The Truth Doesn’t Cost Anything, But A Lie Could Cost You Everything. 2726 S. Beckley Ave • Dallas, Texas 75224 ISSN # 0746-7303 P.O. Box 570769 Dallas, Texas 75357 - 0769 50¢ .Serving Dallas More Than 70 Years — Tel. 214 946-7678 - Fax 214 946-7636 — Web Site: www.dallasposttrib.com — E-mail: [email protected] VOLUME 73 NUMBER 36 SERVING THE BLACK COMMUNITY WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR SINCE 1947 May 13 - 19, 2021 The Big Lie as Journalism: Murdock Paper Publishes“Book” Lie on Vice President Harris By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor Dominion Voting Systems sued Rudy Giuliani for $1.3 bil- lion based on over 50 statements by Giuliani made at hear- ings, on social media, his podcast and on Fox News — where Giuliani claimed Dominion Voting Systems “flipped” votes to facilitate President Biden’s win. President Biden won by over 7 million votes with several Republican con- trolled states certifying his election as legitimate. On April 23, The New I was ordered to write and York Post published and which I failed to push then edited a story that back hard enough against claimed that a children’s — was my breaking book by Vice President point,” wrote Italiano on Kamala Harris was given social on April 27. out to migrant children at Increasingly, Murdock the Mexican border as part media properties, such as of a “welcome kit” upon Fox News, have relied entering the U.S. more on contributors and Former New York Post fictional information writer Laura Italiano rather than straight report- claims she was forced to ing focused on accurate write the story. knowable truth as demo- Increasingly, Murdock media properties, such as Fox News, have relied more on contributors and fictional infor- “The Kamala Harris mation rather than straight reporting focused on accurate knowable truth as demography in the U.S. changes. story — an incorrect story Continue Harris Page 5 Ruling paves way for BREAKING longer sentence in George Floyd’s death NEWS - ARTICLE Page 4 - US advisers Barry Jenkins on his unflinching epic endorse Pfizer ‘Underground Railroad’ By AMANDA LEE MYERS COVID shot for LOS ANGELES (AP) unflinching portrayal of — When Oscar-winning Cora, an enslaved woman director Barry Jenkins was who escapes a Georgia kids 12 and up considering adapting plantation and its horrors Colson Whitehead’s only to be pursued by an By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE Pulitzer Prize-winning unrelenting bounty hunter. novel about the Along the way she must U.S. health advisers classrooms next school Underground Railroad confront the anger she endorsed use of Pfizer’s year, concluded advisers into a limited series, he feels for her mother, who COVID-19 vaccine in to the Centers for Disease kept hearing the same left her at the plantation kids as young as 12 on Control and Prevention. thing: Impossible. when she was 10. Wednesday — just as “And this is another It would be emotionally The 10-hour limited planned new guidelines way to get closer to end- and mentally draining, series, which premieres say it’s OK for people of ing this horrible pandem- Jenkins knew. And he Thursday on Amazon, is at any age to get a coron- ic,” said adviser Dr. questioned the ethics of times unbearably painful avirus shot at the same Camille Kotton of such a production: Do to watch and at others time as other needed vac- Harvard Medical School. people really need to be achingly beautiful. Early cinations. The sprint to vaccinate reminded about the hor- reviews have declared the The shots will let kids millions of middle and FILE - Filmmaker Barry Jenkins poses for a portrait at the 91st rors of slavery? series a triumph and some- safely attend camps this high school students has Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Feb. Ultimately, Jenkins thing only Jenkins could 4, 2019. Jenkins' latest project, the 10-hour limited series “The summer and help assure a worked through the Underground Railroad,” premieres Thursday on Amazon. (Photo by doubts. The result is an Continue Barry Page 4 more normal return to Continue Shot Page 5 Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) Recognizing #BLACK EXCELLENCE for 73 Years May 13 - 19, 2021 The Dallas Post Tribune Page 2 EDITORIAL PAGE The Dallas Post Tribune is pub­ lished weekly by the Tribune BOARD OF DIRECTORS Publishing Incorporated, 2726 S. Beckley, Dr. Mary E. Beck, Dallas, Texas, 75224, Bulk Rate Chairperson [1345]. Postage is paid to the Dallas Postmaster. Send address Alamo renovation gets stuck over Dr. Theronica Bond changes to The Dallas Post Tribune, P.O. Box 570769, Dallas, Atty. Theodora Lee, Co­ Texas, 75357­0769. THE DALLAS Chair POST TRIBUNE is not responsible for unsolicited materials. Address arguments about slavery Atty. Gary Bond all correspondence to EDITOR, The Dallas Post Tribune, P.O. Box Mrs. Mollie Belt 763939, Dallas, Texas 75376­3939 or e­mail production@dallaspost­ trib.net. All articles should be Some heroes of the Texas Revolution were enslavers, a neglected piece of history that has helped STAFF addressed to the appropriate staff stall a badly needed overhaul of the revered battle site. member. Advertisements, articles, Dr. Theronica Bond editorials, letters to the editor and cartoons appearing in the paper do BY RICHARD WEBNER, THE WASHINGTON POST President/CEO not necessarily represent the phi­ Mrs. Shirley Gray losophy or views of The Dallas Post Tribune. corner where it’s difficult Publisher/Manager Regulations for Publication to accept the reality that Operations, 1) We reserve the right to edit Billing & Collection articles for content and proper people are not perfect,” grammar. We also reserve the Mrs. Mattie Weatherman right to truncate articles for space said Carey Latimore, a requirements. history professor at Production 2) We reserve the right to Ms. Erma J. Davis refuse any advertisement or can­ Trinity University. cel any advertisement contract. Production 3) Deadline for receipt of arti­ “As we become more cles is MONDAY AT NOON WITH NO EXCEPTIONS unless author­ diverse as a nation and a Atty. Gary Bond, Legal ized by the publisher. 4) Deadline for receipt of people, we’ve got to learn Counselor advertisements is MONDAY AT how to talk about these NOON. Advertisements will not Dr. George Willis, Consulting be received after that point unless difficult conversations, they are camera ready and have been approved by the publisher. but we’ve got to talk STAFF WRITERS 5) All articles and advertise­ about it with nuance. And Rev. Johnny C. Smith ments must be proofed by the article placer or advertiser. We that’s what’s missing right Dr. Colleen White will not be held responsible for any errors if the article placer or now in our society, is the Dr. J. Ester Davis advertiser does not proof their article or advertisement. nuance.” 6) Articles and advertisements CIRCULATION received past the stated deadlines Elected leaders have will be held over for the next pub­ Mrs. Joan Fowler lication if applicable. talked for decades about 7) We will not be held respon­ redeveloping the Alamo Mr. Jermain Clemon sible for pictures that are not Mr. Rick Weatherman claimed after two (2) weeks. complex, which lies in the Pictures held after two (2) weeks Eddie Gaspar are subject to disposal. The Cenotaph at Alamo Plaza in San Antonio. Photo Credit: /The Texas Tribune heart of San Antonio, not 8) Advertisement positioning ADVERTISING based on a first­come basis. far from the famous River Ms. Erma J. Davis Positioning can be guaranteed for SAN ANTONIO — ence. But several were up that it was about slav- Walk. But those plans 15% over total cost. Mrs. Shirley Gray Credo of The Black Press The Alamo needs a enslavers, including ery, or say that the Alamo have always presented The Black Press believes that America can best lead the world makeover; on that, at William B. Travis and defenders were racist, or logistical challenges — PRODUCTION away from racial and national least, everyone agrees. Davy Crockett — an anything like that, they antagonisms when it accords to the Alamo is owned by Mrs. Mattie Weatherman every person, regardless of race, Plaster is flaking off the inconvenient fact in a state need to take their rear the state, while the adjoin- Ms. Erma J. Davis color or creed, full human and legal rights. Hating no person, fearing walls of the nearly 300- where textbooks have ends over the state border ing plaza is owned by the no person, the Black Press strives to help every person in the firm year-old former Spanish only acknowledged since and get the hell out of city — as well as ideolog- belief that all are hurt as long as anyone is held back. mission, the most revered 2018 that slavery was at Texas,” said Brandon ical ones. battle site in Texas history. issue in the Civil War. Burkhart, president of the The original plan, Editorial Board: Vice Chairman ­ Mrs. Shirley Gray; Consultant Its one-room exhibit space Indeed, an enslaved This is Freedom Texas announced in 2017, called can hold only a fraction of man named Joe, who was Force, a conservative for repairing the Alamo, key artifacts. And the sur- owned by Travis, survived group that held an armed fixing up the plaza and rounding plaza is a tourist the battle of the Alamo protest last year in Alamo building a world-class circus, packed with novel- and became one of the pri- Plaza. museum for artifacts, It’s Time to Renew ty shops and a Ripley's mary sources of informa- Democratic elected including a collection Re-Subscribe to The Dallas Post Tribune Believe It or Not museum.