02/04/2021 - Cameron Champ is ordinarily cool, reserved and polite. But in the summer of 2020, he was outraged. In March of that year, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black medical worker, was shot and killed by white, plainclothes Louisville police officers in a bungled raid on her apartment. Five months later, a white Kenosha, Wis., [...]
02/08/2021 - Ivy Walls always loved gardening and still remembers asking her parents to grow vegetables growing up. But when she graduated from Prairie View A&M [University] with a biology degree, she went to work for the CDC as an infection preventionist. She later moved to one of the medical systems in Houston, and moved [...]
02/08/2021 - Black History Month is a celebration of Black culture, art and historical accomplishments of Black Americans. Many may not know its origins but according to Darryl Michael Scott, Professor of History at Howard University and Vice President of Program for Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH,) the concept of [...]
02/08/2021 - Timothy Sams started the new year with a new role, as president of State University of New York (SUNY) Old Westbury. He talked with the Press about the college and its about 4,800 students, education during a pandemic, the school’s value, and his vision. Did serving as a vice president at schools such [...]
02/08/2021 - HOUSTON – Daisy Stiner has spent her career trying to bring support and relief to underserved communities. Through her work as director of the Julia C. Hester House, in Houston’s Fifth Ward, she’s focused on helping families have better housing and job opportunities in the Houston area. Established in 1943, the Hester House [...]
From Beychella to the Vice President’s pearls, CR uncovers the rich and vibrant uniforms behind the celebration of Black culture 02/07/2021- Growing up in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé Knowles has said her entire life has been shaped by her Blackness. The singer-songwriter and her famous younger sister, Solange, grew up in the shadow of Historically Black [...]
02/05/2021 - HOUSTON - College students entering the workforce can face discrimination because of implicit bias, and a Texas university wants to prepare them and also influence the culture to encourage a civil society. Prairie View A&M opens the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice next week, with Professor of Political Science Melanye [...]
02012021 - Students, faculty and guests will participate in several events and activities staged by Northeastern State University this February for National Black History Month. The Center for Women’s Studies will host Dr. Melanye Price, a political science professor from Prairie View A&M University, presenting “When Black Women Stand Up: The Power of Black Women [...]
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 hosts the state’s oldest [...]
If actions speak louder than words, then Vistra is shouting for everyone to hear. Vistra, a Fortune 275 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, just donated $850,000 to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). Vistra’s donation is part of its $10 million multi-year commitment to grow minority-owned small businesses, enhance economic [...]
