[Theme music playing] ♪ How may I help you?

Man: I need some condoms.

Y'all got any lube to go with it?

Uh, no, sir.

We stopped handing it out.

Y'all did?

That's really expensive.

Well, the government.

Hell...

The government don't pay-- The government will pay for the condoms.

but they will not pay for the lube.

They used to.

Not anymore.

They stopped.

I know.

[Crackling] We're out of black bags, so...

I got my coat.

Can I get a few more?

I know those black bags would be full.

You got the one on the black--with the black top?

No, we--we're out of those also.

Oh, you out of everything.

OK. You have a nice day, sir.

We ain't got that much to give out.

♪ Evans: I come from a very strict Christian black family.

My family did not support me whatsoever at first.

My family was trying to force me to have a deep voice.

My family were trying to force me to be very mannish.

My family was trying to force me to date girls.

My family was trying to push all that upon me.

It was not happening.

It's like, "What do you not understand?

"I'm not gonna date her.

We're going to go shopping together, and I'm gonna pick out a dress," like that's what's gonna happen.

♪ Man: Jail commission popped up on us today.

Man: Huh?

I said the jail commission popped up on us today.

Oh, they did?

Yeah.

I haven't seen 'em come this early before the holidays.

Yeah.

But they popped up, so I had to go do-- I had to go do a brief out and then this coming, um... Friday, we're gonna do an exit out, so... OK. OK. Man, voice-over: I'm not an elected official.

I'm a black representative.

...Karry Wesley.

I got it.

I got it right here.

You like the one by Wesley?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that... Price, voice-over: I'm representing people who have been historically locked out and continue to be locked out.

Remember, I got Donna Ray on Thursday.

Woman: Commissioner?

Yes?

Price, voice-over: I mean, when you look in this region, $120 billion and African- American get less than 1%?

What?

What?

OK.

I want them to have an opportunity.

So, I'm using public dollars.

And either I'm gonna make a difference or I need to go do something else.

Well, how was that funeral?

It was good.

There weren't nobody there.

But, you know, like y'all was saying, it was another amazing story!

I didn't realize that the woman was the first black boss in the state of Texas.

Yeah.

♪ Man: My father was from Taiwan, born in Taipei.

I mean, he describes walking around barefoot in this developing country.

He did well on the tests.

He was actually the number one in his class, and so got an opportunity to come to the United States to study.

Man: I think this-- like people are ready-- I think really everybody-- to talk about the needs assessment.

Really aligned on this.

Everyone I've talked to is really excited about it.

Um, yeah, you know, and focusing on the high-priority zip codes.

You know, it's--I mean, it's what we all want to do and-- Yeah.

it's great addressing disparities.

Huang, voice-over: My father, when he came, there were still white bathrooms and the black bathrooms.

He said his boss didn't know what to do with him and decided, "OK, you can use the white bathroom."

I mean, this is Dallas when he got here.

We're looking at policies for opt-out screening, increasing screening and testing, and then rapid linkage to care, retaining people in care.

Why are people getting out?

That's where the jail fits in a lot.

Getting people tested, getting people on treatment.

If they're not, if they're high-risk, but they're not positive, getting them on PrEP.

Huang, voice-over: Growing up, there were not many Asians.

I grew up with all the different Asian comments.

That's all I knew.

And also even destigmatization.

So, you know, if there is a "AIDS clinic," then people don't like going just there.

Um...

Thank you.

Woman: Uh-huh.

Some Tabasco.

Woman: Tabasco?

Sure.

And I know, we're probably not demonstrating the best health--ha ha!

Ah, well, you know, everything... Yeah.

Moderation.

I mean, I think HIV, STIs, chronic diseases are some of the biggest issues.

And then also try to break the whole cycle, you know, I mean, from a social determinant stuff.

If we can do something in those, that'd be... Yeah.

Huang: Some of it's definitely disappointing and frustrating to see how in some areas we have not made progress.

I don't know.

It's hard.

I mean, you know, there's a reason why the issues haven't been solved.

They're not easy.

Uh, yes.

I was calling to see, is one of Dr. Rafael's assistants available?

Mm-hmm.

It-- Uh, is that the one with the short bob?

Hi, Ms. Lesley, this Zimora Evans.

I was calling to see what will my pricing be for my breast implants for, like, for the first section.

And then, like, I'm trying to see how much of the cost for all 3 of my sessions broke down, so I'd know how much it would be for my first session, second session, the third session.

Could you give me a call back at [deleted]?

Thank you.

You have a nice day.

[Replaces receiver] I'm afraid of death.

I'm afraid of love.

I'm both at the same time.

♪ Everybody has some type of fear.

[Distant gunshot, siren] You just have to say that this is what you're gonna do and then be unapologetically you about it.

[Siren] ♪ You trying to live your life, to be like how everybody else perceives you to be and wants you to be, you will never be happy in life, ever, because you're not being your genuine, authentic self.

I'm not gonna be on this Earth for that.

No.

It's not worth it.

[Sea gulls calling] [Geese calling] Price, voice-over: The Bible says, "I saw trials and tribulation, man born of woman."

I'm--I'm OK with that.

♪ Price: Ah, here it is.

Think this is it.

This is it.

OK. [Sighs] Oh, man.

Price, voice-over: So, wake up every morning.

Put on your big boy pants.

Let's go.

OK. Sign off, sign off, sign off.

[Phone ringing] Press conference?

What are you talking about?

Woman: Hello.

Morning.

It's that time.

Huh?

All right.

OK?

OK. All right.

OK. Talk to you later.

Price, voice-over: Whatever comes, comes.

It's just that simple.

He's having a press conference.

What does he have a press conference for?

Commission...

These are nice.

These are nice.

Well, I just find that peculiar.

And again, that's the reason.

I just want y'all to know.

That's the reason for my, uh, my inquiry this morning.

Price, voice-over: Commissioner is a constitutional office in the state of Texas.

Dallas County is 955 square miles, and I've got 60% of the area.

I'm not gonna worry about that.

And I've got 99% of the unincorporated area.

It's legal.

Those are areas that no city wants.

Where the bus accident was, that was on Lawson Road, wasn't it?

I'm building water towers.

I'm building pump stations.

I'm building bridges.

I'm building roads.

I built more roads and bridges in Dallas than all of my colleagues combined.

Man: It's on Lawson Road, fully in the city of Mesquite, right directly across from the waste treatment plant.

Price, voice-over: That's the beauty of this job.

Right.

Yeah.

Right.

Well, and that's what I said to the lead inspector yesterday.

"You stay ready."

So, Mama said, "If you keep your house clean, you don't have to worry about people."

Price, voice-over: I've been here 43 years, and other than a couple of surgeries, I'm at work every day.

I'm showing National Centimeter LLC for 12.5.

Haven't been no let up.

Design Right Studios in Pennsylvania for 600.

The Marketing Collaborative LLC.

Ha!

For 49.5.

That is very, very, very-- I'm suspicious.

Man: We followed instructions.

Yeah, well, I hear everybody talking about they followed instructions.

I'm looking at the...

I'm looking at invoices and things.

I'm--I'm just saying.

Price, voice-over: If nothing else, I do want history to say... Yeah, I'm looking at invoices.

Price, voice-over: he poured out... And that's from the auditor's office.

Price, voice-over: everything he had.

So... [Phone beeping] What, did I lose you?

Man: As you can see, Dr. Huang, where we're located is right in the heart of where we need to be.

So if you can see here, people hang out.

There are liquor stores, homeless people.

Uh, this way on Ervay, right here at the light at Ervay and Colonial is, uh, female sex workers.

Uh, the street right behind our current clinic is, uh, transgender women sex workers.

And then further up the same street is, uh, male sex workers.

So we're right in the area, right on the bus line.

So bus line here, bus line here in front of our other location, and then bus line right behind us.

So transportation is also an issue.

So we have addressed just by where we have placed our services, all of those issues in one swoop.

Huang, voice-over: I'm Director of Dallas County Health and Human Services.

Graduated from Lake Highlands High School here.

Went away to Rice University for Civil Engineering.

My father was a civil engineer.

But then halfway through, realized I want to do something more with people.

How's your adjustment been so far?

Good.

Yeah.

Good?

Good.

Similar issues, but then Dallas has its own unique-- Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Aspects.

Huang, voice-over: UT Southwestern for my medical school, focused on Epidemiology, Health Policy and Management at Harvard.

And then I did that CDC program, the Epidemic Intelligence Service the disease detectives.

If you've seen "Outbreak" or "Contagion," they're the ones that CDC sends out.

Trainings or meetings.

Uh-huh.

Uh, entertainment kind of stuff, health and fitness-- all that can happen here.

Now, on this side, we have a trans woman that's a massage therapist that does chair massages.

Huh.

Wow.

And we know that there's some correlation.

You're a medical doctor.

We know that there's a-- we believe that there's a thing called touch therapy.

And so obviously we try to incorporate all of these health and wellness approaches when we-- This is fantastic.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Especially serving the-- the community this way.

Huang, voice-over: It was after the state, I went to the local health department in Austin.

I really liked that front-line experience.

I could have been very comfortable staying in Austin.

All of our programming is designed to meet individuals where they are and not be so forward about prevention work and that sort of stuff.

We feel like we can reach them if they're here.

Trans flag, black pride, black gay pride, black pride.

This is all, um, visually who we serve.

So you have youth- specific programming.

This is the overall community.

But this is where the crux of all of our programming happens.

All of our outreach and all that is located here.

Wow.

♪ One of the things that, and I just kind of jotted a couple of things down while you were talking that came to mind, but what I do want to know is, um, who is your highest-ranking black MSM at Dallas County?

Black MSM?

Mm-hmm.

Or MSM period.

Well, you know, I mean, I don't necessarily know this HIV status involved-- I didn't say the status.

I said black MSM.

Oh, MSM, MSM, MSM.

I'm sorry.

Um... And let me tell you why that's important that I asked that.

And the fact that you couldn't answer it, I think I already know, I don't think you have one.

I don't think that you visibly have at Dallas County a black gay man.

We live in a good ol' boy state.

You have structural barriers.

Sure.

Dallas County and Parkland are structural barriers.

If we don't have populations working and visible, you can have all the work groups that you want, but that's not enough.

And that's part of why I came.

It was specifically because I saw the disparities, the need in South Dallas.

That's right.

And I see--you compare it.

There's a greater need here.

There is an opportunity to try to make an impact.

It is.

But again, we are directly funded because the state historically hadn't done the right thing.

The county never really had any resources other than Ryan White resources.

If I can't do it, I'm happy to-- you know, I got a lot of other things I can do, but I want to be successful, and I'm only trying to bring-- I only want to bring together the people.

Then how can I help you?

Come to meetings, be participating.

But I'm not--I'm not gonna-- I'm not gonna just part-- Help get the other-- help get the other people who need to be at the table.

We can't keep over-talking each other is what we can't do.

So, let's-- When you talk, I listen, and you're going to listen when I talk, please.

I will definitely come if there's a commitment that we will have open and honest discussions about structural things that are present that you inherited, you didn't create them.

You inherited them.

I have an organization I have to run.

You have an organization you have to run.

And we want you-- You have to make your-- You have to make your decisions on how you run your organization.

I'll make my decisions on how I run the organization.

All I want it to be is successful.

Well-- I don't tell you who to hire.

I mean, but I certainly take into account I want to get the best people who can get the job done.

Well, so-- And that's, you know-- I mean-- So, let me so-- Well, hold on.

I'm talking.

Let me finish.

Let me finish.

I want to interrupt you on this one.

You don't just run an organization.

You run an organization for this whole county, but that's not what you're articulating.

I'm gonna need you to be very clear with me on what you articulate because, no, I'm not just running an organization.

My organization is needed because of what your organization has not done in the past.

Let's be really crystal clear about that, because I'm clear.

Why has it not happened before?

There was an African- American leader before me that was in my position-- A heterosexual man.

I don't know what his sexuality-- That was the problem.

I know it.

He's a heterosexual man.

OK.

I mean, I don't know-- So, again, you don't have an openly gay man.

I am an openly gay black man.

It's very few openly gay black men in this city that are even willing to stand up.

That's the problem.

And I can't speak for what was done in the past.

And I'm not telling you who to hire, but I would be remiss if I just had a Kumbaya conversation.

You may can do that with other folks.

You may have done that in Austin, but this is a different game, I'm telling you.

And I want to hear what's not working and why it's not working and work together.

OK. And we can't do all that today.

Yeah.

We can't do all that today.

I mean, that is, again, I have no other interest except for finding out what's working, what's not working.

Why is it not working?

What do we need to do?

So can we-- Now, you know, again, I mean, I think there are a lot of different-- there are a lot of issues to how we solve it.

It's not an easy solution.

It's not a one-fits-all.

It's not just-- It's not one fix.

Yeah.

So now... what--what are your ideas about how you would like to see this come out?

I would love it to see it come out as a complete safe haven for our people.

Grayson: OK.

Male, female, non-binary, all of them.

'cause it's like we're all-- we're all encompassed in one.

Grayson: What--what ideas do you have specifically about, around it that we should or shouldn't do?

It's--one thing I think we should not do is... one thing I believe that we should not do is try to make it to the point of it's a support group, but it's--it's a fun-loving support group, not one of those things of the woe-is-me support groups.

People have things that they go through and they have a place to come and talk, and they have a place to come and breathe, pretty much-- Mm-hmm.

because everybody don't have that place.

Right now, we don't have nothing for the African-American community as a support group here at all.

Grayson: Yeah.

We don't.

So like the every month thing would probably have to be the best route for us.

Grayson: It's just going to be the two of us with everything being implemented.

That's gonna be a lot, and you are going to be sort of pushed out there.

Yeah.

And then that's, for me, the beginning of the grant season.

Mm-hmm.

So, it's gonna-- we're gonna be-- We'll be running it.

We're gonna be stretched.

But then again, we need a support group, because if something comes up in the community-- Yeah.

We need to be able to talk about it.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

What time of the month?

Middle of the month.

People are not that much stressed in the middle of the month because like all the bills have been paid.

Mm-hmm.

They're more free.

Their time is more able to be used in other areas.

Grayson: OK.

So you're saying the third week of the month?

Second and a half.

Like they always land on Wednesday.

[People speaking indistinctly] Man: ...professional and friendship relationship that are not the same race and sex being born of the same family, but testify to the fact that we are all God's children.

Now therefore, be it resolved, the Dallas County holds high the extraordinary act of love exhibited by Justice David Evans to his friend, Chief Justice Carolyn Wright, who is now on the road to recovery and health, saved from continued pain, despair, and early death.

Be it further resolved that Dallas County will partner with whomever, wherever, to announce, proclaim, and encourage to promote living donor transplants as a... [Applause] Woman: Commissioner Price and I worked together before my retirement, and he knows that my health was failing at that time.

And I want you to know that I am fully restored.

This kidney, Kevin, is awesome, awesome.

Price, voice-over: If studying black folks did nothing else, it's grounded me and centered me.

Price: And whereas LaFonda A. Sims is a dedicated and outstanding employee and has been named Clerk of the Year on 3 occasions and was part of the team as the 116th Civil District Court was named Court of the Year in 2018.

And whereas LaFonda A. Sims enjoys going to church, family time, and shopping when she's not at work... You just thought you'd throw that in-- [Laughter] Price, voice-over: These old black folks used to pray, "I woke up clothed in my right mind with a reasonable portion "of health and strength and the reasonable activity of my limbs."

Price: Therefore, be it resolved that the Dallas County Judge and its duly elected Commissioners Court do hereby and with great pride, declare October 17, 2019, as the Key of Gospel Music and Ministry Award Day with all the rights and privileges thereto.

And this was done in open court, and I so move.

Woman: Second.

Man: All those in favor say "Aye."

All: Aye.

Price, voice-over: I tell my staff all the time, "When people call on the phone, "that's you on the other end of that phone.

And I hold everybody accountable."

Woman: In order to satisfy requirement for vote center marketing, if we wanted to move forward with vote centers-- Where are the-- where is the-- where is the discretionary exemption-- Woman: He advised us that that would have-- that would need-- be needed if we were going to give $200,000 to one person.

Price: So you circumvent the process by breaking it into $50,000 increments... 'cause that's basically what we're talking about here.

Right.

This is what was told to us.

As long as it was under $50,000, we could move-- I can do that with every project I got.

I don't know who Eco Latino is.

I don't know who [indistinct]-- Eco--yeah.

You want me to tell you who they all are or... No.

OK.

But I just know they don't do much in the African- American community.

Right.

Yeah.

OK. Woman: It's no different than we look at other proposals of other items that people bring to us.

Such as?

Such as?

Like NDSI, who was our printer, who says that they can deliver postcards.

They can do this.

They can make our post-- You can follow up on mailings.

That--you can put your hands on that.

That's not the same.

That's not the same.

Woman: But that's the type of proposals we get.

We get printing proposals.

We get, uh, website proposals.

Price, voice-over: My daddy used to say, "I want to see your sermon rather than hear one."

I ain't gonna ask you to do nothing I won't do.

I may be a piece in history, but I'm just-- I'm just following the path.

Reporter, on tape: Definitely the President's car.

We can see the First Lady's pink suit.

That's the only identification we could see, but we know it is the President's car.

Another car directly behind the Presidential car.

There were also bodies in that car.

Another Secret Service man spread-eagle over them.

And just now, we've received reports here at Parkland that the President was hit in the head.

That's an unconfirmed report that the President was hit in the head.

And a Dallas newsman, Mel Couch, said he was riding shortly behind the President in the parade.

He said after the shots were fired, he happened to look up at about the 5th or 6th floor of the Texas Book Depository.

He said he saw the rifle being pulled back in.

President Kennedy has been given a blood transfusion at Parkland Hospital here in Dallas in an effort to save his life after he and Governor John Connelly of Texas were shot in an assassination attempt in downtown Dallas.

A priest has been ordered, emergency supplies of blood also being rushed to the hospital.

Reporter: Just a moment.

Just a moment.

We have a bulletin coming in.

We now switch you directly to Parkland Hospital and KBOX News Director Bill Hampton.

Hampton: I have just talked to Father Oscar Huber of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church.

He and another priest tell me that the pair of men have just administered the last rites of the Catholic Church to President Kennedy.

President Kennedy has been assassinated.

It's official now.

The President is dead.

Women here in shock.

Secret Service men standing by the emergency room, tears streaming down their face.

There's only one word to describe the picture here, and that's grief and much of it.

It's official.

As of just a few moments ago, the President of the United States is dead.

♪ ♪ Woman: That this going and that going and this going.

And we definitely need alignment.

And we--that's not happening as well as it could be happening.

Man: To me, there's a bit of a capacity issue with you being the sole point person of this, because even then we've had several conversations, pieces of the plan that you knew nothing about.

That's problematic to me.

There are 4 strategies that are in play right now that all deserves its own unique attention as we talk about developing a strategy for addressing this epidemic in the next decade.

Prevention, testing, rapid linkage to care, retention, re-engagement, and viral suppression and stigma-- those all can wrap up into the same columns.

Man: Yeah, but what are we gonna do differently from what we've been doing?

The difference, and this is what I've committed, is it's not just gonna be talking about strategies and goals, it's gonna be action steps with specific timelines and persons responsible.

That's the difference.

I mean, because, you know, again, I've been here since February.

Y'all have been talking about this a lot longer than I have.

That is what--this is what I did in Austin.

And this is what we're gonna be doing here.

We don't want to get too much bogged down in the process.

and we bring all these people together and we don't get to action.

And that's what I think we see that people get tired of.

They come to the same meetings and then the same things are said.

Man: All this is based on your engagement with Fast Track in Austin, which happened a year ago.

So, what I'm asking you is, how do we talk about a strategy that incorporates all of those different things?

And the issue that continues to happen around ETE planning is mistrust and lack of transparency by health departments to actually do what they're saying that they're gonna do.

You're not doing this.

Like, what's on this paper, if you're not doing this, you and your staff needs to update this.

You have now had this since the beginning of October.

It's November now.

Huang: From the perspective of DSHS, from the perspective of CDC, we are ahead of the game.

I would communicate to you that as a person working in the community and as a person living with HIV, I do not feel that.

I think that you feel more comfortable because of the seat that you sit in as the Director of the Health Department, and you know much, much more than we do.

Share information with us so that we can feel comfortable, too.

Evans: So, my tatas, my breasticles, they're gonna cost 5,900.

Mmm!

So, which is not bad at all.

To get my fat transfer and all the other stuff done, that would be 5,100.

Woman: OK. That's including a discount.

And then my nose would be 9 grand.

Woman: Your what?

They're basically doing is they're really fixing the inside of my nose.

Um-umm.

Um-umm.

Amber.

Literally, I could not-- OK, hold on.

No, girl.

Amber I can't breathe out the right side of my nose.

Oh, well.

Stick a straw up there.

Ha ha ha!

Todrick Hall: ♪ Diamonds like damn, booty like duh ♪ ♪ Twerking on him, twerking on her ♪ ♪ ... it up, ... it up ♪ ♪ Bounce that ass, Dripeesha, bounce that ass, Dripeesha ♪ ♪ Bounce that ass, Dripeesha ♪ ♪ Bounce that ass, Drip, Drip ♪ Oh, girl.

Let me--so I don't know why I did this.

I need to stop doing these things early in the morning.

What?

I let Big Meat come see me.

Oh, girl.

That's why you had a glow this morning.

And I had a fresh hormone shot in my system.

My mom came to my dad's house.

It was on a Sunday morning, September 1, 2002... at 8:00 in the morning.

♪ My mom told me that my grandmother had passed away.

I hit the floor.

Like passed out, like gone.

♪ That was the closest person to me.

I was with her all the time.

♪ My grandmother loved me regardless.

She didn't try to force certain things upon me.

She never did that.

♪ I cannot process losing somebody so close to me.

♪ I talked to them today, and all of a sudden I get a phone call tomorrow that they're gone.

♪ ♪ Price, voice-over: Forney, Texas, Kaufman County, population 1,544.

Probably as many livestock as there were people.

Segregated school system.

We got out of school in August and the white kids went back to school.

We were chopping cotton, hauling hay, combining maize.

♪ I was the eldest of 6 children, 3 boys and 3 girls.

Daddy was an itinerant preacher and a truck driver.

And my mama was a maid.

I came that 20-something miles and saw the bright lights and just kind of stopped.

Became a salesman selling televisions and stereos with bonuses on them, made more money than I ever thought in my life.

Got involved in politics.

Some good people took me in, the Juanita Craft's of the world.

Just kind of morphed into it.

[Horn honks] And some 34 years as a commissioner, 43 years as a county employee, here I sit, and it's kind of-- kind of been here.

That's the way life has-- has rolled around for me.

I'm all in.

The day I leave will be the day I leave.

♪ His wife died.

Yeah, she died over the weekend.

And so we got her-- her service is, uh...

Her serv- well, they're gonna take her back to Louisiana.

Guess they gonna take her back to Louisiana.

But, uh, tonight we're gonna have, uh, a deal.

I got two funerals today.

I got Donna Ray's, And then I've got the--his wife tonight at 7:00 after Kwanzaa Fest meeting.

So, yeah, yeah.

It's gonna be one of those days.

[People speaking indistinctly] Man: Yeah, I know, but-- I still owe you breakfast.

Yeah, but it's Kwanzaa.

Fast time.

Oh, I know.

OK, we'll wait after that.

I know.

We're looking forward to-- I'm looking forward to my first Kwanzaa Fest here.

OK, ladies and gentlemen, it's 3:32.

I'm not going to assume you don't have anything else to do, so I'm going to call the District 3 Public Health Advisory Council to order.

Woman: We have an email solicitation that gives a brief description of what we're doing, as well as the English and Spanish-language links.

Huang, voice-over: I was born in New York City.

My parents moved to Dallas when I was 2, so I grew up in Dallas.

All these things that consciously, purposefully create these disparities.

How does this-- this community...

I mean, I understand where people are coming from.

Price: Our other community health needs assessment.

Woman: At the end of the day, this is also very much focused on sexually tra-- Huang: You know, I'm in a nice situation.

This is where I grew up.

If you want more information about the work that's going on, please contact me or you can contact Dr. Huang to get involved.

Huang, voice-over: I know more history about Dallas than a lot of people who have been here the last 20 years, even.

♪ I do have the comfort, you know, if people don't like what I'm doing, that's fine.

I've got, you know, I got other options.

♪ Price: The jail commission.

Where are they?

OK. Woman: Mm-hmm.

This morning they were over at Cook-Chill doing some fire drills.

And so we anticipate that they'll be done by early afternoon.

But thus far, no major issues.

We're ready.

We're ready.

Woman: We finally got the restroom issue resolved.

We're simply going to put something here.

We'll still be able to see in there, but it will allow for a certain amount of privacy-- Price: Privacy.

for when people are walking through here-- OK. and somebody's sitting over there.

OK.

So, just a recommendation.

The same thing over here.

♪ Woman: I think we need something where we have-- I don't know if we can do it 24/7 or 7 days, 12 hours where when they roll out of the jail, they step right in to a screening booth for the health care, where they get their follow-up prescriptions, where they get, uh, phone numbers or where to access their next step of care.

If they have a Parkland follow- up appointment that they were gonna be transported to from the jail, that they have it now.

It's their onus and their responsibility.

"Hey, take your information.

"Show up at the ACC on this date.

"Here's 30 days of a prescription.

"You know, you got a blood pressure issue.

That's something that doesn't go away."

And I think they're receptive to that.

Now, once they're out in the community for 14 days and they've been scrambling around to put their life back together, that window is gone.

Man: Yeah.

So, the idea was to create a clinic inside the courthouse because, you know, on their way out, they have to actually pass through the courthouse.

So we make it really, really available to them.

And it can become a 24/7 opportunity or 12 hours a week-- a day or 8 hours a day-- it doesn't matter.

Just make it available to them.

so as soon as they leave the jail, that can be their first stop.

Woman: Right.

They can get the care that they need.

That can create the buffer between them getting released and then later on gaining access to our COPC clinics.

Or they could actually come back to that clinic because a lot of these people are gonna come back to court for different situations.

Man: We've talked about this sort of integrating, um... social services into our clinics a long time, especially for-- to combat recidivism in this particular population.

I mean, how many meetings have we had with TD Jakes or whatever?

We've had so many of these meetings over the years and nothing's really come to fruition.

So it is one of those things that you always say, right?

That word "focus."

We've got to pay attention.

I think with Dr. Huang on board, I think that really helps, you know, to really have that strong tie.

Man: The paradigm shifts with the state and the county as well as what's happening in the community.

For example, lately in Dallas, we have an increase in suicide rate among teenagers.

So, are our resources that we have or the services that we are providing functionally sufficient enough to prevent that from occurring?

We need to really continue to work on that aspect as well.

I know that Health Department being part of it, that would be very helpful to really put together the more integrated services.

So, the exit from the jail is not just for one aspect, but rather a holistic approach.

Man: And the bottom line, the partnership would mean not just jail and the Health Department.

You know, Parkland Health and Hospital System-- Woman, over P.A.

: Attention, please?

May I have your attention, please?

May I have your attention, please?

Hospital capacity alert.

Parkland is activating its Emergency Operations Plan to address patient surge capacity.

Please expedite discharges.

Command Center can be reached at 70007.

[Woman's voice fading] Hospital capacity alert.

Parkland is activating its Emergency Operations Plan to address... ♪ ♪ Huang, voice-over: I mean, the reason I came back to Dallas... My mother had passed away in 2010.

My father passed away 2 years ago.

♪ It just made me realize how inevitable it is for all of us.

♪ I'm sorting through my father's pictures, and I started seeing, "OK, this is when he's at about the age where I am now," and I just think, what do I want to do between this time and the end?

♪ He never talked about death and really sort of avoided the subject.

♪ I...I mean, I'm not sure.

♪ I guess part of it is I don't want to live dependent on that.

I--this whole thing has sort of made me... you know, I hope that there's that at the end.

But, I mean, we have to live now and make every day count.

I don't want to live thinking I'm living for something later.

I want to make this time here as meaningful as I can.

♪ Price: To the undershepherd of this house, Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III; To the pastoral staff; to the officiant, Pastor Fitzgerald; to this family in celebration of a great life.

Y'all just gonna ignore that she worked for Dallas County, huh?

[Laughter] That's all right.

I got it, I got it.

That's the only reason she could do all that stuff when she worked in Dallas County.

We sent her down, sent her on down to the city.

[People murmuring] Anyway, um... Man: Get it in, pastor.

[Laughter] Price: Real quickly.

You know, Donna Ray-- y'all put volleyball in there.

Y'all put all those sports.

Y'all didn't put prizefighting.

[People murmuring] Donna Ray was Sugar Ray.

[Laughter] Reverend Yvette Blair-Lavallais wrote a book called on "Being Ruth."

And she talked about the season of hurt.

She talked about that mountaintop experience.

But she said, "The only way "you can get the mountaintop experiences, you got to go to the top of the mountain."

Man: Up, up, up.

Don't worry.

She went to the top of the mountain.

She looked, she saw, and like Ruth and like Naomi, don't worry about your season of sorrow.

Because right after that season, the book of Ecclesiastes talks about all those seasons.

But right after that season of hurt, is going to come a season of prosperity.

Woman: Yeah.

Yeah.

[Scattered applause] God doesn't just take.

God gives.

God gives.

[Applause] [Indistinct].

♪ ♪ Marcus Mosiah Garvey.

He said--this is what I believe.

He said, "I believe everything I need God has already placed inside of me."

And he said, "When you realize that," he said, "it won't take you 24 years, 24 months, 24 weeks, or even 24 days."

He said, "In the next 24 hours, we'll have a new race."

He said, "The race will rise not from the desire of "anybody else to see us rise, but from our own desire to rise, irrespective of what anybody else think."

♪ [Siren] You know, we just got so much history.

[Gunshots, screaming] [Gunshots, shouting] ♪ [Metal clattering] ♪ [Gunshot] ♪ I can't say from time to time I'm not real dejected.

But, you know, I feel like, you know, I've seen this movie before.

♪ That inner strength that Garvey talks about.

It's there.

We got to be able to, you know, withstand.

♪ If you can't do it here, I think everything else just--just goes.

♪ We've got to build something, leave it better than we found it.

Got to leave it better than you found it.

Amber: Where are you going?

Evans: Home.

'Cause you want to-- To take off my makeup and, uh, get ready for the show.

What show?

Trade school.

Why are you putting on makeup?

What do you mean why-- You already got makeup on.

Girl, 'cause I have to redo it, girl.

I have to do a whole transformation.

Great.

You're already transformed.

Look at you.

Ha ha ha ha!

[Evans singing to radio] ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ Singer: ♪ Devil's had you tied up ♪ ♪ Ooh, listen to these words from me ♪ ♪ Your situation may seem hopeless, but it's not the end ♪ ♪ Oh, yeah, though you are burdened ♪ ♪ And have shackles on your feet ♪ ♪ And I want you to know ♪ ♪ You're about to break loose ♪ ♪ You're about to break loose ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm free, free ♪ ♪ Good God Almighty, I'm free ♪ ♪ He told me [indistinct], free ♪ ♪ That I could be free, yeah, free ♪ ♪ The Devil tried to stop me, free ♪ Evans: Your brush was in my stuff.

Amber: Which were?

The way you use your thing-- your usual eyebrow brush.

The concealer one?

Yeah.

Hallelujah.

I can't deal with this little mother... right here.

This bitch finna drive me mother... crazy.

[Evans giggling] Bitch, I gotta zoom in extra close and ...

But, yeah, I, um, whenever I finish my makeup, I'm just gonna take my stuff, and then I'll be at the bar early, you know?

Yeah.

I'm about to be sitting at the bar talking on live about stigma and living with HIV.

Like my manager told me about that today at work.

So I was like, "Oh, thanks.

Yeah."

Instead, it baffles me that I've been doing this for 10 years.

It just does.

It just--for me to sit back and just think that 10 years and like, I would not have thought I'd been here 10 years.

Man: A decade?

Not at all.

I would not have thought I'd have been here for 10 years, not at all.

'Cause I've been through my battle, my struggles and everything.

I've been to the point of like--it's like... coming from a woman who is... a trans woman who's been living with HIV for almost 10 years also.

It's a big... it's a big thing because it's like you go through the whole point of putting your body through all these different-- Man: Meds.

Meds, and then also, like, I went through the process of doing sex work and things like that, because I had-- I had no other way of means of surviving... at that point in time.

I never let anything hinder me in my life.

I just can't.

Baby, no, ma'am.

Baby, ain't about to happen on this watch.

♪ ♪ When I first saw you, I wanted you to be mine ♪ ♪ But I was too shy to say anything ♪ ♪ I knew it would take time ♪ ♪ When I finally got the love ♪ ♪ You just smiled ♪ ♪ Then you gave me the world ♪ ♪ You were so beautiful ♪ ♪ All I could think of was ♪ ♪ I love you ♪ Chorus: ♪ I love you ♪ ♪ I love you ♪ ♪ Oh, I love you ♪ ♪ I love you ♪ ♪ I love you ♪ ♪ I love you ♪ ♪ ♪ Then we got together ♪ ♪ Made love ♪ ♪ You told me I was all you think of ♪ ♪ But the problems came, we busted up ♪ ♪ We talked it over, we said we'd had enough ♪ ♪ Even though you left me ♪ ♪ All I can remember was ♪ ♪ That I love you ♪ ♪ I love you ♪ ♪ I love you ♪ ♪ Oh, I love you ♪ ♪ I love you ♪ ♪ I love you ♪ ♪ I love you ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪♪