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New, from Dalyah Jones in our magazine: "East Texas, where I’m from, is the beating heart of Black Texas. It’s a place where the majority of enslaved people were concentrated, and it’s where 90 percent of cotton was grown in the state."

A Love Letter to the Black Woodswomen of Deep East TexasWhere I’m from, the Afro-Texans who made me know our lives are forever woven into the ecology of the Thicket.www.texasobserver.org