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Presorted Standard U.S. Postage Paid Austin, Texas Permit No. 01949 TPA TEXAS PUBLISHERS www.TheAustinVillager.com ASSOCIATION This paper can be recycled Vol. 45 No. 3 Phone: 512-476-0082 Email: [email protected] June 2, 2017 HAYES AKELF Recognizes Outstanding Ministries and Awards Scholarships INSIDE Academy in Greater Austin at Annual Ball looking for Anita Hill to Join Star Jones’ exclusive Sheryl Sandberg novel triggers RAPPIN’ and Viola Davis as new TV series. “Young Keynote Speaker See DIVAS Tommy Wyatt Page 2 AUSTIN – The Texas Where is the Ballers” Conference for Women announced that attorney Ghetto? and activist Anita Hill will Most American cities speak at the 18th annual have a ghetto. It is where the conference on Thursday, low income and poor November 2nd at the Aus- citizens live. It is where local Hello Austin, tin Convention Center. Hill Local nonprofit governments refuse to spend I am Adrian Hayes will join previously an- HARD WORK PAYS - Mr. Wesley Dickerson conducts youth the resources necessary to founder of HAYES Acad- camp pilot. nounced keynote speakers (center) is awarded a $1,500 scholarship keep the rundown emy and I am grateful to See SUMMER Sheryl Sandberg, from AKELF. (Photo/KeepitDigital) neighborhoods up to par have a chance to return to Facebook COO and author Page 3 with more affluent areas of my hometown and give of Lean In and Option B, AUSTIN, TX - On Sat- AKELF presented recogni- the city. The Ghetto is where back to the city that gave and Viola Davis, Academy urday May 13, 2017 the tion awards for outstanding law enforcement turns a so much to me. The sum- award-winning film, stage Austin Kappa Education faith based community ser- blind eye to the crime that mer is the most important and television actress. and Leadership Founda- vice to The Voice, Inc. (One takes place in these time for young ballers to More than 7,000 attend- tion (AKELF), in conjunc- Way Baptist Church), the communities. The ghetto is develop their game. ees are expected to attend tion with the Austin Greater H.O.P.E. Center where the poor housing is Whether it’s constantly the largest gathering for Alumni Chapter of Kappa (Greater Nt. Zion Baptist Community leaders and where jobs do not exist. perfecting your shot, lift- women in Texas. Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Church), and the Youth address restoration The ghetto is where the ing weights to gain Anita Hill is a re- held the 6th annual AKELF Ministry at St. Mary Mis- concerns. local government considers muscle, jogging to build nowned attorney, author Black & White Ball. The sionary Baptist Church in See AUSTIN the citizens who live there as your endurance, or work- and professor, whose tes- theme of the event was the categories of Education Page 4 under privileged and ing on your favorite drib- timony during the 1991 “Achievement in Every and Combating Poverty, re- expendable. bling move. Whatever it is Field of Human Endeavor: spectively. Receiving See Many years ago, I would you must take the time to Faith Based Community scholarships in the REGISTRATION, have visitors from other work on it if you want to Service”. This gala took amount of $1500 each page 3 states who would ask me to take your game to the place at the Sheraton Aus- were Jaylen Crenshaw take them to the ghetto in next level. At HAYES bas- tin Hotel at the Capitol, (Pflugerville H.S.), Wesley Austin. They especially ketball teen camp we will Tiger Woods located at 701 East 11th Dickerson (Cedar Ridge wanted to see the public cover everything from the Street. Approximately 400 H.S.), and Devon Harris housing projects in the city. basketball basics to elite Says guests enjoyed a night of (UT Health Dentistry of When I would show them skills training. Take advan- Medication, fun, food, silent auction San Antonio). Over the Booker T. and Rosewood, tage of this chance to ad- items, and entertainment past six years, AKELF has they would usually say, “I vance your game at HAYES Not Alcohol, while the Foundation hon- awarded over $23,000 in mean the real projects.” It Basketball Camp and you ored several church minis- scholarship funds. was hard for them to will not be disappointed. Led to DUI tries in Greater Austin, For more information understand that Austin did I have had a chance to while also awarding schol- on the Austin Kappa Educa- not have a real ghetto. We Coach Athletes from all Arrest arships to several deserv- tion and Leadership Foun- over the world and now I had low income by: Doug Ferguson ing high school seniors. dation, please email am looking forward re- communities, but no real AP Golf Writer During the gala, [email protected]. ghetto. turning to Austin as Travis While African High School hosts HAYES Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Americans and Hispanics Basketball Camp atTravis are being driven out of the High School, June 12th- and the Spread of Hate: 14th from 10am-3pm for Eastside, the city is Taking Stock of Hate Fueled Events in Ages 12-18. making improvements Oregon, Texas, and Across the Land that they refused to do Bring your basketball Washington, DC – when these groups lived and ballers bring your During the 2016 cam- there. And as the citizens game. For registration in- paign, Donald Trump in- are disbursed to other formation please visit spired acts of bigotry, in- surrounding neighbor- www.hayesacademy.net (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File) tolerance, violence, and hoods, they are not or you may email us at harassment with such dis- creating ghettos in those [email protected]. Players arriving for a turbing frequency that we areas. They are making a See you soon! tournament this week at started tracking them on a strong effort to blend-in in Muirfield Village might “Trump Hate Map. While their new neighborhoods. notice a framed picture of nativism, racism, and ac- We must make every Tiger Woods with a re- companying harassment effort to insure that ghettos splendent smile and bright and bloodshed have a long T.I. are not created in our new red shirt. He’s posed there and sordid history in neighborhoods. To insure with the trophy, an image America, Trump’s cam- that, we must stay engaged that embodies the excite- Hustle paign and presidency re- with whatever governing ment he once brought to energized these forces, fil- body that is in place in golf. tering into society at large Gang whatever community where A far different photo and increasing the fre- we now reside, work, and emerged Monday, this one quency of hate, violence, send our children to school. from the Palm Beach Ricky Best (top) and Tour and harassment across We must do one other County jail in Florida after Taliesin Myrddin America. thing. We need to create jobs CORRECTION!-Last Woods was arrested on a Namkai Meche lost @ As Mark Potok, se- for our communities through week, Thelma Riley was DUI charge. their lives during nior fellow at the Southern the creation of businesses not identified in the photo Sullen, lifeless eyes. heroic attempts to Poverty Law Center, said: Empire that can service our new of the Original L. C. Thinning hair mussed combat hate in Oregon. “2016 was an unprec- Photos courtesy CBS communities. I am confident Anderson group. We at the top. Scraggly facial Sunday|June 4, 2017 edented year for hate … News and the Asha that, as we move forward, we apologise for the Not hav- hair. A white T-shirt. @8:00 PM Deliverance (Meche’s will continue to be ghetto ing this information before See F*** THEM, page 5 606 E. 7TH STREET See ROOMMATE, pg 6 mother) Facebook page. free. press time. AUSTIN, TX 78701 Page 2 ~ THE VILLAGER/June 2, 2017 THE COMMUNIQUÉ www.theaustinvillager.com Star Jones Opens Up About ‘Daytime Divas’ by: Nadine Matthews|Special to the AFRO Star Jones had al- ready distinguished her- self in the courtroom and on the airwaves when she got the call from Barbara Walters to be one of the inaugural co-hosts of the daytime chatfest, “The View.” The North Carolina born, New Jersey raised lawyer’s reputation as a tough on crime Brooklyn prosecutor opened the Star Jones (Justin Hoch/Hudson Union Society) door for her to become a legal analyst on television Kennedy rape trial and at a time when television tapped Jones for the job. THE LUNCH HOUR - From L-R: Vanessa Williams, Tichina Arnold, Fiona Gubelmann in executives realized that It wasn’t long before she a scene from ‘Daytime Divas,’ which premieres on VH1 June 5. (Courtesy photo) true crime had started to came to the attention of intersect with entertain- Jeff Zucker, then head of gal aspects, but she talked “The View.” Walters’ pio- actually every story in her being, as the tabloid ment. NBC. In a 1993 interview like a regular person. Ev- neering concept brought “Satan’s Sisters” comes NY Post put it, a “Celeb- Court TV was looking with the Washington Post eryone was using F. Lee together five women of from someone I inter- rity bridezilla” in the lead for a legal analyst for the he recalled of Jones, “She Bailey and [Harvard Law various ages and back- viewed, was interviewed up to her wedding to infamous William Smith had knowledge of the le- professor] Arthur Miller, grounds, to discuss the hot by, worked with, worked banker Al Reynolds after a the same middle-aged topics of the day. for, prosecuted. So it really three month courtship and ARE YOU LIVING White men talking in le- Those experiences was born of my gut.