Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Michael Smith, Brent Thompson, and Patrick Zamarripa. Those were the names that brought President Barack Obama to Dallas on Tuesday for a...
During the Democratic National Convention, the members of “Mothers Of The Movement”—a Black Lives Matter-adjacent organization made up of the mothers of Sandra Bland, Mike Brown,...
In June 2015, the North Texas city of McKinney—which, until then, was perhaps best known as the hometown of former professional wrestler Haystacks Calhoun—suddenly became famous. A...
Recent years have brought record numbers of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, a significant increase in reported hate crimes, and purges in state voter rolls—not to mention...
Police officers in Dallas and Denison have been caught making and circulating bigoted posts on social media, often advocating for the use of deadly violence against...
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, discrimination toward Asian Americans has surged across the United States. According to the Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council,...
Dr. Peniel Joseph, the founding director of the LBJ School’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, believes the events of the last few weeks—George...
This article has been updated to reflect new historical findings published by a University of Texas commission on “The Eyes of Texas.” Our story “A University...
“What might be helpful for people during all this stress and anxiety is the idea of lament. Some of the psalms are labeled ‘psalms of lament,’...
When he was growing up, actor Jonathan Majors found solace in the countryside at his grandmother’s farm, where he spent summers. That peace was harder to...
