History

Artist Theo Ponchaveli and volunteers painted a mural in South Dallas commemorating the area's Black history and culture, featuring vibrant orange letters and elements like the Dallas Skyline and Cotton Bowl arena.

The Pointe South Business Group and the South Dallas arts institutions are working to ensure that the South Dallas community benefits from the millions of dollars being invested in the area, while also preserving its cultural heritage.

South Dallas Arts Leaders Roundtable discussed how their institutions intersect and how they're continuing to learn from the histories of both South Dallas and their own organizations, with the goal of creating lasting impact and preserving cultural memory for future generations.

Three newcomers to Dallas recently arrived on the scene at […]

Elsie Faye Heggins led the charge to reshape South Dallas in the image of its Black residents, proposing to rename several streets and eventually succeeding in renaming Forest Avenue to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in 1981.

West Dallas has seen the destruction of historic sites due to lack of preservation, but the demolition delay overlay ordinance could be a solution, allowing property owners to discuss alternatives to demolition and preserving the community's history.

KERA and Dallas TRHT have released a series of documentaries highlighting the history of civil rights and social justice activism in South Dallas and Fair Park, with plans to build curriculum around it to educate youth on the topic.

The latest This spring the Dallas City Council voted unanimously […]

The Juanita Craft Civil Rights House and Museum and the Kathlyn Joy Gilliam House have both been reopened after extensive restoration, and are now available for tours and educational events.

The historically Black working-class neighborhood of Gilbert-Emory in West Dallas is facing gentrification due to the influx of new, much larger homes and the sale of the land where the segregated Black Fred Douglass School once stood, leading to frustration among longtime residents.

Dallas Free Press has launched a pop-up newsroom at the MLK Food Park in South Dallas to listen to neighbors' stories, provide wooden nickels for food vendors, and highlight the importance of civic journalism and government transparency.

The plan was to host a physical exhibit at the MLK library from April through June, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed their plans and made things more uncertain.

Normally, center turns into a festival on Juneteenth, with vendors and music in the parking lot, but with COVID-19 numbers still breaking record highs in Dallas County, this year’s event was done differently.