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DIGGING FOR DIGNITY: Healing Hands from Heaven Buried at People’s Burial Park. By Pastor Kyev P. Tatum, Sr.,

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  DIGGING FOR DIGNITY:  Healing Hands from Heaven Buried at People’s Burial Park. By Pastor Kyev P. Tatum, Sr., In the history of Fort Worth, Texas, there are stories buried beneath the soil that deserve to rise again. At People’s Burial Park rest two of the most important African-American physicians in the history of North Texas — Dr. Riley Ransom and Dr. George Murry Munchus. That alone is extraordinary. Not one pioneering Black physician. But two. Two sons of formerly enslaved families. Two men who rose from segregation, racism, and systemic injustice to become healers for a community too often denied medical care. Two men who helped build Black medicine in Fort Worth when many hospitals either refused to treat African-Americans or forced them into segregated basements. And today, both men are buried in the same sacred ground at People’s Burial Park. What a testimony. What a history. What a responsibility. Dr. George Murry Munchus, born August 6, 1887, was the son of former...
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  FAITH AT THE FIFTY Celebrating the Prairie View Interscholastic League and the First Championship Football Game Played at Farrington Field in 1940 Thursday, October 22, 2026 Dunbar vs. Kennedale — 7:00 PM At historic Farrington Field FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Long before integration changed the landscape of Texas high school athletics, Black schools across Texas built their own tradition of excellence, discipline, scholarship, and championship pride through the legendary Prairie View Interscholastic League. Operating from 1920 to 1970 and organized through the Colored Teachers State Association of Texas in partnership with Prairie View A&M University, the PVIL served as the governing body for academic and athletic competitions for African American schools during segregation. The league provided a parallel structure to the white-only UIL and sponsored championships in football, basketball, track, music, debate, academics, and other extracurricular activities before eventually merg...
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Volunteers to Gather on May 16, 2026 at 9am at People’s Burial Park for “Digging for Dignity” Service Project Honoring Black Pioneers.

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  Volunteers to Gather on May 16, 2026 at 9am at People’s Burial Park for “Digging for Dignity” Service Project Honoring Black Pioneers.  HALTOM CITY — Community leaders, churches, veterans organizations, historians, students, military organizations from across Tarrant County, and volunteers from across North Texas are preparing to gather at People’s Burial Park in Haltom City for two major “Digging for Dignity” community service projects designed to preserve and honor the legacy of thousands of Black pioneers buried at the historic cemetery. The upcoming events, organized through a growing partnership involving New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church of Fort Worth, the Texas Buffalo Soldiers Association, the Ministers Justice Coalition of Texas, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the City of Haltom City, the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office Labor Detail, Keep Fort Worth Beautiful, and military organizations from across the county, will focus on cemetery restora...
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