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NAACP

  • News

    March 29, 2012

    How a Battle Over a Korean-Owned Kwik Stop Divided, Then United, South Dallas

    Led by a little-known minister, protesters rallied to run a Korean store owner out of business. Then they learned a little more about that minister.

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    UT-Arlington Students March for Trayvon Martin, Demand Gunman's Arrest

    Students, faculty and community members marched together today through the University of Texas at Arlington campus, demanding justice for Trayvon Martin's death and the arrest of his killer, 28-year-old George Zimmerman. Hundreds attended the rally organized by the UT-Arlington NAACP chapter, inclu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    As Shamrock Protests Near An End, Local NAACP President May Be On Her Way Out

    Anthony Bond, founder of the Irving chapter of the NAACP, looked at what was happening in South Dallas, at the Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and decided: Enough's enough. Those protests at the Korean-owned convenience store had to stop, as did calls for its owner Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Dallas ISD Trustees Blackburn, Nutall Have Had It With Dallas NAACP Prez's "Slander and Libel"

    Via.Juanita Wallace​Ah, so this is why Dallas Independent School District board president Lew Blackburn and trustee Bernadette Nutall want to clamp down on public speakers at school board meetings -- comments made by Dallas NAACP President Juanita Wallace at the October 20 board meeting. Specifica ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2011

    Sons of Confederate Vets Commander: Perry "Playing Politician" By Denouncing Vanity Plate

    ​Gov. Rick Perry's record on racial issues has always been a little complicated. Earlier this month, there was that dust-up over his family's Paint Creek hunting lease, which Schutze thought unfairly loaded up Perry's shoulders with Southern-boy baggage. But back in 1990, during his run for ag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    City's New Deal: Let Us Dump All the Trash at McCommas, and We'll Create "Stimulus Fund"

    ​Wednesday's council briefing is shaping up to be action-packed, in the words of Ronnie Dawson: It'll have redistricting, a look-see at Dallas Fire-Rescue's budget (which includes that proposal to move and mothball engines) and ... dunh dunh dunh ... flow control, otherwise known as Marys Suhm and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    Dallas NAACP Will Meet With Local EPA Officials to Discuss City's Flow Control Proposal

    ​Speaking of flow control ...On the other side you'll find a letter that Juanita Wallace, president of the Dallas branch of the NAACP, sent to Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 chief Al Armendariz in which she decries the city's proposal that would force all solid-waste collectors to dump t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Environmentalists, NAACP Unite To Ask Council For Strong Gas Drilling Task Force

    Photos by Patrick MichelsRaymond Crawford unfurls a 21-foot scroll of signatures from folks concerned with gas drilling in Dallas during this morning's press conference..​It's The Big Day today for gas drilling activists here at City Hall, and as Robert mentioned yesterday, the environmentalist se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    As Council Tackles Fracking, Groups Marshal Forces Against City's Natural Gas Policies

    Photo by Patrick Michels​As Patrick mentioned yesterday, the city council will at long last debate that gas-drilling task force Angela Hunt pitched only after Dave Neumann promised but failed to deliver his own proposal. In advance of The Big Day, several groups -- Downwinders at Risk, Dallas Area ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Dave Neumann Apparently Content to Let Scott Griggs Debate Himself in District 3 Race

    Photo by Sam MertenDave Neumann and Scott Griggs last month at a forum in North Oak Cliff​Thanks to the Facebook page Where's Neumann, we learned this morning that council member Dave Neumann has been a no-show at several candidate forums held this month. The page's unknown author named recent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Whether City Hall's Worried or Not, Another Taxi Drivers' Strike Starts Today

    Photos by Patrick MichelsAt least 200 cabbies marched around the reflecting pool at City Hall this morning to kick off another strike over preferential treatment for CNG-powered cabs.While that box of files might've stolen their thunder this morning, at least 200 sign-toting cabbies were back at Dal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    'A Photographic History Of Music In Dallas' -- Yet Another Reason To Go To The Kessler Saturday

    James BlandThis photo of The Buck Pets is one of 75 to be on display at The Kessler Theater. ​Saturday night's book-release party for Josh Alan Friedman's Black Cracker is an opportunity to catch Josh Alan's atomic-acoustic blues stylings, another chance to catch the gothic-caberet singer-songwrit ... More >>

  • Film

    December 10, 2009

    The Princess and the Frog

    James BlandThis photo of The Buck Pets is one of 75 to be on display at The Kessler Theater. ​Saturday night's book-release party for Josh Alan Friedman's Black Cracker is an opportunity to catch Josh Alan's atomic-acoustic blues stylings, another chance to catch the gothic-caberet singer-songwrit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2008

    Supreme Court Can't Be Bothered With Discrimination Suit Against AA

    James BlandThis photo of The Buck Pets is one of 75 to be on display at The Kessler Theater. ​Saturday night's book-release party for Josh Alan Friedman's Black Cracker is an opportunity to catch Josh Alan's atomic-acoustic blues stylings, another chance to catch the gothic-caberet singer-songwrit ... More >>

  • News

    June 26, 2008

    Unpaved Paradise|God Votes "No"

    James BlandThis photo of The Buck Pets is one of 75 to be on display at The Kessler Theater. ​Saturday night's book-release party for Josh Alan Friedman's Black Cracker is an opportunity to catch Josh Alan's atomic-acoustic blues stylings, another chance to catch the gothic-caberet singer-songwrit ... More >>

  • News

    June 12, 2008

    The Man Who Would Be King

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

  • Music

    March 6, 2008

    The N-Word Still Alive and Well in Hip-Hop

    Eight month after the hip-hop community gave the word a funeral, it hasn't died

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    Home to Roost

    Eight month after the hip-hop community gave the word a funeral, it hasn't died

  • News

    August 9, 2007

    What’s in a (Mexican) Name?

    Eight month after the hip-hop community gave the word a funeral, it hasn't died

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2007

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

    Eight month after the hip-hop community gave the word a funeral, it hasn't died

  • News

    February 1, 2007

    Conflict? What Conflict?

    Hispanic leaders on DISD's payroll go mum about segregation at Preston Hollow

  • News

    October 12, 2006

    Blacked Out

    Sheriff's deputy fights transfer after he pulls over NAACP president

  • News

    July 18, 2002

    The Reluctant Witness

    Ron Davis' wife disappeared 13 months ago. So why isn't he telling police everything they want to know?

  • News

    September 6, 2001

    Drug Crazed

    Millions in federal tax dollars are being spent by narcotics task forces in Texas to nab low-level users and dealers. Is this any way to wage a drug war?

  • News

    May 10, 2001

    We Shall Stay on Top

    Black leadership goes in the tank on civil rights, fights for the police chief's job instead

  • News

    February 8, 2001

    Waging Battle

    Proponents of a living-wage ordinance snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

  • News

    December 21, 2000

    Calling Jesse Jackson

    Not even close

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    Go Down, Moses

    When the new super gets to town, Dallas will decide whether it really wants accountability

  • News

    October 12, 2000

    Shotgun Love

    Once again, the school board gets married the hard way

  • News

    August 17, 2000

    Buzz

    Surprise, surprise

  • News

    July 20, 2000

    Buzz

    They the people; Free stuff

  • News

    May 25, 2000

    Deepest depths

    City council members find ingenious ways to screw poor kids out of their swimming pools

  • News

    November 25, 1999

    Chess game

    The Dallas NAACP is making some political moves. That much we know.

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    Buzz

    The Dallas NAACP is making some political moves. That much we know.

  • News

    January 28, 1999

    Bad blood

    Confusion reigns at the Dallas NAACP, while its national leader and John Wiley Price feud

  • News

    December 10, 1998

    Buzz

    Confusion reigns at the Dallas NAACP, while its national leader and John Wiley Price feud

  • News

    November 12, 1998

    Buzz

    Confusion reigns at the Dallas NAACP, while its national leader and John Wiley Price feud

  • News

    November 5, 1998

    Buzz

    Confusion reigns at the Dallas NAACP, while its national leader and John Wiley Price feud

  • News

    October 22, 1998

    Technical difficulties

    Local NAACP President Lee Alcorn is running for re-election--if his opponents don't get him disqualified first

  • News

    September 10, 1998

    Some Fly, Some Die

    How DISD betrays children of color

  • News

    August 20, 1998

    He said, she said

    The Evans-Tyler school board race disintegrates into cheap talk of sex and powerlust

  • News

    May 14, 1998

    Buzz

    The Evans-Tyler school board race disintegrates into cheap talk of sex and powerlust

  • News

    January 29, 1998

    Baby, it's them

    Bad teachers make bad students, according to DISD's own statistics; just don't ask to see them

  • News

    May 22, 1997

    Letters

    Bad teachers make bad students, according to DISD's own statistics; just don't ask to see them

  • News

    May 15, 1997

    Letters

    Bad teachers make bad students, according to DISD's own statistics; just don't ask to see them

  • News

    April 17, 1997

    "It's our turn to be heard"

    With Hispanics the majority among Dallas schoolchildren and a Latino superintendent in their corner, Jesse Diaz and other activists say

  • News

    March 13, 1997

    Buzz

    With Hispanics the majority among Dallas schoolchildren and a Latino superintendent in their corner, Jesse Diaz and other activists say

  • News

    December 12, 1996

    Buzz

    With Hispanics the majority among Dallas schoolchildren and a Latino superintendent in their corner, Jesse Diaz and other activists say

  • News

    March 14, 1996

    The Truth About Townview (Part II)

    How John Wiley Price and Chad Woolery have made students pawns in Dallas' racial politics

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