Black History

"Recovering the Stories" chronicles different neighborhoods and communities across Dallas, tracing the impacts on communities of color from the past to present. This video series is a closer look at how subjects like police brutality and gentrification have disproportionately affected those communities in Dallas.

Reeves Henry was a formerly enslaved man who became an inventor, mechanic, blacksmith and prominent North Texas businessman around the turn of the 20th century.

The "Grandmother of Juneteenth" was gifted the home built on the same site where her family home once stood.

MLB announced in December 2020 that it would be “correcting a longtime oversight” and would add the Negro Leagues. John Thorn, MLB’s official historian, chaired a 17-person committee that included Negro Leagues experts and statisticians.

Opal Lee spent years fighting for the recognition of June 19 as a national holiday.

The Ukunika Bus and Walking Tours take passengers to sites around Dallas that were once hubs for the city’s Black community.

After sitting vacant for 15 years, the venue will be transformed into a community and education hub, complete with mixed-income housing.

The grandmother of Juneteenth raised the first wall of her new home on the site where a racist mob burned down her family’s house in 1939.

David E. Harris became the first Black pilot to fly for a commercial airline when American Airlines hired him in 1964. Announcing Capt. Harris' death, American's CEO called him a "trailblazer."

In Black America remembers the life of Watkins — who died in December 2023 — with an encore of his interview with John L. Hanson Jr. that originally aired in 2009.

Two decades ago, Wardell Whitley modeled for artist Paula Louise Blincoe. She used him as a reference point for a mural depicting Fort Worth’s Black history.

Dallas City Council members repealed an ordinance that lead to the demolition of dozens of homes in minority and low-income historic neighborhoods.