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07/27/2024

The Longhorns coach and his wife 'decided to amicably part ways.'

07/27/2024

Texas head football coach Steve Sarkisian and his wife Loreal announced Friday afternoon on Instagram that the two have jointly filed for divorce.

07/14/2024

: Donald was whisked off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd.
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06/29/2024

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06/27/2024

I’ve said this for years.

Steve Harvey, the charismatic host of "Family Feud" since 2010, has recently been under the spotlight not just for his hosting skills but for his increasingly

06/27/2024

“People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

- Rosa Parks

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Sources: Photograph of Rosa Parks taken in 1955 / National Archives and Records Administration Records of the U.S. Information Agency Record Group 306, record ID: 306-PSD-65-1882 (Box 93) / Wikimedia Commons / Rosa Parks: My Story, p. 116, Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1992) / Wikiquote

06/22/2024

A second suspect is in custody following the deadly shooting that occurred on Saturday, June 15, at Old Settlers Park during Round Rock's annual Juneteenth celebration.

At approximately 8:30 p.m., on Friday, June 21, a male juvenile suspect was taken into custody and transported to the Williamson County Juvenile Justice Center.

The investigation is ongoing, and the Round Rock Police Department continues to investigate additional suspects. More information will be released as it becomes available.

The Round Rock Police Department would like to thank the Bureau of Alcohol, To***co, Fi****ms and Explosives (ATF), the Department of Public Safety, and the Pflugerville Police Department for their assistance.

06/19/2024

Montopolis where I was born and raised….

The group Montopolis Proud is hosting an open house and Juneteenth Celebration today.

06/18/2024

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05/25/2024

🎥FIRST MOVIE COMPANY OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY BLACK FILMMAKERS
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux(born Michaux; January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Micheaux's Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Oscar Micheaux is regarded as the first major Black feature filmmaker, the prominent producer of the so-called race film, and hailed as "the most successful Black filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century”. He produced both silent and sound films when the industry changed to incorporate speaking actors.
Micheaux was born on a farm in Metropolis, Illinois. In his later years, Micheaux added an "e" to his last name. As a young man, Micheaux worked odd jobs in and around Chicago, including as a Pullman porter. As he traveled the nation on a Pullman, he decided to homestead.
After Emancipation Blacks sought to build new lives, provide for their families, and educate their children. They especially sought to own their own land, and realize their long denied dreams of working their own farm. They knew how to farm, and saw land ownership as their way to support themselves and their families, and a symbol of their freedom and equality in the United States.
Oscar Micheaux traveled to South Dakota in 1904 to participate in a lottery run by the General Land Office to distribute homesteading lands on the Rosebud Reservation. However, with more than 100,000 claimants for only 2,400 homesteads, he was not able to obtain one directly in the lottery drawing. He hired a land locator for $80 and purchased a relinquished homestead. After some success as a homesteader on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, a three year drought destroyed his crops.
Oscar was in his field rain or shine, yielding only to frozen ground, plowing up 120 acres in his first year. His determination soon turned his neighbors laughter to a “grudging respect, then to acceptance, and finally to admiration, when they realized that he had broken many more acres of prairie than most of them.”
Micheaux married Orlean McCracken, a schoolteacher and daughter of a reverend from Chicago, in 1910. When Oscar traveled for work, Orlean felt abandoned. During one of the times he was away, Orlean suffered a miscarriage. Her family did not like having her on the homestead alone, so they traveled to South Dakota and took her back to Chicago with them. Orlean's father sold some of Micheaux's property and took the money. Micheaux tried unsuccessfully to get Orlean and his property back. They divorced in 1917.
Oscar began writing down his experiences as a homesteader as a way to cope with the hardships he was enduring. His writings were a mix of fiction and biography meant to tell his story of struggle with, and conquest of, the land. He soon had created a full length book that he appropriately titled The Conquest. He began traveling throughout the region selling the book to his friends and neighbors. This new enterprise soon led to a second novel titled The Homesteader. His self published novels were moderately successful, but more importantly they caught the attention of a production company that wanted to turn them into a movie.
In 1919, he adapted his story into a film, becoming the first known African-American filmmaker and director. Though The Homesteader (1919) is considered to be a “lost film”, it launched Micheaux’s career.
Over 30 years he made more than 44 films, and his work has been preserved by the Library of Congress and the National Film Registry as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” Micheaux’s films featured contemporary African-American life. His works highlighted and worked to combat racism and racial inequality. Black actors in Micheaux's films played the roles of doctors, businessman, detectives, and lawyers. His movies provided a window into black life and the African American perspective on race.
Oscar Micheaux remarried in 1926 to actress Alice B. Russell. She appeared in six of his films. Oscar passed away of heart failure on March 25, 1951 at the age of 67, in Charlotte, North Carolina on a business trip. Oscar was buried in Great Bend, Kansas. His grave stone reads “A Man Ahead of his Time.”

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05/23/2024

OLIVER LEWIS (1856-1924)
In 1875, Oliver Lewis became the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby, America’s longest continuous sporting event. Lewis was born in 1856 in Fayette Country, Kentucky, to his parents Goodson and Eleanor Lewis. Lewis was born free, but there is little known about his parents or family.

Lewis was only 19 years old when he entered the first Kentucky Derby. The race was held at what was then the Louisville Jockey Club on May 17, 1875, but is now known as Churchill Downs. Ten thousand spectators watched this first race. Lewis rode a horse named Aristide, which was one of two colts entered by their owner, H. Price McGrath of Jessamine, Kentucky. The other horse, Chesapeake, was ridden by William Henry. Although the same owner entered both horses, Chesapeake was favored to win the $2,850 purse, and Lewis was told that his job was to lead most of the race to tire out the other horses. Out of the fifteen jockeys in the field, at this first Kentucky Derby, thirteen of them were African American. Aristide’s trainer, Ansel Williamson, was also an African American.

Oliver Lewis followed his instructions and was pushing most of the field while trailing a horse named Volcano for most of the race. However, in the last stretch, Chesapeake was unexpectedly far back in the pack while Aristide and Volcano were running neck and neck for first place. Lewis and Aristide pulled away near the finish line and won the race by two lengths. With that victory Lewis became the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby. Later that season, Lewis came in second in the Belmont Stakes in New York and won three more races at the Louisville Jockey Club, riding Aristide in all of them. He would never ride in the Kentucky Derby again, however, and would retire after that racing season for unknown reasons.

05/18/2024

2016 hotel surveillance shows Diddy violently assaulting ex partner Cassie Ventura.

05/10/2024

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04/10/2024

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04/01/2024

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A transplant network took action to help uncover which Black kidney candidates could have qualified for a new kidney sooner if not for the algorithm.

INFO: https://www.kwtx.com/2024/04/01/biased-test-kept-thousands-black-people-getting-kidney-transplant-its-finally-changing/

04/01/2024

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This is the first time that NC State has ever had its men's and women's teams reach the Final Four in the same year 😤

NC State Basketball | Wolfpack Women's Basketball

03/29/2024

Jerry Hernandez, 42, was charged on Friday, according to court records obtained by CBS Austin.