Dallas Mavericks Chief Executive Officer, Cynt Marshall has announced that she will retire from her position effective December 31, 2024. She will remain with the organization as a consultant through December 2025. Mavericks governor Patrick Dumont expressed his gratitude by saying that, “Cynt Marshall is a force of nature. I like to say her superpower […]
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One Year into its Siege, Activists and Community Leaders Demand Accountability for Gaza
On Saturday, Palestinian organizers were joined by several prominent community leaders and activists for a protest commemorating the struggle for liberation in the first year of the Siege on Gaza. As Israeli leadership has succeeded in sparking a greater conflict in the Middle East with recent missile strikes against Lebanon and Syria, Americans of conscience seek options in sending a message to government leaders – while elections are just around the corner.
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Asjia O’Neal’s Journey to Success: Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Greatness
By Rashad Miller, The Uncool Urban Her father is six-time NBA All-Star Jermaine O’Neal, but her storyI first heard of Asjia when was a standout varsity volleyball player at Southlake Carroll. She achieved many accolades including District 5-6A MVP before attending the University of Texas. We sat down to talk about her story and what […]
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The downfall of School Lunches: Is there any real hope for progress?
In 2022 DW talked about Dallas Independent School District (DISD) students receiving moldy food, repeatedly in their lunches. Let’s take a look of what has changed for students in public schools. In the United States, approximately 30 million children participate in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) on an average school day. This program provides […]
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Hope, Hope, and More Hope: A Conversation with a Young Black Man Attending an HBCU
With each Presidential Election, there is a new group of young men and women ready to be engaged civically in the political atmosphere of America. Every four years there is an introduction of new liberals, conservatives, republicans, and democrats ready to make their voices heard. This election season isn’t any different. With a convicted felon […]
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A Dive Into An Unjust System: How Marcellus Williams is Just The Tip of The Iceberg
“And remember kids, the next time somebody tells you, “The government wouldn’t do that,” Oh yes, they would.“ Marcellus Williams was murdered by lethal injection on September 24, 2024, a Tuesday. Even after there was evidence that completely exonerated him of the 1998 murder of social worker Felicia Gayle. Even after there were numerous pleas […]
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Diddy’s Twins Highlight Students With Jailed Parents
by Quintessa Williams of Word In Black News As Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was recently arrested and charged with sex trafficking and racketeering, sits in federal custody awaiting trial, his three adult sons have rallied around him in New York. However, his 17-year-old twin daughters — D’Lila and Jessie — are in their senior year of […]
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Inspired by ’60s Asian-Black Solidarity, She Uses Design to Fight Racism
by Renata Sago of Word In Black News In 2019, not long after she graduated from the University of Southern California, Michelle Hanabusa was questioning her identity. Years earlier, a debilitating injury ended her career as a competitive figure skater headed for the Olympics. In college, she used her time rehabilitating herself to switch majors to […]
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Stop Lying, Trump Didn’t Solve Black Unemployment
The Biden-Harris administration is who gave us the lowest Black unemployment rate in history — and for Black men it’s now only 5.1%.
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Can Freedom Schools Fill Educational Gaps for Black Students?
by Quintessa Williams In the mid-1960s, when the Supreme Court ordered the integration of public schools, states in the Deep South were incensed. Not only did they refuse to comply, but they also banned Black schools from teaching American history between 1860 and 1875—the years between the start of the Civil War and the end of […]
