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  • 90-Year-Old Walking From Fort Worth, Texas, to DC to Make History

    Opal Lee, 90, is an activist who is fighting for Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating when the last American slaves were freed in Texas, to be made a national holiday, Fox 4 News reports. Lee is walking from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., and needs 100,000 signatures on an online petition at the White House website. She…

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  • Texas Youth Football Team Receives Death Threats After Protest

    Members of a youth football team in Texas have received death threats after players took a knee before a game as a show of solidarity with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protest against America’s over-policing of black communities. April Parkerson, the mother of 11-year-old running back Jaelun Parkerson, told ABC News that the Beaumont…

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  • Sandra Bland Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled for $1,900,000 

    The family of Sandra Bland, the black woman who was arrested following a traffic stop in Texas and later found dead in jail, has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $1.9 million, USA Today reports. According to the report, Connon Lambert, the lawyer for Bland’s family, told CNN that along with the cash settlement, Waller…

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  • 19-Year-Old Texas Mom Killed in Drive-by Shooting 

    A 19-year-old Houston mother was killed in a drive-by shooting Tuesday, the International Business Times reports. According to the report, a black Camaro drove through the parking lot of Kendra Childs’ apartment complex, with five shots fired from the car into a second-floor apartment. Childs was killed. Her boyfriend discovering her body the day of…

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  • Six Thoughts From A Week In Houston; The 64 Ounce Mega Gulp Of American Cities

    As I boarded my flight to Houston last week — stuck in an aisle seat on a two and a half hour long flight (Which would likely leave me unable to do what I always do on planes: Sleep.) — I hoped that, at the very least, my neighbor would be a smaller person. Preferably…

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  • Video Footage Shows Questionable Arrest of Black Teenage Girls in Texas

    Vanae Wright, 17, and her friend Leilani Green were eating at a Whataburger restaurant in San Antonio on Friday when sheriff’s deputies arrested them because of what the lawyer for one of the teens is calling racial profiling, according to the Huffington Post. Deputies were responding to reports of a fight in the Whataburger parking…

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  • 'Affluenza' Teen’s Attorneys Argue Judge Had No Authority to Jail Him 

    And so the saga of privilege for “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch continues. According to a report by Reuters, lawyers for Couch, who drew national attention after killing four people while drunkenly driving as a 16-year-old, are seeking to have him released from a two-year jail term, claiming that the judge who sentenced him had no…

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  • Texas Death Row Inmate May Have Faked Mental Illness

    Gerald Eldridge, 52, may have faked having an illness to avoid execution after fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend Cynthia Bogany and her daughter in Houston 23 years ago, the Associated Press reports. Eldridge was convicted in 1993, and in 2009, when he was less than two hours away from being executed by lethal injection, U.S. District…

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  • Texas High School Cheerleader Fighting to Wear Her Hair How She Wants

    Kemirah Jn-Marie, 15, is a flyer on the Ross S. Sterling High School varsity cheerleading team and is a victim of discrimination by her coach with regards to her hair, according to an ABC report. She had braids done this year to meet cheerleading requirements that hair must be pulled back in a secure ponytail…

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  • Mother of Boy Who Cried 'Affluenza' Released From Home Confinement

    The mother of Ethan Couch, the young man who killed four people in a drunken driving accident and blamed it on “affluenza,” was released from home confinement after being charged with hindering apprehension of a felon and money laundering, the Associated Press reports. Tonya Couch fled with her son to Mexico when a video surfaced of…

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