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The Texas Railroad Commission voted Tuesday to immediately suspend a permit that allowed a defiant Houston operator to inject ...
Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's ...
There’s a sleepy little town about 30 minutes away from Austin that really shouldn’t be slept on. Steeped in rich history ...
A mentoring program for Black girls and young women takes participants on a 14-day tour to learn about Black history, the ...
The first recorded celebration of Independence Day in Oklahoma occurred in 1832 at Fort Gibson. There are few details of the ...
On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom, marking the official end of slavery in the ...
Texas A&M soared under Chancellor John Sharp. Texans should ask: what could the moderate Democrat have done as governor?
The legislative package was inspired by the state’s largest wildfire in history. The Smokehouse Creek fire scorched more than 1 million acres in the Panhandle and killed three people .
About three dozen actors and about the same number in a mass choir from several churches told the story of Juneteenth to an ...
Tucked away in Houston’s northern reaches sits a museum that gives new meaning to the phrase “deadly serious” – the National Museum of Funeral History. This isn’t your typical “let’s go see some ...
They were especially inspired after reading Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad, which relies on an oral history relayed by the descendants of enslaved people ...