Fort Worth’s Forgotten Lynching: In Search of Fred Rouse
Retracing the steps of a Texan lynched in 1921 requires a trip through dark days in state history.
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Retracing the steps of a Texan lynched in 1921 requires a trip through dark days in state history.
Culture ⋆
Robie Flores’ “The In Between” is a love letter to la frontera—and a humanizing refutation of GOP fear-mongering.
News ⋆
A new report by the Environmental Integrity Project compiled data on every U.S. plastics plant built, expanded or proposed since 2012, revealing massive growth in Texas.
News ⋆
Artificial intelligence technologies are all the rage at SXSW. Is our democracy prepared?
Culture ⋆
Raemonn James, better known as Hermajestie the Hung, teamed up with a filmmaker to tell a moving story of activism and queer culture.
Postcard ⋆
In San Antonio, a community coalesces around solidarity with Gaza.
The heavily contested GOP primaries brought about ousters and uncertainty in the state’s lower legislative chamber and highest criminal court.
Meanwhile, a long-term incumbent who backed a controversial state school takeover easily secures renomination.
Challenger Sean Teare handily took out the embattled two-term incumbent Kim Ogg.
Blocked in Louisiana, Formosa Plastics looks to grow around Texas’ Lavaca Bay, but it and other industrial plants are waiting for water.
A report from the fencelines in the booming Southeast Texas petrochemical corridor.
Too many U.S. workers still suffer and die from exposure to well-known toxic substances, a Texas investigative reporter’s new book says.
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