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KERA's Galilee Abdullah spoke to Opal Lee, known as "The Grandmother of Juneteenth", who shared her experience watching the new federal holiday get signed into law. Lee says there's more work to be done.

The new book dives deep into the history behind the celebration some Americans still know little about.

The 6 miles between the old and new incarnations of Black Wall Street belie the dire connection that links them: Racial and socioeconomic inequality on Tulsa’s north side has its roots in the 100-year-old atrocity of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

KERA spoke to educators in the state about what Texas students are missing out on when it comes to Asian American history. They said the lack of diversity, key figures and modern-day connection are some of the key issues.

Julian Read, whose long career in public relations included briefing the press after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963, has died in Texas. He was 93.

The Atlanta shooting has led to heated discussion about the blame — and violence — aimed at Asians during the pandemic. It's the latest example in a long history of hatred fueled by disease.

British rocker Phil Collins is one of the world's foremost Alamo artifact collectors, and a preview of that collection is now on display at the Alamo.

The new owner of a building in Geneva, N.Y., found a walled-off room — sealed by drywall and lost to time. There he discovered century-old photographs and equipment — and a mystery.

People are stuck at home, toiling away, getting bored, going stir crazy. Cooped-up sailors who felt the same way on long ocean journeys broke up the tedium with work songs called sea shanties. It only makes sense, then, that shanties have come full circle with a moment of unprecedented popularity during the pandemic.

Some Republicans are arguing that former President Donald Trump should not face a Senate impeachment trial because he's a private citizen. That was argued before — and rejected narrowly — in 1876.

KERA's Galilee Abdullah spoke with Louie Dean Valencia-García, a professor of digital history at Texas State University, who said the attack on the Capitol is rooted in a history of fascism in the U.S.

"Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico" tells war stories of women in the 20th century and beyond, who became part of Mexico's "collective DNA."