WHO: Community activists in Marfa, who are celebrating a win after nearly two decades of advocacy to preserve the historic Blackwell School—and all Texans, who now have a new National Park Service ...

Blackwell School in Marfa is Texas’ newest National Park and stands the same way it did since 1909. Courtesy photo by National Park Service. A Texas school built to segregate Mexican Americans is now ...

MARFA, Texas (KXAN) — The Blackwell School National Historic Site in Marfa, Texas, has been formally established as the nation’s newest national park. The park was authorized by the Blackwell School ...

BLACKWELL, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – A 1965 Ford Mustang is a car that would catch your ear and your eyes driving down the road, and that is exactly the goal of Blackwell Consolidated School District ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- What was once a segregated school for Mexican American students is now home to a national historic site. From 1909 to 1966, The Blackwell School was the de facto segregated ...

MARFA, Texas (Nexstar) — Jessi Silva remembers exactly where she sat when she saw her heritage buried. On a humble schoolhouse’s dusty block on the south side of tiny 1950s Marfa, Silva watched her ...

A West Texas school built in 1909 for Mexican and Mexican American students as part of "separate but equal" education segregation was designated Wednesday as a national park. U.S. Secretary of the ...

The Biden administration has named the site of the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, a segregated school for Mexican American children, as the country’s newest national park, Interior Secretary Deb ...