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The San Marcos Area Chamber of Commerce hosted the 2022 Business Expo sponsored by the San Marcos Daily Record on Thursday inside Embassy Suites City of San Marcos Hotel and Conference Center.Above, B[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

"This is just like the 40 acres and a mule," one farmer said. "You get promises, but you never actually get it."

When the tennis megastar announced her plans to retire from competition last week, she said her future will involve a renewed focus on a venture capital firm she quietly founded eight years ago.

Civil rights advocates say in a federal lawsuit that police have “terrorized” residents in a small Mississippi town by subjecting them to false arrests, excessive force and intimidation

Police have “terrorized” Black residents in a small Mississippi town by subjecting them to false arrests, excessive force and intimidation, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by a civil rights organization. The organization, JULIAN, is seeking a temporary restraining order against the Lexington police department to demand protection for the town's largely Black population. Lexington is about 63 miles (100 kilometers) north of the capital city of Jackson.

Employees won't be required to disclose their information, but advocates who support this data collection say it's for the Black community's benefit and will shed light on more hidden disparities.

While segregation was still casting its ugly shadow over the U.S., the Homer G.

"This is just like the 40 acres and a mule," one farmer said. "You get promises, but you never actually get it."

To me “mom group” always sounded like something for white women, period. But why? Are Black women not moms? Do we not love a good group?

Katori Hall felt her popular play about Black strip club culture could easily become a television series.

When Katori Hall first pitched the idea to convert her popular play about Black strip club culture into the television series “P-Valley,” the Pulitzer Prize winner was either quickly rejected after meeting with networks or denied before she could fully explain the concept. Hall struggled to find support from some network executives who thought the concept would be exploitative of Black women, in light of the history of casting them in hypersexualized roles on screen. Hall, who is a Black woman, understood they wanted to avoid any backlash, but her overall vision was focused on humanizing exotic dancers — which Starz heard with “open ears.”

Jordan Peele's latest film explores how Hollywood has tokenized non-white people and commodified landscapes and wildlife, nowhere more than in Westerns. Can the genre reclaim those marginalized stories and all their complexity?

While millions across Europe swelter through a summer of record-breaking heat, they're skiing in Africa.

Those households are struggling to stay afloat, according to a new poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Black workers saw a rise in unemployment last month even as the headline number declined.

The 20-year-old entrepreneur from New Orleans saw his invention on Walmart shelves for the first time in Gulfport. Here’s how it works.

Triller made its name recruiting talent with lavish perks. Now, dozens of influencers are struggling to get paid. “We were made to look like fools,” one creator said.

State Rep. Shri Thanedar has won Michigan’s 13th Congressional Democratic primary, topping a field of nine candidates in a district that covers most of Detroit and a number of surrounding suburbs.

Commentary: UTSA's Marco Cervantes emphasizes the importance of centering Black musicians when discussing West Side Sound.

The lawsuit alleges four employees dressed as Sesame Street characters ignored Quinton Burns, his daughter Kennedi Burns and other Black guests during the meet-and-greet on June 18.

A Baltimore family is suing a Sesame Street-themed amusement park for $25 million in federal court over claims of racial discrimination.

Less than a week after the entire police department in Kenly, N.C. announced their resignation, citing a “toxic” and “hostile” work environment, elected officials from the town of about 2,000 residents have gone silent on a plan for law enforcement moving forward.

It took the Bruce family nearly 100 years to win back land seized under eminent domain, but never developed. That’s so wrong.

The U.S. Justice Department says it has launched a civil rights investigation to determine whether the city’s response to residents’ complaints about illegal dumping was discriminatory.

The Justice Department says it's investigating illegal dumping in Houston, including dead bodies and medical waste, that officials say is plaguing Black and Latino neighborhoods in the nation’s fourth largest city.

Los Angeles County took land from Charles and Willa Bruce in the 1920s under eminent domain. It has finally been returned to their family.

A top San Francisco official is calling for the resignation of school board member Ann Hsu following her controversial comments that "perpetuate harmful stereotypes on Black and Brown students and their families.” In a statement on Wednesday, Board of Supervisors President Shamann Walton called for Hsu’s resignation, describing what happened as “disheartening.” “Yeah sure, thank you for the apology, but at the end of the day this is probably reflective of how a person really feels,” Walton said.

The Bruce family suffered racist harassment from white neighbors, and in the 1920s, the property was seized by the Manhattan Beach City Council through eminent domain.

Drug overdoses are killing more people than ever in the U.S., and a new CDC report finds growing racial disparities among those who have died — with the largest increase among Black Americans.

A Sesame Street-themed amusement park has apologized after a viral video appearing to show a costumed character waving off two 6-year-old Black girls at a parade outside Philadelphia.

Many Afrikaners welcomed the end of apartheid, but 30 years on, they’ve found Black-majority rule in South Africa hard to live with.

In its apology, Sesame Place Philadelphia said its employees will undergo more training after criticism over a video in which an employee in costume appeared to ignore two Black girls during a parade.

A study says that a nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties back to productive use has done little to improve or solve racial inequities in the city’s Black and Latino neighborhoods.

The legacy of Jackie Robinson showed in Major League Baseball’s draft.

The Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade is expected to lead to abortion being banned or severely restricted in nearly half the United States.

Employers haven’t tackled workplace prejudice or demonstrated that promotions are fair. With Black professionals more likely to quit than White peers, it’s a wake-up call for management.

After Russian soprano Anna Netrebko shared photos of herself in blackface, Angel Blue said she could not in “good conscience" associate herself with Arena di Verona.

The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into the Maryland State Police to determine if the agency engaged in racially discriminatory hiring and promotion practices.

Critics have called attention to Ice Cube’s alleged anti-Asian and anti-Semitic past following the NFL’s announcement of its partnership with the rapper’s Contract With Black America (CWBA) Institute, an economic equity initiative. The NFL, which has been aiming to boost its work with Black-owned businesses, announced the partnership on June 30. The NFL has reportedly spent more than $125 million on Black businesses over the past year, including Ariel Investments, CityFirst/Broadway Bank, Cover Communications and Fearless Technology.

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.

An update on an agreement between the Daughters of the American Revolution and Lena Ferguson, a retired D.C. schoolteacher denied membership due to her race.

After spending the first three years of his high school baseball career striving to return Brooke Point’s program to relevancy, Jaden Isidro was not inclined to waste time—or pitches—as a

In a virtual meeting with governors about protecting reproductive rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, President Biden said two more Democratic senators were needed to change the filibuster rules in the Senate, which could allow a bill to pass that would codify the right to an abortion.

Metro Phoenix’s Maricopa County had among the biggest growth in white, Black and Hispanic residents last year, as well as the biggest increase overall of any U.S. county.

A Supreme Court ruling will let the state of Louisiana relegate two-thirds of its adult Black population to heavily Republican districts.

As I reflect on what my identity is and will evolve to be, I’m grateful that I’ve carved out my own space in the South.

The best data shows neighboring Charles County has become majority-Black in recent years, and incomes there are much higher than in Prince George's County.

Elvis was famously inspired by Black musicians of his era, but some say he only copied and profiteered off Black artists without credit.

After a lower court found Louisiana's new congressional maps diluted the votes of Black voters, the Supreme Court put on hold an order for a second majority Black congressional district to be created.

The Supreme Court has put on hold a lower court ruling that Louisiana must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections to increase Black voting power.

Andy Jassy wrote in an internal company memo, "it’s not lost on any of us that we’re losing two of our most senior black leaders."

We're featuring local, Black-owned businesses from a cheesesteak food truck to a BBQ shop on the East side in honor of the Juneteenth holiday.

Moses Ingram's Reva has brought a new element to the Star Wars mythos of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader.

In celebration of Juneteenth, this week The Times presents episodes on the Black experience.

A person familiar to the arrests told the Associated Press that they identified themselves as being affiliated with the show.

A city councilman in Georgia has resigned to protest the reopening of a Confederate souvenir shop that sells images with racial slurs and dolls and statues that caricature Black people, news outlets reported. Kennesaw Councilman James “Doc” Eaton said he wanted no part of the city's decision to issue a business license to the downtown store. “It breaks my heart to have to do it,” Eaton told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The video released are the first images anyone has seen of the two since they went missing a week ago in Eastern Ukraine.

A new NASA documentary featuring the achievements of numerous Black astronauts will premiere Sunday (June 19), during Juneteenth.

As corporations market Juneteenth, some leave small Black businesses behind and risk alienating consumers, experts say.

America’s progress toward racial equity has been anything but consistent — and it’s under threat yet again.

In his closing remarks to the Jan. 6 House select committee on Thursday, J. Michael Luttig, a retired federal judge, testified that he believed former President Donald Trump and his supporters represented, "a clear and present danger to American democracy," given their continued efforts to erode confidence in election security. Luttig added, "The former president and his allies are executing that blueprint for 2024 in open and plain view of the American public."

Louisiana lawmakers have returned to the Capitol amid mounting frustration to redesign political maps that a federal judge threw out for violating the Voting Rights Act.

The bestselling author talks about confronting the dangers of racism; protecting young people from harmful ideas; and the parenting values behind his new books, "How to Raise an Antiracist" and the children's picture book, "Goodnight Racism."

A federal appeals court has put on hold a district judge’s order for Louisiana to redraw U.S. House districts by June 20 to include a second majority Black district.

A Michigan police officer has been charged with second-degree murder for fatally shooting Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head as the Black man was on the ground.

The last 12 months have been a transformative year in the NBA when it comes to diversity among coaches.

Elected leaders in Kansas convened community groups and held town hall conversations after demonstrators protested George Floyd’s death statewide.

An independent commission is recommending new names for nine Army posts that now commemorate Confederate officers.

Long before an 18-year-old avowed white supremacist inflicted terror at a Buffalo supermarket, the city's Black neighborhoods had been dealing with wounds that are generations old.

A state judge has ruled that a congressional map approved by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and drawn by his staff is unconstitutional because it breaks up a district where Black voters can choose their representatives.

City officials in Providence weighing reparations for Black residents are looking beyond the Rhode Island capital’s leading role in slavery.

A draft Supreme Court opinion suggesting the right to abortion will be overturned is highlighting the risk to Black and Hispanic women.

Louisville's mayoral race is taking place in a city roiled by racial tension, a spike in gun violence and deep misgivings many harbor about the Louisville police department.

The NFL will capitalize on Christmas Day falling on a Sunday.

A new effort to help grantmakers change the way they work so they can better support Black-led nonprofits was announced Monday.

Iowa was Barack Obama’s unlikely launching pad in 2008 to become the nation’s first Black president.

Lawmakers erupted in cheers after Vice President Kamala Harris announced the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

While John Legend was being honored for his musical achievements, the Grammy singer used the Recording Academy stage to pay homage to a Black music culture that shaped himself and the world.

Conor Lamb is accusing rival John Fetterman in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate of skipping candidate forums to avoid talking about a 2013 incident in which he confronted a Black man, shotgun in hand, because he suspected the man was involved in gunfire nearby.

America’s hiring boom of the past year has narrowed racial disparities in unemployment.

A group of students at Prairie View A&M University sued the county, claiming it set up an election schedule in 2018 that offered students — most of them Black — fewer opportunities to vote early than the county’s white residents.

A South African court has suspended construction work on a huge new business park that will house Amazon’s Africa headquarters in Cape Town after a challenge by Indigenous groups.

A former Google employee sued the tech giant saying it engages in a “pattern and practice” of racial discrimination against its Black workers, steering them into lower-level and lower-paid jobs and subjecting them to a hostile work environment if they speak out.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ “The Love Songs of W.

For decades, Black residents have been leaving some of the nation's largest cities while suburbs have seen Black population growth.

The world knows the city of Selma, Alabama, as a historic beacon in the struggle for voting rights.

The House has voted to award the only all-female, Black unit to serve in Europe during World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal.

The Black men who drove horse-drawn carriages through the streets of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia were both everywhere and invisible during the Jim Crow era.

The Academy Awards are happening in March, and in the 94 years the event has been running, only 20 Black actors have won an acting Oscar.

Brian Flores is back in the NFL.

As we all know, February is Black History Month, so it’s a great time to brush up on Black history and educate yourself.

There are a plethora of programs aimed at exposing Black and Hispanic children from urban communities to winter sports, such as Alpine skiing.

California regulators have sued electric car maker Tesla Inc. They allege the company has been discriminating against Black employees who have been likened to monkeys and slaves at the San Francisco Bay Area factory where most of its vehicles are made.

Under a baking California sun, Roger Goodell knew the heat was coming.

The Supreme Court’s decision to halt efforts to create a second mostly Black congressional district in Alabama for the 2022 election has sparked fresh warnings that the court is eroding the Voting Rights Act and reviving the need for Congress to intervene.

Numerous historically Black colleges and universities across the U.S. temporarily locked down their campuses last week in response to at least 17 threats of bombs and gun violence.

A University of Alabama building named for a former governor who led the Ku Klux Klan a century ago will also bear the name of the first Black person to attend the school.

A new comprehensive report led by the San Antonio Area Foundation (SAAF) and the San Antonio Area African American Community Fund (SAAAACF) found that many disparities continue to affect the city’s Black community.