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Introducing The Houston Healthcare Initiative CO-OP Podcast
For media interested in learning more about this unique healthcare pay method, there is a podcast with Dr. Steven Goldstein where he discusses the co-op, what inspired it and how to get started. To listen please go to: https://bit.ly/2NR3RNs.
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Viola Davis Premieres On OWN: Friday, April 16 • 9PM
OWN announced today “OWN Spotlight: Viola Davis” to air Friday, April 16 at 10 pm ET/ PT on OWN. Continuing conversations surrounding issues impacting Black lives, Oprah talks to Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award-Winning actress Viola Da- vis about her role as fearless blues singer Ma Rainey in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” available on Netflix now. In the film, tensions and temperatures rise at a Chicago music studio in 1927 when fiery blues singer Ma Rainey joins her band for a recording session.
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Pray for Nature
Young Kenyan Artists Release New Music Video To Stop Deforestation
Kenya’s rising rap stars, Anderson Mwakazi (aka Harshkid Luckystah) and fellow artists Benard Kaisa (aka Benkaizah) and Simon Mwanjala (aka Popsodah) released ‘Pray for Nature,’ a new music video with an urgent message for the world about the Climate Crisis and the critical need to stop forest destruction.
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A capacity crowd came out to represent for H-Town at Art, Beats and Lyrics event at Minute Maid Park. Presented by Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey, …
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Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Lake Mead in Nevada on Monday. A boater gets an up-close view the "bathtub ring" that is visible at …
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Reality TV personalities Julie Chrisley, left, and Todd Chrisley visit Hallmark's "Home & Family" on June 18, 2018. The "Chrisley Knows Best" stars were on …
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Katlynn Simone BET's The Game
BET's The Game Katlynn Simone, a Houston Native sat down with Jo-Carolyn Goode of Houston Style Magazine. She talked about her debut single "Let Me Go", upcoming movie roles, TV roles, and her beginnings in Houston! Visit www.katlynnsimoneworld.com and keep up with @KatlynnSimone on twitter and IG. #KatNation
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Amanda Edwards Announces Run for 18th Congressional Seat
Photography by Vicky Pink On June 19, 2023, Amanda Edwards announced her intentions to represent …
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Nigerian leader favors negotiation over military action to help free schoolgirls
Nigeria is negotiating for the release of schoolgirls abducted last month from the town of Dapchi rather than taking military action, President Muhammadu Buhari said.
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Jim Crane Ownership Group Leads Opening of West Palm Beach Hilton Garden Inn
A group led by Astros Owner and Chairman Jim Crane and Hilton Garden Inn announced today the opening of Hilton Garden Inn West Palm Beach at the Outlets. This unique hotel is located at 1675 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33401 and is located just off the exit 71 on I95, only five miles from the Astros Spring Training home, FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches.
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Commissioner Rodney Ellis to Vote for $7.7M Funding to create Maternal and Child Health Program
Program Aims to Prevent Maternal Morbidity and Infant Mortality
Today at Commissioners Court, Commissioner Rodney Ellis will unveil details on the Maternal and Child Health Program, a proposed pilot program to improve maternal and infant health in Harris County.
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'The Grandmother of Juneteenth' visits Milwaukee
"The Grandmother of Juneteenth" paid a visit to Milwaukee on Friday, Feb. 24.
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Roger Federer: Swiss star to skip French Open
For French Open fans the news isn't good. Roger Federer is skipping the entire clay-court swing, meaning he will miss Roland Garros for the third straight year.
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Oklahoma and Kentucky teachers are walking out en masse. Here's what they want
This is about much more than teachers' salaries. Tens of thousands of Kentucky and Oklahoma teachers were ditching classrooms Monday to rally at their state capitals, demanding more education funding for students.
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Cruz, Sanders to Debate Tax Reform in CNN Town Hall
As the Senate gets ready to make a major move on tax reform, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont will participate in a CNN town hall debate Wednesday night to discuss efforts to overhaul the tax code.
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Rice engineers: Make wastewater drinkable again
Model shows recycling could dramatically slash cities’ need for fresh water resources
Delivering water to city dwellers can become far more efficient, according to Rice University researchers who say it should involve a healthy level of recycled wastewater.
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Poll: Trump and GOP Never Intended to Strike a Bipartisan Tax Deal
As Republicans rush their tax bill to the House and Senate floors for a final round of votes, a new poll shows that Americans do not believe that the GOP, in crafting the controversial legislation, reached out in good faith to Democrats.
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BMW i Ventures Leads Investment in Autonomous Forklift Company, Fox Robotics
BMW i Ventures announced today their lead investment in Fox Robotics, the world’s first intelligent forklift that can autonomously unload pallets from the trailer to the receiving dock. The oversubscribed funding round totals $20M. Additional new investors include Zebra Technologies, Japan Airlines & Translink Innovation Fund and Foothill Ventures. Existing investors Menlo Ventures, ENIAC Ventures, and SignalFire also participated in the round.
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Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Pearlman Foundation opens May 21 at the MFAH
The exhibition will present signature paintings and sculptures from the distinguished Henry & Rose Pearlman Foundation Collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern Art
In the late 19th and into the early 20th century, European artists’ ability to travel along newly industrialized railway lines, and cross paths and share ideas, led to the transmission and evolution of varied artistic styles. Impressionist and PostImpressionist Masterpieces from the Pearlman Foundation will present 38 outstanding works from the renowned collection assembled in the second half of the 20th century by New York collectors Henry and Rose Pearlman. Paintings and sculptures by Cézanne, Manet, Degas, Gauguin, van Gogh, Pissarro, Toulouse-Lautrec, Modigliani, Soutine, Lipchitz and others will be seen within the context of their experience of transience – regional, national, and international. It will explore the friendships the artists developed in Paris, as well as the many varied locations and sites that shaped their work.
