So, you have an e-mail to send. You sit down in your computer chair, pull up your e-mail client – and stare at a blank screen. You know what you want to tell the person to whom you’re writing, but you have no idea how to phrase yourself, present your statements, convey your meaning in [...]
I was recently talking with a black business owner who said, ”I just don’t want to do business with black people any more ” and in that same week, I met with a white business peer in the industry, who said “this client does not want black people”. Two different people, completely separate from one [...]
In this age of social media, where we instagram, tweet, text, facebook, skype and other forms electronically connecting to each other, I think we miss talking to each other. One of the things that I remember doing with my mother was talking to her every day of my life. Even as an adult, we made [...]
I’ve been in the Dallas-Ft.Worth area almost 37 years and I’ve always heard this talk about the Trinity River divide. It’s noticeable in a lot of ways, but if you look at streets like Westmoreland and Hampton on the south side of the Trinity and see how their names change on the other side, it [...]
Willis’ Blog: Fade to Black Over the past generation (25 years) and some, there has been a disappearance from the screen of influential black faces. I am 58 years old and from Texas . That combination gives me the experience to have seen segregation move to integration and now to disappearance . I watched my [...]
Willis’ Blog: Determined to change This Saturday, Dallas’ Mayor Mike Rawlings pulled off a rally against domestic abuse and in spite of bad weather thousands still showed up to show their determination to change the culture of domestic violence. There was a large segment of the crowd that was African American and that speaks volumes [...]
Willis’ Blog: Cell Phones/No Banks While at lunch today at Two Podner’s (one of my favorites) I was talking with an African-American gentlemen about things in general and he made two statements that stuck with me and I’m seeking your thoughts about his statements: he said “ I was working at a for North Dallas [...]
Willis’ Blog: ONE OF THE FASTEST! In a recent edition of Forbes Magazine, there is a quote that caught my eye concerning America’s fastest growing cities: “Perhaps not surprisingly, cities in Texas-which welcomed more than 427,000 newcomers from August 2011 to July 2012, according to the U.S Census Bureau-dominated our list. Houston ranked second, behind [...]
Willis’ Blog: What If? Bill Blair is someone I met with I came to Dallas in 1976 and Bill Blair is the first person I saw when got to the church where my mother’s funeral was being held in 2003. During that time, I learned of his involvement with the old Negro Baseball league. Recently [...]
DSN Newswire The Sierra Club’s mission is to explore, enjoy and protect the planet. To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources; to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out those objectives. Power to [...]
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