Selma: White Savior Not Required
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Volume XXVI, Number III January 29 - February 4 , 2015 Another look at artificial sweeteners -See Page 4 Student Visit Us Online at www.NorthDallasGazette.com career expo in Garland -See Page 7 Selma: White DSO plans Duncanville savior not required performance By Walter L Fields NNPA Columnist -See Page 10 The fierce and aligned, if not co - ordinated, campaign to smear the motion picture “Selma” by suggest - ing it inaccurately portrays the role Win Tix to of President Lyndon Johnson in the fight for Blacks’ civil rights is par Skippyjon Jones!!! for the course. Critics of the movie http://www.facebook.com/ that focuses on the campaign for NorthDallasGazette! voting rights in Selma, Ala. suggest that Johnson was a champion for Y civil rights and is principally re - R TA sponsible for securing voting rights N E for African-Americans. M The real Barack M O At best that point of view is a mis - litical calculation to secure southern saw their role as a liberator of the C understanding, and at worst, and votes and resulted in an uneasy al - descendants of enslaved Africans. Obama re-emerges what I firmly believe, it is a deliber - liance between the Texan and the The rights of Blacks were not cen - By Julianne Malveaux publican Congress that ate attempt to create a false narra - young Bostonian. The tragic assas - tral to the maintenance of power for NNPA Columnist will likely block much of tive to diminish the principal and sination of JFK thrust Johnson into a president though it became a nec - what he proposed, espe - central role of Blacks in advocating the Oval Office and placed upon the essary consideration for the preser - President Barack cially when it comes to for their own freedom. Texan the late president’s agenda. vation of order. Obama knocked it out of raising taxes on the It is ironic, and sad, that the first Lyndon Johnson was no civil What also challenges the John - the park during the State wealthy to support his free full-length theater released movie rights champion. He was a prag - son-as-savior narrative is the truth. of the Union address. He community college pro - chronicling the leadership of Dr. matic politician who was smart As president, he walked gingerly in was strong, progressive, gram. Martin Luther King Jr. is being enough to read the moment and self- taking on southern governors who firm, and relaxed. He was President Obama “threw trashed in an attempt to exalt a absorbed enough to recognize his - were using their powers to oppress almost cocky as he of - down” in the hour-long White president. The criticism of tory would judge his legacy based African-Americans and deny them fered a few jokes, smugly speech that was frequently “Selma” betrays the truth and com - upon a historical movement for their constitutional rights. He reluc - announced that he would punctuated by applause. mon sense. Lyndon Johnson was a Blacks’ rights. tantly used his power to protect have no more elections, Republicans frequently southerner; a Texas politician firmly Common sense makes plain that Blacks who were being subjected to and just generally exuded withheld applause, but his entrenched as a Dixiecrat. His se - in the turbulent 1960s, no occupant violence in the south. Johnson ‘ne - confidence. Instead of the confidence suggested that lection as John F. Kennedy’s vice of the White House, the seat of gotiated’ civil rights, and used his kumbaya thing, he laid presidential running mate was a po - world power and White domination, See MLK, Page 7 out his priorities to a Re - See REAL, Page 3 INSIDE... People In The News… See Page 2 People In The News . 2 Op/Ed . 3 Health . .4 Community . .5 Education . .6 Community Spotlight . .7-8 Entertainment . 9-10 Market Place . 11 Career Opportunity . .12-13 Tamaika LaRocque Fallon Wallace Anthony Bright Church Directory . .14-15 NDG Book Review . .16 In December, more than 75,000 readers visited NorthDallasGazette.com! People in the News www.NorthDallasGazette.com Tatyana Smith and Zemoria N.C.) - Adriana Sawyer and The launch of the schol - than 25 of the best Johnson Garner Stewart arship coincided with the up-and-coming poets Tamaika LaRocque • Grambling State Uni - • Spelman College (At - fourth season of "Lexus http://lexus.us/1BUyohA. TORRANCE, Calif., versity (Grambling, La.) - lanta) - Chelsea Banks and Verses and Flow," the Na - For complete information (PRNewswire) -- Lexus an - Tamaika LaRocque and Shelby Smith tional Association for the about the Lexus Verses and nounced 19 recipients of the Prentiss Smiley • Xavier University (New Advancement of Colored Flow Scholarship and a list 2014 Lexus Verses and • Hampton University Orleans) - Anh Nguyen and People (NAACP) Image of the participating HBCUs Flow Scholarship. The new (Hampton, Va.) - Tommie Hallie O'Quine Award-nominated variety please visit: http://luxu - scholarship program is pre - Collins "In alignment with the show. Lexus Verses and ryawaits.com. sented in partnership with • Howard University Lexus Pursuit of Potential Flow was broadcast on TV Laz Alonso, the host of ten of the nation's Histori - (Washington D.C.) - Alana initiative to support our One. Blending electrifying Season 4 last year shared, "HBCUs, compared to cally Black Colleges and Jones and Ayanna McFar - youth, we are proud of the musical and soul-stirring other schools are very, very Universities (HBCU) and is land work these scholarship re - spoken word performances, underfunded. Typically, the an expansion of the ground - • LeMoyne-Owen Col - cipients are doing in school the eight-episode season students that attend HBCUs breaking "Verses and Flow" The recipients of the lege (Memphis, Tenn.) - and in their communities," featured mega-watt stars normally also come from a program, featuring poetry, Lexus Verses and Flow Ashanti Carr and Tashika said Brian Smith, Lexus Maxwell, K. Michelle, Joe, background where they spoken word and music. scholarship are: James vice president, marketing. Johnny Gill,Ruben Stud - need financial assistance. Each scholarship recipient • Clark Atlanta University • Morehouse College (At - "These HBCU student lead - dard, Candice Glover, Gary It’s always awesome to will be awarded $5,000 in - Adisha Penn and Marquea lanta) - Oren Davidson and ers have the tools to succeed Clark Jr., Sebastian Mikael, have a company like Lexus recognition of their commu - Alexander Timothy Tukes and we expect they'll do Leela James, Anthony recognize that and, to put it nity leadership and aca - • Florida A&M Univer - • North Carolina A&T great things for society in Hamilton,Alice Smith, and bluntly, put their money demic excellence. sity (Tallahassee, Fla.) - University (Greensboro, the future." Mali Music alongside more where their mouth is." Fallon Wallace are all grad - ing a $200 million operat - als.” tional efficiency in favor of Fallon Wallace uate students pursuing dual ing loss in each of the pre - Ultimately, ACHE com - top-quality service and care A UT Dallas team that master’s degrees in business vious two years — led to a petitors focused on helping delivered at premium delivered advice to a novice administration and health dire financial situation as the company’s newly ap - prices. CEO trying to fix a deluge care management. Their well as growing dissatisfac - pointed CEO quickly find The Jindal School team’s of problems in his strug - challenge centered on a hy - tion among patients and the workable means to increase first piece of advice was to gling health care company pothetical 60-year-old com - medical group, the Jindal revenue and restore belief in forget the either/or ap - placed first and earned pany that had pioneered a School team concluded. the company’s viability. proach. Instead, in a 15- $3,000 in a student case nonprofit, prepaid health “The competition re - For his inaugural meeting page paper and a 10-minute study competition, spon - maintenance organization quired our team to act as with his board of directors, presentation, the team coun - sored by the North Texas insurance program. The health care executives the fledgling executive seled the CEO to combine chapter of the American company’s initial market working together to imme - planned to propose two di - his solutions in a two- College of Healthcare Ex - advantage lay in containing diately develop a strategy vergent rescue operations. pronged approach incorpo - ecutives (ACHE). costs by relying on its own for the struggling organiza - The first entailed lowering rating both short-term and It was the third time in thetical difficulties drawn physician-led medical tion,” Wallace said. “ACHE rates, lowering costs, freez - long-term strategies. four years a team of stu - from issues on the business group to deliver care. provided an invaluable ex - ing salaries and instituting Some key elements of the dents from Naveen Jindal side of medicine and then Over time, that advantage perience for our team to layoffs — all to regain a team’s short-term strategy School of Management won presenting proposals to disappeared as competitors have a glimpse of some of pricing advantage. The sec - called for immediate cost- the annual challenge. The remedy them. also adopted the HMO the challenges we will face ond choice: Change percep - cutting and strategic layoffs, competition tasks competi - Team members Keith model. Subsequent eco - in our career as health care tion of the company by tors with analyzing hypo - Herl, William Howard and nomic pressures — includ - management profession - shifting away from opera - See WALLACE, Page 7 much-needed peace of cloud. Panic List contacts mind." The CEO will be and designated first respon - Anthony Bright presenting the STOP-AT - ders are notified immedi - Los Angeles, CA (Black - TACK app at the Pre- ately or after a brief, user- News.com) -- Officially Grammy Awards VIP Gift determined delay.