• Remembering A Giant Amongst Us: Faye B. Bryant

    Feb 28, 2020, 4:12 a.m.

    One of Houston's luminary figures in education and service to others has passed away at the age of 82.
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  • Don’t Waste Your Right to Vote

    Feb 21, 2020, 3:28 a.m.

    American men have always had the right to vote. Even though some women were able to vote starting in 1869 in a few states, females didn’t officially get the right to vote across the U.S. until 1919 with the passage of the 19th amendment. African Americans, who were once thought of as property and not people, wouldn’t get certain rights until the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments.
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  • Three Secrets to Love

    Feb 14, 2020, 3:38 a.m.

    “Turn off the lights. Light a candle, doom doom doom doom doom, tonight; I’m going to make love to you.” If you didn’t sing along to those words as you were reading them you’re probably too young for this article.
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  • Presidential Troubles Swirl at TSU

    Feb 7, 2020, 4:03 a.m.

    Students, faculty, and alumni know all roads lead to Texas Southern University but apparently not for ousted university president Dr. Austin Lane. After a five hour closed door meeting, the Board of Regents voted 6-1 to remove Lane from office early Wednesday morning.
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  • Kobe Bryant: Bigger Than Basketball

    Jan 31, 2020, 3:46 a.m.

    On a foggy Sunday morning in the hills of one of the most beautiful suburbs in LA three families were taking their daughters to play in a basketball game. Along for the ride were an assistant basketball coach and the pilot. For reasons we don’t yet know the plane crashed and everyone on board died. An entire community devastated for what was supposed to be just another afternoon ride like they have done time and time before.
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  • Coronavirus: The Background, The Spread, And The Pandemic

    Mar 20, 2020, 5:03 a.m.

    In 2019, Americans were still on a holly high and jolly joy as we put away gifts that were once under the tree and took down our Christmas trimmings to welcome in a New Year. We were preparing to sweep out the old and welcome in the new with visions of peace and prosperity because this was our year! Little did we know that soon our world would be flipped upside down filled with worldwide panic and fear unlike any of us have seen in our lifetime with the coronavirus pandemic.
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  • Stop the Spread of Hate to Honor a King

    Jan 17, 2020, 7:42 a.m.

    Love has many definitions. The Holy Bible describes it as patient, kind, protecting, trusting, hopeful, preserving, and without the capability of failing. Webster’s Dictionary also has several meanings of love. It is defined as something that commands admiration, passionate affection for someone, friendship, courtship, reverence to God, and gratitude. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” Love, ultimately, is powerful when people take action to utilize its energy.
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  • The Emergence of Butterfly Ali

    Mar 6, 2020, 4:01 a.m.

    Butterflies are some of nature’s most beautiful creatures mainly for their various phases of life that allow them to transform through a process called metamorphosis. Humans are like butterflies too constantly changing to reinvent themselves.
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