Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, Southwest Center Mall, and the Consumer Credit Service of Greater Dallas will host a Financial Education Lecture Series on Thursday, July 30, 2009 from 4PM to 6 PM. The free workshop on surviving a financial crisis is scheduled to help attendees: Prepare a back-up plan in...
A continuation of Nature Sargent’s post regarding bullies. Myth #6: Large schools or classes are conducive to bullying. Primarily, research suggests there is no correlation between bullying and increased class size. There is the suggestion of a correlation between increased size in schools and classrooms leading to less bullying because...
I watched Black in America 2 with great trepidation. I honestly sent up a prayer begging God to have mercy on black folks, all America would be watching this show. My prayers got stuck somewhere over Nashville’s skyline because what I saw was a diversity project gone astray. I applaud...
By Nature M. Sargent Greetings beautiful people! What’s up with all the bullying? For the purpose of this article, we’ll use Dr. Dan Olweus’ definition of bullying. Dr. Olweus, a psychology professor at Norway’s University of Bergen, defines bullying as an accumulation of negative actions, occurring repeatedly and over time,...
I’ve been critical (privately) of the caller in the Henry Louis Gates case. This was due to my assumption that the caller was someone who couldn’t believe that two black men would have a reason to enter a house in this neighborhood. The 911 tape of her phone call released...
On Saturday morning I was driving about town and by reflex, flipped the tuner over to Sports Radio 1310 The Ticket. I was listening to the conclusion of the weekend show “The Ender” and noticed that Danny Balis had The Great Robert Wilonsky filling in for his normal partner Dave...
Henry Louis Gates released a statement to TheRoot.com (which was sent to Dallas South) regarding the President’s invitation to have a beer at the White House with the officer who arrested him. Gates,Editor-in-Chief of The Root., accepted President Obama’s offer. “It was very kind of the President to phone me...
Here are the contents of a letter written by U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson to David C. Williams, Inspector General, United States Postal Service – Office of Inspector General. I actually retyped it (tech issues on my part), so any typos or mistakes are mine. The letter is dated July...
Sometimes it’s hard to get folks to see exactly what Dallas South News means for our city, and more importantly what it says for the way news is covered in general (moving forward). An announcement made today -and subsequent announcements yet to come- will help make it crystal clear. While...
One of the biggest complaints that I heard regarding last year’s groundbreaking spcecial Black in America on CNN, was that it painted the African-American community with a negative brush. Struggling fathers and mothers, Black women who can’t find a man, people in prison, the argument was there for the making....
