Racial Issues

Mike Miles versus The World

In Dallas ISD, a fight over principals, race and a slice of the pie.

Now Michelle Shocked Is On Yahoo! News, Because That's What Internet Outrage Does

The internet is a perfectly efficient outrage generator. People need things to be super-pissed about, so that they can express their social positions to their friends; they burn through that outrage in an orgy of vague, well-intentioned social media protest; they look for something else to be super- ... More >>

Fifty-Six Year Old Community College Student and Republican Precinct Chair Wants a White Student Union at Tarrant County College

Richard Railey is definitely not an idiotic, racist troll. Nope, he's just your average 56-year-old community college student, pursuing an associates degree in IT security while trying to form a White Student Union at Tarrant County College. Burnt Orange Report wrote about Railey's quest this morni ... More >>

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.

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 >>

Coming to a South Dallas Billboard: A Celebration of Black Atheists & Freethinkers

​"Here they go again," Reverend Kyev Tatum said. He laughed, but stopped abruptly. He was talking, of course, about the atheists. When we last caught up with the Dallas-Forth Worth Coalition of Reason, our local band of atheists, freethinkers and humanists, they were trying fruitlessly to g ... More >>

At Plano Children's Theatre, They've Shampooed All the Black Kids out of Hairspray

You need two things when you do the musical Hairspray: a fat girl to play the lead character, Tracy Turnblad, and a bunch of African-American kids to play the African-American kids. There are about a dozen roles for young black performers in this show, plus one for a big black lady who closes out th ... More >>

Price Corruption Probe: You're All Black. Go to Jail?

Do black politicos get harsher treatment in the courts? Let's talk about it.

Korean Shamrock Owner Accused of Racism Could Improve His Luck by Talking

​Still can't get past the lawyer for the owner of the boycotted Shamrock gas station I wrote about yesterday. Busy. Says he'll call me back later. I called him this morning to say I still need to hear the owner's side. Here's my problem. Yesterday the lawyer wouldn't or could not get the owne ... More >>

Das Racist's Crazy-Ass Combo

Making Black Voters Disappear

Domingo Garcia and his council redistricting pals pull off a neat trick.

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 >>

Michael Hinojosa's Gone, But As He Begins New Job, His Time in Dallas Is Not Forgotten

Photo by Patrick MichelsMiss him yet?​Former Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa officially begins his new gig in Cobb County, Georgia, today. Hence, this morning's piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "New Cobb superintendent's job 1: Close students' achieveme ... More >>

Inspiring a Variety of Reactions

Birther Nonsense a Window into White Souls

​Last week The Associated Press did a story about the disgust and dismay of black Americans confronting the birther issue. "I find it hard to summarize in mere words the amount of pain and rage this incident has caused," one man was quoted as saying at the top of the story. The story quoted b ... More >>

If July 4th is Apple Day, What Do We Call September 16?

Just Remember, There's More to Eddie Bernice Johnson Than the Scholarship Scandal

Eddie Bernice Johnson's Facebook page​This item is a dilation of a comment I posted to yesterday's item about 30th District Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and the scandal about scholarships and nepotism. It struck me after I posted the comment that maybe I owed the topic a better effort. In t ... More >>

Why Do Some Mexican-Americans Join the Minutemen?

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Reign of Terror Becomes State Policy, Thanks to State Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

What Gag Order? Yet Again, Don Hill Claims He's the Victim of a Witch Hunt.

Clearly, Don Hill will no longer take this prosecution sitting down.We're still waiting on the preachers' letter to U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, but in an interview with Gromer Jeffers Jr. just posted to The Dallas Morning News Web site, Don Hill yet again claims he's being subjected to federal prosec ... More >>

Chuck D Talks Barack Obama, Black History

One Step Forward, Ten Steps Backward

What Rufus Wrote

Working Blue

Lisa Lampanelli shocks the Improv

Roots

The mess at City Hall goes back to ancient times

Letters

Letters

Letters

Crossing Division Street

How do white people learn what to think about race? It's best not to think about it.

School for Scoundrels

They get elected with stolen votes, and then they start divvying up the goodies

Muddy Waters

Plus: Ashleigh, Ashleigh; Divided Against Ourselves; The Waxahachie Vote; Love Us for Our Mind

Real Politics

Feudal grudges and an imprisoned holy man in the Dallas mayoral race

The Basquiat Syndrome

Trenton Doyle Hancock benefits from the art world's peculiarly cynical twist on affirmative action

White Rampage

Police Chief Terrell Bolton threatens a riot, but he's got the wrong folks in mind

Go on, Oppress Me

Is racial profiling less serious when the police chief is black?

The exterminator

Black politico Dwaine Caraway sounds a lot like a redneck when it comes to slamming his enemies

His honor

Former Dallas Mayor Wallace Savage brought a conscience to unprincipled politics

No idle threat

Back in black

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

A plum in the sun

DTC's Raisin is still riveting after all these years

Unreasonable Doubts

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

Don't you dare call it the 'Chitlin Circuit'

With their sequined dancers, cardboard characters, and savage beauty-shop banter, Shelly Garrett's comedy plays don't get any respect from critics. But black Dallas knows better.

"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

Chaos theory

A politically dysfunctional DISD board heads into a May election that's looking so scary, few voters or contributors want to go near it

Bring on the noise

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

'It's all a matter of power.'

When Sandy Kress was school board president, he and Dan Peavy held private discussions on how to limit the influence of black school board members. Their conversations were captured on the Peavy Tapes, which Kress has fought hard to keep secret. Now, U.S.

Somebody say amen!

The Rev. Sheron Patterson brings the word to black singles

Kress and the merry morons

Dallas' political rabble takes after minority students' best friend