Dallas Forgot

Dallas Free Press has been nominated for two 2022 LION Local Journalism Awards for their "Dallas Forgot" project and pop-up newsroom, which have been successful in connecting with the community and providing equitable, community-centered journalism.

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 decimated its largest Freedman’s Town and obscured both a cemetery and a school, B.F. Darrell, vital to the community.

For every Black school heralded and remembered, there are schools that have been erased from Dallas' public memory and are largely unknown today.