Majase Howard as born September 20, 2009 to Alicia Howard and Robert Earl.

Guys,

Booker T. Washington’s granddaughter, our Margaret Washington, passed. It was such a pleasure to talk to her and watch the response from the youth who heard her. She will be missed.
 

 Remember the Tuskegee Washington Candy store where anyone
 could see the candy being made? The smell was great!
 
 The city held bids for the old Holiday Inn site on the
 Interstate. No one showed up to bid. Hummmmmm, IT’S A
 SHAME…we did not bid on our own future. Damn!!!!
 
 Tuskegee’s Coach, Willie Slater, and his Golden Tigers
 rebounded from a tough loss to Miles last week. The tigers
 had a 22-15 win over FortValleyState. The game was played
 at TuskegeeUniversity on Saturday.  Clark Atlanta U is coming to  town this weekend. Five weeks later it will be Homecoming on November 7th at 1:00 p.m.
 
 I’m still getting calls about toxic dump sites in Macon
 County. Damn sure wasted the land.
 
 Below is what one person had to say about the We the People
 letter:
 
 Good letter...pointed but  perhaps not pointed enough
 ...do hope something comes of it...when the people lead,
 leaders follow...the residents of Tuskegee should seize the
 town and throw the lot of them out...literally by the seat
 to their pants… I would love to live in Tuskegee if it
 were possible ...  it is such a beautiful area.
 
 
 The movement to take back our city is gathering steam.
 Let’s hear what you have to say.
 
 DOLLAR STORE, comes in a kit, lots of Spanish construction
 workers.
 
 THE BLOCK, new parking lot, lot of Spanish workers,
 Lots of work going on in the OAKS.

 Your Jimmy has been down and in the V A in Montgomery for 2
 weeks. Yesterday, I finally got an update from Dr.'s.
 
 On July 6^th, I went down, pain in abdomen and no energy,,, I
 went to Montgomery V A and they started test, liver ultra
 sounds, to Tuskegee Cat scans, to Montgomery Cat scans,

 then packed off to Bham UAB Center to stick long stick down in
 body, back to Montgomery 7 days laying here waiting on
 results, after losing 35 pounds and all liquids diets like
 cream of celery soup and Ensure for 9 days, I V's, lots of
 needles, low enzymes lever on liver, they found a blockage
 on liver, pancreas and stomach by a tumor that is
 cancerous and we know the problem.

 So, now I'm in V A waiting on a bed to open in ATL or BHAM
 to open up so i can have the operation to remove lump. No on
 can tell me what caused it??? For 60 years I prided myself
 on health and fun and must find out what cause this?

 Thanks for all the flowers, here at V A and yes i will pick
 up all smoke able flowers later, cards can be sent to mom's
 house:

 2007 Haggins st
 T I 36088

 My cell 334-552-0457

 I'm on 3rd floor, room 121-1 Montgomery V A-- 334-213-5754

 Thanks for all of your prayers and jokes,to CCH 63
 thanks,and special thanks to T I H S class 65 who had a
 reunion in Atlanta and called me  while partying and
 passing the phone around, it sure did ease the pain!

 WHAT A GOOD DAY!!
 
For some time now, I have been asking for help in getting rid of strawberries (crack whores) in my area on Washington Avenue and on the corners. I had noticed that over 70  percent of the cars that pick these women up are from out of town.
 
Anyway, in my back yard on Wednesday morning last week, there were seven U.S Marshals, agents from the Alabama Bureau of Investigations and the Alabama Department of Agriculture and deputies from the Macon County Sheriff Department.  All of these people had gun drawn; two had AK-47 hanging low. All were white. One speaks to me and says they are looking for people. After five minutes, they were looking throughout the Greenwood neighborhood for probationviolator, dopers and drug dealers. The bad guys were running everywhere. (Two strawberries left town, two were arrested and the rest or hiding or running away.)
 
At 11:00 a.m. the agents are back in my yard, still looking for the bad people. I thanked them for all they were doing, but I guess I can’t use the dynamite now.
 
I made tea and brandy cookies for when officers would come back. I think I owe some of you steak and lobster, with wine and a designated driver. Maybe three days of these guys cleaning up this town might really help us. Then our continuous rain can wash the other trash away.
 
On Friday the Marshalls and other agents were throughout the Greenwood neighborhood again. The local residents were back on their front porches. (They make a true neighborhood watch, you know.)
  
Politics in Tuskegee is as ugly as ever. (Maybe a little worse, for the specter of elitism has raised its ugly head. You did see that coming, didn’t you?) After 37 years of black rule, the people are still infected with low self-esteem and self-hatred. What does that say about the leaders?
 
I had a tour from Atlanta on Saturday. On Sunday, there was a bus load of people from Augusta. You guessed it: No gift shops and no restaurants open. I don’t take tourists to fast food places. The message we send to tourists: Welcome to Tuskegee and don’t forget to take your money back home with you…Damn! Damn! Damn!
 
Municipal Court has the same old look:  lots of girls with babies, and handcuffed guys pleading poverty as an excuse for not paying child support. There has got to be a better way. What did we do before courts started ordering people to take care of their children? Did you see or hear of the guy with 21 cases of mamas baby drama? This guy should be the poster child for why we should castrate.
 
Historically speaking, during slavery masters bought the big buck, made him “rooster”, and allowed him to have his way with all of the baby factories. But if he became unruly the buck was often sold off. The mentality of creating babies and abandoning both babies and their mothers left a large scar on the psyche of the Negro and his culture. Although this behavior was forced on slaves, it is to often willingly perpetuated by too many of our young men. Hmmmm  Master must have a machine for continuing the legacy of “free labor,”

Recently, I received a call from a movie company. Many thanks to citizens, the Park Service and TU for sending them to me. The Spirit of Tuskegee and myths and legends of Tuskegee are to be filmed here? Hmmmm  Well, we have the stories!!
 
Guys, if you can make the time, please see the play,The Broker.  This brainchild of Dyann Robinson is a factual story about Tuskegee Negro leader, Lewis Adams, Oh, yeah!! No one gets shot, no one steals anything, and no one is hooked on drugs. This is a family play. This is the last week for you to see it.

Volunteers are needed at the Airmen convention Las Vegas. If you are near that city, go volunteer and enjoy!!
 
Take care jimmy

Each day State and local officials are on the phone to Washington crying about help for the flooding here in the south. They want that help at once. They have forgotten about our experience with Katrina, and of course, they did not vote for President Obama. If you are one of these people, CHECK YOURSELF!
 
There are 14 car dealerships closing in Alabama. None of the 14 voted for Obama. If you talk to the first black owners of dealerships in the south, you will hear horrible tales of how they were treated by the automakers, including receiving the wrong parts and flooded, rebuilt vehicles.  Now these people feel we should help them. They must CHECK THEMSELVES!
  
Alabama’s foreign carmakers pay up to $27.00 per hour, including benefits. The profits go to Germany, Korea and Japan. Do you think Kia is an American/Alabama company? Alabama sent it sons to war with those country; we are told that we won those wars. Yet, today we are bowing to those countries.

African Americans have remained loyal to America.  Even though African Americans were often insulted by our leaders of that time. We had to fight for the right to get killed.  Initially, we were the only ethnic group not allowed to fight in those wars because our Government said Negroes could not fly a plane, captain a ship, shoot a gun, and would run if we faced the enemy in battle. Yet the American Negro remained loyal to this country. Why???
  
I say let Detroit go; Alabama can be the largest carmaker (all foreign) in America.
 
Black people are becoming wiser in how they spend their dollars; to whom they give their money.  Yes, there will always be those Africans in America who think all is well, but I suggest that we all become more frugal in our spending.
  
There will be no Social Security or Medicare in a few years. That means all that money we put in will be gone. WELCOME TO AMERICA! Oh yeah: More blacks still going to prison than college; plenty of jobs there. Remember that slavery was about free labor and the south fought a war to preserve their way of life.

For the first time in Tuskegee’s history, fourteen (14) workers for the city of Tuskegee will soon be laid off; with the exception of Police and Fire, other workers will be cut to 32 hours per week.  And a few will be cut to 20 hours per week. Didn’t we hire a City Manager to improve the City? Hmmmmm!! 

They are looking into new taxes for us: An increased gas tax for those of you that drive, a heavier tax on booze for those who drink and a higher tobacco tax. For those of you who roll your own, a new rolling paper and cigar to blunt tax?   Hmmmm

Child Support Court back to normal. Thirty-seven (37) females with baby’s everywhere, and only 7 guys there pleading poor to the judge. WHY??? Most of these youth get pregnant during football season. Now we see the mothers and their babies and no fathers. It is time to break the cycle.
  

Ps: Our Carlos has been working on this situation, energy, grants, believes in us.
 

Lots of new members joining the Greenwood VRM, THE MODEL NEGRO COMMUNITY FOR AMERICA, the self MOVEMENT Community!

Can you remember our old TIHS auditoriu? Do remember who performed there? Commodores, Lionel Richie, Tom Joyner, Vic punch Gasden-plays with James Brown band, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Classic singer Bessie Hunter, Pete Peterson, Zeke
Moore, need more names??!!
 
Enjoy each day!!

Lots of storms this week, lost some big trees on the yard, trees down all over town.  City and state highways were cutoff.  Flood waters are high.
 
New boycott - Tuskegee News sponsors. There are rumors of bad comments about black good news stories. Damn!  Why do whites want to know the criminal side of our culture?  We are not
Italian’s who make money telling their criminal stories. The Godfather, The Soprano's, mafia movies and romantic murderers.  Our story is like theirs, but we don't own the papers!  Even in a black city, freedom of the press only goes who own it.
 
Dr. G W Carver festival this weekend.  Move it back to Professor Carver’s museum that was what it was about, held under a confederate statue. Carver came to Tuskegee because on his way ome he passed a Negro being hung by these same kind of people and left his home.  He is not pleased about where we hold his festival. If you are one of those blacks that say forget it, let it go. Then maybe you are an African in America and not a black person as your government has labeled you.
 
Happy Mother’s Day to all!

TU graduation on Sunday.

Remember the line of march started at Carnegie, down to the chapel, or on White Hall Lawn hundreds waved and admired the new grads of Tuskegee now it's outside the front door of Chappie James and no one gets to wave.
 Tuskegee flying!  Did you know that the 1st president, R. Moton and the 2nd president, Dr. Patterson planned the Negro V A and the Negro Airmen for Tuskegee and UNCF.

New eatery, T J Dairy Bar, downtown Russell plaza.

New chiropractor office --grand opening on the square, Dr. Russell, Tuskegee grad.
 
TPS science fair was good; we have some real smart youth!! Hope we don't lose this group!!
 
Three tours booked for next 4 weeks, 1 staying in Auburn, no room at the Tuskegee Kellogg center.
 
Comment was made that Tuskegee could grow if it did not have such bad leadership and media always showing the negatives of Tuskegee.

If we get any stimulus package, will it go to those same groups that screwed it up before??

What’s your comment?
 
Front page Tuskegee News - 217 cases disposed of.  Is it just me or does anyone wanted to know how we got into this situation.  We don't know because there are judges, DA’s, lawyers and bad decisions of the past administration.  Some cases buried, some forgotten, some were justice denied, as long as these large settlements civil cased were done.  We sold our soul to the devil and now the devil wants his pay. If we had done any of this we would be arrested, thosepeople had going away parties and BBQ’s. Damn!!
 
More people are joining weight loss programs.  We might have a chance at better health.
 
The Tuskegee of old is the solution for so many problems.  We changed and now we have real problems.  Booker T was right and he left a journal, ,, if we only used it!!

Using another system.  Let me know if you can't open any files. Also, using 2 new video editors.

Red Tails, George Lucas's much-anticipated Tuskegee Airmen film, is coming closer to fruition, with Terrence Howard and Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr. among those joining the cast.

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      Terrance Howard   Cuba Gooding Jr      
       

 Bryan Cranston                  Ne-Yo                 Nate Parker

                                       David Oyelowo

The ensemble Second World War drama, basedon the story of the first unit of African-American fighter pilots, is a longtime labour of love for the Star Wars creator.

"I've been wanting to do Red Tails for 20 years," Lucas said in a statement on Monday, adding that he was awaiting the technology to be able to realistically portray the Second World War's air battles. Read more

A Bristol Terrace 2 man was sentenced from three to six years in the state penitentiary Friday by Bucks County President Judge Edward G. Biester.

The man, Harry Bernhardt, 522 Court B was found guilty last month by a Bucks County jury on a morals offense involving a 13-year-old girl.

Source:  BCCT, January 14, 1963, page 3

Ronald Bussey celebrated his fourth birthday January 19th.  He is the son of  Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Bussey, 532 Maple Avenue, Bristol.

Source:  BCCT, January 25, 1963, page 9

  Lou Coleman, singer and songwriter of 2424 Airacobra Street,  Bristol Township, has auditioned for an appearance on NBC's Tonight Show.  Coleman has two records being released later this month by Crown Music Company of Neyork.  Coleman wrote both tunes.

Source:  BCCT, January 23, 1963, page 13

A 22-year old woman was sentenced today to 10 days in Bucks County prison for moving her family into an unoccupied home without notifying the owners.

Mrs. James Flood was found guilty of trespassing by Justice of the Peace William Oettinger.

The woman’s four-year-old daughter was turned over to the juvenile authorities.  Mrs. Flood’s husband, James has not been apprehended.  Oettinger has a warrant out for him on trespassing charges and Justice of the Peace, John Melvin, has warrants on traffic violation charges.

Oettinger said Mrs. Flood, her husband and [their] daughter were living in an empty house at 2302 Fleetwing Drive, Fleetwing Estates, Bristol Township, for the last month.

The property, owned by Colonial Realtors, of Bristol, had no furniture and was not rented by the Floods.  Oettinger said the family had apparently moved into the house when an acquaintance moved out.  They moved in before the realtors had a chance to lock it, he said.

He said the Floods ignored repeated pleas and warnings to move out.  Constable Robert Campbell made the arrest last night, Oettinger said, on complaint of John Raccago, agent for the realty company.

He said Mrs. Flood could give no address of her own.

Source:  BCCT, January 17, 1963, page 3

Hey Carlos has us on a new detail! Greetings GVRM Members!  We will meet this Saturday April 18, 2009 at Greenwood Missionary Baptist Church parking lot on Washington Avenue. It is our plan to walk the neighborhood to get resident signatures for the petition to the State Historic Preservation Office to have our neighborhood designated as a historic district.
 
Please wear your GVRM, Inc. T-Shirt for this activity. We will be paired in teams of two to three depending on the number of members that show up. Signature forms will be provided to your team and purpose paragraphs and membership brochures will be available to leave with each household you talk with.
 
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to call 552-1600.
 
Thanks for your continued support! let's make Greenwood the best!
 
Three buses today!   Note: our children are going on field trips, it’s not on their history it’s out of town??? Hummmm

Im Proud to say that Tuskegee and Macon county citizens are safe compared to  all others in Ala?  What if the gov said, we drug test for food stamps!  Tuskegee - Macon co, we will starve to death.
  
Rocket contest BTW High, let’s cheer them on to state comp.--4pm Thursday on ball field.
  
Had a great 3 day tour, 12 Tuskegee museums, 4 Tuskegee  eatery’s, gift shop, 3 churches, a Sunday school.  Selma now has 2 civil right museums 1 & 2 on each side of the bridge, an amphitheater, lots of new markers.  Montgomery had good welcoming hospitality, 3 museums
and ASU.
  
Founders day weekend with Rep John Lewis speaker…  Rehab of M M Washington Hall has begun.

Guys, guys, guys,

Real good and real bad week. Airmen events were great they deserve and got their honors from Tuskegee, all the national news came.

Tuskegee Airmen honored with historical site

Ritchie performs at Airmen gala

Tuskege Airmen welcome new historical site

We have great photos, video, autographs of events, new airport, 3 new companies at Moton Field.

A lot of the Alum’s were vendors and guest, lots of good pictures, will send later.

Guys, I was a vendor at airport and business was good Friday. I came home and unpacked my truck, cameras, Airmen shirts, coats, hats, poster, art, left tables, coolers, rocking chair, backdrops, art locked inside. Good day!!

Got up at 6am to return to airport and guys, someone stole my truck…Damn, damn, damn!! Turned on computer, got a virus spy ware infection, damn, damn!! No airport, no Columbus classic, guys, I don’t drink, but maybe this is a good time to start, damn…. filed police report.

Someone broke thru the block brick store behind me and stole 10 cases of beer, all the cigarettes, busted open all the entertainment machines (all 22 of them) and the meat from cooler.

Hope you had a good weekend, cause I caught the bad one! Going down for a while, must go party before I hurt something.

Thanks Tuskegee!!

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Patrick and Chanel became engaged on August 6th, 2008, which is also Devon's birthday!!

Devon, Patrick, Chanel and Ella Rae

Congratulations!!!

James T. Price died July 20 from injuries suffered in an accidental fall several weeks ago, according to base officials.  Read more

I hope you saw the Ladonna/Darnell wedding on NBC, lots of
Tuskegeans in the house!!!

That people is what Tuskegee is about, positive, caring, nurturing, loving people who continue to give, the best education and family life of a race of proud people… This was made possibly by so many of you and your votes. Thanks from Tuskegee.

Houston we have a problem. Hey guys,
The opening of the Airmen historic site, Oct. 10th ribbon cutting, rumor has it that the city and county with the highest percentage of democratic voters 87% will have as cutters and guest, Bush-McCain, and Michelle and BarackObama. 

All your work and tax dollars will be celebrated by out of Towner’s, a large media force, extra large secret service presence, very large political presence and most Tuskegeans will not get pass the security test, we are going to be used again, so many of you have labored to get this Memorial for these Airmen, including giving up your homes for the runway extensions, only 2 local people employed at the site, very very few items made in Tuskegee in site stores, lots of the construction was local in the first phase, restoration and parking lot, but the new buildings, we were not in there?? We spent 110k in grants to redo square downtown, some with the idea these guest are going to come down, for what??? The Airmen have only given story’s about the hatred from downtown, (1939 to 1947) some never returned to Tuskegee, some went to jail on trumped up charges, Macon County was a dry county and some were chained and put in security off base for alcohol charges that went on their records, some had cars and  money taken from them and never returned, some stated that if they could get thru the Tuskegee Flying school, because it was a hard course, 6 out of 10 were washed out, lots of reasons for wash out’s, but most spoke of prejudice, they understood that they had to be 3 times better to be equal to whites, these were the cream of the crop; they wouldremember the hate of Tuskegee forever.  As I taped the interviews some would be crying about how they (Officers in the Army Aircorp) were treated by this counntry, even though they were willing to defend and die for America. 

 Hope you get a seat or catch the ribbon cutting on channel 8, channel 12 has to show murders and shootings first, Tuskegee News will show some drug bust or a dumb shooting in big pictures and The Airmen in a little corner in the back corner of page 6 small letters, that what their editor see’s, it is one way to kill a culture and we will not tell him to stop it, let Tuskegee be the place to show our positive side for the youths self-esteem, oh, I forgot, we don’t care about our children until jail time!!!

Newest Grandchild!!!

Ella Rae Murphy was born 12/20/2007

Over the past several months I have busying myself with transcribing Church program obituaries as well as obits found in the local newspaper.

Once the transriptions are completed, I add them to Findagrave.com.  I came across this website about some years and have been an active contributor for the past 6 years.

If there is a clear photograph, it's also scanned and included on the page as well.  So far, transcriptions have been completed for over 70 obituaries with another 200+ to go.  It's doubtful if my contributions were ever catch up to the 200,000 plus added by some members.  View my Findagrave.com contributions here.

The next step is to add these transcriptions to the Afrigeneas Death Records Database.  Afrigeneas is the preimier African American Genealogy Research website on the internet.

Google has invested $3.9m in a company that lets users browse their genetic profile online. 

Genetics firm 23andMe was set up by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. 

"Even though your body contains trillions of copies of your genome, you have probably never read any of it," says a statement on the 23andMe website.  Read more.

WASHINGTON - The Tuskegee Airmen weren't supposed to succeed.

A 1925 study by the Army War College titled "The Use of Negro Manpower in War" concluded that African-American "men were cowards and poor technicians and fighters, lacking initiative and resourcefulness." It also called them a "subspecies of the human population."

So the Army Air Corps wasn't expecting much in 1941 when it began training a small group of African-American men to become pilots at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college. 

What it got was one of the most successful flying squadrons in American military history. Shattering racist stereotypes, they flew more than 15,000 sorties over North Africa and Europe during World War II, destroyed more than 250 enemy aircraft on the ground and 150 in the air, and fiercely protected the American and Allied bombers they escorted on missions.  Read more