In commemoration of Black History Month, don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the outstanding musical legacy of Fort Worth’s I. M. Terrell High School. Now an academy for STEM and Visual Performing Arts education, I. M Terrell opened in 1882 as the city's first black school during the era of formal racial segregation. Under the... Read more »

In honor of Women’s History Month, we welcome local historian Ruth Hosey Karbach to discuss the trailblazing women who studied and practiced medicine Fort Worth in late nineteenth and early twentieth century.  Opened in 1894, the Fort Worth Medical School, once a part of Texas Christian University, admitted women from its inception.  Over its twenty-four... Read more »

Dallas-Fort Worth residents are familiar with KXAS, or Channel 5, but they may not realize that it signed on the air in 1948 as WBAP-TV, the first television news station in Texas.  In fact, it pioneered many broadcast techniques in Texas and the Southwest, including the local newscast, professional weather reporting, all-color news film, and... Read more »