Black Community

City staff addressed this realization in the Feb. 10 staff report, and in response to an inquiry by council member Brandon Chase McGee.

Community Frontline commissioned a mural for the east-facing wall of its headquarters at 2800 Yeager St. in Fort Worth, which is expected to be completed head of Black Heritage Month in February. Dante Williams, a founder of the nonprofit, wanted to show Fort Worth the rich history of Black businesses and their impact on Fort Worth — a history he learned later in life.

When a Southern civil rights leader is found dead under strange and suspicious circumstances, there are bound to be questions. That’s what happened in East Texas in 1976 with the death of Frank J. Robinson. The controversial official ruling was suicide, but Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies has found evidence that challenges this narrative and points to the possibility of murder. Here’s part two in his investigative series.

In 1976, a Texas civil rights leader died under mysterious circumstances that today continue to baffle the residents of Palestine. The death of Frank J. Robinson is remembered by many as a miscarriage of justice that needs to be rectified. In the first part of a series of reports Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies investigates.

A decade ago, Black women in Texas were twice as likely as white women to die from pregnancy and childbirth. Today, not much has changed.

The airline hosted the Bessie Coleman Aviation All-Stars tour last week to celebrate the anniversary of Coleman earning her international pilot's license in 1921.

Landlords in Texas don’t have to accept renters who receive federal housing assistance, but a Denton County community is taking it a big step further: making most of the town off limits to Section 8 tenants.

It’s clear Republican leadership in Texas is eying the Latino vote, and they believe it’s possible, despite data showing it might be an uphill quest. According to 2021 data from Gallup, nationwide, 54 percent of Hispanics identified as Democrats, while 26 percent identified as Republicans.

The report found service providers are making strides to get Black and Brown Austinites into housing.

The Supreme Court cited safe haven laws as an abortion alternative when it overturned Roe v. Wade. But Texas’ policy lacks funding and just 172 infants have been relinquished since 2009.

Most Texans who get abortions in the state are in their 20s and 30s, and the vast majority of abortions are performed 10 weeks into pregnancy or earlier. Black Texans consistently have the highest rates of abortion.

The popular segregation-era venue for Houston’s Black community is a landmark of late Art Deco design.