The Foilies 2024
We’re taught in school about checks and balances among the various branches of government, but those lessons tend to leave out the role that...
Home of Juneteenth
Ground will be broken this year on the National Juneteenth Museum on the Historic South Side. A combined vision of the Grandmother of Juneteenth,...
Saving Jameela
A profound calmness and determination filled the quiet operating room as an accomplished medical team stood united for a common surgery in a setting...
The Dock Bookshop
One of the largest Black-owned bookstores in the entire Southwest, The Dock Bookshop has been celebrating Black History Month every business day for 16...
Pregnant With Death
At approximately 3 a.m. Sat., July 20, 1895, a terrifying explosion occurred two miles southeast of Mart, Texas, 20 miles east of Waco and...
Coining a Texas Heroine
The New York Times’ 2020 series of feature obituaries, “Overlooked,” was primarily devoted to women and “people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported” in...
Broken Dreams
Zenorah was barely one week old when doctors took her off life support. She exhaled her last breath in the arms of her grandmother.
“I...
Jump for Jump
The cowboy is holding a helmet in his hands, rubbing a thumb across the thin metal bars meant to protect his face should things...
School-to-Prison Pipeline
Clumps of lightly strewn litter pockmarked the apartment grounds as Ivan and Lorenzo approached. The two 18-year-olds recently kicked out of a local charter...
Haves a-Thrivin’
In A Christmas Carol, ol’ Ebby Scrooge is warned to change his ways or suffer eternal damnation. In local terms, Fort Worth is Scrooge,...
