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Hurricane Harvey Had Lasting Health Effects On Houston Residents, Study Says
Chemicals released after Hurricane Harvey may have lasting health effects, according to an ongoing study from Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Precision Environmental Health. Cheryl Walker, the center’s director, told Houston Matters that the study comes in response to concern in the community.
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Cyntoia Brown Released After 15 Years In Prison For Murder
Cyntoia Brown, who served 15 years of a life sentence for killing a man when she was 16, has been released from a Nashville prison, Tennessee officials announced.
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American fashion brand sparks outrage over school shooting-themed hoodies
American fashion brand Bstroy has received fierce criticism on social media after displaying school shooting-themed hoodies at a show during New York Fashion Week.
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North Carolina Teen Registered People to Vote As They Waited in Line at Popeyes
All around the country, lines at Popeyes have been non-stop as anxious customers vye for their chance to try their viral spicy chicken sandwich. While appeasing their appetites, 17-year-old David Ledbetter took advantage of Popeye’s longer wait times by registering the hungry crowds to vote.
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Woody Guthrie Center To Honor Rapper Chuck D
Rapper Chuck D is this year’s winner of the Woody Guthrie Prize, an award that recognizes artists who speak out for the less fortunate.
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Dallas GOP Donor Threatens Abbott, Pledges to Make 100,000 Robocalls Defending Confederate Plaque
A Dallas man angry over the removal of Confederate monuments has pledged to call 100,000 Texas households in the next few weeks urging them to contact their elected officials. Dallas businessman and GOP donor Christopher Ekstrom said the Conservative Response Team, a politically active nonprofit he leads, plans to make the robocalls before Jan. 12.
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Taft Alumnus, ‘Black Panther’ Actor Dies
Ronald Glenn "Abongo" Humphrey, an alumnus of Taft High School and actor in the 2018 blockbuster film "Black Panther," has died. A death notice from Dignity Memorial in Georgia shows Humphrey, a married father of three, died Dec. 11 at 41 years old. The notice did not specify the cause of death.
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PVAMU Team Participates in Houston Mayor’s Trade Delegation to Bahamas
Due to the events surrounding the passing of President George H.W. Bush, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner had to cancel his plans to lead the delegation.
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Stepfather of Missing Houston Girl, 4, 'Person of Interest' in Her Disappearance
As desperate searchers combed the landscape Tuesday in a wooded area of a Northeast Houston neighborhood where a man told investigators his 4-year-old stepdaughter was abducted last Friday by three men in a pickup truck, police revealed he's now a "person of interest" in her disappearance.
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St. Peter The Apostle Catholic School Closing
After 77 years of educating children in Houston’s Third Ward, St. Peter The Apostle Catholic School is closing its doors. Houston Public Media reports the superintendent over the archdiocese’s schools, Debra Haney, said that a lot of the decision came down to financial pressure. It’s also a reflection of the toll that charter schools have put on not just public schools, but also parochial schools like St. Peter’s.
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Former Miss Black Texas Sues City, Ex-Chief Over Arrest
A beauty pageant winner has sued a Texas city and its former police chief over an evading arrest charge that was later dropped. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports Carmen Ponder filed the federal civil rights lawsuit Monday in Dallas over her May 2017 arrest in Commerce.
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One of the First Black Woman to Lead a Fortune 500 Company
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. has announced that Mary Winston, a seasoned public company executive who recently joined the Bed Bath & Beyond Board of Directors, has been appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
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Rev. Al Sharpton to deliver eulogy at funeral of Pamela Turner, who was killed by police in Texas this month
Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights leader and founder of National Action Network (NAN), will deliver the eulogy at the funeral of Pamela Turner, a Black woman shot and killed by a police officer on May 13 outside an apartment complex in Baytown, TX. Turner suffered from schizophrenia.
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Bill Would End Confederate Heroes Day in Texas
Four years after he made headlines as the Austin middle schooler who made eliminating Confederate Heroes Day his cause, Jacob Hale returned to the Texas House Thursday in support of a bill he helped inspire.
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Magic Johnson and Ice Cube to Acquire Sports Networks From Disney
Basketball legend and entrepreneur, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, is joining the bidding group of rapper, actor, and entrepreneur, O'Shea "Ice Cube" Jackson Sr. to acquire 21 Regional Sports Networks (RSN) from Walt Disney Co.
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John William King to Be Executed Wednesday for 1998 Lynching In Jasper
John William King is scheduled for execution Apr. 24 in Huntsville. He’s convicted of a murder that many have called a modern-day lynching. In the early hours of June 7, 1998, King, along with co-conspirators Lawrence Brewer and Shawn Berry, picked up James Byrd, Jr. while he was walking home in Jasper.
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McDonald's Makes Black Millennial Consumers Top Priority
The media plan for "Black & Positively Golden," which includes a bigger Instagram presence and messaging centered around empowerment and entrepreneurship, could help McDonald's capitalize on the opportunity.
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Bills Would Make Superintendent Severance Deals Much Less Cushy
School boards superintendents may no longer receive nice severance packages when leaving if the Texas Legislature has its way. Currently, they are reviewing two new bills so that school boards would no longer have the option to give up some state funding in order to get rid of superintendents who have fallen out of favor.
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LeBron James Named Associated Press’ Male Athlete of the Year
Although he’s been sidelined for the next several games with a groin injury, it hasn’t overshadowed the moves LeBron James has made on and off the court.
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Hidden Figure: African-American Mathematician Inducted Into Air Force Hall of Fame
"Hidden Figure" and mathematician Dr. Gladys West has accepted the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers award. West joined the elite list of professionals recognized by the Air Force Space Command just before 2018 came to an end.
