The star and the red, white and blue flag of Juneteenth symbolizes freedom. Here's everything to know about the flag that ...

In Texas, median hourly wages for black workers have barely budged since 2000, holding at about $15 an hour, even as white workers’ median wage rose 13 percent to $21.67 in 2017 from $19.14 in 2000.

The new Texas congressional map shreds the Houston-based legislative district of Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, siphoning off thousands of her Black constituents and potentially forcing her ...

According to U.S. Census estimates, Houston's black residents mostly reside in the southern and northern areas of Harris County. Many of the black majority neighborhoods are outside of the 610 Loop.

HOUSTON – (Jan. 9, 2017) — Houston Public Media is exploring the issues that face black and white communities in Houston during a 60-minute TV special, “Houston in Black and White,” that ...

Black and White World A exhibit of forgotten photographs by African American Texans depicts real life in a segregated community. Children Holding Hands, Dallas, 1960's. A.B. Bell ...

Hattie Mae White earned a spot in history by becoming the first black elected to public office in Texas since Reconstruction. The mother of five decided to run for the Houston Independent School ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- She's a remarkable woman who made history in Texas by literally soaring above the barriers of race and gender. Azellia White is still making history - at the astounding ...

The newly proposed map includes 23 districts with white majorities, seven with Hispanic majorities, none with a Black majority and eight that have no majority. The first draft of the redistricted ...

Houston, we have a problem.A new state law that was passed last year by the Texas legislature is now “being used to question the qualifications of three Black women running for Harris County ...

Newly-drawn Congressional districts in Texas benefit white residents — even though it was the population growth among people of color that helped the state pick up two additional seats in Congress.

Texas’ population has grown 40% this century, and 91% of the new Texans are people of color. Federal judges now have to decide whether those monumental changes are reflected in the state’s ...