A recommended settlement for a refund never granted for payment on gas well drilling leases that were never approved has risen to $55 million on the Dallas City.
If you are a Southerner or your parents were it is almost certain you grew up with this mythology in your home, your school and your church. Challenging that story may seem to challenge everything.
Eddie Bernice Johnson, trailblazing Texan in U S House, dies at 89 washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Johnson, the first Black woman elected to any seat in Dallas and the first Black Dallasite to serve in Congress, was a towering figure in Texas politics.