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On Veteran’s Day it’s typical and appropriate to see countless homages, salutes and earnest formal and informal appreciation ceremonies for military servicemen and servicewomen in every electronic and paper medium that we encounter. It’s part of who we are. It’s part of how we got where we are. I get it. We all get it. […]
Fort Worth Weekly Critical Race History in Texas There’s no memorial to one of East Texas’ biggest civil rights champions, and we should all know why. By E.R. BILLS In late December 2015, Constance Hollie-Jawaid and I were still working on the final plans for the dedication ceremony for a Texas state historical marker commemorating the Slocum Massacre. The fight to get the marker approved had been grueling, and, on that particular day, we had traveled to Palestine, Texas, to meet with the marker effort’s chief antagonist, Anderson County Historical Chairman Jimmy Ray Odom. ...
One of the greatest tricks our minds can play on us is the illusion of permanence. We get comfortable and we take things for granted. Sure, we see some things change around us, but there are certain fixtures in our lives we think will always just be there. Now, picture your hometown - the house you grew up in, your grade school, the field where you played ball with your neighborhood friends, the place where you had your first kiss - being completely submerged and lost to time as if it never existed. For some in the Central Texas community, that loss is a reality.
For the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the New York Times has released an interactive experience, What the Tulsa Massacre Destroyed, that takes viewers through the streets of a digitally created and historically accurate Greenwood neighborhood, demonstrating the destruction the massacre created. Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma was considered the “Black Wall Street” in the 1920s and after a group of Black individuals tried to stop the lynching of a Greenwood resident, a mob of white people from the next town over opened fire on the small town, inciting what is still known as the s...
Several of these recommended books on the Chisholm Trail are available for free online. Writers and readers can’t get enough stories about those 1800s cattle trails. As you read this, I am out of the office. Yet I did not forget the statewide readership of the Think, Texas newsletter and column. In my absence, allow me to offer an Aug. 20, 2017, column about the Chisholm Trail written by my colleague Glen Seeber of the Oklahoman, a sibling Gannett newspaper in the USA Today Network. While there are many books about the cattle drives of the late 1800s and the mostly young men who faced the d...