Author: Shawn Williams

Change Your Workout Routine: Avoiding the Plateau

Change Your Workout Routine: Avoiding the Plateau

How to avoid the dreaded PLATEAU in your exercise routine By Jason Johnson We all have experienced a point in our exercise program in which we stop seeing results. You have worked out consistently for 8 weeks straight and kept your diet clean. You lost weight during this time, your...

Senator Jim Webb’s “National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009” addresses African-American incarceration rates

Senator Jim Webb’s “National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009” addresses African-American incarceration rates

The American Criminal Justice System is broken. I would hope that no one would argue that. Those of us who have watched our uncles, cousins, brothers, sons, fathers and black males in general become part disproportionate part of this system know that an overhaul is needed. Since the so-called “War...

Congresswoman Johnson to hold Economic Recovery Workshop in Dallas, Shawn Williams to moderate panel discussion

Congresswoman Johnson to hold Economic Recovery Workshop in Dallas, Shawn Williams to moderate panel discussion

On Monday April 20th, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson will hold an economic recovery workshop, titled The Roadmap to Recovery. The workshop is designed to bring together representatives of financial organizations and federal and state agencies, who will share information on ways for North Texans to access economic recovery funding. Three...

Convention Center Hotel “Vote No” Launches first television ad, plus Q & A from Mayor Tom Leppert

Convention Center Hotel “Vote No” Launches first television ad, plus Q & A from Mayor Tom Leppert

It looks like “Vote No Dallas” has come out of it’s shell and is going on the offensive against the attack ads launched by Vote Yes. Here’s their first television ad and content from a Question and Answer document that accompanied the letter from Mayor Leppert that was posted here...

Mayor Tom Leppert Letter to Dallas Voters regarding Proposition 1 – Dallas Convention Center Hotel

Mayor Tom Leppert Letter to Dallas Voters regarding Proposition 1 – Dallas Convention Center Hotel

The following is a letter from Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert that is being sent out to Dallas municipal voters this week. Tomorrow I will post a Question and Answer document that will accompany Mayor Leppert’s letter. April 3, 2009 Dear Friend, As you have probably seen, there are a lot...

Living well with lupus: One woman’s journey

Living well with lupus: One woman’s journey

While I was in Florida, I reconnected with Chris Rabb, Chief Evangelist of Afro-Netizen.com. I met Chris at last year’s Blogging While Brown Conference and reconnected with him at the DNC convention in Denver. In Florida, Chris and I had a chance to hang out at 5 Guys Burgers and...

Absolutely Blooms at Southside on Lamar presents A Change Has Come by Lawrence Jenkins

Absolutely Blooms at Southside on Lamar presents A Change Has Come by Lawrence Jenkins

Absolutely Blooming at The Southside on Lamar will host a unique exhibit regarding President Barack Obama this week.  Marion Marsall will present Lawrence Jenkins and his photo exhibit on President Obama at the Jeanette Kennedy Gallary at Southside Station. Jenkins offers a photographic tribute to Obama titled “A Change Has...

FREE HEART SCREENINGS TO BE OFFERED AT DALLAS WOMEN’S HEART HEALTH FAIR SATURDAY APRIL 25TH

FREE HEART SCREENINGS TO BE OFFERED AT DALLAS WOMEN’S HEART HEALTH FAIR SATURDAY APRIL 25TH

DALLAS – Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of U.S. women, claiming more lives than the top six types of cancers combined. The good news is that by learning personal risk factors and leading a heart-healthy lifestyle, women can reduce their heart disease risk up to 82 percent! That’s...

Howard Witt back in Paris Texas, reports on Aaron Hart’s 100 years sentence

Howard Witt back in Paris Texas, reports on Aaron Hart’s 100 years sentence

Paris, Texas seems to be the gift that keeps on giving as it relates to Howard Witt andthe Chicago Tribune.  Might it have something to do with Lamar County D.A. Gary Young?  Here is Witt’s latest offering from my hometown in regards to Aaron Hart, a mentally challenged young man...

Shawn Williams – Dallas Morning News: Citizen journalists as prospective partners

Shawn Williams – Dallas Morning News: Citizen journalists as prospective partners

Here’s my  Dallas Morning News Citizen Journalism Column that appeared in Sunday’s Points section.  I’ve included pictures from the Poynter Institute Sense Making conference that I’ve been talking about for the last few weeks and reference in the column.  Thanks to Nicole Stockdale at the Morning News for allowing my...