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Fashion and Fellowship Bring the Faithful to the 2019 Audrey H. Lawson IMPACT Awards

Church folks are known are stepping high wearing their Sunday’s Best for the Lord on His day. Well, the family and friends of the Wheeler Avenue Inner City Visions Women’s Guild prove that Sunday’s Best can make a Saturday appearance, as well as the fashions, were fierce at the annual the 2019 Audrey H. Lawson IMPACT Awards Luncheon and Fashion Show. For 56 years blessings have poured out of this organization to provide scholarships for college students, help for the homeless, housing for the elderly, and other philanthropic projects following the ideals and heart of visionary founder Audrey H. Lawson.

Puzzling Number Of Men Tied To Ferguson Protests Have Died

Two young men were found dead inside torched cars. Three others died of apparent suicides. Another collapsed on a bus, his death ruled an overdose

Diversity And Inclusion Activist Thelma Scott Inspires At-Risk Students To Finish High School And Attend College

SAFE Diversity Communities is creating a difference through the entire city of Houston by decreasing drop-out and suicide rates. The organization focuses on supporting students with "Unique Abilities” in high school to assist them in completing and finishing their education.

Black, Hispanics Drivers in Austin More Likely to be Searched

A racial profiling report released by Austin police shows that Black and Hispanic drivers pulled over in traffic stops were more than twice as likely to be searched than their White counterparts. The report, reflecting data for 2018, shows officers searched 6 percent of white drivers but 17 percent of Black motorists and 14 percent of Hispanic ones

Aiming to Diversify Workforce, Goldman Sachs Sets Targets for Latino, Black Hires

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is setting targets for hiring minority groups for the first time as it ramps up efforts to diversify its workforce, according to a memo sent by top executives to employees.

Democrats Are Taking Reparations Seriously -- And That's a Big Deal

There is now a bright, and important, marker in the reparations debate. In 1988, Jesse Jackson made reparations part of his campaign platform.

Kamala Harris to Visit a Critical County in First Texas Visit

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is making her first campaign trip to Texas this week, heading straight to a county Republicans are worried about protecting in 2020.

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.

Will Self-Driving Cars Help or Harm Our Communities?

In cities like Washington, D.C., the arrival of self-driving vehicles has the potential to profoundly change how we get around. But whether those changes are for the better or the worse depends on the choices we make today, before these vehicles become widely available.

Trump administration wants to put a limit on student loan borrowing

The Trump administration urged Congress Monday to put a cap on student loan borrowing, one of several proposals for updating the Higher Education Act.

Rosenstein staying on at Justice Department 'a little longer' than anticipated

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is planning to stay on at the Justice Department "a little longer" than originally anticipated, according to a Justice official familiar with his thinking.

Five takeaways from Elizabeth Warren's CNN town hall

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a plan -- for just about everything.

Pro-Trump group launching ads supporting Meadows, Jordan

Two top congressional allies of Donald Trump will get support from a key group backing the President as the 2020 campaign gets underway.

Supreme Court takes on racial gerrymander claim in Virginia

The Supreme Court dove into the issue of racial gerrymandering Monday as the justices reviewed a lower court opinion that struck down Virginia district maps as a violation of the Constitution.

Things to do in Malibu, L.A.'s best beach town

Driving California's Pacific Coast Highway, or PCH, in and around Los Angeles is a real challenge -- expanding and contracting lanes, speeding sports cars, blinding sunsets, occasional bumper-to-bumper traffic.

What Facebook, Twitter and YouTube can do now to stop terrorism and hate online

The attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand bring into sharp relief a troubling pattern of global white nationalist terrorism against Muslims. The New Zealand assailant's 87-page manifesto is replete with white supremacist propaganda that was shared across the internet. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are now left scrambling to stop the spread of this hateful rhetoric as it continues to get shared across their platforms.

Remember when 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' made us listen to each other

"The Oprah Winfrey Show" used to air at 4 p.m. every day on my local station in South Texas.

“You Can’t Go Wrong Doing Right: How a Child of Poverty Rose to the White House and Helped Change the World” by Robert J. Brown

Do unto others. Three words that are a shorthand reminder to be nice and treat people in the manner that you’d want to be treated. Do unto others and make life smoother. Be good, and be of service because, as Robert J. Brown reminds readers, “You Can’t Do Wrong Doing Right.”

Blacks, Hispanics Breathe More Pollution Than They Make

African-Americans and Hispanics breathe in far more deadly air pollution than they are responsible for making, a new study said. A study looked at who is exposed to fine particle pollution — responsible for about 100,000 American deaths a year — and how much different races are responsible for the pollution based on their buying, driving and living habits.

Boeing Stock Woes Worsen After the United States Grounds 737 Max Jets

The bad news for Boeing investors arrived on Wednesday. The United States joined other countries and grounded its 737 Max planes. Shares of Boeing, which had lost about 11%, or more than $28 billion in value, before the announcement, fell another 3% immediately after President Donald Trump announced the move from the White House.

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