HOUSTON- Margarette Robinson, who served on the Houston City Council from 1990 to 1992, passed away from complications from lung disease and was laid to rest on June 5th. Margarette was born in Baldwin, (St. Mary Parish) Louisiana on August 28, 1935. She was eighth of nine children for Louis and Eunice Thompson. She attended Parish public schools. To her
HOUSTON- The Acres Homes community was treated to their 2nd Annual Juneteenth Parade sponsored by State Rep. Sylvester Turner, who grew up in the Acres Homes. Parade spectators young and old, lined West Montgomery Rd. waiting to see what the parade had to offer. And the parade did not disappoint waiting spectators. More than a thousand individuals participated in trailers
Aging high schools would be converted into campuses designed to meet 21st Century educational needs HOUSTON- Forty-two schools across Houston, including 24 high schools, would be rebuilt, renovated, or renewed under a recommended bond package presented for the HISD Board of Education’s consideration on Thursday. The board must decide by August whether to seek approval of the $1.89 billion proposal
HOUSTON – (June 28, 2012) – Dr. Ashley Butler, assistant professor of pediatrics – psychology at Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu) and a clinical psychologist at Texas Children’s Hospital (www.texaschildrens.org), has been awarded a $17,500 grant from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health (www.hogg.utexas.edu/) to research the use of intervention services by African American and Latino parents of young children
BoJanay Posey Intern African-American News & Issues As I watched the arrival of dusk and people, I felt butterflies my belly. There I was, doing something I had never done before and honestly didn’t want to do. I felt wholeheartedly that I should not be there in the banquet hall of the Acres Home Chamber of Business and Economic
By: Danielle Abril FORT WORTH -Angela Tucker and Scott Turner recently made history by becoming the first blacks elected by Collin County voters to nonmunicipal posts. Both Republicans won primary elections May 29 and are unopposed in the general election Nov. 6. Turner will be sworn in Jan. 8 to represent the newly created Texas House District 33, which
HOUSTON -Rep. Garnet F. Coleman, (D-Houston) released the following statement regarding FBI data on avoidable homicides that indicates the need for and why he will file a bill to repeal or modify the Texas ‘Shoot First, Ask Later’ law: “It is alarming that the number of so-called “justifiable” homicides in Texas and in the Houston area is on the rise,
Texas League of Young Voters move forward to protect Youth Vote WASHINGTON- Testimony in Texas v. Holder, the history-making court case to determine the fate of Texas Voter ID and 1.4 million registered voters in the Lone Star state, ended, with a verdict expected in the coming weeks. Until then, the Texas League of Young Voters Education Fund, defendant-interveners in
Parade theme will be Re-investing in Your Community BARRETT STATION, TX -Barrett, Texas, as it is now referred to in modern day time, is primarily an African-American community with a rich heritage and known for its dedicated civic participation. In preparation for the community’s 26th annual homecoming parade, banquet and week of activities, the Barrett Station Civic League exercised
T he pledge of allegiance states, “I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Liberty and justice for all is what it declares, but I beg to differ and apparently so did the infamous comedian, Chris Rock.