Category: Dallas

14 Buses from Friendship-West headed from Dallas to Jena

14 Buses from Friendship-West headed from Dallas to Jena

The lines were long, but the people were patient as hundreds and hundreds waited to board the buses on their way to Jena.  Major props to Friendship-West and Texas Supports Jena 6 for their excellent organization skills. God has blessed me with a table, but hopefully I won't need it...

Vincent Tucker becomes the North Texas Booking Agent for The Harlem Starz Basketball Team

Vincent Tucker becomes the North Texas Booking Agent for The Harlem Starz Basketball Team

September 4, 2007 (Dallas, Texas) – CWC Entertainment Group Founder Vincent Tucker has officially become the Fall 2007 North Texas Booking agent for The Harlem Starz Basketball Team. With this agreement, Vincent Tucker & CWC Entertainment Group will be booking The Harlem Starz to perform in both middle & high...

Coverage of Owen Wilson suicide attempt vastly different from last year’s Terrell Owens media circus

Coverage of Owen Wilson suicide attempt vastly different from last year’s Terrell Owens media circus

I'll be the first to tell you that I'm a big Owen Wilson fan.  Wedding Crashers was one of the funniest movies in years, and he was a big reason why.  His cameo in Night at the Museum was very good, not to mention  turns in Meet the Parents &...

Dallas South Sports launches, Carter/Kimball selected as first game of the week

Dallas South Sports launches, Carter/Kimball selected as first game of the week

I am proud to introduce a new member to the Dallas South Family: Dallas South Sports .  Dallas South Sports will take a keen interest in High School football in Southern Dallas, as well as college football, the NFL (heavy on the Boys), Fantasy Football and eventually basketball at all...

Keite Young’s debut album in stores this Tuesday August 28

Keite Young’s debut album in stores this Tuesday August 28

SINCE LOCAL ARTIST KEITE YOUNG'S DEBUT ALBUM WILL BE IN STORES TOMORROW, I THOUGHT I WOULD RERUN THIS INTERVIEW HE GRANTED DALLAS SOUTH LAST MONTH. Keite Young's name has been swirling around various R&B circles througout the year.  I happened to stumble upon one of Keite's tracks on the Black...

Governor Rick Perry to host the United Negro College Fund’s ‘North Texas Governor’s Luncheon’

Governor Rick Perry to host the United Negro College Fund’s ‘North Texas Governor’s Luncheon’

According to the UNCF website and Pegasus News, Texas Governor Rick Perry will keynote the United Negro College Fund's (UNCF), "Annual North Texas Governor's Luncheon" on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007.  The luncheon will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at DFW Airport. This event is a first-time partnership between...

Friendship-West to host “DON’T GET IT TWISTED WIDE OPEN: Can You Handle the Truth”

Friendship-West to host “DON’T GET IT TWISTED WIDE OPEN: Can You Handle the Truth”

On Saturday August 25, Friendship-West Baptist Church will host DON’T GET IT TWISTED WIDE OPEN: Can You Handle the Truth? The event will be a community forum where youth and parents deal with issues currently effecting teens. So many times our parents and youth have difficulty communicating with each other...

CONGRESSWOMAN JOHNSON TO HOST REFUGEE DAY WORKSHOP

CONGRESSWOMAN JOHNSON TO HOST REFUGEE DAY WORKSHOP

Washington, DC – (Wednesday, August 15, 2007)  Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson today announced that she will host a Refugee Day Workshop, the first of its kind in North Texas, on Saturday, August 18th . "In the last few years, the Dallas area has taken in an increasing number of refugees...

Sen. Royce West and John Wiley Price to host Town Hall Meeting

Sen. Royce West and John Wiley Price to host Town Hall Meeting

                        State Senator Royce West and Dallas County Commissioner Wiley Price are teaming up to host a Town Hall Discussion focusing on issues specific to the South Side.  The meeting is called What's on The Agenda? and billed as "A...

Drug Houses demolished in Oak Cliff

Drug Houses demolished in Oak Cliff

Mike Davis at Dallas Progress posts a great story of city government doing actually doing something for the public good.  On Saturday morning, Mayor Tom Leppert, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, Sheriff Lupe Valdez and others held a press conference during a drug house demolition in the 2500 block of...