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Pastor Kyev Tatum Finds Headstones Disturbed at Historic Black Cemetery, People’s Memorial Burial Park in Haltom City on Veterans Day. “Desecrated is what they have done,” Tatum says

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  Pastor Kyev Tatum Finds Headstones Disturbed at Historic Black Cemetery, People’s Memorial Burial Park in Haltom City on Veterans Day. “Desecrated is what they have done,” Tatum says Haltom City, Texas — November 11, 2026 — After attending the Veterans Day ceremony at Richland High School at 8:30 a.m., Pastor Kyev Tatum stopped at Fretwell People’s Memorial Burial Park to honor the Black men, women, and boys who served in the military from the Civil War through the War on Terror. What he says he found was deeply troubling: approximately 50 headstones lying unattended and uncovered at the historic cemetery. Tatum says the condition of the markers shows profound disregard for the veterans and families remembered there. He also says American Legion Post 655 has damaged or displaced monuments at the cemetery over a period of months, and that descendants have not been notified. “Desecrated is what they have done,” Tatum said. Tatum says headstones belonging to Buffalo Soldiers are am...
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Texans Win Again With First Gen.

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  Texans Win Again With First Gen. Four decades after arriving in Stephenville as a first-generation college student and football player, Pastor Kyev Tatum returned to Tarleton State with his wife, Tonya. He came to cheer on the Texans—and to remember the people who helped him imagine a future beyond the field. STEPHENVILLE, Texas — The Tarleton State Texans beat the UT Dallas Comets, 76–57, on Tuesday night. But for Pastor Kyev Tatum, the game was also a journey back to the beginning. Tarleton invited Tatum and his wife, Tonya, to watch from the President’s Suite at the EECU Center. As university administrators and staff gathered to cheer on the Texans, Tatum took in the new basketball arena, the growth of the campus, and the distance between the young man he had been and the pastor he had become. In 1984, Tatum arrived in Stephenville after graduating from Green B. Trimble Tech High School in Fort Worth, where he had been an all-district tight end. He came to play football for t...
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SAVE THE DATES: Fort Worth’s MLK Bowl Builds a Safer Future for Young People on January 15-18, 2027.

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Fort Worth’s MLK Bowl Builds a Safer Future for Young People on January 15-18, 2027. New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church is bringing gun safety, specialty coffee, spiritual renewal, Black history, and winter relief together for one ambitious four-day weekend. On a January weekend in Fort Worth, a church on Mississippi Avenue will transform Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a shared destiny into a working community agenda. From January 15 through 18, 2027, New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church and the Ministers Justice Coalition of Texas will host the 2027 MLK Bowl Weekend , a four-day gathering centered on youth health, safety, education, faith, and economic opportunity. The theme is direct: “Our Common Destiny Is Health and Safety.” It draws from Dr. King’s warning in his Letter from Birmingham Jail : “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one direct...
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