Race & Culture

Chaka said she hopes she can inspire and empower others "to step outside the box and to do something different." She is the second woman hired as a full-time NFL official.

Plano resident Mustafaa Carroll says being Black in America has helped prepare him to face the rise of Islamophobia after Sept.11.

Despite not being old enough to have seen the Twin Towers fall, Dallas native Razan Bayan says the event shaped her upbringing.

The Texas Freedom Colonies Project is holding a workshop this weekend about gathering artifacts and stories. And they're challenging long-held assumptions about what's often considered "museum-caliber" material.

Gov. Ralph Northam said pardoning the "Martinsville Seven" was the state's way of acknowledging that the men were executed without due process.

Local refugee resettlement agencies are helping Afghans who recently arrived in North Texas and offer ways the public can help too.

Conservative lawmakers denounce critical race theory and say it facilitates racism. Some teachers say it actually informs their efforts to counter racism in the curriculum and classroom, even though they don't teach it directly to students.

Media outlets have become so quick to feed the public feel-good stories about the singer that routine fact-checking seems to be getting overlooked, as a recently viral story shows.

Tuesday, the Fort Worth City Council voted in support of a proposal to name a section of I-35 for Atatiana Jefferson.

Some of the fastest-growing counties in the nation are in the Lone Star State. And Latinos and other people of color account for most of the growth.

Growing numbers of people in the U.S. are reporting on census forms that they identify with more than one racial group. But they're often hidden in breakdowns of the country's demographics.

Nearly 8% of Muslims in a recent survey reported a suicide attempt in their lifetime compared with 6% of Catholics, 5% of Protestants and 3.6% of Jewish respondents.