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Presidential Troubles Swirl at TSU
Students, faculty, and alumni know all roads lead to Texas Southern University but apparently not for ousted university president Dr. Austin Lane. After a five hour closed door meeting, the Board of Regents voted 6-1 to remove Lane from office early Wednesday morning.
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Military uniform, love letter found on side of rural road in KCK
It’s a mystery that has the makings of a movie... After almost 70 years of being preserved, a military uniform was found on the side of a rural road in Kansas City, Kansas.
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Kamala Harris is making history in the 2020 race
Sen. Kamala Harris' Martin Luther King Jr. Day announcement that she is running for president puts the number of women who are competing or have declared exploratory committees at four. In defiance of the norm, most of the high-profile candidates bear little resemblance to the 45 presidents in US history.
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Texas officials are still trying to put together a timeline of what happened in Uvalde school shooting
Today should have been a joyous day at Robb Elementary School as kids celebrated the last day of classes before summer vacation.
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Body of missing California boy found 6 miles from where the rest of his family died
The body of a 12-year-old boy was found in a California river, 6 miles away from where the rest of his family was found dead. Siddhant Thottapilly was the last to be found after the family of four went missing earlier this month. Sandeep Thottapilly, 41, and Saachi Thottapilly, 9, were found dead inside a vehicle encased in sediment in the Eel River, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office said. Separately, an adult female body recovered on Friday from another area of the river was identified as Soumya Thottapilly, 38.
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College Football Playoff Selection Day Report: Houston Is 2017’s 15th Best Sports City
With the College Football Playoff selection committee to release its final Top 25 ranking on Dec. 3 and the North American sports industry expected to pull in nearly $69.4 billion this year – up from $67.2 billion in 2016 – the personal-finance website WalletHub took an in-depth look at 2017’s Best Sports Cities.
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No More Flat Irons: Houston Celebrates Its First World Afro Day
The Afro Chicks 5K Run Celebrates Curly Girls around the Nation
It’s a great day to be a curly girl loving her hair and partaking in Afro excellence. Launched In Europe to encourage normalization and aspiration towards Afro hair, culture, and identity, Houston celebrates World Afro Day with its first Afro Chick 5K Run this Saturday, September 15th at TC Jester Park located at 4201 T C Jester Boulevard Houston, TX 77018 from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Presented by IAmQueen and MAD Movement, sponsored by KIND Bars, Proceeds of this event will be donated to The Rose Houston to help provide free mammograms and treatments for uninsured women.
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Wells Fargo Announces $1 Billion Affordable Housing Commitment
The lack of affordable housing has caught the attention of Wells Fargo and the banking giant isn’t taking it lightly and has unveiled an ambitious plan to tackle the problem.
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Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief in talks to plead guilty over work he did for Russian oligarch
The former head of counterintelligence at the FBI’s New York office is in talks to plead guilty to charges relating to work he allegedly did for a sanctioned Russian oligarch after leaving the government, according to a court order.
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The 75 most impactful TV moments are debuts, farewells and historic firsts
It was through a television screen that most people witnessed the 1969 lunar landing and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
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Chile's vaccination rollout was fast and broad. So why are Covid-19 cases spiking?
It was supposed to be Latin America's bright spot in the fight against Covid-19. Chile, a country of 19 million on the Pacific coast of South America, had gotten a head start on vaccines by making agreements with pharmaceutical companies only months into the pandemic. By the beginning of this year, Chile had reached one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, while other countries in the region had yet to get any vaccines.
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Elite NYC Chef Duo Joins Forces to Announce HUNGRY Launch
Chefs Tom Colicchio and Brandon Crowe announce the launch of HUNGRY NYC, offering their fellow chefs access to industry-shattering income stream.
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Hunter Biden's lawyer seeks Treasury inspector general, congressional ethics inquiries as part of strategy to strike back at detractors
Hunter Biden's lawyer is asking for the Treasury Department's inspector general and the Office of Congressional Ethics to launch inquiries as part of a broader aggressive strategy to strike back at detractors of President Joe Biden's son.
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Senate Democrats introduce legislation aimed at decreasing use of federal force in Portland and other cities
Oregon's two Democratic senators are pushing legislation that aims to scale back the use of federal law enforcement agents against protesters in Portland and other cities, as well as prevent agents from making arrests without displaying clear identification.
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Chevrolet Suburban First Vehicle To Receive Award Of Excellence Star At Hollywood & Highland
Iconic vehicle starred in more than 1,750 films and television series since 1952
Today, the Chevrolet Suburban became the first vehicle ever awarded an Award of Excellence star at Hollywood & Highland. Presented by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and unveiled at a ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard, the award recognizes Suburban for its 67-year career in Hollywood film and television.
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Don’t expect the stock markets to rejoice about the debt ceiling deal
You’d expect the stock market to surge after the White House and House Republicans reached a tentative deal to raise the debt ceiling, but markets may have other plans.
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Future of STEM Scholars Initiative Announces 2023
Leading HBCU scholarship program to provide 132 incoming college freshmen $40,000 awards
Representatives of The Future of STEM Scholars Initiative (FOSSI) today welcomed 132 new scholarship recipients from 26 states across the nation. The students will begin school at 26 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) this Fall and will major in more than a dozen science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. They join nearly 300 current FOSSI scholarship recipients.
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Refugee Services of Texas Welcomes New CFO with Track Record of Non-Profit, Humanitarian Success
Refugee Services of Texas, one of the state’s leading refugee resettlement programs and supporters of human trafficking victims has announced David McKeever Jr. will take over as the organization’s new chief financial officer. McKeever is a highly respected and talented financial professional who has made his mark in a variety of non-profit sectors across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
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"The First, The Few, The Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America" by Deepa Purushothaman
There's no one like you. For most of your life, you've been told how unique you are, how wonderful, how important, all true. You're one of a kind, singular, you're like no one else on Earth. And in the new book, "The First, The Few, The Only" by Deepa Purushothaman, that probably goes at work, too.
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Giving Without Conditions: AAWCCO Celebrates 20 Years
Anne Frank was once noted as having said, “No one has ever become poor by giving.” Let it be known that petitioning for others is what causes the breakthrough. And in a world where we can candidly agree that a lot of negativity is being cultivated all around us there exist people who are fixated on creating an atmosphere and a complexion of hope and perseverance via scholarship and fundraising.
