Category : News

6 months ago

Statement from DART on sales tax reduction

(DART Board of Directors) – It is unfortunate to witness Dallas Area Rapid Transit member city councils consider and approve adversarial resolutions against our transit agency. Although the timing and language of these resolutions are similar, the co...

6 months ago

Rent relief: A winning policy issue for the Harris campaign

(Trice Edney Communications) – Renters account for approximately 34% of the U.S. population, with 44 million housing units in the U.S. currently being rented. Talking directly to this constituency is a winning formula. The Department of Labor recentl...

6 months ago

Sonya Massey should still be alive

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – In many ways our nation has changed, but it hasn’t changed. When the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, opened in Montgomery, Alabama, it was to commemorate the Black vi...

6 months ago

JD Vance, tell me that again!

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – We’ve had to do a lot of listening lately about choices we must make about who’ll be our next president when 2025 rolls around. Single women should be having children if we want to have something to do about the future of our n...

6 months ago

Sheila Jackson Lee – An Energizer Bunny for justice

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, D-TX, didn’t lose many battles, but she succumbed to pancreatic cancer on July 19. She tackled the disease like she tackled so many other challenges, working with her doctors on a treatment pla...

6 months ago

Women creating change

(Children’s Defense Fund) – When a large meeting of Black women voters made headlines this week, to many people it was another reminder of the major role Black women and all women have always played in creating transforming change. Women at the...

7 months ago

Asthma disparities in the Black community

(The Dallas Examiner) – “The reality of the situation is that Black Americans experience worse asthma outcomes when compared to their White counterparts. When we look into the statistics, asthma is disproportionately diagnosed in Black Americans,” Ar...

7 months ago

Texas Democrats respond to Donald Trump’s RNC Speech, July 18

Tonight, we saw Trump diving back into his extremism. We were reminded again that this is the same man who overturned Roe, led an insurrection on our nation’s Capital and siloed the middle class in favor of extremist billionaires. Trump and J.D. Vanc...

7 months ago

Democrats approve rules for likely Harris nomination

(CNN) – Democrats on Wednesday adopted the rules the party will use to choose their presidential nominee, with voting to officially nominate Kamala Harris likely to begin Aug. 1.That would be less than two weeks after President Joe Biden ended his ca...