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Texas A&M President Katherine Banks speaks during an announcement about the Texas A&M-Concho Engineering Academy, Feb. 14, 2019, in the Carrasco Room at Midland College in Midland, Texas. Texas A&M University announced Friday, July 21, 2023, that Banks has resigned after a Black journalist's celebrated hiring at one of the nation's largest campuses unraveled following pushback over her diversity and inclusion work.(James Durbin/Reporter-Telegram via AP)

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Texas A&M University president resigns after Black journalist’s hiring at campus unravels
By JIM VERTUNO - Associated Press
Fri,07/21/23-10:14AM , 138 Reads
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University on Friday announced the resignation of its president in the fallout over a Black journalist who said her celebrated hiring at one of the nation's largest campuses quickly unraveled due to pushback over her past work promoting diversity.
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Daniel Perry reacts after being sentenced to 25 years for the murder of Garrett Foster at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday May 10, 2023. Perry was convicted of murder in April for killing Foster during a Black Lives Matter protest in July 2020. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool)

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Army sergeant who fatally shot BLM protester in Texas sentenced to 25 years as governor seeks pardon
By JIM VERTUNO - Associated Press
Wed,05/10/23-12:03AM , 112 Reads
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AP correspondent Donna Warder on a possible lengthy prison sentence following a Texas protest shooting.

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Man guilty in Texas protest killing posted 'I am a racist'
By JIM VERTUNO - Associated Press
Tue,05/09/23-1:16AM , 191 Reads
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors sought Tuesday to portray as racist a U.S.
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Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers (3) looks to pass against Washington during the second half of the Alamo Bowl NCAA college football game in San Antonio, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. Texas wraps spring practice Saturday with the Longhorns' annual scrimmage, allowing the first real look at the biggest quarterback battle in the Big 12 between Ewers, early-enrolled freshman Arch Manning of the famed football family, and second-year reserve Maalik Murphy, a top recruit who spent his freshman season of 2022 on the sidelines. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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Texas wraps spring drills with eyes on Ewers, QB contest
By JIM VERTUNO - AP Sports Writer
Fri,04/14/23-9:59AM , 690 Reads
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Quinn Ewers' mullet is gone. The big arm is still there.

So is the competition that comes with the big name of Manning behind it.
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