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Dallas Park Board discusses renaming College Park after longtime neighborhood organizer
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The Dallas Park and Recreation Board heard public comment and discussed a five-person memo to rename College Park in South Oak Cliff for community leader Faheem Minka; board members signaled support to bring the item to the full board for a vote.
Park and Recreation Board members on Thursday heard several hours of public testimony in support of a proposal to rename College Park in South Oak Cliff to honor longtime community leader Faheem Minka and signaled they want staff to bring the proposal to the full board for a vote.
Supporters described Minka as a neighborhood organizer, youth mentor and founder of community programs including African American Men Against Narcotics and Southern Skates. Speakers said his work in the 1970s and later decades helped reduce violence, provided youth programming and created jobs; several speakers described him as a rehabilitated…
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