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A graphic model artist rendering of the Forest Audelia park and recreation center project expected to be completed in 2024.

News

Changing Audelia: Dallas breaks ground on $7.5 million project in crime-plagued area

Pablo Arauz Peña

The intersection of Forest Lane and Audelia Road is known as a crime hotspot. City officials hope the Northeast Dallas project, to be completed by June 2024, changes that.

From the 1880s to the early 1960a, the African American Freedmen's Community called Little Egypt was in this neighbodhood, at the corner of Thurgood and Shoreview in Dallas' Lake Highlands. It spread across 35 acres.

Education

'Little Egypt,' A Nearly-Lost Freedmen's Town In Dallas, Resurfaces Thanks To College's Digging

Bill Zeeble

Texas is dotted with Freedmen’s communities — African American neighborhoods that sprouted after the Civil War in the era of segregation. They range from…

Teen Composer With Aspergers Takes National Prize

Bill Zeeble

Quinn Mason’s been writing music for more than half his life, and he’s only 19. It’s been a life of challenges – he grew up the son of a single mom, in a…