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Racial Issues

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Joseph Adams: Some Thoughts on Our Interview with the Dude Behind SaveWhitePeople.com

    If there's one thing Hair Balls can't get enough of, it's racists, which is why we were thrilled to hear this week from a Houston contributor to a site called SaveWhitePeople. The writer (known on the site as Erich) wanted to know if we'd like to interview the NYC-based site's founder, Joseph Adams. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2012

    ''The Impact of Racist Ideologies: Jim Crow and the Nuremberg Laws''

    If there's one thing Hair Balls can't get enough of, it's racists, which is why we were thrilled to hear this week from a Houston contributor to a site called SaveWhitePeople. The writer (known on the site as Erich) wanted to know if we'd like to interview the NYC-based site's founder, Joseph Adams. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Company Brings in Guy in a Gorilla Suit to Celebrate Juneteenth, Lawsuit Claims

    Employees to Carey: Slow your roll.​Here in post-racial America, where having a black president gives Americans a carte blanche to throw political and humane correctness to the wind, race is something to be joked about at all times. It's Juneteenth, the day reserved to celebrate the end of sla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    White Rappers & The N-Word Conundrum: 4 Case Studies

    "You're talking to the wrong white man, my friend. My people were the white man's nigger when yours were still painting their faces and chasing zebras." - Herman 'Hesh' Rabkin (Jerry Adler), The Sopranos Yes, that was their name.​Freshman year of college. One of my good friends was a white ki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2011

    Contestant of "Mr. Prime Choice" Claims Racism at Leather Pageant; Anonymously Called A "Coon" On His Poster

    Photo by Thomas RivasTim Angelle is not Mr. Prime Choice.​Every year, Montrose leather bar The Ripcord crowns the king of all things leather: Mr. Prime Choice. Men over 40 vie for the title by picking an LGBT charity, fundraising for it, and strutting their best leather get-ups onstage. This w ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 19, 2011

    Is "Brown Pride" the Same as "White Pride"?

    And are there Mexican Jews?

  • News

    February 10, 2011

    Getting Past the Bouncer

    Local nightclub door policies aren't always black and white

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Racism And Houston Clubs: The Nightfly's Story

    ​Is there racism within Houston's nightlife community? Of course there is. It's certainly not early 20th-century racism, but it's still very much there. In three-plus years of writing the Nightfly column for the Houston Press, I've only ever had one club owner or manager go on record as say ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Jennifer Peto: Holocaust Controversy Reaches Houston

    Houstonian defends his grandmother in dispute​There's a mini-storm in Canada these days over the University of Toronto awarding an advanced degree to a student for a thesis that calls Holocaust-education programs "racist." Jennifer Peto's thesis, entitled The Victimhood of the Powerful: White ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Worst Hanukkah Ever: Gifts From Anti-Semitic Hate Websites

    America X might be on the gift list​If you spent Black Friday fighting for Hanukkah gifts for your Jewish friends, chances are you completely forgot about the people who feel especially left out during the Festival of Lights: anti-Semites.While Jews everywhere spin the dreidel and light the menora ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 21, 2010

    Racists, Driving While Mexican and Used-Tire Shops

    America X might be on the gift list​If you spent Black Friday fighting for Hanukkah gifts for your Jewish friends, chances are you completely forgot about the people who feel especially left out during the Festival of Lights: anti-Semites.While Jews everywhere spin the dreidel and light the menora ... More >>

  • News

    September 30, 2010

    Goodbye, David Thompson

    Mystery fans mourn the passing of a Houston bookseller

  • Culture

    September 9, 2010

    Special Mexican Independence Day Edition

    Mystery fans mourn the passing of a Houston bookseller

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    Reliance Foundation: Controversial Billboards Come To Texas

    The Reliance Foundation billboard​Perhaps because it would take up too much room to say "Honk if You Love Insane Conspiracy Theories," the new super-creepy billboards in Bryan simply show an African-American child under the terrifying slogan "Black & Unwanted." Welcome to life as viewed throu ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 20, 2009

    "Paper or Plastic?"

    What's lighter? You or the bag? You? That's good. The bag? Not so much.

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    The Latest ACT Scores: Not Much Improvement In Texas

    ​The ACT scores are just out for the 2009 graduating seniors who took the tests as sophomores, juniors or seniors and it is not great news across the land, and certainly not in Texas. As far as biology goes, we're not exactly wowing the galaxy with our knowledge.And the ethnicity gap remains stark ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Kroger Fired Him, But They Kept Using Him In Ads Because He's Black, Man's Lawsuit Claims

    Kroger will do anything to lure African-Americans inside their stores. At least according to one former African-American employee who is accusing the grocery store chain of repeatedly airing a TV commercial that he starred in -- aimed at buttering up a black audience -- well after the company had fi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2009

    Crips and Bloods: Made in America

    Web exclusive!

  • Calendar

    March 12, 2009

    The Monster Among Us

    Web exclusive!

  • News

    January 15, 2009

    Quanell X

    The Houston activist says he's dumped the hate

  • Calendar

    September 25, 2008

    Shylock, The Jew of Venice

    A Complete Work of Shakespeare (Abridged and Encamped)

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2008

    HPD Taser Audit Is Out; Black Officers Always Get The Easy Arrests

    A Complete Work of Shakespeare (Abridged and Encamped)

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2008

    Only Black Male Students Have to Attend School’s Special Session on Gangs and Thug Life

    A Complete Work of Shakespeare (Abridged and Encamped)

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2007

    Not As Simple As Black and White

    A Complete Work of Shakespeare (Abridged and Encamped)

  • Calendar

    May 25, 2006

    Trouble at Home

    A Complete Work of Shakespeare (Abridged and Encamped)

  • Calendar

    February 16, 2006

    Sunday Coffee

    A Complete Work of Shakespeare (Abridged and Encamped)

  • Culture

    March 3, 2005

    "Double" Vision

    The CAMH hosts an ambitious show about black conceptual art

  • News

    November 11, 2004

    Black and White

    Good ol’ boys prosper at the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Many African-Americans don’t.

  • Calendar

    July 22, 2004

    Brotherly Love

    Author J.L. King exposes men On the Down Low

  • News

    January 1, 2004

    Party of One

    Ron Wilson gets down on fellow Democrats

  • News

    July 10, 2003

    As the Jim Crow Flies

    Court art attracts heat but no media light

  • Best of Houston

    September 26, 2002

    Best Democrat

    District 147 State Representative Garnet Coleman

  • News

    May 9, 2002

    Unmasked At Last

    After a half-century of effort, local African-American artists are emerging to the forefront of the arts, both in Houston and nationally

  • News

    June 7, 2001

    Playing Hardball

    Quentin Mease's drive to desegregate the Dome gave rise to a new black power in Houston

  • Music

    May 17, 2001

    George's Jungle

    Author sees women and Europe surpassing men and New York as the prime exponents of black culture

  • Film

    October 19, 2000

    The Malcolm X Files

    Spike Lee's scathing satire of network television goes out with a bang

  • News

    April 22, 1999

    Baby Bush: Closet Liberal or Precocious Trickster?

    Spike Lee's scathing satire of network television goes out with a bang

  • Calendar

    October 15, 1998

    Living in Dreads

    Spike Lee's scathing satire of network television goes out with a bang

  • News

    March 26, 1998

    Situational Ethics

    As Jew Don Boney has moved upward in public life, have his values changed to meet his needs rather than those of his constituents?

  • News

    November 13, 1997

    The Insider

    As Jew Don Boney has moved upward in public life, have his values changed to meet his needs rather than those of his constituents?

  • News

    June 19, 1997

    The Great Decolorizer

    As a student radical in the late sixties, Ed Blum fought for affirmative action. Now, as a middle- aged neocon, he wants to destroy it.

  • News

    June 12, 1997

    The Art of Darkness

    Paintings of racist images have made UH alumnus Michael Ray Charles a star in the art world. Some say his Sambos and pickaninnies have a healing power. But others claim all they do is hurt.

  • News

    April 17, 1997

    What's Wrong With Wheatley?

    It has history, it has heritage. But does Wheatley High School have a real future?

  • News

    April 3, 1997

    Would You Buy a Revolution From This Man?

    Is Quanell X the new Malcolm? Or does he just want you to think so?

  • News

    May 9, 1996

    Bitter Lesson

    For 27 years, math teacher Phyllis Landes had a spotless record. Then the Texas Education Agency accused her of making racist remarks, and nearly ruined her school and her life.

  • Culture

    June 8, 1995

    The Art of Community

    For 27 years, math teacher Phyllis Landes had a spotless record. Then the Texas Education Agency accused her of making racist remarks, and nearly ruined her school and her life.

  • News

    January 26, 1995

    Soul on Ice

    As one of hockey's few black players, the Aeros' Graeme Townshend has had to pick his fights carefully

  • News

    January 5, 1995

    The Race Matter

    As one of hockey's few black players, the Aeros' Graeme Townshend has had to pick his fights carefully

  • News

    August 18, 1994

    Sam Nuchia in Black and White

    Houston's top cop has been a pleasant surprise to the city's black community. But in his own department, it's a different story.

  • Culture

    February 17, 1994

    Black on Black

    A roundtable discussion with African-American artists about working in Houston

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