Carlos Young for Katy ISD School Board

Angelina Jolie's Daughter Zahara Will Attend an HBCU (Video) - Hollywood Melanin Angelina Jolie's daughter Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt is college bound! the Oscar-winning actor announced her 17-year-old will kick off her college career at Spelman, an HBCU, this fall.

Simone Ashley Manuel - August 2, 1996
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
professional swimmer specializing in freestyle events. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, she won two gold and two silver medals: gold in the 100-meter freestyle and the 4x100-meter medley, and silver in the 50-meter freestyle and the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. In winning the 100-meter freestyle, a tie with Penny Oleksiak of Canada, Manuel became the first Black American woman to win an individual Olympic gold in swimming and set an Olympic record and an American record. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she won a bronze medal as the anchor of the American 4×100-meter freestyle relay team.

Manuel also holds three world records as a member of a relay team, and she is a six-time individual NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships champion, becoming one of the first three African American women to place in the top three spots in the 100-yard freestyle event in any Division I NCAA Swimming Championship. From 2014 to 2018, she attended Stanford University, where she swam for the Stanford Cardinal and helped Stanford win the NCAA team championship in women's swimming and diving in 2017 and 2018. She turned pro in July 2018.

After entering Stanford in 2014, she became a member of the Stanford Cardinal women's swimming team. She broke the school records in the 50-, 100-, and 200-yard freestyle in the same year, and in 2014, her freshman year, she also broke the American and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) records for 100-yard freestyle. Manuel is a six-time individual NCAA champion: winning the 50- and 100-yard freestyle in 2015, 2017, and 2018. She redshirted in 2016. As a senior, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's best female swimmer as well as the Honda Cup for the best overall female collegiate athlete.

🇺🇲 WW II uncovered A Salute to the Women of WW II: Harriet Pickens and Frances Wills: Trailblazers of the US Navy

Lieutenant Junior Grade Harriet Ida Pickens and Ensign Frances Wills were members of the final graduating class at the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School (Women's Reserve) in Northampton, Massachusetts. Commissioned as WAVES officers, in December 1944, they were the first female African-American U.S. Navy officers.

Harriet Pickens, born in Talladega, Alabama, graduated cm laude from Smith College in 1930 and from Columbia University with a Master’s degree in Political Science. LTJG Pickens was the daughter of William Pickens, one of the founders of the NAACP. Prior to her military service, Harriet was the Executive Secretary of the Harlem Tuberculosis and Health Committee of the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association. In addition to this position, she was a supervisor of recreation programs in the New Deal’s WPA (Works Project Administration).

Frances Elizabeth Wills, of of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, held a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Pittsburgh. After the war Frances went to work as a secretary for Langston Hughes, the famous American poet. She detailed this in her memoir “Navy Blue and Other Colors,” published under her married name, Frances Wills Thorpe. Recalling her time in the Navy, she recounted the adventures and achievements she had and how later in life she began to care for and treat traumatized war Veterans. Francis passed away in 1998.

By the war’s end on September 2, 1945, 70 enlisted WAVES joined Pickens and Wills. One of them, Chief Yeoman Edna Young became one of the first enlisted women sworn into the regular Navy on June 6, 1948.




WWII uncovered©️ original description and photo sourced by National World War II Museum and US Naval History and Heritage Command.

Kenan Thompson is getting his flowers! On August 11 SNL’s longest-running cast member will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 🙌🏾

Thoughts on one of the line items that is sure to be on the upcoming bond proposal. Portable teaching units...trailers.

How do you feel about the reported $125k demo cost?

Will you be for the bond?

Our Victory party was a lot of fun. Thanks to the team, and those great folks at Southland in Katy.

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Los does Sinatra - It Was a Very Good Year - May 6 2017 Yes, I sing too (If that's what you want to call it). When I was Seventeeeeeeeennnnnn.....

VICTORY IS WON
(Written minutes before we came up short of the vote count)

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as a pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever Gods may be
For my unconquerable soul (1)

Soon, the votes will all be in, and the campaigns for three contested Katy, Texas Independent School District (ISD) Board Seats will have bore it’s fruit.

As a neophyte to political candidacy, I can say now emphatically, as I indicated from the start, that running for office has been a seminal pride point for me as an American. The thought that the framers of our great land, some 220 years ago, got this for-the-people-by-the-people governance experiment so right is amazing to me. So much so that a citizen such as I can walk into an election office with a few sheets of paper, and emerge from said office as a candidate for public office. My patriotism for These United States of America, which was already elevated, now has even greater depth.

As proud as I am of the liberty in action of our election filing protocols, I am equally disappointed in the behavior of some who would tarnish this liberty. Freedom to them is something so cheap that they seek to shackle the words and deeds of others through discouragement and bullying. They would seek to impede the liberty of someone like myself at the mere mention of an idea or course of action that is different from what they or their clique would prescribe.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

No matter the unprompted bludgeonings incurred while campaigning, I found a way to DO it. Fear was indeed ever present as I met with many citizens I did not know, asking questions that would cause even the most seasoned politician to pause. The apex of this anxiety was during a “mandatory” campaign activity, the Katy Parents of Gifted and Talented Kids Forum. There I stood, fidgeting like a Young man at a prom without a date. Alone. Bare. Sweating. The questions were thorough, tough, and plentiful. Fortunately, my nervousness at the onset was snuffed out with a haphazard gaze in my wife’s direction. I saw her lip sync the Young family motto…”The Young’s Win”, and it brought me to a higher level. And so again it happened, that which has happened throughout our marriage, Yvonne inspired me to go well beyond what even I suspected was my natural limitations. It was at this very moment that I realized that I do have the experience and capability to lead this district. My purpose now solidified, I was able to articulate my vision for the district with analysis and emotion that mattered.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

From then on I ran as someone, however Young to the office, who has God-given talents and battle tested bravery to lead this fair community toward a more fiscally responsible course. It was mine, and my team’s job now to sell this new brand of board governance to the masses. So we dug in signs, mailed flyers, engaged with citizens on the internet, and did phone banking. We knocked on doors, shook hands, and met with both aisles of our political system. We gave interviews to local writers large and small. And after it all was done, we found ourselves all at once energized with anticipation, and exhausted from many nights of restless sleep.

4,000 votes or so is what the count is as of 8:10pm on this election night. Final votes are still left to tabulate, but any number near 5,000 represents 0.07 votes per student of the district. Said differently, with more than 75,000 students in this district, we have allowed a small portion of the electorate to determine their fate. I have no idea why this is, and it is a point of some sadness for me.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

What I do know is that for those of us who ran the good race, and introduced ideas with transparency and love for these citizens, students, parents and teachers: Our Victory is already Won, and we all have learned to be Young @ Heart.

Thank you all immensely for your support.
God Bless America, Texas, and our beloved Katy!
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(1) "Invictus" – William Ernest Henley
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MAY 6
Victory DAY!

We have run the good race.

It is in your hands Katy ISD Citizens. Please. Go. Vote.

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