700 Houstonians supported Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’ Rourke at Settegast Park in the Second Ward of Houston to rally around Latino voters and their top ballot issues of the November election. According to a recent poll by the Texas Politics Project,...
Vice President Kamala Harris visited Houston on Thursday, pushing people of faith to take action to defend democracy, and slammed Texas lawmakers’ abortion and voting policies. In front of a crowd of 2,000 attendees at the annual National Baptist Convention,...
“Those walls are already dry . . . .” Five years ago, I heard this repeatedly on the doorsteps of seniors I was visiting after Harvey hit when I asked them what they were going to do about their floodwater-soiled walls and sheetrock. In the immediate aftermath...
Five years after Hurricane Harvey devastated neighborhoods across the coast, Harris County victims are still waiting to fix their homes after countless appeals to the Texas General Land Office. Earlier this year, a report by the Department of Housing and Urban...
At a press conference on Wednesday, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo clapped back at Fox 26 News Houston Reporter Greg Groogans’ questions on whether the county has adequately funded law enforcement and public safety. Groogan specifically questioned Hidalgo on...
A coalition of Houston-based non-profit organizations and community members held a Block Party at Emancipation Park on Saturday to demand City and Harris County officials cancel the contract with ShotSpotter, a private surveillance technology company. According...
The Texas Civil Rights Project, the Organizing Network for Education Houston, and other community members are sounding the alarm on policy changes they want in the Houston Independent School District Code of Conduct. Both organizations expect the board to pass...
Harris County GOP candidate Alexandra Mealer claims to be a moderate. On national issues such as abortion, she not only avoids the tough questions, but often dodges discussing the issue entirely. In conservative spaces both online and in-person, she uses rightwing...
On Friday, the U.S. Justice Department announced it opened an environmental justice investigation into the City of Houston’s operations relating to illegal dumping. The Civil Rights Division of the department will investigate whether the city discriminated against...