Several cities around the metroplex are still hosting parades to celebrate the weekend, but they did have to make some adjustments to other events happening indoors.
The city of Garland, Texas, will hold a nonpartisan special election for District 1 on the Garland City Council on May 1, 2021. The filing deadline for the special election
NAACP leader appointed to open Garland City Council seat
After heading the civil rights group’s local chapter for almost eight years, McNeal was appointed to represent District 1 through May.
Ricky McNeal, who has served as president of the local chapter of the NAACP for about seven years, has stepped down after being appointed to the Garland City Council.(Courtesy of the Garland NAACP)
The president of the NAACP’s Garland chapter has stepped down from his leadership position with the civil rights group after been appointed to the Garland City Council.
The North Dallas Gazettereports that Ricky McNeal was selected from a pool of 11 applicants to fill the District 1 seat vacated by former council member David Gibbons, who resigned after taking a job as the executive director of the Garland Housing Finance Corporation.