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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.
Texas A&M can’t ban “Draggieland” drag show, federal judge rules
| March 24, 2025
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A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Texas A&M University System from enforcing a ban on drag shows being held at its special event venues. Judge Lee H. Rosenthal said the student group that organizes Draggieland, the Queer Empowerment Council, was likely to succeed in showing the ban violates the First Amendment.
These Librarians Won’t Let America’s Fever Hit Fahrenheit 451
| March 20, 2025
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A new documentary shows us our local guardians of intellectual freedom in battle.
12 foods Texas is famous for—and the stories behind them
| February 12, 2025
The Lone Star State has a hearty helping of foods and drinks it’s helped make popular, and some of these Texas classics sport legendary origin tales.