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Negro League Baseball is Back with the Official Launch of the National Urban Professional Baseball League — Opening Game is on May 25th
Thanks to the National Urban Professional Baseball League, the rebirth of Negro League Baseball will take place with opening day on May 25, 2018 in Laurel, Mississippi at 7pm as the Vickie Pasley All-Stars (the first African American woman to have a professional baseball team named after her) will take on the Josh Gibson All-Stars.
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New website gives specific location of COVID-19 cases in Fort Bend County
Fort Bend County today launched an updated website that gives the exact zip code, precinct and jurisdiction of people who test positive for COVID-19. To see the data, go to the response hub and look at the map on the right side of the dashboard. The map lands on cases by zip codes. Underneath the map, there is an arrow to toggle to jurisdiction and precinct.
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AFT’s Weingarten on Settlement of West Virginia Teachers’ Strike
Statement by AFT President Randi Weingarten on the recent decision by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice to increase teacher and school service personnel salaries, end the attacks on seniority and paycheck deduction, and launch a task force to improve the state’s public health insurance program:
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R&B Singer-Songwriter Chantaul Williams Partners With Houston's Own Signature Sipz For Chan Wine
R&B Singer-Songwriter Chantaul Williams partners with Celebrity Beverage Pioneer, Hope Foster, CEO of Signature Sipz, LLC. to create a delicious wine blend called Fruit Bliss launching in April 2021.
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Pentagon Sends ISIS Options To White House
The Pentagon has sent the White House the expected preliminary options for accelerating the fight against ISIS that President Donald Trump ordered 30 days ago, according to a US official.
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Trump Pick to Lead HHS to Face Senate Committee
President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, will appear before a Senate Health Committee panel Wednesday, where he'll likely face tough questions about his ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
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US Officials: Info Suggests Trump Associates May Have Coordinated With Russians
The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign, US officials told CNN.
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$130M Bush Combat Development Complex construction begins at Texas A&M System RELLIS Campus
Texas A&M University System, U.S. Army and Army Futures Command (AFC) officials and the Bush family were on the RELLIS Campus today for the official groundbreaking and naming of the new Bush Combat Development Complex (BCDC), named in honor of former President George H.W. Bush.
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'We're not keeping up': Biden administration scrambles to house children crossing the US-Mexico border alone
The Biden administration is racing to find space for the growing number of families and unaccompanied children crossing the US-Mexico border alone, which may include opening more temporary facilities and providing federal funding for Covid-19 testing.
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Behind Biden's forays into election predictions, an eye on bucking history even as Democrats fret
President Joe Biden's noticeably sharpened political message is rooted in an intentional effort to ramp up the stakes of a midterm election campaign in its closing days, advisers say.
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Stories of Survival Tour Launches in Houston as part of Hurricane Harvey Peoples’ Tribunal
Hurricane Harvey’s impact on Houston - one of the nation’s largest petrochemical complexes - is still being felt today. To elevate the stories of those directly impacted and amplify community driven solutions to climate fueled disasters, a collaborative of organizations is launching the Stories of Survival Tour one year after the storm made landfall, August 25th, 2018 at NuWaters Co-op (2320 Elgin Street in the 3rd Ward) from 6pm - 10pm. The evening will include solar powered film screenings, a free community dinner, participatory storytelling, and music by the Houston-based international music collective Free Radicals.
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Bail set at $2 million for suspect in Trader Joe's standoff
Los Angeles police identified the suspect in Saturday's deadly armed standoff at a Trader Joe's grocery store as Gene Evin Atkins.
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Super Bowl ticket prices dropped; still cost a fortune
Ticket prices for this year’s Super Bowl have dropped since last week, but it still might require hitting a casino jackpot to afford it.
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Sutherland Springs Church Shooting: What We Know
A gunman killed at least 26 people and injured about 20 others at a Texas church Sunday morning in what Gov. Greg Abbott said was the largest mass shooting in state history.
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Democratic Rep. David Price of North Carolina will not run for reelection in 2022
Democratic Rep. David Price of North Carolina announced on Monday that he will not seek reelection in 2022.
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A father of 5 is among at least 38 dead connected to the Kentucky floods
Gabriel Hensley, a father of five who stopped to help an injured driver and was later swept away by floodwaters himself was found dead this week, as the storm damage across eastern Kentucky complicates efforts to find the many people still unaccounted for.
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The Black Music Project Is Live
Extensive Online Exhibit Chronicling the History of Black Music Goes Live Launches
The Black Music Project, an extensive, engaging interactive exhibit to celebrate, promote and preserve the history of Black American music has launched on www.blackmusicproject.com.Vibrant and Vital Interactive Archive Launches During June's Black Music Appreciation Month.
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PlayStation 5 review: The exciting upgrade we hoped for
Sony's new PlayStation 5 comes out on November 12, and it's been hotly anticipated by gaming enthusiasts.
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Black Girls Code Organization Receives $255K in Funding From General Motors
Black Girls Code, a non-profit organization that aims to increase the number of women of color in the digital space, has announced a partnership with General Motors, which includes a generous donation of $255,000.
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Jeff Sessions is Doing What President Trump Can't
His White House in a perpetual state of soap operatic turmoil, President Donald Trump could very well enter 2018 without a single major legislative victory to his name.
