Race & Culture

We examine decades of data on gun ownership and gun violence to show trends across the state. Some of them might surprise you.

The Armstrong Project provides two $100,000 endowments to Howard University and Hampton University.

The shooting at a Koreatown salon in May revealed fault lines between the Dallas Police Department and the people who work in the community northwest of downtown by I-35.

Texas schools have long had too few teachers. The pandemic made the situation worse — but issues like low pay, poor benefits and polarizing statewide politics all have an impact, too.

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. One reason: school district secession.

The U.S. government tried to eliminate stickball from Native American communities in the 19th century. But the sport, and its successor lacrosse, have continued to thrive — especially in North Texas.

“I want my kids to pave a path of healing and hope when it comes to the conversation on race.”

New research from TCU has uncovered the crucial roles a Black married couple filled during the university's founding years. Neither were eligible to attend, but Charley and Kate Thorp kept the campus running in its early days. These contributions had been unacknowledged until now.

Over 20 local Asian-owned businesses celebrated Asian American and Pacific Islander month on Saturday with a block party in the Bishop Arts District.

The 12-acre complex will include a performance hall and two museums.

Some city leaders worry that lead contamination at a Southeast Dallas site where tons of shingles and other construction material had been dumped may also have contaminated parts of the surrounding neighborhood.

Southeast Dallas residents who live near the former Shingle Mountain site want the city council to approve a $2 million cleanup of toxic lead and arsenic contamination.