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Top Bands Throw Down At The Houston Blues Challenge To Compete For An Opportunity To Showcase At The IBC In Memphis

Top bands from around the city of Houston compete for a chance to be sponsored by the Houston Blues Society. This opportunity comes as a major opportunity to assist with trip expenses for talent to go against crews from around the globe at the International Blues Competition in Memphis, TN.

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Texans Rookie QB Davis Mills Heading Into Hostile Territory

Texans quarterback Davis Mills will be making his second start under center on Sunday against a team that thrives on putting pressure and making life rough for anyone taking snaps for the opposing team.

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Texans Defense Knows Tackling Is Key To Controlling Bills QB Josh Allen

As the Houston Texans prepare to take on the Buffalo Bills this Sunday at Highmark Stadium in Buffalo, New York, they know that on the defensive side of the ball they must stay disciplined.

Texas appears to be paying a secretive Republican political operative $120,000 annually to work behind the scenes on redistricting

A Republican redistricting operative whose clandestine work helped drag Wisconsin into a legal morass last decade appears to now be on the payroll of the Texas Legislature as lawmakers work to redraw maps that will determine the distribution of political power for years to come.

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Houston Jazz Collective a Collaboration of Art and Music

Houston Jazz Collective is an organization that incorporates the genres of music and art featuring major talents to pay tribute to accomplished jazz musicians. Past events have included outstanding Houston-based jazz musicians such as Frank Lacy, Kirk Whalum, Billy Harper, Bob Dorough, and Chris Dave paying tribute to Arnet Cobb. In this year's events Shelly Carrol paying tribute to John Coltrane and supreme love. The Houston Jazz Collective combines performances with outreach programs “The Houston Center for After School Jazz Programs”. The program exposes youth to the arts through a jazz curriculum that educates giving them the understanding of jazz in the original form. Their vision is cultivating expanded minds as well as creating a lasting impression that will hopefully leave a beautiful culturally rich memory of jazz.

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Maya Rudolph Becomes Third Black Woman To Win Back-To-Back Emmys

Maya Rudolph has made history Sunday during the Creative Emmys, becoming the third Black woman to win back-to-back Emmys. She also became the first person in 20 years to win in twice consecutively in the same category two-times over.

Congress trying to stave off partial government shutdown

Congress is trying to avert one crisis while staving off another with the Senate poised to approve legislation that would fund the federal government into early December.

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Macy's Sues to Block An Amazon Ad On the Billboard Ext to Its Flagship Store

Macy's flagship store on 34th Street in Manhattan — arguably the most nation's most prominent department store — is under fresh assault from Amazon, which reportedly wants to advertise on the massive billboard adjacent to the store.

Here is how to get involved in Harris County's redistricting process

The Harris County Attorney’s Office is co-hosting several public meetings in the coming weeks alongside county precinct commissioners to hear feedback from local residents about the ongoing redistricting process.

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A Warning Sign for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

A new poll finds cause for concern for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who is seeking reelection in 2022.

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Reaching Food Nirvana

I just moved to a new area of town and my play-sister Holly from Barbados wanted to take me to lunch. All she said was, “I really want Indian food.” I don’t run but I will sprint for Indian food. The reason why her nationality is important is that I am reminded of the history of Indians in the Caribbean Islands and the story of how cultures and cuisines collide. I won’t go into this history lesson today but as a food history enthusiast, it’s a part of our culture that we should know.

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Texas Attorney General Says State's Abortion Ban Is 'Stimulating' Interstate Commerce

In briefs filed Wednesday in the Justice Department's challenge to Texas' abortion ban, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton touted the trips Texas women are making out of state to obtain abortions as a point in his favor in defending the law.

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Panthers Dominate Pine-Bluff Early To Stay Undefeated In Conference Play

Prairie View A&M ran away from the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff on Thursday night as they rushed for 289 yards in a 27-17 win at Panther Stadium. The Panthers improved to 4-1 on the season, but more importantly, they pushed their conference record to 3-0 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Western division.

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Mayor Turner's Statement On the Death of a Political Icon

"Frances "Sissy" Farenthold's life was an inspiration to women, people of color, and the powerless. She came from a privileged upbringing but possessed a sincere desire and ability to connect with Texans from all walks of life. Sissy believed that every person deserved to be treated fairly regardless of where they were born, their gender, or the color of their skin.

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U.S. Needs to Make Its Asylum Policy Clear

Today, the makeshift migrant border camp in Del Rio, Texas, is virtually empty, cleared of thousands of Haitian refugees who came there seeking asylum in America. State troopers now line the border area to discourage others from gathering.

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The Wait Is Over: Astros Win The American League West Division Title

As the Houston Astros players celebrated their 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Rays to clinch the 2021American League West Division title on Thursday night, it felt like the entire city of Houston breathed a sigh of relief.

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The Battles Is On: Stop COP Pitting Our Leaders Against Each Other

The Republicans already hold political power and they want to keep it that way by any means necessary. The first draft of redrawn district maps stacks everything in their favor despite the surge in the minority population in Texas, overlapping of districts, and Texas gaining two new seats. The Republicans are doing all sorts of things in their attempt to keep the power in their hands. If they are successful, they would retain political power for the next decade.

Stopping antidepressants may lead to relapse, study finds. Here's what you can do

Over half of people with chronic depression who attempted to stop their antidepressant medication relapsed into depression by the end of a year, compared to those who did not stop medicating, according to a randomized, double-blinded clinical trial released Wednesday.

San Jose apologizes over 1887 Chinatown destruction, racism against Chinese community

A San Jose City Council Resolution Ceremony drew hundreds to the site of a 134-year atrocity on Wednesday, to hear city leaders formally apologize to the Chinese immigrant community and their descendants.

How alternative meats could help save the planet

As the US swelters under repeated killer heat waves, fire seasons start earlier and burn ever more acreage, and floods ravage Europe, the urgency of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions has never been greater. "Code red for humanity," indeed, as we were warned with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's sixth assessment.

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