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  Months After George Floyd, Black Lives Matter Houston Keeps Fighting For A Better Bayou City

  October 5 at 4:30 a.m.

  By any measure, 2020 has been one of the worst years of all time. It’d still rank high on the list of most awful years if it were only for the still raging coronavirus pandemic that’s killed over a million people globally and the plethora of natural disasters that have...

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  Reviews For The Uneasily Quarantined:
  The Trial Of The Chicago 7

  October 2 at 5 a.m.

  Title: The Trial of the Chicago 7 Describe This Movie In One "Book Revue" Quote: THE WOLF: You can't do this to me! I'm a citizen, see! Brief Plot Synopsis: Incarcerated radicals struggle to become free. Free radicals. Is this thing on? Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: 3 [Pentagon]...

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  Mayor Turner Joins Houston Rapper Trae Tha Truth to Reveal the Say Their Name Memorial at Emancipation Park

  September 28 at 9:33 p.m.

  A crowd gathered at Houston's  Emancipation Park in the early evening Monday for the reveal of the "Say Their Name Memorial." The installation displays names of individuals who lost their lives to police brutality, systemic racism, and social injustice. Creators Joy and  Elise Proctor started the memorial in Portland, Oregon on Junteenth 2020 and have since added memorials in more than 25 cities. Houston rapper, Trae Tha Truth led the effort to bring the memorial to Houston with support from several others. (Photos by Doogie Roux)

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  With Barely a Break For a Tropical Storm, Rice Students Continue to Protest Willy's Statue

  September 28 at 4 a.m.

  As Tropical Storm Beta approached Houston, a handful of Rice University student protestors weathered the rain outside in the school’s main quad, huddled under umbrellas and by the towering statue of the university’s founder, William Marsh Rice. While the students abided by the flash flood warnings and took the next...

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  Alley Theatre Embraces Hispanic Heritage Month With Virtual Bilingual Programs

  September 23 at 4 a.m.

  An outreach initiative to the Hispanic community in Houston, one started by the Alley Theatre a few years ago that was kind of in stall mode thanks to other intervening events, has been reinvigorated recently, partly because of the pandemic conditions the area is in right now. Since the Alley...

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  HPD Chief Acevedo Releases Video of Fatal Police Shooting of Nicolas Chavez, Fires 4 Officers

  September 10 at 5:55 p.m.

  On Thursday, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo was joined by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to unveil body cam footage from the fatal police shooting of Nicolas Chavez, 27, on April 21. Acevedo announced that he had fired four of the HPD officers who were involved in Chavez’s killing, calling their...