INSIDE RAPPIN’ Tommy Wyatt TPA TPA TPA TPA TPA TEXAS PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION www.TheAustinVillager.com This paper can be recycled Vol. 47 No. 17 Phone: 512-476-0082 Email: [email protected]September 13, 2019 Women in Jazz presents: You Sing! Vocal Performance Workshop (AUSTIN, TX) - Women in Jazz presents: You Sing! Vocal Performance Workshop on Saturday, September 14, 2019 at Soundcheck Austin, Studio A, 1901 E 51st St, Austin, TX 78723. Anyone who loves to sing should attend the You Sing! Vocal Performance Workshop. Austin’s First Lady of Jazz Pamela Hart and Internationally renowned Tatiana “Lady May” Mayfield will facili- tate topics such as: Communicating with Musicians, Microphone Techniques, Use of the Scale to Make a Song Your Own, Vocal Quality and Dynamics, Win- ning over Your Audience, Stage Presence, Improvi- sation and more! Participants will work with a live band and receive group and personal coaching. You will leave a better singer! For information about the instructors, visit https://pamelahart.com/ or http://www.tatianamayfield.com/ Tickets are $35 (students) and $45 available at https://yousingatx19.eventbrite.com For more information: womeninjazz.org or call 512-258-6947. Women in Jazz Association, Inc. sponsors are the City of Austin, Hartbeat Productions, IBM Cor- poration, McDonald’s Corporation, Austin Chronicle, Austin Revitalization Authority, The Villager News- paper, and Soulciti.com. This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Devel- opment Department and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Mayfield Hart (VILLAGER) - The national NAACP leadership, members and partners traveled from Jamestown, Virginia to Jamestown, Accra, - Ghana, West Africa to commemorate the Year of Return. August 20, 2019, marked the 400th year since the first docu- mented enslaved African people were brought to Jamestown, Virginia, involuntarily and forced into generations of slavery. Two highlights were tours of the Cape Coast Castle slave dungeons, and the W.E.B. DuBois Center. Jamestown to Jamestown Courtesy of Jeffrey Archer | VILLAGER Special Danny Glover and Jeffrey Archer More than 200 participants attended this memorable event, including Jeffrey Archer, Melinda Murphy and Mrs. Gil from Austin, Texas. Actor Danny Glover and Senator Royce West were also among some of the participants. This momentous 10-day trip, from August 17- 27, honored the strength, power and resilience of Africans and African Americans. Senator Royce West Hip Hop Recording Artist delivers inspirational message. See JAICEI Page 3 The voice of District One hosts community townhall. See MADISON Page 6 HFCRC honors first African American lieutenant. See MARVIN Page 5 Democrats are beginning to put their feet down Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chair- man of the Committee on Oversight and Reform has become a little irritated that the people who work on the Trump staff continues to refuse to come before the committee to answer questions about going ons of this admin- istration. The latest member of the staff to ignore the request to appear before the committee is Kellyanne Conway, the Counselor to the president. She could be charged with contemp of Congress, if she continues to defy a duly atuthorized bipartisan subpoena. She has refused to appear before the committee to answer charges that she has repeadedly violated federal law, Other members of the staff have resigned their positions in order to get around appearing before the committee. The fact that the requests are coming from a bipartisan group makes it a little harder to say that the Democrats are doing a witchhunt on the Donald John Trump administration. This little tug-of-war has been going on for the entire length of time that the president has been in office. But, it has been very hard to enforce the rules when they were trying to be enforced by the Democratic side of the isles. It was reported that The White House sent a letter fifteen minutes prior to the hearing saying that Conway would not appear. It further asserted that she “is absolutely immune from compelled congressional testimony with respect to matters related to her service as a senior advisor to the President.” This is the second time in three weeks the Committee has attemp- ted to obtain her testimony.
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Women in Jazz presents: You Sing!Vocal Performance Workshop
(AUSTIN, TX) - Women in Jazz presents: YouSing! Vocal Performance Workshop on Saturday,September 14, 2019 at Soundcheck Austin, StudioA, 1901 E 51st St, Austin, TX 78723.
Anyone who loves to sing should attend theYou Sing! Vocal Performance Workshop. Austin’sFirst Lady of Jazz Pamela Hart and Internationallyrenowned Tatiana “Lady May” Mayfield will facili-tate topics such as: Communicating with Musicians,Microphone Techniques, Use of the Scale to Makea Song Your Own, Vocal Quality and Dynamics, Win-ning over Your Audience, Stage Presence, Improvi-sation and more! Participants will work with a liveband and receive group and personal coaching. Youwill leave a better singer! For information aboutthe instructors, visit https://pamelahart.com/ orhttp://www.tatianamayfield.com/
Tickets are $35 (students) and $45 available athttps://yousingatx19.eventbrite.com
For more information: womeninjazz.org or call512-258-6947.
Women in Jazz Association, Inc. sponsors arethe City of Austin, Hartbeat Productions, IBM Cor-poration, McDonald’s Corporation, Austin Chronicle,Austin Revitalization Authority, The Villager News-paper, and Soulciti.com.
This project is supported in part by the CulturalArts Division of the City of Austin Economic Devel-opment Department and the Texas Commission onthe Arts.
Mayfield
Hart
(VILLAGER) - The national NAACP leadership,members and partners traveled from Jamestown,Virginia to Jamestown, Accra, - Ghana, West Africato commemorate the Year of Return. August 20,2019, marked the 400th year since the first docu-mented enslaved African people were brought toJamestown, Virginia, involuntarily and forced intogenerations of slavery. Two highlights were toursof the Cape Coast Castle slave dungeons, and theW.E.B. DuBois Center.
Jamestown toJamestown
Courtesy of Jeffrey Archer | VILLAGER Special
Danny Glover and Jeffrey Archer
More than 200 participants attended thismemorable event, including Jeffrey Archer, MelindaMurphy and Mrs. Gil from Austin, Texas. ActorDanny Glover and Senator Royce West were alsoamong some of the participants.
This momentous 10-day trip, from August 17-27, honored the strength, power and resilience ofAfricans and African Americans.
Senator Royce West
Hip Hop RecordingArtist delivers
inspirational message.See JAICEI
Page 3
The voice ofDistrict One hosts
community townhall.See MADISON
Page 6
HFCRC honorsfirst African
American lieutenant.See MARVIN
Page 5
Democrats arebeginning to puttheir feet down
Rep. Elijah E.Cummings, the Chair-man of the Committeeon Oversight andReform has become alittle irritated that thepeople who work on theTrump staff continues torefuse to come before thecommittee to answerquestions about goingons of this admin-istration. The latest member ofthe staff to ignore therequest to appear beforethe committee isKellyanne Conway, theCounselor to thepresident. She could becharged with contemp ofCongress, if shecontinues to defy a dulyatuthorized bipartisansubpoena. She hasrefused to appear beforethe committee to answercharges that she hasrepeadedly violatedfederal law, Other members of thestaff have resigned theirpositions in order to getaround appearing beforethe committee. The fact that therequests are comingfrom a bipartisan groupmakes it a little harder tosay that the Democratsare doing a witchhunt onthe Donald John Trumpadministration. This little tug-of-warhas been going on for theentire length of time thatthe president has been inoffice. But, it has beenvery hard to enforce therules when they weretrying to be enforced bythe Democratic side ofthe isles. It was reported thatThe White House sent aletter fifteen minutesprior to the hearingsaying that Conwaywould not appear. Itfurther asserted that she“is absolutely immunefrom compelledcongressional testimonywith respect to mattersrelated to her service asa senior advisor to thePresident.” This is the second timein three weeks theCommittee has attemp-ted to obtain hertestimony.
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“This life, therefore, is notrighteousness, but growth in righteousness;not health, but healing; not being, butbecoming; not rest, but exercise. We are notyet what we shall be, but we are growingtoward it. The process is not yet finished,but it is going on. This is not the end, but itis the road. All does not yet gleam in glory,but all is being purified.” --- Martin Luther
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AGAPE is a chuch for all people. “Where Jesus Christ is Magnified and the loveHe exhibited is Exemplified.” Come, receive God’s unconditional lovefor you.
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Hope thou in God -Psalm 42:11
JaiCei - A FreshUrban Hip-Hop
Gospel Artist
By Naomi RichardVILLAGER
Entertainment Editor
(VILLAGER) - Withcharisma, enthusiasmand a clear message, In-ternational, Award-Winning Hip Hop Re-cording Artist, JaiCeishares inspirationalmessages with a uniqueand innovative method.JaiCei uses a distinct andcatchy performance touniquely share an en-couraging and empow-ering word. Her mes-sages are infused withrapid bars, thunderousbeats and vibrantrhymes.
JaiCei is an ener-getic, minister and per-former. She combinesrapping, singing, danc-ing, stepping and her
commitment to God toshare a riveting mes-sage. She captures theaudience with her en-gaging and appealingstyle.
At an early age,JaiCei began singing inthe children’s choir andin numerous school pro-ductions. Her skills con-tinued to unfold to alarger audience at theage of 5, when she madeher singing debut at theHouston InternationalFestival. From that mo-ment on, she has beentaking the stage!! Frommain stage perfor-mances at the EnsembleTheater, to praise danc-ing at various events in-cluding the StellarAwards, The Gospel Mu-sic Heritage FoundationCelebration and forformer President BarackObama.
Her performance atThe Texas Gospel MusicExcellence Awardsgained her the title of2019 New Artist Show-case winner. She wasalso awarded opportuni-ties at the Business of
Music Conference OneShot Competition as thewinner in the Hip HopGenre. Her charismaticstage presence is takingthe industry by storm.
Texas born andTexas breed, JaiCei rep-resents a new day in theGospel Industry. She will
drop her newest single“GET IT” on all majormusic platforms in Octo-ber and she also has anEP “Drop the Mic 2.0”coming soon.
Follow JaiCei atwww.OfficialJaiCei.comand on social media@OfficialJaiCei.
JaiCei
EbenezerCelebratesPastoral
Anniversary
Dr. Ricky Freeman, Pastor
(AUSTIN, TX) - Ebenezer Baptist Churchinvites the community to join in the celebrationof the Seventh Pastoral Anniversary of Dr. RickyFreeman. The celebration will take place Sun-day, September 22, 10:00 a.m. at the churchlocated at 1010 East 10th Street. The theme ofthe celebration is:
“Rooted in the Lord, Growing into theFuture,” based on Colossians 2:7 (NIV). Guestspeaker for the joyful occasion will be PastorLaurent Grosvenor, from Alpha Seventh-DayAdventist Church here in Austin. The Ebenezerchoirs will provide special music. All are invitedto a reception that will take place after the wor-ship service. Dr. Freeman was elected to leadthe Ebenezer Church in September 2012.
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Youth of TodayHope of Tomorrow
Upcoming RRHS Choir Events
A lot of new faces arein the choir this year. Manynewcomers to Dragon choirhave been singing for 3-4years, but for some only twoweeks. Regardless, every-one sounds astonishing al-ready, and I can’t wait tohear the beautiful arrange-ments to be performedthroughout the year.
Last week, we had ourannual Ice Cream Social onLabor Day. Choir family andfriends met at Round RockWest Park to have a greattime and get to know eachother. I was unable to attendbut heard it was very lively,and many people enjoyedthemselves.
This week, everybodyhas settled into the choirand has the basics down.There are many upcomingevents, including TMEA au-ditions, TARZAN the musicalsing and dance auditions,and the Battle of the Bell.
The TMEA auditionsare on September 14th, atMcNeil high school at 8 am.TMEA, also known as Re-gion choir, is where choirstudents come from all overthe district to audition for a
Rebekah McNealRound Rock H. S.
combined choir. Middleschoolers learn around foursongs and have weeks toprepare. Two of the foursongs are chosen to be sungat the audition, then ran-dom cuts of the songs aremade and released duringthe last week of prepara-tion. Thirty sopranos, fifteensoprano ones and twos,thirty altos, thirty tenors,and thirty basses are se-lected, then everyone ineach voice part is ranked.
In high school, youonly have to learn two tothree songs, but the cutsare given to you on the dayof the audition. And thereare rounds of TMEA, sonew music is to be learnedeach round. Making it intothe All-State choir is highestyou can advance. If youprogress that far, you obtainthe opportunity to performwith some of the best sing-ers, travel out of town, andmiss a week of school. Iknow and hope everyonetrying out in Dragon choir issuccessful and feels confi-dent about their audition.Also, wish me luck.
Every year the choir di-rectors and theater teachersget together to create a musi-cal, this year it’s Tarzan. Anystudent can audition, the firstaudition is September 9th-12th.
Every home footballgame, the choir is asked tosing the National Anthem,Alma Mater, and the Fightsong. The Battle of the Bellis on September 27th andI am eager to see who winsthis year!
Kevin ParishHendrickson H. S.
Possibly the End
In my opinion I thinkthat the world is slowly butsurely ending, these past 8months the natural disas-ters have been horrible. InJanuary 2019 the (lungs ofthe world) the AmazonRainforest was caught onfire and it is still ongoing,it has slowed down a lotbut the Amazon is still indanger, It is estimated thatover 906 thousand hect-ares of the forest withinthe Amazon biome hasbeen lost to fires in 2019.
In addition to the im-pact on global climate, thefires created environmen-tal concerns from the ex-cess carbon dioxide andcarbon monoxide within
the fires’ emissions, poten-tial impacts on thebiodiversity of the Ama-zon, and threats to indig-enous tribes that livewithin the forest. Anotherreason why would be theextreme forces of hurri-canes and storms thatwe’ve had this season, 13named storms and fivehurricanes since May 23,2019, there has also beenan enormous increase inclimate change.
As the climatewarms, it changes the na-ture of global rainfall,evaporation, snow, streamflow and other factors thataffect water supply andquality. Specific impactsinclude: Warmer watertemperatures affect waterquality and accelerate wa-ter pollution. Climatechange is caused by humanactivity, as opposed tochanges in climate thatmay have resulted as partof Earth’s natural pro-cesses. If more of theseproblems throughout theworld keep happeningthen our place on earthwill be no more.
Ava RobertsPflugerville M. S.
Summer of Firsts
The summer was a‘summer of firsts’ for me. Itried new foods, wore newhairstyles, participated innew activities, traveled tonew places, and listened toThe Breakfast Club on KAZIFM. I will share twomemorable experiencesthat stuck with me. Onewas my trip to Washington,DC. The other was my par-ticipation in the Dell HealthSciences Medical Camp.
At the start of sum-mer, I went to our nation’scapital with my Girl Scoutstroop. Even though I hadvisited DC before, this tripwas very significant be-cause I paid for it usingprofits from my Girl Scoutcookie business. Also, thiswas my first time travelinganywhere without one orboth my parents. This wasa big deal for all of us.
Also, I was blessedwith the opportunity to bea camper at the Dell HealthSciences Summer Camp. Ihave interests in pursuinga medical career and foundthe camp to be very infor-mative. I gained hands onexperiences that I willnever forget.
Overall, I had a greatsummer. I stayed busy butdid get a chance to relax. Iam glad that I tried newthings and encourage youto do the same!
Nomophobia
Last week I was re-stricted from using mysmart phone. It was justawful. It was not fun at all.I did not think I would feelso bad. There went all mycommunication with myfriends. No face time. Noplayin games with myfriends. It really was a pun-ishment.
I almost think it wasunfair. I know my mother,grandparents and otherrelative could deal with such
treatment.There is a saying
"never leave home with-out it". I don't think theymeant smart phones. Yet itshould apply today. Peoplefreak out when they thinkthat they have either losttheir phone or just can'tfind it. I was surprised tofind that there was a termthat focused on that. I twas called "Nomophobia".It is an abbreviation of "No-mobile-phone phobia". Itis called "cell phone addic-tion". I did not make thatup. It means experiencinganxiety or panic over los-ing your phone. It said youcan tell when you becomeobsessively concern aboutmissing a call, text oremail.
A phobia is a strongirrational fear of some-thing that can cause a lotof anxiety. I don't think Ihave an addiction but Ilove my phone.
Tyler AllenGus Garcia YMLA
So Many Options
Hi everyone, schoolhas started and were al-ready 3 weeks into theschool year! I am so ex-ited for what this schoolyear will have for me andwhat I can do to reach mygoals for this year. Onething that stand out tome is french and how in-teresting it is and how Iwant to do it all throughhigh school. I go tovandegrift high school sothere is a wide selection oflanguages to take throughout high school like Latin,Spanish, French, German,Spain, and a few more. Ihad decided to pickfrench as my language forthe year.
The reason want tolearn french this year be-cause I want to learnsomething different. A lotof people that I knewwere doing spanish be-cause they said they wanta easy A. So I want tochallenge myself a littleand do a language that Iwould enjoy and be will-ing to do the work tolearn it. Right now I amtake french club that I cango to everyday after my3rd period and competein a french game to winprizes. The game areplayed often a frenchclub so there are all typesof winners and a lot ofprizes are won each time.
These past 3 weekshave been great and isalmost like a adventurethat only you can take.I'm also in chess club forfun just to take a breakfrom the stress built upand to get better at it. Ilove the school and howmuch you need to workon to get it done andthats what makes it agood school. Thank youfor reading and I hopeyou have an amazing day!
Montrae NelsonFour Points M. S.
First Full Run
In this context, theword run does not refer tothe physical action. In-stead, it refers to a rep orpractice in band. Early Sep-tember 7, Saturday morn-ing, band and color guardpracticed and learned newsets for our show. It wasextremely hot outside, ev-eryone was tired, but wewere all reminded that to-day was the day we wouldlearn all of part one of ourshow. This was our goal,and we needed to accom-plish it in order to stay onschedule for the future.
Coming up reallysoon is Austin Indepen-dent School District (AISD)Band Jamboree, then fol-lowing close behind isBands of America (BOA)Austin regional. On thatnote, I encourage you all toattend and support if you’dlike. Returning to Septem-ber 7, practice began to getslightly stressful as we re-peatedly went over thesets to embed them intoour memory. It got tiring aswe repeatedly marchedbackwards on the front ofour feet, burning ourcalves. The amount ofsweat produced from our
bodies was an extremelylarge amount. The sunseemed as if it was mock-ing us and coming closereach minute we stayedpracticing on the field.
Through it all, we gota lot accomplished. Beforedismissal, our band direc-tor, Mr. Howard told every-one to set up the top of theshow (the beginning) to doa full run through of partone. We all looked at eachother with excitement andbegin to get in or spots.This would be our first fullrun of the show openerand no one knew how itwould turn out. The met-ronome began clickingaway, giving us our tempofor us to stay in time withas we marched. It eventu-ally cut off and we tookover. Our feet began tomove in time as we playedmusic, all memorized, forthe most part. We movedtogether, rhythmically, as awhole.
Each person incharge of their own move-ments, but at the sametime, apart of somethingmuch larger. In this mo-ment we were “One Band,One Sound” as said in themovie Drumline. We even-tually came to the end ofour rep and froze in our po-sitions, waiting for Mr.Howard to tell us to relax.After a while, he did, andwe were all extremelyhappy. Together, we had allgotten through our first fullrun, of all of the opener.This was an exciting day,and I know that there willbe more like this to come.
SaNaya WhiteAnn Richards
Lacee JohnsonJohn B. Conally
High School
My name is LaceeWayne Johnson. I am asophomore at John B.Conally High School.School has started and mysummer memories are fad-ing as I launch into a newschool year. I can say I hadfun and learned a greatdeal this summer.
I started my summerwith a three day basketballcamp. Basketball is my fa-vorite sport so it was fun
learning some new tech-niques. While attendingthe basketball camp I ap-plied for a summer jobwith Travis County. Notmany places will hire a 14year old so I was thrilledthat I applied and was se-lected for a five week sum-mer employment pro-gram. This was my firstpaid job and getting thatfirst check brought a bigsmile to my face.
I secured a slot andwas placed with the City ofAustin Water Department.This was an exciting expe-rience because I got tolearn some new skills andmeet new people as wellas being in a work environ-ment. This was a majorstep in showing me anadult lifestyle. Workingtaught me to becomemore organized and busi-ness like. The internship
seemed to breeze byswiftly.
On my final day ofemployment my grandpar-ents and I flew to Washing-ton, DC to expose me to allthe historical sites. It wasa short trip but extremelyf educational and fun. Isaw many glorious monu-ments of people whoshaped American intowhat it is today. The high-
light of our visit was theAfrican American Museumand the Holocaust Mu-seum. Visiting the mu-seum was like taking anAfrican American historyclass in one day but with-out a test.
This summer will for-ever be something to re-member, and I am trulylooking forward to sum-mer 2020.
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Honorary Fire Chief RecognitionCeremony Honors Austin Fire
Department Trailblazers at City Hall
Morene and Marvin Douglas
Marvin Harold Douglas, first African-American lieutenant,was one of the trailblazers honored. He was escorted by
Firefighter Blair Campbell and recognizedby Austin Chief Joel Baker’s Department.
(AUSTIN, TX) -Marvin Douglas was theyoungest of seven chil-dren born to Ethel “MissTed” and Alfred Douglas;attributed his animatedpersonality, strong workethic, and love of peopleto them.
The family lived inYoakum, Texas whereMarvin attended theYoakum Colored HighSchool (later namedAsberry High School).Graduation in 1943, hesubsequently had theopportunity to attendTillotson Normal Colle-giate Institute, (nowknown as HustonTillotson University) inAustin, Texas to con-tinue his academic skillswhile playing football.College is where he methis future wife, MoreneTurner in 1945; they hadtwo daughters, Brenda& Marva.
Later, Marvin at-tended Central StateCollege in Killeen andreceived a Law Enforce-ment Degree, whileworking several jobs tosupport his family. OnSeptember 1,1952, theAustin Fire Departmenthad the honor of hiring
the first African-Ameri-can firefighters in thestate of Texas: Willie RayDavis, Nathaniel H. Kin-dred and Roy D. Green.All three gentlemenwere assigned to Station5, which was locate onLydia Street. At the urg-ing of Nathaniel Kindred,Marvin joined the AustinFire Department oneyear later and after 19years, became the firstAfrican-American officer(Lieutenant) in Texas andto work in the AFD’s FirePrevention section. Bothhis hiring and his subse-quent promotions in-spired others to follow inhis footsteps. LieutenantDouglas retired from theFire Department in 1985after 32 years of service.
Marvin is active invarious community ser-vice projects in Austinand with the YoakumAsberry school reunions.Douglas was Chairmanand Past President of theRosewood AdvisoryBoard; member and PastPresident of Capital CityGolf Association andLion’s Club; formermember of the Conley-Guerrero Senior CitizensActivity Center; former
member of A.F. CreditUnion Board; Chairmanof HTU Austin AlumniChapter, includingfundraising coordinationof the University’s an-nual golf tournament(since 1990) and previ-ous blues and jazz Con-cert fundraising activi-ties; member of AustinAfrican- AmericanFirefighters’ Association(officially founded in1995); and participatedin the “Save Muny” golfcourse group efforts, in-cluding advocating topreserve the land’s his-torical significance. (al-lowing African-Americansto play without limits asearly as 1951.) He wasfeatured in a 2019 TV his-torical program segmenton Austin firefightersfrom the past.
Marvin continues toassociate and encourage,and mentor current andretired firefighters. He isan avid reader and appre-ciator of many Jazz al-bums, enjoys sports pro-grams (especially golf!)and provides advice to hisfour grandchildren, threegreat- grandchildren, andanyone else who seeks hiswisdom.
VILLAGER High SchoolFootball Revue
By John Harris Jr.VILLAGER Sports
Columnist
(VILLAGER) - Hereare some of the top per-formances from lastweek’s area high schoolfootball games. Toomany to mention, and Iapologize for leavinganyone off my list, butthese players are defi-nitely worth checkingout.
LAST WEEK’STOP PERFORMERSLBJ senior Fred
Givens has been a de-
fensive terror this sea-son, recording - wait forit - 30 tackles in his firsttwo games. Givensracked up 15 stops, in-cluding two sacks, in theJaguars’ big 14-6 win atLos Fresnos.
McNeil senior run-ning back WinstonHutchinson carried theball 20 times for 268yards and four touch-downs in a 48-29 winover Glenn. Hutchinsonhas rushed for nearly400 yards in his first twogames and averagesmore than 11 yards percarry.
Westwood juniorJulian DeBerry wascredited with seven re-ceptions for 199 yardsand two touchdowns ina 41-39 shootout vic-tory over Austin High.DeBerry is averagingnearly 20 yards per
catch this season.GAME OFTHE WEEKLBJ (2-0) takes to
the road for the secondconsecutive weekagainst Class 4A defend-ing state championWaco LaVega (1-1). Thisis an important test inhostile territory for theJaguars one week be-fore the start of theirDistrict 12-5A schedule.
Win this game,and LBJ not only entersdistrict action with a tonof confidence, but alsobecomes a team towatch in thepostseason. Expect thisgame to come down toa matchup betweenLaVega’s potent offenseand LBJ’s big-play de-fense featuring a defen-sive backfield loadedwith Division I collegeprospects.
Cecilia Agboga LBJ High School
147 Years of Police Brutality
Police brutality hasnot always been a prob-lem in the United States.But it has always beensomething that peopleof color fear. There arelots of questions on thistopic like, “why do thesethings continue to hap-pen”, “why is it just us”,and “will it ever end?” Ihave some educatedguess answers to thesequestions, but first, it isimportant to understandhow this awful phenom-ena began.
Police brutality hasbeen around since just
after slavery ended, a fewyears into the Reconstruc-tion Period. “Slaveryended 1863-1865 andpolice brutality started in1872.” (Retrieved fromwww.history.com) So it’sbeen around for quitesome time. But why ispolice brutality still preva-lent? Why didn’t it end along time ago?
The answer issimple. Fear. One theone front, there is thebelief that people, par-ticularly men of color,are “bad” people. Mostof us have experiencedgoing into an upscalestore and being followedby the sales clerk. Thereis another kind of fear,too. The kind that be-lieves people of colorcan’t feel like they haverights or privilege. Thatfear that doesn’t wantAfrican Americans orother people of color tobe educated for fearthey just might be apowerful force.
People of color in-cludes Latinx people. In
2016 there were 94latinx people killed bypolice and there were144 African Americans.The total number in theUS was 585. I got this in-formation from https://www.pbs.org/newshour.What should we do? Ithink we as a communityshould make sure that ourpolice officers are madeto get to know thepeople they have to pro-tect. We are not allcriminals. Many of usare educated and tryingto get an education. Butit must be stated, evencriminals have the rightto be treated as humans!Perhaps with a little as-sistance and support,they will decide to nottake part in criminal ac-tivity.
In conclusion thispolice brutality has got-ten too far and needs tostop. Families andfriends has enough lostto many people to thesesenseless acts of vio-lence and it is not fair.This needs to stop now.
School Spirit
Weiss High Schoolis the newest high schoolin Pflugerville, and wealready have many suc-cessful groups. Band, theswim team, cross coun-try and soccer are someof the groups who have
been in championshipsin the last two years.One thing we are reallymissing is school spirit.Every week we have ahome game, we have apep rally.
Every group reallygets a chance to talk, butit seems like the peprally is really missing the"pep" part. Everyone iseither talking to theirfriends the whole timeor just not paying atten-tion and wanting to gohome. We could reallywork on school spirit,and not just for the foot-ball team.
There are manyother successful groupsat my school, and youdon't really see the samesupport. In all the com-petitions and games Ihave been to, I've seenfootball, cheer anddance teams there tosupport other groupslike band. That startedour last football game,when our football teamstayed to watch ourshow after their game.Since our school issmaller, it could beeasier to get morepeople on board withschool spirit.
Kennedy GeorgeWeiss High School
Interning for NASA
Quinn LangfordCedar Ridge H. S.
This summer, I wasselected as one of 55SEES (STEM Enhance-ment in Earth Science)interns out of a pool ofabout 600 applicantsfrom around the coun-try. SEES is a prestigiousresearch program spon-sored by NASA, UT Aus-tin, and the Texas SpaceGrant Consortium(TSGC). Throughout themonth of June, weworked remotely ononline modules, whichstarted as general les-sons to prepare us forour research and gradu-ally became project-spe-cific work once we weresorted into teams. By the
time our two-weekonsite internship startedon July 13th, my group,the astronomy team,was ready to dive intoour work. All interns re-ceived free boarding atUT Austin and transpor-tation to and from theUT Center for Space Re-search, where we wentevery day to work withreal NASA scientists.
The NASA mentorfor the astronomy teamhad taken pictures of anasteroid throughout onenight and taught us howto use a special softwarecalled AstroImageJ toanalyze the pictures sothat we could create alight curve for the aster-oid. Because asteroidsaren’t perfectly shaped,as they rotate, they re-flect the sun’s light dif-ferently at differenttimes. Plotting these dif-ferences for an asteroidcan give scientists in-sight on the size, shape,and nature of an aster-oid.
In addition to work-ing on our project, wealso got to listen to ac-
complished speakers, in-cluding a retired astro-naut, and take enrichingfield trips, including avisit to the JohnsonSpace Center in Hous-ton. The program culmi-nated in a final presen-tation that waslivestreamed online.
I definitely learneda ton about earth sci-ence and astronomy inparticular, but the bestpart of the program wasthe experience of livingand learning on a collegecampus (especially UTAustin, which is a schoolthat I am strongly con-sidering attending.) Be-cause we were minors,we had to follow somerules, but for the mostpart, interns were al-lowed to go where wewanted in the evenings.My favorite pastime wasexploring the diverse mixof cuisines available onthe streets near UTAustin’s campus.
Now that I’ve expe-rienced this kind of free-dom, I feel more excitedand prepared for goingto college for real.
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Maggie EllisFor the 200thDistrict Court
V I L L A G E RNEWS - Recently, the200th District Courtsaw its long-timeJudge Gisela Trina el-evated to the 3rdCourt of Appeals. In-stead of calling a spe-cial election to fill theseat, Governor GregAbbott appointed aJudge who will pre-side over the court forthe next two years.According to TravisCounty, "The DistrictCivil Courts haveoriginal jurisdiction inall divorce cases, mat-ters involving title toland, election contest,and civil matters inwhich the amount ofmoney or damages in-volved is greater thantwo-hundred dollars.
M o r e o v e r ,Maggie Ellis also an-nounced her intentionto run for the 200thDistrict Court seat.However, Ellis willhave to enhancegroundwork due tothe fact her opponenthad announced herintention to run for of-fice quite earlier.
According toMaggie Ellis, " I hopeto bring my experi-ence of overcomingadversity, my commit-ment to justice, andmy compassion for
others to the bench."Moreover, Ellis isknowledgeable infamily law, child wel-fare, real estate, oil andgas, insurance, mentalhealth and substanceabuse, and criminaljustice.
by Tsoke(Chuch) Adjavon
VILLAGERColumnist
Maggie Ellis
VILLAGER NEWS -Councilmember DougWeiss has recently an-nounced his intention torun for re-election.Weiss was first electedin 2016 after he ran forthe vacant seat of Place1. In Pflugerville, citycouncil members areelected on the city-wideballot, not on a districtlevel. As a result, they rep-resent all of Pflugerville,Texas. Moreover,Councilmember Weissdoes not face an oppo-nent; therefore, he ismost likely to get re-elected.
The City ofPflugerville, is goingthrough a transitionalstage of being a sleepysuburb into being a mid-size city. Now, Pflugervillehas begun to establish itsown identity within Cen-tral Texas. In the past year,a new school has beenbuilt along with newroads, housing develop-ment, and commercialleasing sites. Conse-
City Council MemberDoug Weiss
Runs for Re-Election
by Tsoke(Chuch) Adjavon
VILLAGERColumnist
quently, the next electedcouncilmember to thePflugerville would need toaddress the changing faceof Pflugerville.
According to DougWeiss, the "City Councilmust have a shared vi-sion to support thegrowth of the city andnot only maintain but,improve the opportuni-ties available to our citi-zens. Our city will needmassive transportationupgrades, more highpaying jobs, additionalgrocery stores, a greatervariety of restaurants,upscale shopping desti-nations, and full-servicemedical care." More-over, Doug Weiss under-stands that Pflugerville isa city in transition andneeds great ideas to getit there.
Doug W
eiss
CommunityForum
VILLAGER NEWS - The Diaspora Vote held acommunity forum, meant to give a voice tononprofits. One nonprofit organization invited to theevent was Texas Justice Initiative (TJI). TJI it is a non-profit organization that, "seeks to provide more in-formation and analysis of the Texas criminal justicesystem."
Co-founder of TJI, Eva Ruth Moravec gave agreat presentation on how the numbers can be use-ful information and guide elected officials on thematter of criminal justice to know what is occur-ring in the jails and prisons.
Finally, the event was well attended by candi-dates like Maggie Ellis and Jessica Mangrum, com-munity leader and President of the Ivorian Commu-nity Bernard Ndri.
by Tsoke (Chuch) AdjavonVILLAGER Columnist
COUNCIL MEMBERNATASHA HARPER-
MADISON TO HOLD FIRSTDISTRICT 1 TOWN HALL
(Austin, TX) – Council Member NatashaHarper-Madison invites the public to her sec-ond District 1 Town Hall. The event will fea-ture a variety of guest speakers and tablers, in-cluding Assistant City Manager Chris Shorter,Austin Police Department, Office of PoliceOversight, Capital Metro, and Meals on Wheels.Council Member Harper-Madison will providean update on her activities as District 1’s voiceat City Hall and hold a Q&A session with resi-dents. The town hall will be held at GreaterMount Zion Baptist Church at 4301 TannehillLane. It starts at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 24.
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Travis County Constable Precinct 1 Partners withEarlyAware to Improve Emergency Response
AUSTIN, Texas — A new tech-startup haspartnered with the Travis County Constables andcommunity organizations to develop a programaimed to assist first responders engagement withcivilians with cognitive or communication barriers.
EarlyAware is a sticker program that will becoupled with an online database that alerts firstresponders when a person has a communicationbarrier, a cognitive issue, or is differently abled. It isa FREE opt-in program through which people canself-identify and provide their information onwww.earlyaware.com
Unlike Senate Bill 976 (SB 976), also known asthe “Samuel Allen Law,” which allows a person witha condition or disability – the option to disclose thatinformation when registering their vehicle throughthe Texas Department of Motor Vehicles,EarlyAware is for anyone whether they are a li-censed driver or not and includes information aboutwhere one lives.
The Washington Post found that in 2018, 213people who may have been suffering from a men-tal health issue lost their lives during police inter-actions. Meme Styles, who founded EarlyAwarethought of the solution after recognizing the needfor better communication between vulnerable com-munities and law enforcement.
EarlyAware stickers are available for individu-als with diagnosed medical conditions and thosewith special needs at the Precinct 1, Travis CountyConstables Office located at 4717 Heflin Ln #127,Austin, TX 78721.
Tomorrow at 10am, a press conference will beheld at the Precinct 1, Travis County Constables Of-fice to address questions about the new program.
The company is owned and operated byJamelia “Meme” Styles, Eric Byrd, Rebecca Dejean,Janis Bookout, Malick Djiba and Erica Danielle.
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