On Tuesday, a viral video on Twitter showed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott admitting on camera that Texas has effectively outlawed abortion. At an event with the governor, Creator of the UnderCurrent TV Lauren Windsor thanked Abbott for defending the unborn, and then...
Kennedy is a recent graduate of the University of St.Thomas in Houston where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Celt Independent. Kennedy brings her experience of writing about social justice issues to the Texas Signal where she serves as our Political Reporter. She does everything from covering crime beats, Texas politics, and community activism. Kennedy is a passionate reporter, avid reader, coffee enthusiast, and loves to travel.
Happy Indigenous People’s Day
Every second Monday in October Americans across the country have become acclimated to celebrate Christopher Columbus Day in commemoration of the explorer that is commonly taught as discovering America in the 15th century. This routine holiday has been etched in...
Fort Bend County extends childcare voucher program
On Wednesday, Fort Bend County Officials announced the extension of a childcare initiative program that provides assistance to families who may be experiencing financial hardship because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Starting Oct.11, if qualified, Fort Bend...
Texas Supreme Court denies request to litigate against six-week abortion ban
On Monday, the Texas Supreme Court denied Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Health Services and others request for a partial lift to continue litigation in other trial court proceedings. This is just the latest in the ongoing legal battle on Senate Bill 8, Texas’s...
Houston Reproductive Justice March rallies around liberation
This Saturday, thousands of women, non-binary, and transgender Texans will march together in Houston’s Reclaiming our Freedoms protest starting at Downtown Houston’s Discovery Green all the way to Houston City Hall at 8 a.m. For this nationally recognized march, the...
Texas redistricting map targets two Black Congressional members
In a proposed redistricting map released on Monday, Texas lawmakers introduced a map that racially gerrymanders, the biggest city in the state. In Houston, if approved, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18) and U.S. Rep. Al Green (TX-9), two long serving members in...
Bipartisan police reform negotiations collapse in the Senate
Bipartisan legislation on criminal justice reform is officially dead after Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) released a statement on Wednesday stating that a deal with Republican legislatures remains out of reach. “After months of exhausting every possible pathway to a...
Amid surge of Haitian migrants, Biden admin uses Title 42 to remove asylum seekers
Right now, under a Del Rio international bridge on the Texas-Mexico border more than 15,000 majority Haitian migrants are waiting in 104 degree heat to make their case for seeking asylum in the United States. Because of the lack of resources, many migrants have...
Thousand of migrants seeking asylum wait at the border in Del Rio
Thousands of migrants seeking asylum are in Del Rio, Texas waiting to be processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. According to reports, over 10,000, mostly Haitian, migrants are being given a ticket by CBP and waiting under a bridge until their number is...
Federal judge grants Oct. 1 hearing on anti-abortion law
After the United States Department of Justice filed a preliminary injunction/restraining order against Texas in another attempt to halt Senate Bill 8, a federal judge granted the Biden administration a hearing on Oct. 1 to review temporarily banning the anti-abortion...