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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® Doubles Its Goal With Record-Setting $2.1 Million Raised in Support of HBCUs

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® is proud to announce that the sorority set a new record and raised more than $2.1 million in one day to benefit our nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Alpha Kappa Alpha’s annual HBCU Impact Day on September 20 far exceeded the goal, as the country’s first Black sorority received online donations and checks from local AKA chapters, private donors, and corporate matching dollars from across the globe.

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Art For the People 50th Anniversary of the 1971 Exhibition the Deluxe Theatre in Fifth Ward

Art For the People is a heartfelt 50th-anniversary tribute to the 1971 show organized by Dominique Deminelle and the late Congressman Mickey Leland In 1971 at the Deluxe Theatre, a present exhibition curated by Danielle Burns and organized by Harrison Guy.

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Palm Beach County school board sides with latest state quarantine policy in tense meeting that separated those without masks

Dozens of police officers were standing by as the Palm Beach County School Board held a meeting Wednesday evening with masked and unmasked spectators watching from separate rooms, as the board said it would abide with the latest state rule that takes a "symptoms-based approach" to quarantining students.

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Florida governor says parents can send asymptomatic kids exposed to Covid-19 back to school

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced that the state has put out a revised rule which follows a "symptom-based approach" to quarantining students, meaning asymptomatic children exposed to Covid-19 in classrooms could be sent back to school by parents.

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Inside the exquisite linguistic ceasefire between the US and France

Benjamin Franklin would have been proud. An exquisite linguistic ceasefire between the US and France was crafted this week in the finest tradition of the founding father and diplomat.

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Dow soars 600 points as Wall Street's China fears subside

Wall Street continues to rebound on Thursday, shrugging off both the Federal Reserve's intention to soon roll back its massive monetary stimulus and another uptick in weekly jobless claims.

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These families of missing Black people are frustrated with the lack of response to their cases

David Robinson has been in Arizona for the last three months searching for his 24-year-old son, Daniel Robinson, who went missing after leaving a work site in the desert in his Jeep Renegade on June 23.

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Soleo Health Selected by Houston Methodist as Exclusive In-Home Provider of Infused Monoclonal Antibodies for Treatment of COVID-19

Soleo Health Selected by Houston Methodist as Exclusive In-Home Provider of Infused Monoclonal Antibodies for Treatment of COVID-19

Soleo Health, an innovative leader and national provider of complex specialty pharmacy services, announced today it was selected by Houston Methodist to provide monoclonal antibody therapy (mAb) to COVID-19 patients in their homes.

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Rice News Release: Grant backs effort to build useful bacterial colonies

NIH award to Rice, UH will advance science of synthesizing microbial structures

The award to principal investigators Bennett and Krešimir Josić, a professor of mathematics at the University of Houston, and co-principal investigator Oleg Igoshin, a professor of bioengineering and biosciences at Rice, will enable the development of technologies like synthetic “tissues” that enhance soils or gut microbiomes, or self-healing coatings that continuously synthesize protective molecules.

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California Utility Expands Use of Texas A&M Wildfire Prevention System

PG&E engineers call outage prediction tool ‘fundamental’ to reducing risk

The threat of catastrophic wildfires has led California investor-owned utility Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to significantly expand its use of a tool developed at Texas A&M University that helps stop fires before they start.

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Lack of Diversity in Lifesaving Clinical Trials Improved by Decentralization

Among its many other effects, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic seriously disrupted new drug testing, treatments, and in-person healthcare services. As medical centers were forced to focus on COVID-related care, and optional travel was curtailed by the need for physical distancing, patients’ access to clinical trial sites was reduced by some 80%.(1)

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Teach For America Receives AmeriCorps Grant from OneStar Foundation

Grant Will Help Recruit and Develop Leaders Working for Educational Equity throughout Texas

OneStar Foundation recently announced that it has awarded $650,000 in funding to support Teach For America’s programs in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, the Rio Grande Valley, and San Antonio for the 2021-2022 school year. This grant is part of $21.6 million that Texas received in federal AmeriCorps funding from AmeriCorps, formerly known as the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).

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A Noise Within Announces The second production of 30th Anniversary Season: Seven Guitars By August Wilson

Directed by Gregg T. Daniel Oct. 17–Nov. 14, 2021

A Noise Within (ANW), California’s acclaimed classic repertory theatre company, announces its second entry in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, Seven Guitars, directed by Gregg T. Daniel (he/him/his).

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Bayou Preservation Association presents 18th Annual Symposium Oct. 6-7

“Green, in a Word, Is Good” is a virtual event featuring experts and thought leaders

The Bayou Preservation Association presents its 18th Annual Symposium Wednesday, Oct. 6 and Thursday, Oct. 7 as a virtual event with the theme Green, in a Word, Is Good. The Symposium, from 8 a.m. – noon over two days, will focus on green infrastructure as our path to a sustainable and resilient future.

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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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Governor Abbott, TDEM Announce Expansion of COVID-19 Antibody Infusion Center In Seguin

Governor Greg Abbott today announced that the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM), in partnership with local officials, will expand operations at an active COVID-19 therapeutic infusion center in Seguin. The infusion center, which opened on a small scale in December 2020 and transitioned to a larger operation, will further grow operations starting tomorrow. The expansion is expected to double the number of daily infusions from 25-30 to approximately 50.

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Gov. Dolph Briscoe Jr. Texas Agricultural Lifetime Leadership Program graduates 24

The most recent Gov. Dolph Briscoe Jr. Texas Agricultural Lifetime Leadership graduates are set to tackle some of the most challenging agricultural issues affecting Texas and the nation after completing a two-year program aimed at preparing them for local, state and national service.

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Chevrolet Bolt EV Battery Production Resumes

General Motors today outlined a comprehensive action plan to ensure that customers can safely and confidently drive, charge, and park the Chevy Bolt EV and EUV. The action plan includes both hardware and software remedies, some of which are in place with immediate effect.

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'Hotlanta' is even more sweltering in these neighborhoods due to a racist 20th-century policy

On a warm September afternoon, Mona Scott sat on the front porch while her home baked like an oven. As she ran a frozen water bottle across her forehead and arms, Scott told CNN her air conditioning broke 10 days earlier and had not yet been fixed.

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Two-for-one vaccine clinics fight flu and Covid, too

hey're a fall staple in most communities across the United States: flu shot clinics. But this year many will offer something extra -- Covid-19 shots. As the Delta variant spreads and uncertainty...