Venton Blandin, a seasoned Emmy winning journalist and a Regional Edward R. Murrow recipient, is the Executive Reporter at KRIS-TV in Corpus Christi, Texas. He joined the station in November 2023 ...

A declaration of Black queer love radiated from the Texas State Capitol in Austin last week as Democratic State Representative Venton Jones dropped to one knee to propose to his partner Gregory Scott ...

Venton Lee (Rip) Van Winkle, 81, passed away peacefully on February 6, 2024. He was born in McDonald County, Missouri on January 5, 1943 to Walter and Lavonne (Rutter) Van Winkle. Venton grew up in ...

CHICAGO – In the middle of Texas’s latest political firestorm, state Rep. Venton Jones is helping lead the charge to defend democracy. As the first openly HIV-positive member of the Texas Legislature ...

"It was such a surreal moment," Scott said. "It wasn't until I went back and watched the videos, I was like, 'Oh wow, that really happened.'" Both in the political sphere and in his personal life, ...

AUSTIN - The number of Black LGBTQ state lawmakers in Texas is about to triple. In May, Jolanda Jones became the state's first openly gay and Black state legislator when she won a hard-fought special ...