DAVID W. KING
David King is a real estate professional and a community "builder" who has been creating pathways to home-ownership and helping homeowners avoid foreclosure since 2001. David also works with community groups, nonprofit service providers, business communities, and public officials to grow opportunity and improve the quality of life for underserved or marginalized African American communities. David has served on several boards and commissions including the City of Dallas Bond Task Force, the Dallas County Behavioral Health Housing Work Group, and the Dallas Mayor's Homelessness Commission.
He is also a former member of the Oak Cliff Leadership Council which works as a conduit between the community and local government, and a former housing committee chair for the African American Leadership Institute in addition to serving on the economic development and education committees. David also chaired the City of Dallas Homelessness Commission where he focused on resolving homelessness and establishing racial equity policy in a city where 65-70% of the homeless have historically been African American even though African Americans make up only 19% of the city population. In this role, David led in the development of partnerships which have produced historic programming for the city and county including a $72,000,000 rapid rehousing program, 4 new homeless housing facilities, and a $24,000,000 HUD grant for housing unsheltered homeless neighbors. This led to the first reduction in African American homelessness in Dallas in decades.
David is also a former debate and public speaking coach for elementary African American students in Southern Dallas who led his students to compete in Debate League tournaments and Oratory competitions for the purpose of improving critical thinking, reading comprehension, conflict resolution, confidence, etc. Influenced as a teen by the likes of Cheikh Anta Diop, Dr. Ben Jochanen, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, Francis Cress Welsing, Ashra Kwesi, Asa Hilliard, Dr. Molefi Kete Asante and so many others. David's philosophy and cultural perspective is that of a Pan African Unionist dedicated to the restoration of Africa's rightful place in the global historical context and the vision of a Global African Unity with a strong unified Africa at it's core founded in the principles of Africa's own classical creation.
David has worked with multiple Pan African organizations over the last decade and will continue to fight to improve the lives of historically marginalized and oppressed African people through building and growing the institutional infrastructure necessary to facilitate global African culture, community, communication, economy, and political power.
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