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By JAKE COYLE
This image released by Universal Pictures shows Samuel L. Jackson in a scene from M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass.” (Jessica Kourkounis/Universal Pictures via AP)NEW YORK (AP) — M. Night Shyamalan scored his fifth No. 1 movie as the direct...
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Jesse Jackson
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says General Motors should sit down with its workers in Ohio who say they’ve been facing ongoing racial harassment, including finding nooses inside the plant.
Jackson visited Toledo on Tue...
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Dr. J. Ester Davis
Over the holidays I visited the African American Museum at Fair Park. After touring the “Slavery at Monticello” Exhibit, which has an extended stay at the museum through January, 2019, I asked about Dr. Harry Robinson, the Foun...
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All eight finalist before competitioin began. (Photo Credit: Dallas ISD)The winner of the 27th annual Dallas Martin Luther King Jr. Oratory Competition is Jasira King, a fourth-grader at William Brown Miller Elementary School.
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Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 7:02 am CST
Ivan Pierre Aguirre/UTEP Communications
Even when you’re having a long day and feeling numb, there are some assignments that can only bring a smile to your face. That’s how I felt when I photographed the recital f...
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Rev. Johnny C. Smith, Pastor – Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church
Having arrived at the 9th chapter of the grand book of Romans, we have discussed Paul’s awesome argument that both the Gentiles and the Jews stood guilty before Holy God. The Ge...
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Despite Trump’s attempt to paint the Texas-Mexico border as a war zone, border counties are safer than the president’s own backyard. And local lawmen don’t believe a wall will do any good.
Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 2:29 pm CST
Hidalgo County Sheriff J...
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Ben Sargent on the president's soapbox.
Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 7:01 am CST
Ben Sargent
To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section, or find Observer political reporting here.
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By SHARON COHEN and ADAM GELLER
Locked up for life at 15, Norman Brown remains defined by the crime that put him behind bars.
Twenty-seven years ago, Brown joined a neighbor more than twice his age to rob a jewelry shop in Chesterfield, Missouri, an...
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By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia
“Justice. Decency. Equality. Freedom. Democracy. These aren’t just words. They’re the values we as Americans cherish. And they’re all on the line now,” Harris said in the video, teasing...
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Mark Gonzalez wants a jury to help him decide whether Nueces County should keep sending people to death row.
Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 6:39 am CST
Mark Gonzalez at the Nueces County District Attorney's Office. Courtney SaccoIn mid-January 2017, a coup...
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Austin, TX – On Saturday, January 12, the “Children of the Confederacy Creed” plaque was removed from the Texas Capitol, where it had been on display for the last sixty years. The plaque was originally placed in the Texas Capitol in 1959 and s...
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New maps show that the president means to build through 162 tracts of private land in Roma, Rio Grande City and La Grulla, possibly razing a number of homes in the process.
Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 3:24 pm CST
Border fence in the Rio Grande Valley. J...
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dptstaff | January 22, 2019 | NATIONAL, NEWS, Politics |
President Donald Trump
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration cannot put a question about citizenship status on the 2020 census, a federal judge in New York ruled Friday in a boost to pr...
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How Texas is failing foster care kids and contributing to an alarming teen pregnancy rate.
Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 7:00 am CST
by Rebecca GrantJanuary 22, 2019
When Arianna walked into a church basement in Austin to take a free pregnancy test...