By Alex Sanz / 11News HOUSTON—This final weekend before Election Day found the four candidates for mayor of Houston on the march and in search of votes. Democrat Annise Parker gave volunteers a Halloween pep talk at her campaign headquarters in the Houston Heights on Saturday. “This has been a marathon, but the finish line is […]
By Sharnell Blevins Via: Elev8.com It’s Friday and its Harvest season y’all. That means the air is now crispy and cool. The weather is no longer burning summer baking hot. It’s time for a little hot chocolate, apple cider, and eating warm cookies from the oven. Coats are being pulled a little closer to the […]
Via:Newsone.com From The Examiner: Princess Tiana, star of the upcoming movie “The Princess and the Frog.” arrived at Disney World on October 26 in royal style, pulling up to Cinderella Castle in a horse-drawn coach. She was welcomed by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and a whole troupe of familiar Disney characters. Tiana, whose movie will […]
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By AllHipHop October 29, 2009 4:30 pm R&B singer Mary J. Blige gave back to her hometown of Yonkers, New York earlier this week, when she opened her new facility, the Mary J. Blige Center for Women. Blige and Hip-Hop mogul Steve Stoute founded the Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now (FFAWN) in 2008, […]
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(From The New York Times) Another Washington dusk, another motorcade, another intimate evening played out in public view. On Oct. 3, just a day after their failed Olympics bid in Copenhagen, Barack and Michelle Obama slipped into a Georgetown restaurant for one of their now-familiar date nights: this time, to toast their 17th wedding anniversary. […]
3rd Annual Texas BigBeat Makes History and Funds Local Music Education HOUSTON (Oct. 9, 2009) – The 3rd Annual Texas BigBeat, a drumming charity event, will occur from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. The event will be hosted by the Houston Airport System at the Bush Intercontinental Airport Services Complex, […]
Defender News Service A long-simmering disagreement between broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Texas Southern University has ended after the university’s governing board agreed to strip Smiley’s name from its communication school. In 2004, Smiley promised to donate $1 million and to raise another $1 million for TSU. The school later created the Tavis Smiley School of […]