D Magazine June 1981

Sorting through 90 channel choices.

Court-ordered mayhem: bilingual education.

A personal look at death and dying.

FORGET STEREOTYPES. Marketing directors, lawyers, clerks, and accountants are all members of Dallas’ black community. The one thing they have in common is their struggle to make it in a white man’s world.

Where there’s a will, there are several ways.

The China Syndrome: an Oriental explosion.

YOU’RE THREE MILES southeast of Reunion Tower. You might as well be in another country. Welcome to the world of frustration, fear, and elusive fulfillment that 300,000 black Dallasites call home.

THERE MAY NEVER be enough black votes to control city politics, but the new, aggressive breed of black leaders like Elsie Faye Heggins has found they can shake city hall by its foundations.

Sailing on the Good Ship Swingle.

Bathing suits used to be mostly functional. Now they’re mostly fun.