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Congressman Al Green – Along With Congressional Leaders Sheila Jackson Lee, Steven Horsford, Marc Veasey – Calls On Senate to Pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act

Bill Passed by House in June is First-ever Bold, Comprehensive Approach to Hold Police Accountable, Change the Culture of Law Enforcement and Build Trust Between Law Enforcement and our Communities

Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18), Al Green (TX-09), Marc Veasey (TX-33) and Steven Horsford (NV-04) held a call with regional reporters calling on the Senate to take up the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which passed the House in June with bipartisan support. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act reimagines policing for the 21st Century by banning chokeholds, stopping no-knock warrants, combatting racial profiling, eliminating qualified immunity, and mandating data collection, including body cameras and dashboard cameras. A summary of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act is available HERE.

Wine & Spirits Magazine Hosts Inaugural Top 100 Symposium in New York

The Top 100 Wineries of 2019 come to New York in a benefit for NY/NJ Baykeeper.

After 16 years hosting the Top 100 Tasting in San Francisco, Wine & Spirits Magazine now brings the best of the best to New York City. On January 14th, 2020, the Top 100 Symposium invites the New York wine community to meet the winemakers and to taste the top-scoring wines from the Top 100 Wineries of 2019.

YMCA of Greater Houston Food Distribution Sites for the Week of June 15

YMCA of Greater Houston continues food distribution with the addition of two new sites

YMCA of Greater Houston will be distributing food at the following sites for the week of June 15. The YMCA has partnered with the Houston Food Bank, Montgomery County Food Bank, Brighter Bites, Interfaith Ministries and other partners to provide critical food and supplies to thousands of families throughout the city.

METRO Memorial Day Schedule and Weekly Service Updates

In observance of the Memorial Day holiday, METRO will operate the following schedule on Monday, May 25, 2020:

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How Trump and Company Are Gutting Protections

Trump's serial scandals -- Stormy Daniels, the Russian investigation, the Paul Manafort verdict, the Cohen guilty plea, the juvenile tweets -- fill the headlines. Beneath the noise, however, Trump's appointees and the Republican Congress are relentlessly pursuing a radical right-wing agenda that is gutting basic protections for workers, consumers and the environment.

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Gang of Five Justices Ignore Law, Will of Elected Representatives

We are witnessing an astounding attack on democracy by the five male right-wing majority of the Supreme Court -- "black robed rulers," Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan called them, "overruling citizens' choices" in a series of 5-4 decisions.

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What LeBron James Understands About the Presidency and Trump Doesn't

The run-up to the 2018 congressional elections has begun. With 40 Republican representatives deciding not to run again, the party's majority in the House is at risk. President Donald Trump has announced he plans to stump for Republicans across the country, seeking to make the election a referendum on him. Characteristically, a centerpiece of his approach is to use race as a weapon to divide and distract us.

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7 Natural Ways to Care for Your Adrenal Glands

Adrenal glands are thumb-sized glands that sit on top of your kidney and produce over fifty hormones that drive almost every bodily function. These functions are essential to life. The function of the adrenal glands is to release specific hormones into the bloodstream, which then helps regulate your metabolism, immune system, blood pressure, as well as respond to stress.

$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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Council Connection for Monday, June 3

At their Monday, June 3 Regular Meeting, Councilmembers proclaimed the week of June 16-22 as Juneteenth Week; approved an ordinance establishing temporary maximum speed limits and designating locations, dates and times for school zones located within the City for summer school; and passed a resolution designating authorized signatories for contractual documents and documents for requesting funds pertaining to the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Program. Here is a rundown of all Council actions at the meeting:

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GM Secures All Energy Needed to Achieve Renewable Energy Goal 25 Years Ahead of Initial Target

Based on current projections, GM has reached its goal of securing enough renewable energy to power all of its U.S. sites by 2025 As one of the earliest adopters of renewable energy among corporate purchasers, GM has already realized positive cash flows from its portfolio, and expects to continue to do so GM’s long-term investments in local renewable energy projects support grid resiliency, as well as job growth and retention

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TUBI HONORS BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF PREMIUM BLACK CINEMA

ALL-NEW ORIGINAL MUSICAL DRAMA “HOWARD HIGH," AND ORIGINAL MUSIC DOCUMENTARY “PASS THE MIC”

Debuting Friday, February 4, HOWARD HIGH features all-star cast of singers and dancers, including Chrissy Stokes, Anthony Lewis, Earanequa Carter, Lindsay Davis, Veronika Bozeman, Jarell Houston, Christian Gonzalez, Kida Burns, Marques Houston, and award-winning R&B singer-songwriter Keith Sweat.

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Mayor Sylvester Turner Joins Heritage Society to Announce UNESCO’s “Slave Route Project” Designation of Historic Houses as “Sites of Memory”

Mayor Sylvester Turner joined the Heritage Society and descendants of Reverend Jack Yates to make a memorable and significant announcement about three historic house sites located in Sam Houston Park.

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Biden Administration Offers New Plan After Supreme Court Halts Student Debt Cancellation Education Department says alternative SAVE Plan set to begin this July

On June 30, a long-awaited and consequential Supreme Court decision denied forgiveness that would have erased $430 billion of federal student loan balances for 20 million borrowers and lowered the median amount owed by another 23 million borrowers from $29,400 to $13,600.

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2 jackpots – $865 million and $1.1 billion – are up for grabs this week in Powerball and Mega Millions drawings

Lottery players will have more chances this week to win massive payouts as the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots rose to close to $865 million and $1.1 billion, respectively, after there were no winners in the most recent drawings for the two games.

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Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down in wake of ongoing safety problems

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun said Monday he intends to leave the beleaguered company by the end of the year in a major shakeup of the company’s leadership. Boeing’s chairman and the head of the commercial airplane unit are also leaving.

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Trump Goes to Work

"The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action."

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'Trumpcare' Would Send Her to Mexico for Birth Control

All Ariana and Kevin Gonzalez want is birth control. As far as health care needs go, that's pretty simple. But the California couple says that if the Republican alternative to Obamacare becomes law, they'll be driving over the border to Mexico to get it.

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The best of ancient Egypt

Like the legendary curse of the mummy, ancient Egypt refuses to stay buried in the past. Every so often it comes back to life -- in the 1920s with the discovery of King Tut's tomb; in the 1970s with the global tour of those golden masks; and most recently with a flurry of astonishing discoveries using 21st-century archaeological techniques.