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The impact of a father never fades
Remembering Father in 2016 (L) The Colemans in 2010- Cecil, Eva, Cecily and Evana). (R) The Coleman’s after Cecil’s death - Eva, Evana and Cecily. A Gentleman’s Touch The impact of a father never fades By Eva D. Coleman My girls have fond memories of their father. Occasionally, they’ll bring up something he said or recall a place where he took them, boasting about how much fun they had. While Cecil Coleman has been physically absent from our home for nearly five years, his spirit is strongly ever present. Many were touched by Cecil’s kindness, generosity, chivalry or huge smile that brightened hearts and even his dark brown skin. However, nothing makes my day brighter than the two girls we share who reflect the same characteristics. Evana, the youngest, is an avid basketball player. She studies the game with such intense concentration, and I’ve even
observed her watching NBA classics with players like Wilt Chamberlain and others. She even watches old advertisements with players and products, gaining an understanding of endorsement deals. This 9-year-old does this completely on her own. She is methodical and strategic in her quest to join the ranks of the WNBA, which she boldly tells anyone is her goal. Her father was an entrepreneur who demonstrated the same level of determination for success as he built his clientele and gained acclaim in the limousine industry. Cecily, the eldest, dreams of being an architect. Having completed her freshman year of high school with an admirable grade point average, she’s well on her way to fulfilling this goal. Long before her freshman year, she researched architecture programs around the
country, including the type of degrees and licenses necessary, and has narrowed her school list down to three. If she keeps up her end of the deal with grades, etc., I’ll do whatever it takes to help her get to one of those private institutions. My girls have not faltered in any way since their father passed away from cancer. They’ve maintained their grades and their drive to live out their best lives. Cecil was driven and he drove the best. It’s in their nature to continue to keep their foot on the pedal and press forward. Cecily recently informed me of a milestone she has accomplished which I have yet to achieve. She has read the entire Bible! She started this quest June 2013. Now, June 2016, she has completed the mission. Often times when I’d check on her before going to bed, I’d enter her room to
quietness and light coming from her lamp shining onto the pages held in her hand. I’d kiss her cheek and she’d carry on. I never asked and never knew how far she had made it in her good book. While my girls and I experienced a devastating chapter in our lives, the plot thickens and I know the sequel will be even more rewarding. I asked Cecily about her takeaway after having finished the entire Bible and the Book of Revelation. She replied by saying, “We just have to remember that God is in control.” How one handles life begins with foundation. Knowing the true architect helps you remain grounded. With their father, foundation was always at the forefront. With me, it remains.
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Cold case gets major attention 15 years later Story and Photos by Sam Boyd Texas Metro News
It has been over 15 years since Sarah Kinslow disappeared but her face remains a vivid memory for loved ones who recall her two front teeth that overlapped, two chicken pox scars on her left cheek and a mole on the right side of her neck. Sarah also had acne and six piercings: four in her left ear and two in her right ear. Sporting wavy, blond hair, there’s also a tattoo of the letter “I” on the inside of her ankle. The last time her blue eyes were seen, the 14-year-old was wearing baggy blue jeans, blue and grey running shoes, and a teal hoodie. That was in 2001 in Greenville, Texas. 57,810 missing person reports were received in 2015 alone, according to the Teas Department of Public Safety Missing Persons Clearinghouse, over 46 thousand of which regarded juveniles. Such statistics are why there’s a national campaign to call attention to the thousands who go missing annually. And that is why May 25 is National Missing Children’s Day. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), pairing with Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (CCOA), has launched a new monthlong effort to help generate more leads in Dallas regarding the case of Sarah Kinslow. The campaign will feature a broadcast of Sarah’s photo from the last time she was seen as well as an age progressed photo on digital billboards courtesy of CCOA. The broadcasts will occur over 1,200 times per day for an entire month in the Dallas area. “Today in particular, we are here to bring awareness to Sarah’s case,” Megan Zuraw, who spoke on behalf of the NCMEC, said. “We do believe that there is someone out there, in this area, that knows something about Sarah’s case that can assist the Greenville Police Department in finding her.” Zuraw said NCMEC is working with the Greenville Police Department as they do with other departments across the country, such as the FBI. “Since [the day of her disappearance] the Greenville Police Department has been investigating Sarah’s whereabouts and that investigation continues today,” detective Philip
Spencer said. But despite the hundreds of leads and the years of investigating, Spencer said they are not yet close to finding Sarah. “Time has definitely made things more difficult,” Spencer said. “Sometimes memories come back or people remember things differently.” He also said that the Greenville Police Department is committed to finding Sarah and that the billboards would be a strong start. “We are turning to the public for assistance,” Spencer said. “We encourage anyone with information to please contact the Greenville Police Department.” CCOA has a partnership with NCMEC and the month-long campaign comes at no cost in recognition of National Missing Children’s Day. Through the campaign, officials hope to raise awareness of local missing children in the four major Texas markets: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso. “Children that go missing are sometimes found, but not always,” Louise Kinslow, Sarah’s mother, said. “We’re hoping that this media coverage will
Louise shot down the idea because she said it seemed suspicious. According to school records, she did not attend her classes on the day of her disappearance because evidently she and her friends had made plans to meet at a local cemetery and skip school, Louise said. But Sarah never met her friends.
highlight her case.” SARAH’S STORY “She was very musically talented,” Louise said. “She was like a child prodigy. She was great.” Sarah was reportedly last seen after her father dropped her off at Greenville Middle School on May 1, 2001. The night before she had asked to drive to school with her friends, but
A witness claimed he saw Sarah get into an older light blue Ford pickup truck near her school on the afternoon of her disappearance. It appeared to be an older Caucasian man driving the vehicle and Sarah did not attempt to flee nor did she seem to be upset with the situation. Sarah was reported seen 14 minutes away at a phone booth in Caddo Mills,
From left: Greenville Police Officer Phillips, Detective Philip Spencer, CCOA Representative, Megan Zuraw an NCMEC Representative, Louise Kinslow, and John Kinslow speak to reporters and audience in front of the billboard that will be shown all around the Dallas area. Below is billboard of Kinslow.
Texas shortly after her disappearance. A week after her disappearance, Sarah’s 18-year-old boyfriend, Curtis Wayne Bell, was arrested and charged with “aggravated sexual assault of a child” due to Sarah not being of a legal age to consent to sex. While Sarah’s parents did not allow her to date, they knew of Bell and his relationship with their daughter. Sarah and Bell had been dating for about two months. She wanted to marry Bell and was willing to, as recorded in her diary, run away to Mexico with him if her parents refused to let them be together. Bell said that the two discussed it, but were never serious. Bell was one of the friends who was supposed to skip school with Sarah. When Sarah went missing, she did not bring extra clothes, her toothbrush, or even her purse. Nevertheless, police believe she left on her own accord. Several of her friends failed polygraph tests regarding her disappearance, but they all disclaim any knowledge of where Sarah may be at now. Sarah has been reported as far as Oregon and British Columbia as of 2004. Investigators think she has cut her hair short and dyed it brown. Sarah Kinslow’s case is unsolved and still classified as a runaway. Although Louise misses her daughter, she is not optimistic that her child will be found. “I miss her laugh. I miss her smile. I miss her smell,” Louise said. “[But] I don’t think she’s around anymore. I feel like something has happened to her.”
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CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH
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The Legacy of the Black Power Movement in Dallas, TX
WHAT: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Black Power/ Consciousness Movement WHEN: Saturday, June 18, 2016, 12 PM (Noon) to 3 PM WHERE: Pan African Connection (Bookstore, Art Gallery and Resource Center), 4466 South Marsalis Ave, Dallas (75216) Featuring Enest McMillan Black Power! These words shouted out by Stokely Carmichael (aka, Kwame Toure) on Mississippi highway 51 on June 17, 1966 reverberated in the collective soul of Black America, crystallizing both strength and love. The call led to new goals and redefined
the measures of success, inspiring a new generation of activists who had not The Dallas Black Power Legacy Project’s previously been involved in the civil Commemorative Celebration on June 18, rights movement. It seeks to honor and illusbuilt upon the lestrate that the Black Power sons learned from the Movement was a posisouthern civil rights tive force for social and struggle and called political empowerment for a black consciousfor oppressed people, ness, establishing new and not the destructive independent organizainfluence that has been so tions and institutions often portrayed. that were controlled by black people. It shaped Most important, it will personal transforenable young activists to mations as well as establish working relaErnest McMillan political activism and tionships and communiBack in the day led to the creation of cations with Black Power organizations by those veterans, as well as eduwho never found their place in the civil cate the veterans about the contemporary rights agenda. social justice movement. We hope to forge
new cooperation and alliances between veteran and contemporary social justice and thus strengthen the work ahead. "Part of our mission is to inform the local community about the radical legacy of the Black Power Movement in Dallas. Former members of SNCC, Black Panther Party, All African People's Revolutionary Party, Black Women's United Front, the Black Star Collective and others will gather to share stories of our struggles and victories on the ground in Dallas Texas. This June 18th celebration features African drumming, spoken word, music and issue-oriented workshops-all which strive to facilitate and encourage the development of mutual support for community enhancement, and new works about the Black Power era.
 
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Blacks are hypocrites when it comes to the N-word
Once again, two nights ago, liberal hypocrisy was on full display at the White House Correspondents’ Association’s (WHCA) An I Messenger Enterprises LLC annual dinner. The dinner was bePublication gun in the early 1920s and usually the incumbent president and vice MAILING ADDRESS 320 S. R.L. Thornton Freeway president of the United States atSuite 220 tend. It is supposed to be a time Dallas, TX 75203 of merriment and humor; but over time, it has become more and WWW.TEXASMETRONEWS.COM 214-941-0110 more of a liberal lovefest for the journalistic community in Wash Cheryl Smith ington, D.C. PUBLISHER - EDITOR Members of this group brag publisher@texasmetronews.com about their supposed storied hisYvette Brooks tory, but as is habit with liberal OFFICE MANAGER journalists, they only tell you Becky Lewis what they want you to know. The Executive Assistant first thing one should do is take special note of is the first word in EDITORIAL TEAM its name. I rest my case. Eva Coleman What’s not included in their Vincent Hall own historical narrative is the fact Richard Alexander Moore that they didn’t allow women to Andrew Whigham III join until 1962. WHCA leaders DESIGN/LAYOUT were forced to change that policy Vyncent Bosh figuratively at gunpoint. v_bosh@yahoo.com In 1962, iconic journalist, PHOTOGRAPHERS Helen Thomas urged President Kennedy not to attend the dinner Wallace Faggett unless the WHCA changed their Kevin Griffith Richard Manson policy on female membership in dgdaphotographer.com the organization. They agreed and Kennedy attended the event. CIRCULATION/DISTRIBUTION The other thing the WHCA MB Distribution won’t tell you is that in their more Advertising than one century of existence, sales@texasmetronews.com they only had one Black journalEditorial submissions ist to head the group, Robert M. editorial@texasmetronews.com Ellison of the Sheridan Broad casting Network, and have only Calendar calendar@texasmetronews.com had one Black on their board (April Ryan, White House correT .EWSSTANDS IN spondent and Washington bureau Rowlett chief for American Urban Radio Networks). Mesquite
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In recent years, WHCA has begun to hire noted comedians to provide the entertainment for their dinner. They have hired comedians like Sinbad, Jay Leno, Jon Stewart, and Al Franken, to name a few. For this year’s dinner, they hired comedian Larry Wilmore (who is Black), the host of “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore� on Comedy Central. Wilmore was an unmitigated disaster. But what was even more disastrous than Wilmore’s performance was the deafening silence from liberals to his act. You can view his unedited performance on C-SPAN’s website. His ending was what got everyone’s attention and not in a good way. Speaking directly to President Barack Obama, Wilmore said, “But behind that joke is the humble appreciation for the historical implications for what your presidency means. When I was a kid, I lived in a country where people couldn’t accept a Black quarterback. Now think about that. A Black man was thought by his mere color not good enough to lead a football team. And now to live in your time, Mr. President, when a Black man can lead the entire free world. Words alone do me no justice. So, Mr. President, if I’m going to keep it 100, Yo, Barry, you did it, my nigga!�
Meet Violeta Trevizo newest addition to the staff of I Messenger Enterprises Throughout her internship Trevizo will be covering City Council meetings, School Boards, Dallas Area life and entertainment alongside other interns. A social media with a passion for investigative pieces, she will write converging news for the Garland Journal and Texas Metro News in print and online. Trevizo’s love for the written word sparked long before she realized it was her calling in life. As a young girl she had a knack for telling stories and creating videos for her fam-
Obama grinned from ear to ear and gave Wilmore a bear hug. If a White comedian, especially a conservative one, had called the first Black president “my nigga� he would have been immediately excoriated and rightfully so. When Trump questioned Obama’s birth certificate, the media gave the issue wall to wall coverage. The Democratic National Committee (DNC), the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), the Urban League, Al Sharpton, Joy Reed, Melissa Perry, etc. all demanded every Republican official to immediately “repudiate� Trump; and if they didn’t, these liberal groups and individuals implied that these Republicans somehow agreed with Trump’s position. I find it totally hypocritical now that these same liberal groups and individuals have all come down with a severe case of laryngitis. As of this printing, the WHCA has not issued so much as an apology to the president or the American people for the total and incomprehensible disrespect Wilmore showed towards our first elected Black president.What have we, in the Black community done, to create an environment where a person, let alone a Black person, feels comfortable calling the president of the United States “my nigga?�
ily, but it never crossed her mind that she would make a career out of it. It wasn’t until she stepped foot in her high school English class that she realized how much she enjoyed writing stories. After considering a career as an architect throughout her teenage years, Trevizo decided the right path for her was in journalism. Throughout her college career Trevizo has written stories for her school’s award-winning online paper, and created video content for the school’s television station. Aside from her reporting work she also interned at Susan G. Komen in Lubbock in
If we can’t condemn a Black for using this insidious word, how can we justify criticizing others for doing the same thing? How can we criticize Jennifer Lopez or the Quentin Tarantino, the director of the cult classic “Pulp Fiction� and “Django Unchained� for using it? How can we criticize former West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd for using it on the senate floor or during an interview with “60 Minutes?� Instead of Obama nervously laughing at Wilmore’s description of him, he should have immediately taken to the microphone and denounced Wilmore on the spot. So, to all my liberal media friends, especially the Black ones, the next time Trump makes a statement you disagree with, I don’t want to hear your moralizing lectures about racism and civility. The next time a Republican official makes a stupid, racially-charged comment about Obama (and they will), I hope those same liberal members of the media will also get a sudden case of laryngitis like you did over the Wilmore foolishness.I know why Republicans are silent on this issue—they have absolutely no credibility within the Black community. But liberals “claim� to love Black folks, but yet they can’t muster enough courage to take a principled stand and denounce Wilmore’s performance. What a shame this moment has found them totally unprepared for the moment that could have been their finest hour (Jackson out, **drops mic**).
the spring of 2016. When she’s not keeping busy with school, work, or an array of extra curricular activities, Trevizo likes to spend time having fun with her loved ones, including her 4-year-old Chihuahua-Pug mix Auggie. With the help of her supportive family, Trevizo will be graduating a semester early from Texas Tech University in December 2016. After graduation she plans to eventually move to New York to pursue a career in print journalism. Her long-term goal is to work for the New York Times covering the stories that are most difficult, yet the most important.
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Hillary subjected to different standard on Emails THE WHOLE TRUTH by George E. Curry
In the larger scheme of things, the long-awaited 83-page report on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server by the State Department’s inspector general was no where as damming as the media circus surrounding its release would lead you to believe. Clearly, she made some poor decisions - which she took far too long to acknowledge - and she ignored repeated suggestions that she dump the private server, with one staffer being sternly told not to bring up the subject again. A column in Forbes by Charles Tiefer places the controversy in its proper context. He wrote, “[The report] does not add any new serious charges or adverse facts. And, it shows she was less out of line with her predecessors, notably Colin Powell, than has been charged.” Tierfer continued, “...To the extent that she is criticized because ‘she did not comply with the Department’s policies that were implemented in accor-
dance with the Federal Records Act,’ the report is making a legal judgment that is not particularly strong. Note how she is not labeled as violating any statute, but rather, a real mouthful of mush - ‘the Department’s policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act.’ So we are talking about obscure, dull, bureaucratic policies. Not a criminal statute. Not even a civil statute - just the bureaucratic policies. “A report that says so little new against Clinton, amounts to a vindication.” But you wouldn’t know it by all the “breaking news” stories on cable TV. Or, the newspaper coverage, for that matter. The Washington Post published a blistering editorial under the headline, “Clinton’s inexcusable, willful disregard for the rules.” The editorial began, “Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 has been justifiably criticized as an error of judgment. What the new report from the State Department inspector general makes clear is that it also was not a casual oversight. Ms. Clinton had plenty of warnings to use official government communications methods, so as to
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Brittni is the eldest of three siblings. Brittni Clemons is a Dallas native but she was raised in Houston, where she spent most of her childhood. Once she entered middle school her family moved back to Dallas where she finished her middle and high school grades in Cedar Hill. Brittni graduated from Cedar Hill Collegiate High School in 2015, where she earned her high school diploma and an Associates degree at the age of 17. She is now furthering her education at Texas Tech University, where she is majoring in Journalism with a minor in Atmospheric Science. With expectations of receiving her bachelor’s degree in December 2017, at the age of 19, she doesn’t expect her education to end there. She plans on getting her Masters degree while double majoring in Broadcast Journalism and Meteorology at Oklahoma University. Brittni’s future career goals are to either
make sure that her records were properly preserved and to minimize cybersecurity risks. She ignored them.” Keep in mind, as CNN observed, “Experts have said it doesn’t appear Clinton violated federal laws.” Let’s contrast that to far more serious misconduct during the George W. Bush administration. In 2007, it was disclosed that the Bush administration had created a private Internet domain called gwb43. com (for George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. president) on which they were conducting official government business. Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff, reportedly used the private account to conduct 95 percent of his communications, ostensibly political matters forbidden by federal law. The account was controlled by the Republican National Committee. Under federal law, the White House is required to maintain all records pertaining to presidential decision-making. The existence of the server became public when it was discovered that J. Scott Jennings, the White House deputy director of political affairs, had used the account to discuss the firing of one of eight U.S. attorneys dismissed for political reasons. When Democrats took control of Congress and started looking into whether the U.S. attorneys had been fired for purely political reasons, it was announced that as many as 22 million
become a broadcast meteorologist for the National Weather Channel, or become a weather analyst for the National Weather Service. As a hobby she wants to do storm chasing, travel the world to analyze weather, and have her own radio station. Since she loves giving back to the community, she also wants to open up her own summer school program for children who are interested in weather. She hopes to also provide scholarship and internship opportunities. Aside from her education, Brittni is a proud member of Holy Cross Catholic Church where she participated in youth group, Choir, and praise dancing. In 2015 Brittni participated in the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Jabberwock Pageant, placing 3rd and earning a $4000 scholarship. Brittni also loves giving back to the community so she created her own volunteer organization with her school. She created and organized many donation drives and events with her biggest accomplishment to date, creating a breast walker where she earned over $800 and over $300 hats for the Susan G Komen Foundation.
emails may have been “lost” from the private gwb43.com server, including nearly all relating to the fired federal attorneys. The media reaction was in sharp contrast to how it has treated the disclosures about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Media Matters observed, “The White House email story broke on a Wednesday. Yet on that Sunday’s Meet The Press, Face The Nation, and Fox News Sunday, the topic of millions of missing White House emails did not come up. At all. (The story did get covered on ABC’s This Week.) “By comparison, not only did every network Sunday news show this week cover the story about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emails, but they were drowning in commentary. Between Meet the Press, Face The Nation, This Week, and Fox News Sunday, Clinton’s ‘email’ or ‘emails’ were referenced more than 100 times on the programs, according to Nexis transcripts.” It continued, “How did the Washington Post and New York Times commentators deal with the Bush email scandal in the week following the confirmation of the missing messages? In his April 17, 2007 column, Post columnist Eugene Robinson hit the White House hard. But he was the only Post columnist to do so. On the editorial page, the Post cautioned that the story of millions of missing White House emails
might not really be a ‘scandal.’ Instead, it was possible, the Post suggested, that Rove and others simply received ‘sloppy guidance’ regarding email protocol.” In case you missed the point, the watchdog group said, “Just to repeat: In 2007, the story was about millions of missing White House emails that were sought in connection to a Congressional investigation. Yet somehow the archiving of Clinton’s emails today requires exponentially more coverage, and exceedingly more critical coverage.” “Of course, back in 2007 Fox News seemed utterly uninterested in the Bush email story days after the news broke. A search of Fox archives locates only one panel discussion about the story and it featured two guests accusing Democrats of engineering a ‘fishing expedition.’ “From then-Fox co-host, Fred Barnes: “I mean, deleted e-mails, who cares?” No one - unless it involves Hillary Clinton. George E. Curry is President and CEO of George Curry Media, LLC. He is the former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine and the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA). He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his Web site, georgecurry. com. You can also follow him at twitter.com/currygeorge, George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook, and Periscope. See previous columns at http://www. georgecurry.com/columns.
Praise Party with Dareia
By Dareia Tolbert
Soft is the New Power, Deya “Direct” Smith encourages women to tap into their God-given authority, intuition and femininity to experience the ultimate success in love and life. What if everything you thought you understood about communicating with men was wrong? Would you be willing to re-calibrate your thinking to possess the love and life you desire? From the creator of the Man Whisperer Multimedia Series comes the new book Soft is the New Power by Deya “Direct” Smith. Smith shows readers how to return to the organic softness that is feminine power. Many women are losing themselves in an effort to keep up with the male-dominated workplace and the new-age approaches to dating and relationships. Too many successful and ambitious, career-driven women for various reasons tend to use masculine or hard energy to survive or succeed, and as a result, not only are they exhausted,
but they become hardened in communications. Smith encourages readers to step out of their comfort zones of self-promotion and self-protection and take a stronger, yet softer position to gain what they want. She says women have an innate power to attract amazing relationships through initiative, understanding and acceptance, coupled with the ability to approach life with a soft touch. Knowing how and when to turn on your power, does not negate the need to play hard ball when necessary, but it definitely gives you an advantage in work, play and at home. God made us the softer sex for a reason. Use it to your advantage! Listen to audio interview on www. Dareia Tolbert.com
Readers will: • Eliminate the pressure of being ‘on’ constantly; Define and embrace your feminine power; Understand that being soft does not make you weak it makes you wise; Improve communication with men in business and in your personal life; Learn the art of speaking to a man’s heart.
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Muhammad Ali -- The Legacy
BLACKONOMICS by James Clingman
via George Curry Media Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people. He can be reached through his website, blackonomics.com.
“Where you been, boy?” When I heard those words in June 1966, I knew I was going to have rough time in the U.S. Navy. My immediate reply to that Petty Officer was, “Who are you calling a boy? I am a man!” I was 21-years-old, already an angry Black man who experienced separate bathrooms, water fountains, restaurants at Greyhound bus stops that had “Coloreds served round back” signs posted on their front doors, and having to sit in the balcony of the local theater in Winston-Salem, N.C. during my two years of high school there. I was already angry about Medgar Evers, Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney, and Malcolm X. So I knew at that very moment I was called a “boy” by this southern White guy, I would be a marked man on that ship because of my belligerence and unwillingness to go along to get along. Ten months later, when Muhammad Ali refused to step forward to be drafted, I took a step up, got on his shoulders and have been there ever since. My view
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from that perch has given me the spirit, the drive, the commitment, and the dedication to do what I have done for decades now. His example gave me the audacity and temerity to stand before anyone, White, Black or otherwise, to state my case and stand my ground. A backbone is much stronger than a wishbone. Ali had backbone, and he passed it on to me without ever knowing it. Ali and those few athletes who stood with him were giants in a land of cowering, timid, “yessah” men. He was bold, brash, brave, and brutal in his in-yourface assessment of society’s ills. Ali was the personification of dreams, the realization of hopes, and the culmination of victory, with his fists as well as his voice, which could only be silenced by Parkinson’s disease. His impact on my life has lasted for 50 years, and will continue until I die. When they stripped him of his title and took away his right to earn a living, I became even angrier at the government for such a gross injustice. Years later, watching him fight the daily rounds of his real “Fight of the Century,” against such a relentless opponent as Parkinson’s, my commitment to help others grew even stronger.
Now that I am in the fight of my life, against my greatest opponent, ALS, which is similar to Parkinson’s in some ways. I think about Muhammad Ali often; I think about his children, especially his “Little Girl” Laila, in the same vein I think about my daughter, Kiah. And I pray that I will be strong like he was until the end. Ali’s strength made me a better person; I have the courage of my convictions and the fearless sacrificial mindset of that man among men. In today’s society of “make money without making waves,” prominent athletes should learn from Ali. It was not enough to wear hoodies when Trayvon was killed, not enough to turn shirts inside out and throw them on the basketball court in response to a racist franchise owner, not enough to wear “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts after Eric Garner was choked to death, not enough to stand in front of the Walmart where John Crawford was killed for checking out a BB Gun, not enough just to voice outrage after Sandra Bland died inside a jail cell despite not committing a crime, and not enough to say, “I haven’t really been on top of this issue,” when 12-year-old Tamir Rice was executed for carrying a toy gun in the “Open Carry” State of Ohio. Empty gestures are temporary and cause no real changes.
It’s easier to speak highly of Muhammad Ali than it is to do what he did. I am proud to say that I did what he did, and will continue. I am reminded of the following quote from a Village Voice article titled, “Compa$$ionate Capitali$m” by Ta-Nehisi Coates: “Forty years [after his death], it’s easy to quote Malcolm and put him on a postage stamp - now that we’ve killed him. Martin Luther King Jr. was ultimately abandoned by the civil rights establishment for his stand against poverty and war. Today he has a national holiday, and even conservatives have to honor him now that he’s no longer here to shame them. Ditto for the Black Panthers. Everybody says their dad wore a black beret - now that J. Edgar Hoover isn’t alive to tap their phones. “Progressive vision almost always lacks mass appeal. While possibly enjoying a bit of rebellious sheen, prophetic insight is decidedly uncool; it involves the sacrifice of family livelihoods, the sullying of reputations, and, at worst, death. Only the afterglow is romantic. Everybody says they would have fought with Nat Turner - now that none of us are slaves.”
Go Sweetly Muhammad Ali With the passing of the largMuhammad Ali once said that er than life sports personality, Muhammad Ali, the by Congresswoman world has lost more than a Eddie Bernice Johnson great boxing champion. We have lost a remarkable human-being whose a person who views the world at life was laced with courage, dig- 50-years of age the same as they nity and grace. While his athlet- did at 20-years of age has wasted ic talents had long since passed, 30 years of life. He was a wise his face was recognized on every and purposeful man, a son of the continent in the world, from the South, who rose to the pinnacle largest cities to the smallest villag- of a sport that brought him fame es. He was more than a citizen of and wealth. Despite his success a single country. He was, in fact, a it appeared that he was in pursuit of something else, something far citizen of the world. The meaning and dimensions more valuable than money, fame, of his life have helped to shape the regular mention in the headlines very mosaic of the 21st century. of newspapers or a gallery of His inner light illuminated the friends. He often said that those who hearts, the minds, and the souls of men, women and children the are not “courageous enough to world over. He lived a transfor- take risks will accomplish nothmational life with vision at its ing in life.” The risks that he took inside and out of the boxing ring core.
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were numerous, from refusing to enter the draft for the Vietnam War which caused him to be stripped of his title and banned from boxing while in his prime, to exposing his body to more than 20,000 punches from his opponents throughout his historic career. During the course of his life, Muhammad Ali struggled with the direction of his nation, and some of its citizens struggled with him. Yet, as time passed and his compassion for others and his battle for social and economic justice emerged, he became a national and international hero. We may never see the likes of Muhammad Ali again. Yet we must never forget all that he stood for, and the manner in which he engaged us and the world. I am grateful that he chose to live and work amongst us as he did. We are a better people, a better nation, and a better world because of the life and influence of Muhammad Ali.
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Muhammad Ali: A Fighter in and out of Ring
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“It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.” - Muhammad Ali, Championship Boxer, American Activist, International Icon, 1942-2016 How would you approach the colossal task of describing a man who once boasted that he, "wrestled with alligators, tussled with a whale, done handcuffed lightning and throw thunder in jail. Only last week murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick, so mean he made medicine sick"? I think that's a man you allow to define himself - in his own colorful words which is what Muhammad Ali did his entire life and throughout his legendary boxing career. Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born where he was buried: Louisville, Ky. His mother was a cook and house cleaner and his father was a frustrated painter with big dreams, dreams he would pass on to both
his sons along with this constant refrain "I am the greatest." Ali's legendary boxing career began with a beloved, stolen bicycle. The $60 red Schwinn was a Christmas gift from his father, and it would set the wheels in motion for an angry 12-year-old kid who claimed he would "whup" the person who stole his bike, to step into a ring, pick up boxing gloves and fight for justice. It was a defining moment and a trope that would shape his professional and personal life. Ali was a great fighter, but his fights were never limited to the inside of a boxing ring. Ali's career was teeming with personal success, but every win in and out of the ring was a win for every man or woman who ever felt attacked, or had to bob-and-weave past the ferocious jabs of social injustice. Ali was a professional athlete, but he used that platform to make an impact that transcended pugilism. Famous people often take up causes, but Ali is the greatest because he stood up for his principles and made consequential sacrifices on behalf of those causes. After winning a gold medal in the Rome Olympics and beating Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship, the newly crowned 22-year-old champ renounced his given name, Cassius Clay, as a "slave name" and revealed that he was a member of the Nation of Islam. His new faith and his new name drew intense controversy and lost him many fans, but he persevered and successfully defended his title every time he stepped in the ring. In 1967, Ali was drafted to serve in the
Army during the height of our nation's war in Vietnam. He refused to serve, saying, "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong," and requested conscientious-objector status from fighting against people he said never lynched him or put dogs on him. No slight of hand in the ring, head fake or lightening quick shuffle was as bold as Ali's refusal to fight in a war he did not believe in. The reaction was swifter and harder than the punches of any opponent Ali had ever faced. Many called him a traitor. Ali was convicted of draft evasion, stripped of his heavyweight title and banned from boxing. While he wasn't locked up for sticking to his conviction, he was locked out of the sport the brought him to fame. He sacrificed three years of his career and untold millions rather than renounce his anti-war stance. Ali would return to the ring in 1970 and would go on to thrill boxing fans, supporters, and critics, with his skill in the ring. Loud and unapologetic, Ali would continue to speak out against social injustice and preach the gospel of Black pride. Never forgetting those who were still "catching hell" while he had it made, Ali understood that "service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." The 12-yearold boy who lost his bike at the hands of an unknown thief may have changed his name, but never wavered from his purpose: to seek justice. His fight for justice was never his alone; it was for everyone. It was during this period of his career that I, a star-struck 13-year-old, was
My Day - Ali and Dallas MY DAY By Dr. J. Ester Davis
Muhammad Ali created and lived the “Audacity of Hope” decades before Barack Obama published his thoughts on reclaiming the American dream, making it a number one New York Times bestseller. He channeled his thoughts into sweeping poetry. Muhammad Ali was the perfect Drum Major for James Brown’s “I’m Black and I’m Proud.” In the book, “Having Our Say” by Sarah and Elizabeth Delany, the sisters confronted the days of Jim Crow, as the rose to professional prominence, middle class
status, during the Harlem heyday. I think they would say Muhammad Ali carried their message to world class status, just beautifully. The greatest athlete of all times and the world’s greatest self-ordained ambassador for racial respect came to Dallas several times. Most people remember his ever present voice on the black radio shows and visiting college campuses. I met Ali the first time in 1974. I was the pageant director for the Miss Black Dallas Pageant and at the time, advisory member for the Miss Black America and Miss Black USA Pageants. The 1974 pageant was historic because we had pageant queens in from Colorado, California and Florida. I n the 70’s we had these pageants in every major American city with large audiences, major contributors, celebrities, advertisers
and supporters. After Muhammad Ali died last week, Saundra Lohr, Miss Black Dallas 1974, posted a memoir on Facebook and we talked. After catching up, I started looking for the stack of souvenir books I had somewhere. Going about my day this week, I started talking to people, both young and old, about Muhammad Ali. At the service station, I casually asked this lady attendant about Ali. She immediately lighted up and said “I talked to him on the phone once. . . when I was 13 years old.” Of course, I had to hear the rest of the story. She was a student at Oliver W. Holmes, recuperating from a broken leg and listening to the “Tom Joyner Show.” Every day she called in to the “Tom Joyner Show.”. Well, this particular day Tom Joyner’s guest was Muhammad Ali. Tom Joyner allowed her to talk to Muhammad Ali. She still had every word recorded in her memory bank and
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thrilled to meet Ali at an Alpha Phi Alpha convention in Milwaukee. I was awed by him and have considered him a hero all my life. One of my prized possessions is an autographed Ali boxing glove, a cherished wedding gift from my wife. Later, I was honored to serve as an Ali Center board member for several years. Ali laid his gloves down for the last time in 1980. After retiring, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. As the progressive condition robbed him of his poetry, stinging provocations and physical dexterity, he became a more cherished figure, here and abroad, and the accolades poured in for breadth of Ali's career as a boxer and activist. He was the first boxer on a box of Wheaties. He lit the Olympic flame during the Atlanta Olympics. President Bush presented Ali with the Medal of Freedom, and the National Urban League honored Ali with the highest commendation presented by the organization by giving him an Equal Opportunity Day (EOD) Award. He was my idol and his courage has been a beacon for so many in my generation. Ali fought his last battle against his most vicious foe in the public eye for more than 30 years. While we mourn the time of his departure, we are reminded of what made him "the greatest of all time." We should all draw comfort from knowing that he competed well. We take pride in the fact that he finished the race. And we recognize that we are all better because he kept the faith. Rest in peace, champ.
the excitement in her voice was as though it happened yesterday. This story is significant and is the root cause of Muhammad Ali’s greatest. He could walk and talk with kings and queens, politicIans and filmmakers, adversaries and haters, promotors and Indian Chiefs, CEOs and COOs and still not lose the common touch with everyday people. The other significant sentiment I heard from my community survey was, “I think I admired him more after his fighting career.” This accounting of Muhammad Ali centered around his openness to display his illness. His courage and bravery in and out of the ‘center ring’ will live forever in the hearts of his world fan club. He was indeed. . . the greatest. www.esterday.com
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Ali – The Greatest - Round One “What’s My Name?”
1967 was turning to face spring and three impressionable boys were fully engaged. Me, Michael Jackson and Prince were all around eight. James Brown had the three of us dancing to a new smash hit; “Papa’s got a Brand New Bag.” Meanwhile a potent hurricane was predicted for Houston Texas. This “pretty” poet/pugilist selfnamed Muhammad Ali publically rejected his government name, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. Later, I learned that Clay was named for a powerful and prestigious abolition-
hazardous battleground, what was a “Demilitarized Zone?” So peace is possible, but the body bag business is booming? Nothing made much sense to me after JFK was killed three miles from my front door…Nothing!! I switched channels to find sportscaster Howard Cosell a man whom I admired and trusted for one reason…Cosell defended fully the rights of the former Cassius Marcellus Clay to be called whatever the hell he wanted. Be leery of the “America the paradise” historians who will whitewash Ali and recast him as some sort of candy-assed, highly celebrated
ist. His parents plotted to emblazon destiny on young Cassius’s conscience by naming him for greatness. But Ali realized that he could not call himself “The Greatest” with a carefully selected “slave name.” 1967 was a year of wonderment for me. The Vietnam War was televised and I was petrified that I might someday be drafted. The War, though I studied it intimately and daily, was confusing as I had it proffered to me by Walter Cronkite. If all of Vietnam was a
conformist, readymade for a “Wheaties” box. Ali didn’t earn that coveted cereal-box cameo until 1999, after the Olympic torch. Before Ali became an “acceptable Negro”, most White folks and a lot of Negroes hated him. To this crowd his first names were, uppity, loudmouth, troublemaking and a few other invectives, but they all agreed that his surname was Nigger. From Clay to Ali, he grew up
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I am the greatest. I said that before I even knew I was.
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in an environment that was hostile, hurtful and humiliating to his race. Save that Kumbaya ‘ish! Black America’s eyes and ears affixed on Houston Texas. More ears than eyes because televisions were a middle-class luxury. Houston rocketed to fame by landing NASA. Ali’s outspoken arrogance would be tested at the “8th Wonder of the World; The Astrodome.” The
Astrodome was the first enclosed football arena and earned Houston a significant amount of tourism. Muhammad Ali entered the ring intent on delivering a resounding ass-whipping to his opponent and his haters. He paced the ring keeping constant eye contact. He looked at six-foot-six inch Ernie Terrell like he was a midget. During the pre-fight hype, Terrell mocked
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the name change, currying favor with Whites and Black Christians who despised Ali, Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam. But watching, I thought Terrell had talked about Ali’s mama. In our community “The Dozens” will get you hurt quickly and seriously; with or without gloves and a protective cup. Throughout the contest I could see Ali constantly mouthing something to Terrell, but couldn’t make it out. Camera angles and close-ups were not nearly as refined then, but Ali allowed him to stay conscious long enough to finish this speech he was spitting. A few days later I learned that the whole while he brutalized Terrell, he was asking him, “What’s my name? What’s my name boy? Terrell finally had to say his name. My middle daughter, Alison was named partially for Ali, because the name Ali means “Greatness” around the world. Ali is “The Greatest” because he named it and claimed it. Ali made Black beautiful and us proud and was the progenitor of a movement. Ali whipped his non-believers and made them acquiesce. Greatness requires bearing the sacrifices that come with your beliefs. BTW…What’s your name?
Ali – The Greatest – Round Two – Ali had Heart!!
‘I’ve searched the land and found this David, son of Jesse. He’s a man whose heart beats to my heart.’ Acts 13:22 The sacred pages of the Qur’an call King David a prophet. There are Torah experts arguing for and against the notion that David was Jewish. But the Bible sets King David apart and sets the stage for this column very simply; David
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was a man after God’s own heart. Muhammad Ali had heart and God must have been pleased. Stocking contemporary commentary with anything religious is dangerous. But I could not parse, parallel or pontificate on Muhammad Ali without taking a biblical text. Ali’s heart was directed by what I call the “Extra-celestial.” In the Hall dictionary, extra-celestial translates as a forceful movement of God. God will make you fight even when you don’t know how or if you can win. Ali, like David, faced menacing, stiff-necked, Philistines akin to Goliath. The old Black Preacher conjectured that David chose five smooth stones and his slingshot because he heard Goliath had four brothers. Ali, like David, learned to fight with precision early on. Young Cassius had his $65 Schwinn bicycle stolen. Clay’s mentor, officer
Joe Martin, who mastered “community policing”, set him on a path of self-discipline and self-defense. Ali, like shepherd boy David, was deemed “least likely to succeed.” Cassius was born and immersed into segregation and second-class citizenship. His life expectancy and expectations were marginalized. Ali’s affiliation with the Nation of Islam earned him even more scorn and suspicion. But when millions of White college students couldn’t convince America that the Vietnam War was wrong, Ali sacrificed all he had and more than he could afford. Ali thought and fought from his heart. Ali, like David was passionate about everything in life and beautiful women were a shared weakness. According to civil rights leader, Reverend Dr. Wyatt T. Walker, one night when the A/C broke down in his palace, King David peeped over
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onto a balcony and was “slayed” by the “shimmering figure” of Bathsheba. She was moon-bathing on the roof of the military barracks nearby. David’s passion led him to have his favorite general and Bathsheba’s husband, Uriah, killed in battle. Ali had a similar experience after being captivated by a “fine brown frame” and future wife; Veronica Porsche. Ali prominently and preemptively introduced Porsche as his bride, much to the surprise and chagrin of a wife who nurtured their four children. Martial artist Khalilah Ali, like Uriah, became a caustic casualty when lust turned to love. (I told y’all I wasn’t whitewashing Ali! The news ain’t that Ali fell down; the news is that he never stayed down! Ali, like David was a lover and a fighter!) Muhammad Ali was to boxing what David was to songwriting. (Bible thumpers know that David penned the Psalms). Sportswriter Kelsey McCarson put it this way. “Muhammad Ali was arguably the most influential and revered figure in American sports history. Sure, Babe Ruth was great, Michael Jordan was amazing and Jim Brown was, too. But Ali was so much more. Ali was “The Greatest.” In order to fully comprehend the significance of “heart”, imagine other “great athletes” with Ali’s heart. Envision Michael Jordan having the love and conviction for humanity that he has for golf, cigars and “Becky with the good hair.” Or picture Tiger Woods sinking the notion that he is anything other than a proud Negro, with all rights and responsibilities thereto appertaining. Social activist Jim Brown, like Ali proves that “success” without heart is just a shallow, self-serving, sham. Muhammad Ali’s heart initially cost him the love of the “up and in”; but he became the undisputed champion of the multitudinous “down and out.” In my opinion, Ali, Like David was a man after God’s own heart.
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TRAGEDY STRIKES
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BY SAM BOYD
Stanley Almodovar III (23), Amanda Alvear (25), Oscar Aracena (26), Rodolfo Ayala (33), Antonio Davon Brown (29), Darryl R. Burt II (29), Jonathan Camuy (24), Angel Luis Candelario-Padro (28), Omar Capo (20), Simon Carrillo (31), Luis Daniel Conde (39), Cory James Connell (21), Tevin Eugene Crosby (25), Anthony Luis Laureano Disla (25), Deonka Deidra Drayton (32), Leroy Valentin Fernandez (25), Mercedez Marisol Flores (26), Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz (22), Juan Ramon Guerrero (22), Paul Terrell Henry (41), Frankie Hernandez (27), Miguel Angel Honorato (30), Jimmy De Jesús (50), Javier Jorge-Reyes (40), Jason Benjamin Josaphat (19), Eddie Jamoldroy Justice (30), Christopher Leinonen (32), Alejandro Barrios Martinez (21), Juan Chavez Martinez (25), Brenda Lee Marquez McCool (49), Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez (25), Kimberly Morris (37), Akyra Murray (18), Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez (25), Joel Rayon Paniagua (31), Jean Carlos Mendez Perez (35), Enrique L. Rios (25), Eric Ivan Ortiz Rivera (36), Jean Carlos Nieves Rodriguez (27), Xavier Emmanúel Serrano Rosado (35), Christopher Sanfeliz (24), Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan (24), Edward Sotomayor Jr. (34), Shane Evan Tomlinson (33), Martin Benitez Torres (33), Juan P. Rivera Velazquez (37), Luis Vielma (22), Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon (37), Jerald Arthur Wright (31). These are the names of the 49 people killed in the Orlando attacks over the weekend, which has quickly become one of the deadliest mass shooting in the United States. The tragedy happened at around 2 a.m. when Omar Mateen, the shooter, began a three-hour shooting rampage and hostage siege at Pulse, a local gay club. Armed with an assault gun and a handgun, the lone shooter’s spree ultimately ended when a SWAT team gunned him down. Some suspected the shooting to be a hate crime, since Mateen’s father, Mir Seddique, claimed that Omar had become enraged after seeing two men kissing in downtown Miami. Seddique claimed that he believed that was part of his son’s motive. “I apologize for what my son did,” Seddique told NBC News. “I don’t know why he did it. He is dead, so I can’t ask him. I wish I knew.” However, as reported by CNN late Sunday, Mateen had made a call to 911 during the attack, pledging his allegiance to the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But there is no evidence that Mateen was in communications with the terrorist group, let alone that the group even knew of his existence. But shortly after, Amaq, an ISIS news agency, claimed to be responsible for the murders. “The armed attack that targeted a gay night club in the city of Orlando in the
American state of Florida which left over Friends, club employees, and classmates 100 people dead or injured was carried out told ABC News that Mateen was a regular by an Islamic State fighter,” read the Amaq patron of gay clubs for years. statement. 71-year-old James Van Horn, a frequent However, U.S. intelligent officials think visitor to Pulse said, “Sometime he would the group is just claiming responsibility to be there for a few weeks at a time and make up ground for recent losses in Iraq maybe on the weekends and then you and Syria. wouldn’t see him for a little while, then “The fact that a website connected to you’d see him again.” [ISIS] applauded it doesn’t mean anyChris Callen, a performer at Pulse, didn’t thing,” said the official. “They are losing think Mateen seemed homophobic. on their home turf, and it’s not surprising “He seemed really warm,” Callen said. if they’re looking for some kind of twisted Pulse head of security Estella Peterkin victory.” claimed she had to kick Mateen out a The 29-year-old Mateen was born in couple of times for bad behavior. New York and has lived in Florida for the Others, such as Florida resident Kevin past decade. West, claim that Mateen would use gay In 2006, he filed a petition to have his dating apps to contact them. name legally changed from Omar Mir “He was asking… what clubs are popSeddique to Omar Mir Seddique Mateen. ping and things of that sort,” West said. Federal agents interThis behavior seems viewed him twice in to go at odds with how 2013 after co-workers Yusufiy claimed that Smith Chapel African Methodist Mateen felt toward the claimed that he had made inappropriate gay community. Episcopal Church of Dallas comments to them “He would express Texas will hold a prayer vigil about radical Islam prohis anger towards [a] for the victims of the Orlando certain culture, hopaganda. One of those ex-coworkers, Daniel Florida terror attack on Wednes- mosexuality, because Gilroy, told NBC News in… Islamic culture, it day June 15, 2016 at 7:30 pm is really not tolerated,” that Mateen was racist, belligerent, and “toxic.” this prayer vigil is open to the Yusufiy said. “I know at “He was scary in a public please use social media the time he was trying concerning way,” Gilroy to get his life straight to share this event. For more and follow his faith.” said. “And it wasn’t at times; it was all the With access to his cell information please call the time. He had anger phone and the cooperachurch office at 214-948-9482 tion of his current wife, management issues. Something would set Dr. C Dennis Williams is the Noor Mateen, more him off, but the things information is surfacing Senior Pastor. that would set him off about Mateen, his habits were always women, and behaviors. race or religion.” Noor is allegedly The FBI investigated him again in 2014 providing key information to investigators, because of his connection with an Amersenior counter-terrorism official told ABC ican who traveled to the Middle East to News. become a suicide bomber. Now, in the aftermath of the incident, Mateen’s ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, told the safety of citizens is in question. reporters that Mateen would beat her and “Texas is likely the next place to get was prone to violent behavior. targeted, so of course I’m scared,” Michi“When he got his tempers, he would gan-born Quantez Lawson, 28, said. “We express hate toward everything,” Yusufiy need some sort of gun control because said. there has been more incidents since it’s The marriage, which was consummated been free to open carry.” in 2009, lasted only a couple of months The argument of gun control is comuntil her parents came to take her away manding a larger presence in society’s and the couple officially divorced in 2011. issues. “Tragically, news reports about mass gun violence have become a conAbout Omar Mateen stant presence in our everyday lives,” The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Firearms and Explosives announced that said. “This attack reiterates the need for Mateen had bought the firearms legally our country to fundamentally rethink the within the last week. gun culture and the laws that surround it Florida Representative Alan Grayson in America. When one man, with a history believes the shooting was ideologically of domestic abuse and mental illness, is motivated, claiming, “The nationality of able to buy a gun, murder 49 people and family members is indicative.” injure more than 50 others, it highlights
the deficiencies in our current system. We must not continue to send condolences to the countless victims of violence without doing everything in our power to prevent more families and communities from suffering from this kind of senseless violence. We must act now to end mass shootings in our country.” Open carry laws have also come into question. “I wasn’t excited about open carry when they announced it,” said Irving resident Vanessa Izquierdo, 20. “I think there should be more banning because right now we’re fighting fire with fire and it’s not a good idea.” For some the incident has made them angry. “I'm mad and angry and done with people who keep defending gun laws that allowed this to happen,” Austin resident Cy Zamanian, 20, said. “We've been down this path several time, just in the past year, and still nothing has changed. And as a country we will continue to do nothing. Because if we weren't going to do anything about children being killed in their own school, our country sure as hell isn't going to do anything about LGBT community members being killed, because it's still clear that a good chunk of our country doesn't see them as equals.” But some people do feel safe around the large amount of guns owned in Texas. “You can’t take guns away from this culture because it’s embedded in this culture,” Mexico-born Victor Villanueva, 20, said. “Texas owns a quarter of the guns in the world, so I feel pretty safe knowing someone in here has a gun that could stop an event.” But at the end of the day the event still has tragic consequences. “Honestly it kills me to see that happen in the world,” Lewisville native Juan Chavez, 22, said. “The killers will never understand that the people's lives they took had families that cared and loved them and can no longer be with them. It isn't fair in the slightest. Why should the families be punished for this? I just hope that one day all this hate and killing sprees stop.” Now the country, and much of the world, sits and waits with Orlando and consoles them in their time of need as they wait for change to happen. "I offer my sincere condolences to the family and friends of those who were impacted by today's senseless violence in Orlando,” Texas Senator Rodney Ellis said. “More than ever, it is clear that hate can kill. All of us have a responsibility to join together in a unified response against hatred directed at any group - whether it's because of what you look like, where you were born, or who you love."
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So now you perfect, right?
us is highly unlikely; that falling and failing but to the Christian are inevitable. Getting attempting to obey the up, however, is not. Word, it is mandatory. Now I’m told, if you “For whoever exalts ask the Holy Spirit for by James A. Washington himself will be humbled a helping hand, you’re and whoever humbles very likely to get one. himself will be exalted.” It’s that God is a Matthew 23:12. God of another chance From everything I’ve there are countless Now I happen to thing. I believe this read and been told, you references to living, should never expect that or trying to live a life think this is serious because I’ve blown so you can live a perfect devoid of ego and pride. stuff. The only way to many opportunities to life. Flaws, faults, Paul actually says adhere to any of it is to demonstrate humility, mistakes and miscues humility is required look deep inside one’s but yet the blessings still are inevitable and for the presence of the self and acknowledge come my way. Hell, I woke up this cannot be avoided no Holy Spirit. “But the the personal character matter how hard you try. fruit of the spirit is love, flaws that we each have. morning. The least I can do is God lets us know joy, peace, patience, I think this is the reason goodness, Christ said, “He who is show up in church on through the sacrifice of kindness, Jesus Christ, that how we faithfulness, gentleness without sin, cast the first Sunday to let others know this is a place handle our imperfection and self control…since stone.” Once you see the real to come and bring an is as important as we live by the Spirit, let acknowledging that we us keep in step with the you, real forgiveness imperfect life in search must follow. Who would of the perfect truth. have them. My spiritual Spirit. imagination allows me Flaws and all, God Let us not become dare be so arrogant and to consider humility as conceited, provoking not humble himself in loves me and every an essential ingredient and envying each other.” the eyes of God by not now and then I need of any Christian’s make Galatians 5:22-26. I forgiving his fellow to be reminded of that. up. don’t know about you man’s transgressions? Church is a good, if not A humble person but conditioning myself God did for you and me. the best, place where That brings me to the that can happen. would never look down to live humbly out of role of the church. If upon or turn a nose up habit can be difficult, if The challenge is to anyone and certainly not impossible for the there was ever a place to remember you can would not think of world in which we live. where the concept of never feel comfortable themselves as superior Ours is a world that forgiveness should be about casting that first to another human being. measures the substance guaranteed, it’s the stone, ever. The reason, again I of a person by the church. May God bless and But we all know the keep you always. imagine, must be that accumulation of money, he or she recognizes things, position and church is far from a raylcarr@yahoo.com, perfect place. The key (214) 514-9553 or and subscribes to that Resume: status. old saying, “…there but To acquire a humble to all of this is what for the grace of God, go state of mind as a matter happens after you fall, I…” of course to many of after you sin, after you back slide; remember Throughout the bible
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Community Calendar June 14 “A Community Cooks” event at Paul
Quinn College. A Community Cooks (“ACC”) is an annual event to raise funds for the College’s WE Over Me Farm. ACC takes place at 6pm, in the Grand Lounge of the Cottrell Student Union Building on the campus of the College.
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African Chamber Luncheon “ Doing Business with DFW International Airport” from 11:15-1:00 PM at the DFW International Airport New Headquarters
June 16 L.G. Pinkston Class of 69 Alumni
Nonprofit First Annual Fundraiser Event and Dinner on Thursday, June 16, 2016 at the El Centro College West Campus meeting room from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. that will benefit the high school students of L.G. Pinkston in West Dallas. The evening includes an elegant dinner, music, and a silent auction. Dinner Tickets $50.00 Call us today to RSVP at 972-997-5228 Guest Speaker- Attorney Bobbie Edmonds, Recipient of the Legacy of Women Award ******* On behalf of the Honorable Councilwoman Carolyn King Arnold we would like to
invite you to attend the Southern Gateway Project community meeting hosted by Councilwoman Arnold in conjunction with TX DOT and City Officials in regards to the Southern Gateway Project and the “Deck Park” The event will be from 6:30-7:30pm at Beckley Saner Rec Center. *** Balch Springs Chamber of Commerce June Network Luncheon Guest Speaker: Brisa Castillo, Acuity Systems, Inc. Break the Rules, Close More Sales! Thursday, June 16, 2016 11:30AM-1PM 12400 Elam Road, Balch Springs TX ********* Garland Summer Musicals Presents Fiddler on the Roof Garland Summer Musicals will open its 2016 season with Fiddler on the Roof, June 17-19 and June 24-26. Set in the small village of Anatevka, the story centers on a poor dairyman who must protect his daughters in the face of changing social influences. Performances will be held in the Brownlee Auditorium of the Granville Arts Center, 300 N. Fifth St. Purchase tickets by calling 972-205-2790 or visit GarlandArtsBoxOffice.com.
June 17 It’s Juneteenth time in Denton! See page 16
June 18 The Community of Joppa cordially invited to join us in celebrating the Buffalo Soldier Sesquicentennial 150 years. Come and be a Part of the celebration at the 2016 Buffalo Soldiers Juneteenth Weekend Festival June 18th, 2016 at 8339 Corban Dale in Dallas, TX (Joppa). 28th Texas Black Invitational Rodeo at the State Fair Coliseum in Fair Park, at 7p.m *****
Perfect Effort Leadership Conference We Can Do IT Positive Connection for Women from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM CDT Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Dallas -DFW Airport N. 4441 W. John Carpenter Freeway, Irving, TX 75063 ****** The African American Museum presents its 28h Texas Black Invitational Rodeo Saturday @ 7:00pm. It will be held at the state fair coliseum Fair Park. Standard seating price is $10 and Box Seating ticket price is $35. For more info contact Khaliq Bryant @ (214)- 565-9026 ext 305 or email him @kbyrant@aamdallas.org. ********* Martin Lawrence’s Doin Time Tour will be in Dallas at the Verizon theatre in Grand Prairie, @ 8:00p.m. **** BCL of Texas NeighborWorks Homeownership Center- 4th Annual Home Buyer Fair! A FREE, one-stop shop to help firsttime home buyers becomeconfident, educated, and prepared consumers. 9am - 1pm Friendship-West Baptist Church 2020 W. Wheatland Road Dallas, TX RSVP: http://www.homebuyerfair.com/ Educational workshops, exhibitors, affordable home tours, prizes, and lots of family-friendly fun! **** Hoops for Hope 3-On-3 Tournament 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 18. Granger Recreation Center, 1310 W. Avenue F. For questions, call 469-800-2522 or contact HopeClinic@bhcs.com. ****** The Dallas of Black Chamber of Commerce will be hosting an event called “Marketing using Social Media.” You will be able to learn about creating sales funnels, advertising and promoting via social media. 10:00 am-11:30 am. Go to the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce website to register. ***** CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH THE LEGACY OF THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT IN DALLAS TEXAS WHAT: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Black Power/Consciousness Movement, 12 PM (Noon) to 3 PM WHERE: Pan African Connection (Bookstore, Art Gallery and Resource Center), 4466 South Marsalis Ave, Dallas (75216) Ernest McMillan, former chairman, Dallas SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) Phone: 214.824.2433
June 19 HAPPY FATHER’s DAY
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June 20 Thanks Joe and Earlline!
June 25 Talley Dunn Gallery will be having a silent auction called “The Big Bang.” It will take place Saturday, from 6:00PM9:00PM. Viewers will have the opportunity to preview the artwork before the auction during regular gallery hours.
July 4 The City of Duncanville invites you to bring your family and friends to its annual Independence Day Celebration. The day will begin with a parade sponsored by the Duncanville Lions Club, and will close with a host of evening festivities in Armstrong Park. Attendees will be able to enjoy LIVE music, delicious food from local vendors, bounce houses for the kids, and the return of Duncanville’s traditional Fourth of July Fireworks Extravaganza! Admission is FREE and open to the public ***** One of Dallas Heritage Village’s most beloved annual events, Old Fashioned Fourth, will offer free admission this year in honor of the Village’s 50th Anniversary. On Monday, July 4, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., families, decked out in red, white, and blue, will celebrate Independence Day throughout 13 acres of Dallas Heritage Village, 1515 S. Harwood Street, with picnicking and a parade as well as fun games and activities.
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NNPA News Wire Columnist 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. 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? -unsigned Dear Unsigned, 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
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Black College Football Hall of Fame moving to Canton, Hall of Fame Village By Steve Doerschuk Repository sports writer
have been conducted in Atlanta, there is no building. The first class was inducted in 2010. The members of all seven classes include some of the biggest names in the football galaxy, such as Jerry Rice and Walter Payton. It recognizes players time forgot, such as quarterback Willie “Satellite” Totten, whose 1984 Mississip-
CANTON Five black quarterbacks have been picked in the first round of the last six NFL drafts. The Pro Football Hall of Fame is making a nod to the time when there were no black players, quarterback or otherwise, in the SEC. The Black College Football Hall of Fame is moving from Atlanta to Canton. Plans call for establishing a wing within the Pro Football Hall of Fame or building a home in the emerging Hall of Fame Village. The move was announced this afternoon by Hall of Fame Executive Director and President James Harrison and Doug Williams David Baker. “It’s a pretty ambitious schedule, especially with everything we have going on,” Baker told pi Valley State team averaged 59 points a game. The Repository. The Black College Football Hall of Induction ceremonies could be in Canton as early as 2017. An annual kick- Fame’s official website traces black coloff game honoring Historically Black lege football’s roots to 1892. The segment Colleges or Universities could be played cites a spike in college football populariin the new Tom Benson Hall of Fame ty after World War I, and continues: Stadium as early as 2018. “From the cotton fields of the South The Black College Football Hall of to the slums of major cities, black boys Fame was co-founded in 2009 by Doug dreamed of glory in this newfound Williams, the first black quarterback to game, with the only problem being that win a Super Bowl, and James “Shack” they couldn’t play wherever they wantHarris, the first black to be a regular ed. For more than 70 years, young black starting quarterback in the NFL. players flocked to black colleges and Pro Football Hall of Fame vice pres- universities. While the major state inident Joe Horrigan was a catalyst in stitutions allowed only a trickle of black working with them. players into their programs, the vast ma“Joe was on the advisory board for the jority, before 1965, played at Historically Black College Football Hall of Fame,” Black Colleges and Universities.” Baker said. “He always believed this There were no black players in the was part of NFL history. Joe and I had a SEC until 1967, when Nat Northington meeting with Doug Williams and James suited up for Kentucky in a game against Harris.” all-white Mississippi. At the time, LouiThat led to other meetings. The boards siana and Mississippi carried laws banof both halls of fame endorsed moving to ning state universities from sporting Canton. While the Black College Foot- events involving black players. ball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies
WWW.TEXASMETRONEWS.COM ence to keep their prayers with the family and Price was angered by this continuous setback, remember the judge. calling Jenkins “Captain Save-a-Homie.” “She was the electrifying judge on the bench,” Garcia got in the final words on the debate, Purdy said. saying that the research is there and they can Judge Tonya Parker also agreed with the sen- still talk about it. timent. “We do our homework,” Garcia said. “It never By Sam Boyd “Our hearts are broken over the loss of her,” hurts to be prepared. I will support both your Yet again, another meeting of the Dallas Com- Parker said. “But we are grateful for our time visions.” Next the conversation moved to the tax rates missioners Court isn’t complete without arguing spent with her. We get the honor and privilege of continuing her work.” across the county. and fighting amongst the commissioners. Senator Royce West also agreed with the legacy Price spoke first, identifying Dallas County as Commissioner John Wiley Price lead the call to order, taking the place of Judge Clay Judge Brown has left. West added that including having one of the lowest tax rates in the state, Lewis Jenkins, who showed up a little bit late this recognition in the resolutions was very re- but still having its issues. He said that a proposal given by the state would cost Dallas County to the meeting. The invocation was given by Dr. spectable of the Commissioners Court. Paula Dobbs-Wiggins, a psychiatrist and adjunct “This will be a record that lives in perpetuity,” $9 million while only saving homeowners a little over four dollars on their houses. professor at SMU who was selected by Commis- West said. Price said that many judges changed their “It’s like a 60-second fool, but a lifetime hero,” sioner Dr. Theresa M. Daniel to speak. schedules to attend Brown’s funeral and that it Price said. The resolutions started with Jenkins was very moving to see her impact on the comCommissioner Mike Cantrell and Jenkins, who announcing the employees of munity. share similar views on the subject, spoke next the month for May 2016 beNow, on to some issues that were with Jenkins taking the lead. fore handing off to Daniel who not embraced by everyone on the Jenkins pointed out a gradual wage growth brought in some speakers to discourt. over the past five years, an unemployment cuss state funding for indigent Price discussed how he was form- decrease, and an 11.2 percent home value indefense. The cost for indigent ing a plan for relocation efforts crease. defense has increased almost for the people of Sandbranch, Jenkins also discussed some increases in per73 percent since 2001, but only who are still without water. The centages due to appraisals that Price informed seven percent is covered by the 44 homeowners, in the plan, him were incorrect. state government. would be moved to a safer area When Cantrell stepped in, he showed some “The citizens of Dallas Counfor the time being. charts (sidebar) and stated that he agreed with ty are having to carry the Hon. Phyllis Lister Brown However, Jenkins said he felt Jenkins, although he did agree with Price that weight,” Price said. uncomfortable with the idea of the wording may have been poor. Commissioner Dr. Elba Garcia Although the concept might be confusing and and Daniel agreed with Price, discussing how forcing people to leave their homes. “The people are not desiring to move,” Jenkins might not seem important, the constant arguing everyone should continue to talk about the said. “It’s a concern to the people who live there that ensued and the constant disagreement over numbers to spread awareness. as well as our state and federal partners.” which numbers that were correct showed that “We’re not done yet,” Daniel said. Jenkins went on to say that thelow income of this issue was pressing to the commissioners. Garcia then introduced security officer Basilio With nothing getting done and neither Price Lashley as he prepares for retirement. Lashley, the Sandbranch community, allegedly an avera first sergeant in the Marines, has dedicated age of $721 a month, would affect the ability to or Jenkins relenting on their position, the memdecided to save further discussion for an move and adapt to a new city. However, Price bers the last eight years in service to Dallas County. executive session. attempted to sooth Jenkins worries by telling “This place has been a blessing,” Lashley said. The commissioners, mostly on their phones and looking at the exit doors, barely made it “Today, God showed me to stay humble. I’m him that nothing is final. “It’s our responsibility to be proactive and through the public speakers who covered issues going to miss this place.” that none of them seemed to care about or unThen Commissioner Price took the floor to dis- have a plan,” Price said. “It’s just a plan.” derstand. Two public commenters were escortDaniel and Garcia backed Price and said that cuss the recent passing of Judge Phyllis Lister ed from the room by police and by the time that the plan would not necessarily even pass. Brown. Jenkins called time on the last public speaker, “Let’s see the plan first,” Daniel said. “Then we half the members were out the door. “This is the record of history,” Price said. “And Perhaps this is just a reoccurring theme, but it’s only proper that we record how Judge Brown go from there.” to an outside eye, it seems that many of these Jenkins persisted, saying that he still was not was center in our hearts.” people legitimately don’t like each other. MayFrederick Lister, Judge Brown’s uncle, and comfortable with the idea of moving people out be it’s true, but either way it seems like a negative progression for Commissioners Court. Judge Monica Purdy spoke asking for the audi- of their homes.
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