Claudia Fowler couldn’t help but cry when she heard the details of 14 new townhomes that could sprout up in Joppa, a Dallas freedman’s town where she lived most of her life. When renderings of the ...
Pity Joppa. With a deep, proud history as a living, breathing freedman’s town, this little gathering of 500 souls in a crook of the Trinity River five miles southeast of downtown is one of the city’s ...