November 28, 2025
GREATER HOUSTON EDITION
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Vol.30, Issue 45
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African-American News&Issues
“Addressing Current & Historical Realities Affecting Our Community”
THE TSU DILEMMA
By: Roy Douglas Malonson
Texas Southern University is once again at the center of a storm, and this time the winds are stronger, louder, and more politically charged than ever. A newly released state audit has exposed a series of financial failures inside TSU’s administration: missed reporting deadlines, contract mismanagement, expired vendor agreements and gaps in oversight that stretch back years. Those facts are real, documented and serious. But the reaction coming from Austin is raising an even bigger question for Black Houston: is this only about finances, or is TSU being targeted in ways that other universities never are? Addressing current and historical realities affecting our community requires telling the whole truth, not just the parts that fit a political narrative.
FUGEES RAPPER PRAS SENTENCED TO 14 YEARS IN PRISON By: Jamal Carter
The audit released by the State Auditor’s Office found that more than 700 invoices totaling over $280 million were tied to vendors whose contracts had already expired. Another 800 invoices, representing nearly $160 million, were submitted before official purchase approvals were secured. TSU also filed key financial reports late, ten months late for the 2023 fiscal year and four months late for 2024. Vacancies in high-level financial positions added to the breakdown. These issues reflect real administrative dysfunction and a failure of internal controls. No one is denying that TSU must rebuild trust by strengthening its financial structure from top to bottom. Dilemma on pg. 3 But here is the larger truth
Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel was recently sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after being found guilty of orchestrating a scheme that funneled large sums of foreign money into Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. Prosecutors said he worked with Malaysian financier Jho Low to disguise the source of tens of millions of dollars through a network of straw donors, while also committing related offenses including acting as an unregistered foreign agent and attempting to influence witnesses. The judge denied his bid for a new trial—partly due to concerns over his attorney’s use of AI in closing arguments—leaving Michel’s defense team arguing that the punishment is AA excessively harsh.