Zah’Lahya Walter. Credit: Monica Hicks In the hours after 5-year-old Zah’Layah Walter was shot and killed while riding in her mother’s car, Monica Hicks was grieving her daughter while strangers on social media questioned whether she had somehow caused the shooting. They blamed her, saying she pr...
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Episode: 1633 In which a Cambridge don doubts his own calculus teaching. Today, a mathematician misses the point.
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Madison and Milby met Saturday, September 19th, at Butler Stadium for the first Ray Seals Classic, but the afternoon was about far more than another game on the Houston ISD football schedule. The matchup honored Seals, a legendary Houston Independent School District (HISD) coach ...
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We have enough real things to be outraged about Converse removed the controversial image, saying they got it wrong. The full image shows what they say was their intent. Credit: Converse Converse found itself in hot water after an ad featuring K-pop star Karina went viral for all ...
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Former Texas state Rep. Garnet Coleman, a Houston Democrat who represented the city’s Third Ward and surrounding areas in the Texas House for more than 30 years, died at age 65. His family said he died of natural causes. Coleman was first elected in 1991 and served until his reti...
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Monica Henderson had never seen a Black woman fly a drone for a living until she saw one doing it on her own Facebook feed. That was enough to send her looking for a class. “It was just to draw in the energy of seeing somebody that looks like you in a space that you know absolute...
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Former Texas State Rep. Garnet Coleman, a longtime Houston legislator whose three decades of public service were marked by a commitment to health care, social justice, voting rights, education, and community development, died Sept. 23, 2026. He was 65. Coleman was born in Washing...
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You are going to love the way it feels Friday: Dry air moves in late Thursday, we’ll wake up to a refreshing feel Friday morning. Some cities north of I-10 we’ll start in the 60s! Along I-10 and south we’ll be in the 70s. But even those of us with mild temperatures will feel good...
