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“The Texas Black Invitational Rodeo was cancelled last year due to the pandemic, so the African American Museum is especially excited to bring it back in 2021,” said Dr. Harry Robinson, Jr., president and CEO of the African American Museum, Dallas. “This event is hugely popular, and we can’t wait to see our daring group of cowboys and cowgirls compete in the newly renovated Fair Park Coliseum.”
Kicking off with the Grand Entry Parade at 6 p.m., this fast-paced sporting event also provides guests with a glimpse of the historical contributions that African Americans made in the settling of the western United States. The event also includes on-field kids activities, trick lasso performances, concessions, music and more.
“My family has been part of this rodeo since day one,” said cowboy Ke’Elronn Hatley who participates every year in the calf-roping events. “And as much my brothers and I love competing, we’re probably just as proud knowing we’re helping to tell the stories of the Black cowboy and keep that history alive.”
Members from the Dallas Chapter and the North Dallas Chapter of the National Panhellenic Council will serve as grand marshals.
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Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support’s fourth annual First Ladies’ Bruncheon on Saturday, September 25 at the Belo Mansion! Kicking off Domestic Violence Awareness Month, this spectacular “plum garden” affair, complete with the fanciest parade of hats, soulful gospel music and a powerful call to action: this celebratory event will recognize the courageous members of the faith community who are joining in one voice to declare that violence is never okay. Also Genesis is opening a brand new non-residential counseling and advocacy center in Southern Dallas on Lancaster Road! Just like at the Lemmon location, the site offers individual and group therapy with master’s-level counselors for women and
You have a business and it’s good, but children, access to civil legal services, you want to make it great. You’re over- domestic violence education, advocawhelmed and don’t have enough time, cy and on-site childcare for those in knowledge, or resources to develop a sound counseling sessions. Adjacent to this business foundation. counseling location will be a new
That’s where the Collin County Black Genesis Benefit Thrift Store which Chamber of Commerce’s (CCBCC) Business will serve not only our clients, but the Blueprint Program, a program developed community as well. All funds raised exclusively for existing businesses with from the First Ladies’ Bruncheon will less than $100,000 in annual revenue, underwrite the opening and operatcomes in. The Business Blueprint program ing costs of this new Genesis Outreach offers an exceptional opportunity for small location; better serving the communibusinesses to learn the fundamentals of ty of Southern Dallas.
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Businessman Devoyd Jennings from page 1
Expressions of sympathy were quick in coming as many remembered their friend and colleague who missed a meeting early Saturday. According to businessman and former CEO of D/FW Airport Vernell Sturns, that meeting also included veteran journalist and FWMBCC Director of Communications Bob Ray Sanders, who he talked with in-depth as they tried to wrap their thoughts around the loss.
“I am deeply saddened by the news I got this afternoon that Devoyd Jennings had passed,” said businessman Vernell Sturns, who has known Mr. Jennings for more than 40 years. “We have worked on many, many things in the community, trying to improve conditions especially for minorities. I am deeply grieved by the news today of a young man who has contributed so much to the Fort Worth community, to the Black community and was a special and dear friend to me.”
As late as a few days before his death, the champion of entrepreneurs and Black businesses saluted Black businesses on his Facebook page.
“This is fantastic,” he wrote about a posting announcing A.S.A.P.P. Barber College offering classes and scholarships.
In an interview with NBC5 earlier this year, Mr. Jennings discussed the plight of Black businesses.
“When there is a recession for the majority community a lot of times it is a depression for the minority community. At the end of the day, the color of freedom is green. And as long as we can create some green opportunities for all that want to be involved we make that difference.”
Mr. Jennings is remembered for spending his life making a difference.
He attended George Washington Carver Elementary School. A proud member of the I.M. Terrell High School Class of 1966, he enrolled at Tarrant County College and later studied economics and marketing at Texas Wesleyan University, graduating in 1971. A former Energy Con-
sultant\ Lobbyist at TXU Energy, Mr. Jennings was always on top of the issues and contributed his thoughts in columns that appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Honored by the City of Fort Worth with Devoyd Jennings Day, in 1991 he became one of the Colonial Country Club’s first Black members.
A member of the Texas Association of African American Chambers. His extensive knowledge of public and private organization efforts in the area of economic development is gained through more than 30 years of experience with economic development organizations in the metroplex.
He has served on numerous boards including: The Texas Association of Business Texas Wesleyan University, North Texas Commission, and the Texas Association of African American Chambers. He resided in Forest Hills with his wife of 40 years, Gwen Barbee.
Devoyd Jennings was a champion of Black Businesses and Entrepreneurs
Devoyd Jennings 1947-2021
Credit: Eva D. Coleman
3 Civil Rights Legend Bob Moses dies at 86
By Stacy M. Brown
NNPA Senior National Correspondent
Robert Parris Moses, one of America’s foremost civil rights leaders who stood fearless in the face of violence to register African American voters in the South, has died at the age of 86.
His daughter, Maisha Moses, announced his death.
Often clad in denim overalls, Moses drew comparisons to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
His activism drew the ire of White supremacists, but minorities and the oppressed hailed him as a pioneer.
Moses famously noted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s (SCLC) Ella Baker as an inspiration.
In a tribute released by the Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on Sunday, July 25, SNCC officials said Moses was key to the SNCC launching its voter registration campaign in Mississippi.
That work led to Freedom Schools, the 1964 Summer Project, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the Poor People’s Campaign, and the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union.
“And these not only began to alter the face of Mississippi but also challenged the country to be true to the best in itself,” the SNCC wrote in its tribute.
Noted Civil Rights leader and National Newspaper Publishers Association President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., saluted the life and legacy of Moses on behalf of the Black Press of America.
“Bob Moses’ entire life was dedicated to freedom, justice, and equality for African Americans and all people,” Dr. Chavis reflected. “The Black Press of America pauses to express our condolences to the Moses family and to rededicate our journalistic efforts to keep alive the legacy and the vision of Bob Moses.
“SNCC does not get enough credit for all of the transformative work that SNCC accomplished in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Long live the spirit of Bob Moses.”
Filmmaker and famed television producer Topper Carew also counted as a friend and admirer of Moses.
“Bob Moses wasn’t a drum major. Bob Moses was the drummer,” Carew told NNPA
Despite the violence that African Americans routinely faced when trying to vote, Bob Moses helped register thousands of voters Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Newswire.
“I will miss his presence. Being around him made you stronger,” Carew remarked.
Activist and teacher Zellie Imani was among many others mourning the passing of Moses.
“We have lost one of the most courageous organizers of our time,” Imani wrote on Twitter. “As a field organizer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Bob Moses was the architect of the Mississippi Freedom Project, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and the Algebra Project.”
“You need to know about this genius, Bob Moses,” comedian Bill Cosby asserted, urging people to start with Moses’ book, “Radical Equations.”
Imani Perry, the Hughes Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, called Moses her model for organizing.
“Principled, intellectual, humble, deliberate, willing to work with all who come,
Born on Jan. 23, 1935, in Harlem, New York, Moses became a schoolteacher. He later moved to Mississippi and quickly organized civil rights activists to counter actions by the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups.
Despite the violence that African Americans routinely faced when trying to vote, Moses helped register thousands of voters.
During one encounter with White supremacists, Moses suffered a severe head injury that required nine stitches. While bloodied, bruised, and nearly unconscious, Moses led a group to a Mississippi courthouse to register them to vote.
When he was 73, Moses told CNN he did not vote for a president in three decades until 2008 for President Barack Obama.
“I don’t do politics, but I made sure to vote this time,” Moses said. “Obama is the first person I really felt moved to vote for.”
Moses is survived by his wife, Janet, and children Maisha, Omo, Taba, and Malika.
New Pastor set to lead Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church
A pastoral search has ended after more than a year, with Dr. Carlos D. Williams named as the fourth senior pastor to lead the historic Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church (Pilgrim Rest), 1819 N. Washington Ave., in Dallas.
Dr. Williams will preach his first sermon at the church, Sunday, August 1, at 10 a.m.
A native of Shelby County, AL, Dr. Williams comes to the 86-year-old church from The Historic Orchard Knob Missionary Baptist Church in Chattanooga, TN, where he served as senior pastor for eight years.
Pilgrim Rest has been a mainstay in the community, once known as “Short North Dallas.” The surrounding neighborhood has seen a tremendous amount of change over the last eight decades and is emerging from the COVID pandemic.
“I am honored to have been called to pastor Pilgrim Rest,” said Dr. Williams. “Our world is changing, and people are looking for hope in a world filled with uncertainty. My prayer is to ensure Pilgrim Rest remains one of the beacons of light that our community can look to for spiritual nourishment.”
Dr. Williams attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA and completed his Bachelor’s degree in Theology and Pastoral Ministry from the Birmingham-Easonian Baptist Bible College in Birmingham, AL.
He also obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion and a Master’s degree in Theological Studies from Faith International University and Seminary in Tacoma, WA.
The Pastor enrolled as a Doctoral Student at Virginia University of Lynchburg, Virginia (HBCU) in 2018 and completed his Doctor of Ministry degree in 2021. His dissertation was “Equipping Informally Trained Christian Educators with the Principles of Biblical Exposition.” Dr. Williams is married to the former Joannie Dionne Holiday and they have two sons. Pilgrim Rest is holding virtual and in-person services. Those attending in person are asked to wear a mask and to follow social distancing guidelines. Temperatures will be taken at the door.
Please Run for School Board
THE LAST WORD
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux
Critical race theory (CRT) asserts that racism is woven into the very fabric of our nation’s institutions. This is not new information for those who have studied how race affects our economy, politics, education, health care, and more. CRT is not an attempt to “blame” white America for its origins as much as it is a pedagogical approach to reality. Through critical race theory, we can see the many ways that the uneven application of laws allowed envious white people to destroy Tulsa’s Black Wall Street, colonizers to gentrify Black neighborhoods, doctors to experiment on Black people and more. CRT helps us understand how California stole parts of Mexico, Chinese people were imported here (without wives or families) to build railroads, and how our Constitution defined black folks as fractions of people.
Attorney and Professor Derrick Bell (1930-2011) wrote about the many ways our racist gendered patriarch systematically oppressed Black people and others at the periphery. He used both legal theory and fiction to amplify his points. Critical race theory has been taught in our nation’s colleges and universities, and especially in our law schools, for decades. Now white legislators are passing laws in several states to outlaw the teaching of CRT because it hits too close to home.
Much of this legislation demonstrates how ignorant some of these legislators are. It also illustrates how heated the battle for fact and knowledge is. Some think the South won the Civil War, which they describe as the war of “Northern Aggression”. Though the statues are coming down, there are still those who believe those statues were erected for heroism, not resistance to equality. And every time you see a Confederate flag flying, you must know that hose stars and bars were only added to state flags after Brown V. Board of Education became law, and white Southerners wanted to communicate their allegiance to racism.
The legislators who oppose CRT also oppose knowledge. Now, their fearlessly foolish conservative leaders are urging them to “take over” the schools by running for school boards around the country. Rich Lowry, the National Review Editor, wrote a piece, “The Point of the Anti-CRT Fight Should Be To Take Over the Schools”. What he means is to take over young people’s brains. Lowry is smart enough to know that the historical whitewash conservatives are attempting cannot withstand historical scrutiny. So he and his conservative minions would instead inject their ideology into our schools, using low-turnout, low-budget races to grab power.
Roland S. Martin deserves credit for lifting this. He has been looking at the damage school boards do for years. He says, and Lowry echoes, the power school boards have. To choose book vendors. To shape the curriculum. To select teachers and trainers. The anti-CRT crowd would shut this down. But we also shut ourselves down when we get stuck at the top of the ballot. It is essential to choose a President and Vice=President, a Senator and Congressperson, and it is equally important to select a zoning commissioner or a school board member. Rich Lowry’s piece makes it clear and makes it plain. He says that “education is too important to be left to educators.” He wants rabid (he didn’t say white, but I will) parents to run for school boards and to use their passion to lock knowledge out.
So this is my plea to woke, progressive Black folk. Please run for school board. There are tens of thousands of Black women who have retired from education. Would you please run for the school board? There are young people of color who understand the flaws in the education that was delivered to them. Please run for school board. There are entrepreneurs who decry the inadequate education that so many young people bring when they apply for new jobs. Please run for school board.
Many of these posts can be won with a few hundred votes and a few thousand dollars. The right-wing has their marching orders. We need to have ours, too. We can serve our communities and our nation by standing up for knowledge. Please run for school board.
Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author, and Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at Cal State LA. She is also President of PUSH Excel, the education arm of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. You may reach her at juliannemalveaux. com
“If a man (woman) is called to be a street sweeper, they should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
QUIT PLAYIN’
By Vincent L. Hall
I met a lady named Peggy in the store the other night. We took a chance and bought a few lottery tickets. Please don’t hold it against us. If your skin was kissed with the sunlight of melanin, you take a chance every time you walk out of the door.
But I will leave that subject right there because that ain’t my thesis statement today.
Peggy was a forceful voice of encouragement. “I read you every week, and whatever you do, continue to keep it real. You be telling the truth so keep it up.” So here we go.
Every day, as we traverse from place to place, we are stopped or stymied by road construction. Everywhere you go, there is a road crew fully engaged. The high number of projects have caused a shortage of concrete, asphalt, rock, and other road material.
From I-35 to US 67 South in Oak Cliff and all points north, south, east, and west, there are cranes, bulldozers, dump trucks, and hundreds if not thousands of men working but something is amiss!
My problem is not that Hispanics make up 95% of the crews. My issue is that so few of the teams include Blacks. I ain’t got nothing but love for my Mexican brothers. They are “coming up” because they show up. These dudes are working 40-70 hours a week and deserve what they earn.
Meanwhile, our community has subrogated our former place in the “dirty job” market. College should be the ultimate goal, but not the only one. If you survive as a minority in the next 30 years, you better learn a trade/dirty job to.
My paternal grandfather had a fourthgrade education, but he was smart enough to understand the need to develop some brawn to go along with that brain.
Papa Hall was a truck driver until diabetes rendered him legally blind at the age of 51. After that, he became the best truck loader on the dock at the Farmer’s Market. He made a place for me as his helper.
At the age of 13, I overslept, and my grandfather was furious. I woke up at 4:30 a.m., 30 minutes late. He probably allowed me to oversleep so that he could deliver a lifelong lesson.
Papa yelled, “Boy get up. I don’t know how you can lay there when you know you owe them, White folks.” Was there a hidden message embedded in his admonition? As the years went on, I gathered that Papa’s instructions were two-fold.
His primary point was that I needed to have a sense of industry about myself. Some get up and go. Later in this lecture series, he reminded me that every man ought to be able to “set themselves” at night before bed. You don’t need an alarm clock when you live with a sense of urgency.
He taught me to work hard but work smart. Tools and machines are there to be utilized. Learn how to operate everything in your workspace.
Secondly, Papa’s caveat was that if you don’t own anything in this world, you can’t afford to sleep. Slumber and slothfulness are luxuries afforded to those who own and lend or develop and control. That’s where “them White folks” entered his soliloquy.
Papa Hall was born in 1918, lived through the Depression and the Voting Rights Act. Yet, throughout the breadth and span of his 71 years, White folks owned virtually everything economically, socially and politically. And they still do.
Don’t get mad because Mexicans are “coming up!” Hispanics and other minorities do not prosper at our expense. That ignorance Trump infers about them “taking your jobs” is a damn lie. You too can come up sweeping streets if you are willing to work!
It’s 2021 and we still owe them, White folks. However, we also owe a debt to the 22 generations of Black folk who built their reputations on hard work and industry.
Thanks, Peggy for reminding me to work hard with a pen or a fluorescent safety vest!
Heard it through the Grapevine….
FAITHFUL UTTERANCES
By Dr. Froswa Booker-Drew
My mother is one of the wisest individuals I know. Her wisdom didn’t come from books solely. A lot of people age but do not necessarily learn from their experiences and environments. My mother’s wit often comes in the form of expressions.
One of my favorite ‘mom-isms’ is that a dog that brings a bone also takes a bone. Translation: People who gossip about others generally take something that you said back to others. Gossips don’t keep secrets. They share them.
Some people feel that telling the truth is different. It doesn’t matter if the information is true that you are sharing. If it was shared in confidence, it isn’t your responsibility to share it with others.
All gossip isn’t bad. According to research conducted by Hartung, Krohn, and Pirschtat, “six distinct motives were identified that underlie gossip behavior: information validation, information gathering, relationship building, protection, social enjoyment, and negative influence.”
Gossip can be a way of bonding especially if the information isn’t negative or detrimental. Research has also demonstrated that women AND men gossip— despite beliefs that women are the only ones who participate.
The problem is that although gossip may not start as being malicious, it can change quickly to become slanderous. Slander is spreading rumors and lies about a person.
Our society thrives on gossip. From television shows like TMZ to blogs like Media Take Out, we are obsessed as a society in knowing about the private lives of others.
Our incessant desire to know the torrid details is not only focused on celebrities but it happens in our personal and professional lives. We know all information sharing isn’t bad but there are times when it is harmful and destructive to others.
It’s especially damaging when people share their personal thoughts with others only to find out that it has been shared. Trust is broken and relationships are impacted. It takes so much time to build trust and within seconds, it can be destroyed. Gossip happens in our homes, in the church and even at work. So many people have lost jobs, relationships, money and so much more because of factious, mean-spirited gossip.
Author Sherrie Campbell says there are six toxic traits of gossip that happen in the workplace but are applicable to many situations. She states that gossips are immature and that “Immaturity is synonymous with poor mental health.” These individuals need to feel superior by destroying the reputation of others. Other traits mentioned include: • Embellishment—the need to fabricate to appeal to others • Emotionally violent—
“bargaining tool for success, using “your own words for blackmail when they see fit to mend fences with their original target”. • Seductive—”a pathological gossiper will smile to your face while scheming to suck you in for the purpose of eventually exploiting your trust.” • Insecure—” feel justified to take down anyone they see as a threat.” • Parasitic—”A gossip may appear to care about you, to be interested in what you have to say and to be a person you can trust. They will easily garner your confidence and milk you for business and personal information….”
It’s so easy to focus on offenses like murder, stealing and lying not realizing that gossip kills the reputation of others, takes away from and falsifies the character of those being discussed. James 1:26 states, “Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.” Gossip also has a psychological impact. According to Goodtherapy.com, “Being the focus of gossip is not only likely to be humiliating in the moment, it can also have a long-term negative impact on a person’s self-confidence and self-esteem. This impact might, in some cases, contribute to the development of depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and eating disorders.” The Bible affirms this in Proverbs 18:8, “The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.”
Gossip is something that matters to God:
“A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid anyone who talks too much.” (Proverbs 20:19)
“Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.” (Proverbs 26:20)
“Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life….” (Leviticus 19:16)
Gossip destroys relationships. Gossip is not motivated in love. We are called to build up others, not tear them down. We are not to “bear false witness” (Exodus 20:19 and Deuteronomy 5:20). Our goal should be to live peaceful lives and not one that is divisive and destructive.
Words are powerful and just as they can destroy, let’s use them to lift others up instead of giving into the grapevine of gossip.
Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew is the host of the Tapestry Podcast and the author of three books for women. She is also the Vice President of Community Affairs for the State Fair of Texas. To learn more, visit drfroswa.com.
The ‘Critical Race Theory’ and the real deal in US History
OUR VOICES
By A. Peter Bailey
I truly understand why most whites and their “Black” allies are so angry with the Critical Race Theory approach to teaching American History. After all, for some 400 years they and their ancestors have gotten away with misinforming and often lying about that history in educational institutions throughout the country. For instance, from elementary to high school to three years in the U.S. military, I was never taught the real deal about this country’s history, especially when it came to people of African descent.
My introduction to Black History came when I was a 20 year-old freshman at Howard University. On the first day of class our history professor, Dr. Harold Lewis, said, “ALL of your lives you have mainly studied the history of people of European descent. In this class you will study the history of the rest of the people in the world.”
Thus began my learning the true history of this country. For instance, I learned that 24 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, including Thomas Jefferson, were enslavers of African men, women and children. Despite this, they signed a document that stated: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…” When reading this one can only conclude that Jefferson and his cohorts didn’t consider enslaved Africans as human beings.
Further along in the much-hallowed Declaration, the signers attacked the King of Great Britain with the following: “He has plundered our seas ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the lives of our people…” Which is exactly what proponents of the Critical Race Theory insists they did to African people. By the way, many, if not most, of the other 32 signors of the Declaration of Independence may not have been slave owners but they did provide the ships that transported African men, women and children to North and South America and the Caribbean. Thus, they benefited financially.
Black folks who celebrate historical days honoring enslavers of African people are ignoring what Amos N. Wilson wrote in his book, “The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy”… The History of the oppressed, as written by the oppressor, shapes the consciousness and psychology of both oppressed and oppressor. It helps to legitimize the oppressive system and to maintain an imbalance of power and favor of the oppressor….”
We, as Black folks, will greatly benefit educationally, psychologically and financially if we celebrate and honor, among others, the warriors and events cited in Lerone Bennett Jr’s book, “Great Moments in Black History: Wade in the Water.”
