Our sister in blog Gina McCauley of What About Our Daughters has landed an exclusive interview with Rev. Jesse Jackson. The interview comes on the heels of Barack Obama's decisive victory in the South Carolina Primary. Let me say that I am extremely proud of Gina and the work that...
On Monday, author/scholar Henry Louis Gates launched a new website called The Root. The site will be an online magazine, featuring thought-provoking commentary from a variety of black perspectives—including a blogroll that links to African-American themed sites. Harvard Professor Henry "Skip" Gates is editor-in-chief of the site. Former New York...
Last week Kirby Warnock continued to make the case for improved services in Southern Dallas via a thoughtful Dallas Morning News. Here are some highlights from Mr. Warnock's column: What has become painfully obvious to me is that there are two Dallases, and I'm not talking about the racial divide....
CNN and MSNBC report Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg will endorse Barack Obama for the Democratic Presidential nomination. The endorsement will appear via a New York Times Opinion piece on Sunday. I finally found the Kennedy/Schlossberg endorsement. Here are some of the highlights: OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the...
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson issued the following statement today in response to the economic stimulus package announced yesterday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and House Republican Leader John Boehner: “The most effective thing Congress can do is to create jobs and give the...
For Immediate Release January 24, 2008 Contacts: * Lewis “Ski” Elliott: (972)228-5391 * Danielle Ayers: (972) 228-5226 * Shawn Williams: shawn@dallassouthblog.com Friendship-West to host Community Cinema Screening of documentary “Banished” On February 8, 2008, Friendship-West Baptist Church will host a free screening of the PBS documentary BANISHED @ 7:00 p.m. ...
The America Jouralism Review recently published an article by Raquel Christie that takes an extensive look at how the mainstream media covered the Jena 6 story. Raquel spent a lot of time pulling this story together and examines it from a number of different angles. There are a few AfroSpear...
This is a column that I wrote which appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Thursday. Dallas South readers saw most of this last week. There are however a couple of points that I didn't make in last week's post. Plans for a Dallas Convention Center hotel are moving forward,...
The Maynard Institute has a comprehensive interview with Howard Witt, Southwest Bureau Chief of the Chicago Tribune. Anyone who has visited this site for any length of time is familiar with Mr. Witt's work on the ShaQuanda Cotton case and in the Jena 6 story. He was the first person...
