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themselves and their history depicted on the pages of books used in the classroom. At NCNW, we know that children thrive in learning environments that are inclusive and culturally competent. As such, we will continue to denounce these attacks on our schools, books, and history.
In 1954, St. Paul Hospital became the first in Dallas to admit African-American physicians to practice. The five physicians admitted were Dr. Lee G. Pinkston (seated), Dr. Frank H. Jordan, Dr. Joseph R. Williams, Dr. William K. Flowers, and Dr. George L. Shelton (standing, left to right). Prior to this time, the only hospital facilities available to African-American physicians in Dallas had been the Pinkston Clinic, a 15-bed clinic operated by Dr. Pinkston. If a patient needed to go into another hospital, the patient was assigned a white physician for hospital care. The Texas Medical Association would not admit African-Americans to membership until 1955. Dallas County Medical Society followed suit the same year. In 1956, St. Paul admitted seven African-American physicians to the staff.
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Yesterday, NCNW rallied on the streets of Washington, D.C. to unapologetically proclaim that the censorship of Black history and the use of politicized agendas to infringe upon our rights to an inclusive education will not be tolerated. At NCNW, we believe that it is crucial to ensure that the writings of Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Angie Thomas and other Black authors and scholars are allowed to continue inspiring youth across the country for generations to come. As such, we will not tolerate the spreading of messages that invoke fear and suppress honest discourse about the history of Black people in America.
Rev. Shavon Arline-Bradley, NCNW President and CEO, recognizes the lasting impact of these tactics and the consequences. As a mother herself, President Arline-Bradley understands that it is vital that her son and all students be able to see
Since its founding almost 90 years ago, NCNW has defended the rights of women and children of African descent, and we will continue that fight with your support. We are cementing our legacy by advocating for equality, freedom, justice, to hold space in every classroom, on every bookshelf, and in every mind and heart of generous donors like you.
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Alex Beebe and Nanci Mendoza
Former Dallas natives James “Alex” Beebe and Nanci Mendoza announce to family, college friends and loved ones their marriage ceremony on March 23, 2023, was beautiful, because of the love and support that they received.
Alex is the son of James and Valder Beebe and Nanci is the baby daughter of Edwin and Virginia Rosa. The happy couple, both of their parents reside in Dallas. Alex is a 2014 and Nanci’s a 2012 graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington. The couple has begun their new life in Los Angeles, California. Nanci is in private employment and Alex is pursuing a career in music.
Their wedding is being called the ‘wedding of the year’ by family and friends. The wedding was held at the beautiful outdoor venue Divine Grace, 3747 Grace Ranch Trail, McKinney, TX. The open-air wedding ceremony included a traditional catholic unity rosary segment called a “Lasso”. The end of the ceremony, Alex’s parents continued the African tradition of placing a beautiful broom for the couple to “jump the broom” united into their future. Jeremiah 29:11 shared during the vow ceremony will become a beacon to guide the young and gifted pair.
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d’ oeuvres were served to guests mingling on the beautifully manicured grounds. After cocktail hour, the wedding moved to the beautiful grand ballroom. The wait staff served a three-course lobster or chicken dinner in a formal setting. The evening of joy included entertainment from a lady DJ, dancing and the traditional serenade from Alex’s and his Fraternity brothers to Nanci.
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I cannot think of a subject I am more familiar with than Mental Health.
At age 30, my brilliant, handsome, soccer star son #2 suffered a nervous breakdown. He was among all things a professional student and jetsetter, loved fast cars and just 12 hours away from a double major in economics and finance.
I have written about our family journey since 1999, when he appeared on the cover of a major Texas newspaper.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
and I have witnessed a lot of changes to the system, been overly passionate about the nuance cycle affecting thousands of families. With the able assistance of Google and their ‘word search’ system, our number one article where we have
amassed serious national numbers has been ‘how to obtain a mental illness warrant”. Another search engine was equally as caring. There are so many line items to cover in mental illness cases. How to navigate and pilot your way through the ‘jungle’ is what I consider one of the obstacles families face when reporting a loved one.
To minimize the pain there is MetroCare. There are 988. And there is Dr. John Burruss MD and CEO of MetroCare who joined us unabashedly live!! on “The Ester Davis Show” at you tube. Dr. Burruss was easy to talk to. He was so familiar with the answers to the questions and all the ‘hot buttons’ for awaiting ears. I love dialogue that carries its own audience. Joining us on the broadcast was Tate Ringer, Chief Strategic, MetroCare, Wil Michael, GSR Sports, Publisher, Elite News. This subject resonates with one out of four families. That is really high, which means you are NOT alone! If you need help the time to call is immediately.
Mental Health Month makes you aware of the helpful changes and the type of mental health traumas most common in the African American community. Post-traumatic stress disorders are misunderstood. Substance use disorders, depression and the suicide numbers especially among African American males is a topic the NAACP (Dr. Sharon Middlebrooks, Dallas President), will tackle at their monthly meeting, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. I cannot leave out Friendship West and their ‘call-toreadiness’ spotlight and dialogue on the suicide rate crisis. Bottom line, the information is before you in abundance. Get on board and get rid of the myths. We are depending on you.
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Recipe of the Week: Caribbean-Style Coconut Curry Salmon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground Jamaican allspice
• 1 (14 ounce/400ml) can full-fat coconut milk
• 1 scotch bonnet pepper, left wholedo not cut!- optional
Instructions
Prep & season. Pat the salmon fillets dry with a paper towel. In a small bowl, combine the salt/pepper- to taste, 2 teaspoons curry powder, garlic powder, and smoked paprika. Stir the spices together to fully combine. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of olive oil over the salmon and sprinkle the spice blend over the fillets. Use your hands to rub the spice blend into the salmon until evenly coated. Then set aside.
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pepper. Serve this coconut curry salmon immediately alongside your favorite side dishes, if desired (we love pairing this dish right over some jasmine rice!). Enjoy!
Notes Caribbean-style curry powder: You can find this style of curry powder at your local Caribbean/West Indian or Latin market. I personally recommend the Betapac or Chief brand of curry powder. Please read blog post in its entirety for more tips + tricks.
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their campus. Thank you, CREW staff, for your diligence and commitment to bettering your students and yourselves.
Congratulations to San Jacinto Elementary School for its dedication to our young students. The school’s Pre-K Classes were recognized for being among the top users of the “My Math Academy App.'' Your encouragement of the children is greatly appreciated and has instilled significant confidence in their mathematical ability.
On Monday, May 1, Buckner Terrace Montessori, formerly Edna Rowe Elementary, celebrated Día del Niño (Day of the Child). Teachers and team members celebrated “children’s wellbeing and the joy they bring to us.”
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prep time: 15M
cook time: 20M
total time: 35M
yield: 4 1X
category: MAIN DISHES method: STOVETOP cuisine: CARIBBEAN
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You’ll love the flavors within this Coconut Curry Salmon dish that’s full of Caribbean flair. Perfectly seasoned salmon fillets pan-seared and combined with a robust, mega flavorful coconut curry sauce. This recipe here is so easy to whip up and you can pair alongside rice and/or veggies for an epic weeknightfriendly meal!
Ingredients
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• 4 salmon fillets, about 5–6 ounces each, skin-off
• Kosher salt & freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• 1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons
Caribbean-style curry powder, divided (see notes)
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 red bell pepper, thinly sliced
• 1 green bell pepper, thinly sliced
• 1 small white onion, thinly sliced into half-moons
• 6 cloves of garlic, finely minced or pressed
• 1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger
• 6 sprigs fresh thyme, de-stemmed
Sear the salmon. Add 1 tablespoon olive oil into a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Once the oil is hot and shimmering, add the salmon into the skillet. Let the salmon sear, undisturbed, until the fillets achieve a deep, golden sear, about 2-3 minutes. Then flip the salmon to continue searing on the other side, about 1-2 minutes, or until your desired level of doneness is achieved. Then set the seared salmon fillets aside onto a clean plate while you prepare the coconut curry sauce. Reduce heat to medium or medium-low.
Burn curry. Coat the bottom of the pan with remaining 1 tablespoon of oil. When the oil is hot and shimmering, sprinkle in the remaining 1 tablespoon of curry powder. Use a wooden utensil to stir the spice into the oil. Burn the curry in the oil, stirring frequently, until the curry is fragrant and well-bloomed, taking on a deep, golden brown color- about 30 seconds.
Sauté the aromatics & add spices. Add the butter, bell pepper, and onion into the skillet. Sauté the bell pepper and onion, stirring often, for about 3-4 minutes- or until translucent and softened. Then add the garlic, ginger, fresh thyme, and allspice. Continue cooking, stirring every so often, until the mixture is fragrant and well combined, about 1-2 minutes.
Add coconut milk & simmer sauce. Then pour in the coconut milk and add scotch bonnet pepper (if using), stir everything together to combine. Allow the sauce to come up to a gentle simmer and then reduce the heat to the lowest setting. Give the sauce a good stir and taste test- season with more salt/pepper, to taste. Then add the salmon fillets back into the skillet along with any residual juices. Spoon some of the sauce over the salmon and continue cooking for another 1-2 minutes or so. Then remove from heat.
Serve. Discard the scotch bonnet
Dallas ISD is always happy to celebrate our outstanding teachers. I had the pleasure of speaking at the annual State of the District event, and was honored to highlight our elite educators and partners. Congratulations to all those who were chosen as finalists for Teacher of the Year, including District Nine’s own Bobby Bailey from Billy Earl Dade Middle School. We are confident that your work ethic and dedication will continue to inspire other teachers and faculty to strive for the same skills.
Our district’s campuses take leadership and education very seriously. When there is an opportunity to learn, our staff takes advantage of it quickly. I am happy to share that CREW Leadership Academy took the time to attend the Ron Clark Academy Expo. I am eager to see the new strategies these educators have learned and how they apply them to
On this day, students were encouraged to dress as professionals, princesses, superheroes, or in casual attire. This was a great opportunity for students to express themselves creatively and showcase their aspirations.
I am very proud of the young ladies from Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School. These bright students recently competed in the Pentathlon competition and won first place. Multiple students also won more than one individual medal in their five content areas. The ladies have excelled exponentially in this competition, and as a community we will continue to encourage them to stay involved and pursue this level of interest.
Recently, the Students of CityLab High School presented their street activation design projects to Dallas ISD community partners. They were able to solve driving questions, such as, “how to activate an intersection,” reviving a sense of place that encourages local neighbors to interact with each other and their built environment. This exercise not only challenged the students to think critically about socioeconomic values; it also set a foundation for supplying their community with functioning roads for its citizens.
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Lords Supper 1st Sunday 6:00PM Pastor Rev C.J.R. Phillips
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550 Shepherd Rd , Dallas, TX 75243 (214)341-6459
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Saved By Grace Restoration Ministries
1700 NW 7th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 405 537 1061
Sunday Morning Prayer 10:00 AM Service 11:00 AM
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East Gate Missionary Baptist Church
6960 S. Polk St. Dallas, TX 75232 (214)371-2633
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Lighthouse Church of God in Christ
2127 S. Corinth St. Rd Dallas, TX 75203 (214)371-2421
Morning Worship: 11AM
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Cornerstone Baptist
1819 MLK Blvd Dallas, TX 75215 (214)426-5468
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Sunday School: 9:30AM
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Concord Ministries Baptist Church
6808 Pastor Bailey Drive Dallas, TX (214)331-8522
Worship: 7:30AM - 9:15AM 11:00AM – 12:24AM
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Carver Height Baptist Church
2510 E.Ledbetter Rd, Dallas, TX 75216 (214)371-2024
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Marsalis Avenue Baptist Church
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Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church
1819 n. Washington Ave., Dallas, TX 75204
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Sunday: 10AM
Sunday School: 9AM
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444 West Ledbetter Dr. , Dallas, TX 75224 (214)374-0828
Early Risers Sunday School
7:15 AM
Morning Worship: 7:50AM
Sunday School: 9:30AM
Morning Worship: 10:30
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7:00PM
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New El Bethel Baptist Church
2023 Mouser Ln Dallas, TX 75203
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Greater Emmanuel Baptist Church
2110 E. Eleventh St. Dallas, TX 75203 (214)942-0218
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Greater Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church
1010 Bayonne St., Dallas, Tx (214)744-1677
Morning Glory: 7:45AM
Sunday School: 9:15AM
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Tues- 12 Noon & 7pm BibleStudy
Sunday School: 8am
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St. Paul Baptist Church
1600 Pear Street Dallas, TX 75215
Phone: (214)421-3741
Fax: (214) 421-3926
Sunday School
9:30AM
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The “Exciting” Singing Hill Baptist Church
6550 University Hills Blvd, Dallas, TX 75241
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Sunday Worship: 8AM-10:45AM
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ROCHESTER, Minn. —
Buprenorphine is a prescription approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that effectively treats opioid dependence or addiction. But women, as well as Black and Hispanic populations, do not have equal access to this potentially lifesaving medication, new Mayo Clinic research finds. The study published Friday, June 3, in JAMA Network Open.
The research team used the OptumLabs Data Warehouse to examine 3,110 filled prescriptions of buprenorphine from 72,055 emergency department visits across the U.S. from 2014 to 2020. While access to the medication increased over time for all groups studied, it was consistently lower for people 41 and older, women, and Black and Hispanic people. These disparities remained relatively steady over the years studied.
“The persistence of the disparities is frustrating. This is a truly lifesaving treatment. But it does appear that all groups are gaining access over time, which is what we want to see,” says Molly Jeffery, Ph.D., scientific director for Mayo Clinic’s Division of Emergency Medicine Research and the study’s senior author.
The researchers note that people with socioeconomic advantages — white, male or younger — were more likely to receive buprenorphine. “These findings are not surprising, given that patient- and system-level barriers for accessing buprenorphine
often disproportionately impact vulnerable populations,” they write. They say that obstacles to receiving the drug include systemic racism, mistrust of health care professionals and the health care system, not enough clinicians able and prepared to prescribe buprenorphine in the emergency department, regulatory requirements, reimbursement issues, and addiction and mental health stigmas.
“The laws that currently limit access to buprenorphine are a legacy of an earlier opioid epidemic from literally 100 years ago. Those laws are based in mistrust of physicians and patients and a fundamental misunderstanding about substance use disorders,” Dr. Jeffery says. “Making it easy to access safe and effective treatment is the best way to fight the epidemic of opioid overdoses, which has gotten worse during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The FDA approved buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder in 2002. Since then, the National Institutes of Health points to several studies showing its efficacy in treating opioid addiction and thereby reducing opioid overdose deaths. A 2014 meta-analysis study showed that patients receiving buprenorphine were 1.82 times more likely to stay in treatment than those who received a placebo.
To Dr. Jeffery and her Mayo colleagues, the solution is simple: Get more physicians to prescribe buprenorphine.
“We know exactly what to do to close the gap: Get more health care providers, particularly primary care providers, involved in prescribing buprenorphine,” Dr. Jeffery says.
“Mayo Clinic recognizes the importance of primary care access to buprenorphine, and our clinicians are addressing the disparity gap by prescribing buprenorphine whenever appropriate and providing it through a primary care program and an addiction clinic.”
Dr. Jeffery said another way to close
the gap is to remove policy barriers, such as additional requirements for clinicians to prescribe buprenorphine beyond what’s needed for an opioid prescription. Policies like that “needlessly limit access to a safe and effective treatment and increase stigma,” she adds.
These findings also will be presented at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting on Sunday, June 5, in Washington, D.C., by lead author Maria Stevens, a Mayo Clinic researcher and a Ph.D. candidate in Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Gillings School of Global Public Health.
The research is supported by the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. The center works within the medical practice, gathering and analyzing data with the goal of making broad-based quality and efficiency improvements in patient care at Mayo and beyond.
Dr. Jeffery is a health care practice and policy researcher in the Mayo Clinic Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. Stevens is also a researcher in the center. ###
About OptumLabs
OptumLabs is a collaborative center for research and innovation cofounded by Optum Inc. and Mayo Clinic, and focused on improving patient care and patient value. The OptumLabs Data Warehouse contains de-identified data from a large U.S. health plan with claims from commercial and Medicare Advantage enrollees, as well as de-identified electronic health record data from a nationwide network of provider groups. The Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, which leads the relationship with OptumLabs for Mayo Clinic, has published a number of studies identifying areas for potential improvements in health care delivery using the OptumLabs Data Warehouse.
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Disparities in opioid treatment access remain for women, Black and Hispanic people
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Disparities in opioid treatment access remain for women, Black and Hispanic people
