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‘Everyday It Rains’: A Root Editor’s Personal Struggle Through the Hell of Hurricane Harvey
Editor’s note: Yeats (or perhaps Achebe) was right: Things fall apart. And for The Root’s Senior Editor Kirsten West Savali, in the last year, those three words have become like a living mantra. At the beginning of the summer, West Savali, 37, and her husband, Savali Savali, 40, urgently uprooted their family of five (six, counting…
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Spider-Man Helps Bring Smiles to Displaced Kids at Houston Hurricane Shelter
Residents of Houston are still grappling with the horrific devastation brought on by Hurricane Harvey last weekend, with many families being displaced and living in designated shelters in the city. But one friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is out there trying to at least comfort the kids and bring smiles back to their faces during this frightening…
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Wait, Joel Osteen. Something Isn’t Adding Up
On Sunday, as Hurricane Harvey began to crush parts of Texas, Joel Osteen, pastor of Houston megachurch Lakewood, tweeted that his church was “inaccessible due to severe flooding,” and then let his Twitter followers know that they could go to an area shelter should they need help. Followers who were near the church then took…
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Mass. Sheriff Who Offered Free Inmate Labor to Help Build Trump’s Wall Now Proposes to Send Inmates to Help With Harvey Damage
Bristol County, Mass., Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is proposing to send county inmates to help the city of Houston clean up the devastating destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey. This is not the first time Hodgson has offered up his inmates as labor, drawing criticism earlier this year after proposing to send inmates to help build President…
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Beyoncé’s Pastor Confirms ‘Significant Donation’ to Hurricane Harvey Relief
With her hometown under siege because of Hurricane Harvey, Beyoncé issued a statement Tuesday saying that she was taking part in relief efforts with the help of her BeyGood organization and her local pastor, Rudy Rasmus. Rasmus now has confirmed that the singer, who has a history of charitable efforts in Houston, including building low-income…
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Houston Mayor Imposes Mandatory Curfew as Harvey Prepares to Hit the City Again
After already hitting the Houston area with record rainfall and deadly flooding, Harvey is expected to make landfall once again Tuesday night, this time somewhere along the Louisiana border, as residents in the area still look to find help and shelter from the storm. NBC News reports that Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has imposed a…
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Beyoncé Pledges to Give Hurricane Harvey Aid to Houston
Beyoncé is giving back to her hometown of Houston during the area’s time of need as Hurricane Harvey drops record-breaking amounts of rain and flooding. The singer released a statement to the Houston Chronicle, saying, “My heart goes out to my hometown, Houston, and I remain in constant prayer for those affected and for the…
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Flooding Left in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey Could Force Some 30,000 People Into Shelters
The state of Texas continues to battle with the devastation brought on by Hurricane Harvey, and the danger is far from over as officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency expect more than 30,000 people to need shelter as a result of the rains and flooding that show no signs of letting up. “The sheltering…
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Texas Man Arrested on Charges He Planted Bomb on Confederate Statue
Welp. One Texas man is taking his hatred of Confederate statues to the absolute next level, authorities say. According to the Associated Press, a 25-year-old Houston man was arrested after officials say he was caught trying to plant explosives on a Confederate statue at a local park. Prosecutors charge that Andrew Schneck was caught Saturday…
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2 Texas Officers Cleared After Subjecting Black College Student to Body Cavity Search, What Her Lawyer Calls ‘Rape by Cop’
#SayHerName is a movement started by the African American Policy Forum because black women and girls are disproportionally subjected to police brutality and abuse. It is a call to uplift the names of those mostly forgotten and to seek justice. And although Charnesia Corley did not lose her life in her interaction with Houston law…