News Briefs

As students returned to school Feb. 25 after two snow days, we filmed aerial footage of North Dallas High School. North Dallas High School, 3120 N. Haskell Ave., was built in 1922 and is one of the oldest standing high school buildings in Dallas.

For four years, the Cornerstone Baptist Church has hosted the African-American Read-In, which promotes advanced literacy to children. The Dallas Morning News covered the Read-In that happened this past weekend. Click here to read more about the event that featured speeches and readings from Mayor Mike Rawlings, Betty Hooey, a member of the Texas Silver-Haired Legislature, and Dallas ISD students.

Families and community members celebrated literacy and literature at the African American Read-In on Saturday, Feb. 21, at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Dallas. Attendees included Dallas ISD District 9 Trustee Bernadette Nutall, City of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and District 3 Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. The importance of reading was advocated to young students through poetry readings, storytelling and musical performances from Dallas ISD schools, including Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and Lincoln High School.