Houston Style Magazine Vol 33 No 30

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he US Secret Service produced an “initial set of documents” to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection on Tuesday, in response to a subpoena last week that was issued amid reports of potentially missing text messages from the day of the insurrection.

“Our delivery included thousands of pages of documents, Secret Service cell phone use and other policies, as well as operational and planning records,” USSS spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement.

However, Tuesday’s document production didn’t include any of the potentially missing texts from January 5 and 6, 2021, a Secret Service official told CNN. That’s because the agency still has not been able to recover any records that were lost during a phone migration around that time, the official said.

“Any message that was not uploaded by the employee as a government record would have been lost during the migration,” the USSS official told CNN, referring to the agency’s backup procedures.

Before the phone migration, Secret Service employees were supposed to manually back up their text messages.

If any employees skipped that step, their texts would have been permanently deleted when their phones got wiped during the migration.

The Secret Service insists that it is still trying to recover any lost messages.

“We continue to scrutinize our records, databases, and archives to ensure full compliance with the Committee’s subpoena,” Guglielmi said in a statement. “We are taking all feasible steps to identify records responsive to the subpoena, to include forensic examinations of agency phones and other investigative techniques.”

The Secret Service informed the committee Tuesday that it is “currently unaware” of any text messages that were not retained, according to a source familiar with the Secret Service communication with the committee.

“We are currently unaware of text messages issued by Secret Service employees between December 7, 2020

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and January 8, 2021 requested by OIG that were not retained as part of the Intune migration,” the agency wrote to the committee.

Congress informed the Secret Service it needed to preserve and produce documents related to January 6 on January 16, 2021, and again on January 25, 2021, for four different committees who were investigating what happened, according to the source. The Secret Service migration did not start until the January 27, 2021.

“Nobody along the way stopped and thought, well, maybe we shouldn’t do the migration of data and of the devices until we are able to fulfill these four requests from Congress,” said Democratic Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Florida, a committee member, in an interview on MSNBC. “The process as explained to us was simply to leave it to the agent to determine whether or not there was anything on their phones worth saving that was necessary to save for federal records.”

Separately, a source familiar with the matter told CNN that employees were instructed twice to back up their phones.

Secret Service employees were told in December 2020 and again in January 2022 that if they were going to back up their phones, they’d need to do it manually, a source familiar told CNN. The source said employees were given instructions on how to do the manual backup.

Earlier Tuesday, the National Archives joined a growing list of federal agencies and officials demanding answers about the batch of missing text messages.

Laurence Brewer, the Chief of Records officer for the US Government sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security Records officer on Tuesday asking the agency to clear up if the text messages were deleted and explain why.

“We did get a briefing from the inspector of general of Homeland Security,” Rep. Zoe Logren, a member of the committee and a Democrat from California, told ABC News on Sunday.

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COMMENTARY

JESSE JACKSON: Injustice Of Emmett Till's Mother Resonates To This Day

By Jesse Jackson, National Political Writer

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he wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine,” goes the saying. For the brutal killing of Emmett Till in 1955, just how fine those wheels will grind remains to be seen even to this day.

Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy growing up in Chicago. In 1955, he traveled to Money, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region to visit with relatives. His mother warned him before he left to show respect and deference to whites in those days of segregation and virulent racism.

In Money, Till apparently encountered a 21-year-old married white woman – Carolyn Bryant Donham – in the local family grocery store. She claimed that the 14-year-old grabbed her and tried to molest her. She said she yelled for help in the little store, but no one ever testified to hearing her screams. After she returned home and told her husband, Roy Bryant, her tale, he and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, abducted Till in the middle of the night, brutally beat and mutilated him, shot and killed him, and threw his body into the Tallahatchie River. It was recovered a few days later.

Till’s mother demanded that the body be brought back to Chicago.

Destroyed by the vicious damage done to her son, she insisted on an open-casket funeral. Literally tens of thousands lined up to see the body. Pictures were distributed across the country. Emmett Till’s lynching became not just a national scandal, but a spur to the civil rights movement. When Rosa Parks refused to go to segregated seating in the back of a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, she triggered a bus boycott, galvanized by a young minister named Dr. Martin Luther King. When asked why she had refused, Parks said that “I thought of

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Emmett Louis Till, 14, with his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, at home in Chicago. ((Chicago Tribune file photo/TNS)) ) Emmett Till and I just couldn’t go back.”

In Mississippi, however, justice went AWOL. Roy Bryant and Milam were arrested and indicted for murder. In September 1955, they were tried before an all-white, male jury – women and African Americans were excluded. Despite overwhelming evidence of their guilt, they were acquitted in little more than an hour. One juror said if they hadn’t stopped to drink cola, the verdict would have come much quicker.

A few months later, Bryant and Milam admitted to murdering Emmett Till, selling their story to Look Magazine for $4,000. They were never held accountable for their actions. According to historian Timothy Tyson, Carolyn Bryant Donham later recanted her story, admitting that she lied about Till accosting her. Then she later disavowed that recantation. Although an arrest warrant was issued for her arrest in the

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murder, it was never served. She initially claimed she knew nothing about the kidnapping. Recently, her memoir was found and in it she admits to knowing about the kidnapping, saying that when her husband and Milam brought Till back to her house she tried to help him by saying that he’s not the one. Then she alleged, fantastically, that Till, who had been dragged from his bed in the middle of the night, then spoke up and identified himself as the culprit. What’s clear is that she knew and was involved in the kidnapping. Her family is calling on Mississippi and the Department of Justice to arrest and try her. Her false allegations led directly to the murder, which she helped to cover up. She is the only living accomplice to the crime.

Justice remains to be done.

Till’s brutal murder – and the acquittal of the murderers – outraged people of conscience across the country.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott continued until segregated buses were ruled unconstitutional. The outrage contributed to the pressure that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 authorizing the Department of Justice to intervene in local law enforcement when individual civil rights are trampled. Till became a spur to an entire generation of young people, with thousands joining drives to register voters to vote, and to break the hold of segregation and terror on African Americans in the South. The injustice resonates to this day. Only this March, after decades of congressional inaction, the Congress passed and President Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, making lynching a federal crime.

The reaction to Emmett Till’s brutal lynching has helped make America a more perfect union, and helped free the South of the American version of apartheid. Yet, justice has not yet been done. The perpetrators have not been held accountable. Now, with the uncovering of the original arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham and her own memoir confessing to her involvement, simple justice demands that the warrant be served, and she not evade accountability.

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COMMENTARY: His Name Is George Floyd Unfortunately, The 'George Floyd Justice in Policing Act' was Blocked by Senate Republicans Last Year

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eorge Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer just over two years ago. His killing sparked a movement to end unjustified police killings and racist law enforcement practices. Sadly, the killings have not stopped. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act was blocked by Senate Republicans last year. The struggle continues in communities large and small.

During racial justice protests that sprung up after video of Floyd’s murder spread around the world, millions of people spoke his name as they demanded accountability and justice.

Now, a remarkable book examines Floyd’s life and death in the context of our history and what one of the authors calls the “complex, tangled web” created by racism in this country.

“His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice” was written by Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa. It draws on the reporting of their colleagues and on intimate interviews with Floyd’s family, romantic partners, and circle of friends.

At a time when politicians are making it illegal for educators to acknowledge that systemic racism exists,

Commentary By Ben Jealous for StyleMagazine.com

Samuels and Olorunnipa document in painful detail the ways in which racially discriminatory policies on housing, education, health care, addiction, policing and more contributed to “a life in which Floyd repeatedly found his dreams diminished, deferred, and derailed—in no small part because of the color of his skin.”

“For example,” Samuels says, “you could not disentangle police departments’ disproportionate use of force against African Americans from the junk science that is still taught about black people being more resistant to pain. We could not ignore that those same instincts led to the inadequate mental health treatment in George Floyd’s life, nor could we separate that society both encouraged George Floyd to bulk up to pursue his athletic dreams and then stereotyped him as dangerous when he was off the field.”

The book doesn’t try to make Floyd a saint. It doesn’t have to. He was a human being. He did nothing to deserve being murdered on the street by an abusive police officer who shouldn’t have been wearing a badge.

“His Name Is George Floyd” is worth reading for many reasons. It gives us a fuller picture of the person George Floyd was. It introduces us to many

people who loved him and sought a measure of justice for his murder. And it points to some important facts about policing in this country.

One is the need for accountability. Chauvin had a record of violent behavior. When abusive cops are not held accountable, more people will be subjected to their violence.

People For the American Way spent the two years since Floyd’s murder developing a road map for transforming public safety. We looked at the research. We talked to criminologists, public officials, clergy and other community activists, and members of law enforcement. “All Safe: Transforming Public Safety” is a guide for public officials and community activists seeking to make their communities safer.

Among the essential steps to make policing more just and more effective at the same time: improving recruiting to weed out potentially dangerous cops, holding violent officers accountable, and getting unfit officers off the force. Also, importantly, restructuring public safety systems to reduce the unnecessary involvement of armed officers in situations where they are not needed and for which they

are not trained is good for cops as well as communities.

The authors of “His Name Is George Floyd” describe optimism in the face of our history as both a defense mechanism and a means of survival. I am optimistic that we can end unjust police killings. I am optimistic that we can build the uncomfortably large coalitions it will take.

“Our book makes the argument that if we can demonstrate step-by-step how this country’s history with racism continues to shape people today, then we can continue the good work of dismantling systemic racism,” Samuels told me in an email. “We have to connect the theory with the practice.”

That job belongs to all of us. We know what kind of changes will make our communities safer. Let’s organize, city by city and town by town, to make it happen.

Ben Jealous serves as president of People Forthe American Way and Professor of the Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. His next book “Never Forget Our People Were Always Free” will be published by Harper Collins in December 2022.

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CITY: Mayor Turner, Harris County Commissioner Ellis and Houston Police Department Launch

GUN BUYBACK PROGRAM

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Program Part of City-County Efforts to Combat Violent Crime

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he City of Houston, Harris County Precinct One and the Houston Police Department (HPD) announced details of a gun buyback program today during a news conference at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. Watch the full news conference here.

Commissioner Rodney Ellis

The first gun buyback event will allow people to exchange firearms for gift cards on July 30 from 8 a.m. to noon at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, 3826 Wheeler Ave.

The gun buyback program is part of the One Safe Houston initiative that Mayor Sylvester Turner launched in February.

“The city is investing $1 million for this program, and we are partnering with Harris County Precinct One Commissioner Rodney Ellis to have the greatest impact and to get unwanted and dangerous guns off the streets,” said Mayor Turner. “This is one tool we are using to combat violent crime; there are too many guns on the streets.

I encourage Houstonians to turn in their unwanted guns, which could help save a life and prevent crime. Only together will we be able to combat our current crime challenges and make our streets safer.”

With no questions asked, people who turn in their guns will receive a $50 gift card for every non-functioning gun, $100 for a rifle, $150 for a handgun, and $200 for an assault rifle. All firearms must be unloaded and inside the vehicle’s trunk.

“Harris County and the City of Houston have mobilized our resources with absolute urgency in a full-court press on reducing violence in our communities. We’ve made the largest investment in public safety in the history of Harris County, implemented innovative new programs to get at the root of gun violence, and made investments to speed up our court system and keep the wheels of justice turning,” said Harris County Precinct One Commissioner Rodney Ellis. “Our gun buyback is just another way we are rolling up our

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sleeves and getting to work to make our community safer. I’m proud to partner with the city on this initiative and look forward to getting some guns off the street on July 30th.”

The Gun Buyback program is voluntary and anonymous. If a surrendered gun has been reported stolen, police will make every effort to return it to the registered owner.

“I thank Mayor Turner for his vision and support. Because of his One Safe Houston initiative and our partnership with Houstonians, we are seeing our year-to-year violent crime numbers decrease,” said Houston Police Chief Troy Finner.

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One Safe Houston, the Mayor’s Public Safety Initiative to Combat Violent Crime is a $53.1 million investment funded by the American Rescue Plan and focuses on four key areas: · · · ·

Violence Reduction and Crime Prevention Crisis Intervention, Response and Recovery Youth Outreach Opportunities Key Community Partnerships

For more info on the Gun Buyback program, please visit: www.houstontx.gov/onesafehouston/gun-buyback.html

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his week at Commissioners Court, Commissioner Rodney Ellis unveiled details on the Maternal and Child Health Program, a approved pilot program to improve maternal and infant health in Harris County.

With statistics showing Harris County has the highest rates of maternal morbidity among U.S. metropolitan areas, Commissioner Ellis said he will proudly support the proposal to use $7.7 million in ARPA funding to create the program.

Commissioners Court this week voted on the program, which will serve 300 households over five years in an expanded maternal health program focused on home visits by trained community health worker who will help families achieve goals and navigate referral processes in prenatal care.

“The Maternal and Child Health Program aims to improve and protect the lives and health of mothers and infants, especially Black mothers and infants who are the highest risk,” Commissioner Ellis said. “Texas and Harris County are epicenters for this crisis. Systemic barriers to accessing affordable quality health care, Texas’ chronic underfunding of women’s health, and racial and economic inequities throughout our health care system all contribute to this crisis.”

In Harris County, Black mothers and infants are most at risk, Commissioner Ellis said. In 2020, Texas’ Black maternal mortality rate was 81.47 per 100,000 live births. Compared to Harris County, the Black maternal mortality rate was 106.01 per 100,000 live births.

In Harris County from 2016-2020, Precinct One had the highest rate of maternal mortality.

The funding will provide direct assistance to pregnant mothers and infants at risk for severe health complications by increasing: • Enrollment into available health coverage options • Prenatal and well-child visits • Home visits for health education and access to care

“This targeted program is about healthy mothers and healthy children, investing in families, and ensuring that the most vulnerable among us have equitable access to health care and services,” Commissioner Ellis said.

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surprise appearance by Vice President Kamala Harris. Before the conference ended 31st International President and CEO Dr. Glenda Baskin Glover passed the torch of leadership to incoming 32nd International President and CEO President Danette Anthony Reed. For the next four years the ladies' service will focus on the new theme "Soaring to Greater of Service and Sisterhood."

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AUTO: GM Gains U.S. Market Share and Extends Truck Lead GM Long-Term Momentum Will Continue To Build With EV Launches

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M. sold 582,401 vehicles in the United States in the second quarter of 2022 and the company increased its sales and market share sequentially for the third consecutive quarter. GM’s second quarter sales were down 15% year over year, but market share was up 1 point to an estimated 16.3%.

“GM’s sales and market share have grown each of the last three quarters, even with lingering supply chain disruptions,” said Steve Carlisle, GM executive vice president and president, North America. “Our long-term mo-

Silverado and GMC Sierra. Their estimated retail market share was 44%.

The Chevrolet Silverado remains the fastest growing full-size pickup truck in the industry (J.D. Power PIN), with Silverado HD recording its best first half in retail sales since 2007. · Pent-up demand and improved availability helped drive large yearover-year increases in deliveries of the Chevrolet Camaro, up 63%; Chevrolet Colorado, up 52%; mentum will continue to build thanks to Chevrolet Malibu, up 563%; Cadillac the launches of groundbreaking new EVs XT4, up 116%; and Cadillac CT5, up like the GMC HUMMER EV and Cadil70%. lac LYRIQ, and the tremendous customer · GM’s commercial, government and response to the Chevrolet Silverado and daily rental deliveries were up a GMC Sierra.” combined 29%, with each category posting double-digit growth as Sales Highlights customers took advantage of improved availability to refresh and · GM extended its leadership expand their fleets, which reflects in full-size pickup truck retail market strong employment and the recovery share for the 13th consecutive quarter, in the travel and leisure industries. despite very low inventory, with 203,041 · Electric vehicle sales were over combined total sales of the Chevrolet 7,300 units, including some of the first deliveries of the BrightDrop Zevo 600 and GMC HUMMER EV Pickup, as well as the resumption of Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV production.

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accelerating, with initial deliveries in process. Orders for the 2023 model year sold out within hours and preorders for the 2024 model opened on June 22. · GM will gradually increase production of the Cadillac LYRIQ and GMC HUMMER EV Pickup in the second half of 2022. Ultium Cells LLC begins producing cells in Ohio to support expanded EV manufacturing starting in August. · The second quarter SAAR was an estimated 13.4 million light vehicles compared to 17 million a year ago.

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HEALTH: TSU's Citywide Mobile and In-Clinic Breast Cancer Screening / Outreach Services Launched

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omen of color are now directly benefitting from TSU’s Breast Cancer Screening & Prevention Center’s (BCSPC) $1 million Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) grant. BCSPC recently launched mobile screening services at sites across the Houston region, increasing access and providing health care equity for many who have been underserved in the past.

The grant specifically targets women over the age of 40 and/or less than 40 with genetic or other elevated risk factors for breast cancer.

Dr. Veronica Ajewole (pictured above being interviewed by KPRC), BCSPC’s program director/principal investigator, an oncology clinical pharmacist, and an associate professor of pharmacy practice in the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, is excited about the 1,350 women that will ultimately be served throughout the three-year grant, as well as the University’s commitment to expanding the services. TSU BCSPC provides these services through The Rose or in-clinic mammography across Houston Meth-

Dr. Veronica Ajewole, BCSPC’s Program Director/Principal Investigator, an Oncology Clinical Pharmacist odist Hospital locations in the greater Houston area with Dr. Polly Niravath, breast oncologist as the co-principal investigator.

“TSU leadership, including President Crumpton-Young, Vice President (of Research & Innovation) Dr. Michelle Penn-Marshall, and Senior

Associate Vice President Dr. Omonike Olaleye have committed to purchasing the University’s own mobile mammography unit. The unit is projected to be ready by summer 2023, which will allow us to increase our services and help transform the lives of more women,” said Dr. Ajewole (pictured above with

Shelly Kot, mobile program manager with The Rose).

The grant covers a five-county region that includes Harris, Grimes, Matagorda, Walker, and Wharton counties. In addition to the screenings, the grant provides breast cancer prevention education, barrier reduction services such as scheduling services, appointment reminders and transportation assistance, as well as patient navigation services if cancer is detected.

Women interested in receiving services can call 713-313-4424 or email breastcenter@tsu.edu for more information on scheduling no-cost mammograms, breast cancer education, patient navigation or any inquiries about BCSPC programs.

Services can also be requested via linktree at:

www.linktr.ee/TSUBreastcareclinic or by texting: TSUBreastcenter to 855-264-9031 BCSPC has a social media: (@TSUBCSPC)

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On The Move: Houston Native – Kevin Davis (KD) Named JUNIOR SAILOR OF YEAR In Signapore

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hroughout the NBA, the initials KD are tied to University of Texas alum and Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant. However, another unknown Texas all-star carries the same namesake initials in the military, namely in the U.S. Navy, specifically in the Lion City of Singapore.

Houston’s very own Kevin Davis or KD was recognized as the U.S. Navy’s Junior Sailor of the Year (JSOY) for calendar year 2021 by his unit, Commander Logistics Group, Western Pacific/ Task Force 73 (COMLOG WESTPAC/ CTF 73), in Singapore, during the first half of 2022. The Navy’s own KD is 2-0 in the first two quarters of 2022, receiving JSOY honors and subsequent promotion to petty officer first class or E-6.

“This is my first time winning an award in the Navy in 12 years of service”, said Yeoman First Class Kevin Davis. “My father gave some good advice [years ago] to join the Navy, and it was the best advice I ever received. I needed to stand on my own two feet,” Davis said.

The H-Town (Houston) native stems from a legacy US military family with a proud father who served in the Navy as an electrician’s mate. His uncle also previously served in the US Army,

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and his cousin served honorably in the Navy as a yeoman.

Davis’s latest promotion in spring 2022 catapulted his rank to now, yeoman first class. As a yeoman, his role is comparable to human resources (HR) management where he handles administrative requirements for commissioned naval officers stationed at COMLOG WESTPAC. Davis said his administrative credentials afforded him access to live and work in places on the East and West Coast of the United States, like Virginia and Washington State.

“Hawaii was a great duty station for me. It helped me become a better petty officer and a better leader”, said Davis

When he’s not busy with Navy HR, he says he enjoys the local Southeast Asian spicy cuisine and the Texas-like, warm weather that comes with living in a citystate, just above the equator.

“I love Singapore for the food,” said Davis. “The best thing I have tried is the butter chicken with some cheese naan; it’s the best dish, I think. Then you have your Sunday brunches with great views. I like the beach vibes; I have always been attracted to the summer because of all the outdoor activities,” Davis continued.

Davis said he also enjoys working and living in Singapore because he likes “living in a melting pot of different languages and cultures [primarily Chi-

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nese, Indian and Malaysian]”.

I’ve made friends and learned many things about their cultures that you won’t find in a textbook,” he said.

When Davis isn’t filling the scoreboard with awards, promotions or enjoying Singapore, he still enjoys favorite American pastimes like playing basketball or catching a movie. However, it’s not all sunshine and sports for KD in Asia.

“The Navy is a team sport in many ways that helped me get focused.

It steered me in the right direction for long-term success,” he said. “I plan to utilize everything I’m learning [from the Navy] and retire once I reach 20 years of service. My next venture after the military will be real estate”.

Located in Singapore, Commander Logistics Group, Western Pacific, is the US Navy’s premier mobile logistics organization, charged with refueling and rearming US war ships in the Navy’s Seventh Fleet Area of Operations.

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ART: VICKY MEEK – At What Point Do We Disappear?

Black Women’s Obsession with White Femininity – At What Point Do We Disappear?

By Kathy Coleman, ARTS Editor – StyleMagazine.com • Newswire

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he giclee images stem from an idea I’ve been mulling around in my head for decades. I think it started in the late 1980s when I was asked by a Black woman, upon noticing that I wore my hair natural, “Are you still wearing an Afro? Didn’t that go out with the 70s?” I explained to her that my natural hair wasn’t a fad statement but a full embracing of my natural self. At that point, I realized the concept of Black beauty that had seen a short shift to an African aesthetic was more a fad for so many Black women, a style to be switched up when Black is Beautiful ran its course.

We shifted back to an aesthetic rooted in Eurocentricity. Skin bleaching, hair straightening, and eye and body-altering all have provided tangible examples of the erasure of Blackness from our concept of beauty.

Not surprisingly, 400+ years of cultural indoctrination have taken its toll on images of beauty in the Black community. The proximity to whiteness has become the gold standard in determining beauty, so Black women have been chasing that standard in a myriad of ways for generations. Enslavement and colonization produced a culture of self-hate that often manifests in ways

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sometimes not even perceptible by the Black community. I am exploring in At What Point Do We Disappear: Black Women’s Obsession with White Femininity how deeply ingrained this self-hate is, not only here in America but also in Africa, where women sport long, straight-haired wigs and bleach their skin in attempts to “lighten up” their complexion so that they can be more appealing to African men. This fascination with whiteness extends beyond simply skin color and hair texture. It manifests

in obsessions with light-colored eyes, thin bodies, altered noses, and lips. All women, whatever their racial group, are constantly faced with standards of beauty that are unreachable thanks to media images replete with idealized models.

But in the case of white women who aspire to attain this idealized beauty, they need not change the inessential group’s essential physical qualities to realize this beauty standard. Black women must reject their entire physical being if they are to attain this standard. Even the so-

called natural movement cannot leave white femininity as we witness countless examples of how to have curls, not kinks, using various hair products. The message is clear: curls=desirable, beautiful; kinks=undesirable, ugly. I liken the inculcation of white femininity in the Black female psyche to the diminution of our souls. We erase aspects of ourselves in creating a beautiful aesthetic with many roots in white womanhood.

At what point do we disappear

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ART: The Menil Collection To Present –

Walter De Maria: Boxes For Meaningless Work

The Exhibition is Comprised of Rarely Exhibited Artwork and Major Recent Acquisitions Made by the Menil Collection, Many of Which Have Never Been Publicly Displayed

Walter De Maria, Statue of John Cage, 1961, reconstructed 1984. Wood, 85 1/8 × 14 1/2 × 14 1/2 in.

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he Menil Collection is pleased to announce Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work, the first museum exhibition survey of the more than fifty-year-long career of American artist Walter De Maria (1935–2013).

On view exclusively at the Menil from October 29, 2022, through April 23, 2023, the show presents the artist’s remarkable exploration of space, time, and spirituality through works from the museum’s permanent collection, most of which have been recently acquired and never publicly displayed.

De Maria actively participated in New York City’s avant-garde music and performance circles in the early 1960s. The artist’s radically simple works from this time, with their modest materials and construction, embody

Walter De Maria, Statue of Walter De Maria, The Statement Series: John Cage, 1961, reconstruct- Red Painting / NO WAR NO, 2011. Acrylic on canvas with stainless steel plate ed 1984. Wood, 85 1/8 × 14

the up-and-coming ideas that led to development of the Minimalism, Conceptualism, Earth Art, and participatory art movements that shaped De Maria’s career in the years that followed.

Rebecca Rabinow, Director of the Menil Collection said, “The Menil Collection has a long history with Walter De Maria. John and Dominique de Menil began acquiring his work in the early 1970s, De Maria’s first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. was held at the Menil in 2011, and more recently, the museum has acquired significant groups of his work. The Menil is committed to deep and sustained relationships with artists, and the upcoming exhibition celebrates this mission.”

The first gallery showcases a group of plywood constructions and

Walter De Maria, The Arch, 1964.

Plywood, dimensions variable

paintings that inspired the title of this exhibition, which was taken from De Maria’s writings from 1960. The artist declared that he wanted to make “meaningless work” about arbitrary actions and playful gestures that lacked any productive outcome.

The museum’s presentation will also include a large group of conceptual drawings, photography and sculpture related to the development of the artist’s innovative land art projects of the 1970s, and examples of his sound and film work that further engage the body and the senses. Ocean Bed, 1969, has been reconstructed for display in this exhibition. Audience members are invited to recline on a pink mattress while listening to ambient sounds of the sea in this meditative and participatory work.

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The show concludes with stainless steel sculptures, such as Channel Series: Triangle, Circle, Square, 1972, a group of the artists “invisible drawings,” and two monumental paintings from The Statement Series. Red Painting / NO WAR NO and Blue Painting / YES PEACE YES, both 2011, from the latter group, were made during the last decade of De Maria’s life and specifically for the Menil’s 2011 show Walter De Maria: Trilogies.

Michelle White, Senior Curator of the Menil Collection said, “Walter De Maria is perhaps bestknown for his monumental permanent installations of the 1960s and 1970s: The Lightning Field, The New York Earth Room, and The Broken Kilometer, among his other contributions to Land Art. Behind these achievements stand the droll, quizzical, often fragile works he produced in the early 1960s with endless and seemingly impromptu inventiveness. We are proud to introduce the public to this deeply underknown and revelatory aspect of De Maria’s practice through the presentation of important examples of work he made throughout his career.”

Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work is curated by Brad Epley, former Chief Conservator, and Michelle White, Senior Curator.

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