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Houston Furniture Bank awarded $1.5 million Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund grant to aid Hurricane Harvey families
Houston Furniture Bank has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund administered by the Greater Houston Community Foundation to provide essential furniture to families affected by the storm. The grant will make it possible for Houston Furniture Bank to provide furniture to 2,000 families to help them recover, expanding the nonprofit’s ongoing efforts to ensure that no child has to eat or sleep on the floor.
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“My Love Story” by Tina Turner (with Deborah Davis and Dominik Wichmann)
Just wait. Two words that are impossible to hear, especially if you have big plans. Hold on, don’t veer off-course, work the plan, hard as it may be. Just wait. As in “My Love Story” by Tina Turner, good things really do come to those who do.
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Wells Fargo Closes $700 Million Loan Supported by Properties in Hawaii, Texas and Maryland
Credit facility to The Howard Hughes Corporation® will provide capital and refinance properties
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) announced it has closed a $700 million syndicated loan facility to The Howard Hughes Corporation® (HHC), a publicly traded company that owns, manages and develops commercial, residential and mixed-use real estate throughout the United States, including a portfolio of acclaimed master planned communities.
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Agriculture Sec. Sonny Perdue: Florida governor's race 'so cotton-pickin' important'
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue described the stakes of the Florida governor's election on Tuesday as being "cotton-pickin' important" at a campaign event on Saturday for Republican Ron DeSantis.
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Michelle Obama Urges NAACP Supporters to Get Out and Vote on Election Day
Former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, joins NAACP, the nation’s largest civil rights organization, in its civic engagement campaign to increase African American voter turnout on Election Day, November 6.
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'Boy Erased' leaves mark with tale of gay-conversion therapy
There's plenty of big-name talent in "Boy Erased," including the Australian triumvirate of Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and director-writer-co-star Joel Edgerton. The film, however -- based on Garrard Conley's memoir about his experience with gay-conversion therapy -- largely belongs to Lucas Hedges, in a movie that doesn't oversell its message in exposing the damage such intolerance can inflict.
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These are the victims of the Florida yoga studio shooting
Police have identified the women who were killed Friday when a gunman stormed a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, and opened fire.
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Tallahassee gunman reported for harassing women, police say; records show groping case dropped
The man suspected of shooting two women at a Tallahassee, Florida, yoga studio had been accused of harassing women in the area, according to police, and reportedly made misogynistic remarks on YouTube videos.
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Kavanaugh won't make traditional walk down court steps due to security concerns
Justice Brett Kavanaugh will not participate in the tradition of walking down the marble steps in front of the Supreme Court following his formal investiture ceremony next Thursday, the Supreme Court announced, citing security reasons.
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Beto O’Rourke’s Election Night Watch Party | Houston
Over 2,000 supporters expected for O’Rourke’s Houston area watch party.
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Police tape surrounds the Tree of Life synagogue. On Friday, Pittsburgh's Jews worshiped there anyway
With police tape marking the barriers of their makeshift congregation, members of this city's grieving Jewish community welcomed the Sabbath outside of the Tree of Life Synagogue on Friday evening, an emotional act of worship and defiance just six days after the synagogue witnessed the worst anti-Semitic attack in American history.
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Myrtle Jones Private UNCF Reception
Photography by Vicky Pink- Myrtle Jones invited friends and supporters to come shop for a …
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Ava DuVernay 'Honored' to Be Making Prince Documentary
Ava DuVernay is turning her lens on the life of Prince. The famed director of "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Selma" is doing a documentary about the legendary musician, according to Deadline.
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Ntozake Shange, ‘For Colored Girls’ Playwright, Dies at 70
Playwright Ntozake Shange, who wrote the 1975 Tony-nominated play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” died Saturday in Bowie, Maryland, according to her family.
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Texas A&M University Project Will Document Post-Civil War “Freedom Colonies” that Existed Throughout Texas
Andrea Roberts, assistant professor of urban planning in the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University, has started a project to provide comprehensive documentation of the so-called “Freedom Colonies” in Texas.
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Waller County Voter Suppression Continues Against Students at Prairie View A&M University
Waller County once again voted to deny students at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) equal and accessible access to vote on campus in the first early vote week of the midterm election.
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Wiggins Named One of Time’s 50 Most Influential People in Health Care
Betti Wiggins, HISD’s officer of Nutrition Services, is no stranger to accolades. She was previously featured in a PBS special and her work was also recognized by General Mills, who gave her a Wheaties box emblazoned with her photograph.
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Waller County Voter Suppression Continues Against Students at Prairie View A&M University
Waller County once again voted to deny students at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) equal and accessible access to vote on campus in the first early vote week of the midterm election.
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'Voting while black': How activists are racing to create a midterm 'black wave'
On a drizzly Saturday morning, nearly 200 people gathered in a downtown conference center here for what was billed as a "black joy" brunch -- complete with mimosas, glasses of sweet tea and plates of fried chicken and waffles.
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What Democrats think of Pelosi's 'transitional' pitch
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is billing herself as a "transitional" speaker who would bridge the current generation to the next, hoping to alleviate lingering concerns among some Democrats uncertain about electing her to the powerful position.
