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"More than a century has passed since 110 Black soldiers stationed at Camp Logan were convicted of mutiny, murder, and assault in the 1917 Houston Riot, with 19 of them executed at Fort Sam Houston. Now those convictions have been overturned."

"It can't bring them back, but it gives them peace," said Angela Holder, whose great-uncle, Cpl. Jesse Moore, was one of the executed soldiers. "Their souls are at peace."

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> The annular solar eclipse that will travel across the Southwest United States less than a month away, and one of the best places to see it may be at a Home Depot parking lot in New Braunfels, says a new list from Space.com. > ... > The eclipse will hit its maximum at 11:54 a.m. CDT in the San Antonio area, according to NASA.

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> https://archive.is/Kn2Sl > > University of Houston researchers have unearthed an ancient Maya city hidden deep within the jungles of Campeche on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The more than 1,000-year-old city—now dubbed Yucatan Ocomtún, which means stone column in the Maya language—was uncovered by a team led by Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, co-principal investigator with the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) at U of H.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news/t/213586

> Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as “inhumane.”

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Five Texas families with transgender children are suing the state over its ban on transition care for minors that’s set to go into effect this fall.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in state district court in Travis County, alleges the ban violates the Texas Constitution by allowing for discrimination against a particular group based on their sex and transgender identity.

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Volunteers giving out free meals with the organization Food Not Bombs have wracked up 40 tickets seeking more than $10,000 in fines since March 1, four weeks before visitors began pouring into downtown for the Final Four.

The Houston law they were charged with violating — an ordinance against giving away meals unless you have permission from the property where you’re doing it, even if the property is public — was put in place by City Council in 2012 but largely had gone unenforced for over a decade, municipal records show.

Sheriff Greg Capers was the classic picture of a Texas lawman as he announced the capture of a suspected mass killer: white cowboy hat on his head, gold star pinned to his chest, white cross on his belt and a large pistol emblazoned with his name on his hip.

More than two-thirds of Texas inmates are serving their time without air conditioning as temperatures across the state consistently reach triple digits this summer. Their living and working conditions, under these circumstances, put them at risk of heat-related illness and in the worst cases, death.

A grand jury is considering criminal indictments Thursday against rapper Travis Scott and others for the Astroworld concert deaths, according to two lawyers whose clients are potential targets.

Harris County and Houston native singers Beyonce and Kelly Rowland's organization are collaborating to create a permanent housing complex in Midtown.