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In a gripping showdown that showcased the best of women’s MMA, Taila Santos emerged victorious in a closely contested battle against Liz Carmouche, securing her spot in the 2024 PFL Women’s Flyweight Championship. The fight, marked by intense exchanges and strategic grappling, saw Santos clinch a unanimous decision victory with scores of 29-28 on all three judges' cards. Carmouche, a veteran with a storied career, came into the fight with momentum from her previous victories, but Santos’ relent

I am excited to be hosting this year’s National Night Out at Emancipation Food Truck Park (2311 Winbern St. between Live Oak & Holman)! We will have live entertainment including Wombè & Floetic Sounds as well as a few Poets of Houston alongside  VideoDj B Light, Houston Fire fighter and long time friend! This community fundraiser is benefitting nonprofits I support and you can also update your voter registration as well as sign up to volunteer! Deux What Cha Wanna LLc (food truck) will be on s

The fingernails always went first.  The tips where they were greyish-white began to fade into a stone grey and spread backwards into the pink base of the nail.  The shape would change too, of course; each nail contracted smaller and more pointed like walls closing in and forming a tunnel to nowhere.  The nails were the hardest part to watch.  Khalil would cringe and sometimes close his eyes tight to avoid this horror.  Each time, it confirmed to him that this was not a dream, that he was differe

Find your pain, find your motivation. Heal from that pain, change your motivation. Can you make a webpage achieve an activity that is not in its coding? You cannot ; not without changing the code. Likewise, we cannot truly change our habitual actions until we identify our pain and really engage with the process of purging and healing. Until we do this, we constantly seek people and situations that either reflect our pain or temporarily relieve it. I will provide some examples from my own life.

We’ve all heard that the calm comes after the storm. It’s easy to feel like that’s true, like after the storm everything will be clear, sunny, and peaceful. Cleaned and renewed. But, if that was true, would it be a storm or just a hard rain? When a true storm hits, there is storm damage. That damage can be internal, external, or both. You may have faced a period of back to back losses and now it’s like there’s a fallen tree in the middle of your mind. You may have taken on so much in caring fo

Dear Beautiful Black Woman, It’s your time. The time where all things are coming together. The time when the things you want to manifest will come to actuality. The desires you have long longed for are here. You are on the verge, the impetus of a wonderful waterfall of flow, synergy, synchronicity, and abundance. This overflow of soul will allow you to reach, teach, impact, and influence, becoming a powerful force for social change and order. You are there, right on the brink of creating a lif