"When you see the destruction, you've also got to realize there's pain, there's pain behind a lot of this." - Elijah Cummings

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I only have a minute. Sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, I did not choose it, But I know that I must use it. Give account if I abuse it. Suffer, if I lose it. Only a tiny little minute, But eternity is in it.

Recited by Rep. Elijah Cummings in his first speech to Congress, 1996. The House Oversight Committee Chairman's chair is draped in black cloth In this Aug. 7, 2019, file photo, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D‐Md., speaks during a honoring Rep. Elijah Cummings, D‐Md., on Capitol Hill in Washington, luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington. Cummings Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Shaneman. Cummings obtained his to ensuring that the next gen‐ tract the nation from its real we can do – what present can Newswire Correspondent “He always called me the bachelor’s degree in Political eration has access to quality problems, including mass we bring to generations boss because he told his team Science from Howard healthcare and education, shootings and white suprema‐ unborn?” The Chairman of the House I was a short woman with a big University, serving as Student clean air and water, and a cy.” His last act in Congress came Committee on Oversight and voice. I would fuss at him Government President and strong economy defined by “Those in the highest levels on Oct. 8, when he joined Reform and a titan of the U.S. about watching his blood graduating Phi Beta Kappa. fiscal responsibility. Children of the government must stop three others from a bipartisan Congress, Representative pressure. His health was my He earned his law degree “are the living messages that invoking fear, using racist lan‐ group to introduce legislation Elijah Cummings (D‐MD‐7), concern. I screamed when I from the University of we send to a future we will guage and encouraging repre‐ called “The Family Asthma died early Thursday morning. heard the news. I said, ‘this Maryland School of Law. never see,” he often said. hensible behavior,” Cummings Act.” The bill seeks to expand He was 68. can’t happen.’ I said they The recipient of 13 honorary In addition to the contribu‐ added. federal, state, and local efforts Maya Rockeymoore [Cummings and Saunders, doctoral degrees, Cummings tions he made to improve the “He was a champion of the to improve care for individuals Cummings, the congressman’s who died in 2015] were the dedicated his life of service to lives of all Americans, the con‐ people, a soldier and a warrior with asthma. wife and chairman of the last of the old guard,” uplifting and empowering the gressman was a passionate for his city, the state, and the “Long live the freedom‐ Maryland Democratic Shaneman said. people he was sworn to repre‐ advocate for his beloved nation,” said Baltimore Times fighting spirit of Brother Committee, said Cummings Recently, and in increasingly sent, according to his biogra‐ Baltimore, where he was born Publisher Joy Bramble. “Elijah Leader Congressman Elijah died at 2:45 a.m. at Johns rare sightings of the congress‐ phy. and raised. Cummings made Baltimore Cummings,” National Hopkins Hospital. Mrs. man, Cummings was seen He began his career in public Earlier this year, President and all of those who came Newspaper Publishers Cummings said her husband’s using a walker. service in the Maryland House Donald Trump disparaged the across better.” Association President, Dr. death resulted from complica‐ He underwent an undis‐ of Delegates, where he served city – particularly parts of The congressman told a Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., said. tions concerning longstanding closed medical procedure, and for 14 years, becoming the Cummings’ district — labeling local reporter that he and “On behalf of the Black Press health challenges. his office expected that he first African American in the city as a “rodent‐infested Trump had just one face‐to‐ of America, we extend our In recent years, Cummings would only miss about one Maryland history to ascend to mess where no human being face conversation since the heartfelt condolences to Mrs. had been in and out of the week of work. the position of Speaker Pro would want to live.” president took office in 2016. Cummings and to the hospital. “Dr. Elijah Saunders “He was an honorable man Tem. Cummings immediately “I said, ‘Mr. President, Cummings family.” and I took care of who proudly served his district Since 1996, Cummings has responded: “Those in the you’re now 70‐something, I’m Congressman Cummings for and the nation with dignity, represented Maryland’s 7th highest levels of government 60‐something. Very soon, you [years] for his blood pressure,” integrity, compassion, and Congressional District in the must stop making hateful, and I will be dancing with the said Cummings’ longtime humility,” Mrs. Cummings U.S. House of Representatives. incendiary comments that angels. The thing that you and nurse, Barbara “B.J.” said. Cummings was committed only serve to divide and dis‐ I need to do is figure out what Funeral rescheduled for woman Festival Highlight Black fatally shot by police at home

‘Films with a Purpose’ DALLAS (AP) — The funeral has been rescheduled for a woman shot and killed in her home by a Fort Worth police officer. The service for Atatiana Jefferson is planned for 11 a.m. Thursday at Concord Church in Dallas. That’s after a settlement was reached Monday between members of Jefferson’s family. Jefferson’s father had obtained a restraining order Friday to prevent a funeral On Saturday, October 12, at Los Angeles Center Studios in California, and in conjunction with its scheduled for Saturday after‐ anniversary, the nonprofit Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) presented its noon, forcing its postponement. inaugural Faith‐based Inspirational Film Festival. But at a hearing Monday in The event was held at the Los Angeles Center Studios in California, and featured “Emanuel,” the Dallas, Jefferson’s mother and Flowers lie on the sidewalk in front of the house, Oct. 14, 2019, in Fort story of a white supremacists’ murder of nine African Americans at bible study. There was also a three siblings intervened, asking Worth, Texas, where a police officer shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson, screening of “Amazing Grace,” the documentary of the late Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. A Probate Court Judge Brenda through a back window of her home. (David Kent/AP, File) question and answer session with several prominent local pastors will follow each screening. “It is critical for black filmmakers to share their talent,” says program founder, Sandra Evers‐ Hull Thompson to dismiss the father’s complaint. Manly. “We must create avenues that allow people to express themselves through the arts. In my The Fort Worth Star‐Telegram reports that after Thompson issued a gag order, all sides negotiat‐ opinion, film is one of the most powerful mediums of art there is. The goal is to make sure that ed for seven hours before reaching an agreement. black artists are in an industry that is welcoming; an inclusive industry where they don’t have to The officer who shot Jefferson through a back window has resigned and been charged with mur‐ fight to tell their stories. We have seen some breakthrough but still have a long way go.” der. Recognizing #BLACK EXCELLENCE for 71 years October 24 - 30, 2019 The Dallas Post Tribune Page 2 EDITORIAL PAGE

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Tornado slams Dallas; 4 killed impeach the President, without tweeted that Trump’s compari‐ in Arkansas, Oklahoma DALLAS ‐ Amber Guyger’s new due process or fairness or any son “is a reflection of the very attorney filed an appeal for her legal rights.” real trajectory of our nation and By JAMIE STENGLE and JAKE conviction and sentencing of Fighting back Tuesday night, the very repugnant evil of racism, BLEIBERG murdering Botham Jean in his Trump’s reelection campaign which still permeates both legis‐ home. tweeted out a 1998 video of then‐ lation and language in the United DALLAS (AP) — A tornado It is not unusual for a notice of Sen. Biden talking about States.” tossed trees into homes, tore off appeal to be filed when there was President Bill Clinton’s impending Former Maryland Lt. Gov. storefronts and downed power not plea bargain accepted during impeachment and saying, in part, Michael Steele, a black lines but killed no one in a dense‐ the trail. “History is going to question Republican, went a step further ly populated area of Dallas, leav‐ Although, the filing does not whether or not this was just a by tweeting a graphic black‐and‐ ing Mayor Eric Johnson to declare mean Guyger will continue the partisan lynching.” white photo of a black man hang‐ the city “very fortunate” to be appeals process. Earlier in the day, Biden ing from a tree and said: “This is a assessing only property damage. referred to Trump’s lynching lynching. Trump this is not hap‐ Hiring sitters immediately A meteorologist said Monday Trump likens House impeach‐ comparison as “abhorrent” and pening to you and it’s pathetic that people took shelter thanks to ment inquiry to ‘a lynching’ “despicable.” His Democratic that you act like you’re such a vic‐ early alerts, and that it was fortu‐ presidential campaign declined to tim.” Starting pay 10.00 per hour nate the tornado struck Sunday By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and comment on his 1998 state‐ Trump’s closest Republican evening, when many people were JAY REEVES ments. backers in Congress agreed with home. The reference to a lynching him, though others rejected his ACTS Sitters “Anytime you have a tornado WASHINGTON (AP) — Stirring struck a deep, painful chord for comparison. in a major metropolitan area, the up painful memories of America’s black people whose relatives died “This is a lynching in every potential for large loss of life is racist past, President Donald in racially motivated killings. sense,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, 1-877-544-9115 always there,” said Patrick Marsh, Trump on Tuesday compared the Malinda Edwards, whose R‐S.C., who is close to Trump. the warning coordination mete‐ Democratic‐led impeachment father was forced to jump off an But Senate Majority Leader orologist at the National Oceanic inquiry to a lynching, a practice Alabama river bridge in 1957 by Mitch McConnell, R‐Ky., criticized and Atmospheric once widespread across the Klansmen who heard that he had Trump’s “unfortunate choice of Administration’s Storm Prediction South in which angry mobs killed smiled at a white woman, said words,” saying it’s better to Credo of the Center in Norman, Oklahoma. thousands of black people. Trump was making light of the describe the impeachment “We were very fortunate that the Trump has spent recent days horror experienced by victims. process as “unfair.” tornado did not hit the Dallas pressuring Republicans to give “Either he’s very ignorant or Democrats expressed outrage Black Press Cowboys’ stadium or the State him stronger support in counter‐ very insensitive or very racist and that Trump would equate Fair, where you would have had a ing the impeachment investiga‐ just doesn’t care,” Edwards, 66, impeachment to a lynching and lot of people that were exposed.” tion. of Dayton, Ohio, said of the presi‐ called on him to delete the tweet The tornado crossed over two His tweeted suggestion that dent. Her father’s name is now or apologize. The Black Press believes major interstates. “If that hap‐ they “remember what they are among those on a memorial in Separately Tuesday, a U.S. pened at rush hour, I think we’d witnessing here — a lynching” Montgomery, Alabama, honoring appeals court in Atlanta was con‐ be talking about a different came a day after Trump said the more than 4,000 lynching victims. sidering whether federal judges that America can best story,” he said. GOP needs to “get tougher and Janet Langhart Cohen told The can order grand jury records The National Weather Service fight” against the fast‐moving Associated Press that Trump is unsealed in the mob lynching of lead the world away from said the tornado that ripped inquiry into whether he tried to among too many white people two black couples . The young through north Dallas was an EF3, withhold U.S. military aid until who have disrespected lynching black sharecroppers were which has a maximum wind Ukraine’s government agreed to victims and their descendants. stopped along a rural road in racial and national antag- speed of 140 mph (225 kph). The investigate Democrat Joe Biden Her distant cousin Jimmy 1946 by a white mob that agency said another tornado in and his son. Gillenwaters was lynched in dragged them out and shot them onisms when it accords to the suburb of Rowlett was EF1, Trump, who has been com‐ Kentucky in the early 1900s. multiple times east of Atlanta. with maximum wind speeds of plaining about unfairness in the Trump “knows what he’s More than 100 people reportedly 100 mph (160 kph). impeachment process being led doing. He knows how to hurt and testified before a grand jury, but every person, regardless of by House Democrats began his divide,” said Cohen, the wife of no one was ever indicted in the Amber Guyger’s new tweet: “So some day, if a former Republican Sen. William deaths of Roger and Dorothy race, color or creed, full attornery files for an appeal in Democrat becomes President and Cohen of Maine. Malcom and George and Mae her murder conviction sentenc‐ the Republicans win the House, Bernice King, a daughter of the Murray Dorsey. human and legal rights. ing of ten years in prison even by a tiny margin, they can Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., \ Elijah Cummings Remembered

Elijah Cummings (D), but he United States Navy Retired, American people and beyond’. Cummings said ‘as sure as eternally belong to the entire remembers meeting Elijah The Rev. T. L. Brown, Pastor night follows day and day fol‐ universal through his works, Cummings at the civil right ral‐ of New Mt. Zion Baptist lows night, we will get to the integrity and accessibility. lies continuing into the 70’s, Church and esteemed truth for the American Born to Baptist Preachers held at New Bethel Baptist President, Dallas Baptist People’. and a family of Southern Church when Rev. Walter Union, sitting in a barber chair Congressman Cummings has sharecroppers, Elijah Frontroy was Pastor and a took my call and said “he was to be among the high ranking Cummings grew up in racially member of Congress. such an example for all of us. dying breed of civil rights mas‐ frail Baltimore. He was always Lay Leader Susan Grant, for‐ He was an icon in our commu‐ ters. The word “legacy” seems a drum major for justice inte‐ mer Dallas Urban League nity, a great voice”. too light compared to his grating a local swimming pool Executive, remembers Mr. Texas Art Writer/Critic Gary reported 5,200 pieces of legis‐ in the 1950’s. So much has Cummings at numerous Reece remembers, “when lations he introduced during been written, spoken and National Urban League asked about getting to the bot‐ his total career as a lawmaker. recorded about the civil rights Conventions sent ‘condo‐ tom of all this mess concerning Maybe former Vice President innovator this entire week of lences to the family, and to all Russia meddling in our elec‐ Joe Biden said it best, My Day distributed we learned that United States Flags at half‐ of the lives this outstanding tions and questions concern‐ “Cummings, always knew By Dr. J. Ester Davis the Honorable Elijah staff. statesman touched. We honor ing the President’s involve‐ exactly where he was sup‐ Cummings had died. Arthur Fuller, formerly a res‐ and pray for his legacy and for ment in stopping The Muellar posed to be”. Last week as most print edi‐ Maryland’s 7th Congressional ident of Washington, DC, his tireless work for the Report, Congressman [email protected] tion newspapers were being District was represented by October 24 - 30, 2019 The Dallas Post Tribune Page 5 SPORTS PAGE 7 Day Weather Forecast for DFW

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Hall of Fame cornerback Willie Brown dies at age 78

(AP) ‐ Willie Brown estab‐ playing career died on organization.” lished the bump‐and‐run style Tuesday after a battle with Al Davis acquired Brown for of defense the Raiders used cancer. He was 78. the Raiders in a trade from for decades, provided the “Willie Brown was a true Denver in 1967 in one of the iconic play in Oakland’s first Raider and one of the best best moves he made during Super Bowl title, and impact‐ cornerbacks that ever played his Hall of Fame career run‐ ed nearly every player who the game,” Hall of Fame ning the Raiders. suited up for the team over coach John Madden said. “It Brown went on to have a the past half‐century. was a comfort to a coach to brilliant career with Oakland, Brown was the consum‐ be able to have Willie Brown highlighted by his 75‐yard mate Raider. in the defensive backfield. interception return for a The Hall of Fame corner‐ Willie was a good guy, a team touchdown against back who helped fuel the captain, and a true Raider Minnesota that helped the Raiders’ success during 12 from the day he joined our Raiders win their first Super years on the field before team in 1967, until he passed Bowl following the 1976 sea‐ becoming an integral part of away today. He will be missed son. the franchise during his post‐ by me and the entire Raiders October 24 - 30, 2019 The Dallas Post Tribune Page 6