Editorial My Truth: MORE HISTORY LESSONS Who are they and what are they to us? By Cheryl Smith I used to love to sing the song “Who is he and what is he to you.” Bill Withers sang: I... Garland JournalMay 29, 2025
News QUIT PLAYIN: One Hell of an Optimist! By: Vincent L. Hall Pastor Thomas Hayden Garner strolled to the pulpit at our Holy Week mid-week musical. He was on to deliver a... Garland JournalApril 24, 2025
News Quit Playin: A Future Delight! By: Vincent L. Hall We are just enthralled watching this teenaged virtuoso at my church. As a kid, no one, not even his family... Garland JournalApril 18, 2025
Editorial QUIT PLAYIN: Whose Truth and Whose Sanity? By: Vincent L. Hall I hate to interrupt your scheduled program, but you need to change whatever you watch on the weekends. Your President... Garland JournalApril 3, 2025
Editorial QUIT PLAYIN: Ron and Rod – A Fuller Story Former Ebony Fashion Fair models among Dallas’ Finest By: Vincent L. Hall Well, if you want Black History these days, you better get it for yourself. Any time the federal government scrubs... Garland JournalMarch 27, 2025
Editorial Quit Playin’: No History…No Power! “Minute by minute. Hour by hour. As you lose your history. You lose your power.” – The Origin of Things by Listervelt Middleton. The one thing... Garland JournalFebruary 5, 2025
Editorial RESOLVED – Quit Playin’! A history lesson leading to a declaration WHEREAS in the year of our Lord, 1619, the first enslaved Africans were shipped to the English... Garland JournalJanuary 29, 2025
Editorial QUIT PLAYIN: A Miraculous Staircase! By Vincent L. Hall Reverend Frederick Douglas Haynes III is a master raconteur. If you are confused, a raconteur uses anecdotes skillfully to persuade... Garland JournalJanuary 9, 2025
Editorial QUIT PLAYIN: Saint Jimmy Carter? “Now all the “nigger-lovers” and Black people were gathering around Jesus to listen. And the White church people and Sun- day school teachers were... Garland JournalJanuary 1, 2025
Editorial QUIT PLAYIN’: MLK – The Last Christmas Hope! His life best resembled the Jesus I Know Garland JournalDecember 26, 2024