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District D Community Leader Efrem Jernigan
South Union Community Development Corporation
District D is excited to celebrate Community Leader, Efrem Jernigan. Mr. Jernigan has served as the President of South Union Community Development Corporation for many years.
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Alexis Skyy Selects the epiMediaGroup as Her Public Relations Agency of Record
The Actress, Reality Star, Entrepreneur, and Social Media Influencer is evolving and thriving while revitalizing her brand.
Alexis Skyy is pivoting from reality show star to entrepreneurial powerhouse. The former cast member of Love and Hip-Hop is emerging as a multifaceted businesswoman by curating ventures in real estate investment, fashion, and by creating safe digital spaces for trauma survivors. Alexis has taken her fashion expertise to global brand Fashion Nova as an official brand ambassador. With a diverse business portfolio and an innate passion to teach generational wealth, Alexis Skyy is on a nonstop mission to highlight the power in pivoting and authenticity.
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Breaking Barriers: Women's Entrepreneurship Program Tackles the Capital Gap for Female Founders
Innovating Marketing Group launches the Womens Entrepreneurship Program, a new program aimed to solve the problem Women Entrepreneurs Face with Funding Disparities.
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Biden Cabinet Member and Head of U.S. Small Business Administration to Travel to Houston with Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff
On Friday, February 17, Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden’s Cabinet for America’s 33 million small businesses, will visit Houston, Texas. She will join Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff to tour four small businesses and discuss how the Biden-Harris Administration is supporting minority-owned businesses and ensuring equal access to capital and resources.
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HISD to receive $300,000 in support of its new recycling program
Houston Independent School District will be presented with checks totaling $300,000 in funding from business leaders to expand access to recycling within the district. ExxonMobil, Lyondell Basell and Tricon Energy have partnered with HISD to support development of the program, which is scheduled to begin in April. An energetic recycling mascot will be on hand to get students excited about recycling and improving the quality of the community they live in.
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EPA chief pledges to hold train company accountable over Ohio toxic train disaster as residents' frustrations grow
The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency told CNN the agency plans to hold the train company Norfolk Southern accountable as investigations continue into the derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals earlier this month in a small Ohio town.
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HAABSE 36th Teacher Awards Ceremony
Top Houston area teachers were honored at the Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators …
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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.® TCAC District Convention
Over the weekend Houston played host to the men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.® …
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High School Teacher Turned Entrepreneur is Leaving No Entrepreneur Behind Providing Complimentary Tax Advice
“Business Finance & Tax Specialist Aliah Minor launched the “No Business left behind” providing small business owners complimentary tax advice."
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Stocks slide as investors worry about more rate hikes
Inflation doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. And that's weighing on Wall Street.
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For at least the third time this year, a 6-year-old has brought a gun to school. 2 adults are now facing charges
A woman in Pennsylvania and a man in North Carolina were charged this week after a six-year-old in each case brought a gun to school, officials said, marking at least three times an elementary school student has brought a weapon to campus this year, including when a six-year-old allegedly shot his teacher in Newport News, Virginia, last month.
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Michigan State gunman had a list of other targets and extra ammunition when police found him, authorities said
The gunman who killed three Michigan State University students and critically wounded five others had a list of other targets, two handguns and plenty of ammunition when police found him on foot soon after the campus massacre, authorities revealed Thursday.
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Lighting up online — Akron business owner uses TikTok to grow candle business
An Akron small business owner is running her company and raising her daughter, as a stay at home mom, insider her Akron home.
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Unilever and H-E-B announce a Community Volunteer Day on February 16th at the Legacy Park Project presented by Degree® Deodorant
The project was created in partnership with the Blue Triangle Multi-Cultural Association, Inc. and funded by Unilever and H-E-B
Supported by a $25,000 donation from both Unilever and H-E-B, the Blue Triangle Multi-Cultural Association is undergoing an upgrade of its Community Center playground. On Feb 16th, a “Volunteer Day” will put the finishing touches on the refurbishment of the center’s playground. The event will gather volunteers, company leaders and representatives from the Blue Triangle. Encouraging the volunteers, Rudy Tomjanovich (former NCAA Basketball Player & former NBA Player and Coach) will be joining the event.
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Slim Thug, American King: Dinner with Slim Thug Presented by Bombay
On the night of February 13, several media outlets from the Houston area were invited to attend a private dinner with Slim Thug. In honor of Black History Month, the dinner celebrated Slim Thug for making history for over 2 decades
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Black and Latino lawmakers slam Gov. Greg Abbott for order limiting diversity considerations in hiring
Black and Latino lawmakers decried Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent order to Texas universities and state agencies to strike down diversity, equity and inclusion policies from their hiring practices.
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Harmony Public Schools Ranks #1 in Elementary, Middle & High Schools by Children at Risk
Harmony Public Schools is the top-performing school district in the greater Houston area, according to Children at Risk. The Texas education non-profit ranked the charter school system's Houston West District with an "A" grade for the Elementary, Middle and High school categories in the 2021-2022 school year. Harmony's Houston North District ranked number two for high school students.
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School hoax threats in New Hampshire part of growing problem across country
Classes were well underway in New Hampshire schools on the morning of Dec. 8 when a 911 call was made, claiming there was an active shooter at a school.
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Memphis firefighters union defends EMTs in Tyre Nichols case, says they weren't given 'adequate information'
The president of the firefighters union in Memphis, Tennessee is defending the actions of EMTs involved in the Tyre Nichols case.
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Mississippi House votes to create an unelected, state-appointed court system within majority-Black Jackson
Lawmakers in Mississippi are at odds over a bill that would create an unelected, state-appointed court system in a district within Jackson, a majority Black city, with some concerned that the move smacks of a modern-day Jim Crow regime.
