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Houston Film Fest Announces Panorama Mexico

The 53rd Annual WorldFest-Houston international Film Festival held a launch party for their inaugural Panorama Mexico at the Hotel ZaZa- Memorial City last Tuesday. The mission of the festival is to recognize and honor outstanding creative excellence in film adding to the rich cultural fabric of the City of Houston.

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Sofia Vergara shoots down claim Ellen DeGeneres was being racist

Ellen DeGeneres has been getting some bad press lately, but Sofia Vergara is saying she's not a part of that.

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TSU Partners With Entertainment Expert to Create New Entrepreneurial Institute

The Office of Continuing Education (OCE) has partnered with music and business leader Mathew Knowles to create the Mathew Knowles Institute (MKI). The Institute’s entrepreneurial, entertainment and music business courses are designed to teach students a range of practical skills necessary to succeed in today’s competitive global marketplace.

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Rebecca Morris: The Ache of Bright - January 11 --- March 16, 2019

Since the early 1990s, the Los Angeles-based artist Rebecca Morris has explored the vast visual language of abstract painting. Inventing an extensive array of original forms, compositional rules, and improvisational associations, Morris creates highly considered images that simultaneously construct and disassemble themselves. Varying widely in scale and density, her paintings are both unpredictable and precise, often featuring an ebullient cacophony of hues, patterns, layers, and gestures.

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Best Buy says it was hit by same data breach as Sears and Delta

Best Buy said on Friday that some of its customers' credit card information may have been compromised in a data breach that also hit Sears and Delta Air Lines.

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Ars Lyrica Houston Presents a Day with Marie Antoinette

Ars Lyrica Houston presents the Artful Women season finale with A Day with Marie Antoinette on Saturday, May 19th at 7:30 pm in Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. The musical program will conjure up an artful day chez France’s most famous queen, from intimate morning music lessons to a spectacular evening concert.

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Statement of Claude Cummings, Regional Vice President of CWA on NFL Owners’ Effort to Mandating to Stand During the National Anthem

It’s disappointing that the National Football League has decided to mandate how free Americans express patriotism and love for our country. Mandating how grown men show respect and appreciation for living in a free country not only disrespects those men but fails to recognize what our flag and our anthem really represent.

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Model, Lifestyle Guru And Entrepreneur B. Smith Dead At 70

Lifestyle guru, actress & model B. Smith has died. Smith’s husband made the unfortunate announcement on his Facebook page this morning. B. Smith’s legendary career started as a model in the 1960s. Smith made news as the first Black woman to be featured on the cover of the young woman’s magazine Mademoiselle.

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#MillionMaskChallenge Launched By Sew It Online

Sew It Online, a family-owned and operated sewing & craft shop, is the epitome of the American spirit and even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rewind to early March, hospital administration at University Hospital in Cleveland reached out to the local company that provides education, supplies and machines to the sewing community about filling in the gap with their lack of masks.

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Feeding the Need: Greater Houston Domino’s® Stores to Donate 31,000 Pizzas

Every Domino’s store will give away 200 pizzas within their local communities

Domino’s and its nationwide system of franchisees are banding together during this unprecedented crisis to do something they already do well every day: feed people pizza. Domino’s franchised and corporate stores throughout Greater Houston will donate 31,000 pizzas within their local communities, starting this week.

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Texas CRNAs: Assisting States Hit Hardest By COVID-19

Texas Association of Nurse Anesthetists (TxANA) and Texas CRNAs Answer the Call of States Overrun by the Pandemic

Texas Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are among the many health care professionals on the ground in cities like New York City which are currently being hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. CRNAs have the responsibilities of administering anesthesia and monitoring patients during elective surgeries and procedures, but many have stepped up to assume different roles during the pandemic.

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Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. Donates $50,000 to National Urban League

Funds to benefit the organization's Youth Division

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. will donate $50,000 to the National Urban League to aid the civil rights organization's youth programming, the fraternity announced today.

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SPLC Action Fund Calls for Immediate Removal of Mississippi Confederate Monument

On Monday, July 20, the Black Empowerment Organization (BEO) and community members will call on the Neshoba County Board of Supervisors to eliminate symbols of the Confederacy in public spaces by removing the Confederate monument located in front of the courthouse.

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Joe Biden Tightens Grip on Favouritism for Next US President at 8/11 from 10/11

Trump 10/1 from 16/1 to Run for Presidency in 2024 if Loses November Election

Republican officials throughout the United States of America are betting on Donald Trump to win a second term but the polls, along with the betting, are strongly siding with former Vice President Joe Biden.

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Comcast Houston Is Looking for Hispanic Heroes

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Comcast will soon host its fifth annual Hispanic Hero Awards to honor eight community volunteers from Houston’s Hispanic community. Our honorees will be recognized for their outstanding volunteerism, mentorship, advocacy and/or civic engagement.

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Turkey Leg Hut to Hold Peaceful Vigil for George Floyd Saturday

On Saturday, May 30, 2020, the Turkey Leg Hut (TLH) will hold a peaceful vigil to honor and mourn the loss of George Floyd, the Houston man who was killed Monday in Minneapolis police custody.

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Tropical Smoothie Cafe Giving Away Free Smoothies to Kick Off Summer Vacation

The fast casual concept has pledged to giveaway 1 million free smoothies nationwide

Tropical Smoothie Cafe®, who is in the midst of its campaign to give away 1 MILLION free smoothies to guests nationwide, invites YOU to celebrate the start of summer with a free smoothie. Consumers can head to www.freesmoothies.com to redeem their special smoothie code and receive their free smoothie to kick off summer 2020.

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The New Way to Work Remotely: Work From a Luxury Tent

During these challenging times, connection to the outdoors has never been so relevant or felt so rewarding. Collective Hill Country (located less than an hour from Austin and 90 minutes from San Antonio) offers a new kind of work from home: WFT, work from tent to safely distance yourself from the everyday schedule while having a WIFI secure, outdoor place to work.

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Victory for Elderly & Vulnerable Patients: ERs Now Able to Serve Medicare, Medicaid-Insured

Freestanding ERs gain CMS recognition after a decade of requests

In response to notification by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) that freestanding ERs are now officially recognized healthcare providers eligible for reimbursement for treating Medicare and Medicaid patients, the National Association of Freestanding Emergency Centers (NAFEC) issued the following statement:

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Houston City Council Member Dr. Letitia Plummer Tests Positive for COVID-19

First-term, At-Large, Position 4 Houston City Council member - Dr. Letitia Plummer has been diagnosed with the Coronvirus COVID-19. Statement from Mayor Sylvester