Gerri Smart, facilitator of Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas, left, speaks to participants during a free career workshop at the Moorland Family YMCA at Oak Cliff, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Dallas.

The heartbeat of Dallas' racially relegated neighborhood of the 1930's-1960's was the Moorland YMCA, in what was known then as North Dallas (Uptown/Arts District today).