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While shopping for dresses at the Boys & Girls Club Prom Dress Extravaganza, Jummy Loaye, 17, saw her dress and fell in love. “I just knew that’s what I wanted to wear,” the Advantage Academy senior says. Though she didn’t have too many plans, she just wanted to enjoy a special night with her friends. “We’re all leaving high school and won’t see each other as much,” she says. She’d been envisioning her own American prom since before moving to Dallas from Nigeria. “I always knew what prom was, especially because of the movies,” she says. “I wanted to experience it. I’ve shed tears a couple of times over this.” In high school, she was chosen to participate in the Leader in Me Program. “They take students that they believe can lead others and train them,” she explains. “Being chosen for that gave me a reason to be great. It became clearer that the younger ones are watching me; even my little siblings are watching.” This fall, Loaye plans to attend the University of North Texas and study business. She wants to run her own business one day, like her father, who sells Nigerian clothes. Though all the cancellations of senior events have made her sad, she’s trying to draw positive lessons from the experience. “I have learned that most times our plans don’t go through and that even when the plan doesn’t go through, it’s just a setback,” she says. “We get up and raise our heads to achieve higher than planned.”

Dallas-Area High School Seniors Cope With a Semester—and Rites of Passage—Cut Short

By Laura Lee Huttenbach and Mary Beth Koeth

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Taco of the Week: The Bag Special at Con Huevos Tacos

By José R. Ralat

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Dallas music teacher Chad Stockslager broadcasting The Happy Good-Time Variety Show on Facebook Live.

Under Quarantine, a Dallas Music Teacher Is Broadcasting Surrealist Livestreamed Variety Shows

By Jeremy Hallock

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A San Antonio Artist Is Attempting to Lift People’s Spirits With “Pandemic Lotería”

By Cat Cardenas

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Aaron Franklin Will Be the Next Texan to Join the Barbecue Hall of Fame

By Daniel Vaughn

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Recipe: Smoked Mac and Cheese

By Daniel Vaughn

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The exterior of the Texan Dome at South Plains College in Levelland on May 9, 2020.

The West Texas Basketball Tournament at the Center of a Coronavirus Outbreak

By Leif Reigstad

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Recipe: All-Purpose Instant Pot Chicken With Tomato and Chiles

By Paula Forbes

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Taco News Roundup: Embroidered Face Masks and Taco Cabana’s Free Lunch for Kids

By José R. Ralat

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Texas Is Screwed More by the Electoral College Than Any Other State, Despite Our Size

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In Texas’s Food Deserts, Food Banks Struggle to Do More With Less

By Rose Cahalan

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Priya Krishna’s Quarantine Journal, Entry No. 13: A Surprise From Mom

By Priya Krishna