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Ebony and Jet magazines have a history of both being staples in the black households. Now they will continue the tradition under a new publisher. According to the Chicago Tribune, Johnson Publishing has agreed to sell Ebony and Jet to Clear View Group, an Austin, Texas-based private equity group. While the publications’ Chicago headquarters and New York editorial locations […]

Mayte Lara Ibarra and Larissa Martinez both graduated from Texas high schools as valedictorians on the same day. They both took the opportunity to stand firm in their beliefs and declare their status as undocumented citizens that immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico, according to the New York Times.

School rivalries can get intense and before you know it you may look up and feel that you have a genuine dislike for the students from across the way. But hate is a different level altogether and has no place. And that hate being used as a platform for racist and anti-transgender rhetoric is unacceptable. […]

Last week, an anti-Muslim hate group got the most interesting surprise when they came prepared to an African-American mosque in Texas.

If Wiley College sounds familiar to you, it may be because you have an encyclopedic knowledge of black history of you’ve watched The Great Debaters, which tells the story of the Texas HBCU’s debate team in the 1930s. Because things are always best when they come full circle, a leading actor from the 2007 film is […]

An Austin, Texas police officer was recorded on video confronting a man that was already in police custody. The video, which was recorded by Peaceful Streets Project, appears to show the officer using pepper spray on a man who was handcuffed in the back of a police van.

School assemblies are pretty much hit or miss opportunities. The attention of younger students is hard to keep and approaching them the wrong way could shut them out entirely. But a recent assembly at a Texas school about rape and domestic abuse reportedly got off on the wrong foot and got even worse as time […]

Zena Stephens is currently running for Sheriff of Jefferson County, Texas. According to her Twitter profile, she’s the third Democrat and only the fourth person overall to be a candidate for this position. She’s also a black woman, which apparently doesn’t sit well with some. Stephens’ office was the target of a racially motivated shooting where a […]

Back in mid-2015, a video surfaced on the Internet that appeared to show Planned Parenthood employees discussing the illegal sale of fetal tissues to undercover activists. Well, a Texas grand jury has indicted the two responsible for making the video on multiple counts.

By Jay Dodd News broke over the weekend of a Dallas suburb police officer terrorizing a group of Black and Brown kids attending a swimming party in an affluent neighborhood’s community pool. The graphic video depicts Corporal Eric Casebolt dragging a Black girl across a yard, shoving her to the ground and waving his gun […]

      Thanks to Texas’s strict voter ID law, the number of disenfranchised voters has surged in the state.

  A Waller, Texas police officer has been placed on leave after video of him pepper-spraying a student surfaced. Officer Adolphus Cannon is on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation by the Waller Police Department.