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Rev. Peter Johnson came to Dallas in 1969 to promote a film about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He stayed to fight for Black homeowners in Fair Park. The acclaimed play is in Dallas for the first time.
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Jenkins, one of the state’s most prominent Democrats, says he painted his face in camouflage when he and some friends stormed female classmates’ apartment at Baylor University in 1983.
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Lermont Stowers-Jones, a Denton High School senior, was found dead near a historic North Texas bridge in 2018.
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A flyer advertising a pop-up clinic for monkeypox vaccines in Dallas this month had information about the date, time, and location. It had a QR code so people could book appointments. But it also contained something disturbing: a cartoon drawing of a solitary African American man smiling about his new vaccine.
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Dallas' Racial Equity Plan would affect decision-making across departments, impacting policing and public safety, housing and infrastructure, environmental justice and economic development.
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Allen Amos, a visiting judge handling trespassing cases under Gov. Greg Abbott’s “catch-and-jail” border operation, allegedly used the derogatory term in a recent conversation with a defense attorney.
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Showing prejudice, stereotyping, stigmatizing or discriminating on the grounds of a person's age. That's ageism. And it can actually impact people of any age, not just the elderly.
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Medical debt declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it remains a massive issue for millions of Americans, afflicting Black people significantly far more than white people. That inequity is rooted in deep disparities in health and wealth, and Texas' policy choices make those disparities worse.
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U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez’s campaign has a history with the politics blogger, using more than $1,000 in campaign funds to pay him for advertising services.
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The Dallas City Council adopted 11 recommendations to address “equity blind spots” in its Comprehensive Housing Policy. Now, city staff members are charged with turning those recommendations into official city policy and practice.
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Students are forming banned-book clubs and distribution drives to contest restrictions that focus mostly on LGBTQ and racial themes.
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