a significant number of applications,” said Brian Lusk, DISD chief of strategic initiatives. “This opportunity of a school that is application-required, but doesn’tT:5” have entrance criteria, will allow for the

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North Dallas communities have high interest to see more Montessori opportunities in addition to the five schools presently existing: George Bannerman Dealey, Downtown Montessori, Eduardo Mata, Onesimo Hernandez, and Harry Stone.

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Prior to law enforcement, Gerald spent nine years in the education and the social services profession. During that time, Gerald worked with drug prevention support groups from South Dallas to Highland Park, and was an assistant principal for charter schools in South Oak Cliff and Fort Worth.

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The Squeaky Wheel WAKE UP AND STAY WOKE

By Dr. E. Faye Williams TriceEdney — An old axiom states that “the squeaky wheel gets the grease.” In other words, no one knows, cares, or does anything about your pain or discomfort unless you are courageous enough to identify it. Weekly, I’m privileged to share my discomfort and the added benefit of sharing how I propose to deal with certain challenges. I find that being straightforward is an opportunity that many neither have nor really want.

Occasionally, I’m blessed with great appreciation for the character and generosity of others. Their behavior affords me the luxury of viewing my world through the lens of positivity for the betterment of humankind. They go beyond the call of duty to demonstrate selfless concerns and a spirit of hope with the endeavors they perform for the benefit of others.

For two WNBA seasons, Maya Moore, of the Minnesota Lynx, left basketball to concentrate her efforts on releasing Jonathan Irons, a convicted Missouri man serving a 50-year sentence for burglary and assault. Introduced to Irons through a prison ministry, Moore believes that Irons, as a 16-year old, was wrongly convicted. Like many others, Irons was convicted without physical or DNA evidence. At 39, he’s only 23 years through a 50-year sentence.

Moore states, “There are seasons of life when you run harder after certain things than others. And so, I felt like the season was coming for me where I needed to run harder after criminal justice reform.”

Members of major league sports have begun to use their voices and platforms to advocate for social justice. Although it took the deaths of several African Americans (George Floyd in Minnesota, Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, Jacob Blake in Wisconsin - shot in the back in front of his 3 children, Rayshard Brooks in Georgia, Walter Wallace, Jr. in

Philadelphia all just in 2020), to demonstrate violent, systemic racism, professional athletes have embraced the cause of justice in law enforcement.

I must mention Coach Doc Rivers for his moving remarks supporting athletes saying, “It’s amazing why we keep loving this country, and this country does not love us back.” That statement encouraged many athletes to take action. I take great pride in the commitment of our athletes and their participation in reshaping a variety of our cultural norms and imperatives. I commend Lebron James who, without question, was the greatest catalyst for challenging so many athletes to leave their comfortable circumstances to realize they could have been any of the above-mentioned tragedies.

LeBron’s actions didn’t begin with these 2020 tragedies. He has always stepped out to help his community. He’s helped build transitional housing for homeless families and those struggling for a safe environment in which to live. He’s given resources for establishing a school for at risk students in his hometown. His foundation pays for services and programs students would not otherwise have. LeBron is not new to social justice, and he is a blessing to our community. He’s an in-person presence for causes he supports, and his social media outreach is so massive that those wishing to silence him are overwhelmed.

After seeing the worst of the “Rapper” community in the weeks preceding the November election, along came Common who joined the athletes and spoke up with intelligence not always common among rappers. We hear many well-deserved comments about Black women and our work related to voting, but many Black men also emerged to drown-out the voices of traitors.

Lebron James, Doc Rivers, Common, Barack Obama, Stephen A. Smith, and Chris Webber have made us proud with their stepping-up in both social justice and voting arenas. I pray that this coalition will stay together to resolve the challenges which will remain after our election.

Dr. E. Faye Williams is President of the National Congress of Black Women and host of “Wake Up and Stay Woke” on WPFW-89.3 FM.

Beyond 2020 Elections THE LAST WORD

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux No matter what the outcome of the 2020 election, there remains much work to do. Our economy is wrong-sided, and we have to right-side it. Our tax code rewards the wealthy and penalizes others. Our regulatory system protects corporations, not people. Almost a hundred environmental regulations from the Obama years have been reversed. Schools have fewer protections than they once had. Workers have fewer protections, and unions are under attack. And the Supreme Court has been stacked to favor oligarchs, not everyday people. The very right to vote has been compromised with rules that marginalize too many people.

It is my fervent hope that the Biden-Harris ticket will prevail in this election, but even if they win, there is still much work to do. First, the coronavirus needs to be controlled. Mark Meadows, the 45th President’s chief of staff, says the administration will do nothing to contain the virus, and their wanton disregard of essential public health tenets (hand-washing, mask-wearing, social distancing) reflects their casual approach to the virus. A President Biden would tackle this issue, but he will need to be pushed to ensure that the process is egalitarian and that those who have suffered disproportionally, like Black folks, will get more remediation than those who have not so suffered.

Economic recovery and economic expansion should be high on the agenda. Again, those who have suffered from covid and repressive economic policies need special attention. Biden-Harris must address the racial wealth gap, the relentless unemployment

rate differential, and systemic poverty. Some of the employment situation can be addressed through an infrastructure improvement program.

The American Society of Civil Engineers consistently grades our roads, bridges, water quality, and public buildings with substandard grades. The appropriate investment of federal dollars would not only be good for employment but also for the economy.

Our criminal justice system must be fixed, and federal initiatives to stop police brutality must be developed.

talist system, and it may mean restructuring the system to make it more people-focused.

It is a possibility!

Now we know what it is like to live with a graft-centered leader who has thrown our nation under the bus for his selfish gains. We have the opportunity to learn what it is like to live with a more people-centered leader. Still, we should be clear that Bidden-Harris leadership will be center-left predatory capitalism. They will need to be pushed, and we need to be prepared to push them. If we have learned nothing from the

Environmental issues must be vigorously addressed. Health care must be treated as a right, and it must be universal. The “do” list is long, and it may include expanding the Supreme Court’s size. It’s not court-packing, as some would suggest; it’s right-sizing something that has gone wrong. The point is that a Biden-Harris victory may be cause for celebration, but it is also an invitation for all of us to roll up our sleeves and get to work, not only at the federal level but also at the state and local level.

I can hear my conservative friends already asking what all this will cost. We know the 2017 tax cut cost the Treasury trillions of dollars. We seem only to be interested in cost when we are looking at people on the bottom. There appears to be much less concern about programs designed to benefit the wealthy. Then, some of the work we have to do is to transform our mindset, decide what kind of economy we want, and then work to create it. That may mean a very different approach to our predatory capi-

Obama years, we should have learned that a closed mouth won’t get fed. Black folk were so happy to have a Black president that we were reluctant to push him and his administration very hard. Much as we may like Biden-Harris, we must be willing to push them.

When he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King said, “I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up.” Biden-Harris will move us closer to King’s dream, but they won’t take us all the way there. Not unless we push. We know what we have to do.

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author, media contributor and educator. Her latest project MALVEAUX! On UDCTV is available on youtube. com. For booking, wholesale inquiries or for more info visit www.juliannemalveaux.com.

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Run as Fast As You Can George Carlin, America, FAITHFUL UTTERANCES

By Dr. Froswa Booker-Drew I was talking to a dear friend who has not always made the best decisions. As he prepares for the next chapter of his life, I reminded him of temptations and triggers that exist.

The reality is that we all have temptations and triggers. One lady relapsed on a show I was watching the other night and remarked that she did not pay attention to her trigger which led to a series of bad decisions.

Sometimes we can be so well intended and still find ourselves in a situation that spirals out of control.

No one is exempt. For some of us, the temptation may be food. It comforts us and short term, it fulfills a hunger. The reality is that often it is not enough and so we consume more and more creating another situation of increased weight and even health issues.

That was not the initial intent but because we did not deal with the real hunger, we satisfied it with something temporary that can create an even longer-term challenge.

You should never go to the grocery store hungry. I know this from experience. When you are hungry, you focus on buying items that taste good, are filling but are not necessarily good for you. You overspend and often purchase items that have no nutritional value but provide limited satisfaction.

And a few hours later, you are still desiring more. You did not satisfy the real issue which is your body craving nutrients that were substituted with high calorie items-- which did absolutely nothing for you. How often are we satisfying our needs with temporary fixes that cause so much pain and regret later? Is it possible that we are fulfilling a need with the wrong medicine instead of really focusing on addressing the core of the matter?

Your triggers do not have to define your life. Jacob was a swindler and his name meant follower. God changed his name and made him a leader. This trait of being a swindler was something that initially was bad, but God used to it to build character

in him. Instead, recognize your traits and triggers and become aware of the situations that cause you to respond negatively. Sometimes it is as easy as removing yourself from circumstances that can create doubt, tension, and even regret.

I was telling my friend that when he is released, he must be careful in returning to environments that are reminders of his past. The temptation will be there. Yet, we must be honest with ourselves. Some of us need to run as fast as we can away from toxic people, situations, and even jobs.

Joseph in the Bible had experienced significant trauma. Being kidnapped by his brothers and sold into slavery, he ended up in the house of his Egyptian master who placed him in control of all his household matters. His wife was attracted to Joseph and pursued him relentlessly. Joseph easily could have taken advantage of the situation. I mean, it was available to him. Genesis 39: 11-15 MSG states, “On one of these days he came to the house to do his work and none of the household servants happened to be there. She grabbed him by his cloak, saying, “Sleep with me!”

He left his coat in her hand and ran out of the house.

When she realized that he had left his coat in her hand and run outside, she called to her house servants: “Look—this Hebrew shows up and before you know it he’s trying to seduce us. He tried to make love to me but I yelled as loud as I could. With all my yelling and screaming, he left his coat beside me here and ran outside.”

It was a no-win situation for Joseph but he knew he needed to get away. What do you need to immediately drop and get away from that tempts you to do something that you might regret?

Drop that thing, that situation, that person and leave behind whatever maybe attaching you to stay connected. By making the best decision, Joseph still thrived even in prison “because GOD was with him; whatever he did GOD made sure it worked out for the best.”

Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew is the author of three books and the host of the podcast, The Tapestry. Listen to the stories of women who have overcome obstacles and odds at https://www. spreaker.com/show/the-tapestry_1

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By Vincent L. Hall This column could get me in trouble for three reasons.

First and foremost, I must admit that George Carlin, my favorite comedian of all, ain’t Black. Only two White dudes make my top 10. But you know it doesn’t take much to get your Black Card snatched these days.

Secondly, Carlin’s mouth is about as filthy as mine. We do the kinda cussing that makes sailors blush!

As a writer, my choices are to have good scripts fed to me in rhythm and context.

Bernie Mac was right.

The average Black man can use Maryland Farmer (MF) 34 times in a twominute conversation. The word takes on at least five contextual sides, and when adequately enhanced, it can be made funny five ways as well.

But Carlin, like Richard Pryor and Deon Cole (Charles on Black’ish) writes jokes for profundity and uses profanity for color and catchiness. Here are a few short quotes by George Carlin that made me a fan early on: “If a man is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, what’s all the fighting about?”

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? Great writers/comics use satire and reality to make us laugh at others until we realize that we are actually

laughing at ourselves.”

In one of his last punch lines, before he died in 2008, Carlin forcefully challenged America’s best-selling pitch. We claim greatness and preeminence over the world, citing the “American Dream.” Carlin transformed it into the nightmare that both Dr. King and Malcolm X proclaimed it to be.

“It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Good, honest, hardworking people…these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich @#$%^%$ who don’t give

this article could get me in trouble for three reasons. I gave you the “Black Card” and “Filthy Language.” I didn’t give you point three.

That method is called literary suspense. You give them the answers to the test and then make them wait.

Anyway. The third reason this may cause me some unrest is that this was written specifically for you Trump worshippers: White, Black, Brown, and otherwise. It looks like he’s gonna lose.

We fell for that trick in 2016.

The only way to make “America Great,” is to realize that if half this nation has a

a ‘truck’ about them. They don’t give a Truck about you! They don’t care about you at all! At all, at all!”

And nobody seems to notice.

Nobody seems to care. That’s what the “owners” count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue “PRICK” that’s assaulting them every day. Because the owners of this country know the truth… It’s called the American Dream. Because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

Now some of you are smart and by now you are wondering. I told you that

dream and the other half has a nightmare, neither side can ever have what they want.

Trump sold you a bill of goods. He used racism and every other hateful divider he could find to make you believe in a Dream that he can never live.

You can either go back to sleep or grasp the notion that all men and women are created equal, and all have certain inalienable rights.

But no one possesses these rights until each of us does.

George Carlin got it.

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

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“HERE“ WHAT’S ON MILES MIND?

By Miles Jaye Why would I want to be here? Why would I want to live and die here? Why I am so inexplicably, inextricably tethered to this place that I, rightly or wrongly, call home, where I can be treated like an animal or worse on any given day?

Why claim as home a place where I’ve been treated like an unwelcome foreigner and told more than once to go back to where I come from? Home, where I’ve been called names, I wouldn’t want my grandsons to hear.

Why would I choose to live in a society governed by what is still referred to as an experiment, when test results are not promising and by all appearances, I’m the lab rat? Perhaps, I’m the lab frog. Remember the parable of the boiling frog?

If a frog is dropped into a pot of boiling water, scalded and afraid, it will immediately jump out. But, if a frog is placed into a pot of room temperature water, it will be comfortable and not sense danger. If you then gradually turn up the heat and increase the water temperature, by the time the frog realizes the water is boiling, it will be too late to escape. Is the water in this pot we call America getting hotter?

Now, more than ever before, in this presidential election year, I’ve asked myself these and similar questions. However, the problem with asking such questions is they tend to lead to new questions that have nothing to do with what is wrong with them and everything to do with what is wrong with me. Would I date someone who has clearly expressed disinterest in or disdain for me? Would I go to a party to which I was not invited with people who knowingly dislike me? Would I fight to keep a job where I am paid less than my peers and passed over for every promotion? No, no and no!

Of course not!

I voted yesterday and leaving the polling station I asked myself a few more tough questions. Why did I vote? What possible difference will my vote make? What will it actually change? And worst of all, would it even be counted?

These may seem like simple questions with simple answers, possibly too simplistic, but having to ask them is even more difficult-- it’s hurtful.

There’s a feeling that comes with asking them… it’s humiliation. Black Lives Matter may be the answer to the question, but what of such a question as, Do Black lives matter? Telling four members of Congress to go back to where they came from may be the answer, but what should we make of the question, do you even belong here… governing OUR country?

Early in my music career we traveled by tour bus. I can recall the AC running hot in the Summer and the heat not running at all one Winter. I remember an Out of Order sign on the rest room door on one trip. I found myself asking this question: If the bus is broken down on the side of the road, needing a new transmission and a new engine, do we call the bus company and request a new driver, or a new bus?

Our government needs a new transmission and a new engine. If it was in proper working order, Donald Trump would not have completed one year much less one term of presidency. If it was working properly, most of the Senate would have also been impeached for violation of oaths protecting the Constitution from threats both foreign and domestic. Attorney General Bill Barr would have been impeached. If government was in proper running condition, I, along with millions of other Americans, would not have to wonder if our votes will even be tallied, and why voter suppression is not a thing of a long gone past.

The government is in a state of disrepair. It has broken down, and I’m mad about it!

I’m angry with the designated

from page 1 stewards of Democracy, both parties, elected and trusted to maintain government properly! Vote? I want to vote for a new engine and transmission, not a new driver. I want to vote for a new bus! President Obama drove a broken-down bus for eight years, during which time Senator McConnell openly blocked one of his Supreme Court Justice nominees.

Trump was impeached by Congress, a DUI which should have disqualified him for re-election, but he was effectively acquitted by the Senate. He is now running for re-election, and simultaneously rushing a new Supreme Court Justice to the bench with Mitch McConnell’s blessing. This is government? This is Democracy?

Donald Trump has spent the past four years turning up the heat-- and not so gradually, but at an increasingly rapid rate. It appears however, we’ve grown accustomed to the near boiling water. We’re not nearly as alarmed by the increase in hate speech and racist rhetoric, xenophobia, the rise in poverty and unemployment, police violence, and Domestic Terrorism as we should be.

The Pandemic has struck a death blow to an already aging, outdated Education System.

Who’s teaching our children?

Rome may not be burning, but the damn bus is on fire, society is in peril, and interestingly, or perhaps tragically, both parties have us bickering among ourselves-- journalists, rappers, comedians, preachers, as they would have us focus on one and only one thing, not the bus-- the bus DRIVER. Maybe it’s time to walk! Why would anyone in their right mind want to be HERE? Maybe because it’s HERE that we can vote. I guess, because it’s HERE that I can write this article without fear of retribution.

No doubt because it’s HERE that I can write directly to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue…

Dear Mr. President: I voted!

That’s what’s on my mind!

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Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that ended the law that protected segregated schools.

Brown, who was born February 20, 1943, died March 25, 2018 at age 75. Her legacy is now enshrined in history.

I was just thinking of Ruby Bridges. In 1960, federal marshals escorted then six-year-old Bridges to her first day at a New Orleans, Louisiana elementary school. The marshals were assigned to protect her from a mob of racist white parents and citizens who yelled and taunted as they objected to her attending their formerly all-white school.

Bridges became the first Black child to integrate a formerly all-white elementary school in the south. Today, Bridges still is

them far way” to once all-white Dallas schools.

One sibling in particular did not fare well. A younger sister, Shirley Hardaway, was bused to W. T. White High School where she regularly fought bullies who taunted her.

Emotionally scarred by her experiences, the sister dropped out of school in 10th grade and died relatively young at age 53 in 2012.

“My sister and others of her generation carried the weight of a city wrestling with its own guilt about race, education and the Black body,” Dr. Loving wrote in the retrospective. “... It’s a shame that the city’s young, poor Black children carried the city’s burden on their shoulders.”

But there also were some much-improved experiences in the key years of 1976.

Then-Dallas school superintendent Nolan Estes drove a school

Ruby Bridges in front of famous Norman Rockwell painting of her experience.

alive and active as a chair of the Ruby Bridges Foundation that promotes racial tolerance and unity among youth and adults.

Dallas youth and families also had many life-changing experiences during efforts to desegregate schools here.

In 2015, three years before she died in Dallas at age 66, former Paul Quinn College English professor Dr. Mary Catherine Loving wrote a personal remembrance, sometimes painful, in The Dallas Morning News about Dallas school desegregation.

She told how she lived in the West Dallas projects and graduated from nearby Pinkston High School more than a year before busing to desegregate Dallas schools began in 1971. But later in the mid-1970s, her siblings were on “the big, yellow buses that lined up like tanks to take

bus himself on the first day of school to reassure parents.

Monitors were assigned at key points throughout the first days to promote good behavior. And a friendly group of White volunteers stood waiting to welcome the mostly Black students as they came off the buses.

I was just thinking, ...it stirs the heart to consider the things we go through attempting to make us all members of the same human race.

Norma Adams-Wade, Communities Columnist. Norma 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. norma_adams_wade@yahoo.com

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Paul Quinn College, 3837 Simpson Stuart Rd. Sister to Sister 19th Annual Fitness Festival We Are In This Together. Going Virtual! Host Celebrating Life Foundation. Reg: www.celebratinglife.org. 8:46 am.

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Spread LOVE: Mayor Curtistene McCowan remembered Continued from page 1 their honor. “Her leadership spirit will be missed. Her influence and her leadership was felt in DeSoto, her first love.”

A strong advocate of education, some say she had many loves and she was committed to her family, her faith and a life of service. In her 54th year of marriage, during an interview last December with Texas Metro News, she proudly stated that she and husband, Leon, had been married for 53 years.

“I married my high school sweetheart,” she said, noting that there was no resistance to their nuptials because, “Leon was such a great guy.”

She also shares a distinction with another elected official as the two were honored as distinguished alums of El Centro College, now Dallas College. Her fellow alum shared his expressions.

“She devoted a lot of her time and service to the public,” said Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, adding that Mayor McCowan was a selfless leader, pointing out her service with Concerned Citizens of DeSoto, DeSoto School Board, City Council and even secretary of Dallas County Inland Port, to name a few. “She spent a lot of time serving.”

And that’s how many will remember her.

According to Texas State Sen. Royce West, Mayor McCowan’s death hits close to home.

“We have lost a good person, a leader, caring person who in many instances put her family behind public service,” he said. “Curtistene will be missed. She loved her family, her community, her sorority, and fraternity brothers of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. She

Mary Stanton, Mayor McCowan and Dr. Andrea Hilburn

Serving the community

lived a full life, a life well lived.”

Those sorority sisters had been diligent with their prayers and calls of support, says Dr. Andrea Hilburn.

She and Ella Goode Johnson are in a unique club with the Mayor; both having served as president of the Dallas Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. As the current president, Dr. Hilburn fielded calls from members.

“My phone is ringing off the wall,” said Dr. Hillburn. “The news was devastating. She wasn’t just our soror, she was a community leader too.”

And despite all of her many duties, she still managed to be very active, attending meetings, providing support, and she “did her part, because she always had time for Delta.”

Goode Johnson has also been on “Mayor McCowan watch,” as a two-time president who was a chapter leader when Mayor McCowan was initiated into the sorority.

“It is with deep sadness and sisterly regard to have heard about the passing of my Delta Soror,” said the 31st and 43rd chapter president. “Mayor McCowan was a community leader who has built a reputation of being fair, just, dedicated and committed in all of her undertakings.

“As the first female Mayor of the All-America City of DeSoto, elected in 2016, who also witnessed the naming of a school in her honor some years ago, she will be remembered for the many good deeds she did and how well she did them.”

While some of her colleagues on the DeSoto City Council were still processing the news, a few shared their thoughts.

“Mayor McCowan was a community giant, of which her love for family and community will go unmatched,” said the Honorable Nicole Raphiel, DeSoto City Councilmember, Place 3. “She was the engine that thought she could, and she did. She will be known as DeSoto’s greatest cheerleader. She saw the best in everyone she encountered and had an innate ability to love the excellence into you; and for that, I will forever miss her.

My sincerest condolences to her beloved family and beloved City of DeSoto.

Councilmember Raphiel’s expressions were echoed by fellow City Councilmember of Place 2, Kay Brown-Patrick, who said she was in complete shock and heartbroken.

“My relationship with Mayor McCowan began well before I began my time on City Council, she was one of the reasons I elected to run for office,” said Brown-Patrick.

“In my last conversation with her she stated she was counting on us to continue to move our great City forward.

“Even in the midst of her battle she had DeSoto in her heart. She was an amazing woman of God with a heart of service, class, and love for all and she loved the City and residents of DeSoto.

Her legacy is unmatched and to say she will be missed is an understatement. Heaven gained a great one,” she added.

A longtime member of Kirkwood Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, where she served as Chair of the Trustee Board, Mayor McCowan received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Dallas Baptist University and an Associates Degree in Business Management from El Centro College. She was employed by the Federal Trade Commission for over 32 years, and served as Senior Investigator for over 18 years. She retired from the federal government on January 1, 2005, after more than 32 years of service.

Her service didn’t stop, as many point out.

Taking a moment from Election 2020, Dallas County Democratic Party Chair Carol Donovan paid homage to Mayor McCowan, “We grieve her passing and we celebrate her life and leadership!”

Ms. McCowan supported former DeSoto Mayor Carl Sherman,

Sr. when he decided to run for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives, and he was one of her strongest supporters.

Rep. Sherman called her “the most gracious mayor we’ve ever had,” saying that unlike many leaders, “she was able to diplomatically bring both sides of the city together. There was an elegance and an eloquence about her.”

Former Lancaster ISD Superintendent and CEO of The Impact Institute Dr. Larry Lewis shared his expressions upon hearing the news.

“Curtistene McCowan was just an amazing woman of God. She loved her community, she loved her family, she loved DeSoto, and what a legacy she has left, but what a loss for all of us. I appreciate all the things that she did for me and with me. Wow, I just can’t believe it. She is so loved and then she loved everybody.”

Prior to winning a seat on the City Council, she served five years on the DeSoto Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors, where she held the positions of Internal Audit Chair, Vice President and served four years as President.

A founder of Concerned DeSoto Citizens (CDC) -- a 501 (c)(3) non-profit community service organization, she has served as president and in numerous other leadership roles since the organization was chartered in 1989. She is a past member of the City of DeSoto’s Charter Review Committee and the Dallas County Grand Jury.

On October 29, 2007, Governor Rick Perry appointed her to an unexpired term on the Texas Southern University (TSU) Board of Regents; in 2009, Governor Perry re-appointed her to a full six-year term.

Mayor McCowan was the first AfricanAmerican elected to public office in DeSoto, when she won a seat on the DeSoto ISD Board of Trustees in 1990. She served two three-year terms as a School Board Trustee -- two of those years as president.

She served on the Statewide Panel on Student Skills and Knowledge for the Texas Education Agency from 1993-94. In 2000, she was elected as the Charter President of the DeSoto ISD Education Foundation Board of Directors and has served on the

Executive Committee since that time.

In recognition of her 30 + years of volunteer service and commitment to education, the DeSoto ISD Board of Trustees voted unanimously in January, 2007 to name a school in her honor. The Curtistene S. McCowan Middle School opened in August, 2007.

The mayor was an active participant on the DeSoto ISD’s Advisory Council. She has also participated in the district’s One-on-One Mentoring Program, the Discipline Management Committee and the Curtistene S. McCowan Middle School’s Site-based Decision Making Committee. Ms. McCowan is a former interview panelist for the prestigious Dr. Emmett J. Conrad Internship Program, sponsored by Sen. West.

In addition, Ms. McCowan has been an active and financial member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (“DST”) for 32 years.

She is a Golden Life Member and has served in numerous elected and appointed leadership positions, including: President of Dallas Alumnae Chapter from 1999-2001; National & Regional Elections Committees, 2004 and 2005, respectively; Dodd Education & Support, Inc. Board of Directors, 2002-2011, Co-Chair of the 2003 Southwest Regional Conference; Southwest Regional Program Co-Coordinator from 2003-2005; Southwest Regional Social Action Co-Coordinator from 2005-2009; Southwest Regional Volunteer Services Co-Coordinator from 2009-2015; and the National Distinguished Professor Endowed Chair Committee from 2013 until the present.

She and husband Leon R. McCowan, have two sons: Danny Sebastian (Angie) and Leon Curtis (Stephanie) McCowan. They are the proud grandparents of Tiana, Kirsten and Taylor McCowan.

Reading about her wonderful life, I can only hope that many will be inspired to reach out and express their feelings to someone they love and admire; before it is too late!

The Texas Metro News editorial team and The Dallas Morning News contributed to this report; the latter as part of a collaborative partnership with Texas Metro News, that seeks to boost coverage of communities of color, particularly in southern Dallas.

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Teens gathered on a Tuesday night; a school night at that.

Due to COVID-19 precautions, the crowd was small, however the stakes were extremely high. It was election night in America, and in Tiffany Bozeman’s backyard, these African American teens were going to be well-informed.

“I felt like it was just so critical in these times that our kids understand the electoral process,” the IT exec for PepsiCo said. “Having them come together and giving them the facts so they could be equipped, so they can understand, so when they go out into the street they can speak intelligently, they can have the back to support their beliefs; they can then educate at the same time.”

In Frisco, Texas, which spans both Denton and Collin counties - two solid Republican strongholds in the entire state; Bozeman stood underneath the outdoor tele-

Teens Kori Ballard and Bryce Wilcox at Teen Election Night Party.

vision screen that displayed election results as they trickled in. Active in numerous organizations including the Frisco Education Foundation, Jack and Jill of America, Inc., and National Black MBAs, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock alum said this watch party she created specifically for teens had a purpose: to help them know and under-

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stand their voting power.

According to several youth, the party was an overwhelming success.

“I think it’s important because the next election we’ll be voting and watching this election will help us make our decision in the future and it’ll also just help us make a better future for everyone in this country,” 15-year-old

Tiffany Bozeman speaks with teens about politics.

Maci Curtis said.

Bryce Wilcox, also 15, boldly shared his opposition to the area’s political majority, emphatically saying, “I wouldn’t want something that is forced on me that I really don’t want to follow if I don’t believe in it.”

Some parents in attendance shared tips on how the teens can use their power. Mackenzie Townsel, age 16, said she understood the collective power of disagreement.

“I believe that everyone has a right to their own opinion and nobody should be biased towards anything or discriminate because of what you believe in, and to a certain extent,” Townsel said. “I believe that we need to be unified in certain stuff because we’re all humans and we’re the greatest resource to each other. So at the end of the day we need to work together because we’re in it together.”

Jordon Hamilton, 15, seemed excited at the idea of equipping himself with truth.

“We can prove factual evidence and we can’t just sound like we’re talking just to say things,” Hamilton said.

“We have to actually know

what we’re talking about.

For 15-year-old Kori Ballard, the night was reaffirming.

“Really just getting out and voting and showing representation within your small community because that is where it starts,” Ballard said. “It kind of motivates you to go out and vote and be more involved within your school board and activities to get change in your small community.”

Sixteen-year-old Amari Merritt plans to take what he learned beyond the backyard.

“I can tell my friends and people that I know to apply for positions of power and make their voice heard,” Merritt said.

Bozeman said that her goal was to provide a safe and comfortable place for teenagers to become better educated about the election process.

“The kids are going to walk away and they’re going to be ready,” Bozeman said. “Whatever happens or whoever wins, they’re going to understand the process, and be able to then go forward, because in four more years they will be the group that will be doing the voting.”

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2018, when some of their candidates were caught by surprise.

“You have to tip your hat to Republicans,” said consultant Bill Miller. “They got their vote out and did what they had to do.”

Miller said the outcome was a setback for Democrats, even as they made the margins close.

“They had to claim some victory in any of the three scenarios,” he said.

“They didn’t, so it’s a major loss.”

But U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar was upbeat, noting that Democrats could pull out some congressional victories.

“We’re going to get back there,” he said. “We’re going to get Democrats back in power.”

But in North Texas, Republicans appeared to have held in Congress, winning with incumbent Van Taylor in the 3rd District. In the highly competitive 24th District, former Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne was leading Democrat Candace Valenzuela. Democrats had high hopes of winning that contest.

Samantha Cotten, a spokesperson for Trump’s Texas campaign, summed up the night for Republicans in a short sentence.

“So much for all that talk about Texas turning blue,” she said.

For Democrats, the losses are disappointing.

By taking control of the Texas House, Democrats could have had a strong voice in the upcoming redistricting process, where lawmakers will draw state legislative and congressional boundaries.

What’s more, Democrats would have been in a better position to push their plans to provide affordable health care, stop voter suppression, develop green energy, pump more money into public education and other progressive ideas.

Now Republicans will remain in control of the Legislature and executive branch.

Looking ahead to 2022 Tuesday’s election also sets up an epic battle in 2022 for control of state government, when Abbott and the rest of the GOP’s statewide team is up for re-election.

But Democrats do have something on which to build. The races were close and the energy of their campaigns could spill over into future election cycles.

National experts say Texas is close to becoming a swing state, though

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it’s unclear what happens if Trump is removed from the process. His presidential race was too close to call.

“It’s going to take a couple more election cycles to know how much this movement was personal to Trump and how much of it was a broader trend towards the Democratic Party,” said political analyst Nathan Gonzales, editor and publisher of the nonpartisan Inside Election. “But we simply have to get beyond the picture in our head of Texas being a giant red state, when in reality it’s a big red state with growing islands of blue in the metropolitan areas.”

Republican consultant Matt Langston, who worked five years in the Sunshine State, said a Democratic victory could have made Texas more like Florida, a state that is critical to Republicans, but a fierce battleground in every presidential contest.

“But right now all you have to do is do the math," Langston said. “Texas is a Republican state.”

Already Democrats are looking toward 2022, when they’ll have a chance — during a midterm election — of taking down Abbott and Texas' GOP leadership.

“We’ll have a couple glasses of wine and then we’ll start gearing up for the 2022 elections,” said Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa. “That election will be even more impactful for us in the state of Texas.”

Denton County Commissioner Dianne Edmondson, a former chair of the Denton County GOP, said Tuesday’s election results reveal that both parties will have to work hard for votes. She was pleased that Republicans did well in the suburbs.

“You can’t take Texas for granted,” Edmondson said. “I just hope that after this contentious presidential race we all emerge as Americans.”

How it unfolded In 2014 Abbott beat former state Sen. Wendy Davis by 20 percentage points, a high-water mark in the GOP’s dominance of Texas. But in 2016 Trump beat Hillary Clinton by only 9 percentage points. And Republican Sen. Ted Cruz beat former U.S Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso, by 2.6 percentage points.

The Democratic success in 2018 and 2020 has been credited in part to the crusade against Trump, particularly the defection of suburban voters dissatisfied with his policies and conduct, to the Democratic Party. continued on page 15

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It is written in John 6:44“People cannot come to me unless the Father who sent me brings them to me. I will bring these people back to life on the last day. “ In summary, it says by faith, as if God did not send you then you will not stop me on my journey to the end.

Just another lesson, my maternal grandmother gave me. She and other mothers of color stood their ground on uninvited gravity stepping in their path. African American women are the most powerful group of voters in America. In the 2008 and 2012 presidential

elections, Black women voted at 74 percent as they invaded the polls. As I pay tribute to African American women, whose very actions rendered make or break outcomes of both elections, I am reminded of my praying Big Mama saying,” Don’t come for me unless I send for you!” No barriers will intimidate us.

This current election is showcasing actions that are deeply rooted in voter suppression. Unfortunately, the strategy for voter suppression was in place before the voting began. It looks as if it covertly began

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VBS: I am so impressed with Joy’s resilience. Just a fact 42,000 women die from metastatic breast cancer each year in America, Joy lives with metastatic breast cancer which is stage 4 breast cancer.

JJ: I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer 12 years ago. I was in treatment, my doctor had a clear plan for us dealing with breast cancer. Once all that was done I wrapped it up in a neat bow and went about my life.

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long just after the first election.

Whatever the outcome of the election, we are going to have to provide a real deep cleansing of our American tapestry. The opposition to democracy has mastered strategies like slowing the mail; closing voting locations; purging voter registrations and, even worse, baiting the American citizens with F.E.A.R – fake expectations appearing real. During the debate, vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris said something quite profound as she responded to a question.

She said, “They are coming for you!”

Rather than become discouraged, I say to you, as I channel Big Mama, “Do not let them come for you!”

I challenge you to change this moment to a movement.

Please continue to collaborate to get our votes secured that

have not been counted on or after Tuesday, November 3, 2020. So, whoever wins, let’s make them accountable to every citizen or we can send them packing using the tools of impeachment, recall, and civil disobedience.

Yes, this voter suppression is arriving during a time when we’re carrying the weight of racism and the deathly sting of racism on our shoulders.

2020 will be a year that we will want to never repeat. We cannot let the supremacist baggage of others stop anyone from seeking a real democracy.

Take time to see how they are coming for you and send them back to their source. Please tell me how you will make our officials accountable, email me at Terryallenpr@gmail.com.

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Time We’ve seen a number of documentaries lately where a person is wrongly jailed and seeking their release, but it’s hard to gather sympathy for a man who is incarcerated for a crime that he actually committed.

However that’s what director Garrett Bradley does in the Amazon/Prime Video movie TIME. The movie tells the story of a Black couple who freely admitted to robbing a bank. Sibil Fox Richardson spent three years in prison for her crime, but her husband, who was the mastermind of the crime, received 60 years in prison with no

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a persistent couch for a few months for several months. I went to my Oncologist, she dug a little deeper and found that my cancer had metastasized.

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TIME tells the story of the 20 years Mrs. Richardson raised a family on her own while fighting for the early release of her husband. The film consists mainly of over 100 hours of home movies made by Mrs. Richardson of her daily struggles raising a daughter and three sons who have no memory of their father. She was pregnant with one of the boys when her husband was sent to jail so she has one child who has never even met her father.

This is a movie story about one family’s struggle but it could easily be the story of thousands of families who are suffering with the same situation. There’s a quote in the movie from Sibil’s mother that could easily be the bottom line to this story, “It’s easy for a black man to get into jail, but it sure is hard for him to get out.”

The movie has a run time under one hour and it is not rated. TIME won the director’s award at The Sundance Film Festival and on my “Hollywood Popcorn Scale” I rate it a JUMBO.

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Dallas religious icon and humanitarian, Dies at age 88

Full Gospel Holy Temple (F.G.H.T.) mourns the passing of Dr. Shirley Mae Hollis-Murray, the Co-founder of one of Dallas’ original mega churches.

Dr. Murray is a renown Dallas religious and humanitarian icon who served her church and community for almost 60 years, feeding the homeless and underprivileged persons, educating youth, creating ac-cess to education and empowering women.

Her sensitivity to homeless and underprivileged persons, due to her own humble beginnings, fueled the establishment of the Helping Hand Out-reach Ministry in 1981. For almost 40 years, this humanitarian outreach has continued to give food and clothes to thousands of needy families each year.

In 2005, she orchestrated the transportation of residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina to the church to receive warm meals and clothing during their stay in Dallas shelters. Education was also a critical focus for Dr. Murray and in 1979, she founded and served as president of the now-defunct Shirley Murray Child Development Center. Under her care, the institution’s curriculum was designed to develop the whole child: mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Of paramount concern to her was maintaining the “care” in daycare. This state-licensed and accredited facility ranked among Dallas’ top preschools.

Along with her husband the late Apostle Lobias Murray, she co-founded Texas’ first privately owned and funded fully accredited African-American K-12 grade school, the Lobias

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Dr. Shirley M. Murray was Co-Founder of Full Gospel Holy Temple Churches, Inc Murray Christian Academy, which served students from the Dallas and Fort Worth areas for 30 years. After the demise of her husband in 2011, Dr. Murray returned to her love for edu-cation to continue his legacy by creating access to higher education.

She established the Apostle Lobias Murray Memorial Scholarship Fund. In addition to her philanthropic efforts, Dr. Murray quickly became a no-table religious icon through her international evangelistic preaching min-istry that impacted many ministries, religious leaders, and countless souls across the globe. She is known as a mentor to First Ladies and women ministers nationwide.

For more than 30 years, she hosted an annual Women’s Conference that drew thousands of women from across the nation to the DFW metroplex.

In the late 1980s, she founded an annual Youth Convention that contin-ues to attract thousands of young people around the country to glean from each

other and strengthen their relationship with God. Many young people and youth ministers have been trained and equipped with spiritu-al and natural resources including financial literacy.

Dr. Murray authored several books designed to share knowledge and divinely ordered guidance and everyday practical advice to women, Christians and those simply seeking a better life. Some notable titles in-clude Strength in the Time of Need, the Power of Silence and Woman to Woman.

Born on January 19, 1932, in Henderson, Texas, to the late Simon and Paulene Hollis, Dr. Murray was educated in the Henderson School Dis-trict.

March 25, 1950, Dr. Murray married Apostle Lobias Murray, founder of the Full Gospel Holy Temple Churches, Inc. In 1953, Dr. Murray moved with her husband and children to Dallas, Texas for a better life.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Apostle Lobias Murray and her only son, Herman L. Murray, Sr. She is survived by her daughters Sharon Murray-Smith, Gwendol Murray, Brenda Rice; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Dr. Murray will lie in honor Thursday, November 5 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday, November 6 from 11 a.m. to the close of the evening celebratory service which starts at 7 p.m. The final Official Homegoing service will be held Saturday, November 7 at 11 a.m. All services will be held at the Full Gospel Holy Temple Church located at 39727 W. LBJ Freeway, Dallas, Texas 75237. For more information, call the church at 972-572-3448.

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Continued from page 11 “There were gains made before 2020, but Trump threw gasoline on the situation,” said Ed Espinoza, the executive director of the liberal group called Progress Texas.

O’Rourke’s group, Powered by People, registered hundreds of thousands of new Texas residents with a history of voting for Democrats in other states. Then they track those voters for the November election with the goal of pushing statewide candidates and flipping the Texas House.

But that didn’t prevent Republicans from holding serve. Several conservative groups, in concert with Abbott, produced a massive voter turnout operation.

Carney praised the quality of GOP candidates, and pointed out that Abbott’s operation has never stopped churning, even though his election was two years ago.

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Republican consultant Vinny Minchillo said Democrats misread the suburban electorate.

“Their candidates were too liberal,” he said.

Without control of the House, Democrats won’t have a stronger voice in the redistricting process. Republicans still control the House and Senate.

Meanwhile, Democrats will try to build on the 2020 cycle.

“We lost elections before, but this is the biggest gap between expectations and results,” said Democratic strategist Matt Angle. “What’s clear is we overestimated the level of support our candidates would get in the suburbs.”

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