How One Progressive City Is Fighting to Decriminalize Abortion
How One Progressive City Is Fighting to Decriminalize Abortion As part of a growing movement, municipalities like Austin are finding ways to protect their most vulnerable citizens in a post-Roe world. By Mary Tuma AUSTIN, TEX.—When Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion draft overturning Roe v. Wade leaked in early May, Austin City Council member José “Chito” Vela, a progressive, pro-abortion attorney, […]
Pushing for Real Police Oversight in Contract and on the Ballot
Pushing for Real Police Oversight in Contract and on the Ballot What exactly is a G file? By Bryant Bingamon Somewhere deep in the Austin Police Department’s computer database sit the personnel files of each of its approximately 1,800 officers. Those files include their disciplinary histories, which may include details about unnecessary violence or unethical […]
More Black Americans live in Texas than any other state
Authored by Sarah Serpas and Kaitlan Wong This Black History Month, we celebrated Black Texans across the state because Black history is Texas history. Explore our Storymap Data Brief on Black Texans and find a summary of our main findings below. Black History Is Texas History. On June 19, 1865, more than 250,000 enslaved Black Texans were finally […]
