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Waller County, Texas, has had a complicated racial history since the days when it was a part of Mexico. At one of its first settlements, Bernardo Plantation, about 100 slaves grew cotton on  a large farm on the banks of the Brazos. Yet in the years before Texas fought Mexico for its independence, the area became a magnet for free blacks from elsewhere in the South who sought a welcoming home. 

The messy, confusing double legacy of that history has persisted to the present, most recently embo

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An exasperated Sandra Bland left what is now a haunting voicemail on her friend’s phone shortly after seeing a judge. 

“I’m still just at a loss for words honestly at this whole process,” Bland said on the message obtained byKTRK. “How did switching lanes with no signal turn into all of this, I don’t even know.”

The 22-second voicemail left July 11, is the latest piece of the puzzle that is still unclear as to how 28-year-old Sandra Bland went from being arrested during a traffic stop on J

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Head coach Kevin Sumlin of the Texas A&M Aggies waits on the field before the game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Kyle Field on November 9, 2013 in College Station, Texas. (Scott Halleran/Getty Images North America)
Texas A&M and coach Kevin Sumlin have agreed in principle to a new six-year contract that could keep him with the Aggies through 2019.
The university said Saturday that the terms of the deal still needed to be approved by its Board of Regents.
Sumlin is 19-5 in two se
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