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D-SNAP registration in Harris Co. deadline extended

Montgomery County residents will be able to sign up for emergency food benefits known as D-SNAP today.

Residents can stop by the Montgomery County Fairgrounds on Airport Road in Conroe from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. Monday.

The deadline to apply is this Friday, Oct. 20.

And Harris County residents will have another chance to register for the disaster benefits.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee worked to extend the benefits after seeing the huge need in the county.

The original deadline passed more than a week ago.

A registration site at Alexander Deussen Park on Sonia Road will open Wednesday, Oct. 18.

 

Shonda Rhimes to be inducted into Television Academy Hall Of Fame

Shonda Rhimes was already a legend the eyes of her fans after literally making black girl magic with shows like Grey’s AnatomyScandal, and How To Get Away With Murder. On Thursday the Television Academy shared they feel the same way announcing Rhimes along with several of her Hollywood peers are the latest Hall of Fame inductees. Rhimes will join 10-time Emmy winning art director Roy Christopher, the late Joan Rivers and the entire original cast of Saturday Night Liveincluding Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman –as well as the late Gilda Radner and John Belushi.

The Hollywood Reporter reports chairman and CEO of the Television Academy, Hayma Washington announced the honorees with the following statement:

“All of these individuals are innovators who have shaped television and left an indelible mark on the medium and our culture.”

“We are honored to welcome the latest group of distinguished individuals and look forward to showcasing their impacts for future generations.”

The 2018 honorees will be inducted Nov. 15 during the annual Hall of Fame ceremony at the TV Academy’s Saban Media Center. Rhimes and her fellow honorees join more than 135 other TV professionals who have been inducted since the Hall of Fame launched in 1984.

Hall of Fame Selection Committee Chair, Rick Rosen spoke to the inductees’ distinct influence on popular culture:

“Television’s evolution can be attributed to the substantial work of numerous individuals.”

“It is a pleasure to honor a group whose contributions have had and will continue to have a powerful influence on our ever exciting and evolving industry.”

Rhimes is the third black woman to be inducted in the TV Hall of Fame. Oprah Winfrey was honored in 1993 as well as Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess actress Diahann Carol in 2011.

The honor comes at a time when Rhimes is making big changes for the future of her shows and her entertainment company Shondaland. The writer and producer recently decided to make a move to Netflix after 15 years with ABC. Rhimes shares the decision was based on the streaming company’s ability to provide more creative freedom and “a clear landscape to do whatever she wants”.

We’re looking forward to years of stories from the clever mind of Ms. Rhimes and congratulate her on an honor that’s well-deserved.

Chance the Rapper bought out theaters to provide free viewings of ‘Marshall’

attends XQ Super School Live, presented by EIF, at Barker Hangar on September 8, 2017 in Santa California.

On Friday Chance the Rapper tweeted a “press release” to announce that he bought theater tickets so that people in Chicago can go to the movie ‘Marshall’ saying, “it’s lit.”

Chance the Rapper is famous for two things. His music is on fire and he has a penchant for giving back to his hometown Chicago.

The press release stated, “Chance The Rapper Press release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

“I bought all the tickets all day to go see Marshall at the movie theatre on 87th and the one on Roosevelt. Go see Marshall today for free. Come to the one at 3. It’s lit. I don’t usually write my own press releases.”

Marshall is a movie about Thurgood Marshall who was the first black Supreme Court Justice. The movie focuses on one of his most famous cases where he represented a black man accused of raping a white woman.

Veteran Go-Go music producer Maxx Kidd dies at 75

Maxx Kidd, a music industry veteran who helped pioneer go-go music and produced Chuck Brown’s “We Need Some Money,” died March 13 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, according to Billboard has learned. He was 75.

Kidd passed away following a years-long battle with “a variety of health complications,” according to surviving family members.

Born Carl Lomax Kidd on Aug. 18, 1941, Kidd was growing up in West Virginia when he met singer Nat “King” Cole at a nightclub owned by Kidd’s father. That generated an interest a music career, which kicked into gear in 1960 when he moved to Washington, D.C. following a stint in the army. It was there that Kidd parlayed his pre-army job as a Calypso singer for a drive-in restaurant into becoming a member of a local D.C. soul group called The Enjoyables.

Eventually, Kidd began working as a producer for Curtis Mayfield’s Curtom Records, where he collaborated with such artists as Jerry Butler, Gene Chandler and Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers. Two hits by Brown, “Blow Your Whistle” and pioneering go-go hit “We Need Some Money,” are among Kidd’s best-known productions.

Four years later, Kidd played a role in producing and furthering D.C.’s homegrown go-go sound, working with Brown & the Soul Searchers as well as fellow go-go bands Trouble Funk and E.U. (Experience Unlimited).

Kidd also served as an associate producer of the 1986 film “Good to Go,” a crime thriller starring Art Garfunkel that used D.C.’s burgeoning go-go scene as its musical backdrop. Kidd co-produced the film’s go-go/dancehall soundtrack as well, featuring Chuck Brown, Trouble Funk, E.U., Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare, Ini Kamoze and Redds & the Boys (whose lineup included Kidd).

In addition to establishing his own record label, T.T.E.D. Records, Kidd became an independent promoter and marketer, with a client list that included the O’Jays, the Temptations, Lou Rawls, Van McCoy, Johnnie Taylor and Shalamar.

Kidd is survived by five daughters (Jacqueline McCoy, Yvette “Evie” Kidd, Sabrina Kidd, Joy Kidd, Corie Kidd) and one son (Victor Kidd), 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren plus four siblings and a son-in-law.

Funeral arrangements are pending.

Kaepernick alleges collusion in NFL lawsuit

Lawyers for former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick say he has filed a grievance against the NFL, alleging that he remains unsigned as a result of collusion by owners.

Kaepernick started a national conversation about political activism by athletes last season when he decided to sit, and then kneel, during the national anthem to protest mistreatment of African-Americans by police. Other players have continued the protests this season, prompting an angry response from President Donald Trump, who said players should be fired for not standing during the anthem.

Kaepernick opted out of his contract with the 49ers at the end of last season and remains a free agent despite a rash of injuries and poor play at the quarterback position.

Mark Geragos, one of Kaepernick’s attorneys, tweeted out a statement Sunday saying he filed the grievance “only after pursuing every possible avenue with all NFL teams and their executives.”

“If the NFL (as well as all professional sports leagues) is to remain a meritocracy, then principled and peaceful political protest — which the owners themselves made great theater imitating weeks ago — should not be punished,” Geragos said in the statement, “and athletes should not be denied employment based on partisan political provocation by the executive branch of our government.”

 

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‘Hustler’ publisher Larry Flynt offers $1M for info to impeach Trump

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts or eliminates federal funding for Meals on Wheels, Pell Grants and Community Development Block Grants. Photo taken during a speech at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the National Harbor in Prince George’s County, Maryland. (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)

Larry Flynt, the founder and publisher of Hustler magazine is offering a $10 million  reward for information leading to the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

Fox Anchor Liz Claman, who broke the story, tweeted an image of an advert for the money. Flynt himself subsequently retweeted the story. Hustler had not replied to a request for comment at the time of publication.

The advert says: “Buried in Trump’s top-secret tax returns or in other records from his far-flung investments there may be a smoking gun.”

“The attempt to impeach Donald Trump will strike many as a sour grapes plot by Democrats to overturn a legitimate election,” it continues.

“But there is a strong case to be made that the last election was illegitimate in many ways—and that after nine tumultuous months in office, Trump has proven he’s dangerously unfit to exercise the extreme power accrued by our new ‘unitary executive.’”

The full-page advertisement says that Trump “only” won the election thanks to the “quirks” of the electoral college, which it calls “a real anachronism today.” It accused Republicans of a “scorched-earth spree of gerrymandering” after the 2010 census.

The advert says that Trump’s missteps include “inciting violent civil strife with his racial dog whistling,” “gross nepotism,” and “sabotaging” the Paris accord on climate change.

“Most worrisome is that, long before a climate change apocalypse strikes, Trump might trigger a nuclear world war,” it adds.

“Impeachment would be a messy, contentious affair,” the ad concedes, “but the alternative—three more years of destabilizing dysfunction—is worse.”

Flynt also offered a similar reward in 1998, during the impeachment trial of former President Bill Clinton. He has also shared clips from Hustler criticizing Trump, calling him a “buffoon” and a “narcissist,” and a piece calling on the Democrats to be “more than the party of no.”