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Historic symbols, farmer’s market among ideas pitched for Fair Park’s future facelift Management nonprofit Fair Park First and its design partners will host several meetings throughout the year to plan new Community Park Brian Luallen, executive director for Fair Park First, speaks about 11 acres of community park space where the current parking lot is for Dos Equis Pavilion and where the car line extends for COVID-19 vaccines, during a tour of the potential green space areas at Fair Park in Dallas, on March 23.(Ben Torres) 2:07 PM on Apr 28, 2021 CDT Now that the master plan for South Da...

Trigger warning: this story contains references to racial violence. Adam W. McKinney remembers the first time he encountered the name Fred Rouse. It was in a book he had bought at the Underground Railroad Museum in Flushing, Ohio, while on tour with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater troupe. He read the book later, in 2007, after he’d moved to Fort Worth to become an assistant dance professor at TCU, conducting research and choreographic work that delves into racism. That’s when he learned that on December 11, 1921, a badly beaten Rouse was seized from the Tarrant County hospital by a...

Then along came coronavirus. "Our last physical tour was March 7th of 2020 and a week after everything shut down with COVID," Brent said. The friends and co-founders put the brakes on their popular bus tours - a tough but necessary decision. "These are businesses that have become family, so to see what they were going through was a little rough, very rough, actually," Brent said. The women found new ways to support their community - using their separate talents and platforms. For Brent, a freelance writer and publicist, it meant keeping her handful of clients in the public eye. "I'm still wri...

The Sixth Annual Dr. Carter G. Woodson Luncheon: To celebrate Black History Month, Food Historian Deah Berry Mitchell will present “The Black Family: Food and Tradition - How Africa and Slavery Influence the Food We Eat.” Ms. Berry Mitchell is the author of Cornbread & Collard Greens: How West African Cuisine & Slavery Influenced Soul Food. To register, visit www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-carter-g-woodson-sixth-annual-black-history-luncheon-tickets-137619201737. Monday, February 15, at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Kenneth M. Hamilton, Professor of History and Director of Ethnic Studies at Southern Methodist U...

Innovative All-Woman Tech Startup Creating First of Its Kind Interactive Mobile App On Black History Share Article Nostalgia: Black, a Black-owned, all-woman tech startup, is developing an innovative, immersive mobile app designed to shine a light on America’s rich Black history using Augmented Reality. The App, which will highlight the contributions and experiences of Black Americans, will be available to schools and the general public. “This is an opportunity to help everyone connect to history, and to understand the ways regular people have pushed a country closer to celebrating all Am...