HOUSTON- Pastor Emeritus Willie Jones and the New Mount Calvary Baptist Church family would like to extend an invitation to residents of the Houston and surrounding areas to join in on their Women’s Ministry. The Women’s Ministry of New Mount Calvary will host three spectacular events. Services will begin Friday, May 24th at 7pm in the New Mount Calvary Youth
HOUSTON- Physical exams will be held at Taylor High School’s Gymnasium on Saturday, June 1st, for Alief ISD students. The Physicals will be done by the Methodist Orthopedic Specialist of Texas. The cost will be $20 per student. Beginning at 12noon, physicals for all girls will be conducted, following by Middle School Boys at 1pm and High School Boys at
Jordyn Turner HOUSTON-Marshall Middle School student Jordyn Turner will head to Washington D.C. this summer to serve as a Houston/Harris County ambassador at the National Campaign to Stop Violence. The seventh grader, her parents and her school principal were surprised with the news at a special ceremony recently at Minute Maid Park, which brought together student finalists who wrote essays
HAWKINS- Jarvis Christian College and the East Texas Food Bank have partnered to offer a healthy and fun summer to children through the Summer Food Program. The program which provides free breakfast and lunch to children ages 1 through 18, starts on June 10 and ends on August 23, 2013. Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. and 12 p.m., trained
HOUSTON- Based on a ranking issued routinely by Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity in which the Houston Food Bank holds membership, Houston Food Bank is the largest food bank in the United States in food distribution to its partner agencies. That’s based on Feeding America’s comparison of food poundage reports for calendar year 2012 from the 200
HOUSTON- “The 16th Strike,” a documentary in progress, is directed and produced by T Alika Hickman with videographer Danny Russo. Hickman, was born in New York & raised in New Orleans, is the survivor of a stroke and two brain aneurysms. Additionally, she is a Hip Hop artist with Krip Hop Nation – artists with disabilities – as well as
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
On September 14, 1927, the Houston Public School Board agreed to fund the development of two junior colleges: one for Whites and one for African-Americans. And so, with a loan from the Houston Public School Board of $2,800, the Colored Junior College was born in the summer of 1927 under the supervision of the Houston School District. The Colored Junior