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@jerryleads

Executive Producer & Narrator of “Recovering the Stories,” Artist, Educator, Community Archivist, Founder, The IF Institute, Presidential Leadership Scholar, Founding ED, Dallas TRHT & Bachman Lake Together, ΩΨΦ

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Someone needs to answer these questions:
1. What changes if Democrats win the House?
2. What exactly will be different in Jan 2027 as a result?

21.01.2026 17:13 👍 541 🔁 108 💬 27 📌 0
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Dallas County exonerates Tommy Lee Walker, an innocent man Texas executed in 1956 Following the hourslong special session, the Dallas County Commissioners Court downtown passed a resolution that stated evidence showed “egregious violations”...

In a historic move, Dallas County officials voted Wednesday to symbolically exonerate a man executed nearly 70 years ago for a crime he could not have committed.

Tommy Lee Walker was convicted in 1954 of the murder of Venice Lorraine Parker under a bridge near the Love Field airport.

21.01.2026 17:40 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Dream Week Lunch and Learn featuring Jerry L. Hawkins - Social Change and Intercultural Engagement Jerry L. Hawkins, M.Ed. is an artist, educator, archivist, historian, futurist, Presidential Leadership Scholar, and Emmy Award-winning Executive Producer and Narrator for the “Recovering The Stori...

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19.01.2026 19:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Come hang out with me for SMU’s Dream Week, and learn about Rev. Dr. King, Jr.’s visits to DFW (and the work he left for us to complete)!

Date: Friday, Jan. 23, 2026
Location: Hughes-Trigg Student Center Chamber
SMU (3140 Dyer St, Dallas, TX 75205)
Time: 12PM-1PM

Register below:

19.01.2026 19:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Following my reporting that was published online yesterday, Dallas anti-eviction lawyer Mark Melton has resigned from the board of the homeless nonprofit Refuge for Renewal — a project of Republican megadonor Monty Bennett that was a key subject of my reporting

13.01.2026 14:25 👍 189 🔁 54 💬 4 📌 2

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished.

I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy.

Time to melt ICE.

09.01.2026 21:13 👍 13876 🔁 2778 💬 337 📌 267

How policing has been my entire life.

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💜🙏🏿

10.12.2025 21:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Look! 😂 You see I didn’t share the (beautiful) picture. I know better! It’s still phenomenal.

10.12.2025 20:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

😂😂😂😂

10.12.2025 20:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Always great to see your name, @prisonculture.bsky.social, in this museum. Wondering how you feel about your picture 😂

10.12.2025 20:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I will be continuing to uplift and celebrate Black creativity, Black study, and Black people across the world. You are welcome.

06.12.2025 21:18 👍 412 🔁 61 💬 4 📌 0
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Emmy-Winning Documentary Unearths Dallas' Untold Stories - Dallas Weekly Discover how the Emmy-winning documentary series, Recovering the Stories, is rooted in community and highlights overlooked chapters of Dallas history.

dallasweekly.com/2025/11/reco...

25.11.2025 04:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

22.11.2025 03:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!!!

22.11.2025 03:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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KERA and Jerry Hawkins win Emmy for documentary series The Lone Star Emmys were doled out over the weekend, and one of the winning projects was the KERA series “Recovering The Stories: Exploring the History

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21.11.2025 04:49 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Join me and KERA Sunday, Nov. 2, 2:45pm at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where will be screening the Emmy-nominated series Recovering the Stories at the Lone Star Film Festival, followed by a post-screening Q&A.

Tickets and more information here: lsff25.eventive.org/schedule/68d...

02.11.2025 04:48 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We need community defense for sure and we also need people who are fighting for what we want in excess of what's currently on offer.

27.10.2025 20:23 👍 230 🔁 62 💬 1 📌 0

Do you live in an apartment complex? How about printing out some fliers letting your neighbors know that on a particular day of the week, u will be cooking X extra meals and that anyone who needs one can stop by your place at X hour to pick one up no questions asked? Can even leave them at the door.

22.10.2025 18:59 👍 622 🔁 195 💬 8 📌 1

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

23.10.2025 02:27 👍 4640 🔁 797 💬 30 📌 0
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Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas painting steps rainbow after Gov. Abbott's order on crosswalks The church in the Oak Lawn neighborhood says it's painting its steps in rainbow colors in response to Gov. Greg Abbott's order targeting rainbow crosswalks.

Texans fighting back in Dallas. This is so great.

21.10.2025 21:45 👍 1823 🔁 508 💬 18 📌 31
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Feds revoke Dallas activist’s DACA status, detain him over social media posts Earlier this month, Yaa’kub Vijandre was detained by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents. Despite his clean record, the government said his legal...

Feds revoke Dallas activist’s DACA status, detain him over social media posts: Yaa’kub Ira Vijandre was a fixture at Dallas-area pro-Palestine protests, filming with his camera. Now, he faces deportation over social media posts the govt claims glorify terrorism.

www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

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Join me and the Oak Cliff Cultural Center (OC3) at the Texas Theatre for a screening of At the Pan-African Connection (2025) on Sunday, August 17, 2025, at 4:30 PM (doors at 4:00 PM). This presentation of the film is open to the public. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/at-the-pan...

08.08.2025 18:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On this day in 1863, Harriet Tubman's forces freed more than 700 slaves in a raid of South Carolina plantations .

mississippitoday.org/2025/06/02/o...

02.06.2025 12:15 👍 415 🔁 163 💬 6 📌 29
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$105 Million Reparations Package for Tulsa Race Massacre Unveiled by Mayor

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

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At the Pan-African Connection Film Premiere Join us for a night filled with learning, reflecting, and community. Be the first to experience the film on the big screen!

“At the Pan-African Connection” premieres on Saturday, May 17, 2025 at Angelika Film Center & Café in Dallas. Doors will open at 5 p.m., with the screening scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 and are available for reservation through this Eventbrite link: www.eventbrite.com/e/at-the-pan...

15.05.2025 00:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I met Asota in 2021 while I was Executive Director of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation, and through Dallas TRHT’s Community Innovation Lab, he was awarded $10,000 in funding to work on this film.

15.05.2025 00:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Dallas' Pan-African Connection: A Legacy of Community - Dallas Weekly The story behind Anthony Asota's film, "At the Pan-African Connection," a documentary about his journey from Dallas's North Dallas projects.

I recently wrote about a new documentary, “At The Pan-African Connection,” and its filmmaker, Anthony Asota. I sat down with Asota and interviewed him about his life and the film. Check it out: dallasweekly.com/2025/05/anth...

15.05.2025 00:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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“They’re trying to kidnap someone” On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.

"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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