Culture
Tiffany ‘New York’ Pollard Is Having a Viral Week
The HBIC is trending again: Tiffany 'New York' Pollard stole the Celebrity Weakest Link villains episode, Flavor of Love's 20th…
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Education
What’s Happening in Austin Education: Failing Ratings on the Move, AISD Appeals to Dodge Takeover
Austin ISD is fighting for its autonomy: TEA transferred failing rating chains from six closed schools to their receiving campuses,…
Education
Tuesday Rundown: HISD Loses Its Special Ed Chief, TEA Opens $400 Tutoring Grants, and Texas Rewrites History
HISD's special ed chief resigns, TEA opens $400 PASS tutoring grants, the Charlie Kirk teacher-probe fight ends, and Texas rewrites…
Black History 365
September 22, 1862: The Freedom Papers That Didn’t Free Anybody
On September 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation — a 100-day warning that didn't free a single…
Black History 365
The Archbishop Who Threatened to Excommunicate Segregationists
On September 21, 1947, an archbishop told 700 white parents: fight school integration and face excommunication. Seven years before Brown…
Black History 365
The Buffalo Soldiers: 160 Years Since Black Cavalry Rode for Texas
On September 21, 1866, the U.S. Army organized the Black regiments that became the Buffalo Soldiers — and Texas was…
Black History 365
1664: The Law That Made Loving Across Color Lines a Crime
In 1664, Maryland invented the legal crime of loving across the color line — the first anti-amalgamation law in America.…
Education
Houston Parents to HISD: Hit Pause on the Special Education Overhaul
Some HISD special education parents didn't know their child's campus weeks before school started. They're asking the district to hit…
Education
Texas Flunks Free Speech — Then Erases the Syllabus
FIRE's 2027 rankings: not a single Texas university earned a passing grade, and Texas State is third-worst in the country.…
Black History 365
68 Years Ago Today, MLK Was Stabbed at a Harlem Book Signing
Sixty-eight years ago today, a 29-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. was nearly killed at a Harlem book signing — a…