Join me and KERA Sunday, Nov. 2, 2:45pm at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where will be screening the Emmy-nominated series Recovering the Stories at the Lone Star Film Festival, followed by a post-screening Q&A. Tickets and more information here: lsff25.eventive.org/schedule/68d...

We need community defense for sure and we also need people who are fighting for what we want in excess of what's currently on offer.

Do you live in an apartment complex? How about printing out some fliers letting your neighbors know that on a particular day of the week, u will be cooking X extra meals and that anyone who needs one can stop by your place at X hour to pick one up no questions asked? Can even leave them at the door.

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

Texans fighting back in Dallas. This is so great.

Feds revoke Dallas activist’s DACA status, detain him over social media posts: Yaa’kub Ira Vijandre was a fixture at Dallas-area pro-Palestine protests, filming with his camera. Now, he faces deportation over social media posts the govt claims glorify terrorism. www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

Join me and the Oak Cliff Cultural Center (OC3) at the Texas Theatre for a screening of At the Pan-African Connection (2025) on Sunday, August 17, 2025, at 4:30 PM (doors at 4:00 PM). This presentation of the film is open to the public. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/at-the-pan...

On this day in 1863, Harriet Tubman's forces freed more than 700 slaves in a raid of South Carolina plantations . mississippitoday.org/2025/06/02/o...

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

I recently wrote about a new documentary, “At The Pan-African Connection,” and its filmmaker, Anthony Asota. I sat down with Asota and interviewed him about his life and the film. Check it out: dallasweekly.com/2025/05/anth...

"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

Join me and KERA, May 1st at 6 p.m., at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a free screening of Recovering the Stories: Exploring the History and Resilience of Dallas Communities, followed by a legendary community member discussion! Register here: members.kera.org/190/197

An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated. nyti.ms/4hRzPq1

Just read this about Dallas, TX in a 58 yr old book that applies today: “Benevolence is a thin disguise for the elimination of the democratic process…Those who arrogate unto themselves control of Dallas fail to understand the implications of their deeds in a democratic society”

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

📍Selma.

Proud of Congressman Al Green!!!

The Oscar-winning documentary, made by a team of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers, follows the displacement of rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

This is amazing, necessary work

The project I curated and wrote about #archiving for Nasher Sculpture Center’s biannual publication, The NASHER Magazine, is now online. “Archiving Our Future” is live here, & physical copies are available at the front desk of Nasher Sculpture Center. www.nashersculpturecenter.org/read-watch/a...

The Tarrant County sheriff’s office has announced the second in-custody death for 2025. A 56-year-old inmate died Tuesday while under medical care at John Peter Smith Hospital, according to a Thursday news release. The cause of death is not immediately clear.

"Watch Texas spend more on prisons than it does on schools. Thinking of making your tax structure more regressive? Come to the Lone Star State and see how it’s done."

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

Disney is preparing to downplay the content warnings on its streaming service that accompany classic movies, such as “Dumbo” and “Peter Pan,” that include racial stereotypes, altering their language and decreasing their visibility.

Chicago author Eve Ewing invites readers to critically think about the origins of the American education system in her new book. “I think that it’s overwhelming if we think that it’s one person’s job to overthrow an entire system.The system wasn’t built by one person” thetriibe.com/2025/02/eve-...

A judge ordered the naming rights of the extremist group the Proud Boys be given to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

For The Dallas Weekly and #BlackHistoryMonth, I wrote about the greatest Chicago Cubs player and the greatest athlete from Dallas Independent School District and Freedman’s Town/Short North Dallas, Ernie “Mr. Cub” Banks. Check out my story here: dallasweekly.com/2025/02/erni...

Breaking news: President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at eventually closing the Education Department and, in the short term, dismantling it from within, according to three people briefed on its contents.

Protest in Dallas

Apparently I should have specified I should have specified I was talking about Black archivists, historians, and scribes to preserve Black historical and cultural pieces and stories outside of institutions as they're at risk of losing homes (physical items) or being lost (stories and history).

Do not even try to fuck with Chicago's 40th Ward, ICE. We show up.

So we’re doing this again. A substitute teacher at a Fort Worth high school tweeted for ICE to raid the school and deport students. fortworthreport.org/2025/01/26/f...