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Message to the People...

1989. The Number. Another summer

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson 8

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IM ESSENGER is committed to informing, inspiring, enlightening and provoking thought in a forum that is international. Submissions for publication consideration may be submitted to www.myimessenger.com.

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Those lyrics are from one of the most prolific and iconic songs of all time, Fight Cheryl Smith the Power by Public Enemy.

The words played over and over in my head as I read about the violent deaths of Michael Brown, Dante Parker and Demarcus Walton.

On August 9, Mr. Brown and a friend were walking down the street when Officer Darren Wilson stopped them and told them to get on the sidewalk, according to reports. Witnesses say that Mr. Brown’s hands were in the air when Officer Wilson shot him down.

While Mr. Brown’s death has led to protests and extreme measures that continue to dominate headlines, Mr. Parker’s situation has not garnered as much of a response and Mr. Walton’s death was a lead story Michael Brown for a few days.

According to reports, Mr. Parker was riding his bicycle while black on the streets of Victorville CA, when he was stopped by a sheriff ’s deputy because he was considered to be a suspect in an attempted burglary. It seems that in the report, a witness said the culprit fled on a bicycle.

The police report says that efforts to detain Mr. Parker met with resistance because he became “uncooperative and combative.”

A struggle ensued and despite the use of a taser “multiple times,” Mr. Parker was resistant. Officers were finally able to gain control.

Dante Parker Following his arrest, officers requested medical attention for the Victorville Daily Press employee, who was taken by ambulance to the Victor Valley Global Medical Center where he died.

At least two witnesses say Mr. Brown had both his hands raised in the air when he was gunned down on the streets of Ferguson, MO by police officer Darren Wilson.

Demarcus and friends were gathered at his home when Justin Pharez Smith (no relation) decided to rob and murder everyone.

From many accounts, this was an “inside job” and other “friends” conspired to kill the father of eight and three other women. One woman who begged for mercy was shot, feigned death, survived her gunshot wound and provided information to arrest Smith.

There are many more stories that could be told about violent murders occurring in our communities.

These aren’t “untimely” deaths, because I don’t know when a death could be considered timely. BUT, these all were senseless deaths that continue to cause a lot of pain to those left behind.

People across the country are speaking out about the shootings Demarcus Walton by police officers and activists are stressing the need to end violence.

There are so many casualties and we appear to be losing the war. Too many young brothers are ending up in prison, the cemetery or the crematorium.

Twenty-five years after Public Enemy told us to “fight the power,” we find ourselves needing to revisit that message and turn this moment into a movement!

It’s high time to “DO THE RIGHT THING!”

Cheryl

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DON BACCUS MINISTRIES PRESENTS… COMMUNITY REACH BIBLE STUDY LORD BLESS OUR FAMILIES…OUR CHILDREN (GENESIS 12:1-3) Don Baccus Ministries is a Gospel Teaching Ministry designed to minister the Word of God from the Holy Scriptures, meeting individuals where they are, socially, culturally, and spiritually. Jesus said “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). We are in support of the Universal Body of Christ and Local Congregations, the ‘ekklesia’(gk) (a called out assembly).

Don was called out by God June 1984, a native Dallasite and Community Member.

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It was a Heads Up! Foundation affair at The Pelican House Heads Up! Foundation’s president and founder Jabari Johnson is making things happen for area youth, with development programs, basketball camps, fundraisers, community programs and

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Area Development Director, Dallas, TX UNCF – the United Negro College Fund – seeks an Area Development Director (ADD) to conduct comprehensive, costeffective annual and as needed, capital fund-raising campaigns, within the Dallas area of operation, to support the 37 UNCF institutions and serve as an ambassador for UNCF. The ADD will identify, recruit, direct and liaison with volunteer leadership; develop and maintain formal campaign organizational structure in concert with National UNCF leaders and develop local campaign goals.

The ADD’s responsibilities include: planning and implementing campaign strategies consistent with UNCF national action plan and policies; developing and submitting solicitation proposals; managing, designing and implementing fundraising events; and developing and preparing campaign materials, communication/promotional programs in support of established fund-raising efforts in the Dallas territory.

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C.A.W. Clark Legal Clinic

Hosting Community Forum on

Home Rule School for Dallas Independent School District

When: Saturday, August 16,2014

Where: Nathaniel Spigner Wing Good Street Baptist Church 3110 Bonnie View Road Dallas, TX 75216

Time: 9:30 a.m. ʹ 11:30 a.m.

-­‐Guest Panelists-­‐ Dr. Lew Blackburn ʹ Former D.I.S.D. Trustee Dr. Juanita Wallace ʹ President of the NAACP Attorney Cleophaus Steele and Dr. Barbara Steele C.A.W. Clark Legal Clinic Directors

Requirements: A Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from four-year College or university required with 7-10 years experience in fund-raising and a proven track record of achieving revenue targets or goals.

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Plano North Metroplex Chapter The Links, Incorporated

Annual Fall Festival Back to School Event

“Passport to Academic Success” Date: Saturday, August 16, 2014 Time: 10:00 – 2:00 PM Place: Salvation Army 3528 14th Street Plano TX 75074

Prizes

School Supplies

Clothing Items

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Sponsored By: Plano North Metroplex Chapter of The Links, Inc. Plano Housing Authority For More Information Contact: K.Teague 972 423 4928 x 370

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The Mental Health Crisis

By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson

Our country’s mental health system is in shambles, and many of the most severely ill are being harshly excluded from treatment systems.

Many of the most severely ill are destitute or homeless. For them, private health insurance is not an option.

Medicaid is the only way that many low-income people and the mentally ill can access healthcare.

The Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) Exclusion, however, prohibits Medicaid from paying for care received in mental health institutions if a hospital has more than 16 psychiatric beds.

Not only is this a barrier to treatment for those who need it most, the IMD Exclusion is extremely costly to state and federal governments when untreated patients are stowed away in correctional facilities, or live on our streets.

Seventy years ago, there were 550,000 inpatient psychiatric beds in our country. Today, there are fewer than 40,000. The IMD Exclusion has accelerated the shortage of psychiatric beds during the “deinstitutionalization” process because it gives states an economic incentive to close hospitals.

It has inadvertently caused penal institutions to become warehouses for the mentally ill, and for many homeless people.

Patients with mental illness, especially those with severe cases, need access to acute care psychiatric beds if they have any chance at recovery.

The consequences of non-treatment due to the IMD Exclusion are extremely visible in our communities.

People with untreated psychiatric illness now make up one-third of the estimated 600,000 homeless population.

We must recognize the price that our society pays when untreated individuals with mental illnesses find themselves incarcerated. In 2012, there were an estimated 356,268 inmates with severe mental illness in prisons throughout our country.

In Texas, there are 35,000 prisoners with a severe mental illness, but only 4,500 psychiatric units in all Texas general hospitals.

It astonishes me that data demonstrating that failure to provide psychiatric treatment for low-income people leads directly to homelessness and incarceration, and yet our country has done little to remedy the situation.

We must act to ensure that we do not warehouse the severely mentally ill population in prisons, or leave them untreated and living on the streets.

We must work to eliminate barriers to better mental health treatment for those who face severe challenges.

Repealing the IMD Exclusion can help those with mental illnesses to regain access to treatment that they rightly deserve. It could also save taxpayers the burden of costly emergency room visits.

It will also help us decrease our homeless population, and assist people to gain access to treatment and stable housing by making it more economically viable for hospitals and other residential psychiatric facilities.

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Free Back-to-School Immunizations and Medicaid/ CHIP Assistance at DCHHS August 16 – Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) will open its immunization clinic Saturday, August 16 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. to provide free vaccinations for families eligible for Texas Vaccines for Children (TVFC).

Children’s Medical Center staff will also be on site to answer questions and provide application assistance to parents whose children may be eligible for free or low-cost health coverage through Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

The clinic is located on the first floor of the DCHHS building at 2377 N. Stemmons Frwy. in Dallas. Parents must bring their child’s vaccination records.

Appointments aren’t necessary.

Dallas County residents from birth to age 18 in the following categories are eligible to receive free immunizations August 16 under the TVFC program: · Medicaid eligible · Uninsured: a child who has no health insurance coverage · American Indian or Alaskan Native · Enrolled in CHIP · Underinsured (as defined by the Texas Department of State Health Services): a child who has commercial (private) health insurance, but coverage does not include vaccines; a child whose insurance covers only selected vaccines (TVFC-eligible for non-covered vaccines only); or a child whose insurance caps vaccine coverage at a certain amount. Once that coverage amount is reached, the child is categorized as underinsured. Insured children with vaccine coverage who have high copays or deductibles are no longer considered underinsured. These children are now considered fully, privately insured and are no longer eligible for TVFC vaccines.

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Duncanville ISD changes dress code

Dallas ISD reaches historic milestone; more than 99 percent of teaching positions filled before first day of school metropolitan area.

“Never before has this district been able to ensure that every student will begin the year with a highly-qualified and full-time teacher. It’s unprecedented, and it speaks to the proactive outreach of our Human Capital Management team,” Miles said.

“The vast majority of these teachers were hired prior to June 15. We have demonstrated an ability to attract the type of talent we need to support increased achievement.”

The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees approved an additional

The Duncanville ISD Board of Trustees voted on August 11, 2014 to change the student Standard of Dress for the 2014-2015 school year. The changes will take effect immediately. The amended Standard of Dress policy may be viewed in its entirety as part of the 2014-2015 Code of Conduct, which is posted on the district website under Parent Resources.

Grooming Code Hair – No changes Facial Hair – Change. Must be neat, clean, closely trimmed and not a distraction.

Earrings – Change. Boys may wear earrings.

Body Piercing and other items – Added exclusion of body piercing spacers, gauges, cones, and similar items.

Dress Code General – All articles of clothing must be hemmed.

Tops (shirts, blouses, sweaters) –Change. No restriction of colors. T-shirts and similar shirts without collars must be one solid color without logos, emblems, pictures, etc. Spirit shirts approved by the principal may be worn at any time.

Shoes – No changes Hats/Hoods – No changes Bottoms –Change. Pants/Capri pants, skirts, dresses, and jumpers must reach the bend of the knee. Pants must be constructed of substantial solid material. Denim is allowed.

Grades PK – 4 continue to be allowed to wear shorts and skorts.

Belts – Change. No longer required.

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389 teaching positions this school year to address class sizes.

More than 2,000 of the new teachers streamed through the doors of the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on Aug. 11 to attend the 2014 Dallas ISD New Teacher Academy.

The record number of new teachers at the academy is testament to teachers’ desire to serve Dallas ISD children and an enthusiastic response to the transformation taking place in the district.

Supt. Mike Miles

DALLAS—In preparation for the 2014-2015 school year, the Dallas Independent School District has filled more than 99 percent of its teaching positions, its lowest percentage ever prior to a school year.

Dallas ISD has just 60 open teaching positions available in its 224 schools, which amounts to less than one percent of its more than 10,000 member teacher workforce.

In comparison, there were approximately 860 teacher vacancies at the beginning of the 2011-12 school year and more than 300 vacancies at this time last year.

To break the cycle of having far too many vacancies on the first day of school, the district had to think differently about how positions were filled.

Internal processes were changed to empower principals to begin filling anticipated fall openings prior to the end of the school year.

In all, this means nearly every Dallas ISD student will begin the year with a full-time classroom teacher, according to Superintendent Mike Miles.

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BE AWARE OF JURY DUTY SCAM GREENVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Greenville Police Department and the Hunt County SheriďŹ&#x20AC; â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OďŹ&#x192;ce are warning area residents about a telephone scam regarding jury service.

According to GPD, people in the Greenville and Hunt County areas are receiving telephone calls from individuals identifying themselves as Hunt County SheriďŹ&#x20AC; â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Deputies.

These impersonators tell the victims they were mailed letters for and have now missed jury duty. They then tell the victim they must pay a fee to avoid having a warrant issued for their arrest.

Please be aware, no actual deputy or police oďŹ&#x192;cer will contact members of the public by telephone demanding money or other forms of payment for missing jury duty.

Anyone receiving a call from someone claiming to be a deputy or other law enforcement oďŹ&#x192;cial should immediately report the call to the police.

If contacted by one of these imposters, call the HCSO at 903-453-6800 or the GPD at 903-457-2900 to report the call.

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Not Enough Home Cooking Dear Alma.

Over my long Thanksgiving weekend, everywhere I went I encountered my married brothas complaining about the same thing – wives not wanting or initiating sex.

It was as much a constant as football and turkey.

These are good men, Alma.

They want to do the right thing.

But some feel trapped. They can be faithful and celibate or they can creep.

And yes, some have already strayed. (One married friend told of an encounter he had with his girlfriend inside a bathroom that made our hair stand on end.) We all agreed that our wives would never do something so…so…so…so damned sexy and daring.

Tell me, Alma. Why do wives avoid sex with their husbands (when the girlfriends can’t seem to get enough)? And don’t give me that lame excuse about wives

Ask Alma having to work on their jobs then come home to do housework and homework. Most of my friends share equally in housekeeping and child-rearing duties.

Simply put, if a wife won’t “cook” for her man at home, shouldn’t she expect him to occasionally eat out?

Signed, A Real Bro

Dear A Real Bro, You’re kidding, right?

Aaaahhh, no. You are not allowed to switch to fast food after you’ve committed to a fine dining establishment.

Since this is the holiday season, I think it’s high time I address this issue and let you guys in on a

“cooking” secret. Hear me when I say this: A thoroughly basted turkey turns out moist and tender every time.

Are you feeling me?

Let me break it down. In the beginning, you really don’t have to do much to get the gravy going.

But once you’ve had your favorite holiday dish year after year, we all know what to expect.

You need to spice that sucker up just a little every now and again.

Add a little more hot sauce here and a little less mustard there. It just depends on the occasion.

Give the turkey in your kitchen all the attention it deserves. You don’t need to take that extra effort outside your home, ‘cause either way you’re putting out effort. Why

not display all your extra trimmings where it feeds and nurtures your commitment?

Reach into the cabinet and take out everything you got. While you’re waiting for the oven to get hot, delicately rub and pat down your turkey. Please tell me you pulled it out of the freezer this morning and you’ve given it appropriate time and assistance to thaw. Add all the ingredients necessary. Don’t be shy; good cooks make sure they get all up in those nooks and crannies. That’s the oldskool way; you’ve got to put your foot in it. LOL. Once you’ve seasoned that bad boy to the best of your ability, trust me, it’s ready to roast. (And the specials of the week will make you blush!)

Alma Alma Gill’s newsroom experience spans over 25 years, including various roles at USA Today, Newsday and the Wa s h i n g to n Po s t. Em a i l q u e s t i o n s to : alwaysaskalma@yahoo.com. Follow her on Facebook at “Ask Alma” and twitter @almaaskalma.

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DWAINE R. CARAWAY COUNCILMEMBER DISTRICT 4

INVITES YOU TO ATTEND ONE OF THE FOLLOWING

FY2014-2015 Budget Town Hall Meetings

Happy Centennial Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 6:00pm-7:30pm South Oak Cliff High School (Auditorium) 3610 S. Marsalis Ave. Dallas, TX 75216

Joint meeting with Councilmembers Dwaine R. Caraway and Scott Griggs Thursday, August 14, 2014 6:00pm-7:30pm University General Hospital Dallas (Auditorium) 2929 S. Hampton Rd. Dallas, TX 75224

Monday, August 18, 2014 6:00pm-7:00pm Virtual Town Hall To participate in telephone discussion, citizens can call the toll-free number: For English: 888-400-1932 For Espa単ol 888-400-9342

For more information call Norma Olvera at 214-670-0781/ or April McCallum at 214-671-9347. Para mas informacion por favor comuniquese con Norma Olvera al 214-670-0781.

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Actualization with the Cosmic Forces of St Luke "Community" United Methodist Light refreshments will be served. All West Africa Tour 2014”

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the EWGA Foundation's new book, Teeing Dickerson will share

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4th Annual Dancing for Charity TOPICS COVERED DeSoto Civic Center (BlueBonnet Room) African thought and philosophical calculation, Orisha, divination, spiritual 211 E. Pleasant Run Rd, DeSoto, TX 75115 healing and growth, and balancing the spiritual ecosystem RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/African-SpiritWorkers/events/198084382/ City Utility Chiefs Speak to Garland Chamber Impound Vehicle Auction Garland's top managers over electric and e City of Garland holds its Impound water utilities will discuss "Conservation, Vehicle Auction on the third Friday of every Regulations and the New Normal for Texas month at the City of Garland Auto Pound, Utilities" during the next Garland Chamber 1630 Commerce Street. is month's of Commerce luncheon. Jeff Janke, Senior auction is scheduled for Friday, August 15.

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September 22 Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce 2014 Chamber Golf Tournament When

September 28 Walk A Mile In Her Shoes® 3rd Annual Walk Saturday, September 28th, 2013 @ 9:00 a.m. Location: Diamond Doctor, 8127 Preston Road, Dallas, TX 75225

October 15-18 16TH Annual African Economic Forum Sponsored by the African Chamber of Commerce-DFW

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Speaking of People

Ron Price elected to national organization post

Volume No. 56 Issue No. 18

The Long and Winding Road Light rail, Trinity River road highly scrutinized in South Dallas

By Patrice J. Holmes

editorial@dallasweekly.com

Studies by the University of Texas at Dallas Institute of Urban Policy, United Way and Texas A&M are taking place now to assess the quality of life in the South Dallas community before billion dollar projects involving the new DART Light Rail and the Trinity

Toll Road are brought to the area. Some construction has begun with the demolition of homes to follow later this year.

At a meeting held by the three institutions, a focus group of sorts dished ideas and findings on the surveys that have told the story of the residents of South Dallas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are measuring conditions that may vary from street to street,â&#x20AC;? said Dr.

years celebrates 56 Black of serving the Community

Timothy Bray, director of the Institute of Urban Policy Research. He helps

â&#x20AC;&#x153;OVER THREE TO FOUR YEARS THERE ARE CHANGES IN CONDITIONS AND WE WANT TO KNOW HOW IT AFFECTS THE AREAâ&#x20AC;?

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am deeply impressed with the progress that President Barack Obama has made during the first 100 days of his administration. Already we are seeing evidence of the administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan to dig our country out of recession and develop long-term, sustainable prosperity. President Obama has made two trips abroad, proving to us and to the world that he intends to repair our frayed alliances and restore our international leadership.

Finally, the Obama administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s code of ethics has brought much-needed transparency and accountability to the White House.

President Obama is delivering on the change that he promised.â&#x20AC;?

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training in administering the anonymous surveys. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over three to four years there are changes in conditions and we want to know how it affects the area.â&#x20AC;?

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PROPOSITIONS 1 AND 2 Why YES means no and NO means yes

Dallas is abuzz at the election issues before them on May 9 when citizens are asked to vote on the controverDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;LYTE sial & EBONY Convention Music Happenings Center Hotel that is being backed by Mayor Leppert. But what does voting â&#x20AC;&#x153;noâ&#x20AC;? and voting â&#x20AC;&#x153;yesâ&#x20AC;? mean?

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