By: Chelsea Davis-Bibb, Ed.D. Frederick Douglass was once an enslaved man who escaped slavery to seek a better a life. He was born in Talbot...
By: Courtney Riley, M.A. Louisiana native, D’Andre Edwards came to Houston, TX with a distinct goal in mind: to become one of Houston’s premier educators....
By: Chelsea Davis-Bibb, Ed.D. “Basketball saved my life. It guided me,” Coach Stephen Woods stated. Coach Stephen Woods is the head basketball coach at...
By: Chelsea Davis-Bibb, Ed.D. John Scroggins was born in Shrevport, Louisiana, and grew up in a single-parent home due to his parents getting a divorce...
By: Chelsea Daivs-Bibb, Ed.D. Founded in 1927, Texas Southern University is known to be “one of the nation’s largest historically black universities” (Texas Southern University)....
Autherine Lucy Foster, who earned a bachelor’s degree in English from historically Black Miles College in 1952, and whose legal battle with the University of...
By: Omowale Luthuli- Allen As portrayed in the captivating documentary “Summer of Soul,” the 1960’s was a time when the Negro and the colored...
Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston, Texas, on February 21, 1936, one of three daughters of Benjamin M. Jordan and Arlyne Patten Jordan. Barbara...
State Representative, Hon. Albert Ely Edwards was born in Houston, Texas on March 19, 1937. Edwards is the sixth child out of the 16 children...
By: LSC Photo: LSC_NANMCP_Grant Houston (Feb. 22, 2022) – Lone Star College is partnering with New America to help address the serious shortage of skilled...
