Pipeline
By TJ Baker Photo Credit: David Bray As a reference librarian, educator and a divorced parent with a good son, we sometimes think being good is just not good enough. This is especially true when your son’s hormones are trying to find peace within but can’t! Therefore his hormones are going everywhere. They are without […]
Civil Rights Leaders Launch Tubman $20 Campaign Call for Flooding Treasury Secretary Mnuchin with Tubman $20
Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and a coalition of civil rights leaders on Thursday, May 23 called for the sending of thousands of mock $20 bills with the picture of Black abolitionist icon Harriet Tubman on it to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. The mock-up of the Tubman $20 bill was […]
Theresa Burroughs, Voting Rights Activist, Dies At 89 In Alabama
By Debbie Elliott, National Public Radio (NPR) Theresa Burroughs, who proudly called herself a foot soldier for the right to vote, has died in Greensboro, Ala. She was 89. Greensboro is part of Alabama’s Black Belt, a region named for its rich black soil, and known for its oppression of black citizens during the Jim […]
Too Many Issues
Thank you for exposing some of the issues and problems in Aldine ISD. Many things that are going on, have been going on for YEARS and it’s a huge virus. Dr. Latonya Goffney is a Godsend! I believe that she’s going to turn the district around in a very positive way. As a Transportation employee […]
Living Legend: Merline Pitre
Historian and educator Merline Pitre was born on April 10, 1943 in Opelousas, Louisiana to Robert and Florence Pitre. Pitre graduated from Plaisance School in Plaisance, Louisiana; and went on to earn her B.S. degree in French from Southern University, and her M.A. degree in French from Atlanta University. She also earned her second M.A. […]
HCC Names Suzette Brimmer Interim Dean of Consumer Arts & Sciences Center of Excellence
HOUSTON – Houston Community College (HCC) has named Suzette Brimmer Interim Dean of the Consumer Arts & Sciences Center of Excellence (COE). HCC Central President Muddassir Siddiqi made the announcement last week. “I’m excited and honored to serve the Consumer Arts & Sciences programs that I know quite well,” said Brimmer. “My goal is to […]
Ten Years in the Community
By Rebecca S. Jones Celebrating Ten Years with Acres of Angels HOUSTON – Over a decade ago, native Houstonian, Edna Griggs, was divinely-inspired to establish an initiative which would bring awareness to youth regarding the effects of diabetes. Being a victim of the disease, Edna strongly believed if she could build a network which educated […]
Grady Wayne Wilkes vs. Pamela Turner: A Tale of Two Police Killing Cases
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Grady Wayne Wilkes, armed, guns down one Auburn, Alabama police officer and wounds two others. Pamela Turner, unarmed, is gunned down by a Baytown, Texas police officer. Wilkes was taken alive. Turner was killed. How do you explain this? Let’s walk through the checklist of differences to answer that question. Wilkes […]
THERE NEVER WAS A NOBLE SOUTH.
By Oscar H. Blayton Have you ever noticed that when driving through the southern United States you are hard-pressed to find a city or town without a memorial to the Confederate war dead, but you are equally hard-pressed to find a city or town with a monument commemorating fallen Revolutionary War soldiers? Given the current […]
Accountability Part VI School Board Members
By Roy Douglas Malonson Due to the great response we have received from our readers, I decided to write about the importance of holding school board members accountable. I feel this is an ongoing issue worthy to be addressed because anytime we are talking about a school district’s functioning; we are talking about our future. […]
