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...
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...
When Father Michael Pfleger called in to the Roland S. Martin show at 7 a.m. on Friday morning, at least I knew he was awake. I gave dialed him up and asked if I could drop by and visit with him after I left WVON. Thanks to GPS (I call...
By Earnest Gates Now that the general election campaign is under the way, it is time for mending fences between Obama supporters and the supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton. We in Texas have something even greater on the line. We have a chance to begin the process of having a...
Dallas South is excited to share with you an interview I conducted with CNN Anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien. We talked about tonight’s special airing at 8 p.m. Central on CNN titled The King Assassination:Witness to Murder. You can click on the sound tab below to hear the entire...
I wanted to get some opinions of what the Dallas South Family thinks about King LeBron James on the latest cover of Vogue magazine with model Gisele Bundchen. The assertion is that James is striking a King Kongesque pose and Gisele is Vogue’s version of Fay Wray. It’s more than...
Here is the article I wrote that appears in Wednesday’s Dallas Morning News. Some of this is familiar from Part 1, but there is about 30-40% new material. Sick. Disgusted. Appalled. Those were some of the feelings that washed over me as I have listened to the mainstream media launch...
Sick…disgusted…appalled. Those were some of the feelings that washed over me as I listened to the mainstream media launch an all out assault on Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr. It should have been no surprise, but even my wary eyes were taken aback by the ferocity of the attacks on Dr....
Chalk this one up to the infinite list of things I didn’t know. Thanks to Rose for the heads up. The Higher Education of the Nation’s Top African-American Restaurateur Each week tens of thousands of diners eat at an Olive Garden or Red Lobster restaurant. Few of these diners know...
Why does everyone want to convince me that justice is blind? Why do people want to make me believe that the lady with the scale never peaks under that blindfold to take a look at who stands before her awaiting her ruling? Today, a number of bloggers are writing in...
