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Frederick Douglass Haynes III, pastor of Dallas' Friendship-West Baptist Church, now heads the Rainbow Push Coalition, succeeding civil rights icon Jesse Jackson.

The move comes amid calls for further regulation of nascent artificial intelligence technology.

Communities in North Texas are celebrating and honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. through multiple special events.

When Texas civil rights hero Frank J. Robinson died in 1976 there was a public outcry for an independent investigation. That never happened, and since then there have been doubts about the official ruling of suicide. In the final part of his series Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies reports on calls for a new investigation.

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 federal judge has struck down provisions in Texas' new law that set limits on how people can help voters cast their ballots.

Images taken in September showed agents on horseback swinging their reins at migrants from Haiti. A report released Friday found the agents did not strike the migrants, but did use unnecessary force.

Emails obtained by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica confirm that federal authorities are probing discrimination claims involving Gov. Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar border initiative.

Union support is the highest it's been in decades in the U.S. We clear up a few questions about how they work in Texas.

A civil rights complaint prompted the state’s environmental agency to guarantee interpretation and translation services at public meetings for people who don’t speak English. But the rollout has been plagued by confusing procedures and little clarity on how interpreters will be selected.