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ExxonMobil Green Team Dallas youth program provides paid internships for high school students

ExxonMobil Green Team Dallas youth program provides paid internships for high school students

This summer, Dallas area youth have the opportunity to participate in a paid summer internship with ExxonMobil. Students who are selected for this program can earn approx $2,000, for 8 weeks. According to the Exxon/Mobil website, the Dallas portion of this effort will allow up to 60 high school juniors...

Paris Texas meeting with Department of Justice a good first step

Paris Texas meeting with Department of Justice a good first step

As, I mentioned a few posts ago, the Diversity Task Force and Paris NAACP hosted a City-Wide Dialogue on race last Thursday night.  The meeting was lead by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Community Relations Service Office. Carmelita Pope Freeman, Southwest Regional Director, brought her 43 years of government service...

Paris Texas hosts U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Services

Paris Texas hosts U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Services

On Thursday night, I traveled to Paris to attend a racial dialogue session hosted by the Diversity Task Force and the Paris Branch NAACP. I thought it was productive and will share my feelings and more pictures next week. I’d at least like to let everyone know what went on...

Download last night’s Blog Talk Show

Download last night’s Blog Talk Show

Last night we had a great show on Blog Talk Radio where John Harris of the Piitsburgh Tribune-Review and Donovan Lewis of Sports Radio 1310 The Ticket were our guests. Click for Shawn P. Williams Now on Blog Talk Radio!!!! We covered the Steelers and Cowboys game from every angle....

James “Bird” Guess: Are Black Americans Really Ready for a Black President?

James “Bird” Guess: Are Black Americans Really Ready for a Black President?

I’d like to introduce a new guest blogger to Dallas South, James “Bird” Guess President & Founder of the School of Money & Wealth LLC. You can also catch his financial wisdom at TheBlackEconomy.com. By James “Bird” Guess Are we really ready for a black President? What we must understand...

Dallas Morning News’ Keven Ann Willey named to Pulitzer Prize board

Dallas Morning News’ Keven Ann Willey named to Pulitzer Prize board

On Wednesday, Columbia University announced that hat Keven Ann Willey has been added to the Pulitzer Prize Board. Willey has served as Editorial Page Editor of the Dallas Morning News for the last six years. The Pulitzers is journalism’s highest honor. The awards are given by Columbia University on the...

Happy Birthday to Alpha Phi Alpha!!!

Happy Birthday to Alpha Phi Alpha!!!

In our dear A Phi A fraternal spirit binds. All the noble, the true, and courageous. Manly deeds, scholarship, and love for all mankind Are the aims of our dear fraternity. Happy Founders Day to all the Ice Cold Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, INCORPORATED! It has been 102...

John Harris of Pittsburgh Tribune-Review & The Ticket’s Donovan Lewis to join Shawn P. Williams Now on Blog Talk Radio

John Harris of Pittsburgh Tribune-Review & The Ticket’s Donovan Lewis to join Shawn P. Williams Now on Blog Talk Radio

Well the Cowboys have a big game on Sunday afternoon against the Pittsburgh Steelers. As always, you know I got your back. Thursday night on Blog Talk Radio’s Shawn P. Williams Now, we’re going wall-to-wall Cowboys. Click here to listen to Shawn P. Williams Now on Blog Talk Radio John...

Baylor looks to place Diabetes Center in South Dallas

Baylor looks to place Diabetes Center in South Dallas

Jason Roberson of the Dallas Morning News reports on an exciting development in the area of health for Southern Dallas. Today, Baylor Health Care System is going to put a center in South Dallas to help fight sugar. You know sugar a.k.a. diabetes. That’s how the disease was always spoken...

In NCAA Black Football Coaches are a dying breed

In NCAA Black Football Coaches are a dying breed

Ty Willingham deserved to be let go by Washington, in contrast to his unceremonious demise at Notre Dame. If Sylvester Croom hadn’t resigned at Mississippi State, he would have rightly been fired. And Ron Prince, well he just didn’t get it done at Kansas State. But everybody gets fired in...