Tag Archives: ‘A source of pride’: Historic school in Joppa neighborhood to become new community center

For years, Shalondria Galimore has wanted a place to bring her neighborhood of Joppa together. The historic freedman’s town near the Trinity River, isolated from the rest of east Oak Cliff by railroad tracks and I-45, has long been left behind by the rest of Dallas. Through systemic racism and years of neglect, Joppa — pronounced jop-ee — never received the same city …

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