Nikole Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary Author: J.D. Warren
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This year’s Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture will feature “The 1619 Project” creator Nikole Hannah-Jones. The 3:30 p.m., March 4 event will be online, and registrations are required in order to receive a Zoom link.
New York Times Magazine’s “The 1619 Project” – named for the year the first enslaved Africans arrived in America – features essays and art by Black creators on the relationship between slavery and culture. Hannah-Jones writes about racial injustice for the magazine, and has chronicled the manner in which policy created and maintains segregation in housing and schools.
Time to add a new podcast to your queue:
Anything for Selena, hosted by journalist Maria Garcia. The series focuses on the legacy of the late Selena Quintanilla and what it means to belong in America.
Garcia was born in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and raised on the border in El Paso, and in the podcast, she shares how the queen of Tejano music changed her life. She was eight when Quintanilla was killed by Yolanda Saldívar, her fan club president. Garcia opens up about how Selena had and still has a huge impact on the Latino community. I think in the first episode you hear how Selena, even for me as a seven-year old kid, even before I had to intellectualize these big questions about identity, where I belonged and where I didn t, even then I knew that somehow her imprint in my life was lasting and important, she said in an interview with the Corpus Christi
Two weeks after Quintanilla’s death in 1995, future President and then-Gov. George W. Bush declared Quintanilla s birthday Selena Day in Texas. Ramos first introduced the bill in Feb. 2019, with the goal to make “Selena Day” an annual event celebrating her role in Texas culture.
“April 16 is Selena Quintanilla Perez Day in memory of the contributions to Tejano music of Selena Quintanilla Pérez, an award-winning singer and recording artist,” the proposed bill stated. “Selena Quintanilla Peréz Day may be regularly observed by appropriate ceremonies and activities.”
Ramos is a Democrat from Dallas County s District 102, which includes Addison, Richardson, Dallas and Garland. She could not be reached for comment.
Dallas lost a pillar in its music community when
Tim Daniels, co-owner of Club Dada, Off the Record, and other venues, passed away from COVID-19 complications on Saturday, Jan. 15. Daniels is remembered in the community as someone who was always there to support musicians and even patrons who needed some help. A memorial page has been set up in his honor to help his mother, Mary, for whom Daniels was the sole financial provider.
With COVID still going strong, Fort Worth’s
Fortress Festival has decided to cancel its 2021 festival, which was rescheduled from 2020. All ticket holders will be refunded in the coming days, and the festival is expected to try again next year in April. In the meantime, Fortress Presents has teamed up with Wild Acre Brewing to create Wild Acre Live, a new multi-stage live venue complex located at Wild Acre s original brewery in Fort Worth. The outdoor stage will reportedly feature a mix of local artists from across DFW alongside popular national tourin