This was a pretty big deal for me. CNN contacting me about running a post about the MLK special and I asked for an email interview with Soledad O’Brien. Simple enough, but then they asked if I’d like to do the interview live. Uh…yeah. Interviewing Ms. O’Brien was one of...
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...
George Cook of the website Let's Talk Honestly did a special report in which he interviewed myself and other bloggers. The interviews revolved around Black Bloggers' reaction towards Michael Baisden and comments he made by towards the organization Color of Change . Click here to listen to the interviews. Other...
Dallas City Councilwoman Angela Hunt scored a major political victory when she and TrinityVote secured over 80,000 signatures to force a referendum to alter the tollroad portion of the Trinity River project. Dallas City Secretary Deborah Watkins certified the signatures, and a November vote will allow Dallas voters decide the...
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 Music Month 2007 CD, where his single If We Were Alone (with N;Dambi) is featured with the likes for Tank, Kirk Franklin, Mya, and Sunshine...
DSB: Have there been any noticeable changes in the mood of the city since Paris, Texas gained nationwide attention? BC: OhhhYes. It has made a lot of those in the African-American community hopeful. It has angered many in the white community and some people are on the attack. There is...
Dallas South Blog: What is the purpose of Concerned Citizens for Racial Equality? Brenda Cherry: We formed CCFRE in 2003 after we filed complaints regarding PISD staff calling black children names such as stupid and lazy. We also noticed that on a daily basis, approx 90% of the students sitting...
When I flipped to the GuideLive section of Wednesday's Dallas Morning News, I noticed a familiar grouping of colors and shapes. It was the work of my childhood friend Trenton Doyle Hancock. That particular piece is seen above, and called Good Vegan Progression #2. It is part of exhibit "Fast...
Anyone who has followed this blog for a while knows that I have championed the UNT-Dallas campus from the jump (see Education/Salvation or UNT-Dallas opens). But there's already an institution of higher learning that calls Southern Dallas home. Lately there has been a lot written about the future of Paul Quinn College. Between the...
I was blessed to meet Mr. Wilton Hollins 8 years ago when he was the director of Friendship-West's J.C. Holmes Male Chorus. Our subsequent friendship led to a collaboration that we called "Buy It Out", where we advocated cooperative economics in the African-American community through a selective buying program. Wilton is Human...
