For more than two decades, Austin’s Black population, relative to the whole, has been in decline.From 2000 to 2010, Austin was the only one of the nation’s ten fastest growing cities to have a ...

The youthful energy of Austin art over the past decade-plus has emanated from the East Side, often from white-run institutions in gentrifying Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, though that dynamic ...

The newly proposed map includes 23 districts with white majorities, seven with Hispanic majorities, none with a Black majority and eight that have no majority. The first draft of the redistricted ...

But Killeen, a city of about 140,0000 people located an hour's drive north of Austin, is different. According to an analysis by the Urban Institute , a non-partisan think tank, Killeen has the ...

Scores of state highway troopers, usually found on roadways across Texas in their distinctive cowboy hats and black-and-white patrol vehicles, have descended on Austin, the state capital.