By KRISTEN CLARKE Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law In a year defined by distress and tragedy, no one has felt that chaos more painfully than the Black community. We’ve seen the […]
By GLYNDA C. CARR TriceEdneyWire.com With Nov. 3 less than a month a way, Black women voters hold a huge stake in this year’s election. With the first Black woman vying for the […]
By GLYNDA C. CARR TriceEdneyWire.com With Nov. 3 less than a month a way, Black women voters hold a huge stake in this year’s election. With the first Black woman vying for the […]
By SUSAN K. SMITH Crazy Faith Ministries In a meeting I was attending where we were discussing the implications of the confirmation of Amy Conan Barrett as a justice of the United States […]
Special to The Dallas Examiner Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa was named the 2020 Urban Educator of the Year, during the 64th Annual Council of the Great City Schools Fall Conference (Council) held […]
Special to The Dallas Examiner Educational First Steps, whose mission is to create and support high-quality early learning environments that ignite the minds of children from birth to age 5, has launched the […]
By ALEX SAMUELS The Texas Tribune Sen. Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s running mate and the California U.S. senator, will visit Texas on Friday, according to an email Biden’s campaign sent to Democratic lawmakers […]
By ALEX SAMUELS and MANDI CAI The Texas Tribune The unusually large voter turnout in Texas has persisted through the first 10 days of the early voting period, leading experts to predict that […]
By STACY M. BROWN NNPA Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden outlined his commitment to help increase opportunities and recognize the plight of African Americans in an exclusive editorial with Black Press USA. The […]
Special to The Dallas Examiner Led by basketball legend Nancy Lieberman, the Nancy Lieberman Charities donated 5,000 masks Oct. 23 to the city for Dallas educators and students. The donation is the third […]
Special to The Dallas Examiner With Halloween just around the corner, Mayor Eric Johnson and County Judge Clay Jenkins have been trying to get the message out to residents that while this year’s […]
By EDGAR WALTERS The Texas Tribune After backlash from lawmakers and advocates, a state board voted Tuesday to undo a rule change that would have allowed social workers to turn away clients who […]
Special to The Dallas Examiner 2020 Lancaster Trash Off & City-Wide Clean Up LANCASTER – The city of Lancaster has plans to continue its commitment of being clean and green, while providing a […]
BlackNews.com New York, N.Y. — Tyana Lloyd, the mother of a 3-year-old girl named Jaylynn Evans who may have died of COVID-19 last month, said she had no idea that her daughter was […]
By MOLLIE FINCH BELT The Dallas Examiner Had it not been for one Thurgood Marshall, the doors to some of the finest institutions in America would be still barred to our children. Had […]
By HAROLD HOGUE As a former educator, homeowner and father of young children, it’s been a priority for me to remain active in the Dallas Independent School District. That’s why I leapt at the […]
By BRANDON BIRMINGHAM Candidate for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Justice One of my favorite stories is The Tortoise and the Hare. We’ve all heard it: the overconfident hare starts the race very […]
By RON KIRK There are extraordinary challenges facing our country this election year. The United States recently crossed a sobering threshold: more than 220,000 Americans have died from coronavirus. On top of that, […]
By MOLLIE FINCH BELT The Dallas Examiner Finding a job for a Black person with my major – Sociology – was hard in 1965, and I did not want to go to graduate […]
Special to The Dallas Examiner AUSTIN – Austin-based Turn Texas Blue PAC announced on Tuesday it had made a significant investment in radio, digital advertising and direct mail, impacting more than 20 counties […]
Glamcon: Surviving and thriving beyond a breast cancer diagnosis By DIANE XAVIER The Dallas Examiner Black women have a 31% breast cancer mortality rate – higher than any other ethnic group in the United […]
BlackNews.com ATLANTA, Ga. – The Black Farmers’ Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt campaign is a grassroots organizing, popular education and legal advocacy campaign to rectify the injustices of the Pigford v. Glickman class-action discrimination […]
Cheryl Duncan & Company Inc. NEW YORK – Black Public Media is on a mission to tell Americans to “BE HEARD!” this election season. The Harlem-based nonprofit focused on media content about the […]
Family Features For parents facing uncertain school schedules, new ways of working and concerns about the health and safety of their families, life in a pandemic is stressful enough. Add in the potential […]
Special to The Dallas Examiner African American Cotton Pickers Day is on the fourth Monday of October, created this month by Clarence Glover. Also referred to as Cotton Monday, it recognizes Americans of […]
By TRINADY JOSLIN The Texas Tribune Texas State University said this month that it is “pausing” its employee diversity training, as it scrambles to understand the impact of a recent executive order by […]
Special to The Dallas Examiner DeSoto Early College High School teacher Cora Garner showed excellence in instruction and student engagement amid the pandemic. Her efforts earned her a spot as one of 15 […]
BY EDGAR WALTERS The Texas Tribune Texas social workers have been criticizing a state regulatory board’s recent decision to remove protections for LGBTQ clients and clients with disabilities who seek social work services. […]
Research trial reveals effectiveness of repurposed drugs for COVID-19 in record time Special to The Dallas Examiner In the last six months, the world’s largest randomized control trial on COVID-19 therapeutics has generated conclusive […]
By MOLLIE FINCH BELT The Dallas Examiner In 1962, I transferred from Spelman College to the University of Denver after my freshman year. My father selected the university for me. It is a […]
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