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White metropolis: race, ethnicity, and religion in Dallas, 1841–2001 (University of Texas Press, 2010). Selcer, Richard F. A History of Fort Worth in Black & White: 165 Years of African-American Life (University of North Texas Press, 2015). online; Wilson, William H. Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas (JHU Press, 1998) online.
Beyond Borders strives to work with migrant workers, immigrant families, and lawyers within the communities to create a "better Texas where all people are treated with dignity and respect." [ 12 ] In June 2020, "The Texas Civil Rights Project sent a letter to Homeland Security , the Pentagon and the Justice Department demanding they halt wall ...
The SWU was founded in 1988 in Hondo, Texas in the effort to combat environmental racism through community focused activism. The founding members of the union have worked closely with residents, local schools, working class citizens and local politicians to address the disproportionate environmental effects from the nearby air force base as well as other pollutant contributors in the area ...
African Americans in Texas; Total population; 3,444,712 [1] (2020): Regions with significant populations; Ark-La-Tex, Central Texas, East Texas, Galveston, Greater Austin, Greater Houston, Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area, Greater San Antonio, [2] North Texas, Northeast Texas, Southeast Texas
Debate over a sweeping elections bill in Texas took a bizarre turn Thursday after Republican House Speaker Dade Phelan asked members not to use the word "racism" while debating a bill Democrats ...
The injustices of a criminal justice system disproportionately impact Black people; maintaining these racial disparities has a high cost for individuals, families, and communities. On an individual level, a criminal conviction may equate to loss of access to employment, housing, and public service opportunities.
The term "institutional racism" was first coined in 1967 by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton in Black Power: The Politics of Liberation. [5] Carmichael and Hamilton wrote that while individual racism is often identifiable because of its overt nature, institutional racism is less perceptible because of its "less overt, far more subtle ...
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