Dozens of racially motivated bombings rocked Dallas for decades. The long-forgotten history of a time when Black families lived in
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Death To Sundown Towns! Death To Throckmorton!
Karma kills Sundown Towns. Although this story is about Throckmorton, Texas, it starts in the sleepy little town of Rotan,
Why Does Dallas Have A Street Named After A Human Trafficker And Slaveowner?
A new campaign to change Akard Street in emerges in Dallas. W.C.C. Akard was a wealthy merchant from Missouri. Akard
The One-Term House Rep Who Had Himself Shot And Blamed Satanists
In 1981, East Texas fundamentalist Mike W. Martin (R) had his cousin shoot him and then told everyone it was
The Last Time America Forgave Traitors
After the Civil War we allowed traitors to America to return to the South and once again hold positions of
The Murder Trial Of Briscoe Cain
A murder over slander in 1896. Last weekend, Briscoe Cain III wished his son, Briscoe Cain IV, a happy birthday
A Hangman’s Account of Killing a Little Boy
(Trigger warning) A gripping story in an old Texas newspaper tells a first-hand account of an 1830s execution of a
What Are Public Schools In Texas Teaching Your Children?
Christopher Columbus discovered America, the Civil War was about states’ rights, and colonization was good. History in Texas has already
Injustice In Polk County: The Murder OF Bob White
Before we began to #SayTheirNames, thousands of Black and brown bodies in America, whose names we forgot or never knew,
The Texas GOP Still Carry the Ideology of this Confederate General
And use much of the same tactics. In 1904 at the Convention of County Judges in Fort Worth, Alexander W.
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