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Race Looms Ever Larger as Death Sentences Decline
In 1910, East Texas saw one of America’s deadliest post-Reconstruction racial purges. One survivor’s descendants have waged an uphill battle for generations to unearth that violent past.
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As Texas’ governor promotes sensational stories of homeless violence and threatens a state crackdown, the people living on Austin’s streets tell a different story.
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The El Paso shooter wasn’t a “lone wolf.” His act of white supremacist terror is part of a century of racial violence targeting fronterizo communities.
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Jordan Klepper and Kobi Libii each embed themselves with very different activist groups – one white, one black – who want to make people rethink how they view guns
This month, the capital of Texas voted to support the Green New Deal.
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