Race & Culture

There is a rich history, culture and legacy of Black cowboys in Texas and the nation that’s been underrepresented in history and popular culture.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and TikTok took no action on 84% of antisemitic posts, despite pledging to crack down on hate speech, according to the Center to Counter Digital Hate.

The murder of George Floyd in May 2020 prompted a surge of interest in books about anti-racism and an increase in support of Black-owned businesses. But has that interest and support continued more than a year later?

The Kaufman County Sheriff's Office has opened an internal investigation after a video of deputy pinning a teenage girl to the ground and using his body to hold her down surfaced on social media.

Republican Texas lawmakers this year made it a priority to limit how racism and current events are taught in school. Martin Luther King III calls their legislative moves “a literal effort to whitewash history."

Immigrant advocates say DACA was only a Band-Aid. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen's recent order to halt new DACA applications puts the pressure on Congress to act.

One North Texan created an Instagram account to detail her personal adoption experience and encourage other adoptees to join her mission to create awareness around adoption trauma.

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Karlos K. Hill, the author of The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History.

Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia apologized to Santos Rodriguez’s mother for the young Mexican American boy’s death 48 years ago. Saturday, an annual caravan drove through the city honoring Santos’ life and making sure his death is not forgotten.

A new study finds that for more than 70% of all U.S. counties, urban temperatures are higher in neighborhoods that have low-income people and communities of color.

Experts held a virtual event to talk about the pressures faced by teens of color and young members of the LGBTQ+ community, and how to support those groups.

From 2018 to 2019, more than 48,000 new immigrants moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to a new analysis of Census data by the group New American Economy.