Joy Sewing

University of Houston-Downtown, located at the tip of downtown where the bayous meet, opened in 1974. It's among the city's most affordable universities.

TV anchor Chauncy Glover was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment Tuesday. My hero friend was gone at age 39. 

On this Election Day, we might need a reminder that our children are always watching and learning from us.

Residents know what it's like to see the City of Houston pour funding into certain projects, while plans for their neighborhoods get bungled.

Houston-based Nuestra Palabra is a community advocacy non-profit that promotes Latino literature, culture and arts — and fight book bans.

Like women's reproductive rights, no-fault divorce is on the roll-back list — a preposterous idea that seems to be playing out in real-time.

Run-in with Sean "Diddy" Combs' entourage in Houston in 2003 was the one time in my career as a journalist that I didn't feel safe. 

Rules are meant to push unsheltered people to get assistance they need, and help neighborhoods clean up.

Violence, threats reported at 4 Houston-area high schools this week are more signals of the unprecedented mental health crisis afflicting our youth.

Rumor has been echoed by Elon Musk, Sen. Ted Cruz, and Houston U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt, among others.

We know that Texas can be a Hollywood stereotype. Locke doesn't play into that. She takes readers down U.S. Route 59 to the East Texas towns of her ancestors.

Lina Hidalgo has emerged as the style maverick of the DNC. Seriously.

Babies in Houston trash bins show the need for 'safe haven' law awareness

With ‘Tampon Tim’ jab, Trump disses policies that protect young women

With insurance troubles after Beryl, the stress never ends for some Houstonians

Houston members react as Trump addresses Black journalist's group

White women for Kamala Harris draws nearly 170,000 to Zoom call, raising $8.5 million

Just hours after President Biden announced Sunday he was ending his reelection campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, more than 40,000 Black women joined a virtual call to discuss mobilizing efforts to support her. The call was initially intended for 1,000 participants, but it quickly increased as word spread. By midnight, the group, Win with Black Women, raised more than $1.5 million for Harris’ campaign. It’s not happenstance that Black women are rallying quickly for this histor…

In politics, it's the loudest voices that are heard. For U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died Friday at age 74 of pancreatic cancer, being quiet would not hav

I’m a native Houstonian, a ride-or-die. I’ve weathered the storms and fought the good fights. Stood up, showed up, cheered us on. But at this moment after Beryl, it feels like a Lauryn Hill song: “I used to love him but now I don’t.” Those of us who love Houston embrace the beautiful and the ugly. No city is perfect. But what happens when the city you love so deeply that you’d take your jewelry off to fight those who trash talk about it doesn’t love you back? When I posted the feelings above, l…