When I heard Marwan Marouf had been swept up in connection with decades-old charitable donations, my mind went to his gentle voice we sometimes had to strain to hear at the mosque.
A legal expert called the new anti-trans Texas bathroom law “the most plainly unlawful, undemocratic legislation I’ve seen in recent history.” ...
Raunaq Alam has been in and out of jail five times in relation to anti-Israel graffiti on a Christian church. His lawyer says the case shows "how easily the government can roll back all of our civil ...
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When a land forgets its legends, Sees but falsehoods in the past, When a nation views its sires In the light of fools and liars— ’Tis a sign of its decline, And its glories cannot last. Branches that ...
For $8 an hour, B.O., a Kenyan immigrant who asked the Texas Observer to use only her initials for fear of workplace retaliation, once cared for six elderly patients in a Houston group home for as ...
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All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the following conditions: The city's “F” schools overwhelmingly serve mostly low-income African-American ...
A highly publicized multi-agency raid in Hays County resulted in dozens of arrests on low-level immigration charges and left an Austin mother's life in tatters. It also fit a pattern of unproven ...
He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and recently retired from Sam Houston State University.
Raul ‘Neto’ Longoria is a candidate for the Texas State Board of Education, District 5. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and he has dedicated his career ...