Thirty years ago, Whitney Houston made history as the first major Western recording artist to perform in the newly unified, post-apartheid nation of South Africa, following President Nelson Mandela’s historic election win. Over a three-concert series to celebrate the occasion, Houston would perform in front of more than 200,000 attendees, unifying a nation unlike ever […]
Dr. Lee Patrick Brown is a criminologist and entrepreneur, who in 1997 become the first African-American mayor of Houston, Texas. He served three terms from 1998 to 2004, the maximum permitted by law. He has worked in law enforcement and academia for nearly four decades. Brown was born to sharecropper parents in Wewoka, Oklahoma in […]
Entrepreneur Robert Thomas opened the first Black-owned supermarket in Houston, Texas. The District Market Green Grocer opened on Black Friday located along Cypress Creek Parkway in Houston. “We don’t have any Black supermarkets that I know of,” Thomas told Fox26. Thomas’ told the news station he sells “fruit, vegetables, eggs, vegan meals for the vegan community. We have […]