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Ghana

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Art, Revolution and Trying to Keep the Doors Open at South Dallas's Oldest African Art Gallery

    A year and a half ago, the owners of Pan-African Connection Bookstore, Bandele Tyehimba and his wife Akwete, found out their building was being torn down and replaced with a dentist's office. They'd been at the location at the corner of Marsalis and Jefferson for more than 21 years. "I guess we were ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2011

    See Addison, See the World

    A year and a half ago, the owners of Pan-African Connection Bookstore, Bandele Tyehimba and his wife Akwete, found out their building was being torn down and replaced with a dentist's office. They'd been at the location at the corner of Marsalis and Jefferson for more than 21 years. "I guess we were ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Wait, the U.S. Women's Soccer Team Did Lose, Right?

    ​Just looked up on TV to see the CBS trumpets proudly announcing that tonight on David Letterman the guests will be ... Abby Wombach and Hope Solo. Wow, this is going to be tense. Because surely Letterman will ask the obvious question, right: "How did you girls choke away a World Cup?" Of c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Unexpected Influences: Datahowler Doesn't Always Listen To Music -- But When He Does, He Prefers Obscure African or Latin Records.

    Welcome to a Unexpected Influences, where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like.Datahowler​Datahowler, mad processor of decades of international culture, has a lot on his mind. Born Ross Edman (and formerly using the moniker Objectiv One), he has managed to push himself ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Hi Soccer or Bye Sucker?

    ​The Dallas Cup will live on each Easter weekend as one of the world's most prestigious youth tournaments. FC Dallas will anonymously toil away in Major League Soccer. And Starbucks-slurping soccer moms in their minivans will still dominate our roads and bogart our athletic field parking ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2010

    USA! USA! USA!

    ​The Dallas Cup will live on each Easter weekend as one of the world's most prestigious youth tournaments. FC Dallas will anonymously toil away in Major League Soccer. And Starbucks-slurping soccer moms in their minivans will still dominate our roads and bogart our athletic field parking ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 10, 2010

    Goals Gone Global

    ​The Dallas Cup will live on each Easter weekend as one of the world's most prestigious youth tournaments. FC Dallas will anonymously toil away in Major League Soccer. And Starbucks-slurping soccer moms in their minivans will still dominate our roads and bogart our athletic field parking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Job Hunting, One Dallas Intersection at a Time

    Kimberly Thorpe​Kwaku Twumasi had been out of work for seven months when he decided to try a new approach to job hunting -- right, the very one you see above. The 34-year-old SMU Cox School of Business graduate had exhausted the more traditional routes of job scouting, like mailing resumes and net ... More >>

  • Film

    January 31, 2008

    Sunset on Sundance

    At this year's fest, there were some curveballs and at least one knucklehead

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2008

    How Porterdavis is Like Organic Hummus

    At this year's fest, there were some curveballs and at least one knucklehead

  • News

    August 9, 2007

    Ole Oops

    Popular prosperity preacher sues ABC and Trinity Foundation

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    Nil Appeal

    World's football is full of passion but void of points

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2006

    Yankee Doodle Crappy

    World's football is full of passion but void of points

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2005

    Chef's Menu

    World's football is full of passion but void of points

  • Calendar

    July 24, 2003

    Beatle It

    These films are AllGood

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2003

    Funny Face

    Ellen Degeneres has a point

  • News

    June 25, 1998

    The good fight

    Thirty years ago, Curtis Cokes was the world-champion welterweight. Now, he trains young boxers and just wants to be recognized in his hometown.

  • Calendar

    June 26, 1997

    Events for the week

    Thirty years ago, Curtis Cokes was the world-champion welterweight. Now, he trains young boxers and just wants to be recognized in his hometown.

  • Calendar

    December 21, 1995

    Events for the week

    Thirty years ago, Curtis Cokes was the world-champion welterweight. Now, he trains young boxers and just wants to be recognized in his hometown.

  • News

    August 24, 1995

    Out of Africa

    Two Ghana natives chronicle a continent few know about

  • Film

    February 9, 1995

    Uprooted

    Haile Gerima's hallucinatory slave epic Sankofa is a declaration of independence

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