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Black, Korean Leaders Come Together to Give a Scholarship to the Girl who Never Missed a Day of School

At exactly noon on Monday, 16-year-old Bria Bradshaw and her mother Charmaine walked into Tommy Pak's Kwik Stop in South Dallas, then stopped short. There was a horde of men and women in the convenience store, black and Korean, and most were in suits. There were video cameras set up toward the back, ... More >>

In the South Dallas Kwik Stop Story, Telling the Truth Does Not Make a Reporter an Uncle Tom

Dear Friends Among Dallas Black Activists: Some of you have contacted me to ask me who this Uncle Tom son of a bitch Greg Howard is working for the Observer. One of you --- a guy with a long history of responsible activism -- called me from the picket line at the Shamrock Kwik-Stop on MLK Boulevar ... More >>

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.

Jeffery Muhammad On Ending The Shamrock Protests: "Whatever the coalition decides ..."

Yesterday, Korean community leaders involved in quelling the Shamrock Kwik Stop protests sent Unfair Park a video of Nation of Islam Student Minister Jeffery Muhammad speaking to reporters on the picket line. The footage was taken in late January, before a group of black and Korean leaders met last ... More >>

Southern Dallas Kwik Stop Protesters Change Gears, Shift Goals To Establish Black Banks

The protests outside Tommy Pak's Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop in South Dallas have dwindled, but the battle pitting black activists against the Korean store owner continues online at the Don't Stop Don't Shop Facebook page. There are still promises to continue the fight to shut down Pak's store, the ... More >>

Black, Korean Leaders Agree to End Kwik Stop Protests. But Nation of Islam Isn't Through.

As promised, Korean and black leaders met today in Oak Cliff to announce the end of the Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop protests on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Rev. Ronald Wright addressed the media first, standing next to Korean Society of Dallas vice president Ted Kim. The two were flanked by bla ... 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 >>

The Diamond Shamrock Protest May Be Canceled Due to Lack of Interest. 'Bout Time.

A week ago Monday, two people picketed outside Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. "Don't Stop, Don't Shop," and "They're Using the 'N' Word," their signs read. The day after that, there were three. One snapped my picture for crossing the picket line and entering the stor ... More >>

Coalition That Wanted Nolan Estes to Return as Interim DISD Super Now Has Name, Agenda

The Rev. Zan Holmes​Back in June, some two dozen educators, religious leaders and activists -- among them The Rev. Zan Holmes, John Fullinwider, Frederick Haynes III, Diane Ragsdale and Beverly Mitchell-Brooks -- urged the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees to appoint former DISD ... More >>

And Now, "Artists Slammin' Cointelpro for Our Man Downtown John Wiley Price"

​That's the full title of the latest JWP protest being staged by the National Black United Front, not to be confused with the Judean People's Front or the Popular Front of Judea, who will return to the Pan-African Connection Bookstore across the street from Fair Park, scene of last month's overhea ... More >>

Just Added to Saturday's Rally for John Wiley Price, The Man Who Coined "Black Power"

Via.​Moments ago, Thomas Muhammad -- president of the Dallas chapter of the National Black United Front and organizer of Saturday's rally for Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price -- sent word that a Very Special Guest has been added the list of speakers scheduled to attend Saturday. That wo ... More >>

"Raising Hell Till Heaven Comes": At Sunday's Fund-Raising Rally For John Wiley Price

​Yesterday's "Justice for John" event at the St. Luke "Community" United Methodist Church was all kinds of things: a rally in support of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who entered to chants of "John! John! John!" before taking his seat near the back; a fund-raiser for his legal defen ... More >>

Today In Music News: McConaughey Joins The Biz, Oklahoma Joins The Lips, Snoop Joins The Nation of Islam

 Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 3, 2009... All right, all right, all right: Matthew McConaughey has gotten into the music business!  Too bad he didn't take into account the fact that record labels are losing a lot of money. I always thought the official s ... More >>

The Man Who Would Be King

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

Torah! Torah! Torah!

Protocols of Zion takes a hard look at those who fear Jews

Fellowship of The Ringer

Johnny Knoxville's still an ass, but his co-stars are something special

Hip-hop's Public Enemy

Minister G. Craige Lewis has one goal: Get hip-hop out of the church. Forever.

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Ruh-Roh

Those silly officials from around the state think the law should apply in Dallas

The Weird Girl

Erykah Badu is serious about saving the soul of the city

Hate Groups for Peace

Plus: Giving Away the Farm, Bollywood Confidential

Get on the Bus

For one fellow traveler, the road to an anti-war protest in Washington is paved with good intentions and bad politics

Clay Feet

Ali lands a few solid blows, but, sadly, it's no knockout

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

Floats, not like a Butterfly ...

Stinks like bad TV

Déjà Vu

The new Farrakhan sounds a lot like the old -- anti-Semitic

Granny get your gun

Dallas' pistol-packing 'Second Amendment Sister'--63-year-old grandma Mary Thompson--takes aim at a million moms

Rubberneckin'

Leap-frogging through history with the Toadies

Back in the game

At 38, Public Enemy's Chuck D goes 'where no age has gone before'

Events for the week

Devil's work

New Black Panthers finally find the spotlight

Letters

Million byte march

Nation of Islam recovers from a cyber vandal assault

Observer wins national awards

The Prophet

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

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.

Letters

Letters

Letters

Letters

Wine punch

The economics of selling the "wine fooler" to Dallas' minority community