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Twenty-six Texas Schools Named 2021 National Blue Ribbon Schools
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona today recognized 325 schools as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2021, including 26 schools in Texas. The recognition is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups. Secretary Cardona made the announcement during his Return to School Road Trip, while visiting an awardee school, Walter R. Sundling Jr. High School, in Palatine, Illinois.
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H-E-B Thanksgiving Day Parade to be Led By Houston Philanthropist and Global Multi-Hyphenate Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson
Exclusive performances from Bun B, Theatre Under the Stars and the iconic Apache Belles
Mayor Turner and the City of Houston are thrilled to announce official plans for the 73rd Annual H-E-B Thanksgiving Day Parade. This year’s parade will kick-off the holiday season by celebrating Houston and those who make our city a great place to live. The parade’s 2022 Grand Marshal Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson along with Mayor Turner, Honored guest 2021 Grand Marshal, Dr. Peter Hotez and H-E-B will lead the parade on the iconic Tom Turkey float.
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Joya T. Hayes Takes Office As South Central Regional Director for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® has always been an organization that of times of crisis, the members respond by stepping up, serving, and continuing the business at hand. The global pandemic of COVID-19 might have delayed their efforts but did not stop them. Treading in uncharted waters, the sorority used its virtual platforms to hold the first virtual election where Joya T. Hayes was declared the South Central Regional Director and installed into office at the 69th international convention of the 112-year-old organization. Hayes now leads 10,000+ members in more than 120 undergraduate and graduate chapters in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas in the second largest region of the sorority.
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Houston Texans Founder, Senior Chairman & CEO Robert C. McNair Passes Away
Houston Texans Founder, Senior Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert C. McNair passed away on Friday, November 23, 2018 at the age of 81. He is survived by his wife, Janice, sons, Cal and Cary, daughters, Ruth and Melissa, 15 grandchildren (10 granddaughters, five grandsons) and two great grandsons.
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Social media is abuzz with Super Bowl LVIII logo theory
There are 18 weeks of action and then three rounds of playoff games to decide which two teams will compete in the Super Bowl.
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Houston Blues & Jazz Festival includes three performances in one night
Houston Blues & Jazz Festival MonoNeon, Andy Timmons and James Francies Saturday, September 24, 2022 713 Music Hall at 7 p.m.
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Spike Lee, Regina King, “Black Panther” and More Win at 91st Academy Awards
2019 is arguably the year of #OscarsSoBlack. According to the Los Angeles Times, this year set the record for the most individual Black winners of Academy Awards, with seven victors in six categories.
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The Future of Health Care Is Anyone's Guess
The future of the Affordable Care Act is more uncertain than ever. Over the weekend, Republicans were still reeling from their monumental loss after their plans to overhaul Obamacare were dashed in dramatic fashion.
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Delay the election? That's not what we do here
On the one hand, this is banana republic stuff, that a President, who the evidence suggests is losing his bid for reelection, would suggest delaying the election, as Donald Trump did Thursday morning.
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SBA to Open Business Recovery Centers in Beaumont and Missouri City to Help Businesses Impacted by Hurricane Harvey
The U.S. Small Business Administration and the Texas Gulf Coast Small Business Development Center Network today announced the opening of SBA Business Recovery Centers in Beaumont and Missouri City on Friday, Sept. 15 to provide a wide range of services to businesses impacted by Hurricane Harvey. The centers will open as indicated below.
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Texas firefighters head to California again to help fight deadly wildfires
Some 200 firefighters in 50 engines from 47 Texas fire departments in 23 counties will head to California to help fight three major wildfires that have taken at least 29 lives, destroyed more than 6,700 structures and prompted evacuations for about 250,000 Californians.
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A List of Who's Leaving Congress
Two major retirement announcements this week could signal that control of the House of Representatives is up for grabs next year.
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Why Trump's Visit to Capitol Hill Could Get Tense
President Trump faces huge personnel and policy decisions while visiting the Hill this week to push tax reform. His upcoming trip to Asia could be ... complicated. And will he push for a new Fed Chair to replace Janet Yellen?
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Tesla Factory at Center of Discrimination Lawsuits
Three employees say Tesla's auto manufacturing facility was so hostile to black workers that it was "straight from the Jim Crow era." An assembly line worker says others mocked his pants as "gay tight."
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Top Democrats in Congress call on labor secretary to resign over handling of Epstein deal
Top congressional Democrats are calling for Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to resign over his handling more than a decade ago of a plea deal for multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein amid a debate on Capitol Hill over whether Congress should investigate the agreement.
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How many Senate Republicans are going to rebel against Trump's border emergency?
The cake appears baked on the privileged resolution of disapproval about President Donald Trump's use of a national emergency declaration to secure the money he wants to build a border wall on the southern border.
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PVAMU to welcome Nikki Giovanni for a public reading and lecture
“Writing is really a way of thinking – not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic, or just sweet.”
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Super Bowl LVIII festivities underway with Opening Night in Las Vegas
After a long, grueling NFL season, it is finally Super Bowl week.
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How Atlanta rappers helped flip the White House
Welcome to Atlanta, where the players politic. Anger, fear, new voters, PAC money, minority turnout -- these are often credited with shaping elections. What you don't tend to hear is that rappers in hip-hop's modern mecca educated voters and got them to the polls to help bounce an incumbent out of the White House.
