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Spend Your Spring Break at this Caribbean Oasis
With spring break right around the corner, Serafina Beach Hotel is welcoming travelers to San Juan, Puerto Rico – the ultimate Caribbean oasis. The perfect stop for your next island getaway, Serafina Beach Hotel offers members of the LGBTQ community privacy and fashionable fun without sacrificing luxury.
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Black-owned tech startup helps you send real greeting cards in the mail without leaving the house.
“The world is pretty bleak right now so it is critical that we are intentional about staying connected to the people we love,” said Culture Greetings’ founder, Dr. Dionne Mahaffey.
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Dog falls off cliff, survives and is barely injured
Meet nine-year-old yellow lab, Lady. She has a very calm temperament, and her owners describe her as the perfect, loving, family dog. Given that smile, it's almost impossible to fathom what she went through a couple of weeks ago.
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Judge rejects plea to release immigrant families in detention due to Covid-19
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a blanket request to release families in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Plan Moves Forward for Temporary Flood Mitigation
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will use “enforcement discretion” if flood mitigation releases for Lake Houston and Lake Conroe exceed annual water rights
Hurricane Harvey deposited tremendous amounts of silt in the West Fork of the San Jacinto River. The silt physically changed the river’s ability to safely pass water flows during storms and created need for a significant dredging project to restore the river’s capacity.
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Houston Tackles Prescription Drug Addiction Amongst Teens with Interactive Online Safety Program
On Tuesday, November 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., Kroger executives and community leaders will launch the Prescription Drug Safety program, an innovative digital course about prescription drug abuse prevention. Taking place at Madison High School (13719 White Heather Drive Houston, TX 77045), the event will introduce an online drug misuse awareness program, which was developed by leading education technology company EVERFI.
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Peace group plans soccer field build in Georgia with refugee children
HWPL, a peace NGO registered with the United Nations, will partner with F.R.E.E. (Friends of Refugees providing Education and Empowerment), a nonprofit organization serving the Refugee Community of Clarkston, to build a soccer field.
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Anderson Cooper and Ina Garten discuss joys of peanut butter and jelly during quarantine
"I have the palate of a five year old," Anderson Cooper tells celebrity chef Ina Garten.
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Renters May Now Have An Easier Time Qualifying for a Mortgage
It’s about to get easier for renters with limited credit history to qualify for a conventional loan. Beginning September 18, 2021, Fannie Mae will have a new feature in its automated underwriting system that will incorporate rent payments with the permission of the loan applicant. Single-family lenders will be able to automatically identify a pattern of recurring rent payments in an applicant’s bank statement during the underwriting process.
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Texas House speaker signs Arrest warrants for 52 Democrats
Republicans in Texas are increasing pressure on Democratic lawmakers to return to the state’s Legislature, threatening they may be arrested if they fail to go back to the GOP-led chamber. State lawmakers voted 80–12 to give law enforcement the authority to track down and force absent Democrats to return to the House of Representatives. Shortly thereafter, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan signed civil arrest warrants for 52 Democrats. The warrants will be delivered to the House sergeant at arms Wednesday morning for service. The lawmakers wouldn’t face criminal charges and could just be taken to the House chamber. “People aren’t going to jail, but they got to come back to work,” Republican state Rep. Mayes Middleton said.
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Mayor Turner Appoints New METRO Board Member
Mayor Sylvester Turner today announced the appointment of Diann L. Lewter to the Metropolitan Transit Authority (METRO) Board of Directors.
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Mortgage rates keep climbing
Mortgage rates continued to rise amid fears of inflation and geopolitical uncertainty. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.42% in the week ending March 24, up from 4.16% the week before, according to Freddie Mac.
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Hertz to buy up to 65,000 electric cars from Polestar
Swedish electric car maker Polestar is selling up to 65,000 electric vehicles to Hertz over the next five years, the companies announced Monday.
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Vicki Meek At What Point Do We Disappear? Black Women’s Obsession with White Femininity
The giclee images stem from an idea I’ve been mulling around in my head for decades. I think it started in the late 1980s when I was asked by a Black woman, upon noticing that I wore my hair natural, “Are you still wearing an Afro?
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5,000 US flights delayed or canceled due to severe storms
More than 5,000 flights across the United States were delayed or canceled Monday after powerful storms ripped through the parts of the country, mainly in the Southeast and the Ohio Valley.
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Houston Style Magazine Spotlights Feed the Soul Foundation's New Executive Director
Feed the Soul Foundation, a national nonprofit organization, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Juana Collins as its Executive Director, effective Monday, May 1. Collins brings over 30 years of nonprofit executive experience, having worked with esteemed organizations such as the United Negro College Fund and the American Red Cross. She expresses her sincere gratitude for this incredible opportunity to contribute her expertise and support the foundation's mission.
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Internal Job Candidates Have a Leg Up
Internal job candidates have an advantage over external candidates, because they tend to work harder shortly before a hiring decision, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin. This is true even when an internal candidate’s skills are inferior.
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Area Law Enforcement Officials Warn Against ‘Street Takeovers’
Four top law-enforcement officials in the Harris County region warned Thursday of severe consequences for those plotting illegal “street takeovers” to promote street racing or reckless driving like recent events in Austin and Houston.
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Inside the White House's Spring scramble to contain the baby formula crisis
Around early May, officials with the US Food and Drug Administration remained largely focused on persistent problems at a shuttered baby formula plant in Michigan. But the White House was growing preoccupied with a problem of a much bigger scale: An infant formula shortage that could balloon to a full-blown crisis.
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Soul Beach Music Festival Hosted by Aruba Goes Platinum Celebrating 20 Years of Luminous Performances
Announcing Iconic Headliners Mariah Carey & The Roots Celebrity Host Deon Cole
Come find your place in the sun and soak up the vibes at the 20th Anniversary of the Soul Beach Music Festival hosted by Aruba unveiling the stellar lineup and superstar performers, Memorial Day weekend, May 20-25, 2020 with main stage concert headliners Mariah Carey and The Roots. Bringing incandescent vocals embodied in glitter and glam to headline Sunday, May 24th, MARIAH CAREY is the best-selling female artist of all time with more than 200 million albums sold to date and 18 Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles (17 self-penned), more than any solo artist in history. Mariah is a singer/song-writer/producer recognized with multiple Grammy® Awards, numerous American Music Awards, Billboard's "Top Female Artist of All Time", Billboard's "Artist of the Decade" Award, Billboard's "Icon Award," the World Music Award for "World's Best Selling Female Artist of the Millennium," and BMI's "Icon Award" for her outstanding achievements in songwriting, to name a few – with her distinct five-octave vocal range, prolific songwriting, and producing talent, Mariah is truly the template of the modern pop performance.
