16 June, 2026
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Texans Aren’t Eating Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner Without Immigrants

I’ve always been a foodie. Not the eat-in-my-car-for-likes kind of foodie; I’m talking about being a native Houstonian who, back in high school, would drive to that one international grocery store on the northside just to explore. It’s my first taste of Roti and bean curd. It didn’t come from a trendy food truck or a curated social media feed—it happened at my friend Tyabba’s house, watching her mother roll out dough fresh from scratch. Decades later, I’ve watched Houston’s culinary Read more […]

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Houston’s Youth and Young Adults Are Sounding the Alarm on Their Mental Health

They are flashing a fierce, unprecedented kind of moxy. While the adult world wraps up corporate campaigns and trending hashtags for Mental Health Awareness Month, Houston’s youth and young adults are doing something much more radical. They are stripping away generations of cultural stigma, they are looking a hollowed-out public education system dead in the eye to demand real support. The mental health crisis in Houston schools is no longer a silent struggle; data shows a student body in Read more […]

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Inside the Rupani Foundation Event Targeting Houston’s Immigrant and Refugee Maternal Mental Health Crisis

Motherhood is universally celebrated as a time of profound joy, but for many black, immigrant, and refugee women, the silent struggle is loud. Postpartum depression doesn’t always come immediately post birth; sometimes it rears its ugly head two years into parenting. Additionally, anxiety can run rampant during pregnancy, putting mom and baby at risk. In a city as beautifully diverse as Houston, Texas, addressing hidden gaps in Maternal Healthcare is critical. To confront this crisis head-on, Read more […]

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The Truth About Houston’s 18th District: Congressman Al Green Didn’t Lose an Election—He Was Drawn Out by Racist Gerrymandering

They will call it a “generational shift” or a “political upset”. But let’s be entirely real: Congressman Al Green didn’t lose to Christian Menefee. He lost to a deeply calculated, racially engineered, gerrymandered map passed by the Texas Legislature. Texas served as ground zero for a political blueprint that Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina would quickly attempt to replicate.

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Louisiana’s Election “Pause”: A Playbook for Disenfranchisement?

The “Bayou State” just became the frontline of a national crisis. Yesterday, Governor Jeff Landry issued an executive order suspending Louisiana’s U.S. House primaries just 48 hours before early voting was set to begin. This isn’t just a local “pause”—it’s a stress test for American democracy. The SCOTUS Trigger: Louisiana v. Callais This week, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, calling the creation of a second majority-Black district (District Read more […]

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