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An Atlanta-based manufacturing company, will pay $500,000 to 14 employees and provide other significant relief to settle a racially hostile environment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The consent decree settling the suit, signed today by U.S. Federal District Judge Jane Boyle, resolves the EEOC’s claims against RockTenn. The EEOC charged RockTenn with subjecting a class of African-American employees to race discrimination. According to the EEOC’s suit, Case No. 3:10-cv-01960 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, a class of African-American employees were subjected to violent, racist graffiti, including “KKK,” swastikas, Confederate flags, power” CT BBQ “white Postcard_Layout 1 2/7/2012 and 2:32 PMother Page 1 racist terms, including “die, n----r, die.” RockTenn employees also saw hangman’s nooses “If Youat Want Meal,paper Come to mill. CT’s Real Deal” displayed itsa Real Dallas Several employees were referred to by30racist slurs Sunday Meats and 20 including “n----r.” Michael Scott,Vegs. who filed a discrimination charge withDaily theSpecials EEOC, OF THE BEST IN was a called a “n----r” by hisBEST supervisor. FRIED FISH The king of bar-b-q and soul food. Scott later discovered a noose at his work station. The EEOC complained that RockTenn officials repeatedly ignored the

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complaints of racist graffiti even after it was reported to management on multiple occasions, including at monthly labormanagement meetings. The EEOC was set to go to trial on this case before U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Dec. 3. In addition to presenting testimony from the class of 14 black employees, the EEOC expected to call two white employees of RockTenn to testify about numerous instances of racist graffiti and racial comments by managers made at the paper mill. “Racism in any form is bad enough, but racist graffiti that included Confederate flags and death wishes accompanied by vile racist epithets go far beyond the pale even of prejudice,” said EEOC Senior Trial Attorney Joel Clark. “Terms like ‘KKK’ evoke violent and threatening attitudes towards African-Americans. RockTenn should have immediately responded to the reports of racist graffiti instead of permitting their employees to work in an atmosphere full of these menacing, racist taunts.” Race discrimination in the workplace, including race harassment, violates Title

VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. Robert A. Canino, regional attorney for the EEOC’s Dallas District Office, said, “This case demonstrates racism at its most hateful level. The violations in this case are especially odious in light of the multiple reports of racist graffiti made by numerous employees. The EEOC will continue to aggressively pursue employers that violate their workers’ rights.” The two-year consent decree settling the case provides for an injunction against RockTenn that prohibits the company from further discriminating against any employee or harassing any employee on the basis of race. RockTenn will pay $500,000 in monetary relief and will conduct annual anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training. As part of the decree, RockTenn also agreed to imple-ment an anti-graffiti policy, which requires the company to conduct weekly monitoring of its facilities and to also discipline any employee found to have created graffiti.

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Another gunaided murder Most of you reading this column have heard the news by now. Another high profile American has taken his own life with a handgun after shooting his girlfriend, leaving a three month year old baby without a mother or a father. The young man, a star football player in his prime in the NFL had a huge life in front of him. He had no apparent financial worries, yet he chose to take his life and that of a woman that he allegedly loved. Somehow he had a gun, a weapon that should not be in the hands of people are not of sound mind. And his act proves that he was not of sound mind. His actions suggest that he was crazy. What kind of demented individual shoots the mother of his three month old child? Is it his fault? It is certainly not. As long as we live in a country that allows any fools to have a fire arm these types if tragedies will continue to take place. M"7/(D(( ( Those who run the ( National Rifle Association, the organization that fights any attempt to have sensible gun policies in this country, are probably at home laughing at the action of this young man. They are heartless and could care less that he took his life and the life of his babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother. During the recent President election the candidates did not serous discuss the question of guns and gun violence. People are afraid to go outside of their homes because nearly every dunce around them is armed. Now that the election is over and the President does not have to worry about the NRA coming after him, he should begin a national debate on the role of guns in a decent society. We simply do not need them. If the young football player did not have a gun perhaps he would have slapped her and then she could have taken a frying pan to knock the hell out of him, as she should have. But he had a gun and we know the result. We need a sensible gun policy before another football player goes off or before another young would be gangster goes berserk on the streets of Dallas.

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worked to win freedom for Taylor to get her son. She the young man, Jabin Bogan. watched him closely as Recently, a young man There were others in the faith he was released into the sunlight, after spending who was employed as a and political communities !"#$%&'()#"%'*+''+$(,%( his seven months in a damn and truck driver was released who also worked for -.'+%/''(0+%1/(2342 from a Mexican prison after release and who deserve unwelcoming Mexican jail. Like Jabinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother I having spent seven months praise. Yet, the prayers of Jabinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s believe in the prayer of incarcerated in that country. He had been accused of mother, Aletha, were crucial prayer. I believe that it is smuggling ammunition into to his being released. She necessary during times of !"#$%&'%%'($) said during a number of despair and during times Mexico. 0/#5+5/ interviews that she prayed of delight. This young man The young man, a 28 year 6$#+7/% 86$*/'9+1 day and night, night and day was blessed to have a mother old father of two, did not 09"%:"#: know what was being hauled for the release of her son. She who believes in prayer, who and believes in him and who in the truck. Ask any veteran never stopped praying ;<;<(=/:"#(=#/'9(->5:? 8">>"'@()A(4BC<; she never stopped belieing believes in God. The faithful truck driver and they will tell IN%/#SIT/#"9$#(($J((U!'K(-#+99(VOW(QOW(=/>/G#+9L(0T" C2DE3D;EF323 tht he would be released. knew that her prayers would 8">>"'S8.%1"%5+>>/@()/X"'(Y34CZ(4<3EDC<F C2DE3D;EFCDC you that they job is to drive When word came be answered and that her son their loads, not inspect their that the intervention of would one day be able to loads. Johnson walk the streets of Dallas a Dallas Attorney Larry Congresswoman free man with a bright future. By Debra Blair-Abron

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Everywhere you look, things are changing. People seem to be in a hurry wherever they are going, or whatever they are doing. What we want, we wanted yesterday. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to wait for anything. The churches have changed over the years since Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been born. I was looking over an bulletin given to all the people at the church last Sunday where I attended all my young life. I was brought up in the church, and I reminisced about the days of long ago and about the older people who have gone on before us. I often wonder

what they would think about or perhaps younger, and the way church is conducted the ones gone on, sang and today, if they were to return? rejoiced in the Lord with Traditional hymn books those very songs. They still have been mostly move people today, when NNN?/>+9/%/N'?1$*( ( ( taken ( from 6/G#."#L(CD@(C<2C the church pews. The music they are sung. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a is nothing like it used to be, great loss to the younger and more and more pianos generation, not learning the are being replaced with hymns of their ancestors. keyboards and CDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. No matter how much Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get me wrong; people change, or the church thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing wrong with changes, or the music goes keyboards and CDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, but beyond what we want, GOD everything has itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place. never changes. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the I suppose I was brought same yesterday, today, and up in an era when there forever, because was nothing better than He said so in His Word. a beautiful song, sung to Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there; ready to take us piano music, ringing to the under his wings, whenever rafters, rejoicing the Lord. we need consoling. His Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard for me to sit through Word and the Holy Spirit singing, with songs Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m is our link with him in our unfamiliar with, that do not lives, constantly. His Word reach me or make me feel is our guide, and the Holy like worshipping God to the Spirit is our teacher. fullest. It distracts from my He always answers worshipping. prayers; perhaps he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got yet to figure out answer them the way we just what is wrong with the want or in our time frame, hymns, considering most but as someone said today, of the people we all know He always answers, and He - the over-forty generation is never, ever late!

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I am currently working on my second marriage. I am 32 with two kids. My first husband, who I had both kids with before we were married, is no longer in the picture at all. That marriage only lasted about three months before he ran off. So, with this marriage, I called myself going about 6/G#."#L(CD@(C<2C things the â&#x20AC;&#x153;right wayâ&#x20AC;?. We dated for a year and we did not engage in sex at all during our courtship. We fell in love and he was willing to go along with what I wanted, which was waiting until we were married. We are coming up on five months of marriage. And our sexual life is horrible! He is very boring, and very restricted. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to go into detail, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bad all the time. I do not know how much longer I can

take this. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had conversations about it, and because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to hurt his feelings, I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t told him how much I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like it. I just try to make all kinds of suggestions. He is never into anything. And I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe the things I say are that bad. They never involve a third person, at least. Everything else is good, but I know that this will ruin my relationship because I am ready to jump ship as we speak. I know this is a little risquĂŠ to be asking a pastor, but I need help, and I am too ashamed to tell anyone else. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you think that this is a deal breaker? I do. Frustrated

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Before you jump ship or do anything else, you need to consult a sex therapist that can help you with your frustrations; and help guide the two of you with intimacy, function, and desire. Sex therapists can be an integral part of helping couples to obtain or maintain healthy sexual relationships when they can no longer do it on their own. I suggest you seriously consider it. Dr. Hollie is a Pastor and practicing psychotherapist in the city. For questions and comments, please write to askdrhollie@aol.com.

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You are a Watchman I once knew a preacher who had retired from the navy. He was a radar technician. His task was to track the presence of Russian submarines off the Atlantic coast of the United States. He said at times there were several of them and his job was to know exactly where they were and what they were doing, if he could find out. He was a watchman. One of the most important military strategies in any battle is to surprise your enemy. If you can attack at a time or in a way when it is unexpected and he is unprepared, you gain a great advantage. That is why we spend so much time and money gathering information on potential enemies and their activities. We need to be ready so as not to give the enemy the advantage of a surprise attack. When intelligence breaks down, we have events like Sept. 11th and Pearl Harbor. What we do today with powerful technology was done in Biblical times by placing a watchman in a strategic location so he could sound a warning when an enemy approached. I’m sure there are still times and places where such watchmen are used even today. God compared Ezekiel’s job as a prophet to that of a watchman. 33:7-9. He was to be given a warning from God and was expected to pass it on to everyone else. The task of the Church and the Christian today is very similar. It is to confront men with the message of God.

just afraid? People would die. What would we think of a person with such responsibility who failed to do his job? What would we think of someone who allowed thousands of people to die without a warning? The Bible fixes responsibility where it belongs. If he sounds the warning and is not heeded, then he is not responsible for defeat. But, failure to sound warning makes the watchman accountable for

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defeat or death all this seems quite fair and reasonable. It is just God has made us watchmen in our world today: 1st Peter 2:9

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Consider the watchman’s task: He had great responsibility. He sat in a high place, possibly a tower on the city wall, especially at night when extra vigilance was needed. The rest of the city slept. Other defenders would sleep. It was presumed they were safe from surprise attack because of the watchman. He would sound a warning if an enemy approached. If you were sleeping in the city, what kind of man would you want on the tower? Alert, dependable, focused. What if he does not do his job? What if he was embarrassed to wake people, afraid of hurting their feelings, or

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through December 23. Molly is having trouble finding her Christmas spirit so her mother takes her on a magical treasure hunt. With numerous show dates/times available, please visit www. casamanana.com or call (817) 332-2272. Museums of course, are wonderful places to plan family field trips and Fort Worth is definitely not lacking in that department. For a taste of cultural diversity and western history, the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum offers free museum tours and children’s programming each Saturday morning from 11AM to 1PM, at 3400 Mount Vernon Avenue, Fort Worth, 76103. Visit www.cowboysofcolor. org or call (817) 534-8801 for additional info. The Sid Richardson Museum will offer a guided tour on artists who shaped public perception of the American West at 1PM on December 22. For details visit www. sidrichardsonmuseum.org, or call 817-332-6554. Enjoy the beautiful Fort Worth city Christmas tree and lovely decorations in Sundance Square while visiting the Sid Richardson Museum located at 309 Main St., Fort Worth, 76102. Save the date: The Fort Worth Cowboys of Color Rodeo will be held at the Fort Worth Stock Show on Monday, January 21st, beginning at 2PM at the Will Rogers Coliseum. A portion of the proceeds from this rodeo will benefit the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum. Tickets are on sale now! All seats are reserved. Purchase tickets at www.cowboysofcolor.org or call (817) 922-9999

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What to know about Medicare in 2013 By Bob Moos The New Year will bring improvements and other changes to Medicare. Here’s a brief rundown of what to expect in 2013. You’ll get bigger price breaks on brand-name and generic drugs in the “doughnut hole.” If you have a Medicare drug plan and reach the coverage gap, you’ll receive bigger discounts on your prescriptions – about 53 percent for brand-name drugs in 2013 (compared with 50 percent this past year) and 21 percent for generics (compared with 14 percent in 2012). The price breaks are adding up. Almost 158,800 Texans with Medicare have saved $103.4 million on their prescriptions in the coverage gap this past year – an average of $651 per person. The discounts will continue to grow each year until the doughnut hole disappears in 2020. Medicare premiums will increase only slightly. The monthly premium for the part of Medicare that covers doctor visits and outpatient hospital care will increase for most people by only $5, to $104.90, in 2013. The Part B premium has gone up slowly over the past five years – an average of less than 2 percent annually. The standard premium amount is calculated each year according to a mathematical formula. It takes into account Medicare’s costs the previous

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VEWLive! Presents Mary J.Blige “The Liberation Tour” With Special Guest Brandy in Dallas, Texas On December 9, 2012 VEWLive! is set to bring Mary J. Blige, and special guest Brandy, to the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas for a “One of Kind” night of live performances by some of the industry most sought

DECEMber 7, 2012 after R&B and Hip-hop Artist. VEWLive! is designed to provide its audience with one of the most memorable concert experiences. The multifaceted enterprise’s mission is direct and simple; “to maximize the live concert experience, present quality, and engagement with the world’s best artists in the various markets throughout the United States. The respected and esteemed Queen of HipHop Soul recently helped raise $23 Million dollars for Hurricane Sandy Relief, in New York City.

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Day of the American Cowboy Celebration. The rodeo was attended by ﬁlm and television stars Barry Corbin and Dean Smith. Also in attendance was World Champion Bull Rider Charles Sampson (who is also an NMWHM Hall of Fame Inductee) and fellow inductees Lee Reed, Harold Cash, and Freddie “Skeet” Gordon. The rodeo took place at Cowtown Coliseum in the Fort Worth Stockyards. The events were fundraisers for the museum’s Youth Education Programs and Pam Grier Community Garden. (www.cowboysofcolor.org; Info@cowboysofcolor.org.).

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Candlelight Service of Remembrance at Moore Funeral Home & Cemetery

Inspirational service offers comfort and support for families, friends and community members as they remember loved ones lost – Moore Funeral Home & Cemetery will hold its Candlelight Service of Remembrance at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 8 in the chapel, 1219 North Davis Drive in Arlington. Guests are invited to drive through the cemetery beginning at the Randol Mill entrance between 6 and 8 p.m. to see the luminaries and a live nativity scene. The events are free and open to the public. Call 817-275-2711 for more information. “The holiday season and the approaching New Year bring memories of years past and loved ones who are gone. We realize this may be a difficult time of year for families and friends,” said Kyle West, manager of Moore Funeral Home & Cemetery, an honored Dignity Memorial® provider. “Our Candlelight Service of Remembrance has become a tradition that gives many members of our community comfort and support.” This year’s Candlelight Service will feature a special DVD presentation. Families may submit photos of their loved ones to be included in the presentation. Family members and friends may place a luminary on their loved one’s resting place or in other designated areas if the burial is not at Moore Memorial Gardens. The luminaries are located behind the funeral home and will be available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the day of the program.

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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS There were nights when 28 year-old Jabin Bogan sat quietly in the Mexican jail cell that held him, weeping and thinking that he would never see his mother, Aletha, again. Jabin, the father of two sons, had mistakenly crossed into Mexico while driving on an unfamiliar Texas highway and was arrested by Mexican authorities who accused him of carrying contraband. Unknown to Jabin, a truck driver, the covered cargo that his truck was carrying consisted of bullets. The Mexican authorities were not in a hurry to release Jabin and he spent Thanksgiving confined. But just one day after the holiday, Jabin was told to pack his bags and get ready to be released. He was taken to an American facility where his mother and Dallas Attorney Larry Taylor were waiting to take him home. “I did not believe that I was finally a free man,” said Jabin who was held by the authorities for seven months. “There

were nine of us in a cell and only five beds. I slept on the floor for five months, and because I do not speak Spanish I could not understand what the other inmates were saying about me. Late at night I listened to them speaking to one another and I did not know if I would see the next morning.” “It took the intervention of the Obama administration and the tireless efforts of Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and members of her staff to get Jabin released,” said Taylor, a partner in the Johnnie Cochran Law Firm. “There were countless others, locally and internationally who worked and prayed so that Jabin could be free. The family is particularly grateful to Gary Bledsoe of the NAACP,

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incarcerated. He can now get on with his life, raise his family and help others.” Taylor and Jabin’s mother flew to get him. They arrived the day after Thanksgiving and found him joyfully ready to return to his home in Dallas. “The first meal that he ate was at Burger King and then he ate at McDonalds. He was not accustomed to eating Mexican food. Jabin said that he made a few friends while he was confined. Once a guard slapped him in the face but for the most part he avoided any serious trouble. “I knew that I would be free,” he said. “That was my prayer request. I am very happy now that God answered my prayers.” Taylor said that a fund is being created to help Jabin and his family. Those interested in contributing to the fund should call Taylor at 214-651-4260.

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are some players to Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, consider!!!!-Allen and Rajon Rondo Iverson- 76ers Iverson Garnett was part if a never won a title, but Championship team. Say there is no denying what you want Garnett that the 6’0”point can still get it done. guard was one of the Tim Duncan SpursTim best shooters and Duncan is a combination slashers of the post of power and finesse in -Jordas era,Iverson the post,plus he has the led the 76ers to the versatility of intelligent finals in 2000-2001 passing and gifted By Mark A. Toliver II season, and was defense.Duncan has won Elite News Staffwriter named the leagues 4 NBA titles, 3 finals MVP. He scored 48 MVP awards,2 regularpoints in Game 1 of those finals. Iverson season MVP awards, and he has made had a unique way of handling the ball 13 All-Star games, 8 All-Defensive and was known for the nasty crossover awards and he was named Rookie of move. Kevin Garnett CelticsGarnett the year . Tim makes the game look was the most athletic and nimble high easy. Shaquille O’Neal LakersO’Neal school players the NBA ever drafted was the most dominant player in the !!The big fellow could hit the jumper NBA since Michael Jordan. As athletic from the elbow with ease, attack the as he was big, Shaquille is the sixth basket and handle the ball like a guard. leading scorer in NBA history.O’Neal He was knocking on the door to the title played in the finals with 3 franchises. when he played for the Timberwolves He beat Jordan during his greatest but he never got there.Garnett was returned to the bulls in 1995. O’Neal traded to the Celtics and along with lost to the Houston Rockets in the finals

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There may never be a player like my frat brother Michael Jordan.....ever!!I know what you are saying ... Never is a really long time. But there probably won’t be anyone who can live up to the legacy that Mike carved out in 13 NBA seasons with the Chicago Bulls.For the younger people who are reading this, you must understand that Jordan led the Bulls to a three-peat, retired to play professional baseball, and then returned to win another three-peat.Mike didn’t just win NBA Championships he was also named to 14 All-Star games, won 10 scoring titles, was named First Team All-Defense 9 times and won 2 Slam Dunk contest. MJ won 6 NBA Titles And was named MVP in each of the finals he played in and he won 5 regular-season MVP awards.Get my point??? But since Michael won his last title in 1998, who have been the greatest players in the game who combine talent, impact and accomplishment?Here

Dallas Cowboys By Leon Simon Football season is coming to an end, and most of the metroplex complaining that their Cowboys are going nowhere. I have no idea where they’re going but whereever it is they’ve been on that highway now since 1995. The weather is beautiful this time of the year get out doors and watch some high school play-offs. Being from Houston I’ve grown accustomed to high school sports because up until this year that’s the only thing in Houston that can win anything. Astros, Rockets, and until this year’s Texan team win something Houston haven’t won nothing since they caught Santa Anna sleep down there at the San Jacinto Battle ground. The last two weeks I’ve seen Skyline High School play, Saturday I saw the most prepared high school team I.ve ever seen in Dallas or Houston, I played for the legendary Andrew Pat

Patterson at Jack Yates in Houston, played against the legendary Raymond Holley. And up until Saturday revered both as the best we’ve seen in the African American neighborhood, no disrespect to coach Freddie James. Saturday Coach Reginald Sample and his staff had the Skyline Raiders as prepared in every facet of the game as any team I’ve ever seen. I started being involved in football in 1951, so this was not my first rodeo. I’ve seen the championship teams with the 18 division one player from Carter, Yates, Kimball, SOC, Lincoln, etc Duane Thomas, Abner Haynes,John Jefferson, Quick Draw McGraw, do I have to keep naming them . I’ve seen championship teams that couldn’t kick extra points, let along field goals,I’ve seen them have to go for it 4th and 15in their own end of the field, because they couldn’t punt

effectively. When Skyline needed to do anything they we’re prepared and did it, Punt, field goal, kick offs whatever And looked well coached doing it. The offense never looked confused or inept, then why would they with Ty Barret, Kelvin Coleman, Jonathan Reyna Deshawn Lewis Dominique Woods. The best offensive line I’ve seen in a while technique look like the play on Sundays. Most good or great coaches say football has 3 phases, offense, defense, and special teams and win any two phases you more than likely win the game. Some teams are not even capable of playing all three phases; word of advice if you can’t play all three and do it effectively Skyline isn’t the team you want to play. I know Luck doesn’t have anything to do with it but GOOD LUCK RAIDERS!!!!!!

before he won 3 consecutive titles with the Lakers before winning a Title with the Miami Heat. Big Shaquille was unstoppable!!!!-LaBron James HeatThe NBA has never seen a player this complete. No player with LeBron’s size has ever been this athletic.At 27 years of age, his resumes is as follows: an NBA Championship and a Finals MVP, 3 regular seasons MVPs, 8AllStar appearances, a scoring title, 4 All-Defensive honors and Rookie of the Year.Let’s not forget James never played any college basketball.With all due respect to Air Jordan, James could end up the greatest of all times.Kobe Bryant LakersBryant is the best player since Michael Jordan!!Kobe has won 5 NBA title, 2 Finals MVP awards, 1 regular season MVP awards, and 14 All-Star appearances, 2 scoring titles, and 9 All-Defensive awards. Other than being 1title short of Jordan,Bryant could move past Mike on the All-Time points list.Love him or Hate him you can’t deny him, Kobe is a Beast!!!May God Bless You and Help Us Change the World!!!!!Mark A Toliver II

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JUNK IN YOUR TRUNK If someone is seeking a top paying job or plan to run for public office you had better start taking care of business to day. Take a look at real life,you can not trust your best friend this day and time they will reveal your best kept secret just to get ahead. This year has got to be a wake up call for all of us, look at all that has gone on during the last election everybody seem to be holding a trump

card, they tired it on the President. We as a race have got to start working on our future, working with our children teaching them to do the right thing, stay out of trouble, pay your bills and try to be honest in all that you do. Look at some of our young people of to day, they don’t know where they are headed because no one taught them to look at where you came

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Mother of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings dies at 80 Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings’ mother, Nelda Faye Meador Rawlings Moore, died Sunday. She was 80. A retired schoolteacher, she had spent the last few months of her life in Dallas after she received a cancer diagnosis and moved from Bethany, Okla. Her funeral will be Wednesday at Mercer-Adams Funeral Service in Bethany, and she will be buried at Resurrection Memorial Cemetery in Oklahoma City. Born in Abernathy, near Lubbock, in 1932, she graduated from high school in Borger, near Amarillo, in 1949. After graduating

from Frank Phillips College in Borger in 1951, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Southern Nazarene University in Bethany and a master’s of education degree from Minnesota State University in 1973. For 40 years, she was a public school teacher in Texas, New Mexico, New York and Oklahoma before she retired in 1993. In 1953, she married Elden

Rawlings, and they had two sons, Mr. Rawlings and Stephen Mark Rawlings, now deceased. In 1993, she wed Ray Moore. She was a lifelong member of the Church of the Nazarene, for which she taught Sunday school, served as a youth leader and participated in senior ministries. Besides Mr. Rawlings, her survivors include three stepchildren, four grandchildren and one stepgranddaughter. Memorials may be made to The Bridge homeless shelter, P.O. Box 710100, Dallas, Texas 753710100, or online at bridge northtexas. org.

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Ledbetter Baptist Church

4116 Leesburg Street * Dallas, Tx. 75212 Pastor’s Office: (214) 631-5627 Church Office: (214) 631-1825 Weekly Worship Opportunities Sunday 9:30 am … Sunday School 11:00 am … Morning Worship Service 5:30 pm … Baptist Training Union 7:00 pm … Evening Worship Service Monday 7:00 pm … Brotherhood (2nd & 4th) Wednesday 7:00 pm … Prayer Meeting 8:00 pm … Teachers’ Meeting Friday 7:00 pm … Teachers’ Class (2nd & 4th) TBA … Choir Rehearsal TBA … Mission Saturday TBA … Youth Rehearsal / Meeting TBA … Ushers’ Meeting

1403 Morrell Dallas, TX 75203 Church (214) 946-4522 gmpbchurch@aol.com Tele-worship - 1-866-844-6291 Access Number - 1531804# Sunday School 8:30am Morning Worship 9:45am Wednesday Night Services 6:30pm

Pastor Don. W. Bryant

M.E.T.R.O. Christ’s Church 405 E. Parkerville Rd. Cedar Hill, Tx. 75104 972-293-8188 Sunday Bible Study 9:00am Sunday Worship 10:30am Wednesday Bible Study 7:00pm

Dr. Kenneth Greene

St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church “Equipping the Saints for Kingdom Work” 218 W. Illinois Ave. Dallas TX. 75216 214-497-8560 Sunday School 10:30 Morning Worship 11:30

Rev. Anthony Cole Pastor

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Calvary Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church

Pleasant Zion Baptist Church 1910 N. St. Augustine Road Dallas, Texas 75217 Ph: (972) 285-6359 Early Morning Worship....7:45 A.M. Sunday School....9:30 A.M. New Member Orientation ... 9:30 A.M. Morning Worship .....10:40 A.M. Mon. Family Bible Study....7:15 A.M.

St. John Missionary Baptist Church 1701 W. Jefferson Street • Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 972-264-1483 Sunday Worship....7:00 am, 9:00 am, and 10:00 am St. John Baptist Church North “Family Fellowship” 2805 Market Loop, Suite #300 • Southlake, Texas 817-488-2114 Sunday Worship.....10:00 am One Church Two Locations

A.T.R. Walk By Faith Ministry

3423 Fordham Rd. Dallas, Tx. 75216 3423 Fordham Rd. Dallas, Tx. 75216 (469) 231-5512 (469) 231-5512 atr@mail.com atr@mail.com www.atrwalkbyfaithministryweebly.com www.atrwalkbyfaithministryweebly.com Sunday Morning Worship - 9:00 am & 11:00 am. Sunday Morning Worship - 9:00 am & 11:00 am. Wednesday 7:00 pm. - Bible Study Wednesday 7:00 pm. - Bible Study Every 4th Saturday - Good God Almighty Musical

Cornerstone Baptist Church

1819 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Dallas, Tx. 75215 214.426.5468 www.cornerstonedallas.org Sunday: Early Morning Worship ... 8:00 am. Morning Worship ... 11:00 am. Sunday School ... 9:30 am. Wednesday Bible Study ... 7:00 pm. Rev. Chris Simmons, Dallas

PLACE YOUR MINISTER’S AD HERE! Greater Golden Gate Missionary Baptist Church

9333Gate FergusonMissionary Road Dallas, Texas 75228 Greater Golden Pastor’s Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday or by appointment - 11am – 3:00 pm Church Office:Church (214) 327-1250 Church Fax: (214) 327-1359 Baptist

9333 Ferguson Road Dallas, Texas 75228 Early Morning Worship ServiceTuesday, 8:00Wednesday a.m. Pastor’s Office Hours: or by appointment School (Educational -Sunday 11am – 3:00 pm Building) 9:30 a.m.

Early Worship Service 8:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. New Morning Members Orientation Class (Church Sanctuary) NurserySchool (open at(Educational 10:45 Worship Building) Service) 10:45 a.m. Sunday 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship Service (Church Sanctuary) 10:45 a.m. New MembersndOrientation Class (Church Sanctuary) 9:30 a.m. Brotherhood (2 Sunday-Lenwood Nursing Home, 2017 W. Virginia Drive, Nursery (open at 10:45 Worship Service) 10:45 a.m. 75237) 3:00pm Children’sWorship Church and Children’s Choir (1st, 3rd & 4th and 5th)10:45 10:45a.m. a.m. Morning Service (Church Sanctuary)

Rev. Denny D. Davis, Pastor

Every 4th Saturday - Good God Almighty Musical

“We Walk By Faith, Not By Sight * 2 Corinthians 5:7”

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Bible Believers Missionary Baptist Church

“Turning over a new leaf” 5044 Veterans Drive 2703 Carpenter Avenue - Dallas, Tx. 75215 Dallas, Texas 75241 (817) 879-1225 214-372-3200 (Church) alreadyapproved@hotmail.com Sunday School 9:45 am Sunday School ... 9:45 am. Morning Worship 11:00 am Morning Service ... 11:00 am. 1st Sunday Lord’s Supper 6:00Worship pm Rev. R. O . Moffett Wednesday Prayer, Wednesday Evening Prayer Meeting 7:00Bible pm Study ... 7:00 pm. Gregory Pastor D. Franklin, Sr. Pastor

2335 56th St. Dallas, Tx. 75241 Church: (214) 374-4759 Web 2335address: 56th St.www.gmhbc.org Dallas, Tx. 75241 Church: (214) 374-4759 Sunday Early Morning Worship – 8:00 am Web address: www.gmhbc.org SundaySchool Early –Morning 8:00 am Sunday 9:15 am Worship Morning –Worship – 10:30 am Sunday School – 9:15 ampmMorning Worship 10:30 am Tuesday-Teen Night – 7:00 Grief Ministry 7:00–pm 1st & 3rd Tuesday-Teen Night – 7:00 pm Grief Ministry 7:00 pm 1st & 3rd Overcomer’s Outreach @ 7:00 pm 2nd & 4th Tuesday Overcomer’s Outreach @ 7:00 pm 2nd & 4th Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Men Ministry @ 7:00 pm Bible StudyStudy @7:45@7:45 pm pm Men&&Women Women Ministry @ 7:00 pm Bible Thursday Choir Choir Rehearsal – 7:00 Thursday Rehearsal – 7:00 pm pm UsherMeeting MeetingEvery Every Thursday Usher 4th4th Thursday

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Little Baptist Church Rose Friendship of Sharon Missionary Baptist Church

Rev. Fred Conwright Pastor

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Brotherhood (2nd Sunday-Lenwood Nursing Home, 2017 W. Virginia Drive, 75237) 3:00pm

New Leaf Missionary Baptist Church

Greater Mt. Hebron M.B.C. Greater Mt. Hebron M.B.C.

Rev. A.C. Toney, Pastor

Dallas

2251Ann Lawrence 2415 ArborStreet Ave. Dallas, Tx. 75215 Dallas, Tx. 75216 (214) 428-0462 rsmbc2012@attglobal.net (214) 374-3639 Morning Service … 8:00 am. 9:30 a.m. – Sunday School Sunday School … 10:00 am. 11:00 a.m. – Morning Intercessory Prayer …Worship Wednesday 12:00 (Noon)

Rev. David Toney Interim Pastor

DECEMBER 7, 2012

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Rev. T.C. Marshall Pastor

New Friendship Missionary Baptist Church

Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church New Horizon Missionary Baptist Church

2251 El Paso 8108 Mask Drive Dallas, TX 75241 Grand Prairie, (214) Texas498-4439 75051 … Office Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. 972-647-1445 Men / Women Meeting (1st & 3rd Wed.) 7 – 8 p.m. 9:00 amBible Sunday School Study (1st & 3rd Wed.) 8 – 9 p.m. Bible Study (2nd & 4th am Wed.) 7 – 8 p.m. Morning Worship 8 & 10:30 Fellowship Dinner/Bible Study(5th Wed.)6:15 – 8:30 p.m. 7 pm midweek revrdr@aol.com www.newfriendshipmissionarybaptistchurch.com

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Pastor Ronald Rev. C.L. Taylor D. Richardson

Resurrection Body of Christ 901 E. Parkerville Rd. DeSoto, TX 75115 214-434-0252 firstladyjacobs@aol.com Sunday School Time: _9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Mid-week Service: Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Prayer Bible Study, Etc): Thursday 7:30 p.m.

Christian Chapel Temple of Faith 14120 Noel Rd. Dallas, Tx. 75240 Church (972) 239-1120 Fax (972) 239-5925 Worship Services: 8 & 10:45 am. Sunday School: 9:30 am. Wednesday: Noon Prayer

Rev. Kwesi R. Kamau Pastor

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