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FINE TUNING

Nonprofit appealed to Music Commission earlier this month

Seabrook Square I will be a 204-unit multi-family development located off Manor Road in East Austin, Texas.

Stressing increased rents and insurance rates to the Music Commission

Jump On It

One big family reunion is how organizers hope this Saturday is going to feel like at the “We’re Still Here” citywide photoshoot to showcase Austin’s Black community.

The Black Fund, a collaboration between the city and the Austin Community Foundation, will invest more than $1 million in Black organizations over the next three years.

Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas found out they were free — 2 1/2 after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The federal Juneteenth holiday will be recognized on Monday.

Almost 200 years later, Juneteenth is celebrated as the end of slavery in Texas