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29 th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade and March – Garland, Texas The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Garland, Texas Unit will host its 29 th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. parade and march on Saturday, January 13, 2018, beginning at 10:00 A.M. MLK Parade Route in Garland – January 13, 2018

Parade starts on Dairy Road @ Garden Drive (near Embree Park), Garland, Texas, 75040 It proceeds north on Dairy Road to Highway 66 (Avenue D) West (Left) on Highway 66 (Avenue D) to First Street North (Right) on First Street to Highway 66 (Avenue B) West (Left) on Highway 66 (Avenue B) to Fifth Street North (Right) on Fifth Street to Main Street (turn left on Main and circle the City Square) Parade ends at the Granville Arts Center, 300 North Fifth @ Austin Streets, downtown

MLK Youth Choir Garland, TX, 75040 2018 MLK Theme/Grand Marshals/Commemorative Program– January 13, 2018 The 2018 theme is “Completing ALL of King’s Dreams in 2018.� Representatives from the City of Garland Parks and Recreation Departments will serve as grand marshals.

The celebration continues following the parade with an MLK Commemorative Program on Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 11:45 AM. It will be held at the Granville Arts Center, 300 N. 5th Street, downtown Garland where the MLK Communitywide

Youth Choir led by clinician Reuben Lael Griffin will be in concert.

Winners of the 2018 MLK Parade and March Float Contest will be announced at the program. This event is free and open to the public.

MLK Youth Extravaganza on January 14, 2018 - Granville Arts Center Brownlee Auditorium Youth groups from area churches and the Garland ISD will showcase their spiritual talents in praise dance and athletic talents in step routines on Sunday afternoon at 300 N. 5th Street, downtown

Martin Luther King Parade Garland, 75040, beginning at 4:00 P.M. Admission is free and the MLK Youth Extravaganza is open to the public.

For more information on these events, please contact the NAACP Garland Unit at 972.381.5044, voice box #5, or visit the NAACP Garland Unit’s website at: www.garlandtxnaacp.org.

Contact Numbers: Ricky C. McNeal, NAACP Garland unit president - 972.381.5044, Press 1 Gwendolyn Daniels, Garland’s MLK Events Coordinator - 972.381.5044, Press 5 The Honorable Linda L. Grif-

fin, MLK Community Youth Choir Corporate Sponsor Rep - 972.381.5044, #5 Terri Doggett, Chair of Garland’s MLK Program following the parade - 972.381.5044, Press 5 Corsharra Jackson, Chair of Garland’s MLK Youth Extravaganza on Sunday 972.381.5044, Press 5 Reuben Lael Griffin, clinician for Garland’s MLK Communitywide Youth Choir 972.381.5044, Press 5 Grand Marshals, Jermel Stevenson, Mg Dir, City of Garland Parks & Recreations 972-205-2759

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December 26 Kwanzaa Events - Monday – Umoja (Unity) Time: 7 p.m. Candle lighting Ceremony, children’s presentations and Collective discussion on Unity in our community at Pan African Connection Bookstore, 4466 S. Marsalis Dallas, TX. 214-943-8262.

Kwanzaa Celebrations December 26,-Jan 1, 2018 African American Museum 3536 Grand Ave. Dallas, Tx. 75210 1p.m.– 4 p.m.

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HALL: Don’t Impeach Him...Yet!!!

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By Vincent L. Hall Bernie Sanders, one of the few U.S. Senators who reporters brand as “Progressive� has his Conservative detractors and some in the Democratic Party.

However, Sanders issued an admonishment on NBC’s Meet the Press that I had to agree with. “Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday warned against “jumping the gun� in pursuing impeachment charges against President Donald Trump and maintained that any potential proceedings should not be partisan. “I think there is a process that has to be followed,� the Vermont independent said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,� urging Democrats to wait for special counsel Robert Mueller’s in-

vestigation on Russian attempts to interfere in the 2016 election to play out before starting any kind of formal impeachment process.�

Reading between Bernie’s lines isn’t always easy. But this time Sanders is saying, “Don’t impeach him‌yet!!! Let me give you three reasons to consider.

First and foremost, the Democratic Party fully deserves this season of despair and disillusionment.

As Hillary Rodham Clinton said in 2006; “Democrats want to fall in love, while Republicans fall in line.�

We live in this age of instant gratification, but we need to suffer a bit longer.

Elections have consequences‌remember? They say perfection is the enemy of progress and the need for purity caused Democrats an unnecessary loss. We sat on our “Blessed Assurancesâ€? and allowed the “Grand Old Partyâ€? to outsmart us.

They knew the Trump brand was putrid, but they held their noses and went with him.

Meanwhile, liberal Whites got lost in the fog, Hispanics underperformed or bought the Kool-Aid, and African Americans fell for that same old foolishness.

You know the old line that White Republicans and the hand full “coloredsâ€? in their camp always drag out‌â€?The Democratic Party takes the Black vote for granted.â€?

Before you agree out loud and in public, realize that it’s about the most politically ignorant statement you could ever make.

Strategically, there are no choices.

The GOP locked Blacks out in the late 1960’s when they realized that we are only 13% of the voting population.

The only chance we’ve had since LBJ signed the Civil Rights Bill is the

Democratic Party.

If nothing else the Democratic Party will give anybody and everybody a fighting chance.

And that’s all any minority opinion is owed by this constitution, a fighting chance. Black folks get their feelings hurt too easy and too often, but it’ll take a few generations to forget how we blew it in 2016.

Secondly, if you find Trumpism unbearable, you don’t realize how much a politically savvy Mike Pence would have accomplished in year one, controlling the House, Senate and Oval Office.

ObamaCare would be dead, gay marriage would be on life support and the trickle-down tax plan would have you sick by now.

Mike Pence is no John F. Kennedy; but he’s no dumb ass Donald Trump either.

The final argument for delaying

the demise of “The Donald� is my own and would probably be considered sinister by most.

Trump is a thin-skinned, whiny-assed, insecure brat. Over the next 24 months or so, I want to watch him endure the pain that he has unleashed on the world. In the good old days, you would never fry or microwave a political foe; you boil them‌a slow rolling boil.

Donald Trump neither believes nor understands karma, but history tells me that there is a Mack Truck waiting at the end of his dark tunnel.

The great Roman poet Ovid said it best; “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.� Between the slow drip and the boil, the hollow stone we know as Donald Trump will disintegrate and dissipate.

Don’t impeach Trump...yet!! Let him simmer and stew until he’s ready to be served.

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

MALVEAUX: When Will There Be Zero Tolerance for Racism?

Congressman John Conyers was In 1944, Recy Taylor was viciousthe first politician to leave his job ly raped by seven white men who after the #MeToo hashtag galvanized women to speak up about sexual misconduct, harassby Dr. Julianne Malveaux ment and more.

Too bad that impetus did not float up to the top, when an avowed never paid a price. grabber of women’s genitals was Our civil rights icon, Rosa Parks, elected to lead this country. was an NAACP investigator in this Too bad, too, that the many mem- case, as chronicled by Danielle Mcbers of Congress who have paid Guire in her book, “At The Dark End accusers out of a taxpayer-fund- of the Street: Black Women, Rape ed slush fund have not been un- and Resistance� (Vintage, 2010). masked.

And the first case in which the SuWe know some of the names. preme Court ruled that sexual haTexas Rep. Blake Farenthold (R) rassment was a violation of Title VII arranged to have his former com- of the Civil Rights Act was brought munications director paid $84,000 by an African-American woman, (more than three times the $27,000 Michelle Vinson, in the case Meritor Conyers is said to have paid).

Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986).

He has not resigned, nor have The high-profile white women Congressional Republicans, in- who are talking about workplace cluding leader Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), sexual harassment and assault recalled for his resignation. ally need to acknowledge the many He says he will pay the money ways that African-American women back. Right. have been systematically abused As a woman I am cheered by the and systematically ignored — and #MeToo movement, although I am sometimes conspired against — by also chagrined by the myopia about their white “sisters.� women of color and sexual harassPerhaps I quibble, but this overment/rape/more. whelming stand against sexual mis-

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conduct (and more — getting nude in front of your staff is not misconduct, nor is forcible kissing, nor is grabbing by the you know what) makes me wonder when there will be a similar groundswell against racism and racial harassment in the workplace.

Numerous cases of nooses being displayed in workplaces have

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been reported in the last decade, so many that a law journal published an article titled, “Does One Noose in the Workplace Constitute a Hostile Work Environment?

If Not, How Many?� One isolated incident is not enough, the article opines. What about one unwanted kiss, one abusive grope?

Why do nooses get to be seen as

“jokes,� while unwanted kissing is seen as an occurrence of zero tolerance?

I’m not ever, ever, ever going to excuse sexual perfidy (and more) in the workplace, but I do wonder why we can wink, nod and grin about racial workplace misbehavior while we stand our ground about gender.

I wonder why so many say “just kidding� or “didn’t know� when they are racially insensitive, and nobody calls it, but they are willing to call it on gender.

If you look at the Senate and the House of Representatives, the paucity of people of color as senior staff is amazing, as documented by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Surely, there is no shortage of highly qualified African-Americans and Latinos who could work for Congress. Why aren’t members of Congress calling each other on their racial myopia?

Perhaps racism and racial harassment are a little more complicated than sexism and sexual harassment.

Half of the population, after all, is female, and while women’s rise up the hierarchy in corporate America, politics, the media and entertainment is slow, it has been steady enough that powerful women are now able to call men out on their

misbehavior, with women demanding resignations of (some) misbehaving men.

Too few white men and women, at the same time, have been willing to apply the same “zero tolerance� to employment matters regarding race.

There should never be another noose laid on a Black employee’s desk or displayed in a workplace.

There should never be another intimidating Confederate flag flying in a Black person’s face.

There should never be another opportunity for an employee (or fellow student, or faculty member) to talk about picking cotton.

There should never be another blackface performance, anywhere.

And there should never be another person who talks about zero tolerance around workplace sexism to accept any whisper of workplace racism.

If John Conyers had to go, so should Franken. Otherwise, we have accepted a racial double standard that is untenable.

Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author, and Founder of Economic Education. Her podcast, “It’s Personal with Dr. J� is available on iTunes. Her latest book “Are We Better Off: Race, Obama and public policy is available via amazon.com

MUHAMMAD: Alabama, Mississippi ‌ Damn!

By Askia Muhammad The lyrics of the song introduced at Carnegie Hall in 1964 by the genius Nina Simone are just as true today as they were 53 years ago: “Alabama’s got me so upset, “Tennessee made me lose my rest, “But everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn‌â€?

Alabamians actually boast, when folks complain about that state’s worse-than-Third-World living conditions: “At least we’re not Mississippi.�

Indeed, in every demographic category — infant mortality, life expectancy, literacy, etc. — Alabama ranks 49th of 50 U.S. states in every bad measurement. Only Mississippi has a lower quality of life than Alabama.

But this month, in a bit of role re-

versal befitting only the Jim Crow South, Alabama stands to elect a creepy judge who would have been lynched several times for the behavior he’s accused of with girls as young as 14, if he were black. In Mississippi, a black man simply looking at a white woman could get lynched for a crime known as “eyeball rape.�

But Roy Moore, a Bible-thumping holy moralist who was removed twice from his position as chief judge of the Alabama Supreme Court, stood as a formidable candidate for the U.S. Senate, when he should have been run out of the state like Richard Pryor’s character “Mudbone� who had to leave the South to save his life.

President Trump has a part in this drama. After backing his Republican opponent in the primary, The Donald has now gotten on board, endorsing and campaigning via robocall for Moore, who has been accused by eight women — whose accounts were corroborated by 30

more witnesses — of predatory, abusive sexual behavior 34 years ago when the women were girls, between the ages of 14 and 18.

White Republicans back Moore, even those who claim that evangelical Christian teachings and beliefs guide their lives. They would rather have a pedophile who professes the 10 Commandments, rather than a Democrat, or any other kind of liberal.

Inside a recreated jail cell where civil rights workers were imprisoned in the 1960s, there was a checker board.

It was made of bread given to inmates at the state prison, the red pieces were marked with blood from the beatings the innocent volunteers endured. Near there, the president spoke. “The Civil Rights Museum records the oppression, cruelty and injustice inflicted on the African-American community,� 45 said. “The fight to end slavery, to break down Jim

Crow, to end segregation, to gain the right to vote, and to achieve the sacred birthright of equality here.

And that’s big stuff. That’s big stuff.

Those are very big phrases. Very big words.�

But the Pres was snubbed by many officials.

Jackson Mayor Antar Chokwe Lumumba, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who represents Jackson, and civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) all stayed away, attending an alternative event at another location. “I believe that Trump’s presence is a distraction,� Lumumba said. “His policies don’t reflect his statements that this is a movement that will bring people together.

Trump has not demonstrated a continuing dedication to the ideals the civil rights movement upholds.

I didn’t want to share the stage with Trump.�

So even as worrisome as Mississippi has been lo these many, many

generations, in 2017, Alabama just might be even more loathsome a place than Mississippi, with this implacable white political mindset which literally has made what everyone knows to be “evil fair seeming,� as the Scriptures describe their wicked behavior.

What is amazing about this contemptible set of circumstances — 45 is “draining the Washington swamp� and filling it with alligators — is the brazenness, the open contempt for any kind of common decency these characters exhibit.

Moore and 45 grew up about the same time, thousands of miles apart from each other, but both grew up to be dangerous sexual predators, who grope and feel women at will, and who lie about as quickly as they take their next breath.

If I may paraphrase Miss Nina Simone here: Alabama, Mar-a-Lago, Mississippi, goddamn! And I mean every word of it.

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Another Health Program Taken Away

By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Ever since its inception, the Chil-

dren’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has been vital in ensuring our nation’s most vulnerable children have the opportunity to have a healthy and fulfilling childhood.

The legislation has been reauthorized multiple times with broad bipartisan support. However, the

current Republican-led Congress is threatening to put children in our district in danger of losing this essential service.

CHIP, signed into law in 1997, provides health coverage to children of low-income families and pregnant women who have an annual income that is above the Medicaid eligibility levels but have no health insurance.

For example, to qualify for Medicaid in Texas, the maximum yearly income for a household of one is approximately $24,000.

Under the CHIP program, the federal government matches the state between 65 and 100 percent.

However, until this year CHIP had always received bipartisan support for funding. Nevertheless, in September 2017, federal funding expired for this program leaving nearly 9 million children and mothers at risk of losing health insurance.

Texas will exhaust its federal funding in the upcoming year causing the state to notify over 400,000 recipients (nearly 45 percent of children in the state) that their insurance will expire on January 31, 2018 including approximately 40,500 constituents in District 30 at risk of losing their health care.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has requested an extra $90 million from the federal government’s redistribution funds, that is used to assist states with a funding short fall, to fund the program through February.

Though this is a temporary fix, it does not solve the problem; Congress

must reauthorize funds.

Although I have been a longtime supporter of the CHIP program, the partisan bill passed by Republicans this fall takes away from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicare.

Specifically the state of Texas would lose over $13 million in funding from the ACA Prevention Fund under the Republican bill. However, I will continue to work diligently with my colleagues in Congress to secure these necessary resources for CHIP. Recently, I signed on to cosponsor H.R. 4541, the Champion Kids

Hollywood Hernandez Live

By Hollywood Hernandez

Movie Review-

Roman J. Israel, ESQ

Roman J. Israel, ESQ, starring Denzel Washington is out now in limited release and it is already receiving rave reviews from movie critics and has also been nominated for two NAACP Image Awards (Best Picture and Best Actor).

It looks like it will be another contender for Washing-

Denzel Washington as Roman J. Israel

ton come Oscar time.

The movie does however suffer from a lack of availability at movie theaters. It’s currently showing on just about 1,600 screens nationwide while a movie such as Justice League, in wide release, is showing in about 4,000 movie theaters. So it will take a bit of looking to find the movie at you local cineplex, but it will be well worth your effort.

In the movie Denzel plays the title character, Roman J. Israel, ESQ. He is an idealistic lawyer who has the luxury of hanging onto his civil rights era beliefs since

he doesn’t try cases.

His partner had been the litigation lawyer for the two man law firm, allowing Roman to work on court briefs back in the office, while never stepping into a courtroom.

That all changes when his partner suffers a stroke and is hanging on to life in a hospital on life support.

That’s when Denzel’s quirky, almost Autistic, character traits come into play. First he loses his job in the law firm as the heirs of his partner start to plan for his impending passing.

Now, Roman J. Israel, ESQ. needs to make a living so he takes a job in a huge law firm that’s headed by his partner’s college protegee (played very slickly by Colin Farrell).

Denzel plays a fish out of water with his odd behavior and his inability to grasp the concept of subtlety. He speaks his mind when he shouldn’t and even his style of hair and dress is out of place in a modern corporate law firm.

He tries to hang on to his core values by volunteering at a community center working with teens. That’s where he meets Maya, played by actress Carmen Ejogo. She becomes his mentee and the two soon become more than friends.

She worships him for his values and the struggles he’s been through as a advocate for civil rights.

Eventually Roman makes some mistakes in his dealings with lawyers and cli-

ents. He shows that he’s human and has to give up on some of his principles and ideals in order to survive.

He ends up being chased by criminals, after her betrays a client who’s in jail, and his world is turned upside down by his mistakes.

In the end he tries to make amends for his mistakes and ends up inspiring others by his attempt to make good on the error of his ways.

Roman J. Israel, ESQ is a terrible title for a movie, but it’s another winner for Oscar winner Denzel Washington. The movie is rated PG-13 and runs just over 2 hours.

On my “Hollywood Popcorn Scale” Roman J. Israel, ESQ gets my highest rating; a JUMBO (with extra butter).

Tiffany Haddish receives snub

TIffany Haddish

The Golden Globe nominations were announced with one blaring omission.

Break out star Tiffany Haddish was not nominated for her role in the smash summer hit "Girls Trip"; as a matter of fact the movie, which grossed over $100

million, was totally ignored by the Hollywood foreign press. Jada Pinkett Smith, one of the movie's co-stars, Tweeted after the nominations came in, "I have so much to say on why Tiffany Haddish was not nominated for a Golden Globe...but I won't."

The Golden Globes, which are an indicator of Oscar nominations, did acknowledge some deserving talent of color. Denzel Washington was nominated for Best Actor for his role in "Roman J. Israel, ESQ." The movie "Get Out" received a nomination for Best Movie in the Musical or Comedy category.

Lead actor Daniel Kaluuya received a nomination for his role in the movie.

Mary J. Blige and Octavia Spencer were both nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Blige for "Mudbound" and Spencer for her role in "The Shape of Water." Mexican director Guillermo del Toro received nominations for the movie "The Shape of Water." One for Best Director and one for Best Screenplay.

You can see a full list of nominees at The Golden Globes website. https:// www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/2018

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Confidence Plus Discipline Equals Power Spiritually Speaking

by James A. Washington

I have two words for you today; confidence and discipline. Both of which, when viewed spiritually, exude Godly principles. Put this on the Holy Spirit, but discipline is an amazing thing.

When applied to faith, be it natural or supernatural, the result is spiritual confidence.

Spiritual confidence and discipline, without ego or arrogance, gives you an attitude of awareness and knowledge and dare I say power?

The example I’d like to use is of those saints in the Upper Room, when the Holy Spirit came upon them on the day of Pentecost and instilled everyone there with well, confidence and discipline.

These people ultimately came to demonstrate a level of faith that was used via the power and grace of God to spread the Word of God all over the world. If you look at the before and after of this Pentecostal happening, you’ll begin to see my point.

Prior to this, the faithful were huddled in secrecy, being

faithful to the belief that what Jesus had told them, was indeed true. God would send another.

That ‘Other” turned out to be the Holy Spirit, who imbued them with more of what they already had. Now their confidence in the truth of Jesus, coupled with their discipline to spread that word, manifested itself in their ability to communicate the gospel to the world. The world has not been the same since.

The question then becomes, in what is your confidence and discipline based?

Where do you get the necessary power to have your gifts fortified?

Does your faith give you the strength to acquire the discipline necessary to know what you should be doing in the Lord’s name and then do it?

I believe the result is the power to know that you can do anything through Christ Jesus, provided you were called to do it. I also believe scripture illustrates to us that

without spiritually based discipline, it is practically impossible to stand up to the trials and tribulations of life, but also impossible to withstand the temptations that seek to control our sometimes out of control behavior. The good news here is that wherever the Holy Spirit resides, change will occur, the right kind of change.

Of those anointed in the Upper Room, many were faced with the opportunity to make their lives easier, if they would simply maintain the secrecy of their faith. Spiritually based faith and confidence gave each the power to boldly speak the truth. Remember Peter denied Christ three times without confidence.

Some would call that cowardice. After Pentecost, he was buoyed by confidence and discipline. Power is the Word that comes to mind here.

You remember Paul at Ephesus? “When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.” Acts 19:6. Here, these twelve men were already baptized but knew noth-

ing of the Holy Spirit. After, we are told, they began to preach the gospel. Can’t you see the power gained and their growing confidence?

There is nothing restrictive about this kind of discipline.

It is in fact quite liberating.

They knew that they knew the same way we know that we know. It’s that change thing again.

It’s called being set apart and not having to apologize or keep it a secret. I believe it lets us stand up as Christians in the face of criticism, adversity and temptation. We may still fall, but we will not fail because our infrastructure has been fortified.

Let me be clear. I believe that discipline coupled with confidence invites the Holy Spirit to take up permanent residence in your soul.

It’s what I’m looking for and what I’m praying for, for me and for you. And look out world when that happens.

Like someone once said to me, I’m a different kind of soldier. Believe it or not, so are we.

May God bless and keep you always.

James

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The one who got away Ask ALMA 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?

Name withheld

Dear Name Withheld,

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 happen 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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WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The hard that friends thought I was the March on Washington in National Association of Black dying, I looked so fatigued. Af- 1963, and marched alongside Journalists (NABJ) mourns the ter a year and a half, I had to protesters at the 1965 Selma loss of Simeon Booker, a pio- give up. Trying to cover news March. Booker brought the neering journalist, author and in a city where even animal front lines of the Civil Rights chronicler of the Civil Rights cemeteries were segregated movement to the millions of Movement. overwhelmed me," Booker Jet and Ebony readers across Booker, the Jet reporter who said of his time at the Post. the nation. brought the 1955 murder of Bryan Monroe, editoriAfter 65 years of chronicling Emmett Till to the forefront of al director of Ebony and Jet the broad spectrum of the national news, died Dec. 10 at magazines from 2006-2009 black experience, Booker rethe age of 99, in an assisted-liv- and former NABJ President tired in 2007. In 2013, Booker ing community in Solomons, remembered Booker as the completed his memoir, ShockMaryland. ing the Conscience: A His wife, CarReporter's Account of ol, confirmed the Civil Rights Movehis death to the ment. His work allowed Washington Post. many black people to "Simeon Booksee themselves, and er's remarkable the things that were career, spanning important to them, remore than six deflected in the media. cades, reminds us Booker was inducted how important into the National Assochronicling the ciation of Black Jourtruth and speak- Simeon Booker in 1982. Photo by: Fred Sweets/The Washing- nalists Hall of Fame in ton Post ing truth to pow2013, won a Neiman er via the written Fellowship to study word is," said NABJ President quintessential reporter. at Harvard and received the Sarah Glover. "Booker's re"Mr. Booker knew the facts, George Polk Lifetime Achieveports during the Civil Rights he knew his audience, and he ment Award in 2016. Booker Movement shed light on would not be stopped," said was nominated this year by the country's ills, bringing Monroe. "He was a kind soul 17 members of Congress for much-needed perspective; and who will be missed by all of the Congressional Gold Medhe did so all while risking his us." al and the Presidential Medal own life to tell the story. SimBooker began his journalism of Freedom, according to The eon Booker is a role model for career in the 1940s working New York Times. He also menblack journalists and his life's for Black Press publications in tored aspiring student journalwork is an example of media Cleveland and Baltimore. As ists at Howard University. excellence that all journalists racial tensions rose throughMarlon A. Walker, NABJ Vice should strive for." out the nation during the President Print said, "Simeon Booker joined the Washing- 1950s and '60s, he told rivet- Booker's death is felt around ton Post in 1952 and was the ing stories, about the struggle the world.” first full-time black reporter. between Civil Rights activists His significant contributions He left to become the chief and segregationists. to our industry and humanity columnist at Jet magazine and Booker, the only journalist are monumental and his life's the Washington bureau chief to make the trip with the first works should be shared and for the Johnson Publishing Freedom Riders as they pro- taught in classrooms, commuCompany. tested transportation segrega- nity centers and organizations, "God knows, I tried to suc- tion laws in 1961, also covered as an example of excellence." ceed at the Post. I struggled so Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at

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Unspeakable truths reveal connectivity in movie Wonderstruck

By Eva D. Coleman

A young boy looking for his dad in the late 70s. A young girl looking for her mom in the late 20s.

There’s 50 years between their aspirations of finding a missing piece to their puzzled lives, and then, they find each other.

Based on the novel of the same name, Wonderstruck cleverly weaves these two tales together, giving the audience a taste of nostalgia along the way. The film also evokes use and non-use of several senses.

Ben, played by Oakes Fegley, was being raised by his mother who went mum at any mention of his father. It was something she chose not to speak of or share details about with him. His mother

passes away, and after discovering clues in their home, he sets out to

find his father. Before his journeyed disappearance from a relative’s care, an act of nature causes him to lose his hearing. The absence of sound does not stop him from seeking answers in circa 1977 New York City.

In a separate storyline featured in black and white, Millicent Simmonds plays Rose

who is deaf.

She’s being raised by her father in circa 1927, whom solely based on visible character emotions, the viewer may determine him to be not so nice. The silent film aspects, including music and imagery, take the audience to a place of sadness, pity, joy and laughter… with instances of Rose’s obsession with a silent film star (played by Academy Award-Winning actress Julianne Moore) displayed on screen as she too watches her in film. As she longs to be a part

of this star’s world, she sets out to join her in New York City. We later learn the star is her mom.

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Wonderstruck takes us to different time periods experienced by two characters. As a moviegoer you’ll get to experience sensory overload, while appreciating the beauty of words not spoken. It clearly exposes the power of personal interpretation.

Giving Thanks before Thanksgiving Holiday A crew that works together is honored together The Journalism Education Association (JEA) / National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) Fall National High School Journalism convention was held November 16-19 in Dallas, Texas.

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