TBHPP

The Texas Black History Preservation Project is an Austin, Texas-based, diverse non-profit group of writers, historians, and scholars dedicated to documenting the complete history of the African American experience in Texas, spanning almost five centuries. Through print and visual media, the Project seeks to make readily accessible a wide-ranging c... ollection of information related to the experience not only for younger generations of African Americans, but to all Texans and anyone interested in the evolution, progress, and accomplishments of Black Texans. Through our efforts, we hope to build momentum towards the establishment of a permanent repository for all things related to the Black History of Texas. The project is headed by co-editors-in-chief Roxanne Evans and Michael Hurd. Roxanne Evans is a graduate of Drake University, and has worked in journalism for nearly three decades and she has more than a decade of work in public service and politics. Roxanne did extensive reporting on Iowa Black History for the Des Moines Register and Tribune in the late 70's and won an Iowa Associated Press Managing Editors' First-Place Investigative Reporting award for her work on a series on Blacks in Iowa. In 1983, she became a reporter at the Austin American-Statesman and within five years rose to become a member of the Editorial Board and served as Chief Editorial Writer. In 1988, Roxanne's paper on "The History of Black Catholics in Texas" was placed in the Schomburg Center Collection for Research in Black Culture in New York with excerpts published in the Handbook of Texas. She has also served as a deputy press secretary for Gov. Ann Richards, and continues to write for African American publications such as the Dallas Examiner, African-American News and Issues and has served as Editor-at-Large for Our Texas Magazine. Currently, she is a Communications Specialist with the Austin Independent School District. Michael Hurd is a native of Texarkana, Texas, but grew up in Houston, served in the U.S. Air Force (including one ...Read More