EditorialHolland Taylor waves to the audience at the Pasadena Playhouse during the curtain call at the final showing of 'Ann' in Pasadena, California, April 24, 2022. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialBridgett vonHoldt, left, an evolutionary biologist at Princeton University, and Kristin Brzeski, an environmental scientist at Michigan Technological University, look for canids at dusk along the beach in Galveston, Texas, Aug. 17, 2021. (Tristan Spinski/The New York Times)
EditorialHal Holbrook prepares his makeup before a performance of his one-man show "Mark Twain Tonight!" at the Opera House in Galveston, Texas, on Feb. 1, 2003. (Michael Stravato/The New York Times)
EditorialA vehicle drives through high water in Galveston, Texas on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021 during Tropical Storm Nicholas, which lashed weary residents with powerful wind gusts and heavy rain. (Callaghan O’Hare/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Joe Biden displays the signed Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, at the White House in Washington on Thursday, June 17, 2021. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)
EditorialA 5,000-square-foot mural created by Reginald C. Adams, at the spot where, in 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger issued the orders that resulted in the freedom of more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state, in Galveston, Texas, on May 5, 2021. (Montinique Monroe/The New York Times)
EditorialA 5,000-square-foot mural created by Reginald C. Adams, at the spot where, in 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger issued the orders that resulted in the freedom of more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state, in Galveston, Texas, on May 5, 2021. (Montinique Monroe/The New York Times)
EditorialA 5,000-square-foot mural created by Reginald C. Adams, at the spot where Gen. Gordon Granger issued the orders that resulted in the freedom of more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state, in Galveston, Texas, on May 5, 2021. (Montinique Monroe/The New York Times)
EditorialA mural on May 4, 2021, at the spot in Galveston, Texas, where General Gordon Granger issued the orders that resulted in the freedom of more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in Texas. (Montinique Monroe/The New York Times)
EditorialHal Holbrook prepares his makeup before a performance of his one-man show "Mark Twain Tonight!" at the Opera House in Galveston, Texas, on Feb. 1, 2003. (Michael Stravato/The New York Times)
EditorialTyler Murray, a clinical laboratory scientist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, with Cleo, one of his two cats. (Go Nakamura/The New York Times)
EditorialTyler Murray, a clinical laboratory scientist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, with Cleo, one of his two cats. (Go Nakamura/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers prepare to raise a Juneteenth flag, for the first time, over the Capitol in Madison, Wis., on June 19, 2020. (Lauren Justice/The New York Time)
EditorialJosalyn Taylor, who last worked as a restaurant assistant manager on March 16, 2020, at her home in Galveston, Texas, on April 21, 2020. (Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times)
EditorialJosalyn Taylor has been trying to address a problem with her unemployment claim in Texas, to no avail. (Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times)
EditorialDimitrios Pagourtzis (17) the suspect from the Santa Fe Texas school shooting has been booked into the Galveston County Jail, currently he is being held on Capital Murder with no bond