Presorted Standard U.S. Postage Paid Austin, Texas Permit No. 01949 TPA TEXAS PUBLISHERS www.TheAustinVillager.com ASSOCIATION This paper can be recycled Vol. 44 No. 17 Phone: 512-476-0082 Email: [email protected] September 16, 2016 MAGAZINE SHOW ED GORDON INSIDE PREMIERED ON BOUNCE TV By Naomi Richard | The Austin Villager NATIONAL NEWS - Award-winning journalist Ed Gordon returned to primetime television Tuesday night, September 13, as Bounce TV world premiered their NOLA serenades first-ever news magazine show Ed Gordon. 107 year old RAPPIN’ Gordon serves as executive producer and host of WWII veteran. the new Bounce TV original series, sitting down for re- Tommy Wyatt See PARTY vealing interviews with top headline makers, entertain- Page 2 ers and pop cultural figures. Ed Gordon will also in- I identify with clude investigative pieces, celebrity profiles, current the Precursors! event segments and human-interest feature stories. The group known as The The series premiere featured Gordon’s exclusive Precursors was the first and emotional interview from Ferguson, Missouri with undergraduate class of five Mothers of The Movement, African-American African Americans who women whose children have been shot, with four killed, began attending the in acts of violence: Sybrina Fulton (Trayvon Martin), Bucy kicks campaign University of Texas at Lucia McBath (Jordan Davis), Lezley McSpadden fundraising Austin in 1956. It was a (Michael Brown), Wanda Johnson (Oscar Grant) and into high gear. major step at that time for Marian Tolan (Robbie Tolan). See WILLIAMSON any institution of higher Gordon also visited with Nate Parker and the cast Page 6 learning in the Southern of The Birth of a Nation, the much-anticipated motion United States. picture dramatizing the life of Nat Turner, the slave who I identify with this group lead a rebellion in Virginia in 1831. Parker, the director because I also graduated and star of the film, discussed his passion to produce from high school in 1956. the project and how many are seeing this film as ‘an But, going to UT was not ED GORDON See BUCKET LIST, page 2 an option for me, because I HBCU announce a needed an athletic Black-Centered Housing at Cal State Provokes significant cut in scholarship in order to their workforce. afford college. That was not See TUSKEGEE an option at UT. So, I Debate – Is It Segregation-in-Reverse, or Not ? Page 7 sought out our (Historically Black Colleges and Response to Universities (HBCU). I ended up at Bishop College Austin in Marshall, Texas. American- After graduation, and a two-year tour in the Army, Statesman’s I was sent to Austin for my job. And that is when I Story became acquainted with Regarding the Black UT students and graduates. And I was Racial excited about the relationship between UT Disparities in students and those of DPS Searches Huston-Tillotson College (now University). That relationship was very deep. UT did not have Black Sororities and Fraternities. So, for a time, interested by: Zenitha Prince (Image from http://www.calstatela.edu/) students could join these Senior AFRO organizations through the Correspondent fornia Davis, University of H-T chapters. That lasted “If Black students wanted Connecticut, Stanford and until UT stopped the LOS ANGELES, CA - A elsewhere. activity. new housing enclave to go to an all-Black The Cal State Black The National chapters of aimed at Black students Student Union, which re- all of the major sororities on the campus of Cal institution, there are plenty quested the housing as and fraternities waged an State University Los Ange- one of several demands effort to establish chapters les has become a source of historically black they issued to the admin- on the UT campus and of contention–some ar- colleges that still exist,” istration last November, finally made it happen. gue it’s an agent of racial praised the Halisi housing Rep. Garnet Coleman But, there was still the segregation while others as an “achievement…long question as to what to do say it offers support amid community focuses on FoxNews.com. “But if they overdue, but well de- AUSTIN –The Austin about those students who discriminatory environ- academic excellence and want to go to an institution served” on its Instagram American-Statesman re- had graduated. Those ments. learning experiences that that is racially diverse and account. cently published multiple individuals were permitted The Halisi Scholars are inclusive and nondis- integrated, then racial di- In the letter ad- stories in relation to an in- to join the local alumni Black Living-Learning criminatory,” Lopez said. versity and integration is dressed to university Presi- vestigation they per- chapters until a chapter Community is a set-aside Some say the housing part of it. To have a univer- dent William Covino, the formed into racial dispari- could be established on the of about 20 spots in the option undermines the sity-sanctioned segrega- union said the housing ties in DPS searches. Rep. UT campus. university’s 192-room aims and achievements of tion or separation is, to could be a source of sup- Garnet Coleman (D-Hous- That relationship that residential complex for the Civil Rights Movement me, a bit troubling.” port for beleaguered Afri- ton) released the following started in 1956 continues students “interested in by promoting segregation. Proponents of the can-American students, statement announcing the today. We thank The Pan-African history, cul- “If they (Black stu- Black-focused housing who represent 4 percent upcoming County Affairs Precursors for opening the ture and current affairs,” dents) wanted to go to an program at Cal State point of the student body. Committee hearing and doors of our major according to the school’s all-Black institution, there out that it is but one of “Black students at Cal regarding the findings of universities to Black Housing Services website. are plenty of historically several “themed commu- State LA have been, and the Statesman’s investiga- students all over the south. But, it’s “open to all black colleges that still ex- nities” housed in the still are, consistently made tion: Because of their sacrifices students,” school spokes- ist,” Niger Innis, the na- dorm. And, they add, such the targets of racist attacks “The House County our students now have man Robert Lopez told tional spokesperson for housing arrangements are by fellow students, faculty Affairs Committee will The New York Times. the Congress of Racial not new–similar programs and administration,” the more choices when seeking See DPS STOPS, page 2 an education. “This living-learning Equality, told exist at University of Cali- letter read in part. Page 2 ~ THE VILLAGER/September 16, 2016 THE COMMUNIQUÉ www.theaustinvillager.com Black World War II Veteran Turns 107 SMBR’s monthly workshop with a Party in New Orleans & other events of interest Events happening this month This month’s workshop will provide Understanding MBE/WBE Contract Compliance. Our workshop will be on September 27th at 5:30 p.m. at SMBR, 4201 Ed Bluestein Blvd. Austin. RSVP @ https://smbr_mbewbecompliance_92716.eventbrite.com Save the Date for our Contractor and Consultant Appreciation Event and Reception. It will be held on October 25th from 6-7:30 p.m. at the George Washington Carver Museum. RSVP @ https://contractorsappreciation2016.eventbrite.com Of over 14 million DPS stops since 2009, people of color are more likely to be subject to a search during a traffic stop than Whites continued from page 1 NATIONAL TREASURE - World War II veteran Lawrence Brooks, 107, left, gets a birthday handshake from Lt. Col. Austin Appleton with the conduct a hearing to than Whites. Additionally, DPS troopers and all U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during a birthday celebration for Brooks at discuss DPS profiling prac- the analysis shows that this law enforcement do the The National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Monday, Sept. 12, tices, de-escalation tech- is not an isolated problem vital job of keeping us all 2016. (Chris Granger/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP) niques in all circumstances within the agency - over a safe. Unfortunately, the as discussed in the recent third of the 1,138 troopers trust between law en- by: The Associated Press enaded and congratulated said, “The biggest change Houston Chronicle edito- in the analysis were twice forcement and communi- by other veterans and that I didn’t think would rial ‘Police shootings’, as likely to search Black and ties of color is in need of NEW ORLEANS (AP) well-wishers. ever happen was a Black problems with aggressive Hispanic drivers as they repair. The facts are clear; — When Lawrence Brooks The newspaper re- president.” policing, and diversion for were White drivers. there is a problem that joined the military, it was ports Brooks was a private In an oral history people with mental illness The detailed analysis needs to be addressed. still segregated. Yet the in the Army’s mostly Afri- about his service posted before booking. The hear- done by the Statesman Hence, the conversation 107-year-old African- can-American 91st Engi- on YouTube , Brooks also ing will take place at the makes it clear that there moving forward should American World War II neer Battalion. They were described how he was de- State Capitol in room is more work to be done focus on how we can work veteran has lived long stationed in New Guinea livering a load of barbed E2.016 at 10:00 a.m. on in preventing racial dis- together in a respectful enough not only to see and the Philippines. The wire to the front when Tuesday, September 20, crimination in traffic and constructive manner that change, but to see a unit built infrastructure one of the engines of the 2016.