Opal Lee spent years fighting for the recognition of June 19 as a national holiday.
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The lawyer and media executive used her intelligence and principles as a moral force to shepherd both NPR and TPR through turbulent times.
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The last time a total solar eclipse crossed Central Texas was in 1878 – the heyday of the Wild West. That eclipse was crucially important to America’s rise as a scientific power and saw many of the era’s great scientists (including Thomas Edison) trek out to unsettled lands to witness the event firsthand. On April 8, Texas gets another gander at a solar eclipse—but this time without the train robberies and frontier backdrop.
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Jean Armour Polly was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2019 for evangelizing computers in public libraries, the precursor to the internet being offered as a core service in those spaces.
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Joyce Slocum, who led both NPR and Texas Public Radio into a new era for public media, died Sunday from complications of colon cancer.
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Quilters have been copying patterns believed to have been used as signals for the Underground Railroad even though historians say they can't find any evidence they were used that way.
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Two families are battling for bragging rights as the inventor of the wildly popular dish. Will the truth come out? Or it could be there's another origin story involving ... British tastebuds?
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The iron bridge linked neighborhoods but also eras in the Alamo City's Gilded Age history.
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A Stetson cowboy hat once worn by Lyndon Baines Johnson has been donated to his alma mater university, Texas State in San Marcos.
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Firefighting crews continue to battle the Smokehouse Creek fire in Hutchinson County. The wildfire has affected more than so far, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.
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There are multiple locations in San Antonio named after Frank Tejeda Jr. He was a marine, decorated Vietnam veteran and a San Antonio politician who represented the Texas 28th Congressional District. He died from cancer while in office. His younger Juan Tejeda has authored a family memoir and biography of his brother.