Beauty DFW
BY MAL COLLINS
Welcome to the Juneteenth Issue
Yes, we put out a Black History Month issue every February, but you can’t forget about Juneteenth, which is why we’ve decided to celebrate the holiday with a special issue. And it’s packed with great info and in-depth reporting. Step inside.
On pg. 4, Southeast Fort Worth heads once more unto the breach. The historically Black neighborhood, with its unconscionably high mortality rate, continues bearing the large cost of environmental racism, this time in the form of a proposed multibillion-dollar AI data center. On pg. 7, a small-business owner discusses the Karmelo Anthony verdict, while on pg. 22, we highlight a concert at The Cicada to raise funds for an Eastside community garden founded by living legend Dr. Opal Lee that could use some love.
Don’t think there isn’t any Black joy inside, because there is. A lot of it. Two writers take us to Arlington, where a salon-suite owner who made her bank by trucking is building a beauty and self-positivity empire and where Breakfast Brothers pump out comfort food to feed your soul. Closer to home, there’s a bevy of fun things to do this Juneteenth season, including concerts, parades, art exhibits, food trucks, and so much more.
Welcome to the first of what will undoubtedly become an annual June celebration, and we couldn’t be prouder.
— Anthony Mariani, Editor
INTRODUCTION
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Welcome to our inaugural Juneteenth issue. By Anthony Mariani
METROPOLIS
4 Metro: AI Data Center
Southeast Fort Worthians are fighting back.
By Amber Chadwick
5 Static: Glad the Spurs Lost
Our terrible state doesn’t deserve a championship.
By E.R. Bills
7 Letter to the Editor
The Karmelo Anthony situation could not be sadder for all involved.
By Ashley Benton
FEATURE
9 Beauty DFW
The dreams of a local salon owner and former trucker are finally within reach.
By Mal Collins
SCREEN
10 Movie Review
Is God Is isn’t perfect, but it marks the debut of a filmmaker to watch.
By Kristian Lin
ARTS & CALENDAR
12 Art Review
The Amon Carter’s Black Photojournalism exhibit shines.
By Anthony Mariani
15 More Art
A warm intellectualism pervades the Modern’s Rashid Johnson survey.
By Anthony Mariani
16 Night & Day
Juneteenth events are popping off throughout the region, plus Pride and more.
By Elaine Wilder
EATS & DRINKS
19 Breakfast Brothers
This Arlington comfort-food mecca warms the soul.
By Cody Neathery
MUSIC
22 Opal’s Farm Benefit
The Cicada will be the site of a concert fundraiser for the community garden Friday. By Kena Sosa
STAFF
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Twilight Zone
Southeast Fort Worth has been suffering from environmental racism for decades, so the newly proposed nearby AI data center is sadly expected.
BY AMBER CHADWICK
Nestled in Southeast Fort Worth, the historic Weston Gardens is a fixture of the community, providing locals an escape from reality. Sharply contrasting it, Southeast Fort Worth’s landscape is dominated by industrial infrastructure like landfills and truckyards, the heavy machinery stirring up dust and particulates into the air. Amid it all lies an established and predominantly Black community, with many generations of residents and local businesses proudly calling neighborhoods like Echo Heights and Stop Six home. It’s difficult to imagine that across the street from Weston Gardens, the Black Mountain energy consortium is proposing to build a massive $10 billion, 450acre AI data center.
“The data center is the exact opposite of what our garden is supposed to represent,” said Andres Cortes of Weston Gardens.
As the proposal continues moving forward, many locals are pushing back against this unwelcome development. For residents, combating environmental racism within their community is an ongoing battle that’s been decades in the making. This controversy also brings attention to the broader national crisis of how industrial infrastructure is perpetually pushed onto marginalized communities, leaving many families to bear the brunt of the resulting health risks and inequities caused by government negligence. AI data centers are no exception to this equation, which raises the question: What does environmental racism look like now, especially in the era of encroaching AI data centers?
It’s no coincidence that Black Mountain chose Southeast Fort Worth as the potential home for its newest data center. In fact, residents are all too familiar with this strategy and have seen it play out before. It’s simply the latest chapter in an environmentally racist playbook that’s been impacting this community for decades.
Historically, Southeast Fort Worth’s Black families built a self-sustaining community for themselves despite the segregation at the time.
METROPOLIS
However, when Fort Worth underwent a massive post-WWII population boom, the city needed to accommodate the increase, so civic leaders chose Southeast Fort Worth to be annexed for industrial purposes because the land was cheap and political resistance was grossly limited. Because Black residents at the time lacked representation in local government, they were outvoted, and Fort Worth began mercilessly developing this community industrially. Throughout the 1940s and 1960s, Southeast Fort Worth became further solidified as an industrial zone through aggressive municipal rezoning. Now, Southeast Fort Worth is one of the most polluted and ecologically disadvantaged areas in the region.
In 2026, as the battle for environmental justice continues, it’s clear that the fight for the preservation of this community will not end anytime
soon. With the proposal of Black Mountain’s grandiose data center, many residents of Southeast Fort Worth are incensed. We’ve seen how this has played out across the country and are well-aware of the risks. While the proposed AI campus is marketed as economic progress, this can be incredibly deceiving and isn’t worth the detriment to our city and environment. AI data centers use up our natural resources to keep servers cool and running. We live in a drought-prone region, and with larger AI facilities guzzling up to 5 million gallons of water daily, this affects the water pressure and quality within our homes. Data centers also siphon vast amounts of electricity from our state’s notoriously fragile power grid, which could also impact the utility bills of those who live closest to these facilities.
These data centers also run 24 hours a day, relentlessly humming and causing light pollution that will inadvertently make the lives of the people who reside in these neighborhoods a living hell, disrupting their sleep and causing mental anguish. What’s worse is that the backup diesel generators at these facilities routinely emit particulates into the air, which will astronomically impact the existing poor air quality within these communities and cause potential health problems for residents.
For community members in Southeast Fort Worth, health inequities pertaining to pollution-related illnesses are obvious. Since this is the most polluted and industrially burdened area in our city, residents disproportionately suffer from the highest rates of asthma in Fort Worth. Shockingly, one UT Southwestern study showed that Southeast Fort Worth has the lowest life expectancy rates in Tarrant County, with Black men in Echo Heights and Stop Six living an average of 10 years less than their counterparts of other races. Black Americans are also statistically more likely to die from pollution-related illnesses than white Americans.
“It seems like the city and Black Mountain have a death wish for the citizens of East Fort
Worth,” said Letitia Wilbourn, co-chair of the Fort Worth Environmental Coalition of Communities (FWECC) and secretary of the Echo Heights-Stop Six Environmental Coalition. “They know the statistics, and they don’t care. It’s going to kill people.” Wilbourn also expressed concerns about how this will impact not only adults but also newborn babies, children, senior citizens, and pets. Understandably, many individuals have grievances about the toll that this proposed data center could have on these neighborhoods. Noise pollution is a chief concern for Stephan Sanchez, an audio engineer, forensic analyst, and prominent member of the grassroots group Tarrant4Change, who warned that this facility “is going to destroy the peace” and added that “the sound profiles of these neighborhoods will be gone.”
As Fort Worth City Council’s 11 a.m. meeting on Tuesday, June 23, rapidly approaches, the people of Fort Worth are making it clear that the problems with AI data centers need to be addressed. With Juneteenth here, the fight in Southeast Fort Worth takes on a whole new meaning. We are reminded of the indomitable people who came before us while also being reminded of the fight yet to come. We can’t truly celebrate the legacy of Juneteenth while knowing that our citizens are being systematically poisoned by industrial negligence. We cannot be complicit, because true freedom and justice cannot coexist with environmental racism. Collectively, we all must act now before this ecological impact becomes too much to bear.
Search Change.org to sign Weston Garden’s petition. Search ActionNetwork.org to add your name to a petition about the Black Mountain Data Center in Fort Worth. l
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Even in 2026, Southeast Fort Worth may once again fall victim to environmental racism.
Amber Chadwick
To add your name to Weston Garden’s petition, visit Change.org. Amber Chadwick
Spurs Loss Historically Correct
I’m not a big basketball fan, but I did watch a couple of Spurs games during the NBA Finals They’re a young team, and they fought hard, and I know a lot of Texans were rooting for them to win. I was, too. But as I watched the final game, a creeping sense of unease came over me. I tried to shake it, but I couldn’t.
The San Antonio Spurs had a great team, one mostly composed of young Black men whom the state of Texas has actively worked against to limit their political representation. And their fabulous young star — Victor Wembanyama — is obviously an immigrant, and everybody knows how scary Texans seem to be about immigrants these days.
Had the Spurs been able to play more consistently and keep it together, their players and their team obviously deserved to win — but we didn’t. Texas didn’t.
I kept thinking of the 1936 Olympics 90 years back. Adolf Hitler was demonizing immigrants in the early stages of killing millions he considered members of an inferior people, promoting a “master” race — and a young Black man named Jesse Owens upset the Fuhrer’s strudel cart.
At the time, Owens couldn’t serve on a jury, much less vote in his own country. And there he was, crushing silly German homogeneity, exposing the myth of Aryan supremacy, and — at least for a week or three — making the average American appreciate their nation’s diversity
Athletes rarely make real history, but Owens did it in the 1936 Olympics, winning four gold medals and setting Olympic records in each event. On August 3, he won the 100-meter dash. On August 4, he won the long jump. On August 5, he won the 200-meter sprint. And on August 9, Owens won his fourth gold medal in the 4-x-100-meter sprint relay. He practically single-handedly served Nazi Germany a brilliant comeuppance, real history, good history — the right kind of history.
The state of Texas doesn’t encourage real history, diverse history, good history, or the right kind of history. It’s not Nazi Germany, but the Texas legislature is pert near authoritarian, and the current conservative leadership is inarguably flirting with outright fascism
It would have sucked if Jesse Owens had lost in 1936 and the notion of Aryan supremacy prevailed. So, that stated, I apologize to my friends and fellow Texans who are Spurs fans, but the right team won
Yes, the majority of San Antonio is Democratic, and the current mayor is a Democratic lesbian. The Alamo City represents Texas very well. But so does New York. New York is electing dynamic, progressive leaders like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Texas is mostly ruled by asinine, regressive shit stains like Gov. Greg Abbott, John Cornyn, Ken Paxton, and other spineless borderline criminals. Most
of our state’s leadership is blatantly sexist, racist, xenophobic, bigoted, small-minded, and corrupt. New York is looking forward. Texas is slinking backward. As a whole, Texas is currently championing almost everything wrong with America.
Let me repeat that.
Texas is currently championing almost everything wrong with America. So, Texas teams don’t deserve to be champions.
I didn’t like seeing the San Antonio Spurs lose, but my state — like Hitler and the white supremacist Nazis — does not deserve victories. We don’t deserve San Antonio. We don’t deserve Wemby. We don’t deserve Black athletes competing for us at any level. We didn’t deserve the University of Texas’ 2026 Division I Women’s College World Series Championship softball team. And we wouldn’t have deserved a victory by their finals opponents, Texas Tech. A victory for Hitler in the 1936 Olympics
would have been a historical travesty — any victories in or for Texas are no different. We’re a bad actor on the planet. We’re a bad actor in the world. We’re a bad actor in the United States. And until the majority of the leadership changes, we’re losers and should be treated and remembered as such.
Texas doesn’t deserve its Spurs. Texas deserves to be spurned. — E.R. Bills l
Fort Worth native E.R. Bills is the author of the upcoming Devils of Devils: Unspeakable Crimes in Southwest Texas (September 2026) and several other Lone Star titles.
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The line from Jesse Owens to Wemby is pretty direct, especially in Texas.
Sadness All Around
Absolutely terrible for everyone involved. There is no win in a case like that of Karmelo Anthony, a 19-year-old found guilty of murder for the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf
Two families were shattered over a senseless instance of violence. I have a friend on the defense team, and he couldn’t say much, but he did say there was so much left out of the media which complicated this case
This case goes beyond this incident. This is the aftermath of massive systemic shortfalls postJim Crow laws. Entitlement of white people is something I had to come to terms with years ago
when I actually opened my eyes and explored racism — specifically in our court systems.
There are many names I see in the online reactions who I went to school with and attended track meets with. It’s hard to imagine something like this happening when we were that age. I’m one of the few who doesn’t have children, but it’s obvious to see that the youth today carry burdens that would debilitate us adults, specifically the nonwhite youth. I feel like every time a crime happens, occurring with different races, it’s the media that leads the convictions, not the courts. I don’t know what the answer is, but I do know we are stronger unified. Hug your children tonight for an extra few seconds because, in the blink of an eye, our worlds can change
Signed, Ashley Benton, Arlington
Ashley Benton is co-owner of Fool’s Kava House, an inclusive safe space serving eats, kava drinks, and more in Arlington.
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and concision.
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FEATURE
Living in Legacy
Black small-business owner Dena Stanley used truck-driving money to launch her stylish dream.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MAL COLLINS
When you ask a child what they want to be when they grow up, most say they want to follow in the footsteps of a parent or an idol. But Dena Stanley knew from a young age that she wanted to carve her own path. Born in Oklahoma City and now a resident of Fort Worth, she is described by her mother, Sharon Cole, as a “stick of dynamite.” After surviving childhood abandonment, family abuse, and motherhood at 16, Stanley decided to take her future into her own hands. She went back to school, earned her GED, and obtained an associate’s degree in medical billing and coding.
Stanley moved to Dallas in 2013 and met a trucker whom she says “wasted the type of money that would change” her life. Although she had never pictured herself driving a truck, the earning potential outweighed any fears she had. Stepping into a domain where she would be one of very few women operators was something that Stanley saw as an opportunity, not an obstacle. Her unwavering
daughter Mashyla Burge says “feels more like an extension of our family than a place where we work.” Mashyla occupies the main suite, and next door to her is 29-year-old Keanna Jones, who also excels as a woman in a male-dominated field as a barber. Watching Stanley run the business smoothly, with grace and confidence, has inspired both women to own their own suites in the future.
Most weekends, Stanley is doing a lot, making sure that everything runs smoothly in the suites while simultaneously working outside for her husband’s business, Al’s Country Smoked BBQ. Before making a single sale, she takes the stylists’ orders and personally delivers their plates, another example of the community she has built. Stanley performs these tasks with an energetic and deliberate pace but never at the cost of her welcoming smile and warm countenance that is tangible when you are with her.
faith and commitment to self-improvement had carried her through some of the darkest periods of her life, and she would use those same qualities to excel where others settled. She quickly rose in the ranks and was earning the type of income she had always envisioned. The most important accomplishment was a personal one: meeting the love of her life, Al, whom she credits as her biggest support. The pair would share their lives on the road together, earning the team drivers of the year award in 2023, the same year they married.
After 10 years of sacrificing and saving, she now had the resources and support she needed to pursue her dreams. She left trucking for good. Before the year was out, the couple would open A&D Salon Suites, a multi-suite salon studio at 807 Washington Dr. in Arlington.
As a child, Stanley told her mother, “I’m going to have my own business one day and make a lot of money,” and after nearly half a century of intentional effort, she finally held the keys to her beauty empire in the palm of her hand.
Stanley aims to create spaces where clients feel comfortable while being serviced but also comfortable in themselves. She and her mother both live with Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia (CCCA), a form of hair loss that primarily affects Black women in middle age. Known for her beautiful hair her entire life, once Stanley began to embrace her new self and cut her hair completely off, she said her baldness became her superpower. She was determined to be confident in her truest form, and she contributes this permanent shift to her
faith, healing the traumas of her childhood, and the unwavering love of her husband. She is a licensed hair-loss specialist, and her goal is to make sure everyone who comes to her feels loved, appreciated, and, most importantly, confident to be themselves.
Stanley is a business owner who leads by example, and she has created an environment that
When asked what success meant to her, her answer was simple: “Building a community and leaving a legacy. I can’t teach confidence if I’m not showing it.”
Stanley is expanding her community with a podcast titled Healing on Purpose, in which she invites guests to share their own personal stories of triumph over adversity. Dena Stanley isn’t just building a legacy. She is living it. l
Dena Stanley is expanding her community with a podcast titled Healing on Purpose, in which she invites guests to share their own personal stories of triumph over adversity.
The Stanleys, Al and Dena, were awarded team truck drivers of the year in 2023.
Keanna Jones is focused on her craft in KK Studio in A&D Salon Suites in Arlington.
(Left to right) Dena Stanley, daughter Mashyla, and younger brother Sir D help run Al’s Country Smoked BBQ, Dena’s husband’s joint, in Arlington.
SCREEN
Daughter Vengeance Spoiler alert: Dad has it coming in Is God Is.
BY KRISTIAN LIN
Just in time for Father’s Day, an all-Black cast of characters brings us this revenge thriller. If not for the smartphones that the characters occasionally use, you might mistake Is God Is for some lost blaxploitation movie from the 1970s. Its main characters embark on a road trip to extract vengeance. The backdrops are clearly filmed in rural Louisiana even though much of the story is meant to be taking place in California, and the picture comes through in grainy Technicolor just like those blasts from the past.
Look closer, though. Writer-director Aleshea Harris adapts this from her own stage play, and she makes this a remarkably unstagey piece by means of innovative techniques that you wouldn’t have seen in those old Black films. We’re talking sepia-toned flashbacks that pop with the colors of spilled blood or a Saturday morning TV cartoon, as well as split-screens that breathe new life to that hackneyed technique. When the twin protagonists communicate with each other telepathically, we see their speech conveyed on the screen via subtitles without dialogue. Is God Is might not work as well as Harris would like, but this first-time filmmaker’s talent produces stretches of great vividness and power.
The story begins with sisters Racine and Anaia (Kara Young and Mallori Johnson) receiving a letter from their mother (Vivica A. Fox), whom they had assumed was dead. When these twins with long, gold-dyed braids visit her,
they find her terminally ill and burned over 90% of her body. On her deathbed, she commands her daughters to track down and kill their father (Sterling K. Brown), as well as everyone who might stand in their way. The man certainly has it coming, as he was the one who doused their mother with accelerant and set her on fire, leaving burns all over her body as well as on Racine’s left arm and Anaia’s face and chest.
Everyone else seems equally crippled by that father. His second wife (Erika Alexander) is a Christian fundamentalist preacher who has been waiting for him to come back to her for almost 20 years. Her son (Josiah Cross) tries to kill his half-sisters to stop them from murdering his father. The father’s third wife (Janelle Monáe) lives in terror of her husband discovering a speck of dust in the mansion that they share. The defense lawyer (Mykelti Williamson) who won the father’s acquittal of any criminal charges has been repaid by having his client cut
out his tongue.
At the center of it all is Brown, who is cannily cast against type so that we’re not sure what to think during Racine’s climactic confrontation with him, when her father either conjures up or performs a good imitation of a heartfelt half-apology for the damage he did. (“She wouldn’t hold me. As a young man, I needed that.”) The Oscar nominee makes this character into the scariest man who ever wore socks with sandals, and Is God Is works best as an examination of the damage that one depraved man has wreaked on everyone he has ever come into contact with.
That’s great, because the movie functions
much less well as a Tarantinoid coming-of-age journey for the twins or as an exploration of the tensions between the willful and bloody-minded Racine and the more timid Anaia. If the expression of female rage is more coherent here than Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride , that doesn’t say all that much, and the violent deaths near the end could have been executed more convincingly. Just savor its hot, greasy atmosphere and the mythic overtones that lift it above the common pack of revenge-motivated thrillers. Aleshea Harris is a distinctive new voice on the scene, and what will that voice say next?
Is God Is is screening at Regal Fossil Creek (6100 Fwy, Fort Worth, 844-462-7342), Northeast Mall 18 and XD (1101 Melbourne Rd, Ste 6000, Hurst, 817-591-8540), and Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas (2601 Brazos Blvd, Euless, 817-508-4927). The movie is also available for streaming via Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. l
Sterling K. Brown stares down Vivica A. Fox (prior to him burning her) in Is God Is.
Is God Is Starring Kara Young and Mallori Johnson. Written and directed by Aleshea Harris, based on her own stage play. Rated R.
ART
Joy and Pain At the Amon Carter, Black Photojournalism proves Black lives matter.
BY ANTHONY MARIANI
On view now thru day Sunday, July 5, at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Black Photojournalism gathers the work of more than 60 photographers across the country between 1945 and the mid-1980s. The 250-plus photos on display cover everything from major historical events to everyday life in Black America. The resulting portrayal exudes complexity and sublimity, underlining that while skin colors may be different, humanity is shared.
Organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Black Photojournalism draws from nationwide collections and archives, in particular the wealth of work by Charles “Teenie” Harris. There’s also a North Texan, Fort Worth’s Calvin Littlejohn. Most of the photos originally appeared in Black-owned publications, including the Afro American News, Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Ebony, and Pittsburgh Courier. The exhibit unfolds chronologically, and if viewers find themselves looking at disconcerting images and thinking, “Hmm, not much has changed,” you could argue that that’s partly the point. We’ve come a long way, true — Black baby dolls and
Black-forward fashion spreads or ads aren’t as novel and disruptive as they were in the 1950s and ’60s.
Still, there’s a long way to go.
Black Photojournalism features a lot of famous images, including Gordon Parks’ colored snap of a streetside coloreds-only entrance to a department store. A well-dressed mother in white heels looks down on presumably her fancily dressed daughter as if to explain the situation but stopping — the girl is still too young for such ugliness. The red neon “Colored Entrance” sign may be gone, but don’t kid yourself that it doesn’t still shine on. The term “de facto segregation” comes to mind, recalling the notion of self-segregating for various reasons but perhaps chief among them safety.
While seriousness pervades Black Photojournalism, Black joy jumps out from the walls — literally as with one of Harris’ pics of a slender Black man swan-diving into a swimming pool. The water below is merely implied. Shown
from the front, the man — arms stretched wide, body horizontal — floats almost angelically, constrained by nothing but air, some seated onlookers facing the camera, and the dark, utilitarian interior surrounding him. It’s immensely joyous. And atmospheric. You can almost smell the chlorine.
The exhibit is divided into sections, and by the time you reach the mid-1980s — entitled “Keep Hope Alive” after former U.S. presidential candidate Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition — the joy is paramount. At one angle of the galleries, a massive recreation of a portrait of generational singer/performance artist Grace Jones all glammed out in a gold-record hat looks back at you as the smaller original portrait lurks right beyond the wall, driving home the point that Black is indeed beautiful.
Black Photojournalism also beams with Black pride and Black power. The era represented by the exhibit groans with conflict imagery. Protesters, Freedom Riders, fire-and-brimstone preachers — they all combine to emphasize the history of freedom, justice, and unity which we all share but forget about too often, divided as we are by some of our elected leaders. And the rot festers at the top.
Like during the civil rights era, the federal government and Republican-led legislators today are stealing the right to vote from Black Americans, gerrymandering their voices into nonexistence. The current White House also continues demonizing urban neighborhoods as crime-riddled hellscapes. It’s as if no one’s ever heard of redlining. Trapping poor racial minorities in poor neighborhoods has a way of perpetuating and prioritizing survivalism over all else. Sometimes this reaction takes the shape of studying with a flashlight late into the night. More often, it comes as generational crime. One thing that will never fix the problem is the country’s growing wealth disparity. More of the same prefigures our future as long as the 1% keeps paying less while wages stagnate. l
Black is indeed beautiful, as Black Photojournalism proves.
Abeeku Yankah
The sign in Gordon Parks’ famous image may be gone but not forgotten.
Abeeku Yankah
Black baby dolls may not be as novel or disruptive as they were in the 1950s, but there’s still work to do.
Abeeku Yankah
The exhibit’s timespan dovetails with a lot of political unrest.
Abeeku Yankah
This snap by Charles “Teenie” Harris of a swimmer is so atmospheric, you can almost smell the chlorine.
Abeeku Yankah
Black Photojournalism
Thru Sun, Jul 5, at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth. Free. 817-738-1933.
ART
A Story for ‘Deep’ Thinkers
Rashid Johnson’s brilliant survey at the Modern underlines the diversity of Blackness and the Black experience.
BY ANTHONY MARIANI
As the white father of a Black boy, I’ve come across what I’m calling the degrees of Blackness. Regarding skin color, darker is worse — my kid has been called “burnt” by fellow Black students because he’s directly from West Africa. (I won’t repeat all the lovely epithets hurled at him by the nonBlack kids.) Achieving the epitome of Blackness in the world of kiddom and perhaps beyond requires: A.) not being burnt and B.) possessing some relationship to overcoming The Struggle. Through entertainment is one way to transcend. One of my son’s lighter-skinned friends raps on TikTok to hundreds of viewers, and like some blue-chip baller racking up touchdowns or slam dunks, his classmates — and the staff — essentially defer to this rhymemaker. Through academics is another though admittedly less cool means by which Otherness can be sublimated. The few rich Black kids have no outward problems or social hangups at all. None of them appears to be “burnt,” though. My son, a burgeoning photorealist penciler himself, joined me the other day to take in A Poem
for Deep Thinkers at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The largest exhibit to date and first major museum survey in over a decade by Chicago multimedia star Rashid Johnson does a superb job of approaching this apotheosis of Blackness sideways. Codes and references abound. Understand that you do not need to be Black or the parent of a Black child to marvel at this collection of more than 90 artworks encompassing painting, sculpture, film, collage, and installation. To interrogate history, identity, masculinity, parenthood, art history, self-care, and more, Johnson employs a lot of nontraditional materials in mostly traditional forms (black-soap paintings, spray-painted text on mirrors, shea butter, lots of shea butter), plus there are his early media of film and video. In whatever medium, the form is sometimes more impressive than the content. And that’s the point.
When evaluating art, to me, uniqueness often matters more than observable manual dexterity, implied sweat equity, or even emotion. Johnson’s work is cold and detached, yet in its shadowy, icy neatness — even when made of fragmented mirrored tile, even when giving the appearance of melting — resides a sublime, friendly intellectualism that prefigures “deep” engagement.
Part of this attraction lies in his familiar forms. Shelves bordering on altars, potted plants, almost narrative films — they all activate the viewer’s tame, domesticated, possibly (these days) lobotomized psyche while hitting those oh-so-rewarding pleasure sensors. “Triple Consciousness” may look like an homage to Al Green plundered from your bachelor uncle’s sunken, shag-carpeted living room, but look closer. It’s another one of Johnson’s shelves, this one boasting three copies of Rev. Al’s Greatest Hits from 1975, the LP with his skinny bod shirtless on the cover doing some kind of hand jive. The accompanying wall text puts us all on the same page: “… this piece reflects Johnson’s belief that Blackness is not monolithic but encompasses diverse experiences and realities.” Yeah, but try telling that to the eighth graders out by my house.
Johnson makes his diverse, nontraditional materials count. “Don’t use anything else when paint will do” is a timeless axiom, and, true, the artist could have pulled off some of this stuff with oil paint instead of soap, shea butter, or collage, but the results might not have exuded that tangible, domesticated (there’s that word again) aspect that — I’m just going to say it — looks appetizing. Observing the black pots of yellow goo in the
By employing familiar forms like furniture, Rashid Johnson activates the viewer’s tame, domesticated psyche and pleasure sensors all at once.
of NASA. The connections between Johnson’s pieces, and between them and your historical reference points, go on forever, another sign that you’re in the hands of an artist at the height of his powers.
shelf-like “The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (The Power of Healing),” I, perhaps obviously, perhaps because I hadn’t eaten recently, thought of butter — warm, delicious butter.
It’s a coup really. Largely two-dimensional art that gets all the senses working (even, as the plants here indicate, the sense of smell) should be what all multidisciplinary artists aspire to. Johnson is a master. And while you can’t touch any art unless you own it, a square bench of sorts outfitted with zebra-print “seats” surrounding a panopticon tower of red oak effectively dabs up that part of the brain hardwired for comfort. And since the kid and I had been on our feet looking at art all morning, plopping down would have been grand. Alas …
The tableaux I’ll keep thinking about, though, go straight for the eyeballs. Effectively one big, fractured mirror, “The Shuttle” is shaped like a hang-glider wing, the point facing upward. Another sort of fabulous bookcase, the piece houses several shelves, including one that holds over a dozen neatly stacked copies of Dick Gregory’s Write Me In!, the Black comedian and activist’s 1968 manifesto for his failed write-in campaign for U.S. president. For some reason, “The Shuttle” includes a CB radio, which for some even more mysterious reason had me thinking
The other work that has stuck with me is “Death by Black Hole ‘The Crisis.’ ” Below and to the side of a massive vertical stack of black hardcover copies of the titular collection of essays by famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson sit three copies of 1967’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual laid flat, a yellow disc resting upon their covers. The verticality of the Black Hole stack matches a narrow column for a small plant inside a diamond shape, also of the same wood as the rest of the “shelf.” It’s furniture for the future that will never come but has always been.
The installation process for A Poem for Deep Thinkers itself deserves applause. High above the steps leading to the second-floor galleries, lush green plants hang from the ceiling. How’d they get there? How are they watered? I love this sense of the fantastical from the Modern. Double applause to Chief Curator Andrea Karnes for transforming portions of the overall exhibition space into totalizing environments. Another plant droops outside a gallery window facing the reflecting pool outside. Maybe Miles Morales pitched in.
True Blackness may have degrees to it, but as Johnson proves in his stellar A Poem for Deep Thinkers, because they’re mostly societally imposed does not mean they’re fixed or permanent. Nothing ever really is.
Except maybe the color of your skin. l
Like the master that he is, Rashid Johnson appeals to every physical sense through his work.
Blackness, as “Triple Consciousness” argues, is far more diverse than you may think.
Assembled mostly from mirrored tile, “The Shuttle” is a heady delight mostly for the eyeballs.
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers Thru Sep 27 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St, Fort Worth. $10-16. 817-738-9215.
CALENDAR
Night & Day: Special Sauce
If last week’s issue was the Summer of Soccer (which it was), then this one is the
Summer of Soul.
BY ELAINE WILDER
With our calendar being somewhat, well, calendar-driven and with June being an onslaught of special happenings and holidays, it’s no surprise that you’re holding yet another of our special issues in your hand. We can’t help it. Special is our specialty.
Now that Opal got the feds involved, Juneteenth is an official holiday. This Friday at celebrations all over town, folks will spend their federal holiday (and the rest of the weekend) commemorating when the enslaved people of Texas
artist Baylee Robichaux and poets Black Ceasar, Brandon Puryear with Dawn, Lovely B, Tro Juan Henderson, and Terrance Reed.
On Friday at Fred Moore Park, the main event is the evening Gospel Explosion, which brings together choirs, praise teams, and performers for a night of faith, unity, and cultural heritage as core parts of the Juneteenth experience. The concert begins at 7pm, with performances by Marquinn Middleton & The Miracle Chorale, Zach Landry & The Worship Aggregation, Cardell Booker, and The Dominion Word Praise Team.
Saturday is the main festival day, with a parade (9:30am), DJ music and vendors (10am-7pm), a family zone with children’s activities (noon7pm), and the 11th annual Heroes Reception at 1pm. The festival ends with the Saturday Night Extravaganza, a concert by LJ Echols and Jwhoa, with Born A Star, CAAM1K, Khaotic Groove, and Trise. More info at DentonJuneteenth.com.
learned of their emancipation in 1865, two and a half years later than everyone else. President Joe Biden signed a bill into law to make the holiday official in 2021, and while the orange one has done away with many DEI initiatives, he would literally need an act of Congress to end this party.
Denton Juneteenth Celebration is 10:30am to 11pm daily thru Saturday, not just at Fred Moore Park (500 S Bradshaw St, 940-735-6311) but throughout the city.
Thursday’s events focus on community, creativity, and culture. After family-friendly storytime at the Emily Fowler Library (502 Oakland St, 940-349-8752) at 3pm, there will be a poetry slam and art exhibit at the Greater Denton Arts Council (400 E Hickory St) at 6:30pm with visual
Visit Mansfield is co-hosting a free Juneteenth community event with Texas Health Hospital Mansfield at Geyer Commons Park (605 E Broad St, 817-728-3680) from 5pm to 9pm. There will be live music, a dance floor, food trucks, yard games, photo ops, vendors, and more.
As part of the Freedom Vibes festival at the Fort Worth Convention Center (1201 Houston St, 817-392-6338), featuring a stacked bill with Midnight Star and other R&B artists, including Freddie Jackson, Glenn Jones, and Angela Winbush, the Real SOS Band is hosting an ’80s R&B night at 7pm Friday. Tickets start at $50 at FreedomVibes.com.
On the local front, activist Zooki Sturgess has organized the benefit show Songs 4 Seeds
on Fri, Jun 19, at The Cidada (1002 S Main St, Fort Worth, @the_cicada_ftw) to raise funds for Opal’s Farm, the 5-acre urban farm founded by Juneteenth pioneer and legendary Fort Worthian Dr. Opal Lee. For a $15 cash-only cover charge, you will experience live, local, original music by bands with inclusive lineups. Read more about it in this week’s Music section.
The Soul of Sycamore Juneteenth Community Manifestival at Sycamore Park (2525 E Rosedale St, Fort Worth, 817-392-7650) celebrates its ninth year of bringing culture, unity, and empowerment to Fort Worth on Sat, Jun 20, from noon to 6pm. This family-friendly event features the exciting continued on page 17
This Friday (and all weekend), North Texans are celebrating Juneteenth.
Wizop? Wednesday open-mic night at Big Laugh Comedy Club, that’s what’s up!
Cops vs. Community BBQ Cook-Off, the Youth Empowerment Zone, an amazing kids’ zone, live entertainment, vendors, and the Parade of Freedom — creating a powerful day of community connection, celebration, wellness, and positive experiences for all ages. There is no cost to attend, but your RSVP is requested on Eventbrite.com.
Juneteenth Fest 2026 in Dallas will also be this Saturday from noon to 6pm at Beckley-Saner Park (114 W Hobson Av). This family-friendly community event includes art, a car show, community activism, nonprofit booths, and vendors.
So, you think you’re funny?
Test that theory at Big Laugh Comedy Club (604 Main St, Ste 100, 512-817-9535) this week at 7:30pm as part of the Wizop Wednesdays Open Mic, formerly on Mondays. The cover is only $2.
Those who know they’re funny — local comedians on the stand-up circuit — now have a bigger opportunity to prove their worth. Big Laugh recently announced the launch of the Fort Worth Comedy Competition, the first citywide event of its kind for local comics.
“Fort Worth has been a comedy city for decades, and it’s never had a competition of its own,” said founder and Big Laugher Brandon Lewin “We built Big Laugh because Fort Worth deserved a destination comedy room. This competition is the next step, a real platform for the comedians in this city, with stakes that can change a career.”
Sixty comedians will compete across six preliminary rounds, two semifinals, and a finals night in the fall. The winner will receive $2,500 in cash, a multi-city headlining tour, a headlining weekend, a professionally produced 30-minute special filmed at Big Laugh, and a one-on-one meeting with a working comedy industry agent. Submissions are open now thru Sat, Aug 1, at Bit.ly/BigLaughFWCC.
Lest you’d forgotten, June is also Pride Month, and the Summer of Soccer has landed smack in the middle of it.
Futbol fans can celebrate Juneteenth with a global twist at the Afro Annhilation World Cup Kickoff Party at TOCA Soccer Center (5770 Grandscape Blvd, The Colony, 469-384-3400) at 8pm. Hosted by BhoVybez Entertainment, this high-energy event promises to fuse Black culture, music, and international soccer fandom into one unforgettable night. The U.S./Australia game will be screened, plus there’ll be global music like Afrobeat and Amapiano, a subgenre of electronic house music that emerged from the townships of South Africa in the early 2010s. Tickets are $20 on Eventbrite for general admission, and VIP options are also available.
Since Arlington is not hosting a city-endorsed major Pride event this year, Fool’s Kava House (200 N Mesquite St, Ste 119, 817-583-6149) has created its own. From noon to 5pm at Fool’s, there will be eats, drinks, local vendors, and live DJ beats. The day will close with a performance by Arlington singer-songwriter Zoe Pardee at 7pm. Arlington’s original kava bar
is women- and queer-owned, offering an inclusive space to relax and enjoy signature kava blends. You can also watch all the World Cup matches here.
I was a bit surprised to learn that while a significant number of FIFA women identify as gay or queer — 96 women from 32 teams, according to GLAAD.org — no men’s players have come out. There’s a stereotypical assumption about most women in sports having a same-sex orientation, while men deal with the opposite, so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. After all the LGBTQ issues at the 2022 Qatar World Cup, all eyes are on us. Hopefully, we can do better. With tensions mounting over Seattle’s annual Pride weekend coinciding with a match between the notoriously anti-gay nations of Egypt
and Iran, this will be an interesting night to stream soccer. While no officially sanctioned Pride activations will take place inside the stadium, the Seattle FIFA planning committee still considers it their Pride Match, with citywide ancillary events listed at Seattlefwc26.org/events. The controversial game starts at 10pm CT.
Independent, Black-owned fan favorite The Dock Bookshop (6637 Meadowbrook Dr, Fort Worth, 817-457-5700) is hosting an ongoing Road to the Cup — Fútbol 2026 Connect Series. While they don’t have a standalone branded podcast, they have been actively producing virtual episodes (video/audio) on their platform, DockLive.TV, and hosting live in-store events to celebrate the tournament. For upcoming
announcements about more Road-to-the-Cup podcasts, subscribe to DockLive.TV for go-live notifications.
Recent guests have included authors Chris Barish (Lionel Messi’s World Cup Triumph), Clemente A. Lisi (The World Cup), Mark Orton (From Moore to Messi), and Paul Tenorio (The Messi Effect: How the Global Legend Changed the Future of American Soccer). As the channel is publicly accessible via YouTube, you can watch the episodes whenever you like. And by the time you have this paper in your hot, little hands, you’ll be able to hit their channel and see Tuesday’s podcast featuring NBC 5 Sports Director Newy Scruggs as moderator and author Andy Milne (That World Cup Guy: Forty Years, Nine World Cups and One Fan’s Incredible Journey), filmed ahead of the England vs. Croatia match.
EATS & drinks
Breakfast Brothers
Feeding your soul is what they do in Arlington.
Breakfast Brothers, 400 E Front St, Ste 100, Arlington. 682-563-6490. 7am-2pm Mon-Thu, 7am-4pm Fri-Sun.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY CODY NEATHERY
A light drizzle and shallow wind gusts didn’t slow an early morning crowd from joining the waitlist at the third and newest location for the Black-owned Breakfast Brothers in downtown Arlington, a tenant at the new boutique hotel The Rambler. It was the day of the first World Cup match at Dallas
Seemingly created to pose for likes.
Stadium, a.k.a. AT&T Stadium, and fútbol fans sporting team jerseys were streaming in. “We feed your soul” is Breakfast Brothers’ motto, and many souls were ready for fulfillment on this Sunday.
Veterans of the nightclub and entertainment industry, the Breakfast Brothers duo of co-owners Jonathan Biley-Smith and Rickey Booker started
with a rickety food trailer in 2017. The Little Black Shack wasn’t exactly street legal, according to city inspectors, so Booker and Biley-Smith eventually set up kitchens in nightclubs and men’s entertainment venues (eggs and legs, anyone?) before COVID forced a pivot to a more suitable and code-compliant food truck.
Growing popularity became the catalyst that propelled another pivot but this time to the brothers’ original brick-and-mortar in Arlington before adding a Dallas location followed by a third in downtown Arlington.
Being led to a two-seat vinyl booth reminiscent of classic diners, I considered myself lucky considering all the customers waiting outside in what was shaping up to be a balmy day. Greeted by Deja, the server who would keep me company with other team members stopping by several times to chat, service with a smile is something I observed around the dining room.
The menu is stacked with selections that combine family recipes of Southern food, classic continued on page 21
In Arlington, Breakfast Brothers is a newschool diner with old-school soul.
tacos, I pushed the plate to the side in preparation for the next dish.
Right under my nose landed the catfish, grits, and fried eggs.
breakfast items, and playful breakfast dishes plated perfectly for social media posts. The food seems to pose just for likes.
Sensing I was slightly overwhelmed with the menu (did I mention they also serve lunch as well), Deja took over suggesting popular dishes and personal favorites.
Taking her recommendation, I ordered the waffle tacos, the Red Velvet variety. Then, much to her surprise, I followed up with my second order: catfish and grits, going with blackened versus fried or grilled.
“Are both just for you?” she asked before I calmly answered, “Yes, ma’am.”
I then proceeded to order a third item, the Tex-Mex omelet with pork sausage, showing zero shame.
The tacos arrived in the form of thin, reddish, lattice-patterned shells holding fried chicken tenders covered with a sweet cream, then dusted with powdered sugar and topped with strawberries. Biting through the crispy waffles and into the juicy tenders provided that sweet and savory combination that hits the spot the morning after a late night out. After polishing off one of three
Fried eggs can be finicky. Overcooking leads to a chalky yolk or, when cooked properly, a dripping gold yolk. These were fried to perfection as a silky yolk oozed out when punctured with my fork. I split the egg, scooped some grits, added a layer of catfish, then dipped them into their brown gravy, and that was my hallelujah moment. Mind you, it was Sunday morning and gospel music was playing after all.
The catfish came with a dark coat of aromatic and spicy Cajun seasoning that numbed any overly fishy characteristics. The flavor was superb. The grits were straightforward with well-balanced salt and pepper and softly textured bites. The item that amplified the dish was the brown gravy made with Cajun seasoning and the Breakfast Brothers’ own breakfast seasoning that is sold on-site but was unfortunately sold out during my visit.
Last was the three-cheese Tex-Mex omelet. It slapped. Normally served as a veggie-forward dish topped with pico de gallo and avocado, it offered a meaty oomph with the addition of the pork sausage, although the omelet would have held its own regardless. A nice amount of skillet breakfast potatoes proved savory, and buttery Texas toast came as a partner.
Passing on the toast from the catfish and grits, the sheer temptation of seeing them again ensured I couldn’t refuse this time. They were fluffy and gave that satisfying crunch when eating Texas toast. Slap American cheese between two slices for one helluva grilled cheese sandwich. I revisited the brown gravy with each bite of toast until it was time to tap out.
I was asked where I was from before leaving, and I replied Fort Worth. With a grin, Deja hinted there might be a Fort Worth location coming soon. And with that, I stepped outside as Boyz II Men’s “End of the Road” serenaded my departure. l
Eats & Drinks
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The Red Velvet waffle tacos with chicken tenders hit all the right sweet and savory notes.
Blackened catfish with grits, gravy, and more came with a side of soul at Breakfast Brothers.
MUSIC
Songs 4 Seeds
The benefit for Opal’s Farm is Friday at The Cicada.
BY KENA SOSA
Rays of hope amid the political maelstrom, Juneteenth events are plentiful this month. In South Main Village, The Cicada will support the national holiday by hosting a fundraising event on Friday, June 19. Featuring locals Die-A-Beat-Us, A Dangerous Affair, 42Scratch, 4Factorial, and Sunny Disposition, Songs 4 Seeds will benefit Opal’s Farm, a community garden in operation since 2015 on the East Side. The show is 21 and up, and there will be vendors supporting the farm’s mission to cultivate sustainability and community.
“Growing your own food is one of the most radical things you can do,” said Greg Joel, full-time farm manager.
Joel was inspired by Fort Worth living legend Dr. Opal Lee. The founder of Juneteenth was heavily involved with the Tarrant Area Food Bank before her persistence resulted in a land grant for growing food given by the Tarrant County Water District. As soon as he heard the news that the community would have the chance to be more self-sufficient and ecofriendly, Joel knew he wanted to be involved. The full property was granted at four and a half acres, but due to staffing needs as a volunteer entity and the current budget, Opal’s Farmers are growing on only one acre. Like many nonprofits last year, the farm’s funds were slashed.
North Texas punks A Dangerous Affair were eager to get involved as they advocate for the community and the environment, and they support those who support access to sustainable resources.
“We want to spread love and positivity any and every time that we can,” they said.
Punks Die-A-Beat-Us are known for their political consciousness. “We speak out against the injustices we see in today’s world.”
Supporting an organization that supports others is a great way to amplify this message.
“The idea of community mostly,” said alt-rockers 4Factorial when asked why they’re participating. “This day has a lot of history and means a lot to people of color of this nation, and I find it beautiful that this event is looking to amplify these voices.”
Most of the bands are releasing new music soon. A Dangerous Affair plans on dropping several singles throughout the year, while Die-ABeat-Us is recording an album and promoting an upcoming short tour. 4Factorial is working on its debut EP, Paint My Eyes Blind.
As for Opal’s Farm, fall planting will begin soon and will include peppers, eggplant, and even a pumpkin patch. Like many other nonprofits, funding took a big hit last year, so production has been reduced. But with more volunteers and events like these, more food can be produced for the community.
Opal’s Farm does sell locally at affordable rates and donates to many food banks and organizations but depends on volunteers to help with the physical work. Individuals and organizations can sign up to help on-site. Or if getting your hands dirty isn’t your thing, you can support independence and self-sufficiency through boosting local music. l
Songs 4 Seeds benefitting Opal’s Farm 6pm Fri, Jun 19, w/Die-A-Beat-Us, A Dangerous Affair, 42Scratch, 4Factorial, and Sunny Disposition at The Cicada, 1002 S Main St, Fort Worth. $15 cash-only at the door.
North Texas punks A Dangerous Affair are conscientious about supporting music and their community.
Fort Worth legend Dr. Opal Lee inspired Juneteenth as well
Opal’s Farm in Fort Worth.
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OPAL’S WALK 2026
Join us to walk on June 19th!
The Opal’s Walk Campaign started as an initiative which aimed at gaining attention for Juneteenth to be made a National Holiday. With the help of thousands of supporters across the country, Dr. Opal Lee, with the help of her granddaughter Dione Sims, was able to make that dream a reality. Opal’s Walk is now an annual event graced by thousands of people and this year will be no exception. With 10 simultaneous in-person walks across the country and the virtual walk program, you can celebrate freedom wherever you are. Register now at OpalsWalk2DC.com.
PRIDE @ FOOL’S KAVA on 6/20!
Since Arlington is not hosting a city-endorsed major Pride event this year, Fool’s Kava House (200 N Mesquite St, Ste 119, 817-583-6149) has created its own. From noon to 5pm this Saturday, June 20, there will be eats, drinks, local vendors, and live DJ beats. The day will close with a performance by Arlington singersongwriter Zoe Pardee at 7pm. Arlington’s original kava bar is women- and queer-owned, offering an inclusive space to relax and enjoy signature kava blends. You can also watch all the World Cup matches here!
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