By: Sharon Jenkins The journey to leadership can often be an unexpected path, filled with pivotal moments and experiences that shape an individual’s role and...

By Christian Terry HOUSTON – Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee announced Sunday that she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In a statement, Lee said she...

By: Shelley McKinley, Ed.D. August 20th, called Slavery Remembrance Day, is fast approaching and commemorates the day that the first 20 enslaved Africans arrived to...

By: Shelley McKinley, Ed.D. Booker T. Washington (BTW) High School – Houston ISD, named after the most influential spokesman for Black Americans between 1881 and...

Race is an arbitrary socio-economic societal status, not a biological status. God created human beings, not races. Race is a socio-cultural designation fixed by the...

Justice Clarence Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1991, after the death of Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Justice. Thomas is the...

By: Deanna Werner Brandon L. Simmons, Chairman of the Texas Southern University Board of Regents, announced during today’s meeting of the Board of Regents that...

By: Joy Le Page Smith, MA, BCC Years back Gary and I hired a man with great tree expertise to trim the trees about our...

Johnny cannot read because his socio-economic family environment is dysfunctional. Additionally, Johnny can’t read because his school and neighborhood environments are socioeconomically dysfunctional. More importantly,...