As a proud teacher's kid, education issues are a part of my activist portfolio, and I am an unabashed supporter of public education.  ...

The city of Houston has had since 1945 the world class Texas Medical Center that has grown to a 2.1 square mile complex of densely packed ...

School is starting for many students in Texas this week, and later this month for Texas colleges and universities.   While this is the fav...

Now that we're in the middle of May, it's graduation time for many of the folks in our community who are getting that paper and th...

Morehouse College in Atlanta since 1867 has been the only all male college dedicated to the education of African American men.  It has a l...

Fort Bend County to the southwest of Houston is one of the suburban areas, like Montgomery County to our north that has experienced explos...

Because mass shootings on school campuses happen far too frequently in the United States, one of the facts of life for students currently ...

The school year gets started for ten Houston area school districts including the Alief one I now live in tomorrow.   But the events in Ach...

Needed some positive news to talk about after writing about several trans murders, and this is coming from the ATL Since Spelman chang...

Not surprised about hearing that the almost two decade long pissivity that Houston's Black community has with the HISD school board fi...

So how did I spend my Valentine's Day afternoon and early evening?  Discussing transgender issues to a class at Texas Southern Univers...

Back in 1973 as my brother and I, and later my sisters watched Saturday morning cartoons on ABC, some of the advertising breaks were taken...

If you are named as a Rhodes Scholar, you have achieved something academically that few people in this country and around the world acco...

In the wake of what happened to Calliope Wong at Smith College when she attempted to enroll at that school, I asked the question back in 2...