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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.
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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.
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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.
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The report found service providers are making strides to get Black and Brown Austinites into housing.
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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.
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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.
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The popular segregation-era venue for Houston’s Black community is a landmark of late Art Deco design.
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Based on the Fort Worth Report’s investigation into Bridges’ accusation, the Tarrant Appraisal District is starting a review into the homestead exemption of the house Dixon owns at 1104 E. Leuda St. When the Report visited the home this week, someone other than Dixon was living there.
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UNT received a federal grant to digitally preserve audio and video recordings from the archive of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, representing more than 40 years of Black cultural expression.
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The southeast community of Joppa, one of the original freedmen’s towns of Dallas, is holding a community cleanup of what will be their first multipurpose center.
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Black residents left the nation’s largest cities, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, by the tens of thousands and instead chose smaller cities like Fort Worth; Columbus, Ohio; Jacksonville, Florida; and Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A 150-year-old building on West Campus is the last remnant of a freedom colony, a community of formerly enslaved people. The building has been closed as an apartment complex was built up around it. Some say the historic structure has never really gotten its due.