Presorted Standard U.S. Postage Paid Austin, Texas Permit No. 01949 TPA TEXAS PUBLISHERS www.TheAustinVillager.com ASSOCIATION This paper can be recycled Vol. 44 No. 37 Phone: 512-476-0082 Email: [email protected] February 3, 2017 BLACK HISTORY MONTH: The Crisis in Black Education 23rd Title: INSIDE Serena Williams Sets Major Key asset to 1955 Record murder admitts to RAPPIN’ falsely testifying. with Win See EMMETT Tommy Wyatt Page 2 Williams Sisters over Venus did it again? Receives A majority of the Callers Congratulatory to our radio show last week Letter & Pair of were confident that Venus Custom-Made Williams would beat little SLAMMING LIKE JORDAN - United States’ Serena Williams holds Proposed Senate Bill sister Serena in the Shoes from Jordan her trophy after defeating her sister Venus during the women’s singles provides immigration Australian Open finals. by: John Pye final at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Austra- provisions. While the two have been the AP Sports Writer lia, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) See TEXAS face of Women’s tennis in Page 6 America for almost two MELBOURNE, Aus- Venus Williams got 4, 6-4 on Saturday night. with their father Richard decades, they are still at the tralia (AP) — Serena Wil- to watch from close range With her record sev- and mother Oracene as top of their games. Every liams held up a Grand again, and shed tears enth Australian Open title, coach and mentor. And tournament that they enter Slam winner’s trophy for more of joy than regret Serena moved ahead of they still practice and offers an opportunity for the 23rd time, celebrating after being beaten in a Steffi Graf for the most travel together around the another record. her unrivalled place in his- major final for the seventh major titles in the Open world. Serena won the match, as tory, and received a con- time by her record-break- era. They met for the first I knew she would, and set gratulatory letter and a ing younger sister. The Williams sisters time at a major at Academy announces another record in the sport. pair of custom-made Serena won the all- are close. They started out Melbourne Park in 1998 — record tying And as she broke through to shoes from Michael Jor- Williams final, the ninth in playing together in Venus won that one. In nominations. another milestone, she was Grand Slam history and Compton, California, See DIVERSITY dan, the name most syn- See VENUS, page 7 immediately confronted with onymous with No. 23. the second in Australia, 6- hardly a hotbed for tennis, Page 7 another challenge. By winning in Australia, she Jasmine Guy Heads DeVoe says BET Miniseries Tells now holds the record of winning 23 majors. That Back to College for BET moves her ahead of Steffie ‘Authentic’ Story of New Edition Graf, the player that she tied Drama ‘The Quad’ by: Jonathan Landrum, Jr. | Associated Press last season. Now that she by: Frazier Moore | AP Television Writer holds the record for the Open era, she faces a major test NEW YORK (AP) — that she will not talk about Jasmine Guy is back at at this time. make-believe school. For But, the big news was the third time. Venus! She was back on her At 54, she has had a game. She has been varied career as a dancer, suffering from an illness writer and singer as well that zapped her energy for as actress. But she re- the past two years. But, it mains best-known for her appears that she now has it stint as college student under control. And while Whitley Gilbert on the there is no cure for her “Cosby Show” spin-off “A condition, she has found a Different World” (which way to play with it. aired from 1987 to 1993), Jasmine Guy The other unusual thing and was also enrolled in (AP Photo/Peter Morgan) that was front and center Spike Lee’s college com- during the tournament was edy “School Daze.” Eva — both a woman and the fact that the finals in Now, decades later, a Northerner, not to men- Pictured from left to right - Ralph Tresvant, Michael Bivins, Johnny both the Men’s and she’s back in academia for tion her past scandalous Gill, Ronnie DeVoe, Bobby Brown and Ricky Bell attend a ceremony hon- Women’s divisions “The Quad,” a new BET affair with a grad student oring New Edition with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Mon- featured the oldest players drama set at Georgia A&M. — is hardly greeted with day, Jan. 23, 2017, in Los Angeles. in history. Venus is 36 It premieres Wednesday at open arms by members of years of age, Serena is 35. 10 p.m. EST. the faculty and administra- ATLANTA (AP) — biopic, “The New Edition Girl” and “Mr. Telephone And on the men’s side “That’s the third fic- tion. New Edition’s ascension to Story,” a three-part Man.” They maintained Roger Federer is 35 and titious HBCU (Historically Anika Noni Rose the top of the charts in the miniseries that aired in success after puberty and Rafael Nadal is also in his Black Colleges and Univer- plays Eva in a cast that also 1980s was meteoric. January on BET. laid the foundation for early 30’s. Federer won the sities) I’ve been to,” says includes Peyton Alex They sold millions, “This is the real story groups like New Kids on match. This is no longer a Guy with a smile. “And I Smith, Jazz Raycole, Ruben but turmoil was as integral about us,” said Ronnie the Block, the Backstreet young person’s sport. have no paper to show for Santiago-Hudson, Zoe to their story as their hit DeVoe, a founding New Boys and Boyz II Men. American tennis is very it!” Renee, Jake Allyn and Guy, records. From the depar- Edition member. “There’s But the group weath- low on stars. There is no “The Quad” centers who portrays Ella Grace, ture of Bobby Brown to no holding back. This story ered plenty of conflict: one in the male division on ambitious, sexy Dr. Eva dean of the History De- other internal rifts to fi- is authentic.” Brown’s erratic behavior that is looking like a Fletcher, who, having hit partment and a sturdy Eva nancial difficulties, the New Edition — during a concert tour got possible champion in the a career bump, takes the ally. drama involving New Edi- DeVoe, Michael Bivins, him kicked out the group. near future. And while the job of president of “‘The Quad’ deals tion is as legendary as the Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, Tensions grew after Brown women are a little better troubled Georgia A&M, with a newcomer put in band itself. Ralph Tresvant and Ricky was replaced by Johnny off, it is not known how with her daughter, a re- charge who’s an outsider,” While it wasn’t great Bell — were one of the Gill. long the William Sisters bellious entering fresh- says Guy. “It also deals for band chemistry, it’s originators of the modern- Brown found success will continue to compete. man, in tow. with politics in the aca- great for storytelling — day boy band, rejuvenat- as a solo artist with the But, until we know better, The college is riddled demic world, and with is- and the many twists and ing the teen music scene 1988 hit “Don’t Be Cruel.” we just keep rooting for the with problems, financial sues the students face, like turns of the group are well in the mold of The Jackson See 2005, page 2 Williams Sisters. and otherwise. Worse, sexual assault. detailed in the group’s Five with hits like “Candy.