The party of Andrew Jackson has spent a decade running from him. It should keep the two things he got right. I was 14 the first time I raised my hand to volunteer. I was short for my age. I had a bad ...

A new report just released by Texas Defender Service shows that 92% of the death sentences sought by the Tarrant County District Attorney’s office since 2012 have been against people of color. When I ...

There is a dangerous myth embedded in the fight for reproductive justice: that the battle is solely about women, or even solely about those who can become pregnant. It is not. It is equally about men, ...

As a long-time death penalty abolitionist, I’ve often compared the death penalty in America to a train with no brakes: Once the machinery starts moving, it becomes extraordinarily difficult to stop.

The shared energy can create an unbreakable tie, which explains the cult-like following of Trump. Unfortunately, people who held a disdain for Barack Obama were drawn to Trump’s “birther” conspiracy ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neurological and developmental disability that impacts how a person communicates, interacts, absorbs and retain information, interacts with others and responds to ...

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” That is the ...

Here is a look at Juneteenth, the oldest known United States celebration of the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, over two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved ...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee defeated U.S. Rep. Al Green to represent a newly drawn congressional district that encompasses both of their current Houston-area districts, effectively ending ...

Frederick Douglass once said, “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.” Words to live by. That means we will not stay silent when organizations dress up a bad deal as ...

Peabo Bryson, whose smooth tone and operatic control produced classic Disney hits as well as R&B standards, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 75. The statement said he died ...

I recently came across another one of those confident social media posts claiming that Western civilization is essentially the product of Christianity. Hospitals, universities, charity, marriage, ...