Words By Alicia Wilson Every year in October, we always scream “Save the boobs!” You see pink everywhere and those funny little buttons about boobs. It is truly a month for women to come together and support each other, and that is incredible. But, I have to ask you this question. Why do we not […]
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Black Councilmembers Save Funding for COVID-19 Awareness Campaigns
Words By Steven Monacelli As the COVID-19 delta variant continues to drive high case numbers and hospitalization rates across North Texas, Dallas City Council has decided to allocate hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund multicultural advertising campaigns to promote COVID-19 awareness in newspapers like The Dallas Weekly. That’s the good news. The not-so-good news […]
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Texans Are Fighting Voter Restriction, but Will They Win?
Words By Brianna Patt The lawsuits being levied against Texas Governor Greg Abbott may not be going in the direction you think. On Sept. 7, Abbott signed Senate Bill 1, a bill that has been critiqued for the restrictions it places on Black, Brown and disabled voters with limits on the ability of poll place […]
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The Black Hair Experience: A Hair Dream Come True
By Alicia Wilson Ladies and gentleman, I am a hair creep! A hair creep is someone that loves to do research and gossip about hair. A person that enjoys everything about the hair industry and learning more about it everyday. The Black Hair Experience brought the true hair creep out of me, making my hair […]
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Hair Spotlight: Eve McWright
By Alicia Wilson Quote: “Hair impacts our lives. Even when it is not pretty. “ Code Name: Maintain Woman, Loc Therapist Skills: Maintaining hair and teaching others Hair Crush: Mary J. Blige Imagine this, it’s 1986 and there’s big hoops and boom box radio. Hip Hop is making waves. Black people are wearing bright colors […]
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Survivors Ball Shows Strength in Gaining After Loss
Words By Dee “lilD” Porter Not all heroes wear capes. And not all survivors are given their flowers for fighting to be present after horrific tragedy. Luckily, one woman is on a mission to change that. The experiences that Angelia Dunbar has survived would make for one interesting season of television. She left home as […]
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In Memoriam: Eva Partee McMillan (1921-2021)
Eva Partee McMillan was born May 7, 1921, five minutes before her twin sister, Neva Partee, to Joseph Chavis Lee Partee and Mary Rebecca Sowell Partee in Bradford, Tennessee. They were welcomed by brothers; Arlyn Clifton, and Cecil, sisters; Mildred, and Faye; (a sister Grace passed some years prior). Their mother died several months after […]
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JOURNEYFIT: A Journey to Follow
By Jessica Washington Dallas Weekly had the chance to sit down with Victoria Thomas, owner and founder of JOURNEYFIT. Although a lawyer by trade, Thomas followed God’s plan and has now amassed much success with her two locations, one in the design district & another in Richardson, making her the first Black-female gym owner in […]
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The Black Version
Words By Jai Makokha There is a thing–then there’s the Black version of that thing. Just watch any person dance, then watch a Black person do the same dance. There is a difference. The media landscape is no different. There is media, entertainment, and news, then there is a distinctly different iteration that is Black […]
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#YourSlipIsShowing: Uncovering Extremist Trolls Online
Words By Steven Monacelli What happens when the company that provides web hosting services for a network of far-right extremist websites gets hacked? For starters, the people who secretly run the websites get exposed. And that’s exactly what’s happening. On Sept. 13, this author broke news on Twitter of a massive data breach of the […]