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Legacy to Host HIV Testing Fair for National HIV Testing Day on June 27
Saturday, June 27 is National HIV Testing Day. To honor the observance and to help people get tested, know their HIV status, and get linked to care and treatment, Legacy Community Health will be offering free HIV testing to the general public at three Houston locations.
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From Corvette To COVID-19 Response: How 3D Printing Transforms Technology for General Motors
Additive manufacturing allowed GM to pivot from making vehicles to COVID-19 medical devices and supplies in days, not months
General Motors typically relies on 3D printing to help launch new vehicles, such as the first-ever mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette. During the COVID-19 outbreak, the same technology played a critical role in helping the team transition from making vehicles to medical devices in a matter of days.
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General Motors additive manufacturing team members working at the still-under-construction Additive Innovation Center. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger for General Motors)
Published on June 24, 2020
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We Stand Together: Finding a Better Way to End Racial Inequity Starts Today
Ed Tech Leader K12 Inc. to Invest $10 Million in Scholarships, Provide Free Curriculum, and Create National Forum on Race in Education
In the midst of protests across the country driven by the death of unarmed Black Americans George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless others, K12 Inc.—the nation’s leading provider of online and blended education—is committing to a series of initiatives that support racial and socioeconomic equity and inclusion in and through education.
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What Kind of Principal Turns Around A Failing School? A Visionary Change-Maker/Activist From Houston
Heroes live among us but are so busy “saving the world” that they often exist under the radar and go unrecognized. Luckily for us, legendary educator/activist and author, Dr. Bertie Simmons wrote it all down in a memoir that spans her life before, during and after the turning around of a failing school - and not without controversy.
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New Virtual Event Service Helps Couples Create Memorable and Professional Live-Streamed Weddings
A new virtual event service launches just in time for Summer weddings. Our Virtual Event (www.OurVirtualEvent.com), the brainchild of two wedding industry veterans, provides couples with a professional service to host their special event online during social distancing. The service provides pro lighting and sound equipment, live technical set up and support, live editing, guest experience packages and virtual wedding planning to create an engaging and interactive experience.
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Rice professor attracts grant to study magnetism
DOE Early Career award to physicist Ming Yi backs experiments on 2D materials
The Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences has awarded Rice University experimental physicist Ming Yi a five-year grant to explore the details of magnetism in two-dimensional materials.
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New Test to Determine Protective Immunity to COVID-19 Now Available through Partnership between Ethos Laboratories and ARCpoint Labs
ARCpoint Labs, the diagnostic testing lab franchise with nearly 100 locations across the U.S., including Tipp City, is partnering with Ethos Laboratories to bring a brand new test to market that measures protective immunity to COVID-19.
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GM Ranks as Top Automotive Corporation in J.D. Power’s 2020 Initial Quality Study
GM has the highest ranked vehicle in IQS and wins top plant quality award
GM is the highest ranked automaker of 15 companies surveyed in the J.D. Power 2020 Initial Quality Study. The 2020 Chevrolet Sonic achieved the best score of any model in the study, and GM’s Yantai Dongyue North in China won the J.D. Power Platinum Award for plant quality as the highest ranked automotive manufacturing facility in the world.
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Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Awards Historic $100,000 Founders' Centennial Scholarship
Zeta celebrates 100 years with largest single recipient scholarship awarded by a historically Black Greek-lettered sorority or fraternity
Cayla Withers, a recent graduate of A.L. Brown High School in Kannapolis, NC, was awarded Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated's Triumphant Founder Arizona Cleaver Stemons Centennial Scholarship in the amount of $100,000 on June 19, 2020. The surprise presentation was recorded on news channel WSOC-TV.
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Loni Love Shares Commends Grassroots Activists of Civil Unrest and Talks About Her Experience with Racism
During her first-ever appearance on ABC's "The View," Emmy & 2x NAACP Image Award winning talk show host Loni Love shared her experience with racism as a college student and what will prompt change in America.
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Local JA Southeast of Texas Teens Win 2020 Junior Achievement Company of the Year Title
Teen entrepreneurs take national title by creating a reusable bamboo straw kit, as part of their sustainable lifestyle brand company
On Thursday, June 18, Junior Achievement USA® (JA) named the teen entrepreneurs who created the student-run start-up EVO (Elkins Very Own) from Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas as winners of the 2020 JA Company of the Year. The team was selected from among 15 competing student companies representing JA operations across the country.
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Kolache Factory Corporate Stores Re-Close Dining Rooms Effective Immediately
Effective immediately, dining rooms and restrooms at all corporate-owned Kolache Factory restaurants will be closed. For the safety of employees and customers, Kolache Factory stores will move back to carry-out, curbside, or drive thru service only.
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Missouri Ranked #1 for Black Homicide Victimization
95 Percent of Black Homicide Victims in Missouri were Killed with Guns
For the fourth year in a row, Missouri has the highest black homicide victimization rate in the nation with a rate of 57.30 per 100,000 — nearly triple the national black homicide victimization rate and 11 times the overall homicide rate nationwide — according to a new analysis by the Violence Policy Center (VPC).
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‘Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom’ Spotlights Georgetown University Students and the Case of Terrel Barros
Imprisoned in 2013, Barros Has a New Hearing This September
Today, Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom takes on the case of Terrel Barros – a case so powerful that it attracted the attention of the students of the “Making an Exoneree” course at Georgetown University.
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Springer Nature Group Donates $50,000 to The HBCU Foundation
The HBCU Foundation, a Columbus, Ohio-based nonprofit whose aim is to provide scholarship aid to deserving students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities, announced on Monday, a $50,000 grant from the leading academic publishing company, Springer Nature.
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ABC13/KTRK-TV Houston to Host Virtual Town Hall to Discuss Violence Against Transgender Women of Color
Virtual Town Hall Airs Thursday, June 25 (7:00 – 8:00 p.m. CDT)
Stream Live at ABC13.com, ABC13's Facebook Live and YouTube and ABC13's connected TV apps on Amazon FireTV, Android TV, Apple TV, Roku
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Krishnamoorthi and Tlaib Investigate Potential Abuses in Treasury Department’s Opportunity Zone Program
Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, and Subcommittee Member Rashida Tlaib sent a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin requesting documents about the Opportunity Zone program established by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston (BGCGH) just launched its new teen social justice initiative called Be The Change You Want 2 See (#bethechangeBGCGH). …
Published on June 23, 2020
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Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston launches new teen social justice initiative
Be The Change You Want 2 See
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston (BGCGH) just launched its new teen social justice initiative called Be The Change You Want 2 See with three events last week to educate and inspire teen Club members to be catalysts for social change and racial justice in Houston and our nation. The objective of the initiative is to amplify youth voices and activism through critical and intentional conversations, artistic expression and service learning projects. The youth-led initiative uses the hashtag #bethechangeBGCGH.
