Young.Gifted.Black and Missing 2
My Day
By Dr. J. Ester Davis
Esterdavis2000@gmail.com
An Open Letter to Kevin L. Kelley, Attorney
A Home Grown Success Story
Laura Hornbeck, Global Women’s Network, Texas Chapter, Ester Davis, Chair, Linda Henderson, CEO, Henderson Chicken; Deborah Kelley-Hill, Chief of Staff, Kelley Law Firm
On behalf of a grateful community, with a global focus, I wanted to say “thank you” for your overly gracious attitude headlining, sponsoring and placing a bright spotlight on “Missing-Black-Girls”. Additionally, thank you for the video you left for us with a warm welcome. Your staff was exemplary! Since you were out of town on business, I wanted to publicly write this report to you detailing the evening, copying in the universe. The response from the beginning was overwhelming. You helped us propel an agenda and sound the alarm of awareness before the holidays. Carl Sherman, Sr., Texas State Representative, attended with staff members. His information was invaluable with a proposed bill for legislation. “Missing black girls’ fall through the cracks in so many ways. They are too young for the Amber Alert and not old enough for the Senior Alert. We want that changed for all girls.
“Missing-Black-Girls”: Town Hall Report, we invited four speakers. They consisted of Judge Sandra Jackson, Dallas County Legacy Court; Constable Tracey Gulley, Precinct One, (largest precinct in Dallas County). Dallas City Council Lady Carolyn King Arnold, gave us grant sources and assistance from her office. Tonya Stafford, a survivor, with a movie script headed to production spoke candidly about surviving. I wrote a story about her many years ago entitled “No One Looked for Me”. So riveting still to this day! Beverly Pipkins, a former police and parole officer, currently a truck driver continuing with temporary housing for missing girls. The Mistress of Ceremonies was Keisha Lankford, a Cedar Hill ISD Trustee, who has operated a ‘safe house’ with her husband for over twenty(20)years. Organizations that had representatives in attendance included, “4 The One Foundation”,” C7”, “The Avenue” and a special guest, Dr. Mollie Williams, National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) with excerpts from their national initiative “Good Health Wins” in partnership with Uber.
A spotlight snapshot of the attendees… newspaper publishers, writers, a parole officer, three professional cameras, i.e., Spectrum, DFWBAM, Jasmine Greer, Indie Lens; officers from National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), SBA, WFAA, Channel 8 (executive producer and a reporter who stayed for the duration of the evening), Terry Allen, Founder, Sister CEO; Judge Audrey Moorehead, Judge Kim Cook, both from Dallas County Judiciary, several business owners, my banker, Denise Lias, a teacher from a local academy with four teenage girls, from her school. The Elite Newspaper printed our ‘Press Release’ immediately. Cheryl Smith, mega-Publisher and NNPA Officer bought her laptop “pen-on-fire” of course. Metro News and Garland Journal articles were printed and out to the public by Wednesday. Much more @youtube/Ester Davis Show. EDTV. DFWBAM.
I am out of time and space, Mr. Kelley. Just thanks. Thank you so much.
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