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HISD hosts mass food distribution at NRG on Saturday
25 new campus sites also announced for week of May 4
Food distribution efforts led by the Houston Independent School District in partnership with the Houston Food Bank will continue this Saturday at NRG Stadium and next week at 25 campus sites throughout the district.
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Sen. Kamala Harris and Colleagues Introduce Bill to Congress to Improve Maternal Care Access for Black Women
The U.S. is one of 13 countries in the world where maternal mortality rates are worse than they were two decades ago. And that alarming statistic hits one group of women the hardest.
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Trump says he doesn't regret signing immigration order
President Donald Trump was insistent on Monday he doesn't regret signing an executive order meant to keep migrant families together, even as the measure from last week continues to sow confusion and internal angst.
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New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins indicted on insider trading charges
Federal prosecutors in New York on Wednesday charged New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins, his son and another man with 13 counts of securities fraud, wire fraud and false statements stemming from an alleged insider trading scheme centered on an Australian pharmaceutical company.
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NRG: ‘The Culinary Capital of the South’
Houston Texans President Jamey Rootes is issuing an invitation to all football fans to a “Taste of Houston, the Culinary Capital of the South.” Rootes put out the call during the unveiling of all that was new NRG stadium this year. Suite renovations, new concession items, designer clothing collection for women, touchdown deals, and an app makeover, Texans’ fans will have an experience that is sweeter to lounge in, tastier to the palette, and easier to navigate during the 2019 season.
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Trump’s Superfund Program is Focused on Low-Hanging Fruit
Jackie Young, executive director of Texas Health and Environment Alliance, and long-time environmental advocate, travelled to Washington D.C. this week to meet with officials at EPA Headquarters. The EPA has taken tremendous strides in recent years for the clean-up of the San Jacinto River Waste Pits, a Superfund Site in the San Jacinto River near Interstate 10.
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Study of Houston’s Third Ward Reveal Solutions for the Future
African Americans face many disparities as an ethnic group. As it relates to health, African Americans are at an above average risk than any other racial group to be diagnosed with Diabetes, kidney disease, asthma, sarcoidosis, stroke, high blood pressure, and cancer. Census results indicate that African Americans are the second highest racial group behind Hispanics living with below average income. With a low income means that families don’t have access to better housing and other neighborhood amenities like grocery stores for good nutrition, schools for excellent education, and hospital for good healthcare.
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Legal Double Standards Keep Us in Shackles
It's time we stop lying to ourselves. The lying has gone on much too long and every time the lie is repeated, we are all the worse for it.
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Top Five Books You Need to Push You Into 2019
These five books will give you the internal power to push you in the direction of making 2019 a successful year in so many ways.
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Now Is the Time for Citizens of Conscience to Act
Racism is not natural. Babies -- black, brown, white -- explore the world and each other with wonder, not hate. Racism has to be taught. It is learned behavior. To assume that a person is inherently superior or inferior to another based upon race is unnatural and ungodly. Racism is used for political manipulation and economic exploitation. In a land founded on the belief that all men are created equal, slavery could not be justified without a racism that depicted slaves as sub-human.
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Obama vs. Trump: A Story of Decline and Hope for Renewal
Donald Trump began his presidency with an inaugural address that denounced the "carnage" that had preceded him. He vowed to Make America Great Again, and set about systematically trying to deep-six virtually everything that his predecessor Barack Obama had accomplished.
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Dow slides on weak economic outlook and China trade concerns
Stocks fell Tuesday after a series of economic reports confirmed what investors have feared: The global economy's long rebound could be nearing its end.
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US Leaders React to Texas Church Shooting
US leaders reacted with horror and sorrow to the mass shooting Sunday at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, with some calling for action on gun control as the death toll mounted.
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Where You Live May Impact Heart Failure Risk
People living in deprived neighborhoods have a higher risk of heart failure regardless of their socioeconomic status, according to a new study.
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White Graphene Makes Ceramics Multifunctional
Rice University study shows 2-D layers of boron nitride could aid strength, toughness and thermal conductivity of ceramics
A little hBN in ceramics could give them outstanding properties, according to a Rice University scientist.
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AHF To Commemorate MLK Holiday at Parades and Through Free HIV Testing Events Across The Country
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is proud to commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observed on January 15 by participating in MLK parades and hosting free HIV awareness and testing events in more than a dozen U.S. cities across the country, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA; Washington, DC; Ft. Lauderdale and Miami, FL; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; Baton Rouge, LA; Dayton and Cleveland, OH; Biloxi and Jackson, MS; Greensboro and Winston-Salem, NC; New York, NY; Columbia and Holly Hill, SC; and Dallas and Ft. Worth, TX.
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PowerPost Jeff Bezos Donates $33 Million to Scholarship Fund for ‘dreamers’
Jeffrey P. Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, announced Friday that he is donating $33 million to a scholarship fund for young “dreamers,” immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.
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Trump Denies Making 'shithole countries' Commect
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Friday denied describing certain nations as "shithole countries" during a meeting in which he rejected a bipartisan deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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Will 2020 Contenders Put Democrats In a Bind On DACA?
As battles over immigration and government spending advance with no solution in sight, Senate Democrats are being forced to decide whether they'd support a short-term measure to avert a government shutdown -- even if it doesn't include protections for the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought into the United States as children.
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NAACP Files Lawsuit Against U.S. Department of Homeland Security For Denying Haitian Immigrants Their Rights
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s decision to rescind the Temporary Protective Status (TPS) designation for Haitian immigrants discriminates against immigrants of color, in violation of the Fifth Amendment, according to a new lawsuit filed today on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
