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Jill Henderson can already see the Greek courtroom in her mind. She and her husband, Phil, have been there four times already. The dark, old wooden furniture in the un-air-conditioned chamber promises once again to not have the capacity to hold all of the interested parties. If they’re lucky, they will have a few family members present, as will each of the nine defendants charged with her son’s 2017 death.
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Anti-Displacement Measures in Austin.
Deborah Roberts got her start as an artist painting scenes from her life “in our own little bubble in East Austin.” Now, she is…
Black community leaders and Black-led organizations are uniting to celebrate and highlight the value and significance of Evergreen Cemetery after the site was vandalized…
The grants program is a part of Facebook’s overall commitment to invest $100 million this year in the Black community.
This time last year, we were celebrating a wonderful milestone for the only black-owned 7-11 franchise in the Austin Metro area.
soulciti recently caught up with Austin’s Assistant City Manager, Christopher Shorter, to discuss the “Mask On PSA” he participated in as well as some ongoing concerns with the city as it relates to Austin mitigating COVID 19.
We’re focused 100% on rebuilding the infrastructure of the Black community. We are unified as one.
A lone police officer makes the decision that a black man no longer has the right to occupy any space on earth if he disapproves of his behavior. We see it time and time again. Not following orders fast enough? Boom! You’re gone.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will,” Frederick Douglass spoke those words in 1857. Those same words are ringing loud and clear across the United States and the world in 2020.
The country had not even caught its breath from the shocking death of Ahmaud Arbury when we found ourselves witnessing yet another daytime lynching of a black man on an American street.
Just like that, in a matter of weeks, our beloved city has become a casualty of a world war raging in all four corners…
