Fort Worth sisters Donna and Donya Craddock refer to 2020 as “the unicorn year.” There was the COVID-19 shutdown, but there was also something more — a death that prompted a period of racial reckoning. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered on camera by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. What followed […]
Author Archives: Candi Bolden
Candi Bolden is the social media manager of The Barbed Wire. Candi is based in Dallas-Fort Worth and has previously run social media accounts for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. As part of her journalism career, she worked the Republican National Convention for CNN, covered swatting threats in Wichita, Kansas, and photographed 2020 unrest in Fort Worth, Texas. Candi is a military brat born in Nebraska and came to Texas in 2013 to attend Southern Methodist University. She loves crafts, baking, and her two dogs and two cats.
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How Selena Called Me Home to Texas
I have a secret to admit. I’m not a Texas native. Luckily, I’m not a Californian who moved to the Lone Star State. I’m a Nebraskan who fell in love with the Dallas Fort-Worth area. But my introduction to Texas was not the metroplex. Nor was it Southern Methodist University, where I attended college. It […]