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These are the reforms Texas needs to ensure tragedies like Sandra Bland's never happen again.

Originally posted on notonemoredeportation.com.

Texas officials want to violate the Constitution by closing our doors on refugees fleeing our enemies.

In order to bring equality to Houston, we need more education, more pressure, and a fresh push by the new city council.

Without an Equal Rights Ordinance, discrimination claims cost thousands and last for years.

On November 3rd, voters will go to the polls to determine the fate of Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance. If it passes, pregnant women, veterans, the elderly, and a dozen other groups of people will find they can’t be fired, evicted, or turned away from a business because of who they are.

The State of Texas has issued an emergency rule that transforms private prisons into “licensed child care facilities.”

In this second installment of our two-part series celebrating Banned Books Week, I sat down with Peter Coyl, a District Manager for the Dallas Public Library.

To celebrate Banned Books Week, this year I sat down with three librarians to peek behind the curtain and examine the ways by which library books are chosen and challenged; I also wanted to get the inside scoop on what the future of the library looks like. This first installment of the two-part series features two local school librarians in Houston. Much like the superheroes they are, the two preferred to keep their true identities concealed, so I will be referring to them as “Barbara Gordon” and “Judy Dark," which happen to be the librarian alter-egos of the superheroes "Oracle" and "Luna Moth" (our apologies to D.C. Comics and Michael Chabon). Our next installment will feature my conversation with Peter Coyl, District Manager of the Dallas Public Library.