![]() ![]() On leave from the Rangers for his suspected involvement in a homicide, Darren heads to the little town of Lark, Texas, to investigate two murders. The badge gives him power, but his skin color threatens the southern system of who gets justice and how. He loves Texas because it is home, but his vantage point assures Darren sees the Lone Star State’s faults up close. He is proud of his heritage, that his ancestors had the gall to stay in a town that didn’t want them. ![]() It was an arrogance born of genuine fortitude and a streak of hardheadedness, six generations deep.”ĭarren Matthews is a black Texas Ranger, dedicated to justice and plagued with being a black man in the south. “The belief that they were special, that they had the stones to endure what others couldn’t, was the most quintessentially Texas thing about them. ![]()
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