{"id":360389,"date":"2026-07-03T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360389\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:00:07","slug":"video-diane-ragsdale-citylab-high-school-honors-south-dallas-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360389\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Diane Ragsdale CityLab High School honors South Dallas leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dallasfreepress.com\/south-dallas\/diane-ragsdale-a-lifetime-of-community-organizing-in-south-dallas\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/dallasfreepress.com\/south-dallas\/diane-ragsdale-a-lifetime-of-community-organizing-in-south-dallas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Longtime South Dallas civic leader Diane Ragsdale<\/a> will have a school named after her. Just blocks away from Dallas City Hall, the new Diane Ragsdale CityLab High School is under construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dallas Free Press joined Ragsdale on a stroll to visit the site. Looking at the construction crew building the school directly in front of the Dallas skyline, Ragsdale remembers her journey as an activist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 11 years old, her mother encouraged her and her sister to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/easttexashistory.org\/items\/show\/363\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/easttexashistory.org\/items\/show\/363\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NAACP Youth Council led by Juanita J. Craft.<\/a> She then served as the Dallas City Council member for District 7 from 1984 to 1991.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To this day, Ragsdale still lives in Wheatley Place, the neighborhood where she grew up, and continues to advocate for her community through zoning reforms and historic preservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s more of an honor to have the school with a goal consistent with my life,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Diane Ragsdale CityLab High School will specialize in teaching students about architecture, urban planning and civic affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime South Dallas civic leader Diane Ragsdale will have a school named after her. Just blocks away from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,120039,1884,127994],"class_list":["post-360389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-diane-ragsdale","tag-south-dallas","tag-wheatley-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}