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Kaylois Henry

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Hollow victory

Too late, a judge says neighborhood rehabilitators Carlos and Dana Jackson were persecuted by the city

By Kaylois Henry
Oct 9, 1997

Just off Sylvan Avenue along Muncie Avenue is the West Dallas neighborhood of used-to-be. Looking at it today gives some glimpses of its very recent past. There was a time when the neighborhood had the trappings of community. Houses were fixed up, painted in the bright colors of the African-American...
Never cry wolf

Police dispatcher Tamara Hughes claims she's the victim of a mysterious masked attacker. Why won't her former colleagues at Garland Police believe her?

By Kaylois Henry
Sep 18, 1997

Tamara Hughes is insulted that she should be sitting here in her parents' living room defending herself. She shouldn't have to be second-guessed or mocked. What happened to her was traumatic, almost deadly, but to police it may as well be fiction.M MX"I just want to know from them why...
Hard knocks

A school's closing leaves a Dallas woman $10,000 in debt for a worthless education

By Kaylois Henry
Sep 4, 1997

All Lisa Riley Richardson wanted was a chance to work in a photographer's studio, to earn a living taking and developing pictures. She thought her childhood dream would have been fulfilled by now. Yet despite training at a Dallas trade school seven years ago, today Richardson is no closer to...
The Art of the Wheel

No matter what you think, your car is not fully loaded

By Kaylois Henry
Aug 21, 1997

The summer daylight is just beginning to fade as Andy Emmons' pickup rumbles down a quaint residential street toward downtown Waxahachie. There isn't much traffic this evening, but what little there is gawks as Emmons goes by. Passing drivers do a double-take, and the eyes of Waxahachie's porch dwellers follow...
Profitable mistakes

Dallas couple devises alternative to marriage for the over-40 set

By Kaylois Henry
Jun 12, 1997

These days, it seems society is awash in self-help relationship books--breezy little volumes on snagging the right man or woman, getting him or her to marry you, then finding a way to save the relationship when it begins to fall apart. Despite this surfeit of advice, divorce seems as prevalent...
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.

By Kaylois Henry
Jun 5, 1997

It's a weekend night, and Brandi, a honey-skinned, bitty-bodied woman in snakeskin shorts and go-go boots--just one step above hoochie-mama status--is holding forth on the finer points of man-hunting. While sitting at a nightclub table with her two girlfriends, Cynthia and Brenda, she regales them with sure-fire methods for luring...
Invisible Mansfield

When black and white histories collided in their small town, Phyllis Allen and fellow church members made sure Mansfield didn't white-wash the truth.

By Kaylois Henry
May 22, 1997

Every seat in the meeting room of the Mansfield Historical Society was filled with uneasy occupants. Tension suffused the tiny space. The people jittered and shifted like popcorn kernels just about to explode. Around the walls, the faces of Mansfield's white founding families looked on, gazing serenely from a series...
Collective grief

Private child support agency means more headaches for single mother

By Kaylois Henry
Apr 3, 1997

After receiving a court order for child support in 1990, Lena Williams was counting on the money her ex-boyfriend, Johnnie Neal, had been told to pay. Though it was only $210 a month, the money would have been helpful, especially three years ago when her son Jason needed surgery to...
Prophets Without Honor

The self-proclaimed ministers of capitalism have gotten a cool reception to their gospel in Dallas. But Chevis King Jr. and Joe Howard won't give up till they've found a better way to spend black people's money.

By Kaylois Henry
Mar 20, 1997

It is Sunday evening, and the church of the free market is in session. Joe Howard and Chevis King Jr. preach the word from their electronic pulpit--a biweekly radio show on KRLD-AM. This evening's sermon deals with what King calls "the exportation of socialism in Dallas." "We are two black...
Braid new world

A combative hairstyler finally gives in to state regulation

By Kaylois Henry
Jan 30, 1997

Dana "Isis" Brantley believes in the orderly design of things. You can see it in the intricate braid creations she designs in the hair of African-American women from across Dallas. So it is no accident that, for more than a year, Brantley has been fighting with state regulators to preserve...
There But For The Grace of God

As the Tenth Street freedmen's town crumbles, its would-be saviors bicker among the ruins

By Kaylois Henry
Jan 16, 1997

In a small pocket of Oak Cliff, the twin steeples of Sunshine Elizabeth Chapel once rose above a neighborhood unlike any other in Dallas, signaling passersby that they had entered an area known collectively as Tenth Street. The street which gives the neighborhood its name still winds up hills, upon...