Amber Sims is the CEO of Young Leaders Strong City, the longest running racial equity platform in Dallas-Fort Worth. In her work, Sims works to educate, equip and activate a community of youth and adults to realize their vision for racial equity. Amber has worked as a thought leader and partner for organizations seeking to build their capacity for internal and external equity and social justice. Her writing, lectures and training focus on utilizing historical analysis and racial equity frameworks as methods of change toward reimagining a more inclusive future. Amber is the author of a series chronicling the history of Black schools and educators in Dallas in collaboration with the national nonprofit journalism entity, Press On and local newspaper, Dallas Free Press and the Summerlee Foundation, titled Dallas Forgot. The work intersects community storytelling, equitable housing and education policy and historical preservation.
Official Title:
Dallas Forgot Creator
Email Address:
history@dallasfreepress.com
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/amber-simsylsc2019
The site of Dallas’ original Black high school, erased from history, will become a taxpayer-subsidized Kroger project
Kroger is set to build a new grocery store and apartments on “expensive," “desirable” land where one of Dallas’ oldest Black schools, B.F. Darrell, was built as the original Colored High School.
Dallas Forgot
Amber Sims - January 16, 2022
A town, a cemetery and a school: Dallas’ history of erasure repeats itself
Dallas decimated its largest Freedman’s Town and obscured both a cemetery and a school, B.F. Darrell, vital to the community.
Dallas Forgot
Amber Sims - January 16, 2022
Dallas forgot: Remembering and reclaiming the Black schools we’ve lost
For every Black school heralded and remembered, there are schools that have been erased from Dallas' public memory and are largely unknown today.
Dallas Forgot
Amber Sims - January 16, 2022
