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Martin raises funds for Young Men's Leadership Academy

Veteran journalist Roland S. Martin greets young men at Florence MIddle School. Later he spoke at a fundraiser for the school at UNT Dallas.

H.E.L.P. Foundation holds prayer brunch Community Organization bring together renowned Democrats and Republicans from ROCKWALL, DALLAS and COLLIN COUNTY on APRIL 28, 2018 Verna’s H.E.L.P. Foundation has confirmed both Republican and Democratic TOP BRASS will come together at 9:00 AM on Saturday April 28, for a More "LOVE & UNITY"- PRAYER BRUNCH AT EDISON'S 1724 Cockrell Avenue -Dallas, Texas 75215 and Ecumenical Prayer Gathering Prayer -12:Noon at Thanks-Giving Square.

Confirmed attendees will be Mayor Pruitt of Rockwall, Former Mayor Jones of Garland, Dallas Mayor Pro-

tem Dwaine Caraway; Asst. Police Chief of Garland, Asst. Police Chief of Dallas, Chief Justice Carolyn Wright Sanders, Stake President Mark Romney of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -Day Saints, Apostle Frank Manu, Senior Pastor- Word of Peace International Ministry Inc, United Ministers of Concord Baptist Church, Representatives from the National Law FirmLinebarger, Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP and from the Washington D.C. area Dr. Angelika Selle, President of the Women’s Federation for World Peace, USA. & Vice President for the International WFWP and many more.

An ETHNICITY EFFORT TO COME TOGETHER TO HONOR Living Legends and for the first time ever,

the “Faith Award” will be presented to Dr. Christopher Perkins, D.O., M.P.H. Medical Director/Health Authority, and Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, for stepping out on faith while jeopardizing their lives and their family, while helping others and keeping Dallas County safe, during the 2014 Ebola Crisis.

Other Living Legends Include Dr. Barbara Watkins, Betty Lin Anderson, Claudia Fowler, Connie Hearn, Honorable Dianne Ragsdale, Ester Davis, Honorable Gloria Carrillo, Hilda Duarte, Honorable Kenda Culpepper, Laura Hornbeck, Dr. Paramjit Kaur Cheema, Dr. Peggy Jones, Regina Montoya, and Sandra Clark.

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MY TRUTH

By Cheryl Smith Publisher

Okay, get mad if you want.

That’s right, get mad and do something.

If you belong to an organization, or work where you have meetings, you should want to take every measure so that your meetings won’t waste your time. And while there are those who like to meet for the sake of meeting and also those who don’t feel they are accomplishing things if they don’t have meetings; there are those who have productive and short meetings.

Do you find yourself attending meetings that last entirely too long?

Are they prolonged by senseless discussions or unpreparedness?

Are you the parliamentarian of your organization? How’d you get elected? Was it based on your knowledge of parliamentary procedure or popularity? Are you conducting business in a manner that promotes productivity or chaos, hurt feelings and bitterness?

Well, there’s relief!

My sorority sister, the dearly-departed Ada Williams, knew how to conduct an effective meeting.

Dealing with provocateurs, filibusters, long discussions that have folks “piggybacking” off another’s comments, or seconding when there hasn’t been a motion presented. Sound familiar?

Or what about the “friendly amendments,” “I second that emotion,” or better still, “I want to make a motion?”

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Then there’s the attitude from attendees that are passive aggressive and in the back of their minds they are thinking, “I don’t run nothing at home or work so I’m going to come to the meetings and wreak havoc!”

Well, UNCF has told us that a mind is a terrible thing to waste and also, information is power.

So we have to do as the oh, so knowledgeable Mrs. Williams would say, and learn the basic rules so that we can have more effective and

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productive meetings.

And, she knows what she is talking about because not only was she parliamentarian emeritus for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., she also served in numerous capacities where her parliamentarian skills were put to use, prior to her recent passing.

The former Miss Huston-Tillotson College joined the National Association of Parliamentarians (NAP)

in 1975 and became a Professional Registered Parliamentarian (PRP) in 1978. This distinction afforded her the opportunity to serve as Parliamentarian for numerous organizations, including the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees (1988-2002), Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana Synod of Lutheran Churches, Texas Credit Union’s League Annual Meetings, Delta Kappa Gamma Society, International, Dallas Retired Teachers Association and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (1977-2017). Recognized for her teaching skills and her knowledge of parliamentary rules and law, she was widely sought after to teach numerous workshops on Leadership and Parliamentary procedures nationally and internationally; and was one of a few Professional Registered Parliamentarians to be invited to Russia to teach Parliamentary Law. I have benefitted significantly from her teachings but I still find myself sitting in ineffective meetings because people don’t know what they don’t know.

Someone jokingly told me about their chapter’s parliamentarian who received a new copy of Robert’s Rules of Order upon taking office and at the end of the term the book was still in mint condition.

It doesn’t make sense to have a position that at the onset of a person’s term it is clearly evident that they are useless.

According to the organization’s website, “the purpose of TSAP is to

I Messenger promote the philosophy and principles underlying the rules of deliberative assemblies through the study, teaching, and dissemination of parliamentary law and procedure; advocate and encourage continuing education, maximum proficiency in parliamentary skills, and closer communication and cooperation among parliamentarians in Texas.”

Sheryl C. Womble, PRP is the president of TSAP for 2017-2018 and Mrs. Williams was the first Black female to serve as president of TSAP. PRP means, Professional Registered Parliamentarian. Professional Registered Parliamentarian® (PRP®) status indicates that a member has the knowledge and practical skills to successfully deliver parliamentary services.

Building on the expertise demonstrated at the Registered Parliamentarian® level, the PRP® designation shows that the member can provide quality parliamentary services and has agreed to adhere to the code of ethics adopted by NAP. PRPs are also eligible to participate in NAP’s professional referral service.

PRP® status is granted to a Registered Parliamentarian® who successfully completes a Professional Qualifying Course and demonstrates

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Goode Johnson is the historian of the TSAP. Mrs. Johnson has served in leadership positions for several organizations. She even served as president of the Dallas Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., for two terms and currently serves as president of the Women’s Council of Dallas County, Inc. She says understanding and applying parliamentarian procedures is important.

“Using Robert’s Rules of Order as the ruling authority of conducting meetings creates a plan to effectively move through an agenda,” she said. “It makes it easier for people to understand the outcomes of discussions in meetings.

So, I encourage every organization or business leader to either attend or send a representative to the Texas State Association of Parliamentarians (TASP) Convention. If you can’t make it here, find one in your area.

The 64th Annual TSAP Convention - May 4-6, 2018, will be held at the Embassy Suites by Hilton DFW Airport South in Irving, Texas.

Registration information can be found on the TASP website at http://www.tex•serving as an instructor/consul- asparliamentarians.org. The online registration deadline is April 21, tant •applying the ethical and business 2018.

Put an end to the drama and madpractices of a professional parliamentarian ness in your meetings!

Long-time Dallas resident Ella competency and skills in these areas: •serving as a professional parliamentarian and/or professional presider at conventions and meetings •working with an organization’s governing documents •engaging in parliamentary research and writing opinions

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Will the lame duck quack The rats are leaping off the sinking ship! Paul Ryan says he wants to spend more time with his teenagers, but he likely also doesn’t want to be part of the losses Republicans are likely to experience in November (unless the Dems mess up, which is not impossible). By April 13, there were 41 Republicans who said they would not run for re-election, for varying reasons or no reason at all.

Ryan’s citing of personal reasons seems disingenuous.

Most teens aren’t clamoring for more daddy time. Many of them hardly speak to their parents.

Ryan says he will serve out his term, and serve out his speakership, but his announcement has caused chaos in his party. And, while he has not used his announcement to criticize his President, many think that he has had about enough of making excuses for the man who wants to grab women by the genitals, threaten North Korea and Syria, build walls, indulge in racist rants, and more. Since Ryan is so interested in spending time with his children, how does he explain 45 to his teens, especially to his 16-year-old daughter?

At about the same time Ryan announced that he would not run again, Florida Republican Congressman Dennis Ross made the same announcement to his staff.

In a CNN interview shortly afterward, he cited “party polarization and the “lack of civility and respect” as part

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of his reason for not running.

He also exhibits his own intellectually limited pettiness by throwing too much shade on some of the young people who have emerged as activists in Florida. Young people, he says, know how to protest, but they don’t know “the process”. It seems

term election. Sixty-three Democrats surely did in 2010, partly because of resistance to the Affordable Care Act, and partly because of resistance to President Obama himself. But fewer than 20 Democrats chose not to run for reelection.

So far, a record 41 Repub-

to me that the Parkland students and others they have joined with have exhibited enough knowledge of “the process” to get Florida legislators to change a few laws.

And these young people promise to be an electoral force in 2018. Maybe that’s why Republicans are leaping off the Titanic as it is poised to hit an iceberg.

The party that captured the Presidency typically loses some Senatorial and Congressional seats in a mid-

lican rats are jumping off 45’s sinking ship. Some of them are talking openly of impeachment, given continuing developments in the Mueller probe. Others are repulsed by the drip drip revelations of 45’s immoral behavior. Still, others are concerned about the ways the Oval Office has become a piggy bank for the President and his family. The Republican family is a fractured one and they are cruising for a bruising!

Speaker Paul Ryan says he did what he came to do in Washington – he shepherded through a tax reform bill that “simplified” our taxes.

But the man who was known as a deficit hawk also passed out corporate goodies as if they were girl scout cookies, and had a role in increasing the deficit to more than a trillion dollars. If that’s what he came to do, he might as well hang his conservative mantle up. These next few months will be interesting as the lame duck speaker attempts to manage legislation and, perhaps, attack social programs like Medicare and Social Security.

But will the Lame Duck speaker quack? He has little to lose now that he says he will not run for his congressional seat again. He also says he will not run for office, but who believes that? Further, his best qualification to run for office might be the ways, in these next few months, he challenges the president that he is clearly repulsed by. Will he be a champion for true conservatism, not the cronyism that 45 embodies?

Will he raise questions about the crooked practices of Cabinet members who have never met a charter plane they could not pass up?

The Lame Duck could provide a service to his party and to our nation if he would simply quack. But he may have been too compromised to open his mouth.

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Community Policing Grows The Black Police Association of Greater Dallas has been dedicated to bridging the gap between law enforcement and the communities they serve for over forty years. For this Association, community policing means being proactive about and developing solutions to the immediate problems contributing to public safety issues. This is why the BPA is dedicated to hosting events that encourage police officers to form relationships with civilians and creating programs that solve the needs of the communities they serve, as well as, facilitating conversations on community-police relations.

On March 24th, the Black Police Association of Greater Dallas sponsored a community policing event led by its board member Officer Lamar Glass in collaboration with local nonprofit, First Stripe, called PD Madness. PD Madness was a basketball tournament where eight law enforcement teams hit the court, in a March Madness-inspired tournament, against eight community teams.

April 7th, the Association held a Home Buying 101 seminar led by local real estate agent, Randy Bell, giving police officers and community members the tools needed to purchase homes in Dallas county including grant

information and financing options. This is the first of many seminars the association will be hosting as part of their new home buyers community outreach program.

The Association’s President, Officer Terrence Hopkins (known to many as T. Hop), has made it his own personal mission to bridge the gap between officers and law enforcement by leading conversations on his radio show every Tuesday from 7 to 9 PM called Police Talk 101 where local leaders are invited to discuss community and police relations.

BPA Member, Officer O. Buster, was honored on April 6th for helping save the life of Bailey Adam, a marathon runner that collapsed during the Dallas Rock and Roll Half Marathon. Buster was one of the CPR people on the scene that was able to save the Half-Marathon heart attack survivor.

The Black Police Association of Greater Dallas believes community policing involves forming partnerships with community organizations and giving people the opportunity to interact with law enforcement officers. It is proven that good relationships are essential to good police work.

To learn more about the association’s community outreach programs and opportunities to partner, email info@dallasdoesgood.com and visit their website at www.bpadallas.org.

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St. Luke “Community” United Methodist Church celebrates 85 Years Dr. Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. Anniversary Speaker Dr. Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr., St. Luke Pastor Emeritus, will be the speaker at the 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. worship celebrations Sunday, April 22, for the church’s 85th anniversary. The anniversary theme is “Honoring Our Legacy—Pursuing Our Destiny.” The church is located at 5710 East R.L. Thornton Frwy., Dallas.

The community is invited to join members at multiple activities planned April 18-25 to celebrate the church’s legacy.

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April 18 April 22 April 23 7 pm 8 am & 11 am 11 am shotgun start “St. Luke’s Got Talent” Worship Services St. Luke Anniversary Golf Tournament Keeton Park Golf Course 2223 N. Jim Miller Road, Dallas Contact: Allen Avery @ 214.930.0439 “INNERtainment” featuring Comedian Marcus Wiley 7 pm April 25 For more information about St. Luke’s anniversary activities, call 214.821.2970, or visit our website at www.slcumc.org.

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All Stars-No Bucks!

By Vincent L. Hall

Few articles ever printed the Brothers’ government names, but it really doesn’t matter.

The two Black men arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks for no reason don’t need names.

In America, they are seen as “Black Bucks.” The two unarmed men in waiting must have looked menacing to the weaker, woe-stricken, White woman behind the counter.

The Slave Patrols, aka the police, did what they’re hired to do…Protect rich folks’ property.

America, and apparently its premiere coffee chain, caters to the Stars, and Bucks are not welcome. This nation is not going backward in time, it just never got as far as we thought.

Let me knit some history to help you understand.

Return to those “Days of Yesteryear” and revisit a highly-acclaimed Black and White epic. No, not The Lone Ranger; go back to the turn of the 20th century to the “Birth of a Nation.”

For particularly paranoid Whites, this movie was seen as a “post-Reconstruction prophecy.” It predicted that one day

Blacks would rise up and serve caramel karma lattes.

The storyline was simple.

Flora Cameron, a young White virgin, was frolicking in the forest when she was frightened

by Gus, (no last name) but described as a Black Buck, a recently-freed Buck at that. Flora eventually leapt to her death to avoid being raped.

Historian, Leon Litwack asserted in “Past Imperfect, History According to the Movies,” that the film depicts African American men as “subhuman,” possessing “vicious bestiality” and “primitive sexuality.”

The Klan always rides to the rescue of Southern Whites and especially to save their women.

The movie’s ending was predictable.

Grand Wizard David Duke updated Litwack’s assertion in April 1975; “White people don’t need a law against rape, but if you fill this room up with your normal black bucks, you would, because niggers are basically primitive animals.”

The film also notably hypes the threat of Black power. “Beyond the lieutenant governor,

African Americans are depicted as state legislators, judges, juries, voters and — most dramatically — armed soldiers enforcing equality.

Black South Carolina lawmakers are featured shoeless, drinking whiskey and eating chicken in the state legislature when they pass a law allowing Blacks and Whites to intermarry.”

D o n’ t laugh; t hos e s a m e imagined threats fueled the 2016 presidential campaign.

Slave Catchers were America’s original policing corps; a working model of law enforcement’s priorities today. The United States’ first police were organized “slave patrols.” Slaves were property and owners protected their investments.

Six slave patrolmen, disguised as Philadelphia police officers, were just doing their jobs when they answered the call to arrest two suspicious Black Bucks “loitering” among the stars.

“They did a service that

they were called to do,” Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross said. “And if you think about it logically, that if a business calls and they say that someone is here that I no longer wish to be in my business, (officers) now have a legal obligation to carry out their duties.

And they did just that. Ross said his officers “did absolutely nothing wrong.”

And yes, Ross is a Buck.

Starbucks’ CEO must be commended for his rapid and personal response. Kevin Johnson boarded a flight to Philly, apologized profusely and fired the damsel behind the cash register. Johnson took strategic actions to retain his upper-income customer base.

The Black Bucks at the center of this miserable menagerie are still nameless. Sometimes identities are omitted to protect the innocent, however, that would be an indulgence few Black Bucks have ever enjoyed.

113 years after Birth of a Nation and the problem of the Black Buck remains. Racism is as American as apple pie, and nothing codifies the experience better than a good cup of coffee. On this one particular day though, it was all stars and no bucks.

Oh thank heaven for 7-11! #QuitPlayin #StayWoke Vincent L. Hall is an author, activist and award-winning journal-

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Voting No on Republican Balanced Budget

By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson

• Veterans’ disability compensation and other benefits would be cut by $30 billion in 2025 alone, and by a total of $250 billion through 2028.

The GOP tax scam mortgaged the future of our seniors and our families in order to give even more money In preparing this to Wall Street, Pharmaceureport, the CBPP tical companies, big corpoassumes that the rations and the wealthiest 1 balanced budget percent. requirement would Now after adding trilgo into effect in lions in higher deficits, ReCongresswoman publicans want to amend Eddie Bernice Johnson 2025. It also assumes that, in our Constitution to force order to hit the America’s seniors to give up the pillars of their retirement balanced budget target in 2025, security to pay for the GOP’s Congress would start cutting giveaways to the wealthiest. I’m programs in 2020.

As AARP wrote in urging not going along with this sham so Republicans can destroy Members of Congress to oppose the amendment, “A balanced Medicare and Social Security.

The non-partisan Congressio- budget amendment would likely nal Budget Office found that the harm Social Security and Medigiveaways of the GOP tax scam, care, subjecting both programs overwhelmingly going to big to potentially deep cuts withcorporations and the wealthiest out regard to the impact on the 1 percent, are exploding the defi- health and financial security of cit by even more than originally individuals…

Individuals who have contribprojected; now by nearly $2 triluted their entire working lives to lion in higher deficits.

Now, a new report from the earn a predictable benefit during Center on Budget and Policy their retirement would find that Priorities finds that, if revenues their retirement income and are not raised to help reach bal- health care out of pocket costs ance, the GOP Balanced Budget would vary significantly year-toAmendment would require deep year, making planning difficult cuts in key programs, such as and peace of mind impossible…

Medicare, Social Security, and AARP opposes the adoption of a balanced budget amendment Medicaid.

The report finds that, if the that puts Social Security and cuts mandated by this flawed Medicare at risk.”

I’m a strong believer in real GOP BBA are spread proportionately, tens of millions of se- fiscal responsibility, not this cynniors, children, working families, ical gimmick that is a pretext for and veterans would be impacted: GOP cuts to Medicare, Social Se• Social Security would be cut curity, and Medicaid.

We need to keep the promises by $325 billion in 2025 alone, and by a total of $2.6 trillion we made to our seniors and our veterans, create more good-paythrough 2028; • Medicare would be cut by ing jobs, and reduce deficits in $200 billion in 2025 alone, and a responsible and sustainable by a total of $1.7 trillion through manner.

The amendment failed to 2028; • Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA reach the two-thirds majority subsidies would be cut by $150 threshold required to advance an billion in 2025 alone, and by a to- Amendment to the Constitution. tal of $1.2 trillion through 2028; and

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Pastor addresses Fair Housing Act

By Cheryl Smith

As he prepares to celebrate the 35th pastoral anniversary, the senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church, Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III shows no signs of slowing down.

Instead he appears even more determined and focused as he takes on the many issues effecting society, like Fair Housing, residential segregation, gentrification and predatory lending.

Speaking before a standing room only gathering at the Dallas Association of Realist (DAR) commemoration of the 1968 Fair Housing Act at the African American Museum, this week, Dr. Haynes talked about a dream interrupted and called on attendees to hold people accountable.

“If we are going to move forward, we have to fight and dismantle discrimination in housing,” he said. We have to build up our people and build our communities in the process. And we have to come together and envision what we want our community to look like.”

The Fair Housing Act, which is Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, protects people from discrimination when they are renting, buying, or securing financing for any housing. The

prohibitions specifically cover discrimination because of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability and the presence of children.

J. Rashad Thomas, DAR president said the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB), which is the oldest professional minority real estate trade association, works toward the goal of democracy in housing.

The organization, in commemorating Realist Week, called attention to the 2008 “economic disaster our country experienced.”

“While economic recovery is declared, Black American ownership continues to sink, now at a nationwide low rate…accompanied by unemployment levels significantly higher than general market rates,” said Mr. Thomas.

Many focused on Dallas where areas are not receiving equitable treatment, funding or attention. Discrimination still exists, 50 years since the historic act was signed, said Dr Haynes.

Calling on real estate brokers, churches, Divine 9 organizations (sororities and fraternities) to unite around the issue, the San Francisco native talked about how the community he grew up in was “wiped out.”

The concerns he focused on were similar to those addressed by other speakers, including Dallas City Councilman Kevin Felder, Ft. Worth HUD Regional Office Director Thurman Miles, Former HUD Regional Administrator C. Donald Babers.

“Affordable housing is a major issue in this city,” pointed out Inner-city Community De-

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velopment Corporation (ICDC) director Diane Ragsdale, who mentioned white flight, zoning and racism as having a negative impact on the growth of the city.

“Proposed housing policies exclude certain communities,” she said, as she encouraged people to live where they want to but also have the self determination to address problems in the community.

Ms. Ragsdale is a former Dallas City Councilwoman who lives and remains devoted to South Dallas and other areas of the city where bad zoning is helping to create and encourage poverty.

Like Dr. Haynes, she talked of once thriving communities that are being ignored by a “plan” that is different from any the city’s would like to see.

Affordable homeownership is what is needed, she added, while stressing the need to challenge banks, by holding them accountable because they “continue to redline our communities.”

And according to Mr. Babers, don’t expect any help from the federal leadership.

Addressing the theme of “Looking back and Looking Forward,” he encouraged everyone to “stay woke” because the conditions of today are very much like those in 1968.

Dr. Haynes said those in positions of power have already envisioned what they want Dallas to look like.

“But it’s our dream,” he concluded.

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Texas Living is great 4/6-4/8 African American Museum The Southwest Black Art Show was envisioned to present a quality experience for artists, collectors, galleries, educators, art professionals, and anyone interested in black fine art. The Southwest Black Art Show is committed to the exclusive presentation of art produced by artists of African and African-American descent. Our goal is to make the SWBAS a destination point where collectors come to find quality black art.

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Living in Texas is the best place on the planet. Yes, I am a thirty-year transplant who met my darling husband James Beebe in Texa.s (He’s from Michigan but was working in Dallas). Dallas has so much to offer singles or raising a family.

This summer enjoy where you are planted. Entertain, explore and experience Texas.

Three of the state's counties and four metropolitan areas ranked among the fastest-growing areas in the country, according to population estimates that the U.S. Census Bureau released. The estimates, show that the most rapid growth in the state was concentrated in Central Texas suburbs, West Texas cities and the greater Houston area.

With the high population growth singles and families are rewarded with a stable economy, strong job market and lots of entertainment.

Connect with your local entertainment guide for places and events. 411RadioNetwork offers a short list of entertainment in the Dallas/DFW area.

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around five upstanding church ladies who raise funds to send young Black women to college by holding bake sales and the like.

As they aspire to offer more scholarships to promising women in their community, they begin to seek out bank loans for their noble quest. They soon, however, get fed up with the banks and decide to rob one, taking matters into their own hands!

4/19 Arlington Improv Tommy Davidson LIVE 309 Curtis Mathes Way #147 Arlington, TX 76018 4/20-22 Grapevine Vintage Railroad

Supermodel, entrepreneur and CEO Tyra Banks and her mother, Carolyn, share stories and lessons from Tyra's journey from insecure preteen to international supermodel. The pair share excerpts from the book, as well as real-life anecdotes to tell the story of how Banks climbed to the top.

Each ticket purchased includes a signed copy of Banks' book, Perfect Is Boring.

4/14 Southern Methodist University Join us for our second symposium about the journeys of women of color. This symposium will explore the power of narratives and their role in connecting us to the human experience. Stories of institutionalized racism will empower attendees to disturb and realign power asymmetries in socially just ways.

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The Museum of the American Railroad and The Grapevine Vintage Railroad are partnering to bring you Day Out with Thomas 2018 The Big Adventures Tour (DOWT)!

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Dallas, TX - Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc., Psi Chapter will hold its annual Business Month Education and Scholarship Awards Luncheon on Saturday, April 28, 2018, 11:00 a.m. at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, 2015 Market Center Blvd Dallas, TX. 75207.

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Generation Z takes it to the street! into the classroom ready to fight with Little Bobby to not eat the glue during Have you noticed the increasing the social studies art project time. number of protests that have occurred West Virginia started this chain of in the United States in the last two events and within weeks other Reyears? We have seen Black Lives Matter, publican states joined the movement. protesting the volatile excessive force These states began their efforts of propractices among police officers with testing increases in salaries, classroom Black males. conditions, pensions, and other We have seen the Me Too & Women Dr. Felicia Shepherd needs or concerns. Oklahoma’s, red Rights Rally movements, protesting state, teachers walked out of their unequal pay and being sexual harassed/assault- classrooms and protested. ed in the workplace. We have seen Rally Against Thousands of teachers in the state of OklahoRacism on Martin Luther King Dr. this year, ma exercised their right to protest. It was the OK protesting President Trump’s insulting/vulgar Corral Showdown at the statements about immigrants. state capital! Teachers in You know those immigrants from “Sh@T hole Oklahoma took to social countries.” media by posting pictures Our Generation Z took to the streets for the of dilapidated classrooms, Marched for Our Lives, protesting the increas- broken desks, old texting number of mass shootings due to the lack of books to show the poor gun control policies here in America. conditions of the classJust when you thought America was all rooms in this conservative red state. “marched” out, another wave of marches surWe typically do not see this much excitement faced. Who now? Teachers! from educators unless a holiday or summer Teachers have joined the movement of ex- break is approaching. Unlike West Virginia, ercising their constitutional right to protest. Oklahoma teachers did not get all that they reTeachers are seeing red in many Republican red quested. Teachers in Oklahoma requested a pay states. A wave of teacher activism is sweeping the increase of $10,000 over the next three years and red states in Oklahoma, West Virginia, Arizona, $5,000 for support professional. and Kentucky fighting for raises, classroom supLawmakers passed a pay increase of $6,100 on plies, or social security/pension benefits. average for teachers and $1,250 for school proLet’s dive into these chains of events. It started fessionals. Although it was not the total amount with the teachers in West Virginia who marched requested, it is a victory nonetheless. Kudos for almost two weeks during the month of Oklahoma!

March. They went on strike in massive numbers.

Your nine days of being out of the classroom Wearing red shirts, educators in West Vir- proved to be time well spent. Now the challenge ginia took their Magic School Bus to the state of making up 9 days worth of classroom instruccapital of West Virginia and protested for higher tion commenced. Well, you can’t win them all. salaries. You have to give the teachers credit for Just when we thought all was quiet on the their wardrobe color choice. teacher home front, another wave of teacher Over 20,000 educators went on strike leaving protest emerged. Next at the starting gate is the schools at a halt. Many have mixed emotions red state of Kentucky. We have the educators’ about classrooms been empty for so many days version of the Kentucky Derby! however teachers have a hard enough job of edWe have the horse “Red Danger” representing ucating the youth of today without having to the teachers approaching the starting gate going wonder if their bills will be paid for the month. up against the “Lame Duck,” representing the West Virginia teachers asked for a 5% salary in- Republican lawmakers. And they’re Off ! Teachcrease. ers in Kentucky are protesting the new pension After nine days of protest their demands were plan that lawmakers have passed. met! Republican lawmakers pass the bill in both “The bill, which passed both chambers of the chambers and West Virginia teachers went back state legislature, would overhaul the state’s pubBy Dr. Felicia Shepherd

lic pension system, mostly affecting teachers hired after Jan. 1, 2019, by moving them from a traditional pension to a “hybrid” plan.

The bill also limits the number of sick days teachers can put toward retirement and requires them to work longer before becoming eligible for retirement benefits.” (www.times.com) This will adversely affect recruitment of teachers in the future. We will continue to monitor this story to see who makes it to the finish line.

We have seen West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, as well as Arizona, all red states, protesting the issues concerning teacher wages, supplies, outdated textbooks, pensions, etc. Just in case Educators in Texas are feeling the urge to jump on the walk out and protest bandwagon, I shall say this in the best cowboy voice I can mutter “Cool your chaps little Phillies!”

The J.R. Ewing’s (Referencing the t.v. show Dallas; 40th Anniversary, Big fan!) in this redder than red state passed a law 25 years ago that public official, including teachers, are not allowed to protest. If teachers walk out of their classroom to protest in the state of Texas, the loss of employment, certification(s), and pension could occur.

With midterm elections approaching, it’ll be interesting to see how many of these red states will see a blue wave transpire. Educators are simply trying to get what they deserve. Teaching students is a challenge. If you feel that teachers are not warranted in their demands, I challenge you to step into their shoes for one day.

Go into a classroom of 25 students or more and try to teach long division that will cater to the students’ learning styles while maintaining classroom management, keeping students engaged in the lesson whether they are on or below grade level.

Educators continue to see Red! Continue to fight for what it is right. Continue to motivate, educate, and encourage future leaders who society says we want the best for but we do not want to pay for. ~Doc Shep Speaks Dr. Felicia N. Shepherd Twitter @getfinessed Facebook-facebook.com/fnsconsulting

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El Centro welcomes Hannah-Jones The El Centro College Common Book Program welcomes Nikole Hannah-Jones – Writer for The New York Times Magazine and recent recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant for her work “reshaping national conversations around education reform” on April 24.

11 a.m. – Keynote: “Education and Equity: Creating Access and Tearing Down Boundaries to Opportunity and Education” 2 p.m. – Informal Question and Answer Session/Meet and Greet Join us for these exciting events featuring one of today's leading voices on race and education in America. Both events will take place in the Performance Hall, and are open to the El Centro College community.

Ms. Hannah-Jones covers racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, and has spent years chronicling the way official policy has created— and maintains—racial segregation in housing and schools. Her deeply personal reports on the black experience in America offer a compelling case for greater equity. She has written extensively on the history of racism, school desegregation, and the disarray of hundreds of desegregation orders, as well as the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act. Selected celebrated works from Nikole Hannah-Jones: "Choosing A School For My Daughter in a Segregated City" from The New York Times Magazine (article)

"The Problem We All Live With"from This American Life (podcast) Ms. Hannah-Jones investigates the way racial segregation in housing and schools is maintained through official action and policy.

She has written extensively about school resegregation across the country and the utter disarray of hundreds of school desegregation orders. She

niKOLe HannaH-JOneS has also chronicled the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act and wrote one of the most widely read analyses of the racial implications of the controversial Fisher v. University of Texas affirmative action Supreme Court case.

Her reporting has won several national awards, including the Peabody Award, George Polk Award, National Magazine Award, Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service, and the Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting. She was named Journalist of the Year by the

National Association of Black Journalists in 2015 and was named to The Root 100 in 2015, 2016 and 2017. She is also a 2017 New America Emerson fellow and a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Journalist.

In 2017, Ms. Hannah-Jones was named a prestigious MacArthur fellow for her reporting on school segregation. Known as the “Genius Grant,” the award is given to just two dozen people globally each year.

In 2016, she helped found the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship organization geared towards increasing the number of investigative reporters of color.

Before joining The New York Times, Nikole worked for investigative news organization ProPublica. Her works has also appeared in The Atlantic Magazine, Huffington Post, Essence Magazine, The Week Magazine, Grist, Politico Magazine and on Face the Nation, This American Life, NPR, the Tom Joyner Morning Show, MSNBC, C-SPAN, Democracy Now and radio stations across the country.

Ms. Hannah-Jones continues to investigate the policies and politics that maintain segregation. She is always looking for stories and is particularly interested in talking with sources about school segregation and tracking.

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I need advice to help my beloved sister who has dementia. I don’t know how to communicate with her anymore. We were once very close. She was talented and had a lot of friends. She sang in the choir and was active in her church. Now she has trouble remembering words and speaking in complete sentences. She won’t take a shower or comb her hair.

I just don’t know what to do. What would you suggest?

Diane Jackson, Woodbridge, Va. Dear Diane, I’m sorry to hear about your sister’s decline. It’s heartbreaking to watch as a loved one slips away. You’re not only dealing with the horrible disease of dementia, you’re dealing also with the loss of the sister you know her to be. My sister died many years ago and I still, to this day, have not recovered. Neither will you. But what you can do is this: Put on your “big sister” T-shirt, even if

you are the little sister, like me, and fight this battle to win. Give your sister what she needs and not what you want her to have. Don’t determine your decisions around the sister she used to be, but deliver what’s necessary based on the sister she is today. If she loved music, turn on the radio. Read to her, especially the Bible. Sit and watch TV together, cartoons, game shows, PBS specials. Talk to her, not at her, while you’re watching. When she repeats her sentences, act as if it’s the first time you’ve heard those words.

Don’t rush her when she’s speaking or finish her sentences. Let her be. When it comes to her hygiene, you can bathe her.

Don’t ask her if she wants a bath, run the water and tell her it’s ready. When it comes to her hair, take her to the salon or sit her at the dining room table and go old-skool…you braid her hair (I know you know how.) Ask her to hold the extra brush while you’re doing it.

That will take her mind off what you’re doing. The days of your sister making decisions are over. You’ll need to take on that role for her.

Of course you’ll encounter some resistance. Just remind yourself you’re doing what’s best for her. Don’t take it personally. You’ve become her caregiver. She’s counting on you and would do the same

if the roles were reversed. I know you want to do all you can to bring your sister back and make it all better, but you can’t. She’ll continue to slip away. This isn’t by her choice, and unfortunately, she can’t help it. Sometimes as a caregiver, it’s hard to peel back the overwhelming layers of guilt and pain to see the blessing. Your blessing is you still have your sister. Trust me, once she’s gone, you’d give anything to be able to do it again. Don’t focus on what you see as yours or her shortcomings. Do your best to meet her needs. Your love for each other will never change, but you should readjust your expectations. As I’m sure you know, it’s important to keep up with doctor appointments, and it wouldn’t be a bad idea for you to find a support group. You and I know I’ve sugar coated this thing, but that’s because you’ve got a tough road ahead. We don’t know what the future holds, so when and if the doctors decide she needs more than you can handle, accept it; don’t debate or challenge it. They know what’s best.

Now more than ever, enjoy your sister.

This is a very small slice of the pie of life you’ve shared. Hug her often and relish the days.

Alma

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POLICE have not apprehended “Pookie” the serial rapist.

We know he has attacked members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and there is a $5,000 reward offered by Crime Stoppers.

HE IS A SERIAL RAPIST

He targeted members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. but this is more than about a sorority. We’re talking about a community.

Come on PEOPLE! Don’t you CARE? Will it matter when it is your sister, mother, aunt or grandmother or maybe YOU?

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