The Trump administration no longer requires the explicit prohibition of segregated facilities such as restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains in new government contracts, according to a ...

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When Newt Gingrich says that housing project people don’t work, our job is to show that they do. When he says that Obama is the “food stamp” president, our job is to show that most food stamp ...

This city, once dubbed “Heavenly Houston,” has long touted its harmonious racial and ethnic diversity. But the real story is, of course, more complicated. In the newly published “Houston and the ...

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Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was only 7 when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education case that separate but equal was unconstitutional. Before that, though, Green rode the bus from Fort ...