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Oprah Signs New $70 Million Deal With Discovery Networks -- Will Continue as CEO of OWN Until 2025

Discovery Communications has completed an agreement with Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo, Inc. to increase its ownership stake in its successful OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network joint venture.

Cartoon Network and Black-owned animation studio launch awards show honoring Black animators

Cartoon Network Studios is partnering with animation house Black Women Animate to establish the Black in Animation Awards Show.

Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity Launches Houston Fund for Guaranteed Income Pilot Program in Houston

110 program participants to receive $4,500 over one-year period Applications accepted May 19 – 25, 2022

Today, the Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity (Houston Equity Fund), along with the support of Mayor Sylvester Turner, announced a one-year Guaranteed Income pilot program in Houston in partnership with Mayors for a Guaranteed Income (MGI). The pilot program will provide $375 per month, totaling $4,500 annually, to 110 program participants in need. The Houston Equity Fund will disperse monthly stipends to Houston’s most underserved and under-resourced individuals with the goal of progressing toward a more equitable and prosperous city.

Houston Texans and Partners Launch $400,000 Grant to Support Social Justice and Racial Equity Initiatives in Houston

The Houston Texans, ConocoPhillips, Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages and Miller Lite announce the Inspire Change Grant

The Houston Texans, ConocoPhillips, Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages and Miller Lite are proud to announce the Inspire Change Grant, which will fund programs, seed projects and create partnerships that support social justice and racial equity efforts in Houston.

Teach for America Receives Three-Year Americorps Grant From OneStar Foundation

Grant Will Help Recruit and Develop Leaders Working for Educational Equity throughout Texas

OneStar Foundation recently announced that it has awarded $550,000 in funding to support Teach For America’s programs in Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, the Rio Grande Valley, and San Antonio over the next three years. This grant is part of $32.7 million that Texas received in federal AmeriCorps funding from AmeriCorps, formerly known as the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).

Great Gobbler Thanksgiving Week at Children's Museum Houston

Fall into Thanksgiving with a fun week stuffed with interactive activities at Children’s Museum Houston! Nov. 20 to 26

Fall into Thanksgiving with a fun week stuffed with interactive activities at Children’s Museum Houston! Nov. 20 to 26 Open Monday! Closed Thanksgiving Day Sponsored by H-E-B

'Ladies Who List' Star, Tiffani Hawes, ESQ., Selects CNBetter Media as Public Relations Agency of Record

Popular reality star, Tiffani Hawes, ESQ., is ready to discuss life after “Ladies Who List,” her legal superpower as #EveryonesFavoriteClosingAttorney as well as new life pursuits in marriage, family

Reality star, Tiffani Hawes, ESQ., has selected CNBetter Media as “Agency of Record” for public relations. Best known as a cast member of the popular reality show, Ladies Who List on the Oprah Winfrey Network, Tiffani is also known as #EveryonesFavoriteClosingAttorney and the successful owner of The Hawes Law Firm, a multi-million dollar legal practice that specializes in residential real estate closings, including home loan closings, refinance closings, real estate contract review and title insurance matters. CNBetter Media will be responsible for managing Tiffani's media relations, securing personal brand partnerships and collaborations, and executing strategic PR campaigns to increase Tiffani's influence, visibility and reach.

5 Things for Friday, June 2: Paris Climate Agreement, Philippines Attack, National Spelling Bee

The latest jobs report comes out this morning. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

Trump's intelligence whisperer prepares for State role

As news of Donald Trump's upset victory flashed across the TV screen in front of him in November 2016, Mike Pompeo watched in astonishment.

As Texas police leader gives an update today on Uvalde school massacre response, victims' relatives urge his ouster

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw is delivering Thursday the first formal, public update to his agency's oversight panel on its officers' actions during the May massacre at a Uvalde elementary school, after first facing victims' families who, furious over the response, are calling for his resignation.

Hakeem Jeffries makes history as the first Black lawmaker to lead a party in Congress

Hakeem Jeffries made history as the first Black lawmaker to lead a party in Congress, addressing the 118th Congress for the first time in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Louisiana juveniles are suffering dangerous heat and isolation in an old death row facility

Children in the custody of Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice being held in a former death row building at an adult prison are suffering dangerous heat conditions and routine isolation in their cells that experts say could cause serious and irreversible harm, according to a federal court filing Monday.

Sen. Durbin: Amend the Constitution to protect voting rights

Last week, John Lewis took his final leave of the US Capitol. He is home, after a long and noble life of service. John deeply believed that the right to vote was "almost sacred." He risked his life in Selma, Alabama, Nashville, Tennessee, and so many other places to protect the right of every American to vote.

Beyond the Rhetoric: Minority Business Programs – How Much is Fake?

Since I was in high school my conscience was about bettering the lives of fellow African Americans. As a teenager I would work at housing construction sites. Spotting drywall and clean up were my niche. At the same time, I would recruit my friends and relatives. Most of the guys would lay around during the summer but I convinced them to make that extra change. Construction bosses loved it because they would pay us less than normal wages even though we could do the work equally as well as grown men. In retrospect, I would wonder how many husbands and fathers we were keeping from making income. That part I regret. We were cheating or as they say now “fronting”.

Facebook, Twitter, Google Defend Their Role in Election

Silicon Valley is settling in to get grilled by Washington. Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google testified before Congress Tuesday in the first of three hearings this week into how foreign nationals used social media to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

Tools for space are food for thought on Earth

Rice engineering students create 3D-printed devices, databases for Mars and beyond

High praise from NASA brought attention to two teams of Rice University students working to make settlements on the moon and Mars more practical.

New federal rule aims to phase out residential furnaces that waste natural gas

President Joe Biden's Department of Energy on Monday will propose a new rule to make residential, natural gas furnaces more energy-efficient. It would be the country's first significant update to furnace standards since the 1990s.

Biden honors 3 Americans killed in Jordan attack

For an American president, it is the gravest of responsibilities: witnessing the country’s war dead return home for what the military calls a “dignified transfer.”

How Democrats miscalculated Manchin and later won him back

It was Friday afternoon, and President Joe Biden was on the phone with Sen. Joe Manchin, the conservative West Virginia Democrat who felt blindsided by his party leaders and now was at risk of defecting and effectively torpedoing a central pillar of the White House's domestic agenda.

WH Communications Director Stepping Down

White House communications director Mike Dubke is leaving the administration, he said Tuesday, amid swirling speculation about a possible Trump staff shakeup.

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