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The Confluence of Politics, Race, and Business

The confluence of politics, race, and business is as tricky to navigate as the foam and spray of water rushing over hidden and seen obstructions of...
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Which version of history will Texas schoolchildren learn?

Houston public school children have access to free instructional materials as mandated by the Texas Constitution.As such, the State Board of...
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Continental honors its first black pilot

Houston-based Continental Airlines has named a Boeing 737 aircraft in honor of its first black pilot, Captain Marlon Green.Captain Green’s...
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Black History Month: University of Houston's integration story

You probably know that the University of Texas admitted its first black student, Heman Sweatt, to its law school in 1950, due to the Supreme Court...
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Black History Month: Houston's sit-ins for civil rights

On February 1, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students unceremoniouslytook seatsand requested meals at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro...
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Houston Tea Party Pimps Obama Photo

Houston-based TeaParty.org, a political fundraising group, sent a fundraising email yesterday, with an altered photo of President Obama, depicted...
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Houston-area ISDs may receive federal funding in spite of Governor Perry

The U.S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top program, introduced by President Obama in July 2009, awards money to states that show...
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Negro: What's in a name?

On Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) called President Obama to apologize for remarks made during the 2008 campaign, as...
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Smiley discontinues the State of the Black Union conference

On Wednesday, PBS talk-show host and political activist, Tavis Smiley, announced he would no longer produce his annual State of the Black Union...
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You are not Tiger Woods, no matter who you are

Rush Limbaugh, self-proclaimed Negro morale expert, said Tuesday that due to the racial prevalence (white) of Tiger Woods’ alleged bevy of...
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