Because federal troops had been stationed in Austin after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Black Americans found a safe place to raise their families in Austin.

The Conroe Community Cemetery, a Black burial site dating back to at least 1892, was long neglected and nearly forgotten. In ...

Houston's NRG Stadium opened in 2002. There are only six NFL stadiums more than 30 years old, and some of those will be ...

Police in Munich are investigating a mystery: over 1,000 stickers were put on gravestones and wooden crosses at three cemeteries in the German city, without any indication of where ...

Guitarist Sterling Morrison turned heads by rebuilding his life in Houston and Austin after quitting the Velvet Underground ...

(THOMAS WALLNER | THE GRAHAM LEADER) Dr. Tamra Walter, a historical archaeologist and associate professor of archeology at ...

Texas is a state built on independence, industry, and expansion. It was its own republic before joining the U.S. in 1845 and ...

Waco High School students have established a local chapter of Students Demand Action (SDA), a national movement dedicated to ending gun violence through advocacy and education.

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Iran's supreme leader says negotiations with America “are not intelligent, wise or honorable,” after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested he wants nuclear talks with Tehran despite reimposing his “ ...

TAYLOR — On a recent gray day with a cold wind blowing, Ernest Rector looked over a mostly empty plot of land dotted with a few headstones at the Taylor City Cemetery. The 96-year-old pointed to ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Sean Durugordon scored 20 points as Old Dominion beat Texas State 75-64 on Wednesday night. Durugordon also had 13 rebounds for the Monarchs (11-13, 7-5 Sun Belt Conference).