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Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III,, theGrio.com
February 1, 2024
The Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III will succeed the Rev. Jesse Jackson as leader of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, theGrio.com
January 25, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court ordered U.S. Border Patrol agents to continue removing the razor-wire fencing along the Texas-Mexico border.
Robb Elementary, Uvalde shooting, theGrio.com
January 19, 2024
A federal report has revealed numerous failures by law enforcement in response to a 2022 school shooting at Robb Elementary…
January 16, 2024
Houston research institution Rice University is offering an "Afrochemistry" class that will be taught by Rice graduate Dr. Brooke Johnson.
IHOP Mesquite Texas
January 8, 2024
A manager and two staffers were fired from a Texas IHOP after a waitress there refused to serve a Black…
December 31, 2023
For Texas wide receiver Adonai Mitchell, there’s no mystery surrounding the College Football Playoff in his third trip with second…
December 31, 2023
In March, Texas order arrests of migrants who enter the state illegally. It comes two years after it launched a…
Texas Congressional candidate Justin Moore, theGrio.com
December 12, 2023
Justin Moore registered to have his name appear on the ballot as a Democratic Congressional candidate running for Texas’ 32nd…
December 9, 2023
Houston elected Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire as its next mayor on Saturday night in a victory over U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.
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…