Month: September 2019

The Dallas Examiner “I believe that this is one of those very difficult topics we need to take on in this series,” Jim Tolbert, chair of the program committee for the Dallas Holocaust Museum Center for Education and Tolerance, announced as the panel discussion Civil Discourse Series: Affirmative Action In College Admissions began May 7. The event, part of a yearly ongoing series by the museum to publicly examine divisive or controversial subjects in a civil manner, was held at Communities Foundations of Texas. Tolbert mentioned that he was adamant…

Sunrise March 23, 1957 and Sunset August 17, 2019 On March 23, 1957, Ella Louise Edwards Dorsey was blessed with her first born of six children, a handsome baby boy whom she named Russell Tyrone. Robert and Alma Mills were excited to welcome Russell and were proud to become parents. As a village, together they each played a major role in molding Russell to become an intelligent and hardworking young man. Russell joined church at a young age and was baptized at Star Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. Russell grew up…

Photo credit: TSU Judge Kenneth Michael Hoyt was born on March 2, 1948 in San Augustine County, Texas. His father, Earl, was a barber; his mother, Fannie, a beautician. Hoyt attended Lincoln Elementary School and Lincoln High School, both in San Augustine, Texas. He received his A.B. degree from Texas Southern University in 1969 and his J.D. degree from Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law in 1972, where he served as an editor for the Law Review. From 1972 to 1981, Hoyt worked as an attorney at the…

The Texas Tribune Seeking to make college more affordable, the University of Texas will use some of its oil money to dramatically expand the financial aid it offers to low- and middle-income undergraduates on its flagship Austin campus. The system’s governing board approved a special $160 million distribution from its endowment July 9, which school officials expect will fully cover the tuition and fees of students whose families earn up to $65,000 in adjusted gross income a year starting in 2020. The funding, which will be used to create a…