#Dianne Houston

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Thelma Houston and The Sisters Of Glory - Oh Happy Day (Vaticano 1994)

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Nichole Williams, 22 (USA 1997)

Nichole Williams already had a 1-year-old, a 3-year-old and a 7-year-old when she found out that she was pregnant with her fourth child. The 22-year-old mother underwent an abortion in 1997.

The abortionist was Robert Crist, who had a history of killing his clients. He was the killer of 19-year-old Dianne Boyd, a disabled sexual assault victim who was forced into abortion. He was also linked to another teenage girl’s death (Latachie Veal) by abortion in Houston in 1991.

Nichole’s abortion was done in five minutes, indicating that not enough time was taken to lower the risk of severe injury. Seconds before the abortion was done, Nichole struggled to breathe. She was dying on the operating table.

The ambulance arrived 15 minutes later. Despite the attempts of the paramedics and the emergency room where Nichole was taken, she was pronounced dead at 3:12, only one hour and twelve minutes after the abortion began.

Nichole’s funeral was held at the New North Side Baptist Church shortly after her death. Her three surviving children were left without their mother and their youngest sibling.

Planned Parenthood of St. Louis owned the abortion facility, making Nichole another Planned Parenthood death.

(Newspaper transcript attached in link)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Tuesday, April 29, 1997

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Savion Glover

Born: November 19, 1973

Birthplace: Newark, NJ

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Savion Glover is an American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer.

Glover was born to a white father who left the family before he was born and a black mother. Glover's great grandfather on his mother's side, Dick Lundy, was a shortstop in the Negro Leagues. He managed eleven Negro League baseball teams, including the Newark Eagles. His grandfather, Bill Lewis, was a big band pianist and vocalist. His grandmother, Anna Lundy Lewis, was the minister of music at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, NJ. She played for Whitney Houston when she was singing in the gospel choir, and was the one who first noticed Savion's musical talent. She once held him and hummed some rhythms to him, and he smiled and joined along. Glover graduated from Newark Arts High School in 1991.

Glover stated that his style is "young and funk." When asked to describe what funk is, he says it is the bass line. "Funk is anything that gets one's head on beat. It is riding with the rhythm. It is a pulse that keeps one rolling with the beat." Gregory Hines, a tap legend, was one of Glover's tap teachers. Hines stated that "Savion is possibly the best tap dancer that ever lived." Glover liked to start his pieces with some old school moves from famous tappers and then work his way into his own style. Hines said it’s like paying homage to those he respects. When Honi Coles died, Savion performed at his memorial service. He finished his dance with a famous Coles move, a backflip into a split from standing position, then getting up without using one's hands. Glover rarely does this move because it wasn't his style, but he did it because it was Coles' style that he wanted to keep alive. "I feel like it's one of my responsibilities to keep the style." Henry LeTang called Glover "the Sponge" because he learned very quickly with everything thrown at him. LeTang taught the Hines brothers back in the 1950s and taught Glover for a little while before having him work for "Black and Blue," a tap revue in Paris in 1987. Many legendary tappers taught Glover such as LeTang, the Hines brothers, Jimmy Slyde, Dianne Walker, Chuck Green, Lon Chaney (Isaiah Chaneyfield), Honi Coles, Sammy Davis Jr., Buster Brown, Howard Sims, and Arthur Duncan.

He has been teaching tap since he was 14 years old. Glover created Real Tap Skills, and started HooFeRz Club School for Tap in Newark, New Jersey. Wanting to bring back the real essence of tap, Glover claimed that he is on a mission to reclaim the rhythm that was lost when tap dancing was recycled after many generations. At age seven, Glover drummed in a group called Three Plus One. In the group, he demanded that he dance while he played the drum. Glover has a heavy foot for tap. He dances hard and loud in every step, and teaches his mentees that one must learn how to "hit," a term related to one's ability to express oneself, complete a tap sequence, or say something.

Thank you, Black American page

[lboogie1906]

Congressman Wesley Parish Hunt (November 13, 1981) a Republican member of Congress from Texas, was born in Houston to Willie L. Hunt, a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, and Dianne Johnson Hunt.

He accepted an appointment to West Point, thus receiving a BS in leadership and management with a Field of Study in Mechanical Engineering was commissioned in the Army. He served in the Army as an Aviation Branch Officer and AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter pilot until he was honorably discharged at the rank of captain. He was deployed once to Iraq and twice to Saudi Arabia as a Diplomatic Liaison Officer.

He earned a MPA an MBA, and MS in Industrial Relations from Cornell University. Remaining at Cornell.

In 2020, he vied for Texas’s 7th Congressional District. The incumbent Democrat gained 50.8%. In 2022, he won in the general election. He became the first congressman in the history of that Congressional District.

He emphasizes defending the infrastructure of the oil and gas industry in Houston, calling the city an energy hub and the world’s energy capital. He continues to investigate the immigration crisis along the Texas border, describing it as a present danger to US sovereignty and security.

He is married to Emily Hunt, a pediatric nurse practitioner. They are the parents of two daughters and a son. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[therealimintobooks]

Facing The Enemy by DiAnn Mills @diannmills @partnersincr1me #giveaway

Facing The Enemy by DiAnn Mills September 4 – 29, 2023 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: For the past five years, FBI Special Agent Risa Jacobs has worked in the violent crimes against children division of the Houston FBI. She’s never had reason to believe there’s a target on her back . . . until now. When the long-awaited reunion between Risa and her brother, Trenton, ends in tragedy, Risa is…

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"An Unlikely Trio: Dianne Feinstein, Whitney Houston, and the Disney Stock Saga"

Once upon a time, Dianne Feinstein, a prominent politician, found herself engrossed in the world of finance. She had always been intrigued by the stock market and decided to invest in Disney stock. Little did she know that her investment would lead her to an unexpected encounter. As the stock soared, Dianne attended a glamorous event where she crossed paths with the legendary Whitney Houston.…

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Dianne Houston

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Hundreds of bats have been rescued by Austin Bat Refuge this week after a record-setting winter freeze earlier this month left some of the critters trapped in ice, injured, cold-stunned or dead.

Lee Mackenzie and Dianne Odegard, [...] who run Austin Bat Refuge, have picked up as many as roughly 600 bats, dead and alive, every day since Monday [22 February 2021] from multiple Central Texas bridges. "It's just horrific," Mackenzie said. Mackenzie and Odegard are working to rehydrate surviving bats and feed them before releasing them back to their roosts under the bridges. [...] Even before a half-foot of snow blanketed the Austin area, callers to the refuge were reporting bats stuck in ice at their homes. The refuge, which never lost power during the freeze, received calls every day about found bats. [...] Once snow and ice began to melt, bats were brought to the refuge in boxes and bags and Odegard and Mackenzie started to check bridges for the animals.

The pair said a lot of the bats are traumatized and stressed. "You can just see the look in their eyes and see they're shocked by this like many of us were," Mackenzie said. [...]

Although many bats in Texas migrate south to Mexico and Central America during the winter months, as many as 100,000 bats can linger year-round in the Austin area. Roosts under the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge have helped keep bats warm when temperatures start to drop. The spaces are 16 inches deep and 1 inch wide and can retain heat for the bats.

In the past three to five years, the Mexican free-tailed bats in the world’s largest urban bat colony next to the American-Statesman building also have been extending their stay in town because Austin’s average temperatures have gotten warmer or because the animals are sick, said Sarah Whitson, a former wildlife officer for Austin Animal Protection.

Cold weather works as a trigger to leave for bats, who like temperatures in the 70s, 80s and 90s, Whitson told the Statesman in 2019. [...] February temperatures in Austin this year [2021] hit a high of 85 degrees — less than 10 days before the record freeze, according to the National Weather Service — and Wednesday’s [24 February 2021] high was 86. [...]

Bat fatalities are also being reported across the state. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials have received reports of bats being found dead under bridges. The department is tracking bat deaths and the deaths of other animals due to the freeze online.

A bat colony under a bridge at Waugh Drive in Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston was hit by the freeze, and about 2,000 Mexican free-tailed bats who live under the Houston bridge were killed by the freezing temperatures, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Mackenzie and Odegard have only picked up a handful of bats each day from around Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge. It's possible that some of the 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats who live under bridge may have fallen into the lake. Mackenzie said that during daily checks, he has yelled out to kayakers on the water if they saw bats swimming or on pilings. Other bats living under a bridge on Dittmar Road may have been washed away when ice started to melt, Mackenzie said. [...]

Mackenzie and Odegard said they've released 400 or 500 bats over the last few days to roosts under Interstate 35 at Wells Branch Parkway and Howard Lane.

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Headline and text published by: Kelsey Bradshaw. “’It’s just horrific��: Hundreds of bats found dead, injured near roosts after Texas freeze.” Austin American-Statesman. 26 February 2021. Images and captions published by: Jay Janner “Austin refuge keeps Mexican free-tailed bats warm after Texas freeze.” Austin American-Statesman. 26 February 2021.

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The fact that the gunman responsible for this week’s massacre in Uvalde, Texas, was able to buy two AR-15s days after his 18th birthday highlights how much easier it is for Americans to purchase rifles than handguns.

Under federal law, Americans buying handguns from licensed dealers must be at least 21, which would have precluded Salvador Ramos from buying that type of weapon. That trumps Texas law, which only requires buyers of any type of firearm to be 18 or older.

Following Tuesday’s massacre at Robb Elementary School, which killed 19 children and two adults, a growing number of lawmakers in Texas and beyond are calling for the minimum age to purchase assault rifles to be raised to 21 from 18. Doing so would require undoing nearly two centuries of more permissive regulations on so-called long guns.

“It’s something that could happen at either the state or federal level, but I don’t see movement on either front,” said Sandra Guerra Thompson, a criminal law professor at the University of Houston Law Center.

Only six states — Florida, Washington, Vermont, California, Illinois and Hawaii — have increased the minimum purchase age for long guns to 21, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The majority did so following the 2018 massacre in Parkland, Florida, where a then-19-year-old assailant killed 17 people at a high school.

Several states have since faced legal challenges.

The National Rifle Association sought to repeal the Florida law.

“The ban infringes the right of all 18-to-20-year-olds to purchase firearms for the exercise of their Second Amendment rights, even for self-defense in the home,” the NRA argued in a court filing, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “The ban does not just limit the right, it obliterates it.”

Government attorneys, however, argued that because “18-to-20-year-olds are uniquely likely to engage in impulsive, emotional, and risky behaviors that offer immediate or short-term rewards, drawing the line for legal purchase of firearms at 21 is a reasonable method of addressing the Legislature’s public safety concerns.”

A federal judge upheld the law last year; the NRA is appealing.

A U.S. Court of Appeals recently ruled that California’s version of the law was unconstitutional, though it did uphold a provision that requires adults under 21 to obtain a hunting license before buying a rifle or shotgun.

After the shooting in Uvalde this week, lawmakers in New York and Utah also called on their states to raise the age limit for long gun purchases to 21. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced federal legislation earlier this month — less than a week before the Uvalde shooting — that would raise the minimum age to purchase assault weapons to 21 from 18; the California Democrat said in a statement that it was in response to a shooting that killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket. That gunman also was 18 years old.

“It makes no sense that it’s illegal for someone under 21 to buy a handgun or even a beer, yet can legally buy an assault weapon,” she said.

[lboogie1906]

Everette Harp (August 17, 1961) is a jazz saxophonist. His album Jazz Funk Soul, a collaboration with Chuck Loeb and Jeff Lorber, received his first nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.

He was born in Houston. He is the youngest of eight children. His father was a minister and his mother played the organ. He started playing jazz in middle school at Marshall Junior High. He attended the High School for Performing and Visual Arts in Houston and North Texas State University as a music major. He joined Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. Working as an accountant for a short time, he played in local Houston bands, most notably a jazz/funk group called The Franchise which released an album locally with the first recording of Harp’s “There’s Still Hope”.

He moved to Los Angeles and toured with Teena Marie and then Anita Baker. George Duke signed him to a contract with Capitol Records to record with his group 101 North. Bruce Lundvall of Blue Note Records signed him to a solo contract before the group album was released. His album was produced by Duke and released by Blue Note.

He appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival as a featured guest artist presented by Duke. He appeared every week on The Arsenio Hall Show. His appearance on Sax by the Fire led to his performing on the theme song for Entertainment Tonight. He played the theme song for Soul Train and shared the stage with President Bill Clinton at the Arkansas Ball.

He worked with Stanley Clarke, Natalie Cole, Neil Diamond, Aretha Franklin, Wayne Henderson, Al Jarreau, The Jazz Crusaders, Billy Joel, Chaka Khan, Kenny Loggins, Bobby Lyle, Peter Maffay, Marcus Miller, Chante Moore, Dianne Reeves, Eros Ramazzotti, Brenda Russell, Joe Sample, and Luther Vandross.

He continued his television and studio recording obligations and his solo recording career. He became a staple in the Los Angeles TV and recording studio scene. He appeared on several television shows, including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and with Jay Leno, The Arsenio Hall Show, and The Tavis Smiley Show. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #phibetasigma

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Whitney Houston at the American Music Awards, 1986

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Entertainment Weekly, November

Cover: The Oscar Race Begins -- Jennifer Hudson stars as Aretha Franklin in a new biopic 

Page 1: Contents, Jennifer Hudson 

Page 2: Sound Bites 

Page 4: Editor’s Note, EW is releasing a special digital cover and tribute book for Chadwick Boseman and rereleasing the Guide to Supernatural just in time for the series finale on November 19 

Page 6: The Must List -- The Trial of the Chicago 7, Q+A with Aaron Sorkin 

Page 8: Keanu Reeves in Cyberpunk 2077 

Page 9: There’s No Such Thing as a Fish podcast, The Nolan Variations by Tom Shone 

Page 10: This Far from Sade, American Utopia 

Page 11: Let Him Go, Q+A with Diane Lane and Kevin Costner 

Page 12: Belushi, To Be a Man by Nicole Krauss, Virgin River 

Page 13: My Must List -- Tracee Ellis Ross 

Page 15: First Take -- The White Tiger -- Ramin Bahrani’s Netflix adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s novel featuring Priyanka Chopra-Jonas in a rare gloss-free role will roar its way into the Oscar race at the end of the year 

Page 19: Barack Before Obama by David Katz 

Page 20: Cover Story -- Amazing Grace -- as Aretha Franklin in the Oscar-buzzy biopic Respect Jennifer Hudson takes on the role of a lifetime; good thing she was anointed by the Queen of Soul herself 

Page 28: The Awards Race Begins -- Kate Winslet in Ammonite 

Page 31: Anthony Hopkins in The Father 

Page 32: Viola Davis in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 

Page 33: Steven Yeun in Minari 

Page 34: Michelle Pfeiffer in French Exit 

Page 35: 3 questions for Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal, Winston Duke in Nine Days 

Page 36: The cast of Let Them All Talk -- Meryl Streep, Dianne Wiest, Candice Bergen 

Page 37: Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman 

Page 38: Daniel Kaluuya in Judas and the Black Messiah 

Page 39: Sophia Loren in The Life Ahead 

Page 40: Glenn Close in Hillbilly Elegy 

Page 42: Regina King in One Night in Miami 

Page 44: Denis Villeneuve of Dune 

Page 45: Paul Greengrass of News of the World 

Page 46: Chloe Zhao of Nomadland 

Page 47: George Clooney of The Midnight Sky 

Page 49: Your Fall Preview 

Page 50: Movies -- Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis and director Clea Duvall take us behind the scenes of Happiest Season, their jolly holiday rom-com with a queer twist 

Page 52: Sylvie’s Love 

Page 54: Moved But Not Forgotten -- 2020′s biggest blockbusters got off to a late start and we’ll be honest, we still don’t know for sure when we’ll be able to see some of them but we’re getting closer -- No Time to Die, Black Widow, Wonder Woman 1984, Soul, Free Guy 

Page 55: Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, Lovers Rock 

Page 56: TV -- Netflix’s Selena: The Series is a show fit for a queen -- of Tejano music -- celebrating one of the most influential Mexican-American entertainers of the 20th century 

Page 57: Big Sky 

Page 58: A Teacher, Truth Seekers 

Page 59: Equal

Page 60: Supermarket Sweep superfan Leslie Jones is just as excited to be host of ABC’s reboot as the contestants playing for $100,000 

Page 61: Despite the never-ending pandemic new holiday TV movies will start piling up under your tree before Halloween; to help guide you through the blizzard of choices we present you with a few trends that are lighting up the 2020 slate 

Page 62: Previously On...how did recent seasons of your favorite shows end? What’s to come this fall? Here’s a look at six returning shows -- His Dark Materials 

Page 63: Superstore, black-ish 

Page 64: The Crown, This Is Us, Station 19 and Grey’s Anatomy 

Page 66: Music -- facing exhaustion and a scary bout of tinnitus the shutdown offered a welcome pause but Brothers Osborne are ready to press play on a new album 

Page 68: Busta Rhymes 

Page 69: Kylie Minogue 

Page 70: News + Reviews -- One hundred years after Agatha Christie’s debut novel the British author is still the biggest name in mystery on the page and stage and screen 

Page 73: Actor-director Kenneth Branagh is Agatha Christie’s biggest modern evangelist 

Page 74: Movies -- his roles as ghostbuster and groundhog chaser and royal tenenbaum have charmed and confounded us for nearly 50 years but will Sofia Coppola’s new film On the Rocks finally bring Bill Murray an Oscar? 

Page 75: Sofia Coppola reveals her own road to inspiration 

Page 76: Making the Scene: Rebecca -- director Ben Wheatley breaks down the tense Manderlay face-off from his lush take on Daphne Du Maurier’s classic 1938 novel 

Page 77: Ammonite, High Anxiety with Vanessa Williams -- the star of Hulu’s Bad Hair tells us what freaks her out 

Page 78: TV -- even a pandemic can’t stop the Winchesters -- the Supernatural cast Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki and crew talk returning to set to finish their 15-season run 

Page 79: The Undoing 

Page 80: Unaired Pilots -- 35 years after Lynda Carter’s debut and five years before Gal Gadot NBC lassoed Adrianne Palicki for its Wonder Woman pilot 

Page 82: TV drama has lost its chill -- Fargo and Ratched are the latest shows to fall victim to narrative hysteria 

Page 84: From superspy to Game of Thrones scene-stealer Diana Rigg paved the way both on and off screen for strong female characters and pop culture heroines everywhere 

Page 87: What to Watch 

Page 94: Music -- Juicy J -- the Three 6 Mafia member has been dropping hits for 20 years; ahead of his new solo effort he shares some of his music-making secrets 

Page 96: Ty Dolla $ign -- the multi-hyphenate on the artists and sounds that inspired his new album Dream House 

Page 97: 3 questions with Sasha Sloan, three years after his death one of Tom Petty’s most pivotal albums gets the respect and the reissue it so richly deserves 

Page 98: Matt Berninger -- we asked The National frontman and newly minted solo artist about his famously brooding baritone 

Page 100: DaBaby -- he may not know the TikTok dance to his own hit song Rockstar but he knows his musical influences 

Page 101: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings 

Page 102: Books -- Former tech exec Susie Yang enters the literary fray with White Ivy a delightfully dark debut with a protagonist who refuses to let the privileged class of the hook 

Page 104: Martin Amis -- in a hefty new book he dubs novelized biography a literary lion offers his Inside Story on love and loss and mortality 

Page 107: Pop Culture of My Life -- Bryan Washington -- the Houston native and breakout author of 2019′s Lot and the upcoming Memorial reveals his cultural and culinary inspirations 

Page 108: In Red Comet Sylvia Plath expert Heather Clark presents a definitive biography of the poet observing her oft-examined life through a new lens 

Page 109: Biographer Scott Eyman paints a complex portrait of Hollywood’s original leading man in Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise, the essential Cary Grant

Page 112: The Bullseye 

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"An Unlikely Trio: Dianne Feinstein, Whitney Houston, and the Disney Stock Saga"

Once upon a time, Dianne Feinstein, a prominent politician, found herself engrossed in the world of finance. She had always been intrigued by the stock market and decided to invest in Disney stock. Little did she know that her investment would lead her to an unexpected encounter. As the stock soared, Dianne attended a glamorous event where she crossed paths with the legendary Whitney Houston.…