They Came for the Schools
In an exclusive audio excerpt from Chapter 1 of “They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for Ame...
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Southlake, Texas, seems to have it all: stately homes, intense civic pride, and above all, terrific schools. So when a video surfaced in 2018 showing Southlake high school students chanting...
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Grapevine - Ep. 6: A Final Lesson
Grapevine goes to the polls in a contentious school board election driven by the fight over the role of religion and LGBTQ inclusion in publ...
Grapevine - Ep. 5: Open The Floodgates
Evangelical activists open a new front in their campaign to impose their version of biblical morality in public schools — at the Texas state...
Grapevine - Ep. 4: A Raging Fire
Weston Brown, 28, sees a video of his homeschooling mother calling for dozens of books on sexuality and gender to be banned from public scho...
Grapevine - Ep. 3: A Harvest Is Coming
Amid a growing anti-trans backlash, Ren devises a plan to get out of Texas — and away from her mother. In Grapevine, Sharla’s claim that tea...
Grapevine - Ep. 2: The Seven Mountains
Conservatives are gaining power in Grapevine, fueled by a once-fringe movement that calls on evangelicals to control the seven key “mountain...
Grapevine - Ep. 1: The Girl And The English Teacher
A mother named Sharla publicly accuses a high school teacher in Grapevine, Texas, of using a graphic novel called “The Prince and the Dressm...
Books and Backlash
The fight over diversity in Southlake’s Carroll Independent School District is back in the headlines and has a new focus — books. Teachers a...
Beyond the Bubble
Five months after the high-stakes local election in Southlake, the city is gearing up for yet another contentious vote. One of the school bo...
Protect the Tradition
It’s Election Day in Southlake, Texas — time to see if all the fighting over the school district’s Cultural Competence Action Plan translate...
The Debate Channel
The election to fill two school board seats takes center stage—and becomes a referendum on the school district’s diversity plan. At a secret...
The Circus Comes to Town
Parents in Southlake discover a new label for what's been bothering them about all this diversity, equity and inclusion talk: critical race...
The Not-So-Silent Majority
Facing a wave of backlash to its proposed Cultural Competence Action Plan, Southlake’s school board tries to find middle ground — but winds...
Home of the Dragons
Southlake, Texas, is an immaculate, largely white suburb 30 minutes from Dallas. It’s a magnet for well-off parents looking for public schoo...
Just a Word
Southlake’s leaders try to bring the community together in the weeks after the viral N-word video. But inside the halls of Carroll High, Bla...
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Beautiful Southlake, Texas, seemed too good to be true—until a video emerged of white high school students chanting the N-word. But it was t...