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DISD Principals and Trustees Have Another Month to Prepare for Battle with Mike Miles

Up to 50 Dallas ISD schools could have a changing of the guard next year, as principals announce their resignation or retirement. Superintendent Mike Miles has placed heavy emphasis on principal reform, including replacing those who underperform. But around a dozen principals are not going quietly ... More >>

Frisco's Only Black Coach Says He Was Fired For Complaining of Racial Hostility

Frisco High School's only black coach says he was fired earlier this year for complaining of racial discrimination. Former Frisco world history teacher and basketball coach Alvin Jackson claims in a May 22 lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court that school and district administrators began retaliatin ... More >>

DISD Has Plans For Two Schools Left Behind. But What About the 29,349 Kids Also In Need?

​The Texas Education Agency released its federally mandated, No Child Left Behind-backed Adequate Yearly Progress report back in August, at which point it was revealed that the Dallas Independent School District missed the mark for the third consecutive year -- which interim superintendent Alan Ki ... More >>

The Barack Obama Show Hits Dallas

​Our Sara Kerens was on the Love Field tarmac when President Obama arrived yesterday; revisit that moment via this slide show. Then hop on over to the White House website, where all three of the president's Tuesday speeches are preserved -- not only his Eastfield College American Jobs Act remarks, ... More >>

Key to the NBA Finals: Dallas' Own Chris Boshketball

Chris Bosh: A beloved hero deteriorates into part of a three-headed villain ​Dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James are the two best active NBA players without a ring. Jason Terry has a tattoo of the Larry O'Brien trophy on his right arm. Dwyane Wade is trying to depress Dallas. Again. Jason K ... More >>

Chris Bosh Talks Dallas Hip-Hop With MTV: "There's Always A New Dance." Well, Yeah.

Dallas native and Lincoln High School graduate Chris Bosh may be breaking the bank these days as "that other guy who went to the Miami Heat," but the guy who saw his stock rise more this NBA offseason than any other player (maybe in the history of the league), still remembers his roots, growing up i ... More >>

Take a Brief Glimpse at South Dallas Students' Once in a Lifetime Trip to China

World ClassroomOne of Mark Birnbaum's cameras filming kids from Lincoln High in China for the film Once in a Lifetime​And, speaking of Mark Birnbaum ...When last I spoke with the Dallas-based doc maker, he was out and about filming Mayor Tom Leppert and other council members for a short promoting ... More >>

Buzz Gives '09 a One-Fingered Wave Goodbye

Corporal Punishment at Dallas Lickin' High School

The board of education.I'm 44. But I'm about to sound 84. It was a better world when paddling was a part of school. A safer world when "licks" between a teacher and student were punishment rather than perverted pleasure. Hear me out: I'm not condoning the 21 "licks" allegedly applied to the b ... More >>

David "Fathead" Newman Has Died at 75

Josh Alan Friedman, who penned an amazing piece about the Texas Tenor for the paper version of Unfair Park long ago, brings sad news today: Corsicana-born, Dallas-raised sax great David "Fathead" Newman died yesterday. There's only been one obituary, but a call to David's wife and manager Karen offe ... More >>

David "Fathead" Newman Has Died at 75

Josh Alan Friedman, who penned an amazing piece about the Texas Tenor for the paper version of Unfair Park long ago, brings sad news today: Corsicana-born, Dallas-raised sax great David "Fathead" Newman died yesterday. There's only been one obituary, but a call to David's wife and manager Karen offe ... More >>

Holiday Harvesting

Keep the good times rollin' with Kwanzaa

Chris Bosh Is Packed for China and the Olympics. Now, It's All Crackin'.

The Dwaine Caraway Show

Starring that new breed of politician who wants to root out your crack houses, close down your whorehouses and pull up your pants

At the Shaws' Funeral, a Symphony of Themes

Chris Bosh's All-Star Smash Hit Video

Get Unified

Kwanzaa's first day sees several celebrations

Big D's Great Roar

Not Such Happy Times

Boshketball

Dallas hoops legend comes home to spread good in the 'hood

Change Is Gonna Come

With some help from his friends, Don Williams intends to save South Dallas one block at a time

Come Together

Kwanzaa is about living a good life, not filling a stocking

The Girl Who Played Dead

The untold story of the 1990 bathtub shooting

Divided She Stands

Is controversial DISD trustee Lois Parrott a champion of the little guy, or the bitter core of the board's infamous civil wars?

Secular, But Equal

Third Eye's Kwanzaa

Back in black

Former militant M.T. A'Vant has a new object of scorn: the black leadership he once supported

Rotting away in jail

Kevin Young earned his trip to the Dallas County jail, but no one deserves what happened to him there

Lush life

Pianist Cedar Walton has played with and known -- and been -- the best

The Wrong Man

The case against Nickiolas Jolly fell apart within a month of his arrest for capital murder. But keeping an innocent man in jail 14 months is no big deal in this town.

The scarlet G

DISD's ex-security chief learns that being a friend of Yvonne is a bad career move

Events for the week

Unreasonable Doubts

Justice may be blind, but Dallas jurors aren't--particularly when it comes to race

Bully power

Learning that rabble rules at Dallas school board meetings

The Stink Bomber

From his raccoon-infested headquarters, Phil Thomas besieges enemies by fax and phone. He says he's fighting for ghetto kids. His targets say he's just bizarre.

A Minor Affair

When young love ended in a rape allegation, the juvenile justice system left a Dallas teen's life in limbo.

The Pride of Napoleon Lewis

A veteran principal brought hope and self-respect to South Dallas' Lincoln High. But even some of his loyal followers say it's time for him to step down.

Picture Imperfect

A struggling arts foundation gives kids a chance to see South Dallas through a camera lens

T.C.B. or T.Y.A.

Bobby Patterson, Dallas' great unsung soul singer, gets his Second chance

The Prophet

Amid controversy, Minister Farrakhan calls a million men to step into the Promised Land

House of blues

A forgotten rock and roll pioneer fights to keep his Oak Cliff home

Attack of the Killer Gadflies (Part I)

You don't take Rick Finlan and Don Venable seriously? That could be a mistake you live to regret.

Blues for James

Local jazzer James Clay leaves remarkable legacy