Robert Perkinson News Today

SUGAR LAND, Texas — In Sugar Land, there’s a refrain you may hear from residents — an unofficial city motto of sorts: Life is sweeter here. By many measures, it is. This Houston suburb is affluent, with a median household income nearly 70% higher than the nation’s. One of the world’s largest oil companies, Schlumberger, has a sprawling campus here. The crown jewel of its current development boom is the Imperial Char House, the sugar refinery that gave the town ...

The Houston suburb Sugar Land got its name from a business reliant on the forced labor of convicts. But efforts to memorialize those people have stalled.

The free event will be held on March 23, 2023 at Orvis Auditorium.

'I'm willing to die for the cause, because I can't live.'

"I'm willing to die for the cause, because I can't live."

Kahele is a pilot and a war veteran, and may be an appealing candidate. But he has little money for advertising, and was very late to the starting gate.

Texas prisons are named after slave owners. This is 2021, right? Texas prisons carry the legacy of slavery. They shouldn’t. An inmate works outdoors on the "hoe quad" outside a modern-day Texas prison unit in Huntsville, Texas on Thursday, June 25, 2015. (Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News)(Staff Photographer) In the midst of the nation’s reckoning with social justice issues and Confederate statues, it is time that corrections facilities in Texas no longer bear the names of people celebrat...