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One More Reason

WAKE UP AND STAY WOKE

BY DR. E. FAYE WILLIAMS, ESQ.

By the time you read this, it will no longer be breaking news that one of the cancers which has plagued Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has returned.

Thankfully, she has declared her intention to remain on the court and, prayerfully, her longevity will extend well beyond the January 2021 presidential inauguration. I have no doubt that if, before then, she should no longer be able to fulfill her responsibilities as an associate justice, Mitch McConnell would attempt to push a Supreme Court nominee through Senate confirmation with mercurial speed. THE LAST WORD

BY DR. JULIANNE MALVEAUX

What would you do if somebody walked by your house and promised to rob it the next day? Most of us would take every precaution, checking the locks, the door, and the windows. Some of us might weapon up, making sure we could defend our homestead. Some might also reach out to law enforcement, sharing the threat with them. Almost all of us would take the threat seriously and make the appropriate precautions to prevent our violation.

The 45th President of the United States has warned us that he plans to rob us. First, he placed one of his crooked cronies in

Justice Ginsberg has proven herself to be a woman of character, strength, integrity and endurance.

Her judicial decisions have identified her as a champion of the people and a staunch proponent of real justice.

“The Notorious RBG” has been a force for equal rights and justice for decades — long before her confirmation to the Supreme Court. I can only assume that her commitment to women’s rights, civil rights and rights for the LGBQT community is based upon her experiences as a victim of discrimination.

For all citizens of conscience, the news of the recidivism of her cancer should be met with deep regret and, especially for political progressives, provides one more reason to vote against #45!

Justice Ginsberg’s decisions and declarations from the bench have commonly met the test of charge of the postal service. Then he said that he would not fund the postal service to facilitate the timely processing of mail ballots. He has continuously associated mail voting with fraud, although nine states have had universal mail voting for years. And finally, he just put it out there, plain and simple. He thinks mail voting favors Democrats, and he doesn’t want to do Democrats any favors. So instead, his postal chief is removing mailboxes and shutting down sorting machines. And now the USPS has warned election officials in most states that ballots mailed before election might not arrive in time to be counted.

The 45th President is setting up a situation where the November election can be contested. He’s doing it because he has already stacked the Supreme Court in his practicality and good judgment. For me, her most notable quote referenced SCOTUS’s 2013 dissolution of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

In her dissent, she wrote: “The sad irony of today’s decision lies in its utter failure to grasp why the [Voting Rights Act] has proven effective throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”

With the 2020 election and the prospect of a new administration in 2021, the health and well-being of Justice Ginsberg loom large. Notably, she is onefourth of the liberal wing of the Supreme Court. She’s reliable in her support for liberal positions of jurisprudence.

Her decisions have always been based upon protections favor. He has no interest in maximizing the number of people voting but minimizing that number. He’s not interested in democracy, but in dictatorship.

If someone told you they were planning to rob you, you’d take precautions. Trump has declared that he intends to steal this election. We can’t let him do it. Not only must the Biden-Harris ticket beat him, but they must beat him like a drum, so decisively that there is no doubt that he has got to go.

Here’s what you must do. 1. Voting procedures vary by city and state. Make sure you know the rules. Some places send all registered voters mail-in ballots, while others require you to request an absentee ballot.

Find your local Bureau online, or call your favorite local electand greater inclusiveness for individuals without regard to race, gender or gender identification.

Current administration and Senate dispositions guarantee that any replacement for her would hold a judicial philosophy that was diametrically opposed to hers and would work to reverse many of the hardwon civil rights gains of the past 50 years.

Understanding this gives us one more reason to vote. Although we specifically vote for president and vice president in a national election, our vote for them means so much more.

This is demonstrated by the election of #45, and his supporting cast in the Senate.

Many, even his niece, Mary Trump, have labeled #45 a virulent racist, but he’s not the only one in the White House. Stephen Miller, the identified architect of the Muslim Ban and Family Separation/Border Detention, has been identified as a

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racist in the ilk of his president.

ed to gt the information. 2. Return your ballot in the shortly after you get it. If you put your ballot in the mail on election day November 3, it may not be counted. Some places will have drop boxes for ballots, and others will allow you to drop off your ballot. Just get your ballot back by whatever means necessary. 3. If you prefer to vote in person, or if you’ve neglected to mail your absentee ballot, make sure

Over 20,000 times, #45 has been a documented liar. I have watched innumerable cabinet members and members of the executive staff, who serve on the inside of the administration’s revolving door, lie with the same vigor as their chief.

In reflection, we have generously paid three consecutive press secretaries to lie to us whenever and however “the boss” determined it necessary. And they aren’t the only ones!

We should not need a reason to vote beyond our civic responsibility; but, with #45’s lies and self-promotion, his mismanagement of COVID-19, the growth and his promotion of racial injustice, and, now, the potential for molding the Supreme Court in his malignant image, we must vote. Voting must be a personal and collective imperative!

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

you know where your polling place is. Because of the coronavirus, some cities are reducing the number of available polling places, and the site where you usually vote may be closed. 4. It is also possible to vote early in person. Check with your Board of Elections about when and where you might vote early. 5. Be patient. Conducting an election amidst a pandemic is new for us, and some election proce

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Slowing Down to Stop

FAITHFUL UTTERANCES

BY DR. FROSWA BOOKER-DREW

Lately, I think we have all been overwhelmed by Zoom meetings. It seems as if we are busier than we were before and as a result, I find that more people are drained and exhausted. Even in being confined in our homes, we are rushed.

We are eating shorter lunches to make room for more calls. We are going to bed later, getting up earlier. Even as the world has paused for the pandemic, our pivoting has caused panic.

We are trying to keep up on an unending wheel that continues to pick up speed. Most people I talk to are overwhelmed, struggling and for one friend, less motivated than before.

During this season, we must be mindful of our own mental health and the toll that it takes to deal with the uncertainty of an unknown assailant—the virus—as well as the racial injustice that we continue to witness along with the Census, upcoming elections and being confined to our homes. It is a lot to process and there is so much that we do not understand. There is a young entertainer who recently posted that she could no longer take the isolation and lack of intimacy and wanted things to be done.

Many saw it as a cry for help and others viewed it as a suicide note. It is troubling to see the impact this having on all ages. Young people are no longer able to enjoy the social aspects of school and college as they were before. Our seniors are isolated from family and friends. Those who are single are also alone often without visitors for months. We were designed to be in community and wired for relationship.

For those who are not disconnected because our work continues to create more meetings, calls, emails, text messages, and social media inboxing, we can feel like we are on all the time. Our downtime is oversaturated with reading Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms that slowly distract us and take time away from those things that really pour back into us. In this season, there are those of us who are losing ourselves.

Luke 8:43-48 says, “And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.”

But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.” Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling

and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.””

Metaphorically, many of us are bleeding out and if we are not clear about who we should seek, we will go to so many remedies that the world will give to us that we will never be healed. We seek out comfort in ways that are temporary fixes, never offering real peace and restoration. You must be willing to own your need and take the risk to seek what God has for you and that is only by reaching out to Him. For others, we are daily pouring into others, not recognizing that for every person that pulls at us, power leaves us, too. Jesus knew that and rejuvenated himself by getting away with those closest to Him and other times, by being in solitude and in prayer. Even in the midst of COVID with so many distractions and issues that we face, there is healing available. All we need to do is ask. Read 2 Chronicles 7:14.

Slow down, seek God, and He will heal you, and show you the way to restoration.

Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew is the author of three books for women. Her upcoming Podcast, The Tapestry, airs on Society Bytes Radio on Mondays at 1 PM CST. To listen, visit https://www. drfroswa.com/TapestryPodcast/. To connect to or learn more about Dr. Froswa’, visit drfroswa.com.

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kegee Airman and one of Dallas’ pioneer Black physicians who helped integrate St. Paul Hospital’s medical staff in the 1950s. Dr. Jordan died in 1991 at age 85. Mrs. Jordan died in 2017 at age 95.

She is gone, but like her memory, not forgotten. Julia Jordan was a storyteller, pure and simple. But although her gift of recall was superior, Jordan was not alone in the pure joy of telling stories.

I was just thinking... a door that theater maven Teresa Coleman Wash opened in Dallas made me remember Julia Jordan.

Wash opened a door at Bishop Arts Theatre Center that allows Dallas-area elders to put their memories to use. Wash, the Center’s founder and executive artistic director, linked arms with officials at senior living and recreation facilities around town. She then created a program where seniors could get together and share stories of people and experiences they remembered from their lives well lived.

The program began as Silver Stories Storytelling Circle, designed to quell feelings of loneliness and isolation that some elders experience when they survive or are removed from family and loved ones. Through the program, elders from different communities would meet twice a week at Bishop Arts, go on stage and tell stories, as well as do other activities to stimulate the mind, body and spirit

Then the coronavirus pandemic struck. But Wash and her staff of artists and co-sponsors did not waiver. They came up with a variation of the program and named it PatioLive! that still is very active currently. Here’s how that program works:

Performing artists go to parking lots and patios of particular senior living facilities and entertain residents who looked out windows or through open patio doors while socially distanced and wearing masks. The living facilities include Tyler Street Towers, Iris Memory Care at Turtle Creek, and The Bridge

Loaves of bread to share

at Fair Park.

While the performers tell stories and provide music and small props, they also urge residents to participate by call-and-response or by playing small hand instruments. The general public and theater supporters also can view the performances on Bishop Arts’ Facebook and Instagram pages.

There are lessons to be learned from these slices of life. Sharing memories is like sharing a meal, breaking bread -- like Julia Jordan who shared every crumb. These elders are dividing their loaves. The bread tastes better when you break the loaf and feed someone else.

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

KAMALA WATCH - On the Campaign Trail

By DERRICK PAYNE Texas Metro News Contributing Writer

Just had to look at that and breathe deep. Howard University, despite its flaws and blemishes, has pro-duced some absolute intellectual thoroughbreds, and we are proud to count Kamala Harris as one. Howard has long been a proving ground where the good become great academically and intellectually (not the same thing) and I am proud to claim it as my Alma Mater. As a freshman at Howard 35 years ago, majoring in Political Science and Economics, I encountered Kamala Harris and was amazed. She was then, and is now, a BOSS in every sense of the word. In the Howard Vernacular, she was a DIVA.

Every department at Howard had a set of students that were a cut above— respected by professors who were giants themselves, clear campus leaders for their intellect and vision, strong enough to create a different future than the one we were assigned. Kamala Harris was THAT sister. Didn’t play in the classroom, could mop up ANYBODY in a debate, and destined to push her way to the front of whatever she decided to do.

Economics was a department full of policy wonks, math

Sen. Harris - younger years

nerds, and folks who thought a Friday night discussion of Keynesian Theory was fun. Folks didn’t exactly know what it would lead to—none of us knew or had ever met an “economist,” and for first generation students such as myself, somehow, education had to translate to the ability to earn a living. Several of us combined studies and double majored in Political Science with the now hysterical idea that, “well at least I can go to law school and get paid in full..”

Political science was one of the strongest departments at the University. Scholars such as Ron Walters, Alvin Thornton, Joseph McCormick and Lorenzo Morris not only completely mastered their disciplines but served as cerebral role models for many of us. This is the fertile soil in which the Kamala Harris political roots were planted.

We were given the highest quality academic instruction,

Sen. Harris with her AKA sisters in Dallas

but we were also given the clearest of man-dates: lead, don’t follow. Put your people first. Do, Act, and Be Black. Know your history. Be better than anyone expects. Be consistent. Never stop growing. This is what Kamala Harris reflects as she aspires to serve her country in perhaps our greatest contemporary hour of need.

Hard to go all the way back to those roots in Frederick Douglass Hall so many years ago…we were literal children- 18, 19, 20 years old, away from home for the first time, making daily mistakes, trying to learn who we were and what part of the world we fit into. I am convinced that we had more fun than any other group of people on the earth. We learned, sometimes by failing, that the spirit inside us was and is unbreakable, that the people sitting in the lecture hall next to us would be obligated by their education to serve, to break glass ceilings, to demonstrate effectiveness, and to motivate and lift others around us.

The world at that time was such a rapidly changing placethe late 80s brought us Reaganomics, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-contra scandal, the explosion of crack cocaine that destroyed the communi-ties many of us came from while we were away partying for our right to fight, and not coincidentally, the 1988 presidential campaign of Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Student Kamala Harris was studying Political Science and Economics at America’s preeminent HBCU, led by the best professors I have ever encountered, right in the middle of all that.

“Veritas Et Utilitas”. Howard University’s motto, translates as “Truth and Service”. Not a slogan, but a real, measurable intellectual practice and commitment top to bottom. Howard grads find themselves living this motto.

Did it work? Was it worth it? Were the sacrifices necessary to tunnel under and climb over walls in front of us?

Sen Harris speaking to sisters

Kamala Harris is poised to become the Vice President of the United States of America. I think it worked.

This is really not hard to figure out. I’m voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the future leaders of this country and encourage anyone reading this to do the same.

Derrick Payne is a Professor at El Centro College and an alumnus of Howard University.

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When:

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Texas Black Sports Hall of Fame Royce West Celebrity Golf Classic

Friday, September 18, 2020 at 9:00 a.m.

Golf Club of Dallas, 2200 W. Red Bird Ln., Dallas, TX 75232

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Contact: Benefitting the TBSHOF at African American Museum, Dallas.

$600 Team $150 Individual

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dures have been unnecessarily politicized. You may encounter obstacles if you choose to vote in person. Document any hurdles you have to clear, get names of anyone who denied you the right to vote, and complain if the matter is not resolved. The Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law runs a hotline on election day.

Their number is 866-OUR

VOTE, or 866-6878683. 6. Spread the word. Reach out

to your circle to share information about voting and encourage your friends and colleagues to vote. 7. Because of the coronavirus, which is not likely to be gone by November, there will be fewer gatherings to discuss the vote. Be on the lookout for zoom town halls and other meetings that civic organizations are holding. Encourage your church, your sorority, or your local NCNW section to consider virtual town halls. seen enough of it these past few years. It is your absolute right to exercise the right to vote, even if some make it difficult. We don’t have to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar or translate a passage of the Constitution into Latin, as our foremothers did.

It is in their honor and the memory of Congressman John Lewis that we vote.

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Alopecia Month Series: Trichologist Perspective-Signs of a Scalp Crisis

ABOUT YOUR HAIR

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How healthy is your scalp? A healthy scalp is vital to healthy hair. An annual microscopic scalp analysis reveals unknown facts. Consumers cannot analyze your own scalp. You can look at it, however, you really do not know what you are looking at. Seek the expertise of a trained expert.

Listed below are symptoms and signs of a scalp crisis.

Top symptoms that are red flags. • If your scalp is sore when touched anywhere. • If your scalp itches excessively anywhere. • If you experience a burning or tingling sensation on your scalp. • If you experience a crawling sensation on the scalp. • If your scalp itches after the application of bonding glue. • If your scalp itches immediately after shampooing.

Top signs that are red flags. • If your scalp looks red or inflamed…any where. • If your scalp has black dots on it. • If your scalp looks blue, beige, black, purple or any other unusual color. • If you notice pimples or raised lesions any where on your scalp. • If you notice abrasions of any kind on your scalp. • If your scalp looks dry or

oily. • If you notice any short or long strands of hair in your comb or hair brush. • If you notice sudden round patches, or any unusual shaped patches. • If you notice any flaky areas, it may not be dandruff. • If you notice changes of thinning or balding suddenly. • If you have a compulsion to pull out your scalp or body hair.

Parents with children, ages 17 and younger should analyze their scalp weekly. For girls or teenagers who love braids or hair weaving, parents, please limit their time to 4-8 weeks. Their scalp will be healthier.

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Texas Bankers Foundation Honors Comerica Bank, EMPOWER Series, Inc. with LiFE Award

AUSTIN, Texas, The Texas Bankers Founda- tion recognized Comerica Bank with a Leaders in Fi- nancial Education (LiFE) Award for its partnership with the EMPOWER Se- ries, Inc., a nonprofit or- ganization offering free monthly financial educa- tion and self-development coaching and counseling workshops for low- and moderate-income stu- dents and adults in South Dallas and Southeastern Houston. The LiFE Award acknowledges and honors Texas banks that are ded- icated leaders in promot- ing financial education in their communities.

“Comerica Bank re- mains committed to providing the skills and knowledge needed to help under-resourced commu- nities navigate the increas- ingly, complex financial world through our stra- tegic partnerships,” said Vanessa T. Reed, Comer- ica Bank Regional Exter- nal Affairs Manager. “The EMPOWER Series has al- lowed us to broaden our reach and transform lives through our collaborative initiative. We are humbled to be acknowledged by our peers in the Texas banking industry as we work to in- crease access to financial education resources in the communities we serve.”

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, experts ad- dressed a financial edu- cation or an empower- ment theme in-person each month at the Dallas Public Library’s Highland Hills Branch. The EM- POWER series workshop topics range from improv- ing money management decisions, understating credit reports, preparing for home ownership to goal-setting, buying life insurance and creating an estate plan. The pro- gram aims to help people become better stewards of their resources – ideas, time, relationships and money.

“The personal relation- ships formed through our mutual promise to em- power and raise the expec- tations of everyone who experiences the EMPOW- ER Series, represent our foundation and allows us to improve countless lives,” Clifton Johnson, EMPOW- ER Series, Inc. Founder and Executive Director said. “We are honored to be a community partner of a relationship-focused bank.”

In the spring of 2019, Co- merica Bank and the EM- POWER Series launched a Greater Houston area edition in partnership with the Houston Area Urban

League (HAUL).

“We are extremely grate- ful for the integral role HAUL has played in bring- ing the Empower Series to our Houston Market,” Reed said. “From hosting our workshops at the Palm Business and Technology Center to publicizing our events to the community and much more, HAUL is helping us provide much-needed financial education resources to un- derserved and under-re- sourced Houstonians.“

Last fall, the EMPOWER Series added a podcast to its portfolio.

More than 70 percent of attendees and viewers re- port having improved and/ or changed their financial attitude, knowledge, skills, and self-confidence after attending the EMPOWER Series workshops.

Last week, the EM- POWER Series received a $60,000 grant from Com- erica, which will assist in pivoting to a virtual series this fall.

For more information on the EMPOWER Series, visit www.empowerseries.com.