by Don Mooney 2-12-2023 Ft. Worth, Texas——— Roosevelt Burrell, Jr., age 95, of Fort Worth, Texas passed away on Thursday, January 26, 2023 with his loving family by his side. The Life Celebration will be held at 11:00am on Monday February 13, 2023 at Strangers Rest Missionary Baptist Church, 5705 […]
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Carville on GOP heckling of Biden: ‘You saw real white trash on display’
BY JARED GANS – 02/09/23 12:33 PM ET SHARETWEET Democratic strategist james Carville said some Republicans’ heckling of President Biden during the State of the Union address on Tuesday demonstrated “white trashdom” in the GOP. “I tell people I have the equivalent of a Ph.D. in white trashology, and you saw real white trash […]
Jan. 6 rioter who carried Confederate flag sentenced to three years in prison
“I’ve lost my son, and I’ve lost my wife,” Seefried said. BY ZACH SCHONFELD – 02/09/23 3:13 PM ET A man who carried a Confederate battle flag through the halls of the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday. Kevin Seefried was found guilty last summer on […]
Money Can Buy You Love
Attorney General Ken Paxton agrees to apologize and pay $3.3 million to whistleblowers in settlement Paxton and the four whistleblowers asked the Texas Supreme Court to defer consideration of the case until they can finalize the settlement, after which they’ll move to end the case. BY JAMES BARRAGÁN FEB. 10, 2023UPDATED: 18 […]
NBA’s Jordan Clarkson buys S.A. mansion listed for $7.5M
Prominent personal injury attorney Thomas J. Henry sold the home Texas / January 10, 2023 06:00 PM By TRD Staff Thomas J. Henry and Utah Jazz’s Jordan Clarkson with 18 Crescent Park (Thomas J. Henry, Getty, Google Maps) A prominent personal injury attorney recently sold his mansion in San Antonio’s gated Dominion community, listed […]
For Alabama, Black History Starts After 1970 AK (after king)
by Don Mooney 2-11-2023 It all began a long, long time ago. Way back in 1970, when the first schools were integrated in Alabama. Thats the new timeline parameters given for a high school Black History program in Tuscaloosa’s Hillcrest High School. Some Tuscaloosa-area high school students walked out of […]
Ruth J. Simmons to leave Prairie View A&M months early, not wanting to be ‘president in name only’
Samantha Ketterer, Staff writer Feb. 10, 2023Updated: Feb. 10, 2023 7:26 p.m. Prairie View A&M University President Ruth J. Simmons will resign from her position at the end of February, months earlier than expected after a falling-out over the decision-making power she would hold in her final months. Simmons announced her early departure in […]
Inmate Death At Memphis Jail Sparks Investigation
Autopsy details in death of inmate at 201 Poplar By Joel Griffin Moore and Joyce Peterson Published: Feb. 9, 2023 at 1:06 PM CST MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – An autopsy report reveals new details in the case of an inmate’s death in Shelby County Jail. And now, the family of 33-year-old Gershun Freeman is […]
Something Strange Is Happening on the Sun, and We’ve Never Seen It Before
“It’s very curious. There is a big ‘why’ question around it,” one scientist said. By Hannah Docter-Loeb February 7, 2023, 9:40am IMAGE: NASA This past week, a part of the sun’s surface broke off and started circling the sun’s north pole almost as if it were a giant polar vortex––and scientists don’t […]
Burt Bacharach: A Lifetime Of Musical Magic
by Don Mooney Memphis, TENN—Burt Bacharach, By all musical standards of the 60s was magic! The pop composer, arranger, conductor, record producer and occasional singer whose hit songs in the 1960s distilled that decade’s mood of romantic optimism, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94. […]