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Texas Southern to celebrate Dr.
Freeman’s 100th birthday
HOUSTON – On
June 29, 2019, a 100th Birthday Brunch will be
held in honor of legendary Texas Southern
University Debate Coach Dr. Thomas F. Freeman’s
100th Birthday. The event, “A Legend in His Own
Time,” will occur at 11 a.m. on the campus of
Texas Southern University in the Ernest S.
Sterling Student Life Center. This event will
recognize Dr. Freeman for his 70 years of
extraordinary and outstanding service to the
university and the community. The Birthday
Brunch is hosted by Texas Southern University
Debate Team alumni (1949-2019) and members of
the “A Legend in His Own Time” 100th Birthday
committee. All white attire is requested.
Interested persons can participate by:
Purchasing a table for ten (10) at
$750.00 per table.
Purchasing an individual ticket at
$75.00 per person.
Selling tickets to friends and
acquaintances.
Purchasing an ad in the souvenir
journal.
Making a contribution and encouraging
others to make a contribution to the Debate
Travel Fund.
Checks can be
made payable to: TSU Foundation/The Debate
Travel Fund, 3100 Cleburne, P.O. Box 1047
Houston, Texas 77004. Credit cards payments can
be made by visiting
https://giving.tsu.edu/dr-thomas-f-freeman-100th-birthday.
Should you have any questions, or need
additional information, please call Dr. Gloria
Batiste-Roberts at (713) 313-7205 (day) and
(713) 858-4733 (evening) or Wendell King at
(832) 888-9281.
Esteemed debate coach, orator and minister
at Mount Horem Baptist Church, Freeman has been
a staple at Texas Southern University since
1949. In 2007, Freeman was sought out as an
advisor to actor Denzel Washington for the
Golden Globe-nominated film The Great
Debaters, and in 2009 the Thomas F. Freeman
Honors College was established at TSU
Date/time: June 25th, 7:00pm to
11:00pm
Venue:
Toyota Center
Address:
1510 Polk Street Houston, TX,
77004
Stealing
packages could
result in jail
time in Texas
after Gov. Greg
Abbott signs
bill
United States
Postal Service
letter carrier Homer
Hernandez has
delivered mail in
the San Antonio area
for over 15 years.
And in that time,
he’s seen more items
get stolen from
households’
mailboxes and
porches than he can
count.
“It’s happened a
hell of a lot over
the past few years,”
said Hernandez, the
vice president of
the Texas State
Association of
Letter Carriers.
“Almost every day.”
A new bill
signed last week by
Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott aims to
deter offenders by
upping the
punishment for such
crimes.
House Bill 37,
which goes into
effect Sept. 1,
criminalizes mail
theft, with the
penalty ranging from
a class A
misdemeanor to
third-degree felony,
depending on the
number of addresses
mail is taken from.
That means the
punishment ranges
from up to one year
in jail and a fine
of $4,000 to between
two and 10 years in
prison and fine of
up to $10,000,
depending on the
number of addresses
stolen from. The
punishment also
increases — and can
go up to a
first-degree felony
— if there’s proof
an offender intended
to obtain someone’s
identifying
information or steal
from the address of
a disabled or
elderly person.
Mail theft
wasn’t defined in
the state’s penal
code before the
bill, so crimes were
often charged as
property or identity
theft. The
legislation,
authored by state
Rep. Ina
Minjarez, D-San
Antonio, also gives
state and local law
enforcement
departments the
ability to handle
cases. Before, they
were required to
refer all mail
crimes to federal
officers.
That led to
challenges in
prosecuting them,
and over time, the
need for state
involvement has
grown, said Chief
Johnny Siemens of
the Castle Hills
Police Department in
Bexar County.
“They just
weren’t working your
average mail theft
where you’ve got a
couple of offenders
driving around a
neighborhood with
people’s mail,”
Siemens said. “Their
threshold typically
required another
felony or something
in conjunction with
it to get to the
level of having one
of the state
inspectors step in,
and they’re already
very busy.”
Siemens said
offenders who make
off with a few
packages or parcels
of mail often don’t
stop there. The
theft, he said, can
represent a gateway
to larger crimes of
identity theft or
fraud, and Texas
ranks among the top
15 in the nation for
both.
Texas Criminal
Justice Coalition
peer policy fellow
Allison Franklin,
however, worries the
bill could end up
doing more harm than
good.
“How we prevent
package theft is to
create options for
secure delivery,”
Franklin said. “But
instead, our
Legislature took the
easy way out and
just elevated the
penalties for
package theft, and
obviously policies
like that have led
us to the largest
prison population of
any state.”
Franklin called
the bill’s penalty
structure “absurd”
because it doesn’t
take into account
the value of stolen
mail. Taking a
low-cost package
from someone’s
porch, for example,
shouldn’t have a
higher punishment
than stealing an
expensive mountain
bike from her lawn,
she said.
Some like Chris
Harris, a data
analyst for criminal
justice reform
nonprofit Just
Liberty, also fear a
potential felony
charge for basic
mail theft is too
high.
But Siemens said
that ultimately,
what’s most
important to him is
that soon, there
will just be a
tangible punishment
for mail theft at
all.
“We weren’t
concerned with
differentiating
between felony or
class A
misdemeanor,”
Siemens said. “We
just needed
something greater
than a class C so we
can make effective
arrests. What
happens if you just
write a ticket is
offenders drive down
the road and
continue mail
thieving, so this is
a great step
forward.”
Don’t judge others before you know them
“A 24 year old boy seeing out from the
train’s window shouted…
‘Dad, look the trees are going behind!’
Dad smiled and a young couple sitting
nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish
behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed…
‘Dad, look the clouds are running with us!’
The couple couldn’t resist and said to the
old man…
‘Why don’t you take your son to a good
doctor?’
The old man smiled and said…’I did and we
are just coming from the hospital, my son was
blind from birth, he just got his eyes today.’
Every single person on the planet has a
story. Don’t judge people before you truly know
them. The truth might surprise you.”
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Soul legend Anita Baker
brings her Farewell Tour to
Smart Financial Centre. Baker's
decades-long career has
included four platinum and
two gold albums with
signature R&B hits
including "Caught Up in the
Rapture", "Sweet
Love" and "Giving You the
Best That I Got". Her unique
voice has the sultry vibe of
a jazz singer and has been
the cornerstone of a sound
that has helped to shape R&B
since her solo career began
in the early ‘80s. Although
the Detroit-bred contralto
established a musical style
that has noticeably
influenced an entire
generation of talents, Baker
herself has remained unmoved
by the ebb and flow of
trends in the industry.
In 2018, Baker set out
on a farewell concert series
that has broken box office
records worldwide. With over
50 sold-out concerts plus a
recent Lifetime Achievement
Award honor from BET, this
is truly an evening that you
will not want to miss!
Dave Chappelle, Spike
Lee, 50 Cent, to get
stars on the Hollywood
Walk Of Fame
Dave Chappelle, Spike
Lee, and 50
Cent are all among the
latest group of celebrities
to receive their star on The
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“This year’s choices
were particularly unique,”
Selection Committee Chair
and Walk of Famer Vin Di
Bona explained in a news
release on Thursday. “We
were able to recognize the
talents of thirty-five
artists who have already
built a legacy here in
Hollywood. Also, we were
able to celebrate many new
talented artists who’ve
touched our hearts in film,
television, radio, and a
variety of musical
categories.”
The three entertainers
listed before are joined in
next year’s roster of
honorees by a huge group of
talented people, which
includes Mahershala Ali,
Spike Lee, Octavia Spencer,
Terry Crews, Wendy Williams,
Alicia Keys, and many more.
The actual ceremonies
for these stars and their
dedications have not yet
been scheduled, but will
take place over the course
of next year.