Most Recent in Texas Politics:

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3Doctors Reverse Course, Say Texas GOP Should Cancel In-Person Convention

4The Next Census Could Determine the Future of Port Arthur

5Texas Had a State Office That Could Have Investigated Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Cases. Lawmakers Defunded it Three Years Ago.

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Most Recent in Environment:

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4Editorial: Air Pollution Was Already Killing Us. Then Came the Coronavirus. Why Won’t the EPA Act?

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Most Recent in Border:

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2Back to the Wall

3Between Borders

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Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

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6A Major Obstacle to Police Reform: The Whiteness of Their Union Bosses

Most Recent in Education:

1The New Ensemble

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3Tough Decisions Ahead for School Leaders in Rural Texas

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5The Creature of Martin Creek Lake Won’t Die

6The Cost of Carve-Outs

Most Recent in Health Care:

1One of Texas’ Biggest Nursing Home Operators Beset By COVID-19 Cases and Deaths

2Telehealth Could be Great, if Texans Had Access to It

3Texas Nursing Home Residents Were Already at Risk. Then COVID-19 Hit.

4Neglected in Care

5COVID-19 is Surging in Rural Texas, Threatening to Overwhelm Local Hospitals

6He Removed Labels That Said ‘Medical Use Prohibited,’ Then Tried to Sell Thousands of Masks to Officials Who Distribute to Hospitals

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6Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

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4‘After the Last Border’ Reveals the Human Cost of Trump’s Draconian Immigration Policies

5In ‘Crooked Hallelujah,’ Kelli Jo Ford Explores How Pain is Passed Down Through Families

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4The Ghosts of Jefferson

5Little Arthouse on the Prairie

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3What’s a Bookstore for?

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5In a Pandemic, Poor Defendants Could Pay With Their Lives

6Loneliness in the Age of Coronavirus

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4Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

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6Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

2Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

3Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

4Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

5Parallel Planes

Articles tagged: racism

Ahmed Mohamed handcuffed at his Irving high school.

by Patrick Michels

Teen Clockmaker Arrested in One of Texas’ Most Punitive School Districts

Wed, Sep 16, 2015 |

When we talk about how schools and police conspire to criminalize children, we have a wealth of extreme examples we can point to. There’s Noe Nino de Rivera, ...Read More

mental illness in jail

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta and Teresa Mioli

State of Texas: Behind Bars with a Mental Illness

Fri, Sep 4, 2015 |

In addition to sparking national outrage over police brutality and racial discrimination, Sandra Bland’s jailhouse death has also raised significant questions...Read More

Mildred and Richard Loving

by Ashley Hope Perez

The Book Report: Loving Day Provides a Contemporary Look at Racial Identity

Fri, Aug 21, 2015 |

In his fourth novel, Mat Johnson exhibits a preoccupation with the past: with lineage, with inheritance, and maybe even with the ghosts of the first interracia...Read More

by Patrick Michels

Advocates Call for Extra Training for McKinney School Police

Wed, Aug 12, 2015 |

When Texas students come back to school this month, they’ll be joined in many districts by police officers, members either of a dedicated school police force ...Read More

by Bob Ray Sanders

Greater State: The Racism of States’ Rights

Thu, Jul 23, 2015 |

It has been 150 years since the institution of slavery officially ended in the Lone Star State. Yet, the vestiges from that evil period remain, and are revealed...Read More

by Andrea Grimes

State of the Media: The Scene of the Crimes

Mon, Jun 29, 2015 |

In collaboration with a walking tour app that uses GPS technology, the producers of Radiolab have created a self-guided walking tour that takes listeners back t...Read More

by Andrea Grimes

State of the Media: #NoFilter in McKinney

Wed, Jun 17, 2015 |

Without affordable smartphone technology and a growing sense that police and mainstream media are not capturing all sides of the story when they cover racist vi...Read More

by Ronnie Dugger

Integration Hero and Education Legend George I. Sanchez Gets a New Biography

Wed, Mar 18, 2015 |

Education pioneer fought racial segregation in schools after witnessing its severe effects on Mexican Americans....Read More

by Alisa Semiens

Julian Bond at LBJ School: ‘Jim Crow May be Dead, but Racism is Alive and Well’

Thu, Feb 5, 2015 |

At the LBJ School yesterday, Julian Bond said the election of Barack Obama doesn't mean we’ve achieved a post-racial society....Read More

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