For generations, Dallas has neglected this community built by emancipated slaves, and now it is facing thoroughly modern challenges. Joppa’s story is the history of race in Dallas — and America.

A man walks past the former Melissa Pierce School in Joppa on Thursday, July 8, 2021. Members of the Joppa community have been forced to fight too long and too hard for cleaner environmental ...

DALLAS — It has been a long battle with the Texas Star Ready Mix concrete batch plant and residents of Dallas’ southeast neighborhood, Joppa ... up to $10,000 per day for these violations ...

The Joppa neighborhood – located several miles south of downtown Dallas – is important historically because it is one of Dallas’ oldest and last standing Freedman's towns. The area was ...