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Harmony Public Schools becomes first charter school ever to win Award of Excellence for Financial Management
Harmony also won its second Award of Merit for Purchasing Operations. The school is still the only charter to win that award, as well.
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Court TV's hit true crime series 'Someone They Knew With Tamron Hall' returns for all-new second season Sunday, Feb. 19
Court TV, the popular multi-platform network devoted to live, gavel-to-gavel coverage, in-depth legal reporting and expert analysis of the nation's most important and compelling trials and crime stories, announced today that its hit true-crime series, "Someone They Knew With Tamron Hall," will return for its second season on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT, with the first of 24 new episodes to be seen Sunday nights.
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McDonald's USA ® Joins Forces with Keke Palmer to Shine a Light on Ten Black Visionaries Through the 2023 Black & Positively Golden Change Leaders Program
Change Leaders will collectively receive $200K and additional resources to positively impact their communities
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Jack and Jill of America, Inc.85th Founders' Day
Members of Jack and Jill of America, Incorporated celebrated their 85th Founders’ Day at various …
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Top Teens of America - Houston Chapter - Mr. & Miss Top Teen Presentation Ball
Under the theme "An Enchanted Evening at the Masquerade Ball," Mr. and Miss Top Teen, …
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Reading With a Rapper Challenges Low Literacy Rates in Texas with New Campaign in Partnership with MOCA
Reading With A Rapper™ (RWAR), the Houston-based literacy program, will announce their #TurnTexasYellow campaign in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs (MOCA), HTV, HISDTV and HCCTV at a press conference on Monday, February 6, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. at Houston City Hall.
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Get Your Tickets Today: NAACP Freedom Fund Advocacy & Awards Dinner
The Houston NAACP is having their annual Freedom Fund Gala. With the theme, “Freedom Forward... Ensuring Justice and Equity for Future Generations,” this year’s dinner (the first since COVID) will mark the inauguration of the new date change of our annual event. We’ve changed our event from October to February, during the annual month of Black History Celebration.
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Houston’s Third Gun Buyback Scheduled for Feb. 18th at Deussen Park
Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis and Sheriff Ed Gonzalez have announced a gun buyback at Deussen Park on Saturday, Feb. 18, from 8 a.m. to noon. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner also attended the news conference. The event is part of Harris County’s initiatives to prevent gun violence. This is the third gun buyback co-sponsored by Harris County Precinct One in seven months, resulting in about 2,000 firearms being taken off the street. Residents will be able to turn in firearms in exchange for gift cards worth $50, $100, $150, or $200 at the upcoming buyback, with no questions asked.
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President Biden’s State of the Union
Joe Biden’s State of the Union will feature good news. He has much to report – record job growth, record low unemployment, inflation down, and new efforts underway to rebuild our infrastructure, move to renewable energy and start to bring jobs back home.
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Congressman Al Green Attends Joint Session of Congress for State of the Union Address
On Tuesday, February 7, 2023, Congressman Al Green released the following statement:
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How the first Black woman to help discover an element 'claimed a seat at the periodic table'
As a kid, Clarice Phelps often turned to one image for inspiration.
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Fact-checking President Biden's State of the Union speech
President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union address on Tuesday.
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Drug-free relief from chronic constipation may come from a new vibrating pill
People who struggle with chronic constipation have a new drug-free option to help get things moving again.
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Stop calling it 'mommy brain' — scientists say the term is wrong and unfair to moms
Pregnancy brain, mommy brain, momnesia — our culture has learned to use the term to describe moms everywhere when they seem forgetful or scattered before and soon after giving birth. But the idea that motherhood is in itself associated with a decline in cognitive abilities may be both wrong and unfair to moms and their brains, writes a team of scientists in an article released Monday in the journal JAMA Neurology.
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Study presents unexpected — and complicated — findings on link between alcohol and dementia
Keeping alcohol consumption to one or two drinks a day lessened the odds of developing dementia, according to a study of nearly 4 million South Koreans.
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The fungal threat to human health is growing in a warmer, wetter, sicker world
In the HBO show "The Last of Us," characters identify zombies among them by the fungi that bursts from their bodies, and fungal parasites manipulate the humans to infect the communities around them.
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For the first time, US task force proposes expanding high blood pressure screening recommendations during pregnancy
The US Preventive Services Task Force has released a draft recommendation to screen everyone who is pregnant for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, by monitoring their blood pressure throughout the pregnancy, and the group is calling attention to racial inequities.
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Health experts call for an end to exploitative baby formula milk marketing tactics
Less than half of infants around the world are breastfed as recommended, and baby formula is in high demand despite failing to offer the same health and developmental benefits as breast milk, experts say. According to a new report, misleading claims and political influence are to blame.
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Kyrie Irving's trade causes ripple effect across the NBA
Some NBA trades are simple transactions. One team gets this player or draft picks and in return, the other franchise gets a player, or players, or draft capital.
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Fears of contaminated water and air fester where a derailed train carrying a toxic chemical burned
The flames may have died down, but a cloud of anxiety now wafts through East Palestine, Ohio.
