Tonya Stafford spends much of her time telling her personal story of human trafficking in an effort to save others from a similar fate.[1] She describes being only 13 when her own mother sold her to a man in exchange for drug money. Tonya essentially…
In the early morning hours of July 24, 1973, Dallas Police officers Darrell L. Cain and Roy Arnold responded to a burglary call at a Fina gas station at 2301 Cedar Springs Road in what was known as the barrio of Little Mexico in Dallas.…
Around 3:00 am on the morning of May 16, 1994, Richard Miles’ life was forever changed. While standing on the corner of Lovers Lane and Bluffview Boulevard in Dallas, Miles’ was spotted by Dallas Police and identified as someone matching the…
Standing 14 feet, Robert E. Lee and Young Soldier was sculpted by renowned equestrian artist, Alexander Phimister Proctor, and officially dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 12, 1936 at Lee Park in Dallas, Texas. In attendance, were…
A skinhead who testified for the prosecution in the civil rights trial of five fellow white supremacists was arrested on suspicion of threatening to kill an African-American woman at the 900 Block of Allegheny Dr, Richardson, TX. Richardson Police…
On July 17, 2008, Jonathan Russell Gunter and Bobby Jack Singleton pistol-whipped bisexual man, Jimmy Lee Dean, and yelling “anti-gay epithets.”[1] This incident took place along a small block area of Dickason Avenue between Throckmorton and…
The beating of a homeless man in Dallas resulted in a guilty plea for assault and a law suit. A manager and co-owner of a Fair Park area pizzeria claimed that the homeless man failed to pay for his meal and fearing that he may have a weapon, the…
On May 17, 1954 the Supreme court ruled against the Topeka Board of Education. The Supreme Court merged together four separate cases that had made their way through the state and district courts. All of them shared a similar storyline: “African…
Jane was an African American woman born around 1800. The first legal record of Jane was when she was sold by Edward Welborn to John Young. The Bill of Sale included the following wording: "I have this day sold to John Young, a negro woman named Jane,…