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DaLyah Jones

  • Racial Equity in Journalism Fund Program Officer, Borealis Philanthropy
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A rural AfroTexan funding BIPOC media @borealisphil | Prev: @presson_south @KUT @TexasObserver | ✍🏾 in many places | Past @utaustin guest lect.| She/They🏳️‍🌈
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A Love Letter to the Black Woodswomen of Deep East Texas

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By DaLyah Jones
| Inkl
I can tie my earliest days of imagining to my time spent growing up and playing in the woods. Crowns made of the twigs from privets. Mud pies made with hose water in rusty pans, baked in old broken ovens behind the house. I was molded from the clay soil in Deep East Texas, in the small city of Lufkin. This region has an antebellum history shrouded in violence, mystery, and resilience—much like the ecosystem of the Big Thicket, which is arguably the most diverse in the world.
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A Love Letter to the Black Woodswomen of Deep East Texas

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By DaLyah Jones
| The Texas Observer Verified
When you were 8, you could control the wind. The trees would listen, waving their long branches at you. The leaves would applaud as you made your way down Marcus Street. That was when the birds called your name and the squirrels followed you. Back then, imagining was easy. Secret hidden treehouse sanctuaries that rivaled Peter Pan and the crew. The red wagon that could take you far, far away. That was when you still carried around that white stuffed dog, a bit nappy and dingy.
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From the plantation to the thicket: Juneteenth, Black freedom and ‘marronage’ in Texas

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By DaLyah Jones
| San Antonio Current Verified
The sun shines through the trees at the Big Thicket National Preserve. This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook, X, and Bluesky. In Texas, Juneteenth is often described as the day that Union Major General Gordon Granger marched upon the shores of Galveston to announce the Emancipation Proclamation — on June 19th, 1865.
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