Sir Lady Java was one of our trans pioneers and elders who worked with Lena Horne, Redd Foxx and others as the premiere female illusionist...

One of the New Year's resolutions I also made in relation to the blog was a renewed commitment to documenting and uncovering our histo...

As a native Houstonian who also grew up as a space junkie, loved it when we got to do a field trip to NASA stating in our junior high scho...

So saddened to hear that another one of our community icons has gone on to join the ancestors. Muhammad Ali, 1960 light heavyweight Olym...

The NCAA Men's Final Four comes to my hometown this weekend.  How apropos is it that we're hosting the game at NRG Stadium at a ti...

Today is what would have been the 87th birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest Americans our people have ever ...

"It is a terrible thing for an entire people to surrender to the notion that one-ninth of its population is beneath them.  Until the ...

I, wanted to post this on the anniversary date, but with all the breaking news that week, slipped my mind I needed to finish my thoughts a...

It's been long since overshadowed by the 2002 opening of NRG Stadium, but fifty years ago on this date the Harris County Domed Stadium...

While more people are aware of it because of the movie Selma, today marks the 50th anniversary of the brutal breakup of the first Selma t...

I was talking about the drag balls that happened in various locales around the country on Halloween in an earlier post .   Those balls occ...

This April 4, 1964 speech delivered by Malcolm X at Cleveland's Cory Methodist Church is ranked (number 7) as one of the 100 Greatest ...

After blasting off from Pad 39A in Florida and a three day journey to enter lunar orbit, the world is waiting as astronauts Neil Armstron...

On July 16, 1969 my space junkie self was up on a warm summer Houston morning like everyone else in the country and the world nervously a...

I was a mere toddler when this event happened, but it was a critical one in determining the type of America I got to grow up in as an Africa...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the start of Freedom Summer, which was a ten week coordinated civil rights campaign organized by t...

45 years ago today Dr. King was in Memphis to support striking sanitation workers.  He gave this "I've Been To The Mountaintop'...

I wrote about this when it happened back in June , and in a morning investiture ceremony held at Buckingham Palace last Thursday, trans ...

On this date in 1962 a USAF U-2 reconnaissance aircraft mission flown by Major Richard Heyser took 928 photos in six minutes over the San ...