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When Black Soldiers Fought Back Against Police Brutality 100 Years Ago in Texas

Aug. 23 marks the 100th anniversary of a watershed moment in race relations in the United States. On this day in 1917, in Houston, 156 members of the all-black 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry (famously known as the Buffalo Soldiers) went on a racially charged rampage that took the lives of four Soldiers and 15 white… Read More »

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