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When Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III, of Friendship-West Baptist Church, announced 100 Days of Buying Black in acknowledging the 100th Commemoration of the Tulsa Race Massacre, we joined the movement. December 31, 2021 marked 100 days of featuring Black Businesses. and we decided that the struggle continues and we must also. So enjoy reading about more Black-owned businesses and please support.
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Golden Age Concierge
& Carrier LLC
GACCS provides non-medical services to aging adults and seniors in the Travis and Williamson counties regardless of where you are. Cheryl Johnson, is the founder of GACCS and is familiar with the challenges seniors face due to her own experience with aging parents, family members, and friends’ parents. GACCS provides errand services,  home management, personal care, pet care, transportation, technical support, and waiting services. Located in Round Rock, TX, you can contact Cheryl at 512-348-2285
OUR SUPERB WOMAN OF THE DAY

Hattie Hill

A much sought after award-winning speaker and businesswoman, Hattie Hill is inspiring, exciting, invigorating and motivating.
Hattie Hill serves as the president and CEO of the T.D. Jakes Foundation, where she’s leading the fund toward a $100 million fundraising goal and improving disadvantaged communities by providing economic growth globally through science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM). She received a Bachelors Degree in education and a Masters Degree in Psychology from Arkansas State University. Hattie is a masterful speaker and author of multiple books written to give women practical advice and encouragement to gain control over their personal and professional lives.  Her board service includes Texas Women’s Foundation, National Restaurant Association, VisitDallas, Dallas Regional Chamber and the tech startup, ShareMaster. Prior to founding Hattie Hill Enterprises, Inc., Hattie was president and CEO of the Women’s Foodservice Forum, where she worked to champion gender equity with women in the food ecosystem.
Our Superb Women!

2021 was the "Year of the Woman," especially the Black Woman! For 10 months we dedicated this space to uplifting Black women and spreading a message that we need to show love and empower people with love instead of destroying them with hate and disrespect. We celebrate Black Women and call them SUPERB! AND WE ARE KEEPING THE CELEBRATION GOING IN 2022!
Cheryl Smith, Publisher
City of Dallas Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors Nomination

On May 2, 2021, the City Council adopted recommendations to create a new economic development corporation to support and enhance the work of the City of Dallas Office of Economic Development. To learn more about the City’s current economic development efforts please read the City of Dallas 2022-2032 Economic Development Policy, found here. 

The purpose of the Corporation is to support business development and serve as a public developer within the city of Dallas. The Corporation will be overseen by a 15-member Board of Directors who will contribute to the new organization’s success by representing a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, geographies, and areas of expertise with the highest level of integrity and dedication to Dallas.
WAKE UP AND STAY WOKE:
Unquestioned Competence
By Dr. E. Faye Williams

I remember it well! It hasn’t been that long ago and I’m sure that it’s still practiced in culturally anachronistic pockets of this nation — like the U.S. Senate. I speak of that circumstance in which the best a Black woman can expect from (some) white folks is to be called by her first name, and if she’s older, Auntie! She can never dream of the expectation of conversational courtesies in tone or expression.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
An Arkansas student has gotten accepted to more than 50 colleges, received 5 full rides, and earned over $1.3 million in scholarship offers
Toriona Coakes is a senior at Stuttgart High School in Arkansas
She received five full-ride offers!

By BOTWC Staff

The first official portrait of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has been released just one day after she was confirmed to the Supreme Court as the first Black woman to ever sit on the highest court in the land. 
 WNBA drafts first HBCU player in 20 years
By Dorothy J. Gentry
Sports Editor
PHOTOS: Indiana Fever, Jackson State University
Monday night the WNBA drafted its first player from an HBCU in 20 years.
With the 25th overall pick in the WNBA draft, the Indiana Fever selected Ameysha Williams-Holiday, a 6’4 center from Jackson State University.
The Gulfport, Mississippi native is the first HBCU player drafted into the WNBA since 2002 when three HBCU players were selected: Andrea Gardner from Howard University, Amba Kongolo from North Carolina Central University, and Jacklyn Winfield from Southern University and A&M College.
Dallas Wings Select Three New Players in WNBA Draft
By Dorothy J. Gentry
Sports Editor

PHOTOS: Dallas Wings

There are three new Wings in town.

In Monday night’s 2022 WNBA draft, the WNBA’s Dallas Wings selected Northwestern guard Veronica Burton (Round 1, 7th overall); Delaware guard Jasmine Dickey (Round 3, 30th pick) and North Florida forward Jazz Bond (Round 3, 31st pick) with the 31st pick in the 2022 WNBA Draft. 
 
Burton, a three-year starting point guard for Northwestern University became the first player in program history to be named to an AP All-America team, earning a spot on the Third Team in 2022. 
Join us as we call attention to the many Black girls (and boys) who have gone missing. The headlines are not as bold and glaring but they will be here. Stay tuned!
Dallas County Republican mail-in ballots were ‘hand duplicated,’ Democratic election judge reports
Campaign volunteers approach voters as they enter the Simms Cedar Hill Recreation Center in Cedar Hill, Texas, March 1, 2022. Voters were casting their ballot during the Texas primary. (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
By Philip Jankowski

AUSTIN — A report from a Democratic election judge for the March 1 primary indicated every Republican mail-in ballot cast in Dallas County had to be reproduced manually in order to be counted. Dallas attorney Louis Bedford IV, who was the local Democratic Party’s appointed election judge for Dallas County’s central counting station during the March 1 primary, created a report this week highlighting numerous issues with voting equipment and staffing shortages that he said affected the election.
This story, originally published in The Dallas Morning News, is reprinted as part of a collaborative partnership between The Dallas Morning News and Texas Metro News. The partnership seeks to boost coverage of
Dallas’ communities of color, particularly in southern Dallas.
SPOTLIGHT
DBCC April Power Breakfast by Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce at Soirée Coffee Bar,
320 Singleton Blvd. Suite 190, Dallas,
April 12, 2022, at 7 am.
420 New Positive 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases and 9 Deaths, Including 167 Probable Cases and 9 New Cases within 14 days of Specimen Collection Date
 
DALLAS -- As of 12:00 pm April 8, 2022 Dallas County Health and Human Services is reporting 420 additional positive cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Dallas County, 253 confirmed cases and 167 probable cases. There is a cumulative total of 478,683 confirmed cases (PCR test). There is a cumulative total of 104,382 probable cases (antigen test). Today’s report includes 9 newly reported cases of COVID-19 within 14 days of specimen collection date.
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Emmet Ashford becomes the first African American major league umpire when he is named to the American League
Toussaint Louverture commemorated on
219th death anniversary
Acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry (right) and a member of his entourage laying a wreath of flowers at the Statue of Toussaint Louverture to commemorate Louverture's 219th death anniversary on April 7, 2022. Photo via Republic of Haiti's Prime Minister's Office's Twitter account
By The Haitian Times Staff

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry laid a wreath of flowers at the Statue of Toussaint Louverture Thursday to commemorate the 219th death anniversary of the revolutionary leader.
“I kneel down at the foot of the monument dedicated to the memory of this great man, an emblematic figure in the fight for freedom for black people,” Henry said in a tweet. Known as Father of Haiti, Louverture was an influential general during the Haitian Revolution against France in the late 1700s and early 1800s. He died in Fort de Joux, a castle-turned-prison in France on April 7,1803.
Let the Voters Vote! Citizens Should Decide on Proposal to Build New Ballpark for Oakland A’s
Councilmember Carroll Fife
By Paul Cobb, Post Publisher Oakland Post

We applaud Councilmember Carroll Fife’s decision to honor the wishes of Oakland residents and let the voters determine whether it is appropriate to use public funds to support building the Oakland A’s privately owned baseball park and 3,000 luxury condominiums at Howard Terminal.
The Path

As we walk through life's journey, we leave footprints. Some just show where we are going. Others redirect us when we get lost. Still others remain to guide those we leave behind. I see your footprints.
Will you/they see mine?
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