First look at latest plans for Fort Worth's National Juneteenth Museum
NBC 5 is getting an exclusive look at plans for the future National Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth. On Tuesday, the Fort ...
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Mayborn screening spotlights overlooked 1936 Texas Black cultural focus
A film being shown Wednesday at the Mayborn tells the story of an overlooked Black cultural and artistic moment at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition that has shaped history.
From the Statesman archives: Railroad, freedom colonies changed Austin after Civil War
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...