Conversations: Call for Change

Two sisters, Keyondra and Kim Lockett launched an athleisure line in 2019 designed to complement women sizes extra-small to 6 extra-large. But as they explain in today’s Community Conversation, their main goal is to celebrate the beauty and power of Black women.

A local group of women is full steam ahead when it comes to getting young girls excited about careers in science, technology, engineering, arts and math.

The heated debate over a diversity plan within the Carroll ISD and what followed is the subject of a new podcast from NBC News called “Southlake.”

The Texas Rangers are partnering with the Black on Base Negro Leagues for Project the Positivity Night as the Rangers play the Colorado Rockies on Aug. 30, 2021. Retired pastor Floyd Moody will throw out the first pitch on the 65th anniversary of the fight to integrate Mansfield High School. NBC 5 Photojournalist Kevin Stewart has more on this impo...

This weekend is a free digital summit to empower women of color. It’s the third annual Black Girl Magic Summit hosted by Boss Women Media in partnership with Capital One. We learn more about the importance of this event with Vince Sims in today’s Conversations: A Call for Change.

The nonprofit Children at Risk focuses on improving the quality of life for North Texas children. The group recently hosted a discussion on inequality in education and discussed problems and potential solutions.

Lindsay Davis is graduating from the University of Texas Arlington with a Ph.D. in chemistry. On top of that accomplishment, she is also the school’s first African American to graduate with that. Davis says she honored and hopes to spread more awareness about women and minorities in the STEM world in today’s Conversation: A Call for Cha...

August is National Black Business Month – a time to shine a light on Black-owned businesses nationwide. In today’s community conversation, we hear from two North Texas women who created an event to bring together minority business owners under the same roof at the same time. NBC 5’s Candace Sweat has the story on what’s been...

The Dallas County Promise scholarship covers the gap between financial aid and the cost of tuition for students who graduate from one of 57 Promise High Schools. Whatever the cost of tuition at a partner institution, Dallas County Promise covers the final bill. In today’s Community Conversation, we meet Shanee Moore, an associate dean for Dal...

NBC 5’s Evan Anderson caught up with Harlem Globetrotter star, Torch George over the weekend. She’s the first of the team’s female stars to own her own Guinness World Record title. She talks about that honor, and her journey to become one of the best, at what she does. In today’s Community Conversation, Call For Change....

Fort Worth’s newest library is specifically designed to serve children and teens. The Reby Cary Youth Library is named after an African American from Fort Worth who is dedicated to education. NBC 5’s Vince Sims learns more about the library’s namesake from Cary’s daughter, Faith Ellis, and library director Manya Shorr....

August is Black Business Month and Plano’s Legacy West is showcasing local Black entrepreneurs. NBC 5’s Katy Blakey has more on what shoppers can expect in our Community Conversation, Call for Change.

A 26-year-old Fort Worth woman has just launched her own tequila brand — it’s called Ego Tequila and it is the first Black woman-owned tequila brand in Texas. NBC 5’s Kristi Nelson talked with Rikki Kelly in Conversations: Call for Change.