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With More Police Officers in Schools, Thousands of Texas Students Wind Up In Court Each Year

On Tuesday, Eric told you about a DISD sixth-grader who was arrested at his school, DISD's Learning Alternative Center for Empowering Youth, after attempting to steal $4 from a classmate. After his target felt the sixth-grader's hand in his pocket and pulled away, the frustrated would-be thief knock ... More >>

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 >>

Ag Commish Todd Staples Tweets Column That Says Contemporary Democrats Are Basically Nazis Without the Fabulous Outfits

Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Todd Staples sent a tweet to his followers Tuesday morning asking whether we're "worried about the direction of our country." Well, sure we're worried about partisan gridlock in Congress, the widening chasm of income inequality and drought conditions that cover most ... More >>

Mitt Romney Wants You to Know: Black People Love Him, Including Dallas Rep. Stefani Carter

When Mitt Romney spoke at the NAACP convention in Houston two weeks ago, he was roundly booed when he promised to repeal the signature law of the nation's first black president. Some said Romney had cojones for speaking his mind to voters he had little chance of wooing. Some viewed it as a transpare ... More >>

Welcome Back, Jim Crow

New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall.

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

'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 >>

The Princess and the Frog

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

Unpaved Paradise|God Votes "No"

The Man Who Would Be King

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

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

Home to Roost

What’s in a (Mexican) Name?

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

Conflict? What Conflict?

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

Blacked Out

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

The Reluctant Witness

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

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?

We Shall Stay on Top

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

Waging Battle

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

Calling Jesse Jackson

Not even close

Go Down, Moses

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

Shotgun Love

Once again, the school board gets married the hard way

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Surprise, surprise

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They the people; Free stuff

Chess game

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

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Bad blood

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

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Technical difficulties

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

Some Fly, Some Die

How DISD betrays children of color

He said, she said

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

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"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

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The Truth About Townview (Part II)

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