Converse apologizes, pulls new ad after claims of racist imagery
Shoemaker Converse has apologized and pulled a social media ad after it sparked a backlash from people who said the image evoked the Ku Klux Klan and lynching.
Shoemaker Converse has apologized and pulled a social media ad after it sparked a backlash from people who said the image evoked the Ku Klux Klan and lynching.
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Trump and GOP leaders are under pressure to delay the start of Hunt's mission until at least January, so that Hunt's Houston-area district wouldn't have to go without representation before the start of the next Congress....
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Forecast at a glace: Hot and humid conditions will continue into the beginning of the week. Stray sea-breeze showers and pop storms will return to the forecast again on Monday. We can’t rule out a few stray showers in the morning as well. A few storms coming early week: A weak fr...
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On Monday's show: Nearly $12 billion in Medicaid funding for Texas hosiptals has been restored. We find out why it was being withheld and what it means for hospitals and patients. And we discuss the role Greater Houston might play in nuclear energy....
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Houston police are trying to piece together a road rage incident involving three vehicles that stretched for miles along the 610 Loop, leaving two people shot and others injured in a crash. A 7-year-old child was inside one of the vehicles during the incident. Police said an arme...
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Reporting Highlights Increase in costs: Houston ISD is spending millions to pay for academic reforms, including more staff, higher salaries and new equipment. At half of the district’s schools, HISD spent an extra $700,000 per campus and about $2,200 more per student. Dropping en...
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Episode: 3409 We trace the long life of a silly helmet. Today, a puzzling headpiece.
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What if “The Matrix” wasn’t really about humans trapped in a computer simulation? What if it were warning us about a society so filled with contradictions that people stop questioning them? No, we’re not talking about dodging bullets in slow motion. We’re talking about dodging fa...
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This article was originally written by Willie Blackmore for Word In Black. For Black homeowners, protecting the family home can come with a hidden surcharge. In Michigan, homeowners in predominantly Black neighborhoods pay an average of 74% more for the same homeowners’ insurance...
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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has eliminated “disparate impact” as a basis for Title VI discrimination complaints. This means a policy’s unintentional racially disproportionate effects no longer constitute an independent basis for a Title VI violation...
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The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) recently entered the growing debate over artificial intelligence data centers with a position that is neither an outright embrace nor rejection of the technology. The coalition, which says it represents 150,000 African American and Lati...
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There was a time when a whole city tuned into the same radio station, rented from the same video store, and argued over the same album drop. That shared experience is disappearing, and Houston’s Black Millennials and Gen Z say they’re growing up in two different cultural worlds b...
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In his first television interview since the case against Lindsay Clancy ended in a mistrial, Patrick Clancy revealed he had forgiven his former wife for the deaths of their three children, saying he did so while still holding his dying infant son....
