Texas Voter ID Law in Limbo: MyFoxHOUSTON.com Texas’ voter identification law remains in limbo, as the US Department of Justice waits for more details on how the state will implement it. Is requiring voters to show government ID an attempt to stop voter fraud or a way to disenfranchise democrats. KTRH morning host Matt Patrick […]
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison spoke at the grand opening celebration of a new all-girls school Wednesday morning. The Young Women’s Preparatory Academy is located at 1906 Cleburne in southeast Houston. The school is a first for the Houston Independent School District. Story Courtesy of khou.com staff
*There’s a new network in town that’s targeting African Americans 25-54. Atlanta-based Bounce TV, a free broadcast network, debuted on Monday with the airing of 1970s classic “The Wiz.” http://www.eurweb.com/2011/09/bounce-tv-new-african-american-network-debuts/
As Americans we can be looked at as being very touchy and try to be too PC when it comes to such things that display racial reference, but could it be the result in how we have been nurtured or what certain regions are culturally used to. Well, I have an interesting update for you. “Black […]
I thought this story would be great that DefenderNetwork.com posted that I thought would be great to share. Enjoy the read. Young adults are the recession’s lost generation. In record numbers, they’re struggling to find work, shunning long-distance moves to live with mom and dad, delaying marriage and raising kids out of wedlock, if they’re […]
The dictionary describes poverty as a state of being extremely poor and being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount. When we hear poverty we immediately think inner city or rural America, some call it “The Ghetto!” However, it’s been reported that it’s in the idyllic suburbs. A record 15.4 million suburban residents lived below the […]
Representative Maxine Waters has fired back at President Obama after his speech at the Congressional Black Caucus this weekend in which he told the audience to “stop complaining.” Continue This Story
He calls his victims the “Eleven that went to Heaven.” Edward Harold Bell, admitted sex offender, convicted murderer and self-described serial killer, has given multiple chilling confessions from his locked prison cell of abducting and slaying teenage and adolescent girls in the 1970s, describing crimes even now unsolved. Continue Story Written By Lise Olsen|Houston Chronicle
It has been reported by khou.com that Texas Parks and Wildlife officials say a fish caught by a 5-year-old girl in a suburban Houston lake last month was a red-bellied piranha. It’s only the second piranha ever verified in Texas waters and the first in nearly 30 years. Continue Story Here
Sly Stone, one of the biggest names in music who fronted the mega group Sly and the Family Stone, is living in a van in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles. Stone, whose hits include “Everyday People,” “Everybody is a Star,” and “I Want to Take You Higher,” said, “I just do not want to […]
According to the AP, a man described by a police informant as trying to make a name for himself was executed Thursday evening for the 1994 shooting death of an Alabama store clerk during a robbery. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/32742
The Great Recession didn’t just impede on our annual incomes and job security—for nearly two decades, the expected life span of Black and White Americans was steadily narrowing, but a swift reverse has occurred and now the expected life span is widening. Some experts attribute this unexpected gap to none other than the recession, reports […]
