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In 1995, the city of Dallas elected its first black mayor Ron Kirk. He held office from 1995 to 2002. In 2019, Dallas elected its second black mayor, Eric Johnson. Dallas' Black Chamber of commerce was established in 1926 and is the oldest in the United States. [19] Fort Worth and some surrounding cities also have a black chamber of commerce.
The Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas has been called, Texas' Most Historic Music Venue [1] and since its inception has had a colorful set of proprietors. Originally built by O.L. Nelms, an eccentric Dallas millionaire, for his close friend, western swing bandleader Bob Wills, the venue opened in 1950 as Bob Wills' Ranch House.
The Yale Club of New York City, founded in 1897, the world's largest gentlemen's club. The following is a list of notable traditional gentlemen's clubs in the United States, including those that are now defunct.
Black and Tan clubs were nightclubs in the United States in the early 20th century catering to the black and mixed-race ("tan") population. [1] [2] They flourished in the speakeasy era and were often popular places of entertainment linked to the early jazz years. With time the definition simply came to mean black and white clientele.
Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT) was founded by Ann Williams in 1976. [1] [4] Originally located on the campus of Bishop College, DBDT received a 1988 gift from Lucy Crow Billingsley for access to a 13,000 square-foot building on Flora Street in Dallas.
Dallas Black Pride (also known as Dallas Southern Pride) is an annual five-day event to celebrate the emerging black LGBT community in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. [1] The event has been in existence since 1996. [2] It is held in conjunction with the State Fair of Texas and State Fair Classic in Dallas every fall (late September/early ...
In 1922, Genevieve Forbes took Tribune readers on an armchair tour of Chicago’s demimonde. She regularly covered crime and high society, but it was a slow news day. So she wrote about black and ...
The Dallas Black Dance Theatre was commissioned to perform during the 1996 Olympics, in Atlanta, GA. [3] [4] The Dallas Black Dance Theatre, while under Williams' guidance, became the fourth largest African American dance troupe in the United States. [5] Williams was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame in 2002. [6]