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Grand Prairie program leaders push to preserve local Black history, host children’s 'Black Bingo'
Summary
Local historian Dr. Angela Luckey described several February events in Grand Prairie to record and teach local Black history, including a children’s 'Black Bingo' at Dalworth Recreation Center and an evening program drawing on the recordings of former Mayor Pro Tem Ruthie Jackson.
Dr. Angela Luckey, a genealogist and library researcher in Grand Prairie, said Thursday that the city will host a children’s Black History Month event designed to teach local and national African American history.
The first-Thursday event will begin at 3:45 p.m. at the Dalworth Recreation Center and organizers said 80 students are expected to attend. “We will feed them. They will have hot dogs, chips, drinks, cookies, and we're gonna also have them a gift bag with African American history information inside of those bags,” Luckey said on the city program It's…
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