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Celebrating Black Excellence: Lena Waithe, Mona Scott-Young, and More Honored at the 2024 BWFN Summit!
Houston, mark your calendars for an unforgettable event honoring the trailblazing contributions of Black women in film and television at the Black Women Film Network (BWFN) Summit on March 23rd, 2024. Held at the prestigious Loudermilk Conference Center in Atlanta, GA, this year's summit promises to be an empowering celebration of creativity, resilience, and success.
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Manafort trial features Karaoke machines and ponds in the Hamptons
Adding to their portrait of Paul Manafort's wealth, prosecutors on Thursday walked jurors through the hundreds of thousands of dollars the former Trump campaign chairman spent on a karaoke machine, landscaping, home improvement and what a landscaper described as one of the biggest ponds in the Hamptons.
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NASA astronaut launches stop for nothing -- not even a pandemic. Here's how they did it
The wonders of spaceflight never ceased in 2020, despite the pandemic's best efforts.
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Trapped drivers swam out of their cars. A woman died after being swept away by floodwaters. What to know about the heavy rainfall hitting the Northeast
Intense rain and flash flooding that left at least one dead in southeastern New York continued to pelt the Northeast on Monday, forcing residents from their homes and prompting road closures and water rescues.
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Julian Assange staves off extradition to US for now, UK court rules
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has fended off the threat of immediate extradition to the United States after the High Court in London asked the US to provide more assurances.
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Liberty University Alumni Return Degrees in Protest
More than 200 Liberty University alumni have signed on to a Facebook group proposing they return their degrees in protest of University President Jerry Falwell Jr.'s unwavering support of President Donald Trump.
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Houston Native Serves Aboard U.S. Navy Ship Forged From World Trade Center Steel
As the nation prepares to observe the 16th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a 2003 J. Frank Dobie High School graduate and Houston, Texas native is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard a ship built using steel from the World Trade Center.
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Fake Nude Photos Were Used to 'silence me', Disqualified Rwandan Candidate Says
Rwanda may have the highest number of female lawmakers in the world, but one disqualified presidential candidate says it's not so easy for women to make it to the top job in the land.
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Yvette Miley Honored with NABJ's Lifetime Achievement Award
Yvette Miley Chosen as NABJ's 2017 Chuck Stone Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has selected Yvette Miley as the recipient of its 2017 Chuck Stone Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Trump Shadows Over Georgia's 6th District Run-off
As all eyes turn to the race in Georgia's sixth congressional district, voters there will be happy when the run-off election between Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff is over.
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Sessions Opens the Door Again to Privatized Prisons
Next week, March 7, will mark the 52nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the historic march and shocking police riot in Selma, Ala., that helped build public support for passage of the Voting Rights Act.
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Actor DeRon Horton Talks His Acting Stardom And Leading Role In New Netflix Series: “Dear White People”
Houston native DeRon Horton is seeing a solid start to his acting career with a leading role in the upcoming Netflix series “Dear White People.” Raised in Saudi Arabia, the 24-year-old actor has had a unique life of building characteristics that continue to mold his career.
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Hickenlooper attacks Gardner over Supreme Court vacancy in Colorado Senate race
Former Gov. John Hickenlooper attacked Sen. Cory Gardner in a new ad released Wednesday, charging that the Colorado Republican is "ready to rush through a Supreme Court justice at lightning speed" rather than address a host of other issues.
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Cops Who Hate
America can no longer stick its head in the sand to avoid seeing the serious flaws in the culture of American policing.
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Voters appear to back recall of judge who gave Stanford swimmer 6 months for sex assault
Voters in California appeared to hand down a sentence of their own to recall controversial Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky.
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Emmy picks: 'The Americans,' 'Barry' and others that should win, but probably won't
The problem with saying who should win at the Emmys is that such choices inevitably come at the expense of someone else, who often will, and is just as deserving.
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Democrats to force health care vote Wednesday in the Senate
Democrats plan to force a vote Wednesday morning on a bill related to health care coverage of pre-existing conditions and the size and scope of insurance plans, the latest action from the minority party's push to focus on the issue of health care going into the midterms.
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The Ensemble Theatre to be recognized by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the August Wilson Estate during run of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
The Ensemble Theatre celebrates its 30-year revival of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by Eileen J. Morris with Opening Night and Media Reception, Thursday, May 10, 2018, 6:30 p.m. 3535 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002.
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Federal judge rules male-only draft is unconstitutional
A federal judge who ruled the Selective Service System's men-only registration unconstitutional late Friday rejected the reasoning of a 1981 Supreme Court decision, opting for the recent women's rights rationale of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the contemporary court.
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Bernie Sanders – Mysterious and maybe Dangerous
Bernie Sanders just won’t go away. He stays in the political limelight no matter who wins the presidency or which party, Democrat or Republican controls Congress. He is a declared Independent, yet he caucuses with the Democrats.
