by: Gabrielle Miller Carver High School, Aldine ISD Cancer and Homicide are NOT the only Epidemics we face “I was bullied for 2 years by my best friend. She called me fat and stupid and ugly and told me all these nasty things and I started to believe them. When I would confront her about it, she would say she
Renee Glover Contributing Writer African-American News&Issues It depends on who you ask. Some may say that integration was the best thing that could have happened to Black folks, other may beg to differ. This is a topic that seems to come up in conversations quite often and will never go away. As history would have it, after the Brown
Renee Glover Contributing Writer African-American News&Issues November 2012 is right around the corner. Six months is not a long time to capture the hearts and minds of citizens of the United States for a second time. No one knows what this pressure feels like other than the gentlemen who has ran our Country. President Obama has been under scrutiny
By: Shelia J. Jefferson Contributing Writer African-American News&Issues The City of Houston was “shocked” by the not guilty verdict for former Houston Police Officer Andrew Blomberg, who was accused in the beating of teenage burglary suspect, Chad Holley. The jury had to determine whether Blomberg intentionally mistreated Holley in March 2010. Undoubtably, the African-American
By Roy Douglas Malonson A lot of people applaud the whole act of integration as though it were some form of savior for the Black community. However the reality of the truth is far from not. I can recall an incident some years ago when I made the decision to send my daughter to a Private school, one of which
“Basically, I don’t discriminate at what type of girls to date. To be honest race is not that important. Yes, it’s a factor, but not a big one. Of course, I would rather say Black but, I’ll probably end up with a White girl. It’s just from what I’ve seen, Black girls have that “you can’t tell me nothing, I
By Roy Douglas Malonson Continuing from my last week’s editorial of “To Serve and Protect Who”, how can authority officials expect for citizens to uphold and respect the very laws that many of them readily violate at any given time? W.E.B. Dubois stated some years ago that, “Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and
by: Gabrielle Miller Carver High School, Aldine ISD “I was bullied for 2 years by my best friend. She called me fat and stupid and ugly and told me all these nasty things and I started to believe them. When I would confront her about it, she would say she was “just kidding,” but she continued to bully me. I
By: Rebecca S. Jones African-American News&Issues Out of Ferriday, Louisiana’s Cajun Country and cotton fields emerged a great singer, leader, businessman and preacher of the Gospel. Born the last son of twenty-two children to Esau and Alice Jones on White Hall Plantation was Richard Jones. As a youth, the elders of his community all agreed that he was quite
By Roy Douglas Malonson My wife and I have been long time advocates for Black businesses, Black organizations, practically, anything that is positive for and by Black folks. If other races can get out there and support their people, hell, why can’t we? The issue is, Black folks don’t want to fight and work hard for what could be or