For many years, Brad Englert and other alums of the LBJ School Of Public Affairs at the University of Texas would meet at the school’s Barbara Jordan National Forum and recall stories of being in her ...

After seven months without representation, voters in Houston's historic 18th Congressional District will finally choose their ...

As we celebrate Black History Month, today we remember a Texas woman who made her mark on history as a political pioneer. Barbara Jordan was the first Black woman elected to the Texas State Senate. In ...

Houston Congresswoman Barbara Jordan speaks during the House Judiciary Committee’s debate on articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon in 1974. Houston native Barbara Jordan was known ...

Students at the University of Texas Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, some of whom feel left behind in the state's polarizing political climate, including by a state ban on diversity, equity ...

The survey comes as the State of Texas fights in court to uphold new political maps recently redrawn to favor Republicans.

As bad as the congressional redistricting map is in Texas for Democrats, it could be about to get a lot worse based on a ...

If she were alive, Texan Barbara Jordan would heartily endorse the celebration of Juneteenth, the federal holiday signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2021. The congresswoman has faded into ...

Some of Black History Month's most important icons are from the Lone Star State. If you don't know the history of how these people contributed to civil rights, broke political barriers, or made an ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. When voters in Texas’s Eighteenth ...