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With midterms hours away, Black Republicans said they want more GOP outreach in Black communities. Conservative voters recently gathered in Houston to support Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s U.S. Senate campaign. For the few Black attendees at the event, including longtime Re...
News
Episode: 1651 Specificity and understanding: Coming to grips with September 11th. Today, six weeks later, we think about specificity.
government
This article was originally written by Willy Blackmore for Word In Black. With Election Day [tomorrow], the NAACP launched a new electoral tracker dashboard focused on what could be a defining local issue for Black voters in the midterm elections: data centers. LEARN MORE: A Bill...
Local
Recently, I attended a couple of community events and spoke with local Black Houston residents about voting and whether they’ve registered. Both of them said “No.” One of them said, “I don’t do politics,” while the other said, “I don’t really watch the news because I’m not that k...
Local
For a century, Black physicians in Houston have done more than practice medicine. They have challenged inequities, expanded access to care, pioneered medical advances, and invested in the next generation of healthcare professionals. Founded in 1926 by physicians of African descen...
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The State of Texas, acting through the Office of the Attorney General, filed a lawsuit against Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth and Director of Communications Irene Nuñez. The lawsuit alleges that Hudspeth’s office used Meta’s advertising tools to direct voter-information ad...
