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Mayor named City Leader of the Year by business news publisher Smart Cities Dive

Mayor Sylvester Turned has been named the nation's City Leader of the Year by the national business news publication Smart Cities Dive.

5 things for April 10: Michael Cohen, Syria, Cosby trial, spy poisoning, Facebook

If you want to send a wedding gift to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, hold up. They want you to make donations to charity instead. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

Report of possibly armed man prompts lockdown of medical center in Santa Ana

Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana is on lockdown Tuesday morning after officials received a call of a man possibly armed with a gun in the hospital, police said.

Journalist Shaun King Reveals 1st Part of 5-Part Investigative Series on Corrupt Policing and Arrest Quotas in NYC

A snippet and the link to this brave man’s work is below. Please read and follow this groundbreaking series via medium.com as well as Shaun King (Facebook, Twitter). He is doing so much what needs to be done to root out injustice not only in NYC, but all across the country:

Georgia police officer killed in the line of duty honored -- by jail inmates

Georgia police officer Antwan Toney was honored in many ways after he was killed in the line of duty last month.

Harris Health System Receives Gage Award, America’s Essential Hospitals’ Highest Honor

Harris Health System has received the 2022 Gage Award for Population Health from America’s Essential Hospitals for its home visit program that helps diabetes patients manage their disease, particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic. It marks Harris Health’s second population health program recognized by the national association in consecutive years.

Study sheds light on fatty acid’s role in “chemobrain” and multiple sclerosis

Researchers find lipids responsible for neural function are highly active and not inert as traditionally believed

Medical experts have always known myelin, the protective coating of nerve cells, to be metabolically inert. A study led by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has found that myelin is surprisingly dynamic, a discovery that has implications for treatment of multiple sclerosis and a type of myelin damage caused by some chemotherapy drugs, often referred to as “chemobrain.” Chemobrain can occur in up to 70 percent of patients receiving chemotherapy, leaving them with temporary and even permanent thinking and memory impairment.

Eight International Players Added to Rosters for 2018 Season

Eight teams will carry an additional overseas player on their practice squads in 2018 as part of an expansion of the International Player Pathway program, the NFL announced today.

The BBVA Foundation Award Goes to James Allison, Creator of the First Immunotherapy to Prove Highly Effective Against Cancer

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedicine category goes, in this tenth edition, to American immunologist James P. Allison, whose research, says the jury, "had led to harnessing the immune system to combat cancer in patients and the development of new therapies." Allison was the first to demonstrate that immunotherapy can treat cancer effectively, initiating an approach that "has provided clinical benefit to many cancer patients" and "stimulated the development of a new class of drugs employing the immune system to fight cancer."

Texas Southern University Appoints Highly Experienced Academician as Next Provost

Dr. Carl Goodman is a Distinguished Scholar Committed to Academic Excellence and Student Success

A seasoned higher education administrator and effective champion of faculty and student success will become the new provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Texas Southern University.

Why the electoral battlefield is expanding

The surveys, which point to strong Democratic opportunities to capture Republican-held Senate seats in Arizona and Texas, might prove to be desert mirages by Election Day. But even the prospect of close Senate races in those ordinarily Republican-leaning states, shows how old political alignments are cracking as the parties build new coalitions of support.

Buick Commits to All-Electric Portfolio by End of Decade

Buick debuts new logo and confirms “Electra” EV coming to North America in 2024

Buick is set to embark on a brand transformation that will fully electrify its lineup in North America, led by a new badge and brand identity.

Maryland health care payment model reduces costs and complications, study shows

Maryland’s innovative health care reimbursement model that sets annual caps for hospital services has been shown to reduce costs as well as the incidence of avoidable complications patients experience while they’re hospitalized, according to a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open.

New Documents Reveal FBI Secretly Monitored Protests, Feared 'Black Supremacist' Attack

Newly released FBI and Department of Homeland Security documents reveal federal law enforcement agencies worried that violent “Black Supremacist Extremists” would kill police officers, attack the Democratic National Convention and the cause chaos Republican National Convention.

'Woman King' director Gina Prince-Bythewood says Oscars shutout of her film is a 'very loud statement'

If you're wondering why Gina Prince-Bythewood's film "The Woman King" -- which stars Oscar winner Viola Davis and garnered an A+ Cinemascore -- was shut out of the Oscars race this year, you're not alone.

Pellerin Crowned Miss Black Houston 2017

There is a new jewel in Houston’s crown and her name is Symone Pellerin. Crowned this past weekend on the campus of Texas Southern University, Pellerin is the first Miss Black Houston after the pageant took a more than ten year hiatus.

Jackson Elementary School in Utah, Named for Andrew Jackson, Votes to Rename Itself After Mary Jackson, NASA’s 1st Black Female Engineer

An elementary school in Utah has traded one Jackson for another in a change that many say was a long time coming.

Philando Castile Charity Wipes Out Kids’ Lunch Debt In District Where He Worked

One by one. That’s how Philando Castile, who was killed by a police officer during a 2016 traffic stop, used to help kids who couldn’t afford lunch. The school nutrition supervisor would dip into his pocket and pay the bill.

3 people have died after attacks on Bay Area's public transit system in 5 days

An 18-year old woman was stabbed to death at a public transit station Sunday evening in Oakland, California, marking the third death in less than a week from unrelated attacks on the Bay Area transit system known as BART.

An Inspiring Biography of Merze Tate From Penn Professor Barbara Savage

Born in rural Michigan at the turn of the century, Merze Tate was the first African-American woman to attend Oxford. She also graduated with a doctorate from Harvard, became a leading scholar on diplomatic history, colonialism, and nuclear arms, taught for 30-plus years at Howard, and kept seeking ever more knowledge throughout her life—reading, writing, and traveling the world with her camera. University of Pennsylvania professor Barbara Savage’s new biography MERZE TATE: THE GLOBAL ODYSSEY OF A BLACK WOMAN SCHOLAR (Yale University Press; November 2023) tells the astonishing story of a woman, who, despite living in what she called a “sex and race discriminating world,” never allowed her intellectual ambitions to be thwarted.

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