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NAACP

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Past Present, Future Perfect: The Future Music Summit 2012 Recap

    The most surprising thing, and maybe the most amazing, about the 2012 edition of the Future Music Summit didn't take place during a presentation or during the concert. It took place during the afterparty at Herzstein Plaza just a little before midnight. During the day, during presentations and meal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Presented (Almost) Without Comment: Brigham Young University and Blackface

    How do students at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah celebrate Black History Month? Well, mostly they don't. Obviously. There are roughly 176 African-American students out of the 30,000 kids at Mitt Romney's alma mater. (Surprisingly, one of those black students actually made it into the video ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Redistricting GOP Was "Very, Very Clever" in Limiting Minorities' Voting Power, Expert Testifies

    Richard Murray talks of the GOP, blacks and the Tea Party.​Republicans found "very, very clever ways" to minimize minority voting opportunities in new Congressional and House maps passing in June, University of Houston professor Richard Murray told a three-judge panel during the redistricting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Local NAACP Branch Sued over Alleged Financial Shenanigans

    Ex-employee makes allegations.​A former attorney with the Houston branch of the NAACP has accused the branch's executive director of mishandling funds and altering financial statements in a federal civil suit. Filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the suit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    A Rock in a Hard Place

    The sweet smell of secession​In five years, we will mark the 150th anniversary of the end of the bloodiest war in U.S. history, and yet a stupefying number of people still don't comprehend how flying a flag associated with treason and -- more to the point -- racism might not be the best idea: ... More >>

  • News

    March 3, 2011

    Advertisements for Herself

    Jolanda Jones says never talk to HPD

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    City Council Member Jolanda Jones Distributes (Possibly) Anti-Police Pamphlets at NAACP Meeting

    City council member Jolanda Jones says she acted as a lawyer at the meeting.​Small white cards drifted around the Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church on February 8, where the NAACP town hall meeting was being held to address Chad Holley's police beating."Know Your Rights With The Police," the ... More >>

  • News

    February 17, 2011

    Third Ward Heat

    Mayor, police grilled on HPD beating.

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Chad Holley's Police Beating Is Subject of an Angry NAACP Town Hall Meeting

    Mandy OaklanderAnnise Parker spoke at an NAACP town hall meeting last night.​Last night around 7 p.m., the Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church was packed tighter than a month's worth of Sunday mornings. Hundreds swarmed to attend the standing-room-only NAACP town hall meeting about the recent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    KTRH & Right-Wing Radio: Can You Predict The Results Of Their Online Polls?

    KTRH's vox populi: Out on the edge​One of the fee remaining joys of listening in the morning to KTRH, once the city's proudest newsradio station, is not weather or traffic.Sure, those are about the last reliable things the station broadcasts, but that doesn't mean there's no other entertainment va ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Galveston Paper Issues Correction On Who Called It Racist

    Galveston County Daily News: Someone said we were racist​The Galveston County Daily News had a story this morning somewhat innocuously headlined "NAACP leader: 'I did not make that comment'."It got more interesting when you read what the comment in question was, and when you know that Dolph Tillot ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 25, 2010

    Cheaper to Keep Her

    One of Houston's own presents a story of the triumph of love

  • Music

    January 7, 2010

    Straight Up

    Seven things we've learned about Houston nightlife in our two years on the job.

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Exoneration Of A Sort In One HFD Incident

    ​The beleaguered Houston Fire Department got some support today from a vice-president of the local chapter of the NAACP, who said in a press conference that he accepted that a noose-like rope found in a station locker was not intended to be a racial symbol.Reverend D.Z. Cofield said he had conduct ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 9, 2009

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Constant Star, Hunter Gatherers, Little Women

    ​The beleaguered Houston Fire Department got some support today from a vice-president of the local chapter of the NAACP, who said in a press conference that he accepted that a noose-like rope found in a station locker was not intended to be a racial symbol.Reverend D.Z. Cofield said he had conduct ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 2, 2009

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Constant Star, Doubt, Les Misérables, Steel Magnolias

    ​The beleaguered Houston Fire Department got some support today from a vice-president of the local chapter of the NAACP, who said in a press conference that he accepted that a noose-like rope found in a station locker was not intended to be a racial symbol.Reverend D.Z. Cofield said he had conduct ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2009

    Constant Star

    Decades before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, Ida B. Wells did the same thing on a train

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    The Tolan-Bellaire Shooting Story Is Going National

    Isiah Carey's Insite reports the Robbie Tolan/Bellaire police shooting story is going national.Bryant Gumbel of HBO's Real Sports was in town to interview Tolan, who was shot in his driveway by Bellaire cops. Tolan's father is former major leaguer Robert Tolan.Carey says Gumbel interviewed the entir ... More >>

  • News

    December 25, 2008

    "Nicest Guy" Gets Break

    Still on death row, though

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    "Nicest Guy On Death Row" Gets A Reprieve

    In a ruling Friday that flew under the radar until today, US District Judge Vanessa Gilmore overturned the capital-murder conviction of Mariano Rosales, because Harris County prosecutors had improperly rejected minorities from the jury pool.The technical term for the tossing-minority-jurors claim is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    Houstonians Needed To Harass Judge

    The Houston Press's backpage.com classifieds section sometimes gets some odd submissions, and we were recently alerted to one. Sent by an anonymous source using the addy police_evidence123@yahoo.com, the post offered "thousands of part-time and full-time openings" for a vague company called "Sa ... More >>

  • Film

    October 16, 2008

    The Secret Life of Bees Is All Honey, No Sting

    Buzz Kill

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2008

    Wax Museum: MP3s from Acres of Grass, Ruben Perez & 13th Hour, Soul Bros. Inc and More

    Buzz Kill

  • Music

    April 3, 2008

    Not Your Father's N-Word

    Eight months after its "burial," the American language's most dangerous epithet is more popular than ever in hip-hop

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2007

    Master P Makes the KKK Say “Ugh!”

    Eight months after its "burial," the American language's most dangerous epithet is more popular than ever in hip-hop

  • Culture

    August 9, 2007

    Mexican-American Culture

    Why do Mexicans put their surnames in the back windows of their cars?

  • Dining

    November 30, 2006

    DRINK HOUSTON

    BLUE HAWAIIAN

  • Film

    August 24, 2006

    Idlewild

    OutKast's depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the Old South

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2006

    Oh, Slap!

    OutKast's depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the Old South

  • Calendar

    July 14, 2005

    Proud Marie

    A fiery poet shares her Home Grown flow

  • News

    December 16, 2004

    Letters

    A fiery poet shares her Home Grown flow

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    Worker Benefits?

    Houston's NAACP faces a protest of its own when it takes sides in a divorce case

  • News

    June 17, 2004

    Strings Attached

    Will Linden move on to become a music mecca or fall beneath the weight of a racist past?

  • Calendar

    January 29, 2004

    Turntable Roundtable

    Hip-hop notables get together to rap about responsibility

  • News

    September 4, 2003

    All in the NAACP Family

    A husband-and-wife team sparks controversy

  • News

    August 28, 2003

    In Line for Arena Pie

    Want to ride the Rockets' revenues? Good Luckett!

  • News

    April 10, 2003

    Rockets Court Date?

    The NAACP rattles sabers in the arena vendor disputes

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    Space Invaders

    The Chron loves another convention

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    A Lucky Joe

    Plus: Smouldering Inside, Flunking English, Museum Stakes

  • News

    January 31, 2002

    Foul Out

    A benched player's mom battles FBISD

  • News

    September 6, 2001

    Drug Money

    Narcotics task forces in Texas spend millions of dollars each year busting low-level users and dealers. Is it money well spent, or are officers just addicted to easy cash?

  • News

    December 7, 2000

    Bayou City Beat-up

    Things get ugly as longtime Fox reporter Lloyd Gite leaves

  • News

    October 26, 2000

    Arena Love

    The establishment's attack dog is muzzled, so far

  • Best of Houston

    September 21, 2000

    Best Lawyer

    Richard Burr

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    "Clearing House" Sweepstakes

    Urban League deal-maker scores in Aramark stadium contract

  • Calendar

    July 30, 1998

    Nasty Girl

    Urban League deal-maker scores in Aramark stadium contract

  • News

    April 25, 1996

    In Denial

    As HIV spreads among blacks and Hispanics, agencies that serve those communities say they're being shortchanged

  • News

    June 8, 1995

    The SAs a girl, she tried to break the color barrier in Houston schools. As an adult, she worked in the African liberation movement and against apartheid.

    Now, back in Houston, she's in the fight of her life. Struggles of Beneva Williams Nyamu

  • News

    December 22, 1994

    BOSS Hall

    As Ben Hall prepares to leave City Hall, questions are again being raised about his involvement in the doling out of city business. But Hall says the law allows him to do pretty much as he pleases.

  • Calendar

    February 3, 1994

    Press Picks

    As Ben Hall prepares to leave City Hall, questions are again being raised about his involvement in the doling out of city business. But Hall says the law allows him to do pretty much as he pleases.

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