Gina McCauley from What About Our Daughters is calling for action in the case of PFC Lavena Johnson. By all accounts PFC Johnson was murdered by her colleagues. Here’s a recap of the story by WAOD & Jezebel: (Johnson) enlisted in the Army right out of high school in 2003...
Thanks to Nicole Stockdale, copy editor at the Dallas Morning News for giving me my first opportunity to appear in the Sunday paper. See my civic pride column below. Is anyone proud to live in Dallas? I pondered this question after listening to a weeklong radio field trip that NPR’s...
I’ll be switching to the new theme this weekend so the site will be in and out. Thanks for your patience. Shawn
Thursday evening, the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau launched a new web portal targeting African-Americans. The event was hosted at the African-American Museum in Fair Park. See the new web portal at www.visitblackdallas.com DCVB President and CEO Phillip Jones said that he considers the site part of the new face...
The category for Old School Friday is “Old School Hip Hop.” It’s really not fair because there are just so many choices. I thought about Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, even M.C. Lyte. But I found something a little closer to home. My old school joint hails from Houston, Texas...
Part 3 focuses on how the U.S. government documented inhabitants of Indian Territory leading up to Oklahoma statehood.
Washington, D.C. – (July 9, 2008) Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson today announced that Dallas’s Cedar Valley College, located in the 30th Congressional District of Texas, will receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Strengthening Institutions Program. The college will receive $400,056.00 for FY 2009, and an equal amount...
Make sure to check out the Points section of Sunday’s Dallas Morning News. I have a column that is scheduled to appear dealing with…well I’ll let you find out this weekend. If you like it or if you don’t, make sure to write (or email) the Morning News to let...
Part One of my interview with Verdie Triplett has been very well received by the Dallas South family. I hope you all did your part and emailed the YouTube link out to your email lists. Here’s a little more homework, read through the Treaty of 1866 between the United States...
> I have to give all the credit to Chris Eubanks for realizing that this was a story that I would be interested in. Chris told me I should speak with Verdie Triplett, founder of the Choctaw Chickasaw Freedman of Oklahoma. I called Verdie the next day, and he’s been...
