UNT’s Ignite Chapter promising to young women in politics

UNT's Ignite Chapter promising to young women in politics By Anna Orr for North Texas Daily February 14, 2017 On Jan. 21, people gathered in cities across the globe to participate in the Women’s March and demonstrate their willingness to take political action. The march encouraged women of all ages to stand...

KERA Adds 24/7 Educational Kids’ TV Channel

Beginning Jan. 16, new channel will offer curriculum-based children’s programs all day, every day DALLAS/FORT WORTH – KERA, North Texas’ most trusted source of educational children’s programs, announces the launch of a new television channel offering kids’ shows 24 hours a day, seven days a week. KERA Kids 24/7 will...

Texan of the Year finalist: Philanthropist Cecilia Boone

To hear philanthropist Cecilia Guthrie Boone tell it, she was primed early to work on gender equality and women's health issues. While Boone was a toddler in Kentucky, her mother, Marie Keene Guthrie, was widowed and had to make her own way with three small children. Years later, she recalled...

Home Visits Help Parents & Teachers Connect

Fewer behavior issues, more students showing up for class, better grades – these are just a few of the early results teachers have shared while being a part of the Parent Teacher Home Visit (PTHV) project. PTHV gives teachers the chance to meet with students and their parents in the...

$2M Donation Expands Women’s Health Care

by Annie Wiles September 29, 2016 Planned Parenthood came to Dallas in 1935 covertly, hidden inside a Ripley’s shirt box. Shirting empress Katherine Ripley would send empty boxes to New York, and when they came back filled with diaphragms, condoms, and informative pamphlets, she would distribute them to women in...

Border Crossers launches new site in Dallas-Fort Worth Region

Border Crossers is excited to announce the official launch of our new site in Dallas- Fort Worth, Texas. Over the last two years, we have trained over five hundred educators in the region to build classrooms and schools grounded in racial justice, thanks to our funders at the Boone...

Boone Family, Harold Simmons foundations give $2 million to Planned Parenthood

Boone Family, Harold Simmons foundations give $2 million to Planned Parenthood By Holly Haber hhaber@dallasnews.com Published: 28 July 2016 07:53 PM More women will have access to long-term birth control and health screenings at Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, thanks to a $2 million donation from Boone Family Foundation and Harold...

SCOTUS issues a victory for Texas women

By CECILIA BOONE Published: 27 June 2016 12:48 PM Updated: 27 June 2016 03:17 PM My husband, my children, some of my friends and I are exchanging texts as fast as our fingers will fly. It's a victory: a victory for women in Texas. Of course I mean the Supreme Court decision...

Fort Worth leaders work to fight child poverty, disparity gaps

by Diane Smith, Star-Telegram FORT WORTH The numbers are an urgent call to action. One-third of Hispanic and black children live in poverty in Tarrant County, according to a state report released Wednesday. The State of Texas Children: Race and Equity in Fort Worth also says that 26 percent of children in...

Girls Scouts NE TX Dedicates Courtyard to Texas Trailblazers

April 29, 2016 May 2, 2016 / gsnetx blog We are honored to introduce The Boone Family Foundation Courtyard at the STEM Center of Excellence at Camp Whispering Cedars, dedicated to three Texas Trailblazers: Vivian Castleberry, Louise Raggio and Virginia Whitehill. Vivian Castleberry Vivian Anderson Castleberry is the founder of Peacemakers Incorporated....

State of Texas Children annual report

Study: Over 30% of black and Hispanic students in high-poverty schools By Melissa B. Taboada - American-Statesman Staff Posted: 12:02 a.m. Wednesday, April 13, 2016 Hispanic students in Texas are seven times more likely than white students to be enrolled in high-poverty schools, which often have fewer tenured and effective teachers, according...

Texas A&M Investigates Report Of Slurs Yelled At Black High School Students from Uplift Education

"I am outraged and tremendously disappointed in the behavior displayed by a group of students," says Texas A&M University President Michael Young, after a group of students from an inner-city high school were called racial slurs and told, "Go back where you came from." That last quote was relayed by...

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