The effort to name the House Press Gallery after abolitionist Frederick Douglass is getting a push forward as Rep. Byron ...

Some 260 people believed to have been trafficked and trapped into working in online scam centers are to be repatriated after they were rescued from Myanmar, Thailand’s army ...

Meaning from that point on the formerly enslaved people of Texas were finally free leading to the idea of what many now call ...

Pressley took over the mantle of the historic legislation that has been introduced in every session of Congress since 1989.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) choked up as she reintroduced H.R. 40, a reparations bill establishing a federal commission to ...

Ellis’ dream of wresting power from the emperor was but one small moment in his boundary-breaking life. Eulogized as a ...

A film being shown Wednesday at the Mayborn tells the story of an overlooked Black cultural and artistic moment at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition that has shaped history.

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance is growing in viewership hours after the big game, gaining more than 11 million views since it aired Sunday night.

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Nathan H. Haller was living in Brazoria not too far from West Columbia when he won a seat in the Texas House of ...

AUSTIN - The Texas Division of Emergency Management announced today that registration for the 2025 Texas Emergency Management Conference is now open. The Conference takes place from May 27-30 at the ...