Category: Culture

Jazz Series at Bishop Arts Theater Center announced by Cameron Smith and Teresa Coleman Wash

Jazz Series at Bishop Arts Theater Center announced by Cameron Smith and Teresa Coleman Wash

Bishop Arts Theater Center Last week, Cameron Smith and Teresa Coleman Wash announced an exciting partnership that will bring great music to the Dallas Fort Worth area. In February, they will kickoff the 2009 Jazz Series at the beautiful Bishop Arts Theater Center in Oak Cliff. Teresa Coleman-Wash and Cameron...

President Bush invites bloggers from across the world to White House, mark Human Rights Day

President Bush invites bloggers from across the world to White House, mark Human Rights Day

VOA News has a story regarding President Bush inviting activists and bloggers from across the world to a meeting at the White House. Part of the discussion will revolve around how blogs are being used worldwide as tools to spread democracy and freedom. Here are some of the highlights from...

James “Bird” Guess: Are Black Americans Really Ready for a Black President?

James “Bird” Guess: Are Black Americans Really Ready for a Black President?

I’d like to introduce a new guest blogger to Dallas South, James “Bird” Guess President & Founder of the School of Money & Wealth LLC. You can also catch his financial wisdom at TheBlackEconomy.com. By James “Bird” Guess Are we really ready for a black President? What we must understand...

Happy Birthday to Alpha Phi Alpha!!!

Happy Birthday to Alpha Phi Alpha!!!

In our dear A Phi A fraternal spirit binds. All the noble, the true, and courageous. Manly deeds, scholarship, and love for all mankind Are the aims of our dear fraternity. Happy Founders Day to all the Ice Cold Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, INCORPORATED! It has been 102...

Retracing Lee Harvey Oswald’s steps through Oak Cliff after the Kennedy Assassination

Retracing Lee Harvey Oswald’s steps through Oak Cliff after the Kennedy Assassination

When my wife and I moved to Dallas, I told her I was going to solve the JFK Assassination conspiracy. I had become a conspiracy buff watching Oliver Stone’s JFK throughout college. In our early days in town, we’d head down to Dealey Plaza a couple of times a year....

Wal-Mart Foundation provids $12.5 million letter of credit for Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial

Wal-Mart Foundation provids $12.5 million letter of credit for Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial

  When people ask me if I’m going to the Obama Inauguration, I usually tell that the next time I go to D.C. will most likely be for the dedication of the Martin Luther King Memorial.  As a member of Alpha Phi Alpha this is a project that is near...

TATTOO REMOVAL CELEBRATES ELECTION 2008 BY OFFERING FREE TATTOO REMOVAL TO NORTH TEXAS VOTERS

TATTOO REMOVAL CELEBRATES ELECTION 2008 BY OFFERING FREE TATTOO REMOVAL TO NORTH TEXAS VOTERS

A Dallas medical clinic specializing in laser tattoo removal, in celebration of an election season filled with calls for “change” and “reform”, is offering free treatments to tattooed voters on November 4, 2008.  New Look Laser Tattoo Removal is opening their clinic on Election Day from 9am to 9pm for...

2008 Top 10 Places to go in Dallas

2008 Top 10 Places to go in Dallas

10. Bishop Arts Theatre Center The newly renovated Bishop Arts Theatre is a wonderful backdrop for Teco Theatrical Production founder Teresa Coleman Wash’s unique vision. In October, Leonard’s Car played to enthusiastic crowds and rave reviews. Southern Dallas now has it’s best performing arts venue since…since ever. 9. House of...

Get Out The Vote: Project Early Vote

Get Out The Vote: Project Early Vote

Here’s a press release that comes from Friendship-West Minister of Justice Danielle Ayers and NAACP President Casey Thomas. Please mark your calendars for Friday for a screening of American Blackout at Friendship-West at 7:00 p.m. Dallas, TX – October 12, 2008 The purpose of GOTV: Project Early Vote is to...

Jason Whitely/WFAA 8 ask if Trinity River Project will pass South Dallas by

Jason Whitely/WFAA 8 ask if Trinity River Project will pass South Dallas by

Last night on the 10 o’clock news, Jason Whitley did a surprisingly long and in depth look at whether or not South Dallas is missing out on the benefits of the Trinity River Project.  Jason interviewed yours truly for the story as well as a resident of South Dallas.  South...