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Sterling High School: Keeping It All Together

As Sterling High School’s year comes to an end, merger talk has the community upset, critics say they can’t trust HISD, and its latest principal is pulling out all the stops to try to get kids to graduation.

Four Seasons Houston Says NAACP Owes Nearly $100,000 -- That's Like 12 Bottled Waters From the Mini-Fridge!

We were surprised to hear Thursday that the Four Seasons Houston has sued the NAACP for allegedly stiffing the hotel out of nearly $100,000 its members racked up for a banquet last July (including interest). In support of its claim, the hotel provided a printout of an e-mail exchange between the pa ... More >>

Confederate Lawyer Fights to Keep Confederate Memorial Plastered in Confederate Remembrance

The Texas Supreme Court building is the largest Confederate memorial in the world. Kirk Lyons, a lawyer with the Sons of Confederate Veterans, wants me to know this. He says it, repeats it. At the beginning of the conversation. In the middle. At the end, twice. "That building is still the largest C ... More >>

Perry Demands Obama Apologize for Holder's "Incendiary" Remarks

Governor Rick Perry took time out of his busy schedule of telling the federal government to kiss his ass and whopping up on socialists to demand an apology from the President for remarks made by the U.S. Attorney General at the NAACP convention held in Houston last week. Apparently, Perry thought Ho ... More >>

NAACP Likes Joe Biden More Than Mitt Romney (Just In Case You Had Your Doubts)

What did Vice President Joe Biden prove to the delegates of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People? That he's not as white as super whitey-white GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney who, on Wednesday, jabbed attendees (on purpose, even?) of the 103rd NAACP Annual Convention wit ... More >>

Eerily Familiar: KPRC, KTRK and KHOU Getting Dinged by Same AP Headline

It was a pretty safe bet that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney would face what Rodney Dangerfield called a "tough crowd" at the NAACP annual convention being held at the George R. Brown Convention Center this week. Romney's platform of repealing Obamacare and tax cuts for the "job creators" ar ... More >>

Whitest Man Alive Tries To Curry Favor With Blacks, Somehow Doesn't Succeed

Mitt Romney, the whitest Republican presidential nominee since every single Republican presidential nominee before him, informed an auditorium of black people at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People conference in Houston today that he, stilted awkward whiteness aside, knows ... More >>

NAACP Pledges "Strong Support" For Controversial AG Eric Holder

It was on and then off. When it was back on, it was on. Kind of. Mid-morning Tuesday, United States Attorney General Eric Holder, who had canceled his Monday appearance on account of an airplane delay, addressed the delegates of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People meeting ... More >>

NAACP Focuses on "Outrageous Voter Suppression" at Annual Convention

"We are wading through the greatest wave of legislative assault on the right to vote in more than a century," shouted National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous into a microphone at an over-air-conditioned exhibit hall at the George R. Brown Co ... More >>

Dallas NAACP Wants to Shut Down the Lottery; Odds Measured at 329 Trillion to One

We were kind of amazed to read that the NAACP's Dallas chapter wants to shut down the Texas lottery, mostly because we didn't realize all the other racial injustices on the To Do list had already been checked off. "People oftentimes make decisions not in their best interests," Chapter President Ju ... More >>

Crossing the Line: Welcome Back, Jim Crow

New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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Jolanda Jones says never talk to HPD

Third Ward Heat

Mayor, police grilled on HPD beating.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Cheaper to Keep Her

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

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 >>

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

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

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

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 >>

"Nicest Guy" Gets Break

Still on death row, though

"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 >>

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 >>

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

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

Master P Makes the KKK Say “Ugh!”

Mexican-American Culture

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

DRINK HOUSTON

BLUE HAWAIIAN

Oh, Slap!

Proud Marie

A fiery poet shares her Home Grown flow

Letters

Worker Benefits?

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

Strings Attached

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

Turntable Roundtable

Hip-hop notables get together to rap about responsibility

All in the NAACP Family

A husband-and-wife team sparks controversy

In Line for Arena Pie

Want to ride the Rockets' revenues? Good Luckett!

Rockets Court Date?

The NAACP rattles sabers in the arena vendor disputes

Foul Out

A benched player's mom battles FBISD

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?

Bayou City Beat-up

Things get ugly as longtime Fox reporter Lloyd Gite leaves

Arena Love

The establishment's attack dog is muzzled, so far

In Denial

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

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