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Commissioner John Wiley Price’s resolution sparks dialogue on reparations, ills of slavery

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HAPPY JUNETEENTH!

Commissioners Court passes historic document recognizing Juneteenth, injustices of slavery and Jim Crowism with call for reparations

Members of Dallas County Commissioners Court approved the historic Juneteenth resolution presented by veteran Commissioner John Wiley Price, in Commissioners Court this week.

In the document, which addresses the atrocities of slavery in America, the Jim Crow era, slavery’s “continuing legacy,” and discrimination by Wells Fargo Bank, it was resolved that, acknowledged that “Juneteenth and its historical mimicking of freedom

is just that, and the United States of America is derelict in its promise to ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness’ to African people.”

The resolution also deals with the issue of reparations, resolving that “the dereliction that has caused

400 years of significant wealth to millions and significant suffering to the descendants of those enslaved Africans who built this country is satisfied with monetary and substantial reparations to the same.”

Commissioner Mike Cantrell,

who represents District 2, comprised of Addison, Carrolton, Coppell, parts of Dallas, Farmers Branch, Garland, Highland Park, Richardson, Rowlett, Sachse, University Park, Irving and Wylie, abstained, after the vote.

The two-page document, that was read in court by Commissioner Price is considered groundbreaking and for some, controversial, especially in Texas, a predominantly conservative state.

Read the document on pages 8-9.

JUNETEENTHJuneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of

slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note - this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation - which had become official January 1, 1863.

The Emancipation Proclamation had little impact on the Texans due to the minimal number of Union troops to enforce the new Executive Order. However, with the surrender of General Lee in April of 1865, and the arrival of General Granger’s regiment, the forces were finally strong enough to influence and overcome the resistance.

Later attempts to explain this two and a half year delay in the receipt of this important news have yielded several versions that have been handed down through the years. Often told is the story of a messenger who was murdered on his way to Texas with the news of freedom. Another, is that the news was deliberately withheld by the enslavers to maintain the labor force on the plantations. And still another, is that federal troops actually waited for the slave owners to reap the benefits of one last cotton harvest before going to Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation. All of which, or neither of these version could be true. Certainly, for some, President Lincoln's authority over the rebellious states was in question For whatever the reasons, conditions in Texas remained status quo well beyond what was statutory.

General Order Number 3One of General Granger’s first orders of business was to read to the people of

Texas, General Order Number 3 which began most significantly with:"The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from

the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer."

The reactions to this profound news ranged from pure shock to immediate jubilation. While many lingered to learn of this new employer to employee relationship, many left before these offers were completely off the lips of their former 'masters' - attesting to the varying conditions on the plantations and the realization of freedom. Even with nowhere to go, many felt that leaving the plantation would be their first grasp of freedom. North was a logical destination and for many it represented true freedom, while the desire to reach family members in neighboring states drove the some into Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Settling into these new areas as free men and women brought on new realities and the challenges of establishing a heretofore non-existent status for black people in America. Recounting the memories of that great day in June of 1865 and its festivities would serve as motivation as well as a release from the growing pressures encountered in their new territory. The celebration of June 19th was coined "Juneteenth" and grew with more participation from descendants. The Juneteenth celebration was a time for reassuring each other, for praying and for gathering remaining family members. Juneteenth continued to be highly revered in Texas decades later, with many former slaves and descendants making an annual pilgrimage back to Galveston on this date.

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On a bitterly cold morning in January of 1993 during the first Inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton, the late raconteur, Maya Angelou, captured the very soul of our nation while reciting her poem entitled, “On the Pulse of Morning.” She was only the second poet to recite at a presidential swearing-in ceremony.

I sat in the cold with other members of the Congress, the new president, vice-president, members of the Supreme Court and tens of thousands who had come to witness the inaugural ceremonies.

Dr. Angelou, like the new president, was born in Arkansas, mesmerized all that heard her voice that morning.

In her lyrical poem she said that an ancient rock cried out for all of humanity, challenging people to stand upon its back, and face a collective destiny, and a changing world.

In her eclectic life, Dr. Angelou, a single parent who struggled financially to raise her young son, pursued careers as a stage actress, a poet, a street car driver, a magazine editor, a civil rights organizer, a college professor and a calypso dancer.

A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award given to a civilian by our government, Dr. Angelou lived a full and purposeful life. Just days before her passing she was planning a social gathering in her home in New York City.

She was an elegantly striking woman who stood nearly six feet tall.

She liked to dance, she drank bourbon and she was passionately devoted to the reading of scripture. She and a fellow writer, the late Amiri Baraka once joyously danced over the ashes of the great writer, Langston Hughes.

In her voracious writings, Dr. Angelou explored the concepts of personal identify and resilience through the multi-faceted lens of racial identity, sexual engagement, the human family and the necessity to love.

In 1969, Dr. Angelou’s acclaimed autobiographic work, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” became

a best seller, and its commercial s u c c e s s o p e n e d the door for other A f r i c a n -

American female writers who until that time had been largely ignored by the publishing industry.

Ever an instructor and teacher, Dr. Angelou, a full professor, taught for years at Wake Forest University, a relatively small liberal arts institution in North Carolina.

Her presence in the lecture halls of Wake Forest drastically affected the lives of many of the students and teachers she encountered.

Students from universities located hundreds of miles from Wake Forest flocked to the school to listen to Dr. Angelou’s lectures. Those who wanted to speak with her were given her personal phone number at her

home.While she befriended presidents such as Bill

Clinton and Barack Obama, Dr. Angelou was comfortable with the men and women who found themselves unemployed and wedded to urban street corners and coal mines.

During the eight decades and six years that Dr. Angelou lived among us she gave of herself without any thought of personal gain.

She was unabashedly commit-ted to the improvement of the human condition. She loved people with no concern for their race, their place of birth or their religious beliefs.

Indeed, the world has lost one of it great citizens, and God has gained another angel. She wrote and articulated so many profoundly important messages.

I shall never forget that January morning when she charged our nation, intellectually and spiritually. Her presence is etched in my soul.

“No one can dim the light that shines from within,” she once admonished us. Dr. Angelou’s light shall shine eternally.

In Remembrance of Dr. Maya AngelouBy

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson

Eddie Bernice Johnson represents Texas’ 30th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. She is the first registered nurse elected to the US Congress.

Earline Elizabeth Gadson

was the first daughter born to the union of James and Rosa Gadson, on September 10, 1934, in Ocala, Florida. They would later have another daughter, Pearline, who died shortly after birth. So, as the baby girl of a large family-- her mother having been married two times previously-- from the beginning there were many to pamper little Earline and she enjoyed the attention.

When she became a teenager, her parents moved the family to the Strawberry Capitol of the United States -- Plant City, Florida.

A stylish dresser even as a young child, Earline was a cheerleader and an honor student at Marshall High School. Upon graduation, she bypassed college and followed her older brother, Robert, to New Jersey, where several friends from Florida were already living in Newark. The group was like a close-knit family with many of those relationships lasting over half a century.

Earline immediately went to work because she had big dreams and they included returning home to Florida one day to build her mother a house. Unfortunately shortly after Earline moved to Newark, Mrs. Rosa Gadson was tragically murdered in Plant City.

Maybe it was because she met the love of her life, Joseph Smith, who ironically was also from Plant City, but following the funeral, Earline returned to Newark, where she remained before moving to East Orange in the early 1970s.

Those who knew the couple marveled at how Earline doted over her babies: Daryl, Cheryl, Carl -- who died at birth--and Tracy, who was born to her and Earl Vickers.

In their younger years she worked as a volunteer leader with a 4-H Club, bringing children together, along with hers, in Newark for projects and also trips to Coney Island, Wildwood Theme Park and Atlantic City.

Earline was a devoted member of the historic New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, NJ. She worked as a dental

hygienist and at Newark Airport for Delta and National Airlines. Her last job was with International Security Systems of New York and New Jersey.

She was a life member of the National Council of Negro Women and an active member of the NAACP, serving as vice president of the New Hope Baptist Church Branch in Newark, New Jersey.

In later years she loved going to Atlantic City for “therapy!” She especially enjoyed when her sister Annie Mae, her nephew Nathaniel and his wife Rose, and grandniece Linda would arrive from Tampa, Florida for a vacation of “therapy.”

“Mother,” as she is affectionately called, like her brothers Curtis and Eddie; loved baseball and was a fan of the Negro League, often times traveling with the Newark Indians. She also loved watching the New York Yankees and the New York Mets or the New York Giants.

In November of 2012, Mother relocated to Dallas and if she wasn’t before, she became a Dallas Cowboys fan. However, she never forgave Nolan Ryan for the damage he caused when the Texas Rangers played the Yankees.

Left to cherish her memory and lessons are her children: Daryl Smith,

Cheryl Smith and Tracy Smith Thomas (Jeffrey), her God daughter Carla Simon, Grandchildren: Andre (Emma), Alayna, Annya, Ayanna, Adarian, Adonte, Jeffrey, Joelene; Great Grandchildren Aaliyah (father DeMarcus), Briana, Nina, Telly; baby brother Eddie Gadson, sister-in-law Bobbie; life-long friends Savarie Atkins and Christine Thomas; special friends Rev. Harry Brown, Eleanor Glover and Virginia Magee; daughter-in-law Hafizah; and hundreds of nieces and nephews and other relatives, NCNW and NAACP members, and friends.

Services will be Friday, June 20, 2014 at Golden Gate Funeral Home, 4155 So. R. L. Thornton Fwy, Dallas, TX 75224 at 11a.m. The wake will be Golden Gate Funeral Home at 7:15 pm.

A scholarship fund has been established in her name and can be made to the Earline Elizabeth Gadson Memorial Scholarship Fund, 320 South R.L. Thornton Freeway, Suite 220, Dallas, TX 75203

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Mayor’s Evening Out

Garland Mayor Douglas Athas will host his next “Mayor’s Evening Out” event on Tuesday, June 24, 2014 from 5 to 7 p.m. The Mayor hosts “Evening Out” events to broaden his accessibility to the citizens of Garland. This month’s event will be held at the Gale Fields Recreation Center, 1701 Dairy Road. It is not necessary to schedule an appointment and the event is come and go. The Mayor will speak with residents on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call 972-205-2400 or email mayor@garlandtx.gov.

Healthy Living Expo 2014 - Exhibitors Wanted

The City of Garland is making plans for the 2014 Healthy Living Expo, set for Saturday, Sept. 27, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Curtis Culwell Center. This annual event features activities, exhibits and information intended to help us live healthier lives in a sustainable environment.

Garland Conducts Community Health Survey

The Garland Health Department needs public input as part of its Comprehensive Community Health Assessment. Public input can be provided through an online or paper survey until June 30, 2014. The online survey is available on the City’s website. Citizens without access to a computer can complete the survey in paper form at all City libraries, recreation centers, senior centers and the Health Department office, which is located at 1720 Commerce St in Garland. The survey is brief and should only take five to 10 minutes to complete, and asks about your perceptions of health issues and challenges within the city. Survey respondents remain anonymous. The Health Department and community partners will use the results of the survey along with other information to identify the most pressing health issues that can be addressed through community action. For more information, call 972-205-3442.

City Council recognizes Neighborhood Service

Garland City Council awarded Donna Fields the 2013 Excellence in Neighborhood Service Award. Mayor Douglas Athas, on behalf of the City Council, recognized Fields for going “above and beyond” the expectations and duties of her position as plans examiner in the Building Inspections Department.Her participation in community engagement activities and her high standards of customer service have allowed residents better access to City services. Her commitment to Garland neighborhoods and enhanced customer service creates a positive impression with neighborhood residents, and with her fellow City employees.

Garland’s Strategy for Vital Neighborhoods’ Neighborhood Resource Team established the annual Excellence in Neighborhood Service Award in 2008. It is awarded annually to recognize City employees whose qualities and actions exemplify the following philosophy of the Strategy: “Recognizing the strength of Garland is the character of its neighborhoods; we will work in partnership with neighborhood stakeholders and community resources to build a stronger community and keep Garland an excellent place to live and invest.”

City of Garland 2014 Summer Nutrition Program

The City of Garland Fair Housing Services is gearing up to administer the 19th year of the Summer Nutrition Program. The program will run through August 8, 2014. The Summer Nutrition Program provides free nutritious meals to community children. No registration is required and the one qualifying criteria is to be a child between the ages of one and 18, or a person older than 18 with a documented physical or mental disability that is participating in a school program. Meals will alternate between hot and cold entrees; while cold breakfast is offered at selected sites. The 2014 program is scheduled to have 30 different feeding sites throughout the city. The open sites are located in areas where more than 50 percent of the children are eligible for free or reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch Program. Most of the sites will offer activities that support the “3 E’s of Healthy Living”, education, exercise, and eating right. The summer activities are designed to exercise the body and stimulate the mind making for an easier transition back into the school year. This program is regulated by the Texas Department of Agriculture and they provide information on the dates, serving times, and locations of all the summer food service programs in Texas. Visit Summmerfood.org, call 211 or text FOODTX at 877-877.

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As young people graduate from high school, or finish the school year as sophomores and juniors, they begin to search for summer jobs. For the past several summers, the jobs have not been there, and this summer will be no different. It is true that economists are projecting a better employment situation for the college graduates who are entering the labor market now. At the same time, those high school graduates who must save money for college incidentals or for other needs will have a hard time fining work.

According to the Brookings Institution, the years between 2000 and 2011 in the top 100 metropolitan areas. White youth had an official unemployment rate of 15.9 percent in April, while African American youth had a rate of 36.8 percent, more than twice that of whites. These are just the official numbers. The unofficial numbers would suggest that a third of white youth, and about 70 percent of black youth, are out of work.

Many have little concern, choosing to focus on adult unemployment. And certainly, when adults are supporting families their employment situations are of greater concern. But in addition to earning money, the 16-19 year old population benefits from summer jobs because they learn work habits,

such as promptness and appropriate dress, when they are exposed to the labor market. Many who do not find summer employment will find that later an employer will prefer someone who has worked to someone who had not.

In the past, some city governments have provided resources to help put young people to work.

In economic hard times (though some say they are improving), it is often easier for young people to find unpaid opportunities than those that generate income.

That’s fine for those who can afford to work free, but there is a definite class bias when unpaid internships are considered. Those whose parents are moderate earners are more likely to be willing or able to work without pay.

Yet unpaid internships are often stepping-stones to lucrative paid employment opportunities.

The youth employment situation is dire, and it is all the more dire when our rhetoric about valuing youth is examined.

How often have you been to an event focused on youth issues that played the Whitney Houston song, The Greatest Love of All. The song begins with the words, “I believe that children are the future, teach them well and let them lead the way.”

What are we teaching our youth when we fail to provide opportunities for them.

We have made it more difficult for young people to find summer work, and more difficult for them to attend college, but very easy to fast track them into the criminal justice system. We are determining our nation’s future tomorrow by our actions today.

All youth are not in the same position. Race, class, and ethnicity shape the opportunities that young people are presented with.

The offspring of the one percent certainly don’t have to worry about summer jobs or college costs. And some children of the one percent can murder with impunity.

A Texas teen got probation for killing four people when he was

so drunk that his blood alcohol was three times the legal limit. His defense said he suffered from “affluenza,” which means he had too much money to have any sense. The judge bought the bizarre argument.

This summer, some will complain that young’uns playing with fire hydrants will bring water pressure down (so open the pools), or that youngsters gathering in the street are a nuisance (so open a playground). We’ll hear about literacy challenges (keep libraries open longer hours), and other ways that the young people who are out of school occupy themselves. Job creation, summer programs, and other links between school and work possibilities are all ways to connect our young people to opportunities.

It costs money now, but as a dear friend, the late Dr. Charles Franklin said, “you have to pay, but if you wait too long, you will pay penalties and interest.”

Our beloved ancestor Dr. Maya Angelou wrote A Pledge to Rescue Our Youth at Essence editor Susan Taylor’s request and it was read at the 2006 Essence Music Festival.

These are the last lines of her charge, “You are the best we have. You are all we have. You are what we have become. We pledge you our whole hearts from this day forward.”

On June 20, 2014 Aaryn Blackwell would have celebrated his 30th birthday.

Who knows, he might have been married with a few children or he might have followed in his father’s footsteps and became a professional athlete.

I met the talented young man when he was about seven years old. He and his little brother, Evan, were full of energy and they loved their mother!

The 7th grader played soccer, football, basketball and the trumpet. He was always active and full of energy.

In 1996, his death at school was a shock to all and 18 years later, I still fondly remember him and how devastating his death was.

According to news reports at the time: A 12-year-old Garland boy died less than an hour after he complained of chest pains and collapsed during basketball practice at Dallas Christian School, school officials said.

School officials said the gymnasium was filled with his basketball teammates when Aaryn Blackwell collapsed Monday.

The exact cause of death was not undetermined. An autopsy

was scheduled for today.

At the time there was a lot of talk about undetected heart problems and the need for defibrillators at school athletic events.

D e f i b r i l l a t o r s analyze the condition and then delivers the necessary electrical current that could restart a heart suffering from cardiac arrest.

Aaryn is not the only young athlete to collapse during an athletic event. Since his death Congress was lobbied and defibrillators have been placed in many schools.

On the occasion of Aaron’s 30th birthday, I wanted to remember him and pay tribute to a young man, one of many whose life ended way too soon.

I also salute his parents for their leadership and efforts to raise a

young man to be a productive member of society.

And this brings me to those who still have their children. Are you doing the best you can to ensure that your child reaches his or her fullest potential? Do you even realize

the awesome responsibility that you have as a parent?

Sure we’ve heard over the years how there is no manual for child-rearing but that is not necessarily the case today. There are so many resources for those who want help in raising their children.

It’s not easy. Even in 1996 there were outside forces, but today, the world is not a ghetto, it’s more like a jungle and its hard for both -- the children and the parents.

That’s why it’s important that adults, and sadly children (who think they are adults) too, take precautions so that they are not reproducing before they are emotionally and mentally prepared.

I’ve heard folks quote scripture in talking about training children. I’ve also heard parents criticized for how they are raising their children.

We are at war against negative elements, dysfunctional people, an overactive media and deviant minds as our children are exposed to so much and enticed by even more.

In the spirit of good kids like Aaryn Sterling Blackwell, we should all make a commitment to do more to be a positive influence in the lives of every child we meet.

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The Last WordDr. Julianne Malveaux

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MALVEAUX: Discarding our youth

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Why would a White racist have sex with a person of color?

That’s the question that few people in the media want to raise, let alone address.

But it is an age-old contradiction not limited to Donald Sterling, the hate spewing soon-to-be former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Beginning with slavery in the original colonies – even earlier in Africa with the arrival of European colonizers – White men have forced themselves on Black women. Caucasian men from Thomas Jefferson on the left to South Carolina Senator and longtime arch-segregationist Strom Thurmond on the right have projected one image in public while having sex – even children – with Black women under the cover of darkness.

They were talking White (superiority) while sleeping Black. I don’t for a moment pretend to know how to explain this obvious contraction.

But in the case of Thomas Jefferson, the chief author of the Declaration of Independence, contradictions became a way of life long before he bedded and had children with Sally Hemings, a Black woman.

Jefferson will forever be inextricably linked to these words in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

At the time our Founding Fathers were proclaiming unalienable rights from God, most of them were enslaving God’s dark-skin creations. Jefferson enslaved nearly 200 African Americans.

As Columbia University history professor Eric Foner wrote, “Slaves, of course, experienced the institution of politics and law quite differently from white Americans.

Before the law, slaves were property who had virtually no legal rights.

They could be bought, sold, leased and seized to satisfy an owner’s debt, their family ties had no legal standing, and they could not leave the plantation or hold meetings without permission from their owner.” And White owners did not need anyone’s permission to violate Black women.

Jefferson began having sex with Sally Hemings, one of his domestic servants, when she was a teenager.

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation acknowledges that it “and most historians believe that, years after his wife’s death, Thomas Jefferson was the father of the six children of Sally Hemings mentioned in Jefferson’s records, including Beverly, Harriet, Madison and Eston Hemings.” South Carolina, like Virginia, had laws prohibiting both interracial marriage and intercourse between Blacks and Whites.

If a free Black man had sex with a White woman in South Carolina during the Colonial period, he would automatically lose his freedom, according to Judge A. Leon Higginbothan, Jr.’s book, In the Matter of Color.

Years later, Strom Thurmond’s interracial dalliances would represent the height of hypocrisy. Running for president in 1948 on the Dixiecrat ticket he said: “I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, there’s not enough

troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and accept the Negro into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches.”

Fifty years ago, Thurmond led the filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, still the longest debate in Senate history. Thurmond referred to Negroes as “nigras.”

But while publicly despising Blacks, he had a different attitude in the bedroom, impregnating his parents’16-year-old maid.

The daughter of that encounter, Essie Washington-Williams, wrote in her autobiography, “As much as I wanted to belong to him, I never felt like a daughter, only an accident.”

Armstrong Williams, a Black conservative who began working Thurmond in 1978, recalled the senator confirming he was Washington-Williams’ biological father.

“The subject came up again while the senator and I were attending a South Carolina

State football game in Orangeburg. He mentioned how he had arranged for Mrs. Williams to attend the college while he was governor…,” Williams wrote. “‘When a man brings a child in the world, he should take care of that child,’ he told me, and added, “‘She’ll never say anything and neither will you. Not while I’m alive.’”

And neither did – until after Thurmond’s death.

Considering the history of Thomas Jefferson and Strom Thurmond, no one should have been surprised when Donald Sterling told his mistress, who described herself as part Mexican and part Black:

“It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people.

“Do you have to?…You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games…

“I’m just saying, in your lousy f******* Instagrams, you don’t have to have yourself with, walking with black people…Don’t put him (Magic Johnson) on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don’t bring him to my games.”

Donald Sterling, far from being a rarity, simply added another link to the long, scandalous U.S. history of hypocrisy.

CURRY: The Question No One is asking Donald SterlingTRUTH TO POWER

By George E. Curry

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of 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, www.georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge and George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook.

Several civil rights leaders joined me for an urgent meeting with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to discuss the LA Clippers matter and other issues involving the league going forward. It was a necessary meeting and one where we raised key areas of concern that have actually been prevalent for years. As we led the charge to ban Donald Sterling from basketball for his alleged reprehensible comments, we were pleased to see support from Silver and others. But with a $2 billion sale of the Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, we are left with the unanswered question of what happens to the larger ideas of fairness and diversity? In short, the black community

simply cannot be collateral damage of a transaction between billionaires. When you watch a basketball

game, one thing is vividly clear -- the majority of players are people of color. And when countless minorities support games, NBA merchandising and more with their dollars, it is a travesty that there is only one black majority owner of a team today. What about procurement? What about the front office? What about jobs behind-the-scenes? And what about investment in the communities that the NBA profits from? Until we see inclusion across the board, equality is just a façade and a word people throw around for their own benefit when it is

convenient. Basketball is more than just

a game; it is representative of what goes on in our nation on a larger scale. In so many areas we see businesses and corporations making tremendous profits from black buying power -- which is projected to reach $1.1 trillion in 2015. But how often do we see those same entities recruiting, hiring, and promoting from this same constituency? We hear so much from the right wing about how government should not be giving handouts, but why don’t they say something about the private sector making huge profits without investing in the people they make money from? If we raise these very serious issues, we’re then accused of a shakedown. But the real shakedown is those that don’t do business with the black community. I was pleased that Adam

Silver met with Marc Morial (president of the National

Urban League), Lorraine Miller (interim president and CEO of the NAACP), Cornell Brooks (president-select of the NAACP), Barbara Arnwine (executive director of that Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law), Melanie Campbell (president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation), Sherrilyn Ifill (president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund), myself and others. But our concerns have not been fully addressed. We cannot allow billionaires

and millionaires to sell us a product and despise us at the same time. We need to shake up an unholy alliance where only one side makes profits, while the other side is left balancing insults. Whether it’s basketball,

football, the music industry, fashion or corporate America, black economic support has allowed entire businesses to

flourish and rake in record gains. It’s time that members of our community receive the same opportunities as others; it’s time they get called in for interviews, they get hired and they be advanced to positions of leadership. It is also time that they

receive the capital to start their own businesses so that they can continue to improve economic outlook in their own communities. While we watch billionaires

make a transaction, we must keep our focus on inclusion and investment. You cannot continue to insult us by refusing to include us. The Sterling debacle is a

perfect example of this unholy alliance that must be broken. The black community has enormous influence, buying power and impact in the United States. It’s time others start recognizing and respecting that reality.

KEEPING IT REAL

by Rev. Al Sharpton

Rev. Al Sharpton is the president of the National Action Network

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My grandmother, Portia Maudesta English Figures was a fine and upright Christian woman.

She was the First Lady to my grandfather and was the modest matriarch of both family and church.

She rarely if ever allowed gossip to cross her lips and she never used mean words.

But if pushed, she would tell you the truth. And sometimes nothing sounds meaner than the truth.

There was one adage she held that ran across my mind the other day.

As I pondered the senseless deaths of two officers in Las Vegas I had to lean on her understanding.

The Bible which was her daily almanac says; “Lean not to your own understanding” and I fully embrace that admonition. Sometimes when I can’t find anything in the Bible I have to lean on grandmother’s understanding.

Mrs. Figures said “A drunk man’s word is a sober man’s thought.”

Slow down and take that in. She simply meant that when

people are in an induced state of mind they have the potential and proclivity to flesh out their true feelings. The sad commentary is that I have come to the understanding that America, or some Americans, are drunk on hate.

Jerad and Amanda Miller were intoxicated and delusional when they opened fire on two police officers in Las Vegas. The ABC News posting was the first that I read.

“Two police officers were gunned down by a man and a woman today as they were eating lunch in a Las Vegas pizza restaurant, officials said.” They were ambushed,” Sheriff Doug Gillespie of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department said at a news conference this afternoon, though he said it was not yet known why the two were targeted.

Witnesses said the two yelled “This is a revolution” during the attack, but officials said they had not yet identified a motive for the shooting.

“We don’t know anything about the suspects yet,” Las Vegas police spokesman Larry Hadfield

told The Associated Press. The couple were later found

dead, after they had shot and killed another person at a Walmart store nearby, the sheriff said.

The two cops were identified as Officer Alyn Beck, 42, who had been with the department since 2001 and leaves behind a wife and three children, and Officer Igor Soldo, 32, who joined the force in 2006 and is survived by a wife and baby.”

It was later reported that this couple Jerad and Amanda the new aged Bonnie and Clyde, had immersed and enlisted themselves in a culture of hate.

The couple had been unsuccessful in trying to join the armed stand against federal agents at Cliven Bundy’s Nevada ranch.

They were told that they were “too radical.”

Bundy as you may remember, is the 67-year-old rancher who is engaged in a 20 year legal fight involving his cattle grazing on federal land.

He is the patriarch of a large Mormon family and became a Conservative hero because of the standoff with the government.

He was just about to hit the Conservative talk circuit when he made a mistake and commented that “black people were better off as slaves picking cotton.”

But the Millers and Bundys are not the only evidence of this hate. It was hatred the kill Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis.

It is hate that seems to daily

produce another shoot-ing at an elementary, high school or college campus.

It is hate that won’t to allow this sitting U.S. Congress to move on behalf of poor people or anyone in need.

Grandmother Fig-ures was on point.

Beyonce may be drunk on love, but America is drunk on hate and it shows.

A hairy

problem Dear Alma, I met a woman online about

six months ago and we’ve been emailing ever since. We live in different states.

She’s been very caring, and we seem to have the start to a wonderful friendship.

I have one conflict, though:

She has dreads down to her waist.

This woman is in her 40s, is educated and not a musician. She is the perfect height and size. She looks totally professional… until you see her hair. Why would someone choose to wear her hair in a style that appears unattractive and unkempt?

There must be other ways to express oneself and show one’s style. I’m really not as shallow as this sounds (it’s what’s inside that counts), but it’s sometimes hard for people to get past initial impressions.

Most of us try to do the best with what we’ve got, so I can’t understand purposely trying to look worse.

I don’t think there is a chance for romance with her hair this way. Doesn’t she realize it detracts from any sex appeal she might be hiding underneath?

I would like to remain friends with this woman and get to know her better, but I am uncomfortable with the attention she draws in public. I can’t ask her to cut her hair, either.

How do you tell someone there’s this huge boulder in the way of getting closer? Is there any solution to this dilemma, or should I just forget about my

new friend? E.P., Harrisburg, Penn.

Dear E.P.My, my, my, you’re in a

pickle, Mr. Whipple. I’d like to know if it’s the natural hairstyle of dread locs that you don’t like about your new boo, or is it that she’s not permed.

Either way, natural or permed, long or short, I think when it comes to the style of one’s own hair, it’s personal – an individual decision.

Most women I know are under the impression that men prefer long, straight hair. That’s why weaves are so popular in our communities. That said, some women aren’t offended if a guy wants them to change their hairstyle. So I say tell her. You don’t have to be mean or insulting. Just mention that you’d like to see her with a particular style. It would probably help if you had a picture of the style you’d like. If she likes you, she probably won’t mind that you mentioned it.

If she gets mad…well, then you’d have to decide what’s more important to you – her heart or her hair. Good luck!

Alma

Ask Alma

Quit Playin’by Vincent Hall

Vincent L. Hall is an author and award-winning columnist.

Drunk on hate

Jerad and Amanda Miller

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Almost a lifelong New Yorker, Ruby Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace on October 27, 1924 (some sources report 1922) in Cleveland, Ohio.

Her family soon moved to New York, and Dee was raised during the golden age of Harlem. After high school, she attended New York’s Hunter College, graduating in 1945.

Expressive and literate, Dee was drawn to the theatre while still a college student. Dee acted in small Shakespearian productions and landed a role in the play, South Pacific in 1943. She also began to study with the American Negro Theatre, where she would meet her future husband, Ossie Davis. They would fall in love during a cross-country tour of Anna Lucasta.

Ruby Dee’s career as an actress has been nothing short of phenomenal. A petite, intelligent actress of nuance and sensitivity, she was talented enough and lucky enough to garner some of the best roles for black women in the 1950s and 1960s.

On stage, she was the first black woman to play lead roles at the American Shakespeare Festival, and won an Obie Award for her portrayal of "Lena" in Athol Fugard's Boseman and Lena; a Drama Desk Award for her role in Alice Childress’ Wedding Band and an Ace Award for her performance in Eugene O'Neil's Long Days Journey Into Night.

Dee has appeared in over 50 films. In 1950, she played Jackie Robinson’s wife in The Jackie Robinson Story and forty years later, she played his mother in the television production, The Court Martial of Jackie Robinson. Her film credits include: A Raisin In The Sun (1961), Uptight (1968), Buck And The Preacher (1972), Roots (1978), Do The Right Thing (1989) and The Delany Sisters: The First Hundred Years (1999). Dee won an Emmy Award for her performance in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production, Decoration Day. Throughout her film and television career, Dee has been selective and has brought that selectivity and dignity to every role she plays. She is particularly proud of her one-woman show, Zora Is My Name, about pioneering novelist, folklorist, anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston.

Dee and her husband are authors, storytellers and recording artists as well as actors. Her published works include the humorous, My One Good Nerve and various recordings for young people. In 1998, Dee and Davis co-wrote the autobiographical book, With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together, in which

they take turns telling their stories as actors, activists, a married couple and as parents.

An honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Dee’s life has not all been acting, however. She is a survivor of breast cancer for more than 30 years, and has long been active in a variety of movements. She, along with Davis, traveled to Lagos, Nigeria, as goodwill ambassadors, and eulogized Malcolm X in 1965 and later his widow, Betty Shabazz in 1997.

Jointly presented with The Academy of Television Arts and Science’s Silver Circle Award in 1994, Dee and Davis officially became “national treasures” when they received the National Medal of Arts in 1995. In 2000, they were presented the Screen Actors Guild’s Life Achievement Award. They are inductees in the Theater Hall of Fame as well as the NAACP Hall of Fame. In 2008, Dee was awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film, American Gangster. She also received an Academy Award nomination for this role.

Ms. Dee was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on March 7, 2001.

(Baltimore, M.D.) -- In tribute to an extraordinary, multifaceted career spanning more than seven decades as an actor, author, director, producer and civil rights activist, the NAACP and others responded to the death of Ms. Ruby Dee.

From Roslyn M. Brock,

Chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors:

“Today we lost a true gem in the civil rights and entertainment community. With a career spanning seven decades and numerous achievements – including being an NAACP Spingarn recipient in 2008, Ruby Dee blazed a trail for African American artists by advocating for racial equality in the performing arts. She was a courageous and fearless activist, who tirelessly committed herself to social, economic and political causes, including emceeing the historic 1963 March on Washington. Ms. Dee will be deeply missed; but her contributions and legacy will live with us forever.”

From Lorraine C. Miller,

Interim NAACP President and CEO:

“Emmy winner and civil rights activist Ruby Dee was an iconic force in Hollywood that the world will always remember. Through her many powerful roles, Ms. Dee paved the way for a generation of talented African American actresses. A pioneer in both her art and her activism, Ms. Dee, alongside her late husband Ossie Davis, served as masters of ceremonies for the historic 1963 March on Washington and

she spoke at both of the funerals for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. In a career spanning seven decades, Ms. Dee will be forever known as a powerhouse in the performing arts community and in the arena of civil rights. In recognition of her commitment to making the dream of equality and justice a reality for all, Ms. Dee received the NAACP’s prestigious Spingarn award. Our dear friend will be sorely missed.”

A. Shuanise Washington, president and chief executive officer of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Incorporated (CBCF):

“It is with great sadness to learn of the passing of Oscar-nominated actress, writer, and activist, Ruby Dee. With a career in theater and film spanning seven decades across all forms of media, Dee was simply an

icon. Dee helped pave the way in breaking down racial barriers in the entertainment world.

“Dee, along with her late husband, actor Ossie Davis, were a dynamic team in the performing arts community. Off stage, they were also strong civil rights advocates, who used their celebrity to help advance social justice for African Americans.

“On September 17, 2010, the CBCF celebrated and honored Dee for her public and civic accomplishments at our 40th Annual Legislative Conference (ALC). There, we heard a recording of her late husband’s rousing speech at CBCF’s first-ever ALC in 1971.

“Captured on Dee’s personal website is a statement she wrote reflecting on her and Davis’ life journey, ‘Along the way we have seen, heard, and learned many things that have cascaded unforgettably over our lives — things too precious not to share.’

“We appreciate the gifts Dee shared during her time with us. Our thoughts and heartfelt prayers are with the family and the many lives she touched.”

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Dallas, TX -- Representative Toni Rose (District 110) will open a satellite office in the city of Balch Springs with an official grand opening and ribbon cutting on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. The office will be housed at the Balch Springs Library and Learning Center at 12450 Elam Road. Hours of operation will be the 2nd and 4th Wednesday from 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., or by appointment. The main district office will remain open and is located at 3730 S. Lancaster Road, Suite 160, Dallas, Texas 75216.

The Balch Springs location will give constituents in East Dallas, Balch Springs and Mesquite better

access to the Representative and her staff for assistance with legislative questions or concerns, as well as assistance with state agencies.

The City of Balch Springs is located 16 miles east of downtown Dallas, with an estimated 25,000 residents. Since taking office in 2013, Representative Rose has seen economic development and community relations flourish in the city. "Council members and staff have been so receptive to my

office since being elected. I am honored to expand operations to Balch Springs and look forward to increasing accessibility to HD110 constituents."

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June 21

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is proud to host its Annual College Fair during our Kappa Kamp Summer Enrichment Program. It will be held from 10am - 12:30 pm. on the campus of Paul Quinn College in Dallas, TX

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Alpha Xi Omega Chapter celebrates 85 Years of Service at Anniversary Gala at the Hilton Hotel – Park Cities.

Governing God’s Way Conference 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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"Women of Unsung Courage"Annual AIDS Charity Reception/BrunchA distinctive event which recognizes passionate women  Who Work or Volunteer in the HIV/AIDS arena. Honorary Chair: Businesswoman and Philanthropist - Melissa EnriquezAlso featuring Designs from International Designer Gadol Wilson11:30amGallerie Noir, 1525 Dragon St, Dallas, TX 75207Dallas Design DistrictGeneral Tickets $25                 VIP Seating $100~Hosted by A Sister's Gift~ ~Celebrating 10 Years of Courage and Giving~Tickets may be purchased on-line by going to www.asistersgift.org (click on make a donation and reference WOUC) or eventbrite.comFor other arrangements or questions call 214-421-4274, 972-523-0815. staff@asistersgift.org or text 972-523-0815 A Sister's Gift is a 501 (c) 3 charity and all donations are tax deductibleA Volunteer based agency offering crisis counseling and support services to females living with HIV/AIDS and their families. Read about our work at www.asistersgift.org

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July 1This 2007 version of “Hairspray” is a musical film described as “bubbly and campy and basically just good family fun” by movies.about.com even while it deals with racism and size-ism. (1 hr 57 min., rated PG)The free showing by First Tuesday Social Justice films takes place on July 1 at 7 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff, 3839 W. Kiest Blvd., Dallas.  Popcorn and refreshments are provided.  Audience discussion follows the film which was one of

the most critically and commercially successful musicals of the last decade.  This presentation is co-sponsored by the UUCOC’s Social Justice Ministry and the Dallas Peace Center http://dallaspeacecenter.org.  For more information about the film series, visit http://www.firsttuesdayfilms.org/index.shtml or http://www.facebook.com/firsttuesdayfilms. 

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4th Annual Dancing for CharityDeSoto Civic Center (BlueBonnet Room)211 E. Pleasant Run Rd, DeSoto, TX 75115

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I remember reviewing the letters of Paul in bible study. In doing so I was constantly reminded that one cannot look at Paul without really seeing Jesus’ amazing handiwork. Now you need to know that I think Paul is an awesome person when it comes to the story of his life.

I haven’t found a biography or autobiography of anyone in or outside of the ‘good book’ who comes close to my admiration for Paul; Jesus notwithstanding. Because the two are so closely associated with one another, I can’t help but consider the impact of this tandem on human history.

Just in case someone wants to debate me on this by bringing up the lives of the 12 apostles, I have considered them as well as the prophets and I’m just one of those who is in awe of Paul. A very large part of the bible is devoted to Paul’s building of the early church at a time when who you worshipped was a life and death decision.

Paul himself says in his letters to the church in Corinth, there was indeed a point to his suffering and persecution and the basis for most, if not all, of what he went through was a byproduct of his faith in Jesus Christ.

“But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I (Paul)

will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:8-10. This kind of thinking and belief led to the eventual proliferation of the church worldwide. It also makes the point of how the lives of so few have impacted and influenced so many in the world then, and the world as we know it today. Forgive me if I find this a rather fascinating fact. Paul is who he is because of his unique one on one encounter with Christ. That encounter changed him and ultimately the world in which we live. If that be true, then our individual encounters with Christ should also have a profound effect on us and the world in which we currently live.

It is not unusual for new Christians to come under attack by old friends. It is also not unusual for new Christians to come under the attack of the world, since it is in the world where Satan has power. I think Paul’s good news is there is a place of refuge when this happens. He uses himself as an example to follow.

If I surrender my weaknesses to the power of Christ and subjugate my will to that of the

Lord’s, then I become empowered to deal with whatever is thrown my way. Life, the Christian life, is funny that way. It places what I have described as a bulls-eye on your back, designed to distinguish you from those non believers around you.

It, your faith, also sets you up and apart to do great things in the name of Jesus Christ, my personal Lord and Savior. I guess what I’m really saying is when the going gets extremely tough, check the human being Paul. Like Christ he’s been through and has experienced the worst that life has to offer.

But because of his belief system, he’s experienced the best of God’s promises.

It’s like a refresher course and I just wanted to let you know where I go during difficult times. You might also find some answers there. The point I’m trying to make is that in the eyes of God, one’s weaknesses are welcomed opportunities for God to show up and show out. Have you ever wondered why those who have been through so much are able to stand and witness for Christ? Reexamine the reality of God’s grace and you just might get your answer.

May God bless and keep you always.

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FAITH News, local houses of worshipFor as the body is one, and has many members. And all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: So also is Christ. 1Corin. 12:18

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GOD GIVES US GREAT CALM Sometimes God calms the storm. Other times God calm his child. Which will God have to do for you today? And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, sleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, care thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them; why are ye fearful? How is it that ye have NO faith? (Mark 4:37-40) And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And behold there arose a great tempest in the sea, so much that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying Lord save us: we perish. And he said unto them why or you so fearful? O ye of little faith. Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marveled, saying, what manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him! (Matthew 8:23-27) For Thought: Sometimes we are like the disciples; we don’t recognize who is in the ship with us. Are maybe we forget who is in the ship with us. The believer needs to remember who is in the ship with him at all times. Notice how Jesus spoke to the storm once and it obeyed. Jesus sometimes has to speak to man more than once to get him to obey. Thank God for mercy. Amen. Abraham was fully persuaded who was with him. (Roman 4:17-21) my question today is you fully per-suaded who is with you at all times. Paul was also persuaded (Roman 8:35-39) Paul was persuaded and convinced nothing in his past or present life would separate him from the love of God. When you are convinced of who is in the ship with you worry will be in your of the past. You want worry about tomorrow anymore. (Matthew 6:25-34) When you are absolutely convinced you will give it to God; you will learn to rest and trust God with all that concerns you. (Matthew 11:28-30)

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Founder, Elder Wesley Pierce & 1st Lady Annette Pierce

GOD GIVES US GREAT CALM Sometimes God calms the storm. Other times God calm his child. Which will God have to do for you today? And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, sleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, care thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them; why are ye fearful? How is it that ye have NO faith? (Mark 4:37-40) And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And behold there arose a great tempest in the sea, so much that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying Lord save us: we perish. And he said unto them why or you so fearful? O ye of little faith. Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marveled, saying, what manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him! (Matthew 8:23-27) For Thought: Sometimes we are like the disciples; we don’t recognize who is in the ship with us. Are maybe we forget who is in the ship with us. The believer needs to remember who is in the ship with him at all times. Notice how Jesus spoke to the storm once and it obeyed. Jesus sometimes has to speak to man more than once to get him to obey. Thank God for mercy. Amen. Abraham was fully persuaded who was with him. (Roman 4:17-21) my question today is you fully per-suaded who is with you at all times. Paul was also persuaded (Roman 8:35-39) Paul was persuaded and convinced nothing in his past or present life would separate him from the love of God. When you are convinced of who is in the ship with you worry will be in your of the past. You want worry about tomorrow anymore. (Matthew 6:25-34) When you are absolutely convinced you will give it to God; you will learn to rest and trust God with all that concerns you. (Matthew 11:28-30)

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