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Vol. 47 No. 21 Phone: 512-476-0082 E mail: [email protected] October 11, 2019 Diahann Carroll, Oscar-Nominated, INSIDE Pioneering Black Actress, Passes By Nekesa Mumbi Moody | AP Entertainment Writer Jags to face stiff competition against old foe. See LBJ RAPPIN’ Page 2 Tommy Wyatt AISD SHOULD RETURN OUR TAX MONEY! J. Stanislaus encourages African Many of you have gone Americans to join to the AISD community the pilot ranks. meeting to learn that the See MISSION School District Trustees Page 5 have made a decision to close most of the schools in the minority communities. These historic schools is where most of our children have received their basic education. These schools Community advocate have served our communi- seeks to revive ties well. the 53rd District. Now these schools are See CANTU being thrown out with the Page 6 bath water without any concern for these historic Bertha Sadler contributions. These Means Young schools were named for some of our most Women’s respected citizens who Leadership worked hard to see that our communities were Academy to well served. In exchange Close in 2023 for their service, many schools and public by Carolyn Jones buildings were named in VILLAGER Columnist their honor. These public (VILLAGER) - If Ber- buildings and other tha Sadler Means was memorials is what we not physically present in used to educate our the cafeteria of the children on our history school named in her and service to the honor when AISD offi- community. cials held another in its In the process of series of Community preparing to close these Conversations concern- schools, there is no talk as ing school closures, she to what will replace these was there in spirit as historic reminders of what speaker after speaker was there. However, the invoked her name and school officials are now This May 8, 2013 file photo shows Diahann Carroll at the world premiere of “Peeples” in Los legacy in their criticism seeing that our communi- Angeles. Carroll passed away Oct. 4 at her home in Los Angeles after a long bout with cancer. of the school’s coming ties placed great value in She was 84. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) closure scheduled for our community leaders, (AP) - Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated the 1960s, but it was an immediate hit. the year 2023. the same as the rest of the actress and singer who won critical acclaim as the It had its critics, though, including some who The forum was held city. first Black woman to star in a non-servant role in a said Carroll’s character, who is the mother of a at the Bertha Sadler Our school district has TV series as “Julia,” has died. She was 84. young son, was not a realistic portrayal of a Black Means Young Women’s taken a lot of money from Carroll’s daughter, Susan Kay, told The Associ- American woman in the 1960s. Leadership Academy in these areas in support of the ated Press her mother died Oct. 4 in Los Angeles of “They said it was a fantasy,” Carroll recalled in East Austin on Friday, school district. This money cancer. 1998. “All of this was untrue. Much about the char- October 4, 2019. The was taken even if you did During her long career, Carroll earned a Tony acter of Julia I took from my own life, my family.” meeting was attended not have kids in the school Award for the musical “No Strings” and an Acad- Not shy when it came to confronting racial by close to 100 parents, system. And they will emy Award nomination for best actress for barriers, Carroll won her Tony portraying a high- friends of the school, continue to take that money “Claudine.” But she was perhaps best known for her fashion American model in Paris who has a love af- staff, students, and AISD after these schools are pioneering work on “Julia.” Carroll played Julia fair with a White American author in the 1959 Ri- officials. closed. And much of that Baker, a nurse whose husband had been killed in chard Rodgers musical “No Strings.” Critic Walter In a move that AISD money will be sent to the Vietnam, in the groundbreaking situation comedy Kerr described her as “a girl with a sweet smile, bril- officials say has been in state for the support of other that aired from 1968 to 1971. liant dark eyes and a profile regal enough to belong the cards for a long time, “poor” school districts in the “Diahann Carroll walked this earth for 84 years on a coin.” a total of 12 schools, state. and broke ground with every footstep. An icon. One She appeared often in plays previously consid- which they say suffer While we are attending of the all-time greats,” director Ava DuVernay wrote ered exclusive territory for White actresses: “Same from low enrollment these meetings to be on Twitter. “She blazed trails through dense forests Time, Next Year,”” Agnes of God” and “Sunset Bou- and aging infrastruc- informed about the plans to and elegantly left diamonds along the path for the levard” (as faded star Norma Desmond, the role tures, are scheduled to close our schools, we need rest of us to follow. Extraordinary life. Thank you, played by Gloria Swanson in the 1950 film.) close over the next four to demand to be taken off Ms. Carroll.” “I like to think that I opened doors for other years and students the tax roles that support Although she was not the first Black woman women, although that wasn’t my original intention,” transferred to other schools in other to star in her own TV show (Ethel Waters played a she said in 2002. campuses. Along with communities. This is maid in the 1950s series “Beulah”), she was the first Her film career was sporadic. She began with the closures come pro- Highway Robbery. And to star as someone other than a servant. a secondary role in “Carmen Jones” in 1954 and five posed boundary it is taxation without NBC executives were wary about putting See STRETCH HER WINGS, page 7 See TEARS, page 3 representation! “Julia” on the network during the racial unrest of