Black Texans, Inc.

  PLOW FORWARD WITH FAITH IN THE FARM MARKETPLACE By Faith, From the Farm to the Family, to the Fridge, to the Fork. — Luke 9:62 | Link:  https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/video/fort-worth-church-building-garden-boxes-to-help-address-food-insecurity/ The Faith in the Farm Marketplace is a faith-rooted community development initiative that transforms available land, natural resources and willing hands into opportunities for growth. Guided by the command of Jesus in Luke 9:62 to put our hands to the plow and keep moving forward, this faith-based ministry brings together three powerful projects: the Buffalo Soldiers 4-H Club , the Funkytown Food Forest and the Peace From a Pallet Project . Each project addresses a different need, but all three share one mission: to cultivate people, produce food and build healthier, more peaceful communities. Under the leadership of Pastor Kyev P. Tatum, Sr. , Faith in the Farm is turning faith into action at New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Churc...

  A PEARL FROM I.M. TERRELL Before Marjorie Juanita Hollins Crenshaw became Fort Worth’s “Mother of Jazz,” she was a young musician shaped by family, faith, segregation, and one of Texas’s most storied Black high schools. Today, a Fort Worth pastor is calling for this extraordinary educator, advocate, and guardian of Black culture to receive her rightful place in the PVIL Hall of Fame. By Black Texans, Inc., Link:  https://youtu.be/yrUS9df4l6A?is=2FhYSY9-qoHDoPCD Long before Fort Worth promoted itself through polished images of cowboys, culture, and commerce, another city flourished beyond the boundaries drawn by Jim Crow. It was a Black Fort Worth held together by churches, schools, barbershops, beauty salons, neighborhood businesses, and homes where families gathered around pianos. It was a city within the city—one that created its own institutions because the institutions downtown either excluded Black residents or admitted them only on unequal terms. The music passing thro...