Words by Lewis Flanagan III Position: Middle Blocker/ Outside Hitter School: South Grand Prairie High School Location: Grand Prairie, TX Class: Junior The spring volleyball season was not a particularly kind one to the Lady Tigers of Texas Southern University. The team clawed their way to a pair of conference wins in mid-season, but the […]
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Keeya Vawar: Advocate, Author, Survivor
Every year, more than 300,000 young people in the United States are considered at risk of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. While national statistics are lacking, the available data shows that Black girls are disproportionately at risk of being trafficked. Earlier this year, 31 missing children were located across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Back in […]
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Roland Parrish’s Student Athlete of The Week: Chase Kennedy
Position: Defensive End (WS) School: Episcopal School of Dallas Player #: 7 Grade: Senior The Episcopal School of Dallas (ESD) is known to produce some of the most revered young talent in the Metroplex. Many of the nation’s most dynamic and influential people — who have called North Texas home — have walked its hallways […]
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She Represents: Two Sisters Sweet Creations
Two Sisters Sweet Creations is a home-based bakery that is owned and operated by biological sisters, Yolanda Bledsoe and Deidra Keener. Their passion for service and baking led to the establishment of this business in 2015, after many years of providing a variety of sweet treats for family, friends and associates. Every treat is home-made, […]
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How the State Fair of Texas is Fixing South Dallas with its Urban Farm
When 4-year-old Jonah saw the baby cucumber poking up through the dirt, he shrieked, delighted. The viridescent dot had the group of children hollering and screaming. “They could not believe it! They didn’t think it was real,” recalls Sherri Mixon, executive director at TR Hoover Community Development Center, home of the Hoover Learning Garden. She […]
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#Therapy4BlackFolk: How Paintball Therapy is Curing PTSD
Over the past few years, cities across America have become playgrounds for paintball enthusiasts. This growing trend has become popularized via social media and word of mouth by former gang members and gun violence victims and participants. However, paintball or “paintball therapy” as some community participants have coined it, is not limited to those who […]
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Lil Snupe Documentary being filmed Tonight at DocuFest
The Dream Chaser Film which chronicles the life and career of hip-hop star, Lil Snupe, is being screened at DocuFest 2021 in Dallas. The rising hip hop star was fatally wounded days after his eighteenth birthday in 2013. This documentary tells his story of self-determination and his would-be rise in the hip-hop world. On June […]
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Rihanna’s ‘Savage X Fenty: Vol. 3’: Normani, Non-binary, and the 90s won
Let’s not glance over the different sizes and shapes of men and women on full display. A word to describe the casting choices and expression of the models and the fashion: unapologetic. Rihanna told Billboard, “I think the challenge every year is to make it better than the previous one and this year we went […]
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JP Morgan Chase Declares Dallas a Key Global Technology Center
Technology, especially in consumer facing businesses like banking, is changing quickly to meet customer demands and market trends. That’s why our firm has more than 3,000 technologists working locally, including software engineers and developers specializing in critical areas like cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data analytics, digital, cloud and general engineering capabilities. Better still, […]
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Ocasio-Cortez Just Broke Down Female Biology and My Mind is Blown
Governor Greg Abbott recently signed an expansively prohibitive abortion bill. Touting the bill as providing at least six weeks for a person to seek abortion in Texas, Gov. Abbott believes that is more than enough time for a menstruating person to seek medical services. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (NY) on CNN with Anderson Cooper, however, broke down […]