Perspectives
What side are you on?
By DUVALIER MALONE Duvalier Malone Enterprises This election year will force America to choose between two very different ideas What side are you on? Yes, America, there are two sides. We have arrived […]
Month: June 2020
Perspectives
Telehealth impressions from a first-time user: A cusper discovers telemedicine
By ANNE Di GREGORY Men’s Health Network Telehealth is our new best friend. Delivering health care services via technology and virtual modes is ideal in face of the Coronavirus pandemic, because it allows […]
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Sen. Royce West: Protesters have ‘a righteous cause’
By MIKE MCGEE The Dallas Examiner Even as cities around the state – as large as Houston or as small as Alpine – continue to see waves of public demonstrations against police […]
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See Something Say Something bill seeks to tear down the blue wall
By MIKE MCGEE The Dallas Examiner When Texas State Rep. Lorraine Birabil helped lead the #SayTheirNames demonstration at Freedman’s Memorial Cemetery June 3, she noted that it was a moment for leaders to […]
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Monday Night Politics: Meet the candidates focuses on state representative and railroad commissioner candidates
By DIANE XAVIER The Dallas Examiner Monday Night Politics: Meet the Candidates presents a focus on candidates running Texas State Representative District 100 and Texas Railroad Commissioner in the Democratic Primary Runoff Election, […]
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The illusion of integration
By CASEY THOMAS Dallas City Council For years, the perception was that the fight for civil rights was that Black people wanted to live where White people lived, and to go where White […]
Coronavirus
With coronavirus cases climbing, Gov. Abbott says ‘ no real need’ to scale back business reopenings
With coronavirus cases climbing, Gov. Abbott says ‘no real need’ to scale back business reopenings By SARAH R. CHAMPAGNE, VALERIA OLIVARES and PATRICK SVITEK The Texas Tribune With the number of people hospitalized for […]
Coronavirus
Civil rights groups file lawsuit to stop spread of COVID-19 in Dallas jails
Special to The Dallas Examiner As Dallas jails continue to be an epicenter for the spread of novel coronavirus causing COVID-19, a class-action lawsuit was filed today against Sheriff Marian Brown as the […]
Black History
Juneteenth: A look at how freedmen shaped Dallas/Fort Worth
The Dallas Examiner On June 19, 1865, approximately 250,000 enslaved African Americans began learning that they were free. Moreover, they learned that President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862, […]
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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn will file bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
By ALEX SAMUELS The Texas Tribune Juneteenth is a day commemorating the emancipation of slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865. On Monday, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, introduced a resolution […]