The Julia C. Hester House (JCHH) is a 76-year-old nonprofit community center serving Fifth Ward residents with programs including Senior Services, one of their most utilized programs offered daily, Monday to Friday, at no charge. This community of older African Americans has come to rely on the JCHH as a source of health, wellness and…
Mayor Sylvester Turner on Monday named former Shell Oil Co. Chairman and President Marvin E. Odum as the city’s COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Czar. In this role, Odum will work with business leaders, chambers of commerce, employee groups, and nonprofit organizations on a plan to safely and responsibly restart Houston’s economy. Odum will also work…
Mayor Sylvester Turner on Monday named former Shell Oil Co. Chairman and President Marvin E. Odum as the city’s COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Czar. In this role, Odum will work with business leaders, chambers of commerce, employee groups, and nonprofit organizations on a plan to safely and responsibly restart Houston’s economy. Odum will also work…
By LJ Garfield It’s no surprise that there is a disparity between the access to quality health care among Black women and white women. So, there shouldn’t be any surprise that there is also a disparity between the infection rates from cervical cancer among Black women and white women. Cervical cancer is silently trying…
[HOUSTON, TEXAS, November 22, 2019—] Horizon, led by Al Kashani and Sadie Rucker, took 1,500 students, female leaders and senior citizens to see Harriet, the movie. This effort was aided by Mayor Sylvester Turner and City of Houston and Commissioner Rodney Ellis and Harris County Precinct 1. Harriet, produced by Houstonian Debra Martin Chase,…
Local nonprofit Kids’ Meals kicked off its annual Hunger Free Summer initiative in June in an effort to provide hundreds of thousands of nutritious meals to children in underserved communities. Local McDonald’s owner/operators stepped in to support the summer-long program, which runs through August 31 and raises funds and awareness for Kids’ Meals’ mission to…
Chelsea “C.J.” Jenkins is a certified personal trainer and holds both a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Education from the University of Houston. This vision has been a long time in the works. However, if Jenkins had been asked last year at this time if she believed she would be the CEO/Founder/Owner…
This has been a busy and productive year for Houston First Corporation (HFC) and Brenda Bazan, President and CEO. After taking the reins of Houston’s official destination and marketing organization a little over a year ago, Bazan has taken impressive steps to more strategically position HFC to meet its goals and objectives. “This has been…
Byron Alfred’s life was dedicated to sports. He played football throughout college as a starting offensive lineman for the University of Houston and even had NFL aspirations. But when knee and shoulder injuries derailed that dream, Alfred was faced with the daunting question of “what am I going to do now?” Being from the refinery…
It is nearly impossible for the passion Judge Maria Jackson pours in her work to go unnoticed. She has successfully established a reputation as someone that displays fairness and compassion time after time. Jackson began her professional career as the program director of a charter school where she helped guide economically disadvantaged children. This is…
2018 Media Information HOUSTON, May 7, 2018 – It is tradition. It is pomp. It is pageantry. The University of Houston is celebrating the graduation of more than 9,000 students this week at University Commencement, Thursday, May 10-Saturday, May 12. Here are a few of the people and programs being celebrated during the spring 2018…
Mayor Sylvester Turner accepted the immediate resignation of Press Secretary Darian Ward and appointed Mary Benton to serve as interim press secretary. “Darian Ward served the city as a key communicator for many years and has our thanks for working in public service,” the mayor said. “I hope she is successful in her next endeavors.”…
A resident of Houston’s historical Third Ward, a graduate of Prairie View A&M University and a graduate of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University are just a few things that describe Attorney Charles Collins. But there’s so much more. He currently serves as Managing Attorney for the Texas Title IVD Child…
The Houston community, United States politicians, entertainers and a number of dignitaries paid their respects to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who recently passed away at the age of 74.
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent For the better part of a month, National Newspaper Publishers Association President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. traveled back and forth to North Carolina. Chavis helped spearhead plans and events in observance of the 40th anniversary of the Warren County protests. The 1982 protests…
The Biden-Harris administration announced it would increase America’s supply of monkeypox vaccine by making an additional 1.8 million doses of Bavarian Nordic’s Jynneos vaccine available for ordering (on 8/22/22). According to a White House Fact Sheet, the Department of Health and Human Services has set aside 50,000 doses of vaccine from the Strategic National Stockpile,…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan remains on a journey to justice. He said President Joe Biden’s historic bipartisan infrastructure bill provides an opportunity to finally rid America of poisonous lead pipes and free communities of color of the toxins that have polluted their…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent State lawmakers in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona and other jurisdictions who continue to enact local voter suppression laws were put on notice by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives who passed a sweeping elections and ethics bill recently. House Resolution 1 – the “For the…