Homelessness for many could be just one missed check, one serious medical emergency, or one lost job away.
By Aswad Walker, Word In Black
Photo, Dr. Rudy Rasmus (right), speaking with a resident of the Knowles-Temenos Place Apartments, is one of the local Blacks offering game-changing ministry/service to the Houston-area homeless. Photo courtesy Rudy Rasmus.
Deborah Brown grew up calling her “Aunt Sister,” and she remembersher storied life through the haze of childhood in segregated Kansas City, Mo., more than a half a century ago.
There were the fancy limos and Cadillacs that ferried young relatives to school and out for barbecue, the White-owned department store that opened its doors just so Sarah Rector could shop; the rolling farmland where Rector would invite Brown’s mother and the children for family gatherings.
Brown, then a grade-schooler living in a two-bedroom house with three siblings, her parents and her grandmother, marveled but didn’t dare ask questions.
“We’re from a generation where you don’t spread family business,” said Brown, a very fit-looking 72-year-old with a short afro seated in the lobby of the Hampton Inn in Bowie, Md.
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