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By Cheryl Smith Publisher

Live and let live

If it’s not bothering you, the people you love, or the world, leave people alone.

Too often we judge people by our own standards while we are totally clueless about another’s issues.

I’ve often told the story of a man who people were offended by because he didn’t act like he knew/ remembered them. “He was looking right at me and didn’t speak!�

Of course, me being me would ask, “why didn’t you speak to him?�

Now that’s another story because there are so many reasons why he didn’t speak. He could be sick, distraught, have lost his glasses, or his mind could be in many other places.

It was only later that information was shared that the man was indeed almost totally blind.

Then I had a friend who had an early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Many didn’t know and still today many don’t understand the disease. She looked gorgeous and in great health and she always had a smile on her face. Could you please forgive her when you walk up to her and ask “you remember me� and she doesn’t?

According to Dr. Jonathan Graff-Radford, of the Mayo Clinic, “Of all the people who have Alzheimer's disease, about 5 percent develop symptoms before age 65.�

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Oliver gets 15 years for Edwards' murder

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor)

Civil Rights leaders and others reacted with a sense of relief – if only temporary – after a Texas jury sentenced a former police officer to 15 years in prison Wednesday for the shooting death of an unarmed African-American teen in a Dallas suburb. “The child murdering cop just got 15 years in prison ‌ he’ll likely serve all 15,â€? said activist Shaun King. “It doesn’t bring Jordan [Edwards] back, but it’s the closest thing to justice we’ve seen.â€?

A day earlier when the same jury found former Police Officer Roy Oliver guilty, King said it was an “answer to our prayers.� “A bittersweet moment for his

15-year-old Jordan Edwards (R) was shot and killed by Officer Roy Oliver (L) in Balch Springs, Texas, on April 29, 2017. Oliver was convicted of murder on August 28.

family and for all of us who’ve fought non-stop for justice,� King wrote on Twitter. “We’d rather Jordan be alive, but this was so important.�

Journalist Jamil Smith noted a connection from Jordan to Emmett Till. “I look at his face and see Emmett Till, lynched 63 years ago today. This

QUEEN OF SOUL Aretha Franklin remembered around the world

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor)

Aretha Franklin, arguably the greatest voice in music history, died on August 16 and services were held on August 31, 2018 in Detroit, MI. The Queen of Soul was 76. “She will be so missed as a mother, sister, friend, cousin,� said longtime friend Roger Friedman, who also covered the Queen of Soul for decades and originally broke the story about her cancer

fight on showbiz411.com. “Her legacy is larger than life,�

Friedman said. “It’s not just that ‘Rolling Stone’ called her the No. 1 singer of all time, or that she’s the Queen of Soul. Long live the Queen.� “The NNPA profoundly mourns the passing of our beloved ‘Sister Leader’ and Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin,� said NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. “Her creative See QUEEN, page 3

story didn’t end in the typical fashion, though,� Smith said. “Oliver was convicted. I hate that this news is so surprising.�

The jury deliberated for 12 hours before deciding the fate of Oliver, the former Balch Springs, Texas officer.

In addition to the prison term, it im-

posed a fine of $10,000.

Oliver was convicted of murder for the killing of Jordan Edwards, a 15-year-old high school freshman.

He fired into a car full of teens on April 29 last year, saying he believed it was moving aggressively toward his partner.

Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson described Oliver as a “killer in blue� who violated his oath to protect citizens.

Prosecutors sought a sentence of at least 60 years while the defense argued for 20 years or less. “The fact that Roy Oliver was even indicted for murder was already a small victory, but to be found guilty and convicted by a jury? These things don’t happen,� said Finessa Hudgens See OLIVER, page 3

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Big Tex Choice Awards given to delectable dishes As Experienced

by Mo'ka I ventured out to the Big Tex Choice Awards minus my counterpart, Co’ka. This is not usual of us to separate, but Co’ka had to cover the last day of The Black Women’s Expo. As I have a passion for the State Fair of Texas, well, I could not pass up the chance to get a first-hand experience in tasting the top ten finalist’s food entries!

Upon entering the historic Tower Building (aka—the food building) within Fair Park, I am immediately engulfed with smells reminiscent of the State Fair of Texas.

I also hear the excitement from people as they anxiously wait to sample the food entries of the top ten finalists for the Big Tex Choice Awards.

For an avid State Fair goer such as myself, this is a big deal to be a part of. Many of the people in attendance for the Big Tex Choice Awards are what I call “Fair Foodies.”

Their mission every year is to try all of the award-winning foods, being more partial to the deep-fried foods of course.

Despite the cost per ticket, which was $125.00, the awards event was sold out!

Many would say this is a small price to pay to get an advance taste of the new State Fair foods. Also, all of the proceeds go to the State Fair of Texas Scholarship Program which is a great plus.

From the many food entries, the best ten are chosen to move on to compete for the

The “Arroz con Leche” (Sweet Crispy Rice) by the Garza Family was my choice.

Members of the Garza Family, who have been a part of the State Fair for over 34 years and were first to introduce fajitas to the State Fair, were the creators of the this yummy treat.

I was taken back to my childhood as I remember eating arroz con leche that my Weta (the name I gave my grandmother— that is another story) would make.

The winner of the “The Best Taste Sweet” category, it was a warm, creamy, cinnamony (yes. I meant this) and sweet, rice concocThe Garza Family's Arroz con tion that was surrounded by a crispy outer Leche won "The Best Taste Sweet" shell and served with vanilla ice cream. Also, the contrast of warm and cold, is always top three categories which consists of “The good in my book. For the presentation, it Best Taste Sawas dusted vory,” “The Best with more Taste Sweet” cinnamon. and “The Most I am not Creative.” much on cinThe top three namon but winners were this dish was chosen by a muy deliciopanel of judges, so!! which consisted The WinJustin and Rudy Martinez's Cotton Candy of local chefs, ter Family Taco won "The Most Creative" restaurant ownConcessions ers and radio won “The Best Taste Savory” for their Fernand T.V. personalities. ie’s Hoppin’ John Cake with Jackpot Sauce.

I did have the chance to sample all ten of This entry was a little spicy and hearty, the finalist’s foods and I must say they were consisting of black-eyed peas, rice, sausage quite tasty. I tried everything from sugary and veggies. It was similar to a gumbo but to spicy and experienced many textures. fried. Topped with a bit of the fillings and One entry caught my attention from all the accompanied by pickled okra, I think many others and was my favorite in taste overall. will enjoy the bold flavors.

The Winter Family Concessions' Fernie’s Hoppin’ John Cake with Jackpot Sauce won "The Best Taste Savory" Justin and Rudy Martinez won “The Most Creative” for the Cotton Candy Taco. This entry was intensely sweet and the various textures were appealing, reminiscent of s’mores. It was like eating a big fluffy taco!

For someone who has quite a sweet tooth, I think this would suit their fancy.

I look forward to visiting the Texas State Fair of Texas, as I always do, but this time to find out what new foods are most popular.

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MY TRUTH: Live and Let Live, continued from front page My friend was in her mid-40s and died in her 50s.

Heck, there are some people who think “do you remember me” is a rude question even if you aren’t suffering from memory loss.

I hear people ask that question frequently and when they walk away, you might hear, “Why do people do that?”

The updated version is to follow the question with, “I’m your Facebook Friend!”

Or God forbid it is someone you met 10 years ago and have never seen or heard of since!

Or it’s the guy or girl (I don’t judge) who you meet one time in a club, you get a phone call and they think they can begin a conversation without an introduction and seem offended if you don’t recognize their voice.

One thing is for sure, you’re better off telling the truth because there are those obnoxious souls who when you say “Sure I remember you,” their response is “Then what’s my name?”

I usually say, “help me out.”

If they are really gracious, when they come up to shake hands or hug, they reintroduce themselves and I get to say, “I know who you are!”

People are actually operating from their reality, not yours, when they ask certain questions or make judgments about another’s reality.

Which brings me to My Truth.

Because of blood clots several years ago, I have a discoloration on my leg.

For a brief time, I was self-conscious about what I looked at as a disfiguration.

I wanted to cover it up or stand in a way where people would have a hard time even noticing it.

Then one day, I had a moment.

I looked at the discoloration on my leg and I told myself that I was majoring in the minors. Here I was with two legs and I am concerned about what others think.

Hadn’t my wonderful doctor, Bill Glaze, just recently told me that there was some concern that I might not make it out of my surgery because there was a chance the blood clots could race to my heart?

Wasn’t I walking around, against doctor’s orders, in high heels? Wasn’t I taking dance classes, still able to walk in the rain with the one I love on my mind, and drive a car, or bounce, rock skate and roll?

If anyone had a problem or

took issue with my discolored leg, I needed to leave the problem with them.

The problem was their reality not mine!

Just like it is your reality if you see someone walking in the winter without a coat on.

You’re freezing, so of course you say something like, “Now, they know they are freezing and need a coat on!”

You wouldn’t dare dye your hair pink and purple so you make a judgment call when you see someone with their multicolored hair and call it silly or something like that. It may be silly to you, but guess what? It’s not your hair.

You’re probably the same person who would try to get out of jury duty by saying you couldn’t judge because only God can judge!”

Well, stop judging people you don’t know or know anything about.

“Well, if that was me…”

Stop. Hold up! It’s not you!

Surely you understand that you only get one life to live and life is too short.

You can spend your whole life making others happy and if you outlive them all, you’re left with the only person you didn’t make happy.

Live your best and do your best.

If whatever you do makes you happy and doesn’t hurt anyone else or later have you trying to find someone to get you out of a mess you have made; then do your thing!

Guess what? If you like it, I love it.

What's your truth?

NAACP calls for investigation into Air Marshalls targeting of Black passengers

NAACP President Derrick Johnson

BALTIMORE, MD.— The nation’s leading civil rights organization is calling for an investigation into recently revealed allegations of federal air-marshals targeting African American passengers.

The national office of the NAACP joins the Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP Branch in calling for an investi gation into these claims. “The targeting of the African American flyers is sickening and utterly unacceptable,” said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson. “We are moving forcefully with

our partners to issue requests to the Chairman and ranking members of the House Committee on Homeland Security for a complete investigation into these allegations.”

According to a reportfrom Fox 46 in Charlotte, former air marshal whistleblowers alleged they were “told by a supervisor to target “the Black people” when they worked in Orlando, because “they’re the ones who have warrants.”

These whistleblowers also report the use of the “N-word” and say they reported this incident to TSA, but no action was ever taken. The NAACP recently ended its travel ban on American Airlines after the airlines responded with company-wide training on racism and implicit bias. The NAACP has called for implicit bias testing for individuals and groups receiving public funding.

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The Fight to Save the Environment I remain an eager proponent of the Clean Power Plan, proposed by former President Barack Obama in 2014.

The badly needed regulation, backed by very strong science, has as one of its major goals a twenty-five percent reduction in pollutants such as smog and soot that lead to an unhealthy climate, serious respiratory diseases, heart and lung disease and other deadly ailments.

At the time of its announcement officials from the Environmental Protection Agency predicted that the plan would result in nearly 150,000 few-

er asthma attacks experienced by children, and that thousands of health-related deaths would be prevented.

The Clean Power Plan would produce tremendous energy savings for American families and create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, officials said.

Almost immediately, the Clean Power Plan was attacked by elected officials and lobbyists with strong ties to the coal industry, and to those whose industrial enterprises were major contributors to polluting the atmosphere.

Court challenges were brought by opponents of the plan, and at present its implementation is awaiting a ruling by a federal court. Among

the institutions that attacked the plan as soon as it was announced was the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington, DC based think tank, and a supporter of the coal industry.

Many former Heritage Foundation employees now have influential positions in the Trump administration, and they have prolonged philosophical positions denying climate change, and of denigrating its proponents.

In another blow to cleaning our air and to the implementation of reasonable policies such as the Clean Power Plan, the Trump administra- tion recently proposed a plan that would give the ability to control coal plant emissions to the states, a position long and

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by coal company proponents.

If such a plan is successful, it would cripple the Clean Power Plan, and seriously harm our na- tion’s efforts to improve our air quality, reduce the number of respiratory-related diseases and deaths, and save energy costs.

It seems that those who are in the current administration are opposed to all that President Obama was able to accomplish during the eight years that he led our nation.

The Trump administration refused to sign the Paris Climate Accord, it back out of the nuclear agreement with Iran, it has sought to eliminate the Affordable Care Act and now this attack on one of the most crucial environmental policies proposed in Washington

Black patients suffering from blood cancers and other blood-related illnesses face an uphill battle. Due to African Americans remaining disproportionately represented in the bone marrow registry, black patients struggle to find lifesaving transplants.

Only 6 percent of registered bone marrow donors in the U.S. and 7 percent globally are African American, drastically reducing the odds of patients of color finding their match.

This is a particularly pressing issue for the black community given the prevalence of sickle

cell disease among African Americans. Roughly, one, out of 13 African American babies, is born with the sickle cell trait.

The only known cure for sickle cell is a bone marrow transplant.

DKMS, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting blood cancers, has registered more than 8 million bone marrow and blood stem cell donors around the world. In June, they registered their one millionth donor in the U.S. Now, they’re setting their sights on another goal: diversifying the donor base.

“Ethnicity plays a ma-

jor role in matching donors with patients. The lack of diversity among registered bone marrow donors, particularly in the black community, means patients of minority backgrounds face much steeper odds in finding their lifesaving match. DKMS is committed to proactively engaging young and diverse lifesavers until the donor pool reflects the makeup of the current US population,” said Jaclinn Tanney, DKMS’ Chief Development Officer.

One patient who hopes to benefit from DKMS’ efforts is Darian, a fourth-grader who suf-

fers daily from the pain of sickle cell disease and is looking for his matching donor. Darian was diagnosed at 10 days old and continues to be in and out of hospitals.

September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month, which seeks to raise awareness of the disease, teach people how to help those inflicted and ultimately help individuals and families impacted by the disease.

For more information on becoming a registered bone marrow donor and ways to help patients like Darian, please visit www. dkms.org/en.

Mourning the Queen of Soul continued from front page genius was matched by her steadfast courage as a freedom-fighting singer and leader for civil rights. Black America and all people of goodwill throughout the world will miss her, but her legacy will never be forgotten.”

Dr. Chavis continued: “Long live the spirit and legacy of Queen Aretha Franklin.”

Dorothy Leavell, the chairman of the NNPA and publisher of the Crusader newspapers in Chicago and Gary, Ind., said that she was saddened by the loss of the music icon.

“I send a message of sadness and respect for our beloved Queen whose musical genius [shined brightly] and resounded around the world,” Leavell said.

The fourth of five children, Aretha Louise Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Baptist preacher Reverend Clarence La Vaughan “C.L.” Franklin and Barbara Siggers Franklin, a gospel singer, according to her biography.

Franklin’s musical gifts became apparent at an early age. Largely self-taught, she was regarded as a child prodigy. A gifted pianist with a powerful voice, Franklin got her start singing in front of her father’s congregation.

By the age of 14, she

had recorded some of her earliest tracks at his church, which were released by a small label as the album “Songs of Faith” in 1956.

She also performed with C.L.’s traveling revival show and, while on tour, befriended gospel greats such as Mahalia Jackson, Sam Cooke and Clara Ward.

Hitting her stride in 1967 and 1968, Franklin churned out a string of hit singles that would become enduring classics, showcasing Franklin’s powerful voice and gospel roots in a pop framework.

In 1967, the album “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)” was released, and the first song on the album, “Respect”— an empowered cover of an Otis Redding track— reached No. 1 on both the R&B and pop charts and won Aretha her first two Grammy Awards.

She also had Top 10 hits with “Baby I Love You,” “Think,” “Chain of Fools,’” “I Say a Little Prayer,” “(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone” and “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.”

Franklin’s chart domi-

nance soon earned her the title Queen of Soul, while at the same time she also became a symbol of Black empowerment during the Civil Rights Movement of the time.

In 1968, Franklin was enlisted to perform at the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during which she paid tribute to her father’s fallen friend with a heartfelt rendition of “Precious Lord.”

Later that year, she was also selected to sing the national anthem to begin the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

In 1987, Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Detroit.

Prior to her passing this week, Stevie Wonder and the Rev. Jesse Jackson were among those who paid a visit to her at her home in Detroit.

“I prayed with her,” Jackson said.

In a statement, former President Barack Obama lauded Franklin as “The Queen.”

“America has no royalty but we do have a chance to earn something more enduring,” Obama said.

“For more than six decades since, every time she sang, we were all graced with a glimpse of the divine. Through her compositions and unmatched musicianship, Aretha helped define the American experience.”

Obama’s statement continued: “In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade—our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hardwon respect. She helped us feel more connected to each other, more hopeful, more human.”

And, Obama added, sometimes she helped us just forget about everything else and dance.

“Aretha may have passed on to a better place, but the gift of her music remains to inspire us all,” Obama said. “May the Queen of Soul rest in eternal peace. Michelle and I send our prayers and warmest sympathies to her family and all those moved by her song.”

Stacy Brown is an NNPA Newswire Contributor and co-author of “Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask: An Insider’s Story of the King of Pop.” Follow Stacy on Twitter @stacybrownmedia.

during the past quarter-century.

Generations to come will pay a heavy price if we do not do some- thing about our climate.

One has only to look at the prolonged droughts, the dangerous weather and the out of control wild fires that we have experienced.

We must have in place sensible policies such as the Clean Power Plan. Those who oppose it and other plans designed to improve our environment are being short-sighted, mean-spirited and they are simply just wrong!

Congresswoman Johnson represents the 30th Congressional District of Texas in the United States House of Representatives.

Oliver sentenced to prison, continued from front page of Dallas. “So, although 15 years may not seem like much, this could be the start of something great,” Hudgens said.

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, wrote in an email that the Oliver’s sentence “finally

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breaks the systematic problem of denying equal justice to the families and victims of racially-motivated police murders of Black persons across the United States.”

White police officers must be held accountable, said Chavis, a long-time civil rights activist and one-time head of the NAACP.

“The prison sentence should have been at minimum a life sentence for this brutal murder of an innocent Black teenager,” he said.

“But today, at least police officers in America are put on notice: if you murder us, you will be punished and imprisoned. We must stop these racist police murders.”

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John Wiley Price...Afro-pessimist?

QUIT PLAYIN’

By Vincent L. Hall

“We revolt simply, because we can no longer breathe.�

--Frantz Fanon - French Psychiatrist, Philosopher and Revolutionary John Wiley Price was on trial again and you never knew it. This one didn’t involve a sexy FBI raid. This court bat- tle could sell neither newspapers nor ad time during television commercial breaks.

The charge John Wiley Price et al faced this time was too complex for a few sound bytes and too com- plicit for the Dallas elite who control the “mainstream� media outlets. The headline would have been too much.

“John Wiley Price is an Afro-pessi-mist!!!�

If that didn’t send shivers down your spine, nothing about Case 3:15-CV00131-D; Ann Harding v.

Dallas County would have.

Let me mimic the old Black Preacher as he came to close his sermon. “Let me cut across the field.� If you understand Old Black church protocol you know that I’m about to hoop, hum and have my seat.

This case, brought with the good graces of the Republican Party, alleged that Price and others violated the voting rights of White people in Dallas County.

A Commissioner’s Court that used to be 4-1 Republican is now 4-1 Democrat. An Afro-pessimist like John Wiley Price must be the culprit!

The Dallas Morning News offered a keen bit of insight as it covered the verdict. “One of the plaintiffs’ star witnesses, Dallas minister Bill Lovell, used a contentious Commissioners Court meeting from 2011 to cast Price as a racist and the court members as enablers of intolerance.

In the meeting, Price was hounded by supporters of

Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and Henry Brown (Bruce) Sherbet, the former elections administrator who resigned after Price and Jenkins attempted to oust him.

When Price noticed that the public speakers against him were white, he cracked: “All of you are white,� followed by “Go to hell.�

Lovell testified that those comments, along with Price once dubbing Dickey “Honey Boo Boo,� were evidence of racism and “a hostile at-

mosphere for whites.�

Defense lawyers disputed that Price was racially motivated and played video from the same meeting that showed a white resident frequently referring to Price as Dallas County’s “chief mullah,� a racially-charged term.

Price has said the “chief mullah� references led to his rant at the meeting.�

Incidentally, one of the reasons that “Honey Boo

Boo� is “Barbeque Barbie� full-time now is because she approved a final copy of the map, to the dismay of her GOP colleague; Mike Cantrell. What she didn’t realize was that the numbers had been changed. District 1 was now District 2 and vice-versa. Karma is hell!!

In that same redistricting plan, Price carved off some of his best voters to create a district for Dallas County Hispanics who were long overdue. In doing so, he picked up some areas to his East that could have cost him the large margins he’s enjoyed since1984 and possibly a loss. “Harding v. John Price� was typical backroom Dallas politics. The GOP had their day and so have the Democrats, but, to coin Barack Obama; “Elections have consequences.�

That is why it is so important that Democrats gain momentum in 2018 and over-perform in 2020.

Let me admit that I have been engaging in what theologians call “teleological suspension.� My Pastor, Freddy Haynes uses it a lot. See, you introduce a subject and then go off on a different tangent,

which causes the audience to listen for the end.

You stayed this far, so let me tell you what Afro-pessimism is, because most of us don’t know.

According to England’s University of Leeds, Centre for African Studies. Afro-pessimism in short, is more common than you would imagine. “Broadly, it refers to a sense of pessimism about the continent’s (Africa) ability to overcome pressing chal- lenges related to poverty, health, development or governance. This concept will often be summoned in the discussions around Africa’s image in Western media.�

Afro-pessimism attacks coverage that is reductive, negative or grounded in colonial tropes of Africans worldwide.

The “expert witness� obviously doesn’t know John Wiley Price.

Price understands and accepts that Africans in America and abroad will always suffer racial prejudice.

He just doesn’t believe that Afro-pessimism has any bearing on him.

Vincent L. Hall is an award-winning writer and author.

Future of Democratic Party lies in moving to moral center The media is now reporting on the debate among Democrats and activists about what the party

By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. (NNPA Newswire Contributor)

should stand for, and how it will win elections.

Establishment Democrats are said to fear that the populist reform energy represented by Bernie Sanders and rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who upset Rep. Joe Crowley, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, in a New York City primary) will turn off the moderate, upscale, white suburban Republicans who they believe are appalled

by Trump and the key to taking back the Congress.

A Wall-Street-funded group known as the Third Way — which might better be known as the Wrong

Way since it has been wrong about every major issue facing the country over the last years, championing disastrous corporate trade deals, deregulation of Wall Street and the Iraq War among other calamities — even convened a small gathering, “co-hosted� by a billionaire real estate developer to map out how to counter what the media describes as the left.

The very terms of this debate are misleading. Ideas that have broad public support, such as tuition-free college, are labeled “left.� Ideas that offend philosophical conservatives, such as subsidies to big oil companies, are tagged as on the right, championed by Republicans.

We’d be wiser to focus on common sense and basic principles.

When Dr. Martin Luther King spoke forcefully against what he called the “triple evils� of “racism, economic exploitation and militarism,� he was criticized for weakening the cause of

civil rights, for getting out of his lane by talking about economic inequality and against the Vietnam War. He responded, “I’m against seg-

regation at lunch counters, and I’m not going to segregate my moral concerns.�

Cowardice, he taught us, asks the question “Is it safe?� Expediency asks, “Is it politic?� Vanity asks, “Is it popular?� Conscience asks, “Is it right?�

We are a nation faced with great perils. Inequality has reached new extremes and, even with the economy near full employment, working people still struggle simply to stay afloat. Big money corrupts our politics and distorts our government.

We are mired in wars without end — 17 years in Afghanistan and counting — and without victory or sense. We have a president who believes he profits politically by spreading racial division, appealing to our fears rather than our hopes.

This is the time for citizens and for true leaders to move not left or right, to the expedient or the cautious, but to the moral center.

Affordable health care for all isn’t left or right, it is the moral center.

Jobs that pay a living wage, affordable housing, public education, college without debt, clean water and air, action to address catastrophic climate change that literally may endanger the world — these are not ideas of the right or left. They are the

moral center.

Holding to the moral center has its own power. Opposition to slavery started as a minority position, but its moral force was undeniable. Integration seemed impossible in the segregated South, but its moral force could not be denied. In this time of troubles, I believe that Americans in large numbers are looking for leaders who will embrace the moral center, not the expedient, the safe or the fashionable.

They are looking for champions who will represent them, not those with deep pockets.

That may be the final irony. The most successful political strategy may well be not to trim to prevailing opinion or compromise with entrenched interest but to stand up forcefully for what is right.

Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious, and political figures and the founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. You can follow Rev. Jackson on Twitter at @RevJJackson.

Enough with racism in rooftop solar industry Last Word

by Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Recently, news came out that the electronics retailer Best Buy decided to reconsider their partnership with a company called Vivint. The partnership allowed Vivint employees to work inside Best Buy stores, to sell Best Buy customers products capable of reducing their home’s energy usage. The potential decision by Best Buy is apparently just business, but it is a welcome piece of news because Vivint seemingly has a problem with African Americans.

Vivint isn’t alone when it comes to struggling with race. There has always been bigotry in this country. In 2018, thanks to the leaders of the civil rights movement who risked their lives fighting for equality and justice, things are much improved. But these days some racists in this country are feeling encouraged to express their ugly views in public or discriminate against people of color.

Recently, Vivint Solar -- one of the larg-

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est sellers of solar panels in this country -was sued in California by a black employee who alleges his superiors likened him to a monkey, used a racial epithet against him and that his coworkers used cardboard boxes to build a fort around their desks that was marked as “whites only.â€? The complainant’s lawyer provided pictures of this absurd and abhorrent cardboard façade to the media, and the Washington Post published its photo.

David Bywater, the top executive at Vivint Solar, told the media that he was “deeply disturbed� by these allegations and: “I want to firmly state that Vivint Solar has a zero-tolerance policy for racial discrimination and harassment in the workplace. Our company is built on the strength of diversity.� This is precisely what a CEO is supposed to say, but a person of conscience would back them up with action.

A deeper dive into Vivint’s practices makes me question Bywater’s sincerity.

In March, Hector Balderas, the Attorney General of New Mexico filed a 17-count civil complaint against Vivint Solar, accusing them of fraud, racketeering, and unfair business practices.

Balderas says the company which sells rooftop solar panels employed “high-pressure sales techniques and procedures designed to mislead consumers� and lock

their customers into contracts lasting 20 years, with rates that increase “by over 72 percent,� as the agreement matures. Also, according to the Balderas’ office: “The complaint also charges Vivint with filing improper notices in consumer real estate records that operate to cloud titles, and in some cases making it difficult for New Mexico consumers to sell their homes.�

There is some evidence that consumers of color and low-income consumers are targeted for these pressure tactics.

Vivint Solar is connected to Vivint Hom\ Security, a company that also has had its run-ins with the law. Last year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson reached a settlement with the company for allegations the company violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. This, combined with the action by the New Mexico Attorney General, paints a picture of a company that is not treating customers fairly.

I’ve been interested in the solar industry

because it is an expanding industry that increasingly provides new opportunities.

However, there also seems to be additional opportunities to exploit consumers, especially minority consumers. I’ve written about my concerns about the ways the industry targets less sophisticated consumers, echoing concerns raised by several members of Congress in a letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in early 2017.

In response to my concerns, the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) used a consultant to harass me and my staff. I received and accepted an apology from the CEO of SEIA. I hoped they were sincere in their stated concerns about consumer protection and also about diversity in their industry.

But Vivint Solar, with its “whites only� fort, is a member of SEIA. Vivint’s actions seem inconsistent with SEIA’s stated values. What must they do? I have some ideas: First, SEIA should ask Vivint Solar to leave their trade association. If SEIA wants to represent rooftop solar makers that respect consumers and employees, then Vivint Solar is a wrong choice. If SEIA doesn’t

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Further, SEIA should back up their statement that “CEO, Abby Hopper, has established diversity of solar’s workforce and customer base as among her top three priorities� and their “Diversity Best Practices Guide� by funding and hosting consumer education seminars around the country to better inform consumers – and minorities – about their rights when it comes to rooftop solar.

I have always been excited about the ways solar energy can reduce our dependence on fossil fuel as a power source.

But the solar energy movement is crippled when companies like Vivint Solar both take advantage of customers and discriminate against minorities.

It’s not enough to have a “Diversity Best Practices Guide.� SEIA needs to let best practices be their guide in their dealings with Vivint Solar. Silence is complicity. It is time for good people to stand up against racism. Best Buy, SEIA – what say you?

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Sharpton, Jackson and Winfrey ignored Trump’s “Racism” for Decades. What Really Changed?

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist)

With the mainstream media focusing on the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville riots of last year, many news organizations are basically blaming President Trump for stoking the hatred and racial tension that led to the violence in that small college town, because of his coarse rhetoric on immigration and the NFL players’ protests.

I will concede that Trump is not without blame in contributing to some of the coarseness of our society, but it’s hard to deny the fact that Trump has been consistent his whole, adult life.

Trump has always been brash, arrogant, self-centered, abrasive in his language, and never one to let the smallest slight go without a response.

For decades, Trump has been the toast of New York City elites and the media has always clamored to get interviews with Trump. Anyone who spends time in the Big Apple knows that stories about Trump sell newspapers and his TV interviews garner epic ratings.

Even before Trump opened his hotels in Atlantic City, N.J., both ordinary people and celebrities would line up to get pictures with Trump; the real estate tycoon would parade very influential and aspiring politicians into his office and have them grovel for his support and money; and they were happy to do it, especially if there was a news crew around.

This adulation came despite some of the “negative” things that we have all known about Trump’s business practices; facts that we have known for decades.

In the early 1970s, Trump and his father, Fred, were sued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for housing discrimination.

The Trumps counter-sued and settled

on entering into a consent decree which did not include any admission of wrongdoing.

This case was widely covered in the New York media.

In the late 1980s, Trump called for the death penalty for the “Central Park 5,” a small group of young, Black and Hispanic men, who were falsely accused of raping a woman in the famed New York City park. The five men served years in jail; years later, their convictions were overturned.

Trump called for the death penalty for the men in that case, despite all the evidence pointing to their innocence.

cialized together on occasion according to Fortune magazine.

In recent interviews, both Jackson and Sharpton have alluded to the fact that they have not changed, but that Trump had changed; that’s why they are distancing themselves from Trump.

Yet, they all had full knowledge of the previous HUD settlement and Trump’s views on the Central Park 5. Why was he not called a racist back then by Jackson, Sharpton and Oprah?

There is nothing new that we have learned about Trump since he has become president. Trump has consistently been who he now is for more than forty

walks of life.

An interesting point of fact is that Mar-a-Lago is located in Palm Beach, Florida, one of the wealthiest communities in the United States. Two of Mara-Lago’s competitors—the Palm Beach Bath and Tennis Club and The Everglades Club—have notoriously refused to admit Blacks. The Miami New Times reported that Hollywood legend Sammy Davis, Jr. was once kicked out of The Everglades Club, “because he was Black and Jewish.”

In comparison, according to a Complex.com article on the “25 Most Outrageously Exclusive Social Clubs in Amer-

Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton and Oprah Winfrey Again, this issue received massive amounts of media coverage all over the world.

Despite this notoriety, the Reverend Jesse Jackson heaped tons of effusive praise upon Donald Trump at his 1998 Rainbow/Push Coalition Wall Street Project Conference in New York. There is simply no way to explain away Jackson’s high regard for Donald Trump, based on this video.

In a similar manner, the Reverend Al Sharpton cozied up to Trump quite a bit in the 1980s and beyond, according to a detailed expose in the National Review.

They had mutual business dealings together that seemed to be based on each of their personal agendas. They each had something that the other wanted and needed and struck deals based on this set of mutual interests.

Trump both raised funds and contributed thousands of dollars to Sharpton-backed causes over the years according to National Review.

Even Oprah Winfrey got in on the act.

She and Trump were known to have so-

years. These Black folks who now want to brand Trump as a racist didn’t seem to mind associating with him when he owned casinos; when he was one of the biggest boxing promoters in the world; when he flew them around on his private jets and helicopters, or when he invited them to appear on his “Apprentice” TV show.

So, the question that I ask Black America and White liberals is this: When did Donald Trump suddenly become a racist? Before he entered the world of politics, he was branded as the life of the party; now that he is president, he is being branded as a racist.

What gives here?

Bill and Hillary Clinton were personal guests at Trump’s wedding to Melania in 2005 at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. Other notables at Trump’s wedding were: Shaquille O’Neal, Anna Wintour, Simon Cowell, Kelly Ripa, Katie Couric, and Russell Simmons.

For a racist, Trump seems to have a very eclectic group of friends from all

ica” Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, doesn’t discriminate against anyone who can afford the $150,000 initiation fee and $7,000 in annual dues.

The Wall Street Journal reported that, in 1996, “Trump filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Palm Beach, alleging that the town was discriminating against Mar-a-Lago, in part because it is open to Jews and African Americans.”

The obvious answer to my question posed here is that Trump and his relationship with minorities is very complicated, but the lazy media keeps trying to proffer simplistic answers to a complicated issue.

To those who are instinctively going to disagree with this column, please answer my simple question: When did Trump become a racist?

Raynard Jackson is the founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur.

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Why Is Black Vote Still Treated Like a Political Piñata?

By Jeffrey L. Boney (NNPA Newswire Political Analyst)

When it comes to politics in this country, there is one thing that seems to be a constant—the Black vote is important and always tends to make a difference.

Although Blacks make up roughly 13 percent of the overall population in the United States, Black voters remain a powerful voting bloc that can change the trajectory of any election.

Now, it is no secret that Black people overwhelmingly vote for Democratic candidates in nearly every national election, with identical results being shown in local and state elections.

Even in elections where a race is considered to be nonpartisan, such as for a Mayor or City Council seat, Black people have historically voted for the candidates that have self-identified or campaigned as a Democrat.

While this has been the norm for decades, Black people have been on the receiving end of neglect and disparate treatment by candidates who win with the overwhelming support of the Black vote.

It is an interesting phenomenon to watch as Black people are strategically sought after and courted for their vote with the hope of securing their collective support for specific candidates or certain issues.

Black people are typically courted with the same archaic methods to get them registered and to the polls while providing limited resources for voter outreach and education.

On the surface, African Americans are marketed to as if their sacred vote means so much, but historically that often changes once their vote is cast.

The way African American voters are treated, it is as if they have become a political piñata.

You know what a “piñata is right?

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a “piñata” is “a decorated

container filled with candies, fruits, and gifts that is hung up at parties or celebrations and hit with a stick by blindfolded persons until it is broken and the things inside it fall out.”

As it relates to voting, African Americans are often treated like the treats on the inside of a piñata.

They don’t care how they get Black votes, they just want that vote no matter how Blacks are treated or handled.

Blacks are consistently pounded and beat over the head with political messages during campaign season until

they give up their precious and valuable vote. Then once that piñata is finally opened, or in this case when the Black votes are finally cast, Black voters are either forgotten or vilified depending on the outcome of the race.

The routine is simple. When the results don’t go the way those who courted the Black vote wanted it to go, they blame the Blacks for the results. However, when the outcome is favorable to those who courted the Black vote, they celebrate the results, reap the benefits and then essentially ignore those same loyal, African American voters after the election is over.

Because Black voters overwhelmingly vote for Democratic candidates, it would make sense for the Democratic Party to avoid treating Blacks like piñatas and taking them for granted.

At a recent plenary session at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Annual Convention in Detroit, Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez emphatically stated that the Democratic Party had become notorious for taking African Americans for granted.

“Shame on us for taking African Americans for granted,” said Perez. “We can’t allow that to happen again and we won’t allow that to happen again

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under my watch. We can’t criticize Black voters for not showing up, because it’s not on them. It’s on the Democratic Party to show up and put our money where our mouth is to better organize in the African American community.”

History shows us that beginning with the Civil War era and through the early part of the 20th century, Blacks voted heavily Republican. One key factor for that was the decision for Republican President Abraham Lincoln to push for and pass the Emancipation Proclamation.

After the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Ku Klux Klan began to terrorize Blacks with threats of violence to discourage them from voting, while strongly putting a fear in Blacks to avoid supporting Republican candidates, unless they wanted to be lynched. The Democratic Party, at that time, did not solicit Blacks to be a part of their party, primarily because the majority of the members of their party were White, segregationist politicians who governed Southern states.

Many Blacks who lived in the South were prevented from participating in the political process. It wasn’t until 1924 that Blacks were even permitted to attend Democratic conventions in any official capacity.

That changed in 1948 when Harry Truman received roughly 77 percent of the Black vote. It was at the point that many Blacks began to self-identify as Democrats. However, not all Black people were ready to switch so fast. It took a few more years for Blacks to shift to the Democratic Party in the way they have today.

In 1956, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower got 39 percent of the Black vote and four years later, Republican Richard Nixon got 32 percent of the Black vote in 1960.

However, once President Lyndon B. Johnson championed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 while his Republican opponent, Senator Barry

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Goldwater, openly opposed it, the almost full migration to the Democratic Party by African Americans had begun.

Johnson received 94 percent of the Black vote that year.

The following year President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law and ever since, no Republican presidential candidate has gotten more than 15 percent of the Black vote.

African Americans are more than just a vote. Blacks have sacrificed and contributed mightily to the betterment of our nation, and to our state and local governments.

No political party should ever treat the Black community and Black voters like political piñatas. Black people need to receive the same type of support and political respect as all other groups of people in this country.

If African Americans aren’t respected and are continuously treated like political piñatas, then they might just become galvanized to the point where they either switch political parties or create their own—whatever it takes to avoid becoming a proverbial political piñata.

This upcoming midterm election in November, along with the events leading up to it, will be telling and will show how much effort the Democratic Party has done to engage their loyal voting bloc – Black voters.

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), which represents over 200 Black-owned media companies across the U.S., has been focused on encouraging 5 million Blacks to register to vote and go to the polls before the midterm elections in 2018.

The NNPA is calling on the Democratic Party, the Republican Party and all of their affiliates to invest in voter outreach utilizing Black newspapers across the country and to join the NNPA’s efforts to get Blacks registered and to the polls in November.

Jeffrey Boney is a political analyst for the NNPA Newswire and BlackPressUSA.com and the associate editor for the Houston Forward Times newspaper. Jeffrey is an award-winning journalist, dynamic, international speaker, experienced entrepreneur, business development strategist and founder and CEO of the Texas Business Alliance Follow Jeffrey on Twitter @ realtalkjunkies.

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Ask ALMA By Alma Gill

I want my Ex Dear Alma, I’ve been married for over 10 years and I’m very happy with my husband and two kids. My husband is very kind to me.

My kids are very well behaved and we have a good life. Before I got married I was in love with a man who said he would never get married and he didn’t want any kids. I always hoped that he didn’t mean that and would marry me but he never did. After more than a year and a half, we broke it off and I met my husband and got married. After I got married I would see him from time to time and he stayed in touch with my brother. When he and my brother would go out, he would always ask about me to see how I was doing. Recently my brother told me that he said he should have married me. I know you’re gonna think I’m crazy but I can’t stop thinking about him.

I think we need to have a conversation because I have so much I want to say to him.

I am trying to figure out my best option.

I could email him or reach out on Facebook. I was thinking I could ask him to meet me. How should I contact him in a way that’s the most respectful?

Anonymous Dear Anonymous, Excuse me, did you say respectful? What exactly is respectful about a married woman trying to reconnect with an ex? Because that’s basically all you’re trying to do.

You wanna know how I know – cause I thought the same thing. And when I did, I asked my BFF, Neasy, about it.

Yep, I wanted to contact my old “here he comes, I can’t breathe” high school crush named Poopie.

Girl, it was a crush like no other, LOL. Like you, I was happily married, life was good, and all I wanted to do is let him know just how much I truly loved him. I did my best explaining and exasperating my heart and soul to Neasy and you know what she asked me: Why? Yep, just that simple.

So now I’m asking you. Why? What if he misunderstands your actions? Is it worth your marriage, the love of your husband, the happiness of your children?

If he wanted to marry you, he would have. Ain’t no truth in shoudda, cudda, wudda.

Stop romanticizing over what you wish could have happened and live in what is happening. What is happening is that you have a loving husband and father to your children. If circumstances were the other way around and your husband wanted to have a conversation with an ex, girl pleez, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.

You’d be accusing him of all kinds of disrespect! Turn your twinkle toes towards what’s real and watch the video, live version of Whitney Houston, “All the Man I Need” and fall back in fabulous love with your husband. My favorite is the one with her in a beautiful red gown, Kirk Whalum’s on the sax. It’s the concert she did for our troops.

Girl, rewind it two or three times if you need to. All the romance and attention you’re looking for is already living inside your home. You just need to breathe new life into it. Let that other man go, that conversation and action of sharing words just isn’t worth the risk of losing your happy home.

I never contacted Poopie and I’m perfectly fine with that decision. Give it some time and you will be, too. If not, go find a BFF you can confide in, who’ll keep you on track named Neasy!

Alma Alma Gill’s newsroom experience spans more than 25 years, including various roles at USA Today, Newsday and the Washington Post. Email questions to: alwaysaskalma@gmail.com. Follow her on Facebook at “Ask Alma” and twitter @almaaskalma.

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PAPILLION PAPILLION is a remake of the 70's movie starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. It's also based on a book that tells the true store of Henri Charriere aka Papillion and his single-minded plan to escape from a hell hole of a prison called Devil's Island after he receives a life sentence for being falsely accused of murder.

While in prison Papillion meets and becomes friends with a convicted counterfeiter names Louis Dega. Dega, who has tucked away a stash of cash (in a place that I won't go into depth about), and in return for Papillion's protection

in prison he finances Charriere's several failed escape attempts.

While the two main actors do an adequate job of playing the two

lead characters, Charlie Hunnam, who does resemble a young Steve McQueen, and Rami Malek pale in comparison to the two origi-

nal actors from the1973 film. The depth of the emotions of the two actors just wasn't there for me.

The director chose to make a more

documentary style film with facts about the French prison system and it also shows Henri Charriere at the end of the movie as an old man who returns to French Guiana to have his memories published (which in real life became a best seller in France).

I was very disappointed with the remake of this movie. I think Hollywood needs to learn that some movies are just better left alone.

The movie runs 2 hours and 33 minutes and is rated R. On my "Hollywood Popcorn Scale" I rate PAPILLION a MEDIUM.

Hollywood at Legends Bar & Grill Happy Hour and Flaunt Fly By with Jimmy Porch

SLAVERY AT JEFFERSON’S MONTICELLO: PARADOX OF LIBERTY Coming to African American Museum, SEPT 22-DEC. 31, 2018 A groundbreaking and widely acclaimed exhibition with a powerful message, Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty is coming to the African American Museum, Dallas at Fair Park (3536 Grand Ave. in Dallas) from Sept. 22-Dec. 31, 2018.

Dallas will be the first city to host the updated touring exhibition, which brings to life the story of slavery at Monticello through more than 300 objects, works of art, documents and artifacts unearthed at the storied plantation. The exhibition features new items never seen outside of Monticello, including a special feature on Sally Hemings, one of the most famous African American women in American history. As an enslaved woman at the age of 16, Hemings negotiated with one of the most powerful men in the nation ensuring she would receive “extraordinary privileges” and achieve freedom for her children.

Jefferson fathered at least six children with Hemings, four of whom survived to adulthood.

“I urge everyone to make time to see this exhibition to learn from America’s often contradictory history. Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello: A Paradox of Liberty brings to life the personal stories of those slaves owned by the author of the Declaration of the Independence,” said T.D. Jakes, senior pastor of The Potter’s House and honorary chair of the Dallas exhibition.

“The exhibition raises questions about how a new nation – founded on the principles of liberty and equality – could justify 20 percent of its population living in bondage. This is a very compelling presentation with untold stories that everyone needs to see, hear and experience first- hand.”

Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty is organized by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello and the African American Museum, Dallas in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities and in cooperation with the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs and Visit Dallas. Plans for the exhibition were unveiled on Juneteenth. Sharing a remarkable perspective was Gayle Jessup White, Monticello’s communi-

ty engagement officer and a Hemings family and Jefferson descendant. Joining her and dozens of community and civic leaders were Dr. Harry Robinson, Jr., president and CEO of the African American Museum, Dallas; Dallas City Councilmember Kevin Felder; and Phillip Jones, president and CEO of VisitDallas. Additionally, Bishop T.D. Jakes, visionary pastor of megachurch The Potter’s House, author and TV personality, was announced as the exhibition’s honorary chair.

This landmark conclusion of a major restoration initiative at Monticello also commemorates 25 years of the Getting Word Oral History Project. Monticello welcomed the largest reunion of descendants of Monticello’s enslaved families in modern history and hosted a rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation generously loaned by David M. Rubenstein.

“This exhibition delivers a powerful message, one that has the potential to educate, inspire and promote greater understanding, which is something we now need more than ever,” said Councilmember Felder. “We’re so very pleased to bring this to the people of Dallas, Texas and the Southwest.”

Exploring the complicated dynamics of America’s founding, how legacies of slavery still shape nation Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty is an exhibition that uses Monticello, the home and plantation of Thomas Jefferson, to explore the dilemma of slavery and the lives of the enslaved families and their descendants. The exhibition presents Monticello as a microcosm of the American story – a lens through which to understand

the complicated dynamics of America’s founding, and the ways in which the legacies of slavery continue to shape the nation.

Thomas Jefferson’s iconic words in the Declaration of Independence – “all men are created equal” – inaugurated a new nation defined by principles of freedom and self-government, while a fifth of the population remained enslaved. Jefferson called slavery “an abominable crime,” yet he owned 607 people over the course of his lifetime. This exhibition uses the power of place and ideas at Monticello to grapple with the paradox of slavery in an age of liberty. Most notably, Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello brings individuals and families out of the shadows of chattel slavery, pulling from more than 50 years of archaeology, documentary research, and oral histories to fill in the critical human dimension missing from many resources on slavery in the United States. Through the exhibition, visitors “meet” members of six families who lived and labored at Monticello, as well as their descendants. Their family stories form a narrative arc from slavery to freedom that reflects the trajectory of the nation at large – an ongoing journey to realize the foundational promise that “all men are created equal.”

Paradox of Liberty briefly examines Jefferson’s views, actions and inaction on slavery, and then focuses on the enslaved individuals and families who lived and labored at Monticello. In addition to objects belonging to Jefferson, more than 300 archaeologically recovered ar- tifacts elucidate the lives and work of six enslaved families, making for a visually rich, power-

ful presentation. Using material from the Getting Word Oral History Project, the exhibition follows the families through Emancipation into the present.

“The popular story, however, is usually told from Jefferson’s perspective. The objective of this exhibition is a bit different – to convey her life through her eyes.

We want visitors to understand Sally Hemings as a person through her family roles as a mother, daughter and sister,” added Jessup White. “The goal is for visitors – actual and virtual – to understand her struggle and the struggle of all enslaved people, intellectually and viscerally. While we will reference and summarize her link with Jefferson and its 200-plus-year controversy, the main story is Sally Hemings and her children.”

The exhibition began as a partnership between the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello (TJF) and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, D.C. before embarking on a successful four-venue tour between 2012 and 2015. Described as “groundbreaking” in the Washington Post, it attracted a wide, diverse audience, estimated at more than 1.2 million visitors in Washington, Atlanta, St. Louis, and Philadelphia.

The previous venues were the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.: Jan. 27, 2012-Oct. 14, 2012; Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA: Feb. 1, 2013-July 7, 2013; Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, MO: Aug. 10, 2013-March 2, 2014; and the National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA: April 9, 2014-Jan. 4, 2015.

The exhibition’s first stop of its national tour will be the African American Museum (3536 Grand Ave. in Fair Park in Dallas, Texas) and will run Sept. 22-Dec. 31, 2018. It will continue on tour to three or four additional venues.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for seniors (65 and older), $5 for children 4-12, and free for children 3 and under. Also, admission will be free on Thursdays only for seniors 65 and older. African American Museum members are free.

Valder Beebe Show

Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones®

Coming to Dallas, Grammy® and Four-Time Emmy®-Winning Composer Ramin Djawadi will take you on a musical journey through the seven kingdoms, spanning seven seasons of the critically acclaimed Game of Thrones® LIVE Concert experience.

The New York Times calls it “a symphonic spectacular.” Having just wrapped up a run through Europe, the Game of Thrones® Live Concert Experience featuring Ramin Djawadi returns for a second North American leg this fall. It will give fans the opportunity to watch in wonder as famed composer Ramin Djawadi leads an orchestra and choir performing music from all seven seasons of the iconic, Emmy® Award-winning HBO series.

VBS: Ramin’s the film “The Mountain Between Us,” staring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet has your musical DNA all over that successful film.

A few of your other credits include the Grammy®-nominated score for Marvel’s 2008 blockbuster, “Iron Man;” “Pacific Rim,” “Clash Of The Titans” and “Warcraft.”

In addition to Game Of Thrones®. Your celebrated television scores include “Westworld,” “Flash Forward” (ABC) and “Prison Break” (FOX).

RD: Being a part of “Game of Thrones” is a very special show and creating my musical resume is humbling.

VBS: Where do you get your musical insight?

RD: I grew up with a rich musical background; rock, pop, and jazz. My life today allows me to draw from all these different elements of

style.

VBS: When you are standing on the stage before millions of viewers, what are you thinking?

RD: I’m really not thinking. This is normally not something I get to experience. The experience with LIVE NATION for The Game of Thrones® LIVE Concert is incredible. The connection I have with the live audience is really special.

VBS: Did you ever dream your life would be this way?

RD: I was hoping this is where I would end up. This is something I have wanted to do since I was a teenager.

VBS: We will be sure to be, front and center, Sep-

tember 16 at the American Airlines Center, Game of Thrones® Live Concert Experience Featuring you, Ramin Djawadi.

Hear the complete Valder Beebe Show Ramin Djawadi interview at SoundCloud. com/valderbeebeshow.

Find more THAT CELEBRITY INTERVIEW; Youtube. c o m / v a l d e r b e e b e s h o w, 411RadioNetwork.com[Jazz Channel], SoundCloud.com/ valderbeebeshow and VBS affiliate broadcasters.

Water shortage affects area Some residents in northeast Texas had to do their best to conserve water during Labor Day weekend after a water-line break occurred in Richardson.

Residents of Richardson, Garland, Mesquite, Murphy, Sachse, and Wylie were asked by the North Texas Municipal Water District to limit water usage indoors to drinking and other necessary usage and to eliminate outdoor usage such as watering lawns for the time being in an effort to conserve water until the water line could be repaired.

The line, located on the 4500 block of Crystal Moun-

tain Drive in Richardson, feeds water to the aforementioned cities, broke on the afternoon of Aug. 30 and, according to NTMWD, may have affected up to approximately 20 homes before water to the line could be shut off and repairs could begin. Crews also worked to "identify the cause, assess the extent of the damage and assist impacted residents," according to NTMWD. At press time, the line was scheduled to be fixed as the holiday weekend drew to a close and the outdoor usage ban was set to be lifted on Sept. 4.

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FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

Garland ISD

South Garland Colonels

Plano East Panthers

9/6 @ 7:00 PM at W.T. White (Loos Stadium) 9/13 @ 7:00 PM vs Molina (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 9/20 @ 7:00 PM at Garland (Williams Stadium) 9/28 @ 7:00 PM vs Lakeview (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 10/4 @ 7:00 PM at Rowlett (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:00 PM vs Naaman Forest (Homer B. Johnson Stadium 10/26 @ 7:00 PM at North Garland (Williams Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:00 PM at Sachse (Williams Stadium) 11/8 @ 7:00 PM vs Wylie (Homer B. Johnson Stadium)

Garland Owls 9/6 @ 7:00 PM vs Royce City (Williams Stadium) 9/14 @ 7:30 PM at Richardson (Eagle Stadium) 9/20 @ 7:00 PM vs South Garland (Williams Stadium) 9/28 @ 7:00 PM at Wylie (Wylie Pirate Stadium) 10/5 @ 7:00 PM vs Sachse (Williams Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:00 PM vs Lakeview (Williams Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:00 PM at Rowlett (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 11/1 @ 7:00 PM vs Naaman Forest (Williams Stadium) 11/8 @ 7:00 PM at North Garland (Williams Stadium)

9/8 @ 10:00 AM at Lake Highlands (Cotton Bowl) 9/14 @ 7:00 PM at Sachse (Williams) 9/21 @ 7:00 PM at McKinney Boyd (McKinney ISD Stadium) 9/28 @ 7:00 PM vs Prosper (Kimbrough Stadium) 10/12 @ 7:00 PM at Allen (Eagle Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:00 PM vs Plano (Kimbrough Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:00 PM at McKinney (McKinney ISD Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:00 PM at Plano West (Clark Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:00 PM vs Jesuit (Kimbrough Stadium)

Mesquite ISD

Plano Wildcats

Horn Jaguars Lakeview Centennial Patriots 9/7 @ 7:00 PM vs North Mesquite (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 9/14 @ 7:30 PM at Richardson Berkner (Wildcat/Ram Stadium) 9/21 @ 7:00 PM vs North Garland (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 9/28 @ 7:00 PM at South Garland (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 10/5 @ 7:00 PM vs Wylie (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:00 PM at Garland (Williams Stadium) 10/25 @ 7:00 PM vs Sachse (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:00 PM vs Rowlett (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:00 PM at Naaman Forset (Williams Stadium)

9/7 @ 7:30 PM at Highland Park (Highlander Stadium) 9/14 @ 7:30 PM vs Cedar Hill (Hanby Stadium) 9/21 @ 7:30 PM vs Arlington (Hanby Stadium) 9/28 @ 7:30 PM at Mesquite (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 10/5 @ 7:30 PM vs Rockwall (Hanby Stadium) 10/12 @ 7:30 PM at Longview (Lobo Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:30 PM vs Rockwall Heath (Hanby Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:30 PM at North Mesquite (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:30 PM vs Tyler Lee (Hanby Stadium) Mesquite Skeeters

Naaman Forest Rangers 9/7 @ 7:00 PM vs Arlington Lamar (Williams Stadium) 9/14 @ 7:30 PM at Eaton (Northwest ISD Stadium) 9/20 @ 7:00 PM at Rowlett (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 9/27 @ 7:00 PM vs Sachse (Williams Stadium) 10/4 @ 7:00 PM vs North Garland (Williams Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:00 PM at South Garland (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 10/25 @ 7:00 PM vs Wylie (Williams Stadium) 11/1 @ 7:00 PM at Garland (Williams Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:00 PM vs Lakeview Centennial (Williams Stadium)

9/7 @ 7:00 PM vs Grand Prairie (Hanby Stadium) 9/14 @ 7:00 PM at Plano West (Clark Stadium) 9/20 @ 7:00 PM vs L.D. Bell (Hanby Stadium) 9/28 @ 7:30 PM vs Horn (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 10/5 @ 7:30 PM at Rockwall Heath (Wilk/Sanders Stadium) 10/12 @ 7:30 PM vs North Mesquite (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:30 PM at Tyler Lee (Rose Stadium) 11/1 @ 7:00 PM vs Rockwall (Hanby Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:30 PM at Longview (Lobo Stadium)

North Mesquite Stallions

North Garland Raiders 9/6 @ 7:00 PM at Irving (Irving Schools Stadium) 9/13 @ 7:00 PM vs Newman Smith (Williams Stadium) 9/21 @ 7:00 PM at Lakeview Centennial (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 9/28 @ 7:00 PM vs Rowlett (Williams Stadium) 10/4 @ 7:00 PM at Naaman Forest (Williams Stadium) 10/18 @ 7:00 PM at Sachse (Williams Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:00 PM vs South Garland (Williams Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:00 PM at Wylie (Wylie Pirate Stadium) 11/8 @ 7:00 PM vs Garland (Williams Stadium)

9/7 @ 7:30 PM at Lakeview Centennial (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 9/13 @ 7:00 PM vs Paschal (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 9/21 @ 7:30 PM vs Haltom (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 10/5 @ 7:30 PM vs Tyler Lee (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 10/12 @ 7:30 PM at Mesquite (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:30 PM vs Rockwall (Hanby Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:30 PM at Longview (Lobo Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:30 PM vs Horn (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:30 PM at Rockwall Heath (Wilk/Sanders Stadium) Poteet Pirates

Rowlett Eagles 9/7 @ 7:30 PM at Rockwall (Wilkerson-Sanders Stadium) 9/14 @ 7:00 PM vs Plano (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 9/20 @ 7:00 PM vs Naaman Forest (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 9/28 @ 7:00 PM at North Garland (Williams Stadium) 10/4 @ 7:00 PM vs South Garland (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:00 PM at Wylie (Wylie Pirate Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:00 PM vs Garland (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:00 PM at Lakeview (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:00 PM vs Sachse (Homer B. Johnson Stadium)

9/6 @ 7:00 PM vs Waxahachie (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 9/13 @ 7:00 PM at Mansfield Summit (Newsome Stadium) 9/21 @ 7:30 PM at Tyler Lee (Rose Stadium) 10/4 @ 7:00 PM vs Sherman (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 10/12 @ 7:00 PM at Texas (Tiger Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:00 PM vs Wylie East (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:00 PM at West Mesquite (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:00 PM vs John Tyler (Hanby Stadium) 11/8 @ 7:00 PM McKinney North (McKinney ISD Stadium) West Mesquite Wranglers

Sachse Mustangs 9/8 @ 1:30 PM at Euless Trinity (Cotton Bowl) 9/14 @ 7:00 PM vs Plano East (Williams Stadium) 9/21 @ 7:00 PM vs Wylie (Williams Stadium) 9/27 @ 7:00 PM at Naaman Forest (Williams Stadium) 10/5 @ 7:00 PM at Garland (Williams Stadium) 10/18 @ 7:00 PM vs North Garland (Williams Stadium) 10/25 @ 7:00 PM at Lakeview (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:00 PM vs South Garland (Williams Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:00 PM at Rowlett (Homer B. Johnson Stadium)

9/7 @ 7:00 PM vs Lancaster (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 9/14 @ 7:00 PM vs Keller Timber Creek Centennial (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 9/20 @ 7:00 PM vs Denton Ryan (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 9/27 @ 7:00 PM at Wylie East (Wylie ISD Stadium) 10/12 @ 7:00 PM vs John Tyler (Hanby Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:00 PM at McKinney North (McKinney ISD Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:00 PM vs Poteet (Mesquite Memorial Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:00 PM at Sherman (Bearcat Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:00 PM vs Texas (Mesquite Memorial Stadium)

Plano ISD

9/7 @ 7:00 PM vs El Paso Eastwood (Clark Stadium) 9/14 @ 7:00 PM at Rowlett (Homer B. Johnson Stadium) 9/21 @ 7:00 PM at Allen (Eagle Stadium) 9/28 @ 7:00 PM vs Plano West (Clark Stadium) 10/12 @ 7:00 PM vs McKinney (Clark Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:00 PM at Plano East (Kimbrough Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:00 PM vs Jesuit (Clark Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:00 PM at McKinney Boyd (McKinney ISD Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:00 PM vs Prosper (Clark Stadium) Plano West Wolves 9/7 @ 7:00 PM at Flower Mound (Wilson Stadium) 9/14 @ 7:00 PM vs Mesquite (Clark Stadium) 9/21 @ 7:00 PM vs Jesuit (Clark Stadium) 9/28 @ 7:00 PM at Plano (Clark Stadium) 10/12 @ 7:00 PM at McKinney Boyd (McKinney ISD Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:00 PM vs McKinney (Clark Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:00 PM at Prosper (Prosper Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:00 PM vs Plano East (Clark Stadium) 11/8 @ 7:00 PM at Allen (Eagle Stadium)

Richardson ISD Berkner Rams 9/6 @ 7:00 PM at Keller (Keller Stadium) 9/14 @ 7:30 PM vs Lakeview Centennial (Wildcat/Ram Stadium) 9/28 @ 7:30 PM at Duncanville (Panther Stadium) 10/4 @ 7: 30 PM vs Lake Highlands (Wildcat/Ram Stadium) 10/12 @ 7:30 PM at Pearce (Eagle/Mustang Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:30 PM vs Molina (Wildcat/Ram Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:30 PM vs Richardson (Wildcat/Ram Stadium) 11/1 @ 7:00 PM at Skyline (Forester Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:30 PM vs W.T. White (Wildcat/Ram Stadium) Lake Highlands Wildcats 9/8 @ 10:00 AM vs Plano East (Cotton Bowl) 9/14 @ 7:30 PM at Haltom (Birdville FAAC) 9/28 @ 7:30 PM vs Skyline (Wildcat/Ram Stadium) 10/4 @ 7:30 PM at Berkner (Wildcat/Ram Stadium) 10/12 @ 7:30 PM vs Duncanville (Wildcat/Ram Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:30 PM at W.T. White (Loos Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:30 PM at Pearce (Eagle/Mustang Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:30 PM vs Molina (Wildcat/Ram Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:30 PM at Richardson (Eagle/Mustang Stadium J.J. Pearce Mustangs 9/7 @ 7:30 PM vs Frisco Wakeland (Mustang/Eagle Stadium) 9/14 @ 7:00 PM at McKinney (McKinney ISD Stadium) 9/28 @ 7:30 PM vs Molina (Mustang/Eagle Stadium) 10/4 @ 7:30 PM at Richardson (Mustang/Eagle Stadium) 10/12 @ 7:30 PM vs Berkner (Mustang/Eagle Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:30 PM at Duncanville (Panther Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:30 PM vs Lake Highlands (Mustang/Eagle Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:30 PM at W.T. White (Loos Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:30 PM at Skyline (Forester Stadium) Richardson Eagles 9/7 @ 7:30 PM at Samuell (Pleasant Grove Stadium) 9/14 @ 7:00 PM vs Garland (Eagle/Mustang Stadium) 9/28 @ 7:30 PM at W.T. White (Loos Stadium) 10/4 @ 7:30 PM vs Pearce (Eagle/Mustang Stadium) 10/11 @ 7:30 PM at Molina (Sprague Stadium) 10/19 @ 7:30 PM vs Skyline (Eagle/Mustang Stadium) 10/26 @ 7:30 PM at Berkner (Wildcat/Ram Stadium) 11/2 @ 7:30 PM vs Duncanville (Eagle/Mustang Stadium) 11/9 @ 7:30 PM vs Lake Highlands (Eagle/Mustang Stadium)

COMMUNITY CALENDAR September 5 Allen Cato Hosted by: Chocolate Secrets, 3826 Oak Lawn Ave. Dallas 7:30pm-11pm For more info, visit www.discogs.com/artist/494927-Allen-Cato September Women’s EmPower Brunch Hosted by: The Every Heart Project at The Egg & I Restaurants 3328 E. Hebron Parkway Ste. 100, Carrolton. 11am Casa Linda Farmers Market Hosted by: Four Seasons Markets at Casa Linda Plaza 1152 N. Buckner Blvd. 12pm-4pm.

The Perfect Margarita Hosted by: Komali Restaurant 4152 Cole Ave Ste. 106, Dallas 6:45pm-9:45pm Tickets: eventbrite.com Join Casa Komali, Dobel Tequila, and Cointreau for an evening of cocktailing fun, learning how to make The Perfect Margarita!

September 6 3rd Annual All White NFL Kickoff at Mercedes Benz Park Place Hosted by: DFW Upscale. At Park Place Motorcars Arlington 420 Beltway Pl. 6pm-11pm.

Atlanta Falcon vs. Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl Champions.

Paul Quinn Farmers Market Thur. at Paul Quinn College 3837 Simpson Stuart Rd. Dallas 3pm-7pm.

September 7-9 Women of God on Fire Int’l Prophetic Conference 2018 at World of Peace Int’l Ministry 2010 N. State Hwy 360, Suite 2044, Grand Prairie (Social Security Office Building) Fri-Sun. Times vary.

September 7 Inaugural Benefit Concert Feat: Will Downing Hosted by Lynne Haze and actress Vivica A. Fox at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory Irving 7:00pm.

Friday Night Dinner Cruises 16+ Lake Ray Hubbard BYOB Hosted by: Harbor Light Cruises at 2055 Summer Lee Dr. Rockwall Harbor. 7:30pm Friday Night Live Featuring: Samanthea Hunte Hosted by Artist Love Events at Allure Jazz and Cigar Lounge 110 S. Cockrell Hill. 8pmWomen’s Division – Luncheon & Fashion Show Hosted by: Ft. Worth Metropolitan Black Chamber of Commerce at the Sheraton Ft. Worth Hotel Downtown 1701 Commerce St. Ft.Worth.Tickets:fwmbcc.chambermaster.com Art Club For Teens Hosted by: Grand Prairie Libraries 901 Conover Dr. Art Club meets twice a month at the Main Library, 5-5:45 p.m. Topic: Color Theory.

September 8 1956: Harry Belafonte’s Album “Calypso” hit #1 and stayed for 31 weeks. Thought to be the first LP album to sell 1million copies.

10th Anniversary Wags & Waves 2018- at Hawaiian Falls Waterpark 4550 N. Garland Ave. Garland 10am-4pm. Tickets: ticketpeak.com

Boyz II Men Presented by AT&T Performing Arts Center at Winspear Opera House 2403 Flora St. Dallas 7:30pm.

Throwback Kickback Mixer Host: YBEN at Avocado Restaurant & Lounge 220 E. Las Colinas Blvd. Irving Eventbrite.com

Tigon; Opening Reception of the Tigon Exhibition at South Dallas Cultural Center 3400 S. Fitzhugh Ave. 214-939-2787 6pm-8pm

September 14-16

Game Of Thrones Live Concert Experience Feat: Ramin Djwadi at American Airlines Center 8pm.

The Sisterhood Circle Hosted by Benisha Jones & Pan African Connection 4466 S. Marsalis Ave. Dallas 8:30pm-10:30pm. What is Sisterhood? A group of women who come together and inspire each other, grow together, and love authentically.

Kasino Royale Host: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Dallas Alumni Chapter at Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis Room B 300 Reunion Blvd. 8pm-1am. www.events@AKAAXO.org

The Motivated Mom “What Motivates You” Retreat.

Hosted by: Latoyia Dennis Guest Speakers: Cookie Johnson Headliner and Arisha Smith at Hilton Dallas-Rockwall Lakefront 2055 Summer Lee Dr. Rockwall Fri, Sat. & Sun. For more info and Register visit: www.motivatedmoms.org/tour - eventbrite.com.

September 14 Jeffrey Osborne & Peabo Bryson at Music Hall at Fair Park 909 1st Ave. Dallas 8pm-10pm.

Legends El Chicano & Havana NRG Latino Heritage Fest 2018 at City of DeSoto Civic Center 211 E. Pleasant Rd. Free Event 6pm-10pm

Celebrating 90 Years of Mighty Women Host: Tarrant County Democratic Women’s Club at Round Up Inn at Will Rodgers 3400 Burnett Tandy Dr. Fort Worth 7pm-11pm.

September 9

September 15

97.9 The Beat Monster Energy DUB Car Show & Concert 2018 at Kaye Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center Dallas 650 S. Griffith St.11am-6pm

5th annual Sigma Gamma RHOller Skate Night Hosted by: Alpha Pi Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gamma RHO Sorority at Roller World Northeast 5817 Denton Hwy., Haltom City 7pm-11pm Tickets: 5thannualsgrhollerskateparty.eventbrite.com

September 10 Monday Night Politics Meet The Candidates Monday’s from 6pm-8pm Dallas City Council District 4 at African American Museum at Fair Park 3536 Grand Ave. Dallas.

September 11 Beyoncé at AT&T Stadium 1 AT&T Way, Arlington, Tickets at Krnb.com 7pm-12am The All New PHAT Tuesday Hosted by: Nanette Lee at Sandaga81 813 Exposition Ave. 8:30pm September 12 Queen Extravaganza Performing Queen’s greatest Hits at House of Blues Dallas 2200 N. Lamar St. 7pm “Public Speaking: Finding Your Voice” Septembers Lunch & Learn Series at Frazier House 4600 Spring Ave. Dallas 11am-12:30pm Speaker Bernice J. Washington. Free & targeted to small Business & nonprofits. Info: email info@zwhjcoc.org or call Jasmine Anderson 214-324-4443.

September 13 1996: rapper/producer Tupac Shakur died from gunshot wounds.

The Power of Laughter Heals the Soul with Kim Coles, Presented by: Soul Reborn Inc. and Williamson Media Group at Clarence Muse Café Theater 1309 Canton St. Dallas 7:30pm Tickets: http://bit.ly/ poweroflaughter.

Gigantic Gospel Concert 2018 Host: Pastor Kim Burrell at Friendship West Baptist Church

Paul Quinn Farmers Market Thursdays at Paul Quinn College 3837 Simpson Stuart Rd. Dallas 3pm-7pm. 3-15 thru 12-6-18

TIB!!! Live from Jazz on the Trinity! The Inspiration Band at Jazz on the Trinity 395 Purcey St. Ft. Worth.

6pm.

El Fenix Downtown Centennial Celebration $1 Cheese Enchiladas at El Fenix Mexican Restaurant 1601 McKinney Ave. Dallas 10am.

Stage Play “You Got What You Wanted But Lost What you Had” Written, Directed & Produced by: Evelyn Jones Reed at TBBL Naomi Bruton Main Stage 1309 Canton St. Dallas 7:02pm Tickets: TBAAL Office 214-743-2400 Starring Grammy Award Winner Ms. Ann Nesby Freedom Towns Tour Encore Host: Remembering Black Dallas, Inc. African American Museum 3536 Grand Ave, Dallas 9am-2:30pm eventbrite.com Uptown Kiddo’s Carnival at Griggs Park 2209 Clark St. Dallas 9am-12pm Free Admission Enemies in Love by Alexis Clark Book Signing at African American Museum of Dallas 3536 Grand Ave. 2:30pm-4pm Alexis Clark in Conversation with Cheryl Smith.

Way Mo’ Better Blues at Royale Lane Studios 4843 W. Royal Ln. Irving 9pm-12am. A night of Jazz, Poetry, Blues, & Comedy.

HUD Approved Home Buyers Education Class at 8737 King George Suite A-200 Dallas 9am-5pm Lunch Provided. Register call 214-682-227 Urban Specialists presents: Black Mental Health in the Church Moderated by: Antong “Bruse Wane” Lucky & Ayanna A Cultural Conversation “Give it to God or talk to a therapist “Mental illness- is it something to give to God or should you see a therapist?

Where: 1401 S. Lamar Street, Dallas. 1pm-3:30pmFree. Reserve Seating @ Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-mentalhealth-in-the-church-tickets-49582116445 Duncanville Classic Duncanville VS Evangel Christian at Panther Stadium 6pm Kick off. Tickets at Williams Chicken Locations Duncanville, Cedar Hill, DeSoto, Lancaster & Grand Prairie. Tickets: $8.

September 16

2018 September Concert Series Hosted by: Duncanville Parks & Recreation Free @ Armstrong Park 201 James Collins Blvd. Crystal Torres & Grupo-Pression Celebrating Independence. 5:30pm-9pm September 17 1983: Vanessa Williams became first Black woman to be crowned Miss America.

Monday Night Politics Meet The Candidates Monday’s from 6pm-8pm Dallas County District Attorney at African American Museum at Fair Park 3536 Grand Ave. Dallas.

September 19 6th Annual Belize Day 2018 at Juicy Pig Ranch 4526 Cedardale Dr. Dallas 12pm-6pm.

Movie Night: Mean Girls Hosted by: Dallas Film Society and West Village at West Village 3699 McKinney Ave. Dallas 6pm-11pm. Outdoor screening, family friendly flicks.

“Public Speaking: Finding Your Voice” Septembers Lunch & Learn Series at Frazier House 4600 Spring Ave. Dallas 11am-12:30pm Speaker Bernice J. Washington. Workshop is Free & targeted to small Business owners & nonprofits. Classes offered in person and via Facebook Info: email info@zwhjcoc. org or call Jasmine Anderson 214-324-4443.