He was an eighth-grade dropout. A pimp. A burglar. Addicted to cocaine. His religion was hatred, particularly toward “white devils.” Per The New York Times he was “an extraordinary twisted…

When President Reagan declared the third Monday of each January Martin Luther King Day, he could not have foreseen in 2025 it would coincide with the second inauguration of Donald…

It was not what we thought. It was not rural rage. It was not inflation. It was seething resentment, grievance, and nostalgia for the way we never were: a white,…

[Photo: Dominic Anthony Walsh/Houston Public Media] Mike Miles was a U.S. Army Ranger before he was appointed superintendent of HISD. That experience motivates his unyielding surveillance and micromanagement of teachers,…

Trump won the 2020 election. Michelle Obama is a man. FEMA is insolvent because they gave all their funding to illegal immigrants. All of these declarations are easy to recognize…

Since the Civil Rights Move- ment of the 1960s our young Black men have become politically disengaged. Their apathy is incomprehensible to their elders, who made voting a serious event,…

Houston businessman Christopher Williams had never heard of Colin Allred, the Tennessee Titans linebacker who became a lawyer, then a congressman from Dallas, and who now is senatorial candidate. He’s…

African American Christians have had their own churches since the 18th century. Houston’s original Black church, Saint Luke the Evangelist Episcopal Church (previously Saint Clements’) has been an institution in…

Bomb threats; guns and knives on campuses; persistent bus problems; sweltering classrooms; teachers begging publicly on social media for necessary supplies; students denied permission to accept invitation to perform in…

Texas’s lengthy history of voter disenfranchisement is thoroughly the result of white supremacy. Voting laws here are the most deterring in the country. Voter participation is among the lowest, too.…