Houston is home to nearly 100 consulates, the third-highest concentration of consular offices in the U.S. These diplomatic missions, smaller than embassies, primarily focus on assisting citizens of their home countries in the host country, promoting trade and tourism, and providing visa services. As with an embassy, when you enter a consulate, you are considered [...]
Prairie View A&M University has received a Responsible Computing Challenge award from the Mozilla Foundation, aimed at developing “curricula that empowers students to think about the social and political context of computing.” Mozilla, most widely known for developing the Firefox browser, has made making the internet a force for good its mission. Through its Responsible [...]
Dr. Jeanelle Hope, Prairie View A&M University Director and Associate Professor of African American Studies, explains Beyoncé’s album’s significance within Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
In a beautiful celebration of history, courage and the arts, Prairie View A&M University unveiled the prestigious Bench by the Road monument in a rousing program on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in the Opal Johnson Smith Auditorium. The event marked the beginning of Inauguration Week for PVAMU’s ninth president, Dr. Tomikia P. LeGrande.
“Prairie View Produces Productive People” is how the adage goes. Dina Tekle, a senior biology student at Prairie View A&M set to graduate this spring, is redefining it: being a woman in medical research and working to close gaps in knowledge in the understanding of diseases and illness. She is hoping to play a part in eliminating [...]
Attica Locke is Prairie View A&M University's 2023-2024 Writer-in-Residence for the Toni Morrison Writing Program. Locke is a distinguished American fiction author and acclaimed writer-producer for television and film. In this video, she discusses her passion for storytelling, writing styles, how to write, and her special connections to PVAMU.
In the 1970s, studios exploited two major trends to appeal to different racial demographics, or white viewers who were curious about them. First, a fascination with Far Eastern cultures created a deluge of domestic and imported martial arts movies. Audiences saw the white David Carradine wandering the Old West as a half-Chinese Shaolin monk in Kung [...]
Prairie View A&M University will host its fourth TEDxPVAMU talk on Feb. 28. Six scheduled speakers will discuss topics related to the theme for the TED talk, Living in Color. The idea behind the theme is to embrace curiosity, boldness and creativity and face challenges with a solution-oriented mindset, all while unapologetically pursuing individualism.
A group of Prairie View A&M University professors, authors, and researchers hope to change the conversation about how social change is catalyzed in the South. Reflecting on “The Social, Cultural, and Political Contours of the Black and Brown Experience in the Bayou City,” their special edition journal aims to highlight the struggles and travails of [...]
In a world submerged with narratives often overshadowing the stories of resilience and courage, it's time to shift the spotlight to little-known disrupters, historical information, artifacts, and narratives that have been lost, removed, neglected, or suppressed. Among historical and contemporary challenges to change the narrative of the Black experience in the United States of America, [...]
