News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
Pubisher The Dallas Examiner Mollie Finch Belt is the Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of The Dallas Examiner. She attended elementary school in Tuskegee, Ala.; Cambridge, Mass.; and Dallas, Texas. In 1961, she graduated from Lincoln High School with honors and attended Spelman College and then...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
Vice President of Advertising Sale ad space and manage ad material James C. Belt III is the Vice President of Advertising and Marketing at The Dallas Examiner. He is the grandson of the founder, Attorney Frederick Finch, and the son of the owner and publisher, Mollie Belt. He graduated Kimball High...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
Making history on the first day of Black History Month, Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III was formally installed as the president and CEO of Rainbow PUSH Coalition at the Black Academy of Arts and Letters, Feb. 1. TBAAL holds great significance to Haynes, as well as the greater Dallas community, which he...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
Born in an era of segregation and deep racial separatism, James Griffin’s career came full circle last month when he became the first African American to serve as the president of the medical staff at Parkland Health, the very place he was born. The recognition comes after more than 40 years of une...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
The All Neighbors Coalition, a collective of over 140 organizations working in collaboration to solve homelessness in Dallas and Collin counties, will receive over $27 million in annual funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. “More funding means we can scale up what wo...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
(Special to The Dallas Examiner) – As I reflect on my experiences living in Dallas, I am obliged to view them through the lenses of a Black person, adapting, along with the city and country, to changing times and events. Being the eighth child of nine of Wilmer O. and Ocie B. Gray, family ties a...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
(The Texas Tribune) – Texas gained more jobs than any other state in the previous decade from businesses relocating from other parts of the country, according to a report published Friday by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. More than 25,000 establishments relocated to Texas from 2010 to 2019,...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
(CNN) – A shot of the latest COVID-19 vaccine can help cut the chances of getting a symptomatic infection by half, early data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests. Vaccine manufacturers updated their formulations to target the Omicron variant XBB.1.5, which was the p...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
(The Texas Tribune) – Four civil rights groups filed a federal complaint on Tuesday accusing the municipal court and public school district of the northeast Texas town of Bonham of unfairly penalizing Black and disabled students for behavior complaints by pushing them out of schools and sometimes i...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
Social media and dating apps are great ways to meet new and interesting people for those looking for love, but beware – the people you meet may not be who they appear. Reports to government agencies and Better Business Bureau describe, in heartbreaking detail, the use of romance scams to steal mill...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
Special to The Dallas Examiner Real estate investment is a potentially lucrative avenue for building wealth and diversifying an investment portfolio. Entering the world of real estate can be exciting yet intimidating for first-time investors. Here is a guide offering tips to help you navigate th...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
(Sierra Club) – With the start of Black History Month, I brace myself for the mis-telling of Black history yet again. In schoolhouses and everywhere the stories are told, a persistent myth shows its ugly head: the ridiculous notion that great Black leaders are not just exceptional but exceptions...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
(Children’s Defense Fund) – On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan tax package that included elements of the historic 2021 Child Tax Credit expansion. The new Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act doesn’t include all of the improvements that were part o...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – During Liz Cheney’s first two terms as the U.S. Representative from Wyoming, she was widely considered one of the nation’s most conservative politicians, voting with Donald Trump more than 92% of the time. As the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, she became an en...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 11 months ago
As we honor the start of Black History Month by commemorating the incomparable achievements and contributions of Black people to society, I’d like to urge us to confront this nation’s ugly past with unyielding honesty and determination. This is particularly important when we have candidates on the...
