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Smile Avenue Family Dentistry will host
Cypress Smile for Kids, A Day of Free Smiles. This two
day event is a new tradition designed to bring free dental
care to children ages 0 – 13. This year it will be
held on August 5 – 6, 2017 at 9212 Fry Road, Suite 120 from
9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dr. Patrick Vuong has dedicated his life
to reaching as many people around the world and within his
community. He has assembled a compassionate group of
dentists, hygienists and assistant volunteers to
provide children with a free examination
To make a reservation, volunteer or for
more information, please call 832-645-5055.
About Smile Avenue Family
Dentistry
Smile Avenue Family Dentistry is comprised
of dental professionals who enjoy their work and are
committed to bringing patients the best dental experience in
a comfortable, relaxing and informative visit. With
each visit enjoy luxurious, spa-like treatment with wireless
headphones, a warm blanket and towels, television, and
aromatherapy. Smile Avenue Family Dentistry uses cutting
edge dental technology and focuses on providing a positive
experience and excellence in dental care services.
Dr. Patrick Vuong is the acting Vice
President of the Houston Asian American Dental Society
(H.A.A.D.S) and coordinator of continuing education courses
for participating dentists in the
Greater Houston area. He maintains an interest in
volunteering and takes part in medical/dental mission
trips abroad to provide oral health education and dental
procedures. A great deal of his time is spent engaging
in dental study clubs to stay current with the most advanced
dental procedures. Dentistry is more than a job, it’s
his passion!
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Wells Fargo makes $115,000 investment for
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s Teacher Quality And
Retention Program Summer Institute (TQRP) in Houston, TX to
better equip Fellows with the knowledge and skills needed to
prepare for, enter and succeed in competitive and
challenging teaching environments. In addition, the TQRP
helped aspiring and new teachers further develop and refine
their basic pedagogical skills, as well as work to acquire
the tools needed to become teacher leaders on their campuses
and beyond.
“Wells Fargo is committed to making a
difference in education,” said Gigi Dixon, director of
national partnerships for Wells Fargo. “We’re proud to
support TMCF as it creates access to high-quality and
affordable education, while developing the next generation
of teachers.”
During the two-week summer institute in
Houston, TX, Wells Fargo team members lead a financial
literacy workshop that taught their Hands on Banking
curriculum, educating Fellows on issues such as managing
debt, savings, and how to understand credit. Wells Fargo
recruiter, Anastasia ‘Stacy’ Penright, delivered
the Institute’s closing remarks.
“Wells Fargo’s consistent support of
TMCF and our HBCUs amounts to well over $7M in direct
benefit to our students and schools,” said TMCF
President & CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. “ The current
support funding K-12 teacher preparation shows Wells Fargo
wants to invest not only in today’s college leaders, but America’s
unsung heroes — K-12 classroom teachers.”
ABOUT THE THURGOOD MARSHALL
COLLEGE FUND (TMCF)
Established in 1987, the Thurgood Marshall
College Fund (TMCF) is the nation’s largest organization
exclusively representing the Black College Community. TMCF
member-schools include the publicly-supported
Historically Black Colleges and Universities and
Predominantly Black Institutions, enrolling nearly 80% of
all students attending black colleges and universities.
Through scholarships, capacity building and research
initiatives, innovative programs and strategic partnerships,
TMCF is a vital resource in the PK-12 and higher education
space. The organization is also the source of top employers
seeking top talent for competitive internships and good
jobs.
TMCF is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, charitable
organization. For more information about TMCF, visit: www.tmcf.org.
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HISD Superintendent Richard Carranza
addressed more than 300 teachers and support staff
members at the district’s fourth-annual Special Ed
Conference on Tuesday at Pin Oak Middle School, encouraging
them to create an environment where all children can
succeed.
“We are at a critical juncture,”
Carranza said later, when asked what he hoped the
conference would achieve. “Too often, students with
disabilities have been marginalized. We say NO, that is not
what we are going to do here in HISD. I want all
these educators to leave here on fire, to go
back to their schools with great strategies and support so
they can create incredible learning environments.”
Teachers who teach students with
disabilities, English Language Learners, and students at
risk of academic failure are receiving two full days of
professional development related to curriculum, instruction, and
assessment. The focus is on meeting the unique needs of every student.
Attendees have dozens of breakout sessions to
choose from, including “Avoiding Burnout as a Special
Education Practitioner” by Dr. Barbara Mullen, “Ted
Talk: Teach Teachers How to Create Magic” by Deitra Ford-Robinson,
and “Let’s Take a Deep Dive! Exploring Autism Under the
Iceberg” by K. Kelly-Basile.
Keynote speaker Dr. Barbara R.
Blackburn spoke about rigor, expectations, support, and
demonstration of learning.
“Rigor means it must be challenging,
but if it’s too hard, you are just setting them up for
failure,” she said. “But make sure your students know
that they are expected to learn at high levels and then
support them.”
Chief Academic Officer Grenita Lathan
welcomed attendees and promised that they would leave
with a wealth of information they can use in the
classroom. “We know how much you do for our students,
and for that, we thank you.”
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The NAACP, the nation’s oldest and
largest nonpartisan civil rights organization, names vice
chairman of the board of directors Derrick Johnson as
interim president and CEO, effective immediately. The
unanimous decision was made by the executive committee of
the board of directors during the Association’s 108th
annual convention in Baltimore, Maryland. The NAACP released
the following statement.
“I am thrilled to announce that my
friend and colleague Derrick Johnson has been appointed to
interim president and CEO. I could not think of a better,
more battle-tested or more qualified individual to guide the
NAACP through this transition period,” said Leon Russell,
Board Chairman of the NAACP. “Derrick’s longtime service
with the Association will allow him to take decisive action
to deal with daily challenges. He will also serve as the
primary spokesman for the NAACP. I have every confidence in
Derrick and will support him in this new endeavor every step
of the way .”
“It is truly an honor and a privilege to
be named the interim president and CEO of an organization
that I’ve served for decades,” said Derrick Johnson,
interim president and CEO of the NAACP. “There’s a lot
of work that needs to be done and we won’t waste any time
getting to it. We are facing unprecedented threats to our
democracy and we will not be sidelined while our rights are
being eroded every day. We remain steadfast and immovable,
and stand ready on the front lines of the fight for
justice.”
Derrick Johnson will serve as interim
president and CEO until a new president is named. Derrick
Johnson formerly served as vice chairman of the NAACP
National Board of Directors as well as State President for
the Mississippi State Conference NAACP. The first vice chair
of the Mississippi State Conference NAACP will assume
leadership of the state conference operations. Derrick’s
full biography is available here.
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PINNACLE Center is free* for use to Fort Bend and City
of Houston residents that are ages 50 and above. |
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The PINNACLE Center
includes:
- Wi-Fi Internet Café
- Fitness Center
- Outdoor Walking Trail
- Fitness Classes
– Self Defense, Weight Training, Zumba,
Flexibility, Aerobics, and Chair Fitness
- Ping Pong
- Dance Classes
– Line Dancing, Two Stepping and Swing Out
- Veterans Assistance &
Social Service Assistance
- Financial Planning
- Knowledge is POWER DAY
- Computer Classes
- Table Games -
Bingo, Dominos and various Card Games
- Marketplace Monday -
Vendors welcome on the 1st Monday of each
month
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The Black Lives Matter movement against
police brutality has inspired so much “racial hatred”
that white people in America should fear for their lives,
a correspondent for the National Rifle Association’s
streaming network said Wednesday.
In a segment produced for the American
gun lobbying organization’s online channel, conservative host
Grant Stinchfield said race
relations are deeply strained in the country after Barack
Obama’s presidency.
“But nowhere is near as bad as it is
in South Africa where white families are being tortured
and killed almost every day in racist violence. It is a
warning for the United States that you will never hear
from the mainstream media in this country,” he added.
He then turned the segment over to “frontline
correspondent” Chuck Holton, a freelance cameraman for
the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Violence in South Africa is “kind of a
warning for what could happen in the United States if we
continue to let this get out of control, to go down this
path of this racial tension,” Holton said. “This
racial hatred that is being forced on the American culture
by the Black Lives Matter crowd.”
Hate crimes in South Africa have long
been an issue, but it’s primarily refugees,
immigrants, and the LGBTQ community that suffer.
In March, the country launched a “hate crime unit” to
combat growing
violence against Nigerians. Murder has
gone up and gender
violence continues to claim lives. A
2015 study by the Institute for Justice and
Reconciliation showed that the majority of people in South
Africa agree with a united nation making up all the
different groups in the country, but concluded that
“structural legacies of apartheid continue to reinforce
old patterns of socialisation and prejudice.”
The NRA neglected to include basic hate
crime information about the country in their segment.
In America, the Black Lives Matter
movement was created as a response to the repeated cases
of police officers violently targeting
black people amid the release of documented evidence of
racial bias in police precincts across the nation. And
as the group’s name suggests, the organization’s
primary goal is to help others understand that black
people’s lives are also important.
But the NRA doesn’t care.
“White victimhood is a right-wing
tactic that inverts the left’s narratives of
minority discrimination and neocolonialism. This tactic
denies that there is such a thing as white privilege, and
attempts to camouflage white domination,” wrote Charles
Villet, a professor at Monash South Africa University in
Johannesburg who studies post-Apartheid white identity
politics, for The Conversation.
This ideology
of white victimhood in South Africa is mirrored in
far-right circles and by extremists, including in the
manifestos of mass murderers Anders
Breivik and Dylann
Roof.
The NRA, meanwhile, has continued to
spread misinformation and hyperbole. Last month, a
minute-long ad soaked in fear and crocodile tears went
viral.
“They use
their media to assassinate real news,” The
Blaze’s Dana
Loesch said in the ad. “They use their schools
to teach children that their president is another Hitler.
They use their movie stars and singers and comedy shows
and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over
again.”
And at a demonstration Saturday bringing
attention to the unjustified death of Philando Castile
― a black
elementary school teacher killed by police
― the NRA instead
of defending the rightful gun owner lashed out on
social media against the protesters.
As Salon
points out, just this year the NRA has made ads
claiming the Manchester terrorist attacks happened because
of “gender bending” and that Americans need to buy
their guns before “all the rapists” are released in
California.
For all
their mocking of it, the trembling, paranoid NRA could
really use a safe space right now.
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California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters
has told the media that her weekend appearance in New
Hampshire isn’t related in any way to her potential
run for president in 2020. That said, she also
stated that if millennials wanted her to run, she’d
consider it.
“I’m just going up to do a county
Democratic thing. That’s all,” she said.
“I’m not running for anything but my
own seat. I don’t have any presidential aspirations. If
the millennials want me to do it, I’d do it, though.”
Waters is in her 14th term representing
south central LA and has become known for calling for
Trump’s impeachment.
“Mr. Speaker, my position against this
president and his administration is clear. I oppose this
president. I do not honor this president. I do not respect
this president,” Waters said in a floor speech earlier
this year.
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