Category: Dallas

TEXAS SOUTHERN Football team in need of donations after relocating to Dallas

TEXAS SOUTHERN Football team in need of donations after relocating to Dallas

Today, Bobby Roquemore writes a story in the Dallas Morning News titled Texas Southern finds refuge, generosity in Dallas.  She tells of the TSU football teams travels caused by Hurricane Ike, which included a 40-29 win in Sacremento followed by a stay at Love Field Radisson Hotel.  The team has...

Shawn Williams: The mixed blessings of Oak Cliff

Shawn Williams: The mixed blessings of Oak Cliff

Here’s a column I wrote for the Dallas Morning News as it appears in Thursday Morning’s edition.  It wasn’t long after I graduated from college and started a sales career in North Texas that I began to tell my friends that I wanted to live within Dallas’ city limits. Most...

Photos/Images of Dallas Cotton Bowl Renovation

Photos/Images of Dallas Cotton Bowl Renovation

I’m still learning my camera, so these pictures didn’t turn out like I wanted.  You live and you learn right?  Anyway, I think you can get the picture (no pun intended). href=”http://www.ritzpix.com/net/Albums/ListImages.aspx?a=4EF1F41E8715F0A7410F7D3F9103772BA18546D061BF9258B63C050077DB6DA0″>

Old School Friday: Girl Groups

Old School Friday: Girl Groups

This category took me back, way back.  First I thought I’d share a song from the first cassette tape that I ever bought.  That’s right, it’s the Mary Jane Girls.  I knew they were birthed by Rick James, but I didn’t know where the “Mary Jane” really came from. Then...

Dallas South on New York Post’s Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Payne/Jeremiah Wright “scandal”, former Friendship-West staffer

Dallas South on New York Post’s Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Payne/Jeremiah Wright “scandal”, former Friendship-West staffer

As anyone who has visited the site more than twice knows, I am a proud member of Friendship-West Baptist Church.  On yesterday, the New York Post reported that Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III’s former executive assistant -Elizabeth (Liz) Payne- was involved in a “steamy sexual affair” with Dr. Jeremiah Wright,...

CONGRESSWOMAN EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON TO HOST SMALL BUSINESS TRAINING SEMINAR

CONGRESSWOMAN EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON TO HOST SMALL BUSINESS TRAINING SEMINAR

Washington, D.C. – (September 2, 2008)  Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson will host a training seminar for Dallas-area small business owners on Friday, September 19.  Dan Sturdivant, Assistant to the Director of Outreach at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will join Congresswoman Johnson for two sessions to present information about...

YOUTUBE: Dallas South on KLIF Jeff Bolton Show

YOUTUBE: Dallas South on KLIF Jeff Bolton Show

From Monday morning (5:45 local) interview at the Pepsi Center.

Shawn Williams/Dallas South on Dallas NBC 5

Shawn Williams/Dallas South on Dallas NBC 5

Folks in the Dallas TV market be sure to check the NBC 5 six o’clock broadcast.  I’ve been told that they will be running a story about Dallas South’s trip to Denver covering the DNC convention tonight.  Let me know what you think about Ken Kalthoff’s report since I’m out...

South Oak Cliff cleared of grade changing allegations from Brett Shipp sweeps week story

South Oak Cliff cleared of grade changing allegations from Brett Shipp sweeps week story

If you looked in Saturday’s paper, you would have seen a little bitty story in Sports Day titled DISD investigation clears South Oak Cliff.  According to The Dallas Morning News,  allegations of improper grade changing for the school’s Class 4A state championships in the 2004-05 and 2006-07 seasons were unfounded....