Racism
Lubbock Loses a Legend Who Actually Cared, Leaving the Rest of Us to Deal with Walgreens Hold Music
In a shocking turn of events for a city that usually makes headlines for things…
Lubbock Discovers “The East Side” Exists, Continues to Do Absolutely Nothing About It
In a shocking revelation that surprised no one who has ever looked at a city…
Lubbock-Cooper Senior Learns the Hard Way That “Complexity” is Code for “We’re On Lunch Break”
Lubbock-Cooper High School senior DeTayevion “Taye” Lang—a 17-year-old Black student with a straight-A average—is currently…
LISD Invents a Spreadsheet to Decide Which Schools Live, While the State Sharpens the Axe
Lubbock ISD has unveiled its shiny new District Optimization Framework, a very official-sounding checklist to…
MLK Day, Confederate Heroes Day, and a 74-Page Campaign Flier Disguised as Law
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day — which, in Texas, also happens to be Confederate…
ICE Is Busy in Texas – Lubbock Pretends Not to Notice
While Lubbock’s local news continues its proud tradition of strategic silence, the rest of Texas…
LISD Forgot the Bus, Found a Scapegoat
The Lubbock Coalition of Black Democrats had to step in this weekend because Lubbock ISD…
Texas Wants Cheap Houses, Fewer Immigrants, and Apparently a Magical Workforce That Doesn’t Exist
Down in South Texas, construction sites are turning into ghost towns—not because people don’t want…
Federal Racism Probe Ghosts Lubbock Schools, Racism Decides to Stick Around Anyway
The local NAACP meeting in Lubbock opened with a prayer and quickly turned into what…