A soggy day didn’t keep scores of Dallas residents from lining up to get registered Saturday for the COVID-19 vaccine at Town East Mall in Mesquite.
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Days after the Garland NAACP branch had to scramble to find a platform to broadcast its annual observances for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, an anonymous caller left the group a hate-filled voice message.
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Critics said the process to receive doses of the coronavirus vaccine could be confusing, particularly for the Black and Latino residents the site intends to target.
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Mary Ann Bussey officially turns 90 on December 29th and while requests to stay-at-home may have dampened many celebrations this year, that didn’t stop one local family from looking for a big way to say “Happy Birthday” to their matriarch.
In fact, it appeared that they’d ordered the perfect sunny Saturday to honor her life with a surprise for the special occasion.
The Rev. Michael Evans, a longtime civic leader and educator, became the first African American mayor of Mansfield on Tuesday after pledging to refrain from dirty politics and to build unity in the city.
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As Texas voters continued to break records at the polls during early voting, Black women voters rallied at Friendship-West Baptist Church last week to show support or to cast their ballots.
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Hours after a Kentucky grand jury indicted a former police officer on charges related to the shooting of Breonna Taylor, protesters in Dallas took to the streets, expressing outrage and dismay that the charges did not go far enough.
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Presidents of two leading historically Black colleges in Louisiana have begun participating in COVID-19 vaccine trials—and are encouraging their students, faculty and alumni to join them.
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Neighbors discovered the homemade flag – made from a square cardboard box and colored on all sides with red, white and blue paper-mâché to look like a Confederate flag with brown rope tied around it and hanging from a tree at R.H. Boyd Publishing Company in Nashville late Wednesday.
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