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Someone to Watch Over Me: How Sarah Vaughan Continues to Influence New Generations Through Legend...

Someone to Watch Over Me: How Sarah Vaughan Continues to Influence New Generations Through Legend...

Legendary jazz singer Sarah Vaughan was celebrated last Saturday for her undeniable contribution to music. Ja…

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Someone to Watch Over Me: How Sarah Vaughan Continues to Influence New Generations Through Legend...

Someone to Watch Over Me: How Sarah Vaughan Continues to Influence New Generations Through Legend...

Legendary jazz singer Sarah Vaughan was celebrated last Saturday for her undeniable contribution to music. Ja…

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Red Bull Packs Out The Weekend With Two Events

Red Bull Packs Out The Weekend With Two Events

Houstonians packed out Avenida Plaza running in front the George R Brown Convention Center. The streets surro…

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DJ Young Samm Has the Streets. Now He Wants the Screen

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By DeVaughn Douglas Verified
| Forward Times Verified
It is February and Samuel Mercer is sitting on a couch at the Community Cultivation Network, putting together pieces of a studio and taking meetings about building out the network. A couple of weeks later, he would be surrounded by artists as his documentary, The Streets Is Mine, premiered at the multimedia space The Hive Houston. Later in the year, he would be at Prauper Studios DJing as artists gathered for a private release party for Comin' Dine!, his collaborative album with Killa Kyleon.
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Clarence Bethea Raised Millions. Now He’s Opening Doors for Houston Founders.

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By DeVaughn Douglas Verified
| Forward Times Verified
At the corner of Dallas and Smith streets in downtown Houston sits the C. Baldwin Hotel, named for Charlotte Baldwin Allen, the woman whose inheritance helped finance the beginnings of the city nearly two centuries ago. Her contributions would eventually earn her the title “Mother of Houston,” even as history more commonly remembered the Allen brothers as the city’s founders.
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Third Ward Author J. Elle Reflects on Literacy, Imagination and Hope

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By DeVaughn Douglas Verified
| Forward Times Verified
The latest news cycle has once again turned its attention to the literacy crisis in the United States. It is a crisis that educators have been sounding the alarm about for the better part of two decades, even as the broader debate over how best to teach reading stretches back much further. It is also a crisis J. Elle knows well. “For some kids, [the ability to read] is a matter of life and death,” she said on a call earlier this week.
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