Opinion: City's police union contract needs more oversight

The Houston Police Officers Union and the City of Houston are negotiating a new contract that will go into effect in January 2021.

Dear Black People

Dear Black people, Stop writing love letters to white people. They do not give a damn; if they did some shit would have changed already. At this point, there are too many books, articles, blogs, and videos for them to have consumed to claim they don't know how to act.

Coronavirus Exposes Racial Disparities - TheHumanist.com

In a recent op-ed for the Houston Chronicle, "Black People Should Feel Safe With a Face Mask, but We Don't," I wrote that I wake up every day "with the intention to live, but as a Black person I have to reconcile that I may not ever return to my home the way I left ...

Opinion: Why as a Black man I don't feel safe in a mask

I wake up every day with the intention to live, but as a Black person I have to reconcile that I may not ever return to my home the way I left it.

The pandemic makes clear how badly we need universal housing policy [Opinion]

In Harris County, 630 families are evicted each week. Before the new coronavirus outbreak, local families losing their homes through eviction were forced into a constrained housing market. According to a recent report, in the Houston area there are only 19 affordable and available rental homes per 100 tenants seeking a place to live.

Educational Equity: A Community Postion to Fight TEA Takeover

We are the students, parents, teachers, community members, tax payers, activists and advocates of education in Houston, Texas. We are the immediate stakeholders of Houston Independent School District and we must demand the ability to maintain our democratic right to elect our own school board.

Guns in Schools: Who Would Be Aiming and Who Would Be Targeted? - TheHumanist.com

In the three weeks since the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Americans, most notably students, have been advocating strongly for changing laws to curb gun violence.

"What do you do when something is broken and can't be fixed?": Black political engagement in an anti-Black world

Shortly after Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me was released to critical acclaim, I moderated a book discussion about it. During the talk, a self-proclaimed fearless Black man asked an engineer in the room, “What do you do when something is broken and it can’t be fixed?” The engineer, another proud Black man, repeatedly exclaimed, “I’m an engineer!

Stand Up, Fight Back: Dismantling Systems of Oppression - TheHumanist.com

As we closed out the Fourth of July holiday that I and many other activists deem a reminder of oppression, Alton Sterling took his final breath, his life wrongfully taken by crooked cops. We took to the streets, parks, and other landmarks of our cities and lifted him up.