YOU WONT BELIEVE: 4 - What They Never Told You

The Voice of Lone Star Poetry

Guadalupe Mendez, Texas’ top poet, reaches out to diverse communities—including his own—thanks to his unique background and vision.

Texas Observer · Oct 7, 2022

USS Texas battleship begins voyage for $35m repairs

Crowds cheered and clapped for the 110-year-old vessel this week

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2022

Leaky battleship in Texas set to make trip for $35M repairs

The greatest challenge in recent years for the only surviving battleship that served in both world wars has been a leaky hull that's raised concerns it could sink

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2022

Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, sermons and shared meals, mostly held at Black churches, the safest places to have such celebrations.

The Conversation · Jun 15, 2022

Texas GOP targets Black voting power

Republican power grab shatters 30 years of political progress for Black voters in Galveston County

Salon · May 20, 2022

The world is on fire, and all I want to do is sit on a log and look at birds

With everything around me spiraling, somehow these little singing dinosaurs bring me peace.

Mic · Apr 3, 2022