Texas Metro News

VOL.8 NO. 49

Please wear your mask and wash your hands!

September 23, 2020

MY TRUTH

By Cheryl Smith

Publisher

Say Their Names

Please, please, please, please I know what it’s like to be stubborn. There were times, as a child, that no matter how much I wanted to do something, if you yelled at me or ordered me to do it, I’d probably defy you. Just the idea of someone bossing me around was enough for me to rebel.

There’s also my rational side. Ask me and I’m easy. No big deal. Explain why, and I’m good.

If I ask questions, answer, and if you make sense, we’re cool.

Prove me wrong. State your case.

Provide a historical perspective.

Which brings me to my truth.

Every year of my adult life, someone has asked me a variation of the question, “how can we get more people to vote?”

Now I’ve been known to have a vivid imagination and some of the gimmicks I came up with went from intellectual to illegal. This is after explaining, lecturing, begging, cussing, threatening, bribing and shaming; all to no avail.

There was no persuading those who had their minds made up that their vote didn’t matter. Save the many stories of those who died for this precious right, because naysayers didn’t care.

So as we move forward, the billion dollar question still looms, “how?”

I know what it takes to get me to do something.

I know I want a better world, not just for my descendants; but for me too! see MY TRUTH, page 10

Traveling memorial display, visited by thousands at Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, features over 200 photos of Black people killed; as a result of racism.

Photo courtesy: Eva D. Coleman

The political fight looming after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death a reminder that elections matter “This story is being reprinted in Texas Metro News as part of a partnership with The Dallas Morning News.”

By GROMER JEFFERS JR.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Photo courtesy: Steve Petteway

The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has crystallized what should be apparent to all Americans.

Elections matter.

Ginsburg was a remarkable justice whose career was defined by

her fight for women’s rights and other progressive issues. Known in her later years of The Notorious RBG, Ginsburg was a mentor to numerous women in the legal field, and an inspiration — at age 87 — to a legion of younger Americans that were captivated by her grit and grace.

Since 2016, Ginsburg has also been a character in the political struggle to control the Supreme Court, and she’s a reminder of how see GINSBURG, page 13

Black students, always take two sets of notes I WAS JUST THINKING

By Norma Adams-Wade

Author, filmmaker, poet, rapper, and professor M. K. Asante Jr., had it right when he said “Black students, (should) always

take two sets of notes.”

I spent some time researching this “woke” young tenured professor the other day. His life story – even though comparatively young – is an impressive example of how learning and education can transform a life.

Asante recalls his troubled youth in the wildly popular book Buck: A Memoir. The award-winning coming-of-age remembrance was pub-

lished in 2013 when the author was 31 and realizing that his over-comer journey could and should M. K. Asante, Jr. help redirect other misguided youths. Later, he helped make the book a film. see BLACK STUDENTS, page 5

New Guidelines for Coronavirus Reopenings

Texas State Capitol Photo courtesy: Ashley Moss

By ASHLEY MOSS Staff Writer During an update from the Texas Capitol in Austin on Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott announced that most regions in Texas can loosen their current coronavirus restrictions, meaning many businesses and services can increase their capacity to 75% from 50%. Several Executive Orders were exMayor Eric Johnson issued, panding occupancy levels for restaurants, retail stores, office buildings, manufacturing facilities, gyms and exercise facilities and classes, museums, and libraries.

As part of the criteria for the expanded reopening, COVID-19 patients must make up less than 15% of all hospitalizations for at least seven days in their hospital region.

Abbott also announced new guidelines related to nursing homes and long-term care facilities across the state. Those fasee REOPENINGS, page 11

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A Low Barr!

QUIT PLAYIN’ BY VINCENT L. HALL

Bill Barr, America’s top cop and Donald Trump’s faithful Saint Bernard, is a greater threat to the “American Experiment” as his boss. Everyone knows that Trump is two floors short of being out of his mind, but the more reserved and refined Barr makes Trump appear credible.

But rewind the tape and listen to his bullshit comments and innuendo. He’s about as ignorant as Donald Trump. Barr just looks, sounds, and portrays a more intellectually steeped racist and power monger.

This week he inferred that the economic shutdowns meant to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus were the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties” in U.S. history “other than slavery.”

If White folks can’t find any more heinous comparison than slavery, how can they spout “Ex-

ceptionalism and Manifest Destiny within the same sentence?

Slavery was the vilest and most vicious form of humanity known to mankind. In other words, Kim Jung Un ain’t got nothing on America.

An article on the CNN website puts slavery in terms that most Americans have rarely considered. She brought slavery to terms that money-grubbers like Trump should comprehend.

“Isabel Wilkerson puts it in her new book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” “The institution of slavery was, for a quarter of a millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines which existed solely for the profit of their owners, to be worked as long as the owners desired, who had no rights over their bodies or loved ones.”

In this system, African captives “could be mortgaged, bred, won in a bet, given as wedding

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presents, bequeathed to heirs, sold away from spouses or children to cover an owner’s debt or to spite a rival or to settle an estate.”

She didn’t even get to the physical, mental, and spiritual horrors that America slaves endured. America suffers from

William Barr

spells of amnesia and dementia, but she will never outlive the stain she put on all of humanity.

Barr’s comments on the recent police killings of Black men prove that he suffers from historical Alzheimer’s.

“No, I don’t think there are two justice systems. You know, I think the narrative that the police are on some, you know, epidemic of shooting unarmed Black men is simply a false narrative and also the narrative that’s based on race.”

The false narrative is Barr’s recital of statements that have no basis in fact. If the statistics don’t bear out the epidemic, the camera phone and bodycam video indeed do.

Too many videos capture White folks who fight with the police and live to make bail.

Meanwhile, a disproportionate number of Black families are forced to make burial arrangements.

Espousing that the “lockdown” was an encumbrance to civil liberties mirror Trump’s demonization of masks. Rather than regarding science and valuing lives, Barr and Trump’s only value is political gain and the ex-

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tension of White privilege.

CBS News posted a counter to Barr’s lie.

“Since the coronavirus first slammed the brakes on the U.S. economy in March, policymakers have tried to weigh the cost of keeping people safe.

A group of economists has compared these scenarios in a working paper issued earlier this month and come down squarely on the side of the shutdown: Closing down the economy saved between 900,000 and 2.7 million U.S. lives.”

Barr and Trump don’t care that the shutdown saved three million funerals, cremations, or interments. They have no respect for the descendants of four million slaves that were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

Distorting history to gain the confidence of Donald Trump is a low bar, but Bill is up to that job!

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

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

METRO BRIEFS FAMU is the #1 Public HBCU

Florida A&M University (FAMU) IA the highest-ranked public historically Black college and university (HBCU), according to U.S News & World Report 2021 Best Colleges ranking of Top Public Universities.

In the HBCU category, FAMU is tied as the top public HBCU. Among the Top 10 HBCUs overall, FAMU is tied for 7th, behind private schools, Spelman, Howard, Xavier (Louisiana), Tuskegee, Morehouse, and Hampton University.

FAMU also anked 117 among Top Public Universities, up from No. 123 a year ago. The next highest ranked public HBCU lands at 136.

“Our rankings reflect the University’s commitment to student success and our motto ‘Excellence

with Caring,”’ said President Larry Robinson, Ph.D. in a statement. “Rankings are important barometers, but it is impossible to measure the hard work of everyone on our team and the impacts of our students throughout their careers.”

Among the other highlights of the annual survey, FAMU ranked No. 20 in social mobility, a reflection of the six-year graduation rate of Pell grant eligible students.

“We’ve long known that HBCUs play a key role in the growth of the Black middle class,” Robinson said. “This ranking confirms FAMU’s commitment to continuing this tradition while welcoming any and all to join the FAMULY.”

North Dallas Census Update The U.S. Census Bureau has begun to release daily 2020 Census housing unit completion rates, including the 2020 Census self-response rate and nonresponse follow-up completion rate. In Texas, 61.4% of households have self-responded, and 28.7% have been counted in follow-up efforts, for a total of 90%.

Nationally, 92% of housing units have been accounted for in the 2020 Census, with 26.6% counted by census takers and other field data collection

operations, and 65.3% of housing units responding online, by phone or by mail.

When more households self-respond to the census, census takers will have fewer households to visit. It has never been easier to respond to the census on your own, whether online, over the phone or by mail. More than 95 million households in the country have responded on their own so far.

Visit 2020census.gov to respond now and for more details.

The Dallas Volunteer Attor- lowing dates: ney Program (DVAP), a joint • Thursday, September 24 – initiative of the Dallas Bar AssoVirtual Clinic with DVAP and ciation (DBA) and Legal Aid of Federal Reserve Bank of NorthWest Texas, and local DalDallas– 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 las law firms have partnered to p.m. hold virtual clinics through the end of September.

Dallas County residents who Clinics will occur on the fol- would like to apply for free le-

gal assistance should fill out an online form at: https://tinyurl. com/DVAPClinic. Once the form has been completed, applicants will receive a phone call from an attorney. Participants should watch for a call from an unknown number labeled “No Caller ID” or something similar.

White House Initiative on HBCUs Conference Goes Virtual

Dallas County: Last Day to Register for the Presidential Election is October 5 or changed their name.

Voters should register to vote or update personal information through the county in which they reside. If the The last day to register to vote or Election is on October 5. Voter informa- voter moves to another county, they make a change of address for the tion must be updated for any resident must re-register in the new county of Tuesday, November 3, 2020 General that has moved, changed apartments residence.

Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program hosts Virtual Legal Clinics

The informal application is available through the Secretary of State. It should be printed out and mailed to the county’s election office.

Ways to Update or change your address/name, if you are already registered to vote currently with your county.

The White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will hold its first virtual conference from September 21 - 25. The annual conference is free and open to the public and will bring supporters together with HBCU thought leaders to strategize on how to grow the institutions over

the nextv10 years.

Diane Auer Jones, Principal Deputy Under Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education will discuss C.A.R.E.S Act funding and the Challenges that public and private HBCUs have faced in the wake of COVID-19.

The conference will feature a variety of online of-

ferings, including webinars, conference calls, and other supplementary means, to engage, inform and deliver value to the HBCU community.

More information can be found here: https:// sites.ed.gov/whhbcu/2020/01/09/save-thedate-2020-national-hbcuweek-conference/

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Remembering a Hometown Hero - Doris Miller

By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson

This month marked the 75th anniversary of Japan’s surrender during World War II. Dozens of veterans will gather together at Pearl Harbor on board the U.S.S. Missouri, where the original surrender took place, to honor the lives of those we have since lost, celebrate the lives of those who are still here, and to remind us of the tragedy and sacrifice associated with war.

One such case of sacrifice is a Waco native who was stationed aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Not a man among the leadership ranks or on the front lines, but one relegated to the depths of the ship, tasked with preparing meals for his fellow sailors solely because of the color of his skin. Cook First Class Doris "DORIE" Miller was among the many heroes who leaped into action without hesitation when Japanese forces be-

gan their bombing runs in the harbor. With little regard for his own safety, Miller is credited for saving the lives of many, as well as shooting down several enemy planes on an anti-aircraft gun that he had no prior training for.

This Congress, and for the 13th consecutive Congress, I introduced H.R. 5549, the Doris Miller Medal of Honor Act of 2020. This bill, which would waive the five-year statute of limitations to authorize the

Doris Miller

President of the United States to award Doris Miller the Medal of Honor posthumously, has 57 bipartisan cosponsors and

is endorsed by the NAACP, AMVETS, the National Association of Black Veterans, Inc., and the Association of the United States Navy, to name a few.

Doris Miller’s story is one of gallantry and patriotism – one of a man who fought for many things in life but only died for one: his country. Now, as we observe the month of the 75th anniversary of Japan’s surrender, it is my hope that we can properly and finally recognize Doris Miller with the Medal of Honor.

Is the economy rebounding?

THE LAST WORD BY DR. JULIANNE MALVEAUX

On the Friday before Labor Day, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly report, The Employment Situation. It reported good news – the unemployment rate dropped to 8.4 percent, higher than in February, before the pandemic hit.

We added 1.4 million jobs last month, the highest gain since the corona recession began.

But while this is progress, it is no cause for celebration. The Black unemployment rate remains double-digit and has not dropped as rapidly as either the overall rate or the white rate, 7.3 percent. Eleven million fewer people held jobs in August than in March. And the “rebound” is not spread evenly across populations. The top 10 percent have already recovered. The bottom 40 or 50 percent are still struggling.

Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris told CNN that, “one in

five mothers is describing her children as hungry.” The lines at the food banks have not gone down, and in some communities, they are getting longer.

Once thought to be relatively immune to the virus, smalltown America is now being hit, and forcefully.

The challenge is that there are fewer hospitals or health care facilities in rural areas. Economic recovery is dependent on the development of a COVID vaccine, which the current President says will be ready in October or November. More realistic, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, say a vaccine might not be ready until next summer or even later.

The bottom line is that the macro indicators may show some progress, but a deeper dive is far less optimistic. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses, including 40 percent of Black-owned companies, have closed, resulting in permanent job loss. Some of the hardest-hit industries include the leisure industries -- travel, dining, and more.

Women, especially women of

color, heavily populate some of these industries. While COVID hit women of color harder than others, recovery will not make these women whole.

The economy will not regain its position from early March.

Indeed, the slight comeback in leisure industries has been partly a function of people enjoying safer, outdoor dining.

The colder it gets, the more likely it is that people will choose to pass up dining out in favor of eating at home. People bought more groceries between March and August, not wanting to risk the possibility of contagion.

Many have cautiously begun to eat out again, but restaurants lose money when they reduce

seating because of social distancing.

By mid-September, we will know whether the Labor Day weekend will spark another COVID outbreak. And if there is another outbreak, count on the economy to slow again.

Congress could at least prevent some of this if the Senate passed the HEROES (Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions) Act, which would extend unemployment insurance, provide relief for cities and states, and provide money for schools.

The HEROES legislation has been caught in partisan drama, with a bipartisan group of Congressional representatives passing it, but with Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell failing to even put the legislation up to a vote.

Some Republicans dispute the need for the HEROES Act because of the latest unemployment rate data. But many states and local jurisdictions will lay off public servants – teachers, police officers, sanitation workers, transportation workers, health care workers, and others,

pushing the unemployment rate back up.

The August Employment Situation report has more good news than bad. It indicates that for the fourth month in a row, things are improving. But this improvement is not enough, and it could be much better if our legislators would offer some assistance, especially to those at the bottom.

Even though 45 has made the economy his issue, repeatedly proclaiming that he created “the best economy in the world” until COVID, his inability to grasp the many ways that COVID will continue to plague the economy raises issues about his sagacity and discernment.

Don’t celebrate the rebound yet. Don’t stop the pressure either. The Senate must pass the HEROES Act or face the consequences. If we want economic recovery AND economic justice, we must vote.

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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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Breaking Patterns FAITHFUL UTTERANCES

BY DR. FROSWA BOOKER-DREW

Quarantining has allowed me to catch up on a lot of shows that I have missed. My mom and I have been watching Iyanla Vanzant’s show, Fix My Life.

It is heartbreaking to watch the pain that people go through because of what others have said to them. A young man on the show who was not aware he had siblings recanted a story that his father called him a ‘bastard’ when he was a child. Decades later, those words hung over his life and had such an impact on his decisions as an adult. The father made multiple excuses and refused to take responsibility for his actions. He said to his sons that “you can’t understand me through words.”

I disagree. Our words tell a story about who we are, what we believe, and how we see the world.

We see one another through both our words and our actions, and they are both powerful. Our words are the starting place for what we do. The pain we experience if not resolved begins to impact those around us. At some point, we must own what we have done and eliminate excuses for behavior that prevent us from being our best selves.

I will never forget meeting a lady at a training. She was late and came in with such a bitter

spirit. There was nothing I could do or say to please her. A friend pulled me aside and said that since her divorce, she lashes out at others. In her own pain, she was dedicated to punishing others. Her ex had moved on and yet, she was carrying a weight that would not allow her to be free to truly live. Life hurts and at some point, we must make decisions that break patterns that ultimately become generational curses. If we do not deal with our past, it has a way of creeping up in our present and possibly destroying our future.

• It starts with what we say: “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”

(Proverbs 18:21 NIV) It isn’t that you lie about the reality of a situation but decide what you want your life to look like moving forward and deal with those issues that prevent you from doing so. A lot of our lives and the lives of those around us are crushed because of what we say about ourselves and others. This is a pattern that must be broken.

• Secondly, the Bible encourages us to change our thinking. Romans 12:2 says, “Don’t become like the people of this world. Instead, change the way you think. Then you will always be able to determine what God really wants-what

is good, pleasing, and perfect.” (GWT). We must decide what we will focus on, making the necessary changes we need or choose to remain immobilized, imprisoned by our pain. Renewing our minds is a process. It is not something that happens overnight, but it is a daily commitment to breaking patterns that do not serve us well.

• Lastly, Forgive yourself. Forgive those who have wounded you “Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” (Colossians 3:13) Forgiveness is for you to reclaim your power so that you can live. Otherwise, the person who has hurt you continues to have control.

Many of us are in spiritual bondage because of these patterns that keep us enslaved to these issues. What is not serving you well? What are the thoughts, the pain, the problems that keep you from fulfilling God’s purpose for your life?

Recognize it, let it go, find the healing you need and become dedicated to seeking God’s plan for your life.

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

Black Students, from page 1...

Conflicts with his college professor father; concern for his mother, a choreographer struggling with self-destructive depression; a brother in prison; being sent to alternative schools, and an attraction to bad influences on the wild streets of Philadelphia combined to take young Asante swiftly down wrong paths as a teenager.

But he found his salvation in writing and ultimately, at age 26, became the nation’s youngest tenured professor at historically-Black Morgan State University in Baltimore where he teaches creative writing and film-making. During one part of his journey, the legendary Maya Angelou was his mentor.

Today, at age 37, Asante has written several books, made various films, recorded rap music, lectured and given commencement addresses at distinguished universities including Southern Methodist University, Vassar, and Harvard. For many years, his signature appearance in the classroom was t-shirts and long dreadlocks. His teaching style has been described as freewheeling, promoting discussion and pushback from his students, provoking thought and examination at every turn.

“Two sets of notes” is one of his most quoted utterances.

The poem by that same title is in the professor’s book entitled It’s Bigger than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post Hip Hop Generation.

In the poem, he deftly castigates American text books and robot teachers who only regurgitate what’s on the page. He says because of long-standing, bureaucratic policies, these educators and the books they use teach students supposed “facts” that under scrutiny are mostly myths or devised imaginings. He says these portrayals come from the minds of mainly white

history writers who record the past only the way they interpret it, not the way it really happened.

Asante Jr. offered the perfect formula for how students can succeed in the classroom – even while knowing that much of what they are hearing is only one person’s likely distorted view of the world in which we all live.

“I always take two sets of notes,” he declares, “– one set to ace the test and one set I call the truth, and when I find historical contradictions, I used the first set as proof.”

I was just thinking...: At what point in life does one really begin to think for himself or herself? When does an individual begin to question what they hear? And when does a student in school begin to say, ‘I think I need to research that for myself,’ instead of mindlessly swallowing what they hear.

There already are a number of familiar school lessons that recent decades have debunked. Some include George Washington and the cherry tree and that he wore dentures made of wood, that Columbus “discovering” America, that Marie Antoinette said, “Let them eat cake,” that enslaved Africans had no substantial history when they were brought to America in chains, and that the message of July 4th celebrations truthfully meant equality and independence for all people.

I leave you with Asante Jr.’s counsel for young Black minds in classrooms: Black children look in the mirror you are the reflection of divinity don’t let them fool you with selective memory walk high, listen to the elder who spoke Black students, Always take two sets of notes.

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

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

KAMALA WATCH

Kamala Harris Outlines Plan to Forgive Student Loan Debt for HBCU Graduates Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the Democratic nominee for vice president, said that a Biden-Harris administration would cancel student loan debt for some students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HCBU’s) during a recent roundtable.

“In relation to the history of HBCUs, [students] decide to take on a profession of service, which often does not pay as well as if they go into the private sector and do other things,” Harris said at the roundtable discussion held at Florida Memorial University,

a historically Black private university. “So for those students who come out and have jobs that pay less than $125,000, student-loan debt will also be forgiven.”Harris also promised to invest $70 billion in historically Black colleges and universities.

Harris made the remarks in response to Jaffus Hardrick, president of Florida Memorial University who spoke of the economic decline caused by the pandemic that has forced many students to reconsider attending college. Biden and Harris

support student loan forgiveness.

However, neither candidate supports wide-scale student loan forgiveness that would forgive all student loan debt.

“We want to support our young people for whatever they pursue by way of education after high school,” Harris said. “For some that will be a college and university, for some it will be a two-year program, or an apprenticeship, or something of that nature, and we want to make sure that we support them in that quest.”

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Virtual and liVe Community Calendar

September 23-25 Big Tex Virtual Job Fair 9 am-4 pm. Reg: www.Eventbrite.com.

September 23-30 Dallas Free COVID-19 Testing at 8207 S Hampton Rd, Dallas, 9 am-7 pm. Hosted by Go Get Tested. Register: http://gogettested.com/

September 23 2020 Census Day Hollywood Live! With Michael “Hollywood” Hernandez and Co-host Shavonda with a “V” Fields, on Hollywoodlive. com. From 2 pm – 4 pm.

Job Readiness Sessions & Hiring Events, Online Application Assistance, with Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. Community Outreach Center. Beginning Sept.9-Nov. 4 Zoom. Info: Jasmine Anderson at jasmine.anderson@zwhjcoc.org Salsa Wednesday at Vidorra by DJ Wander at Vidorra Dallas 2642 Main St. 7-10 pm.

Ask Dr. Amerson radio Show at 11am CST continues to spotlight National Alopecia Awareness Month with expert guests. Feat: Tomorrow Leigh, Esthetician. Healthy hair/scalp care tips, and alopecia discussion on DfwiRadio.com.

September 24 TAMACC Webinar with Dr. Anthony Fauci. A webinar discussion with Dr. Anthony Fauci about COVID-19 and the Hispanic and Minority Communities. 12:00-1:30 pm. Online @TAMACC. SoulJazz Thursdays Under The Stars feat. Natural Change at 813 Sandaga, 813 Exposition Ave. 8:00 pm12:00 am. Enjoy the sounds of Natural Change. Info: email info@ sandaga813.com.

Twilight Thursdays host Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. 8525 Garland Rd. 9 am-8 pm. Hours are extended. Tickets must be reserved in advance at: https://bit.ly/33DXaHG.

September 25-October 18 2020 State Fair of Texas At Home. Virtual State Fair of Texas from the comfort of your home.

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September 25 Dr. Amerson’s day from Arlington Mayor

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Austin Street Center 20th Annual Humble Beginnings Luncheon featuring: Tony and Grammy Award-Winning performer, Leslie Odom, Jr. at 11:30 a.m. at Omni Hotel 555 S. Lamar St, Dallas. For Info: www.austinstreet.org/humblebeginnings.

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Monday Night Politics: Meet The Candidates. Host Dallas Examiner. Judge of 14 Judicial District, Judge of 95 Judicial District, Judge of 162 Judicial District, and Judge of 254 Judicial District. Online Event: https://bit.ly/3is39Wh 6–8 pm.

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September 29 Texas Woman’s Foundation 35th Annual Luncheon Virtual Event. Speaker America Ferrera. 11:30 am CDT - Virtual Lobby and Sponsor Activations Open 12:00 pm CDT - Luncheon Program Begins. Tickets: www.txwfluncheon.org

Friendship-West Presents Spiritual Care.

Hosted by Be Made Whole Counseling Center.

Spiritual Care encouraging us through difficult times.1:00 pm CDT via Zoom: https://bit. ly/2FhHYYY Access Code: 856 703 6848.

Building A More Equitable Future For African American in Dallas at Bill J. Priest Institute A Campus of El Centro College 1402 S. Corinth St. 6- 7:15 pm. Free Reg: Eventbrite.com.

Infant Mortality Awareness Webinar. Morning and afternoon sessions held. Sponsors: Dallas Health Start & Parkland.

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Hollywood Live! With Michael “Hollywood” Hernandez and Co-host Shavonda with a “V” Fields, on Hollywoodlive.com.

From 2 – 4 pm.

9th Annual Dallas Hunger Summit (on-line) 10–11:30 am.

Free. Malik Yakini, Director, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.. A Zoom link will be sent after you register.

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Ask Dr. Amerson Radio Show at 11am CST continues to spotlight National Alopecia Awareness Month with expert guests.

Healthy scalp/hair care tips, alopecia discussion, our award-winning product line and more. DfwiRadio.com.

75th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA.) Innovative Finance Strategies for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for all persons of African descent. Hosts HBCU and UNDP. 8-11 am. Reg: https://bit.ly/3ksyA3h. Info: Dr. Farid I. Muhammad (773) 756-5722.

September 26 Positive Reflections Ministry Free Groceries (Includes meat, non-perishables goods & produce while supplies last) Pick up location: Pleasant Zion Missionary Baptist Church 1910 N. St Augustine Rd. Dallas from 9 am to 1 pm. Info call 214-208-5536.

Live Music Feat: David Whiteman Band at The Warehouse Lounge 1125 E. Berry St. Ft. Worth. Virtually or in Person 7:30 pm. Tickets: www.Eventbrite.com Sunday Happy Hour, NABJ Media Related Task Force, host Terry Allen, Guests: Ron Carter, CEO Carter Agency and Karen Wilson Cheif PR Sytategist. 5:30 pm. CST. Reg: https://bit. ly/2FOlwGG bring your drink and enjoy the best online networking!

September 27 Big Tex Fair Food Drive-Thru Concert Series. Presented by Chevrolet: Big Tex Fair Food Drive-Thru Concert Series feat: Fort Worth band, Squeezebox Bandits at Fair Park. Tickets: bigtex. com/big-tex-fair-food-drive-thru. 11 am-6 pm.

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Keynote Speaker: State Representative Lorraine Birabil. Reg: big.tex.com/community-engagement-luncheon. 11:30 am-1 pm.

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October 1 Breast Cancer Awareness Month First Saturday Harvest Project Food Rescue, Free Fruits and Veggies, at Pan African Connection 4466 S. Marsalis Ave. 10:00 am-3:00 pm. Free Fruits and Veggies until their gone. Call 214943-8262.

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October 5 November General Elections Voter Registration Deadline Mon., Oct. 5, 2020, is the deadline to register to vote in the November 2020 Presidential and General Election.

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“Closet of Care at Eddie Bernice Johnson Elementary School.”

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By ALLANA J. BAREFIELD Texas Metro News Wilmer - Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Southwest Suburban Dallas Chapter is partnering with Eddie Bernice Johnson Elementary School to help children who are in need by providing clothes hygiene products and supplies.

The Closet of Care ribbon cutting was held Friday at the school and principal Umoja S. Turner praised the chapter for its community involvement and support of the students.

“I am always grateful whenever someone takes the time and the effort to be generous to our campus and our students,” he said.

According to president Natasha Harris, the chapter always strives to help their community and thought the elementary school was the perfect fit for the level of support they wanted to provide.

“There will be uniforms, toiletries, shoes, you name it, we’re going to try to put as much as we can in that

Natasha Harris, president of the Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Southwest Suburban Dallas cuts the ribbon at the Eddie Bernice Johnson Elementary School Closet of Care.

closet,” Harris said, adding that the members are excited about having all the necessities in one place.

Event: Members of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Southwest Suburban Dallas Chapter and Principal Umoja S. Turner of the Eddie Bernice Johnson Elementary School gathered on Sept. 18 for the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Closet of Care.

Judge Valencia Nash, Teacher Melanie Nash, and Counselor Jackie Jernigan

Members of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Southwest Suburban Dallas gathered with the school’s principal, Umoja S. Turner, to see the items in the Closet of Care.

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METRO BRIEFS Community Fridge opens in Dallas A new community fridge is now open in Oak Cliff to meet the needs of local residents in need. The People’s Fridge, part of a national trend that has become popular during the Coronavirus pandemic, is located inside the Pan-African Connection bookstore at 4466 South Marsalis Avenue in Oak Cliff and comes packed with food available by donations. Donations include pre-packaged foods and meals, including bottled water, soups and canned goods.

The People’s Fridge is currently accepting donations in-person

in Oak Cliff, and donation pickup is also available. Follow the group on Instagram, @thepeoplesfridge for more information, to donate or volunteer.

Dallas Museums are Open Again

Six area museums are reopening downtown and in the Dallas Arts District after being closed for several months. The museums closely collaborated over several months to determine appropriate reopening dates and new measures to ensure the health and safety of their staff and all visitors.

In a group statement, the

museums said, “We have all been working together since our closures in March to prepare for the days when we can safely welcome visitors again. The past five months have been times of significant change. As cultural institutions, we each recognize our unique roles as places for visitors to find solace, joy, and connection.

We are excited to finally reopen our spaces to the community.”

Under the Dallas Arts and Culture Reopening Guidelines, all staff and visitors are required to wear face masks and each facility has added sanitizing stations, among other safety protocols.

For More Information: https:// www.dallasartsdistrict.org/ dallas-arts-and-culture-reopening-guidelines-established/

New member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Ilyasah Shabazz has followed in the footsteps of her mother, Dr. Betty Shabazz. She was recently initiated into the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., through the Westchester County Alumnae Chapter in New York. A community organizer, social activist, and motivational speaker, the best-selling author is the third daughter of Dr. Shabazz and husband, Malcolm X.

Royle King, Jr. re-elected At the 46th Florida Statewide Organization - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. State Workshop, Dallas’ Lincoln Humanities and Communications Magnet High School and FAMU journalism school graduate Royle King, Jr. was re-elected Keeper of Records & Seal. Royle is a past president of the Upsilon Psi Chapter and Chi Omega Chapters of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.

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Kelcie Davis celebrates 11th birthday with a Drive - By Parade It was a community effort in Midlothian as Kelcie Davis celebrated her 11th birthday.

She has had a rough life, with multiple surgeries, and the loss of her mom and grandmother in the past two years.

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Best in Patient Care

Cherise Austin has been recognized by the American Health Council for her outstanding service, with the “Best in Patient Care” Award.

Cherise was one of the few to be selected based upon her professional contributions to the healthcare industry.

Rising and leading Saluting educators Barbara Batteast Brown was recently promoted to Assistant Principal at Jimmie Tyler Brashear Elementary School in the Dallas Independent School District.

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Dallas ISD schools are administering beginning-ofthe-year assessments through September 30 so teachers will know exactly what students needs are.

Students are encouraged to take the assessment on their campus, though they do have the ability to take the assessment from home. Pre-K and senior students will not be assessed in September. For families that choose to have their students take the assessment on campus, Dallas ISD is providing transportation for the in-person assessment. For additional information on the assessments, please contact your school’s main office.

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erations. It’s just not right.

As I shake my head, I just have to keep talking about the value of a vote and provide encouragement.

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cilities can reopen for visits beginning September 24 for essential caregiver visits as long as there are no cases of the virus present at the facility.

Under the reopening measures hospitals can also immediately return to elective procedures.

Three hospital regions are excluded from the new reopening stage, including the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo and Victoria. Abbott said those regions’ hospitalizations are still “in the danger zone.”

“With the medical advancements we have made and the personal hygiene practices we have adopted, Texans have shown that we can address both the health and safety concerns of COVID-19 while also taking careful, measured steps to restore the livelihoods that Texans depend on,” said Gov. Abbott. “Achieving both goals requires safe standards that contain COVID-19, emphasize protecting the most vulnerable, and establish clear metrics that the public can depend on.”

With the news of the reopening, Gov. Abbott also cautioned Texans to continue practicing safe methods to slow the spread of COVID-19 cases across the state.

“Texans must continue to heed the guidance of medical experts by wearing a mask, social distancing, and practicing proper sanitation strategies,” said Gov. Abbott. “By maintaining health and safety standards that are proven

to mitigate COVID-19, we can continue to slow the spread while opening up the Texas economy.”

This news on the reopening comes as the latest COVID-19 numbers were also released. As of Thursday, new data from the Texas Department of Health recorded more than 674,000 cases

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of Coronavirus, including 69,000 active cases. More than 14,000 deaths have been recorded in addition to almost 600,000 recoveries.

“The most important

takeaway today is that the precautions we have been taking to slow the spread of COVID-19 have been working,” said Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, adding that the virus is still “spreading in our community, and people’s lives remain at risk.”

He continued, “We must continue to wear masks, practice social distancing, and use good hygiene. If we don’t stay on guard, especially as schools reopen and flu season begins, we will cause great harm to our residents’ health and to the economy.”

In response to the ongoing pandemic, Gov. Abbott has also appointed 11 members to a Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response.

The task force provides expert, evidence-based assessments, protocols, and recommendations related to state responses to infectious diseases, and to serve as a reliable and transparent source of information

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By DOROTHY J. GENTRY Sports Editor A’ja Wilson and other WNBA players were determined to play this season for something bigger than themselves.

“You take the basketball ability away, you take the uniform away we are Black women. When we got the call to be a part of the Council I did not hesitate at all because I knew I wanted to be a voice for the voiceless and that’s what our Council is,” the Las Vegas Aces star said of the WNBA’s newly formed Social Justice Council.

“It hits home,” Wilson said of the realities of racial injustice. “Yeah, it could be my dad or my brotheror my boyfriend but it could also be me, or my mom or any of us, and when it hits raw I think that’s what makes you want to fight and that’s what we’re about.”

So in a season unlike any other, the players of the WNBA used their collective voices to take a stand and push forth social justice activism, with specific efforts to spotlight and raise awareness of Black women who have been victims of police brutality.

As a result of their efforts and for the first time ever, the WNBA has named all the WNBA players as the

recipients of the 2020 season-long WNBA Community Assist Award for their continued commitment, leadership and collaborative efforts to promote racial equality and create systemic change.

The WNBA Cares Community Assist Award was previously awarded to one player each month of the season, traditionally recognizing an individual who best reflected the WNBA’s passion for making a difference in the community.

The players are being recognized for their collective passion and dedication to social justice and working as a unified community to bring awareness to and fight against systemic racism.

As part of the award, the WNBA and State Farm will donate $50,000 to the African American Policy Forum, in recognition of the WNBA players’ commitment to the WNBA Justice Movement and the #SayHerName campaign, while bringing awareness to inequality and systemic racism, lifting up marginalized communities, and pushing for change.

“Black women’s leadership in sports has often been unwritten as soon as they do it,” said Professor Kimberle Crenshaw, founder of the AAPF and the creator of the

#SayHerName initiative.

“The WNBA players are standing collectively to make their leadership obvious, apparent and uncompromised. These players are not going to allow their voices to be muted.

“They will not allow the issues they are talking about to be forgotten. This is a new moment in the history of racial justice and in the history of athletes speaking for racial justice.”

Throughout the 2020 season, in addition to having “Black Lives Matter” featured prominently on the floor of the basketball court, Breonna Taylor’s name on the uniforms, and “Say Her Name” on warmup shirts, WNBA players have worked with AAPF to have on-court moments of recognition to raise awareness of the female victims of police brutality -- women like Sandra Bland, Michelle Cusseaux, Kayla Moore, Tanisha Anderson, and many others.

Through the leadership of the Social Justice Council, the players have called for action to address the policy issues highlighted by AAPF, convened activists, organizers, and elected officials in powerful forums, and promoted community education on the census and voting rights.

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progressives and Democrats bungled the 2016 election, paving the way for President Donald Trump to make two — and now likely three — Supreme Court appointments.

“It’s going to be the lasting legacy of Donald Trump. He’ll probably appoint three Supreme Court justices,” said Dallas immigration lawyer Eric Cedillo. “That’s scary for a lot of people and it could impact issues related to health care, abortion rights and the LGBTQ community.

It’s a proposition that will hopefully keep the minds of people open to other reasons why presidential elections are so important.”

Cedillo said the hypocrisy of some Republicans on whether Trump should nominate someone to replace Ginsburg or wait until the term of the next president begins is not lost on him, and perhaps other Americans.

When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in Texas, then President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to replace him 11 months before the November 2016 election. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to give Garland’s nomination a hearing, insisting that the American people should decide the matter by electing Trump or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Other Republicans sang the same song, including Texas Sens.

Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, as well as South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, who is now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“There should not be a hearing in the Judiciary Committee for anyone that the president nominates,” Cornyn said in 2016, following the committee’s vote to deny hearings. “It’s not about the personality, it’s about the principle ... that it’s up to the American people in this next election, no matter who they choose, to make the nomination for this important seat

on the Supreme Court.”

Cornyn is running for re-election against former Air Force combat veteran MJ Hegar, and she’s already using his words against him in emails to supporters.

Graham said at the time on CSPAN: “I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say ‘Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.’”

Now Graham says he’ll support Trump’s nominee because “liberals conspired to destroy” Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his nomination process, and former House Majority Leader Harry Reid pushed through a rules change to allow a simple majority for approval of Circuit Court nominees.

Cruz, who is on Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees, has also changed his tune from 2016, when he supported McConnell’s decision not to fill the Supreme Court vacancy until the next president was inaugurated.

“The court — we are one vote away from losing our fundamental constitutional liberties, and I believe that the president should next week nominate a successor to the court, and I think it is critical that the Senate takes up and confirms that successor before Election Day,” Cruz told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

“This nomination is why Donald Trump was elected. This confirma-

tion is why the voters voted for a Republican majority in the Senate.”

McConnell has vowed to push through Trump’s nominee, which the president says he’ll make to replace Ginsburg.

Sadly, hypocrisy is part of doing business for many politicians.

What they say during one election cycle is designed to win that victory. They worry about the consequences later.

In the past, politicians had to answer to voters and their constituents about flip-flops, distortions and misdeeds. But the politics in the era of Trump is largely designed by a public that’s in on the game.

The nation is so polarized that voters are no longer independent referees, but team members who want their squad to win — even if it involves unsportsmanlike conduct.

In the political game, Republicans have had much more discipline than Democrats, and they have embraced the notion of picking a president to shape the Supreme Court better than Democrats.

In 2016, Trump produced a list of potential Supreme Court nominees, should he beat Clinton, that helped him unite the GOP and energize the party’s base. Old Trump rivals like Cruz joined the proTrump team.

In contrast, Democrats, especially some progressives, were not enthusiastic about Clinton and apparently didn’t care that her loss would result in Trump reshaping the high court. Ginsburg wanted to retired

after the 2016 election and watch with pride as Clinton picked her appointment. Instead, Trump was elected and she soldiered on in her post. She never intended to be the focus of the political fight that will ensue after her death.

The squabbles among Democrats about Clinton, mostly advanced by supporters of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, must seem petty now that conservatives have secured a strong presence on the Supreme Court for another generation.

Now Democrats have another reason to wave 2016’s bloodstained banner. With Ginsburg in mind, they are fired up about the November elections and appear to be more unified behind former Vice President Joe Biden, their nominee against Trump.

With Democrats now focused on the Supreme Court issues, Republicans in swing districts could pay a steep price in November. In the

Dallas suburbs, GOP candidates for Congress and the Texas House are already at risk of being swept away by a huge Democratic Party turnout. The Republicans with power in safe districts will be fine, but the at-risk GOP candidates are now in more trouble.

While winning the White House, some congressional and statehouse seats, and possibly the Senate in November will be a balm for those hurting after Ginsburg’s death, it could take years for progressives who sat out the 2016 election to undo their inexplicable apathy.

Gromer Jeffers Jr., political writer. The Howard University graduate and Chicago native has covered four presidential campaigns and written extensively about local, state and national politics. Before The News, he was a reporter at The Kansas City Star and The Chicago Defender. You can catch Gromer every Sunday at 8:30 a.m. on NBC 5’s Lone Star Politics.

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ANTEBELLUM, now showing on Prime Video, is a little bit uneven and works a little too hard at keeping the movie viewer off balance. Is it a Thriller/Horror film or a movie that shines the spotlight on social injustice by showing us the horrific images that happened on a slave plantation?

The movie is kind of a cross between GET OUT and 12 YEARS A SLAVE. The first act of the movie shows Janelle Monae working on a slave plantation and then about 30 minutes into the film the phone rings and Janelle Monae’s character Veronica, wakes up from a

Antebellum nightmare and we realize the slavery scenes were all just a dream.

In her first starring role Janelle Monae plays Dr. Veronica Henley and does an excellent job of portraying a successful author and advocate for social justice. Gabby Sidibe is one of her best girlfriends and her part, while a small one, gives a really fun break in this harsh and violent movie about slavery. The best part of the film is how it opens up a dialogue on white supremacy and racism.

The scenes on the plantation make us think about what the United States would be like today if the South had won The Civil War. The current day systematic

racism and police brutality are all thrown into the mix in this thought-provoking movie. It is most definitely a timely tale about what is happening today in this country. Veronica is kidnapped and taken to an alternate world where we realize what’s going on as the movie unfolds. Again, what we think happened is totally different from what the story tells us to believe. That kind of ticked me off. However, there were enough good things in the movie that made me like it.

ANTEBELLUM is rated R for violence, cruelty and sexual situations. It has a run time of 1 hour and 45 minutes. On my “Hollywood Popcorn Scale” I rate this movie a LARGE.

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“You can’t think big when little gotcha,” is a statement that Big Mama, my maternal grandmother, shared with me and my siblings all throughout our childhood.

She and my mom used her 6th grade readers to teach me how to read and write “cursive” at age 4.

She would get books from her employer to share with me all until I left for college.

The rule was she read the book first then I read the book next, then she would take her notes and ask me questions.

Then she would ask me to write 10 of the best things I liked about each book.

Sometimes I would write just five things thinking that would be ok.

Well, I got that wrong. Whenever I wrote less than 10 takeaways from each book she shared with me, it opened the door for the “back porch” conversation.

Her back-porch invitation consisted of ice cream, chocolate cake and/or peach cobbler. I accepted each back-porch conversation with an eagerness.

She would identify a passage in the book then ask me if I remembered that point in the book. I confirmed each time that I had read it. Yes! Her next move was to say, “then why did you not include in your list to make the list a full 10? She would show me how each point I “missed” or I was “too lazy” to write down could have given me a bigger lesson.

She and my mother gave me books like Narrative of Life Frederick Douglass, Annie Allen – Gwendolyn Brooks, Notes of a Native Son/Fire Next Time – James Baldwin and the Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley.

I was truly unaware that she and my mom, Ms. Betty, were preparing me with the armor, I would need to be the BIG man she envisioned in me.

At the end of the week, she would do a recap of my missed points and then remind me that she expected me to be the first President of the United States to come from this family and I have to think larger than my current self.

She said you must “see yourself as big as I see you.” Later in

life she stood in the office of the business I created. She read the letters from two US presidents given to me. She said I am so proud of what you have become. My tears flowed that day.

Now during the Racial and COVID-19 Pandemics, Big mamaism is top of mind for me. I am forever grateful for what she did for me. I didn’t become President but one US Senator who became a US President, a Black man, wrote the foreword to a best-selling book of which I am a co-author; sharing her chocolate cake recipe.

Thanks to her and my mom, I have had a great passage to manhood.

I hope Big Mama is still proud of me because I am proud of her.

What greatness did your Big Mama say about you? Email your answer to Terryallenpr@gmail.com

Terry Allen is an award winning multi-media journalist and owner of 1016 Media.

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