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Black Tie Dinner. Black Tie Dinner is a formal charity dinner held each year in Dallas, Texas to raise money for the North Texas lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ( LGBTQ) community. The first dinner was held in 1982. Since its inception, Black Tie Dinner has remained one of the largest LGBTQ fund-raising dinners in the nation ...
Deep Ellum. / 32.78444°N 96.78056°W / 32.78444; -96.78056. Deep Ellum is a neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, composed largely of arts and entertainment venues near downtown in East Dallas. Its name is based on a corruption of the area's principal thoroughfare, Elm Street. Older alternative uses include Deep Elm and Deep Elem.
In the late 19th century, there were over 11,000 black people in Dallas. [ 6] In the 1990s, the number of African-Americans making annual incomes of $100,000 or more (adjusted to $75,000 as of 1990, from the circa 2005 number) increased by 300%. Around 2005, increasing numbers of African-Americans moved to suburban communities to the north.
The Texas Bear Round-Up (TBRU) is one of the largest annual Bear community events in the world and the largest in Texas. It began in 1995. [56] [57] 1996 marked the first year of Dallas Black Pride. The celebratory event has grown to be the largest of its kind in Texas and continues to be held every fall.
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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 ...
The Huey P. Newton Gun Club is a group [2] named after Black Panther Party co-founder and Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton. [3] The group teaches self-defense and has staged armed protests in favor of African American gun rights [2] and against police brutality. [4] The club was founded by Rakem Balogun, [5] Yafeuh Balogun [6] and Babu Omowale.
The BWDL was founded in 2015 [2] by Niecee X. [1] [3] They were influenced by the Black Panther Party [3] and contemporary organizations including the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, but later split from the latter group. [1] The BWDL describes itself as a Womanist organization. [4] According to the group's Facebook page, it "works for the immediate ...