Four Houston-area universities team up to elevate African and African American studies
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Prairie View A&M University s John B. Coleman Library Thursday, June 25, 2020, in Prairie View.Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Anthony Pinn is the founding director of the Rice University s recently launched Center for African and African American Studies. The center, launched Oct. 16, will be a hub for conversations on race, racism, the various histories and identities of the diaspora, and the “complexity of Africa’s past, present and future,” according to university officials.Rice UniversityShow MoreShow Less
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Amid a slow build of reckoning on race and racism within the past decade, Houston area colleges have emphasized the need for African and African American Studies programs. Universities such as Rice and Prairie View A&M have made strides to establish a program like that of the University of Houston, which h
Kamala Harris unprecedented inauguration day
Debra Thompson: In many ways, Harris is the embodiment of white conservatives’ fear that the country is on the precipice of irreversible demographic and political changes By Debra Thompson
January 20, 2021 Sen. Kamala Harris addresses members of the media at Asheville Regional Airport on Oct. 21, 2020 in Asheville, North Carolina.(Brian Blanco/Getty Images)
Debra Thompson is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies at McGill University.
This is an inauguration unlike any other. The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many of the usually well-attended events, galas, and ceremonies into the virtual arena. President Trump has announced he will not be in attendance, eschewing a key tradition that has long represented the peaceful transition of power from one president to the next. And, of course, Inauguration Day bears witness to a number of historic firsts
Director of The Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice
Houston Public Media reporter Matt Harab also joins Ernie with headlines from Houston and beyond, including:
Texas Senator John Cornyn tweeted this afternoon: Today we grieve for this brave officer and his family, whose life was needlessly lost because of Wednesday s violent and preventable attack on the capital.
Dr. Pedro Piedra at Baylor College of Medicine said that having a more contagious strand in the county is nothing new. In fact, over the summer when hospital capacity was tight, a more contagious variant was spreading then as well, according to Piedra. It just wasn t widely reported.
Houston Public Media reporter Matt Harab also joins Ernie with headlines from Houston and beyond, including:
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo says there is an increased police presence around city hall and other city buildings right now, due to yesterday s events at the Capitol.
Houston Mayor Sylvestor Turner calls the last 24 hours a roller coaster of unbelievable emotions and a shocking attack on our democracy and showed a glaring double standard in the way protests are handled.
This person is located in Southwest Harris County, a male in between 30-40. The first United States case of this new variant was found in Colorado.
HBCUs produced Kamala Harris - and most of Houston s Black elected officials
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U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential nominee speaks to supporters at the University of Houston after a day of campaigning around Texas on Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. Harris, now vice president-elect, is a graduate of Howard University, a historically black college in Washington, D.C.Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Prairie View City Councilman Nathan Alexander III is sworn by Judge Shelytha Alexander-Simmons on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. Alexander, one of the youngest Black elected officials in the state of Texas, graduated from Prairie View A&M in 2020.Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less