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The date on which this piece is intended for first posting on this website, March 4th, is the date on which- for 140 years, from George Washington's Second Inauguration in 1793 through Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First in 1933- Presidents of the United States, every four years until the 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution first took effect (36 times in all)- took the Oath of Office prescribed in Article II, Section 1, clause 8 of Our Nation's fundamental legal document. The use of this date was not based on any specific constitutional language but was, rather, an accident of His...

The Freedmen's Towns That Built DFW Black History Free Black Americans living in North Texas after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation relied on a series of communities known as Freedmen's towns to congregate, shop, sell goods and services, and build businesses. They were crucial not just to the culture but to the very survival of Blacks in the antebellum period. Time has paved over these towns, literally and figuratively, as highways, developments and new generations put their stamps on these landmark neighborhoods.  Dallas is in danger of los...

State Thomas, now part of pricey Uptown, was once ‘the heart and soul of Black Dallas’ During Black History Month, we are featuring the neighborhoods that have helped shape African American life in the city. Historic homes in the State Thomas Historic District at State Street and Routh Street in Dallas.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) Touted by real estate agents as an upscale neighborhood offering old-world charm, it’s difficult to imagine that the State Thomas Historic District, lying just south of West Village in trendy, pricey Uptown, was once a rural Freedman’s Town. “It was ...

Today is Presidents Day, a holiday established in the late nineteenth century to celebrate the greatest of America’s founders, George Washington. By the end of his life Washington himself was hardly in a celebratory mood when he reflected on the state of the country. Describing Washington as the greatest of America’s founders will likely raise some hackles—or at least some eyebrows—among historians and history buffs who are partial to other figures of the age, but that is exactly how the other founders themselves regarded him. In fact, Washington’s preeminence seemed self-evident to...