Derrick Gordon, a Texas man is lying in a Houston hospital in a coma, after being struck by a vehicle on July 31.

With a strong voice and the memories that come from experience, William McDonald shared with East Texans about a world that once was.

Texas schools need to hire more black and Hispanic teachers, especially as the enrollment of minority students continues to rise, experts said.

From MSNBC: NEW ORLEANS – The cost of BP’s response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reached about $1.25 billion, the company said Monday.

I just read a pilot study that CNN released on the racial attitudes of children. And nearly 60 years after the watershed Brown v. Board of Education case – in which the Supreme Court invalidated Jim Crow school segregation – it seems that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

From the NY Times: HOUSTON — This is a town that prides itself on being among the most diverse and tolerant cities in the country, but two recent cases of alleged police brutality against young black men have stirred anger among civil rights leaders and left some residents wondering just how far race relations in […]