“At a time of striking growth among the black population in the Dallas area, the city still suffers from an image problem among black professionals who perceive other cities—Atlanta; Chicago; or Washington, D.C.—as being more friendly to blacks.
‘Dallas is a tough sell,’ says April Allen, executive director of KIPP Dallas-Fort Worth, a nonprofit charter school organization that has had trouble recruiting education reformers to the area. ‘There is definitely the perception that Dallas isn’t as progressive as other cities for African-Americans.'”
