End of Shingle Mountain in Dallas’ southeast Oak Cliff neighborhood brings music to residents’ ears
A pop-up classical concert marked the end of more than 3 years of roofing debris looming over this neighborhood.
Shaun Martin performs outside of Marsha Jackson s home in Dallas on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Quincy Roberts, the contractor who moved Shingle Mountain, surprised Jackson with the concert. (Juan Figueroa/ The Dallas Morning News)(Juan Figueroa / Staff photographer)
For the first time in more than three years, Marsha Jackson shed tears of joy outside her southeast Oak Cliff home.
On Friday, she sat in a folding chair on the dirt road in front of her house of 25 years, flanked by her daughter, granddaughter and supporters.
BET, Soledad O’Brien Launched a New Series With Shingle Mountain Disrupt and Dismantle explores racist policies that disenfranchised Black and Brown Americans. They kicked it off in Dallas.
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On Sunday, BET premiered the first of six 40-minute episodes for Soledad O’Brien’s new miniseries, which is titled “Disrupt and Dismantle.” The reporter and editor found stories across the country that showcase the impact and longstanding trauma created by racist policies that disproportionately affect communities of color. O’Brien starts in Dallas, next to Marsha Jackson’s home, where a pile of shingles that weighed somewhere between 50 and 100 tons has stood for years.
As Dallas works to move the mountain and get through its lawsuit with Jackson, neighborhood residents are trying to ensure that another environmental disaster doesn’t end up right outside their windows. But, they say the city isn’t listening to them. We just want our community to be green again, so we can enjoy our animals, our pets and be able to grow us and feel what it’s like to have a garden, Jackson said. Jackson is also the president of Southern Sector Rising, a nonprofit that deals with systemic racism in Dallas’ zoning practice.
There were gaps in city of Dallas zoning changes made throughout the ’80s, which were intended to protect people from hazardous industrial uses. But the measures left out and damaged majority non-white neighborhoods. As a result, land next to these residential areas became industrialized.
BET debuts two new projects during Black History Month under its media-focused initiative “Content For Change,” “BET and CBS News Present: Boiling Point” and investigative documentary series “Disrupt & Dismantle” with award-winning journalist, speaker, author, and philanthropist Soledad O’Brien.
Soledad O’Brien’s critically acclaimed 2011 series Black in America took a long, hard look at the challenges faced by Black people in our country. A decade later, the challenges continue to manifest in our everyday lives, and O’Brien is back to explore immediate action items that need to be accomplished to make a change NOW with the new BET original series “Disrupt & Dismantle.”
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BET Delivers Two New Groundbreaking Series Under Its Social Impact Initiative “Content for Change” to Help Address Inequities for Black Americans
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BET debuts two new projects during Black History Month under its media-focused initiative “Content For Change,”
“BET and CBS News Present: Boiling Point” and investigative documentary series
“Disrupt & Dismantle” with award-winning journalist, speaker, author, and philanthropist
Soledad O’Brien.
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Soledad O’Brien’s critically acclaimed 2011 series
Black in America took a long, hard look at the challenges faced by Black people in our country. A decade later, the challenges continue to manifest in our everyday lives, and