Martin Luther King Jr.

Thanks a Bunch, IRS. Now We Gotta Respect the Tea Party -- a Little Bit.

Wow. I take it all back, Tea Party. You cool. In fact, I'm jealous. Targeted by the IRS. There was a time when that would have been my dream come true. I remember back in the day when my hippie friends started getting their FBI files under the Freedom of Information Act. I was always afraid to as ... More >>

Southern Dallas' Uncounted Workers

The feds say these people aren't in the labor force. That doesn't mean they're not working hard.

Join The Dream Team

For Four Days This Month, Knox Will Become Dallas' First "Complete Street"

In June, the city of Dallas unveiled its Complete Streets Design Manual, a rather dense set of guidelines for the city as it dabbles with the idea of building certain roadways less as places that cars blow through en route from Point A to Point B and more as boulevards that are at least as accommoda ... More >>

Dallas Has Its First Real Bike Lane, and It's in Oak Cliff

It's easy to bemoan Dallas' glacial progress on the bike plan that is supposed to, one day, connect the city with an extensive network of bike lanes, but credit should be given where it's due. In the spring, it was the shared lane that randomly sprung up on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard next to F ... More >>

In South Dallas, the Neighborhood Wants to Buy Out That Shamrock Gas Station's Owner

Photo by Anna Merlan​Schutze broke the story a while back about a group of black people in South Dallas picketing the Diamond Shamrock gas station on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. People in the neighborhood claimed the station's Korean owner had called black customers "broke-ass niggers, ... More >>

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 >>

Above the Trinity River, Playing and Talking and Eating and Sitting on a Bridge Meant for Cars

​First there was a Better Block; then, a Better Boulevard; then, just yesterday, a Better Bridge. Of all the efforts to temporarily transform a piece of the city into something other than what it is, yesterday's brief installation atop the Cedar Crest Bridge, which connects Oak Cliff to South Dall ... More >>

North Texans For 9/11 Truth: Still Running Around in "Rabbit Hole" After All These Years

Photo by Erin WaltersThe North Texans for 9/11 Truth-ers riding in the 2009 MLK Day Parade down Martin Luther King Jr. BoulevardWith the decade anniversary of 9/11 almost here, there's been a run of stories in every media outlet, major and minor, about both the September 11 attacks and the decade th ... More >>

The Old Forest Theater Remains Empty And in Desperate Need of a New Tenant

Photo by R.C. Hickman​Spurred by that for-sale Byrds concert poster dating back to an all-but-forgotten June 1, 1968, concert at the Forest Theater, I drove by the place a few days ago to see if the historic haunt had found any takers. But, no: The Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard landmark built i ... More >>

Author, Professor Michael Eric Dyson Will Speak at Sunday's "Justice For John" Rally

​On Tuesday Jim noted the rally for John Wiley Price scheduled for 4:30 p.m. this Sunday at the St. Luke "Community" United Methodist Church on East R.L. Thornton Freeway. But, moments ago, we received further details from Vincent Hall, the Dallas County commissioner's office manager, who notes vi ... More >>

Potemkin Village: Signs Urge Dallas to Keep the Homeless in its Heart. What Heart?

​As a community, we get horrible leadership from City Hall. Terrible. City Hall brings out the worst in us. On Monday, Building Community Workshop (called bcWORKSHOP), a housing advocacy group, began installing plywood silhouette figures of homeless people around town with cardboard signs urg ... More >>

Tea Partiers and Dallas County GOP Unite Around President Obama's Visit

Photos by Patrick MichelsThere wasn't much silence at all from the crowd at Franklin Stadium last night. Check out more photos here in our slide show.​As Sam noted yesterday, the local Republican party shelled out three grand for a proper venue to accommodate the mammoth crowd they expected at the ... More >>

Doing Good In The Garden

DCT's Most Valuable Player Swings For The Fences; T3 Tunes UP [title of show]; One Thirty Productions Presents Its Favorite Austin Playwright

Now's the time to raze Arizona. Here's how you can help.

A Fighter Reflects

Yes, But Will a Heavier Police Presence at Local Malls Encourage More Spending?

Toothpaste for Dinner​Scared to flash your wallet this holiday season at the mall for fear somebody might nab it? Hate leaving your goodie bags in the car will result in a smashed-in window? (No, we're not talking to you, NorthPark Center. Why do you ask? Oh ... right.) Look, don't worry: The ... More >>

Mexicans--you want your voice to be heard? Gustavo tells them its time to take things to the streets—again.

Don't Plan on Visiting a Dallas Public Library Tomorrow. Or City Hall. Or a Rec Center.

Sam MertenThis go-round, Dallas City Hall has thoughtfully provided a list of city-run buildings that'll be open and closed tomorrow, the second furlough day per City Manager Mary Suhm's cost-cutting efforts. So, let's see: City Hall's closed; so too the Oak Cliff Municipal Center, so there goes my ... More >>

Sitting On a Corner: Bronze Rosa Parks Finally Arrives at the West End DART Station

Patrick MichelsWhen the music stops, there's only one seat open.Rosa Parks Plaza at DART's West End Station is still a noisy dust-covered construction site, but with help from sculptor Erik Blome, the corner at least has its centerpiece installed: a bronze statue of Parks on a bus seat, planted on a ... More >>

Last Night in Oak Lawn, a Call "to Forge a Proud and Dignified Civil Rights Movement"

Alexa SchirtzingerAt last night's "Day of Decision Rally," timed to coincide with the California Supreme Court's ruling on Proposition 8, the cries of "We're here! We're queer! Get used to it!" rang out above the roar of traffic at the corner of Cedar Springs Road and Oak Lawn Avenue. "Se-pa-rate, c ... More >>

How I Loves Ya|Best Year of Their Lives

The Man Who Would Be King

Freddy Haynes seemed a shoo-in to lead the NAACP. Then Obama's ex-pastor came to town.

Bonus MP3: Versatile (feat. Carmen Rodgers) -- "Dream"

Did You Hear the One About the Farmers Branch Mayor Pro Tem Invoking Rosa Parks' Name?

You Can't Blame the Youths

Good to Be Badu

The Beatdown

Have April showers led to Derrick May's Saturday night shower?

Unfit to Print

A vicious fight between John Wiley Price and a small black-owned newspaper reopens ancient wounds in southern Dallas

Money for Nothing

A fund aimed at boosting South Dallas is hammered by deadbeat borrowers and city hall neglect.

Stormy Weather

Get the know-how to spot and dodge

Out of Africa

Kwanzaa is community, not characters and catchphrases

Metro Retro

An evening of wiener schnitzel and Fritz Lang

Cowboy Craving

Ridin' in Wranglers

Sob Story

Buzz sheds a tear for 2003

Park It

It's a winter wonderland

Tempo Tagalong

Latin Sensation

Marco Rodriguez and Otis Gray show the many sides of la vida Latina

Salad Days

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra combines cultures in weekend concert series

Tears of a Clone

It's Arnie vs. Arnie in the most kick-ass issue of Omni ever

Soul food

A complete and well-balanced arts meal

Make 'em pay

Dallas activists fight
for a living wage from city contractors

Funk that

James Brown used them. Hip-hoppers stole from them. Will these women finally get their due?

Events for the week

Events for the week

Bring on the noise

Why the hecklers heckle, and why Bill Keever's gotta go now

This history's a drag

Nigel Finch's Stonewall wilts a great gay moment

Dreamer 'n the 'hood

From a tiny food counter in South Dallas, Delvin Gray struggles to change the world