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Make the Revolution Irresistible

America’s white power structure has historically resorted to violence as a first and last means of quelling Black-led movements seeking social and economic equality. Take...

Peace, Love & Gritz

Beloved local Chef Keith “Buttons” Hicks is suffering from end-stage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and needs help. He is in palliative care and...

Fave Shows of ’23

Live music attendance (or lack thereof) has been a steady subject in these pages over the past few months. There weren’t a lot of...

Gabby Minton’s Time

Many of Gabby Minton’s earliest memories are of watching her father perform in and around Garland. “I wanted to perform from a small age,” Minton...

Driving While Black

The automobile has been an iconic symbol of freedom, accomplishment, wealth, comfort, and status in America since the late 19th century. Though slow-moving like...

Down to Earth

Archeologists, linguists, and historians have spent centuries piecing together fragmented clues left by the once-dominant indigenous culture of Mesoamerica. The beautiful chain of Mayan...

Fort Worth It

UPDATE: Morgan Mercantile’s five-year anniversary party was postponed due to inclement weather. The soiree will now take place 4-8pm Sat, May 4. A local...

A Joyful Message

Since its premiere off-Broadway in 1961, Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity has only grown in popularity, first as a song-driven play based on the poet’s...

Mapping Time and Space

“War Horse in Babylon” captures a horrifying scene. The large oil painting by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith centers on the gray silhouette of the animal...

Jump for Jump

The cowboy is holding a helmet in his hands, rubbing a thumb across the thin metal bars meant to protect his face should things...