Texas salon owner who gave Ted Cruz horrible haircut targets Chinese students in racist tweets

The Texas hair salon owner who made national headlines in May 2020 for refusing to close her business amid COVID-19 lockdowns has made the spotlight again. This time it’s not for the awful haircut she …

Fake COVID-19 testing sites are scamming vulnerable communities across the country

by Sravya Tadepalli

This article was originally published at Prism

When Houston resident Paul Middendorf woke up congested one early morning this month, he decided to get tested for COVID-19. He found …

Equity meeting goes left when white school board member makes racist remarks about Black teachers

A first-year Houston-area school board member is backpedaling bigly after comments he made at a meeting Monday insinuating that the more Black teachers a school district has, the worse student …

George Floyd's 4-year-old niece is shot and it took police more than four hours to come

Arianna Delane, the 4-year-old niece of George Floyd, is suffering three broken ribs and a punctured lung and liver after she was shot on New Year’s Day sleeping in her bed in Texas. It took …

Let's get at the root cause of Astroworld tragedy. It's bigger than Travis Scott

Nine days after at least eight people were killed during rapper Travis Scott’s set at the Astroworld festival at NRG Park, journalists are asking all the right questions. What could have been …

This child abuse case is a reminder: It takes a village, and if you see something, say something

Content Warning: Child abuse and neglect

I grew up in and around a quirky small town in Ohio where my father had also been born and raised. My mother set a remarkably useful foundation for me in my …

Students were suspended from Texas schools because of a dress code violation. Guess what it was?

When it comes to talking about how archaic and oppressive school dress codes tend to be, the conversation usually centers around girls’ clothing in the classroom or to events, like prom or homecoming. …

How many times did Trump try to destroy something and get stopped by a brave bureaucrat?

Bureaucrats get a bad rap. A good deal of the responsibility for this falls on Republicans, who love to place the adjective “unelected” right in front while slamming them. Democrats more typically …

After 2 tours in Afghanistan, vet dies waiting for routine procedure in hospital buried by COVID-19

There are plenty of heartbreaking—and often exasperating—stories about unvaccinated Americans dying of COVID-19. While these are timely cautionary tales for the unvaxxed, too often, these folks are …

Federal judge dismisses anti-vaxxers' lawsuit, sides with Texas hospital

After a hospital followed through on its warning to suspend and terminate any employee who did not abide by its mandatory vaccination policy, anti-vaxxers attempted to pursue a lawsuit. The employees …

Texas hospital suspends more than 170 health care workers for refusing to be vaccinated

As Americans nationwide continue to be vaccinated in record numbers, some anti-vaxxers continue to resist, including those considered health care workers—but not without consequence. After over 170 …