50 songs you won’t believe are turning 50 this year
| April 2, 2025
Can you believe that these hit songs are turning the big 5-0?
Texas State Veterans Home named for Tuskegee Airmen opens in Fort Worth
| March 31, 2025
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A project long championed by the Fort Worth Metropolitan Black Chamber of Commerce to honor the area’s Tuskegee Airmen came to fruition March 22, as Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham hosted the grand opening of the Texas State Veterans Home in Fort Worth that bears their name.
Making it in DFW: Dallas-founded Ann’s Health Food finds that compassion is good business
| March 26, 2025
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DFW chain Ann's Health Food Center & Market has survived 41 years by running a compassionate, community-focused business.
Federal investigators were preparing two Texas housing discrimination cases — until Trump took over
| March 25, 2025
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The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.
Gwen Frisbie-Fulton: ‘The people closest to the problem are often the ones who can find the solution’
| March 24, 2025
About two years ago, tents started to show up in my neighborhood along the creek beds and in small stands of trees. Most only became visible when the leaves fell, exposing their orange rainflies and blue tarps. This increase in houselessness didn’t feel surprising to me or to my neighbors: The rent has nearly doubled […]