By: Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher American author, politician, educator and lawyer, James Weldon Johnson once revealed a simple yet prolific thought. “You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, there’s a world waiting for you and yours is the quest that’s just begun.” I could not agree with him more especially when I see the
Gov. Rick Perry threatened to call legislators back to Austin this summer if they don’t meet his demands for tax relief and money for water projects.“It should be no surprise that if folks want to go home at the end of this legislative session, send me $1.8 billion worth of tax relief. Send me a balanced budget that has no
By: State Rep.Borris L. Miles, District 146 Last week, I was shocked to read that Sunnyside, the neighborhood I grew up in, listed as the sixth most dangerous neighborhood in the country by Money Magazine. When you think of the most dangerous neighborhoods in this country, places like Chicago, South-Central Los Angeles, Southeast Washington D.C., or West Baltimore come to
By: Paula Harris, HISD Board of Education District IV Trustee & Rhonda Skillern-Jones, HISD Board of Education District II Trustee Last November, voters throughout Houston, and especially those in our historically African-American neighborhoods, rallied together on behalf of our children to overwhelmingly approve the most ambitious school rebuilding plan in Texas history. As elected members of the Houston Independent School
By Roy Douglas Malonson Publisher William Wells Brown, a prominent African-American novelist and historian once stated, “All I demand for the Black man is, that the White people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.” I couldn’t agree with him more. People just never cease to amaze me