The “Comanche Three”
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Anthony Freeman (left), Carl Baker (middle), and Steve Booker (right), as pictured in their high school yearbook. Friends often referred to Freeman as “Rerun” because he resembled the character from the show What’s Happening!! They remembered that Baker played piano for his church every week and planned to attend Paul Quinn College in Waco. And, they recalled that Booker, who loved basketball, once hit a game-winning half-court shot when playing for Mexia High School’s JV team.
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Juneteenth
On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, heard the news of their freedom. More than two years earlier, President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation to establish the freedom of enslaved people in Confederate States…