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Derrick Walker poses for a portrait at his childhood church, Camp Wisdom United Methodist Church, in Dallas, Sunday Sept. 24, 2023.Derrick Walker was a creative kid. He loved to play drums, sketch building designs and give speeches or recite poems onstage.In first grade, a teacher rapped his knuckles with a pencil when she thought he cheated on a writing assignment.
“Being able to be dramatic, or be extra, be loud, flamboyant — church was the space you could get away with it,” says Walker, now 40, sitting in a pew at Camp Wisdom on a recent Sunday. “Because in public you had to be ‘right.’” Derrick Walker poses for a portrait at his childhood church, Camp Wisdom United Methodist Church, in Dallas, Sunday Sept. 24, 2023.and done videography for singer-songwriter Brandy Norwood and marketing for Mark Cuban. Last month, he released his first spoken-word album, calledIn it, Walker weaves together Dallas Black history, meditations on suicide and celebrations of Black hair. He describes it as an invitation to engage with the unfiltered, free-flowing version of himself.
. Art has long been an important way to preserve and document Black history, Walker believes, and to ensure that “even if it’s taken out of schools, it’s not taken from the culture.”and a ceremony commemorating the former headquarters of the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce. Walker used to work at the chamber as its director of communication and innovation.During his recent visit to Camp Wisdom, he stopped to chat with Lisa Cooper, a church administrator who’s known him for years.
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