My journey in music began back in 2017 after I decided to finally put aside my fears and use my God given talents. Though I’ve had a passion for the arts (visual, acting, dancing) I was always drawn to writing. At the early age of 6, I started writing poems which eventually progressed into rapping […]
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Impact Ventures Present: Boss: The Black Experience in Business
DALLAS – On Saturday, June 18th from 2-5pm, join Impact Ventures, COSIGN Magazine, & Community Partners for a Juneteenth celebration and FREE community screening of Boss: The Black Experience in Business. Hosted at the Cedars Alamo Drafthouse, attendees will have access to theatre food menu, the exclusive film screening, and panel discussion featuring local business leaders […]
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A 20 Minute Chat with Musical Great Erykah Badu
By Catrina Carson When we think about music and Dallas respectively, preferably South Dallas, how can we not think of the Queen of Neo-Soul, Songwriter, Mother, Midwife, and Doula, and she wears other hats as well, Ms. Erykah Badu? If you’re a fan like I am, then you already knew who I was talking about. […]
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Impact Ventures Present: Boss: The Black Experience in Business
On Saturday, June 18th from 2-5pm, join Impact Ventures, COSIGN Magazine, & Community Partners for a Juneteenth celebration and FREE community screening of Boss: The Black Experience in Business. Hosted at the Cedars Alamo Drafthouse, attendees will have access to theatre food menu, the exclusive film screening, and panel discussion featuring local business leaders forging […]
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Generation Z Sparking the ‘Great Resignation’ as Employers Realize Shortages
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The pandemic has spurred the Great Resignation phenomenon, and it is still on. Many workers have continued to resign and switch jobs, and the pandemic reportedly has changed what matters to employees and what they want from their jobs – leading to a disconnect between […]
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DISD’s Moldy Food Conditions
Hundreds of students walked out of Dallas’ Justin F. Kimball High School in late March, in protest of being served what they described as “undercooked or moldy” food. The walk-out was announced on an Instagram page created by two students, which documents nine weeks of questionable food — mold found on bologna sandwiches and what […]
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Sex, boots and slide-guitars roll into Winspear
Director Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma! has been the talk of musical theater for several years. His vision strips the show to its bones to allow the dialogue, music and lyrics to reflect a frontier tale of lust, jealousy and the fate of a disturbed outsider. The Broadway production won eight Tony Award nominations and the Tony Award for Best Musical revival in 2019.
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Despite Apathy, Activists and Strategists Urge Black Voters Not to Sit out 2022 Midterms
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The failure of Congress to pass legislation like the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act have frustrated African Americans. With new voter suppression laws, the leaked Roe V. Wade opinion, and the assault on many other rights, […]
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Arrests and Prosecutions Continue in DOJ Investigation of Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia As a Congressional committee continues to hold hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department said its continued investigation into the deadly insurrection has resulted in more than 1,000 criminal charges, several convictions or guilty pleas, and the high […]
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Seven Decades After First Black Reporter Covered the White House, the Black Press Receives Coveted Credentials
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Seventy-two years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt invited Harry S. McAlpin Jr. of the National Negro Publishers Association to cover an Oval Office news conference, and 82-years after the founding of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the Black Press can freely cover the White […]