Race & Culture

The proposed African American Museum and Cultural Center could soon get final dollars needed to open in Polytechnic Heights.

The action comes as Republicans across Tarrant County decry the “Islamization of Texas.”

Multiple civil rights organizations are seeking to block parts of Senate Bill 12, a sweeping state law that prohibits discussions about gender identity in public schools as well as student clubs based on sexual orientation.

Frank Moss, who served on City Council for 12 years and led the preservation of the city’s Black community history, died at 81.

The program will now only be eligible for service-disabled veterans. It will be called Veteran Heroes United in Business.

Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton has released the system’s standards for discussing race and gender in the classroom.

Now, the vote to restore the ordinance is slated to be taken on Dec. 9.

The new race and gender policy has garnered condemnation from educational rights advocates, including the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which sent a letter to the board of regents earlier this week arguing that the policy amounted to censorship.

The handbill that informed enslaved people in Texas of their freedom was given out June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

The council says it will have to make changes to its naming and policies to avoid confrontation with federal and state governments hostile to DEI initiatives.

The marker at Pegasus Plaza remembered Allen Brooks, who was lynched by a white mob in 1910. Advocates are vowing to replace the plaque as soon as possible.

Rioters burnt down a previously prosperous district of Black-owned businesses in the North Texas town.