Houston’s ‘Living Archive’ of Migration
At Fresh Arts, photographer Violeta Álvarez created a space where immigrant families in Houston can see their own histories reflected back to them.
Houston
Wage Wars
Activists have won citywide wage theft laws in El Paso and Houston. But local and state bureaucracies have ensured that the problem persists.
Strangest State: June 2018
Weird news from far-flung Texas.
The Resistance has a Runoff in the Houston Suburbs
Texas’s affluent 7th Congressional District has become a hotbed for activism against Republican John Culberson. But first, it needs to get through one of the most contentious Democratic Party battles in the country.
The Sisterhood
For 22 years, an unusual housing and support program has been quietly transforming the lives of single mothers in Houston's Third Ward.
A Catch-22 in the Crimmigration System in Harris County
In Houston, a lack of transparency and poor communication between immigration and criminal courts has created a civil rights nightmare and a clog in the system.
Galveston Lawsuit Is Writing on the Wall for Other Counties that Haven’t Ended ‘Wealth-Based Detention’
The lawsuit is now one of several across Texas seeking to end the practice of keeping people in jail just because they’re poor.
Without State Aid, Advocates Worry Port Arthur Will Bleed Residents Long After Harvey
Flooding was so widespread in Port Arthur during Harvey that even shelters had to be evacuated.
Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes
Sotelo’s incisive and descriptive poems take readers across Texas to interracial weddings, modern cities, dinner parties and mother-daughter conversations.
Greg Abbott’s Weird Primary Gamble
The governor tried love and botched it, so now he’s trying the politics of fear.