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JASPER, Texas (AP) -The first black police chief of an East Texas town made infamous for a 1998 hate crime…
In 1999, the town's first black highway patrolman, Rodney Pearson, was on the scene when a black man James Byrd…
theGRIO REPORT - Three alleged white supremacists who violently beat an African-American man while he waited at a Houston bus stop…
OPINION - The cases couldn't be any more different yet each has reignited a debate over the death penalty...
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The 49-year-old Byrd, a black man from Jasper, was chained to the back of a pickup…
JASPER, TEXAS (AP) - Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, is set to be executed Wednesday for participating in fastening Byrd to…
OPINION - These are clear examples of the progress that is being made by the Obama administration on a social…
OPINION - The LGBT struggle is a Civil Rights struggle yet, in the black community, fear of homosexuality (in others…