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The Marfa school where children were told to bury Spanish

Blackwell School in Marfa, with a pale adobe facade, two tall windows, wooden door and front steps beneath a blue sky. — Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas. Photograph date unknown; this is not an image of the 1954 ceremony.
Photo: David Larson / National Park Service, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain in the United States. Cropped and resized. No claim to original U.S. Government works.

A 1954 ceremony at Blackwell School sits within a longer history of segregated classrooms and the alumni campaign that saved its buildings.

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AI-generated illustration of anonymous notebooks with abstract marks, an archival folder, a bowl of rice pudding and a spoon. — Illustration
Conceptual illustration of recipe notebooks and rice pudding, not collection objects or a recreation of the 1831 dish.
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Food & Culture

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Venue file photo from 2009: the Arlington stadium's white retractable roof, glass entrance and parking area; no football game is shown. — AT&T Stadium in Arlington, photographed June 30, 2009, when known as Cowboys Stadium. Venue file photo, not the December 2025 championship game.
Photo: Dopefish / Wikimedia Commons, public-domain dedication. Cropped and resized.

Sports

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Weather

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Three credit files and a separate transaction review, shown in a conceptual illustration.
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Money

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AI-generated illustration of a notebook and two folders, separated from roadside refuse sacks, a cardboard box and scrap boards. — Illustration
A service-request paper trail and discarded waste, shown as a conceptual illustration, not an actual Houston site.
AI-generated illustration: The Texas Chronicle / Google Gemini

Local

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A reply and receipt sit apart from a document packet in this conceptual illustration of a records-request paper trail.
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Government

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