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I WAS JUST THINKING...

By Norma Adams-Wade Sounds a bit downcast – depending on your perspective.

This Biblical statement takes a deep look at life and concludes that all the hustle and bustle is pointless. Agree or disagree, the point provokes discussion.

I was just thinking...one of the first casualties of COVID-19 was our dependence on

May 20, 2020

SHOW ME YOUR WALK!

By Cheryl Smith, Publisher

This is a special time. Well, it was supposed to be, for the class of 2020. COVID-19, however; has changed everything and there are some very unhappy and disappointed people.

Just imagine, all your young life you have heard about this wonderful time. I can remember being told, “your senior year is going to be the best year of your life.”

I was also told that I was going to look back on that time and cherish the memories of prom, graduation, parties and saying goodbye to teachers, coaches and friends; some i’d probably never see again.

Which brings me to my truth.

I’ve heard a similar spiel about other key times in my life: Going away to college; pledging Delta Sigma Theta Sorority; obtaining the first, then the second college degree; purchasing my first car, then house; and, so on.

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President Barack Obama

Dr. Michael J. Sorrell

Thanks to Paul Quinn College President Dr. Michael J. Sorrell’s visionary leadership, HBCU graduates had a special virtual commencement Saturday with President Barack Obama as the speaker, bringing a profound

message. The millions who tuned in heard President Obama tell the Class of 2020 that they should: “Ground yourself in actual communities; you can’t do it alone; build bridges.” He told the graduates that they are all role models and “the

Friends and former media colleagues react to death of beloved sports journalist Roger B. Brown

By Dorothy J. Gentry Sports Editor As news hit Monday afternoon that legendary DFW sports journalist Roger B. Brown passed away days after his 61st birthday, many of his friends and former media colleagues took to social media to express their feelings about the beloved “Roger B.” “Damn. My world just got rocked 30 minutes ago when Alicia Young, the sister of sports journalist, Roger B.

Brown, called to tell me that he died today,” Roland S. Martin wrote in an Instagram post.

Martin and Roger B. worked together at both KKDA Soul 73 AM and the Fort Worth StarTelegram.

Martin’s Instagram post continued: “Roger suffered a stroke last week.

He was in rehab today, was showing improvement, went to his room and never woke up. Roger B. Brown wasn’t just a colleague of mine at the Fort Worth

Star-Telegram and KKDA-AM, he was also my Alpha Phi Alpha brother. We were close friends.

We hung out at the house, had many long, wild conversations, and we were ALWAYS there for each other. Roger B and I played phone tag on Thursday and Friday, which was his 61st birthday.

I’ve listened to that voicemail twice.

Damn, my friend, my frat, my colleague is gone. I’m gonna miss that Mississippi boy.

RIP, Roger B.”

Roger B. In a second Instagram post minutes later, Martin wrote: “Prayers for his sister, Alicia Young, and all his fans in the D/FW area and all across the country.

He was a dedicated sports journalist and a proud Alpha Phi see Roger Brown page 9

folks we’ve been waiting for to come along.”

To view the celebration, log on to essence studios. com.

To support our HBCUs, donate to UNCF and Thurgood Marshall College Fund: https:// hbcugrad2020.funraise. org

SERVICE

City of DeSoto, in partnership with IN-N-OUT Burger and the Veterans Administration, hosted a successful drive-thru Veterans Appreciation Day. Mayor Curtistene McCowan attended event where about 150 veterans and family members were served.

COVID-19 exposes our human vanity routines that make us look better than our natural selves.

These practices give new meaning to enhanced beauty vs “natural beauty.”

There’s an old joke about a newly-married couple. The new husband is shocked when the new wife begins to remove all her attached beauty boosters – fake hair, eyelashes, face cream, powder, eye liner, eye shadow, lipstick, pads in various places, and

Roland Martin discusses his receding hairline enhancements to hold in unwanted extra pounds. The

new husband discovered that the woman who stood before him was not the image of the woman he thought he married.

The underlying message is: who are we really?

For centuries different cultures have perpetuated torture practices that make no sense – foot binding in China, corsets that hindered breathing in the 1700s, giant disks that stretched lips in some African regions, and even

stiletto heels in America.

On recent television talk and variety shows, newscasts, and nighttime entertainment programs, hosts reluctantly have been forced to show their true selves. Forced to shelterin-place at home, hosts lost access to hair and makeup crews – shattering illusions of beauty.

There used to be a saying: “Only her hairdresser knows.” see Thinking page 5

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METRO BRIEFS DeSoto ISD School Board approves paid mental health leave Since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, DeSoto ISD has shared its commitment to the wellbeing of its students and staff. As the district shifts to staff retention and recruitment for the upcoming year, the focus on wellness continues with the Board’s recent approval of mental health days amongst its new list of paid leave days for staff.

DEC (Local) is the policy that houses the district’s regulations on employee leave and now states that staff will receive an additional three (3) local leave days with two of the three days classified as mental health days and available once each semester. However, the employee can utilize the three days at their discretion on a “no questions asked” basis, if requested according to leave procedures and adhere to the stated blackout dates.

The additional leave days began with a review of the district’s DEC Local policy initiated by DeSoto ISD Trustee Dr. Tiffany Clark, who has a background in education and counseling.

Her idea was to create an avenue to emphasize the importance of employee self-care and wellness.

“The mental health policy is important because right now our staff has been inundated with a lot of rapid changes both personal and professional,” Trustee Clark said in an initial discussion on the policy update. “I believe that DeSoto ISD can change the narrative and give staff a day where they can focus completely on their mental health, without having to use a regular work

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leave day when they simply need to breathe.”

According to recent reports, mental health concerns are rising in the nation due to the ongoing pandemic and categorized as the next outbreak. The Kaiser Family Foundation poll which showed that over 50% of Americans have reported that worry or stress related to the outbreak has led to at least one negative mental health effect since the crisis began - including trouble eating or sleeping, frequent headaches, stomach aches, irritability and the worsening of chronic health problems.

More than 60 percent of frontline health care workers and their families reported worsened mental health along with 65% of those who had lost income.

DeSoto ISD WINGS Principal Bridget Nevels, who developed the policy recommendations as part of her superintendent internship program, said that this was a great move forward for the district.

Prior to this addition, DeSoto ISD offered only two local leave days while other districts offered three to five days. This makes the district offering comparable to the surrounding districts of Lancaster, Cedar Hill, Waxahachie, and Duncanville which offer three to five days.

In addition to the three

local leave days, the trustees approved the Human Resources Department’s request to update the sick leave policy shifting the district from the sick leave pool concept to the sick leave bank. This change allows a small committee of peers to allocate requested sick time, based on a set of guidelines, from a collection of time previously donated by staff.

Walmart opens four COVID-19 testing locations in Dallas County Walmart has opened four additional COVID-19 drivethru testing sites in Walmart parking lots in Dallas County: 15757 Coit Rd., Dallas, TX 75248 951 W. Belt Line Rd., DeSoto, TX 75115 5302 N Garland Ave., Garland, TX 75040 2501 Lakeview Pkwy., Rowlett, TX 75088 The sites are supported

by Walmart, eTrueNorth and state and local officials to test anyone who meets CDC and

JUDGE CLAY JENKINS

state and local guidelines on who should be tested, including first responders, health care providers and others with symptoms of COVID-19 and those in high-risk groups without symptoms. Those interested in being tested need to visit www.DoINeedaCOVID19test. com to see if eligible for

testing and to make an appointment.

“We’re pleased to partner with Walmart on this important testing for our community. Testing is critical so that we’re not flying blind as we do everything that we can to keep you safe during a time when our economy is reopening,” said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.

“Walmart is part of the community, and we are proud to help support the expansion of COVID-19 testing in Dallas during this unprecedented time,” said Laurie Smalling Letts, Walmart Public Affairs Director for Texas. “We are grateful to our associates who keep our stores running, our pharmacists who support these testing sites, and to eTrueNorth and local officials as we work together to open the site and help our community.”

Details on the COVID-19 testing site: The sites are open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays weekly 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., weather permitting.

Appointments must be made through eTrueNorth’s online portal at www.

DoINeedaCOVID19test.com, which will screen individuals to ensure they meet CDC eligibility for testing.

For questions regarding testing, call 800-635-8611.

Those being tested will need to wear a mask or cloth covering and stay in their cars for verification of eligibility criteria, ID check and self-administered test.

For the safety of all those on-site, the test site is not available to those who walk up.

The site will be staffed by Walmart healthcare professionals Testing is not available inside Walmart stores. see BRIEFS page 3

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The Power of Mothering

learned a lot watching others my mother taught FAITHFUL her in how she’s dealt me. The lesson I am most with situations. I think grateful for is the the UTTERNESS we confuse forgiveness introduction to my faith.

BY with allowing yourself In teaching me about the DR. FROSWA to be a doormat. At first, love of God and God’s BOOKER-DREW I couldn’t understand forgiveness, it freed me Brother Gerald how she could forgive to do the same for others.

Davis, thank you! I was people because I didn’t I can’t say I have it down pleasantly surprised understand what it to a science but what I that one of the chapters really meant. What she can say is that I can point of my book was used was doing was releasing to so many experiences as a Sunday School people from keeping a in my life that my Lesson at Cornerstone hold on her. In some mother’s investment in Baptist Church this morning. The chapter was on forgiveness and “ Favour is deceitful, and beauty is explaining the difficult relationship I had with vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, my father. I still love my father even after all she shall be praised.”--Proverbs 31:30 of these years that he’s been gone but some of situations, forgiveness my spiritual growth is his decisions impacted included saying goodbye. evident. I am forever my life in ways that were Those lessons molded grateful that she’s given not the best. Before he me into understanding me a gift that continues passed, he asked for my that forgiveness was to give to others which forgiveness. I forgave bigger than me and started on decades ago. him and it was one of the required something The times I didn’t want to most powerful things I’ve much more exceptional go to church, or speak for done in my life. I learned to accomplish. special services, sing in to let go so that I could My mother is a the choir, or participate in experience the freedom I nurturer. She is giving Sunday School, she didn’t was missing. by nature and all of my stop because she knew I must give credit to life, I’ve seen her love what the outcome would my mother because I even when others didn’t be.

She forgave my watched this woman comprehend it or were moments of unhappiness embody forgiveness. not reciprocal. I am so because she knew there My mother has endured much like my mother. I was something greater some very painful and am forever grateful for to come and when times private traumas. I’ve this lesson and so many were good or bad, I had

a foundation to sustain me. She planted seeds that have sprouted and I am thankful that she never gave up.

There are so many mothers who planted seeds that at the time, they were doing what they knew was best. It wasn’t always popular or accepted but they trusted God to water their gift of faithfulness.

The same seeds my mother planted in me, I have instilled in my daughter. I am honored to have a mother who didn’t know the outcome but trusted God to give the increase. I am honored to be a mother of a daughter who even as a college student understands the power of God in her life. Thank God for mothers, for their unwavering faith, for the many lessons that have been taught and more importantly, for believing in the harvest even when they couldn’t see what was happening in the soil they were tilling.

I am because of you.

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continued from page 2 that Dr. Baggett has the Mayor Johnson names COVID-19 Health and Healthcare access czar Kelvin Baggett Mayor Eric Johnson on Tuesday named Dr. Kelvin Baggett as the new City of Dallas COVID-19 Health and Healthcare Access Czar.

Mayor Johnson asked Dr. Baggett, a seasoned healthcare executive, to take on the role, which includes assessing and leading efforts to increase testing and contact tracing and promoting health measures, especially in underserved communities.

“We are all doing what we can to respond to the daunting and unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Mayor Johnson said.

“But it has become clear to me that we need someone to focus on helping those most in need and increasing their access to testing and healthcare. These steps are critical for our ongoing public health response and for our reopening and recovery

skills, experience, and background to help all of our communities stay healthy.”

Dr. Kelvin Baggett

To help promote health and healthcare access in Dallas for all and to minimize the impact of this pandemic, Dr. Baggett will: • R e c o m m e n d measures to save lives and slow the spread of COVID-19 in Dallas by improving access to healthcare, testing, and other essential services.

• R e c o m m e n d the collection and reporting of data by the City of Dallas regarding COVID-19 risks, cases, hospitalizations, and deaths to determine if certain populations are disproportionately impacted by the disease.

6090 Bonnie View Rd, Dallas, TX 75241 Hours of services may differ Phone: (214) 372-6321

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EDITORIAL

SUPER SPECIAL GRADUATION

WAKE UP AND STAY WOKE BY DR. E. FAYE WILLIAMS, ESQ.

TriceEdney – Everybody who has ever graduated from anything knows how special graduation is. If you made it to graduation, not only were you excited about doing something not only you considered important, but the fact that you made it, made a lot of people happy.

Friends, relatives-- especially your parents -- bragged about your being a member of a graduating class.

It didn’t matter if you were graduating from medical school, law school, undergraduate school, high school or even kindergarten, everybody treated you like royalty.

Not only in your

eyes, but in theirs, you had achieved a special milestone.

Some gave you hugs. Others gave you presents. You really appreciated those who gave you money!

I can remember graduating from law school, and one neighbor from the neighborhood in which I grew up sent me a couple of dishtowels! While I wasn’t known to be one who spent a lot of time in the kitchen, I cherished those dishtowels.

It was the thought that she considered my graduation something special that made me happy to count them as presents!

This year, we had a pretty gloomy Class of 2020 who couldn’t think of anything worse than not being able to walk across the stage in that cap and gown, have the college president or school principal shake their hand and

celebrate their graduation. I’ve graduated many times--high school, college, law school, 3 times for doctoral degrees and once for an honorary doctoral degree—but none of that could top what 2020 graduates are getting!

None other than President Barack Obama is going to hold a virtual commencement ceremony for seniors who are graduating nationwide. You can’t beat that. This graduation will top all that we’ve ever seen.

Even if we don’t have a family member or a friend graduating from any level, I can assure you more people will virtually attend this one than they have for any other speaker.

The speaker must be thrilled!

I know I’m going to be leaning in for every word whether it’s on Skype, Zoom, Face Book, C-Span, YouTube, any of my regularly watched channels or any new method of viewing

that may be discovered before graduation!

Just imagine how one person can make a difference. One young person conceived the idea of asking President Obama to do him a favor. Thousands of students agreed, and the best President ever responded with a confirmation.

Does that prove that just having the audacity to ask can sometimes get you what you ask for? I was so excited when I heard B.O. was going to honor graduates with what I know will be a memorable message. You would think I was graduating from something! I have no doubt about his delivering a message that will last the graduates a lifetime.

Not only will the graduates have B.O. but M.O. joined the celebration for several events honoring the class of 2020 as part of a # G r a d u a t e To g e t h e r 2 0 2 0

special.

Saturday, May 16, 2020, honored students at historically Black colleges and universities then there was a virtual commencement for high school seniors at 8 PM ET. As if that is not enough, another address to the class of 2020 will take place on June 6, 2020 at 3 PM ET! In typical Obama style no one will be left out!

Our nation needs that special hope that both Michelle and Barack know how to give.

Nobody can do it the way they do, and every day I hear someone say, “I sure do miss them.” Keep your ears open for details.

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

Ida B’s Pulitzer — both too late and right on time THE LAST WORD BY DR. JULIANNE MALVEAUX

Exactly 136 years to the day after Ida B. Wells was thrown off a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad train, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans in the era of lynchings.” The creator of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, Nicole HannahJones, received a Pulitzer on the same day and reminded us that the New York Times, in 1894, described Wells as a “slanderous and nasty-minded mulatress.”

The path between “nastyminded mulatress’ and Pulitzer Prize winner was not a smooth one. Ida B. Wells had many

detractors, from all quarters, in her time. White folks could not stand her blunt description of their lynching behavior, which included her reporting that some Black men were lynched, not for rape, but because they’d had consensual sex with white women. White women in the suffrage movement decried her because she dared challenge them about race matters.

Some Black men found her “prickly,” according to her biographer Paula Giddings. Although she was a founder of the NAACP, her voice was often sidelined in that organization.

She maintained her activism, no matter what. As her greatgranddaughter, Michelle Duster, told the Chicago Tribune, “the only thing she really had was the truth.”

Ida B. Wells chose to trumpet an uncomfortable truth to our nation. After three of her friends were lynched, primarily

because of white economic envy, she traveled the South to document lynchings, going to lynching sites, interviewing

Ida B. Wells

witnesses, making clear that the trope that Black men were mostly lynched for “raping” white women was a falsehood. In one editorial, she wrote, “If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and

public sentiment will have a reaction, a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women.”

That sentiment incited rabid whites, who trashed her press and threatened her life. She did not return to Memphis after the threats.

The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917 to uplift “excellence in journalism.”

Wells’ pathbreaking journalism would not have been a Pulitzer candidate, as her most important work, including Southern Horrors (1892) and Red Record (1895) were published before the Pulitzer was established. Based on her investigations, she wrote that “ten thousand Negroes have been killed in cold blood (through lynching) without the formality of judicial trial and legal execution.” The Pulitzer Prizes were occasionally bestowed on journalists

who exposed lynching, KKK operations, and other race matters, including integration clashes, race-related school closings in Virginia (1959), the John Birch Society, the Watts uprisings (they called them riots), Selma and more. Ebony Magazine’s Monetta Sleet won a Pulitzer for a photo of Coretta Scott King at Dr. King’s funeral.

By and large, though, the Black press was peripheral in Pulitzer consideration.

While the Pulitzers have had a progressive stance, awarding journalists who covered college clashes (Cornell, Kent State 1969), jail peonage (Florida 1924), exploitation in meatpacking plants, their inability to consider excellence in the Black press is an oversight. Ida B. Wells would not have been a candidate for a Pulitzer citation without the ways the Black press embraced see MALVEAUX page 13

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Collaboration is key for Black Thinking, business in North Texas

Darren James, FAIA Chairman, DBCC

We can all agree that we are living in unprecedented times.

Unprecedented times are nothing new to the majority of African Americans in the United States.

Our resolve to survive and thrive has always been evident, as we are all aware as business owners, community leaders, residents, and employees that African American communities are hit hardest when the economy is strained.

Obviously, we are not the only citizens to feel the effects of business constriction or economic slowdowns. However, re-covery is more difficult in our underserved, under-resourced communities.

Black business owners are suffering more dire con-sequences than others due to the way African American have been marginalized throughout American history.

Unfortunately, even after national coverage of the devastating impact of COVID-19 on the Black community, our businesses remain in the shadows.

It is incumbent on us to patronize our institutions that have serviced our community creating memories and commerce, generation after generation.

If we don’t support them now, they may not survive as we could lose anywhere from 30% to 40% of Black businesses in the state of Texas due to this pandemic and consequential economic shutdown.

In an effort to prepare our businesses to survive and experience growth beyond the crisis, the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce is working with our elected officials advocating for funding for Black businesses, partnering with the SBA, our city and county municipalities, and preparing our business owners for the myriad of paperwork necessary to navigate the requirements for emergency assistance during their time of need.

This advocacy and data collection will illustrate the acute funding needs of one of the largest pools of African American owned businesses in the United States.

Communities are interconnected links of commerce, education and health. When one, or in this case, all are stressed simultaneously, we must come together in support of each other.

We are in the “New Now.” I refuse to claim this as a new normal. At some point in the future stay-athome and social distancing will recede. But until then, we must safely practice the prescribed health measures of sheltering-inplace, social distancing and selfquarantining.

Although every entrepreneur and every staff member consider their job essential due to the importance of providing for themselves and their families.

The hard truth is that for the greater community good, some businesses have been deemed

more essential than others.

As the curve has shown signs of flattening in North Texas and the health & safety measures are showing positive signs, now is the time to prepare for the reigniting the economy.

Government financial assistance has come and for the most part gone; albeit quickly. We are now preparing strategically and thoughtfully get the city, region, state and country back to work.

As Chair of the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce, I like others have been on many calls, committees, and task forces addressing the health crises, financial damage and now economic recovery efforts. Rest assured that the plans will be vetted and researched by some of the best economic and business minds in this area with input from national thought leaders, health officials and federal directives.

These will be trying times, and for the foreseeable future, my advice as the chair of the oldest Black Chamber in the nation, and a business owner of KAI Enterprises, is to prepare for the unexpected while planning for the re-emergence of commercial economic activity.

I implore you to help your neighbor, friend and colleague as we navigate today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities.

These factors are critical for our survival. Nevertheless, in difficult times, new ideas emerge, and new businesses are born.

The Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce is here as a resource to the North Texas Community.

Be Well and Stay Healthy!

Today, it’s intriguing to hear celebrities discuss their natural appearance sans the usual makeup and hair styles.

Some classic comments have come from Wendy Williams (The Wendy Williams Show), Roland Martin (Roland Martin Unfiltered) and Meghan McCain (The View). Not to worry, though. Meghan’s The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg has remained as comfortably natural as greens from Gramma’s backyard garden.

Wendy talked about skin flaws on her face that makeup artists had been skilled at covering. Meghan -- with her hair uncharacteristically pulled back in a single pony tail, roots showing -- ‘fessed up that her family grays prematurely.

She said she rapidly is losing the battle against unwanted grey strands that appear unannounced many mornings.

The usually light-blondehaired host later said she has decided not to color her hair anymore and henceforth to rock her natural, much-darker color.

That reminded me of a magazine article I read years ago about how Camille Cosby vowed to stop coloring her hair to conceal her gray. She kept that vow after she lost her swimming cap in a pool and hair dye streamed down her wet face and dripped on her shoulders. She has sported natural gray ever since.

Nighttime hosts Jimmy Fallon and Jimmyww Kimmel look disheveled, hair askew, as

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African woman with lip disk

they host their shows from their homes. Their small children running through the camera shots or climbing all over their shoulders. Even Lady Gaga in one nighttime interview from her home wore big glasses, hair pulled back, and looked like the friendly average neighbor next-door about to run out to buy groceries.

The kicker may be Roland on Facebook, standing in what appeared to be his bathroom or at his bedroom dresser.

He gives an impassioned, trademark Roland lecture ordering men to stop hassling him to shave his thinning hair to bald. As usual, Roland was having none of it. He stressed that he is comfortable with the convenience of not having to shave a bald head regularly and will proudly retain his receding hair line.

“Y’all think your hair is attached to your manhood. It’s not!” the popular broadcaster exclaimed. “Stop being so selfconscious!”

So, whenever the pandemic goes away, will the world return to glamour and glitz as usual? Or will it become stylist to be our authentic selves?

Time will tell.

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

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Judge Moye’ Deserves Better!

Dallas County Commissioner has proposed a resolution that probably won’t be adopted by the full Commissioner’s Court, but it will be widely accepted among those of us who know and respect Judge Eric V. Moye’.

When asked if I would allow my opinion space to be used for this use, all I had was two words; “Quit Playin!’”

President Obama and Judge Eric Moye

DATE: May 19, 2020 BE IT REMEMBERED, at a regular meeting of Commissioners’ Court of Dallas County, Texas held on the 19th day of May, 2020, on a motion made by John Wiley Price, Commissioner District No.3, and seconded by, the following Resolution was adopted: WHEREAS, Dallas County is one of 254 counties in the U.S. state of Texas, and its second-most populous county, and the eighth-most populous in the United States, based on the 2010 U.S. census, the population was 2,368,139; and by the 2020 census ending may exceed 3,000,000 citizens, and WHEREAS, Dallas County citizens, like so many others throughout the globe, face the threat of death, infirmities and economic depression by the COVID-19 virus, which has contaminated communities in more than 184 countries, and WHEREAS, Dallas County government has subrogated its rights and to some degree its responsibilities and has complied with the directives of the Governor of the State of Texas without regard to its strictures being suitable

or in the best in-terests of the citizens we were duly elected to serve and protect, and WHEREAS Dallas County has made public and sometimes confusing adjustments to alter its course to satisfy the ever-changing orders from Greg Abbott’s office, most significantly to Executive Order 8 (Mitigating COVID -19 Spread) but includ-ing all subsequent Executive Orders (9-22) at the time of this writing, and WHEREAS, Dallas County has seen several politically motivated counteractions to these orders as an attempt to buoy the partisan pleasures of President Donald J. Trump and thereby his Republican acolytes who demand that we “Open up our country” without regard to those persons and communities that live with “pre-existing conditions” and were vulnerable to any outbreak of disease be-fore COVID-19, and WHEREAS, Dallas County has been posited as “posse and sheriff” of the Governor’s shoddy if not loosely written statutes regulating certain business closures and the administration of punishment to all who violate said order(s), and WHEREAS, Dallas County did duly and proudly elect one Eric Moye’ to the bench of State District Court #14 and has thereby re-elected him successively because of his unblemished reputation as a fair and impartial jurist who intimately knows the law by letter and by spirit, and WHEREAS, Dallas County residents suffer as the world gazes upon the travesty of justice caused when the Governor of the State of Texas and Dan Patrick, Lieutenant Governor (who appears to spend an excessive amount of time with his Con-servative radio talk show) intervened in a ruling against a mediamanufactured cause celebre, a lawbreaker and owner of Salon à la Mode, located in Dallas County.

Thanks Commissioner, and a special shout-out to Channel 8’s Dale Hansen.(A Real Brother!)

WHEREAS, Dallas County had its reputation questioned and ridiculed as this staged-circus, was reduced to issues of race and the superiority of Anglos over all other Americans, which was exhibited by the Governor and the Lt. Governor’s reintroduction of Dred Scott v. Sanford which briefed by any reasonable party reads; “a Black man (Moye’) has no rights that a White man (Trump, Abbott, Patrick) are bound to respect!”

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Commissioners’ Court of Dallas County do hereby and with political consequences and incidental indemnities known, declare that this government, both State and Federal has proven it has no

Commissioner John Wiley Price

regard for the “rule of law” that it wears as an aegis of its “virtues, “nor the spirit of patriotism for which it holds itself exclusive.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor issue an earnest apology to said judge, whose life is threatened and whose professional record is impugned; post-haste, and that the hundreds of thousands of dollars collected in this firestorm of foolishness be donated to worthy causes and people who are genuinely in need of this State’s intervention.

DONE IN OPEN COURT this the 19th day of May, 2020.

Malcolm X was more than an Angry Foil!

THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES BY THOMAS MUHAMMAD

He was born May 19, 1925 in Omaha, NE and much like many young folk, then and even todaygrowing up too fast, he, too experienced some life-changing phases. But he was more than some damn soundbite many need-to-grow, I mean Negroes quote when whitey makes em mad!

The White man fires you!

You’re ready to shout “by any means necessary,” or say, “Brother Malcolm said,” just throw in any quote that fits an angry man moment, it’ll do! Every time you get pissed off, right?

But if that same white man gave you a raise you’d have no problem coming up with some comfortable name to call out and celebrate. Can’t use Malcolm for that cause he was angry all the time!

Bul&@:/t! Or to be politically correct, BS! Malcolm was very happy in life and he lived a full one. But more important, he was human. And like most humans from the male class he was once a baby, a son, a teen, a young adult, a husband, a father; and if he hadn’t been gunned down and alive today, he’d be a grandfather!

I remember listening to one of his daughters recall what she missed aboutbeing without her father. She said what she missed were moments like watching him smile broadly after dinner and how he loved eating his favorite big bowl of vanilla ice cream. Or when wife Betty would come after the children with a belt they’d run and try and hide behind Malcolm. She said Betty would give Malcolm that look and he’d get outta the way cause as angry as he was in public he

was scared of Betty!

Yeah and imagine Malcolm loving of all things “vanilla ice cream,” not chocolate! Oh oops don’t fit your angry man scenario does it? lol!

By the way, this was before his pilgrimage to Mecca! I had to clarify this point because there are some confused folk who say he felt different about white people in America after that famous trip.

Nothing could farther from the truth! That never changed his philosophy on the importance of Black Nationalism or what he felt about white bigotry in America.

He continued to dedicate his life to fighting white supremacy, period!

In fact he said that after worshiping in Mecca with people who if they had been in America would have been considered white, because of this truth he would no longer “generalize a whole people” And by the way neither should you!

I too, made that holy trip in July of 1990 and witnessed the same things.

It didn’t change my understanding of what and how America feels about Black people.

The recent lynching of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, GA, a socalled paradise, reaffirms that that angry side of Malcolm is still needed, correct?

But please in honor of celebrating his life don’t let that be the only side, cause there’s so much more about the man that’s yet to be learned.

Let us decide today going forward that we will think of our dear brother when things go well for us too. That would be a true honor to his wonderful and powerful legacy!

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Unfair Housing in the U.S. OUR VOICES BY

BY ANTOINE M. THOMPSON

The Fair Housing Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on April 11, 1968, one week after the Assassination of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Initially heralded as a major victory in the movement for Civil Rights in the U.S., the Fair Housing Law prohibited much of the overt or in your face discrimination based largely on race.

However, the law lacked teeth for enforcement due to loopholes and much more.

Just over 50 years later,

housing in the U.S. remains largely racially segregated and very unequal.

Discrimination in purchasing a home Last year, Newsday, released a report, “Long Island DividedInvestigation,” a two-year investigation of housing discrimination of major southern suburbs of New York City.

Prospective Black homebuyers were usually steered to mostly Black neighborhoods, and often required to provide a preapproval letter from a lender before being shown a home by a real estate agent. The opposite was true for prospective White homebuyers. In fact, at least one Black buyer was told to provide a copy of their tax

return prior to being shown a home. This pattern of housing discrimination is not unique only to New York State.

Discrimination by Race and Income When the Fair Housing Act was passed it permitted an owner-occupied, two-family home or duplex to engage a limited form of discrimination.

Also, religious organizations and private clubs can discriminately limit housing to its members.

Further, we know that organizations like the National Fair Housing Alliance and many of their local affiliates often bust unscrupulous landlords for racial bias in renting apartments.

Unfortunately, in some neighborhoods in Maryland

and across the country it is not uncommon for Black persons to be told that an apartment has been rented, only to be made available for a White person.

Additionally, sometimes Black people may have to pay twice the amount of deposit compared to a White person.

There remains constant bias in housing against persons on public assistance programs like Section 8 (which provides financial assistance to help pay the rent).

Discrimination by family composition While the Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination on family status or composition, there continues to be ads on social media, newspapers and other public places where property owners and landlords blatantly break the law.

In recent years, Craigslist and Facebook were busted

for allowing advertising on their website and social media networks that had postings such as “No tenants with Children.”

In recent years, the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development has sued and had various male landlords prosecuted for trying to exchange sex for rent payments with female tenants.

Stop Housing Discrimination Although the signs may not say, “No Blacks” or “Whites Only,” the legacy of Jim Crow and racial discrimination persists in the housing system with one process for Black people and another for White people.

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Alpha man. He was truly my friend, something I don’t say about a lot of people. #RIProgerB” Roger B.’s sports show – “Talking Sports With Roger B. Brown” – served the African-American community in the Dallas/ Fort Worth Metroplex for decades. It was heard weekdays from 6-7pm, and on Sundays from

fail to meet society’s unrealistic parenting expectations. She also knows that moms make little time for themselves. Left unaddressed, they struggle under the weight of a neverending to-do list, adopt unhealthy coping strategies, and experience mommy burnout which can lead to anxiety and depression.

Born out of a sincere desire to encourage and uplift moms and help them cultivate a healthy “mommy mindset,” Dr. Leesha has launched several

6-8pm. He also talked sports, as sports director, during “The Willis Johnson Morning Show.”

Roger B.’s show was one of the few sports talk shows at that time hosted by a Black broadcaster.

In late May 2012, KKDA laid off much of its staff, including Roger B. Brown and replaced them with an automated service.

The station was later sold.

Another former colleague, longtime Star-Telegram Cowboys beat writer Clarence Hill Jr., wrote a Facebook post accompanied by a

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picture of Roger B. and a post from his sister breaking the news of his death.

“Prayers to the family of the legendary Roger B. Brown, former StarTelegram columnist-NBA writer, former longtime talk show host on Soul 73 KKDA. Roger B. Brown is gone,” Hill’s post read.

“He will be missed. I have known Roger B since college. He was my media lifeline when I joined the Star-Telegram in 1995.

He was a huge figure in DFW sports for the last 30 years. Not a week goes by

initiatives. She wrote the Amazon best-selling book, Ditch the Mommy Guilt: A Blueprint for the Modern Mommy.

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without someone asking me about Roger B.” Other fellow journalists responded to the news: “So sad to hear about Roger B. Brown, who died today,” Dwaine Price, Mavs.com writer posted on Twitter. “Roger B. and I were co-workers at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

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current Texas Legends President of Basketball Operations, posted in the comments under Hill’s Facebook post: “Sorry to hear the news, had listened to him for a long time, always promoted things we were doing in the neighborhood, will be truly missed.”

ESPN analyst Kevin Blackistone, a former reporter at The Dallas Morning News, also commented: “Man. One o f a kind. Used to call me The Fake B! And we’d laugh, then get real about somethin’ in the

news.”

Kevin Lyons, a former Star-Telegram staffer posted on Facebook: “This is awful news. When I first started at the StarTelegram, Roger B. was one of the first big names who was nice to me. He used to have me over to his house all the time sharing stories or giving out advice. RIP.” The I Messenger Media family mourns Roger B’s death and celebrates his life.

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Buechele Raises $50,000 for Dallas’ Covid-19 Relief Fund

Don’t Believe the Hype – Stay Sheltered, Stay Safe THE BLACK CARD BY TERRY ALLEN

Shane Buechele, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and Paige Vasquez

By Dorothy J. Gentry Sports Editor SMU Quarterback Shane Buechele and his girlfriend, Paige Vasquez decided last month to start a GoFundMe account so that they could give back to the City of Dallas, the place they call home.

Weeks later the couple met their goal and on Wednesday, delivered a check for $50,000 to Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson to be used for the Mayor’s Disaster Relief Fund for COVID-19.

Their GoFundMe account was created to help the city during this time of uncertainty. The pair felt that they could use their joined voices and rally the support needed to give back in this way.

“Dallas is home, I grew up here,” said SMU Quarterback Shane Buechele.

“It’s been amazing to see how many people have sent in donations. Everyone wants to help and give back in

some way and I’m glad they’re able to do that throughthe donation page Paige and I started.”

Vasquez, the Corporate Communications and Events Coordinator for the Dallas Mavericks, cited her employer as a great role model for giving back.

“Working for the Mavs, I’ve had some pretty spectacular people to look up to like Mark Cuban and Cynt Marshall. Seeing them give back to our community really motivated Shane and I to do the same,” Vasquez said.

“Shane and I realize how blessed we are to have the things we do like a job and food and realize that some people are not so fortunate, especially right now.

“We knew we needed to help and we’re so grateful for everyone that supportedus throughout this process” The couple met Mayor Johnson at Fire Station #4 for the check presentation.

The Mayor’s Disaster Relief

Fund committee will meet to decide how the donation will be distributed to help those in need.

“I was impressed with Shane Buechele’s performance on the field last season for SMU, but I am far more impressed with his commitment to his community here in the city of Dallas,” said Mayor Johnson.

“Dallas is a resilient city.We will recover from COVID-19, and the funds raised by Shane and Paige will help us get there.”

The Mayor’s committee is chaired by businesswoman and former U.S. Ambassador Jeanne Phillips and includesUT-Southwestern Vice President for Community and Corporate Relations Ruben Esquivel, The Beck Group’s Executive Chairman Peter Beck, City Manager T.C. Broadnax, Mayor Johnson’s Chief of Staff Mary Elbanna, and Matthew Randazzo, the CEO and President of TheDallas Foundation.

It has been four weeks or more, since coronavirus aka COVID-19 has turned our interactions from personal and upfront to distant and nonexistent. We are blocked from hanging out with friends and family, reduced to shopping for essentials as necessary and prevented from any public social gatherings. Not since Xerox, Google and FedEx became action verbs have I seen so many new terms —contact tracing, flatten the curve, social distancing and new normal.

I went to sleep in one world and dreamed all night, then I woke up to a real nightmare that presented a new reality that I did not like at all. No self-respecting extrovert would like to wake up in a world where isolating elders from young ones is a CARE ACT and an embrace and a kiss is now an assault charge and/or murder weapon. A walk in the park is a city ordinance violation and opening your barbershop/ beauty shop is a death sentence for your patrons. Six Flags is no longer a great place to ride and no one wants to take a bite of the Big Apple let alone visit it.

But we are resilient. We embraced slang nicknames and basic adjectives, turning them into services. Yes, we ZOOM our meetings and TIK TOK our workouts and QUARANTINED our clubs.

We stayed at home and we did it. We begin to slow the spread of the illness and we found celebration in the isolation.

We stayed home and our first responders, nurses and other medical personnel burdens were lighter. The hospital surge became less overwhelmed and the community began to support flattening the curve.

Aww, but the devil came back!

Just as we see the promise of prevention and intervention, the

devil shows up. The devil shows up with a bad haircut and an overblown ego disguised as our leadership. Then the devil placed medical advice on the backburner.

The devil said it was a hoax!

The devil delayed the process to help us weather the Corona Storm. The devil used public access to influence the minds of the weak and placed doubt in the midst.

When do we go back to normal? When can we leave our homes and see friends again?

The devil put on a dress and shouted we will open up and defy the law! We need to work!

We need to feed our kids! The devil wore Prada and raised $500,000, manipulating the bias of the weak and ignorance of the privileged.

The devil got the misinformed and the mentally-stressed excited about lifting social distancing restrictions to pimp the ignorance of the devil’s followers.

COVID-19 spread like wildfire around the world because it is highly infectious and passes onto others within seconds. The virus had too many invisible and silent carriers. People transmitted the virus when they were asymptomatic. COVID-19 had us infected before we could mask up! The cases are surging as the devil says “open up.”

We have proven the importance of social distancing and reducing the number of contacts in our household.

So, when do we go back to normal? The answer is clear— test the entire population and develop a vaccine.

Then and only then can we normalize our lives again.

So when the devil comes knocking at your door enticing you to come out: DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE, and shut the door.

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Yes, those were monumental times in my life and there have been many more.

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NETFLIX: GO! GO! CORY CARSON

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I’m delighted, as Wall*e and Finding Dory are a must view on my watch list, and to invite animators Woo & Moore into the Valder Beebe Show satellite studios, makes my day.

Go! Go! Cory Carson is Netflix’s hit preschool series that follows

artistic vision and a natural instinct for storytelling. Alex was a Story Lead at Pixar Animation Studios, a director in development at LucasFilm Animation, and a Student Academy Award-winning filmmaker. His credits list include Ratatouille, Wall•e, The Good

Cory a little kid car with an engine that runs on fun. His eager playful spirit can often get him into challenging and entertaining forks in the road. Cory and his family live in the town of Bumperton Hills, where there is always someone interesting to talk to and another adventure is just down the road.

Show runners Alex Woo and Stanley Moore are Pixar alumni who have since started their own studio, “Kuku Studios” based in Berkeley, CA which created the show. Alex Woo is an awardwinning director with strong

Dinosaur, Finding Dory, the Student Academy Award-winning short Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher, and the Sundance New Frontier selection VR short, The Rose and I. Stanley Moore is an award-winning filmmaker with a deep, nerdy love for animation and an intrinsic taste for marketable creative content.

Stanley was one of the top Story Artists at Pixar Animation Studios.

His credits list include Finding Dory, Monsters University, and the Oscar-winning short The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore-Text provided by Woo

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continued from page 4 her. Perhaps the Pulitzers should consider the Black press, too often ignored, in their next citation.

Contemporary events remind us of the enduring legacy of Ida B. Wells’ work.

Ahmaud Arbery, a man who was executed weeks before his 26th birthday, encountered a rabid white father and son who shot him because he was in the

wrong neighborhood at the wrong time. Arbery’s dad described his massacre as a lynching, and it resonates with Ida B. Wells’ Pulitzer award.

Who will cover the Arbery massacre with the same vigor that Ida B. investigated lynching? It took more than two months for a white father and son to be arrested, as video footage illustrated their attack on Arbery. Why? Where is our Ida B Wells?

Ida B’s legacy requires

& Moore publicists in conjunction with the Valder Beebe Show VEB: Guys, thanks for joining me here in Dallas. I want you both to know I am smitten by the animation work you produce. Alex tell me about Go! Go! Corey Carson.

AW: I’m glad you really like the show. We wanted to create a show that captured what it was like to be a kid.

SM: I am a parent and we just really believe everyone deserves a good story.

VEB: You guys come from animation royalty. Tell me about being a part of my two favorite films, Wall*e and Finding Dory.

AW: It was always my dream as a high school and college student to work a Pixar. It was amazing to work there with many talented artist. Working on Finding Dorey, that was a three year project.

VEB: Give my parents listening, inspiration for their talented kids.

SM: All artists out there, keep drawing. Always ask questions, what if…..what if dragons are real. Stay inquisitive, allow your imagination to soar.

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journalists to poke and provoke, to ask uncomfortable questions, to use their pens to seek social and economic justice.

The Ida B. Legacy, as well as reminds us that in 2020, we grapple; with the same challenges that we did a century ago. Kudos to Nicole Hannah Jones for taking up the baton from Ida B. with the 1619 project. Ida B’s Pulitzer was decades late, and at the same time, right on time.

haunted house to store a bunch of stolen electronics.

At the Movies Dastardly vows revenge on the kids for spoiling his plans and meanwhile, after BY solving their first mystery, HOLLYWOOD HERNANDEZ The Mystery Crew is born.

The film jumps forward SCOOB!, now showing on to present day and the crew Pay Per View for $19.99, was finds themselves in their biggest originally set for theatrical release mystery yet, Shaggy and Scooby so it’s filled with big name voice have to try to save the world from talents like Will Forte (Shaggy), Dick Dastardly’s evil plot to take Mark Wahlberg (Blue Falcon) Zac over the world while the mystery Efron as Fred and Tracy Morgan crew try to find their friends and as a character named Captain come to their aid. The crew split Caveman. It also stars Frank Welker, up after Simon Cowell, voiced by the original voice of Scooby Doo. the real Simon Cowell becomes The characters are great and the

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The movie starts with Scooby and Shaggy as younger versions of themselves. Shaggy is less of a stoner and more of a slacker in the movie and in the opening scene Scooby is on the run from the cops after stealing some Scooby Snacks (a big roll of salami) from a grocery store. Shaggy manages to convince the cop that Scooby is his dog and the two become fast friends over some shared salami sandwiches. The two later hook up with Fred, Daphne and Velma on Halloween night and capture Dick Dastardly who tries to use a fake

the group’s agent and wants the slacking, and obsessed with snacking, Shaggy and Scooby out of the group.

SCOOB! is a great film for the entire family and is is the first movie in a new Hanna-Barbera cinemanatic Universe. The movie has a great message for kids about friendship and about the importance of never giving up.

The film is rated PG for a few adult situations and has a run time of just over 90 minutes.

My entire family really enjoyed it and on my “Hollywood Popcorn Scale” I rate SCOOB! a JUMBO. Also don’t get off the couch until after the movie’s credits. There are some bonus scenes at the very end of the movie.

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MS: Royal’s Fried Chicken has the best taste and great value. How long have you been in Cedar Hill?

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MAY 20, 2020 Ask Dr. Amerson ‘Suicide Awareness during the Pandemic’’ at 11am CST on DFWiRadio.com. Expert guest Brandon Demings will share his personal testimony, give statistics, and give resources for this worldwide topic, which is not talked about enough. #ScalpDoctor #39yrveteran #7yrhost A Message For You. with Marva Sneed comes to you From Marva with Love, bringing you COVID-19 information on how to get the help you need, News, Resources, Music, and Encouragement. 11 am-1 pm. CST. Facebook/@CherylSmith and BlogTalkRadio. com.646-200-0459.

May 21, 2020

A Message For You, hosted by Cheryl Smith publisher of Texas Metro News, Garland Journal and I Messenger, a veteran journalist and FAMU graduate, who currently serves as Secretary of the National Association of Black Journalists. On Facebook/@CherylSmith & BlogTalkRadio.com. at 11 am-1 pm. Questions ask Cheryl 646-200-0459.

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Grown Folks Jazz, hosted by Sam Putney from the Skip Murphy Morning Show every Thursday on Facebook.com/ JimAustinOnline. At 7:30 pm. Guest: Fingerprints

May 22, 2020 From Marva with Love with Marva Sneed 11:15am Dr. Sharka’Kang Zoolo Kang, a Naturopathic Doctor and herbalist, sharing solutions and what we can do to be healthy.

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MAY 20, 2020

Virtual Community Calendar May 23, 2020

May 28, 2020

Happy Birthday to I Messenger Media Intern and Morehouse Man-Anthony Council

A Message For You, hosted by Cheryl Smith publisher of Texas Metro News, Garland Journal and I Messenger. She is a veteran journalist and FAMU graduate, who currently serves as Secretary of the National Association of Black Journalists. Join in on Facebook/@CherylSmith and BlogTalkRadio.com at 11 am- 1pm. Questions ask Cheryl at 646-200-0459

A Message For You. I Messenger Media is continuing to provide our readers and listeners with thought-provoking, informative, enlightening and entertaining news and commentary. 1:00 pm on BlogTalkRadio.com and Facebook Live.

Partnering with the Facebook Journalism Project.

May 24, 2020 Andrew’s World, host Andrew Whigham III on BlogTalkRadio.com from 8 am-10 am.

Tune in for thought-provoking, informative, enlightening, and entertaining news and commentary. Join the conversation at 646200-0459 Andrew’s World.

Grown Folks Jazz, hosted by Sam Putney from the Skip Murphy Morning Show every Thursday on Facebook.com/ JimAustinOnline. At 7:30 pm. Guest: Taylor Pace

May 29, 2020 From Marva with Love with Marva Sneed 11:15 am. Ebony Smith, Founder of Yoga N Da Hood Yoga N Da Hood makes wellness accessible to EVERYONE! 11:45 am Akwete Tyehimba, Owner of Pan African Connection Book Store and Art Gallery. 12:15 pm Denice Ford Perfect Health Holistic Institute, Denice is a Certified Herbal Health Coach.

A Message For You. I Messenger Media is continuing to provide our readers and listeners with thought-provoking, informative, enlightening and entertaining news and commentary. 1:00 pm on BlogTalkRadio.com and Facebook Live.

Partnering with the Facebook Journalism Project.

May 25, 2020

May 30, 2020

A Message For You, hosted by Cheryl Smith publisher of Texas Metro News, Garland Journal and I Messenger. She is a veteran journalist and FAMU graduate, who currently serves as Secretary of the National Association of Black Journalists. Join in on Facebook/@ CherylSmith and BlogTalkRadio.com at 11 am- 1pm. Questions ask Cheryl at 646-200-0459

A Message For You. I Messenger Media is continuing to provide our readers and listeners with thought-provoking, informative, enlightening and entertaining news and commentary.

1:00 pm on BlogTalkRadio.com and Facebook Live. Partnering with the Facebook Journalism Project.

May 26, 2020 A Message For You, with Anthony Council Morehouse student and I Messenger Media intern. Anthony brings that perspective from those born in this century.

May 27, 2020 Ask Dr. Amerson ‘Animals with Alopecia’ at 11am CST on DfwiRadio.com Expert guest is Dr. Alison Diesel, Professor at Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine, share about animals who they see with alopecia and skin conditions. Tips on hair & scalp care, & alopecia. #ScalpDoctor #39yrveteran #7yrhost A Message For You. with Marva Sneed comes to you From Marva with Love, bringing you COVID-19 information on how to get the help you need, News, Resources, Music, and Encouragement. 11 am-1 pm. CST. Facebook/@CherylSmith and BlogTalkRadio.com.646-200-0459.

May 31, 2020 Andrew’s World with host Andrew Whigham III on BlogTalkRadio.com 8 am.10 am. Tune in for thought-provoking, enlightening, informative, and entertaining news and commentary. Join the conversation at 646-200-0459 on Andrew’s World.

A Message For You. I Messenger Media is continuing to provide thought-provoking, informative, enlightening and entertaining news, and commentary. 1 pm. on BlogTalkRadio.com.

NBPRS Dallas and NABJ Media Related Task Force presents the “Virtual” Happy Hour with host Terry Allen every Sunday 5:30 pm CST. Register in advance for this meeting: https:// us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ vpIpcumvrD4jCjxEQOkkv1R6jaqJ1yhGw. Bring your best drink and enjoy online networking!

June 1, 2020 A Message For You, hosted by Cheryl Smith publisher of Texas Metro News, Garland Journal and I Messenger. She is a veteran journalist and FAMU graduate, who currently serves as Secretary of the National Association of Black Journalists. Join

in on Facebook/@CherylSmith and BlogTalkRadio.com at 11 am- 1pm. Questions ask Cheryl at 646-200-0459.

June 2, 2020 A Message For You, with Anthony Council Morehouse student and I Messenger Media intern. Anthony brings that perspective from those born in this century.

June 3, 2020 Ask Dr. Amerson ‘’Sexual Assault Awareness’ at 11am CST on DfwiRadio.com Expert guest is Author & Life Coach Maurita Brown shares valuable information about a topic which is often swept under the rug.

Statistics given and resources. Tips on hair & scalp care, & alopecia, #ScalpDoctor #39yrveteran #7yrhost Hollywood Live! With Michael “Hollywood” Hernandez on Hollywoodlive.com from 2 pm-4 pm. Guests: Michelle Priest & Don Diego.

A Message For You. with Marva Sneed comes to you From Marva with Love, bringing you COVID-19 information on how to get the help you need, News, Resources, Music, and Encouragement. 11 am-1 pm. CST. Facebook/@CherylSmith and BlogTalkRadio.com. 646-200-0459.

June 4, 2020 A Message For You, hosted by Cheryl Smith publisher of Texas Metro News, Garland Journal and I Messenger. She is a veteran journalist and FAMU graduate, who currently serves as Secretary of the National Association of Black Journalists.

Join in on Facebook/@CherylSmith and BlogTalkRadio.com at 11 am- 1pm. Questions ask Cheryl at 646-200-0459

June 5, 2020 From Marva with Love 11:15 am Terry Allen CEO of City Men Cook and CEO 1016 Media, He hosts the biggest Sunday Dinner on Father’s Day. 12:15 pm.

Joseph Abrahams CEO Invest in your Success. How has COVID-19, the Lockdown, and job loss effected how you can help those in need?

June 6, 2020 A Message For You. I Messenger Media is continuing to provide thought-provoking, informative, enlightening and entertaining news, and commentary. 1 pm. on BlogTalkRadio.com.