Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

Metro to receive $21 mil from FTA for electric buses

Houston Metro will receive $21.6 million from the Federal Transit Administration to aid in the organization’s transition from diesel buses to electric ones. The federal grant will help cover the cost of 20 electric buses, as well as electric cha...

Serena Williams Wears Cornrows On The Cover Of Teen Vogue

Tennis star Serena Williams is ending her 2018 with a bang as the cover model for Teen Vogue. The new mom is pictured wearing a $1795.00 pleated pink poncho by Zero Maria + Cornejo and $495.00 Khiry adisa drop earrings. Her hair was done in co...

Top 5: Tips to prepare for college

For many incoming college freshman preparing for the first day of classes can be both exciting and nerve-wrecking. Transitioning from high school is a major milestone in itself. From gaining independence from your parents to searching for career...

Houston-area districts improve in state ratings

School districts and campuses received Texas Education Agency ratings for the first time since 2020 and the news was mostly good for the Houston area. Katy ISD received an A while Houston, Fort Bend, Pasadena, Conroe, Alief, Klein and Humble ISDs...

Morton’s great pitching leads to Braves 5-0 shutout win over Mets

ATLANTA – The Atlanta Braves winning streak is now eight games thanks to a dominant pitching performance by right hand pitcher Charlie Morton. Morton finished with 12 strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings pitched as the Braves took the second game of th...

Healthy Laremy Tunsil key to Texans QB Davis Mills’ progress

Laremy Tunsil isn’t a man who uses a lot of words to explain his thoughts. Ask the Texans’ two-time Pro Bowl left tackle what will second-year quarterback Davis Mills bring to the team this season. Tunsil: “Dog.” How do you define Lar...

HISD enrollment down 15,000 compared to pre-pandemic levels

More than 209,000 students were enrolled in Houston ISD during the school year interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Three years later, the district’s total student population still hasn’t recovered. Statistics from HISD show 194,852 children are...

Op-ed: A back-to-school letter to my daughter

News about school shootings, achievement gaps, the digital divide, COVID-19, and monkeypox inundate us daily. Watching my 7-year-old daughter walk onto her school campus for her first day of second grade makes not worrying about all that extremely d...

Top 25 most powerful Marcus Garvey quotes

Let me just say, this is an impossible assignment to accomplish; to list the 10 best, most powerful quotes by Marcus Mosiah Garvey. First off, Garvey is arguably the most influential and important race leader of the past century, yet is probably the...