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NEW YORK (June 15, 2022) – Major League Soccer today announced a series of initiatives to celebrate Juneteenth – the historic date commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans in the U.S

Although Juneteenth has been a state holiday in Texas since 1980, the United States only declared it a federal holiday in 2021. Americans are still figuring

Little Black Book, Project offers a lens into what has been erased around Austin, TX

Austin-based XR creative shop teams up with e4Youth and Six Square to look at Austin pre-gentrification

Through the nonprofit, young people from marginalized communities learn valuable tech skills while telling the history of Black and brown Austin.

A resolution before Austin City Council would begin establishing a cultural arts center where Black musicians gave birth to the citys sound.

A resolution before Austin City Council would begin establishing a cultural arts center where Black musicians gave birth to the citys sound.

Austin now has a city official dedicated to making sure residents who get priced out of their neighborhoods can seek help and remain in the place they call home.  Nefertitti Jackmon, the former executive director of Six Square, a nonprofit that seeks to preserve the cultural legacy of Austin’s Black Cultural District, became the Housing and Planning Departments first community displacement prevention officer on Wednesday. Jackmon began working for the city of Austin in October 2019 as t...

That spiderweb is quintessentially Austin: irreverent, endlessly entertaining, and weird as hell. And among longtime veterans in the city’s rap community and upstarts alike, there’s a growing belief that the latest generation of local rap acts, led primarily by artists including Mama Duke, J Soulja, Mike Melinoe, Riders Against the Storm, Vintage Jay, Magna Carda, Abhi the Nomad, Deezie Brown, The Teeta, Chucky Blk, among others, combined with a push to create infrastructure that can suppo...

Amplify Austin Day raises $12.5 million for Central Texas nonprofits By FOX 7 Austin Digital Team Published  AUSTIN, Texas - I Live Here I Give Here (ILHIGH) says that the ninth annual community-wide day of giving, Amplify Austin Day, raised more than $12.5 million in 2021 for 686 participating nonprofit organizations spanning seven Central Texas counties. The 24-hour day of giving began at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 4 and ended on Friday, March 5. In addition to providing the online giving pl...