Racial Justice

Maredith Drake, a volunteer street medic, was shot in May 2020 while trying to help an injured demonstrator.

Joan Means Khabele swam in Barton Springs Pool as an act of civil disobedience, sparking weekly swim-ins during the summer of 1960 that ultimately led to the pool's integration.

Three plaintiffs say Austin police officers used excessive force when they fired at protesters during racial justice protests in 2020.

The American Library Association says libraries faced the highest number of book challenges since they started tracking in 2000. Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer topped their list of most challenged books.

President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, the culmination of more than a century of efforts to designate lynching as a federal hate crime.

Students are forming banned-book clubs and distribution drives to contest restrictions that focus mostly on LGBTQ and racial themes.

Ayala was one of two demonstrators who suffered brain trauma after being shot by so-called "less-lethal" beanbag rounds.

The governor said Wednesday that time will tell whether he "must take action to exonerate any police officer unjustly prosecuted." The statement comes after a Travis County grand jury indicted 19 Austin police officers.

A Travis County grand jury indicted 19 officers on charges of aggravated assault by a public servant. Some officers fired "less-lethal" beanbag rounds at demonstrators protesting the police killings of George Floyd and Mike Ramos.

Paul Quinn College hopes the new practice will better combat intergenerational poverty and remove the pressure on first-generation college students to financially lift up their entire families.