The Dallas Morning News hosted several events in the Red Bird neighborhood in March as journalists worked from a pop-up newsroom.
The turnout was strong, with committed residents, nonprofit groups and business leaders offering thoughtful ideas on how to enhance and safeguard this vital southern corridor.president of the Singing Hills Neighborhood Association.
She distributes bulletins to about 800 people in the neighborhood on topics ranging from highways and crime watch groups to sales at local stores.She talked about her opposition to the proliferation of low-income housing units that developers are incentivized to offer in the community, “As they always say, we need affordable housing. Well, it’s“Now the developer is going to build townhomes there... But I’m getting old, so someone else needs to step up and start getting in everyone’s business,” Alridge said, with an infectious laugh. grew up in Oak Cliff and is the CEO of Russell Glen, a real estate development and investment company in the area. is the CEO of The DEC Network, a nonprofit organization that helped develop a 20,000-square-foot innovation center at the Shops at RedBird location, which acts as a start-up for small businesses, aiming to revitalize the neighborhood.a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending “food apartheid” and bringing fresh, healthy and affordable food to underserved areas in southern Dallas.In 2014, Sanders was grocery shopping in Uptown Dallas when she had a revelation. Standing in front of a salad bar filled with fresh greens and crisp vegetables, she noticed something striking — not many stores like it existed south of I-30.The Oak Cliff area contains several food deserts. The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines these as “low-access communities,” where at least a third of residents live more than a mile from a supermarket. Sanders spoke about a recent disappointment after Tom Thumb canceled its plans to expand to the Shops at RedBird.A spokesperson for Albertsons Companies Inc., Tom Thumb’s parent company, said the decision was made “after discussions with the City of Dallas and a thorough economic evaluation.”is a single mother of six children and a cancer survivor. Through an interpreter, she talked about her childhood in El Salvador, where she never had the opportunity to eat at a restaurant.She also grows vegetables, which helps her family access healthy food. “That has helped me provide organic food to feed my six children on my own and beat cancer,” Blanco said.for nearly 19 years. He talked about how his university has hosted several athletic tournaments — and how the feedback he’s received from people who worry about visiting southern Dallas confounds the people who live there.numerous paid internship opportunitiesis working to engage and inform voters in the Latino community every step of the election; from providing education, registering voters and turning them out to vote. They’ve done door-to-door canvassing at over 120,000 homes, along with text messaging and social media.“When you address the nature of voter turnout, the knee-jerk reaction is voter apathy,” he said. “I used to run campaigns for a living, and the Latino vote is often an afterthought because the turnout wasn’t as high as other communities.”“Before Texas was a state, it was Tejas. It’s a name that connotes ally and friendship,” Hinojosa said. “We’re intricately a part of this state and we’re allies. Don’t criminalize us. Don’t see us as a nefarious force. We are the opposite of that.”officer spent some quality time at the pop-up newsroom. Over the past 20-plus years, he has served in neighborhoods across Dallas, including the last seven years in the Red Bird area. I asked if he had any stories to share from his time in the community.She discussed some examples of working hand-in-hand with the DPD and how they live up to the motto “to protect and serve.” “A few months ago, we got a call about a mom who didn’t have a car seat — and that’s a ticket,” she said. “They called to say, ‘We have a mom that needs a car seat, is there anything you can do?’ So we made sure that mom got a car seat.”Following the “food as medicine” philosophy, the program aims at making delicious, nutritious food accessible to everyone, preventing and treating chronic disease, and improving people’s relationship with food. “We’re not just doing a cooking class. We’re connecting it to health care so it’s a part of someone’s health insurance,” said Dr. Albin.has served as pastor for the past 22 years. The congregation began in 1976 with around 250 members and has grown to roughly 9,000 today. “It’s a privilege for us to be one of the many churches that are part of the fabric of the Red Bird community,” Carter said. “The last three years have been exciting for us because we’ve welcomed around 5,000 new members to our church, and many of them are around the median age of 35.”focused on civic engagement, food pantries, housing assistance, free counseling sessions, tax preparation assistance, career pathways, scholarship programs, economic empowerment, health screenings, aging services and other support to the community.“Last month, we hosted 80 Black-owned businesses and helped them raise around $70,000 for their businesses,” Carter said. “We give out about $100,000 each year in scholarships to individuals. ... Last fall, we were able to give $400,000 to members of our congregation who were furloughed during the government shutdown.”spearheaded an initiative to provide transportation to underserved communities in southern Dallas. “I wish people would write more about this,” she said of the on-demand, curb-to-curb ride service that began in 2021.which partners with Dallas Area Rapid Transit, STAR Transit, the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the Texas Department of Transportation and the GoLink Inland Port Connect.“We have small buses that pick people up at their door,” she said. “If a bus is not available, we’ll call an Uber for them, all for the cost of a DART fare.” Near the pop-up newsroom is Breakfast Brothers, a restaurant that delivered delicious food to our staff and visitors. It began in 2017 as a small food trailer parked behind a nightclub in Dallas. Now, there are threeat the jam-packed Red Bird location. “We took some bumps and bruises in the beginning, and we never thought that it would turn into what it has turned into,” he said.“The energy around here is great. You don’t feel unsafe, people are not breaking into things around here,” Booker said. “This is a community that people love.”Michael has worked at the DMN for over two decades. He writes, creates informational graphics, illustrations and animations. His work has received hundreds of national and international awards, including the Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, the Associated Press, Print, the Society of News Design and Malofiej.North Texas Prescribed Burn Association members perform a controlled burn at a Covington, Texas ranch
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