Whether you’re a first-time voter or a seasoned regular, between new polling tech, late SCOTUS rulings, and misleading information circulating online, staying prepared is critical. Texas Civil Rights Project met with local media and provided vital resources designed to protect your ballot before, during, and after Election Day.
Here is a truth about Houston’s job market: the most valuable professional networks aren’t happening over bland networking mixers in Downtown high-rises anymore. They also are becoming more rare on popular job search sites like Indeed and LinkedIn. They are happening in crowded, high-energy halls fueled by community, ambition, and serious intent. Career fairs have been around since the late 1940’s, but technology slowly pulled us away from the in-person job search. Now, technology is bringing Read more […]
Five million humans lost food assistance; those families did not suddenly become financially secure. Dropping someone from a relief roll does not feed them; it simply makes their hunger invisible to federal ledgers.
Let’s not mince words about what just went down in Texas. In a state where voter suppression is practically a pass-down heritage, Tarrant County officials executed a textbook maneuver: voting to slash 92 Election Day polling locations ahead of November. That drops the county’s footprint from 316 sites in 2022 to a meager 224. They’ll spin it in corporate speak, citing “efficiency,” “saving taxpayers money,” and cutting “low-turnout sites.” But anyone with an elementary grasp of Southern Read more […]
The Marketing For The Culture Summit has shown tremendous growth, from increased brand awareness and sponsor visibility to welcoming 130 attendees this year.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
HOUSTON! On May 1, actionnetwork.org is declaring workers over billionaires.
Join them at MacGregor Park from 2–6 PM for #MayDayStrong, a day of field‑day games, performances, art‑making, community resources, and radical joy as they demand a Houston where our families, not billionaire fortunes, come first.
Virginia voters approved a sweeping overhaul of the state’s congressional map Tuesday, a decision that could help determine control of the U.S. House and marks the latest escalation in a national redistricting battle that began with Republican-led efforts in several states. Will it work?
