For Santos Rodriguez, the 12-year-old boy shot by a Dallas cop 50 years ago, a march to remember

Dallas residents turned out Sunday evening to march in support of Santos Rodriguez, a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a Dallas police officer 50 years ago.

The march started and ended in Pike Park near downtown Dallas.

"Santos Rodriguez was a 12-year-old boy that was rousted from his bed at 2 in the morning, handcuffed, thrown into a squad car, driven a few blocks from his house...very close to where we are standing," said Hadi Jawad, a community leader who’s helped organized events marking Rodriguez' death. "And in a game of Russian roulette, an officer seeking to get a confession out of him ... murdered him."

Jawad said there are still deep wounds to the Latino community that lived in the area then known as Little Mexico.

"We have come a long way," he said. "But Dallas still has a long, long way to go."

Cowboys of Color Rodeo is a 'true picture' of the American West

For two nights at the State Fair of Texas, the rodeo looks just a little different - nearly all the competitors were Black.

The Cowboys of Color Rodeo has a long tradition and reflects the significant role that cowboys of color played in the Old West. Something that is usually missing from the movies and history books.

Community gathers to mourn victims of mass shooting

It was the 199th mass shooting of 2023... or so someone told me while covering the vigils this week.

On Saturday, May 6, a gunman opened fire with an AR-15 style assault rifle at people walking on the sidewalk outside the Allen Premium Outlets. He killed eight and injured seven more.