Ku Klux Klan

How the Morning News Helped Dallas Become the City of Hate

Two years before Kennedy was shot, extremism was already burning in Dallas. Then the Morning News fanned the flames.

Arlington Megachurch Pastor Gene Lingerfelt -- and God -- Approve of Government Shutdown

Just as God led Moses to Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, so He led Faith Christian Center pastor Gene Lingerfelt to 6900 U.S. Highway 287 in Arlington, Texas, to become the bearer of His Word. As befits the digital age, He has swapped stone tablets for Twitter and timeless maxims with s ... More >>

Get Rid of the Dallas City Manager's Office and Give Democracy Another Chance

Dallas Morning News City hall reporter Rudy Bush had a good piece in last Sunday's opinion section about the qualities we need to look for in a new city manager. The only pause I found in reading it was a question I run into whenever I try to talk to normal people, as opposed to full-time City Hall ... More >>

The 18 Most Entertaining Musical Performances by Politicians

In America, politics and music have been tied together since the very beginning. Benjamin Franklin played multiple instruments, including the violin, harp and guitar, and he even invented one: the glass harmonica. Thomas Jefferson, who played the violin, used music to woo his wife, Martha, who pla ... More >>

Confederate Nostalgists Still Can't Get the Rebel Flag on Texas License Plates

Its been almost four years since the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, in hopes of making a bit more scratch, rolled out a line of customizable license plates. Drivers can now select from a large buffet of completely legal plate designs celebrating Dr Pepper, Jesus, the late Dale Earnhardt and res ... More >>

Confederate Group Shuns Memphis, Moves Convention to Civil War Hotbed Richardson

There's been a bit of a fuss lately over the Memphis City Council's decision to change the name of three city parks, scrubbing them clean of any reference to the Confederacy in hopes of making them more inviting to residents who may not exactly have felt welcome in early-1860s Tennessee. Gone are J ... More >>

After the Newtown Massacre, It's Easy to Fear the Weirdos, but Be Careful Who You Call Weirdo

Los Angeles Times political columnist and cartoonist David Horsey, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, authored a column and cartoon yesterday arguing that, "... there are way too many oddballs among us with violence on their minds and guns within reach." I get the second part, about the gun ... More >>

"I Always Tell My Friends It's Possibly a Meth-Head Coming Out of His Lab": Ghost Hunting With Denton Musician Alex Maples

Alex Maples' ghost obsession began when his sisters were almost 10 and he was still in a crib. The whole family would frequently visit his Aunt Doris in Southern Illinois. Her house was old and drafty, built on many open acres of ranch land. On a country-quiet evening during one of those visits, as ... More >>

Cut Out the Middlemen

Tribal politics at the heart of Dallas' corruption problems.

Just Added to Saturday's Rally for John Wiley Price, The Man Who Coined "Black Power"

Via.​Moments ago, Thomas Muhammad -- president of the Dallas chapter of the National Black United Front and organizer of Saturday's rally for Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price -- sent word that a Very Special Guest has been added the list of speakers scheduled to attend Saturday. That wo ... More >>

Is the Term "Mexican" Becoming Extinct?

And is "Make Sick O" the Best Mexi Slur Ever?

Not-So-Quiet Riots: The Ten Worst Riots In Music Event History

Dallas Mavericks fans were notably well-behaved during yeterday's NBA Championship victory parade through downtown. Despite the fact that 200,000 or so people packed themselves in like sardines along the sidewalks of the route -- and in the sweltering heat, no less -- there were only five arrests. B ... More >>

Tea Partiers and Dallas County GOP Unite Around President Obama's Visit

Photos by Patrick MichelsThere wasn't much silence at all from the crowd at Franklin Stadium last night. Check out more photos here in our slide show.​As Sam noted yesterday, the local Republican party shelled out three grand for a proper venue to accommodate the mammoth crowd they expected at the ... More >>

Weekend Round-Up: The Edgefest 19 Edition

I just spent way too long on Youtube searching for videos from this past weekend in area concert-going (apparently our spring semester interns' last days have come and gone), and all I came up with were videos from Edgefest 19 up at Pizza Hut Park this past weekend.But beggars can't be choosers I gu ... More >>

Re: FYI, Read This ASAP. OMG!

The following is a prime example of my curse here on Earth. A fleeting thought sprouts into a mild observation, only to bloom into a thesis that eventually flourishes into a blog item with sports branches. My apologies ... Got a text the other day, the salutation of which was LOL. It ... More >>

Dallas Theater Center's Engrossing, Heretical Take on the Civil Rights Movement

The Good Negro bares roots of a movement; in Oak Cliff, a bumpy ride in Leonard's Car; Mummy dearest for tweens

Harold and Kumar Get Shipped to Gitmo in a Forced Act Two

Racists Wear the Darnedest Tees

Peace Out at the Meyerson

Maya Angelou, left, and Tim Seelig, far right, at the Meyerson on Saturday Meant to write this up earlier in the week, but we clearly tripped on a poll and fell on your caucus. So, then, back to Saturday, if you don't mind, when some 2,000 formally dressed folks streamed into the Morton H. Meyerson ... More >>

Cry Me a River|Terrible Thom

Romo's Riches|Legacy of Hate|There Goes the Neighborhood|Farmers Branch Again

The Right Fight

A civil rights legend speaks

The Old Hard Rock's Future Will Be Decided Today. Feel Free To, You Know, Rock Out.

If the old Hard Rock still looked like the McKinney Avenue Baptist Church, it'd be a landmark yesterday. But since it doesn't, well, the fight's on today. For those still filling their daily planners -- and, more to the point, for those still concerned with the fate of the former Hard Rock Cafe on M ... More >>

The Fight Over the Old Hard Rock Cafe Building Just Got a Little More...Interesting

Reverend J. Frank Norris raised the funds to build the McKinney Avenue Baptist Church, which would, decades later, become the Hard Rock Cafe. Norris was also a good friend of the Ku Klux Klan's. On Monday, the city's Landmark Commission is once more meeting to decide the fate of the former church si ... More >>

America's Got Desperation

Where, O Where?

The Inwood displays the Coens' Brotherly love

The Minutemen

The Hunted

Minutemen train their sights on a new target: Hispanic day laborers

�Ask a Mexican!

Potok It Up

The listener-supported, commercial-free radio station WPKN-FM, based out of Bridgeport, Connecticut, produces a weekly public-affairs show called Between the Lines; it's lefty of the dial, as it were, and good stuff. This week, the show featured an interview with Mark Potok, director of the Southern ... More >>

Mapesgate

Before you judge former CBS-TV producer Mary Mapes, take a walk in her shoes

Great Clips

Tennessee schoolkids teach the world a lesson in an inspirational documentary

Descendents

Cool to be You (Fat Wreck Chords)

Letters

Slave Wages

The fight for slavery reparations takes on a local twist

Bearing Witness

Dallas civil servant Dale Long was there the day a bomb changed the civil rights landscape forever

Echoes of Hate

Bobby Frank Cherry is one of the most notorious racist killers in American history. To Tom Cherry, he was just "Dad."

You Retard

Plus: Bring on the Crackpots, Stoney Babe, Speaking Her Mind

Grave Matters

The tombstones in Oakland Cemetery bear names that reflect Dallas' greatness and its shame, from former mayors to klansmen. But years of neglect have left it overgrown and forgotten.

Mystery of St. Luke

Was an influential Dallas black church desecrated by racists?

Bona Fide

Joel and Ethan Coen's Brother hits a Homer

Letters

Wonder women; Cool Kidd; Give it a rest

Letters

The turkey leg goes to...; Funny lady; Hanging on a KLIF; More epistles to the Jews; Dry summer days

The Country Teasers

Peep-hole power

It's a scary world out there, but someone's gotta keep it under control. Jim Schutze uncovers the secret agony of the Dallas Citizens Council.

Buzz

Letters

Roadshows

Mouse

Paul "Mouse" Millender is in hiding after being stabbed 24 times. He says his old skinhead running buddies did it. But he swears he's not a rat.

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX