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Old School Friday Blogs

Old School Friday Blogs

See the links below to check out who some other bloggers selected for Old School Friday this week. Electronic Village Funky Finga Productions Mrs Grapevine Quick Cassandra Danielle Lisa C Chocl8t DP Kreative Talk MarvalusOne Regina LaShonda AJ Sharon Dee SJP sHaE-sHae songs in the key of life Hagar’s Daughter...

Old School Friday – Philadelphia Soul

Old School Friday – Philadelphia Soul

The theme for Old School Friday is Philadelphia Soul. Again, this was an easy choice for me. The Real Thing and Ms. Jill Scott is it. My wife and I saw her in concert earlier this year. She was awesome. I only wish I could have found some video of...

Dallas South credentialed for 2008 Democratic National Convention

Dallas South credentialed for 2008 Democratic National Convention

Well we’re packing our bags and taking this thing on the road.  Thanks God for Technorati, or I may not have known I got it.  It was only when I looked at my recent links that I was directed to the Democratic National Convention site. There are a few other...

Shawn Williams for Dallas Morning News: The case for UNT-Dallas

Shawn Williams for Dallas Morning News: The case for UNT-Dallas

Here’s an article that I wrote which appeared in Thursday’s Dallas Morning News. Thanks to Keven Ann Willey and Sharon Grigsby for the opportunity. The University of North Texas at Dallas deserves more support from our city and more attention from its citizens than it has received thus far. Dallas...

Dallas South invites you to our 2nd Anniversary Party

Dallas South invites you to our 2nd Anniversary Party

That’s right, it’s been a  year since our last Dallas South Birthday Bash, and it’s time to do it again. We’ll be celebrating at Brooklyn Jazz Cafe next Friday June 6th (5:30 p.m.), the date of the first post for what was known as Dallas South Blog. Dallas South is...

New York Times article on Reggie Love, Barack Obama’s “Body Man”

New York Times article on Reggie Love, Barack Obama’s “Body Man”

  I ran across a nice article in Tuesday’s New York Times about Barack Obama’s right hand man Reggie Love.  Here are some excerpts from Ashley Parker’s front page piece On the Court and On the Trail. In the last year, Barack Obama has learned a thing or two about...

Jena 6 Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr. Put on Trial

Jena 6 Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr. Put on Trial

From Color of Change.org – I will be updating you on the developments this Friday. Jena 6 Judge Put on Trial Lawyers Cite Clear Pattern of Bias, Demand Removal of Judge Mauffray Jena, LA–Citing powerful evidence of Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr.’s bias against them, five of the African-American youth known...

Liz Trotta jumps on assassination bandwagon with Mike Huckabee and she who must not be named

Liz Trotta jumps on assassination bandwagon with Mike Huckabee and she who must not be named

and now we have what … uh…some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama …uh..um..Obama….well both if we could [laughing] – Liz Trotta Man this thing is getting ugly. First we had assassination talk launched by she who must not be named. Now Liz Trotta, former New...

Dallas seeks help in renaming of Industrial Boulevard

Dallas seeks help in renaming of Industrial Boulevard

Citizens can now weigh in on the new name for Industrial Blvd.  The Public Interest Survey will run until Friday May 30 at 5:00 P.M.  The renaming of Industrial Blvd. is part of the Trinity River Corridor Project as evidenced by some of names that are being considered. Click here...