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Vol. 9 No. 13
April 28 - May 4, 2004

Black on Black Success
Acres Home Center
contradicts racist myth

Oma Johnson, Morine Green, Beulah Shepard, C.J. Jenkins, Tekarian Shepard, Elnora Solomon, Forrest Jackson, Ryan Carrington, and Guy Johnson
In light of the fact that Community Development, gentrification, Faith Based Funding and, of course, war on drugs, crime, poverty, etc., have become political catch phrases that give disenfranchised Black Americans


PUBLISHER’S ANALYSIS
by Roy Douglas Malonson



Is Aldine ISD’s Kujawa a hypocrite?

It’s just downright hypocritical for Nadine Kujawa
(Aldine ISD Superintendent-pictured) to take credit for making Aldine ISD a school that makes the greatest overall improvement in student achievement when it certainly knows the story behind the story


Texas Education Agency
Equal Educational Opportunity


Third Annual African American
Women Student Leadership Conference

 
Left to right, Florinda Royal, conference attendee and graduate student, Dr, Deleso Alford Washington, conference speaker, Kim Tapp, conference organizer


The Third Annual African American Women Student Leadership Conference was held recently at Texas Woman’s University. The conference is the brainchild of alumnae and graduate student Kim Tapp, now a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Dallas, who says the purpose of the conference, was to empower the women students of African descent and provide a forum to discuss issues pertinent to their development. The speaker for this years conference as Dr. Deleso Alford Washington, an attorney residing in Washington, D.C.



BLACK HISTORY  24/7/365

Moten John Simpson, Sr.
In spite of the fact Africans history in America, that provokes more shame than acclaim, insofar as they were literally kidnapped from their homeland and enslaved in “the land of the free,” African warriors have always been ready, willing and quite able to answer the call to duty to protect a nation that has yet to live up to its promises. “The American Dream” ....

FEATURE STORIES


Austin is sixth worst for allergy


OPERATION SUNRISE FOR

HCC-Central’s student’s book selected as finalist in National Book Challenge

TOP HUSTON-TILLOTSON COLLEGE STUDENTS NAMED TO WHO’S WHO

Reparations. Will Austin make the next Call?

NATIONAL MINORITY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL QUARTERLY CONFERENCE IN SAN ANTONIO FOR FIRST TIME

Wiley College Library and the Cole Library

Aaron Watson: Promoting Health
In The Black Community

Pinkston Students Stand Behind Principal

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker




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