The Houston mayoral election doesn’t occur until November, but the race to succeed Bob Lanier is already the talk of the town. Three blacks would like to be Houston’s first black mayor, and many blacks—among them Houston Chronicle editorial writer James T. Campbell—think that’s two too many. Former top cop
Serious athlete. Devoted father and husband. Savvy businessman. On game day he may be Prime Time, but out of the spotlight, Deion Sanders is the squarest player on the Dallas Cowboys.
Barbara Jordan saw herself not as a black politician but as a politician who happened to be black—and that was one of the things that made her great.
During the days of segregation, a young graduate of all-white Rice University managed to become a professor at all-black Texas Southern University.
When black militant Lee Otis Johnson got out of prison his old friends welcomed him with open arms. Later, some of them wished they hadn’t.
From poor black girl to presidential possibility, in ten not-so-easy lessons.
Is Barbara Jordan really worth all the fuss?
