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BREE WEST heads criminal law division at West and Associates

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The legal firm, West & Associates, L.L.P., continues to expand with the announcement of attorney Bree West as its newest partner, to head the Criminal Law Division of the firm.

Ms. West comes to West & Associates from the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, where she prosecuted all levels of Criminal Law, with particular focus in Family Violence and Sexual Assault cases.

Ms. West received her undergraduate degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C. and her Juris Doctorate Degree from Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, Texas. “We are extremely excited to have Bree join the firm. Not only is she an excellent attorney with a wealth of real-life experience, but she will comple-

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Eighty HBCU Presidents did a “fly in” to the White House in a meeting organized

by Trump whisperer Omarosa, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), and others. There was a White House meeting, a meeting at the Library of Congress, and more buzz than that which comes from a bee hive. People were prepped to hear that the White House Initiative for HBCUs would move from the Department of Education to the White House and that this would have an impact on the resources HBCUs would receive from this President’s budget.

Can somebody spell hoodwinked?

Sure, the HBCU Presidents came to Washington and got their photo op with our nation’s 45th President (I’ll just call him 45).

But the listening session they were to have with some cabinet leaders was interrupted in favor of the photo-op, which means that many who were tapped to speak and who had prepared remarks did not have the opportunity to deliver them. Notably, Dillard University President Walter Kimbrough posted his remarks online, and made a few media appearances sharing his dissatisfaction. And outgoing Morehouse President John Silvanus Wilson shared his disappointment in a letter with the Morehouse community.

To be sure, HBCU Presidents are caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to this President. HBCUs have often done well under Republican Presidents because they are low-hanging fruit. Located in the deeply Republican South, the senators who represent their states get points when they do the right thing, as do Presidents who increase Pell grants and Title III dollars, as well as encouraging contract opportunities with government departments. Those who didn’t show up to the “fly in” probably incurred the wrath of the vindictive Omarosa who said she was “taking names” and that 45’s detractors would have to

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“bow down” to him. Presidents pretty much had to show up, and hope for the best. They went home empty-handed, with an executive order moving the White House Initiative on HBCU office into the White House, but with no additional resources to manage it. There was also lofty, but resource-devoid language

in the executive order.

Can we just call Lack of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos “one note Betsy”?

Wherever she looks, she sees school choice, although our educational challenges transcend her myopic agenda. If an ant, enticed by honey, entered a charter school instead of the public school next door, she’d call that school choice.

Still, there is no way she can justify her historically ignorant and irresponsible remarks about HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) and school choice. In describing HBCUs and “real pioneers of school choice” she ignored our nation’s higher education history that offered no choice for African Americans who wanted college educations. She has since back pedaled her remarks, but she clearly is comfortable with her historical ignorance.

Dr. Dorothy Irene Height was accept-

ed to Columbia University from a speech scholarship, but turned down when she turned up and they discovered that she was a Negro. She matriculated at NYU instead. Charlayne Hunter Gault and Hamilton Holmes chose to attend the University of Georgia, but their matriculation generated headlines because white folks were not prepared to accept Black students in 1961. Vivian Malone and James Hood chose to attend the University of Alabama, but Governor George Wallace blocked their entrance in 1963. When James Meredith chose to attend the University of Mississippi, the National Guard facilitated his enrollment.

How dare you, Betsy DeVos talk about school choice to HBCU leaders, when our very reason for being was that choices were few and far between.

One-note Betsy is a frightening manifestation of ignorance. She is a songbird that must be muzzled before she further demonstrates her utter lack of knowledge. No matter what his rhetoric about HBCUs, our 45th President’s choice for Secretary of Education suggests that history and logic are not part of her portfolio. This woman has a clear one-note agenda. It does not include support of the public schools that most students will attend.

She is our nation’s policy leader on educational issues and yet she simmers in educational ignorance. She doesn’t understand history, nor HBCUs, nor the challenges that African American students have overcome in an educational system that is extremely racially biased.

Can someone lock her up in the National Museum for African American History and Culture for a week or two? Or present her with classic tomes like The Souls of Black Folks (WEB DuBois, note the spelling Betsy), and The Miseducation of the Negro (Carter G. Woodson) to read before she offers another utterance?

Julianne Malveaux is an author, an economist and President Emerita of Bennett College for Women. Her latest book “Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy” is available on Amazon

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Omarosa – POTUS’ HNIC!

I’m bilingual and though my children are affluent in the King’s English, our first language is Ebonics. So let me save you a trip to the Urban Dictionary (UD). I coin new words and replace old acronyms on the daily.

In the hallowed electronic pages of the UD, HNIC refers to the “Head Nigger in Charge” and is loosely defined as the premier colored servant and a direct report to Mr. Cholly, the White man in total control.

Omarosa is the latest in a long line of executive coons, except she is Donald Trump’s Head Negress in Charge. So far, she’s as good as any bowing, scraping, wide grinning male eunuch that has ever held the position.

Coincidently, you can pick up an interesting book published in 2002 by a rather scholarly contingent of Black Intellectuals. The contributors were assembled soon after the Million Man March.

“The American Directory of Certified Uncle Toms” is full of monkeys, clowns and Toms. The list of offenders isn’t exhaustive but many of the names are legendary.

Among “Academia” the book registered Henry Louis Gates and Christopher Darden; sports and entertainment included Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman and Tiger Woods; and in the honorary category names like W.E.B. Dubois and General Colin Powell popped up.

On the surface many will disagree with their list of treasonous candidates, but the explanations offered will provoke thought. All of the names proffered are subject to personal discretion. But if anyone updated the litany, they would have to add Omarosa. Omarosa is bona fide, bootlicking, bewildered and belea-

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Many had high hopes about this meeting. There was much advance chatter about it being “historic,” and there were many signals from key Trump adminisBy Vincent Hall tration officials that they would surprise HBCUs with favorable treatment. Given my experience in the Obama administration, I knew this would require an extraorguered, backstabbing Aunt Thomasina Omarosa could actually unseat Ameri- dinary announcement. Why? Because I ca’s Supreme Uncle Tom, “Injustice Clear- knew that President Obama had invested $3 billion more in HBCUs in his first six anceThom-ass.”

The heart of our community was years than President Bush invested in his final six years.

Therefore, since President Trump pledged to “do more for HBCUs than any other president has done before,” we could have reasonably expected him to get started by announcing at least an additional $500 million to HBCUs…this year!

And besides the expectation of new funding, there was advance talk of changes like an aspirational goal of 5 to 10 percent for federal agency funding to HBCUs, ripped apart as we watched 100 plus a special HBCU innovation fund, large HBCU presidents lured by the HNIC, to boosts in Pell Grant and Title III funding, a meaningless photo op with Resident and extra tax breaks for those in the private sector who contribute to HBCUs. Trump.

But, instead of the long-awaited execDr. John Sylvanus Wilson Jr., the Pres- utive order containing or signaling any of ident of the ballyhooed Morehouse Col- those outcomes, the key change is a symlege, proved his mettle as a “Morehouse bolic shift of the White House HBCU IniMan” by owning up to the fact that he tiative from the Department of Education and others of our “Talented Tenth” had to the White House. It is not possible to measure the impact of this gesture anybeen bamboozled.

“I spent the last two days in meetings time soon, if ever.”

And there’s no way to measure how far at the White House and on Capitol Hill.

As some of you may know, all HBCU pres- Trump’s Negress will go to benefit herself idents were invited to a dialogue with and betray her race. Only time will tell President Trump and his new adminis- what she and Uncle Ben will do to distration about support for HBCUs. Most grace our sacred heritage. of the 104 HBCU presidents attended, Vincent L. Hall is an author, activincluding all presidents from the Georist and award-winning columnist. gia-based HBCUs.

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The Dallas Art Fair ninth edition of the fair will take place from April 6 through April 9 at the Fashion Industry Gallery (F.I.G.).

SPECIAL EXHIBIT - FILMING THE CAMPS: FROM HOLLYWOOD TO NUREMBERG Features the work of three filmmakers: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, and George Stevens. It explores the filmmakers’ experiences during and after World War II, the footage they captured of Nazi atrocities, and the impact the war had on their careers. At Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance 211 N. Record Street Suite 100 Dallas, TX 75202 from 9:30 AM -5:00 PM Grants Information Sessions: South Dallas/Fair Park Trust Fund Applications are available to South Dallas-based nonprofits for 3 types of grants.

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Cheryl Smith appointed NABJ Secretary

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is pleased to announce that former Region VII Director, Cheryl Smith, is the organization's new secretary.

She was recently appointed to the office

by NABJ President Sarah Glover.

"I'm excited to welcome Cheryl Smith to the NABJ board team. Her years of experience serving NABJ on the national and chapter level are noteworthy. She brings a strong passion for NABJ service to the national board once again," said Glover.

An award-winning reporter, Cheryl has worked as an editor, columnist, and staff writer for The Dallas Weekly. She is currently publisher and editor of the IMessenger News Group, a multi-platform news organization that consists of two print newspapers (Texas Metro News and Garland Journal), one digital news magazine (I Messenger), an online radio show and a television program.

She is especially proud of her work with the Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Journalists Urban Journalism Workshop, where she has made an impact on aspiring journalists from middle school to age 55.

In addition to being the publisher of I Messenger, Texas Metro News and Garland Journal; she hosts weekly shows on Blog Talk Radio and is a frequent guest on other shows; while also hosting segments for the syndicated Ester Davis Show on ION Television.

A graduate of Florida A&M University with a degree in Journalism, Cheryl received her masters degree in Human Relations and Business in 1986, from Amberton University.

Cheryl is the current president of the Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Journalists and the former president of the Dallas-Fort Worth Florida A&M University National Alumni Association. A former two-term National Association of Black Journalists Regional Director, Cheryl has also served as president of the Dallas Metroplex Council of Black Alumni Associations.

She has also been a talk show host/

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As a regular contributor to the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s newswire service, she has also taught journalism and communication at Paul Quinn College, the University of North Texas, Texas Woman’s University and El Centro College.

A Golden Life member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and life member of FAMU Alumni Association,Cheryl has received numerous awards as an editor, writer, producer and talk show host, and for her community involvement. She has been named Honorary Editor for the State of Texas and is a three-time winner of the Black Press’ highest honor, the Messenger Award, from NNPA. Cheryl has received journalism awards from the Dallas Press Club, Texas Publishers Association, The Dallas Examiner, Elite News, NAACP and National Conference of Editorial Writers, to name a few.

The National Civil Rights Museum awarded her the “Invisible Giant” Award and in 2005, the Omicron Mu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. presented her with the “Image Award.” In November 2009 Cheryl was honored by the Journalism Educator’s Association. She also received the Outstanding Alumni Award from the Dallas-Metroplex Council of Black Alumni Associations, President’s Award from UNCF-Texas, and Woman of the Year award from the Women Empowering Women Foundation.

In 2014 she was interviewed for Historymakers and is featured in the Library of Congress. Last year she received local and regional Woman of the Year Awards from Iota Phi Lambda Sorority and in April she will receive the Woman of the Year award from the South Dallas Ne-

gro Business and Professional Women’s Club.

Her Don’t Believe the Hype Celebrity Bowl-a-thon, which has brought numerous celebrities to the area, including: comedians Dick Gregory, Shuckey Duckey, D Ellis, David A. Arnold and Joe Torry; Chuck D and Malik Farrakhan of Public Enemy; Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III; TV One’s Roland Martin; NFL Greats Dante Wesley, Bethel Johnson, Tony Dixon and Jay Ratliff; R&B singers Miles Jaye and Eric Benet; country-western singer Imaj; and actors Glynn Turman, Dawnn Lewis, Angela Robinson, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Kiki Shepard and Phyllis Yvonne Stickney; and Ambassador Ron Kirk, helps provide thousands of dollars in scholarships annually, while also underwriting the expenses for students to attend journalism conferences and programs.

Cheryl’s speaking engagements have taken her around the country and as far away as Cameroon, where she compared the Black Press journey in America to the struggle for a free press in Africa.

She is the “mother” to her nephew and three nieces - who she raised over the past 25-plus years: Andre, Alayna, Annya and Ayanna, and they have blessed her with grandchildren Aaliyah, Jeremiah and Christian.

"I am excited about the opportunity to once again serve NABJ at the national level, This is a critical time when the successful execution of NABJ's strategic plan is necessary and the industry is rapidly evolving," said Smith.

The organization's former Secretary Sherlon Christie stepped down for family reasons.

"I wish outgoing NABJ Secretary Sherlon Christie well. He is a longtime supportive member and strong leader. I hope to see him on the NABJ board again in the future, " said Glover.

An advocacy group established in 1975 in Washington, D.C., NABJ is the largest organization for journalists of color in the nation and provides career development as well as educational and other support to its members worldwide.

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CELEBRATING WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH 100th year of women serving in Congress

During the month of March we celebrate Women’s History Month and honor the courageous women in our history who have marched, organized, and advanced the promise of equality, including such giants as Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells and others who are forgotten in the suffragist movement that helped win the fight for women’s right to vote.

Additionally, this year, 2017, marks the 100th anniversary of women serving in Congress.

And this year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Jeannette Rankin, the first woman Member of Congress and a suffragette, being sworn into office.

She was sworn into office three years before women nationwide were guaranteed the right to vote.

I am appreciative of women from all industries that continue to be hardworking, courageous, bold, and persistent in achieving at the highest levels in their field.

Women continue to hold leadership positions and act with integrity when we continue to fight against barriers of inequality in the work place, schools and employment.

Additionally, women have shown the world their ability to mobilize in large numbers, as seen in the Women’s March on Washington and across the nation, that we cannot and will not be silenced when it comes to those who want to stifle women’s rights.

Women refuse to continuously be overlooked and deserve to have a voice

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Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson on issues that impact them individually and their families.

Although Black History Month came to an end, we can still take the time to praise the exemplary efforts of women like Barbara Jordan for continuing to persevere in her civic engagement efforts.

In 1966, she would become the first African American to be a Texas state senator since1883.

Later in 1972, Jordan would be elected to serve in the United States Congress ultimately making her the first African American woman from a southern state, unlike her predecessor from the North – Shirley Chisholm, who was also the first African American and woman to run for the United States president.

Through the use of her unmatched oratory skills and extensive knowledge of the Constitution, Jordan fought for the expansion of federal civil rights protections during her service in the United States House of Representatives.

Another notable woman from Texas is Ann Richards. She made waves at the Democratic National Convention in 1988 when she delivered a rousing keynote address.

The speech transformed her, then the Texas treasurer, into a national figure; and it made her an admired champion

of feminism and civil rights for minorities and members of the LGBT community.

Richards first ran for governor in 1990 calling for a “New Texas” that would offer more opportunity and power to those groups.

As governor, she went on to become one of the most effective in a long line of Texas progressives who vied for control of the state when it was largely a Democratic stronghold.

Among other achievements, she fulfilled her campaign promise to bring more blacks, Hispanics and women into public office.

She appointed the first black regent to the University of Texas and installed the first blacks and women on the state’s legendary police force, the Texas Rangers.

As we celebrate the many victories that women have won, we must keep fighting to make more progress.

There are many steps that need to be taken to expand the economic opportunities available to America’s women.

In recent years, my colleagues and I have been fighting to enact such critical legislation as ensuring equal pay for equal work, expanding the availability of affordable child care, a paid sick leave initiative, and a paid family leave initiative.

I will continue to make this a priority by showing young girls and women that they deserve to be placed anywhere they desire, especially in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) field.

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Mama moved in but won’t move out!

This is a tough conversation to have, and I don’t envy you at My mother and I all, but you’ve got to do it. Right

by Alma Gill NNPA News Wire have a decent relanow you’re enabling her. Do you Columnist Alma Gill’s newsroom ex- tionship. She was on know what that is? That’s when a perience spans more than well-meaning loved one helps to the 25 years, including various drugs when I was roles at USA Today, Newsgrowing up, but she’s point that they strip the other perday and the Washington Post. Email questions to: son of all responsibilities and the alwaysaskalma@gmail. stopped and is docom. Follow her on Faceperson become combook at “Ask Alma” and ing fine. She Right now you’re enabling her.

Do Twitter @almaaskalma. is pletely reliant upon healthy you. and able.

That’s not what you She lives with me and my you know what that is? That’s when a intended, I know, but kids. She doesn’t pay rent that’s how it unfolds. or help with the kids. I’m You’re mom is still a 36 and she’s 55. When she well-meaning loved one helps to the point healthy, young wommoved in, I thought it was an. She can find her temporary and wanted to help her get on her feet. that they strip the other person of all re- own place and move out of your space. ReNow she says she should mind her that you’ll be be able to stay as long as sponsibilities and the person become comthere when she’s well she wants and not have to seasoned and aged, but pay any bills because she’s for right now she’s on my mother. pletely reliant upon you. her own.

I love my mother and I If you feel the need to want the best for her, but I feel guilty that I want her to leave. ing. Mama’s gotta lotta nerve and continue to help her in some way, knows exactly what she’s doing. add her to your cell phone plan and What should I do?

She’s playing on your heart- pay the bill. There are many ways Anonymous strings, and it’s time to stop the to help besides having her live with music. you.

Tell her, point blank: “Mama, Don’t feel guilty. You’re doing the Dear Anonymous, you gotta go. I’ll help you find a right thing – for you and for your Unfortunately, there’s some sweet place, but you need to leave within mama.

ALMA and sour in your “mama drama” the next 90 days.” soup. The sweet is obvious – your mom was able to quit her habit and the two of you have a good relationship. What a blessing!

The sour is obvious, too – your mama is taking advantage of you.

She’s introduced you to the “guilty club” as if it’s a Girl Scouts meet-

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Applications must be returned to: DFW/ABJ c/o Cheryl Smith 320 South RL Thornton Freeway, Suite 220 Dallas, TX 75203

The Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Journalists (formerly the Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Communicators) will present its 28th annual Urban Journalism Workshop for high school and

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