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New York Giants
name Corry Rush
Director of Public
Relations
TMSL Alumnus
Seeks Cosponsors for
Bill to De-Militarize
Police
TMSL Alumnus
Elected to
Municipalities Board
of Directors
Texas Southern
Graduate Goode
Named NAACP
Director
The New York
Football Giants named
Corry Rush Director
of Public Relations.
Rush joins the Giants
after spending the last
seven seasons with the
NFL’s Communications
and Public Affairs
department, where
he served as the
Director of AFC
Communications since
2011. He began his
tenure with the league
office as the AFC
Information Manager.
Rush earned a
baseball scholarship
at Texas Southern
University, where he
received his bachelor
degree in marketing.
He also earned a
MBA at TSU, while
working in the school’s
sports information
department.
In response to the
military style show
of force exhibited
by Ferguson Police
Department in
Missouri, Congressman
Hank Johnson, a
Thurgood Marshall
School of Law
alumnus and U.S.
Representative for
Georgia’s Fourth
Congressional District,
announced that he
is seeking bipartisan
support for his bill, the
Stop Militarizing Law
Enforcement Act of
2014, which would
place restrictions and
transparency measures
on the Department
of Defense (DOD)
Program that transfers
surplus military
equipment to state and
local law enforcement
agencies.
Milwaukee, WI - First
District Alderman
Ashanti Hamilton was
selected to join the
League of Wisconsin
Municipalities Board
of Directors. Hamilton
earned his Juris
Doctorate degree from
Thurgood Marshall
Law School at Texas
Southern University.
Hamilton was elected
to the Milwaukee
Common Council in
2004 and re-elected
in 2008. In April 2012,
he was re-elected to
a third term. Hamilton
has sponsored several
successful pieces of
legislation, including
items that have made
an impact on how city
government manages
contracts and how
minority vendors are
selected. Hamilton will
serve a two-year term
through 2016.
A graduate of TSU’s
Thurgood Marshall
School of Law Victor
Goode was named
the Interim Education
Director for the
National Association
for the Advancement
of Colored People
(NAACP). Goode, a
South Texas native,
is licensed in Texas
and Ohio and serves
as an Assistant
General Counsel at
the NAACP national
office in Baltimore,
MD. His work at the
NAACP has ranged
from fair housing
and equal education
opportunity to voting
rights and public
accommodations
discrimination.
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TSU Alum Blake Green Provides A Voice For Students of
Color During Texas Voter ID Trial
TSU alum Blake Green recently testified before a Federal
Judge in the ‘high-profile’ Voter ID trial in a U.S. District
Court in Corpus Christi, Texas. Green serves as Deputy State
Director for the Texas League of Young Voters Education
Fund, whom is a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
In his work with the League, Mr. Green encourages young
people of color in Texas -- particularly college students -- to
participate in the political process, providing them with the tools, training and
resources.
TSU Alumnae
Receives National
Museum Award
Dr. Melanie Johnson,
education director of
the nonprofit Space
Center Houston
and recipient of a
doctorate of education
from Texas Southern
University, received
the 2014 Nancy
Hanks Memorial
Award for Professional
Excellence at the
American Alliance
of Museums Annual
Meeting and Museum
Expo in Seattle, WA.
She is credited with
being an integral part
of the team that has
transformed Space
Center Houston,
making it a vibrant,
effective, authoritative
museum for the history
of space flight.
Tiger called on to restore the roar to the
Jack Yates Lion Marching Band.
Texas Southern University’s Ocean of Soul
alumnus Gerald Bryant, Jr. didn’t have to go
far to start his career
in music. Bryant
is the new band
director at Jack
Yates High School.
While a student at
Texas Southern,
Bryant spent many
hours over the years working for the Jack
Yates band program in music workshops and
clinics. Bryant was a stand out in the Ocean of
Soul.
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