CELEBRATION!
Black Press:
Continuing a Legacy
10 yr Anniversary
Garland Journal/Texas Metro News
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Stephenetta (isis) Harmon
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Autumn at the Arboretum: A Fall Fairy Tale By the Numbers |
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Photo credit: Dallas Arboretum
DALLAS, Texas – Autumn 2022 – For the 17th year, Autumn at the Arboretum: A Fall Fairy Tale, presented by Reliant, highlights the nationally acclaimed Pumpkin Village featuring pumpkin houses and creative displays utilizing more than 100,000 pumpkins, gourds and squash. This year’s fall festival opened September 17 and runs through October 31, 2022, in Dallas, Texas.
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Years and Acres:
1984: year Dallas Arboretum opened as a
public botanical garden
66: number of acres at the Dallas Arboretum
17: number of years the Dallas Arboretum
has had the Pumpkin Village
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Pumpkin Village
100,000: total number of pumpkins, gourds,
and squash at Autumn at the Arboretum
80,000: number of pumpkins, gourds and squash
used to create Pumpkin Village
1,500: Bales of hay
54: Types of pumpkins, gourds and squash
6: number of pumpkin houses
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Happy Anniversary!
September 2022
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David and Renee Squires
30 years
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Congratulations to Cornelius and his Bride Yolanda |
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Lyman and Crystal King Anniversary |
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Christopher and Pamela Lumpkin Hunter
29 years
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Dr. Sheron Patterson wins 1st Place in Hamilton Park UMC Golf Tournament - Women's Division |
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Kathaleen Gipson-Reynolds preached her first sermon as part of Antioch Fellowship Church’s MIT (Ministers In Training). Her focus is education, tutoring, teaching, and African and African American History. |
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The Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Journalists
RSVP NOW on Eventbrite:
LIKE, Support and SHARE this special event on Facebook and other social media platforms!
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Celebrating 195
years of the Black Press
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Check out
The Trendsetter
Texas Metro News' student journalists produced publication
(inside Texas Metro News).
* Are you in high school and interested in joining a winning team of young journalists?
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President Lester C. Newman
Jarvis Christian College
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JARVIS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY NAMED
FULBRIGHT HBCU INSTITUTIONAL LEADER
Hawkins, Texas — Jarvis Christian University (JCU) has been named one of 19 Fulbright Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Institutional Leaders for 2022 for its support for Fulbright exchange participants and its promotion of Fulbright program opportunities. The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) has recognized selected HBCUs over the past three years for their strong engagement with the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship international academic exchange program.
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TEACHERS WANTED!
Teachers are needed to write a 400-600 word piece on how you feel COVID impacted you, teaching and learning in grades K-12, There is a small love offering and the document and photo must be turned in by October 1, 2022, to editor@texasmetronews.com
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BUY BLACK! 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, a year ago, 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. We're still going strong today and we also received recognition from the National Newspaper Publishers Association for our efforts!
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Buy Black Business Spotlight
Capital City Mortgage
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Capital City Mortgage is one of the fastest growing mortgage brokerages in the country focused on streamlining the mortgage process to Fund the Dreams of Homeownership for homeowners, businesses, and investors. If you are looking for a property to live in or an investment property to create cash flow President/CEO Tunita Bailey and her team can help you reach your goals. Her team is proud to say that they offer loan products, closing times, and customer service that is superior to the competition. To get started with funding your dreams contact Capital City Mortgage today.
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OUR SUPERB WOMAN OF THE DAY
Angela Johnson
Angela Johnson, PhD is an author, entrepreneur
and a scholar.
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The Founder and CEO of Angela Arnell Johnson LLC, she has served as executive director of Deaf Action Center and Vice President of Development for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Collin County. A graduate of Dallas Baptist University where she received Bachelors of Applied Arts & Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies, she received a Master of Business Administration in Executive Leadership, a Masters of Arts in Women’s Studies and a Doctor of Philosophy in Multicultural Women and Gender Studies from Texas Woman’s University. She also has a certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from SMU. |
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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
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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! |
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Victoria Bell, wearing glasses and holding an infant, is greeted by Selectman E. Thomas Murphy on arrival from Little Rock with her 11 children in 1962 in Hyannis, Mass. The trip for the family was sponsored by a White segregation group in Little Rock. Photo: Frank C. Curtin/AP
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QUIT PLAYIN
Seen this Movie Before!
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By Vincent L. Hall
As cruel and unusual as it may seem, the dumping of migrants looking to flee oppression is not new. unfortunately, the dingbats “gubernatorial twins” John Abbott and Ron DeSantis don’t read history. Or maybe they do. You may not know it, but this “forced bussing” is not new in Maya Angelou’s “Yet to be United States.” There was a moment of déjà vu as I read an article recently in the Dallas Morning News. We’ve seen this movie before.
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Black Man Who Claimed Self-Defense In Killing Of White Teen Gets 10 Years _ Atlanta Daily World |
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Black Man Who Claimed Self-Defense In Killing Of White Teen Gets 10 Years |
Black Headline News
By Atlanta Daily World
A Georgia man who said he was defending himself against a racist attack has been given the maximum prison sentence in the fatal shooting of a white teenage girl, per the Statesboro Herald. On Tuesday (September 20), William “Marc” Wilson, 23, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the death of Haley Hutcheson, a 17-year-old girl he allegedly shot and killed.
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On September 24, 1957
Federal troops enforce integration as nine children enter Central High School in Little Rock, AR.
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The new Jubilee Park Community Center in Dallas on Friday, September 2, 2022.
(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
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As health care facilities pop up in southern Dallas, here’s what that
means for residents
With the openings of several clinics and medical centers, area with high rates of chronic disease is seeing an explosion of options
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The last time Alice Collier went to the dentist was in 2014. After her retirement, Collier, who lives in the Jubilee community in southern Dallas, said she didn’t have the time or money to go to regular dentist appointments. For many in southern Dallas, keeping a healthy lifestyle is difficult. With few grocery stores, clinics and dental offices in the area, many have been forced to travel great lengths or spend extra money to get the care they need.
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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.
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Congratulations
CLASS OF 2022!
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Bradley Drenon
University of Texas
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9-24-22 6000 Sisters 6000 Steps for Hope Walk, September 24th 8 am to 12 pm. at Friendship West Baptist Church, 2020 W. Wheatland Rd. |
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In Haiti, protests such as this one in Port-au-Prince on during the week of Sept. 12 have turned into riots as some begin to call for dechoukaj, an uprooting, of the system. Photo by Murdith Joseph for The Haitian Times |
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Acts of “dechoukaj” continue, phone and internet disrupted around Haiti |
The Haitian Times
By Murdith Joseph and Juhakenson Blaise
Scenes of looting spread as demonstrations that began as protests turned into riots this week, multiplying in Port-au-Prince and other areas of Haiti and leading to the death of at least one person. The shift took place Wednesday, around the same time a crowd headed by Jimmy “Barbecue” Chèrizier took to the streets of the capital to commit acts of “dechoukaj,” the Creole word for "uprooting" that means getting rid of a system or group to start anew.
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Eliminating pollution counts among the most significant victories in the bill.
(Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)
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Historic Climate Legislation Called a Game Changer for Black America |
NNPA Newswire/BlackPressUSA
By Stacy M. Brown
Consensus on climate provisions marks a historic step in the right direction for tackling the climate crisis that impacts Black people and people of color at disproportionate rates, the NAACP noted following Senate passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.In a statement, the NAACP said Black and Brown communities have higher exposure to carbon emissions and all emission sectors.
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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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