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December 8, 2023
It’s down to two candidates in the race to lead the nation’s fourth-largest city. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and…
1917 Houston race riots
November 14, 2023
The Army vacated the convictions of 110 Black soldiers found guilty of an array of charges following the deadly 1917…
November 11, 2023
A crash at a red light killed six people including former NFL cornerback D.J. Hayden in downtown Houston early Saturday.
DACA, Supreme Court, theGrio.com
November 10, 2023
The Department of Justice and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund are appealing a federal judge's ruling...
Muhlaysia Booker
November 6, 2023
A man charged in the 2019 fatal shooting of Muhlaysia Booker, a transgender Dallas woman, about a month after she was beaten…
Black microschools Texas -- Texas Capitol
November 3, 2023
A group of Texas mothers who homeschool their children want the government to provide resources to establish "microschools."
Sheila Jackson Lee, reparations, theGrio.com.
October 23, 2023
Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is allegedly the woman heard hurling profanity-laced insults at a staff member in a viral…
October 21, 2023
Challenges facing Houston are familiar to many big cities. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and state Sen. John Whitmire seek to lead as…
Pleasantville neighborhood Houston
October 18, 2023
Residents in Houston's historically Black Pleasantville neighborhood are concerned and frustrated following a rash of vandalism.
October 14, 2023
Darryl George said he has felt discouraged about missing classes and time with the football team after being disciplined for…
October 9, 2023
Charles Porter Jr., credited as the first Black television news reporter and producer in Houston, Texas, died last month at…
September 24, 2023
Darryl George's family accused Texas' governor and attorney general of failing to enforce a new law outlawing hairstyle discrimination.
September 23, 2023
The mayor of neighboring Fort Worth, Mattie Parker, is also a Republican, giving Texas two of the nation's largest cities…
September 21, 2023
A white married couple in Houston is suing the city because of its mandate on contracts they say violates the…
September 21, 2023
The debate over whether a Black high school student in Texas should be serving in-school suspension for wearing twisted dreadlocks to class…
Boynton Chapel Methodist Church
September 15, 2023
Boynton Chapel Methodist Church, designed by Texas' first licensed Black architect, is now a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.
Texas CROWN Act
September 14, 2023
A Black teen at a Houston-area high school has been suspended for weeks because of a policy prohibiting from wearing…
September 3, 2023
After nine months of hype, Deion Sanders had Colorado ready for prime time in his much-anticipated debut as Buffaloes coach.
September 2, 2023
U.S. District Judge David Ezra has overturned a Texas law regulating pornographic websites, saying the rules violate free speech rights.
September 2, 2023
A judge handed a Houston teachers union a victory over a new system that will base pay on standardized test…