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A talent competition for Black high school students that has been held at Tarrant County College South Campus for more than 15 years abruptly changed venues last weekend.

Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, says that without an appropriate response from American Airlines, the civil rights organization will be forced to reinstate an advisory against the airline.

Local organizers spoke in support of Tarrant County Commissioner Alisa Simmons after County Judge Tim O'Hare told her to "sit there and be quiet."

UT Dallas's announcement that it's laying off about 20 faculty and staff to comply with SB 17 comes a week after UT Austin announced its own mass layoffs. "It's a chilling effect."

A letter from the NAACP to current and prospective NCAA athletes urges them to shun mostly white schools in Florida that have dismantled DEI programs under a new state law similar to one passed in Texas.

Thursday was the 75th anniversary of the ruling that barred creating separate schools for “Spanish-speaking” children.

The city of Fort Worth has zoned an area near Echo Heights as “industrial growth center.”

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund has filed a civil rights complaint against Carroll ISD, through the Department of Education.

Player organizations in the NBA, NHL, NFL, WNBA and MLB were sent an open letter by the organization's national and state presidents.

The complaint signals a continued desire among some UT Austin students and alumni to push administrators to discontinue using the song as the university’s alma mater, despite the university’s insistence that it will remain.

A major civil rights group is demanding the attorney general pause federal grants to local police until he confirms they aren't engaging in discrimination, citing more police killings of Black people.

Members of the Texas Legislative Black Caucus said they are "unequivocal" about their opposition to UT-Austin's alma mater and have asked the university to reconsider getting rid of the song.