African American

A public memorial service is Saturday for Washington, who owned The Dallas Weekly — and became a city-wide presence on business, civic and arts boards - helping to steer them toward racial equity.

Cara Mia Theatre and Soul Rep present the English-language premiere of Yanga, a drama about a successful slave rebellion in Mexico — and the establishment of a free Black town.

Playwright Jonathan Norton's new play, "I Am Deliverd'T," at the Dallas Theater Center was inspired in part by a viral video.

The new initiative comes two months after the DMA laid off 20 staffers and cut its Tuesday hours.

The district already offers African American and Mexican American studies and is giving students more options starting next fall.

We're celebrating National Poetry Month with a video reading from a different North Texas poet each week. Poet and professor Darius Ajai Frasure dedicates his time helping young people discover and share their voices.

Who says sculpture needs to be carved or cast? See how the Nasher Sculpture Center staff assembled Senga Nengudi's prize-winning spring installation.

This episode of the KERA video series "The Shape of Texas" explores the architecture and beauty of the Allen Chapel AME Church in Fort Worth, the oldest African American church in the state.

She was one of the very few Black American women ever to run an opera company. And she's leaving after only two years — the third general director the company's had in five years.

The PBS series "Making Black America" continues Tuesday night with a look at the Black press. So we asked Patrick Washington, publisher of the Dallas Weekly, to share some observations about the Black press, Black Twitter and Black joy.

Marine Gen. Michael Langley made history on Saturday when he became the first African American in the Marine Corps to be promoted to four-star general, took over U.S. Africa Command in a ceremony at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany. He is the second African American to lead the command.

The cathartic and wildly inventive play gets its Texas premiere in Fort Worth