Less than a week after a federal judge ruled Galveston County’s precinct maps violated the Voting Rights Act, the U.S Fifth Circuit Court issued a stay on the order. U.S. Circuit Court Judge Jeffery V. Brown ruled Oct. 13 that a newly drawn Galveston County commissioner’s precinct map denied Black and Latino voters an equal […]
Briah Lumpkins
Briah Lumpkins is a suburban reporter for the Abdelraoufsinno. She most recently spent a year in Charleston, South Carolina, working as an investigative reporting fellow at The Post and Courier via Frontline PBS’ Local Journalism Initiative. There she took on a variety of accountability stories, including the veiled use of public funds by Charleston’s tourism organization and the impacts of saltwater corrosion on condominiums along the South Carolina coast. Briah is originally from Toledo, Ohio. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism and sociology from Miami University of Ohio.
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Judge: Galveston County violated Voting Rights Act, must redraw commissioner precincts
Galveston County officials denied Black and Latino voters “equal opportunity to participate in the political process,” a judge ruled.
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Sugar Land 95 activists worry as Fort Bend ISD plans another school on prison farm land
The Texas Historical Commission has received notice that a prison cemetery may exist on the road where a new Fort Bend ISD school will be built.
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Threat of rising sea levels and flooding is not slowing life or development in Galveston
Commercial and residential construction continue to rebound from the pandemic despite predictions that parts of the island will be underwater by 2050.
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Fort Bend ISD beginning to seek funding for project to memorialize ‘Sugar Land 95’
The widow of a man who warned locals about the graves is helping raise money for the project, saying she does not want her husband’s work forgotten.
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Fort Bend County built a water plant in Arcola. Half of the city can't afford to use it.
The average cost to connect to city water is $2,000. Arcola does not have the money to finance that, so the burden is passed to residents.
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Advocates: Remains of 95 Black inmates lack proper memorial years after discovery in Sugar Land
Advocates are still waiting for a historical marker to memorialize the remains of 95 Black inmates found on Fort Bend ISD’s property.
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Kendleton mayor indicted over RV park water bills amid other investigations, DA says
Mayor Darryl Humphrey Sr. also was indicted last December, accused of failing to comply with the Texas Public Information Act.
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Fort Bend's hidden issue: thousands of families vulnerable to homelessness, advocates say
More than 17,000 Fort Bend households are at risk of being unhoused because they make less than 30 percent of the county's median income.
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Six takeaways from the Houston police investigation of the Travis Scott Astroworld concert
The Houston Police Department released a 1,266-page report Friday detailing how Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival left 10 dead and hundreds injured on Nov. 5, 2021. The document reveals the wildly contrasting narratives between what Scott and the rapper’s team perceived happened mid-performance and what the dozens of concert promoters, security personnel and other key witnesses […]