🌱 South Dallas Black Lives Matter Crosswalks + Dangerous Roads

Nicole Fallon-Peek
Updated ·2 min read

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First, today's weather:

Very warm. High: 82 Low: 64.

Here are the top stories today in Dallas:

  1. Two Dallas-Fort Worth highways made the list of deadliest roads in the U.S. in a new study. Interstate 20 ranks as the country's second most deadly road on a per-mile basis. I-35 appears at number 5. The I-20 recorded 13.52 traffic deaths per 100 miles in 2019. (CultureMap Dallas)

  2. South Dallas will get ‘All Black Lives Matter’ crosswalk murals on six intersections along Al Lipscomb Way and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. A non-profit would pay for painting and maintaining the crosswalk murals for ten years. (The Dallas Morning News)

  3. A car was stolen in Dallas with two children inside who have since been found to be safe. (NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

  4. A Texas favorite eatery, Buc-ee's, went viral on TikTok for its common mispronunciation. (Eater Dallas)

  5. Dallas made the Condé Nast list of the best places to visit at Christmas. (The Dallas Morning News)

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— Nicole Fallon-Peek

About me: Nicole Fallon-Peek is a journalist and copywriter with a degree in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University. She has served as a freelance reporter, managing editor, copy editor, and editorial director for a variety of B2B news outlets. She currently co-owns and operates content creation agency Lightning Media Partners.

This article originally appeared on the Dallas Patch