Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersWhen I first met him in 2016, Reginald Moore was deeply frustrated. The retired longshoreman had spent much of the previous two decades trying—without much success—to bring attention to the brutal convict leasing system that flourished in Fort Bend County in the second half of the nineteenth century. Deprived of slave labor after the Civil War, plantation owners across the South started “leasing” laborers from state prisons, which had filled up with black men thanks to discriminatory new laws known as the Black Codes. The convict laborers...…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersWhen I first met him in 2016, Reginald Moore was deeply frustrated. The retired longshoreman had spent much of the previous two decades trying—without much success—to bring attention to the brutal convict leasing system that flourished in Fort Bend County in the second half of the nineteenth century. Deprived of slave labor after the Civil War, plantation owners across the South started “leasing” laborers from state prisons, which had filled up with black men thanks to discriminatory new laws known as the Black Codes. The convict laborers...WW…

Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersOn the morning of March 19, courthouse staff abruptly evacuated the eighth floor of the Harris County Criminal Justice Center in downtown Houston after word spread that a misdemeanor prosecutor working on that floor had been exposed to the new coronavirus. The Harris County district attorney’s office soon to its more than three hundred prosecutors with the alarming subject line “Do Not Go To Court: Health and Safety Alert.”District attorney Kim Ogg, who ran in 2016 as a “progressive prosecutor” and became the first Democrat elected to the...…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersOn the morning of March 19, courthouse staff abruptly evacuated the eighth floor of the Harris County Criminal Justice Center in downtown Houston after word spread that a misdemeanor prosecutor working on that floor had been exposed to the new coronavirus. The Harris County district attorney’s office soon to its more than three hundred prosecutors with the alarming subject line “Do Not Go To Court: Health and Safety Alert.”District attorney Kim Ogg, who ran in 2016 as a “progressive prosecutor” and became the first Democrat elected to the...WW…

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Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersAt a press conference on March 23, 2018, Art Acevedo, the Houston police chief, announced an aggravated assault charge against Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Michael Bennett. Acevedo alleged that the Eagles star had pushed an elderly paraplegic security guard at Houston’s NRG Stadium as he rushed to celebrate on the field with his brother Martellus, whose New England Patriots had just won the 2017 Super Bowl. At the half-hour press conference, held more than a year after the game—Acevedo explained the HPD had prioritized “serious...…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersAt a press conference on March 23, 2018, Art Acevedo, the Houston police chief, announced an aggravated assault charge against Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Michael Bennett. Acevedo alleged that the Eagles star had pushed an elderly paraplegic security guard at Houston’s NRG Stadium as he rushed to celebrate on the field with his brother Martellus, whose New England Patriots had just won the 2017 Super Bowl. At the half-hour press conference, held more than a year after the game—Acevedo explained the HPD had prioritized “serious...WW…

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MenuByIssueShareNotes1 CommentsJoe Gamaldi in Houston on October 29, 2020.Photograph by Trevor PaulhusOne morning in late January 2019, Rhogena Nicholas texted a prayer to her mother, Jo Ann Nicholas, just as she did every day. A widow in her eighties, Jo Ann could no longer make the four-hour drive from Natchitoches, Louisiana, to visit her daughter and her son-in-law, Dennis Tuttle, at their bungalow in the Pecan Park neighborhood of southeast Houston, but the family remained close, texting and speaking on the phone regularly. Rhogena, 58, worked as a bookkeeper, among other jobs. That...…MenuByIssueShareNotes1 CommentsJoe Gamaldi in Houston on October 29, 2020.Photograph by Trevor PaulhusOne morning in late January 2019, Rhogena Nicholas texted a prayer to her mother, Jo Ann Nicholas, just as she did every day. A widow in her eighties, Jo Ann could no longer make the four-hour drive from Natchitoches, Louisiana, to visit her daughter and her son-in-law, Dennis Tuttle, at their bungalow in the Pecan Park neighborhood of southeast Houston, but the family remained close, texting and speaking on the phone regularly. Rhogena, 58, worked as a bookkeeper, among other jobs. That...WW…

MenuWhen Democrats complain about voter disenfranchisement, they usually refer to the many Republican-led attempts to restrict voting by mail, purge voter rolls, and . But in Democratic-controlled Harris County, the March 3 primary was a blue-on-blue debacle. Democratic primary voters in several predominantly minority neighborhoods were forced to wait as many as six hours in line to cast their votes, largely because of decisions made by county clerk Diane Trautman, a Democrat.In Harris County, the Republican party , leaving the county clerk, who has expansive authority to conduct local...…MenuWhen Democrats complain about voter disenfranchisement, they usually refer to the many Republican-led attempts to restrict voting by mail, purge voter rolls, and . But in Democratic-controlled Harris County, the March 3 primary was a blue-on-blue debacle. Democratic primary voters in several predominantly minority neighborhoods were forced to wait as many as six hours in line to cast their votes, largely because of decisions made by county clerk Diane Trautman, a Democrat.In Harris County, the Republican party , leaving the county clerk, who has expansive authority to conduct local...WW…

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