Know Your History: Republican Texas State Senator Matthew Gaines
During these times when voting rights of African Americans and other people of color are under...
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Megan Thee Stallion graduates from TSU
Her lyrics are bold, racy and often controversial, but like it or not, Houston’s own Megan...
The Heat is on! O’Rourke, Abrams to run for governor in Texas, Georgia
By: Roy Douglas Malonson & NNPA They say things are hot in the south, well, when...
State Rep. Garnet Coleman to retire from Texas Legislature
After more than 30 years serving the Houston area, longtime politician Garnet Fredrick Coleman has decided...
Know Your History: Texas Supreme Court Justice Wallace B. Jefferson
Wallace Bernard Jefferson (born July 22, 1963) is a former -- and the first Black --...
Know Your History: George T. Ruby
There are so many African Americans who fought for our advancement in the Texas political arena,...
Texas Proposition 3 and the Black church
By: Roy Douglas Malonson The COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic still has people trying to figure out...
Protecting our ‘Crown and Glory’
It’s something to be said about the “souls of Black folks” and there’s even more to...
Texas GOP uses gerrymandering tactics in proposed redistricting map
By: Roy Douglas Malonson Minority Democrats are fighting mad after Texas lawmakers recently released a draft...
‘I believe I can fly’: R. Kelly’s reign of terror ends
From racism to rape, African American women have been in a pandemic of oppression since we...
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