Arkansas cultural center to kick off Juneteenth celebrations with history, music
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Google-News-Wire
- June 17, 2023
- African Diaspora
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- Key Fletcher
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- Sue Cowan Williams
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LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center is set to kick off the Juneteenth celebrations for the Natural State. Juneteenth is a federally recognized holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. The museum and cultural center’s director, Key Fletcher, said there’s a lot of events and fun activities planned […]
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Houston City Council moves forward with Galveston Bay Park Plan | #citycouncil
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Google-News-Wire
- January 19, 2023
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- dave martin
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- harris county flood control district
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- sspeed center
At a Jan. 18 meeting, members of the Houston City Council passed an agreement between the city of Houston and Rice University’s Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disaster Center—known as the SSPEED Center—for the planning of Galveston Bay Park. The Galveston Bay Park Plan entails the design of a set of barrier islands […]
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Galveston homeless rate: Texas island’s city council points at pandemic factors, jail, hospital for population spike | #citycouncil
GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) — Galveston city leaders believe homelessness is on the verge of being out of control, but those in the community already fear it is. Pandemic-driven homeless spike The impact of the pandemic is still taking its toll in Galveston, not from patients at the hospital, but what homeless shelters are experiencing. “We […]
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