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I Am Not Your Negro: A Time Capsule Into the Past And the Future
The set up for Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro” is reflective of the times. Baldwin, one of Black America’s foremost voices on race relations in the 1960s to the point he’s been lionized for all time is made to feel as if he’s speaking for the current. No less than five minutes into Peck’s film are we shown various scenes of anguish and protest from Ferguson, Missouri. It’s the film’s biggest allegory that Baldwin’s work, even when originally framed around the deaths of three of his friends can be echoed for all time.
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US box office has record quarter thanks to a string of summer hits
The US box office made a record high of $3.3 billion in the second quarter of 2018.
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An Arizona Transplant Family is Celebrating National Minority Donor Awareness Week: Please Register to be a Life-Saving Organ or Tissue Donor
August 1st - 7th is recognized as National Minority Donor Awareness Week, which was created in 1998 to increase our nation’s consciousness of the need for more organ and tissue donors -- especially among multicultural communities. National Minority Donor Awareness Week honors communities of color who have been donors, and encourages others to register as donors. It is about empowering multicultural communities to save and heal lives by registering as organ and tissue donors.
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The ‘Unlock Your Voice’ Tour Presented by Survivors with Voices
Helping heal wounds that can't be seen.
Even if you haven't experienced mental or physical abuse chances are you know someone who has. It is a widespread issue that affects many, and the purpose of the ‘Unlock Your Voice City’ tour is to encourage those affected to move beyond the pain. This nationwide tour kicks off in Houston on Friday, January 19th through Saturday, January 20th at the Omni Houston Hotel at Westside.
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MTV Studios re-unites with Academy Award® winners Phil Lord and Chris Miller to re-imagine “Clone High” with Emmy®-nominated co-creator Bill Lawrence
Emmy-winning Erica Rivinoja will serve as showrunner and will co-write the pilot alongside Lord and Miller
MTV Studios (part of the Entertainment and Youth Group), a unit of ViacomCBS, announced today that Academy Award and Golden Globe®-winning creators Phil Lord and Chris Miller will reimagine the iconic “Clone High” television series with Emmy®-nominated co-creator Bill Lawrence.
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Adele Proves Being Beyoncé is Anything But a Breeze
There's a lot of things to love about Adele -- not the least of which is her willingness to do on stage what most people would only do in the privacy of their bedroom: their best windswept impersonation of Beyoncé. The Beyhive's most famous member had her Australian concertgoers buzzing over the weekend after she paid tribute to her idol in a brief but delightful moment captured on social media.
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CAREGIVING: Hope And Health For Caregiving Families
After a life-threatening accident stopped her completely in her tracks a few years ago, author Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse and her family came to truly understand that we are all one event from a lifestyle change.
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Memorial Park's Land Bridge Tunnel Preview Party on Saturday, February 5
Opportunity for public to explore and celebrate transformational project before tunnels open to traffic
Memorial Park Conservancy along with project partners the City of Houston, Houston Parks and Recreation Department, Kinder Foundation and Uptown Houston invite Houstonians for a FREE event celebrating Memorial Park’s transformational Land Bridge and Prairie project. Attendees will enjoy an exclusive opportunity to walk through and explore one of the project’s four tunnels before they open to vehicular traffic.
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Historic floods that killed 4 and displaced hundreds force 74 Nebraska cities to issue emergency declarations
The major flooding that left at least four dead in Nebraska and Iowa over the past week is slowly receding in some areas, but rivers likely will be flooded for days more, and additional rain and melting snow are expected to make flooding worse in other parts of the Plains and Midwest.
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Overstock.com is changing its name. It’s one you may recognize
Overstock.com, one of the biggest names in e-commerce, is ditching its name for something just as recognizable: Bed Bath & Beyond.
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Loving Your Enemies
Sermon by Martin Luther King Jr. Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, on 17 November 1957
I am forced to preach under something of a handicap this morning. In fact, I had the doctor before coming to church. And he said that it would be best for me to stay in the bed this morning. And I insisted that I would have to come to preach. So he allowed me to come out with one stipulation, and that is that I would not come in the pulpit until time to preach, and that after, that I would immediately go back home and get in the bed. So I’m going to try to follow his instructions from that point on.
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Moonlight Takes Home Best Male Supporting Actor Trophy at SAG Awards
'Moonlight' star Mahershala Ali gives emotional speech on conversion to Islam and understanding
Last night, the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were given away last night and A24's Moonlight received "Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role" for Mahershala Ali out of three nominations.
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Bike advocates are pushing the city to make Houston’s streets safer after two cyclists died the week of the Super Bowl.
Published on February 14, 2017
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Health officials say that a 71-year-old man died after eating a bad oyster in Sarasota earlier this month.
Published on July 19, 2018
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Minimum wage hikes may harm child health, says Baker Institute expert
Arkansas and Missouri will increase their minimum wage as a result of midterm election initiatives, and additional ballot measures are in the works in other states for 2020.
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U.S. Department of Education Announces Distribution of All American Rescue Plan ESSER Funds and Approval of All 52 State Education Agency Plans
Today, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) announced that every state education agency (SEA) received approval of their American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) plan before the end of December 2021. As a result, the Department has distributed all $122 billion of ARP ESSER funds to all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
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White non-college Americans move away from Trump during shutdown
During the longest government shutdown in US history, President Donald Trump has been losing support among those who may be his strongest supporters -- white Americans who don't have college degrees.
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Simone Biles makes history after title at the US Gymnastics Championships winning a record 8th all-around national
The woman most people consider the greatest gymnast of all time keeps adding to her amazing legacy.
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Former model and young son die in plunge from New York hotel
A 47-year-old former model and her 7-year-old son plunged to their deaths in what the New York Police Department has deemed a murder-suicide. The two were found unconscious after a fall from a New York hotel Friday.
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Trump Unveils New Restrictions On Travel, Business With Cuba
President Donald Trump slammed former President Barack Obama's dealings with the communist regime in Cuba on Friday in Miami, charting his own course of more confrontational relations with the Castro-led government.
