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Officials in Texas Grapple With Police Decision to Use Taser on City Council Member

October 14, 2015

Officials in a small Texas town are questioning a decision by the police to use a Taser on a member of the City Council before charging him with resisting arrest.

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Texas officials: Schools should teach that slavery was ‘side issue’ to Civil War

July 8, 2015

Five million public school students in Texas will begin using new social studies textbooks this fall based on state academic standards that barely address racial segregation.

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Texas teacher’s Facebook rant about McKinney pool party gets her ‘relieved of her duties’: report

June 17, 2015

Karen Fitzgibbons lost her job after a Facebook post that said blacks are “causing the problems” and advocated racial segregation.

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Calls Mount For The Firing Of Texas Officer Who Crashed Pool Party, Pulled Gun On Teens

June 8, 2015

A rally is planned for Monday in the Dallas-area city of McKinney calling for the firing of the police officer seen in a viral video throwing a bathing suit-clad teenage girl to the ground and pointing his pistol at other youths at a pool party.

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Texas county unwittingly votes in favour of reparations for African Americans

June 19, 2014

Some Dallas county commissioners were surprised to realized they voted for reparations after failing to read a full bill,

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Black Men Arrested for Escorting White Teen

December 4, 2013

A young dancer’s dream to train under an expert turned to nightmare when her escort, a family friend, was arrested and she taken to CPS.

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Holder Wants Texas to Clear Voting Changes With the U.S.

July 25, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2012, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department.

The attorney general hopes to combat voter disenfranchisement by making it harder for Texas to change voting laws.

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Empty chair ‘lynchings’: Anti-Obama protests gone too far?

September 21, 2012
lynching chair Austin

Some Americans who oppose Barack Obama have resorted to racist imagery that evokes violence in their protests.

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Texas judge warns of possible ‘civil war’ if President Obama is re-elected

August 31, 2012
Judge Head w:Rick Perry

Conservatives judge Tom Head from Texas opined about a possibly civil war in response to President Obama’s potential re-election on local TV.

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Little Known Black History Fact: Riverside General Hospital

July 24, 2012
Riverside General Hospital (RGH) in Houston, Texas is the only remaining historically black hospital in the United States.

Segregation resulted in historically Black hospitals, like Houston’s Riverside General Hospital, which is still operational.

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ABHM builds public awareness of the harmful legacies of slavery and Jim Crow in America and promotes racial repair, reconciliation, and healing. 

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