Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
By Dwain Price, NDG Sports Special Contributor ARLINGTON – Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett will be the first to admit that backup quarterback Cooper Rush struggled mightily during last Sunday’s 27-3 loss to the Arizona Cardinals in a preseason g...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
By Arielle Johnson & Last Saturday afternoon, 1Kingdom Radio took over the Lower Level auditorium of the African-American Museum in Fair Park, Dallas to present an Open Mic. Initially, it seemed as if the show would never start, but low and beh...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
Written by Gerry Monroe & They call them a democratically elected board. I call them the shadiest school board in the country. With the current Board of Trustees it’s not about children. It’s all about the money. Month after month I sit in publi...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
When you think of poetry, the idea of candle lights, smooth jazz and intimate ambiences come to mind. But instead, this Houston-based poetry team uses their way with words to address current and continuously ignored socio- economic issues within the...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
By Jermaine Hayter & Legacy School for Sports and Science is a first of its kind in the Houston area, founded by Kerrie Patterson-Brown and her husband Reggie Brown, both who are athletes themselves. Kerrie is a Jack Yates alumni who played bask...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
By: Kofi Taharka for Black Guerrilla Media (BGM) In April of 2018 information began to be made public that an African Burial Ground dating from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s was “discovered” on a school construction site of Fort Bend Independen...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
by Earl J. Sorrell, Jr. Mayor David Allen, city of Prairie View, home of Prairie View A&M University, has set a standard to bring attention to the health and welfare of his administration and the citizens of Prairie View. Mayor Allen took a bold...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
Focusing on rural access to health care, high-speed internet and immigrant farm labor, O’Rourke’s rural platform looks to be cogent and cohesive, if still a little skinny. Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:45 am CST Brad Tollefson/A-J Media Focusing o...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Dallas, TX – Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson today released the following statement announcing her opposition to the Trump Administration’s proposal to reverse the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan,...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 12:15 am CST The 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention Riots, 50 Years Later by Kaye NorthcottSeptember 6, 1968 Editor’s Note: A deeply divided country, a polarizing president, a national conversation about police violence, and...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
Bird produces a memorable re-creation of a freed slave who passed as a man to become a Buffalo Soldier — and of the thoroughly racist country in which she suffered and triumphed. Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:41 am CST Left: U.S. Army pension records f...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
A year after Hurricane Harvey, what has the Bayou City learned? Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 9:33 am CST Flooded homes in Houston after Harvey. The storm damaged more than 200,000 houses in Harris County alone. Yin Bogu/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire“The people of...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
Rev. Johnny C. Smith,Pastor – Mount MoriahMissionary Baptist Church Paul, the grand Apostle of the book of Romans, has proven that both Jews and Gentiles were guilty before God because “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
BALTIMORE (AP) — The portrait used to hang in the hallway, welcoming children and parents to the Archbishop Borders School in Baltimore: a smiling Dr. Ben Carson in surgical scrubs, rubbing together the careful, steady hands that helped him become t...
Southwest / Texas - 3 weeks ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Moments after Donald Trump’s former personal attorney implicated the president of the United States in a felony, Sen. John Cornyn declared “People who do bad things, who break the law need to be held accountable.” Cornyn, the No...