Watauga residents have been protesting Stedfast Baptist Church for its homophobic preaching. Outside of they protests, they are a normal couple just living their lives. Now they fear for their safety with the church so close.
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Tucked in a small, crumbling street between warehouses, 4DWN doesn’t seem like much from outside the gates.
Inside, it's a colorful, imaginative space for skating, arts and community.
Despite being surrounded by food distribution warehouses, 4DWN is located in a part of town classified as a food desert by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
A food desert is defined by areas that are low-income that lack access to stores selling healthy and affordable food.
During the pandemic, 4DWN began a weekly food distribution to help neighbors experiencing food insecurity.
“We rescue the food, divert it away from the landfill where it really causes hard of harm to the environment and distribute it back to the food desert where it can do a multitude of good things,” Co-founder Rob Cahill said.
Dallas residents turned out Sunday evening to march in support of Santos Rodriguez, a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a Dallas police officer 50 years ago.
The march started and ended in Pike Park near downtown Dallas.
"Santos Rodriguez was a 12-year-old boy that was rousted from his bed at 2 in the morning, handcuffed, thrown into a squad car, driven a few blocks from his house...very close to where we are standing," said Hadi Jawad, a community leader who’s helped organized events marking Rodriguez' death. "And in a game of Russian roulette, an officer seeking to get a confession out of him ... murdered him."
Jawad said there are still deep wounds to the Latino community that lived in the area then known as Little Mexico.
"We have come a long way," he said. "But Dallas still has a long, long way to go."
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