Author: Shawn Weston

Park board to restore Oak Lawn Park name

The Dallas park board is catching up to the neighborhood by restoring Oak Lawn Park’s original name. While watching the many attempts to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee and his boyfriend from the park, many observers were already calling the park by its first name. Dallas Voice began using the original name regularly earlier this summer.

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Straus requests removal of Civil War plaque from Capitol

“We, therefore, pledge ourselves to preserve pure ideals to study and teach the truths of history (one of the most important of which is that the war between the states was not a rebellion, nor was its underlying cause to sustain slavery).”

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