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Jesse Jackson

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hicago is one of America’s greatest cities. Yet many of its residents live in terror in what is virtually a war zone. When a demented killer slayed 49 in a gun rampage in Orlando, Fla., there was national attention. Presidential candidates called for escalating the fight against the Islamic State in the Middle East, even though the killer seems to be a homegrown terrorist.

But in Chicago, 404 have died in gun violence this year. According to the Congressional Research Service, the murder rate averaged 16.0 per 100,000 a year from 2010-2014. That is nearly four times the national average of 4.6 per 100,000 and nearly three times the Illinois state average (5.8).

These killings are not randomly d i st ributed. Af r ica n-Americ ans constitute about one-third of Chicago’s residents, but they account for 80 percent of its murder victims.

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hawn Thierry beat Sheila Jackson Lee’s daughter Erica Lee Carter by two votes Saturday, August 6th, to succeed State Rep. Borris Miles and represent Houston’s House District 146. Miles won the Texas rep seat in 2006 by beating Al Edwards in a heated run-off following Edwards’ having had the seat for nearly 30 years.

Thierry will take over representing the district stretches across the city›s southeast and southwest sides, from Sunnyside to Sharpstown, in January 2017.

“Thank you Texas House District 146 Precinct Chairs. This is my birthday. I will make you proud!”

Thierry, a solo practice attorney, southwest Houston native and single mom gushed while hugging her young daughter Klaire, jumping for joy and holding close family, friends and supporters.

Thierry couldn’t hold back tears after the 24 votes were counted in the run-off that resulted in her win at the Sunnyside Multi-Service Center by two votes for the seat Miles is vacating to become the State Senator from District 13 left vacant by Rodney Ellis. In

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Chicago Blues: How Abject Poverty Creates Desperation In a World-Class City The killings are concentrated in endangered communities, communities burdened with abject poverty and deplorable conditions. Desperation and murder are segregated in Chicago.

In West Garfield Park, the average per capita income is $10,951.

More than 40 percent of the residents live below the poverty line, with an unemployment rate greater than 25 percent.

In Englewood, the average per capita household income is $11,993.

Forty-two percent of households live below the poverty line, with an unemployment rate over 21 percent.

In Fuller Park, per capita household income is $9,016, with a majority -- 55.5 percent -- of households living below the poverty line. The unemployment rate is 40 percent.

Washington Park, North Lawndale, Austin, Greater Grand Crossing, East Garfield Park ... the list goes on.

During the height of the Great Depression, the unemployment rate hovered at roughly 20 percent. These neighborhoods are suffering levels twice that, now six years into the supposed recovery.

These are disaster zones in a supposedly world-class city. They look like they are under siege, and to some extent they are. Drugs and guns, violence and despair mark lives condemned to live in these zones.

The war in Iraq -- one the Bush

administration chose to launch -- will end up costing us more than $3 trillion.

And of course, the wars go on -- in Afghanistan, in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, and now the U.S. is beginning to bomb Libya.

But the right now disaster zones in Chicago are ignored. The everyday violence is decried but nothing is done.

The poverty is regretted but there is no plan to attack it.

In fact, national policy does more to expand the divide between endangered communities and affluent ones, between those living in the disaster zone and those living uptown.

A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Enterprise Development details the growing racial wealth gap in America.

They find that without a drastic change in policy, by 2043, when people of color are projected to account for more than half of the U.S. population, the racial wealth divide between white households and African-American and Latino households will have doubled from about $500,000 in 2013 to more than $1 million.

The gap reflects the impact of historic inequities -- from federally sanctioned housing discrimination to private redlining -- but its expansion is fueled in part by tax policies that aid the highest earners while providing the lowest income families with virtually nothing.

Over the past 20 years alone, the report finds, the federal government spent more than $8 trillion through tax programs to assist families in building long-term wealth, including saving for retirement, purchasing a home, starting a business or paying for college. But the impact of these expenditures has been “upside down.” With typical millionaires pocketing about $145,000 in public tax benefits each year to increase their wealth while working families receive a total of $174 on average.

More of the same won’t help.

Adding benefits to the wealthy few -- like Donald Trump’s call to end the estate tax -- will add to the inequity and contribute to the despair. If nothing changes, the desperate zones will get worse. Surely this crisis is worthy of debate in the presidential campaign, and action from the White House and Congress.

You can write to the Rev. Jesse Jackson in care of this newspaper or by email at jjackson@rainbowpush.org.

Follow him on Twitter @RevJJackson.

Thierry Snatches Miles’ State Rep. Seat January 2017, Ellis will succeed Pct. 1 Harris County Commissioner El Franco Lee who died just after New Year’s last January 3rd.

“I am HD 146. I grew up going to elementary school here and then what is now Welch Middle School and Westbury High School and taking my grandmother to programs at this Sunnyside Multi-Service Center,” said Thierry, 47, who went on to earn her BA from Washington DC’ s Howard University and her law degree from Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall. She won the Democratic Primary for District Judge countywide in 2010, lost the general election in November 2010 and last month lost a vote from the county’s Democrat Pct. Chairs county-wide for a new Harris County district judge bench. This time she won.

“I know you. I know you know me,” said Thierry, who cited her having served as a volunteer, mentor and speaker with Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Girls at Risk at Westbury High School, JFK Elementary School and Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church as reasons on her mailer handed to the 100 or so that crowded the auditorium as to

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why she should be chosen over Harris County Board of Education Trustee Lee Carter and retired Willowridge High School teacher Larry Blackmon, who has run multiple times for Fort Bend County Commissioner and for Houston City Council..

Lee Carter brought light blue balloons, disc jockey music, hot fried fish and biscuits to the precincts chairs to coax them to vote for her along with her mother, father and an army of campaign consultants. Self-conscious that it looked like she wanted to be a state representative because her mother is a U.S. Representative, she said in her speech that her legacy is her memory of her grandfathers who fought as patriotic Tuskegee Airman in WW II. Lee Carter also said as an elected

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Democratic Harris County Department of Education Board Member she has fought State Senator Paul Bettencourt and State Rep. Debbie Riddle to keep the board in existence. She added that she would be able to continue to fight for the district in which she showed on her handouts has a per household income considerably less than Texas as a whole.

After one round of voting by raising hands, Thierry had 12 votes, Lee Carter 11 and Blackmon one. Three of the elected precinct chairs said they had hospital emergencies to attend but if they come they were for Lee Carter.

This led to an immediate runoff between Thierry and Carter with a request for a change of voting procedure. Instead of raising hands, precinct chairs stood in line next to their candidate of choice. This time Thierry beat Carter by two votes.

Much of Thierry’s cries to why she should win were based on her theory she could fight the most for change “against the Republican assault of schools and civil rights.”

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NBA Legend Michael Jordan Donates $5 Million to Smithsonian’s New African-American Museum

U.S. Women’s Gymnastics is Best in the World

he Final Five of Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison K o c i a n a n d A l y Team USA Raisman have brought home their first gold for these Olympic Games.

Winning has become second nature for women’s gymnastics as they have racked up multiple world championships and won consecutive gold medals at the Olympics. Breaking the norm of winning by tenths of points, the women’s team ran away with the competition by 8 points lead.

Longtime ESPN Anchor John Saunders Dies CNN/Stylemagazine Newswire

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ohn Saunders, the sports anchor whose baritone voice was a fixture on ESPN programming for 30 years, has died, the network announced We d n e s d a y. H e w a s 6 1 .

The cause of death was not immediately known. Born and raised in Canada, Saunders joined ESPN in 1986 as an Saunders anchor of the network’s flagship program, “SportsCenter.” Saunders filled a variety of roles over his three decades at the network, contributing to ESPN’s coverage of both college football and basketball, the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball. Since 2001, Saunders served as the host of “The Sports Reporters,” ESPN’s

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ichael Jordan is spreading his wealth to benefit the community a lot these days. On the heels of his one million dollar donation to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Jordan has now donated $5 million to the National Museum Jordan of African American History and Culture Museum. The Smithsonian museum said Jordan’s donation is the largest from any athlete and raises their private donations to $278 million. Coupled with federal aid more than $548 million has been raised for the museum.

Latinos Angered By Swizz Beatz’s No Commission Art Fair Latino Loop

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ronx-born Swizz Beatz received criticism for not including Latino artists on his “No Commission Art Fair,” a collaboration between Swizz Beatz and Bacardi, to showcase the borough’s Hip-Hop scene. Bronxbased Latino artists have called for a No Commission / No Bronx Artists Swizz Anti-Party to protest the lack of inclusion of Latino artists from the historically-Latino neighborhood. Some leaders from the Latino music scene have met with Swizz Beatz to address their concerns and he admitted that there could have been more inclusion and is taking steps to create another

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Martha Stewart and Snoop to Premiere in New Cooking Show On VH1 MadameNoire.com

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f you didn’t know, Martha Stewart has many friends in the hip-hop industry and she’ll be teaming up with her Gin And Juice bestie Snoop Dog (Lion if you were born Snoop/Stewart after 2014) for a very interesting cooking show. In a report by the show’s network, VH1, the premise of the cooking series will be centered on Snoop and Martha inviting their celebrity friends over for half-baked treats side-eye, food, drinks and conversation “where nothing [will be] off limits.” The new reality series will premiere fall 2016 and Chris McCarthy, President of VH1 and Logo, is thrilled for it to air!

Issa Rae’s ‘Insecure’ Series to Debut on HBO October 9 GoodBlackNews.org

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tarting Oct. 9, the premium network, HBO, will enter more diverse territory, courtesy of Issa Rae, a former YouTube sensation who is starring in and executive-producing “Insecure.” The half-hour series explores the friendship between Rae two African American women who deal with their sometimes stormy relationship while also grappling with conflicts inside and outside black culture. Much of the humor has a raw flavor, and does not hold back on sexually frank situations and dialogue.

Teach Kids to Manage Their Health Care

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or parents with college-age children, there’s a fairly standard set of basics that helps ensure their children are ready to tackle the world with some degree of independence. But beyond school supplies, housing, food and transportation, one important consideration remains: health care.

As a parent, ensuring your young adult is equipped to take charge of his own health can be a daunting task. That’s why it’s important to have a conversation with your college students about their local health service options before the need arises.

Together you can do some research and discuss the answers to these questions: What is your health coverage? Take time to brush up on (or introduce your child) to your family’s health insurance policy and understand how your policy covers various facilities. This is an opportunity to teach about co-pays and deductibles, and what it means when a physician or facility is considered in-network and out-of-network.

Do you already pay to use the student health center? In some cases, student fees include access to the campus student health center and your separate health insurance may not be necessary. However, it’s important to understand what the student fee covers and where there may be gaps, such as dental care.

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What are the local options for health care? You’ll rest easier with the assurance that the medical care available to your students is of the highest quality.

Many colleges and universities take the extra step of achieving accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), the nation’s leading accreditor of student health services, to affirm that the care they provide is at nationally recognized standards. You can find accredited organizations at aaahc.org or inquire about accreditation at your university medical center.

Where is the student center located? Encourage your student to set up a well appointment at the student health clinic to get a file started. Not only will this ensure your child can find the center when need arises, having an established patient profile cuts down on paperwork when there’s an emergent health concern.

This is particularly helpful for students with medical issues or restrictions because they can be logged in advance for easy recall.

Which other medical practitioners are in the area?

There may be any number of reasons your student needs to be seen off campus, so it’s a smart idea to look for AAAHC accreditation when trying to assess the quality of nearby health care alternatives. Make a short list with office hours and phone numbers for future reference.

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Where is the best local hospital? Devise an emergency plan for urgent needs and be sure your student knows how to get to the closest urgent care center and hospital, as well as when to use each one.

If possible, visit the facilities in person so your child can get familiar with the facility and learn where to go and how to check in without the pressure of a crisis situation.

By approaching the topic of your college student’s health care together, you can help ensure your child has the information necessary to begin managing personal care. In the process, you can also be assured that you’re identifying health centers that share your commitment to the very best care for both the mind and body of your student.

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Harris County Confirms First Zika-Associated Death in Texas Style Newswire

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arris County Public Health (HCPH) has confirmed a Zika-associated death in a newborn female, making it the first Zika-related death in the State of Texas. HCPH received a positive Zika test result on an infant who was born with birth defects, including microcephaly. The child died shortly after being born. The mother traveled to Latin America during her pregnancy where it is suspected she became infected, and delivered the baby in Harris County. HCPH continues to encourage residents to take precautions to prevent Zika infection.

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The Fountain of Praise Church Impacts Colombia on Global Mission Style Newswire

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he Fountain of Praise Church just led a global mission to San Andres, Colombia marking the fifth year of leaving a major impact on the people of the island.

For the purpose of increasing the spiritual and community Team work, The Fountain of Praise has partnered with the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in San Andres. Senior Pastor Dr. Remus E. Wright and CoPastor Mia K. Wright led members of The Fountain of Praise team. The trip coincided with the annual Emancipation Celebration on the island, and carried the theme “Freedom to Worship”. During the week long effort, members of The Fountain Praise focused on developing programs for youth, married couples, singles, men, and women.

Texas Begins Proposing Adjustments To Voter ID Law Ruled Discriminatory Houston Public Media

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federal judge is hearing possible fixes to the state’s voter ID law today. The state was forced to make some changes b ecau s e t h e l aw was ru l ed discriminatory. While some proposed changes have been agreed upon by both sides, the judge will still have to settle some disputes about just what voters will have to do to cast a ballot in November. Both

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Resigning Houston Housing Authority Board Chair: Mayor Turner Wants His Own Team Houston Public Media

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he chairman of the Houston Housing Authority board, Lance Gilliam, said he had planned to finish out the remaining two years of his term but Gilliam wants to respect the mayor’s will. Last week, Mayor Turner declined to support a proposal by the Housing Authority to build a mixed-income housing project on Fountain View near the Galleria.

He also criticized the agency for not focusing more on low-income areas. Gilliam said he plans to resign his chairmanship at the next board meeting on Aug. 23 but stay on the board until the end of the year.

With Sanctions Removed, UH Student Leader Takes Voluntary Leave Of Absence From Office For “Forget #BlackLivesMatter” Post Houston Public Media

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ontroversy has been all the talk at the University of Houston this summer after “Forget #BlackLivesMatter” UH student government Vice President Rohini Sethi Sethi. It triggered a campaign to remove her from office and the student government suspended her and required her to attend a workshop on cultural sensitivity. After some students raised concerns that that action violated some of their bylaws and was technically invalid, the organization reversed its course to sanction Sethi and decided to remove her punishment, citing a potential violation of their internal rules. Sethi has said that she will now take a voluntary leave of absence.

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ick, pick, pick.

That’s how you get to success these days. A little win here, a victory there, a couple losses, four steps ahead and two back. So many times, you’ve felt this close to the prize, only to have to start over again. Now read the new book “212: The Extra Degree” by Sam Parker and Mac Anderson, and pick another way to fight.

Memes on social media and billboards have long reminded you of one basic truth: it’s the little things that matter. And if you don’t believe it, consider the mighty steam engine: at 211 degrees, water is just water - but heat it by only one degree and water can move that steam engine.

That analogy might describe your career.

Success, personally, in business, community, and relationships might be bubbling just beneath the surface at 211 degrees, waiting for you to turn it up a notch. What you want may be millimeters away, but you’ll never know unless you give it a single degrees’ worth of effort.

Imagine how many opportunities you’ve missed because you quit before you gave that extra degree, that extra mile. Now imagine how much money you’ve left on the table; in fact, say the authors, in many cases, the person who put forth extra effort to win came away with many times what the runner-up received. It happens in golf, in NASCAR, and in horse racing. Even in the Olympics, there can be fractions of a second between getting gold and getting nothing.

Finding your personal 212 degrees may be easier than you think.

Put your phone away and engage with the

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people in front of you. Invest in your children; give them something to aspire to. Improve your career by adding a few minutes to your workday for professional development. Spend one hour each day studying something that fascinates you. Stop hitting the snooze button in the morning. Make one extra sales call.

Encourage one employee or co-worker.

And finally, add the words “and then some…” to your business vocabulary. Do what you can, and then some, and you’ll be surprised at what can be accomplished.

It’s obvious merely by picking this book up that it’s not going to take much time to read. Page through it, and you’ll see that it’ll take even less time to finish than you initially thought. Yes, “212: The Extra Degree” is thin, in more ways than one.

Toward the beginning of their book, authors Sam Parker and Mac Anderson say that their steamengine visual is so simple and evocative that you don’t even have to read any further. That may be advice to heed; if you do go forth, though, you’ll find a mishmash of quotations, half-thoughts, questionablyrelevant tales, and pages of stats.

I think that if you want a quick idea to present during a staff meeting, you can all take turns reading this new edition of “212: The Extra Degree” aloud in about an hour. If you want something with more meat, though, pick another book.

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Higher BMI Increases Diabetes Risk But Not Heart Attacks, Twin Study Finds

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eing overweight is less likely to cause a heart attack or kill you than it is to increase your risk of diabetes, according to a new study of identical twins.

Researchers used a nationwide Swedish twin registry to find twin pairs with identical DNA but different body mass indexes, or BMIs. While conventional medical wisdom has long suggested that heavier people are more likely to have premature heart attacks than lean people, the new study suggests otherwise.

The research, published online Monday by JAMA Internal Medicine, followed more than 4,000 genetically identical twin pairs with differing BMIs from March 1998 to January 2003, and followed up with them through 2013. The study compared the risk of heart attack, death and Type 2 diabetes.

“The fatter twin actually had a lower risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack) or death, although the risk of diabetes was higher,” said the lead researcher of the study, Peter Nordström, Ph.D., of the Umeå University in Sweden.

“After adjusting for genetic factors, obesity does not seem to be associated with cardiovascular disease or death, at least not to an increased risk,” Nordström said.

The study reported 203 heart attacks (5 percent) and 550 deaths (13.6 percent) among the heavier twins, who had an average BMI of 25.9. But the leaner twins, with an average BMI of 23.9, had slightly higher numbers, with 209 heart attacks (5.2 percent) and 633 deaths (15.6 percent).

Even twins who had a BMI of 30 or higher – the threshold to be considered obese – still didn’t have a greater risk of heart attack or death than the leaner twin.

Yet when it came to Type 2 diabetes, the heavier twins did have a greater risk, leading investigators to conclude “lifestyle interventions to reduce obesity may be more effective in reducing the risk of diabetes than the risk of cardiovascular disease or death.”

“This study has important clinical implications,” wrote David J. Davidson, M.D., of NorthShore University HealthSystem, and the University of Chicago’s Michael H. Davidson, M.D., in an editorial accompanying the study. “The findings confirm the causal link between obesity and diabetes, which is a growing epidemic throughout the world. Therefore, weight reduction should remain the cornerstone for the prevention of diabetes.”

Even so, they wrote, the study has some important limitations. Waist size — a better indicator of whether someone is “metabolically obese” despite having a normal BMI — was not measured, and the 12-year follow-up period may not have been long enough for the higher diabetes rate among the heavier twins to result in more cases of heart disease.

Although the Swedish study suggests losing weight may not reduce the chances of a heart attack, it reinforces previous research that has found smoking is bad for the heart — no matter your weight. The twin who smoked had higher odds of both heart attacks and death.

While Nordström would like to see more studies conducted to clarify the link between weight, heart disease and diabetes, he said the takeaway from the current findings is that quitting smoking is the best way for people to improve their heart health.

“Stopping smoking is for sure the best and most important advice, based on this and all previous research,” Nordström said.

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By Jo-Carolyn Goode, Managing Editor

Dr. Austin Lane Making Defensive Moves for TSU’s Offensive Game for 2016-2017

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s the new president of Texas Southern University, Dr. Austin Lane has his guard up. He is blocking the negativity that has come to be associated with the historically Black university dealing with low graduation rates, dwelling school spirit, campus violence and other issues to change the script to tell the positive stories of TSU. “We have a lot of people outside of Texas Southern University that have formed a certain opinion or stereotype of this university and I don’t know if they have done that in the most unbiased way. It puts us in the position where we have to play more defense than offense. And I want us to play some offense,” said Dr. Lane.

Offense in terms where the headlines of TSU deal with the good works surrounding the students, faculty, staff, alumni and partnerships with the community. In order for the headlines to change, Dr. Lane knows the culture of TSU has to change. Thinking in terms of 30, 60, 90, and 180 day plans, Dr. Lane has a vision that will help transform the perception of the university in the city of Houston and nationwide by focusing on students and changing the school’s weaknesses to make them their strengths.

Spend any amount of time the New Jersey native and you will learn one thing right away. Dr. Lane has an abundance of love for students. He is willing to do just about anything if it meant that one of his students could succeed. The result of success of a struggling student himself, Dr. Lane can sympathies with student’s struggle since he battle many of the same battles that they face today. He was one of the most grateful college freshman at Langston University simply because the school gave him a chance. Dr. Lane was not the ideal college applicant since he had a low GPA 10

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and low standardized test scores. But instead of the door being closed on him, it was opened.

Texas Southern is that kind of school that opens doors for students. Having only been on the job for 50 days, Dr. Lane has already implemented a program to help students like he was in the Summer of Success program. Two hundred eighty-nine students received conditional acceptance to TSU for the fall 2016 semester. These students are from various background and places but all have the commonality that they didn’t quit make the mark. TSU is holding on to them to prepare them for college.

Each student is required to take one college level course and one remedial course in the area of math, reading or writing. If the student’s GPA is 2.0 or higher by the end of the summer they will be admitted to TSU in the fall. Upon which they will receive further support in the form of someone will check on them if they are missing class or if they are not making the grades by midterm.

Giving students a chance to prove themselves will help students succeed but will also be a win for TSU with an increase in enrollment, another goal this school year. Ten thousand applicants were collected last fall. Half were accepted to TSU. This year 12,000 applied and half were accepted. The other half were not college ready.

Programs like the Summer of Success changes that reality for students. Dr. Lane emphasize the difference in this program is that it focuses on more than just remedial courses and lets students take an actual college course.

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students college ready while they are still in high school by working in partnerships with area school districts. His sights are set with meeting with new HoustonISD Superintendtent once he is officially on the job to create sort of a pipeline feeder pattern. After students matriculate through the various schools of HoustonISD they would make the natural transition of furthering their educational careers at Texas Southern.

Once students become part of the TSU family the goal is to focus them on graduating from school. “We love but we not in love with you. You got to leave,” joked Dr. Lane. His goals to ensure students graduate is to eliminate those hurdles that students have. One being finances.

“The myth is that students fail out of school,” said Dr. Lane.

He says myth because he knows sometimes students don’t fail out but they stop out. They stop going to school because they don’t have the funds, not that they didn’t make the grades.

Through partnerships with the community and businesses he hopes to gain paid internships for students starting their freshman year to not just give the experience of working in their chosen field but income to stay in school.

Dr. Lane is still in the learning stages of his presidency. He is listening and learning everything he can about what is right with TSU and what needs work. He has built an entire tour around it, the Listen and Learn Tour. Dr. Lane has planned meetings with students, faculty, staff, alums, the community, and partners to ask the different groups two questions – 1) Where do you see TSU today/tomorrow? and 2) What do we need to work? After listening and learning what all have say, he will prioritize and tackle the issues and give updates on the progress. “We have to know the challenges. We have to know the obstacles, the barriers. Then we got to set the bar. We are open to criticism in these meetings. I got thick skin,” said a stern Dr. Lane.

He is making the faculty and staff have thick skin to by holding them accountable. Everyone has to be one of five areas that Dr. Lane is focused on. Those areas are: 1. Student Success 2. Academic Quality and Research 3. Culture 4. Funding 5. Partnerships

Focusing in on these areas are the keys to building a better, more productive Texas Southern University.

Keep up with the transformation of TSU under Dr. Lane’s leadership at www.tsu.edu.

LOCAL

By Rebecca Briscoe, Entertainment Writer

HSM:Tell us about your organization and your movement to provide unity in the community.

TE: As an entrepreneur’s effort to give back to the community in ways to make a direct impact, Billionaire Demeanor Eleby Clothing the brand was developed to create a funding source so that we can continue to bring awareness on issues of violence and provoke change in underserved communities by collectively coming together as change agents. It’s a brand that’s about a mindset beyond money, it’s about Character, Integrity, Drive, and Class which is what empowers each customer. Our message is simply the power of unity and how our little company can make a major difference in our communities. A portion of our proceeds go right back into my community project EAT | PRAY | LOVE where we feed 300 homeless in the city of Houston each month. Customers are elated to see their names on our volunteer shirts as they realize that their contribution is making a direct impact in our local communities.

HSM: Why are you so passionate, where does your drive come from?

TE: My drive comes from the determination to be a change agent in my community. I want to stop the endless cycle of violence that continuously plague our

Meet Tasha Eleby: A Fearless Philanthropist and Widow On a Mission to End Violence With Unity communities. It breaks my heart to see that we have an opportunity to make our future generation’s lives better, but we won’t. When you genuinely love people, you want people to be safe, you want to protect them and provide a better life which is my passion. As a young woman, I have endured the unfortunate loss of my husband at 24 years old, due to a senseless act of violence. Those are feelings I wouldn’t want to put on anyone to ever experience. I know that from these experiences all I can do is be a voice, an example and seek to be a solution that many inner city communities face on a daily basis.

HSM:WIth the wave of violence in the world, you are on a mission to promote unity and love?

TE: Why - Love and unity is the solution. I believe in getting to the root of the issue. In order to effectively create change, and end senseless acts of violence in our communities and the world, we must promote more love and unity. Love is a universal language that heals not hurts. Love forgives and unity creates power needed in order to evoke change. When we start uniting in love for the greater mankind, then we will start seeing that hate and acts of senseless violence will decrease.

HSM: Tell us about your upcoming events TE: Sat, Aug 13 - Sun, Aug 14 is a preview of the platform we’ve created to giving opportunities to connect hidden talent and business gems in our communities to the public. The weekend is a mix of fashion, art, music and community as Saturday, Aug 13th we bring you The Experience: All White Rooftop Fashion|Music|Art Mixer. Guests will enjoy shopping at Roof Top Pop Up Shop, music and art along with

the opportunity to preview fashions and products from a variety of local vendors.

S u n d a y, Aug 14 is the highly anticipated community family event of the summer, United We Stand: commUNITY Basketball Game at NSOL Center from 3-5pm where we are bringing the local community and law enforcement together to play basketball for peace and unity.

HSM:Why is it important to bridge the gap between the inner city and law enforcement?

This is a lose/lose battle for everyone if we don’t ! Our communities and our families are suffering the most, and we won’t have a strong community or people with this type of division.

HSM: Entrepreneur, philanthopist, and all time fearless woman what’s next?

TE: What’s next is to get up everyday and repeat.

The more I grow as an entrepreneur the more I will be allowed to grow as a philanthropist because there will be more good I can do, the more people I can help and the greater platforms of opportunity I can create.

There’s no limit to what’s next but the mission will always be the same and that’s Love and Unity.

Social Media: Instagram @lreleby3 Photo Credit: Alluring Exposures Photography

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Houston Area Finalists Announced for H-E-B Primo Picks Quest for Texas Best Contest

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oustonians were all stars in this year’s H-E-B’s Primo Picks Quest for Texas Best search competition claiming ten out of the 25 finalists spots. Nearly 500 entries were received for the third annual H-E-B Primo Picks Quest for Texas Best search for new and innovative products. The Quest for Texas Best is a signature program for H-E-B’s Primo Picks brand, which labels best-in-store products, all unique, delicious, and new. Winners will receive $70,000 in cash prizes and coveted space on H-E-B store shelves.

This year’s contest attracted applicants from 101 cities and towns across the Lone Star State, yielding a delicious mix of sauces, salsas, spices, sweets, spreads, mixes, and meats. In two qualifying rounds, H-E-B Business Development Managers judged submissions on taste and flavor, customer appeal, value, uniqueness, market potential, and differentiation from products already available at most H-E-B stores.

“Quest for Texas Best is a phenomenal opportunity for Texans to get their products on H-E-B store shelves, and for all to explore and enjoy locally sourced products,” stated James Harris, Director, Diversity & Inclusion and Supplier Diversity, H-E-B. “After all, Texas is home to smart, inventive food entrepreneurs, further advancing our national reputation as a foodie state.”

Contest finalists include 10 entrepreneurs from the Houston area; six from Austin; two from the San Antonio and West Texas areas; four from the Dallas area; and three from the Rio Grande Valley. b pop! Flavored Popsicles (Houston) Victoria Franco and Tallent Ricca are giving the vegan diet a sweet upgrade with the nutritious frozen pop called b pop! These pops that combine organic for these gluten free treats.

Bagel Dots (Houston) When his business partner could never finish an entire bagel, a spark went off.

Aarti Garehgrat went to work innovating Bagel dots, bite-sized bagel balls filled with cream cheese and other ingredients of choice.

Blank and Sons Beef Jerky (Nacogdoches) Blank and Sons prides itself on creating delicious beef jerky and salsa with quality ingredients and Texas authenticity. Their handmade, small-batch jerky offers bold flavors not found on store shelves, from the original “Ol’ #12” to the spicy “Texas Heat.”

Briggs TRUE Spicy Bourbon Bacon BBQ Sauce (Houston) Originally established as a “hobby-tunity,” Briggs True Texas Sauces and Seasonings has transformed into an award-winning gourmet food and private-label manufacturer. With sauces, seasonings and rubs, the products are always gluten free, low sodium, fat free and free of GMOs. Dinner: IS Possible’s I Needa Pita Baked Chips (Houston) Tim and Kim Mehne seek to change children’s lives by giving them the opportunity to shine and use their talents and creativity to create the foods they are familiar with in a healthier way. The duo developed “I Needa Pita” chips as a healthy snack for the inner-city youth to eat in place of the much saltier and much less healthy snacks they are used to eating.

Frickles Flavored Pickles (Houston) What started as two friends from Shreveport, Louisiana, suddenly turned into two entrepreneurs with an unusual, but delicious product. Frickles provide savory and tasty candied pickles to customers all over the state of Texas in flavors ilike cherry limeade and candy apple.

See full list online.

On August 10 and 11 at the Houston Food Bank, the 25 final contestants will present their creations to a panel of expert judges, who will select four winners based on quality, marketability, and readiness for production. The grand prizewinner will receive $25,000 and be named a “Texas Best” Primo Pick. Firstplace will receive $20,000, with $15,000 awarded for second, and $10,000 for third.

Each winner will be granted placement on H-E-B store shelves and be named an H-E-B Primo Pick product.

H-E-B Primo Picks invites customers to enjoy products that are unique, delicious, and possibly new to their palates. Selections represent best-in-store products and include previous Quest contestants such as Four Escobars BBQ Sauces, The Jank Gourmet Barbecue Sauce and Armadillo Eggs from Western Grillers.

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LIFESTYLE

By Parish

HSM Love Affair With Parish Blair Manifesting Lifestyle Series

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Your life and everyone else in the universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them.

You can literally script any life that you desire, and the universe will deliver to you the people, places, and events just as you decide them to be – for you are the creator of your own experience – you have only to decide it and allow it to be.” ~Abraham-Hicks

For some, the very thought that we create our own experience, can be both empowering and frustrating at the same time. It’s empowering to understand that what we decided to focus our thoughts on or to look at and to speak about is what is actually showing up in our experience. It’s frustrating to those who don’t understand why the things that they don’t want continue to show up.

This Manifesting Lifestyle Series is going to serve as a resource of practical methods that will assist you with overcoming the lack of focus and many other challenges.

•Identify Intention •Inner Guidance •Synergia Method •Gratitude Celebration •Manifesting Lifestyle Habits •Illuminating

Breath

In the previous article, we familiarized you with the first 3 of the habits. In this article, you will be introduced to the 3 remaining helpful practices that will assist you with manifesting more blessing

into your life with ease.

Gratitude Celebration This method teaches you to celebrate your intentions that you want to manifest in your future with the same gratitude of already having it in the “Now”.

“Be thankful for what you have if you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have you will never, ever have enough.” ~Oprah Manifesting Lifestyle Habits Creating a lifestyle of habits to support your manifesting journey will help you with keeping vibrational alignment with your intentions.

You will learn simple ways to quickly realign your vibration and manifest whatever you desire.

“If there is something that you desire and it is not coming to you, it always means the same thing.

You are not a vibrational match to your desire.” ~Abraham-Hicks Illuminating Breath This method will give you access to the most powerful healing energy in the universe….love.

Eliminate: stress, exhaustion, fear, worry, emotional and physical pain.

“Breathe in. Breathe out. Move on.” ~Jimmy Buffet

I want to invite you to go on this amazing journey with me of developing yourself into a master manifestor.

In the next articles, you will begin to master these simple methods and experience miracle after Blair miracle as your life evolves right before your eyes into the life you’ve always wanted.

Soon you will be able to tune in to my new video series for Houston Style Magazine, ManifestIn-Minutes. Each episode will provide you with easy practical steps for creating Manifesting Lifestyle habits. Join The Manifesting Lifestyle Movement participate, practice and share your experiences with me. If you want more information about a customized Manifest-In-Minutes Session of your own contact me at ParishBlair.com

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HISPANIC/LATINO COMMUNITY BRIEFS Texas Latina Arrested After Selling Her Teenage Niece for $6,000 Latina

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Texas Latina woman was arrested last week for allegedly smuggling her 15-year-old niece into the U.S. and selling her to a man Perez for $6,000. Gloria Elizabeth Romero Perez, 31, is being charged with trafficking a child. An investigation was started after Perez called authorities claiming the teen was a runaway. The teen was found with Julio Amilcar Jimenez-Ramirez, the man she was trafficked to. The teen told officers what her aunt had done and showed them receipts of the transaction. Both Perez and Jimenz-Ramirez are in custody and the teen is at Child Protective Services with her baby.

Messiah is Latin Face of Sean John Latino Loop

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rban artist Messiah will be the Latin face of Sean John’s Fall/Winter 2016 campaign “Dream Big”, which will be available in Macy’s stores and online. The Latino rapper has already shot his first campaign in Manhattan with photographer Elton Anderson. This Messiah fall campaign will be his breakout. He is looking forward to doing more work with Sean John and expanding his charitable efforts with the company.

Jennifer Lopez Tapped to Play Griselda in New HBO Film Latina

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c c o r d i n g to Vulture, the Puerto Rican singer will play Griselda Blanco, one of the most powerful female drug lords of the 1970s and early ‘80s, in a HBO film. Not only did J.Lo snag the role of “The Cocaine Godmother,” but she’s also the film’s executive producer. These roles are just two of the many projects that J.Lo Lopez has on her to-do list. She’s currently starring in NBC’s “Shades of Blue” and spearheading a dance competition for the network.

And there’s also her Vegas show in which she added more performances. No other details were announced.

Twitter Users Defend Body-Shamed Mexican Gymnast NBC News

Two Arrested at U.S.-Mexico Border After Body of Dead Toddler is Found in Their Bag Fox News Latino

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couple was arrested crossing from San Diego into Tijuana Wednesday when Mexican authorities discovered the body of a toddler stuffed in a duffel bag the two were carrying. The body of the child was discovered when Mexican Customs did a second inspection of the man. Upon discovery of the baby girl that appeared to be approximately two-years-old, the woman ran but was caught by authorities. The couple is now in the custody of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.

Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez Announces Retirement Latino Loop

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ankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez announced his retirement from the team earlier this week.

Rodriguez will play his Rodriguez final game this Friday against the Tampa Bay Rays, after being benched for the Boston Red Sox series in Boston.

His retirement comes one year earlier than his 2017 contract end date. He will stay with the Yankees organization as a special instructor and advisor.

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eam Mexico’s gymnast Alexa Moreno competed at these 2016 Olympic Games. Although she gave solid performances she finished 28th and 31 in all around scoring but that is not what had people talking.

What did get people talking was her weight. She weighs only 99 pounds, which is tiny for the average woman, but considered heavy for gymnasts. Critics blamed her weight as the reason she finished low and users on Twitter came to the defense of the young woman and shamed the critics for body shaming.

Miss World Mexico Pageant Director Gunned Down Latino Loop

body was discovered in his car with a gunshot to the head the next morning.

Who Was the Real Inventor of the Fry Sauce?

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he Huffington Post’s “Fry Sauce is the Most Incredible Condiment You’ve Never Heard Of” claimed the mayo/ketchup sauce was invented in Utah in the 40s, however, many pointed out that the source used for the article had also attributed the creation of “fry sauce” to an Argentine biochemist and physician in the 1920s. Soon after, “salsa rosada” or “mayoketchup” was being used in Colombia, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and many other places in the Caribbean and Latin America. After outrage on social media, the post was edited to include the fact that “variations” on fry sauce can be found throughout the world.

Conservative Latino Religious Groups Make Big Push to End Death Penalty Fox News Latino

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growing number of conservative Latino religious groups are beginning to shift their position on capital punishment, due in large part to a belief among them that it disproportionately affects minorities. According to the latest figures from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Latinos represent a larger portion of those on death row than they did in the past. In June, the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), a coalition of 40 prominent Latino organizations, joined several bipartisan groups calling for the end to the death penalty, saying that Latinos are “directly affected by its injustices.” This follows Pope Francis asking Congress to abolish the death penalty.

CBS President Acknowledges That Network Needs ‘To Do Better’ On Diversity Fox News Latino

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lenn Geller, president of CBS, took a significant step on Wednesday in acknowledging that his network needs to do more to bolster diversity in their lead TV roles. Speaking at Q&A at the Television Critics Association, Geller noted that the network is “definitely less diverse this year than we were last year” in terms of lead actors and actresses. CBS – as well as other major television networks – has been under great scrutiny for presenting a new fall schedule that lacks virtually any Latino and black actors in leading roles. Its three new high-profile comedies star all white men. While Geller recognized several times that the network needs to do better, he emphasized that there are 11 non-white leads that have been added for the upcoming fall season.

HERMANN SQUARE HOUSTON, TEXAS

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ommute Solutions wants Houston’s workforce to find a smarter way to go to work.

The organization partnered with the Houston-Galveston Area Council to host the Road Warriors for Smarter Commutes Festival to showcase their campaign to encourage solo drivers to try a commute alternative once a week via carpool, vanpool, bus, bike or rail. Attendees enjoyed music by DJ Bananaz, food by Topo Chico, Just Poppin Popcorn, Muscle Maker Grill, and Cookie Cup Commotion and got the chance to win amazing prizes throughout the program that was emceed by KG Smooth of Radio One.

WAREHOUSE LIVE HOUSTON, TEXAS

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azz enthusiasts snapped their fingers, patted their feet, and enjoyed the lively sounds of musicians at Warehouse Live all in the name of jazz. Serious Sounds, Etc. presents the 26th Annual Houston International Jazz Festival featuring Lonnie Liston Smith with special guest Zo!, Carmen Rodgers and introducing Bayou City Brass Band along with other artists. The Houston International Jazz Festival helps to fund music education for young aspiring musicians, and the programs that Jazz Education host year around.

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THE HEIGHTS HOUSTON, TEXAS

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rt appreciation was raised at the 10th annual White Linen Night in The Heights. The event that started in 2006 allows art lovers and artists to dress in white linen and admire local art. Chris and Kay Thayer modeled the event after a similar affair held in New Orleans. The free event brings a lot of traffic to local businesses in the area. Some in attendance were Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Kelly Hodges, Kim Roxie, and Jackie Adams.

WORTHAM CENTER HOUSTON, TEXAS

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ayor Sylvester Turner hosted his first Mayor’s Jazz Scholarship Brunch to support Jazz Education, Inc. The music filled affair featured Mayor Turner as the guest conductor of the Summer Jazz Workshop All Star Orchestra. Profits benefit the ongoing educational programs like the H-E-B Summer Jazz Workshop and the Jazz & Poetry Series. The brunch featured performances by Hiroshima, and honored Helen George. Some in attendance were Conrad Johnson, founder of Jazz Education, Inc.; radio dj Donna Franklin; Delloyd Parker; and Thomas Melanson.

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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ATHLETICS AND ALUMNI CENTER HOUSTON, TEXAS

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lum of the University of Houston Black Alumni Association are gearing up for the 2016-2017 year with new blood on their Board of Directors. The group recently held their annual meeting where they elected 25 members to the board. It was also an opportunity for members to mix and mingle with other black alumni, meet the current board and the incoming board. Some in attendance were Dr. Elwyn Lee, Eugenia Vance, Sherralyn Fields, Janelle Brown, Dr. Alicia Yancy, Stacie Hawkins, Brandon Wiggins, Rachel Davis, Taylor Brione, and Charlene Johnson.

H-E-B AT SAN FELIPE HOUSTON, TEXAS

2016 H-E-B Primo Picks Quest for Texas Best Contest Photography by Vicky Pink

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ome good things are coming to H-E-B shelves very soon. It’s that time of year when H-E-B searches across Texas for the newest and most innovative products made

by Texans with their 2016 H-E-B Primo Picks Quest for Texas Best Contest. Nearly 500 entries from 101 cities and towns in Texas were received in this third year of competition where the winners will receive $70,000 in cash and prizes including having their product on H-E-B store shelves. The field of applicants has been narrowed down to the top 25 finalists and the media got a chance to taste their creations. Team Style Mag is glad we are not judges because everything was so good. Ten of the 25 finalists are from Houston; six from Austin; two from the San Antonio and West Texas areas; four from the Dallas area; and three from the Rio Grande Valley.

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BUSINESS BRIEFS Walmart Buying Jet.com for $3.3 Billion to Take On Amazon CNN/Stylemagazine

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almart announced that it has agreed to buy Jet.com, a much-hyped e-commerce site trying to take on Amazon directly, for $3 billion in cash, with another $300 million in stock kicked in for good measure. The deal may help Walmart reinvigorate growth in its online shopping business, which has slowed in recent quarters.

Walmart intends to maintain the Jet brand to target younger shoppers, while making use of its proprietary technology to help bundle together shopping items bring down logistics costs.

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nother 100 struggling M a c y ’s s t o r e s a r e disappearing. Macy’s announced plans on Thursday to close about 15% of its department stores, the latest effort to adapt to shifting consumer preferences for online shopping. Macy’s did not disclose which stores it will close, but said most of them will close early in 2017. The move comes as Macy’s revealed its second-quarter sales fell less than feared. Macy’s stock soared 10% in premarket trading.

Two Million Wells Fargo Customers Viewed Their FICO® Credit Score Wells Fargo

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ells Fargo & Company announced that two million customers have already viewed their FICO® Score through its launch of the FICO®Score Open Access program for consumer credit card customers in March. Since then, the company broadened free access to FICO® Scores under this program to its 30 million eligible consumer credit customers with a Wells Fargo mortgage or home equity line of credit, credit card, private student loan, direct auto loan, or a personal line or loan. Customers can see their scores through Wells Fargo Mobile® banking.

The FICO® Scores that customers see as part of this program are the ones Wells Fargo uses to manage consumers’ credit accounts and are provided for educational purposes.

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alen Bailey, an 8-year-old boy from Fresno, California is running his very own home-based bakery called Jalen’s Bakery where he sells everything from cookies to bread to pastries. He says his plan is to buy a house for himself and his mom, Sharhonda Mahan. Bailey and his mom live alone in a small rental house, and he feels that as the little man of the house, he has to step up and provide a better place for them to live.

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rianna Huffington is stepping down from the website she co-founded a decade ago, The Huffington Post. Huffington said the new health and wellness company she is launching, Thrive Global, demands her full-time attention. Thrive will start in Huffington November. When her plans for Thrive were first reported in June, Huffington told staffers, “my primary focus will remain on The Huffington Post, with no change to my current role.”

She told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that “I really thought I could do both, but as we started building it up, I realized that it really needed my full attention.” She echoed that message in a goodbye note to Huffington Post staffers.

Unique Program Helps Disadvantaged African Americans Reduce Their Bills Significantly During Economic Hardship BlackNews.com

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iffany Glasper-Polk is the CEO of My New Beginning Health, Wealth, and Wellness. She started the company after experiencing hardships herself that left her single, unemployed and on food stamps with two kids. She became resourceful and learned how to Glasper-Polk bring income in innovative ways.

She wants to pass on her knowledge. Her mission is to educate, empower, and re-employ the African American community on how to live a better life during these hard economic times by showing them how to save money and or make money on essential products and services that they use every month.

No Olympics Boost for Nike -- Dow’s Worst Stock CNN/StyleNewswire

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ike stock is down more than 10% so far this year. That makes it the worst performing stock in the Dow for 2016, a title it recently inherited from

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Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs. Nike’s most recent quarterly sales missed forecasts.

So did the company’s future orders -- a key gauge of demand for the coming quarters. These should be good times for Nike. It’s the Olympics, after all. Nike is an official sponsor. But Nike is facing a tough challenge from resurgent rival Adidas as well as Under Armour. Sales in North America, which account for nearly half of Nike’s overall revenues, were flat in the most recent quarter. Nike is still doing well in China and Western Europe.

Chris Bentley and Carlos Miller Start LiveFRESH Mobile Shower Facility for Homeless in FL GoodBlackNews.org

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hris Bentley and Carlos Miller, two AfricanAmerican men who have been friends since middle school, have started an innovative way to help the homeless of Palm Beach County, Fla. The two started a nonprofit— Live FRESH (Feeling Revitalized E n c o u r a g e s Sustainable Happiness)—and have launched a mobile shower f a c i l i t y, a n a i r conditioned trailer equipped with six private shower/ changing area rooms, to assist the area’s transient population. Bentley/Miller Each participant gets a packet with personal hygiene essentials including deodorant, towels, soap, shampoo, conditioner, toothbrush, toothpaste and dental floss. The organization was able to launch its fund with a $100,000 grant from Impact the Palm Beaches and smaller donations from other organizations.

Delta Air Lines Anticipating a Return to ‘Normal’ Operations After Global Outage ABC News

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e l t a A i r Lines said it’s expecting to return to “normal” operations today, two days after a computer outage grounded its planes and left passengers stranded around the globe. Delta has canceled hundreds of flights, and hundreds more have been delayed since a loss of power Monday morning in Atlanta that affected the airline’s computer systems and operations worldwide. Delta is providing $200 in travel vouchers to all its customers who experienced a delay of more than three hours or a canceled flight on Monday or Tuesday as a result of the systemwide outage. The airline has also offered all customers a change fee waiver, regardless of whether their flights were affected, but passengers must hold tickets that included a flight on Aug. 8 through 11.

Tickets must be reissued and new travel must begin no later than Aug. 21.

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