By Shewanda Riley “It’s a chilly 45 degrees outside now but the high later today will be close to 75 degrees.” As I listened to the morning television meteorologist […]
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Posted inPolitics,
To tackle high housing costs, Texas lawmakers push to build more homes
By Joshua Fechter, The Texas Tribune, And Lucy Tompkins, The Texas Tribune and The New York Times As Texas contends with historically high home prices and rents, state legislators might […]
Posted inBusiness
The DEC Network Brings the 2023 State of Entrepreneurship to Frisco
Event will feature Trey Bowles, Jasmin Brand, and Mayor of Frisco Jeff Cheney with Special Guest Grammy Award-Winning Mike Render “Killer Mike” March 13, 2023 – Dallas, TX – The […]
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Ft. Worth African American Roots Music Fest Announces 2023 Artist Lineup
Event Unapologetically Celebrates Black Contributions to Roots Music FORT WORTH, Texas – On March 18, 2023, award-winning artists from across the country will convene at the third annual Fort Worth […]
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Life and Death: When Police Criminalize Young Black Men
Originally appeared in Word in Black By Anissa Durham When Abraham Jarvis gets pulled over by police, he has a rule with his parents: they FaceTime. He started driving at […]
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DART and Toyota Partner with Circuit to Connect West Dallas Residents
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and Toyota have partnered with Circuit to support a free ride-share transportation service that provides West Dallas residents with an easy way to get to […]
Posted inCulture
Can Black Men Ever Really Win in Hollywood?
Originally appeared in Word in Black, By Patrick Washington One year after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, “so-called Black Hollywood is more like the Black Student Union […]
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She Reps: Tamara Jones
Tamara Jones, professionally known as Tam Nicole Esthetics Studio, is a licensed medical Aesthetician with over 16 years of industry experience. She was professionally trained in esthetics at the Ogle […]
Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center to host Center Table Spring Break food distribution event Friday
With the recent decrease in pandemic SNAP benefits and inflation continuing to take its toll on families, the need for food assistance remains crucial. Center Table launched in May 2020 to […]
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Auto Journalist and NNPA Columnist Frank Washington Dies
Washington’s career gave him a unique view of media relations, public relations, event planning and publishing, the World Wide Web, editing, and reporting. By Stacy M. Brown When Frank Washington […]