AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has more than 1.2 million licensed handgun owners who can openly carry their weapons in public. The state hosted the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting two weeks ago. And until Monday, the governor’s re-election website Read More

Texans defensive end J.J. Watt told Santa Fe High School officials that he will pay for the funerals of the victims who died in Friday’s shooting. Ten people were killed and 10 others were injured. Watt has been active in Read More

Alaska Airlines stepped into the future on Mother’s Day when two Black women pilots flew a plane across the West Coast. The two pilots were part of the airlines’ first-ever Black women flight crew. Yes, this is #BlackGirlMagic! Captain Tara Read More

25-year-old Sidney Bouvier Gilstrap-Portley decided one day that he wanted to go back to high school and relive his glory days as a basketball player. So he enrolled at Hillcrest High School in Dallas, Texas as Rashun Richardson after learning Read More

United Airlines has no problem kicking people off their plane and racking up lawsuits along the way. A Nigerian woman, name Queen Obioma, filed a lawsuit on Friday against the airline after she and her children were removed from the Read More

Several weeks ago, a white woman called police on a black family barbecuing at Lake Merritt Park in Oakland, echoing recent incidents that involved police being called on black people engaging in seemingly normal, everyday activity. After black artists were Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Starbucks has adopted an open-bathroom policy following the arrest last month of two African American men at a coffee shop in Philadelphia. Chairman Howard Schultz says he doesn’t want the company to become a public bathroom, but Read More