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After reading heartbreaking Griner letter will Biden act?
Brittney Griner’s appeal to President Joe Biden in a handwritten letter continued to garner reaction…
Karma anyone? Grambling fires volleyball coach
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Texans Helping Texans seeks to recover Winter Storm funds
The business sector is intersecting with activists in an effort to help individuals who suffered…
Houston hosts NBUF National Convention: The Sankofa Flex
The National Black United Front, a grassroots, Pan-African organization working and organizing towards the advancement…
June 2022 was hottest June in Houston history
June didn’t just seem hotter than usual – it was. In fact, it was Houston’s…
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Stacey Abrams on violent crime, defunding the police
Stacey Abrams, who faces Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in a rematch this fall, correctly accused Kemp’s TV ad makers of…
‘Stay tuned’ for new evidence against Trump in July hearings
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Police: Man shot was unarmed, officers feared he would fire
A Black man shot and killed by Akron police officers in a hail of bullets following a vehicle and foot…