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The MARCH Foundation Announces $50,000 Gift to Paul Quinn College for Student Scholarships

The MARCH Foundation, a private non-operating foundation, has announced a gift of $50,000 to provide scholarships for deserving students at Paul Quinn College, the nation’s only Urban Work College and Texas’ first HBCU, located in Southern Dallas.

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Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner Lesley Briones Breaks Ground on Westfield Pines and Village Drainage Improvement Project

$6.1 million project to improve flood resilience in community heavily impacted by Hurricane Harvey

Harris County Commissioner Lesley Briones’ office was joined by elected officials and community partners in a groundbreaking ceremony Monday, April 17 that marked the next step in improving street drainage and mitigating flood risks for the Westfield Pines and Village communities. During Hurricane Harvey, 33 single-family residences flooded in the subdivisions.

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Kevin Hart Announces Plant-Based ‘Hart House’ Eateries

Kevin Hart has entered the fast-food industry with the opening of two plant-based restaurants named Hart House.

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3 rappers have been missing for 10 days since their scheduled performance was canceled, Detroit police say

Multiple Michigan agencies are investigating what happened to three local rappers who went missing 10 days ago after a performance at a club was canceled, Detroit police said Monday.

Winter Storm Resource Guide

As power and water outages persist throughout our region over the next few days, Precinct One has compiled a list of resources for constituents to navigate these difficult times. We hope that you are staying warm and safe. The information in this document is current as of 2.17 and will be updated periodically, but please be sure to verify information by visiting websites and making phone calls.

A hospital sought a Black expert's help to diversify. They fired him over his stance on race.

Joseph B. Hill was four days from starting a new position as vice president, chief equity, diversity and inclusion officer at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, when he received an email that changed the trajectory of his career.

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Kamala Harris: Visualizing a Future Never Once Imagined

Barriers are meant to block someone or something from occurring. Just as they are meant to deter, barriers also can serve as motivation for someone to do what has never be done before. For years women have encounter roadblocks in the climb up the political ladder. Despite what was in their way they kept pressing forward, pushing the mark, never losing their focus. Never underestimate a woman who has ever been doubted. She will just smile in your face and say ‘Watch me work.’

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Governor Abbott Presents 2018 Star Of Texas Awards

Governor Greg Abbott today presented the 2018 Star of Texas Awards to peace officers, firefighters and first responders who demonstrated heroism in service to their communities and the State of Texas. The Star of Texas Awards were created in 2003 by the Texas Legislature to honor the men and women who have been killed or sustained injuries in the line of duty.

Scientists advance search for memory's molecular roots

Rice, UTHealth, UH researchers detail architecture of the cytoskeleton in neurons

A new piece of a difficult puzzle — the nature of memory — fell into place this week with a hint at how brain cells change structure when they learn something.

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SpaceX splashdown: Four astronauts to return from record-breaking mission

Four astronauts are on their way home from the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, ending their five-month mission to the orbiting laboratory. The astronauts set a record for the longest time in space by a crew that launched aboard an American-built spacecraft.

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Stages Presents Thunder Knocking on the Door

The finale of Stages’ 2022-2023 season runs June 16–August 6

The finale of Stages’ 2022-2023 season, Thunder Knocking on the Door starts as a deal with the devil and turns into a love story for the ages. This show "asks us what we believe about love, about art, about family and explores the crossroads of all of these ideas,” said artistic director Kenn McLaughlin. "It is a fairy tale. It is the blues. It is highly theatrical and it abounds with pure joy that flashes like lightning again and again.”

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Victim's Family on Arkansas Execution: 'Ready for it to be done'

Darla Jones said she can't imagine what it will be like to watch the man who killed her mother as he is executed by lethal injection on Monday.

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Six Oath Keepers convicted in connection with January 6 US Capitol riot

Six people affiliated with the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia, were convicted Monday of various charges related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol insurrection.

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Premiere Film Release of “Chop Shop: A Community & Law Enforcement Conversation”

A Coalition of San Francisco Organizations, City Agencies, Community Partners and Residents Create a Film Documentary to Foster Dialogue Between Community and Law Enforcement

A coalition of community-based organizations, enterprises, city agencies, and community partners have joined together to create and release, “Chop Shop: A Community & Law Enforcement Conversation”, a film documentary which facilitates and captures constructive dialogue between San Francisco residents of color and law enforcement agencies. The first airing of “Chop Shop” will take place February 16th, at 6:00 PM at the Brava for Women in Arts theatre in the Mission District section of San Francisco.

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Twitter, Bloomberg Partner To Stream News 24/7

Twitter Inc. has found its first partner for its push into round-the-clock streaming television: Bloomberg.

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Man arrested after young child wanders away

Cromwell Police arrested a man after it was discovered that a child who was in his care was found wandering in the road on Sunday.

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Border patrol agents find an abandoned duffel bag -- with a tiger inside it

Border patrol agents are used to seeing many strange things on the US-Mexico border.

Georgia man shot, killed while chasing suspect in attempted car break-in

An Albany man was shot and killed around 5:26 this morning when he chased a suspect who was attempting to break into his vehicle, Albany police said.

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Puzzling Number Of Men Tied To Ferguson Protests Have Died

Two young men were found dead inside torched cars. Three others died of apparent suicides. Another collapsed on a bus, his death ruled an overdose

People For Responds to Federal Hate Crime Verdict in Ahmaud Arbery Trial

In response to the verdict that a jury has found the three white men who killed Ahmaud Arbery guilty on all counts in a federal hate crime trial, President of People For the American Way Ben Jealous, released the following statement: