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Happy New Year!!! 

EE Worthing Sr. High Alumni Association will  host our 1st EEW ‘Legends’ Event/Fundraiser on  Sunday, February 19th, 2017,at the Hyatt Regency HotelGalleria  4:00 pm – 8:00 pm. 

The event is being held to recognize and honor some of the graduates who have made a difference in our communities/world!  However,  more importantly

we want to show the current students and surrounding communities the rich history of those who have graced the halls of Worthing, fighting the odds of racial division and through it all; have excelled to become some of the most notable ‘Role Models’ of our time.  These notable men and women accomplished greatness from the past, the current students stand on their shoulders, and can do it also! 

Evan E. Worthing, who happened to be a White Philanthropist and ‘Negro’ landlord, left his million dollar estate to Houston Public Schools in 1952 to develop E. E. Worthing  High School  in particular - and the Sunnyside Community, where he made much of his large fortune… 

Attorney Emory T. Carl stated ‘Mr. Worthing studied how to develop the best possible mediums of helping to improve society through better education of Negro girls and boys.’  

Our goal is to also thank Mr. Worthing for his generous contributions, (financial and visionary), that has impacted every single Worthing graduate and the surrounding communities! 

How you can participate?

Gather your fellow Class Alumnus and purchase a table representing your individual ‘Class – 63’ to present’  

Spread the word – to your Corporate friends/others and ask that they purchase a table - (We are a Non-Profit 501c (3) organization)

(We expect the tables to sell fast, don’t delay)       

Pre-SaleTables (only)  are being sold in the month of January 2017

$ 1000.00 – 10 @ 100.00

$    750.00  – 10 @75.00

Democrats lead nationwide rallies for Obamacare

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act gathered to protest the health care law’s repeal in rallies across the country on Sunday.

The demonstrations were in response to an appeal by Democratic leaders in Congress for a day of action against ACA repeal, the defunding of Planned Parenthood and other policies promoted by the incoming Donald Trump administration.

Perhaps the highest-profile gathering was a rally at Macomb County Community College in Warren, Michigan, that drew thousands of people. Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and several other members of Congress addressed the large crowd that had waited in long lines in below-freezing weather to attend the event. Many who have received health insurance thanks to the ACA shared their emotional stories as well.

When Sanders finally took the stage after his colleagues, the roar of the audience and chants of “Bernie, Bernie Bernie” made it clear that for many in the crowd, the Vermont senator was the main attraction. Sanders’ political action nonprofit, “Our Revolution,” live-streamed the event on YouTube and Facebook.

“This is the wealthiest country in the history of the world,” Sanders said. “It is time we got our national priorities right. The United States today and I hope everybody in America understands it: We are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right!”

True to his democratic socialist form, Sanders, who won an upset victory against Hillary Clinton in the Great Lakes State presidential primary, went beyond defending the ACA.

“So our job today is to defend the Affordable Care Act. Our job tomorrow is to create a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system,” he exhorted the crowd.

There were some 70 similar rallies across the country, according to Sanders. Photos on social media show significant crowds in Portland, Maine; Richmond, Virginia; Tampa, Florida; Boston, New York City and many other metropolises.

 

Singer Jennifer Holliday performs onstage during the Barnstable Brown Gala hosted by GREY GOOSE at Barnstable Brown House on May 2, 2014 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Singer Jennifer Holliday performs onstage during the Barnstable Brown Gala hosted by GREY GOOSE at Barnstable Brown House on May 2, 2014 in Louisville, Kentucky.

*Now we have more information as to why Jennifer Holliday reversed her plans to perform for the Trump Inauguration festivities. She’s now saying it’s because someone threatened to kill her and her family

Earlier we reported that Holliday had agreed to sing at one of the inaugural events, but changed her mind Saturday, saying she dropped out because she was taking heat from the LGBT community.

But now we’re learning that when the original “Dreamgirls” star’s agent contacted the Inauguration Committee, he said the reason was death threats. Supposedly the LGBT concerns were not even mentioned.

A rep for Holliday told TMZ Monday … both the death threats and the LGBT reaction were factors in her decision.

You may recall … Trump’s people said she was a lock late last week, but then her management team came out and said Trump’s people jumped the gun … that she was merely considering the offer. That doesn’t square with the fact that Holliday herself said Friday she was fully on board.

We don’t know if the people who made the threats identified themselves or any group with which they were affiliated.

The bottom line is that Jennifer Holliday’s chief concern in her decision was the safety of her family, according to her rep.

 

Donald Trump Met with Martin Luther King III on King Day at Trump Tower

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*Donald Trump, just days away from taking the oath to be the 45th president of the United States, met today (01-16-17) at Trump Tower with Martin Luther King III to discuss his father, MLK Jr.‘s legacy.

“A very constructive meeting” is how MLK III framed his meeting with the president-elect. He also touched on how he hopes to be a “bridge-builder” to help the country “become a greater nation” moving forward.

King III praised the work of Rep. John Lewis, the Georgia congressman and icon who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. at Selma and other key civil rights protests.

Martin Luther King III did not criticize Trump directly, saying that in the “heat of emotion, a lot of things get said on both sides.”

“The goal is to bring America together,” King said in the lobby of Trump Tower on Martin Luther King day, 2017.

In other Trump/civil rights news, senior transition sources initially said Trump would visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. However, ABC News later said that it learned that the visit was removed from his calendar due to scheduling issues and had not been fully planned. Spicer said this morning that the president-elect was never planning to go to the museum today.

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Martin Luther King III, son of Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to reporters following a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York (01-16-17).

“He was never going to Washington,” Spicer said on Fox News. “I think what he was trying to do was find an appropriate way to celebrate and observe Martin Luther King’s birthday. He is going to meet with a group of individuals today, including Martin Luther King III to talk about that legacy and celebrate the birthday of Dr. King.”

Trump tweeted Monday morning that we should honor Martin Luther King for being “the great man that he was!”

“Celebrate Martin Luther King Day and all of the many wonderful things that he stood for,” Trump said on Twitter. “Honor him for being the great man that he was!”

The meeting between Trump and Martin Luther King III comes after the president-elect was criticized over the weekend for sparring with Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.

Trump attacked Lewis on Twitter after the Georgia Democrat told NBC News that he wasn’t attending Friday’s inauguration and that he doesn’t view Trump as a “legitimate president.”

Bookies Are Setting Odds on Donald Trump Getting Impeached

Bookies Are Setting Odds on Donald Trump Getting Impeached

Bookies in Ireland and the United Kingdom have been setting odds on whether or not President-elect Donald Trump will complete his first term of office and whether he'll be impeached, and lately it's looking like they don't think Trump will last four years.

Based on how Trump has acted as his inauguration approaches, that's increasingly seeming like a good bet.

As we roll toward January 20, the bookmakers have also started leaning toward impeachment. The British-based gambling company Ladbrokes Coral opened shortly after the election in November with 3-1 odds that Trump wouldn't complete his term. By November 22 the odds were down to 9-4, according to the International Business Times. Now they're 50-50 that he won't make it through.

Paddy Power, an Irish bookmaker, is even less circumspect about Trump's future in the Oval Office. Right now the company is offering 8-1 odds that Trump will not make it six months (that's about twice the odds they gave Obama getting through his first six months), according to Salon. Now Paddy Power is offering 4-1 odds that Trump will be impeached before he completes his term. (It's worth keeping in mind both that Paddy Power is known for making adventurous bets about everything from endangered species to American politics, and that the bookmaker ended up having to pay out a lot of money when Hillary Clinton lost the election in November, meaning the bookmaker isn't infallible.)

Meanwhile, the odds that he will not complete his first term of office are 5-2, according to CNBC.

Allan Lichtman, a professor of history at American University in Washington, D.C  who has correctly called who would win every presidential election for the past 32 years, accurately predicted that Trump would win the election. Since then he has also said that Trump will likely be impeached, although he says this prediction isn't based on anything outside of his own intuition.

Lichtman isn't alone on this by any means. Pundits from both sides of the aisle have theorized that Trump might resign or be impeached rather than actually have to do the work of running the country. (For one thing, the office can be hard on a president's appearance, as presidents from Abraham Lincoln on down to George W. Bush and Barack Obama have shown. Trump's strange thatch of hair seems to be held on by science and magic, and we can't imagine his handling it well if he starts losing even more of it.)

Of course, based on history, the chance of Trump's getting impeached is fairly slim. Only two presidents — Andrew Johnson in 1876 and Bill Clinton in 1999 — have actually been impeached in the 228 years the United States has existed. And the only president ever to resign from the presidency is Richard Nixon, who stepped down from power in 1974 after Watergate as impeachment proceedings loomed.

But still, when was the last time we had a president who broke so many precedents and was so unorthodox before the inauguration had even taken place?

We're in a brave new orange world called Trumpland right now. It feels like anything is possible. Hell, Trump could end up being the wisest president since Lincoln and be elected for two terms because we all just love him so. Maybe.