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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
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July 21, 2006
Oh, Slap!
Decades before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, Ida B. Wells did the same thing on a train
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December 11, 2007
Master P Makes the KKK Say “Ugh!”
Decades before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, Ida B. Wells did the same thing on a train
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July 17, 2008
Wax Museum: MP3s from Acres of Grass, Ruben Perez & 13th Hour, Soul Bros. Inc and More
Decades before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, Ida B. Wells did the same thing on a train
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February 3, 1994
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Decades before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, Ida B. Wells did the same thing on a train
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April 13, 2000
"Clearing House" Sweepstakes
Urban League deal-maker scores in Aramark stadium contract
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July 14, 2005
Proud Marie
A fiery poet shares her Home Grown flow
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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.
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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
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April 25, 1996
In Denial
As HIV spreads among blacks and Hispanics, agencies that serve those communities say they're being shortchanged
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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 >>
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July 30, 1998
Nasty Girl
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 >>
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September 21, 2000
Best Lawyer
Richard Burr
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April 9, 2009
Capsule Stage Reviews: Constant Star, Hunter Gatherers, Little Women
Richard Burr
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April 2, 2009
Capsule Stage Reviews: Constant Star, Doubt, Les Misérables, Steel Magnolias
Richard Burr
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December 25, 2008
"Nicest Guy" Gets Break
Still on death row, though
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October 16, 2008
The Secret Life of Bees Is All Honey, No Sting
Buzz Kill
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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
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August 9, 2007
Mexican-American Culture
Why do Mexicans put their surnames in the back windows of their cars?
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November 30, 2006
DRINK HOUSTON
BLUE HAWAIIAN
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August 24, 2006
Idlewild
OutKast's depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the Old South
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February 17, 2005
The Brutal Truth
Author Patricia Bernstein recalls a grisly, hate-fueled murder in The First Waco Horror
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December 16, 2004
Letters
Author Patricia Bernstein recalls a grisly, hate-fueled murder in The First Waco Horror
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December 9, 2004
Worker Benefits?
Houston's NAACP faces a protest of its own when it takes sides in a divorce case
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June 17, 2004
Strings Attached
Will Linden move on to become a music mecca or fall beneath the weight of a racist past?
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January 29, 2004
Turntable Roundtable
Hip-hop notables get together to rap about responsibility
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September 4, 2003
All in the NAACP Family
A husband-and-wife team sparks controversy
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August 28, 2003
In Line for Arena Pie
Want to ride the Rockets' revenues? Good Luckett!
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April 10, 2003
Rockets Court Date?
The NAACP rattles sabers in the arena vendor disputes
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October 17, 2002
Space Invaders
The Chron loves another convention
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February 14, 2002
A Lucky Joe
Plus: Smouldering Inside, Flunking English, Museum Stakes
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January 31, 2002
Foul Out
A benched player's mom battles FBISD
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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?
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December 7, 2000
Bayou City Beat-up
Things get ugly as longtime Fox reporter Lloyd Gite leaves
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October 26, 2000
Arena Love
The establishment's attack dog is muzzled, so far
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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 >>
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January 7, 2010
Straight Up
Seven things we've learned about Houston nightlife in our two years on the job.
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March 25, 2010
Cheaper to Keep Her
One of Houston's own presents a story of the triumph of love
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October 8, 2010
Galveston Paper Issues Correction On Who Called It Racist
Galveston County Daily News: Someone said we were racistThe 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 >>
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October 25, 2010
KTRH & Right-Wing Radio: Can You Predict The Results Of Their Online Polls?
KTRH's vox populi: Out on the edgeOne 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 >>
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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 >>
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February 17, 2011
Third Ward Heat
Mayor, police grilled on HPD beating.
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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 >>
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March 3, 2011
Advertisements for Herself
Jolanda Jones says never talk to HPD
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March 10, 2011
A Rock in a Hard Place
The sweet smell of secessionIn 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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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 vid ... More >>
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