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A $250,000 grant from Communities Foundation of Texas will help the African American Museum begin preserving fragile archives documenting Black history in Dallas and across Texas.

The handbill that informed enslaved people in Texas of their freedom was given out June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

This year, Deep Ellum became a national historic landmark — with its decades of music and live theater. Now there's an archivist working to save that history.