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Texas Metro News’ Person of the Year is journalist, businessman and philanthropist Roland Sebastian Martin.

The Houston native is a graduate of Texas A&M University where he pledged Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. An often requested speaker, he is the recipient of numerous awards, honorary degrees and recognitions for his works; including being named journalist of the year by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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A COVID-19 survival story from baby to adults

By Eva D. Coleman

Lifestyle and Culture Editor

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on millions of households around the globe.

Although there are many suggestions to protect against it, some things are unavoidable.

“We were going to work, and we were taking all the precautions that you could possibly think of to take; and, in doing the right thing, you know, it just, it happened,” educator Aneesha Jackson, 37, said.

The coronavirus entered her and her husband Orlander’s household like a fast-moving train, yet played out in slow motion.

Orlander and Aneesha Jackson with their teenage daughters

“We went three days or so without even knowing we had contracted it,” she said. “And while he was still moving, we went to go and be seen, and

that’s when we found out.”

Orlander, 39, is a locomotive engineer, home periodically and then back on track. During See COVID, page 8

Elected officials discuss vaccine

By Ashley Moss Texas Metro News

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His works took him to several cities in Texas, as well as across the country and internationally.

In previous years, we recognized Rev. Yvette Blair-Lavallais, who took on sexual misconduct in the church and the silence surrounding it; and then there was Judge Tammy Kemp who courageously presided over the Amber Guyger murder trial and after the verdict and sentencing, in a display of compassion, embraced the convicted murderer.

We stand by our decisions because we believe in being on the right side of history and we’re not hypocrites!

When choosing our Person of the Year, we don’t look for people who are the flavor of the moment or the latest social media phenomenon.

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Local and state officials gathered all across the region Thursday with a special message for DFW residents: Get the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available.

But vaccine hesitancy is high and trust — particularly among Black Americans — is low.

Rep. Victoria Neave

Sen. Royce West

“We’ve had representation (about the vaccine) at the table,”

said West, referring to Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, the African American

woman who led the team that formulated the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. “She will go down in history as a scientist involved with putting together this vaccine.”

State Senator Royce West was joined by other DFW area lawmakers on Zoom Thursday morning to See VACCINE, page 15

Lawmakers respond to chaos at the Capitol

By Ashley Moss Texas Metro News One week before Inauguration Day, the nation is still reeling from last week’s vicious breach of the U.S. Capitol.

On what will surely be remembered as an infamous date in American history, rioters descended on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 hoping to upend the certification of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United

States. President Trump lost the General Election in November and he is blamed for summoning supporters to DC in a violent effort that resulted in the death of five people and caused unfathomable damage to the national landmark.

Under the direction of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Wednesday, the House charged Donald Trump with “incitement of insurrection” and lawmakers See TRUMP, page 15

I WAS JUST THINKING...

By Norma Adams-Wade

Ellis County “Negroes” sign apparently a history lesson not learned An Ellis County judge made me change my mind about how to solve the dispute over preserving or tearing down Confederate monuments.

I changed my mind after reading that Ellis County Judge Todd Little got in trouble in early January for allegedly defacing court property. Ellis County officials said the property – a sign that read “Negroes” over a former courthouse water fountain -had been preserved to remind all that racist segregation should not be repeated.

Ellis County Judge Todd Little and Ellis County Constable Curtis Polk Jr. Credit: The Dallas Morning News and Ellis County

The story behind how Little, a White man, ended up allegedly defacing the sign so far is still a bizarre mystery, mixed with lots of guessing about his motive – good, bad or misguided.

Last November, I expressed my then firm belief about my best solution to the tear down or preserve argument.

Keep the monuments in place and post a permanent plaque explaining why they were wrong and how we should learn from the mistakes of our past.

But I was just thinking…. Now that I witness how Judge Little’s See THINKING, page 5

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NABJ Issues Security Advisory for Journalists in Wake of Capitol Insurrection Dear Members and Supporters, As you know, these are dangerous times for our country and our profession, especially with the most recent violent physical attacks during the Capitol insurrection.

As journalists continue to be targets of extremists, it is reasonable to assume there may be more attacks in the days ahead. Given the chaos in Washington, D.C., state leaders are now reassessing their security protocols and we urge

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media owners to do the same by taking immediate steps to provide heightened security and implement protocols to protect

our members inside and outside of the newsroom.

For those who are already doing so through strategic actions, we applaud them. On behalf of our members, NABJ is asking all news managers to assess protocols and be proactive in providing extra security or assigning teams of reporters rather than sending them out alone.

To our members, do not hesitate to let your managers know of any occurrences or suspicious behavior, as well as potential threats.

We are also reminding our

members to be cautious on daily assignments, to keep their media credentials with them, to be aware of their surroundings at all times, and, if they suspect danger, err on the side of caution and leave.

But at all times keep those cellphone cameras rolling.

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Congrats to Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® Omega Alpha Omega Chapter 2021-2022 Executive Committee!

The first meeting of President Alana J. Miller’s reIgnite the Flame of Sisterhood administration took place virtually on Saturday, January 9, 2021. Omega Alpha Omega serves the North Texas cities of Denton, Frisco, Little Elm, Prosper and The Colony. Alpha Kappa Alpha celebrates 113th anniversary on January 15.

A Center for Race and Justice

President Ruth Simmons

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents approved a plan to establish the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice. H-E-B Chairman Charles Butt donated $1 million to kick start funding for the center to be named after President Simmons.

Starting next year, the center will “encourage teaching and scholarship that contributes positively to overturning systemic biases that impede the ability of minorities and other groups to be accorded their full rights under the U.S. Constitution,” Simmons said in a letter to the community.

“Fighting racism and discrimination and upholding justice must always be among our highest callings,” she said.

Fathers address President Trump The Professional Football Players Fathers Association’s members expressed their displeasure with the rioting and unacceptable behavior that occurred in Washington DC on Wednesday. After witnessing the inappropriate behavior, these fathers of current and former professional football players said they felt the need to speak out.

These fathers have worked in public administration; served as mayors and other elected positions; served in the military; and worked as firefighters, ministers, pastors, and corporate administrators. They are educators and community servants who have helped to make this world a better place and what they witnessed, they say, caused them to issue the following statement: “As responsible fathers

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we love our country, respect our political leaders and hold them accountable for all their actions (words and deeds).

“We were appalled and incensed at the protestors who became rioters and invaded the grounds and breached the capitol building of the United States of America.

“We expect exemplary leadership from our national office holders and want the president of the United

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States to be the paragon of leadership. Therefore; we ask that the president address the nation regarding this grave and dangerous matter.

“Those involved in the assault on the Capitol which jeopardized the safety of our elected officials must be held accountable.”

Mr.Sam McNabb, Founder and Chairman Mr. Curtis Randel El, President Honorable Rev. Dr. Ronald E. Jones, Former President, current member

Former Mayor speaks out about riot “I am appalled and incensed at the chaos and lawlessness of the rotes that invaded the grounds and breached the Capitol Building of the United States of America.

Ronald E. Jones As a responsible citizen and former mayor of Garland, TX, I love our country, honor our system of governance, respect our political leaders and hold them accountable for their actions. I expect exemplary leadership from our national office holders and want the president of the United States to be the paragon of such leadership.

Those involved in the assault on the Capitol which jeopardized the safety of elected officials and staff must be held accountable.

RONALD E. JONES Pastor Emeritus, New Hope Baptist Church Former Three Term Mayor of Garland

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We were guinea pigs for the U.S.: Dr. King – it isn’t just Tuskegee “The Other America” QUIT PLAYIN’

By Vincent L. Hall Just three weeks before James Earl Ray assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, he delivered a speech that he could offer today.

Dr. King stood erect at the podium of Grosse Pointe High School near Detroit. All of his speeches, sermons, and homilies wore titles. On this day, the title was “The Other America!”

Here is what Dr. King said: “There are two Americas. One America is beautiful for situation.

In this America, millions of people have the milk of prosperity and the honey of equality flowing before them. This America is the habitat of millions of people who have food and material necessities for their bodies, culture, and education for their minds, freedom, and human dignity for their spirits. In this America, children grow up in the sunlight of opportunity.

However, there is another America. This other America has a daily ugliness about it that transforms the buoyancy of hope into the fatigue of despair. In this other America, thousands and thousands of people, men, in particular, walk the streets in search for jobs that do not exist. In this Other America, thousands of young people are deprived of an opportunity to get an adequate education.”

In 2021, too many people live in King’s “Other America.”

The Other America of today is reeling from a health pandemic that ravages the poor and uninsured. In this Other America, the lack of insurance and access to affordable health care kills thousands daily. Poverty is both a pre-existing condition and a stated cause of death.

As if the loss of life was not enough, a moribund U.S. economy came with the disease. Black communities, who have historically faced unemployment at thrice the rate of others, are

left looking for jobs (as King bemoaned) that do not exist.

The Other America suffered a brutal race pandemic before COVID-19 showed up. The eight-minute video of George Floyd’s execution by the Minneapolis police went viral and shocked the entire world. However, it was business as usual in the Other America.

That video, like the ones capturing the demise of Philando Castille, Alton Sterling, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner, came as no surprise to the Other Americans.

Atatiana Jefferson, Sandra Bland, Botham Jean, and 12 yearolds Tamir Rice and Santos Rodriguez never had a videotape to go viral. Still, their names are

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on the Top 100 “Best known” list of unarmed minorities killed by trigger-happy police. In the Other America, police abuse and unintended homicides are a daily staple.

In the Other America, any one or group of protesters brazen enough to scale the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. would be executed, post-haste.

In the Other America, you cannot break into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, prop your feet up on the desk and post the picture on Twitter.

Martin King asked me to remind you that Miriam Carey died in a hail of bullets when she got confused near the White House.

In this Other America, she died at See DR. KING, page 12

THE LAST WORD

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux People who don’t know Black history have probably heard more about the Tuskegee syphilis “experiment” in the last month than they have in their whole lives.

The chattering class has used the debacle of allowing hundreds of Black men live with untreated syphilis to monitor its effects to explain the resistance that many Black Americans have to accepting the COVID vaccination, thus imperiling the possibility of “herd” immunity.

It wasn’t just the men, enticed into the study with the promise of lifetime health care, who suffered. Dozens of wives were also infected because they didn’t know their partners had syphilis.

At least 19 children were born with syphilis because they were untreated. There was no known treatment for syphilis when the study, which was supposed to last just six months, began in 1934.

Penicillin was the widely accepted remedy in the late 1940s, but none of the men in the study were offered it. The study is referred to as the “Tuskegee” experiment, but it really needs to be called the United States Public Health Service experiment.

Our government initiated and funded this abomination and used Tuskegee as its base for this putrid study.

This was not the first time, though, and it is not likely to be the last when Black bodies were experimented on for white comfort. During enslavement, “doctor” often purchased enslaved people to experiment on them.

After Reconstruction, when Black folks died from being overworked, often their relatives were not told of their demise, but nearby medical schools used their bodies to teach medical students about anatomy.

It was legal in 32 states to ste-

rilize Black women (and others considered “marginal” without their permission. In Alabama, in 1973, the Reif sisters, aged 12 and 14, were involuntarily sterilized in a federally-funded clinic.

An Essence magazine writer broke the story with the help of a whistleblower. The offending physician seemed to think the girls were mentally deficient and incapable of caring for the children they had not yet conceived.

That was their decision to make, not his.

Between 1929 and 1976, at least 7000 people were sterilized in North Carolina by judicial order. Thousands more were sterilized by order of local judges.

The state set aside $10 million in 2014 to pay some of the oppressi-

ve state policy victims, but many don’t qualify because they lack documentation. Those sterilized were treated as guinea pigs.

J. Marion Sims, known as the “father of gynecology,” perpetuated some of the more chilling experiments on Black women’s bodies. He performed sterilizations, unnecessary C-sections, and more on Black women and worked on them until he could perfect the technique to use on white women.

Sims performed many of the painful operations without anesthesia.

In other cases, Black women were given so much mind-numbing morphine that they became addicted. Sims is credited with inventing the specula, a tool routinely used in most gynecological exams. Actually, he used a spoon, then improved on it, for the examinations. Sims had quite the career, serving for a time as President of the American Medical Association. There was a statue of him in New York’s Central Park and tributes to him all over the country. Blessedly

the Central Park statue was taken down in 2018, after several protests. Why was it there in the first place?

In her book, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black American from Colonial Times To The Present (Doubleday, 2006), Harriet Washington details the many ways Black bodies were guinea pigs for white experiments.

That’s not all. The Institute of Medicine has documented that black folk with broken bones are less likely to get pain medication than whites.

And the very recent COVID death of African American physician Dr. Susan Moore, who was denied pain medication and was described as “intimidating” by the medical staff, illustrates how the medical establishment treats too many Black people.

Having said all that, I’ll still be standing in lines soon as my number is called for the COVID vaccination. I prefer the Pfizer vaccination from the research I’ve done, but I’ll take the Moderna if available.

Why? I’m over 60, diabetic, and thus at high risk for getting COVID. I want to travel again, get on a plane, and see my mama and my friends. I don’t know about eating out – my culinary skills have improved. But I know that my limited exposure to the world has gotten on my last nerve.

We were their guinea pigs, and the medical establishment has been negligent toward Black people. By now, though, enough white people have had the vaccination that by some wicked irony, they are my guinea pigs. Get the vaccination if you can, medical racism not withstanding.

Black folks are twice as likely to die from COVID as white people.

Protect yourself!

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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FAITHFUL UTTERANCES

By Dr. Froswa Booker-Drew This week I had to relay some bad news to a childhood friend.

After waiting another year, believing the best, the parole board said “no” to his release. I prayed and believed God that this time, he’d be released to go home to his family.

In addition, this had been a difficult week with the funeral of my dear friend’s son and some other challenges. It seemed like there were so many things happening back-to-back that I had no control over both personally and professionally.

As a person who has long believed in the power of prayer, for a moment, I began to doubt if God heard my prayer.

As I thought about similar experiences, I remember when my father was diagnosed with Cancer and I believed that God was going to heal him. I knew that my strong, 6’6 dad was going to beat the disease. After

his diagnosis, he passed away three months later.

I was hurt because I thought God abandoned me, that God didn’t hear my pleading to heal him. Surely, God heard my daughter who at the time was four years old praying over her grandfather for his healing! God reminded me that my prayer was heard and that my father was healed. He was not healed on this side, but he was no longer suffering.

As much as I loved my father, so did God and that my father belonged to God. I realized in that moment that I was blessed for the time I had, and that God granted me the gift of my father.

God heard my friend’s prayer who is incarcerated, too. My friend experienced what many of us do—when God doesn’t answer our prayers the way we want them answered, we shut down and our emotions overload us.

We become angry, frustrated, and even feel betrayed. We tally all the things we’ve done or find ourselves feeling punished for the things we have not done.

Our relationship with God is so similar at times with what we

experience as parents.

As a parent, I may tell my child an answer she does not like. She is angry and yet, she doesn’t

realize that there are things I see that she is unaware of. It doesn’t make the situation better even if I were to explain it, and I allow my answer to stand. I still love her and nothing changes—at least for me. This also happens in our relationship with God. Life happens to all of us. There are real consequences for our actions and sometimes we suffer

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story is turning out, maybe my plan is not so foolproof.

Here’s what led up to the defacement. Ellis County Constable Curtis Polk Jr. complained on social media that as the only Black person elected to an Ellis County position, he felt insulted that his office was moved to the courthouse basement and next to the lesson-teaching “Negroes” sign that he had to see daily.

News media widely exposed the story, the county apologized, and moved Polk to a proper office location. Judge Little supervised the correction and news media quoted him making a nice apologetic statement: “I would suggest the signage was kept so the evil of requiring people of another color to drink at another water fountain would

Plaque at former Ellis County segregated water fountain.

never happen again,” Little’s quote stated.

“I am saddened Constable Polk was hurt by this office relocation process. That was not the intent.”

Perhaps that should have ended the matter. But it did not.

The situation became bizarre. A YouTube video soon surfaced apparently showing the judge

Credit: The Dallas Morning News

directing another man to paint over the “Negroes” sign. Soon after, the judge was named as a suspect in an Ellis County District Attorney felony investigation into vandalism of a public monument.

Outgoing Ellis County DA Patrick Wilson recused himself from the case and it was trans-

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because of the actions of others.

Refer to Matthew 5:45.

Bad things happen to good people, too. Ultimately, we cannot control everything that happens to us, but we can control the way we respond to the events of our life. Just as God has given us free will to make decisions, we can choose to see God’s grace and mercy.

In some instances, we can even acknowledge the role we may have played.

For my friend who is incarcerated, he recognizes how his decisions also impacted the lives of those who care for him.

There are consequences because of our decisions (or the decisions of others) and sometimes, what we are experiencing are the results. It doesn’t mean that God loves us any less or leaves us.

There are times when we do not know what we’ve done. Job had done nothing wrong and yet, he lost everything. Refer to (Job 13: 15) Despite all the losses that he experienced in his health, finances, and family, Job made a decision to choose God even when he didn’t comprehend what was happening. He chose to trust God and to continue

doing what he knew what was right. He didn’t give up.

I’m being challenged as many of us are…we have the choice to see God use these experiences as opportunities for transformation or we can choose to remain angry, hurt, and resentful.

The latter doesn’t serve us well and it robs us from living the abundant life we are promised.

Life wasn’t promised to be easy or free from pain and loss. You are entitled to feel the way you want to but at some point, you must stand on the promises of God and believe: (Deuteronomy 31:6) God is with you even when it feels like God is not answering, listening, or moving the way we want. Focus on what God has done and develop an attitude of gratitude. There is power in your praise!

ferred to Dallas County DA John Creuzot. As I write this report, Creuzot has not yet commented.

Interestingly, Dallas County had a similar situation with a segregation-era water fountain that began about 18 years ago in 2003 and was resolved about 10 years later. A metal plate fell off from over a water fountain in the County Records Building in downtown Dallas. A fading “Whites Only” sign was revealed still visible on the wall. A longstanding debate ensued concerning what to do about the sign – paint over it or preserve and explain it as a teachable lesson.

Lauren Woods, a talented Black artist – born in Kansas City Missouri but raised in Dallas -- intervened. She proposed an idea to Dallas County Com-

missioners in 2005 and worked eight years to raise funds and construct “A Dallas Drinking Fountain Project” that was unveiled in 2013. The multimedia art installation plays instructive videos from the civil rights era when anyone turns on the fountain to drink water.

Unlike the Lauren Woods project, the Judge Todd Little/ Constable Curtis Polk Jr./DA John Creuzot drama remains unsolved as of this writing. So far, we are left to wonder why Little took the action he did. Was his heart in the right place but his thinking not clear? Did the “vandalism” help the situation or make it worst?

Meanwhile, my lesson: maybe posting a plaque and saying “don’t do this again” may not be that simple of a solution.

Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew is a Buckner International Board Member and currently serves as Vice President of Community Affairs and Strategic Alliances for the State Fair of Texas. She is the author of three books and the host of a podcast for women, The Tapestry.

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

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WHAT’S ON MILES’ MIND

By Miles Jaye Wednesday, January 6, 2021, America was invaded! In broad daylight, a faction known to vigorously support President Donald Trump’s assertions that the 2020 election was rigged, and that he and they were robbed of a fair election, occupied the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. They did so at the President’s prodding, and at his bidding.

Today we witnessed an assault on our government and on our nation-- from enemies within. We witnessed what I call a White Riot. I listened carefully as broadcasters struggled to find appropriate and fitting terminology to describe the mob. What do we call White rioters? I waited to hear terms typically used to describe rioters, like thugs and hoodlums, but these were White folks, so instead I heard, protesters, and even knuckleheads. Knuckleheads? That they were violently attacking the government and destroying government property makes them enemies of the state, domestic terrorists, not knuckleheads.

In case there is a further loss for words regarding today’s events, here are a few words to describe what we encountered.

Invasion, insurrection, uprising, rebellion, revolt, revolution, insurgence, sedition, subversion, civil disorder, civil unrest, anarchy. Today’s action was nothing less than an attempted coup.

The participants in the activities of the day-- whether violent or non-violent, are traitors to our nation.

I once wrote a song entitled “Mad to Sad.” It was a simple depiction of a complex cycle of emotions experienced by African Americans faced with cycles of brutality and atrocities against Black communities. “I go from mad to sad, sad to mad.” Today, for the first several hours of the invasion I was glad. I was happy for the world to see a White riot, a White mob tearing up the place. I was glad because there was no way to mistake the thugs for anything but White folks.

I was glad right up until the time I noticed how casually defiant they were. My mood began to change. They rioted like they owned the place. I think I was jealous. MSNBC’s Joy Reid said, “White people are not afraid of the cops.” “They had come to claim what was rightfully theirs.”

I couldn’t have said it any better, however, had that been a Black Lives Matters crowd, the ground would have been red with blood. In spite of destruction of

government property, vandalism, breaking and entering, terroristic threats, I didn’t hear of a single arrest. The worst part is, I don’t think we’ve seen the worst of it.

“I APOLOGIZE” “Some folks would rather have houses and land, some folks choose silver or gold. These things they treasure and forget about their souls. I decided to make Jesus my choice. The road and the going gets tough and the hills are hard to climb. I started out a long time ago, and there’s no doubt in my mind. I’ve decided to make Jesus my choice.”

I apologize to my younger brothers in music for not being a stronger, bolder steward of the artform. I, along with my contemporaries, let you down.

When we saw you selling your souls for the proverbial bag, we didn’t warn you of what was to come-- we stood back and watched. I suspect some even envied and coveted your massive successes. I must admit to admiring what came off as a lev-

el of business acumen that my colleagues and I never enjoyed.

Your graduating class went from fly rims and beating cases, to Bentley’s to million-dollar Bugatti’s. It was hard not to ask, what were we doing wrong?

Sadly, when I watched and witnessed, one by one, your lives decayed and destroyed by extremes, excesses and depths, Godlessness that you foolishly claimed as proof of your success, I felt a sense of guilt and a level of responsibility that any big brother would and should feel when he fails to have his little brother’s back. I should have told you that while music is beautiful, the business of music is the devil’s playground.

I should have told you when they encouraged you to make your music dirty and violent that they were turning your music into crack. You were next in line in a campaign of destroying our youth and our communities. There’s a reason they chose hustlers. Who better to hustle crack to their new audience?

They were confident the kids would do their best to emulate

you. They were right and they rewarded you generously, famously, with mansions and jets the likes of which we had never seen.

The moral of the story is, there is no moral to the story… just wisdom. The lyrics at the top of the page say it all. And remember this, we are all replaceable, we all run on a timeline, and to the devil you are expendable. So ask yourself, what do you want to have left of your soul when the music stops playing?

Make your music with love and light and it will live on forever. Trust that lil’ brothers and sisters, the world needs you, and please accept my apologies.

“GEORGIA?” Georgia? Is that really you?

Did you just elect not one, but two Democrats to the U.S. Senate? Seriously, did you just elect Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Baptist preacher, and Jon Ossoff, a Jewish journalist, to the Senate?

Just when I thought all was lost and was looking to retire overseas to escape American politics, you score two for the home team! God really does work in mysterious ways, doesn’t He? The connections to John Lewis, and Martin Luther King, Jr’s Ebenezer Baptist Church for starters, are stunning. I can’t wait to dig deeper into the story, but for now suffice is to say, I’m so happy, so proud, and so encouraged by what you accomplished. Thank you! Ali said it best… “You shook up the world!”

That’s what’s on my mind!

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Things Missing/Missed Host Justin Locklear, Melissa Flower & Philip Hays. Online event. Tickets: www.undermain.com.

January 14 National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Celebration. A Virtual Panel Discussion. The Importance of an African American Museum in Fort Worth, 12-1:30 pm. RSVP: www.cowboyofcolor.org.

Mahogany The Artist at The Attaché Cigar, 4099 Camp Wisdom Rd. #101. 8 pm. $8 Open Seating at the door $50 VIP. Funk It Up w/ Joseph Veazie at The Rustic, 3656 Howell St. Dallas. 7-8:30 pm. http://www. therustic.com/ Don Diego Live at The Attaché Cigar, 4099 Camp Wisdom Rd. #101. 7-10 pm. No Cover Info: www.theattacheclub.com/ North Texas Food Bank Mobil Pantry Free Food - Comida Gratis at Casa View Christian Church, 2230 Barnes Bridge Rd. 9 am-12 pm.

Finsbury Presents: From Words to Action: 2021 Approaches to Achieving DEI. Host Color Comm: Women of Color in Communications. 11:15 am-12 pm. CST. Reg: Eventbrite.com.

January 15 D.O.B 1929 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc Founders Day 2021 AKA REACTIVATION DAY! Host Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. DFW Metroplex Chapters. Pre-Reg: bit.ly/3lrC9ak 6:30-8 pm. Via Zoom.

2021 Civil Rights Pioneers Awards Program Honoring the Legacy of Dr. King Hosted by National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum. The Warehouse, 1125 E. Berry St. Ft. Worth.

7 pm. Tickets: NMWH.org.

Jazz at The Muse - An Evening with Andrea Wallace. Host TBAAL at Clarence Muse Café, 1309 Canton St. 9 pm. Tickets: Ticketmaster.com.

Grand Prairie and North Texas Food Bank. Food Distribution at 1000 Lone Star Pkwy, Grand Prairie 8 am-12 pm.

Find Food tool on www.ntfb.org Glow Forest at Oak Cliff Cultural Center, 223 W. Jefferson Blvd.

10 am-6 pm. Exhibits Free. 1-8-2-5-21. occc.dallasculture.org.

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc Founders Day Zeta Phi Beta Sorority DFW Virtual Founders’ Day Program.

Hosted by Dr. Moe Anderson Author & Speaker. Online event.

12-2 pm. Info: http://www.zphib1920.org.

The Monologue Project Performance & Workshop with Stacy Rose. Host, Bishop Arts Theatre. TMP is a free online resource for high school and college students. For more info: 214-948-0716. Register: https://bit.ly/34rHJnW. 12 pm.

DFW Metroplex Jazz Presents: National Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Virtual Live Music Event, featuring The David Whiteman Band at The Warehouse, 1125 E Berry St. Ft. Worth. 7 pm. Tickets JimAustinOnline.com.

National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum. MLK, JR. DAY OF SERVICE Canned Food and Blanket drop off, Family Fun Day at The Ranch, 3534 E. Berry St. Ft. Worth 10 am-2 pm, RSVP: NMWHM.org.

OneAccord Hosted by BA6E.org Online Event us02web.zoom. us. 1-3 pm CST. Reg: www.oneaccord.eventbrite.com. Community panelists will discuss Black advancement in North Texas.

4th Annual MLK Teach-In host Friendship-West Baptist Church. Online with Facebook.com/Friendship-West. 11 am12:30 pm. www.friendshipwest.org.

MLK Weekend Staycay “2021” All Black Affair at Aloft Hotel Dallas Love Field, 2333 W. Mockingbird Ln. 3 pm-2 am. RSVP/ Pre-sale Tickets: mlkweekend2021.eventbrite.com.

Harriet Tubman and Maryland’s Underground Railroad - Live stream Tour. Hosted

by Texas History & Culture, History & Culture Travels. Tickets: Eventbrite.com. 2-3:30 pm.

FREE COVID-19 Testing at Paul Quinn College 3837 Simpson Stuart Rd. 10 am-4 pm. and food boxes will be given out for free as well. First come first serve until gone.

January 17 Virtual 38th Annual Four-time Emmy Winning Black Music & The Civil Rights Movement Concert. Host The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. 7:30 pm. Tickets: Box Office10 am-5 pm. at 214-743-2440.

Ubuntu Market Host Pan African Connection, 4466 S. Marsalis Ave. 12-5 pm. Shop Small Bus. Info: Panafric@airmail.net.

DFW Metroplex Jazz Presents: An Evening of Jazz Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., feat. Donyale Renee at The Warehouse, 1125 E. Berry St. Ft. Worth. 7 pm. Tickets: JimAustinOnline.com.

Inauguration Party Pack Pick up. Hosted by Tarrant County Democratic Party, 3130 Plumwood St, Fort Worth. 11 am-3 pm.

Tickets: secure.actblue.com/donate/partypackpickup.

DFW Certified “Funny” Comedy Show Starring Comedian Renny, at Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub Dallas, 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln. #220. 7-8:30 pm. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.

Live At Club Odyssey AVAIL HOLLYWOOD! Hosted by Dr. Dee 7439 S. Westmoreland, Dallas. Info tickets and table reservations contact 817-989-0060. www.universe.com/soul-dynasty-sunday-tickets.

Andrew’s World with host Andrew Whigham III on BlogTalkRadio.com 8 am.-10 am. CST. Sundays Tune in for thought-provoking, enlightening, informative, and entertaining news and commentary.

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“Talking about topics that Matter” Join in on Facebook/@TexasMetroNews and BlogTalkRadio. com at 11 am-1 pm. CST. Mondays.

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January 18 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Day Valder Beebe Show interviews Dr. Arnot former Chief Medical Correspondent for NBC & CBS News Topic: Traveling during pandemic. Tune in at KKVIDFW.COM FM 89.9. 12 pm.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration. The National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum YouTube: A Tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Featuring the “I Have A Dream Speech” video presentation. 3-4 pm. Tickets: Eventbrite.com.

MLK Day Brunch with Free Live entertainment at The Rustic, 3656 Howell St. 10 am-3 pm.

2021 MLK Youth Summit hosted by Dallas Youth Commission.

Online: dallasyouthcommission.com. 6 pm.

Must reg. here: https://www.dallasyouthcommission.com/.../2021-mlk-youth...

2021 MLK Day Celebration hosted by MetroSports Fieldhouse at Optimist Club of Arlington, 310 E. 3rd St., Arlington. 10 am12 pm. Register at: www.metrosportsfieldhouse.com/mlkdaycelebration 4th Annual MLK Celebration! Hosted by ONE Church. Online with Facebook Live/ONE Church. 10-11:30 pm. Info: www.discoveronechurch.org.

MLK Day of Service hosted by Northwest YMCA at 6200 Sand Springs Rd. Ft. Worth. 1-5 pm. RSVP to jbruda@ymcafw.org.

MLK Day Camp 2021 hosted by Best After School and Summer Camp at 1980 Nantucket Dr, Richardson. 7:30 am-6 pm. Reg. https://www.RichardsonsBestAfterSchoolProgram.com/ The Impact of Slavery on Rev. King’s ‘Dream’ 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr, Symposium. Keynote speaker Annette Gordon-Reed. It’s Virtual. Reg: http://bit. ly/2LHU00f. 6-7:30 pm.

MLK Day Space Explorer Camp host Denton Children’s Museum at 5800 N I-35, Denton. 8 am CST. Sign up: http://bit. ly/3sdvAN6.

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a brief visit home, he showed signs of what they believed to be a common cold.

“It was like a day and a half; he did have a dry cough, and he was like, ‘Aww, it’s just a slight cough, you know, or cold,’” Aneesha said. “He thought it was a cold, something that he normally goes through every year; and so, that’s what he thought. But inside, it was the virus.”

Aneesha says her symptoms started one evening with a headache, followed by fatigue. Later, her 14-year-old daughter came home tired and had a fever. After giving NyQuil that night, she gathered her daughter and remaining children, a 13-year-old daughter and seven-month-old son, and went to get tested the next morning.

Working out of town, Orlander is used to receiving playful phone calls from his family.

While resting in Arkansas, he received one from Texas that was no laughing matter.

“I was laying down and she called me, because she’ll play sometimes, they call themselves playing pranks. She was like, ‘You need to go and get tested.

We’re all positive,’” Orlander said. “I said, ‘Stop playing.’ So I kept staying there for a while.

She said, ‘Nah, I’m serious.’

Now, the whole time I’m saying this to her, I’m sick. I’m laying there sick. So I was like, ‘Yeah, I better go and get tested.’”

Orlander went to get tested in Arkansas, however the reality of delayed results caused him to hit the road. Although the drop in oxygen level common with COVID-19 impacted his respiratory function, he pushed through.

“I was knocking at death’s door and didn’t even know it,” he said. “So, I put the A/C on high so that I could breathe and I just drove straight to the ER here in Frisco.”

According to the Mayo Clinic, normal pulse oximeter readings that measure blood oxygen levels usually range from 95 to 100 percent, with values under 90 percent considered to be low.

Not only did Orlander test positive for COVID-19, his condition was deteriorating fast with a blood oxygen level of 83. He

Aneesha and Orlander Jackson with seven-month-old son

was also diagnosed with Hypoxia and Pneumonia.

“His condition was really bad but he wasn’t sharing that with me,” Aneesha said. “I guess he was just trying to be strong. And so, I don’t even know how he managed to drive five hours, all the way to Texas, and he did.”

With a wife and two out of three children having tested positive for COVID-19, even in grave condition, Orlander was determined to get to his family.

His doctor stopped that desire in its tracks.

“He said, ‘Mr. Jackson, let me tell you something, I’m going to level with you.’ This is a white doctor,” Orlander said. He added that the doctor frankly said, “‘COVID is worse in Black and brown people than it is in white folks.’ He said, ‘I’m just gonna be honest with you; It’s way worse off in y’all than it is in us.’

He said, ‘If I let you go home tonight, you will not make it through the morning.’”

With the doctor’s candidness, Orlander stayed put, allowing the regimen of oxygen, antibiotics, steroids and I-V that started in the emergency room to continue after hospital admission in an effort to save his life.

“I lost smell, taste, motor skills a little bit, peripheral,” Orlander said. “It affected my neurological system. It affected so many things in me because I was worse off than most people.”

After a day-and-a-half in the hospital, Orlander was released to go home.

So many have not been as lucky. Orlander feels that he now knows when, where and from whom he contracted COVID-19; and a simple task that could have possibly prevented it.

“Mind you, I’m a locomotive engineer, so we swap trains in

Longview, TX, and there was a caucasian crew that was on the train when I swapped with them,” he said. “I didn’t have my mask on… because when I get on the train, I’m sanitizing, wiping down, I’m doing all that. But I should have just went on and had my mask on before when I was sanitizing, but I didn’t.”

He quickly sensed an issue with being unmasked in what he already felt was unhealthy, recycled air.

“So, when I got up there, I’m like, ‘Something’s not right about this air.’ It’s just, the atmosphere wasn’t right with the air and the breathing. I said, ‘Unh uh, something’s not right.’ And shortly after that, I was sick.”

Orlander recalled early symptoms, saying “I had like an instant hot-cold and I just started sweating profusely just out of nowhere. I just started sweating and I didn’t understand what my body was going through.”

Yet and still, he tried to rationalize his lack of understanding as being common and brought coronavirus right through his family’s door.

Of the Jackson’s three children, the only negative test belonged to their 13-year-old daughter. Another level of weariness was the infection of their seven-month-old son.

“You hear people say, ‘Oh the kids will be fine.’ Or, they’re not affected by this virus and that is not true,” Aneesha said. “They are; and people were actually shocked when I told them, ‘Yes, my seven-month-old tested positive.’”

“That really hurt me,” Orlander said. “I broke down at that time because, I was like, ‘How could I be so careless to come home in that short period of time that I did, and not only give

it to my entire family, but my seven-month-old had it too?’”

As a recent news report about parents losing their five-yearold daughter due to COVID-19 had Aneesha overcome with emotion, she reflected on her family’s experience.

“The uncomfortable thing is that my daughters, and my husband; we were able to receive medicine. They didn’t give my baby anything,” she said. “I guess they feel that it’ll just go through their system or they won’t totally be affected by it.”

The loss of Lastassija White and Quincy Drone’s daughter Tagan, a kindergartener from Amarillo, TX who died less than 24 hours after being diagnosed with COVID-19, proved that theory wrong.

“I just could not handle the pain. I couldn’t even imagine the pain that those parents felt and they were reaching out for help,” Aneesha shared through tears. “So, because I went through and my baby survived, I want other babies to survive as well if they have to experience something like this.”

Although initially there were scary thoughts and doubts, with

an added boost, the youngest of the Jackson’s crew of five pulled through.

“In my mind, I was thinking, well, ‘All of us, our immune system is strong enough that we should survive it,’” Orlander said. “And I was thinking, ‘Man, seven months old...his immune system is not strong enough.’

Little did I know, he got a strong little immune system.”

Aneesha quickly added, “And because we gave him those Vitamin D drops!”

“You need to take this seriously...first of all. This is real. It is not fake,” Aneesha said. “It is a virus that I’ve never experienced or had in my life.”

She shared advice to “keep your social groups small, wear your mask...wear your mask.

It needs to be over your mouth and your nose. I don’t care what type of mask it is, it is there to protect you and it actually works. Another thing is for African Americans, brown skin individuals, get your Vitamin D levels up.”

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ing disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci’s concern regarding the correlation of COVID-19 effects with people of color who often have a deficiency of Vitamin D. She knew of the deficiency risks long before COVID-19 and credits having an African American pediatrician and their foresight in intervention for their seven-month-old’s symptoms that only consisted of mild congestion and a little bit of sneezing.

“She told us to put Vitamin D drops into his formula, and we started that at two months,” Aneesha said. “And so, his Vitamin D level was high; and he was able to get through it like never before.”

The Jacksons shared that friends, church members and neighbors stepped in to assist with groceries and care, leaving items at their doorstep. One neighbor left what Aneesha describes as “just what I needed” in regards to Zarbee’s Mucus and Cough for their infant son, “Because I did not feel comfort-

able with us taking medication and he had nothing to take.”

Having COVID-19 and being the caregiver to everyone else in the home who was diagnosed weighed heavily on Aneesha.

“While I’m healing, I had to make sure that everybody was okay. And so, it was a lot. I don’t want to go through this again. It was definitely a lot but I wanted to share our story because, for African Americans, brown skin ethnicity groups, we have to take this very seriously and know that it is a virus that is causing more critical symptoms and deaths as well,” she said.

With fluid guidelines on the number of days it takes for a person to get “back to normal,” or return to work, there were wide variations between Orlander and Aneesha.

“The 14-day thing, that don’t work,” Orlander said. “Mine went on about 20 days.”

Regarding the reduction of quarantine to 10 days, Aneesha added, “That is not enough.

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Orlander Jackson with seven-month-old son

back on the 19th (to get tested); I was still positive.”

After receiving a positive COVID-19 diagnosis and later testing negative, the Jacksons had a major concern of which they feel is shared, yet there is little to no information.

“Because we were in our home and it was so many of us that had it, we were like, ‘Okay, how do we get it out of our home?’ There is nothing out there saying, ‘Okay! This is how you get it (out).’”

They shared tips of what they did to sanitize their contaminated spaces.

“One of the things that we did was we made sure we washed our sheets every two days; because you’re sweating, you’re sweating the virus out. You have to wash it because again, the virus is highly contagious so we try to get rid of it,” Aneesha said.

“Then, when we got to a place where we had a little bit more strength, we lysoled and microband our rooms. Then, we let our windows up for about an hour in our house; and then let our windows back down and lysoled and microband again.

And that’s when we started seeing relief in our environment.”

Orlander added the utilization of an air purifier attached to their home’s heating and air conditioning system.

“One thing she left out that most people don’t have in their home that we do, we have a UV light hooked into our central heat and air vac system that cleans the air, kills viruses and all that type of stuff. It’s called a HALO. So that, on top of sanitizing; and I have a handheld UV light as well that kills viruses and stuff like that too,” he said.

Ridding the coronavirus from their bodies and home has not

removed the mindset of some who treat the Jacksons as if they’re still contagious. They report people staying away from and acting strange with them at work.

“It’s because people are not educated about the virus,” Aneesha said.

They continue to stand tall and share their story, having no COVID shame.

“It’s a virus that affected the world, not just our community, it ain’t just Black and brown.

It’s touched every ethnicity, everybody, every walk of life. It’s touched us all,” Orlander said.

“It didn’t care if you’re rich, poor, it didn’t care. It touched everybody. Politicians, it didn’t care. It’s killing everybody. So for people to be ashamed of… what are you ashamed of? This is a virus that got out into the world and has wreaked havoc upon us. So now we’re trying to bounce back from this. To be honest, why would you be ashamed of something that you didn’t do or cause?”

“For me, It is definitely emotionally draining along with the physical. But, emotionally because when they tell you you have it, first of all, I was in shock,” Aneesha said. “And then for you to tell me that my kids have it; I sat there a good 10 minutes. They had to come back in there and say, ‘Are you ready to go?’ I said ‘Just give me a few more minutes. Just give me a few more minutes because I have to try to figure out what I am going to do with this information.’ Not only that, but stay strong for my kids.”

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call anybody that you came in contact with in the last week. It was so hard calling the individuals that I called to tell them. I wasn’t even showing any symptoms, but I had to call them anyway. And, I think that’s why people...they don’t want to have to go through that shame or the heartache of telling others, ‘Hey, you need to go get tested.’ And although it was hurtful and I cried. I was on the phone crying because there are people that are dear to me and I did not want them to feel like I was careless or did not care about them, or to feel that I would put them in harm’s way.”

The calls Aneesha made were met with unexpected responses.

“Every person that I called said, ‘I appreciate you. Thank you for doing this and I know it took a lot. You didn’t know, and I know you wouldn’t put me in harm’s way.’ So that meant a lot to me,” she said. “As I called them heartbroken, they encouraged me.”

Orlander is grateful for his family and shared that he’s “Ready to just get back to life, get back to working and provide for the family, and just being the father that the kids know me to be.” He spoke glowingly as he glanced at his “superwoman” by his side.

“For me to be as sick as I got and my wife, with her being sick, not only trying to make sure she gets her health together and caring for our son, then our eldest child and then trying to take care of me. I was the sickest out of all of them,” he said. “But for her to just be running around and she’s sick herself, that’s…

I can’t even put words on that, but I’m blessed.”

While COVID-19 has devastated many families, it’s definitely brought the Jacksons even closer.

“We experienced support and strength in this family. And, with that support and strength, love just permeated throughout this entire house,” Aneesha said.

“And, after this experience, all of our views I’m pretty sure are much better and the appreciation, because sometimes, you don’t realize what you have until it’s tested or almost gone.

And so, I made up in my mind that I’m not going to be stressed out anymore over anything. I’m going to enjoy my life and enjoy my family.”

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Vaccine mega-site opens in Fair Park

By Ashley Moss Texas Metro News On the first day the site was open the location stayed open past its standard hours and managed to vaccinate around 1600 people in the joint effort between the City of Dallas and Dallas County.

The entities hope to repeat those numbers if not exceed them each day for the rest of the week, but for a site that was reportedly organized with high risk communities in mind — namely Black and Latino populations, the current outreach and communication strategies don’t seem to be working.

Critics say there’s still a great deal of confusion around just about everything related to the process that makes it hard for residents to take advantage of what’s available, including registration, how to get an appointment, on-site logistics, and the follow-up process for the second dose of the vaccine.

Mollie Belt, who serves as Publisher for the Dallas Examiner, an African American Newspaper in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, said she tried using the form Dallas County provided twice to sign-up for the vaccine but when she didn’t hear anything back decided to take matters into her own hands.

“I registered on the Dallas County website twice and the second time I did receive a

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We don’t choose someone who is trying to be a celebrity, instead we choose someone whose works, life or actions are worth being celebrated.

Which brings me to my truth.

When I think about the past year and the influence that Mr. Martin has had on educating and informing the masses; I am proud to call his name.

I could cite his impressive numbers across social media platforms or wherever he gathers, but those impressive numbers are rapidly increasing.

In their first meeting of 2021, the Black COVID-19 Task Force for the city of Dallas, under the leadership of Dallas City Councilman Casey Thomas, met Tuesday to gauge the response to the initial vaccine distribution.

Their verdict? Things aren’t working.

A vaccine mega-site opened Monday at Fair Park, located just east of Downtown Dallas. Due to limited quantities of the vaccine, doses are currently reserved for people over the age of 75, followed by others who fit into Phase 1B designation.

written confirmation, but they never told me where to go,” she said. “I went on my own to Fair Park (to get the vaccine).”

Because of the challenges she had when inquiring about the vaccine, Belt said she reached out to Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price for assistance.

He told her to immediately get over to the “mega-site.”

Expressing displeasure and citing several obstacles that citizens face, including the digital

divide an transportation, Price said he monitored day one at the Fair Park location and said in order to accommodate the “targeted demographic,” he believes, “this process needs to be “first come, first serve.”

“This process as it is presently configured and operating at this moment is inhumane,” he said in a statement Tuesday.

“If Black Lives Matter, if Brown Lives Matter, if the lives of the poor and working poor matter, this system needs to be fixed.

I call on Judge Jenkins, the Health and Human Services Director, and my colleagues on the court to fix this now.”

Even without a confirmed appointment, but heeding the commissioner’s advice, Belt, who is 77, a diabetic and with numerous other health issues said she breezed right through the entrance once she arrived.

“There’s a large area where they are giving out the vaccine (at Fair Park), but it was only

half full and the lines were moving very fast,” she added. “They collected a form from me (when I arrived) but they never asked me for my drivers license or any identification.”

Belt received her first dose of the Moderna vaccine and before leaving was given an appointment reminder for her second, required immunization next month. She got the help she needed but noted Tuesday that the Black communities might not be getting the message.

There were very few of us,” she said. “I could count the African Americans (I saw in line) on 10 fingers.”

Rocky Vaz, Director of Emergency Management for the City of Dallas, said after a rough start, the effort was headed in the right direction.

“Based on the number of people in the database and the limited vaccine that we have, we are doing what we can,” he

added. “But we are reaching out to the minority community, including going into the database to see who is getting notifications to get vaccinated.”

Vaz said ultimately, the plan is to administer to as many as 2,000 people a day at the Fair Park site.

“Yesterday was a mad rush but today we made process improvements to make the process more orderly,” he said in a meeting with the Task Force Tuesday afternoon. “By 1 p.m. we did 600 vaccinations and by 5 o’clock we expect to do many more.”

According to Thomas, the task force meets again in two weeks for updates and to address any other concerns related to the coronavirus. He also urged citizens to get tested.

Registration is still required for the vaccine. Sign up at: https ://www.dallascounty. org/covid-19/covid-19-vaccination.php

Yes, he’s controversial and fearless, but he’s also well-prepared, well-researched, passionate and committed.

Sure, he can be entertaining and he has provided a platform for entertainers, activists, experts, educators, disenfranchised, empowered, elderly, youth, and more.

Mr. Martin comes down on the right side of history. He uses his digital platform Roland Martin Unfiltered to find and ask the right questions and get the answers, empower the powerless, and right wrongs.

When the so-called mainstream media can’t find Black experts for their shows or stories, Martin can.

When so-called seekers/speak-

ers of truth couldn’t call a lie a lie, Martin did.

There’s no place where he has a problem entering. His faith is strong, as is his voice.

There are so few with the freedom to speak truth to power, regardless of how often you hear their voice or see their faces. Too many with power are silent and that’s okay, as long as there’s a Roland Martin among us.

The more he uses his voice to empower and uplift, the more Martin’s millions of listeners and viewers donate and grow.

People are tuning in. Don’t believe me?

He’s on Youtube, Facebook, I Heart Radio and stay tuned because you will be hearing more

about him in the future.

Roland Martin has receipts and in a world where we have so many dealing with the “impostor syndrome” because they are perpetrating a fraud; he is the real deal.

He’s done radio, television, print and digital. He’s an author, mentor, and the husband of the dynamic Rev. Jacquie Hood Martin.

That’s why when he walks into a room, he doesn’t need an introduction. His work is there for the world to see.

Rev. Al Sharpton said the hardest person to give a eulogy for is the person who has you hallucinating, because they haven’t done a thing.

No hallucinating here, none

at all. Roland Martin works tirelessly and that work is worthy of recognition. It would be a glaring oversight to not acknowledge his contributions.

You can also support the only daily digital show of its kind and join the #BringTheFunk Fan Club by using PayPal, Square or CashApp. Or log on to rolandsmartin.com for more info.

Read more about Roland Martin at https://texasmetronews.com/arts-entertainment/ martin-makes-strides-withdigital-newscast/ or https:// blackpressusa.com/roland-martin-makes-strides-with-digitalnewscast/ and you should understand why he is our Person of the Year.

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San Francisco rookie running back JaMycal Hasty rehabs at mom’s in Arlington From Staff Reports When it comes to pro football loyalties, ‘one size does not fit all,’ even in the home region of the Dallas Cowboys, the squad dubbed “America’s Team.”

There are several groups of fans across the DFW Metroplex who are devoted to other NFL teams, including the San Francisco 49ers. (FYI – There are more than 7.3-million people living in the Dallas/Fort Worth

metroplex – which is more than the population of 38 states!)

One of the San Francisco booster groups, ‘Niner DFW Empire Fan Club’ got together recently to meet and greet a 49ers player who’s living in Arlington, recovering from a season ending injury.

San Francisco rookie running back JaMycal Hasty, was the guest of honor at the fan club’s get together on Sunday, January 3, 2021, to watch the 49ers season ending game versus Seattle.

It was a “Meet & Greet” organized by Carlton McConnell, CEO of Round the Clock Media & PR Firm. Dozens of ‘Niner fans’ came out to the beautiful Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux, 401 E. Interstate 20 in Arlington. They got to ‘fist bump’ with Hasty, take photos and get his autograph.

The 24-year-old native of Longview, Texas, who played in eight games for San Francisco this past NFL season, broke his collarbone in a game in early

November. He had surgery in the Bay Area then came back to Arlington, where his mother lives, to recover and to rehab from his injury.

Hasty, a free-agent from Baylor University, where he became among the top 12 rushers of all-time, impressed the 49ers enough to be signed to a twoyear contract. His play and enthusiasm caught the attention of San Francisco fans and he

quickly became a fan favorite on social media as well as mainstream sports media in the Bay area and beyond.

During his time at Baylor, Hasty twice was chosen to the Big 12 All-Academic second team. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in health, kinesiology, and leisure studies in August 2018 and since then he’s been pursuing a Master’s degree.

Michael Evans, Mansfield’s First Black Mayor, Sworn in

By Ashley Moss Texas Metro News Michael Evans was sworn in Monday as mayor of the city of Mansfield, the first Black elected to the position in the city’s 131year history.

Evans succeeded former mayor David Cook, who vacated the seat after 12 years of service to run for the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 96 and assumes office on January 12, 2021.

Judge Clifford Davis, the Black attorney who filed a federal lawsuit to desegregate the Mansfield Independent School District, administered the oath to Evans during Monday’s city council meeting.

“You have a person who has demonstrated what the founders of our nation talked about in the Declaration of Independence,” said Davis. “He brings a spirit of dedication to promote the general welfare of the community,” he

added. “You are fortunate to have someone with that dedication.”

Judge Davis also served as a district court judge in Tarrant County in 1983 and served on the bench until 1988.

Trailblazer Evans won the mayoral seat in a runoff election in December, after defeating challenger Brent Newsom with 53 percent of the vote.

The newly sworn in mayor, who also serves as senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church on

Mayor Evans stands with his wife while being sworn in by Judge Clifford Davis on Monday.

1188 W Broad Street, said he was grateful that the city’s residents believed he has what it takes to lead a “21st Century Mansfield.”

“It’s good to be judged by our character as opposed to the color of our skin,” he said in an interview with Texas Metro News

Monday, citing the city’s common perspective and outlook for the future. Evans said he plans to focus on helping Mansfield continue to grow in his first term.

“Great days are still ahead,” Evans said. “Now is the time for us to keep pressing forward.”

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higher, and the tax rate is low enough to fire your accountant.

However, in this Other America, tens of millions are unemployed, near eviction, and hungry. The only thing they have in excess in the Other America is homelessness, mental health issues, and a lack of healthy food choices.

On March 14, 1968, Dr. King rushed past more than 200 “conservative picketers” to deliver

this message. He addressed a group of citizens concerned about fair housing and education. Fair housing and education are still issues in the Other America, 53 years later.

There are Two Americas, but the Other America has little milk or honey to speak of. This Other America is a national disgrace!

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the gate with a one-year-old infant in her back seat. And by the way, in the Other America, there ain’t nobody standing in line to adopt Black and Brown babies, adolescents or teens.

In “America the Beautiful,” the stock market is high, profits are

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

Pandemic Stress and Hair loss ABOUT THE HAIR

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Since late July 2020, many consumers have complained about an increase in telogen effuluvium…in layman terms means excessive hair shedding.

Help is available from a board certified trichologist.

There are different types of stress.

• Maneageable stress gives you a zest for life, releases your creativity, and generates excitement by challenging you to stretch your abilities.

• Acute stress results from the strains of everyday life.

Working from home instead of office.

• Chronic stress is ongoing, and long term. The sufferer sees no way out of a stressful situation. Including, family problems, job related anxiety, and/or depression, etc.

• Tramatic stress includes the impact of an overwhelming tragedy. Such as rape, accident, natural disaster, job/financial loss, or loss of a loved one, lock down in March 2020, separation from family, parents/grandparents during the holidays, hospital isolation, etc.

• Stress overload that can lead to health problems, which all too often are visible on the skin, scalp and hair loss may occur, and has been occurring worldwide. If you are trying to do too much in too little time, you are functioning in permanent over drive.

Current research shows that stress can suppress your

immune system, perhaps opening the door to a number of infectious diseases. Stress does not make you sick, however, it does increase your risk of being sick because of what it does to your immune system. Health experts have recommended taking vitamin and mineral supplements to also help boost your immune system.

Some ailments that have been linked to stress includes the following: allergies, arthritis, asthma, back, neck and shoulder pain, colds, depression, diarrhea, flu, gastrointestinal problems, headaches, migraines, heart

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BIG MAMA SAID,

“Beware of a wolf in sheep’s clothing, they are just false prophets!”

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By Terry Allen Matthew 7:15 states, “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.”

When Lucille “Big Mama” Allen stood in the doorway between the kitchen and the “big room” with her hands on her hips, she was teaching us how to discern between who was good for us and who was bad for us.

She loved being right!

But her rightness was also a great lesson to our families as she taught us how to discern the good from the bad when we interacted with people.

She would state that a wolf in sheep’s clothing will be darn good at hiding their real intentions. In my professional daily interactions, I have always dealt with many individuals who continuously wanted to advance their own agenda and had no issues hiding real intentions. That is what I learned was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Just recently the rampage at the Capitol building revealed the symbolic and actual wolf in sheep’s clothing. The “Leader” intentionally blurred the lines, manipulated the emotions of the weak and deceived an already misinformed population to incite what can be easily perceived as an insurrection.

Big Mama would say the real enemy will stop at nothing to gain ground and will have his team quote God to win. Many

times the wolf disguised in sheep’s clothing knows God’s Word better than we do.

1. They love themselves and power 2. They use emotional manipulation to persuade masses and 3. They refuse to respond to conventional wisdom & course corrections

Big Mama said, “You have to maintain focus on a man who has the fruit of the spirit in his heart.”

She meant a true leader will reveal himself in his words and his works.

So today I honor a true leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., A true civil rights legend, Dr. King fought for justice through peaceful protest—and delivered some of the 20th century’s most iconic speeches.

Martin Luther King, Jr., is a civil rights legend.

Who would imagine a King? King led the movement to end segregation and counter prejudice in the United States through the means of peaceful protest. King was social Justice before it was a coined Phrase. Dr. King’s dream of people working and living together side by side in peace and harmony was his strategy. I leave you with a tribute to MLK and a question from his main message: “What are you doing for others?”

Email me at terryallenpr@gmail.com Terry Allen is an awardwinning multi-media journalist and owner of 1016 Media.

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By Valder Beebe The Valder Beebe Show, starting 2021 with an interview with famous South of France Chef, Ariane Daguin the founder, owner and CEO of D’Artagnan, the renowned gourmet food purveyor.

Famous for providing humanely-raised meats, from game and foie gras to organic chicken and prepared charcuterie, the name D’Artagnan is synonymous with top-quality food produced with care. Devoted advocates for natural, sustainable and humane production, Ariane and D’Artagnan have been at the forefront of the organic movement in America, pioneering organic, free-range chicken (years before the FDA allowed the word “organic” on the label), and humanely-raised veal.

Chef Ariane Daguin story can be read in her French-language memoir D’Artagnan à New York which was published by Grasset in 2010, and tells how she created her business in the United States.

Chef Ariane is a first times guest on the Valder Beebe Show , spiking ratings with her appearance. She has been a guest on Martha Stewart’s show, and No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain. Ariane hosted episodes of the Food Network’s My Country, My Kitchen, in which she traveled to her native Gascony to examine the food culture there. Her father was a famous French Chef-André Daguin who owned, cooked, and ran the kitchen at Hôtel de France in Auch.

- Ariane Daguin publicists provided text in conjunction with the Valder Beebe Show

VBS: Chef Ariane, January is hailed as Nation Soup Month. I invited

you into the Valder Beebe Show studios to inspire my audience. You believe, to make a dish of soup on a Sunday, it will last all week. Get us started.

CAD: Starting with natural and organic vegetables that are healthy and time saving, because you can peel and leave the skin in the soup. The ideas of cooking a big batch of delicious soup on Sunday, then try to transform it all of the rest of the week, this is time and money saving.

After you eat the soup on Sunday, Monday, you can just use the broth, add alphabet pasta the next day and you have transformed into a different soup.

Or you can take whatever meat and vegetables that are left over kind of puree by hand (with a fork) add

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a little cheese for another dish. Or take whatever vegetables are left over, add a vinaigrette and serve them as a Potiphar.

VBS: What are some of the favorite soups in your home land, the South of France?

CAD: A soup with duck and cabbage is the breakfast of champions. This is would the peasant would eat before going to the fields in the morning. A very robust soup with lots of cabbage, duck, smoked back, lots of garlic.

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WITH LOVE FROM MARVA

By Marva J. Sneed On “From Marva with Love,” we showcased Neal Johnson, the owner of NOW Property Investments LLC., who invests in rental properties, fixing and flipping and providing alternative ways for homeowners to sell their homes. Neal said he found his love for real estate fresh out of college.

That hobby turned into a passion, and now his overall goal is to serve the community by showing people there is more than one way to sell your home and you don’t have to do it alone.

MS: Welcome to the show, Mr. Johnson. Share with us what you do.

NJ: Exactly yes, thank you, so when they go to sell their homes, they might go to a realtor and they say ‘hey, I’m interested in selling my home.’ The realtor might come out to the house and say, ‘okay. I think I can sell your home at a certain price, but you’re going to have to do x amount of repairs to your house just for you to be able to sell it at this price or I’m not going to take it.’ So that’s where we come in.

We come in. We’ll say, ‘we will purchase the house asis no repairs needed and will get you the price that you need.’

MS: So for some of us who don’t understand, what does that mean when you say ‘as-is?’

NJ: Yeah, most of the time it’s only worth less because it needs a lot of repairs.

Most of the homes that we purchased are homes that usually need repairs.

Homes that need help, like $50,000 worth of work or sometimes they just need to get out of their homes just simply because they

inherited the home and they can’t afford the taxes on it. Or they’re relocating and they just want to sell it real quick and they know if they go with the realtor it might take them up to 30 days with financing or sometimes up to like six or seven months just because with the market and everything you just never really know. So what I say is when we come to the homeowner’s home, we can assess if this house can be on the market or not. If it’s able to be on the market we’ll go in the house and we will tell the homeowner, ‘Hey, you don’t need much

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work.’ And we’ll just refer them to a realtor so they can get that market valuepriced. But even if they tell us, ‘hey Neal, I understand I can get the market value price, but look, I need to sell my house fast here and I understand that the realtor just not going to get it done in the time that I need,’ then that’s where we come in.

There was so much in the interview with Mr. Johnson. To hear the full interview go to BlogTalkRadio.com Link: http://bit.ly/2LQSx81and on Facebook.com@ TexasMetroNews to see the video. To Contact Mr. Johnson, visit his website Now Property Investments: www.nowpropertyinvest. com. Tune in to “from Marva with Love” on Fridays from 11 am-1 pm.

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publicly show their support for the now available vaccinations against the COVID-19 virus. State Representative Victoria Neave, State Representative, Chairman Rafael Anchía and other members of the Dallas County delegation also joined the call.

West said the vaccine was not a political decision, but a “human issue” that everyone needed to consider. “Please take the vaccine,” he emphasized during the call. “You see what’s going on around the state, around the country and around the world.”

The senator who received the vaccine Wednesday in Austin, said that while he felt “light headed for a few minutes,” immediately after receiving the vaccine, he was otherwise “feeling ok.”

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from page 1 came together Wednesday to vote to impeach him for a second time. In what’s been called an unprecedented act, a second impeachment would prevent Trump from running for another Presidential term in the 2024 election.

“He must go,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, about the President during the impeachment hearing yesterday. “He is a clear and present danger to the country we all love. Let us be aware of our power and our responsibility.”

As lawmakers prepared to return to the U.S. Capitol and Texas state Capitol, some spoke vehemently against the act in the aftermath of last week’s events, citing glaring issues with the lack of public safety and security at the nation’s legislature.

Representative Colin Allred (D) said that the failure to prepare for last week’s events was inadequate and put national security at risk.

“January 6th was a dark day for our country and for democracy,” said the congressman for the Texas 32nd Congressional District. “The President called on his supporters to use violence to undo a legitimate election.

Today, I will join my colleagues

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) indicated that people don’t typically have any serious side effects from vaccines in general, but there are some common side effects, including soreness where the shot was given or light headaches — that are usually mild and go away quickly on their own.

Public support for the vaccine comes as the rates for positive cases across North Texas and the state continue to spike. For the third day in a row Wednesday Dallas County reported record high hospitalizations, with 2,427 new, positive 2019 Novel Coronavirus cases. With the rapidly rising cases, Senator West urged people to consider that the benefits could outweigh the risks.

“We know that they are still looking at clinical trials to see how long the vaccine will last,” he added. “But what I can tell from both sides of the aisle in standing up for our democracy and voting to impeach the President.”

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, who is a former Texas State Representative, previously said he was “saddened and deeply disgusted” by the rioting at the Capitol, calling the act “un-American and unacceptable.”

“This is a nation of peaceful processes, deliberation, law, and order,” he said. “This country does not bow to violent mobs.

Hopefully, all those responsible will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for their insurrection.”

U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson called the events on January 6 a “disgraceful gambit.”

“Outside of the Capitol, thousands of insurrectionists gathered, inspired and enabled by the events inside and the words of the President of the United States, determined to overturn the proceedings by any means necessary,” she said. “We cannot in good conscience move forward as a nation without addressing the events of January 6th and assigning responsibility.”

Local lawmakers said the key to moving forward is coming together and taking personal responsibility for maintaining democracy.

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you, is that you will have a better opportunity to weather this storm if you take the vaccine than if you don’t take it, given the number of cases that are going around.”

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, who received the first dose of the vaccine at UT Southwestern Medical Center Thursday said that it’s easy to understand why there is hesitation in communities of color.

“Our nation has an awful and reprehensible history of medical

experimentation on African Americans,” he said, citing that lack of access to adequate health care also played a major role in the reluctance or refusal to get vaccinated.

“While the vaccine was developed in record time it has been tested in all types of people,” he added Thursday.

“These vaccines are safe, they have been proven effective and they will allow us to return to normal.”

Heightened news of the vaccine also came Thursday with the announcement of a COVID Vaccine ‘Megasite’, expected to open Monday at Fair Park in Dallas. Fair Park will be open for appointmentonly vaccinations but doses will not be available to the general public or for walk-ups.

“We are working feverishly to get the sites open that will increase vaccination to our 1B population next week,”

said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins in a prepared statement.

“It will be an effort led by Dallas County but with the help of EMTs from all of our cities.”

Jenkins said the key to successfully getting the vaccine would be found in an extra measure of both diligence and patience and he urged local residents to give the process time. “(Be) patient in understanding that there’s not enough vaccine to vaccinate everyone immediately but diligent in making sure you sign up for the registration list and any other list that you may be entitled to be a part of such as with your healthcare provider,” he added.

Eligible residents must register for the vaccine using a website provided by the county: https://www.dallascounty.org/ covid-19/covid-19-vaccination. php.

flames of division,” said Rep. Marc Veasey who represents U.S. Congressional District 33.

“Stay engaged in your government here at the local level,” said Mayor Johnson. “Reach out to your representatives. Understand that elections and votes on policies will be both won and lost by your side, and by the oth-

er side. Don’t become disaffected. Try to persuade with reason.

Stay informed. And challenge your own views by listening to and considering other perspectives — as long as those views are grounded in facts.”

Johnson, who recalled last summer’s Dallas protests in honor of George Floyd, rein-

forced the need for “civil discourse” to help facilitate change in a healthy democracy, without violence.

“Selfish lawlessness, such as looting and rioting and violence, cannot and should not be tolerated,” he said. “That’s not the way to get things done. The rule of law must be respected.”

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