By: Alan C. Peterson, II April 10, 2014 Houston- With the Tigers on probation, the 2010 Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Championship vacated (TSU’s first since 1968), and back to back 2-9 records in 2012 and 2013, many fans and alumni have become angry, disconnected and flat out disgusted with TSU’s Football Program. But before you…
Live: The HISD Board of Education on Thursday voted to table indefinitely an agenda item to cancel the consolidation of Dodson Elementary with Blackshear, the Rusk School and Lantrip elementary schools. The 5 to 3 vote comes after much debate on the topic and a move by board members who brought the item back to…
The Houston Sun Newspaper wrapped up its 30th Anniversary celebration in grand style with the “Sun After Dark Explosion,” finale where they showcased the “two became one” theme honoring 30 remarkable infinitive honoree couples on March 29th at the Reliant Crowne Plaza Hotel. It was a wonderful festive event that began with Sirrod Robinson, eldest…
The winner of the Houston Sun’s Miss HALO pageant is Amyra Chapman, 25. Chapman attended Grambling State University under the study of Psychology/ Sociology in which she uses everyday through her meaningful work through Change Happens non- profit organization. “I would love to receive my PhD and become a Clinical Psychologist,” said Chapman. Amyra’s favorite…
Texas Southern University Men’s Basketball Team sailed through the 2014 SWAC Tournament at Toyota Center in Houston, TX to claim victory over its rival Prairie View A&M in a 78-73 win to advance to the NCAA Tournament. The Most Valuable Player (MVP) nod went to Aaric Murray, as well as the Defensive Player of The…
Fifty-years-ago I could not enter the public library in my southern segregated hometown of Lexington, MS. Nor could I attend a high school, the facility built for the Negro students who wished to excel was called, Lexington Attendance Center. There were many basic access problems for the Negro during my childhood. Not to be thwarted…
The 2014 March Madness fever has officially ended in the first week in April with the seventh-seed UConn Huskies bringing home the National Championship Trophy in a 60 to 54 victory over Kentucky. The teams played before a record breaking crowd of 72,239 at the AT&T & Center in Arlington, Texas. The Final Four’s Most…
Byron Halford- Greely Special Contribution The Houston Sun Its kind of crazy how something as seemingly insignificant as a simple magazine cover can cause as much of a stir as the April 2014 issue of Vogue. As you’ve probably heard a million times, its covered by none other than Kim Kardashian and her fiancé the…
Many of us are members of various organizations. Sometimes resolutions, proposal and motions are made that frustrates us and we fail to agree with the idea of the proposal’s intended outcome. Our first response is to say with intensity and high emotions, “I don’t like it, and I will not vote for the proposal. We…
Dr. Rockell Brown Burton, a professor at Texas Southern University invited Mathew Knowles, father of mega superstar songstress, Beyonce, to her classroom to speak to her Radio Television and Film students about entertainment and media analysis. Knowles, born in Gadsden, Alabama in 1952 said he credits his entrepreneur ways to his dad who ran his…
Through Dorris Eyes: With March 31 as the deadline for the nation to sign-up for health care, the government and private medical firms are working trying to snag and reel in the procrastinators to attach the late comers to their company while the government just want the nation’s citizens to just register. The health coverage…
Texas Southern University Men’s Basketball Team sailed through the 2014 SWAC Tournament at Toyota Center in Houston, TX to claim victory over its rival Prairie View A&M in a 78-73 win to advance to the NCAA Tournament. The Most Valuable Player (MVP) nod went to Aaric Murray, as well as the Defensive Player of The…
At the New Black Panther Party Headquarters in Houston, TX family members of Emmett Till, Kendrick Johnson, Oscar Grant, Marlin Brown, and Trayvon Martin called in to express their condolences to Mrs. Rossalind Wright , mother of Alfred Wright, who was found 18 days after he went missing in a field with his tongue cut…
Through Dorris’s Eyes: On the year that the first African-American Woman Elected to Congress Joins Popular Black Heritage Stamp Series, U.S. Postal Service Honors Shirley Chisholm, the US Postal Services attempts to move the communities of the nation backward, instead of forward. The continuous threats to close post offices located in minority neighborhood is evidence…
